Pictures of our New Appartment. 
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Update
I thought I would take a few minutes and give everyone an update. Sorry, still no pictures. Maybe someday.....Well, on Sunday I was released as Primary President. I am very relieved but also very sad. It will be sad not working with the children. I have decided that in order for me to fit in Relief Society I better learn to knit!!.....It seems like when ever I peek my head in Relief Society people are knitting. My new calling is Enrichment leader or co leader or something with Enrichment. That will be fun. I'm excited to get to know some of the other sisters in our ward.
Mark is on his 2nd clinical rotation in St. Croix Falls, WI, which is about a 70 minute drive from our apt. He works 4 days a week 10 hours a day. Which is nice because he doesn't have to make the long drive everyday. The only hard thing is that his clinical starts at 7am and so he gets up at 4:30-4:45!!!! He really loves it there though. He really enjoys his CI (clinical instructor) and the people he works with. Everyone there is trying to recruit him to work there after he graduates. He is very tempted to take a job there, he loves it so much. I'm happy he likes it so much but also sad because I don't necessarily want to stay in the Midwest, I want to move back west around my family. Mark is loving his experience there. He is working in a general practice setting so he does a lot of out patient, in patent and home care. He loves the variety. One of the patients, a senior boy in high school, blew out his knee playing soccer. His insurance quit paying for all the therapy bills and his parents couldn't afford the cost so the hospital and Mark's CI are letting Mark do his therapy, which is such a good experience for Mark. Because Mark is a student and isn't getting paid the boy can see him for therapy and not get charged. Mark's CI will then try and take a few minutes a day to see how things are going. Mark really likes having full responsibility for someone although it is kind of scary because he isn't an actual therapist yet. I'm sure the parents of the boy appreciate it though.
Pregnancy is going well. I feel a few aches and pains but not bad. By the end of the day my back is a bit sore and my legs are a bit swollen but over all I feel really good. If all of pregnancy felt this good I think I wouldn't mind be pregnant forever...Well, it will be nice to not have to go to the bathroom every hour. They baby is moving constantly which is fun. I like it, it feels like my stomach is constantly getting a massage! I have 8 1/2 more weeks left so it is coming up soon. Although, I don't have anything ready. The baby's room is still full of boxes and junk we haven't unpacked yet and we don't have a crib or anything. At least we have a few cloths for the little guy. I just hope he doesn't come early or he will be sleeping on the floor!! Maybe one of these days I can get to the store and a least buy a bottle, bath stuff, and a few onesies (we only have, I think, one that Jami gave us.) I know we are pathetic but life gets busy and I just don't have time to get out. I could write a whole other paragraph about our busy life but that is boring and this is getting long as it is. Anyway, things are good and maybe just maybe I can get a picture or two up.....don't get your hopes up though.
Mark is on his 2nd clinical rotation in St. Croix Falls, WI, which is about a 70 minute drive from our apt. He works 4 days a week 10 hours a day. Which is nice because he doesn't have to make the long drive everyday. The only hard thing is that his clinical starts at 7am and so he gets up at 4:30-4:45!!!! He really loves it there though. He really enjoys his CI (clinical instructor) and the people he works with. Everyone there is trying to recruit him to work there after he graduates. He is very tempted to take a job there, he loves it so much. I'm happy he likes it so much but also sad because I don't necessarily want to stay in the Midwest, I want to move back west around my family. Mark is loving his experience there. He is working in a general practice setting so he does a lot of out patient, in patent and home care. He loves the variety. One of the patients, a senior boy in high school, blew out his knee playing soccer. His insurance quit paying for all the therapy bills and his parents couldn't afford the cost so the hospital and Mark's CI are letting Mark do his therapy, which is such a good experience for Mark. Because Mark is a student and isn't getting paid the boy can see him for therapy and not get charged. Mark's CI will then try and take a few minutes a day to see how things are going. Mark really likes having full responsibility for someone although it is kind of scary because he isn't an actual therapist yet. I'm sure the parents of the boy appreciate it though.
Pregnancy is going well. I feel a few aches and pains but not bad. By the end of the day my back is a bit sore and my legs are a bit swollen but over all I feel really good. If all of pregnancy felt this good I think I wouldn't mind be pregnant forever...Well, it will be nice to not have to go to the bathroom every hour. They baby is moving constantly which is fun. I like it, it feels like my stomach is constantly getting a massage! I have 8 1/2 more weeks left so it is coming up soon. Although, I don't have anything ready. The baby's room is still full of boxes and junk we haven't unpacked yet and we don't have a crib or anything. At least we have a few cloths for the little guy. I just hope he doesn't come early or he will be sleeping on the floor!! Maybe one of these days I can get to the store and a least buy a bottle, bath stuff, and a few onesies (we only have, I think, one that Jami gave us.) I know we are pathetic but life gets busy and I just don't have time to get out. I could write a whole other paragraph about our busy life but that is boring and this is getting long as it is. Anyway, things are good and maybe just maybe I can get a picture or two up.....don't get your hopes up though.
Monday, April 02, 2007
CRAZY WEEKEND
This last weekend is one that I don't ever want to repeat. It has been so busy and tiring. We moved on Saturday to our new apartment but with general conference and all it was a bit crazy.
All week we have been trying to find a CHEAP truck to rent for the weekend but had a really hard time finding anything that would work with our schedule. We had to be out of our old place by 10am on Saturday and couldn't move into our new place until Sunday or Monday. To rent a U-haul for the weekend would have cost us about $400.00!! On Tuesday Mark spent the whole morning trying to find a truck and figure out how we were going to move. Fortunately he stopped and talked to the manager at our old place and the manager said that he was going to be gone on Saturday so we could move out any time on Saturday. Mark also called the manager of our new place and she said that we could move our stuff into our new apartment while the painters were painting that Saturday afternoon. Perfect now we just needed to find a truck for Saturday. We found one but it was for 6:00pm on Saturday. Things seemed to workout pretty well except for the fact that it was conference weekend and the priesthood session starts at 7:00pm!! We got the truck anyway and just hoped things would workout.
On Friday Mark's parents and brother came over to help us pack and clean. We had been packing the whole week but still had tons to do. We ended up staying up until way late packing and cleaning on Friday night, luckily Mark's parents came or we would have been up all night. Saturday morning we also packed and cleaned until conference. Unfortunately we can't watch it at our house so we had to go to the church to listen to it. During Conference I got a phone call on my cell saying that we could move in to our apartment anytime that day because the painters had finished the day before. We spent the 2 hours between conference signing papers for our new apartment and once again packing. After the second session of conference I dropped Mark off at the U-haul place to pick up our truck and went home to finishes up cleaning.
Around 6:00pm a bunch of men (5 or so including Mark's dad and brother) from our ward came to help us move. It actually went really quickly. They got the truck all loaded by 7:00, went to the priesthood session, and then unloaded the truck afterwards. All that time I was cleaning our old apartment. I was so pooped out by the end of the night. I guess our apartment was more disgusting than I would like to admit, but it sure took me forever to clean.We didn't get to bed until about 1:00am. So I was dieing with no sleep the night before.
Notice that I didn't mention breakfast, lunch, or dinner. We didn't have anything to eat all day!! Well, actually we had a a yogurt, hand full of pretzels and shared a banana! (oh, and some frosting left over form the primary activity. I was hungry and I couldn't find anything else to eat :) ) I have been starving all weekend!!!!
Anyway, things worked out but it was stressful and VERY tiring. And although I was really tired and struggled to stay awake I really did enjoy conference. Even with the stress of the move.
I don't have pictures to put up now but I do have some so maybe someday I will get them up. :)
All week we have been trying to find a CHEAP truck to rent for the weekend but had a really hard time finding anything that would work with our schedule. We had to be out of our old place by 10am on Saturday and couldn't move into our new place until Sunday or Monday. To rent a U-haul for the weekend would have cost us about $400.00!! On Tuesday Mark spent the whole morning trying to find a truck and figure out how we were going to move. Fortunately he stopped and talked to the manager at our old place and the manager said that he was going to be gone on Saturday so we could move out any time on Saturday. Mark also called the manager of our new place and she said that we could move our stuff into our new apartment while the painters were painting that Saturday afternoon. Perfect now we just needed to find a truck for Saturday. We found one but it was for 6:00pm on Saturday. Things seemed to workout pretty well except for the fact that it was conference weekend and the priesthood session starts at 7:00pm!! We got the truck anyway and just hoped things would workout.
On Friday Mark's parents and brother came over to help us pack and clean. We had been packing the whole week but still had tons to do. We ended up staying up until way late packing and cleaning on Friday night, luckily Mark's parents came or we would have been up all night. Saturday morning we also packed and cleaned until conference. Unfortunately we can't watch it at our house so we had to go to the church to listen to it. During Conference I got a phone call on my cell saying that we could move in to our apartment anytime that day because the painters had finished the day before. We spent the 2 hours between conference signing papers for our new apartment and once again packing. After the second session of conference I dropped Mark off at the U-haul place to pick up our truck and went home to finishes up cleaning.
Around 6:00pm a bunch of men (5 or so including Mark's dad and brother) from our ward came to help us move. It actually went really quickly. They got the truck all loaded by 7:00, went to the priesthood session, and then unloaded the truck afterwards. All that time I was cleaning our old apartment. I was so pooped out by the end of the night. I guess our apartment was more disgusting than I would like to admit, but it sure took me forever to clean.We didn't get to bed until about 1:00am. So I was dieing with no sleep the night before.
Notice that I didn't mention breakfast, lunch, or dinner. We didn't have anything to eat all day!! Well, actually we had a a yogurt, hand full of pretzels and shared a banana! (oh, and some frosting left over form the primary activity. I was hungry and I couldn't find anything else to eat :) ) I have been starving all weekend!!!!
Anyway, things worked out but it was stressful and VERY tiring. And although I was really tired and struggled to stay awake I really did enjoy conference. Even with the stress of the move.
I don't have pictures to put up now but I do have some so maybe someday I will get them up. :)
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