Rocks, endless ROCKS!!

Okay, so I knew that we were going pretty much do the landscaping ourselves, which I look forward to, but before we moved when we were asked if we wanted free dirt, we said sure! It's free! But they forgot to mention that it was loaded with a sea of endless rocks! Not worth the effort we had put in the last 2 weeks. We have been digging, raking and shovling rocks about 4 hours a day in 95 degree weather. Not too pleasant. It's better at night when the sun is down, but there is so much to do that we have to get it done as soon as possible so we can get started once we have the money to do it. Just when we thought we were done with one spot...low and behold there are more and not just your normal sized rocks, some of thses rocks I swear came from SPACE!!Seriously. Every time we dug up another one, we would look at eachother and laugh a crazy psycho laugh. Don't get me wrong, it would have been fine for 2 days, but it was just a lot of work. Trust me it was owrse than what the pictures are showing!! But it feels good to know we are one step closer to doing up our yard. I just had to vent about my love hate relationship with rocks because we will be putting roks back in the yard(zero scaping is the requirement, no grass) but they will be better and prettier rocks with some trees and flowers. It's going to look good, I hope ;)

Yea! We're Here, Our new Home!

We have finally made it to Farmington, NM and are so glad to be here and done with moving! At least for a while anyway. We really like our new house. Of course there have been a list of problems, which is going to be fixed, but there are other small things that we will have to do without, like no drawers in the bathrooms!! But overall we are very pleased with the house especially for the fact that it is new and mostly interiorly designed to my taste. I absolutely LOVE the kitchen. Of course it is not top of the line, but it is pretty close to the kitchen I've always wanted! We really like our new ward. Everyone has been so friendly and welcoming! We have had 1 meal and 2 desserts brought over already! There are a lot of parks out here and are very nice. What is mostly nice about them is that there is no grafiti anywhere! So nice! It is nicely rounded out here as far as financial class. You have your Million dollar homes in the Country Club and Pinon Hills, but you also have middle class, which is the area we are in and then lower class, but I have yet to see real ghetto. The city is just so much bigger than I thought I still have more exploring to do and I am sure it will take me a year to get really comfortable. We had a little trouble getting internet hooked up, especially becuase it's through Qwest(no choice here) and we have been used to cable and had to downgrade to DSL 1.5 the highest they offer in this area BOO :( We had to buy a DSL Modem and hook it up, but our computer was blocking the signal, sooo. After almost 2 weeks with no internet and phone...we have not been able to do much of anything! But we are finally up and running. I have taken a lot of picutres of the house and all the rooms. I kind of did it in a way to give a tour of the house. There is really not much to it, but so much better than an apartment! It's been great! Hope you like the pictures and let me know what you all think!





The Front of the House






The back of the house! It's kind of hard to tell distance from pictures, especially these ones, but apparently our back yard is about 60 Ft. by 70 Ft. somewhere around there. Much bigger than I was expecting! We have some fun plans for landscaping, but who knows how long that will be. I'm exciting to get things rolling though. It will be nice to have grass and a backyard for Delia to play and for get-togethers.







Pictures of our living room from the Front door






Other Views of the Living Room.









The Kitchen...my favorite Part. Don't you just love it! The faucet was a huge upgrade! But it was worth it!








The Master Bedroom and closet. What I like is the space for all my shoes! Wow! I didn't realize how many shoes I really had! The bedroom is much more spacious than the pictures show. The Closet is actually inside the bathroom...kind of weird, but we'll get used to it!








The Master Bathroom. It's pretty cool besides the fact that there are no drawers or any space except under the sink to put anything!! A bit frustrating..but I will carry on! I really like the faucets for the bathrooms also. they too were an upgrade. The mirrors are pretty cool. I like the shower and the extra room for the porcelean king!







Pictures of the hallway, Bathroom, Delia's room and the "Scrapbooking" Room or multipurpose room ;)


Well, That's our house! Trust me it looks better in person that what the pictures show!

Good Reads Website...Yea!!

My grandmother sent me an invite to goodreads.com so I thought I would join, when it pulled up my my email contacts that were already members, I was like, "why didn't I know about this before?" Funny because I actually started another blog to post all my books to share with firends and called it Gina's Good Reads!! but no one ever visited it and now that I found this I can add the books I want with ease and I know that all my friends are on there. How fun. It also keeps a list of the books you want to read so no worries about remembering! I am so excited. I was also able to see how many books I actually have read and makes me more excited to keeo reading. If you notice on my profile there, I am reading several books at once, well...I start a lot of books and don't finish because I get excited about another book, and another book, so I end of buying these half read books just to keep track of what I want to read, not with this fancy new website I don't have to worry. Now all I need to do is get crackin and catch up with all my reading. Now that I have a baby, it's going to be even more challenging...bring it on baby! Now all I need is for you all to accept my invite I sent you so we can be firends! Aww. ;) If you are not a member, become one and send me a friend invite!

First Steps!

Delia took 4 steps all by herself today! Although wobbly, she still took them! I am so proud of her. At first I watched her take 2 steps trying to get her binki off the chair and I was so excited that I kept working with her for about 15 mins. to see if she could take any more and she did! She is just such a determined kid and she likes to accomplish things. So exciting!

First Tooth...Yea, Finally!!

Well, after teething for a very long time, Delia finally got her first tooth on the day she turned 10 months!! I was starting to get a little worried wondering if she would ever get teeth ;D but she did. Now she will have a little more help chewing her food. she is now eating table food along with some baby food since 9 months, thanks to her father feeding her fish and potatoes..which she loves. It mostly has to be soft for her. when we giver her harder things like cherrios, she just spits them out, but we continue to work with her. She is also a picky eater. some days she will eat like a good girl and other days she just plain doesn't want to eat. I am really working at being patient with her and it seems to pay off, she eats at her own pace not mommy's..uh duh, hello, why didn't I figure that out sooner?? anyway she is doing good. Hooray for Delia!

A New Milestone for Delia!!

Delia just keeps growing!! She is so silly! I don't know any baby like her! Delia is so close to walking. She has been standing on her own balancing herself for several seconds. Just today she stood for 15 seconds!!! Wow. I am so proud of her. I keep working with her everyday to get her closer to walking. I know it seems like I am digging my grave wanting her to walk so fast. It's not really that, its just she wants it and I know she is ready I just try to help and encourage her, not push her. She even took 1 or 2 steps on her own, but she was bent over while doing it. It was so funny to watch her. It's exciting to me to see her grow up but sad too. I bought her this new little outfit and I love it!!! I decided to take a picture of her in it and she pulled some super funny faces. That is Delia all the way.

Farmington, NM visit..and New House!!

A couple of weekends ago Christian took me down to Farmington to see it. It was really nice, much bigger than I expected. It has all your basic conveniences: A lowes and Home Depot, Target, Walmart supercenter, K-mart, Big lots, it's even got a Hobby Lobby, 2 scrapbook stores and a Sally Beauty Supply. It has a couple of mexican and Chinese restaurants, and Applebees, Chilis, KFC. taco bell...the list goes on!! I didn't expect it to have so much. I really like the wards down there, so many families, it's a great family town. We also visited the office Christian will be working at and it is beautiful!! New faciluty, new everything! It is well taken care of and business continues to boom! Houses are not as expensive as I thought they were, it just depends on where they are located. We were originally going to rent a house for a while, but Christian's new boss, who is awesome, talked us into buying a small house. After looking at some homes with the 2 days we had, we found one we liked. after counteroffering it, christian decided to stop before he accepted their last offer because we still were not approved for a loan yet!! That's when we got a call from a friend of Mike's(christian's boss) telling us that the house he is building will be ready by July 1st! This was one of the houses that we looked at briefly for the heck of it(which was still far from frinished) but knew it wouldn't be done in time, so we put it aside in our minds. Now that it will be done, we started the negotiating of the terms with the owner and after 2 weeks finally came to an agreement. I faxed the the contract today, so that's it!! Technically we don't own it yet, but signed a contract that we will buy it after renting for 3 months or we will loose a big chunk of Earnest money!! Christian just needed some time to save money for a down payment on a mortgage, so by the end of Sept, we will own a house!! Oof course there are pros and cons to it. One we haven't seen it finished completely yet and only glanced at it once when it was still being built, but on the other hand he gave me to chance to choose everything I wanted: The cabinets, countertops, tile, carpet, faucets, light fixtures, mirrors, sinks, even the colors of the walls and the outside colors of the house. It is pretty much cutomized to my choices!!! How cool is that! I just can't wit to see it! Turns out that the owner's wife and I have similar tastes, I chose things that were close to what she had originally picked out! After taling with her for a while and telling her what I kind of wanted, I can trust her to make it look good. It is really hard to choose things long distace and over the internet without being there to actually see it! She assures me that it is going to look nice! It is also cool because instead of putting in what we want later and buying it all ouselves, they get a good deal from wholesalers, so we will be getting pretty nice stuff! I am so excited! Another great thing is that it is in the most sought after neighborhoods, a great part of town(just over the fence from the wealthy country club homes)in the best school district and only a 20 min. walk to christian's work!! Well, I will bring you more updates once we move in which is in 3 1/2 weeks!!! Awwww!

Engaged and Unofficially engaged!

Two of my favorite people are engaged...my sister and sister-in-law. Okay so my sister insisted I change the title to "Unoffically engaged" because she has no ring yet, but she pretty much is!! Melanie and Heather. The first 2 pictures are of Melanie and Adam(my little sis.) and the third is Heather. I really didn't have a picture of her and Rich(her fiance) so I thought this one was nice. Heather and Rich haven't made any details yet, but my sister has!! They chose the date October 17 and have already booked the Temple. Melanie is so excited she is on top of things. I am so happy for them both, but a little freaked out about my sister because..well she's my sister! Hooray. More details to come later.

Hanging Lake

Last Saterday we went to a Place called Hanging Lake. It was more beautiful than expected! The hike wasn't very far but it was all up hill and rocky. It was so breathtaking once we got up to the top the view of the mountains and the small lake was awesome. The water was so green, it looked like something out of Hawaii. The picture do not do it justice. It was Delia's first hike and so was so good just like she always is. It was nice to be able to experience the colorado out doors before we leave.