some assembly required

Here we are taking down the "for sale" sign in front of our house. YAY, it's ours!

We bought a dresser at ikea, and had to put it together. Here's the before and after!




Travis is tired from the hard work! He had a pinched nerve in his back that day, so every little move was pretty intense.

Here is the finished product!

This was our first night moving in! We ate dinner at like 11:30 on the kitchen floor because we didn't have a table yet. :)

Here's our bed, also took some assembly...

Living room/Piano room. YES, that is the baby grand piano in OUR house! Thanks mom and dad, I love playing it!

Here is the kitchen table. To the left is our kitchen.

Here's a couple pictures of our family room, and our new comfy couches!!

Okay these pictures don't do justice so seeing them is NOT an excuse not to come over! (Do you love the double negative there?) I would love visitors!

We love our new house and could not be happier! I'll take and post some pics of the other rooms later. OR, you could just come by and see for yourself! :)

slitherin

Here is my first attempt at uploading a video! Travis found a little gardener snake near our old house when we were moving, and brought it into the house. He told me not to yell or scream because it might scare the snake. OH, so I have to be considerate of a snake's feelings now when HE is the one that shouldn't be scaring ME?!!


Anyway, Travis decided to name him slitherin. I liked the name 'Mr. Slithers' from the cartoon Robin Hood. Needless to say, we didn't keep him.







you can hear me freaking out on the video...

the one day

As you all know, I don't work many days recently, and when I do, my hours are horrible. Usually from evening til 10pm or midnight.

As you are also aware, the weather has been so crappy lately. During the day when everyone works, I was at school, and then had to work in the evening. Now that I'm done with school, I have nothing to do all day, and I am bored out of my mind! There's only so much laundry and dishes to do. After that, I read, then play the piano (which I could actually do for hours). I want people to play with me during the day!

So, here I sit at work, the ONE day it finally turns out to be a gorgeous day, and on a Saturday too, when everyone gets to play! Except nooooo.... Kat has to WORK, from 3-10pm! (I'm a little bitter, can you tell?) I should be grateful that I'm even working the few hours I have.

On a much happier note, my house is pretty much all set up! We got a washer/dryer, a new dresser, my baby grand piano, new furniture, a new sleighbed frame, etc! Wow!!! We are slowly but surely settling in and we love it! Still don't have internet at my house so I can't post pictures, but I will soon!

secret wishes!

So my mom and my best friend Rachel did this post about secret wishes, and I decided I'd follow suit. Here are my secret wishes:
I wish:
-to be a singer in a night club/lounge
-to be on Broadway
-that people wouldn't judge me
-to run a marathon
-that I didn't have to wear such dark boring colors when interpreting
-that people wouldn't pressure me about when to have kids
-to have beautiful skin so I don't have to wear foundation or concealer.
- to go back to the SCZ Boardwalk and interpret concerts every Friday during the Summer. I actually really really miss it, even though I claim that "I don't mind."
-to be so rich that I can travel wherever I want to go without worrying about finances when we get back. (This will happen someday!)

moving up and moving on!

We are HOME OWNERS!!! We moved into our new house on Monday! Thanks to everyone who helped in the move, we couldn't have done it without you!

We love our new house. It is soooo much bigger than our other house and we don't know what to do with all this space! We're looking to fill it all up this Saturday. Yay for sales!

Here are some things I love about our new house:
-I have a garage with an automatic remote opener! (Every time I drive up to the house and press that opener, I giggle!)
-I have a huge pantry, and tons of storage space in my kitchen.
-I have a huge walk-in closet! (which for those who know me, is a really big deal!!)
-I have 3 bathrooms. No more waiting!
-Nice master bath with garden tub, jetted!
-Literally 3 minutes from the freeway, and I get to school much faster
-Awesome backyard with overhang for shade.
-Roses, garden, flowers, grass!!!!

Convinced? It's a really nice, cute home, and we love it!
No more bird poop all over our cars. No more shuffling cars in the driveway. No more 15 minute drives to the freeway. Closer to food and fun!

Pictures to come. We don't have internet set up at our house yet, but I'll try to do that soon! We are still living out of boxes because we're both too busy to unpack. School is the priority right now, since I can't wait on doing any of my homework. After Wednesday next week I'll be done for the Summer!

late

Yesterday after a very long and restful sleep, I slowly opened my eyes to see what time it was. I rolled over to look at the clock and it read 8:57. NOT GOOD. I have church at 9:00. I remembered my clock was 5 minutes fast. Great. I have 8 minutes to get ready instead of 3. Oh, but it takes about 2.5 mins to get to the church anyway! Also may I remind you that I was supposed to give a talk in church! I instantly started crying and screaming, NO, NO, NO!!! Travis thought I was having a nightmare and tried to console me. When he realized that it was a nightmare coming TRUE, he told me to calm down, stop crying and focus on getting ready.

I literally brushed my teeth, and got dressed at the same time. I combed my bangs, put on some glasses (to mask my hideous face) and hopped in the car and sped to church. I looked and felt disgusting. I didn't have ANY time to wash my face, put makeup on, or find something cute to wear. If I wasn't giving a talk, this would be no big deal. I could sneak right in and no one would notice me, or how awful I looked. BUT NO!!! I had all eyes staring at me the entire meeting! Wonderful. Luckily I had prepared my talk earlier in the week and printed it the day before. What if I had procrastinated and decided to wait until the very last minute? I would have been totally hosed!

I was telling my woes to a friend and she said, "well just think of it this way, you got such good and restful sleep the night before!" Very true. I'm just glad my internal body alarm clock woke me up when it did. I managed to walk in as the opening song was being sung. If I had woke up any later, they might have had to put me last in the program!

After sacrament meeting I ran straight home to actually get ready and make food for my sister's farewell, which was also yesteray, at 1:00. She gave a wonderful talk and I am super proud of her! There was a great turnout for the get-together afterwards. Yesterday turned out to be a great day, but the start of it sure had my heart racing! :)