Update time!
So we're settling in to the airport and I finally got my clothes moved from the dining room to the bedroom. We're also getting a table with matching chairs (yes, we have moved on from the college years) from Spence and Tiff. So the place is really coming together.
We don't have internet yet. We would have, but we've been bounced back and forth like a ping-pong ball. We were going to go with Webwave, and when the guy came to set it up we found out that the airport already had Webwave. So the installer-dude told us that we could just use the airport's internet, if it was alright with them.
Beth talked to the airport and they said they didn't mind at all. So she called up Webwave and the lady told her that we could NOT just get free internet and that we had to pay the full amount and get a 2-year contract. Beth stood her ground and told the lady that the installer said it was ok and the airport said it was ok. The mean lady told Beth that she'd talk to the installer guy. And then they said they'd give us a discounted rate. . .but we'd still have to do the 2-year contract.
THEN, when all was planned out we had our maintanance guy come by and installed the other half of our closet rod (hence, why I was changing in the dining room) and said that the airport was going to get new internet and he thought we should just hook on their new internet stuff.
So we're still waiting.
There's your update!
Friday, September 28, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Yes, We Have No Internet
Our posts on this blog are going to be limited for the next little bit while we decide which internet provider to go with. We're looking for a fast, efficient, reliable provider. . .that's cheap and available in our area.
In the meantime you'll just have to be satisfied with our posts while we do our laundry, because we do that at my parent's house.
We've organized the bathroom, kitchen and living room so far and we're working on the master bedroom and the baby's room. It's turning out to be a nice place to live. And we've got rabbit ears on our television so we don't feel quite as cut off from the outside world. Well, I've still got internet at work, Beth is the one who is cut off. (P.S. It is still REALLY weird to me that my new job is actually paying me for Labor Day when I'm not working. It's an odd concept to me. I guess this is a "grown-up" job now.)
So. . .our first day at our new ward was. . .interesting. First of all we had to find our church. I google texted (since we. . .well, see the title of this post) to see what churches were nearby. There were four that came up. I called my dad and found out where it was. We had to pass a perfectly good church to get to our church. It was only a five minute drive or so, but Beth says we still can't walk (darn pregnant women).
They have sacrament last so Beth and I had to separate first thing. That's always a bit stressful. Elder's quorum was normal, except that there were two other new people in addition to myself. From what I hear the ward just split and they're probably going to split it again soon. With the new developments popping up this ward is growing fast. Sunday school also seemed normal. Then. . .sacrament meeting happened.
The first thing that struck us as odd was that, even though it was early and not many benches were full, there were scriptures, coats, purses and bags all over the place. People were SAVING seats for sacrament meeting. I've seen that before in movie theaters and in concerts and plays, but I've never seen that in church before. Weird.
Then came the children. Like a hoard of zombies they came waddling into the room en masse and filled the seats. Seriously, the ward is about 80% children 6 and under. There was no silence in sacrament meeting. There was constantly crying, yelling, talking and laughing. At times it was hard to hear the people bearing their testimonies.
Which brings me to my next point: the testimonies. For every one adult there was about 6 kids who bore their testimonies. And while most of them were the standard "I'dliketburymytestimonyandIknowthischurchistrueandIlovemymomanddad" variety, but there were a couple that made me belly laugh.
My personal favorite was when a little boy got up there and put his mouth over the microphone and yelled "HI!" so loud that everyone in the congregation jumped and dropped their tupperware full of Cheerios. He proceeded to bless the congregation which was quite entertaining. I don't think he's got the difference between bearing testimony and saying prayers down yet.
And there was a cute little girl that got up there and said, "Hello. My name is Madison. I like to color. And I like arts and crafts and in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." I was touched.
And the sad thing is that any time someone bore a real testimony it almost felt inappropriate because there was so much noise and no spirit.
It was definitely an interesting beginning to this chapter of our life.
In the meantime you'll just have to be satisfied with our posts while we do our laundry, because we do that at my parent's house.
We've organized the bathroom, kitchen and living room so far and we're working on the master bedroom and the baby's room. It's turning out to be a nice place to live. And we've got rabbit ears on our television so we don't feel quite as cut off from the outside world. Well, I've still got internet at work, Beth is the one who is cut off. (P.S. It is still REALLY weird to me that my new job is actually paying me for Labor Day when I'm not working. It's an odd concept to me. I guess this is a "grown-up" job now.)
So. . .our first day at our new ward was. . .interesting. First of all we had to find our church. I google texted (since we. . .well, see the title of this post) to see what churches were nearby. There were four that came up. I called my dad and found out where it was. We had to pass a perfectly good church to get to our church. It was only a five minute drive or so, but Beth says we still can't walk (darn pregnant women).
They have sacrament last so Beth and I had to separate first thing. That's always a bit stressful. Elder's quorum was normal, except that there were two other new people in addition to myself. From what I hear the ward just split and they're probably going to split it again soon. With the new developments popping up this ward is growing fast. Sunday school also seemed normal. Then. . .sacrament meeting happened.
The first thing that struck us as odd was that, even though it was early and not many benches were full, there were scriptures, coats, purses and bags all over the place. People were SAVING seats for sacrament meeting. I've seen that before in movie theaters and in concerts and plays, but I've never seen that in church before. Weird.
Then came the children. Like a hoard of zombies they came waddling into the room en masse and filled the seats. Seriously, the ward is about 80% children 6 and under. There was no silence in sacrament meeting. There was constantly crying, yelling, talking and laughing. At times it was hard to hear the people bearing their testimonies.
Which brings me to my next point: the testimonies. For every one adult there was about 6 kids who bore their testimonies. And while most of them were the standard "I'dliketburymytestimonyandIknowthischurchistrueandIlovemymomanddad" variety, but there were a couple that made me belly laugh.
My personal favorite was when a little boy got up there and put his mouth over the microphone and yelled "HI!" so loud that everyone in the congregation jumped and dropped their tupperware full of Cheerios. He proceeded to bless the congregation which was quite entertaining. I don't think he's got the difference between bearing testimony and saying prayers down yet.
And there was a cute little girl that got up there and said, "Hello. My name is Madison. I like to color. And I like arts and crafts and in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." I was touched.
And the sad thing is that any time someone bore a real testimony it almost felt inappropriate because there was so much noise and no spirit.
It was definitely an interesting beginning to this chapter of our life.
Friday, August 24, 2007
This is our airport apartment!
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(the transitions in the slideshow kind of cut off the bottom of the pics, but it'll give you an idea of what it looks like).
Thursday, August 23, 2007
We live at the airport!!!
That's right... me and Joel just signed a contract to live in an apartment at the airport. LOL. How awesome is that?! No, it's not some aparmtment complex next to the airport... it's in the actual airport terminal!
It's actually quite nice and spacious. It used to be the airport owners apartment. I'm not positive, but I think we may be the only tenants to live there since him. He would just sleep there occasionally. They were going to turn it into a lounge for pilots, but decided to rent it out. It's on the 2nd floor of the building. Below us is a main office and on our floor there are classrooms for the flight school and some administrative offices. The airport is small and basically for single-engine planes and a few helicopters.
If anyone wants to visit, there's plenty of parking... we have an entire parking lot :). And you just have to look for the big red and white tower: we're right next to it.
It's pretty awesome. The biggest pain about it is no washer/dryer hookups and DSL doesn't go that far out, so we might have to figure out some kind of satellite thing. Otherwise it really is a great deal! Yay! I'm so excited to start moving in!!! We'll start next Monday and have to be fully out of our current place by Friday the 31st.
I'll post pictures within the next few days.
It's actually quite nice and spacious. It used to be the airport owners apartment. I'm not positive, but I think we may be the only tenants to live there since him. He would just sleep there occasionally. They were going to turn it into a lounge for pilots, but decided to rent it out. It's on the 2nd floor of the building. Below us is a main office and on our floor there are classrooms for the flight school and some administrative offices. The airport is small and basically for single-engine planes and a few helicopters.
If anyone wants to visit, there's plenty of parking... we have an entire parking lot :). And you just have to look for the big red and white tower: we're right next to it.
It's pretty awesome. The biggest pain about it is no washer/dryer hookups and DSL doesn't go that far out, so we might have to figure out some kind of satellite thing. Otherwise it really is a great deal! Yay! I'm so excited to start moving in!!! We'll start next Monday and have to be fully out of our current place by Friday the 31st.
I'll post pictures within the next few days.
You've got to be kidding me...
Kim and Brooke convinced me to create a blog and I finally had something semi-exciting to post about (mine and Joel's new apartment), but that will have to be another time because I have something else to post. Here's my frustrating story...
I was driving to meet Joel at our new apartment to sign the contract. He was just getting off work and I was leaving from his families house in Layton (I hung out there all day after seeing the apartment that morning). Rob was going to come with me to see the apartment and then we were going to meet up with Renae for dinner. Thank goodness she suggested dinner!!! Since she did, Rob just came in my car and was going to ride back with Renae. Brent and Mike also came with us.
We were heading south on Highway 89 and getting onto the ramp to merge onto I-15 and were stopped in traffic. It was stop and go and so frustrating! 25 minutes later we were still making our way on the on-ramp... and then my car died! Can I just say I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR FAMILY!!! The check engine light popped on and my car just turned off. I couldn't get it to start again, so Brent and Mike jumped out and pushed my car as much on the shoulder as they could (there's construction going on, so it was hard to get very far off). Can you imagine what I would've done if I had been in my car alone?! The jerk behind me started honking and yelling at us (what the heck... he was mad he couldn't drive ahead 10 feet just to be stopped again?).
So yeah... my car is dead. Someone from my in-laws ward saw them on the side and stopped to help. They gave me a ride to meet Joel in Woods Cross so we could sign the contract before the place closed (I was supposed to be there at 6pm... it was almost 7 and that's when the guy is done with work). Rob, Brent and Mike stayed behind with the car to see if it just needed to cool down. Turns out it didn't. Renae picked them up and they all met us at the apartment and then we went to Lorena's for dinner.
It was close to 9 by this point and we went back to the car. We got it towed to a place in Centerville and spent the night in Layton. Today I'm just waiting in Layton for them to call and tell me what's wrong. I so so hope it doesn't cost too much! We just put down a deposit on an apartment (that's more expensive than our last one since it's 2 bedroom) and we have my tuition to be paying for, extra gas money while we drive back and forth moving, and a baby coming. We really really don't need this right now. I'm just a bit frustrated.
But with all that it has made me appreciate my in-laws even more. I've always loved them, but this has just made me so much more grateful for them and how helpful they are. I truly am lucky to have married into such a great family!
I was driving to meet Joel at our new apartment to sign the contract. He was just getting off work and I was leaving from his families house in Layton (I hung out there all day after seeing the apartment that morning). Rob was going to come with me to see the apartment and then we were going to meet up with Renae for dinner. Thank goodness she suggested dinner!!! Since she did, Rob just came in my car and was going to ride back with Renae. Brent and Mike also came with us.
We were heading south on Highway 89 and getting onto the ramp to merge onto I-15 and were stopped in traffic. It was stop and go and so frustrating! 25 minutes later we were still making our way on the on-ramp... and then my car died! Can I just say I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR FAMILY!!! The check engine light popped on and my car just turned off. I couldn't get it to start again, so Brent and Mike jumped out and pushed my car as much on the shoulder as they could (there's construction going on, so it was hard to get very far off). Can you imagine what I would've done if I had been in my car alone?! The jerk behind me started honking and yelling at us (what the heck... he was mad he couldn't drive ahead 10 feet just to be stopped again?).
So yeah... my car is dead. Someone from my in-laws ward saw them on the side and stopped to help. They gave me a ride to meet Joel in Woods Cross so we could sign the contract before the place closed (I was supposed to be there at 6pm... it was almost 7 and that's when the guy is done with work). Rob, Brent and Mike stayed behind with the car to see if it just needed to cool down. Turns out it didn't. Renae picked them up and they all met us at the apartment and then we went to Lorena's for dinner.
It was close to 9 by this point and we went back to the car. We got it towed to a place in Centerville and spent the night in Layton. Today I'm just waiting in Layton for them to call and tell me what's wrong. I so so hope it doesn't cost too much! We just put down a deposit on an apartment (that's more expensive than our last one since it's 2 bedroom) and we have my tuition to be paying for, extra gas money while we drive back and forth moving, and a baby coming. We really really don't need this right now. I'm just a bit frustrated.
But with all that it has made me appreciate my in-laws even more. I've always loved them, but this has just made me so much more grateful for them and how helpful they are. I truly am lucky to have married into such a great family!
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