There has to be a God...

Story time: So, yesterday at work I had two girls that were struggling with their emotions. I took the girls to the gym to give them a chance to work some steam off. One of the girls that was struggling decided to "just leave". I followed her and tried to do some teaching so that she wouldn't run. Luckily there were other girls around that I could tell to inform the other family teacher, but I was going to be on my own. The other family teacher had the other ten girls to worry about. So the girl that was "leaving" left the gym with me following behind her (I don't have a coat but yet a purse on my shoulder). A lot of time passes and a lot of teaching has occurred (with no such luck of changing the circumstances) and finally we have walked to one of the busiest streets in Logan. At this point in time my house manager has arrived and another family teacher that happened to be in that area of Logan are cornering us. The girl reacts and runs into the street (she had been threatening this the entire night). S***! I can't tell you the profanities that entered my mind at that point in time. So, what do I do....I have to run into the street to attempt to restrain her. The house phone falls out of my pocket and my purse goes flying and luckily lands in middle of the street. Here is where there has to be a God, because I had no time to look for on coming cars and the other family teachers had to do the same thing. Somehow we make it to the other side of the street, get our business done, put her in the van, and go home. When we arrived back to the house I saw what the phone looked like and it was demolished. We all hated that phone anyways. The rest of the night was still rough. I was soo emotionally drained by the end of the shift. I love my job, but I'm so glad I have today off to recuperate.



Not the actual phone, but R.I.P little phone.

Good News!

No, I'm not pregnant. I've got even better news! So, James has been working for Oakridge STUDENT Apartments for about five years now and hates it. The maintenance man at Oak Meadows MARRIED Apartments (both owned my Triton) is quitting and James is taking over that position. Why do you say this is good news? Because we will live there as soon as there is an opening and not only is there a employee discount but a even bigger one for an on-site maintenance man. How much do you say? Half the rent??!! DONE! We are so excited! We thought of this as a great opportunity to be able to spend some money on ourselves for once, but as agreed by the both of us, the extra money will go into savings. I told James that this is why we pay our tithing, because he wants a truck after his precious car dies and who has the money for that??!! Well this extra money will definitely help out and James is meant to have a truck for future contracting. It will be so nice to be on the other side of town, because that's where everything is located. James won't have to drive to work, neither one of us has to drive to his work or home to have lunch, and its a shorter distance to my work.





In other news, Happy Valentine's Day! James was so sweet. I could care less about the holiday, but James will do anything to spoil me. Roses and a hand-made necklace holder for me and a bag of circus cookies for him. Thanks babe! You are the world to me!

Home Improvements

A bonus of James working at Oakridge Student Apartments is that we can utilize the jacuzzi.

Skiing/snowboarding the "Beav"

James is so handy! There was a piece of furniture that I found at Downeast Outfitters and he took an old piece of furniture and sanded down the drawers and glued new ones on to match the one that I found. All of the furniture will have the same notches. I know, it's hard to see since the room is poorly lite, but oh man, I love the contemporary look!

I love Ikea! This was my problem solving technique to battle the lack of room to hang multiple towels without the bathroom looking cluttered. And, the rods move!
The bathroom has a bad floor plan with doors on both sides of those rods.

James built this in the closet

The combination of the above and below photo make up the "real" master bedroom = guest/office room. The floor plan in this room wasn't done well either.

We sleep in the second bedroom.

I don't know what the official name of this room is, but I will just call it the entertainment room.

The dining area. We received the table for free! Thanks Christy! I hated the old one which had captain seats and it was very outdated. This one has a country home look, but anything is better than what we had before.

Downstairs bathroom

We were going to originally buy the townhouse, but with a stipulation on the tax credit it wasn't going to work out. There was a lot of added changes we were going to make, but we will reserve that for something else. I love this place and I will be sad when it finally does sell.