J'ai fini

It's done! Everything. Moved in=Check, Cable=Check, Internet=Check, Couch=Check.

   We got our new couch and it look fabulous. Fits perfect and it is wonderful.Our coffee table is a little to big for its britches. We turned it into our entertainment center. It's looking good and doing alright there. Comcast is a big joke. So the cable stopped working so we have to go down to comcast to get these new digital boxes that implemented starting in January in order to watch cable. Anyways, so we have trouble setting up the box in the family room. So they tell us we have a faulty box and to go get a new one. So I did and the same thing happens it doesn't set up. Then they tell me we need a technician and I can't set up that appointment because I am not the primary on the account. BULL CRAP! I hate that stuff. So Daryl calls later on the night and they tell him to do everything again and can't send out a technician until next Thursday really? That's unbelievable.. hire more!

    So we go to Best Buy to buy a modem and router that cost like way too much than should be allowed for our internet. We get home and plug it in and are talking to a rep and she is telling us she will call back in an hour when the signal has been sent or whatever. So she calls back and it isn't working. So she keeps telling us to switch to different jacks in different rooms. So we are on the phone for hours. She eventually says well I don't know why it isn't working. I see you already have a tech coming out..why so late? Well that's the earliest they gave us. She says well I see one tomorrow I will sign you up for and they will take a look at your internet too. Then she starts telling us there is a charge on the account for the tech to come. We start arguing with her saying. This isn't our fault. It's you guys. Everything was working fine until that message came up on the TV. We aren't doing anything wrong and no one told us there would be a charge. So we are all heated. While we are on the phone we are signing on to our account and start activating our internet ourselves. We eventually get off the phone and what do you know we figure out our internet ourselves. So we decide to work on the TV. We get that set up too. So pathetic. We are fed up with comcast! Why couldn't they figure that out? It was so easy. We did ourselves! Man. So we labeled our internet. WeHateComcast..hahaha. 

Other than that headache last night. Everything is working great! Our cable is sweet. We get a lot more channels than we did before. Which I am super happy about! I didn't have class today which is nice. I have been job searching and sending some resumes out. Life is great! I am excited to hang out with Daryl tonight. I love the weekends! Excited to see what it has in store.

As Done As It Gets

My title I feel like has lots of meanings. Like every time you clean it feels like the next day you have to clean again. And you just think well at least we can enjoy this for a little awhile until tomorrow rolls around. Also unpacking when you move to a new place. It seems it takes days to unpack and you keep thinking you have got to be close to the end but you aren’t. Well I finished unpacking our new place. I think. I mean if you walk into the 2^nd bedroom we have you would think otherwise. So I just shut the door and pretend like we don’t have a bunch of crap that doesn’t fit places. Also, this happens to me when I cook I feel like. You know how you keep checking the oven thinking your meal is almost done. But it never cooks anymore so you just say well it’s as done as it will ever get. IDK. I hope other people feel that way…Maybe I am just a terrible cook. Well we all know that is true.

So on Saturday we bought a couch! I am stoked about it! Daryl and a guy from the church are picking it up today. I hope it fits. It is pretty comfy. It is leather too! I know what you are thinking..yucky! That’s what I thought. I’d never have a leather couch. But it is legit. It is a small sectional and I can’t wait to take some Sunday naps on that thing! We also went to IKEA and bought a drop-leaf table, coffee table(which turned out to be the biggest coffee table I have ever laid my eyes on), bed frame, and 2 cute little nightstands. Ikea is great! We got all of it for cheaper than most places. The thing about IKEA is you have to build it. So we spent all Saturday building all these contraptions. The stuff from IKEA might not last if you have kids. It’s all like wood shreds that has been glued together. Seems it will fall apart in no time. I wouldn’t call IKEA cheap though. At least not for a young married couple in college. It was still quite spendy! So moral of the story is we spent all that money we had saved up! I hate watching hundreds of moneys ring up on the machine. But hey! We will definitely get good use out of it. I just hope we don’t move for another 2-3 years. Because I do NOT want to move this stuff again. We have TOO much now. I can’t even imagine the stuff we will collect in 30+ years.

Well School started Monday. Hurray! Ha. I have mixed feelings about it. I love getting busy but I hate thinking of all the work that is going to have to be done. I have four classes and one online. The online one should be easy. I have a class on t,th that is and hour and 40 minutes long. I hope I survive. I am nervous about that class. It’s behavorial stats. So math. Never been the best at it. But hopefully I can pull out at least a B. That is what I am aiming for. I will try my hardest though. Daryl has 2 classes on campus and the rest are online. Luck butt! None of my classes are even online. Now that I am in my major I am starting to have the same people in my classes. It’s kinda weird. Makes it feel like High School again…I decided I should start talking to people and making friends or something. Esp because that portion in my life is going very well…haha. I have talked to a couple people and I have a lot of study groups for my classes so it should be a fun year. I have some harder classes. I hope my GPA doesn’t drop that much lower. But it is sooo good right now. My freshmen year and sophomore year didn’t go so hot so I want to keep the GPA I have now!

Still on the job hunt. We still don’t have internet so it is hard to get really anything done. I made dinner tonight. I have been bad about it since about finals last semester. I cooked through most of the semester though. I just got busy with finals and also with the whole moving thing. It took up a lot of time. But I know that is not an excuse. I am excited about tonight’s dinner. It is ham, hash browns, cheese, and chicken soup. Just a ham and cheese bake. I did it in the crock pot so hopefully it turns out and is as yummy as it sounds. Well Daryl should be here any minute. Then he will go and pick up the couch. Then we will eat and hopefully head to the library. We need internet and need to look up some books to order for our classes. Hopefully we will figure out the internet. We are trying to share with someone and so far it is kind of an epic fail.

Anyways life is great. I love being married. My husband is the most hardworking/loving person I know. I learn new stuff every day and it is exciting. I love talking to my mom on the phone. I love our new place. I feel so blessed in many ways. I love my family and friends. Laterrrrrz.

Moving Right In

Well it has been a little bit! I have been so busy with the holidays and such.  I went to Washington a day or two before one of my best friend’s wedding. I was able to spend time with my mother and hang out with my dad without Daryl for a couple days. I missed him but it was nice to spend some alone time with my parents. It was just like old times. Daryl ended up coming out as well as my best friend (Katie) was marrying his roommate from freshmen year (Ryan).  Anyways, It was very beautiful. It was my first friend that I was able to see get married. It was nice to see her and see how happy she was with her new husband. They were both beaming. I love weddings!

Then we headed to Indiana to Daryl’s house. Indiana is as horrible as it sounds. Just Kidding. It wasn’t horrible. I would just like to never live there. It was just fields and fields. I hate to say this but I think I really am falling in love with Utah. Those mountains are just soo pretty to see every day. I love being surrounded by them. I really liked NC and Washington. I love the seasons and I love how green they both are. I just am not a big fan of Wisconsin/Indiana. I like to see more than just fields. Well anyways…I had a lot of fun there. I basically spent all of Christmas there. It was my first Christmas away from the blooded Willie fam. But I didn’t mind at all. I love my new family. They are so loving and fun. Daryl has all little brothers and sister. So it is a lot different than my family with me being the baby. It is fun to tease the younger ones.

Daryl got me a lot of great presents! It was the first Christmas I think I could honestly say I didn’t care about all the presents. I just enjoyed being with the people I love. That’s really all I need. Daryl brings me so much happiness. I love just being able to spend every day with my best friend. That’s why I hate getting back to reality because work and school take up a big portion of the day. Holidays are great for time together with the ones you love. The Klingaman’s are so great and I was glad we were able to fly out and spend time with them. I was also grateful that I was able to go home and see my family for a couple days too.

Then we came back to Utah and Daryl went straight back to work. I worked on packing the house up because we were moving to a sweet apartment! My parents flew to Utah and spent time with their parents for the holidays so they were here when we got back. It was nice because Daryl and I got to go skiing with my dad on Saturday! We stayed up at my Grandparents and hung out with the whole fam in my cousins cabin. It was great to see everyone and Daryl and I enjoyed being with everyone. After the weekend was over it was back to work for Daryl and I started packing up again. My dad came down and helped me after he dropped my mom off at the airport. He helped soo much! It was greatly appreciated. I couldn’t have done it without him.

The next morning Daryl had work off for the holiday and we rented a truck and moved all our stuff into our new place. One of Daryl’s friends and my dad came down and helped us move. It went pretty fast and we had to stack everything in the kitchen and the bathroom because the carpet still needed to be cleaned. I don’t know how we did it. But we fit everything and with room to spare.

The very next day I was able to be lucky enough to go skiing with my dad again! We went up at snowbasin in Ogden. It was a great day! A little chilly but sunny and no one was there! It was sweet! I got to spend a lot of alone time with my dad while he was out here. It was great! I don’t get to spend a lot of alone time with him. I love that man so much! I look up to him so much. He is so wise! I am lucky to be his daughter. He really made my life growing up a complete joy. He was a really good parent and I hope that I can learn from his example and be just like him in many ways. I was lucky to grow up in the home I did. I don’t know how I would even be able to repay my dad for all he has done for me. Love you Dad! You mean so much to me!

Now I am just unpacking right now as we speak. I did a lot yesterday and I am sure it will take the rest of the weekend. I have been thinking I needed a break and needed to keep this updated. I am trying to be better. On the Brightside the Kitchen is all done. I worked on that forever today. Our room is mostly done. And the bathroom is done. The spare room has yet to be done. I will probably go work on the desk after this post. School starts Monday and I want to at least be able to find the school supplies. For the most part things will be done. It will be nice to get Daryl’s help on Saturday. We sold our couch and recline chair! We sold it to one of Daryl’s mission buddies. He is picking them up on Saturday.

We are trying to find a nicely priced sectional that is comfy. We looked in a lot of stores and they were a little out of our price range so we have been checking KSL to see if anything legit comes up. We figure we will probably sell it before we move in 2-2.5 years so it doesn’t need to be really great. We figure it will wear down too. You never know how many times you will move while you are young. Ive moved a lot lately. I would like to be done.

Our new place is way nice. It is a lot bigger! I feel like I am living in a mansion. I feel like I need to decorate this place now. Ha. I am excited about all the space. It feels a lot more homely to me. We are going to look at a bed frame for our mattress tomorrow. We have one in mind that we want from Ikea. So we will see what happens. I hope it is still on sale the one we want! It is sweet. It has like these built in night stands but you can push them behind the bed. So it looks classer.

Anyways, I better go. I still need to do more around this place to get it unpacked. This was a long one but I had to get everything in. It’s been like 3 weeks since I wrote! Still on the job hunt. Haven’t been to great with it lately. But I will get back into it and find something. Laterrrrrrrrrz.

Things be Windin' and Gridin'

This marriage thing is really benefiting me in many ways. I feel like I am increasingly getting smarter. I feel like its forcing me to do things that I have never done before. It is really good for me! 

So update: We sold our apartment thank goodness! We are signing a contract for an apartment tonight! I am excited to get all this done and figured out. Still don't know when we will be moving in. But hopefully it can be when my family is here so they can help us move. ;)

I am waiting to hear back about a job that has potential. It kinda sounds like I would be on call until I could actually pick up a shift. We will see. The guy I called said he would push my name along and hopefully in the next few days I will get a call. I will see what is all going on when I get an interview. Because I am not sure that the hours are going to work out for me. 

Me and Daryl went snowboarding on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. Naturally though I forgot to bring my jacket! I am so dumb. So we bought one. It ended up being like a youth XL and only costing like 34 bucks! Better than the other ones that were there. But it was kinda funny cause I was telling Daryl on the way up how I always forget to bring something. And there it was the jacket. ha. It was really cold and windy and we got real sore. But it was nice to get back into it. 

We have just been looking at apartments. We had this fail happen. We were the first to show interest in this apartment and this lady said she would call us by Tuesday and let us know after they showed it to a few more people. So we call Tuesday and she says we still are deciding. Then she txts me Wednesday and says a couple came by last night and signed a 2 year contract. THAT was the whole point in us calling you last night! You could have told us LAST NIGHT when we asked! Dumb. Whatever. Wasn't meant to be. It was just our first choice and we were waiting on it. But I think it was a blessing in disguise because this other apartment opened up that was cheaper that we really liked. So that is the one we are signing the contract for tonight!

We went to Daryl's Christmas party last night. It was great! We got to eat some delicious food! So that means that I didn't have to cook! ;) Then Daryl rode the bull to try to win 500 dollars. It didn't go that well. But he was sure a champ. Got some bruises on his hand to show for it. There was also a cool dance crew that broke dance and stuff there. It was a lot of fun to see. Then there was a sweet dance competition that made me giggle. There was lots of competitions and we walked around and watched them. It was a pretty good night!

I feel like that is pretty much it that has been going on here. I have been having some wicked heartburn lately though. Thank goodness for TUMS they work like champs on the heart! 

Well our plans for this weekend are to go to the ward Christmas party on Saturday morning and then go snowboarding at night. Tonight I have no idea what is in store. But we always end up doing something crazy! 

Thank goodness Finals are over!! We are both done and hopefully getting A's all around. Scholarships!? I leave Monday to go home and spend sometime with the parents alone since I have been married. I am excited and for the holidays! Merry Christmas!

-P.S. Everyday I am reminded what a great hardworking husband I have! I am soooo grateful. He does so much for me! Love him like crazy!

Lucky for Love

I wanted to dedicate this post to my better half. My husband. Daryl Klingaman. 

Warning: This might be a little too cheesy for your liking. 

I am one lucky girl. I married the boy of my dreams. I hope everyone can find a happy marriage. One that makes you want to put everything into it. I was surprised how everything worked out between us. It was definitely love. 

The first time I met him I was awkward. I had talked to him before and I was just excited to spend some time with him and see what he was all about. He was sure all that and a bag of potato chips. I remember that first hug when I said hello. I remember how my heart felt in my shirt. I remember feeling so impatient on that long drive down from Ogden to Provo. You had me at hello could do it for me. That explains how I felt to the t.

He was such a gentleman. Opening my door. He even called me pretty. We went out to eat with some of his friends when I first arrived. Then we went back and hung at his place for awhile. We sat on the couch talking about our lives. We didn't stop talking. We connected in a way I have never been able to before. I was so giddy over his smile and that curly hair. 

He took me to dinner and we went and played mini golf. We are joking around with each other and having the best first date ever. He even kissed me on the cheek when we were playing mini golf. I was head over heels for this kid. How could one date determine so much for me. I am not one to crush on a boy so fast I thought to myself. We ended the night by walking around the duck pond. We told each other everything. I had never gone so deep in topics with somebody. We ended the night with a kiss. Yes, first date and a kiss. 

That had my mind spinning. Is he a player? Dang it. I am really falling for him. I was ready to wake up the next day and start things from where they left off. I was so confused. I was falling for him but my heart was in a nervous state. I didn't know him quite well enough. I just wanted us to be good friends. Someone I could turn to. Someone I could have fun with. I never meant this to turn into something like me falling big time for this guy. 

After that first weekend I was hooked and so was he. We just wanted to be together every minute we could. We lived so far away we only got to see each other on the weekends. We called, txted, skyped all that we could. Our schedules were so different. By the second weekend of hanging out. I knew I loved this boy. I cared so much for him. I felt like I was definitely crazy.  It had only been 3 weeks. How could I feel this way. 

We fit so perfectly together. I had never done such cool things with someone. I had never felt this clicking with someone happen in my life. I was in love and I was kinda scared who knew it. I was worried about what my family would think. I had just met this guy. I wanted to tell them everything but I was sure they would tell me I was crazy. I could faintly hear my brother telling me that I was too young and naive to know what love was. Finally I spilled the beans. If my family loved me they would understand. And they did! They loved him from the minute they met him. How could you not? He is Daryl Klingaman.

I'm lucky to have someone like Daryl. He would do anything for me. I can trust him with everything. He is my other half. My best friend. He can do anything. I mean anything. I've never met someone so driven and hard-working. He is so caring as well. He knows just what to do and say when I have had a hard day. I can't wait for the hours to be over with work and school until I get to see my baby. I count down the minutes. I wish I could spend every second with you. We have so much fun together. No one makes me laugh so hard. We have the best time together and every minute we are apart my heart hurts a little bit. My love for Daryl is never ending. I am so glad I got married to my best friend and was able to make a convent to be with him forever. I would say I have the perfect relationship with my spouse. I wouldn't change anything. I am grateful for someone to love me for who I am. My flaws might be large but he gets through it and loves me for me. I am so grateful for my husband who is my hero and my rock. I will love you forever and always. 

Te amo para siempre :)

Watch out for convenient parking spots

I learned something the other day. Don't ever pull through a parking spot when going to the grocery store. You come out with your groceries and you can't access the back of the car. It's really awful. I looked like a fool as I was loading them into my back seat through a small opening between me and the car beside me. Very embarrassing. Never again. 

Another thing that is going on is...that school is almost done for semester! Had my last class today! And finals next week. I only have two and really only have to study for one. So it won't be bad at all! I am excited for Christmas Break! We are going to Washington for a couple days for a friend of mines wedding and then heading to Indiana to spend Christmas with Daryl's family. I haven't ever been away from my family for a holiday. So that will be interesting but I am excited to spend it with the Klingaman's!

Daryl and I have decided to move! The only problem is hopefully we can sell our place. We have been looking around at apartments and are going to visit some today so hopefully one of them will be good for us! I really hope we find one. Can't say I am going to miss this place much. It is a tiny cute apartment but I am ready to move on! There are a few problems in it. Like the dryer isn't ventilated outside. Pretty sure that is against code and a fire hazard! It gets like 120 degrees in there when you run the dryer. Oh, and the dryer is located in our bathroom. Is it the worst? YUP! It causes all this humidity it is crazy! I wish we would have known that when we moved in. We will always check out dryers from now on! That humidity is another question for us. Ever since we moved into this place. Either Daryl or I are home sick. Our stomachs are always bothering us. We are kinda wondering if we are living in mold because of what the dryer is doing and how the shower is set up. Mold is not a good thing. Hopefully that is the cause of our sickness and not the stress of school and work.

We are going snowboarding tomorrow! I am pretty excited! I haven't been in forever and I am going to be so awful! I am excited to get back out and try it though! Daryl is a hundred times better than I am. I can already tell. We went sledding and he brought his board and I could just tell. So hopefully he will be patient with me and it will go great!

Since school is over and that whole job thing failed me. I am going to work on some DIY projects. Hopefully I wont ruin them! I didn't do much today but school and set up some appts to go look at places. I was just taking a rest. I do miss having something to do like work doing the day. I feel like staying at home isn't ever good therapy for anyone. When you know you have time it's just like you waste it more. You know things need to be done. But you think about how much time you have and you think ahh I will do it later. It always happens with school work too. It's like you check facebook, and instagram like every 5 minutes for what? Nothing. Do you really care about peoples lives and what they are doing? No it just takes your mind off of yours for a minute. I decided something. I love being busy. I love having something to do. Sitting at home isn't good for me. It makes me like less productive. 

That's all I have. Just documenting my life. Peace.

That wife word

We have been married for almost 4 months now! Crazy stuff! I have realized somethings in our marriage.

• Cooking ain't no thang

I have always been worried about it. Yeah, I'm no Martha Stewart but I can do it! 

• House Cleaning No Problemo

I really actually like cleaning. It makes me feel so much better when the dishes are done, carpet is vacuumed, and the bathroom is so clean you wanna kiss it!

• Laundry easy peasy 

As long as I am constantly doing laundry I will remember to take it out of the dryer. It seems so much easier though then when I did it at home. We won't talk about what it was like when I was a single.

I never said I was good at any of these, I just said I could do them! 

So I burn a lot of things I make. So I clean once a month. So the dishes set in the sink more than dishes ever should. So there is pee on the ground in the bathroom. Jk. We aren't that gross! One thing I have realized is I can be a wife. I can do the things I need to do to keep this family functioning. I am still learning but I am trying and if anything I have realized it is that trying is better than doing nothing. Daryl appreciates it when I'm trying. He doesn't care how good it is. He cares that it's done. 

Here are somethings that would make me a better wife/mother:

1. Learning how to thread a sewing machine (they make things automatic now and when     you can't figure that out. It is just sad.) So I'm working on that.
2. Sewing on a simple button on a shirt. (Yes, Daryl does this for me)
3. Taking the laundry out of the dryer the first time it buzzes. (Not keep turning it on 5 times because you forget and have to let the wrinkles fall out again)
4. Cleaning the shower. (It seems so simple but do you do it when your naked in the shower, like before you wash your body? Because It just seems so awkward to do it clothed to me)
5. Not burn a batch of cookies. (Yes, every time I've made some. They burn)
6. Going alone to grocery shop. (I feel so awkward at the grocery store alone. I feel like everyone is looking at me like a pre-teen and judging what I am buying. So I wait for Daryl then I go)
7. Doing things out of my way for my husband. (I mean we do fun things together but I swear there isn't a creative bone in my body. I am always like I wanna be sweet then he bring home a taylor swift cd for me and makes me dinner. What's wrong with me?)
8. DIY Project. (I have these pinned for days on my wall on pinterest. I will make one of them one day, I am just scared I will screw it up and waste all that material..then what)

I am just going to stop there. I could go on for days on that list. 

My husband can do EVERYTHING! And if he doesn't know how, he will figure it out. I guess that is what you get for marrying someone better than you!