We're moving

So we are moving. We did the walk through on our home and signed papers for closing today. We are excited. We are going to be moving in on Friday. Everything looks really good and we are really happy. It has not hit me yet, but we are really excited because it is a brand new house and everything looks great.

It's really coming along...

Our house is coming along. They finally finished the outside. Well, Mat thinks it is nice, but I don't like it. It is not what I had envisioned, but I am just going to have to deal with it.

The spare bathroom is lookin' nice.

Progress

Our home is coming along very nicely. I absolutely love the inside so far, but I don't like the outside of my house. I decided that I can't get to worked up about it yet because I need to see how it looks with our brick and then I can make a decision. Mat likes the outside of the house, but I will just wait and see.

The front entry with the big tile. I am so glad that we upgraded and went with the bigger tile. It looks really nice and I love the tile we picked out.

I am so happy with the cabinets. They are dark just the way I like them.

Here is the master bathroom. The tile in here has a chipped edge which I think gives it a nice look and feel for our bathroom.

There's no place like home...

Well we have not been very good at updating our blog because we have been very busy. A great deal of our time has been spent making tons and tons of decisions for our new home. Here is a tour of our new place right now. It should be done by the end of September. We are very excited.

Here is the outside of our home. They are getting ready to stucco our house this week. I am nervous about the stucco matching our brick. We will have to wait and see how it turns out.

Here is the front entry when you walk into our house.

Here is our great room. I love the arch.

Kitchen

Dining room.

View outside our back windows. We absolutely love the view.

Master Bedroom with a bay window.

I love the archway in the door and the nook above.

Master bath.

Hallway down to the bedrooms and other bath.

This will eventually be the baby's room.

Here is the closet and little nook above it which will be great for decorating the baby's room.

Here is the other bath.

The other spare bedroom.

Our two car garage. Mat is really excited he gets to park in the garage so he doesn't have to scrape his car in the winter.

The stairs to the basement.

Our future family room downstairs.

We can also have a bathroom and a couple of bedrooms downstairs one day.

My very long storage space. This will be really nice to have.

This past month we obviously have been very busy with our home and Mat has been very busy with his new job. However, here are some of the things we have done this past month:
Went to the demo derby with some friends
Celebrated my 25th birthday
Saw GI Joe
Got a primary calling. We teach the CTR 7 & 8 class. We love it. We have about 12 boys and 1 girl.
Mat joined the ward choir
My sister finished her time at the MTC and left for Germany
We visited grandparents
Mat's work moved their offices. They moved to a different floor in their building.
Babysat our niece and nephew and took them to a movie Monsters vs. Aliens
Had game night with my dad and step-mom
Had movie night with family
Had dinner over at my mother-in-laws
Hung out with some friends from our old ward who have also moved out and our building a home as well
Been to the temple a couple of times.
Enjoyed the delightful summer evenings by going on some walks in the neighborhood.
Meet our future next door neighbors

Mat and I are staying busy, but doing very well.

Life Update

Well we sold our condo and we moved in with my mom. We have been house hunting forever. Mat and I have looked at over 100 houses with absolutely no luck. We finally decided this last week to build a home. We are building a Perry home. We are very excited. The home should be done by the middle of October. We won't be finishing the basement right now, but the house will be plenty big. It will be 3 bedroom and 2 bath. The house is about 3100 sq ft and will have over 1600 sq ft finished for now. Here is a picture of our house right now.

Mat has started a new job. He has been at his new job for 3 weeks now. He is working at a home health care business right now. He basically is running the company. It is really stressful, but it is getting better for him. He is really enjoying it. It is such a great experience for him. That is about all that is going on in our lives. We are really excited for our house to be done.

Mat and I went hiking up Big Cottonwood Canyon this weekend.

The hike was beautiful. Look at the scenery. We live in such a beautiful state with the magnificent mountains and trees.

There were many wild flowers along the trail.

Here is us finally making it to Dog Lake. The hike is not very long, but it is pretty steep just before you get to the lake. This was our first hike of the year. We enjoyed it and need to get out more on some hikes.

Here is my cute little Matty.

5 Glorious Years

Today Mat and I celebrate our 5 year Wedding Anniversary. We got married in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity 5 years ago today. We have had 5 years of wonderful marriage. We have had good times, not so good times, and everything in between. Mat is an amazing husband. I love him so much and glad that he decided he wanted to be with me forever. Mat is so great and his motto in life is happy wife equals happy life and he does a great job of following his advice. Mat is so wonderful and sacrifices so much on my behalf. Mat is so good to me and helps me with whatever I need. He is such a life saver in my life and does a nice job of trying to alleviate the stress in my own life. He can always make me smile. I am excited for many more glorious years of marriage with him.

Ten Things about Mat:
1. Funny
2. Sensitive
3. Athletic
4. Friendly
5. Unselfish
6. Good looking
7. Smart
8. Positive
9. Hard worker
10. My Eternal Companion

Happy Anniversary Sweetie!!!