Our first guests!

Greg and I are so excited to be in our new house, but we were even more excited to find out that Lara and the kids, mom, Steve, Cami and baby Brooks would be coming to visit. We had a full house! Mom brought the Wii, which was a big hit. Greg and I had never played Wii before and now Greg is addicted! I must say that it is quite the little work out. My arm was really sore by the end of the weekend. I'm pretty sure that one of those will be purchased with the next savings money! We also swam almost everyday. That was about all we did for the weekend. Before mom, Steve and Cami got here we went with Lara and Will to see Wall-E. It was a good movie and it's always fun to go see movies with kids! It was so fun to see Brooks. He is the cutest baby I have ever seen. I don't think any baby can match up to him! We had a blast, so any of you who want to come and visit are welcome! Oh, I almost forgot to give a big thanks to mom,Cami, and Tai Pan for helping decorate my house. It's not exactly the way I want it, but it's what we could do with no money! Here are some pictures from the weekend!



And more exciting news... We have a new niece!! Grace Angela Orton! Congrats Mike, Angela, and Olivia! She looks beautiful. We can't wait to see her next week!

P.S. I started my new job last night. Yes that's right, a night job. So far so good, but I don't know how nights will work for me and my body.

Oh how I love you...Let me count the ways

As most of you know we finally upgraded from our one bedroom hometel, as we call it. This post is dedicated to counting the things that I love about our new 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhouse.

1. The large kitchen. It is big enough that
Greg and I can both participate in fixing
and cleaning up a meal. And I have empty cupboards! What a difference!

2. To go along with the large kitchen we actually have space for a table. And we can eat dinner together

at a table and not on the couch (much to Greg's dismay)!

3. Also in our fabulous kitchen, we have a dishwasher!It's amazing!
I forgot how handy these are!



4. Just off of the kitchen we have our washer and dryer. Also very exciting. For the past 2 1/2 years we have had to go to Aunt Kathleen's house to do our laundry. I can't explain how nice it was on Saturday to stay home and do laundry, and not have to haul it back and forth!



5. Our family room that is basically the size of our old apartment. As you can tell there is nothing on the walls and no decorating has been done. (That is why I didn't take a picture of the whole room). It seems so empty to me because we had everything packed into our other place. Anyway this is our new couch, and we are saving up to buy the loveseat.



There are a lot of other things that I love about our new place, the garage, the walk in closet, the little patio, the pool, and just how much space there is. As things get put back together and decorated I will post more pictures. As for now it just looks real bare. If you didn't remember reading it, we do have 3 bedrooms so we want lots of visitors now! Sorry about the weird set up. I couldn't figure out how to make it look good. I need some blogging lessons from Lara!

It's a Nice Day When You Wake Up in Disneyland!!

We have been back for a few days, but better late than never. It was perfect weather, and not too many people. We got there on Monday afternoon and checked into our hotel and then went to Downtown Disney. We ate at Rainforest cafe and I have to say that it is a little overpriced,
but the atmosphere was fun. We stayed at a really nice hotel that was about 2 blocks from Disneyland.

On Tuesday we started out the day in Disneyland. Disney knows how to do it right. They get you excited right from the start with the music right when you step through the Disneyland arch. We were both so excited, but Greg was a little more excited than I was, possibly because my day started out a little rough. I had some shoe issues right off. After searching for some flip flops that were not totally overpriced and ugly, we found some in Adventure Land that were cute and not overpriced (probably because they were not Disney brand). After I relieved my feet of the burning blisters we were off and running again. It felt so good not to have anything tearing up my heals. We basically walked on to every ride. The longest we waited was 25 min. So we went on everything and the day was still young, so we headed over to California Adventure.

Neither of us had ever been to California Adventure, so the excitement continued. We started off with Soarin over California. And I must admit that I was a little frightened by this ride. One because I didn't take of my flip flops so the whole time I was worried that they would fall off. I wanted to go on it again and take them off so I could enjoy it more, so we did and it was a little better, but it still got me. I think it was because I am a little scared of heights and your feet are just hanging there. It is a really cool ride though. Greg had never been on tower of terror before and he was thinking it wasn't going to be great, but he thought different after his first ride. It ended up being on of his favorites.


On Wednesday we went back for Nemo (which we didn't do on Tuesday), and second, third, and fourth rides. And a first and last adventurous ride on Heimlich's chew-chew train (for those of you who have been on it, you know its all but adventurous)! By about 2:00 we were done and we headed back to the hotel for some sun and swimming.


On Thursday we headed home and found that if you don't stop it's only a five hour drive. Not bad right? We also found that one thing to keep you entertained while standing in line besides people watching ( one of my favorite past times), is listening to the safety announcements in the different languages, and how the voices change for the different rides. We are already planning when we will be able to go back to the happiest place on earth!

Isn't Summer Supposed to be Fun?

This summer is going to be boring! Ok it might be a little early to pass judgment, but so far I'm not impressed. Steph worked Thursday and Friday and despite my best efforts I couldn't pick up a shift either day. Ideally I would work every day that Steph does and we would have days off together, but so far that's not happening. Thursday I sat at home all day and literally did nothing but watch tv. I can't imagine anything worse. I'm happy to say that Friday was much better. I decided to go to Snow Canyon to try out our new camera and I had a blast. Thank goodness we live so close to so many beautiful places. Maybe this summer won't be so bad after all. I hope to be able to go to Zions next week, but with gas being so expensive that's no cheap trip. Disneyland is one week away, but it can't come soon enough!

Updates

As you can tell our blog got an update. So I guess I will post a little update to go along with it. I really should be at work right now, but I got put on call, so that means I get to sit at home and wait for the phone to ring( not fun I would rather be at work making money)! Last weekend we were in Salt Lake to see Greg's brother and his family and for my nieces birthdays. We forgot to take our camera so I stole these pictures from my sisters blog. So if someone in Greg's family posts pictures from the weekend we can steal their pictures and post them. Talking about cameras and pictures...Greg and I bought a new camera the other day. We don't have it yet because we bought it from Amazon.com, but we are really excited about it.

What else have we been up to? We planned a trip to Disneyland!! On our way home from Salt Lake we were talking about how we have been wanting to get away for so long but how we never have the money. To make a long story short, Disneyland is only six hours from St. George, I have four days off in a row in May, and Greg won't have a CNA job by then. So we did it, we booked it, it's official!! We can't wait only 15 days! It will be a short trip, but it's Disneyland!