Driveway Disaster

I'd like to take this time and opportunity to thank all of my followers and for their support. I could not have made this blog successful without all 4 of you---you know who you are.

Now on a more serious note.

So one of the main reasons I started a blog was to blog about the house Trevor and I are building, step-by-step. Mainly to have as a memory for Trevor and I to look back on, but also for anyone else interested :) 

But before I get into this post about the house, I figured I should give an update on what has happened in our lives the past 8 months since we have been married, seeings how my last post was all about how we met.

For our honeymoon we went to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico---it's just 30 minutes south of Cancun. We stayed at an all inclusive resort there called the Grand Sunset Princess and we would recommend it to everyone! We absolutely loved it. While there Trevor fulfilled a life-long dream of mine to swim with dolphins! Trevor also got to experience the rush of snorkeling for the first time in his life---yes he was a deprived child in my eyes haha. We also went on a cave tour/swim, swam in a cenote-or sinkhole, and my favorite, we got to do an LDS tour of the Mayan ruins of Tulum, and Chitzen Itza! (One of the Seven Wonders of the World) It was an amazing time and we hope to go back someday.

After that it was just getting used to the normal, everyday ways of married life. Trevor works at PMI-Professional Marking International, and has been there for the past 3 years. He is amazing on the sales floor there and loves it...well, most days :) I got a job across the street from him at One on One Marketing, but in November of 2011 I was let go. I recently got a job at Doman Dental as a receptionist and I am loving it. And yes you may be thinking to yourself...'Doman...hmmmm' He is the brother of Brandon Doman-the offensive coordinator for BYU. I'm just that cool to be working for his brother...haha jk. In August of 2011 Trevor got to come with my family and I to my best friends wedding in California, and therefore got to experience San Francisco for the first time in his life. He didn't quite get why it was so cold in the middle of August. While there I got to show him around my hometown of Roseville, went to Alcatraz, Pier 39, Fisherman's Warf, and a SF Giants game (he's a Redsox fan...boo) but he still had a lot of fun and agreed that the Giants park is the prettiest park of them all-but he probably didn't word it quite like that.

Other than being married and just loving each other (awwww) we have been in the search of buying a home, because Trevor has lived in this townhouse in Lehi for 3 years and just felt like it was time for change. Plus he really was wanting his own yard. We looked for about 8 months and experienced the nightmare that short-sales are. Finally one day we found a listing for a house/floorplan available to build. We fell in love with the house after walking through it and from there found the lot of our dreams. It's in Saratoga Springs on Talons Golf Course (our backyard looks at the18th hole) and it's about 50 meters away from the lake with an amazing view of the Mountains. We adjusted a few things on the floor plan, like pushing a wall out a few feet here, adding a few lights there, oh and Trevor's walk-in shower and his theater room in the basement under the garage. Everything about the building of the house has been smooth sailing...until now. Dun dun dun!!!! So because of Trevor's amazing movie room underneath the garage, the foundation of the house had to be built up a bit more. Therefore raising the house a bit, and therefore causing a bit of a steep driveway. Steep driveway-no big deal you might be thinking right? Well the num-nut who laid the cement down for the driveway calculated the slope of it WRONG, causing it to be completely IMPOSSIBLE for my Kia Optima to even pull into the driveway. I mean, people, just think of it this way-the front bumper of my car basically would just run into the concrete slab of the driveway before the front tire even hit the curb!!!! 

So needless to say, that has been the first hiccup of our home, and has caused Trevor to age about 3 years from the stress alone. But we can't have it all perfect along the way, right? I will keep you updated on the driveway because it WILL get fixed. Somehow, someway, it will. Here are some pictures of the house from start till now. Enjoy!!

The foundation of the home/basement

Inside the Family Room looking at the fireplace.

Our pretty front door.

Where the sink/cabinets will be...only a portion of the kitchen.

Our added window nook in the master bedroom.

Tub/the walk-in shower in the master bath.

Portion of Kitchen already insulated and partly sheet rocked!

Family Room again.

Lake/view

Trevor and his Dad trying to figure out how to fix the driveway

Part of the backyard and the golf course

Before the front steps were put in.

Gettin ready to stucco and put the rock on.

The First Step

Yes it's true, I officially created a blog. I always felt blogs were for people who are either great writers and have funny posts to read, people who are photographers, and those who have entertaining lives to write about. Well, I am not a writer, not a photographer, and I definitely don't feel like my life is entertaining enough to blog about--yet a blog was always in the back of my mind. It also seems like a great alternative to scrap-booking, which if you know me I am NOT crafty at all, so here I am!!

I feel like since this is the first post it is appropriate for me to share with those of you who don't know the story of Trevor and I. (I'm acting like I will have all these people reading this when in reality I will probably only have like 5 people at the most who read my posts regularly hahaha) 

Trevor and I met at the Hallofunkaween dance on October 29th, 2010. The funny thing about this is, Trevor HATES dances. Probably because of his lack of rhythm and he was worried what people would think about his mad dancing skills, but those skills are what made me fall in love with him.....well, not really ha. His friends would always invite him to dances on the weekends, but he would always turn them down. On that night however, his friend says to him "What if you meet your wife at the dance tonight?" I'm still not quite sure if that comment is what got Trevor to go to the dance, but I'm happy he did. Now for my part of the story---I was a dancer. If you wanted to know where I was on the weekend, just check your local listings for dances that weekend and that's where I was. Now, you always wonder with people you meet if they could be the potential "one." But, I had been to too many dances to ever think I would meet my husband at a dance, cause all the guys I met at dances were jerks---yup jerks I say. So I just was going to that dance with some of my girls to have a fun night, not expecting much.

Trevor showed up at the dance with a group of guys, of which I happened to know a few of them. I saw Trevor and thought to myself "Wow he's hotttt. Who is this kid and why have I never met him?" So being the confident freak I am, I approached him and the first thing I said to him was, "What's your name?" Haha I'm such a dork. Anyway, we proceed to talk a bit, about as much as you can at a dance, and then we parted and went out separate ways for the rest of the night. Trevor claims to this day he walked by me at one point and I smacked his butt, but let's be real...does that sound like something I would do??? Later that night after the dance he kept bugging a mutual friend to give him my number, which he eventually got. He texted me the next day asking what I was doing, we found out we both were going to the same dance again, so we decided to meet up and go together. We ended up sitting outside of the dance on a bench and talked for 3 hours instead of bustin out some sweet moves. Now here is the part that most people don't know and shocks a lot of poeple---during that 3 hour conversation on the bench, we talked about life and everything there is to it. He was the first guy I had ever met who genuinely wanted to know everything about me. He looks at me at one point and says, "There is something really different about you, and I don't think I want you dating anyone else." Now normally this is where with any guy I usually would have got up and ran away thinking 'THIS GUY IS A FREAKING CREEP' but what came out of my mouth surprised even me. My response was "Okay!" So yes, within 24 hours of knowing each other Trevor and I were in fact a couple. Crazy, I know.

 The rest is history. The next day he came with me to have dinner at my parents house and meet them. We spent everyday with each other after that. Within a few weeks Trevor had told me he loved me, and I too loved him, and we knew from there that we were going to get married. 3 months after meeting him he proposed to me on the same bench we first sat on, and then 3 months after that we were married on May 6th 2011 in the Salt Lake City Temple. 

No I am NOT wearing a snuggie people

That's a total of 6 months of knowing each other. It still surprises me to this day how fast things moved with him, considering I always had thought to myself I would know the man I was going to marry for like 2 years and then be engaged for a year--oh also I wasn't going to get married till I was 25 or so and possibly was going to go on a mission and travel the world. Well as they say, life doesn't turn out the way you think it's going to, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I couldn't imagine my life without Trevor, and I can't really remember life before him. It feels like I have know him for forever, and it's felt like that since day 1. 

So there is our story, and here is our blog that will feature the exciting moments of our lives as the Paces.