I Suck At Blogging

Coooooool. 2 months later and I'm finally writing another blog post. I officially suck at blogging. Buttt now that we are in our house and getting settled and life isn't as hectic anymore, I will should be able to keep up with my posts. So a lot has happened since my last post. We've have lots of birthdays in my family (Shay-Trevor's sister, my birthday, my sister Jamie's birthday, Jaden my nephew's birthday anddd if there is anyone else I forgot of then I am sorry there are just too many birthdays to remember but I still love you.) Trevor also switched to a different floor at his work (he is still with PMI) but he now sells Real Estate instead of stuff to do with the internet. It was a pretty smooth transition which we are thankful for and he is loving it over there. We bought a truck but will probably be selling that soon-some of you might ask why, but for those of you who know my husband then you will know why we would buy a car and then 2 months later sell it. And of course the biggest event since my last blog...we MOVED!!!! 

But the post isn't over yet and you still have to wait to look at the pictures..unless you scrolled down and looked at the pictures first and don't intent to read this post-but if you do that you will miss out on the many wonderful adventures we have had with our house that I absolutely love. PAUSE-I forgot to update you all that they fixed our driveway...it's still as steep as Mount Everest but at least I can get my car up my driveway---yay. SO upon arrival to our house we realized that the appliances weren't working-but being the smart people we are, we soon realized we just had to flip the breaker. Easy fix right? Right. Next we decided to run a rinse cycle on the dishwasher before I loaded it with a load of dishes. We soon found out that in fact the dishwasher was NOT hooked up yet, but nothing bad or horrible happened-there was just a funky smell because the motor was running without any water. So I had to wait a day till the plumber came out to hook it up. No big, right? Next I threw a load of clothes into the washer---found out that my new washer sings me a song when it is done. Cute. Then naturally, I go to put the clothes in the dryer. Ummm the dryer is NOT working people. Come to find out the numnuts who delivered our appliances brought the wrong dryer vent so we had to go get our own. Sweeet. Oh no, but it's not over yet my friends. (By the way this all happened on Saturday-the day we moved in. Can you say stressful?)

So the next day the plumber comes to hook up the dishwasher. He soon leaves and then I decide to put some dishwasher SOAP (THE KIND THAT IS MEANT FOR THE DISHWASHER-NOT LIKE DAWN OR ANYTHING) and I decide to run a rinse load before I put the dishes in. 5 minutes later Trevor walks out into the kitchen-and I can't repeat what he said-but I come running out to find soap bubbles ALL OVER MY NEW HARDWOOD FLOOR. How there were bubbles everywhere from the soap that is meant to go into the dishwasher? I have no idea. SO then I had to wait 3 more days till the Maytag guy could come out to our house to fix whatever was going on with the dishwasher only to have him tell me that we needed a new part because there was a broken part on our brand new dishwasher. Then he was trying to tell me I was going to have to wait 2 more weeks for them to get the part and have it fixed. Ya, NO WAY was I gonna wait for that. Hellllooooo the point of having a brand new house and brand new things is so that they WORK. So I quickly called Home Depot and told them that this was their problem because they sent me a BROKEN dishwasher and to send me a new one-which they did. And my awesome brother-in-law Eric just came out today and installed it for me-so I am finally doing a load of dishes :)

 

(The date on my pictures is messed up-I just noticed it's a month behind. Oops)

Ya we had to spoon the bubbles out of this evil thing.

So you might be thinking that I am done and about to end this post with the pictures of our house-well not yet. So for a few nights I had been enjoying my new fireplace because it's so pretty and we didn't have one in the condo. Well on Sunday all of the sudden the fireplace (yes it was turned on and I was using it because this house is freezing cause it's so open) the fire just shut off and the pilot light went out. So Trevor had to unplug it so that there wasn't any gas leaking. We are still waiting for our builder to make it out here and check that out. And finally and hopefully the last of our worries-at 3:30am Tuesday morning (technically Monday night to me) I woke from my sleep by a very interesting lemon-like chemical smell. The WHOLE house smelled like it really bad. Naturally because of what happened with the fireplace I freaked out and thought we were being intoxicated in our sleep. So being the grown up I am, what did I do? I called my mom and woke her up :) I then followed her advice and called poison control-who then informed me to call Questar Gas-who then informed me to call the Fire Department. Well no one was answering at the Fire Department(really?) so finally I called 911 (don't worry the first thing I said to the lady was this isn't an emergency-well I don't think it is) Shortly thereafter a cop and a few fireman showed up at our house with their little monitors only to tell me there were no harmful chemicals in the air and for the next 45 minutes tried to find out what the smell was. Well apparently fireman don't know everything and they were stumped. We did find out however that the smell is coming from the laundry room and I am convinced the smell is coming from the water valves that hook up to the washer. And of course we are just waiting for our builder to come out and tell us what is going on. Luckily we aired out the smell that night and it's only in the laundry room now and not in the entire house. Which makes me happy because I don't want my guests getting high while they are at my house.

So there you have it-the many exciting adventures of our lives since I last blogged. But I can say I really hope we don't have anymore adventures like the ones I just told you-I'm done with those for a loooong time. And here you all go-the long awaited pictures of our house finished. Enjoy!

 

 

Looking at the entry way from the Living Room.

Living Room

I love my fireplace!-and no the candles and lamp are not staying there-I'm not that bad at decorating

Front Den/Formal Room

Kitchen

Our bedroom-yes it needs some work but I will get around to that.

Bathroom and then the closet

Trevor's walk-in shower...and yes i know mismatching towels I will get prettier ones.

Backyard looking at the golf course

Backyard again

The view from our porch

Looking into the upstairs (3 bedrooms 1 bonus/play room and the bathroom)

Down to the basement (here are some pics of it even though it's unfinished if you wanna see)

Cold storage and lots of boxes

Behind the boards will eventually be a Jack and Jill bedroom with the bathroom in the middle.

Looking into Trevor's movie room.

The movie room

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.