The New Place

This apartment has the tiniest little kitchen, which is funny because the rest of the place is huge and they really could have made the kitchen just a little bigger, but whatever.


I think its funny how apartment complexes never have ceiling lights. except in the kitchen and bathrooms. What about the rest of the apartment?! You have to buy a bunch of lamps-makes no sense to me because I would think that lamps would be more of a fire hazard. Luckily we were provided two lamps. One in the bedroom and one in the living room. Of the three other apartments we've lived in throughout the years of summer sales, this one is my favorite, just not the rest of the complex... Does anyone else who's lived in an apartment ever feel weird walking around outside, like everyone can see you and is watching you? Well I guess that's just me being super paranoid and self-conscious but its weird being new! We haven't been able to explore the area too much, but driving to church we saw quite a few really old old houses and lots of GREEN. This place is SO green. And there are these really pretty flowering trees everywhere that I'm going to have to find the name of and see if they can grow out west :)

New"ark" Delaware

Not to be confused with Newark NJ.

Well we made it. I'm sitting in our new apartment in Delaware on a rented camel-colored couch that who knows how many butts have sat on, looking around the room. Its pretty large considering we only have enough furniture to fit in half the room. It seems larger still because we are on the top floor and it has vaulted ceilings.

This apartment complex it huge! There are apartments and town houses all around us. The closest grocery store or Walmart I could find on google was 4 miles away. I hope we find a car soon. We are renting a car for the first few days we will be here and then hopefully we can find something a little more permanent.

I'm trying not to psych myself out. Now that we're here in this new place I feel anxious about everything. Well even before we got on the plane I was feeling anxious. But hopefully we'll get into a good routine and start feeling more relaxed.

I'll post some picture soon!

New Post!

I cannot believe how long its been since I've blogged. February is almost over! Looking back, I saw that January 17th I had tried to create a post and after much time and typing, I had quite the post. Blogger, however, was being finicky and wouldn't let me post it for some reason or another, and the post was saved as a "draft". THEN a few weeks a go-like 2, I created yet another post, only to have Greg tell me to remove it because he was embarrassed. Needless to say, I have had quite a time trying to update the ol' blog without somebody (Greg) or something (Blogger) getting in the way. So here's to attempt number 3. Hope it works.

So we are pretty sure that for the summer we are doing trash sales. This is where we dress up like the homeless, and go door-to-door trying to sell things we've picked out of local dumpsters. Never more truth to "one man's trash is another man's treasure"!

Ok not really. Well we are doing trash sales, but not like that. Basically we switch residents from a big trash removal service to a cheaper, local trash service. It will be a big change from alarms (according to Greg) and we are looking forward to it. We will be living in dun-dun-na-na!.............DELWARE!

As you can see from the lovely map above, that DE or Delaware, is quite a ways away from Idaho.

I'm really excited to get to see this part of the country and visit lots of cool historical sites not only in DE, but neighboring states as well! I've never been to the east coast at all.

Where we will be in DE is 2 hrs from Washington DC and 2 hours from New York and 1 hour from Philadelphia. Wowzers! This is gonna be an adventure! Now to just fit some sort of work schedule into my tourist schedule....

Snow Snow Snow

The snow just keeps on fallin here in the 'Burg. Good for the farmers I guess, but I can't say that I'm all that excited about it.

Greg showed me this website called Grooveshark where you can search for songs or artists and listen to exactly what you want. I've decided its way better than Pandora. Its great because it doesn't have commercials and you get to pick the songs to go in your queue. I have been listening to all my favorite songs from like 8 years ago-a lot of the old country I used to listen to like Dolly Parton, Sammy Kershaw, Chris, Garth, George, Alan, Clint, etc. I think its funny when people tell me they love country music and I think "cool we have something in common" then I find out their favorite country singers are Rascall Flats and Sugarland and I just have to shake my head and think "nevermind...". I don't listen to any of the new country music. In fact, I can't remember the last time I time I even listened to country on the radio. I can't stand the "country" that is played anymore. So now that I've got grooveshark, I can listen to REAL country music =)

We finally made it to our regular ward this Sunday and I'm proud to say that we were ON TIME! That's a big deal for us. AND Greg even got me to stay for a Linger Longer where everyone brings a dish and you try to meet more people in the ward to build unity blah blah blah... This is a big deal because I try really hard not to talk to people if I can help it. But since we don't know anybody in our ward Greg decided we were going to find some friends. There was this delicious dish that had banana pudding, whipped cream, sliced bananas, and Nilla Wafers. Oh man was it good! I'm still thinking about it hours later!

We had a great Christmas, got to see most of our family at some point during the holidays, then made it back home in time for New Years. Greg and I have already been very blessed this New Year!

Oh Goodie!

Spent the whole day today wanting to do everything I either couldn't or shouldn't. What's the DEAL!? Seriously. Luckily 5:30 FINALLY rolled around and Bryce and Maggie took me to their grandparent's house for dinner. I couldn't have been more relieved. Dinner was awesome and the company was even better!

Greg has been complaining lately that all of his socks have holes in them. Luckily he is resourceful and found another use for his socksPoor Wallace! He just laid down, kind of depressed and then when Greg called his name he started running into furniture. I'll admit, it WAS funny at first, but then I just felt bad for my little bud and took it off.

For one of my classes we did a blood cholesterol analysis. I was "borderline" for many of my values!
Then I realized why. . .

Hellooooo Saturated FAT!
Can we have some more bacon with those green beans? I'm seeing a little too much green.

Renee and I spent a few hours tonight making treats. Not sure why exactly, but I'm glad we did. Minus the fact that they are sugar, calorie, and fat-laden treats, we had such a fun time! I love having my cousins here! The other day I had spent the whole day doing homework and was getting pretty burnt out-to the point that I wasn't even getting anything done anymore, and Renee and Rach came over to watch Knight and Day. Hilarious! That is a funny movie and was such a great way to end my boring homework-filled day.

Break Time!

LOVING the fact that we get a week off for Thanksgiving! The crazy thing is that I somehow have managed to plan a lot more stuff than I originally thought. If I do actually get all the things done that I need to, it wont be much of a break, but whatever.

We are having Thanksgiving dinner with two families here in Rexburg. The Kingstons and the Stevesons. Both families have kids so we should be sufficiently entertained for the day. I'm sad we won't be seeing any family for the holiday so I called and got recipes for my favorite dishes and am planning on making them, and making a LOT so I can have loads of leftovers! SO EXCITED!

Thought these were funny enough to share. . .

A little photo shoot with my little brother

My Mom. . .
Sister. . .
Niece. . .

Welp, time for bed. Looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and not going outside if I can help it! It snowed a TON and as always, is super cold and windy.

Yumalicious

So I have posted about German Pancakes before, but not German Pancakes with BUTTERMILK SYRUP! I found the recipe here. I have had buttermilk syrup only one other time in my life, and I loved it then too! Never having made the stuff before, I will issue one warning: It gets super bubbly and frothy as you boil it, so make it in a LARGER saucepan. I only have one (One day I'll graduate to a nice set of pots and pans, when I'm nicer, more mature, etc) smaller saucepan, not sure the proper measurements, but after it boiled over just a couple times, I had the most delicious syrup and even some left over to have on waffles tomorrow!

Now this isn't the healthiest of syrups as it calls for a cube of butter and almost a cup of buttermilk, but its delicious and oh so worth it.

The End