One Week LEFT!

HURRAY!!!!!!!

Only one week left until Evan and I get married and I still have SO much to do! Oh well, I'm excited :) My dress looks awesome, my friend is doing the flowers and the cake is coming along. I'll post pictures of my progress on the cake if I ever get around to taking them :) It's too bad the housing market is so slammed right now. Evan and I were really hoping to have our own little Christmas in our new house. But there will always be next year. I get to see my dad and my brother and my sisters on Sunday or Monday! YAY! I haven't seen Makayla or Jenny or Josh for a YEAR! How ridiculous! Hopefully plane tickets will plummet in price too, I mean gas has so why not a plane right? I still can't believe I have only a week left though! I'm so excited!!!!! I need some good ideas on what to do after my shower. My friends and I want to go out for one last hoopla since Evan and his friends are going to the Nickelcade... yes Mormon bachelor parties CAN be fun! :) Anyway- I honestly can't think of anything exciting. I wanted to go dancing but I'd feel weird going without Evan... and it's Monday night. Maybe we'll just go to the mall and try on goofy outfits and then go watch a chick flick or something. Keep your fingers crossed for me that there will be no snow or ice on the road. They keep playing that STUPID commercial where the girl is sad because her fiance was hit by a drunk driver the day of their wedding----AAAAAGGGHHH! Like I don't have enough to worry about. Anywho- perfect wedding weather would be cloudy but not dark (pictures turn out better and it's warmer outside) but no snow or rain. KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED! I was lucky enough to meet Evan so maybe I'll be lucky enough to have perfect weather too. That'd be awesome! ANYWAY-ONE WEEK!!!!

Home

Well, hopefully everything works out and we can close on this house but the bank accepted our offer! AWESOME! I really liked the location of another house we were looking at but this one is a better deal.... it's almost 700 sq ft larger and it was only five grand more... which isn't bad, five grand is a lot of money but not in house terms. Anyway.

The house is ten minutes away from the high school where I'll be teaching at next year....yes fans I'm switching AGAIN. Here's the skinny. Lehi is way to small for the number of students so they built a new school called Westlake. They are pulling teachers from Lehi to go out to the new school and they want me! :) Not only that but I get to teach Photo AND Art classes! And I get to be the department chair and I get to help out in setting up the classrooms, stocking them with necessary equipment. COOL! Yes I'm tired of feeling like a first year teacher (this will be the third time in two years) but remaining flexible has always helped me be successful...so that's what I'm doing. I'm SO excited to start at a brand new high school though!

Virtual Tour... No I didn't take these- I will take better ones as we get the house... I guess I should say if, if we get the house...

First you walk into our living room through the front door, and it wraps around to the kitchen, half bath, garage- two car! I've never been able to park my car in one! and stairs to the basement...

The upstairs has laundry, FOUR BIG bedrooms and two full baths, one is a master with two sinks, huge tub and a walk-in closet!!! It's going to be SO nice to have a tub and a shower! For the last three years I've had one or the other but not both! Agh! I'm so excited!

The house was smoked in which is why we got it for so cheap but my mom knows how to fix that... it's going to take some work though- cleaning the carpets, walls, cupboards and then painting all the walls...which are HUGE.... so if anyone gets bored.. 'hem hem' ;)

Ten Ten All-Time Greastest Christmas Movies

These are not in order but they are my favorite Christmas movies

1- The Grinch (with Jim Carry)
2- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animated)
3- Elf
4- Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer
5- A Christmas Story
6- A Muppet Christmas Carol
7- The Santa Clause
8- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
9- Home Alone
10- The Chronicles of Narnia

What are yours?