Moving time?

Recently we've been thinking about moving to a new SAFE apartment. Don't get me wrong, I love our house I wish we could just pick it up and move it somewhere else. There a just a few things that are getting a little old with this house...a few minor things such as we don't have a dishwasher. I never realized how much I love dishwashers! Another problem is the lack of counter space....I NEED MORE SPACE. It's extremely hard to make dinner when you don't have places to put your food. There's other things that bother me but they don't bother me as much as other things that have happened around the house.....

A few weeks ago Curtis and I were watching a movie before we went to bed. Now, we had been staining our table all day and didn't want to get high off of the fumes (weird I know) so we had our kitchen window open. Around 11:30 i'm pretty sure we were both about to fall asleep when all of a sudden we here "Get on the ground!!" let me just say, if that were to happen every morning I need to wake up at 6 i'd have no problem getting out of bed. Instantly we both shot off the couch and me....being the smart person I am....headed right for the window to see what was going on. Probably not the smartest thing to do in the world. Well, I looked outside and literally 2 feet from our window there was a cop arresting some guy. Alright people, I grew up in Farmington, this stuff never happens there. I'm pretty sure the guy was just drunk or something, but still, who wants to see someone get arrested in their backyard? NOT ME.

Alright, next story. I was outside being a guard dog and guarding our bikes. We live in Ogden people, can't leave anything outside. Anyway, out of the blue an old looking car pulled up. There were 2 girls in the car and the driver got out and walked down the street about a block and then turned the corner. The other girl just hung out in the car. I wanted sooooo badly to walk up to the car and be like....Hey, lady....go away, you're creeping me out. Well about 20 minutes later the driver came back....got in the car....and they left. Hmmmm that wasn't sketchy at all. We came to the conclusion that most likely it was a drug deal. Big shocker right? Oh, not to mention i'm pretty sure our neighbors are drug dealers haha...but really.

So to say the least once again we're on the hunt for a new safer apartment/area to live. We both realized after looking yesterday that in order to live in a safe area you have to pay a lot more. Freak, you might as well buy a house if you're paying that much for rent each month. It's kind of sad how much more it is in order to be safe. Of course the places that we loved are twice the rent we pay each month in our house we live in now. I'm thinking it's worth it to pay more though. I don't really enjoy setting up alarms each night and having a gun under the bed "just in case." I do love the apartments down at the junction. This is the definition of safe. You have to have a key to get in the building, a key to the elevator, and a key to your apartment (obviously) I seriously LOVE these apartments. They're new and right by the temple....well at least whats left of the temple. If they had any available i'd definitely consider these! That's another problem, the apartments we want aren't available right now....sadly. So I guess we'll just have to suck it up until something better comes along! Pray for us haha

Reminiscing..

My intent for this blog was to tell everyone about what's going on in mine, and Curtis' life....BUT he's at the gym playing basketball (normally i'd be there too but i'm sick of losing to him haha) and i'm bored and this has been on my mind A LOT lately. 

Soccer...

Soccer has been on my mind. I find this normal... especially considering my soccer career just ended after playing every day basically my whole life. I seriously miss it so bad, every time I walk by our field it makes me sad and I just want to play again. Now, I don't know if I just miss it or I literally don't know what to do with myself because soccer consumed my every day life. If you ask me that's quite a dramatic change. In the past 4 years playing at Weber, I bet I've had a total of 4 months off from soccer. Even during those "off months" I was still lifting or running to stay in shape for either spring or fall season.

I miss the inside jokes with the team
I miss getting ready for games
I miss the feeling of winning an intense game
I miss scoring goals
I miss doing something amazing in a game that no one expects
I miss going to practice every day (never thought i'd say that)
I miss my teammates from all 4 years
I miss traveling with the team
I miss playing BYU...gosh I hate them and how good they are. I especially miss playing at their home field and their fans yelling "you're from the devil number 19!" well played BYU, well played.
I miss "that one drill" (only my teammates would know what i'm talking about)
I miss Tommy and his cooking...minus the spaghetti, not a fan.
I miss watching highlight films put to Tim's all time favorite song....Year of the Cat
I miss playing make me laugh on the bus
I miss sitting in the locker room before games

Overall, I just miss playing. Of course there's always indoor....but with indoor I feel like you have to choose between tearing your ACL on your left knee or tearing your ACL on your right knee. Those people like to cheap shot you big time! I guess what i'm saying is I miss playing in a competitive league. I can always go back to playing semi pro like I have been the past 2 summers....but that costs money annnnnnnnd being married doesn't exactly give me the budget I need to play haha. Every time I start missing soccer so bad I have to think about the not-so-fun parts of it.....

For example:

5 mile intervals
7 mile trail runs
4-3-2-1's
the "Tony Hawk"
Running the stairs at the football stadium
Running the billion stairs at the Dee
Waking up at 5 am in the winter to condition (ok.....lets just say all of the conditioning)
12 hour bus rides
6 am flights
Losing to teams we should have beat
Being so sore I could barely walk
The beep test....holy crap how could I forget that??
2-a-days
3-a-days aka camp

I could probably go on and on about the horrible conditioning and bus rides blah blah blah....but honestly making the list of things I hated was harder than I thought. It's kind of weird that the good times stand out way more than the bad times. ANYWAY I miss soccer way bad....hopefully this goes away soon or you'll probably find me out playing in Sandy for that semi pro team....hope Curtis doesn't mind! haha

I wish I could let you see all the pictures I have from soccer....BUT since I don't want to waste your time here are a few..

Good vs Bad

This past week we thought we'd get away from our crazy schedule and head down to St. George. I think we chose the worst week possible to take a vacation! I don't really want to dwell on this so here is what happened.....

Bad Luck

• Day 1: Curtis loses his football coach
• Day 2: I miss two job opportunities because I wasn't home
• Day 3: Curtis' dad ends up in the hospital 
• Day 4: Transmission in our car....gone. dead. No Vegas for us :(

Good Luck 

• We survived Angels Landing!
• Didn't have to pay for a hotel
• Got to relax for a few hours at the pool and came away with some nicely burnt skin
• Luckily my parents happened to be in St. George the same week as us so we could ride with them home after we left the poor car in a shop (and yes the car is still vacationing there)

Now that that's out of the way, I can actually talk about the parts we enjoyed from our vacation. It was already decided before we even left that we would go to Zions to hike Angels Landing. I've always wanted to go on this hike, I've heard so many great things about Angels Landing and how beautiful it is once you get to the top. We both were pretty nervous to go on this hike because of the horror stories we've heard and the fact that people have actually died on this hike....that made us feel good. So, we managed to find the courage and headed to Zion pretty early in the morning. This hike was seriously so cool. It wasn't extremely difficult and definitely not as scary as we had imagined. When we made it to the top we couldn't figure out how people have actually fallen off this thing. Either they're super careless or someone pushed them off. There's no other explanation for the deaths!

Once we got back from the hike we decided to hit the pool and relax for awhile. Yes, I said relax. We haven't done that for awhile....I almost forgot that relax was actually a word. After we relaxed for a few hours at the pool we went back and got ready and headed to Fiesta Fun haha this place is great. We had the chance to go mini golfing and go carting. Ask me who won in mini golfing... go ahead ask...ok ok i'll tell you, it was me! I beat Curtis mini golfing. He was pretty embarrassed haha. After that we went to challenge each other to a go cart race. It was determined that whoever starts in front will win. Either we're both really good defensive drivers, or really good at leading a race. The next night we thought we'd go hit a bucket of balls Curtis was getting mad that I was doing better than him, (as usual) but I warned him before that I get super lucky with golf and my first time of the season I always do good. Guess he didn't believe me! haha. We also found some time to play some pickle ball with my cousins.

The next day was probably the worst day of the trip! We were both so excited to go to Vegas. I can't really remember the last time I went to Vegas for fun. I always went for soccer so i've never had the chance to just go see what it's all about. We woke up pretty early so we could get a early start to Vegas, not to mention the car had been making some weird noises so we wanted to get that checked out as well. We ate breakfast and headed off  to the mechanic. On our way the car suddenly started jerking every time Curtis would hit the gas. We got the car to the parking lot of Burger King and just barely missed the mechanic. When we finally got the mechanic over to our car he took a look at it and immediately said it was the transmission. Now, I don't know a lot about cars. I quickly learned that the transmission is NOT good and very expensive to fix. Grrrrrreeeeeeaaaaaatttttttt. Way to top off a great vacation eh? There's no way we could get to Vegas now and we were not too happy about it. Luckily my parents were there and could help us out. We now had the option to stay with the car 2-3 more days or squeeze with my parents and go home with them and leave the car. Luckily we went home with my parents because the car won't even be done until Wednesday! One other lucky thing that happened to us is Curits' mom is going down to St. George for work so she can drive the car home. This will save us a 10 hour trip of driving to and from St. George so thank goodness for her!

Looking back at this vacation it's kind of funny so many things went wrong. I guess we're not the only newly married couple that has had problems on their first vacation! haha although we still wish we could have gone to Vegas....We were really looking forward to the buffets! We did have a good time when we weren't stressing out about everything and Angels Landing was definitely the highlight of the trip. Not to mention getting to spend some time with each other!

Doesn't do this hike justice....