Offer Accepted

On Monday we went to get the paperwork to make an offer on a home in Provo. That night Nancy sent me a few other houses to look at. I didn't want to look but I did anyways. The last one we looked at both Mike and I fell in LOVE with!! It's only 2 years old-meaning no fixing!!! It's bigger than the other one and in a very nice neighborhood!! It is in Spanish Fork only 5 min from my job!! The seller was one of my fellow EFY counselor friends!!! We left and about 10 minutes later we called them and made an offer!! They thought for like 2 seconds and accepted!! The contract has been signed and we are qualified for our loan...now we are waiting for the bank!! We will be moving in in a few weeks!!! We are so excited!! Now if I could just twitch my nose and have everything moved for me!!!! If you go to this website there are a few pictures: http://provo.craigslist.org/rfs/625298765.html

We are moving up!

So, we have been searching for a house for what seems like forever!!! We finally found one that we love! It's definitely not our dream home but it is so much nicer than living in a 400 square foot apartment in the middle of all the BYU students. So, we are making an offer this week and we hope to be in by May 1st. We are hoping that with Mike working at the bank things will move a bit faster than normal and this will be possible!! Wish us luck!! We'll have all you over once we're in!!!

Do Your Part-Go Green!!

I feel a little concern for our lovely planet of ours!! So, I have taken action!! I have gone paperless!!! I have paperless bills and statements!!! I also have taken my name off of all the junk mail lists!!! Here are the websites I have used to do this!! If you know of other ones I'd LOVE to know!! This one is for credit card offers: www.optoutprescreen.com
This one if for all that unwanted junk mail: www.secure.proquo.com
That one you can go to stop all and it will cancel the ones you can without having to print out a page, sign it and mail it in!! I know kind of ironic huh?!! But it's worth it!!! They also have catalogs on this site that you can cancel!! They are all online anyway!!! But the best catalog one is: www.catalogchoice.org
Have fun with this!! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!! Does this sound green or what!! But we should take care of what we have!!!

Latest Purchase

Mike and I have been using a dresser that was dropped down the stairs and we were lucky if we could get the drawers pushed in and stay in!! So, we finally found a moment to get something new!! This is it!!!! We love it!!! Now for the head board!!! It might take a couple months to talk Mike into it!!! Guess I better keep working!:)

What have we been up to you ask?

Besides all the everyday things that keep us all busy...these are some other things we have been doing!!!
Strawberry facials-very moisturizing!!
Taking the boys to McDonalds to play!!
Cleaning under the oven and everywhere else!!!
And doing a little Cirque du Soleil makeup when I can't stand another moment of life!!!

Manti

Mike and I went to Manti for a friends wedding! We got there right in time to miss the big snow storem!! It was absolutely beautiful with NOTHING in site!! We had a lot of fun there!! And the Temple is amazing!!! We would recommend going there for a weekend!!

Backtrack....

I can't believe how behind I am. Life has been CRAZY!!!! Here are just a few picts from the past 3-4 months!!
Mike and I at midnight 2008 or is it 2007? I try not to think about the day!! Mike was excited!
The big boys lit off fire works for New Years and even though we could barely hear them inside, cute Liam still plugged his ears!! So cute!!
Uncle Mike holding little Collin!!! He is so much fun!!
The day after New Years we all went up snowmobiling!! It was a lot of fun!! The small boys played outside and had lunch out of the back of the car!! The rest of us rode clear to Bear Lake on the snowmobiles!! It was cold but also a blast!!
Just getting back from Bear Lake!! It was getting dark- so right in time!!
The whole Draper Family!!
The whole Reece Family!! well....the originals at least!!

Be Mine...

I love to be in love and I love others in love and I just love love in general!! It makes me so happy!!! Although Valentine's Day is not one of my favorite holidays! I worked at the flower shop again this year!! I worked almost 30 hours in 2 days in the cold!! We went through over 2500 roses!! And the record spender this year was $480! It was so nice to get home after a long few days and get warm and get a nice foot rub from Mike!! But the best of all was getting in the warm bed and sleeping for 12 hours!! I hope everyone had a happy Valentine's Day!!

Tag...

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning. B. Each player answers the questions about themselves. C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 years ago... I was a sophomore in High School. I think I was dating Jake Jaggi. I was driving the Red Rocket and probably toilet papering every single house in Logan with Salli and Jen!! I was working at Premium Malt Shoppe and hated every minute of it but loved having my own money to spend on whatever I wanted!! I was foot loose and fancy free and loving life!

5 things on my to do list today...1. Take my car to the shop and get my rental car 2. Go to the Dr. to get more blood drawn. 3. Go to the post office to mail Jen's and Ali's packages. 4. Take Elder Evans (my cuz) shopping!!!! 5. Write up a class schedule for my nail class.

Snacks I enjoy...I love any snacks!!!!! I would rather snack than eat a meal! I love good and plenty, twix, Ritz crips-vegetable flavor, cookie dough ice cream, chocolate milk, apple sauce, snickers, and my list could go on forever!! I love to snack!!

What I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire...pay off our car, buy a house, travel (go to China to see my fam., New Zealand, Africa....) Give some to charity (OSSO, and Vanuatu), give some to my family and then save the rest! I'm sure Mike would buy the car of his dreams and tickets to all and every game he wanted!!

5 bad habits.... 1. Being late! I'm always late to everything no matter how early I get up and start getting ready- I am late!! 2. Cleaning everything all the time. It drives Mike crazy because I clean during movies, conversations, everything. I can't stand anything being dirty or out of place. 3. Changing my hair. Weather it be color, cut, style I'm always changing it and soon I won't have any!!! 4. Not taking my vitamins. I will put them in my pocket as I run out the door thinking once I'm at work I will take them. Then the next time I put that pair of pants I find my vitamins from like 5 days ago-that is if I don't wash them!! 5. Shopping! I have been told that it is a bad obsession that I need to take care of. I don't shop for clothes...I shop for things for my house! I don't even have room for anything else but I keep on shopping on!!!!!

5 jobs that I have had... 1. Hair/nail instructor 2. Floral arranger 3.Missionary Mall
4. Convergys 5. Missionary

5 things people don't know about me... 1. A few of my favorite things are my label maker and totes/tupperware. I love to organize and their is nothing better than an organized space.
2. I am such a bargain shopper!! I can always find a great deal and never pay more than anything is worth!! 3. I like to get what I want. I am actually quite the brat! If someone doesn't give me what I want then I find a way to get it. 4. Although I talk about food a lot and have a whole blog dedicated to food- I hate eating. I think it is a waste of time and a waste of money to eat. When I get hungry it is such a nuisance because then I have to stop what I'm doing, think what sounds good and usually nothing does, then make it and then eat it. It would save so much time if we didn't eat!! 5. I am a hypochondriac. With the help of my own medical books, WebMD and my college biology classes I do my own diagnosing!!! I have a one page, three column, front and back piece of paper with every disease/sickness I've ever had!! It keeps growing but slower than before!!

As for those of you who are tagged, Whitney, Jenny -whenever you have time!! and mother.

Up and Running!

I always thought it would be so much fun to be married and cook and clean and do all those things you do when you are married!! I love all of it but the deciding what to cook!!! Once I know what to cook it's fun and easy!! I always call my sister up to get some ideas from her and I am always looking in magazines and getting ideas anywhere I can. SO...I had a great idea!!! All the easy and fast recipes I find I will put all in one place!! So I made a blog!! Full of recipes!!! And it is going to be so great!! My sister is helping post some recipes too!! I hope all those in need of an answer of "what should I make tonight" can get some inspiration from this little blog of mine!!
www.kriskankook.blogspot.com

No news....

No news is good news I guess-right?! I haven't posted for a while and I have no new pictures but I hate when I go on someone else's blog and their isn't anything new to read!! So, I thought I'd let you all know how much I hate house hunting!! We have been looking for a house since November. I know that's really not a long time but it feels much longer!!! We find a house and then it gets sold before I even get to filling out the paperwork to make an offer. So, we've now been looking for a lot to build on. I love the look of an old home but not the old pipes and electrical. So, I feel like I can't just build anywhere...I want to build a new house that looks beautiful like an old home and I don't want to put it right in the middle of a new subdivision because it will be so out of place. So that is my dilemma right now. Sometimes I wish I was magic!!!:)

Proposal

So, I have had some requests to hear about our proposal story. To tell this I will start at the very beginning. I met Mike the day I got off the airport in Vanuatu- although I don't remember him! He was my first district leader. I thought he was good looking but I was a missionary and that was not allowed. One of the first times we even talked he said to me "you aren't fat or ugly so you must be weird and that's why you're not married and had to come on a mission"- that's not a direct quote but you get the idea! From that moment on I knew I did not like him at all!! We were on the same island for about 1.5 months and then I was transfered! I was so happy!! I didn't see him except one other time through out the rest of my mission and that was fine by me! We both forgot about each other I think.
When I got home there were a bunch of other RMs at the airport including Mike. We all talked for a bit and then we went home. I didn't get released for almost 2 days and Mike had called but said he'd talk to me once I was released. He came to my report that Sunday and we talked. I started to think he was really cute!! He was a lot nicer this time and I'm sure I was too! He left and on his way home called me and asked me to go on a date with him. We went to Temple square. I made Jen come with me because I was too nervous!! Mike kissed me that night and we started to date from there! Neither of us thought we would ever date each other!!

After about 2 months of dating I knew that I wanted to marry Mike and that it was a good thing!! When I told Mike this he got scared and didn't want to date me anymore....so to make it short...we dated off and on for another few months and it was terrible! I cried all the time and just wanted to be with Mike and only Mike. Mike was always stressed and annoyed with me. I gave Mike a deadline to either propose or dump me. That date was coming and Mike came up to dump me. I knew it and my family knew it and his family knew it. We went to sacrament meeting with my family and then left church to talk, like we always did. We were never allowed to go home by ourselves so we always went up to the temple and talked, so we did the same thing this time. I was preparing myself to get dumped and hoped it would come sooner than later so I could cry and feel sorry for myself and then get on with life. The moment was coming and we went to this bench where you can see clear into Idaho and the whole valley. Then the spirit had a different idea for us!! It was so incredibly strong and we both felt it and knew that each other was feeling it too! I wondered what Mike was going to do now. Being the man he is, he then swore (he said the D word) and said "what would you say if I asked you to marry me"? I said " is that what you are doing"? and he said yes and I said yes!! Six weeks later we were married!!