We made an offer on a house we loved back in January. We listed our house for sale about the end of January as well. After many months of waiting we get a call saying that our offer has been accepted! Unfortunately they said we had 2 weeks to close. We hadn't even sold our house yet so it wasn't looking like it was going to happen. After talking to a few brokers we figured a way that we could get the house. After a lot of thinking we decided that it would be too much of a pain and too stressful to have to worry about both houses. Long story short, we are still in the same house and someone else has moved into the house we love. We were a little bit upset about it at first, but we are confident that we can find other houses that we will like just as much. Life goes on and we have plenty of other things to worry about. In fact, it's almost like a weight has been lifted because after waiting and worrying about this new house for so long it's suddenly not an issue anymore! Lemonade my friends...lemonade.
Congratulations! Screw you!
Wham-O!
So after I got off work I picked up the boys from my Mama's house. They were hungry, as was I, so I took them to Taco Bell. On the way home we came to a round-about. I hate these things anyway. What is this? Paris? So, we stopped in the circle of death because the car in front of us stopped for someone crossing the street. We were stopped for about 10 seconds and just as I took my foot off the break....WHAMM-O! Apparently the girl who hit me was looking down another street and didn't notice we were stopped.
Luckily everybody was OK. Xander cried for minute because it scared him. The crappy part is that I was in the Mercedes at the time. It ended up at the shop for about 3 weeks. The shop did a good job, but we had to take it back like 3 times because they kept missing small things and leaving important parts of the car unplugged, like the radio antenna. If you need body repairs in Provo, Utah there are better places to get them done than University Collision. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the damage. Progressive was the company that was processing the claim and they did a fantastic job. The end.
B-Dogg, Susie, introducing Nate-O
It's been a while fo sho! We got a nice visit from some of our best friends from Cali. We got introduced to Nate Do-O-Double-G for the first time and he definitely lives up to the pics we've seen. He's a good lookin', healthy fella. Just like his parentals. B represented on RockBand and showed us how it's done. Susie could be the next American idol. And we'll lend them Jakson to be their bassist and throw Xander on the drums. It's always great to see old friends. Especially when they're Brandon and Susie!
Time to roll out!
We have officially listed our home for sale! If you know anybody that's looking for a nice home in the Provo area send them our way! We love our neighborhood, but it's time to move on. We only planned on being there for a few years. Since I work in Lehi and Erika works in SLC we thought we'd move a bit farther north. Since we're buying new gold rims for some guy in Saudi Arabia we want to try and cut back on gas usage. We won't be going too far though. We're planning right now on moving to the Lehi/American Fork area. We have an offer on a home in AF right now so hopefully that will work out. If not there's other fish in the sea. We figure it's a lot harder to sell right now than to buy! You can checkout the listing of our home on UtahRealEstate.com or BlueRoof.com.
Rock out when you clock out!
I've added a little Guitar Hero 3 tribute to the music section. I wasn't sure what to change the music to since valentines is over. I added a few of my fav songs from Guitar Hero 3. I'm not saying I'm good at this game because I'm not...yet. I just don;t have time to play games. Jakson can kick my butt. Xander probably can too. I'll have to practice up a little bit and show those suckas who the king is! Bigg Poppa gonna represent! I'm gonna take these kids to school, the school of ROCK! I gotta teach 'em a thing or 2 about shreddin' a guitar. I might even bite the head off of a bat. You're right, I would never do anything like that. Ozzie didn't even mean to. He didn't think it was a real bat or something. Maybe he just said that later in life because he realized how disgusting that really was. You've got to have I dark soul, I'll tell you what! Anyway, enjoy the Guitar hero songs and don't forget to make any requests!
iPhone tricks
The iPhone is probably the coolest phone I have owned so far and I have owned some pretty sweet phones! Apple has made it so intuitive and easy to use that it's amazing what you can do with it. I have a couple tips that I haven't seen
anywhere else. These are both for using the keyboard and come in very
handy when writing text messages or emails. The first is double-
tapping the space bar at the end of a sentence to automatically insert
a period and a space to start a new sentence. The second, which is
even cooler, is inserting your cursor inside of a previously typed
word. It's great for fixing spelling errors that you missed while
typing. Instead of just tapping next to the beginning or end of a
word, if you hold down your tap a magnifying glass pops up and you can
drag the cursor to any spot in text message, email, or anywhere you
use the keyboard! You may already know this, but if not it's really
cool. Give it a try! If you have any tips you want to share feel free to reply. I'm always up for new tips!
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Grow old with me, the best is yet to be!
I'm happy to report that Valentines was much better this year. We exchanged gifts on Thursday night. Unfortunately Erika had to work late that night so it didn't leave time for much...Enough said ;) So we celebrated Valentines on Saturday. We got a babysitter and went out just the two of us. That was a feat in and of itself. The boys usually tag along, but no this time! We started with a romantic dinner at the Chef's Table. It was pretty tasty and very romantic. Although one thing that was a little awkward was the old couple sitting next to us. They were literally right there. We could have talked with them had it not been for the window between us. It was like watching a silent movie. We were sitting with them and could see their whole night, but couldn't hear a word they were saying. erika loves a chance to dress up and be fancy so we had a good time.
After that we hit the mall for a little bit to get ERika a new watch. She's been looking for a while and wanted something that looked more like jewelry than a watch. We hit up the watch store where Brian works and Erika found one that she likes. Of course Brian had to hook us up so we were all happy. Mission accomplished.
After the mall we went to a comedy club iwth my bro and his wife and my parentals. It's not their usual cup of tea and I didn't expect my moms and pops to be there, but my brother can talk my dad into anything. The show was put on by Shawn Dee the hypno hick. I haven't been to a hypnotist show in quite awhile so it was a lot of fun. Who doesn't like watching people make complete fools of themselves?!? Especially when one of the hypnotees (what do you call a hypnotized person?) is a girl wearing a dress with a big slit up the side. We got more than a hypnotist show! Overall it was a great fun date.
I chose the title of this post because it's so true! Every year when I look back on the previous year things only seem to get better. It's probably because of Erika. She would let things get worse. She keeps me in check and does a good job taking care of our little family! The best is truly yet to be!
