Jared Working

Jared started a window cleaning/pest control/christmas light buisness last year. At the height of his buisness he had 8 (or 9, I dont really know) technicians working for him and 4 sales men selling for him. He and his buisness partner decided they wanted to clean and spray some accounts too (more money). I am not always a fan of his work, but he really enjoys running his own buisness and "building and empire out of nothing". While its not an empire yet, he has really built it well. Although there are LONG and ridiculous hours he has to put into it I can support him..... until I get a picture message like this: (sent to me from his buisness partner)All the caption read was "Your husband". Mind you, they use a three story ladder. So this is a very tall window. Great Jared, way to be so safe. => I told him if he falls, gets hurt, or dies, he is sooooo grounded! haha I just love my hard working man!!

Our New Apartment!

We moved into this apartment in the beginning of October. It is on the third floor, which made it quite interesting to get all our stuff out of the moving truck and into the apartment, but we were sucessful! Our apartment is two bedroom and two bath. To me having a second bath sounded odd to have but I have come to love it! =>

This is a picture of some of our second bathroom => I could not get all of it in one shot, but this is the jist of the bathroom (shower curtain, rug, and toilet =>)
Our master bathroom does not have as much room as the spare (spare has a lot of just space) but it has all the necessities => And I LOVE having a bathroom in our bedroom!It is so nice, especially since I am getting so aquatinted with the bathroom at nigth. haha
This is our dining room. I know its not the best picture but thats what happens when its sunny outside I guess. The color splash in this room is red. And I twisted a red window scarf with a cream one, but I dont think I like it too much, so it will be changing soon. =>
When we were packing our stuff from Idaho Jared and I decided to buy tubs rather than boxes because we could easily reuse them. Well it turns out, we didnt think about having to store the tubs when we moved into a new place. Luckily there are two little storage places that come with this apartment, so we packed those as best we could, then we put stuff under Jared's shirts in his closet, and we still had a couple tubs left. So I covered them with a table cloth and put them in the spare room. => I think it is pretty cute haha. And our sound system broke in the move, but the speakers still work, so we are storing those next to the tubs, and it makes a cute little display. haha
Jared was going to go to Idaho this weekend to hunt. He left to go and 45 mins later he walks back in the door, and with ice cream in hand! It was a great suprise!! So we got to play last night and this morning but he went to work this afternoon. So while he was at work I went down to Provo and played with Kalyn! We had a day of shopping! We went to the mall (she got a way cute dress and I got a cute shirt/turtle neck that can work now and when I am big prego!) Then Bed Bath and Beyond (I still had gift cards for there from my wedding) and then we went to Quilted Bear! I had never been to that store but my Grandma loved it, so we figured we would give it a shot! And it was so fun! We had a blast in that store! I got these shelf/frame things that Jared was able to put up! He is such a great handy man!!Kalyn and I got matching nativity sets. They are so cute! You get the blocks and have to sand and paint them then stick the natvity picture things on then do a top coat! We started on the sanding and got through that, then it was getting close to Kalyns movie party so we are saving the rest for later. I am excited to finish them! I love craft projects!!
And this is what the shelf things look like! I am so excited for them! We have decorations up in our apartment! Yay!! I love decorating the house too (if things are working the way I think they should hehe) It was a fun day! I am glad I could play with my sister and my husband! I love them! And I cant wait to see how else I can decorate and what else I can do for crafts!!

Illegal Potatoes!!

Yesterday was a good and bad day. A bad one because it was puring rain in Jared's area he was selling so he didn't sell any accounts. And because of the rain they came home early, thats the good part! => Before we went off and had a date night, I wanted to see Jared's creation in action. He built his friend Jermiah a potatoe cannon!! I had heard about their adventures with it, but have never seen it in action, so we journeyed off to the park to launch some potatoes!
When we got to the park there was a lot of little kids and their parents, so the boys decided to play basketball and wait them out. => I love watching Jared play basketball! ven theough they were just messin around with the ball, he still looks soooo good with ball in hand! =>
They finally left, so onto the main event! Jared is stuffing the potatoe into the cannon, I never knew it had to be such a tight squeeze! Look at those muscles!! =>
We are ready to rumble!!!! => Its finally that time, time to shoot some potatoes!!!
These two are the masterminds behind this whole idea! Jermiah wanted a potaote gun, Jared knew how to build one, Jermiah financed the adventure, and Jared laboured to make it happen! => I must say, that thing is pretty dang cool! I wanted to take a lot of pictures and have them do it all sorts of different ways, but they fired it a couple times then wanted to get out of there. I didnt understand why. So when Jared and I were driving away he explained to me.....
Potatoe cannons are illegal to have. That its basically just like firing an unregistered gun in a public park. Well that was news to me. => I have to say it was kind of exciting. This is the first time my husband and I were on the lamb! = hehehe So shhhh, dont tell anyone =>

Fixing the Car

I know many people have done this, but today was my first time and I am very proud of myself! Our car had passed the number of miles that were on the windshield sticker (yes very technical I know) so we needed to take it in for an oil change and a couple other things. Now I have taken the car to a shop before, but Jared had done everything. All I had to do was drive it in, give them the keys, then pick it up again. Jared took care of everything else. But this time, I did everything. I called the place this morning, set up an appointment, told them what needed to be done (I tried to be as technical as I could, i think I pulled off my facsade of knowing what I was talking about!) take the car in, answer the like 10 calls I got from them asking if they could do all these different things, pay for it, and pick it up! I know its probably not as big of a deal as I think it is, but give me a break here, its my first adventure into the "big grown up car world" without Jared! Although I must be honest here, I did cheat once. One of the times they called me I had no clue what they were talking about or why they wanted to do some stuff, so I tried to call Jared, but he was working and couldnt answer, so I asked some of the wives, and they didnt really know, so I made the best decision I could. Later Jared called me back & then called the service people to find out what was going on. But it turns out, my decision wasnt that bad! Yay!! So thats my little car story for the day. I feel so grown up taking car of my own car and talking about it! =>My friend Danae was nice enough to come with me to drop my car off. The shop is just right on the corner from my apartment, probably a 10 minute walk, so I figured I could just drop off my car then walk home while its being worked on.
Yay we did it! I dropped off my car & explained things!! Woot Woot!!!
We dropped off my car at 10:30am, and I got a call at 2:30 saying my car was finished (mind you they said it was only going to be there until 12:30). The other wives were swimming at the pool so I embarked on the journey to pick up my car on my own! But don't worry, I came equipt with a popsicle!! =>
There is my precious little car, all fixed and ready to be driven!! =>
I made it through the car ordeal alive and kickin!! Yay!!! (can you tell I am a little excited?) Yay for fixed cars and adventures!!

My Handy Man!

I LOVE JARED! As I am sure you all know! => And if he is not amazing enough, he is an incredible handy man! He plumber the Twin Falls temple and is currently plumbing for BYU Idaho in their new building. And his handy talents do not go un used around the house => A couple months after we moved into this apartment, the pipes under the sink broke. I dont really know what happened except that I was rinsing dishes and all of a sudden my feet were soaked => Needless to say he fixed it in a heartbeat when he got home from work => (i had a picture of it somewhere but I cant find it)
Jared and I have a washer, but no dryer. So I would wash our stuff at home, then take it all to a laundry mat to dry it. Two weeks ago Jared went and got a dryer and suprised me with it! He is so cute! But there was something wrong with the cord (3 prongs instead of 4) And Jared didnt fret, he just took apart the back of the dryer and replaced it =>
And, as a third tale of his super handy man capabilities, Jared and I went to Twin Falls yesterday for his dentist appointment, but his Mom's sink was leaking very badly. So super Jared went to the store, bought a new faucet and stuff, and instaled it! => I am so proud of him!! =>
Ok, I am almost done gushing about how great Jared is. But as I was getting these pictures to put on this blog I found one of Jared cooking! He is an inceredible cook! And I just love it when he cooks! He doesnt do it often, but when he does, it is my favorite treat! => This picture is of a Saturday, when we both had a really long week, so we slept in rather late, and he made breakfast/lunch! It was so good! =>

My husband is amazing! And I am eternally grateful for him and all the things he does!!! I love him!!!!