Monday, December 20, 2010

Forever!

So it has been like FOREVER since I last blogged...

Well, to be honest - I mostly only have time to blog during the down times at work... and there just haven't been any lately. I design food factories and right now my biggest project is for a 'health' food plant which is gearing up for the first quarter rush... And SO MUCH has to be done in the next month or two... it is insane...

So... this morning I weighed in at 172lbs ... which was better than I thought - like really I feel squishy and really did not want to be upset with myself this morning... but I stepped on anyways and it wasn't so bad. I am not reaching my goals but I am super excited for the New Year and all the motivation people will have... it is a very exciting time! Not sure what my plan of action is yet, but I will be hoping back on the wagon for sure.


Anyways, Since I last blogged - other than being supper busy with work my life has be super hectic too!

Lets see, we:

*Put an offer in on a house before thanksgiving...


*Boyfriend and I drove 12hours to Redding, CA in a snow storm for thanksgiving with his family...


*We found out that the sellers of our house were not going to budge on the house price = no home for us.

*We got engaged! Nov 23rd! (The ring BTW was a great 'deal' and exactly what I wanted - for those of you who gave advice via twitter when I was freaking out about the ring)


* We came back to Utah - Saw 5 more houses - Fell in love with one and put in another offer

*Got 3rd party approval in less than a week - We will be closing the first week +/- of January

So we are super excited to be moving out of our apartment into our first home... There are a ton of benefits like:

~No elementary school in our backyard (Boyfriend is a daysleeper - so screaming kids = bad)

~You can't hear kitchen noises in the master bedroom (Aka Boyfriend can now do dishes while I sleep)
~We have a basement family room!! (now boyfriend doesn't have to pause the TV when the AC/Heating comes on because he cant have the volume very high when I sleep)


<--New Home for the Beast


~We have a basement family room!! (I know - again - but now we can actually USE our beasty @SmoothFitness treadmill! I am so psyched! Right now we can't use it very often because it is SUPER loud for the neighbors below us)

~We have a 2 car garage AND RV parking! (now boyfriend can fix his own car! and both our cars can be protected from the elements as opposed to our current 1 spot under a car port)

So I am sure that there are a ton of downsides to home owning ~ so don't rain on my parade today... I don't want to hear them :) Maybe later...

Thanks for stopping by! I will be trying to read through the Mamavation posts and stopping by my 'regulars' hehe...

Less Than Three
Laura

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful ring, congrats!!!!!!!! That is wonderful news :)

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  2. Congrats on the engagement! Beautiful ring. :-)

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  3. Huge changes. Have fun and enjoy the holidays

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  4. Congrats on the engagement! You have a lot going on right now. Enjoy the holidays.

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  5. congrats on everything, the house will be great, but now he is not the Boyfriend he is your Fiance...lol


    Have a Merry Christmas Laura!

    God Bless you both :)

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  6. CONGRATS on the new house, the engagement, the basement family room!!! FANTASTIC all the way around :) Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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  7. Congrats! Sounds like you have a lot to be excited about.

    Glad you posted and now you will have many great goals for the new year. Isn't moving and packing a great calorie burner? Congrats again. Lovely ring, btw. Sparkly!

    Happy Holidays.

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  8. OMGosh! How exciting!!! I was wondering about the house when I saw your picture pop up. Hope the weather will treat your move good.
    Such a pretty ring.
    So glad you made it through Donner's safely, hope you are sticking around with the snow they are planning for.
    What a great end to your year.

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  9. Congrats! You've had a fantastic year - and welcome back!
    Have a very Merry Christmas!

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  11. Congrats!! Such exciting things happening!! I wish you the best of luck with everything!!

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  12. wow it sounds like you are going to have an amazing christmas congrats on your engagement and great to se you blogging agian

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  13. It's fun for me to see your blog and how far you've come! I am in Sugarhouse in SLC by the way. Love your new house. Thanks for writing your blog so that I can get inspired by it!

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