As Promised!

Pictures of the out side of your house!

Our house is an old prisoner of war house. They moved it up here for some reason I can't remember. Our land lords house is so beautiful and it was built in the 1800's. So we have lots of old trees and and other old stuff.

This is the side of our house. This is what you see when you pull up the drive.

This is the front of our house!

The door mat our land lords gave us as a house warming gift!

This is the view right outside our door!

This is an old well! How cool!

Creepy old root cellar. All the neighborhood kids think a dragon lives here!

Look how huge these trees are! They are soooooooo beautiful!

Our Cottage in the Country!

This is our new home! We love it here it is so beautiful. I'll have to take pictures of the outside when the sun comes out again (it's been raining for 3 days now). But we have a beautiful yard as well. Here is the inside!

This is what you see when you walk through our front door! My parents gave us the couch. It use to belong to my grandmother. So even though it's old and pink, its sturdy and comfy!

That is our front door, Michael's desk for studying and all our wonderful books! And of course my genealogy chart.

This is our kitchen! Our stove is so much better then our last one. We have a little less counter space and I'm still the dish washer. But you win some your lose some! (Oh and that is the new fridge)

This is the other half of our kitchen! We have washer and dryer hook ups. In the 2 nooks you see. But I'm not sure I want them in my kitchen... I heard a rummer that I can hook up a dish washer instead and maybe gain a bit more counter space... we will see :)

This is our tiny bathroom! nothing much to say here...

This is our bedroom! Notice my side is the one with all the blankets. Till just the other day Michael slept without any. Proof that he will indeed survive the winter!

This is our back room. It has an extra closet and our dresser. We are able to store all these other boxes in our attic if we want. We just haven't gotten that far yet...

That is our home! bigger then our last one and its by its self in a wonderful neighborhood! We are truly blessed to live here!

Blessings and Trials

I've been meaning to write this blog for awhile and now that we are all unpacked and settled in I think I have the time. We have had quite a few trials in since we have moved up here (the flat on the way up just to name one) but even so Michael and I have noticed that we are extremely blessed. So we are going to do a list of blessings and trials!

Blessing: My uncle was off on his honey moon and let us stay in his house until we found a place of our own!

Trial: Michael broke his toe while we where there.

Blessing: Micheal was able to get into school

Trial: We had a huge battle with the finical aid department

Blessing: Michael has a cousin who is an accountant who told us what to do to get finical aid. Our papers are now being processed and we should be able to see what we qualify for any day now. Thank you so much Cameron!

Trial: Pima lost some of Michael's papers so they did not give him his associates degree.

Blessing: After many hours on the phone Micheal was finally able to talk to some one who knew what they where talking about and they are sending us a copy of the degree in the mail. (They found the lost papers in the Dead File...)

Trial: I still don't have a job

Blessing: Michael was able to find a job with no problems at all! He saw a sign at school that was asking for Math and Science tutors. Walked up got an interview. Went back to same day for a second interview and received a call the next day saying he got the job. I'm just a little jealous. ;)

Blessing: We were able to find a house without to much difficulty. And for an amazing price!

Trial: In the month that we have lived in our house our fridge and our furnace have broke down.

Blessing: We have absolutely amazing land lords and they had both of them fixed within hours of each discovery.

Blessing: We have enough saved up that even without me having a job and Micheal's job not bringing in much we have not been for want.

Blessing: Thanks to Michael's amazing aunt we have been able to start our food storage! She gave us our starter and a food storage cook book for our wedding. So when the local market had a 50 pound bag of wheat on sale for $12 we picked it up! And thanks to another one of Micheal's aunts, who gave us her old a wheat grinder, we where able to make really cheep whole wheat flour! Thank you Aunt Sabrina and Aunt Dawn!

Blessing: Our land lords, our neighbors, and my parents have been giving us tons of fresh produce! Apples, grapes, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, pears, peaches, etc... They have been so yummy and have helped us stay healthy!

Blessing: I have been able to spend more time with my family these past 6 weeks then I have been able to spend with them in the past 2 years!

Trial: We have a lack of friends our age. Particularly guy friends for Michael.

Blessing: we still have each other <3

The Blessings have it!