OUR NEW PLACE!

So I have tried to upload these pictures like a hundred times. Hopefully this works and all will go well.

This is our bedroom standing at the door looking in. I really love the light over our bed. its nice for reading and stuff.

This is our room from the far corner looking out. We really didn't like the closet at first, but now its growing on me. The room is smaller then our last room so the furniture is kind of cramped, but its still nice I think.

This is our kitchen looking from the living room. I love it. I think we need to get a smaller table though. The pictures don't look that great cause the pictures were taken at night.

This is our living room. Its hard to get a good picture cause of the wall, but its nice too.

This is another angle of our living room. Facing the bathroom and bedrooms.

This is our bathroom. Its small but cute.

Our new shower curtain. I love love love it. Ty does too.

Well, I hope you like our new place. We love it. There is still a lot I would like to do, but we will get to the eventually.

A New Beginning

So life has been pretty crazy lately. We haven't had the Internet for over a week now since we have moved. But it is all hooked up and we are back in business.

We are all moved in and settled in our new place. I LOVE IT!!! it is so so beautiful! I will take pictures but I need to make sure the house is spotless first...first impression means everything. It is such an improvement on our first place. I hope we stay her for a while. Plus the second bedroom would make a perfect nursery...;) one day

So we had an appointment at Princess Margarette thins week to discuss radiation therapy and what we need to do. Well, the doctors decided that because of Ty's age, his great health and plans on having children, we are not going to go through with radiation. Out of all the men that are diagnosed with testicular cancer and have the surgery to remove it 5 out of 6 will not need radiation. The doctors believe that it doesn't make a lot of sense to give 5 men out of 6 radiation that don't need it. there are also a lot of health risks of getting radiation. Of course it cures the cancer that they are treating but it also may cause other cancers within 30 years (which wouldn't be a problem for an older man, but for a young guy like my hubby it could be serious). Heart disease and other illnesses could also be caused by radiation treatment.

So doctors have decided to put Tyler on a Surveillance program. For the next 3 years he will get a CT scan every 4 months, 3 years after that it will be twice a year, and then for the last 4 years it will be once a year. It is ten years in all that he will be enrolled in this surveillance program. Crazy to think that we will have growing children by then. So we think that this is a great idea. It is good that Ty doesn't have to go through any treatments..I am thrilled.

As far as school goes, we were planning on withdrawing because of all the time we would have to take off from school and all of the stress, emotional and physical drainage we would be going through. Now that we aren't going through with the treatment I think we will still try to withdraw since we have missed so much school already. I am fully intending to pick up classes in the summer time. We need to fax our letters to the Registrar that we wrote to withdraw. I will let you know how that turns out as soon as we find out.

We moved back home last weekend too, which is so so nice. Not only is our place fantastic but we just love where we are. I was able to go to Aqua fit with my mother in law last week, which I could never do when we were in Orillia. I am really looking forward to getting a gym pass and getting in shape. Now that we are in Barrie there is so so much that I want to do. I am going to make a list of things, almost like my new years resolutions, but I ll call them my....Moving to a new place wanting to make a new start resolutions....lol.

so I would like to....

lose 10 lbs
go to the gym 3 times a week
go for walks with Ty
work 40hrs a week - find a great job
stop biting my nails
save money to go on a trip at Christmas time
pay off our debt
develop a stronger relationship with my parents/siblings/grandparents
read scriptures everyday together
become more active with church callings
go to the temple every month
get my patriarchal blessing

oh man...there are so many more...

Since we have moved here I get up way earlier then we used to. It used to be when 11am would roll around we would get up. No we are up at 7 ish and either off to work. When I m not working I am like a little housewife. Its kind of fun. It makes me feel so good when Ty can come home from work to a clean house with dinner on the table.

Well...once I take some pictures I will put them up. Now that we are settled and we have the Internet I will be sure to post at least once a week!!!!

WE ARE OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!

SO!! GUESS WHAT!!!??? WE GOT THE APARTMENT AND DUSTIN AND COOKIE ARE MOVING INTO THE ORILLIA APARTMENT!! It is so so exciting! I am so excited for us and that we can move to Barrie and be close to work. I am also so so so so so excited for Dustin and Cookie and that they can finally have their own space and become their own family! So we all move Saturday!! It is going to be a CRAZY day but so exciting. We meet with our new landlord tomorrow to go over the details!

Today I started working full time. I almost forgot what it felt like to work and contribute financially, it feels good. I just hope I can find a full time job. Right now I am working as a supply teacher, this week it is full time, but probably not all the time. So... still looking for a job.

We started packing today. We figured we would pack a room a day for the next 5 days. Today we did the office. Tomorrow I don't think we'll have time to pack cause we will be in Barrie for a while with the Landlord. So Wednesday we'll do the kitchen, Thursday the bathroom, Friday our room...hmmm what about the storage unit and the living room...guess we'll have to pull a late night tomorrow.

so we are going to have some help on Saturday. Ty's dad, 2 brothers, cousin, my dad are going to help. I think I will call the Bishop and missionaries in Barrie tomorrow and ask them to help us too.

We are so excited to move to Barrie!!

Moving

Ok, so we still don't know 100% if we can move in to our new place yet. We have been accepted but our friends Dustin and Cookie who are supposed to be moving into our current place in Orillia still haven't been accepted yet.

Even though we are not 100% sure, I was hoping that anyone reading this, who lives in our area, would be able to help us move since Ty can't really lift anything. It would be great if you could keep Saturday March 1st open to help us, but we will let you know 100% in a few days!

Thanks!!

Decorating Ideas

So, since our new bedroom doesn't have a closet, there is a built in closet organizer thingy. It is not that pretty....so I was hoping all of you reading my blog would have some great ideas to hide it, yet make it look great. The wall is now beige, not blue.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Our New Place

Here are some pics of our potential place. The blue room is now beige like everything else. The only thing we don't like is that the maser bedroom doesnt have a closet but has a built in clothes organizer thingy. So I figure I will just get a really nice heavy drape...maybe brown, and hang it by some wire to cover it up.

I love the lighting. Nice natural light and beautiful spot lights through out. AND EACH LIGHT HAS ITS OWN LIGHT SWITCH!!! Unlike our recent place where you turn on one switch and all the lights come on!

Oh, and what's really cool is that it is on the same street that my grandmother lived on years and years ago. Great memories and right by the beach!

Leave a comment and let me know what you think....oh and if you'd like to help us move March 1st, let us know!

We will know for sure if we get the place by Friday hopefully!

SO MUCH SNOW!

Orillia is the absolute worst place to live when it comes to snow. We have had, no joke, about 5 feet of snow in the last 2 weeks. I don't think I would mind as much, but because I am the one that has to shovel all the time, since Ty can't, I HATE IT!!! I dread looking outside in the morning because I know that the snow plow would have come by in the night and I will have a huge mess of heavy, icy snow to shovel up. Tyler loves to shovel so it is killing him that he can't go out and do it. How I wish Tyler was healed because I cannot stand it. It's not that I don't have the strength, its just that there is never an end to it. I will work my butt off shoveling one day and then the next day it is the same thing. SO FRUSTRATING! And do you think that our upstairs neighbors would help us, OHHHH NOOOO. They walk down our driveway to get out because they are too lazy to shovel their own (they do have their own driveway although they don't have a car) and they use the front steps. You think they would at least shovel that. And because they walk down our driveway they pack the snow down which makes it even harder to shovel. I can't wait to move, they drive me nuts.
Pictures to follow of this sky scrapping snow.

LOST OUR KEYS!

So, the last few days have been very hectic. Christmas was a ton of fun. Christmas eve we went on a sleigh ride with my mom's family. We celebrated just the two of us at our apartment Christmas morning and later went to my parents and Ty's parents for visits. It was a big change from what I am used to for Christmas. Because we are now married we needed to make some changes so it suited both of us. Usually I have about 4 Christmas dinners over two days, but this year we only had one at Ty's parents.

2 Days ago Tyler lost his keys to the house and the car.......oh boy. He has been ripping the house apart ever since. We have looked EVERYWHERE!!! If you were keys where would you be? He remembers, he thinks, where he last had them but still can not find them. We hope that he really lost them and that they were not stolen from like the key hole in our apartment door. We hop they turn up!

Boxing day we had a nasty surprise. We woke up and got ready to go and visit the Peterson family when on our way out we found throw-up all over the front stairs. It was disgusting. It took the people who live upstairs 2 whole days to actually clean it up. We were not happy. So we had planned for my parents to visit yesterday. I went upstairs to clean the landing (straighten up out shows and what not) and saw and smelt that there was still throw up all over the place. So I took it into my own hands and decided to clean it so that my poor parents wouldn't have to see or smell that. So I put on my rubber gloves and got to work. 1 hour and 2 rolls of paper towel later it was finally clean and smelling fresher then it had been. Purely disgusting!!!!!!!!!!

Well other then that, life has been pretty chilled out. We had a great first Christmas together and have just been relaxing trying to not think about school!
Today we will be taking our tree and Christmas decorations down. We started writing out our goals for the new year, the list is huge but I hope we will be able to accomplish all of them!