I think I've changed my mind about the hotel thing. It's too stressful with all those cry-babies around us that keep calling the front desk saying "I think I heard someone sneeze or something, so you'd better call and wake up the ONE sleeping child that those people have to tell them to be quiet." And you'd think in these $400/day rooms (yeah, we are SO not paying for that, I would be at a Holiday Inn or something like that if we were) they could afford decent beds. Their website brags in more than one place about their "comfortable beds"...I don't know where they got that information, but honestly (and I am NOT exaggerating) I was more comfortable that weekend that we went camping and I was pregnant with Christopher and ended up sleeping with a rock in the middle of my back all night. That bed is a brick. Jon was sweet enough (and was THINKING enough) that he folded the comforter over so we are sleeping with that underneath us, so it's not quite as bad. But I can not wait to get back to my own bed. I wake up and my entire body is just aching. It makes me feel for those that have to wake up feeling like that no matter what bed they are sleeping on.
On the plus side (I think) FMC is paying for people to come and pack our house and then move everything to our new place. Yeah! Darci didn't have such a great experience, she told me, with professional movers...so hopefully our experience will better than hers.
I am getting so frustrated here. Right now we have the option between a duplex that seems alright enough but that land lady is a flake. (She just didn't show up the first time we had an appointment and never bothered to call...until we called and said "We've been waiting for you for 30 min, we had an appointment." THEN she called back to say sorry. Then the second appointment she was late and when she came she was on the phone, never introduced herself and then after we were done looking at the duplex we had to wait for another 10-15 min. for her to get off of the phone so that we could ask her questions about the place. Jon's all "I like the place" I'm thinking more, "Yeah, but if we need her, I'm assuming it's going to be 3 months before she 'gets around to it' if she's this bad when she's TRYING to get our business, she'll be TERRIBLE once she has our business." and our other option is to buy a house that everyone (who have never even seen the place) seems dead set against it. I'm hoping that Charlie's relatives (or relatives of relatives or friends of relatives?) Will be better...and the duplex will be good also. We are going to see it tomorrow. So we will see what happens. I think it drives me most crazy that when he asks Luke for an opinion if Luke tells him "Well, you need to check for this or that." He hears "This particular house has this or that." Like Luke told him to check for "funny things" like he heard about people who put animals in the vents and stuff and leave them there for the next owners to find (which was a legitimate warning...just check for some strange things that they may have done to the house) but then he went in and was almost surprised NOT to find any animals in the heater. *Uhhhh* It's a nice house. I think it would be nice to live there. And the monthly payment would be about the same (in some cases cheaper) than renting here. And the renting market here is virtually non-existent. And the few places here that are for rent have such a monopoly on the market that they are SO ridiculously priced that I just can't stand paying that much for such a mediocre place to live. Maybe I'll have Charlie come and make them a deal so he can have a monopoly and they can too...;) (Just Kidding Charlie...you know we love you). Well, I think that's my whining for now, I am just so frustrated and stressed out. We are going to try and make a decision tomorrow. We are going to see the duplex from the guy that Charlie gave us his number. And then we are going to look at the house again and take more pictures, and then we are going to talk to Chad (the guy that might be working our loan if we get the house). Oh, how my head hurts. I need a nap.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Green River
So we're here in Green River. Man the housing here is EXPENSIVE, I heard that it was a good price down here and that Rock Springs was really bad...I'm not sure where they got their information from, but it was wrong. We are excited that we found a 3 bedroom duplex for $1,000...it's the cheapest one that we've found. We are currently paying just under $700 (in Pocatello) for a 4 bedroom HOUSE. Grrrrrr! Stinkin' greedy people that think their houses are worth more 'cause there here in Green River. We were also looking at some in Jamestown (it's just down the road). I asked one of the Realtors if Jamestown was smaller than Green River and she said well, it actually is Green River it's just a seperate part kind of "out of town". But they have named it...hmmmm...so now they think they are so special here that they are naming PARTS of their town now? J/K it seems like a nice place to be though really. We are going to look at it today, so hopefully it will work out. Because otherwise Sue is going to have to have to go back home before she gets to come and help pack. That would not be fun. So hopefully we will be able to find a house soon enough that we can get packed and moved by...this weekend? We'll see what happens.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Egeland Randomness
Well, I am sitting here in front of my computer trying to decide what to write about.
We are going house hunting tomorrow. I think I am excited, I do kind of like that part. I am however VERY VERY VERY excited that my Sister is going to get to come and see me and her son. Topher's excited about that. He loves cousin Sammy. We aren't going to have very many options I don't think. I hope out of the minimum options that we have at least one is the right one for us. I'm sure it will all work out though. If not, I think it would be fun to live in a motel for a little while (My Mother-in-law my disagree, but I think it would be fun...for a LITTLE WHILE). Getting up and eating breakfast that I didn't have to cook, doing the dishes involves throwing them away and then someone else coming in and emptying that. I can take as long of showers as the boys will let me without them killing each other and not have to worry about the water bill. We have more than 3 channels to look through (which may or may not be a good thing). Not having to feel guilty about the microwave meals...besides, I know how to cook some REALLY good microwave meals that you'd think were cooked on the stove, but they take like 12 min. in the microwave. Like the cheesy chicken bake and the cherry crisp (yeah, you can do that in the microwave), I think it's just as good as in the oven, but that's just my opinion. I just think it would be relaxing for a while. But I am so excited for my sister to come, I haven't seen her since Thanksgiving, which, I know, has only been a few months...but it seems like FOREVER! I still need to pack (and do some laundry so I can pack), I should probably do that seeing as how we are leaving in about 12 hours.
And only 38 days until Baby Davey comes home! Yeah! (For those of you who don't know, that's my brother David...he's on his mission in the Dominican Republic for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). I haven't seen him in about 2 1/2 years. So I am very excited to see him. And I am really really really really really hoping that come March the weather (and my pregnancy) cooperate so that I get to go see him off the plane. If worse came to worse I could go see him on one of his lay-overs. But then it wouldn't be the same. 'Cause I would be all happy that I finally got to see my brother and then only a few hours later he would have to leave again. I think that would be very hard. I would just rather be there when he gets home (and we can all make fun of HIM this time for freezing to death when we all just have our jackets draped over our arms).
And Ginger is having a baby. Yeah, I assume it's alright to say that on here. She said "Tell all of your friends" and I am SO excited for her. She's going to be a great Mother. I swear, she has more patience than Mother Teresa. She'll do great. I think there is nothing more exciting and terrifying than being pregnant with your first child. Especially with all of those people that can't keep their nose in their own business after the baby is born. (DISCLAIMER: I am not talking about the friends and family or the Mother of the new Mom that say "He might be hungry" or "It's a little chilly out for a baby, maybe you should put a jacket on him.") I am talking about those nosy strangers that you've never met before that tell you you are doing it wrong (whatever they feel "IT" is at the moment) and you are going to scar your child for life or make it sound like you ought to have Child Services called on you. "THOSE" people have to be my biggest pet-peeve EVER! My thought is that if you are not the Mother, the Father, Grandmother, Grandfather, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, or close friend (and even those are only on the exception that you have children of your own or have REALLY helped raised someone elses' children) don't say anything. If you want to praise, great, do that all you want. If you are going to criticize...keep your mouth shut. Unless the Mother is dangling the kid over a cliff, forgot to buckle him up when she put him in the car, or in anyway is TRULY putting his life in danger, just keep it to yourself. I realize that there is no easier target IN THE WORLD than a hormonal first time mother that is already questioning every move she makes...but let's cut her a little slack, you don't know everything either and believe it or not, you are not always right nosy lady. Yeah, ok, that's my 2-cents on that subject. (Why is there not a cent sign on the keyboard? They have a dollar sign and ^ this ^ sign...what is that one even for? Who knows, these are the things that keep me up at night...not really)
So back to the house hunting thing, we would kind of like to rent for a while before we buy. But we don't know where we are going to go, so if anyone knows of anyone that is renting a place that they didn't want to advertise because they would like to choose who lives there instead of just having to take any bum with a checking account. It would be much appreciated if you could steer them to us...or steer us to them. We do have great references, and my husband is a neat-freak, so the place gets taken care of. I did find some cute houses to buy, but I would like to be able to put more than the minimum 3.5% down on the house. Which some of them we could do right now, but I would really like to put as much down as we can that way we don't have to pay interest on that. But whatever is supposed to happen will happen I suppose. Well, I really need to go and get packed and whatnot.
We are going house hunting tomorrow. I think I am excited, I do kind of like that part. I am however VERY VERY VERY excited that my Sister is going to get to come and see me and her son. Topher's excited about that. He loves cousin Sammy. We aren't going to have very many options I don't think. I hope out of the minimum options that we have at least one is the right one for us. I'm sure it will all work out though. If not, I think it would be fun to live in a motel for a little while (My Mother-in-law my disagree, but I think it would be fun...for a LITTLE WHILE). Getting up and eating breakfast that I didn't have to cook, doing the dishes involves throwing them away and then someone else coming in and emptying that. I can take as long of showers as the boys will let me without them killing each other and not have to worry about the water bill. We have more than 3 channels to look through (which may or may not be a good thing). Not having to feel guilty about the microwave meals...besides, I know how to cook some REALLY good microwave meals that you'd think were cooked on the stove, but they take like 12 min. in the microwave. Like the cheesy chicken bake and the cherry crisp (yeah, you can do that in the microwave), I think it's just as good as in the oven, but that's just my opinion. I just think it would be relaxing for a while. But I am so excited for my sister to come, I haven't seen her since Thanksgiving, which, I know, has only been a few months...but it seems like FOREVER! I still need to pack (and do some laundry so I can pack), I should probably do that seeing as how we are leaving in about 12 hours.
And only 38 days until Baby Davey comes home! Yeah! (For those of you who don't know, that's my brother David...he's on his mission in the Dominican Republic for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). I haven't seen him in about 2 1/2 years. So I am very excited to see him. And I am really really really really really hoping that come March the weather (and my pregnancy) cooperate so that I get to go see him off the plane. If worse came to worse I could go see him on one of his lay-overs. But then it wouldn't be the same. 'Cause I would be all happy that I finally got to see my brother and then only a few hours later he would have to leave again. I think that would be very hard. I would just rather be there when he gets home (and we can all make fun of HIM this time for freezing to death when we all just have our jackets draped over our arms).
And Ginger is having a baby. Yeah, I assume it's alright to say that on here. She said "Tell all of your friends" and I am SO excited for her. She's going to be a great Mother. I swear, she has more patience than Mother Teresa. She'll do great. I think there is nothing more exciting and terrifying than being pregnant with your first child. Especially with all of those people that can't keep their nose in their own business after the baby is born. (DISCLAIMER: I am not talking about the friends and family or the Mother of the new Mom that say "He might be hungry" or "It's a little chilly out for a baby, maybe you should put a jacket on him.") I am talking about those nosy strangers that you've never met before that tell you you are doing it wrong (whatever they feel "IT" is at the moment) and you are going to scar your child for life or make it sound like you ought to have Child Services called on you. "THOSE" people have to be my biggest pet-peeve EVER! My thought is that if you are not the Mother, the Father, Grandmother, Grandfather, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, or close friend (and even those are only on the exception that you have children of your own or have REALLY helped raised someone elses' children) don't say anything. If you want to praise, great, do that all you want. If you are going to criticize...keep your mouth shut. Unless the Mother is dangling the kid over a cliff, forgot to buckle him up when she put him in the car, or in anyway is TRULY putting his life in danger, just keep it to yourself. I realize that there is no easier target IN THE WORLD than a hormonal first time mother that is already questioning every move she makes...but let's cut her a little slack, you don't know everything either and believe it or not, you are not always right nosy lady. Yeah, ok, that's my 2-cents on that subject. (Why is there not a cent sign on the keyboard? They have a dollar sign and ^ this ^ sign...what is that one even for? Who knows, these are the things that keep me up at night...not really)
So back to the house hunting thing, we would kind of like to rent for a while before we buy. But we don't know where we are going to go, so if anyone knows of anyone that is renting a place that they didn't want to advertise because they would like to choose who lives there instead of just having to take any bum with a checking account. It would be much appreciated if you could steer them to us...or steer us to them. We do have great references, and my husband is a neat-freak, so the place gets taken care of. I did find some cute houses to buy, but I would like to be able to put more than the minimum 3.5% down on the house. Which some of them we could do right now, but I would really like to put as much down as we can that way we don't have to pay interest on that. But whatever is supposed to happen will happen I suppose. Well, I really need to go and get packed and whatnot.
Friday, February 6, 2009
I don't know how many more times I will get to write for a while. So if you don't hear from me (blogging, Facebooking, or e-mailing) it's not because I don't love you...we are going down to Green River this Monday and (hopefully) finding a house (to rent, we aren't buying yet)...like we could afford to buy down there yet. Those housing prices are OUTRAGEOUS!!!! When we do buy we are just going to have to buy a house that has enough room to build on to because everything with enough rooms is about $100,000 out of our price range. There was 1 or 2 that were only about $30,000 - $40,000 out of our price range...but still out of our price range. (I wish we could stay here and get that house in Inkom though...I LOVED THAT HOUSE). Oh well. So we don't know how long we are going to be in Green River, however long it takes to find a place to live I guess. Then we are going to come back here and pack everything up and then move that weekend I hope. I am REALLY, REALLY, REALLY excited though about my sister coming. She is going to meet us in Green River and come back with us to help pack. It'll be good to laugh again. I mean I do laugh, but it's never like laughing with my Sister and my Mom. It's the kind of laughing that my Dad comes out into the living room to tell us to "Quit or you're going to make Karen go into labor." kind of laughing. LOL (I love you Daddy). So our apartment got rented yesterday (well, they put a deposit on the house so as soon as we are out they are going to move in), so we can get out of our lease so we don't have to be paying for a house here (that we aren't going to be living in) until May AND paying for a place in Green River. We were a little worried about that. But it seems that we were meant to be in Green River for some reason because everything seems to just be "falling into place" for us to get the job (in just a few weeks)...and the same day that Jon was officially done with his Ash Grove job, and then someone coming in and renting the place immediately after we found out when we were moving (it was like 2 days after we found out exactly when we would be moving they came and rented the house), and we are going to take 2 cars when we go down to Green River because we were planning on selling one of the cars (we have 3 because we HAD to get a mini-van and still haven't been able to sell the Buick or the Taurus) so Jon will drive the Buick down and I will drive the mini van and we will leave it at our house that we rent (or in storage down there if we can't find a place to live yet) and then when we move for good Jon will drive the moving truck with the Taurus on the back and I will drive the mini-van again. Oh, I hope I can get all of the stuff done that I need to without my head exploding or going into labor or something. Well, I don't think that I have anything else to say. Oh yeah, a little side note ONLY 40 DAYS UNTIL DAVEY COMES HOME!!!! I'm so very excited about that. Yeah!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Topher's Blog
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My Cute Boy!
The laughs never seem to stop around here. Christopher was examining my stomache yesterday and was talking to Justin (he thinks that in order for Justin to hear him he needs to speak into my belly button ;)). So he was talking to Justin and I had a contraction. I did the "Ooohh. That kinda hurt" under my breath. And Chris looks up and says "Baby Justin hurt Mom?" Well, I didn't want him to associate the baby with someone that hurts Mom. So I was explaining to him "Justin is getting big and he needs more room, that's why Mommy's belly is getting so big." The look on his face said that he was satisfied with that answer. Then he gets that scowel (however you spell that) on his face; he cupped his hands around his mouth and yells into my belly button "JUSTIN! YOU'RE TOO BIG! GET OUT OF THERE!" I started laughing and asked "Chris, who made you so cute?" He shrugs his shoulders and says "Don't know, I just cute."
Monday, February 2, 2009
DOUBLE DIGITS!!!!
Yeah! I am finally in double digits! 99 more days until Justin is due! Woo-hoo! It sounds like a lot less time to me when you say it in days! I am not looking forward to having to change OB's AGAIN...but atleast this time I don't have to take people's advice that I JUST met...or worse, have NEVER met. At least Kristin can give me some advice...and thanks for that. There is no worse part of moving as far as I am concerned. That seems to happen everytime I get pregnant. Oh well, maybe next time I will still be in the same area. ;)
So we are trying not to go crazy here at the Egeland house. (Mom Egeland I may have to take you up on your offer) We have to get everything packed, find a house (or, *sigh* an apartment) to live in and get everything moved over to Green River in 2 weeks. I don't think I am looking forward to all of this. At least this time if we don't find a place RIGHT AWAY it's not as bad as it would have been with the other jobs we've had. This one, if we don't find a place to live will pay for temporary housing for a while. So that's nice to not have a "we HAVE to find a place to live so we have to take what's available...even if it's as bad as the ashberry apt. in Missoula."
Poor thumbsucking Ethan boy. Jon noticed today that he had a blister on his thumb from sucking it so hard. It made me so sad. He is walking real well though. Even when he fell over a few times, instead of crawling he got back up and started walking. Ethan and Topher were having a lot fun yesterday. We had gotten the boys some toys for when we came back from Jon's interview. Chris has been using any ball he can find and some 1/2-inch dowels to play baseball with. So when I was shopping I saw a t-ball set with a ball (but it's not too hard), a bat, a tee and a home plate...I just HAD to get it for him. And he loved it. Then he made sure that Ethan got a turn to. It was sooooo cute. (If my house hadn't been such a mess I would have gotten some videos of it) maybe we will tonight.
And my poor big boy (the one that I married), is way too into that stupid game...LUUUUUUKKKKEEE! (Add skunk eyes and a wrinkled forhead). He really took advantage of that whole "not having to go to work the next day" thing. He was up until 6:30 this morning playing that game. He says he was only up until 3, but I know he was up longer than that because I finally gave up waiting for him at 3. So finally when I woke up at 6 to get Ethan I told him it was time to quit...and it was still another 1/2 an hour until he came to bed. I sure hope he's not planning on doing that every night...'cause it's just not going to happen. ;) LOL.
And I am debating whether to order my Stampin' up! stuff today and hope that we don't move before it gets here, or send it to my Mom's house (but then I have to order it as a customer and therefore not tax deductable, or wait until we move and hope that we get the internet before the end of March so that I can order and still get all of the "Sale-A-Bration" incentive stamps. I will probablly just end up ordering today and have my V.T. keep an eye out for it if we are gone. (she just lives down the alley from us, so she probablly goes by our house pretty often anyway). Well, I think that I am out of things to say right now, and I should probablly get packing since we don't have hardly anything packed and we are apparently moving in 2 weeks or less. We have to go get some boxes too. *Sigh* again.
So we are trying not to go crazy here at the Egeland house. (Mom Egeland I may have to take you up on your offer) We have to get everything packed, find a house (or, *sigh* an apartment) to live in and get everything moved over to Green River in 2 weeks. I don't think I am looking forward to all of this. At least this time if we don't find a place RIGHT AWAY it's not as bad as it would have been with the other jobs we've had. This one, if we don't find a place to live will pay for temporary housing for a while. So that's nice to not have a "we HAVE to find a place to live so we have to take what's available...even if it's as bad as the ashberry apt. in Missoula."
Poor thumbsucking Ethan boy. Jon noticed today that he had a blister on his thumb from sucking it so hard. It made me so sad. He is walking real well though. Even when he fell over a few times, instead of crawling he got back up and started walking. Ethan and Topher were having a lot fun yesterday. We had gotten the boys some toys for when we came back from Jon's interview. Chris has been using any ball he can find and some 1/2-inch dowels to play baseball with. So when I was shopping I saw a t-ball set with a ball (but it's not too hard), a bat, a tee and a home plate...I just HAD to get it for him. And he loved it. Then he made sure that Ethan got a turn to. It was sooooo cute. (If my house hadn't been such a mess I would have gotten some videos of it) maybe we will tonight.
And my poor big boy (the one that I married), is way too into that stupid game...LUUUUUUKKKKEEE! (Add skunk eyes and a wrinkled forhead). He really took advantage of that whole "not having to go to work the next day" thing. He was up until 6:30 this morning playing that game. He says he was only up until 3, but I know he was up longer than that because I finally gave up waiting for him at 3. So finally when I woke up at 6 to get Ethan I told him it was time to quit...and it was still another 1/2 an hour until he came to bed. I sure hope he's not planning on doing that every night...'cause it's just not going to happen. ;) LOL.
And I am debating whether to order my Stampin' up! stuff today and hope that we don't move before it gets here, or send it to my Mom's house (but then I have to order it as a customer and therefore not tax deductable, or wait until we move and hope that we get the internet before the end of March so that I can order and still get all of the "Sale-A-Bration" incentive stamps. I will probablly just end up ordering today and have my V.T. keep an eye out for it if we are gone. (she just lives down the alley from us, so she probablly goes by our house pretty often anyway). Well, I think that I am out of things to say right now, and I should probablly get packing since we don't have hardly anything packed and we are apparently moving in 2 weeks or less. We have to go get some boxes too. *Sigh* again.
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