Living with Livingstons: May 2009

Day 0-1: The Road and Orem

Day 0:

On our way to Orem last night, we had some interesting things happen. Before we crossed the Colorado/Utah state line we ran over a dead coyote... rather discusting if you ask me. Then later on the road in Utah, we ran over the legs of a dead deer. Gross... again. And then to top it all off... we ran over a dead jack rabbit. Luckily there is no damage to Kacey's car and we are completely fine. But still! GROSS!!!!!

Day 1:

This morning when we woke up Kacey and I headed to Walmart to get something for breakfast. Before we got in the car Kacey looked under the car and saw something dead stuck to the bottom of the car... IT WAS THE COYOTE'S LEG!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I'm completely grossed out at this point. So we go to Walmart and come back and eat. Before we did anything else Kacey insisted on getting his car washed and the dead animals out from underneath it.... the poor carwash guys... GROSS!!!

From there we headed to Kacey's grandma's house to say hi. There I got to meet one of Kacey's cousins and chat with Grandma. We then hit the 2 malls in the area and walked around for a while. Kacey wanted to show me where his mom's parents used to live before they passed away. His aunt still lives there so we got to see them as well. They told us where Grandma and Grandpa Shumway were buried so we went to see that because Kacey wasn't able to make it out for their funerals.

We headed up Provo canyon a short way to Squaw Peak. Squaw Peak overlook the entire city and Utah Lake. While there we saw some people getting ready to jump off with parachutes and gliders! We thought it was pretty cool. On of the men doing the jump asked me to drive his truck down to the feild where they were going to land... so I did. Here are some pictures from up at the outlook.

This is heading up Squak Peak

View from the top

At the top of Squaw Peak, I saw something I've never seen before! There was a circular rainbow all the way around the Sun! I thought it was really cool! Here are the pictures I got... remember, you can't look directly at the Sun so these are a little off!

After I dropped off the truck at the land site we headed to Bridal Veil Falls. These are some GORGEOUS waterfalls!

We ended the day with dinner at Chuck-a-Rama with Grandpa Livingston where we all ate WAY TOO MUCH! From there, we headed back to Grandpa Livingston's to relax and settle down for the night. We may try to get some bowling in later tonight if we aren't too tired.

Bad News

Yesterday we were hit with some bad news... Kacey lost his job. Now, we are completely fine and will be for quite a while even if he doesn't find another job for a while. Luckily, we have a lil bit of a cushion in ours savings account.

Kacey and I had been planning a vacation to go see our grandparents that didn't make it to the wedding. This trip included leaving Sunday night and arriving in Orem, Utah early Monday morning staying with Kacey's grandpa. From there we were going to head to Las Vegas for a little personal vacation. We were then going to head to Ely, Nevada to see my dad's parents and then back home by Sunday morning.

When Kacey got the news about work we decided to hit the road early seeing as the only reason we were staying was work. So we headed out last night at about 6:00 and arrived in Orem at about 1:00 this morning.

Bedroom "Artwork"

In our new apartment, we have a TON of wall space. And, I don't like feeling like I live in a "crappy" place (the apartments we live in are definately NOT crap). But we don't exactly have the money to spend on a ton of decorating. So... I'm trying to come up with simple, relitively inexpenseive things I can do to make our apartment feel like home, and it doesn't hurt if its pretty too. So here is my attempt at being creative!

MOVING!!

Well OK we already moved! On April 20, 2009 we moved from our itty bitty apartment to the one we are in now that is MASSIVE! And we absolutely LOVE it! Best part is I didn't have to move all that much stuff! My amazing hubby and his friends did it for me!