Organizing made FUN!?

Anyone who like a clean house NEEDS to go to this website. I have recently found that I am slightly addicted. Let it be known my house is FAR from organized but there are SO many ingenious things on this website for almost anything you could need. When we buy a house this will be my second most visited shopping place.

They even have great holiday specials and sales. It makes me inspired instead of making me think "Oh man this is going to take forever to get myself organized".

Anyways here is the website.

www.organize.com

They even have craft supplies and decor!!!

coach calipari

So I work at a print shop and have been training a new girl. When the new girl was not in the front today I went up to make a couple copies for a guy who was waiting patiently. I had seen him before but his story was really neat so I thought I would share it.

He went up to Coach Calipari's office to give him something for his birthday ( I don't know what or why because I was entering the information into the machine at this point and was not listening very well). He talked briefly with Coach Calipari and this guy, lets call him Joe, mentioned that his 6 year old daughter LOVES DeMarcus Cousins.

A couple weeks later, Joe gets something in the mail from Calipari. It is not only a program signed by DeMarcus Cousins, it is a note from him saying thank you for coming up for his birthday and some sweet things to Zoe. How nice is that!? The autographed picture would have been great by itself but a letter from John Calipari is so sweet and thoughtfull!

So this little 6 year old girl decided to say thank you she would write her own note and give both Demarcus Cousins an autographed basketball picture of herself, but also send one to Coach Calipari.

Is that not a sweet sweet story? Not only is he an amazing coach (from what I hear. I really don't keep up with that stuff) he is honestly a thoughtful guy! Who would've known.

Fear Not Faith

I know your probably not supposed to blog on sundays but I wanted to while it's still fresh. I had been pretty discouraged lately about David not getting a job. The first month I was okay because he was getting a break. It was nice for me to see him relax and get to do things he wanted to do! The second month I had so much hope that he'd find something soon and couldn't wait to see what/where it would be! The end of the this third month has been a little challenging though. These last couple days I've felt a lot of worry and anxiety about not finding anything so far. I get my hopes up a lot and although that's the way I prefer to be, it gets a little wearing after a while.

This morning was ward conference and the Bishop got up to talk and what was the talk about?

Living by Faith, Not Fear.

Perfect! Today was so uplifting and it really let me know that I was being watched over and protected. Things will work out and eventually David will be employed and we can start moving towards things we want like my education, saving for a house, kids, cars, etc. It was really uplifting and refreshed my optimism towards this point in our lives.

This is a great time for us because we are married and on our own. We have experiences that in a few years we will wish we could go back to at certain times I am sure! We can travel whenever we want (not much lately due to $ but we still dream of it!) we can buy the foods that we want, stay up as late as we want, laugh as loud as we want, clean when and wherever we want.

It's just an amazing time and while these few months there is alot of unknown I should appreciate it and realize that this time is limited. Someday we will get an itch to have a few kids and start to really settle down but for right now it's just us and I can't wait to see what's in store for us!

p.s.- thanks to my lovely sister for changing my super cute background!! She's pretty awesome

New backgroud provided by Megean's beautiful, amazing, wonderful sister!

Just "Dropping" By

So growing up I LOVED visitors. There was nothing better than hearing the doorbell ring. All the dogs would run to the door and you can feel the excitement and anticipation as you race to the front door to see who it is. The only disappointment was the occasional door to door salesman.

As I grew up and moved out on my own I still enjoyed people stopping by because it was usually a girlfriend popping by to say hi or David coming to suprise me. It didn't get much better than that!


Little did I know that when you are in your own house and a newlywed (even though we have been married 14 months I still consider us newlyweds) people "drop by" like crazy! Everyone and their uncle just stops in! I don't mind if it's a visiting teacher or someone who is just making sure were ok but we get neighbors, random people, salesman, people coming by to say our dog is cute and all the most random stuff ALL THE TIME! I don't think it would bug me so much if they didn't stay so long but they generally do.


I shouldn't mind this but a lot of times they are interrupting cleaning, cooking, or other just relaxing. I have never known so many people to just come over and invite them selves in for a quality night at the applegates.


Maybe it's not just us, maybe this is a common thing and I'm being touchy but I like my alone time! Also, I generally in jammies ASAP when I get home so I always have to dash to my room and harness the dog and try to make myself presentable.


Bah Hum Bug to the front door! Am I alone in this?

The Results are IN!!!!

So Last year around this time we got a new little puppy named Myah. I know i've blogged about her before but this whole blog is about her and we need to clear that up so you know who the heck i'm talking about. Anyways when we got her from a lady I work with she told us she was half lab, half german shepherd.

Well she started getting older and I started to notice she wasn't looking much older. The months flew by and she stayed pretty much the same size. We were expecting about a 60-70 lb dog! And here she was 6 months (they should be 80% grown around this time according to multiple breeding sites) and she was barely 20 lbs!

With all that in mind we always wondered if she had a different daddy then the rest of her brothers and sisters. We had seen all of them and they all look JUST like german shepherds. So that became the family joke. Guessing what in the WORLD Myah really is!

For Christmas this year my mom got david a doggie DNA testing kit. You stick a swab in the dog's cheek, get it all nice and wet and then let it dry for 30 min. Then you stick it in an envelope and they tell you what DNA your dog has.

Test Results Listed Below!!

Notice the empty book shelf. Myah loves to eat anything on the bottom shelf
Happy Birthday kisses from Myah!!
Her favorite position

THE RESULTS ARE:

Level 2 (30%) - Parson Russell Terrier

Level 3 (20%) - Labrador Retriever

Level 3 (20%) - Weimaraner

Level 4 (10%) - German Shepherd

Level 4 (10%) - Pomeranian

Level 4 (10%) - Siberian Husky

She is officially a whole lotta crazy!

Review of the big apple by the applegates!

So i haven't posted in forever even though i have NO excuse. I can catch up pretty quickly however. For a graduation/anniversary/christmas present to each other David and I went to New York City for New Years! It was an amazing trip and just the perfect balance of relaxing and sight seeing. Although i can't post all the pictures because there are tons, here are some of the highlights.

A beautiful display in the window if tiffany's. Their front door was literally a bank vault which i thought was really neat. This window display was so delicate (it looked like it was cut from paper) and their was a HUGE diamond rind in the middle. it was just amazing
The train we got to ride at grand central station. The ceiling in the main room was breath taking. Way better than Madagascar made it look :)
Us on the train. Notice the crazy red cheeks. That's what happens when you spend hours in the sleet. We still LOVED it. This was after the new years ball drop. Notice my lack of wedding ring so i didn't get mugged.
Inside the Rockefeller Center. It was pretty neat but had VERY crappy bathrooms.

The infamous Rockefeller center tree. Right by the CBS news room. We got to see them setting up for the 5:00 news.

They still had beautiful window displays left over from Christmas and they were all breathtaking. My camera had low batteries however, so we didn't get to take as many pictures as i would have hoped.

Allison and Thomas! Our amazing tour guides. We went and stayed with allison's aunt and got to really experience the subway. We rode from the very end (through the bronx and harlem etc) into the heart of the city. It was very interesting being the only white people in a small subway train for a good half an hour.
Us eating in china town. That was probably my favorite place because of all the cheap shopping places!
Just one of the MANY gorgeous views we saw walking through the city.

Time square. Not as big as i thought, but then again, not much of it was. Still amazing though.

I'll post a few more later and keep you updated. I think once David gets a job and things get more exciting i should be able to post more. right now we are just living our simple little lives and being pretty boring.

I can't wait to get a little more income. Right now were just living off mine and really not getting any leads for the near future. I never thought my college graduate husband would be apply to places like the dollar store and walmart to get us through until he finds a more permanent position. Crazy how things work out but we are just so grateful for my steady job and the fact that as long as we are here i will have a steady income at a place i enjoy. Job security is quite the luxury right now i assume so we pray that we can just hold on and enjoy our time together on our own.