livin on a prayer & a travel sized bottle of wrinkle releaser.

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okay. hi. remember us?

so we're in Idaho now. I don't necessarily want to say we LIVE in Idaho because it technically doesn't feel like we do yet.

let me rewind.


so we packed up all of our crap and drove across the country. the few and the proud who follow my instagram were tortured for 3 days straight by my constant road shots from the passenger seat (sorry about thaaat.) . let's relive a few of the highlights:

WHAT UP GUYYSSS?

St. Louie

Mom Jeans in Nebraska. I'm not a woman anymore, I'm a mom.

Ohhh I was so jealous of her.

That all seems so long ago...

So here's what's happened since we've arrived in Idaho Falls:

Taylor started his job. He likes it so far. Some really devastating news for me is that he has to wear a respirator mask AND SO HE CAN'T HAVE A BEARD!!! I mean, it makes my heart hurt just to type it. So he's keeping the mustache but it just isn't the same.

Our first week here, we stayed at the super 8 while we decided to look for rentals. That didn't go great. On Sunday at church we met a lady who is a mortgage officer person lender guy madam sir. Whatever they like to be called. We ended up getting pre-approved with her on Monday for a home loan and decided it would be a good time to buy, instead of throwing away money on a stupid rental again. The mortgage sir lady gave us the name of a realtor who we decided to go with and he is great.

So, we house hunt while staying in the Super 8 and house after house we don't have a ton of luck, until Friday when I find this adorable perfect little house. So we put an offer on it and our offer got accepted! Yay! But less yay! after the inspection happened.

By this time it's week two and we're staying in an even WORSE hotel hoping to be able to move in to this house early but it turns out, this little dream house was actually a wet dream and I don't mean that in a perverse way. The basement was wet and moldy and the only way to fix it would be to excavate from the outside and fix the foundation. This was a very stressful time for us because we did not want to keep living in hotels because IT'S EXPENSIVE! But then by the grace of God and the goodness of the people of Idaho, we got hooked up with an RV in an RV park. So yep. We're living in an RV. It's okay, you can call me trailer trash, I won't even be sad.

I know what you're dying to hear, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT ADORBS HOUSE? Well, they refused to fix the foundation before we bought and so today we were like SEE YA!! Which I'm not really sad about that either because I can't deal with wet basements. I really hate em.

This blog just got way too long, even for me. And Taylor is eating an apple way too loud so I'm in a bad mood right now.

But to sum things up, we are starting the house hunt over tomorrow, we are RV trash, we are doing okay, and we have some really cool friends near by. Also it's getting cold, which sucks. But, I love to be fat and wear sweatshirts, so BONUS.

not a businessman.. i'm a business, man.

Pretend this is Taylor:

Mostly everyone knows that Taylor got a job! a real life job career! We are super excited about it. And I am so proud of him. 

To save myself some time and typing..

Here is a link about the company he now works for.

And here is a link about his position

We will be heading to England for 3 months for his training and then living in Savannah (so I can live my dreams of being a classy Southern lady with a porch swing while drinking fresh squeezed lemonade everyday).

Taylor left on Saturday to head to Oxford, England for the company's Staff Day tomorrow. He'll be back Wednesday, in time for Jamie & Jeff's WEDDING this Saturday. It's been really weird because his phone doesn't work out of the country so I can't just call him whenever I want, but we can call each other with our Skype apps for free as long as he has WiFi, so if you have a loved one with a smartphone who travels outside of the country, you should check out that app, it's pretty amazing. I LOVE TECHNOLOGY. After all, technology is what brought us together, cause we're super creep like that.

He's also been able to send me emails, one in particular made me L.O.L. [literally], because he was telling me about going to dinner with the other guys in the company who love to "drink a good bit" and said, "After a three or for hour nap we took a taxi over to a pub where some other guys are staying, had a few beers while we waited on folks to meet up to have dinner together at an indian restaurant. And then back to the pub for a few more beers before turning in." Just the thought of Taylor having "a few beers" made me laugh because he is so GEEKY AND MORMON, HAHA! Later he said that he fits in well even without drinking, just to reassure you that he was kidding. But I guess you had to be there to think it was funny... 

And just so this post isn't super boring, here are a couple of pictures he sent me of his hotel room.

i think they went a little overboard on the headboard.

oh wait. it's still boring.. sorry! 

love ya!