The Simple Life

Oh the perks of owning a store...

I have decided to take the time away from everything that needs to be done, to complain for a minute or two. I just got done cleaning the bathroom here at the store. A bathroom that I have not been able to use since...the end of May? Maybe beginning of June. I don't know. Call me lazy but this was the last thing on my huge long list of things to do, every single day.

For those of you that don't know. I own a scrapbooking store here in Rigby. It is right across the street from the city park. Can you see where this is going? lol...

Lets begin.

In the summer, I am the official 'community toilet'. I am sorry but I am tired of being nice. I am sick of having to clean up disgusting bodily fluids of others that I don't even know. It seems as every time I clean the bathroom, someone has a damn disgusting accident. No I won't go into details, I think that was plenty.

If you know me, don't worry I will always be nice to you, but for the rest of the run around boys and girls with no parents, the bathroom is off limits. There is a port-a-potty for you at the park.

And while I am at it, for the lady that came in with her girls and asked 'oh so politely' to use the bathroom, and then acted like she didn't know her daughter was throwing her guts up all over the place, and never went in the bathroom to check up on her, and then left a huge mess for me EVERYWHERE. Have some damn decency to take care of your kids and there mess.

Now as I type this there is yet another driver's ed car trying to parallel park in front of my store. That is a completely different post. Luckily my car and Bronco has survived the whole 2 years that I have been here :)

Thank you for hearing me out. I just couldn't take it anymore.

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Right now...

We are trying to stay 'sane' at the moment. I started to paint the walls in the living room Saturday night, but then I had to stop because Levi wanted to watch a movie, with the lights off...so we finished up the paint last night. It looks more like 'home'...until I finish finding my home decor stuff packed away.

Moving is such a pain. You can't find anything you need. I am tired of squeezing by stacks of boxes only to scrape my arms or legs. We are slowly getting there. :)

We have internet, again. Finally. Too bad Qwest had to make us wait a whole week...

Right now...as soon as I get this place situated, I can sit down and 'realize' that I am happy anywhere as long as I have my family with me. Until then, it is mad chaos trying to find stuff...

Gulianna will be turning two on the first, yeah that's right, wow. I have been planning her party for like almost a year now, and have done nothing for it. It has only been ideas in my head. And then moved. I would have designed her invitations a month ago...but we didn't know where we were moving to, and I have been asking Levi about the Rexburg Folkdance festivities so that I can coordinate the times with her party, but he doesn't tell me until now. Usually I am not indecisive, but today I just couldn't make up my mind. So now we will be having her party next weekend...{I have one week to figure things out now :) }

Gotta go now, Levi is making something good to eat tonight {chicken kabobs}, we've been eating too much fast food and such these past couple of weeks...

ETA: they are steak kabobs he changed his mind on the chicken, mmm...even 'mo betta :)

I am thankful for my wonderful husband who loves to cook for me. Because I don't. :)

We have...

moved! While at this time in our lives we have never thought it would take us this route, but we are 'simplifying' our lives at the moment. Meaning I never thought that we would ever live in a small smallest home ever...

And we are fine with it. {gasp}

We are actually happy to be in a super small home with our little girls, and just down the street from my store, can you say walking distance? lol. My Bronco has been parked at the house all week...ahemm...this is unheard of. And let me tell you it is weird!

With the exception of us going out to Rexburg on Monday. Originally I had scheduled Isabella's six month appointment for Tuesday, being that I like to try and stay home and clean and scrapbook, which doesn't ever happen, because when you have a big house it takes you all damn day to clean it.

Anyway I had changed Isabella's appt. to Monday, and so we left for Rexburg, just in time to have lunch at Applebee's, then hurry over to her appointment, {shots no fun, but no fever this time, yes!} and then straight to my hair appointment, just a trim, and got my hair thinned out...why do I never do this at the beginning of summer?? Every year...so annoying, I just get too busy...Then we went to Walmart and then to the movies, we watched Night at the Museum 2, so funny!

Okay now I don't remember where I was going with this...anyway. So I am not going to lie...there have been some swear words here and there, mostly because we haven't unpacked anything, and let's just say that the whole house that we are living in now would fit perfectly in our other living room...yes talk about extremely tight squeeze...but like I said, we are happy {for the moment}

We will miss our dream property dearly...and now I have to get used to actually watching Gulianna. She is no longer able to roam freely among the horses as she pleases...and play outside by herself without me watching her...

She tries to escape outside, and we live right on the street...and the front door sucks, because it has a 'push & turn' lock, hello? And now we have to deal with neighbors and such...

oh wait did I say I was happy?! cuz I think I just changed my mind...

I just need to paint the walls, and make it look cute, and I will be good to go, until we find a bigger house!

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Hello...

10:25pm...

Saturday when we were at the park in Rexburg...Gulianna was extremely tired and clumsy, and she fell and scraped her nose. Then yesterday when we were home on our day off, she did a couple back flips all the way down the stairs, and along the way got some carpet burns on her nose...

what a crazy girl.

4th of July...

I have always loved the 4th of July. Family.Food.Festivities.Fun. We have always gone to the parades ever since I was little. I used to do baton twirling in the fourth of July parades when I was younger, and lived in California. We would always go to my grandma's house or go to the park for bbq's and picnics. And watch the fireworks in Redlands. So fun, I always miss not having my grandma around for everything. It is hard for me, and my family as well, not to have her here {physically} with us. We sure miss her ♥ !

This year...we started out with the fireworks at Rigby Lake on Friday night. We had plans to camp, but didn't reserve our spot in time. But then again I was sick from camping last weekend at Lava Hot Springs, so I don't think that I would have camped anyways. Then we went to the Rexburg parade on Saturday morning, the weather was much cooler than years before, but I wasn't complaining!

Isabella concentrating closely on the parade...{I didn't have time to pin her sleeves up, I did get my safety pins out, only to have Gulianna scatter them all over the carpet, tonight}

RJ, Gulianna, and my mom...

Gulianna was being a stinker for just about every picture I took...{here she is turning her head away}

After the parade, we had a picnic/bbq at the park...lounged around. Took Gulianna to the spray park, and she was being a stinker, she really needed a nap. RJ took her on the carousel a couple of times...

{and then she was happy}

I didn't take Isabella on for a ride this time...she waited patiently for Gulianna.

Afterwards...we headed to Idaho Falls for the fireworks. We stopped at Target to buy Gulianna some shoes, they finally had the ones I've been wanting for her-back in stock. Bought her some shorts, and then Isabella a cute outfit, and my mom bought another one for her too, because she had to poop in her jeans...figures. 

{she just wanted more clothes...}

This was our spot that Levi picked out for this year...normally we our on the greenbelt, but we didn't want to fight traffic this year, maybe next year for sure :)

And we were home by 11pm...only 25 minutes after the show! Perfect!

A couple family pictures...{very hard to get everyone to cooperate} especially...Gulianna!

and now she's happy...

me and Isabella...

and if this isn't an exact Levi look...with her arm propped up and everything!

Chelsey and Gulianna {with her schmuck of a face, and her new ball that Chelsey bought for her, and she's still a stinker!}

Fun times...

  

We had a fabulous 4th of July weekend...hope you did too! {I will be back to post more pictures!}