Moving....

I hate moving. I would love to find the house I want to live in forever and stay there. My family always moved around when I was groving up. I am 22 years old and have never lived in the same house for more than five years. Counting temproary places we lived (around six months or more) I have lived in ten different places. I thought it was so crazy when I found out my friend Rachel had lived in the same house her whole life.

Now it's time to move again. Riley and I have lived in my parent's basement since we got married because we were both laid off from our jobs within a month and a half of our wedding. Now my parents are moving and so we have to move too.

With three car payments and me not working full time, we can't afford our own place just yet. So we have decided to find a place with my sister and her little girl Lexi.

Finding a place to rent has been hard because I have a cat, Reggi (one of the fattest most lazy cats you will ever meet), and my sister has a cat (who thinks he's a dog and who we're pretty sure is mentally handycapped) and a dog (that is one of the most annoyingand needy dogs I have ever seen). Most places don't allow animals or charge an arm and a leg extra to keep them there.

Friday afternoon, however, my sister and I went to look at some apartments in south Orem. They do allow pets with not too much extra a month and it's a pretty decent place. There are three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an open kitchen in the apartment as well as a pool table, a playground for Lexi, a small work out room and an indoor heated pool. Can you say pool party at my house?

Riley and I are also taking our projector and wii so we can have awsome movie/game nights.

I think it will be good for what we need right now.

Baby Quilt

Now that I have a new little niece my mom, sisters and I wanted to make something for her. We decided on a baby quilt and the day Addy was born we went to the fabric store. Friday night my sister Kelly came down from Salt Lake to spend the night and work on the quilt. We set it up so we could each do a couple squares with the coordinating fabric we picked out that matches Addy's bedroom.


We were taking dinner to my brother and sister-in-laws house Sunday night and wanted to have it finished. It always happens, however, that things end up taking much longer than expected. We thought we would have it finished by Saturday afternoon. Well, we worked on it Friday night and through Saturday. My mom and I were up until three am Sunday and got everything but the binding for the edge done.

My mom made the centered square with Adalyn appliquéd on it and two other squares. I made two of my own squares and cut out and sewed my sister Elise's square because she ran out of time. My grandma Christensen came over and did a square. Kelly appliquéd bugs onto three squares and my youngest sister Caroline appliquéd a flower onto hers.

Sunday afternoon I hurried and sewed the binding on just in time to leave for their house. I folded it up, put it in a bright green gift bag and put white tissue paper in the top.

My sister-in-law, Tressa, and Addy's big sister Camryn loved the quilt. Cam played in it most of the night. It turned out so cute and it was fun to get everyone together to do it. Maybe we will have to make one for every new baby in the family.