Springtime!! (Finally)

So it's finally been warming up here in Rexburg! After the crazy blizzard we got last week that resulted in 6 inches of snow, I think the weather has finally decided to cooperate and stay warm.  The spring semester starts tomorrow.  This semester I'm going to be working a lot and taking a few easy classes and Jacob's going to be working very little and taking a lot of hard classes, since I'm ahead of him in school. So it should be interesting, but I'm excited. I love the spring semester up here.  


Lately, I've done a couple spring crafts to keep myself busy:

I got this cute little "Color your own pot" kit from the craft store for only a dollar haha I thought it was cute.

I made a cute little spring wreath to hang on our door. I made the flowers out of felt and then put buttons and pom poms on them and hot glued them to a wire wreath frame.

Close up view of my wreath. (Please note Jacob creepily peering through the window in this one haha)

Sugar cookies I made for a cookie contest at work. Olivia gave me the recipe and they were super easy to make.  They didn't win...but they were definitely the cutest cookies there! :)

-Tracey 

One Year!

Saturday was our one year anniversary! We went to Olive Garden to celebrate and these are the flowers Jacob got me! :)

-Tracey

A tour through our cute apartment!

After living here for almost a year I finally got around to taking pictures of our apartment!

Our living room...Complete with our awesome TV we got for free from Melaleuca! :)

Our kitchen with a few burn marks on the floor from when Jacob exploded a pan on the stove haha.

The view of our kitchen from the hallway

The hallway.  To the left is a closet and our bedroom, to the right is the bathroom and the extra bedroom.

And behind the closet door in the hallway is...

...A washer and dryer! My favorite part of our apartment.

The bathroom

Two different views of our extra bedroom.  Notice my cute pink chair :)

Our bed!

The wonderful TV stand Jacob built in our bedroom

Another view of our bedroom.

:)

-Tracey

Here I am

Hello, sorry I have not been updating regularly.  Tracey and I are just working full time at Melaleuca.  Sometimes I get so frustrated working there in customer service, but I realize that Melaleuca is probably one of the best paying jobs in Rexburg.  It helps me realize how much of a blessing a college education is.  I do not want to be working in a call center the rest of my life.  None of the jobs there appease me: Supervisor; no.  Call center manager; nope.  I'm actually looking forward to school starting again, I'm worried I'm starting to get rusty when it comes to school work.
Tracey and I are happy together!  We are visiting her family down here in Utah and it is so warm here.  The snow is melted and it makes me long for summer in Rexburg.  ( I was about to type that I couldnt wait for 'spring' but I realized that springs are usually bitterly cold and snowy up there.)  We're going to go and visit my sister down in Levan at the end of march or early april.  I cannot wait to see them all again!
-Jacob

I want a kitty!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnagRjxp7v4&feature=channel

I saw this video on facebook and loved it! It made me want a cat.  Jacob and I almost had a cat a few months ago.  It was in November and on our way into our apartment one day I saw this tiny little kitty.  I felt so bad for him because he was so tiny and looked so cold sitting there in the snow.  So I picked him up and decided to name him Gary.  I convinced Jacob that we needed to take care of Gary because he was so cold and so little and so hungry.  So we made a little bed out of a basket and a towel and put it on our front porch.  We put out tuna and milk every day for Gary.  One night a big fat ugly cat was eating Gary's food and so Jacob threw an oreo at him.  Then he kept whipping the door open because he wanted to catch the fat cat in the act again so he could dump water on him. Haha but bottom line: We loved Gary! One night we even followed kitty footprints all over our apartment complex looking for Gary because we hadn't seen him all day.  But then the next day, he came to our apartment with a collar on!!! So Gary was cheating on us that whole time! He had two owners!! Needless to say, we took his bed inside and have not put food out for him since.  Haha, but I can't wait until we can get a house so we can get our own cute little kitty!!

-Tracey

Rexburg Winter!

This is my first winter in Rexburg and it is cold! Right now it's -15 and -27 with the wind chill. I didn't know it was possible to get this cold! Luckily since Jacob and I go to school during the summer and fall semesters, we don't have to walk around campus in this weather.  We're just both working full-time at Melaleuca right now.  Jacob works from 6-3 and I work from 10-7 every day.  This is our first week with us both working our full time shifts and it's going pretty good. We've been going to bed at 10:00 every night so that Jacob can wake up at 5:00 and get ready for work and I can roll out of bed at 5:40 and drive him to work.  I thought it would be kind of hard for me to adjust to spending my mornings getting stuff done around the house, instead of the evenings, but it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be.  The worst part for me has been that Jacob and I don't get to spend any time together from 6am-7pm.  I know that sounds lame, but we're used to seeing each other pretty often throughout the day in between our classes.  But at least we've been able to spend our evenings together watching TV shows and working out and eating dinner.  


So anyway, I kind of got off-topic there, but the main point was I'm really grateful we're not in school this semester, AND I'm not a fan of Rexburg winters.


My sister sent me the picture below and I couldn't stop laughing. Any ideas what the heck it is?? Haha
-Tracey

Booty Pop!

K, so everyone remembers the Bump-it, and Snuggie infomercials, and how ridiculous they are.  I found a new one on my sister's facebook page and I couldn't help but post it. Hahaha. Enjoy :)
Booty Pop!
-Tracey