It’s the end of the semester!

So we are very excited for Christmas and to be finally done with our classes! I know it’s final time and i should be very concerned about my tests, but I’m way too lazy and I’m trying to actually care, sadly… it’s not working.

They say, when it rains, it pours. I think that is true for us. We cannot for the life of anything, figure out what is wrong with our car. The battery keeps dying and it is completely dead, and cannot be charged by anything. We have gotten a new battery, bought a battery charger, and tried to jump it, but nothing works. So we took it in to get looked at and they say that nothing is wrong with it. That is a lie!! For a while we could just jump it, but it kept dying, and now it can’t even be jumped. So we have had friends look at it , but now we are taking it to some guy that supposedly is very good, so we are crossing our fingers and hoping it will work. If not, we might trade our car in and get another one.

Other than the car problem, our ceiling is still leaking (they haven’t fixed it yet), and we found the other day that our bookshelf is broken because the guy stepped on it while getting into the attic to fix the leak, hmm.

BUT, the funniest story of all is about our carpet. Hans got a 50 pound bag of potatoes from his work, and he put them in our trunk. Because Rexburg is so cold, after being in there for 3 days, they completely froze. So Hans brought them in one night (after trying to jump the car) and he set them on our carpet (I’m sure you can see where this is going… ha). I thought that they might melt onto the floor but he said it would be fine. So the next day I came home from class, while Hans was at work, and I smelled something really gross. I looked around the entire Apartment  and I couldn’t find anything … until I walked over to the potatoes…. dun dun DUN! They were all mushy and gross. So I picked them up (SO heavy!) and I put them outside, at the same time dribbling rotten potato juice across the carpet and all down my pants :( Later that night Hans scrubbed it with some water and we left it. BAD IDEA!

It started smelling so bad the next day, so when I came home I scrubbed it with soap and water and I almost threw up right there it smelled so bad. Then I got a bunch of towels and i threw boiling water on the carpet with soap and I tried to soak it up. I repeated this process a bunch of times until almost all of our towels had rotten soaked water on them. Later that night we decided that we needed to get some carpet cleaner or a get a vacuum that would shampoo our carpet. The sad thing was…. we didn’t have a car (and currently we still don’t ). All I can say is that I’m grateful we have friends. We called Sarah and Jaren who are from Rexburg and asked them for a ride to the store, but luckily Jaren’s family had a Carpet shampooing vacuum and they let us borrow it! Currently, our apartment still smells a little, and for some reason even though the carpet is finally dry, there is a huge dark spot on it… I don’t know what we are going to do about that…. my mom said, “well, you live and you learn!” and i told her “ yeah, but i’d rather learn from other people’s mistakes.”

So moral of the story, learn from our mistakes, and don’t put frozen potatoes on your carpet! :)

We got a Christmas tree! very exciting, it is small, but cute.

I put pine cones around the bottom

I thought this was a cool picture, I don’t think Hans thought so though….

We have been on the ward bowling team this semester, and it just ended this week so we took a group picture. It was fun to be able to do that with our friends.

I am pretty bad at bowling, my high score is about 60. Hans is good, but they take the top 2 boy scores and the top 2 girls scores. Most of the time, Sarah and I were the only girls there, so even though I was bad, I still got a top score. haha!

Our friends Scott and Leann got us a Christmas present, it was a mat for our door. They got us a heavy one that wouldn’t blow away, because the one we had before was from the dollar store and we had to put rocks on it so it wouldn’t.

our old mat (with rocks) :

Our new mat from Scott and Leann! :

I made a Christmas wreath:

After i made my wreath, i got together with Leann and Sarah to make some wreath’s with them. We like to get together and have girl time, while our husbands go and play video games together :)

We had a ward Christmas party, and someone special surprised us :)

In a ward where there are only 3 children, 2 of which are babies, this was a pleasant surprise :)

Well that’s all I have for now!  Merry Christmas! Hopefully I’ll write again before Christmas.

Thanksgiving!!

So now that it is Monday and we are back at school I’m so sad that we aren’t on vacation anymore! I don’t want to go back to school   :(. Now i have a first aid test, a Medical Terminology test, and an Anatomy exam (ahhh!) to worry about. Not to mention I should be studying right now but I’m not, because it is is hard to get back into the the swing of things! I just want to be lazy.

Before we left for thanksgiving I took some pictures of our leaky ceiling. Pretty lame, I thought that it was going to be fixed by the time we got back from break, but we got home and everything was still there, waiting to be fixed :(

Hans also bought me some cute flowers that matched our fall decorations so I put them together on the table :)

Here are our scarecrows we got at DI and the dollar store. They'recute!

For thanksgiving we went to California! I couldn’t believe that it was actually warm there, it was so nice! I didn’t even need to wear a jacket. Being with family is so fun, and being on vacation from school is even better :) Sadly, we still had homework to do, only some of it got done (at least in my case) and I am feeling the pain of my poor decisions now.

For Saturday, and Sunday we stayed at Jarom and Rachel’s house in Utah, which was a lot of fun! We love spending time with them and their family. On Monday we drove the rest of the way to California. When we got there dinner was ready, and we found that Anna had cleaned her room especially for us :) I got to meet Russell for the first time (he is the brother just younger than Hans, who got back from his mission the month after we got married!). Now I just have one more sibling left to meet, Conrad (who is currently on his mission in Oklahoma).

The rest of the week we just hung around the house, went shopping, attempted to do homework, watched movies, played games, and most importantly… spent time with family! It was fun for me to go outside and pick pomegranates and oranges and eat them fresh off the tree right there at their house! Thursday was Thanksgiving (if you didn't already know). In the morning we went to play soccer (a tradition in their family), then we came home and got ready to eat! The food was especially delicious, yum!

MMMM…. Pie!!

For almost the rest of the night, everyone was eating pie, and playing or watching a game where you throw bean bags at a board and try to get it in the hole, it was actually pretty fun! Then we all went to play kickball which was so fun! Then the girls rented a movie to watch while the guys played video games.

So, my family decided to go to Disneyland for Thanksgiving because they got a great deal on tickets. So my family went  to have fun in California with one of our family friends. I called my dad earlier in the week and i was joking around and I told him we would come with them to Disneyland if they bought us tickets, and he said he would! They bought us both a 1 day pass for Friday and were so excited! So we got up early on Friday morning and drove 3 hours to get there. Disneyland was so much fun that day … we wish we could’ve stayed longer :( but we got up early on Saturday and drove all the way back to Rexburg… 14 hours.. a very long drive.

Krista got her face painted just like a princess!

Of course I had to get a picture with them too! :)

We saw a Bugs Life in 3D !

 

The Parade was cool, better when you are actually there…

They were having technical difficulties at the pirates of the Caribbean ride, we were stuck on the boat, so i took some pictures!

President and Sis. Todd. LOVE them!

Skyler in the background….

Such cute pictures! Now you know where i get my good looks from :)

Crazy boys, Cameron, Skyler, and Josh Todd

In the line for the Indiana Jones ride!

I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take a picture of Hans’ crazy hair on the drive home…. obviously we were tired :) Haha!

Here are some random pictures I found:

I made this for Hans one day… looks a little messy, but I’m sure it tasted good! I even made the sour cream into little hearts :)

This is a picture of some friends we went with into the haunted mill around Halloween for a ward activity, good times!

Crazy Week!

Lately things have been a little hectic! Hans found an intership, but they asked him if he could work part time for now, so he has been busy with work and school. I have gotten my classes for next semester except one. I want to be finished with all the classes i have to take for medical assisting by the end of next spring. I wasn't able to register for classes until later because i have less credits than other people so i have to wait. The class I need to get is called Medical Assisting Billing and Coding, and the reason i have to take it next semester is becauseit is at the same time as the 2nd clinical which i will be taking in the spring. so i have to take it next semester with the 1st clinical. There were only 13 spots for the class and they all got taken before i could register. Before all of that i had been emailing the teacher and going in to talk to her about it and she never responded. When i finally got to talk to her, she said she had been on vacation! So now, i might have to go one more semester just because of one stinkin class!

Hans is starting to get more used to his job and i think he likes it! He has had to do a little adjusting though with a new schedule. He had his last volleyball game last week, it was an intense game! they lost, sadly but it had everyone hanging on their seats for sure ( I line judged...) I also went with him to a ping pong tournament, which he loved, and he got 3rd place!

We have joined the ward volleyball and bowling teams, and that has been really fun! we have been able to get to know new people and do things together that we like. I am horrible at bowling, but Hans is good and he really likes it, but we both love volleyball so that has been a lot of fun for us.

This past week has been way crazy for us! The last week of school before a break the teachers always give out ridiculous amount of homework and tests. We had to do a presentation in eternal marriage about "keeping the love alive". I had a huge anatomy test over all the muscles this week which was really stressful! I have to know every muscle in the body, where they originate, where they insert, and what they do, and it has been so hard! Hopefully i get a decent grade.....

On sunday we got locked out of our apartment. Hans usually has his keys with him, so i assumed that he did, but apparently when he switched to his church pants, he didn't switch the keys. So we left the apartment and i locked the door and closed it, then after i had already closed it i asked if he had his keys..... haha. We were just going to tithing settlement so I didn't bring my phone with me or really anything else and it was freezing outside! We thought we could get in through the window, but last week i was afraid that someone could break in easily so Hans had locked it, go figure..... so when we got back we went to go talk to the managers and call them, but they weren't there.

Hans had hometeaching at 4 and i had visiting teaching, but i didn't have my phone. Jared (Hans' companion) came and tried to credit card our door, but that didn't work. since i didn't have my phone, we tried to figure out a meeting place. I went visiting teaching but the girls weren't there so i sat and talked with my companion for a while and then Hans came. We were supposed to have someone over for dinner, but we had to tell them that we couldn't anymore, so we went to their apartment and stayed there for a while and then we finally got a hold of the managers, and we had to pay 10 dollars to get into our apartment.... LAME! But everything ended up being ok, and we still has people over for dinner, phew.

The next day we went out to our car to go play volleyball for FHE and to our great suprise... our car wouldn't start! So we walked and went to go play and called one of our friends to look at the car. On tuesday i was sitting in our living room/family room and i heard a drip! guess what??! our ceiling was (is) leaking! i put a cup underneath the drip and told the managers. Long story short, they are still trying to figure out the problem with the leak and part of our ceiling has been ripped off, but our car got fixed! it was just the battery... other than that we are so ready for a vaction! thanksgiving, california, and universal studios... here we come!

Adventures

We had an amazing halloween! It was so fun.

Our apartment complex managers had a Window decorating contest. we were so excited and we got some decorations and then set up our window. Hans was really excited and determined to win. ( We didn't end up winning, but it was still really fun!) Here are some pictures:

On Halloween we invited over three couples to have a party. We originally were going to have the party in the lounge, but someone signed up for it before us so we had to have it in our little apartment. Luckily, we were all able to fit and everything worked out perfectly. Everyone brought some kind of snack and they were all delicious! We played some games and watched a movie and had a really good time together :) We were Dorothy and the Scarecrow!

Everything is going really well for us, classes are going well. For me, my classes are usually very demanding. my days are packed with study groups, group meetings, class, tests, homework, and don't forget enrichment, visiting teaching, and hanging out with friends! As of right now Hans and i have pretty good grades we both almost have all A s! can you believe that?! To me that is a huge accomplishment. We are taking an Eternal Marriage class together, and it is always really fun for us to go to together, we even had to memorize the Proclamation to the Family and then come to class and write it all down! He got a 96 and i got a 97 :)

Hans was able to find a place in Rexburg that he could do his intership at, and get paid! They were very interested in him and asked him if he wanted to work part time before his internship, he told them he would ask his wife and get back to them, and of course i said yes! His volleyball team is doing really well, but he is hitting the ball way too hard, and his arm has been hurting him a lot, but don't worry it will get better! He has restrung his guitar and has been having fun playing it :)

I have been officially accepted to do the Medical Assisting program here and i am really excited! to be able to finish in two semesters im going to have to take 18 credits next semester and 17 the semester after, so it's going to be rough but i think i can do it! then im going to do my externship (200 hours or 7 weeks in a hospital) in pocatello where Hans will be doing his masters at ISU so it looks like everything will be working out. I have loved being able to meet new people and make new friends, and Hans and i are going to be on the ward volleyball team together , and the ward bowling team, it should be fun!