Walking...

Today being a Saturday and one of the few sunny days we've seen sense we've moved here, we decided (meaning I had to talk Travis into) to go on a walk. We live right next to the Rogue River and what they call the City Center which is like the old school down town with all the cute little shops. We were gone for about 3 hours, it was a really fun day!
Some people were feeding the birds by the river and there like 5 to 6 different kinds all just waiting together, it was cool!

Do you see the geese just chillin under the bridge?

This is Travis's work, he loves it so far!

And us walking over the bridge, it's really pretty, pictures don't do it justice!

So all in all a really great day!

Apartment Update...

Well we found out shortly after moving in that there was something wrong with the shower because after taking our first one we step out of the shower into a puddle of water, and I mean a lot of water. So I call the realtor and she says she'll send a plumber well I wait the rest of that day and the next day... no plumber! Mean while both days I had gone to work out, so needless to say I smelt! Finally on Thursday the plumber comes and I believe I heard the statements "that's not good" and "oh no" come out of his mouth as he was investigating the problem. It turns out that everything that goes through the drain ends up on our floor! So he says he's going to have to come back to look into it more and talk to the realtor to decide what they are going to do about it, his Friday is full so he's coming on Monday. I think by the look on my face he knew what my first question would be so he says " you can shower you'll just have to mop it up after". So we have been showering and then mopping up our own shower water... it's been fun!
On a happier note, Travis is really enjoying his work so far. He's learning a lot of new and harder things and he loves it! And they are a really fun place to work, a lot of pranks and office fun!

Biggest Loser... Love Style (

So my family already knows this but just to give us a little more motivation I thought I would let the rest of the world know as well... My family is having our own biggest loser competition, from January through April we're seeing which one of us can lose the highest % of weight and of course for the winning theres a buck per pound from Grandma and .50 cents per pound from all the other players. My oldest sister Clara isn't competing cause she's preggers but the rest of us are in... and lets just say I'm going to win cause I'm in OR with nothing else to do!

Oregon

This is the door to the bathroom, trust me you don't want to know what it looks like in there, it would ruin your day.

This is our stove, under sink cabinet, refrigerator combo, whatever you're thinking trust me it's smaller!

Sorry this isn't rotated, we don't have Internet so I'm sitting in a pizza place that has a horrible connection but I'll take what I can get, cause if I die in this apartment I want there to be some witnesses!

This is the drive up to our place, beautiful! Over all it's livable so we're ok! Everyone has to live in a crappy apartment at some point right?!

So we're here, after driving all through the night to get here before the realtor office closed, we made it. And I have to admit it's not exactly what we thought it would be, don't get me wrong Oregon it's self is beautiful, it's the apartment that's not what we were expecting but it's ok, it's bigger than we thought but it's a lot dirtier than we thought too! We have an ant problem not to mention a spider problem and we all know how I feel about spiders. So we've sprayed a lot of Raid, enough to make Travis cough so much he threw up! The floor is caving in in the hall way but I mean over all it's totally livable but I think we've just been spoiled in Rexburg.

A Kansas Christmas

We went to Kansas for Christmas this year, it was way fun. I think there was like 15 people there all in the same house! So a little crazy but so much fun! On Christmas Eve we had a gingerbread house building contest, we bought kits or you could make something original, each family had there own, so left to right, Balsmeier Family- Mom and Dad so the Love Family - Jasper Family - Attkisson Family (the best one!). Can you guess what temple we made... the Rexburg Temple, Grandma Lavon chose the winners... and we were it! It was a little cheap cause how could you not choose the Temple but hey you do what it takes to win!
I have to say I got the best present ever this year! We drew names and Terron my wonderful brother in law drew my name and he went all out! It was awesome! He made a "Where's Jessie" book, so it's a Where's Waldo book but with me instead of him! So there's a little Jessie hiding on each page with a little story about what I'm doing there! That alone is an amazing gift but in between each page were even more gifts, like gift cards and tickets to cirque du sole ( I think that's how its spelt!) and a hotel stay for while we were in Kansas and tickets to Spamalot in Medford, OR in February, I mean I can't even tell you how amazing this gift was and still is! Thank you so much Terron!

So over all an absolutely wonderful Christmas!