Laura and Jason

Mortgages

So the other day we finally decided it was time to apply for a mortgage so that we could get a pre-qual letter to actually put an offer on a townhome. We have looked at a few and have only just begun our search. I am just writing to say how freaked out the idea of us having a mortgage makes me!!! Having a house is great, I know! But looking through the 26 page mortgage application makes me nervous. I know it will be all good and we will be glad we did it, but I am nervous in the meantime!! The end.

An Ode to Chief

This is Chief. He was Jason's Jeep until this last Thursday. We decided it would be best to sell it and get something with better gas mileage and lower miles. We got an awesome new car, but that doesn't make getting rid of Chief much easier. Well, ok maybe a little :). It's been a great car for us. So it was bitter sweet to see it go. Let's all have a brief moment of silence for Chief. :)

We bought an '04 Nissan Maxima from my brother and we love it. We are now the Nissan family! Jason still has to name this car so that we can feel attached. I found some pics online of what ours looks like, but its not our exact one. We need to tint the windows and then it will be a perfect car!

Wedding Cakes

As tradition says we are supposed to, we froze the top layer of our wedding cake. It was supposed to be eaten at our one year anniversary. I didn't so much as think about it when that time came. My Mom called and reminded me about it so the next time I went over there I got the cake from the freezer and took it home. I let it thaw for a few days and then we decided to eat it. I unwrapped it and when I saw it I thought hmmm this doensn't really look like the cake I remember. But I figured it had just been a year and that I didn't really remember. The ribbon along the bottom looked black but I thought maybe the purple just faded to dark over that year. I also thought the frosting was awfully hard like fondant but again, maybe I just didn't remember it very well, and afterall it had been frozen for a year!! So I cut us a piece of it and realized one crucial thing, my cake had beads all over the side. This cake had no beads. I was like what in the.... then it came to me. My brother in law's sister got married a year before I did and I think they put her cake in my parents freezer too. And her colors were Black and she had fondant....thus explaining this cake. We decided it was too late to do anything about it so we ate our pieces of someone else's wedding cake and called it a day. It was actually pretty good. :)

So the next Sunday we got our real cake and had that the next day. This one looks a little more sad then hers did with the fondant, but its ours :) It was pretty on the day!! It was pretty tasty one year later too!!

Wyoming is a miserable State!!

Ok so I am finally posting a few things. You will get to read a few things about our lives lately and I will try to keep better up on it. I have been keeping a running list in my mind about things to blog about so now I actually need to. The first one: Bon Jovi trip that went rouge. For Jason's birthday/our anniversary we decided it would be fun to go see Bon Jovi in Denver. Jason has always been a huge fan and he's always wanted to go to a concert. I like them too so we looked up the tickets and bought them back in November. Of course the good tickets were sold so we had to pay a little more, but we thought it would for sure be worth it. Also, we found out Daughtry was opening for them so that was even cooler. What an awesome concert it was going to be! Right!

So on March 30 we got in my car to drive to Denver. The concert was Monday, March 31st so we decided to enjoy Denver for a day (including a tour of the US Mint). So we drove for about 4 hours with no problems at all on I-80 until we got to Rawlins, WY. There the lights were flashing that the road had been closed due to inclement weather.... What???? It's almost April!! So the news report said that maybe it would open so we parked at the side of the road with all the other punks waiting for the road to open. That was about 1:00. At about 8:00 we finally heard they weren't opening the road until the morning. Luckily Jason had his Ipod so we listened to Lost podcasts and watched some movies. That helped pass the time but either way we were dying. Which, of course, was awesome news. Amazingly there are a lot of hotels in that small town (I guess this happens a lot!). Jason called his Dad and he looked online and called a bunch of hotels for us and, par for the course, all hotels were booked. We decided to drive up to the truck stop and make sure they really weren't going to be opening the road but we had a feeling it wouldn't be as it was snowing and crazy windy. As we were driving up a guy pointed to our tire and said "Your tire is flat". Of course it is, why wouldn't it be? :)

So Jason goes into the truck stop to find a fix a flat which was really our only option at this point. He finally found one (which was an ordeal all in and of itself) and he put it in the tire in about 2 feet of snow and then we had to fill it up with air. The air pump was right between these two semi's so Jason had to direct me in to it and we filled up the tire. His Dad had found that the only available hotel was back 110 miles in Rock Springs. After realizing that was our only option we decided to go for it. We both felt like we should pray but hadn't yet. As we were pulling out my car suddenly died. We were able to coast to a parking lot and in much humility a prayer was said and we were on our way. Amazingly we made it back to Rock Springs on that tire and in the weather conditions and we were finally in to a hotel by about 11:45. Not all hope was lost and we knew we could make it to the concert if the road would open up. I had to kiss the tour of the US Mint goodbye which made me pretty sad but I was glad we were safe.

So we woke up in the morning and called the WY roadservice hotline (which was programmed in Jason's phone) and the road had opened!!!!!! Wahoo! But, the road to get from where we were back to the original trouble spot was closed. At this point we were really losing hope. We had to fix my tire so we went to Wal-Mart and had them fix it and by the time we fixed it the road had opened. We heard the road conditions were a little sketchy but we decided to try it. So we took the 110 miles back to Rawlins and as we were approaching, it became really scary windy. The snow was blowing across the road and we could hardly see. When we made it to Rawlins the road had closed and there were a bunch of accidents on the stretch to Denver. After some tears (from me) we decided it was best to just turn around and go back home. :( I'm not sure if you can tell how windy it was in that pic of us, but it was crazy!!! We were very blessed to not have been in the accidents but were really sad we had to miss the concert. So we turned back around and drove back home to Salt Lake. The only consolation was we went to a movie and Cheesecake factory the next day. It wasn't Bon Jovi, but it would have to do!! So, I've said it once and I'll say it again, Wyoming is a miserable place!!!