I'm LOVING these photos. Warren was 4 months old. We just got the hard copies and now I'm trying to figure out which ones to print... Good thing we have a lot of empty frames and a whole empty wall. I kinda love lots of pictures on one wall. :)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Settled In
Well... Ray and I have been able to settle into our new apartment (for the most part). My Mom has been with us visiting for the past three weeks, which has been AWESOME!!! I felt a lot of pressure to get all the stuff in our home unpacked before she got here, so the day before and the day she arrived was full of frantic cleaning. Successful cleaning I might add! She admitted she was impressed at the state our home was in. haha. That kinda makes it sound like I'm a slob... I'm NOT! I promise! It was just nice to have everything put away and to actually have a place for everything to be put away IN! Unfortunately that organization was only temporary because my Mom came with a truck full of my stuff that had been left behind in Canada. It all got unloaded into our apartment and we're still in the process of figuring out where to fit everything. Slowly but surely it's all working out.
Anyways... Wanna hear a crazy story??
Moving out of our old apartment was a complete gong show. It couldn't have gotten any more ridiculous. We had given our notice we were moving which gave us until February 9 to be out. That worked really well for us because it ended up giving us three weeks to move all of our stuff. After making a couple trips back and forth each day for a week or so, all the small stuff had been taken care of and we just had to move the big things. Once we had that done, there was still a few things left over at our old place that we were just gonna wait on moving because it wasn't important stuff. We figured it would be easiest to unpack all the stuff we already had then deal with the leftover stuff when it was less overwhelming.
The final weekend before we had to be moved out, Ray and I went back to collect the remaining stuff from the apartment and the storage units he had there. The key to open the storage units was the same one to open the apartment, so he unlocked the storage units first then went to unlock the apartment. He was having a hard time with the door lock but that key had always been temperamental so I didn't think anything of it until he asked me to try opening it. As I was unsuccessfully unlocking the door it dawned on me that the lock had probably been changed already. We were locked out of our place and couldn't get the rest of our stuff!!! At least the key worked for the storage units, so we could get our stuff out of there. Yeah that would have been great but when Ray opened them, he realized that they had been rummaged through and our grill was missing! Our brand new, never been used, still in the box grill!!!
We realized that whoever changed the locks to our apartment also opened the storage units and felt entitled to the stuff inside. Not. Cool. Ray promptly made his way to the apartment managers office and explained what had happened. They told him that they had lost the written notice saying when we were moving out so they just went ahead and changed the locks on us! But they also admitted that they remembered when Ray went there and handed that notice in. Clearly this was their error and Ray was determined that they were going to make sure our stolen stuff was replaced. He got the manager people to open our apartment door to check if things had been taken from inside there too. Lo and behold, things were not as we left them in that place. Ray took a look around and realized that he had a shotgun that was missing too. Kind of a big deal right??? That meant that the police needed to be involved.
Ray called the police and filed a report with them. Apparently stealing a gun is a felony charge. A cop had to come and meet us in person at the apartment, so we showed him that we could open the storage units with our key and not the apartment, blah blah blah. It was so obvious that it wasn't just anyone who broke into our place and stole the stuff. They clearly used a key, ESPECIALLY since they got into the storage unit. Since this all happened on the weekend, we had to come back on Monday to talk with the big wig apartment manager.
Once Ray went back to figure this all out, he was informed that they had talked to the maintenance people who swore they didn't steal anything and that they had more reason to believe them over us because they had been employees for 20 years. BULL!!! Up until this point Ray had been pretty calm and was dealing with everything quite responsibly. But once they told him that and almost made it sound like we had plotted this thing ourselves, he lost it. Rightfully so!!! These people were being ridiculous!!! It was obvious whoever did this had a key, and there are only so many people who have access to those keys, but they were saying that it could have been anyone. They could have broken through the window. Again. BULL!!! He told them that it didn't explain the stuff taken out of the storage units, and all they had to say about that was that they believed the maintenance people when they said they didn't take anything.
Wow... So at this point the only thing the manager people did was give us a copy of the key to let us in the apartment to take our remaining things out.
The next day Ray goes back to get our stuff and he calls me to inform me that when he opened the storage units, the grill had been returned!!!!! These maintenance people had balls to lie and say that they didn't steal anything, only to return what was stolen as soon as something was said. Ray said that the box had been opened, the grill had been taken out, and it had been repackaged before it was put back. Unfortunately the missing gun was not returned. I guess the thieving maintenance people took the position that nobody could prove they stole from inside the apartment because someone could have broken in through the window, but we COULD prove they used their key to get into our storage units and take that grill. Either way, if they're found with that gun they're in BIIIIG trouble. Again... Wow...
Ray went and told the apartment managers that the grill had been returned and that he was going to get the police to come by and fingerprint the grill, to which the manager said GOOD! She said she wanted to know who it was and why they lied.
So that's where we're at. The grill is still boxed up and we're just waiting on the police to come by to fingerprint it. It makes us wonder what else these people have stolen... Needless to say, I'm more than happy to be out of that place. Our new apartment managers are actually human, and this place is a heck of a lot safer. The old apartment managers tried to smooth things over by waiving the rent for those 9 days into the new month that we technically still had possession of that place. Good thing too. We wouldn't have paid it anyways. It's their fault they lost our notice and their fault for allowing the locks to be changed in the first place.
Since going through those last few things, Ray figured out a few more things were gone as well. His really nice running shoes being one of those things. Who steals running shoes anyways?!
Welcome to America... hahaha...
Anyways... Wanna hear a crazy story??
Moving out of our old apartment was a complete gong show. It couldn't have gotten any more ridiculous. We had given our notice we were moving which gave us until February 9 to be out. That worked really well for us because it ended up giving us three weeks to move all of our stuff. After making a couple trips back and forth each day for a week or so, all the small stuff had been taken care of and we just had to move the big things. Once we had that done, there was still a few things left over at our old place that we were just gonna wait on moving because it wasn't important stuff. We figured it would be easiest to unpack all the stuff we already had then deal with the leftover stuff when it was less overwhelming.
The final weekend before we had to be moved out, Ray and I went back to collect the remaining stuff from the apartment and the storage units he had there. The key to open the storage units was the same one to open the apartment, so he unlocked the storage units first then went to unlock the apartment. He was having a hard time with the door lock but that key had always been temperamental so I didn't think anything of it until he asked me to try opening it. As I was unsuccessfully unlocking the door it dawned on me that the lock had probably been changed already. We were locked out of our place and couldn't get the rest of our stuff!!! At least the key worked for the storage units, so we could get our stuff out of there. Yeah that would have been great but when Ray opened them, he realized that they had been rummaged through and our grill was missing! Our brand new, never been used, still in the box grill!!!
We realized that whoever changed the locks to our apartment also opened the storage units and felt entitled to the stuff inside. Not. Cool. Ray promptly made his way to the apartment managers office and explained what had happened. They told him that they had lost the written notice saying when we were moving out so they just went ahead and changed the locks on us! But they also admitted that they remembered when Ray went there and handed that notice in. Clearly this was their error and Ray was determined that they were going to make sure our stolen stuff was replaced. He got the manager people to open our apartment door to check if things had been taken from inside there too. Lo and behold, things were not as we left them in that place. Ray took a look around and realized that he had a shotgun that was missing too. Kind of a big deal right??? That meant that the police needed to be involved.
Ray called the police and filed a report with them. Apparently stealing a gun is a felony charge. A cop had to come and meet us in person at the apartment, so we showed him that we could open the storage units with our key and not the apartment, blah blah blah. It was so obvious that it wasn't just anyone who broke into our place and stole the stuff. They clearly used a key, ESPECIALLY since they got into the storage unit. Since this all happened on the weekend, we had to come back on Monday to talk with the big wig apartment manager.
Once Ray went back to figure this all out, he was informed that they had talked to the maintenance people who swore they didn't steal anything and that they had more reason to believe them over us because they had been employees for 20 years. BULL!!! Up until this point Ray had been pretty calm and was dealing with everything quite responsibly. But once they told him that and almost made it sound like we had plotted this thing ourselves, he lost it. Rightfully so!!! These people were being ridiculous!!! It was obvious whoever did this had a key, and there are only so many people who have access to those keys, but they were saying that it could have been anyone. They could have broken through the window. Again. BULL!!! He told them that it didn't explain the stuff taken out of the storage units, and all they had to say about that was that they believed the maintenance people when they said they didn't take anything.
Wow... So at this point the only thing the manager people did was give us a copy of the key to let us in the apartment to take our remaining things out.
The next day Ray goes back to get our stuff and he calls me to inform me that when he opened the storage units, the grill had been returned!!!!! These maintenance people had balls to lie and say that they didn't steal anything, only to return what was stolen as soon as something was said. Ray said that the box had been opened, the grill had been taken out, and it had been repackaged before it was put back. Unfortunately the missing gun was not returned. I guess the thieving maintenance people took the position that nobody could prove they stole from inside the apartment because someone could have broken in through the window, but we COULD prove they used their key to get into our storage units and take that grill. Either way, if they're found with that gun they're in BIIIIG trouble. Again... Wow...
Ray went and told the apartment managers that the grill had been returned and that he was going to get the police to come by and fingerprint the grill, to which the manager said GOOD! She said she wanted to know who it was and why they lied.
So that's where we're at. The grill is still boxed up and we're just waiting on the police to come by to fingerprint it. It makes us wonder what else these people have stolen... Needless to say, I'm more than happy to be out of that place. Our new apartment managers are actually human, and this place is a heck of a lot safer. The old apartment managers tried to smooth things over by waiving the rent for those 9 days into the new month that we technically still had possession of that place. Good thing too. We wouldn't have paid it anyways. It's their fault they lost our notice and their fault for allowing the locks to be changed in the first place.
Since going through those last few things, Ray figured out a few more things were gone as well. His really nice running shoes being one of those things. Who steals running shoes anyways?!
Welcome to America... hahaha...
Friday, February 3, 2012
Hello Computer! I've missed you!
After 3 weeks of having no internet in our new place, it's about time! It was convenient to be able to blog from my phone, but I just realized how crappy the quality of the pictures were. Sorry!!! Lesson learned.
Every year I make a photo book from iPhoto detailing the year's adventures. I just finished the book for 2011 and am eagerly awaiting it's arrival in the next couple days. Since finishing that, I've realized that there actually are several things worth blogging about. It was kind of an awesome wake up call to help me realize my life isn't as lame as I sometimes think it is in my head. haha.
Warren's baby blessing was on December 18, 2011. Ray was so nervous. Rightfully so. He's never done it before, and it's a blessing for his own child in front of a whole congregation. Sometimes I'm reminded why I'm glad men hold the Priesthood. haha...
The blessing itself was great. Warren was promised some beautiful things. Poor Warren though, he was not pleased being held in the middle of a circle. He was fine at first, but then started getting fussy. We made a critical mistake by not bringing his soother/binky up with him during the blessing. Ray was so flustered by Warren's fussing. It was kinda funny from my end, but Ray was struggling. Afterwards he told me that during the blessing he tried sticking his finger in Warren's mouth to try to calm him down, but that didn't work so he was trying to figure out how to soothe him as he was trying to concentrate on what the spirit was telling him to say all at the same time and having a really hard time with the multi-tasking. Again... Funny from my end. I was really impressed with how it all went though and I kept on having to tell Ray he did a great job.
Lots of family and friends came for it, but we spaced on getting pictures with everyone. We just took some family pictures. haha...
I also quite enjoy having a phone that can upload pictures to Facebook whenever I want. It's a lot easier than having to transfer pictures from my camera to my computer. But for the sake of my little brother, it's only fair to post the latest pictures on here too.
In other news... My mom is going to be here in Colorado in less than a week! I'm so excited for her to be here. She definitely needs a vacation and some quality time with her favorite grandson and daughter. haha. We're special. We're gonna be able to do a lot of great things with her, like visiting Aspen, CO. She's a pretty die hard John Denver fan, so there's no way she'd come this close to his monument/park thingy and not go. haha. I can't really say I know what it's all about, but I know that Aspen and John Denver are synonymous. Guess I'm about to learn. haha.
Also, here are some fantastic videos of my son, specifically for the viewing pleasure of my little bro. But you can enjoy them too.
That's all for now. There will more great things to share in the future. I'm sure of it.
Happy P-Day Elder Dyer!!!
Every year I make a photo book from iPhoto detailing the year's adventures. I just finished the book for 2011 and am eagerly awaiting it's arrival in the next couple days. Since finishing that, I've realized that there actually are several things worth blogging about. It was kind of an awesome wake up call to help me realize my life isn't as lame as I sometimes think it is in my head. haha.
Warren's baby blessing was on December 18, 2011. Ray was so nervous. Rightfully so. He's never done it before, and it's a blessing for his own child in front of a whole congregation. Sometimes I'm reminded why I'm glad men hold the Priesthood. haha...
The blessing itself was great. Warren was promised some beautiful things. Poor Warren though, he was not pleased being held in the middle of a circle. He was fine at first, but then started getting fussy. We made a critical mistake by not bringing his soother/binky up with him during the blessing. Ray was so flustered by Warren's fussing. It was kinda funny from my end, but Ray was struggling. Afterwards he told me that during the blessing he tried sticking his finger in Warren's mouth to try to calm him down, but that didn't work so he was trying to figure out how to soothe him as he was trying to concentrate on what the spirit was telling him to say all at the same time and having a really hard time with the multi-tasking. Again... Funny from my end. I was really impressed with how it all went though and I kept on having to tell Ray he did a great job.
Lots of family and friends came for it, but we spaced on getting pictures with everyone. We just took some family pictures. haha...
I also quite enjoy having a phone that can upload pictures to Facebook whenever I want. It's a lot easier than having to transfer pictures from my camera to my computer. But for the sake of my little brother, it's only fair to post the latest pictures on here too.
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| Can't remember if I posted this before... But this is what I got for Ray for Christmas... super reluctantly.... |
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| He makes the silliest faces sometimes. This was post-bath. |
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| Warren has become really grabby lately. Ray was holding him, drinking this root beer, and Warren was determined to get a hold of it. He's getting pretty coordinated lately! |
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| I love/hate that he sucks on his lip. I love it because it's so cute, but I hate it because I'm afraid that he'll get chapped lips and have a giant red bottom lip one day... |
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| We discovered that when he gets fussy in Church, we just turn on the front facing camera on my phone and get him to look at himself, and it quiets him right down. Works like a charm!! |
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| The other benefit is that we get awesome pictures like this. |
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| Getting ready to go swimming to celebrate his 5 month mark!!! |
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| We went to the temple yesterday and took him for a walk around it, |
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| I'm pretty much in love with this nail polish. haha. Apparently so is Warren. He's never tried to grab my fingers and put them in his mouth with as much vigor before. It was just after I finished my nails and they were dry that he got all excited about them. It's pretty hilarious. I love my kid! |
In other news... My mom is going to be here in Colorado in less than a week! I'm so excited for her to be here. She definitely needs a vacation and some quality time with her favorite grandson and daughter. haha. We're special. We're gonna be able to do a lot of great things with her, like visiting Aspen, CO. She's a pretty die hard John Denver fan, so there's no way she'd come this close to his monument/park thingy and not go. haha. I can't really say I know what it's all about, but I know that Aspen and John Denver are synonymous. Guess I'm about to learn. haha.
Also, here are some fantastic videos of my son, specifically for the viewing pleasure of my little bro. But you can enjoy them too.
HAHA!!! Oh man... He only did this that one day. Now when we sing that song to him he smiles nice and big. At least we know he's not gonna be traumatized when he turns 3.
Seriously... So random... Kids laugh at the strangest things!!!
That's all for now. There will more great things to share in the future. I'm sure of it.
Happy P-Day Elder Dyer!!!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Living A New Life
Lately I've been realizing that I'm actually pretty lonely. I'm positive that it is because we just moved and we have no WiFi and I'm discovering how much I rely on the internet to keep on contact with the people that mean the most to me.
I'm taking steps though to find new friends. I just found a moms group here in town so I contacted them about being part of it. From what I read, its a big organization with plenty of participants. Going to the YMCA just hasn't been giving me the social interaction I've been craving. I'm not looking to replace all my friendships that have taken me years and year to cultivate, because quite frankly I don't think that's even possible. I am looking for people I can talk to without having to use Google Voice though. I miss having friends that I can just go see.
I am proud of myself for what I've accomplished thus far with being active quite regularly. Pretty sure that's what's been keeping me sane up until now. So since I'm getting more familiarly with the area and more comfortable with branching out, I'm going.to go do that.
Having a husband who works all day is nice in that we are provided for, but having the day all to myself and Warren has gotten old. I think I'm also ultra sensitive because of the 10 months Ray and I were apart last year. Time will heal those wounds though, and I must give him credit for trying hard to come home ASAP every day after work.
Yesterday after he got home for the night, I told him that I'd discovered that Warren is NOT a fan of the Sunbeams song. So like the responsible mother I am, I took videos of it. I just have to figure .out how to post them on here with my phone... Haha...
Also. I'm very excited for my mom to come visit. I talked to her last night and she told me she will be coming down in two weeks! I've really been missing her, so having her here will be amazing. I'm so excited for her to see how big Warren has gotten.
So the adjusting continues and I keep moving forward. This upcoming Sunday will be the first in our new.Ward, so I'm looking forward to meeting a new group of people. And as soon as our house is organized I will take pictures and post them. I'm really proud of our new apartment. It feels like home.
Anywho... Such is life right now. Things are still moving forward.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Update
So I've learned how hard it is to blog when you've actually got a family to take care of. Haha. It's one thing living with your parents and taking care of your kid on your own, but its a totally different thing when you have a home and a baby to take care of at the same time. All the sudden I have responsibility. Haha. I must say though. I love it. I've been waiting a long time to have this and I can't complain.
Here's the update. I've been in Colorado for almost two months. Since then, Warren had his 4 month check up. He's 14 lbs 11 oz now! He's right on track developmentally, and happy as ever. He has started this new squealing thing though. It was cute for about a day... Haha. Ray thinks he's either trying to sing or he's trying to mimic whistling because Ray likes to whistling for him. Either way. It's definitely high pitched and ear piercing. Good thing he's so stinkin cute.
I got all settled in our apartment. Then we got a notice saying that they were gonna do some pest control which required us to move everything in our entire apartment 2 feet from the walls AND empty the kitchen cupboards... I was not happy.. I had just organized everything. Now we had to UN organize it all... Grrr... But we did it. Once we were allowed to move things back into place, I was completely unmotivated. Our lease for our apartment was up at the end of the month and I felt like we were pretty much packed up to go already. I found a new apartment I really liked, set up a time to see it and made a really fast decision. We got the keys the day after seeing it and we've been moving in this whole last week.
Our new apartment is 300 sq ft bigger than our last one and it has a washer/dryer AND dishwasher. Pretty much its the best ever. It's clean. It's safe. It's everything our last place was not. Woot!!!
This move also means we switching Wards, which I'm kinda bummed about. I just got a calling and never was able to get set apart for it. :( Now I'm scared that I'm gonna get a calling I'm Primary which I have successfully avoided up until now. I'm scared of Primary...
Christmas was awesome. Ray and I were able to spend some quality time together and it meant a lot to us. We also both got to talk to our brothers serving missions. They're both doing well and loving their time as missionaries. We are so proud of them both.
For New Years, I went to Ohio with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law to visit Ray's grandma. It was really neat to introduce Warren to his third great grandma. I had a great time getting to know everyone. I felt very welcomed and loved.
Oh!! Ray also took me to a hockey game! Colorado Avs vs Winnipeg Jets. The avs got their trash kicked! I. Love. Hockey.
We also got to take some amazing family photos with one of Ray's friends. I'm very impressed with how they turned out. I'm hoping to do two more photo shoots this year to document Warren's growth. One at 8 months and one at 12. So excited!
Here are some pictures from the past couple months! For some unknown reason, the pictures posted in random order. Haha... Sorry. I dunno how to fix it since I'm doing this on my phone and we don't have internet set up in our new place yet... Oh well! Enjoy anyway!
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