S.I.M.P.L.I.F.Y.

I have been unpacking boxes since Thursday.
I'm still not done.
All this packing and unpacking has made me want to really SIMPLIFY my life. I have too many clothes. Too many shoes. Too many victoria secret PINK sweat pants! And yet, when I look in my closet in the morning to get dressed, I can NEVER find anything I want to wear. So, I am getting rid of all the clothes I don't wear. I hate getting rid of things because I always think that maybe someday I will find somewhere to wear it. But the truth is, I never do and it just sits and takes up space. Am I the only one who has a hard time getting rid of things I've had since middle school? So far I have taken 2 boxes of clothes to the D.I. Its nowhere near what I need to get rid of, but its a start.

Busy as a Bumble Bee (in Daves words)

We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Well, almost. Dave will be back this Sunday. I came back home to Utah about 2 weeks ago to try and find us a place to live. We put an offer in on a home clear back in April.....4 months later they finally rejected our offer. Boo000. Short sales are no fun. Although, I have learned the meaning of terms like, "short sale, BPO, MLS#......." Uh, ya thats about it. I thought I knew more realty jargon--but it has been a fun process. Anyway, that house obviously fell through so I came back to try and frantically find a place to live in Provo who would do month to month rent. NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. Thanks to Emily Roche--- I found a place pretty close to BYU and moved all our CRAP in this week. And yes, I mean CRAP. Who knew we could have accumulated so many uneccesary things in such a short amount of time. I am so lucky my dad was willing to bring one of his trailers to Provo and help me move all the big furniture out of the storage shed. John, Cathy and my brother Jake all helped move as well and I couldn't have done it without them .

We had to ship both cars back from North Carolina and they will be here tomorrow! I have loved driving Tyrell (Daves Audi) around but Im so excited to drive my Trixi again! (the mazda) I always get nervous when I send my car with some strange truck driver for over 2000 miles. Im keeping my fingers crossed that both our cars come back in one piece.

Carolina Fun

Daves' parents were able to come visit us in North Carolina for a few days. We were able to do a lot of fun things. (when I say WE I really just mean ME because Dave was out working hard for most of our adventures.) Dave was able to come to the U.S. NATIONAL WHITEWATER CENTER with the whole fam.


We went water rafting on this man made river. We nearly tipped over several times and it was awesome!
The boys (Dave, Matt & Kyleur) went climbing and Meg, John and myself went rode the mountain bikes for awhile. I thought I was in "OK" shape, but riding the bike for a few miles showed me otherwise. Dang. CHIMNEY ROCK

There are stairs that will take you all the way to the top of this giant rock. We opted for the easy way and took the elevator that they placed so conviently for me inside the mountain. You think Im joking, but I'm not, there really is an elevator inside the mountain!

THE BILTMORE ESTATE

It took us 2 hours to walk through it and we didn't even see the entire house.

The house was finised in 1895, has 99 bedrooms, 65 fireplaces, 43 bathrooms, heated indoor swimming pool, bowling alley and sits on almost 125,000 acres of land.

There was an ABBA concert (ABBA imitators) later that evening at the Biltmore Estate. It was SO fun. Meg and I were probably the youngest people there by 15-20 years! We sang and danced throughout the ENTIRE concert.