My friend Carolyn and I are currently taking SCUBA lessons. We had a dive on Saturday in Catalina. On the boat we started talking to this guy that had this huge underwater camera! It was really cool to see. We asked if he could email us some pics and he did..

Catalina Diving

In case you don't have time to look at them, this one is my favorite....

YAY!!! I got our Tivo to work. We just bought one on this special deal wher eyou get it free if you sign up for a year. Well we don't have a regular land line phone at home (we have the VOIP) so we had to setup the TIVO at my moms since it needs a phone to dial into.... well long story but it took me 2 days to get it all figured out and I finally did! I also hooked it up to our internet so that I can log on from ANYWHERE and tell it online to record a show. Bring on the TV addiction!!!

Carolyn and I are taking SCUBA classes right now. Tonight is the last pool class and then we go on a boat to Catalina and do a dive on a reef. It has been a hard class but we are both looking forward to Catalina. Then we will be certified PADI divers!!! Woo-hoo!!!

I know, I know.... it's been a while. You know how sometimes you just get sick of hearing yourself talk? Well that is kind of what writing a blog is like.... talking to yourself. Anyways! I am back! The house is finally starting to feel like home and Jamie and I feel like a real married couple!

Here are some pics of the house before....

Before Pics of House

and some from the BBQ we had a couple weeks after moving in:

After Pics and BBQ

and finally some from this past weekend:
Grandma's BDay BBQ

We had a BBQ for my grandma's 80th birthday, uncle Tom's 50th birthday and Grandma and Grandpa's 63rd wedding anniversary! It went great! My uncle Mike, cousin Johnathan, cousin Sarah, her boyfriend Jake and their son Tavian all came from Utah for the party!

YAY!!! Jamie comes home today. I am really looking forward to it (obviously!) Strange to be married and never see your spouse!!!

We are moving his apartment tomorrow and all my stuff still in Nestle storage on Monday. Then we will be all done!

Well it was a big weekend!! My mom got to work on the bedrooms while I played hostess to all the people that kept stopping by! It was great showing everyone around and it seems everyone really likes the house. They usually stop in the kitchen and go "so.... are you... um... keeping... uh this wallpaper?" I kept telling everyone no but I didn't knwo when we would be changing it. My mom's cousin Barbara just ran with it and started pulling the paper down! She has about 1/3 of it off of the kitchen. Even with the scraps on the wall, it still looks better!

The blue room is now a light green and the purple room is in the first stage of brown. Thanks to my mom for most of the paint rolling, Nancy for helping last night and doing most of the trim in the purple room, to Barbara for peeling the wallpaper and to Tom for pulling out the hideous wall heater!

Here are the before pics of the house:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=13xs0t9z.bccv07n7&x=0&y=jqjcgd

Well it's completely official!! I did the walk through on the house yesterday with my mom and Carolyn and everything looks good. Good news too that we don't have to wait the +3 days that were in the contracts, we get the house keys tomorrow! Mom and I are going to TSP the bedroom walls on Saturday and maybe even primer them, we should then be able to get them all painted on Sunday. Another goal is to get the kitchen done too, new shelp liners and all that stuff. Oh it's so exciting!!!!!

I was on an escalator at the Glendale Galleria the other day and I had a strange urge to kick thew person in front of me and scream at them to move over and let me pass or to start walking or something! Anything! Just don't stand there!!!! Then I realized I wasn't in England where escalater courtesy is the norm. I miss English escalaters. They are wide enough for two people and EVERYONE knows they are supposed to stand on the right and walk on the left. Here the escalators are skinny and fit 1.5 people and everyone just stands anywhere on them and no one walks up an escalator... Hmmmm wonder why we have obesity issues here, maybe if we started an escalator revolution......