Student Housing :(

So on Saturday I was downstairs in my basement, curled up on my big loveseat, reading my book, when I heard the sound of dripping water! I rushed over to the closet that holds the water heater and all the piping and found that the sewer pipe was leaking all over my carpet. GAG! I hurried and got all of our belongings out of the way after shrieking for Isaac to come and help me. He finished moving things and putting a bucket under the leak while I called the landlord. The landlord told us that he was not home but would be home quickly. Two and a half hours later he shows up, bangs on the pipes a little bit and then tells me he will be right back. He never comes back. I call him two hours later and he tells me that the plummer will be at my house at 5:30. The plumber comes at 6:00. *Interjection* Isaac and I have a really old shack with really old appliances. Our shower broke for the third time right before Christmas. We were gone while our landlord fixed it, and when we got home we could hear the sound of running water. We thought our landlord had turned it on. *Back to the flooding story* The plumber comes and listens to the sound of the water and says that the water main is broken which was flooding into the sewer main, which was flooding into our house. GAG! The sewer pipes are also really old and have tree roots in them so something got caught in the roots which caused the flooding in cominbation with the broken water main. I guess on the bright side is that it is not complete sewer water, but still! Our house smelled so bad, like poop. Isaac went to the store and bought lots of deorderizing spray.

I don't know what our landlord is going to do. To fix the real problem will cost about $20,000. In my opinion he will just let the water run. That is fine with me unless it will cause more poop water to flood my basement. But we do have a pretty good landlord. He cleaned up the mess for us while we went to the temple. I am so glad that we will be moving at the end of the semester and actually live in a place where they have to keep it nice.

Computers *sigh*

On Martin Luther King Day, Isaac and I went cross-country skiing for the first time. It was a blast. I was so determined to document it and I took my camera and everything. But, since we are poor college students we share and internet connection with two other couples and the signal is not very strong. I tried uploading all of our fun pictures, but the connection kept cutting out. I got frustrated and quit for the moment. So when I get some more patience or a better connection I will put up all my fun pictures.

Old Friends

Today I got an email from my friend Ana. She was an exchange student from Brazil that went to my high school during my senior year. She was such a blast! I loved doing things with her. We randomly went places all the time, we would go to basketball games, shopping, and Wal-Mart all the time. We had Anatomy and Physiology together and we would never pay attention. We even went to Paris after we graduated. I was so happy to hear from her and know that she was thinking of me. It just made me think of all the wonderful people I have in my life who love and care about me. I am so bad at keeping in touch, and that it something I want to be better at. I have so many good friends and have has so many good experiences with them. I think one of my favorite memories that I have with my friends is after a basketball game or going to a movie we would drive to an empty parking lot, crank up the car stereo, and dance. :)

Catch Up Time

For Christmas, Isaac and I flew to Texas for two and a half wonderful weeks! We got really spoiled there. His mom made us great food everyday, we slept in everyday and we got to do so many fun things. I faithfully took pictures so I could put them up there. There are some of them:

Me and Isaac on the plane

Christmas Eve in Dallas

Isaac opening Christmas presents (my camera is horrible and takes crappy pictures, but I don't have to worry about that anymore, Thanks Rachael and Brandon!)

We went to the Dallas Zoo and found these crazy elfs.

AHHH! Wild Animals!
Riding a tortoise.

Isaac and his brother, Chelin. This is the last time we will see Chelin before he leaves on his mission to Brazil. (Isaac and Chelin are doing a ranchero pose, very serious).

We also went to Six Flags, which was so much fun. We rode the Titan ( one of the biggest roller-coasters in the world) four times. Surprisingly, we didn't get sick. I usually love roller-coasters, but some reason this time most of roller-coasters scared me. I rode all of them anyways, but I screamed so much I almost gave my self a headache.

Isaac's father bought a housed right before we came, so we spent some time helping him out by priming the walls to be painted. It was a fun and messy job. To thank us, Papa C took us out to eat at buffets for 5 days straight. Needless to say I will be running vigorously this next semester. Isaac doesn't have school so he will have time to run too.

We had a great Christmas break but are glad to be back home at our Love Shack.

Postings coming!

Over the break I could not find a moment to post anything! But I faithfully took pictures of our trip to Texas and all of the happenings there so there is so much more to come! But in a nutshell, we had a really good Christmas and New Year's. We spent two and a half weeks in Texas with Isaac's family. It was so nice down there. One day is reach 84 degrees. It was great, and then we came back to Utah and 2 ft of snow. That was hard. But we are back in Utah. Isaac is done with school and will be working while I finish my last semester. Hooray! Then we will be moving around the beginning of May.