And the number is...

After moving here, I (Chel) heard a lot about Stephanie Meyer and her books. Of course this was not the first time hearing about them, it was with the release of the last book in her series that really created the buzz. So we went to the library to try to borrow Twilight. The first in the series. After putting it on hold, we found out that it my was number...84. And today I got it. It only took two months, but for being number 84 that is actually pretty quick. Now the wait for the book that was just published, the last one in the series, is 162 people long.

Is our house too hot?

We realized that we might keep our apartment a little too warm when we left some butter out on the counter and came back to find it liket this...
A little melted. The kitchen seems to be the warmest room so we try to keep food in the fridge. In fact, while we were in Alaska, we kept most food that didn't absolutely need to be refrigerated in our room. Here most everything we can put in the fridge is.

Our "Gated" Community

We are supposed to live in a gated community. We have codes and such that are supposed to allow us to get into the complex, and keep unwanted cars out. People can walk in and out at their leisure, but cars are supposed to be monitored. Well, we're coming up on two months of living in beautiful Lakeview at Superstition Springs and have yet to see the gates closed. Oh wait, there was the one day we almost got locked out about a month ago. But then someone broke the gate, and it has yet to be fixed. So in the 55 days that we have lived here, the gate was closed for only 1 of them. 1 out of 55...I guess thats not so bad.

First day of Autumn

Its fall, and we get to celebrate with 100 degree weather. Great.



Although we are a little more used to it, and when it cools down just a little more we will certainly enjoy it. Especially when everyone else is freezing.

An interesting letter

Jeff received this letter in the mail today. IIf you look closely, you will notice it is from A.T. Still University (the school Jeff has been attending for almost a month now.) It states "Congratulations on your full acceptance to the Physical Therapy program." What!? Would we have been notified if he hadn't been accepted? How many quizes and tests have to be taken before they tell him he is officially accepted? What would we have done with the thousands and thousands of dollars spent on tuition and books? Luckily everything is going well and all the money and studying has gone to a good cause, because Jeff has been accepted to the PT program...YEAH

It's coming up...

Only two weeks and we will be running our marathon. Today we were running, and we actually enjoyed a nice short 9.5 mile run. It was exciting to run almost ten miles and think of it as a short run. It really is all a matter of perspective. It was also exciting to get to leave the flashlight at home. We got up about two hours later than normal at 5:30 am. So we ran as the sun was coming up. Although it was later, and the sun was up, we still heard quite a few roosters. Apparently they haven't quite figured out that it is light outside so they should be quiet. We should have known that when we live even further west of the Lewis' that we would be living in the middle of farm country. (Those who have seen where we live can attest that we don't really live in the middle of nowhere. In fact we live right next to US 60 and a mall, and a whole lot of restaurants and other stuff. We just run west to a bunch of animals about 3 miles away.)

Problems

This blog thing is a little harder to keep up on than originally thought. The problems arise with our computer. We had to buy a new computer for Jeff's schooling.  With the amount of studying done, the computer is always in use...with schooling. And schooling comes before updating blogs, checking email, looking up news, and finding deals on craigslist. These computer problems are really starting to make life a little more difficult. 

Ants

We are proud to announce that we have finally got rid of our ants. We had ants that were in the bathroom but before they could come spray we had gotten rid of them (thats what happens when they say you have to wait a week before they can come out and spray.)  Then ants started coming in the sliding glass door in the living room. It was pretty gross but there weren't really too many. We never got them in the kitchen or in our bedroom. But we couldn't get rid of them. Finally when we couldn't handle seeing ants everywhere (it really was just a few here and their but pretty constant.) we called maintenance.  It went great until the guy was getting ready to leave and said that he would see us in 30 days. What? Are you telling us your product doesn't work well? Apparently the apartment complex will only pay them to come out and spray your apartment once every 30 days. And we apparently will have so many problems with insects (he said it's usually crickets, ants and other critters) that we will be on a first name basis with the pest control guy. 

Door knobs

Jeff and to a lesser degree Chel, like to think that we are observant people we recently learned that we really aren't. In fact we had lived in this apartment for over a month before we realized that the bathroom door knob is actually different on either side of the door. On the inside it is silver, and on the outside it is slightly smaller and gold. We know that it's not often that you look at both sides of the door at both times, but we kind of thought that we would maybe have picked up on this just a little bit sooner. In fact, once we realized it, we had to look at all of our doorknobs to see if any of the others were different. 

In case you were wondering, our bathroom door is the only one that is different.

Interesting Stuff

In filling out online forms we've come across a slight problem.  Our address doesn't always fit in the address box provided. The road we live on is called Superstition Springs Boulevard.  Even with abbreviating boulevard it doesn't always fit. In fact, Chel was filling out information for a job interview and all that she was able to fit was the house number and Superstition Spr.  So what happened. We now have to use the second address line for the rest of our street name and apartment number. It makes it quite interesting. So far we have received no mail with our address split between two lines.  Hopefully someday we will.

Also we successfully completed our longest training run for the marathon. We are now onto what is officially called our taper. Hopefully our legs will start to feel better just in time to make them hurt again. It was fun to walk outside at 4 am and think it felt nice. For the first time ever, outside was actually cooler then inside our apartment. Interesting that we think 75-80 degrees actually feel cool. It was a lot nicer to finish our run at those temperatures compared to the 90+ degrees it has been. 

BYU Football

Jeff is really hating the fact that he doesn't get to go to BYU football games this year. Last week, for the first game of the season, Jeff got to listen to the game over the internet. This week, we decided to go the local sports bar and watch it there. We got there before the game started, and while the place was fairly empty, and were able to convince them to show the game on one of their big screen t.v.'s. It was great to watch the game on a bigscreen t.v., but unfortunately we had to listen to another game. We ordered a meal and split it, and Jeff got a rootbeer with multiple refills. Over the course of the 4 hours we were there we got to know the server and manager quite well. Our server kept bringing Jeff refills on his soda, and finally brought our check...right before we ordered a second meal. BYU won after blocking Washington's point after attempt. It was very exciting because that meant the game ended without going into overtime and we didn't have to sit on those barstools any longer.

On another note, we went to a ward party last night. They had a 'mechanical' bull there. It was one of those bulls that actually was powered by four people pulling on ropes. It was an awful lot of fun. Amazingly enough Chelan was able to stay on it longer than Jeff!

Happy Birthdays!!

We both celebrated our birthdays this past weekend. Chel's on Sunday and Jeff's on Monday. It kind of stinks that Jeff's birthday falls on Labor Day every once in a while, and Chel's never will. We had nice weather over the weekend. It was in the high 90's most of the weekend. That means it was bearable to be outside. All in all it was a weekend full of birthdays.