Looking for the Good: #1

Dustin and I have been somewhat what you'd call pessimists when it comes to Provo. He's never particularly liked the fact that this is where we are going to live for the next couple years and ever since I got rear ended twice within a week of each other...Utah just didn't seem as great of a place to live. In hopes to change this, we're going to start looking for the good in this miserable place...I mean wonderful (see, still working on it). Number one on our list is Macey's ice cream cones. We spent, I think, $2.22 on both of our ice cream cones. That's better than Ikea! Bonus, it's real ice cream, and Dustin likes the Kong Kone. It's huge. We specifically had to ask for a cup on the side because normally they automatically put it on.





That's the Kong Kone. I'm incredibly impressed with the workers there. I could never make a cone that big. I'd have a problem with my little one.

Our Apartment and Other Tid-Bits

This is our apartment. It's almost completely furnished. The only things we're lacking now are: a kitchen table w/chairs, a chair for the desk, and a dresser. Those things would all be nice, but at the moment aren't NEEDS, only WANTS. (Thanks for teaching me the difference Dad.) So far, this is what it looks like.

The Bathroom


The "Living Room"- It's really just the entry way, but the actual living room area is sooooo hot.


The stairs are just to the left, but this is what is opposite the door. This is where the table would be at if we had one. :)


The stairway- it's not that interesting.


The top of the stairs with those, amazing if I may say so, pieces of art. (I made them...hehehe)


The widow and the big dark thing is actual a white fan, but the flash did something.


And the Bedroom- this is actually where the living room is supposed to be, but the real bedroom (the door to the left) is the hottest room in the house...so we decided to move things around a bit. It works though, since the real bedroom is also the coldest room in the house in the winter. So...it works! :)


And that's our apartment, besides the kitchen and the real bedroom, which we now call the storage room. I'll get pictures of the kitchen up soon...as soon as it's clean again. :) Homey though, huh?

As for further news, we start school soon. Dustin sooner than I. We're not excited. It's going to go from long days to longer days. Especially for the first few weeks for me...working 10 hour days is a lot! But I have a fun job with babies that make me laugh...so it's not too bad I suppose. Dustin and I together for books spent $140. Not too bad huh? My books have always cost me at least $400. I should've started taking online classes years ago (by years, I just mean three...that's as long as I've been in school). That's all that's happening in this newlywed couples lives.

Ducks

The daycare I work at is right in the industrial area where all the factories are. I think as a ploy to make it look nicer they put a pond there and what do ponds attract? Ducks. Geese. And therefore children who want to feed them. These ducks are ridiculously well trained. During my breaks I'll go out by the pond and read or sleep (depending on the kind of day it's been). Before I've even come to a full stop, they are already surrounding my car! It's crazy!

The ducks swarming (Yes...they did swarm)


I do feel a little bit bad though. I don't intentionally trick them, but it is kind of funny to see them get all excited and "Quack" and then waddle away, heads lowered, when I don't get out and feed them, and nothing comes out of my windows that they can snack on. (Is that cruel of me?) It makes me feel like Gru from Despicable Me when he makes the balloon animal for the little boy...



...And then pops it. Terrible I know.



No worries though! I don't do that to the kids at the daycare...that would just be mean!