Not Much...

You know when people ask whats new and that kind of thing?... and we all say not much and things are fine, haha. We all do it, come on you do it! Its the lazy way of catching up with people... Some how Americans have officially found a short cut for EVERYTHING! Anyway I thought I'd post whats going on. Its just been really busy for us! Todd and I have been non-stop getting ourselves settled. Todd and I have been all over the place the last year, living across the country. Our belongings are all over the place etc. We cannot wait to find a home and get settled and have things back to a normal living situation. Todd is really busy with work and when he isn't working he's working on his security clearance for work, or working on things with his old job and so on. I'm busy studying for my final test which I have to get a good grade on! We are working a part time job for a promotional company as well which takes up our weekends usually. In between everything we're making the annoying trips to the DMV and so on... All the fun things you do when you move. Jasmine got her shots and I finally changed my last name to Anderson after putting off the social security office for years. It took my entire afternoon on the day I did go! Once I get my job I will fly to Canada for training so I will need to get a passport asap so I thought I would start with the name change. And once we find a house we will make the trip from Utah to here in the moving truck collecting our belongings on the way, haha. NO MORE STORAGE UNITS or taking up space at the parents house!!! We can tell this year is going to be really busy. A lot of changes going on but exciting changes! By the end of the year we plan to be in a home for sure, loving our space I'm sure and enrolled in more school. I want to continue on and get a degree in Interior design to add to the resume and Todd thinks he will continue his schooling and get a business degree, that could change... Personally I can't wait to have my treadmill and our king sized bed back! In the mean time I guess we better work on those taxes :(

Valentines Day

You gotta love Valentines Day! Todd and I made the most of our day together, especially since it fell on a Saturday. I suprised Todd with the rocky road fudge I made a night early. I couldn't help it! But on Valentines day I still had his card and stuffed animal to give him. Anyway we slept in till about noon, ate some light lunch, watched some TV, got ready. We started the night off early with dinner reservations at 5:30pm. He took me to Daily Grill in DC and it was so YUMMY! We had Valentines Day luck and got a parking spot right outside of the restaurant, a freakin' miracle in the city. We spend a good three hours there, haha. We just took our time and enjoyed every course, a great bottle of wine and us of course. After dinner we decided to go to Reston Town Centre and check out the action. We walked around for a bit and it was just so crowded every place we went so we decided to come up with another plan. We dropped by good ole safeway grabbed a bottle of wine and sushi and headed home to cuddle up and watch a movie at home. Which was great after walking around in the cold weather. When we got home Todd suprised me with a beautiful bouqet of daisies, my favorite!!! Anyway we had a great day and we hope you all did too!!!

Outside of Daily Grill before our dinner. (nice couple took our pic for us, thanks again!)

Bad Dogs!

The other evening I was upstairs catching up on the Lost episode I missed. I'm watching the show and throughout the show I hear Jackson and Jasmine downstairs being loud and making noises like they do when they play. I thought it was great they were getting along and playing together so nicely. Then I hear Stephanie come home from work and I hear her asking Jackson (her dog) what he did and bad dog! I go down the stairs to find a disaster! Both the dogs had the most guilty faces and we knew they had ganged up together on this one. They had gone through the trash bag that was laying out and had been fighting over the food. There was trash all over the kitchen and it was nasty to pick up. Anyway they were both punished because this behavior is unacceptable!!! We were shocked becuase neither one of our dogs has ever done this kind of thing. We set the trash bags out all the time so the boys grab it on the way out to put it in the trash can. Thats how we know they decided to rebel, it was a Friday night...

Do the crime pay the time puppies! Jasmine's sad that I'm mad at her :(

After Jasmine ate the trash she got sick, of course. Those of you who know Jasmine know that if she eats anything besides her dog food, she gets sick to her stomach. Well it started with having to go potty every couple hours then turned into vomitting. After this whole ordeal Jasmine smelled SO HORRIBLY BAD! Yesterday before we left for our superbowl party Todd gave her a shower. Poor thing!

Almost dry, still a little scared of us and hiding under Todd...

All dry! Probably slept the rest of the day.

First Snow in VA turns out to be expensive

We loved our snow, that is until it turned into freezing rain which left a lovely sheet of ice on everything. Its actually still raining right now! Anyway, this morning when Todd went to de-ice his car he found a lovely suprise, A cracked windshield! It split across the entire thing too. The good news is he just had the inspection a couple days earlier so we don't have to fix it right away if we don't want to. I think we may just wait until the snow season is over because I heard on the news that ice has been flying off of cars on the highway and cracking other drivers windshields anyway. On the bright side it is quite a little show watching Jasmine try to walk on the ice, so funny!!!

First Snow in VA

Today is the first snowfall of the winter season here in Virginia. It is beautiful! I took Jasmine out and she was so excited, she loves playing in the snow (for a short period of time). It's funny watching her watch the dancing snowflakes fall.
One thing I love out here is all the walking trails. They are everywhere! And they look really pretty covered in snow too :)

Jasmine LOVE and myself

Jasmine comes and stands by you when she is freezing cold and ready to go inside. Its cute but kinda sad too because she just stands there shaking.

Don't worry I got all the snow clumps out of her fur and dried her with my hair dryer. Now she is bundled up in her bed, toasty warm, sleeping like a baby.

ALL DONE!!!

Today is a wonderful day!!! I slept in, woke up to some beautiful snow flurries, bundled up and went on a nice walk with Jasmine, then the best part happened!

***I made the GLORIOUS trip to the UPS store (in my fixed up car I might add!!) to ship my assignments for grading!***

I have worked non-stop the last couple months on these assignments and I feel so happy to have them all completed :)

Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way by lending moral support, sharing your ideas, your strong muscles (for moving furniture), helping me pick the best pictures to use, reading through my writing and editing, and for lending me your house (Nick&Steph, Sean&Jill, Mom&Dad:) I appreciate it all!!!

I will soon be the best Home Stager & Designer ever!!!!!!

My car is finally fixed!

December 27th 2007 I was hit by a truck on the 215 beltway in UT. They hit the back of me and I hit the car in front of me. The car I hit drove off (must of been illegals too) and the the truck that hit me pulled over for a little bit but then drove off as well. I followed them until they stopped in a Red Lobster parking lot and blocked them in till the cops got there. There were three illegal mexicans in the truck and they didn't speek any english. It was pretty creepy cause they got out of the truck and were walking around my car looking at it and talking to eachother in spanish. The guys didn't own this truck or have drivers licenses for that matter. The owner of the truck came to UT for work but when construction slowed
down they went back to AZ but didn't have money to drive the truck back. They left the truck at their brother-in-laws house in UT. The guys driving the truck were friends of these people. The whole thing was very shadey. The insurance lady told them to say the vehicle was stolen and was coaching them in how to get out of having to use their insurance (she was a friend of the family). I didn't want these people to get away with this and it was already so messy so I got a lawyer and waited for him to figure this stuff out. I knew that eventually the truth would catch up to all of the people involved and I was right. It took a long time but this lady finally cracked because she didn't want to get charged
with insurance fraud. They messed with the
wrong girl!!!



I am so happy to have my car fixed! They did a great job on it! My trunk was messed up for such a long time and water got in it which made the carpet mold so even my carpet is new in my trunk. My front bumper is new and my headlight fixed. My rear bumper and hood were fixed and repainted, my trunk lid is new, lights fixed in back!!! All the imperfections from over the years are gone as well, which is a plus!!! The Cavi is looking good, just like new!!!