the parts of town that matter to muah

i've managed to survive my first week here. people had me a little worried whenever i'd mention moving to casper but honestly i really like it here. its kinda an old fashion town which i love and i have managed to find target and walmart which is really all i need in life :)

i spent my days getting up making lunch for mike than goin back to bed, haha i know i'm lazy now. after an hour nap remmi and i go for our first walk/run of the day. i've measured it out and its about 1.2 miles one way. so we head to dog park and while remmi runs through mud and chases birds i'm that weird lady that does squates and lunges in the park, luckily this park is empty and no cars can see me! we head home eat some lunch. i facebook, tweet, blog, check accounts, blah blah blah while remmi sleeps. next is my favorite part of the day. i plop my ass in a chair (now in the POOL! yay!) and tan, read, and listen to music. life is sweeeet. next we head in the trailer and some dinner... when mike gets home we usually have to take remmi for another walk or go outside and play cards. thank you so much mom and dad for teaching us. its our favorite pass time now with no tv!! =)

i know my days sound pretty boring but its okay so far. i do miss home very very much though!! heres a few pictures of the town so you can kinda see where i'm living!


this is mikes office, yay hot time!!


down town....


nice, big fancy library :)



one of my favorite buildings. this movie theater is right down town and its only $3.50 to go see movies! they aren't brand new ones but as you can see new ones still! score!


and this is our church! its super small but wonderful! everyone was super super nice and welcoming. we can't wait to get to know everyone better!


Healthy Lifesyle studio. here's where i'll be taking my yoga classes =) bad picture but its off a main road. its an old house turned studio. can't wait to get my yoga on!!


i love this sign... this is down at the popular side of the dog park (not where i look like an idiot working out at) remmi has made lots of friends who tucker him out... thank goodness!!



this is their HIGH SCHOOL!! it is massive. obviously it doesn't matter to me a whole lot but it just kinda shows how the town is set up. this is also right up the road from our trailer park. i'll put up pictures of the football field once they get done redoing the field. the school takes up so much room. we can't figure how why its so big though! we're gonna sneak into it once school starts ;-)

whelps folks there ya go.... the parts of casper that i love. i forgot to get a picture of my dancing sheep shop though =( cutest yarn store! happy 4th everyone!! miss you all!!

Casper, Wyoming

i cried... alot. i cried when i found out we were moving. i cried when i said good bye to each of my best friends. i cried alot when my dad came home say bye. i cried when i saw my big little brother squirt a few tears out. i cried even more when i saw my mom cry. and i bawled my eyes out until we hit wolf lodge.

i didn't think it would be this hard to leave home. i also didn't think our trip would have gone the way it did... well folks it was rough real rough. but we made it one piece and i didn't cry once after idaho.


we left friday morning after getting a last minute fix on the truck. we don't know what happened but mike called me paniced on thursday because his truck "broke" i honestly still don't know what happened all i do know is.... tow truck came and we picked the truck back up friday before heading outta town. the first 8 hours went great. we made it to billings and devo took us out for a night on the town. also i got to have my first beer with my very best fran miss brandy and mwall =) couple beers later, okay and a few shooters we were walking our asses back to devos. and when i say walk i mean mike piggy backed me... ha

we got up early saturday- eager and ready to make the quick easy 4 hr to casper. boy were we in for it... we stopped for a quick photo at the wyoming boarder....

and BAM flat tire....
okay no big deal we have a spare and my handy man knows what to do... besides remmi needed some water and i needed to peeeee!!




well turns out the spare was flat so we had to load it up in my car drive 45 mins to the closet town and air it up.... okay we can handle this.


next we find out the stem broke on the spare so it wasn't holding air... wonderful! luckily being a linewife i have ooodddles and oooodddles of electric tape laying around so we taped that sucker up and took it back to the trailer. our thought process "we're broke we can't afford another tire right now. so oh it'll last 2 more hours to casper. it has to!" wrong... i was following mike and yup its flat again, along with the back tire on the other side too.... greeeat! okay i'll up my credit card limit real fast we'll buy too more tires and back on the road within an hour. we get to Firestone and the guy tells us he'll try to get to it today but most likey tomorrow morning. me- starting to freak out. mike (being the calm one)- okay and goes to take off the tires on the trailer. i said he was wasting time but he said it could help! and it did... the guy was so thankful that we helped him out he helped us! and cut us a deal so we only had to spend $100! woooop!!


Thank you Firestone!! back on the road...

after that we made it to Casper in no time... it was storming pretty bad when we arrived. its really cool cause its around 85 degrees and just thundering and lightening.... i love summer storms.


the trailer took the travel fairly well except another rough bump in our journey... somehow the toliet managed to get a leak and once we hooked up we ended up with a pool in the bathroom! yippee! luckily the water is CLEAN! and we have the showers close to our spot... which i'm very impressed with how clean they are. Thank God. so after trying to jimmy rig something to fix it Mike has called it unfixable. first paycheck = new toilet. gotta love adult hood right?!

but we're here safe and sound. we're happy and i haven't even cried once! here's a few pictures of our new home.... i'll post more once we get settled in our real spot. right now we're in the weekly spot and hopefully after this weekend we'll be in the permanent nice ones with grass back yards!! =)





oh and ps Happy Birthday to my adorable husband who got me into this mess... Happy 22nd Birthday ya old man!! ;-)

Casper, Wyoming

well guys so much for being number 8, scratch that 5 oh wait i mean number 1 and we're off to Casper, Wyoming! talk about movin books!! i'm a bundle of nerves... its weird i knew this was coming but uhm didn't think i would actually have to leave? silly right?? well now mike, the dog, and myself are leaving friday morning and headin out. we're driving 8 hrs to Billings to go visit a few friends. we'll go the next 4 hrs on saturday and head to our new home. Fort Casper Campground. i'll take pictures when i get there but for now here's the website for those who wanna check it out =)

http://www.ftcasparcamp.org/index.html


side goal: i'm gonna be running those foot trails daily =)


today is jam packed full of getting ready to go... last minute laundry, packing, getting all my crap outta my parents place, get the trailer all loaded down, and of course a last minute going away fire planned by muh best frans Ash and Tob =)

thank you to everyone who have been supportive through this whole process. its not done yet. i'm scared, nervous, excited and all around freaked out so i still need your prayers and thoughts =) love you to you all and heres to Casper freakin Wyoming!!

lets call it my trailer park bucket list:

yes, i'm still moving. yes, the books are moving(we're currently number 8) yes, we're still living at my parents. blah not much has changed guys... we don't know anything. and it sucks.
mike finished putting our new fridge in and building a new rack on the trailer for more of my crap. there's actually nothing we can do now except wait and think. think about what life is going to be like. well for mike he knows. he knows his job, how it all runs, how to live in a trailer, how to cook- he didn't he ate out every day- he knows this lifestyle. i on the other hand don't. i don't have a clue. so i sit and think about what it is all going to be like. so i've created a little "bucket list"

- walk/run with Remmi every day

- cook dinner every night for my hubby =) now this could be a challenge. basically i think a cook book titled "cooking for 2 in a camp trailer" ha. i can cook but for one and in a full sized oven and kitchen. i have a feeling its going to be quiet the experience with lots of trial meals

- stick our budget plan and be debt free by January 2012. well not completly because i'm sure by that time mike will want a 4 wheeler and our stupid dodge won't be paid off for years and years but my 4 wheeler, the dirtbike, trailer, my ring, and second half of my student loan will for sure be gone! =) yippeeee time to really start saving up for our first home!

- get caught up on my book list. i've already started since i haven't worked for flippin 6 weeks now so any book suggestions PLEASE do tell. if this list ends i may be very upset!

- continue my daily yoga

-broaden my crocheting skills and craft skills in general for that matter

yes i will be spending alot more time alone which may be a challenge considering i'm a social bug. i'm taking this opportunity to strengthen my marriage, cooking skills, and myself. i'm going to truely be my own best friend and am determined to fully love myself. quirks and all.

good bye to my first place.

alright so i'm kinda a sentimental baby. we got everything out of the apartment yesterday. i decided to go back later that evening and clean it for the last time. i cried as i wandered around my 2 bedroom apartment that had been my home for the last year and a half. yes technically it was our apartment but lets face it was mine :) that apartment has housed SO many late nights of tears, laughs, and countless memories made. girls nights took on a whole new meaning when we all got together with mamosas in hand. my first parties, the college crazy get the cops called on you kind and "grown up" ornament/christmas parties. the spur of the moment coffee dates with mom. afternoons spent laying by the pool dreaming and dicussing wedding plans. mine and future friends. i'll miss it, i already do. ha lets be real moving back in with mom and dad with my husband and child (4 legged child) is kinda strange and kinda a zoo. its hilarious to watch the puppies run around. i'm very blessed that we even have this option otherwise we'd really be homeless but i'm READY TO GO! oh well we're keeping our heads up and trying to stay positive! with that i'll leave you with some pictures of my cute first home. enjoy! :)




oh and fyi trying to fit ALL those clothes (there was more in the hall closet and guest room) into a 28 ft trailer is a very, very difficulft challenge that i conquerd! :)

who needs chairs?

i am currently writing this sitting on the floor of the apartment while Remmi (yes I got a puppy) is running around chewing on my $75 Bombshell bra =( he's fun but really my bombshell!? we've currently moved everything out of the apartment except for the tv and a few dishes. its been a crazy few days trying to decide where everything goes; storage, trailer, or trash? i guess i should back up and talk about how we got here.

well i caved. after 2 years of being apart, 9 months of marriage and only a handful of visits, my school completed and career started, Mike moving-again our marriage was on the rocks. we've been trying so incredibly hard to build this life together while still going on in our own seperate lives that it was just putting the wedge deeper between us. so after finally getting fully comfortable and loving my job i put my 2 weeks in. it was hard, very hard. and of course as my luck has it a week after i put that in Mike got laid off, yay! great timing i'd say! but this is the linelife. they get laid off- alot. it sucks but the books are moving quickly and within the next 2 weeks we'll be back. scary part is now i have no idea where we'll be. when i first argeed to this i just had the thought of okay i'll be moving to Montana. Easy, piece o cake! its a 5 hours drive that i can make whenever i'm feeling too homesick. now theres a chance of being sent back to colorado again. i honestly wouldn't mind going anywhere but i just want to be close to home for summer. even throughout this whole moving process we'll slowly getting reconnected and i'm already happy with this decision even though my stress level is through the roof.

so now my days are busy sorting through stuff and making the camp trailer, our home instead of just Mikes. its a chore trying to fit all my clothes lemme tell ya! i don't regret not going right away. i needed to stay and make a future career for me too. although i won't be able to work while i'm whereever we are. Mike gets transfered at the drop of a hat i'll stay busy. (hopefully) i'll be making alot of phone calls back home, remmi and i will be going on lots of walks, i'll make it work. its taken alot outta me to suck it up and do this. i've pretty much had to eat my mini lectures i've had to give about why i don't just go with him. whelp here i am.

its really scary to not know where i'll be in 3 weeks, 6 months, a year. but i'll be with my husband. right where i need to be and finally honestly want to be.

marriage is hard.

i don't really feel like spilling out the last few months with the details of my crazy crazy marriage. i will soon enough but right now i'm just posting these lyrics. they make us feel a little better :)

For the First Time: The Script.

She's all laid up in bed with a broken heart,
While I'm drinking jack all alone in my local bar,
And we don't know how,
How we got in to this mad situation,
Only doing things out frustration,
Trying to make it work but man these times are hard,

She needs me now but I can't seem to find a time,
I've got a new job now on the unemployment line,
And we don't know how,
How we got into this mess is it gods test,
Someone help us cause we're doing our best,
Trying to make it work but man these times are hard

But we're gonna start by
Drinking old cheap bottles of wine,
Sit talking up all night,
Saying things we haven't for a while
A while ya
We're smiling but we're close to tears,
Even after all these years,
We just now got the feeling that we're meeting for the first time

Oooooo

She's in line at the door
With her head held high (high)
While I just lost my job but
Didn't lose my pride

But we both know how,
How we're gonna make it work when it hurts,
When you pick yourself up,
You get kicked to the dirt,
Trying to make it work but,
Man these times are hard,

Oh these times are hard,
Yeah they're making us crazy
Don't give up on me baby....