Settling In...

Isaiah and I sold our first home a few weeks ago. I really wish we had taken before and after pictures from when we first moved in. The previous owners had taken less than stellar care of the home. After a little paint, carpet and a lot of cleaning and love it was a great little home.

I did at least have the foresight to have our neighbor Adam snap a picture of us after we had moved out the last box and scrubbed the last bathroom. There is nothing like buying your first home and nothing like locking the door and leaving it for the last time. Isaiah and I LOVED our ward and are sad to have left. We're excited for our next adventure...building a home in Riverton (I'm sure there will be many more pictures to follow once they start building).




Here are a few pictures I snapped to comemorate moving day...


I always wondered what was on the other side of those deer antlers... (ha ha ha)

Don't get the wrong impression from the picture. Isaiah really did work hard.

It is a little weird to pack your entire life away into a 16 foot storage pod. I am impressed how much stuff those pods can hold.

So for now we will be staying with my mom in Sandy. It's been fun to hang out with my family and not nearly as weird as I thought to live at home again. Althought it is a little weird living with Isaiah in my old bedroom (which is size-ably smaller than our 16 ft storage pod...I'll have to post a picture of it sometime).

New Adoption Blog!

Nothing too new on the adoption front. Isaiah and I are still waiting patiently for our stork to come :)

We got the idea to do a blog that is about us adopting from a couple we met through LDS Family Services. It's a great idea since it has all the information a perspective birth mom might want to know about us.

Our new adoption blog is meetrfam.blogspot.com. If you have a link on your blog to our adoption profile will you update it to our new blog? The Itsaboutlove site relaunched a few weeks ago and that link won't work any more.

We really do appreciate everyone's help who has added our info on our blog. You never know who might see it that could help connect us with our future birth mom!

My Day Off, A Photo Essay

Isaiah and I normally have Thursdays off together. Since he had to work Thursday I decided to do some shopping. I after everything I saw I decided to title this day off "Rosie's Grand Photo Adventure."

Here are a few of the things I saw...

This isn't so much crazy as it is pretty and tasty. We decided to go out to breakfast and this was my oatmeal in an oatmeal cookie bowl from Paradise Bakery. Seriously delicious!



Outdoorsmen Mecca. We ran to Cabela's before Isaiah had to be to work to look for camping equipment for youth conference. Seriously-this place is ridiculous if you've never been here.

In the middle of the store there are animal carcasses posing. So weird.


Here's a close up of the weirdness.



Watch out little fish. You might be swimming now but you'll be taxidermied too if you misbehave.

On the way out this caught my eye. Yes...it's a baby onesie, Cabela style. It is the UGLIEST thing I have ever seen. To make it worse when you turned it over there were 3 lines of lace ruffles on the bum! The only thing that would have made it worse would have been if they used the bright orange hunting color for the lace.

I'm still cracking up about this outfit, mostly because I can't tell if they are gag gifts or if people really buy them because they think they're cute.

After I dropped Isaiah off at work I headed down to the Gateway to do a little shopping.

Have you ever seen a pink port-a-potty before? I figured since Green ones are called "John's" the pink ones must be called "Jane's"...ha ha ha. I'm so funny.

I found this book at Urban Outfitters. This sums up my long day of errands and shopping. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. My only regret is that I didn't pick it up and read a few pages.

Pioneer and Indian Road Trip!

My cousin got married last weekend so I figured we would turn the drive into a mini road trip. We recruited my sister and her husband Jon into coming with us and had a blast.

Our first stop was Cove Fort. Cove Fort was built in 1847 by Ira Hinckley and his family (President Hinckley's grandpa I think). The Fort was used to give travelers a place to rest. It was restored and turned back over to the Church in 1988 by the Hinckley family and was dedicated in 1992 by President Hinckley.

During the tour we learned that the Hinckley family and probably all early settlers were very resourceful and didn't waste anything! For example - A worn out dress would be cut into shreds to weave into a rug. When the rug wore out it would be cut up and burned in the fire - after it was burned the ashes would be mixed with animal fat and lye to be made into soap. If we were only half as resourceful as they were I'm sure we'd save thousands of dollars a year on stuff we don't need.

This is a picture of the four of us in the interior of the fort. You can see the lava rock they used to build the fort behind us.

The tour guide told us how the door ishollow and was filled with sand to stop bullets or arrows from penetrating. She also told us that the Hinckley family was so well respected by the Native Americans that they never attacked the fort.

Next on our stop was Fremont Indian State Park. This place is cool if you are into rock carvings, pictographs or petroglyphs.

The artifacts from the Fremont Indians weren't discovered in Southern Utah until 1983 when surveyors were sent out to check the area before I 70 was going to be built. They discovered a cave of rock drawings and later a huge city.

It's kind of neat to think that stuff is all around us just waiting to be discovered - even in Utah. The Fremont Indians lived in Utah around 1500 AD or so.

We went on a short hike and saw some of the carvings.

If you look right above my head you can see some more.

This was one of the homes they found. You can actually climb down inside and look at it. The Fremont Indians lived in underground dirt homes.

There is also a museum and visitor center at the park. Jon and Nicole made friends with some of the woodland creatures.

After a long day of site seeing we went to my cousin's reception (she had the reception the night before the wedding...weird I know :)

These are our cute grandparents. I am named after my grandma Rosalie :)

We got up early Saturday morning to do initiatories before my cousin's sealing. Once we got there though we found out they don't do initiatories until later on Saturday. They let us go and do sealings with the temple workers who do them between sessions. It was really neat to be able to do sealings with my sweetheart, sister and her husband. Everytime I do sealings I think about how cool it will be when we adopt a baby to have them sealed to us. They will be able to receive all the same blessings that children who are born the their parents receive.

My cousins sealing was really neat to. The Manti temple is absolutely BEAUTIFUL inside. It's definitely one of my new favorites.

It was a fun weekend of traveling, laughing and visiting with family. I'm hoping maybe the next cousin to get married will decide to get sealed in the Hawaii temple or something so we'll have an excuse to go there :)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the last 3 weeks of our lives...

Man life gets busy!

These are the highlights of the last 3 weeks of our lives. If you click on the link it will take you to the post :)

• We got our countertops refinished (no more iron burn on them)


• We had 5 people walk through our home (we had 3 in the first week and a half it was on the market)


• I successfully completed my school semester (woo hoo for online classes)


• We received news a birth mom was interested in us (err...more about that later)


• We welcomed a our first nephew into the family (hooray for a boy)


• I got a beautiful new computer

All Shiny and New

One of the most distinct features of our house was our custom iron burn design countertops. When we first walked through our house we spotted the iron burned and cracked up. Seriously, who irons on the countertop and leaves the iron sitting there face down long enough to do this?

We planned on replacing the countertops this summer but with deciding to put our house up for sale decided now was as good of time as any to say good bye to our old designer tops.

We found a great company that just refinishes over your existing countertops. The benefits are it reduces land fill since they are not throwing away your old tops (I'm all about going GREEN when possible) and since they are just refinishing over an existing product it saves some major $$ (which I'm all about as well.)

Here is the finished look. Not too shabby eh?

What? We're Moving?

So about this whole moving thing...

When Isaiah and I bought our home we planned on staying here for at least 2 kids. Oddly enough 4 years later and no kids we just felt it was time to move. We really weren't planning on it. In January we refinance and got a rockin' awesome rate, we LOVE our ward and our neighborhood, and really have no reason to move. I've always heard about people getting that feeling that it was time to move. Well apparently it's a real thing because about a month ago I couldn't shake the feeling. Isaiah and I went to the temple and prayed about it and here we are - a for sign sale in front of our house and no plan on where we are going next. One of my young women described it as one of those "I will go and do" things.

We've had good traffic through our house considering it's not the best market to be selling a house in. In the first week and a half we had 3 people walk through our house, and we have 2 people walk through last week. We're in no hurry to sell but it's nice to have so much traffic early in the process.

So if you know anyone looking for an amazing cute little first home send them our way. Seriously our ward is the greatest, we have awesome neighbors and in the last few years Isaiah and I have replaced every appliance in the whole house!

Wish us luck, if I had to guess where we'll move to I'd say Hawaii....err that's just were I wish. I think we'll probably end up somewhere around Riverton.