I got a WHAT?

Last week I turned in a paper for one of my classes. I had been dreading the paper and therefore procrastinated. I started it Friday afternoon, worked for about 30 minutes, then left to do some things. When I got home after 10:00 pm I started working on it again and finished the 3-5 page paper. It was exactly 3 pages long. I didn't feel very good about it, but by that time it was past midnight and I knew I had hours of class the next day to sit through, so I went to bed. I turned it in and thought, maybe I'll get a C.
Yesterday I got the paper back and I was amazed. I got an A, 95%. The teacher wrote a comment at the end: "Very nicely argued, with a clear statement and summary."
Did she read the paper I wrote?
I know that I have a tendency to think less of the things I do than other people do, but I'm amazed that a paper I thought was crap the teacher actually thought was good. If you want to read it and give me your opinion I'll email it to you. Just be aware that the topic was: Colonization was the making of Africa. Agree or disagree (I disagreed).

Persistence

Today we learned a little about persistence. I have called Provo School District at least 4 times about getting Kaleb into preschool. I know I've said on each phone call that he was in preschool in Springville and we needed to get him into preschool soon. Each time the person took my information and said they would have the right person call me back. They didn't.
I've been stressed about our sewer problem, so I figured I would worry about it later. Karl decided to do something about it today. He called and the person he talked to wanted him to just leave a message, which he wouldn't do. So she got the right person to talk to and Karl told her we want to get Kaleb back in Preschool. Apparently the messages she had received said we just had concerns about his speech, which is different from a child who already has had testing and an IEP.
All we have to do to get him in school is take a copy of his IEP and some other papers to the school and they'll schedule him starting. Why couldn't the first person I talked to have told me that?

I spent most of today working on unpacking. I'm really happy with how much I got unpacked. I have 29 empty boxes from today, not to mention another couple from last week. I'm not sure where all of it went, but I think I'll be able use my sewing room now.
On Saturday I got a box of books unpacked. They are the books I love to read over and over. I think a good way to explain how I feel having them out is that I'm surrounded by my friends.
I love how comfortable the house is. We have more space and the house is well planned. Karl says it is efficient. He can get ready for work about 15 minutes faster here than he could in our apartment.

Connected!

Well, we finally are connected again. It only took a 8 days of waiting and 5 hours of installing, but we now have internet, phone and TV. HOORRRAAAYYYYY!!! Now I can get some unpacking done!

Moved

Well, we did it. We are moved to our new house. This was made possible because of a lot of help we received. Thank you Dad, Mom, Emily, Von, CJ, Vlad, Jordan, Eric, Kendra, Dwaine, Mike and Elise. 15 hours of Wednesday was spent moving our things. It took 2 trips in the 17 foot Uhaul truck and a lot of manpower. Dolly's are a really good thing to have.
A few things we learned:
Keep plenty of markers around while moving so that all the boxes get written on.
Dolly's are great!
Four boxes with 6 number ten cans full of flour is too many to carry up a set of stairs at one time.
64 year old men can have more stamina than you would expect from anyone.
Keep gatorade around while moving.
Just because a fridge's measurements fit into the opening doesn't mean the fridge will OPEN when put in the opening.
Sometimes Comcast can't install the day they say they can because there isn't a nearby cable to use and they have to get permission to go over the apartment building next door before they can install for you.
It is easier to spend a lot of time unpacking if you can call your sisters and talk to them while you unpack. (At least I'll use that for an excuse of why I haven't done more unpacking)

It will probably be a couple more days before I post again since I don't have an internet connection at home until Comcast gets permission from the apartment building owners and then gets it hooked up.
Thanks everyone for your congratulations. This has been an exciting thing for us. When the first house didn't go through back in September/October I was frustrated, but knew there was a reason. I don't know all the reasons, but I know this is the house we're supposed to be in and we have been wonderfully blessed at all the things that have helped us get into the house. I am amazed at how comfortable our house feels. It really feels like HOME. I'm glad to be where Heavenly Father wants us to be.

View

Yesterday we did the final walk-through on the house. While we were doing it I noticed the view from the front porch. I hadn't realized before that because there aren't houses across the street it meant that we would have a better view of the mountains. This is our view:


We're moving in tomorrow!

Closing

Today at 3:00 we close. I'm definitely ready for it. I'm looking forward to decorating and putting things the way I want them.
Mom commented that the house is more modern than it looks from the outside. That's actually one of the things I love about it. The house has things that give it character, but everything is brand new and nice. For example: there are transom windows above all the doors, they let in extra light and are really pretty. I also like the baseboards. Not a lot of homes have 8" of baseboards. Also the ceilings are really high. I'm not sure if it's 11 feet high or 12, but either way it is high.
Here is a picture of part of the kitchen:


I actually won't be painting the walls. I really like the beige color they are now, but I COULD if I wanted to and probably will at some point. The picture is taken from the living room, so you can't see where the fridge goes on the right. The doorway on the left that you can barely see goes to the laundry room which also has a door that leads to the carport.
If the person taking the picture had turned 90 degrees to their right you would be able to see the main bathroom and the entrances to the kids bedrooms/my sewing room (the smaller bedroom will be my sewing room and guest room until we have a little girl for it, and no this isn't an announcement, we're just planning for the future).
Another 90 degrees and you would see the living room, including the front door and the windows. You would probably also see the doorway into the master bedroom. Off the master is a bathroom and walk-in-closet.
In case you can't tell, I'm really excited about it. We won't get the keys until Tuesday and then we can start moving in.