Meet the Birdie Sling

On Valentines day, Matt and I went up to West Jordan to help Matt's parents put insulation in the garage of their new house. Afterward, we went up to Gardner Village and looked around. There is this really fun fabric store that has lots of cute fabric and patterns. I found a pattern for a bag, and ta-da! Here it is!

It looks a little lop-sided here, but it really isn't. It was slouching for its photo shoot.

I think my favorite thing about it is that it has one very wide handle.

But I also like that it's very big. Now my bag collection is getting a little out of hand. You can never have too many though, right? That's what I keep telling Matt, but he doesn't buy it. : )

The Ottoman

This is one comfortable empire.

Thank you, Obama

For those of you also buying a home this year, I'm sure you are equally glad that the tax credit was changed.

Click here to learn about free money: http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/2009/home2.html

Peoria

Well, one of these days I'll put some pictures on our blog. We haven't been doing much, and by much I mean anything. We go to work, go grocery shopping, watch TV, watch Matt play sports, and look for houses online. We did buy a new ottoman, so I'll put a picture of that. Anyway, we've been doing some extensive research on Arizona: where to live, where the gangs are, where the drug dealers are, and such. We've chosen a place that we'll probably live--Peoria. We've found some really great houses there, and at first I was really excited. Last week, I started doing more reasearch on crime and gangs, and I suddenly became terrified to move to such a big city! Matt talked to a guy at work that said to stay away from west Phoenix. That's where all the gangs are. I'm convinced that all of Arizona (or at least Phoenix) is gang-ridden and quite comparable to Gotham City. All I need is Batman and I'll feel safe. Saturday I did some more research and discovered that Peoria is the location for spring training for both the Padres and the Mariners! Alas, I am no longer afraid. I also found out that Peoria was ranked in the top 100 places to live by Money Magazine last summer, and ranked higher than Orem and Sandy! I figure if Peoria comes in higher than Orem, they must be doing something right.

Things in Arizona that are not in Utah continued...

So, after reviewing my list of things in Arizona, I realized that it wasn't all-inclusive. Here are some more things that I failed to mention in my first list.

1. Daniel and Julie (sorry guys, I really didn't forget about you)
2. John McCain
3. The Grand Canyon (do the people on the HoverRounds really go to the Grand Canyon?)
**Addendum**
Okay, so the Grand Canyon was on my first list. I need to work on my memory.

I'll keep you posted as I think of more.

Our final answer is....

Midwestern!

We finally heard from the U, and they said no. Not being able to go to the U is both good and bad. Bad because we'd have liked to stay close to home, but bad because it's the U. We didn't really want to be Utes anyway.

So, I've put together a small list of things that are in Arizona that are not in Utah.

1. Palm trees

2. Cheap houses

3. In-n-out

4. Johnny Rockets

5. The Suns

6. The Cardinals

7. The Diamond Backs

8. Randy Johnson (is he still there? I know he was...)

9. Warm winters

10. Cacti

11. Hack-a-Shaq

12. No Daylight-Savings time

13. The Grand Canyon

14. London Bridge (I just learned this!)

School starts the 10th of August, so we'll be moving down there at the end of July. Now we just have to get the Bushmans to come with us, right Brooke?

Happy Birthday to Me!

December 31st is a very good day to have a birthday, everyone in the world has a party on my birthday!  And Happy Birthday to my new niece, Annie, she was born on the 27th!

Christmas in review

All in all, we had a pretty good Christmas. We had fun spending time with the Serafines, as well as all of the Bradshaws. Santa treated us pretty well, too.