Kitchen Pictures....FINALLY!!!!

Well most of you have seen the kitchen but here are some pictures anyways. :) Okay I am slightly retarded when it came to making this slide show so you just have to click on the button that says view all images. :)

Recap Of The Last Few Weeks

Okay I figured that I had not posted on my blog for a very very long time. As a recap from the last post I have is this:

• We waited as patiently as possibly for our NEW kitchen to arrive and then be installed.
• I LOVE LOVE LOVE my kitchen by the way...it exceed my expectations by far. I promise to post pictures of it...one of these days.
• We then finished installing all of the kitchen appliances the following weekend.
• After that we took a short break from house work and projects (mainly because we were burnt out).
• Then Ryan had a mile marker birthday (30 years old).
• The one surprise that I actually was able to pull off for his birthday was that I got the day off work for Ryan and then planned a day of fun for us.
• I swear I changed my plans for his birthday what felt like a million different times (without him even knowing because I was trying to keep it a surprise). I started to stress myself out a little bit because we still had some projects left to be finished for the house. So what we finally ended up doing was having a small get together for friends (the day after his birthday) and then had his entire family over for dinner on Sunday.
• Amongst all of the birthday plans and fun Ryan's brother Mike came over multiple different times to help us finish hanging our new interior doors for the house. He also helped us get our TV hung on the wall above the fireplace. I am so thankful that he was able to come up and help as much as he did. All of these plans would not of been as perfect without all of his and Ryan's hard work to get the house projects completed in time.

It was a lot of planning and hard work but definitely worth it. Ryan is such a wonderful man and so patient and willing to go along with any crazy idea or request I have...so I am glad that I could do a few things for him on his special day..uh I mean special birthday weekend. :)

Grrr...I say GRRRRR!!!!

Okay I am grrrrr..ing because I just talked to the cabinet people after I had to email them again to get someone to call me that was supposed to call me. Anyway, the conversation basically went like this.... When are you and Ryan free to come for an appointment because we don't have your kitchen design drafted up but that doesn't take long. This guy tells me he has to talk to his drafting department to see if they can get it done by monday or tuesday of next week. Keep in mind that I was originally told that we would be done in 5 weeks. You may be wondering when the 5 week deadline is done....ya you guessed it! 5 weeks is next tuesday....friggin cabinet people! He then calls back and leaves me a message saying that he can't meet until Wednesday and that we are looking like we will have the cabinets the first week in november. NOVEMBER!!!!!!! I know that it is only about 2 weeks that it has been pushed out ...but no apologies...nothing from this guy (which was nice btw) and he told me that I was the "squeaky wheel" in a joking sarcastic tone. He hasn't seen squeaky yet. I WILL be his worst nightmare if he doesn't get our friggin cabinets in now. I am so past the point of being patient and nice with everyone (as you can all tell.... I am at my breaking point). The kitchen has been completely removed, gone, none existent, zilch, zippo.... for probably almost 2 months. We eat out or get take out for every meal. Sorry for such a negative and ornery post but I needed to vent so that I won't yell at the cabinet guy. The only thing I wish they would of done is let me know that we weren't going to hit the 5 week deadline....I guess there are some communication problems between some of the groups at that company. LAME LAME LAME... I wish I had my cabinets in now... I don't want to wait any longer.

Tagged By Lisa

Okay I know I just did a post similar to this one but unless you all want to hear about my house again then this is what you get. :) I will post soon enough about the house I am just too lazy and tired these days to get the pictures off of the camera.

Okay here are 7 random things about me. Enjoy my random-ness.


1.I eat ice cream with a fork. It is not a make or break situation….if there is only a spoon in which I must eat my ice cream then so be it but I would definitely prefer to eat it with a fork. Now here is my reasoning…. If you eat it with a spoon there is always some ice cream that gets stuck/frozen to the spoon which takes extra effort to get it out.

2.I am in the process of trying to see if one of my kitties (Tipsy) is smart enough to be an outside kitty. She is driving me nuts being inside and begs constantly to go outside…but I am afraid that she will have a hard life outside…you know cars and other mean cats and all.

3.I love love love Halloween….it seriously is one of my most favorite holidays…mainly because you get lots of candy and get to decorate your house in way cute Halloween stuff which includes lots of skulls which Ryan likes. Plus there isn't all of the hype that x-mas usually has about gifts. I like Christmas don’t get me wrong but I have always had a special place in my heart for Halloween.

4.We have about a billion cars at our house right now. We have 3 daily drivers and then 5 others that don’t drive that will be restored one day including my new little Austin Healey…hooray for me. :) I know I am spoiled.

5.I swear I am getting carpal tunnel from painting sooooo much. I painted my kitchen and all of the trim/casing for the house this weekend. The following morning I had a hard time moving my wrist. The worst part of that is that I am not finished painting. Ugh I still have one more coat to paint in the kitchen and then the remaining base boards for almost the entire house. Wish me luck that my wrists don’t fall off.

6.Like my friend Tiffany….I fall asleep to almost every movie that I watch not in the theaters. If I am in the theaters I would say that I have about 95% chance of not falling asleep. Now if I am watching any movie new or old if I am at my house I am always asleep about 30 min into the movie. I try so hard to stay awake but it just does not work.

7.The last random thing about me is that I am excited for the snow to come so that I can go snowboarding with my hubby. Ry got a new board this year so it will be very fun this year. I am actually getting good enough that he doesn't have to wait for me every few hundred yards…he only has to board slower than normal now. Which means that I am improving because is actually a pretty okay boarder…hooray for me!

Hooray for a new post

Okay I have been called out about never posting to my blog. I know I am a big slacker. I have been consumed with the house stuff lately that I am too tired by the end of the day post about something that I was just cursing probably only 30 min earlier. ;)

You are supposed to answer the following questions with only one word...so here it goes.

1. Where is your cell phone? ................purse
2. Your significant other?....................Ry
3. Your hair?........................................curly
4. Your mother? ..................................missing
5. Your father?.....................................hmmm....cowboy
6. Your favorite thing?.......................summer nights
7. Your dream last night?...................none
8. Your favorite drink........................virgin Pina Colada
9. Your dream/goal?.....................not sure
10. The room you're in?......................my tiny cubical
11. Your children?..............................kitties
12. Your fear?...........................death of loved ones
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years...........kids and working part time at the most
14. Where were you last night?...................home
15. What you're not?............................patient
16. Muffins...........................cran-raspberry
17. One of your wish list items?..............perfect yard
18. Where you grew up?...................... O-town
19. What you read last........................nothing
20. What are you wearing?...................work clothes
21. Your TV?....................................at home
22. Your pets?....................................kitties
23. Your computer? ..................................always on
24. Your life?......................................busy
25. Your mood?...................................right now PMSing
26. Missing someone?...........................mom
27. Your car?...................................ghetto fabulous
28. Something you're not wearing?...........earrings
29. Favorite Store?........................... any home decor store
30. Your summer?............................. gone
31. Like someone?...............................yes
32. Your favorite color?.......................lots
33. Last time you laughed...................last night
34. Last time you cried?.....................Saturday

So there you have it... enjoy. :)

Status of the House

I know I haven't posted anything new in a long time. So, here is a quick run down of what has been going on. Basically just house work. Here are the details and progress of the house. We finally have all of the floor installed and Ryan sanded it on sat. He will have to sand the floor about 4 times or so with different grits of sand paper to get it ready to stain/seal it. So, we are both hoping by this coming sat the floor will be all finished and then it is on to the waiting game after that. Since the sander is very loud Ryan sent me out shopping on sat while he continued to work on the house. I have been look for a new rug. I have searched high and low for a rug that is contemporary but not too contemporary and that will pull all of the colors of the rooms together. So, I found this rug at home depot... what do you think? Or does anyone know where I can find roughly a 5' x 8' rug for not a ton of money. I don't really want to pay more than $150 -$200 unless the rug is really really good quality.


So, besides rug shopping we also picked out the style and color of our cabinets. We are going to have a dark brown with red undertones for the color of the cabinets and the door style will look like this but only the brown color. So the cabinet place says they are out about 4 weeks. We could of gotten on the list a long time ago but wasted a lot of time with a few small details. Oh well live and learn....next time I'll try to decide faster. Either way the house will be mostly back together in 4 weeks....just in time for Halloween. Hooray! I love Halloween...amost as much as I love the thought of no more house projects. :)

Lets all rejoice in the "Passing"

Tipsy (the cat) has passed her rubber band with easy at 6:05pm last night. Ryan and I are proud of her...both kitty and rubber band are doing well. hahahahah

Okay here is the story to go along with the end results....
It all started on Monday when Ry and I went out to buy our new TV. It is the biggest TV I have ever owned.....it rocks. Getting back on track a little bit now so on Tuesday I went to our cable company and picked up a new HDTV box. Ryan and I were like little kids on Christmas morning unwrapping everything and hooking it all up. So, Ryan being Ryan shot a rubber band at Tipsy (one of our cats). I swear she is crazy sometimes because she will play with anything for what seems like 8 billion years and has never had any problems. However, we turn around about 2 min later to Ryan saying "did she just eat that rubber band?". So I immediately grab her and stick my finger in her mouth to try to find it. Nope, it is completely gone. She devoured it! So I try to make her drink water in hopes that she would throw it up.... but nope in true cat form she just sits by her water and looks at me and swear if I could of read her mind you would of been saying you dummy I am as sure as hell not drinking water especially if you want me to drink it.

I call the vet the next morning to see what I could do. She tells me to watch her for the next few days and if she acts sick in anyway to bring her in. I ask what will be done if I do bring her in. She explains test and x-rays will be done and then exploratory surgery to extract the rubber band. Come to find out that the surgery is a min of $600. YIKES!

Needless to say we were very excited that Tipsy "passed" her rubber band with ease. I am just glad that I don't have to pay for her to have surgery now. Hooray for no surgery! :)

Memories

Okay I totally stole this post/idea from my friend Shawna...thx!

This may be fun to some and lame to others, but I wanted to play so those who think it's fun, please join. Those who think it's lame, just move on!

Memories: Leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time or a long time, anything that you remember will work!Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is pretty fun to read the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't have a blog don't worry, you can still leave a comment :)

1 Year Anniversary

We had our one year anniversary last weekend. I can't believe how fast our first year went! I loved our first year of marriage. Everyone says that the first year is pretty hard but ours was so much fun. Since our house has been "under construction" for about 4 months now I tend to lose my patience for the house quickly. So, we decided to take a break from the house work and actually stay somewhere that doesn't have tools scattered all over the floor. We ended up staying at the Little America hotel in SLC and seeing a movie and then we went to dinner at the Roof restaurant. I forgot my camera so I took some pictures from my phone again... they aren't the best.

View of the SLC Temple from the Roof restaurant
My cute hubby!

Needless to say that we had a ton of fun and I am so thankful for Ryan and his sweet nature and very patient personality (which is something I need). Ryan is always so good to go along with what ever happens or if I decide to do something crazy. Just the other day he suggested that I go hang out with my sisters when he sands the floor because it will be really loud noises all day long....he is always thinking of me. I hope the rest of our millions of years together are as great as this year has been. Love ya honey.

It's Official!

Okay folks....I know it has been a million years since my last post. Sorry about that. As a quick catch up on everything that has gone on since the first of May until now is. I got a new job up at the University of Utah in their HRIS dept. I am basically doing the same job as before with better benefits and a little better pay. I still miss all of my old friends at IHC a ton though. Okay at the same time of getting the new job Ryan and I had started to redo our house a bit. We started with only putting in new hardwood floors only. That project has now morphed into new floors, new baseboard and casings, new paint on all of the walls oh and did I mention new paint on the ceiling as well. Now the latest thing is that we are toying with the idea of putting in new kitchen cabinets so we can hide our washer and dryer that are located in the kitchen. What have we gotten ourselves into? Geez So, we have a lot of projects going on...needless to say.

Recently, we had some holiday festivities for the 4th of July. We spent most of the day working on the house (surprise surprise) then we spent time with Ryan's family and extended family for a BBQ and then watched some killer fireworks up at Davis High School. We had a ton of fun.

Then the next day was my nieces second birthday so we had a party for my family the following day. It was really great to see all of the sisters and the entire family. All of the kids were so stinking cute. I think I took a few pictures but will post them later.... So, those are just a few of the millions of things that have gone on in the past while.

Okay onto the real reason why I am posting to day... of it being official. What I am referring to is changing my name to be my married name. It only took me 363 days to get it done from when we got married...hahahhaha Funny huh. I get harassed a lot for not having changed my name yet. So, I thought that I would get it done before we hit our 1 year anniversary. Hooray I am now..... Stacie baby Esther Fowers...uh I mean Rigby. Okay for those of you that don't know the inside joke... when I was little when someone would ask me my name I would always say Stacie Baby Esther Fowers. I was called Stacie baby for a long time when I was little (obviously) since it stuck. So now you know.

So, our 1 year anniversary is on Sat (July 12). I am really excited for it even though Ryan and I can't decide on what to do for it or what to even get each other. Ryan came home from work yesterday with roses to celebrate the fact that we got married on a Thursday. Which was sooo sweet! However, I think he got a little mixed up because yesterday was Wednesday instead of Thursday.... Oh well, he was just one day early.

Disneyland Trip Continued

As you all know I am not much of a blogger so I am just going to publish lots of our pictures. I think pictures are more fun to look at anyways.

More Pics Of Disneyland & Universal Studios

Disneyland Trip

Disneyland - Day 1


The first full day after we flew in we all went to Sea World and had a ton of fun. The first thing we see is a group of Flamingos walking down the path for their morning stroll.





Here is a picture from inside the Penguin exhibit....some of those birds were pretty tubby.


The famous...... Shamu



Dylan (my nephew) watching a walrus swim by. He loved it...we practically had to pull him away from it.

Fun With the Fam

Okay so I am a little late with this post... oh well. So some of the sisters came up to my house with their kids 2 weekends ago. It was soooo much fun...it was crazy but a lot of fun. Lets just put it this way within the first 5 min a lamp was broken and a picture was knocked over and both of the cats were running for their lives (tee tee hee..those cats deserve it). I thought it was hilarious though. We watched the kids play with their toys and the Wii for a little bit before we got some lunch. After lunch we decided to go to the local Rec Center to go swimming. Swimming was a total hit except the fact that the water was cold. After swimming we went bouldering at the Rec Center for a few mins. The kids were tired from swimming so they tried to watch a movie but the cats were too much of a tempting distraction. So after some more torturing sessions for the cats we all had a picnic on the floor for dinner.

Look at my SWEET skills

Haley's turn

The Rest of the Kids' Turns

My First Post!

Hooray! This is my very first blog. It is about time that I joined the blogging world...wouldn't you say. To get everyone acquainted to us, here are few things that we enjoy. Both of us love going snowboarding in the winter time and wake boarding in the summer. We also really like having barbecues and spending time with friends and family. Ryan is into restoring classic cars and has many projects in the garage that he works on. They will fantastic when they are completed. We are in the process of renovating our cute little house. We (as in Ryan) are going to be installing hardwood floors into main living area of the house. I am so excited for that to happen. I also have plans to fix up the landscaping out side. So between work, our families and all of our projects and fun plans we are always on the go....which we enjoy.