The New Place

Before Pictures

Entry

Bedroom (don't mind the existing furniture and bra)

Living Room

Kitchen (it's not pink, just looks that way)

After many hours of online searches and walk through's, we finally found our first place. It's located around 2000 East and 2100 South area, it's a nice older area, maybe a few sketchy neighbors but for the most part, much better than our other options and it's close to school.

One of the main things we looked for in finding an apartment is how willing the landlord would be in letting us decorate and paint. This apartment will allow us to do some painting upon approval so we are all over that. We've picked out colors and know how we are going to decorate. We really want our apartments to feel like a home and a permanent place, so with a few painted walls and decorating, we will make it ours. After pictures to come.

Post Dedicated to my Trevor

I was looking through my my old school notebooks & I came across this list that I had to make:

10 things I'm looking for in a man

-a best friend

-positive attitude

-strong testimony

-organized

-bright future

-reliability

-good-looking person

-a great provider

-patient

-caring personality

I wrote this years ago when I didn't know Tee. He is all of these & more. I couldn't ask for a better best friend. I can be hard to handle. I'm disorganized, and get these crazy ideas. I couldn't ask for a more caring, and loving person.Everything worked out so perfectly. It was definately a blessing from Heavenly Father. Let me tell you the story:

I worked as a nanny in Salt Lake for a cute little girl & I lived with my parents in West Jordan. Every night my friend Karen and I, would go for walks and talk about the men that we were going to meet someday. I had hardly dated, so I felt like nothing would happen for me for a long time. I wasn't really into dating either, because I kinda liked doing my own thing. The family that I worked for, decided to move to Midway for some strange reason. I commuted from West Jordan to Midway every day and it was not fun. It was usually an hour long drive back and forth and I'd have to leave around 5 or 6 in the morning. I had NO life. I did this for 6 months and it started getting old. We mutually decided that we couldn't keep doing this forever and they started trying to find a new nanny. The day I found the resumes for my replacement, I cried for 6 hours straight. I prayed to Heavenly Father to either help me find new opportunities or make this nanny job work-out. A few days later, the mom asked me to meet her for dinner, and she told me that they had emotional stress trying to replace me. She offered for me to live with them, and gave me a whole basement apartment basically. I prayed and prayed and didn't feel like I really got a clear answer. I decided no, and as I was about to tell her that, I got this strong impression to accept her offer. I was so confused. I had never lived away from my family, didn't want to start a new ward, and had NO future that I could build in Midway. BOY WAS I WRONG. I pushed forward, knowing this is what was meant for me. I went my first day to the singles ward, and as Sunday School was starting, a boy came up to me, and handed me a flier for FHE. For some reason as soon as I looked up at him, I knew this is why I had been sent there. I've never felt the Spirit stronger. I had incentive to keep going to church and to activities, and little by little I broke the shy boy. On Thursday nights, I attended Seminary. Up here, it consists of 1 class with like 5 people in it. I shared a story one night about going to the temple to know what kind of a person I wanted to date. I came across a scripture that talked about seeking a wise man. I think it was advice for sure. Class went on and Brother Clark interrupted class suddenly. He said," I'm sorry, but I have to do this. Trevor, you need to take Deidre on a date in the next 2 weeks." I went red and didn't want to look up the whole class-time. Brother Clark pulled me aside and told me that he didn't know me well, but the Spirit had been bothering him & he and his wife had impressions that Trevor and I were supposed to date. We looked up Trevor's name and in a different language, it means wise. I was meant to find that scripture for sure. I sought a wise man and found him! We started dating in October of 2009 & we were engaged in February 2010.

I've never been happier & I'm so excited to spend eternity with such an amazing man.

I love you Trevor! :)

THE BEGINNING OF ETERNITY

Trevor and I met when I moved up to the Heber/Midway area, to nanny. I remember him coming up to me my first time in that singles ward. He handed me a flier for an upcoming activity, and right when I looked at him, I knew this is where we'd end up.
We got engaged February 13th,2010. Wedding plans changed here and there but these are the final plans:

We will be sealed June 19th, 2010 in the Manti Utah Temple. That evening there will be a dinner for family in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. We are excited to start our journey to eternity together!