Holy Smokes!!!

k well a lot has happened in the life of Travis and Oriana Taylor! haha 1; being we moved out of the Mother-in-laws basement apartment and into our very own HOUSE!!!! Yes we did buy our own home! YAY and might i just add, BEST THING EVER!! i love it, i mostly love having a porch of my own to just go and sit on in the evening while my husband waters the lawn. :) Among many other things of course! 2; I recently got a job working at Kohl's, its been good, and ive work many crazy hours already. Ive worked there about 3-4 weeks i would guess. But i just recently got a job offer from Henry Schein which will be normal steady business hours and higher pay with payed time off and benefits so i hate to do it but im quiting Kohl's for this other job! :) 3; School is starting! yay.... :( life gets crazy once school starts. Its not very fun but it does need to be done, and with me working this new job we have to get a second car... which is kinda crazy to think about because we just bought a house!!!.... so much money to spend... i dont like it! ha but so it is with life! Our house is pretty much all set up but its constantly a mess because of the animals and Travis and I working. I need to fix that. The animals LOVE the new house, its like heaven for them being able to see outside the windows and actually see the world rather than cement and a little bit of sky. Koda (our pug, in case your forgot :) ) loves that she gets to go on walks all of the time and we take her to this park close by and just let her loose and run all around with her so that she can get her energy out! she LOVES that so much! :) After moving in in July we couldnt find a Internet company that got service where we lived for the deal we wanted, and thats why we are only just getting our Internet now... haha i must say it has been a nice break from the cyber world. Kind of calming, but now that we have it i feel so behind! :S

That is pretty much all... not too much madness going on besides those little things.

here are some pictures of some things that have been going on since my last post.

ok so i guess i havent really taken pictures these last few months... but here are a few, mostly of the house...

Neytiri and Rue enjoying the sun on our bed

The Front of our little old home! :) There is lots to be done but we love it because it is ours.The back yard that Travis tilled all up and then leveled off... its hard work. no joke!

After we leveled it all out with a Four Wheeler, a chain link fence piece, wood over top the fence and then me and tori sitting on top of that to weigh it down., next is the grass seed :)

Our cute little bathroom.

our awesome big kitchen, from the picture it doesnt look that big, but it is. this is just a corner of it

The hallway down to our room

And the other day me and my best dance friends celebrated a birthday at the olive garden, which has been our tradition for over 5 years :) it was great!

And thats all ive got for now! dont worry my next post wont be so far away from each other. Hopefully they get more exciting too.

WOW

Wow it has been forever since my last post. I have been busy busy busy with helping move my sister into my house, painting and cleaning my parents house, saying my goodbyes to them as they leave for their new life is Cali. and buying a house!!! Its not officially ours just yet, but they excepted our offer and now we are just waiting for the closing day which will be July 25th ish.... im SOOOOO EXCITED!!! our very own home! i cannot wait!

But man is it weird after 17 years of my parents living in the same house to see them move and to see that house empty...... it doesn't feel real. but it is very really and very weird! Im sad that they are gone im going to miss them very much. But im also very excited for them and excited for my first visit out to them!! it will be great! This post wont be very long, but just to let you all know im still alive and i will be posting a more fun/interesting post with pictures later!

New things!

First of all, let me apologize for that depressing post. As you could have guessed, i was very emotional and the thought of being without my eternal companion for longer than a week was making me break down. But I'm good now, and all is well. We have come to a conclusion, me more than Trav that he will stay here. He has to cuz we just put an offer in on this cutie!!! (dont worry that dead tree on the right is gone :)

It is the cutest house ever!!! its old fashioned and all, what i love is its been left in its original design but updated... if that makes sense? its 2 bed 1 bath and the lot size is .25 its perfect for our first little starter home!! We put an offer in and will hear back Monday. This is NOT A SHORT SALE thank goodness so it will be so much faster. I'm so excited, i really hope we get it. Oh its in Provo on 200 S. with a police station right around the corner. We feel good about the neighborhood.

I wanted to also post my new favorite song (Dream, by Priscilla Ahn). I was watching a movie with Travis and heard this song on it and thought i HAVE to find this song. I'd heard it before but when i heard it this time i LOVED it. so here it is for you!

LISTEN TO ME NOW!!

Other than this exciting news of finding this house and waiting back to hear if we got it, nothing really exciting is going on right now. I decided to take a break from the Fertility pills (Chlomid) because i needed the break emotionally, after the first 2 months it started having an emotional effect on me, so i thought id save some money and just keep trying without the pills. If in a few months nothing is happening still, ill go back on them. I just have to trust and keep praying every night that someday soon i will be able to be pregnant with our first child. Everything is perfectly fine with both me and Travis, we have done everything to make sure of that, and the fact that i was able to get pregnant once before (1 1/2 years ago already) is proof it will happen, when its supposed to. :)

i have also set new goals! First keep looking for a job, I'd like to start running.... its good exercise and i need that, and also i would like to learn to longboard. My little brother laughed when he heard me say this. He told me i was the kind of person who if he saw riding a longboard he would want to go push them off..... rude huh? ill show him up. I just need a longboard now :)

sooo complicated....

As most of you may know Travis' dad works in Alaska at a Gold Mine for 4 weeks and then comes home for 2 weeks. Travis' older brother just got a job working up there too. Well Travis' dad just got home and said that if Travis wanted he could get him a job up there working and making A LOT more money that he is now. Right away i said no way i couldn't live without you for a whole month especially when we are trying to start our family. I said if I'm pregnant this month then no way are you going because if you are not meant to go than i would be pregnant, but if im not, than maybe you are supposed to go. Well i spoke too soon because i started Sunday (yesterday) and am yet again NOT pregnant, i don't know why i though being on fertility would help me get pregnant instantly, because its not, this is month 4 and still no baby. So we are seriously considering Alaska.... why does this suck? because i cannot go up with him, its a job where he would have to live in a man camp. So if he were to get this job i would move to California to be closer to my family but have my own place out there, yet still be close to visit my family when i get lonely, im only thinking of doing this if my little sis. Tori agrees to live with me out there so im not living alone in a house all by myself for 4 weeks at a time. This job would only be temporary to earn and save enough money so Travis could get through school without having to work. But that means possibly 2 years working in Alaska.... is it worth it? All of this news and decisions on top of my hormones is killing me, why is life so complicated, why cant we just always have the answers right in front of us, so we know what to do and why..... i feel like im making it 10x worse than what it really is, but its understandable, im very hormonal right now.... i just dont know what to do. Can someone please comfort me and tell me everything will be ok and if i move out to Cali you will all take turns coming to visit me for weeks at a time.... please!!! I dont think id have such a hard time with this Alaska stuff if i was actually able to go up with him, id leave everything behind just to go with him but instead id be the one being left behind..... ughhh what am i supposed to do....

Buca di beppo and the flower

Last night Leah, Andrew, Travis, me, Tyler, and Hailey went on a triple date up to Salt Lake where we ate at a great Italian restaurant called Buca di beppo. I'd never been there, it was sooo good!!! :) yum! then after we ate we walked to the gateway were we got to spend a few hours shopping!!!! wanna hear something funny.... this was my chance to really spend some money and get some new clothes. Guess how much i spent?..... i got 2 shirts and some china shoes (shoes they sell at Epcot china town) and only spent $20. thats it.....

We had so much fun! After dinner and the Gateway we went to Andrew and Leah's place and ended up watching the Perfect Score, its an older movie but not many of us had seen it. It was an alright movie. All in all we had a great date night with some great friends! :)

Now this flower that i have in my title, well it was a really pretty flower that Travis had picked for me up the mountain on his walk with Koda. it was really pretty, so i took a few pictures of it and put it in a glass of water where it sat untouched for a day.

Then the next day we get home and Rue is attacking something on the floor by the sink, i was afraid it was a bug the last time she was doing this was when she was playing with a stink bug that had gotten into our place. so i lean over cautiously to see what she is doing and find THIS

she had eaten my pretty flower...... eaten it, left the stem of course. I was so sad and Travis just started laughing so hard he almost had tears. I claim she was just jealous she didnt get a flower from Trav so she had to eat mine!!! :)

I also dyed my hair again, red just isnt me... i can do the black cherry but never again will i go so red. Im a dark brunette kinda gal. So i dyed my hair back to a nice dark brown, i've also been laying out getting some nice sun so i have a nice tan and with this darker hair i look even more tan, i love it!! now if only my hair would grow faster so i could put it up into a ponytail life would be so much easier!!

Travis hadn't shaved in a while and had pretty long facial hair, after about a week of me begging him to shave it, cuz he was scratching up my face he shaved an Enigo Montoya mustache.... hahah it was awesome, Trav sure does love his staches....