The Great Flood

Here is a little story about the life of Josh & Taylor:

Found a great apartment in a cute neighborhood called Pleasant Grove.

Moved all of our things into this cute apartment.

Hung all the pictures on the wall, organized everything, it was perfect.

Taylor & Josh left for Centerville and stayed overnight until Sunday.

Returned Sunday morning, after living in new apartment for a week.

Was welcomed with 4+ inches of water in entire apartment.
Yep, thats the story of the flood. Apparently our washer became disconnected somehow and shot out water for almost 24 hours without anyone knowing. So far, we have been living on Trevor's couch for a week. We were supposed to be able to move back in already-until yesterday when we got the news that they have to replace the baseboards so our new date is NEXT Friday. It's so sad! Besides the fact that we really have nowhere to live for 2 weeks, all of our stuff is EVERYWHERE....just sitting in the garage, outside under a tarp, inside the house of the owners. Please just wake us up when the nightmare is over! And again, i'll post the pictures of it once I am able to reach my laptop.

On a good note: we sold Josh's Tahoe and bought a new SUV! It's a Saturn Vue and I love it!

Bridal Shower

Last weekend I threw a bridal shower for my brother's fiance, Charlee. We had it at my parent's house outside on the deck and it ended up being super cute :) We decorated it all up in their wedding colors and had a cute little dinner with adorable mini cupcakes. We played a few games-that I think turned out great. One game was our family tradition-basically you ask a question and have to guess what Charlee would answer. The other we had a bunch of different pictures of Charlee and Trevor at different ages growing up; you had to guess exactly how old they were in the picture. Charlee got a bunch of cute stuff and the countdown is officially on...their wedding is in less than 2 weeks! I can't believe my little brother is getting married ;)

P.S. Our apartment got flooed (i.e. the next post) so i'll be posting pictures once I we get situated again.

Phew!

Wow....the last week has been SO crazy! We spent out Memorial Day running all over the place and we finally made it and moved into our new apartment. It was crazy for a few days, especially because I was sick (yet again) but somehow we managed to put the house together. I really like it here so far, we live in a cute little neighborhood and it feels much more like home now. I still really want a dog but Dwain is alright for now :)

Josh is studying for the D.A.T. like crazy, which he is taking at the end of June. I can't wait until it's over! It will be like having a new de-stressed husband. Just pray that all goes well!

On another note, which is crazy, my twinner is getting married in like three weeks! How crazy is that. The Stapley family is going through BIG changes this year! My little sis is turning 15 next week too....holy cow! Her turning 15 makes me feel old....i'll be the big 23 next month. My body is already starting to ache, same with Josh's, I bet by the time we turn thirty we'll be needing a cane ;) haha, yeah right! We have made it our 'couple hobby' to train for triathlons, however, I think that the first step will be to live through our first one!

Our Newest Addition

We recently added another member to the newly formed Sharp family (no....don't get too excited....no baby Sharp's yet).

.........it's a hampster! His name is Dwain.

What I REALLY wanted was a puppy, which i've had my heart set on getting for at least 2 years....but i'm not allowed to get one due to where we live. Someday.... someday i'll have a puppy named Bucket.

Which brings me to our other big news-WE'RE MOVING! We have been wanting to get out of our one-bedroom apartment for a while and a great opportunity popped up so we took it. It's a completely remodeled basement apartment in Pleasant Grove, much more spacious and in a cute little neighborhood. And the best part? There are 2 chickens living in the backyard! Yep, chickens, so we will be getting fresh eggs every morning. We're moving in on Monday and I couldn't be happier to be getting out of busy Orem.

And the last of the news. We officially started our P90X program two weeks ago. I've been wanting to try it for a while now (Josh did the full program last summer). We took the 'before' shots and everything. If my 'after' shots don't look amazing I will totally sue the inventer of P90X. But on top of that Josh & I are training for a Triathlon, which is July 10th. All of that is pretty grueling....I currently can't walk, and neither can Josh. We look like we're 80 when we walk. Good times...

Orangeville Adventures

This weekend we came down to Orangeville to visit Josh's family. We had a fun time and were able to go see some old indian drawings on the rock walls (they say their from 2000-1000 years ago). Then we went and saw the swinging bridge which is a little further in the dessert. It was built in the 1930's-I guess they call it the swinging bridge because when people used to drive over it, it would sway. Not sure I would feel comfortable driving acrossed a swaying bridge!

Sugarland & Motha's Day

Last weekend we went to the Sugarland concert-it was awesome! Sugarland was great with the audience and they were amazing live. Julianne Hough opened for them, and someone that was on American Idol last year but I forgot his name...

Then, as we know, that Sunday was Mother's Day. We did our traditional Brunch & hung out with the fam.

Graduation

As of April 30, 2010 I am an official graduate of Utah Valley University! Woo hoo! It's been five years in the making and it's crazy that it is finally over. I have no complaints though (except for finding a decent job with my degree). I have had the time of my life, starting college with Snow-nothing will ever match up to that! Now I'm 22, married, graduating, and trying to figure out where my life goes from here! Josh is not too far behind, he'll be graduating in December ... then we're off to dental school! It will be the biggest sigh of relief when he graduates from dental school .... in approximately five years, if all goes well:)

THEN

2005

Age, 18

Status: Mostly single ;)

Lived with my two best friends.

Had no idea what I wanted to major in.

Got home sick every week.

Met amazing people & lifelong friends.

Spent almost everyday at drill practice.

Partied like crazy-all the time.

Had no idea what life had in store for me.

Loved life.

NOW

2010

Age, 22

Status: Married

Living with this man I call my husband:)

Bachelors in School Health Education.

Gets home sick every week.....or two.

Continuing to keep in touch with those friends.

Missing dance all the time.

Parties little, and is okay with that.

Starting to realize where my life is going.

Loving life.

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