iPhone!

I took the plunge! Bruce has been asking me what I want for my birthday. I said I wanted an upgrade to an itouch. Then he asked when my contract was up and so I called up tmobile. Turns out it was up the start of the new year! That meant I was free to get whatever phone I wanted!!!! I loved my blackberry but wouldn't an iPhone be cool?!? We went to the store and with the amazing tax returns got an iPhone! I love it! It's so modern and fun!

Blackberry and iPhone pro and cons
blackberry has no touch screen
iPhone is only touch screen which some times can be frustrating but always cool
AT&T gets dumb service!
AT&T has 3g which is super fast
iPhone has better Internet
blackberry has spell check whenever you type!
iPhone has a guess what you're going to say but no spell check grrr!!
iPhone is longer but slimmer
blackberry ha longer battery life
iPhone has better apps and are way cool
iPhone only runs on apps
blackberry has a flashing light when you have a message
blackberry does bluetooth for songs and can send songs for ringtones
iPhone only does Bluetooth for heads free set
iPhone less likely to get virus
blackberry tether! ( meaning it can be used as a modem for your computer to get Internet)


All in all I'm happy with it but I miss my blackberry sometimes. They have touch screen blackberries but we figured iPhone is a mac while blackberry is like a pc. It depends on what you like better i like both the same so I'm happy!!


And yes this post was done on the said iPhone! Once I get the app I can upload my camera pictures on here but til then we just have to use the laptop when I have fast wireless!

Welcome, Come on in!!!!

Welcome to my apartment. I know this is a lame picture to start with but hey its what you see first! I'll give you a tour with my commentary! Come along!

• When you first walk in I have a closet that now holds a very old vacuum i stole from Bruce. I also have my jackets and fabric in there! A whole closet just for that stuff!! I'm so in love! I also have my cool pictures hanging up with mostly Bruce and myself but also some of my siblings.
  

• This is the Bar that has no bar stools because that is where I park my bike. I need to get a carpet runner so not to ruin the carpet. Its not very cute I know. I also have my "the best things in life aren't things" board up! My K and B which could be for Krystal and Bruce or Krystal Balls. I love it!!! I also got that cool "etc." sign at a garage sale and I am going to paint it red!
  

• Then you enter the living room! First you see my baby grand! Which I love but I'm sure my neighbors hate it. I can't wait for it to be tuned and painted a hunter green! That has to wait though! I told Bruce he had to sing me a song and play the piano for me at our open house because he can sing and plays so why not!). Last Sunday he started composing my song! I love hearing him play the piano while I do my make-up!!! Notice on top of the piano is my Daisy bush! I don't think they are Daisy's but they look like it so I love them! Bruce bought them for me for my place could have pretty flowers!! Also above them is the BEAUTIFUL picture that Tia took and gave me for Christmas! My & sign I am going to take pictures with is cute between our glamor pictures we took, I think so at least! See the little table... we got 2 of them! They open in the front and on the back is a magazine rack. We picked them up on the side of the road. Red chair comments next.
  

• Bruce and I found this at a yard sale! I love my red chair! It turns and rocks!! I think the light behind looks cute. I need a black frame to put our red phone booth picture in but I think it works so well with our red chair and couch!!! Oh course my giraffes have made a home there until I can make a pillow for it!
  

• Geoffry lives again!!!!! Notice the sweet couch! It is way comfy! It has 2 seats and then the chaise! If you look at the little table that's the magazine side of it with our ensigns. I like my green stars next to Geoffry! I love the bookcase!
  

• I have cookbooks, textbooks, book books, church books, scriptures, and games on the top shelf along with my giraffe piggy bank. The 2nd shelf hold pictures. Yes Kim there is a picture of me a kerri but you also have a picture with me and you on the black frame by the door!! The 3rd shelf holds one of my flower decorations for the wedding and my K krystal. I also made that number 10! its a block calender i made out of paper!
  

• You have to go through the dinning room to get to the kitchen but its coming. The kitchen is a nice size for me! I have a pantry which is the door holding my oil painting I made with my sister. I have a ton of cabinets that right now hold my 2 plates and 2 bowls and 5 cups. I have my sisters old silverware and some kitchen tools from EA. Hopefully people will be nice and give me lots of kitchen stuff for the wedding so I can fill these babies up!!!
  

• Welcome to the room that is fast becoming my favorite! Don't you LOVE the huge mirror!?!? I DO!!!!! Minus the fact that Bruce watches himself eat and makes weird faces while doing so. Bruce found the giraffe print cushions and bought them for me. I had the fabric from my old old place so I put up the border and made the table cloth. My desk sits in the coroner with my sewing machine and laptop. The other side holds my wedding flowers on a bookcase that will hold something sometime. I think this room is so cute and fun!
  

• This is the little hallway to the bedroom, bathroom, and laundry room. The door on the left goes to the laundry room. It is BIG but full of drying jeans right now.
  

• This is the bathroom. The tub is nice and the water pressure is GREAT! I'm so picky about the water pressure when I'm taking a shower. My towels and rug don't match Bruce's curtain but I figured we would wait til we got married to see if someone would buy us a cute bathroom set to use. Gotta hold out and see!!
  

• This is the sink and toothbrush cabinet. (did you know you aren't suppose to use the "medical cabinets" for medicine because it is to damp for it and should be kept in a dry location.) Becky gave me my giraffe soap pump back when I first went to college but I never have used it. I pulled it out and kept the giraffe theme going to each room.
  

• This is a closet right next to the bathroom that holds extra stuff. Mostly thing I don't have a place for or blankets and purses. Its nice to have!!!
  

• This is the vanity in my bedroom! Its right when you walk in! I love it! My bathroom never will have hair and make-up stuff all over. If people come over, I just close my bedroom door and I already have a clean bathroom! I have yet to figure out where this stuff will live but I use it everyday so I'm ok that is still a tad unorganized.
  

• This is my walk in closet! I love the shelf around the top! In the corner you can see my hat tree which is for necklaces but I like it for my hats. Bruce was worried there wouldn't be any room for his clothes but I left the back rod open for him. He jokes that half his clothes are here anyways. I only stole all his srubs, some shirts, 3 pairs of shoes, and some basketbal shorts! He still has tons of clothes at his place! I'm only using the side bar and the other 2 side bars. If he needs to he can squeeze some stuff in there too! It also has 5 shelves next to the door which is nice too. I even saved him one for when he moves in!
  

• My room! I thought once we put the bed in that it would be lots smaller. There still plenty of walking space! The lamp in the corner is the one Bruce's bro in law makes. I'm using my sisters old frame that my bro brought from her and is letting me use. He says I have to give it back, but we'll see about that one =]
  

• I love having a place to keep out the ironing board. Bruce is now my ironer! He loves to iron. It says it relaxes him. He takes FOREVER to iron but everything looks amazing when he is done. He cringes when he sees my 5 second jobs. I love having it out so I can run it over the big stuff and not to wrinkly all day!
  

• I also have a porch. The storage place is pretty big too. Most of Bruce's stuff will go in there. =] All of his stuff is in boxes and is from the mission so it just needs a place to sit. It works out good.
  

I love my apartment! What do you think?!? Its a good thing Bruce is ok with all the green and giraffes! He loves it. Yes, I asked if he liked it before I moved to the next project. He will be moving in, in less then 4 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait! I'm so happy having a place to myself but I'm ready for him to be my roommate!!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM

Will there be enough room??!!!

We have something painted on all of our walls on the way to the preschool. One wall is a sea with fish and sea horse and octapus. Another wall is a pond with a frog and sun. Back at Christmas we started the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree. The students started the palm tree and letters. Then they never finished. Today was a half day for them since spring break is next week (YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So I took it on as a project. What did I do for 8 hours? Well... F-A werent even up yet so i drew them on (free hand i know i'm good!) I also had a nine year old helping me. She painted E B and D and i did A C and F. It took her one mintue to do all three... me... an hour! Lets just say i pulled a verda and sat with a paint brush and made the letters the size i drew on. Its water based paint so it comes off if you add water. Which is sweet! Then i traced some letters that never were traced. I also went back and took off half of the other letter's tracing cuz it was super thick and looked way bad. Then I went along and added green to the palms to give them texture. I was then told to paint blue for the sky. Then i added clouds and the sun and some birds. After that i added texture to the sand. 8 hours later....

TA DAH!!!!

I should have took a before picture but didn't think about until i saw how cute it looked all done!!

I love my job!

Funny side note... We had like 5 kids here for their class and about every 5 seconds one would come over "Ms. ... i need.... Ms.. will you ...Ms. .. can I ) The nine year old said. "Man all day all you hear is MS! huh! Thats annoying!" I just laughed and said yup thats my job! =]

( the students call us MS. and only add Hebner or Coone or Percell if we all in the room. I guess its culture and polite to call your elders by their title. it took me a long time to get use to it. I bet next year everyone will call me Ms. Balls and not just Ms. lol)

Home Sweet Home

That's right! I will finally have a home of my very own in 3 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bruce and I started looking at apartments and prices and figuring out what we would be paying in rent and where we would want to live. I loved the luxuary apartments. I really wanted a condo or townhouse. I wanted to stay in his family's stake. I wanted to live close to his family. I wanted to live close to work since I still have no car. I wanted a 2 bedroom house. I wanted a washer and dryer. I wanted gas. I wanted room and space and cutness.

Then we looked at prices. YIKES! Living is expensive... at least for everything I wanted. After looking at lots of places and trying to figure out how to budget everything we figured we would wait til it was closer since we couldn't move in yet anyways.

Then one day on our Sunday walk we passed the apartment building his sister and her husband lived in and is 1/4 mile from where I'm at right now. I was like oh, I never even considered that place, lets go look at it!

We struck GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!! This month had a reduced rate from the big (as in 725 sq feet big) one bed one bath apartment at $650 to a price of $399 a month!!!!!!!!!!!! We looked at it and it has a HUGE mirror in the dining room. Pretty nice sized kitchen. TONS of closets and storage on the little patio. A vanity with sink in the bedroom. Walk in closet. washer and dryer room!!!!!!!! Hook ups. and all the other stuff that comes with apartments. We were able to get a 1st floor for my piano! And because i work at a high school i get $20 off a month! Which means we could afford the renting of a washer and dryer! YAY!!!!


March 1st I'll take picture of my amazing apartment!

What 2 year olds think about marriage...

I have a niece named Kaci who is 2 years old. Bruce has a nephew named Sam who is also 2 years old. When I talk to Kaci about me getting married she says, "Krystal marry Bruce, dance with prince!!" When Bruce talks to Sam about him getting married he says, " I wanna get married, then eat food!"

2 year old girl: marriage= dancing with a prince
2 year old boy: marriage= food!

I LOVE IT!!! I think its so cute! All the kids are super excited for our wedding which makes it that much more special. To bad only my niece Lili will kind of remember it =]

Wedding dresses for the baby girls

This is the shirt that i want to be dress for my nieces to wear for the wedding.
they didn't have baby sizes so the youngest would wear this

Then my sister Kim found these and i LOVE them!!! So now we gotta make a cute tutu for all them! plus there will be a brand new baby just born like 3 weeks old in a tutu!
HOW STINKIN CUTE!!!

SNOW DAY!!!!

Bruce being the oh so amazing man he is, took me to prescott to play in the snow!

There was soooo much snow up there! I've never seen so much in Prescott before! We went up and forced Garrett to come play and grabbed the sleds!

** take note of bruce's faces**

No he is not in any pain...yet...

He was told we were taking pictures as a "reenactment" since it was to dark to see us going down the hills. Hence his faces pretending to be sledding and me smiling for the camera.

The Snow was PERFECT for snow angels!

I made 2 very good ones and bruce made a very handsome one as well

Thanks Bubba for being dragged along and being our photographer!!!

=]

After sledding i was wiped out (we were there for like an hour lol) so bruce was nice enough to pull me along to the road. Again he really isn't in any pain. Promise....well at least not from pulling me. Our last run together kind of was a big ouchie!! We bumped head the whole way.. his boys got smashed a lot and my arm was tweeked funny. It was still worth it though

Garrett didn't sled but he had to have a cool picture with bruce!!!