Finally!

Hello all!
It is finally starting to feel a little like Spring! It is suppose to be in the 50's ~ Can you say WOW that is warm? Yes, we still have snow in big piles around town and in front lawns but hopefully it will melt someday.

Busy Month here at work we have our Training Store Managers coming up next week and yet another CWCU which is our University for new Managers, we also have our Regional Managers coming up at the same time as CWCU! WOW! Yes, I have to present at these functions in some way so I will be busy.

On another subject is anyone watching the bachelor? I am and I have to say he needs to get rid of the actress. I had seen her somewhere and once she let him know who her Dad was I knew I had seen her on some "my parent is" type show. She is way to high maintenance for him.

I will leave you with another crazy show to check out which is High School Reunion on the TVLand Channel. I was flipping channels and started watching it and I laugh at how the people on the show have changed but yet not really changed. I just had a thought and I am 3 years away from my 20th reunion. I did not go to the 5th or 10th so maybe the 20th will be the one or maybe not. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Have a great day and keep it real!

Is it Spring?

Did someone say Spring? Not here my friends! It snowed on the first day of spring and again on the second day of Spring and even though it did not stick to the pavement it still snowed. I will say at least I can now get into my correct parking space at my condo since the snow 5 ft of snow has now melted.

Life is good in Sandpoint now that it is in the 40's. The mountain received 5 new inches of snow the Saturday before Easter. WOW if only I could ski! I have decided that I really don't want to brake any bones this year so I am waiting for Alana (one of my co-workers) to have her baby so she can get out there and teach me how to Snowboard but that really looks like next year.

Hope all is well in your world until next time....

Did someone order snow?

Snow Snow and more Snow! Here are some photos of all the snow around town and near where I live. Enjoy! I can't wait till it melts. They finally decided to try and truck some of this snow out of town, thankfully!


Check out the ice coming off the roof!


Here is the front of my new place.


Pile of snow in my parking lot. Just a little snow don't you think?


Here is where they have plowed the sidewalk and still we have snow on it. I can't believe how much it snows. It is like rain but in snow form!!!


I now have a carport instead of a garage and this is the house that I look at where I park. Check out the amount of snow they have in the back of thier house. They have not even shoveled thier roof.

More Moving Drama!

The big move has come and stayed! I have moved into the smallest place I have ever lived! All the stuff from my gararge is in my 2nd bedroom and I have more to get out of the garage. My friend, Jenny and her husband, Dave and his little brother helped me move the big stuff! Since moving to Sandpoint I have bought some new furniture seeing my taste has changed from the last time I lived in a house! Remember when I moved to Sandpoint all my furniture was in storage. So this meant that some stuff I had in my loft area at the old place had to go!! Jenny had told me her brother needed some furniture since his roommate had moved out with all the furniture. So Christopher came and took the famous Wylie blue plaid couches which I have had forever, a desk -$20 when I worked at staples, an old entertainment center (that old sauder furniture - country style wood), 1 coffee table and end table my nannie had given me the first time I moved out in 95 or 96 and a high breakfast table the wylie's gave me. Christopher made out like a bandit! I was just grateful I did not have to find someone to come take it off. I will miss the couches ~ Dave's brother said I have too much stuff for someone who is single. I told him his girlfirend Cat who works at CWC can thank me later seeing he will never say a thing to her again about having too much stuff. SO MY GOAL for 2008 is to get rid of anything I do not use!

I still have some clothes to move and some boxes in the garage otherwise, everything is all at the new place! Once everything settles down and I get everything in it's place I will post photos as I sit in front of my new gas fireplace! It is so pretty!
Have a great week!

Moving and only after 6 months!

Here is my new view from my living room!

So I came home from Knoxville to only receive a call from a lady whom I had never spoke to before asking me where my rent check was...well it took me off guard and I said to her it had been paid to the Property Management Company. Only to hear her tell me that she has broken the contract with them and my rent should have gone to her seeing she is the new owner of the property. She also stated that she would not be renewing my lease because she said she was moving in. I could not believe my hears. Previously I had asked the previous owner and builder if he was selling and if so are the new owners keeping the property as a rental ~ WOW is this really happening to me! So, the good part was I could stay until she sold her place and then I would have a 30 day notice and would have to move. It is hard to find something in Sandpoint, ID that is descent. I called the Property Management Company who told me legally if I moved out now she could not do anything because I no longer had a lease with her or them because she was not requiring me to sign something new. Now the Property Management Company was hot on finding me something else that is until the lady who owns my property decided she could not afford 2 mortgages and wanted to list the property with them again so, my Property Management Company wanted me to stay and they would be on the look out for something when my lease was up. Well, As I said before I would have to sign another lease. I did not want to be looking for something in the summer because even though we are a ski resort we have more people in town in the summer! I decided it was time to look and that I was moving. I found something and called the Property Management Company to show it to me and found out that the person who was helping me is now out with a broken leg for the next 3 weeks. So I took matters in to my own hands and had BOB another guy who works at the Property Management Company show me a couple of condos in town and decided I would have a better view and it might not be as quite since I will now be closer to the railroad tracks but at least it is new, has air conditioning (I did not have air in my current place) and best of all is cheaper and I would not have the hassle with not knowing when I would have to move. The funny thing about this is that the house the woman is trying to sell is listed for $749,500. Yes you read that right! It is not on the lake, it has not been upgraded and does not have a pool. It is in a small condo community with about 10-12 houses where they have lake access and a community pool but really you can get a NEW house on a golf course or on the lake for that amount of money. I think she knows she is going to be sitting on it for sometime.

After all that I have found a nice place in town about 2 miles from my current house. Here are some photos I took today when I got stuck in the snow trying to move some boxes. There is a small hill going in to the parking lot and the plows had not touched the hill so a nice guy stopped and pushed me up the hill. Yes, I had my 4 wheel drive on but still got stuck and could not even back up.

Photo of the kitchen and the fireplace in the living room. I already started taking items from my current kitchen over to my new kitchen! I will miss my frig it has ice and water in the front and the new one does not! Most of all since I am talking about missing things will be the Garage!!!!

The front windows in the living room!

Bedroom ~ Not much of a view from the backrooms. I look at the 1 bedroom units and a sidewalk.

Guest Bathroom ~ it has a tub!!

Master bath ~ no tub just a shower and 2nd closet in the master.

Laundry Room and it even has a sink and lots of cabinets. It comes with a washer and dryer but I already have a set.

Living room and view from to back hallway.

Sandpoint ~ before the Snow!

Since I have not added to my blog in sometime. I decided to make up for lost time and get all of the photos I have taken on my blog. Enjoy some photos of the local area around Sandpoint.

Here is the view of Sandpoint and Pondary from Schweitzer ~ Our Ski Resort ~ and nothing like Ober Gatlinburg this resort has a front side and back side and ski in and ski out homes.







We have trains everywhere! We are less than 60 miles from the Canadian border and I don't think you can live in Sandpoint with out being near one.








Lastly, Here is where I work!

Christmas in Knoxville!

I went home for the holidays and spent 12 days in Knoxvegas! 12 days went by so fast. I felt that I really did not have time to see everyone that I wanted to while I was home! I love my niece and nephew! Here are a few photos from Christmas Eve. You might even see a few additional family members in the photos like my sister-in-law; Kim, my DAD and Holly our dog!

Here is Samantha and Shawn taking the standard Holiday photo and loving it as you can see.

As you can see everyone was taking their photos!

Here is Shawn opening a present that Gran gave him but it was not his! Gran gave him his mother's present which was Kitchenaid cooking utensils ~ He was shocked and wanted everyone to see what he had received from Papa and Gran.

Samantha loves her PJ's and Aeropostale. Here she is showing off her PJ's. Aunt Christie was so sad that she had to shop at 2 different stores for the kids clothes this year! Sam is getting older and Aunt Christie has realized she is getting older ~ if you have never been in Aeropostale it is very LOUD with lots of kids in a small space!

Who would of known our Shawn would be such a FAN! He loved his gift from Gran and Papa! He even got a junior football! Yes ~ He lives in Tennessee and should be a fan but has really never shown an intrest to us until recently. He is at that stage where he wants to be just like his dad; my brother; Kelly. Of course, Kelly is a fan! The whole family is. The kids grew up thinking the color Orange was really BIG ORANGE when they were asked what color is that and the kids would answer Big Orange! He loved this outfit so much I think he slept in it and even wore it the next day! I know he wore it on Christmas day because Granma told Papa and I he had it on when we went for a visit to see my other brother Joe.

Just a few more photos of my house at Christmas!

Here is the tree again! I think it is so classic and did I mention it has one of a kind ornaments on it? I have included a view from my loft and then looking into the house.

The Komen Tree!

This year at CWC we had our first annual Komen silent auction. The items doanted were from various departments in the company who created a basket. These baskets were from movie theme, scrapbooking, a Wii, and a tree decorated by elves and all the trimmings were hand made. Well, once I saw the colors I had to have the tree. So my first bid was $300 thinking this would stay for a day I felt I was safe. That is until some of the executives came down the next day to bid on some of the baskets. I had meetings all day and the bidding stopped at 4pm. My team was instructed to go to $500 well at 3:55 someone put that bid in. I was up in a meeting room and I waved to my team 525 and with that the tree was purchased! The money went to a cause near to my heart and by the time I would of bought decorations for a larger tree this year I would of spent what I donated. Overall, our department raised the most money for Komen from that auction. Between myself and our President who is not CEO who won 2 baskets we raised over $1000 just for our department.

So what did I win exactly? I had a small tree decorated with a sample of what was to come, 2 hats, 4 mugs, coffee, hot cocoa, 2 flowers, and a santa. Then the tree! A 7ft Tree with handmade ornaments and decorated by our visual department. I had to do nothing but sit back and relax. I enjoyed the tree for several weeks and had to take it down prior to coming home for the holidays. I have attached some photos of the tree in progress.





Here is Carl (who designed the ornaments), Miranda and Michael ~ The elves who decorated the tree!

SNOW and MORE SNOW!

So this is about a foot and then they came and plowed us out and another foot came all on Sunday!