Best. News. Ever. (No Pun Intended...Haha)

I found out today about a job I interviewed for last week....and it was the BEST news I've ever gotten (well...almost)!! I am going to be the Community News Editor for the Tooele Transcript Bulletin! I applied for the job on a whim, not thinking I'd hear back, but amazingly I heard back the next day, had a job interview 2 days later, and a now a week after that, I've been hired!

I am so happy and so excited to be starting a job doing what I love to do. I have worked really hard my whole life to become a journalist. I feel like all of my hard work is finally paying off, and the best part is, my job is going to be something I LOVE to do. Every day will be something new and exciting I'm sure, because news is always happening, and now I will get to be there covering it day in and day out!

I am going to miss the companies I currently work for, Nelson Labs and The Valley Journals. I have enjoyed working for both, and have really appreciated what I have learned. I have made some great friends at both places and while it's going to be sad leaving these two companies behind, I am excited for the opportunities that lie ahead.

On that note, check out the newspaper I'm going to work for!!!     www.tooeletranscript.com

More pics of our house!

I'm sorry that all my blog posts only consist of our new house, but it's the most exciting thing going on for us right now so just deal with it! Haha. Anyway, here are some more photos of the progress.

Our new countertops in the kitchen! I think they look great!
Much better than what was there before.

Another view of the kitchen countertops

The family room! The walls are painted and the light fixtures
are installed. Yay!

The storage closet...also painted and ready for carpeting!

The downstairs bathroom. Still waiting on the mirror
and some other things, but it's coming along!

Another view of the bathroom. I love the flooring!

We are still set to move in on Dec. 15...and we're keeping our fingers crossed that the date doesn't change for any reason! We can't wait to finally be in our home!

Another update!

John and I went and visited our house again, and wow are they going to town! They have done so much in just a week! Anyway, here are some more pictures of our basement and patio...

Here are the doors to our utility closet...I know, it's
probably not exciting to anyone but me.

John standing in our storage room. It's going to be so
nice to have those shelves to store things on!

Some more storage shelves in our storage room.

Our completed patio!

Another view of the patio...we are going to get a nice cover
for the window well so no one (A.K.A. me) falls into it.

Our office nook! The walls are all texturized and ready to
be painted. The door on the left goes into the bathroom.

Our family room! Again, the walls are ready to be painted.
We've heard they'll paint on Monday so that's exciting!

Another view of the family room. John is standing in the dooway to
the storage room.

I'm sure I'll have more updates in about a week, so stay posted!

Progress!

We were finally able to meet with the design center about our basement and a few other changes we wanted on our home and get everything finalized! So this last week John and I went to check out the progress. They have already gotten up most of the framing in the basement, and even the bathtub too (kind of random...haha). They have changed the bathroom countertops upstairs (yay for no more purple countertops!), and have started working on our patio. And the most exciting news is...we found out our move-in day is DECEMBER 15!!! Let the count down begin!

Here are some photos of the progress...

Our future family room! Isn't it just beautiful?? Haha

This will be our storage room...just use your imagination!

John standing in our office nook. He is standing right
in front of what will be the bathroom door.

Our bathtub! It looks so out of place right now, but this
bathroom is going to look really nice when it's finished.

Here's the master bathroom before the countertops got changed...

...and here it is with the new countertops! I love how
it looks. It's going to brighten up this bathroom so much!

Last but not least, here's our patio. It's nowhere near being done,
but you can get a general idea of how it'll look! I love the brick.