oh baby!

SOOOOOooooo...... Quinn and i decided on the "van" idea after taking one for a test drive and realizing how ridiculously AMAZING it would be to have one as our own....yeah kinda like a baby, our first baby, we could take care of it, wash it, name it, take it everywhere we go, and love it! So you can imagine how excited we became about the new addition to our family and started right away on making it happen!

Quinn and i went into the bank to get a loan that we figured would take a couple of days to sort out until we actually got the money from the loan thus, the van. Talking to the very nice lady Mary Jane (who Quinn told shared the same name as his mom, thank goodness i was there to remind him that his mother's name is MARY JEAN not MARY JANE) reassured us that this would take no time at all. As we talked more and she realized that we did not have an account at that bank, don't have much credit built up, and need a co-signer-who subsequently lives in salt lake- the process might not be quite the "in and out" process we had discussed previously. So for the next week we were in and out of the bank getting things "situated" and "worked out" Things were really starting to look up after the second week of all this when she told us we just needed to fax something to the salt lake branch and then finally- we could get the van! So into the bank we went to find that familiar friendly face and name gone! Another agent began to help us and told us that what had been said was wrong "no the co-signer needs to sign the exact documents" so sending them was the only option. Again feeling a bit defeated and frustrated we left but a light was still at the end of the tunnel only because Monday of the next week for sure we were promised all would be well. 

Just to be on the safe side we waited to plan everything for Tuesday and not Monday even though we were reassured Monday was the day. Tuesday was the day that we made arrangements with the van owner to meet us, the day we set aside time away from the hectic schedule of finals week from Quinn's last year and last week of college, and it was the day we agreed to have the young girl and her mom, that we're buying our car, drive to cedar from beaver to come pick up our car and take it away..... forever-because we wouldn't need a car anymore of coarse because we'd have our new van! With all of these arrangements at hand, Tuesday came but our money did not, mainly because the documents never went- they were not sent- they were still there on the desk of Mary Jane! Why i have no idea considering that we found that the reason of the familiar face of Mary Jane's previous absence was because she was no longer an employee there! BUMMER! We now had no car considering we had just sold ours and no money to get the new one! A big bundle of aggravation came on- but thankfully was settled once the documents were promised to be over-nighted....and my mom and brother offered to help out with transportation as long as we needed. The next day i went into the bank a bit sceptical and possibly a bit pessimistic, to see if  the documents had been sent.....and were they?????YES!!!! FINALLY, Wednesday(almost 3 weeks later)we got our MONEY so we could finally bring home our new BABY!!!

moving-away-give-away!!!

In the mix of all of our idea popping and plan picking for moving to montana then....arizona?hawaii? colorado? somewhere??? living at the koa? a van? a tent? -after the big day of quinn's graduation (hooray)- we realized that regardless of what our official plan becomes we are in dire need of that green stuff we are so unfamiliar with these days....money!!!

Continuous discussion lead us to a few tricks up our sleeve to get the green to grow...or at least to sprout. One being the idea of,  believing so hard that a big check would come in the mail because we attracted it there....after about five days of this we started putting up "yard sale" signs around town because we decided we might as well do this in the meantime of our big check coming along, and of coarse this way we would for sure make "bank". 

Saturday came and we put just about EVERYTHING we owned out for sale- with the help of some of the other apartment neighbors who were putting a few things of their own out, and the help of our good next door neighbor friends Rylee and Ashlee (who we can always count when we get home from work and school to knock on our door to ask if we can play or at least use our skateboards.) A lot of people came and we were so excited we were selling things left and right, and we kept bringing more and more stuff out, including some cupcakes and brownies i had made the night before. Things we're great- everyone even had free entertainment with all of Rylees cool tricks and speed racing on his new skateboard we passed down to him (maybe we should have given it to him after the yard sale). 

Once we were into the yard sale a little longer, we noticed we we're bringing in more coins than cash and at times it started to feel more like a yard GIVE-AWAY in the hype of the wind, entertainment, and all the people; the old ladies with what seemed to be all their money in their cute little coin purses and old stories to share, the young moms with a kid or two hanging on each limb- we just didn't have the heart to take the chance of something being priced too high, the poor college students-we couldn't take all their money when we know how it is,  and then those who didn't speak much english other than "fifty cents." Unfortunately we did not make the thousands of dollars we had predicted, however we do have more than we had before and we are glad to have had the help we had, the entertainment, the company of the other tennants, and to have met so many people and share a piece of who we are with them, while in the mix of it all getting rid of the things we no longer need. So all in all the experience though a lot of work, well worth it. (But we are still determined that our "big check" is still on it's way:)!