We've moved to the love shack!!

So we forgot to post that we have moved. We probably forgot because we've got something else on our minds. It wasn’t a big move (is big the right word?), we just moved across the street -- well like 3 blocks north.

We moved so we could save money and so Bella could have a yard and be an outside dog. Well she doesn't stay in the nice completely fenced in backyard she has, she simply jumps over the 4 1/2 foot fence.

But at least we are saving some money, if we can just look past the bugs, the ivy growing through the wall in the kitchen, and the plain oddness of the place. (And I swear something lives in the rafters of the house because when I'm home by myself I can hear stuff (like something walking around) and for a long time I told myself it's just the tree hinting the top of the house until I realized the tree doesn't come close the roof of the house.) It will be an OK place to live for a bit.

Also by moving to this place got me a brand new washing machine. The duplex it had a washer and dryer included, so when we moved out we had to use our very old set that we were given out of Michael’s uncle’s shed. Well, the old set worked a year ago in Cedar City, but when Michael tried to set them up here at the new place the washer wouldn't work, so he tried to fix and find the problem. He took the whole thing apart, and once he found what was inside he was done fixing it. He was so disgusted that he sort of put it back together and declared it unfixable. Which is fine, because the washer was like 30 years old. So, like I said, I love my new washer that's in my bathroom, even though the dryer is in the garage – yeah, I know: weird.

It's not a very big house. It has two bedrooms, with a bathroom, a kitchen, and a living room with a wood burning stove (which I'm not too sure about, but Michael is excited about – I guess it will save us money). As my mom puts it: “Oh. Fun! You’re going to live like a pioneer.” There is also the garage/ Bella's room/ office/ storage room/ the rest of the laundry room. When you live in a place like this, it gives your husband plenty of opportunities to “fix” things.

Some other odd/maybe cool things about our new place:
1. It has really high ceiling. (Michael is happy about that because now he can hang is deer head up. I'm excited for the really tall Christmas tree we can get.)

2. This used to be a auto shop, hence the really tall ceiling.

3. I feel like I live in a fish bowl because we live in the middle of the block, our property touches 8 other backyards; we can see 10. No running around naked.

4. There is only water in a 4 foot radius, which is why the washer is in the bathroom.

5. I almost forgot the title: the Love Shack! We had to move to a different ward, and when I was introducing myself the question “Where do you live?” always comes up. I'm explaining and one of the ladies says: “They live in the love shack.” What? Apparently the man who owns the house rented it to most of his kids for their first year or so of marriage. Hence, it has been dubbed the Love Shack. Kind of like my grandpa's apartments. So we live in the Love Shack!!
Oh, the joys of living frugal!

Pictures to come, I have to clean my house first and it hasn't been easy!