Surprises from North Salt Lake

Oh you guys.  The new house is so awesome.  Can't even tell ya how much we love it.

I won't gush any longer, but I will leave you with a few random details about the house.  Several of these were a total surprise when we moved in!  (Luckily they are good surprises.)

This cabinet?  Didn't know these existed.  So cool.

 

I've seen these drawers on Pinterest, and I had no idea we had them.

This gnome?  How could the old owners leave this behind!?

 

We do not have enough furniture for this place.  This is the bowling alley/ballroom.  Excuse the dirty floor.  I have mopped since I took this, but I'm too lazy to take a new picture.  I don't know what that says about me.

Pretty sure this translates to "skin."  This was a big mystery for a while, but then I found out that the original owner of the home was a masseuse and had a business called "Pelle."  Unfortunately it totally peels off the paint when I try to take this sign down...so I now work in the skin room, complete with dimmed lights that almost put me to sleep.

I get to spend a whole lotta time here now that I work from home, and it's wonderful.  This is my office! It needs some more...stuff...since it's about twice as big as this picture shows, but I love it.  There is, however, one mysterious thing in this room: some speakers built into the ceiling.  We're not sure what they are for yet...probably government monitoring.

We can't hear each other from one room to the next, but we sure love being here.  More pictures to come.

NSL

We've now been in North Salt Lake for a whole week now and it is the best ever.

Let me tell you about this place.  First off, I did not even know there was a city called "North Salt Lake" until we looked at houses here.  It's not Salt Lake City, this is a separate thing.  I'm not really sure why it's not just considered Bountiful since it pretty much is in Bountiful, but just so you know--we're in NSL (see how I just threw around an acronym used by the locals here?  We're so in-the-know now.)

NSL doesn't have many features besides homes and small businesses.  Our welcome packet was almost entirely about the golf course and club house on the East side of town.  I think that may be one of the few things we call our own.  I've heard rumors of a splash pad also, but I don't think people without kids go to those, so I may not see it anytime soon.

So that is NSL so far!

We've been exploring Bountiful a little bit also, and our first adventure (besides dropping off the U-Haul) was at this little gem of a restaurant:

This place could easily be converted into a lot of shady things.  The lighting was super dark, and the atmosphere was a bit...crooked.  I could imagine it as the hub of drug deals or maybe even a strip club, but it wasn't either of those things (at least the day we went).  Atmosphere aside, the food was pretty good!  And luckily I had cash on hand because they don't accept credit cards.  Seriously.

So that is Bountiful.  Haha just kidding, Bountiful is a super nice place.  I think restaurants in the U-Haul parking lot aren't expected to be the classiest of establishments in any city.

We are loving this place!  Someday when I unpack and clean everything in sight I will share more about the house.  Until then...try to go on with your lives. It might be a while! ;)

How's the Pie?

My brother, Scott, and I have had a life-long dream of throwing pies into each others' faces.  It's just one of those things we always wanted to do, and yet we never had time (or permission from our mom) to do it....

...until today!


I came into the kitchen this morning to find Scott making some pies, and I knew exactly what was going down.

I'm not sure if Rach wanted to participate....

 

 

It was just as great as I always knew it would be.  This was the last day of my company's summer shut down and my last day staying with the Bruenings.  I think it was well-spent, don't you?