The Preview is not at all how it really looks!

So when I'm creating a post and use the little preview button to see if it looks ok or if I need to adjust where everything is located, you'd think that would be how it would show up on my blog right? Wrong!!!! Every time I've used the preview thing and had it how I wanted it it looks completely different and even messed up when I post it. Like the tour of our little apartment. It was exactly how I wanted it and everything was in the right spot and the narration was in the right spot. Well after the post it is completely off and the words don't go with the pictures and everything is messed up!!!! It's not a huge deal I just felt like venting about it. lol

See apartment a few stories down:)

So I just posted about our apartment but it showed up towards the bottom of our blog because I started it a couple of days before I actually posted it. So just in case anyone was wondering:) lol

God love us : )

So our last couple of paychecks have been very tight. Usually we have extra on our second paycheck of the month so we can buy enough to buy mass groceries to keep us stocked until the next month comes because our entire first check usually goes to bills and such. But this last paycheck which was the 2nd one of the month was very very small so we weren't really able to do that. So essentially we weren't able to buy any groceries right? We still had food and we certainly weren't going hungry but we ran out of bread and then out of milk shortly after and then out of ramen of all things. . . I know impossible right?

You can never run out of Ramen cuz it's so cheap! Wrong! lol We had bought 2 cases a while ago and it just so happened that the every few months we need to get more happened on the time we got a minute paycheck that could only pay for the second half of the month that our other bills fall on. Needless to say we have been going with out milk and bread for about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks. Not the end of the world but we still want some. I need to get bread pans so I can make my own because for some reason we got like 5 bags of flour for our wedding. . . anyway back to the story.

So today Paul and I were thinking about all the food we wanted to eat cuz we were hungry and we both wanted Subway. So that made us think of bread right? So I said what about the 10dollars in our emergency fund? (we're trying to start one but obviously we're not doing to well at the whole emergency fund thing lol) We could go and buy bread and milk at Winco with this 10dollars(they have loaves for 88cents there). I said ok hand me the thing with our money in it. We have a little file thingy that we have different categories for our budget and money in. So I was looking in it and I decided to look in the other categories like grocery, cars, gas, etc.

And what do you know. . . I found a 20 in the gas thing from like 2 months ago!!!!!!!!!!! That I was certain we had already spent on gas for one of our trips to Mountain Home. So here we are with the money we didn't have so now we can get the groceries we couldn't afford and I'm possitive it's because even though money is tight for us we always pay our tithing. I know that God is always there watching out for us and blesses us when we keep his commandments. So now we get to have bread and milk and yes the beloved food of the poor person RAMEN! lol

I just had to share this with everyone as a Testimony of God's love for everyone and that if we really do do as He asks he will never let us be in need of anything. We may not always have what we want but we will certainly always have what we need! So next time you think "we don't have enough for food and tithing" pay your tithing first and just think somewhere out there is gas money that is gonna provide a way for you to eat! : )

Wedding Open House

Since we're really bad about getting our wedding open house pics developed I have decided I'll share a few on here for those of you who don't have facebook to see. lol All my pics are on facebook by the way. So here's a few pics for you to enjoy:)


This is us at our open house I'm pretty sure we were ready to be done. lol

This is our cake that my Aunt Janene made for us:) it's so beautiful and awesome. we love it and we think she did a wonderful job:)















She also provided the figurines they were adorable:) She painted their hair cuz they were blonde and we're not:) lol well Paul kinda is.














Here are some decorations from it. My mom did a wonderful job at putting it all together. Thanks mom!!! Love you so much:)














And a special thanks to Cynthia who took all of the pics for us at the open house and our engagement pics. You are awesome and we love you!!!!!

Our Apartment.

Well I figured since the only people who have see our apartment are my parents and Paul's dad and Grandma I decided to give you a little virtual tour. I also thought it would be good since many of you will never actually get to come over. So here it is for your viewing pleasure our apartment. It is an old 1920's house that was built to be a triplex. We live upstairs with two downstairs neighbors who are actually great. But we don't below and listen to us so maybe we're not the great neighbors. lol



These are the stairs to our apartment. Yes very creepy sometimes. lol
When I first moved in they freaked me out.




Our door in all it's glory. The peephole is very handy:)















When you come in if you look to the right you have. . .













This is our little eating/computer/home appliance area/whatever we want area. lol and yes our ceilings are crazy short I can basically palm our ceilings with both hands in most places. It's small but we like it.


From our little nook if you keep going straight you have. . . the hallway!!! lol

This is the closest thing to a hallway that we have lol it's not even really a hallway












From the hallway if you look to the left you have our Bathroom!!!! lol It's very small but it works




















Below is our tub and sink area. You'll notice that those are tomato boxes as shelves. . . Yes very handy indeed. lol Our friend Tauna actually showed us that little secret and they are extremely sturdy and work very well especially if you're poor cuz they are free. All you have to do to get one is ask Subway or somewhere like that. lol They have changed our life! lol



















Straight through the hall and you come to. . . .













This is our bed room it's very cozy. I like it except for the closet freaks the crap out of me. It's
like one of those closets from the scariest movie ever and you just know someone's gonna be in there waiting to kill you. It's like a crawlspace thing kind cuz it's an old 1920's house.

And Yes it's a little messy but not too bad.

Yes I know the dresser needs painted. It's needed it as long as I can remember. I've had it since I lived at mom and dad's house.

In case you haven't noticed by now but we really like shelves. They come in very handy when there's not very much room in the house. We actually got most of them from Tauna except for the ones our bedroom. Those are ones that Paul and I had before she gave us more.




If when you come into the apartment and you look to the left you will find. . .


Our kitchen it's small but we don't mind. It's big enough for us and the shelves help alot with storage. The only thing we don't like about it is that it only has one outlet besides what the stove and fridge are hooked up too. It sucks so we always cook in our living room or the nook. So that's why we call the nook our appliance room it has our microwave in it permanently. Oh and our stove is ancient and tiny/skinny it's awful we try not to use it except for like boiling water and that's about it.





So this is our shelf and our cupboard space. yeah none. That's ok there's a little bit by the stove. And that's our little toaster oven thing. We try and use that any time we can to avoid using the stove. It's the lucky appliance that gets the plug in the kitchen. lol


Now if you move on to your left from the kitchen you come to the. . .
The living room!!!! It's very comfy and we seem to have an abnormally large amount of furniture for this area but we sill have plenty of space. Oh the blanket on the wall is covering a window to help keep the sun/heat out. Since blinds do nothing. lol







Yes some of you may recognize this entertainment center as the one from mom and dad's and you would be correct and works amazingly. The other blue sheet thing is covering Tauna's set of shelves. I like it :)






And in this room we only have like 2 plugs and we think one kinda has a short or something so we don't us it. It's behind the shelves. So we get to use two surge protector extension cords. Woot!!!!! lol its really not that bad.




Here is one more little couch in our living room. That makes one big one and 2 love seats. This particular love seat turns into a hide-a-bed oooohhh!!! Yeah so anytime you wanna drop by we got a bed for you. lol

And in case you were wondering yes those are all of my stuffed animals. You may remember me sleeping with them till I got married and I just couldn't get rid of them, so that random shelf in our apt. was just perfect:)

Well that concludes the tour. Anytime you wanna stop by for the real life size thing come on over:)

Us!

Well I decided to start a blog. Since I got married and I'm not living at home anymore I figured it would help people know what's going on with us. So it'll feature Paul and I since we have no kids. lol And since we really have nothing too exciting going on it'll most likely be random nonsense. That's ok cuz the point of this is really for me to just write and show pics and stuff. There will most likely be lots of pictures cuz I love them:)

So who are we? My name is Maggie Martin and my Husband is Paul Martin. We got married on November 25, 2008 and are so so happy:) Paul is going to school to become a Diesel Mechanic and at the moment I am trying to figure out what I wanna do so I can finish my schooling. Until then I'll be at home. I might go and start working on finishing my generals though. We'll see.

We happily live in Twin Falls while Paul is going to school. Hopefully when he's done he can get a job in Mountain Home and we can move there. That would be great since we're both homebodies and love it there:)