Hughes News: It's Funny How Things Work...

I have now successfully fallen behind on two months of blogging. Give me a break though, it’s been a crazy ride.

Here's what's been going on:

Tuesday August 12^th we went to the Monumentour concert.

We waited in line hours early and weren't even the first people there.

It was an amazing concert though!

Hayley Williams is quite the performer, and Fall Out Boy had a ton of pyrotechnics and lights to enhance their show.

So mind-blowing!

Christopher loved it :)

Christopher was all tuckered out the day after.

Monday August 25th we started the day off by checking Cody into his apartment at Glenwood. I took a "proud mom" photo to make up for my mom not actually being there. It's okay, Cody's a big boy.

Cody is so ready to live like a freshman!

After this, we went to Lagoon because America First has some pretty sweet hook-ups and rented out the whole park for a day just for employees. Completely free for us which was awesome because tickets are like $60 per person. Lagoon is Utah's tribute to theme parks. It was super fun. We managed to go on all the rides once and the awesome ones twice (or more). Here's a photo of Ashleigh and Kolby on a ride that shot you up tons and tons of feet into the air suspended in this ball-type thing. I think it was called the Slingshot. People like this one because there's a camera on that ball contraption that films people's faces the entire time they're being shot into the air and bouncing around. It's pretty hilarious.

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The next weekend was pretty eventful for us. Right before school was about to start, we found out our apartment complex was raising our rent if we wanted to resign. Between the $720 per month they were going to charge us and the awkward timing of our contract ending in October, we decided to bail and sell our contract which meant we had to try to find something else before school started. We didn't have much time...

Saturday August 30th was devoted completely to checking out potential apartments. The first couple we looked at were horrible. One was a teeny basement apartment that was barely taller than my head. Also it smelled like cat pee. Definitely no. Luckily, we found a quirky yellow house that the Asian landlord was desperately trying to fill. We put our apartment up on KSL on Sunday night, determined to move before school started. 30 minutes after posting the contract, a couple called us to check out our apartment that night. They ended up buying our contract (we had a handful of other interested people call about it too).

We went back to the yellow house on Monday (Labor Day). The landlord told us that he had people coming to look at the apartment right after us, so we jumped on the opportunity, and signed the contract. We went to get a check for the deposit and when we returned, the landlord told us he had turned the other couple away, so we barely beat them out for the apartment.

Empty Cambridge Court Apartment. Sad Day.

Tuesday we moved everything out of our apartment at Cambridge Court. The sooner we moved out of there, the more likely it was that we would get our September rent refunded completely (which we did!) This was a little stressful, because this was actually the first day of school. We managed to move everything completely out of the Cambridge Court Apartment and into the yellow house all in one evening.

The yellow house is a little quirky. It's definitely old and the previous tenants decided to use oil based paints on all the door frames and window moldings. Dark forest green in the living room and the bedroom and dark blue in the kitchen. Because of this, the apartment looks even darker and creepier inside. But hey! rent is $150 cheaper per month, so we're going with it. Plus, the landlord seems to be pretty easygoing and has worked with to fix the bathroom - he replaced the flooring. Additionally, he says we can repaint as long as he provides the proper painting equipment. Fine by me.