We made an infomercial!

Are you tired of looking like a goof? Watch our infomercial for the Lapkin. It will change your life.

Our dear brother in law invented the Lapkin--A napkin that covers your chest as well as your lap. As a (late) Christmas gift, we made him this phenomenal infomercial. Watch out late night TV--We are taking over!

*no animals where harmed in the making of this infomercial, but one squishy cat seemed rather irritated...

5 Points to the first person to guess the talented voice actor!

Happy New Year!

It has been a crazy month for the Felds. Christopher spent 2 weeks in New York City for his new job, We had a calm holiday, and Amanda booked two surgeries.

A couple of weeks after we arrived In Salt Lake City, Christopher headed across the country for two long weeks. It was the longest we had ever been apart. We were blessed to receive an iphone for Christopher as an early Christmas gift the day before he left, giving us the chance to see each other and talk to each other throughout the day! We got to see each other every day on the walk home, and used google hangout when he got back to his hotel. Such a comfort! While he was in New York, Christopher got to spend a Sunday with his sister Alexis, who lives in Scranton. They got to hang out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and enjoy lunch together in the city. He was so happy to see his sister, who lives way to far away.

When Christopher got home, we locked ourselves into our apartment and just enjoyed being back together again.

Christmas was very calm. We opened all our gifts at midnight on Christmas morning, slept very late, and made chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. We ate a lovely gluten-free-vegan-cake that we ordered from City Cakes, and "snowballs in hell," a spicy vegan meatball for dinner. We enjoyed the Indiana Jones marathon and made phone calls to the family.

Catching up

A dear friend of mine reminded me that I am a blog slacker, so lets catch up! We have been getting settled into Salt Lake City, transforming "the room of shame" into our office\guest room, and spending lots of time with our family. Christopher has been spending most of his time working at GS, while Amanda has been recovering from deviated septum\tonsilectomy\turbinateoscopy, and nannying part time. She sleeps all the time now ;) We have both had super fun birthdays. Christopher has been spending his Saturday mornings volunteering at the Ching animal santuary.

It has been such a bitter winter, but we are happy to be near our family again. We can feel some more big changes on the horizon, and it is wonderful to have so much support through all of it! And now, I am caught up!

Making our house a home

Our quick move to Utah may have been challenging, but we have been blessed with wonderful friends and family to help us handle it all! We had so much help from friends in Sunnyvale with packing, unpacking, and packing again. One of our lovely friends even did our laundry! We left for Utah on a Friday after work, and my trooper of a husband started his new job the very next Monday. He really hit the ground running, and has already left for a business trip in the NYC. That weekend, Hayley, Tia Fatima, Maryann, Jonathan, and Adam unloaded our truck, cleaned our home, and unpacked most of our home. Our main living spaces have been largely cleared of boxes, but we still have a "room of shame" full of boxes in the home of our future "office."

We have been enjoying our new home in the heart of the city, and enjoying having our family so close. For the first time, we have both a dishwasher and a washer/dryer! It feels great getting to stretch out in a nice sized home after squeezing into a bay area apartment for the last 18 months. Christopher's office is a quick walk away, and we have been enjoying long walks downtown. Our family lives just a few miles away, giving us the chance to get to know our niece and nephews.

So far, so good!!!

Hello SLC: Never do buisness with Budget Truck rental

Warning: This post is a rant on our Budget Truck Rental disaster!!!

Thursday night, Christopher went straight to Budget rentals to pick up the truck and trailer. Within half a mile, the trailer we rented to tow our car snapped off the truck and ran off to the side of the road. It appears that the man from budget who installed the trailer did so incorrectly. I was on the phone on and off for the next 3 hours trying to get the trailer picked up and arranging for a replacement the next day.

Come Friday, I called budget to confirm our trailer would be ready for us, and they had no idea what I was talking about. Christopher and Brad went to the shop soon after work, and when they got there, there was only an SUV trailer. I called the night before, and the day of, but they still had the wrong trailer. Even though the man at the office (the same one who had installed the trailer incorrectly the night before), they did not have the correct trailer ready for us. Next, the man attempted to install the SUV trailer as my Hubby and Brad watched him like a hawk. Mistake after mistake was caught by my duo, and despite every failure, Brad and Christopher safely got the truck and trailer to the car. It took them over 1 hour to get our modestly sized Subaru outback onto the monster sized SUV trailer.

The next day, after 17 hours of tough driving, as we attempted to lower our car off the trailer, the front bumper was ripped clean off.

Wish I forked over a little extra cash for the Uhaul...
  

So long, and thanks for all the fish

Since we got married in 2008, Christopher and I have lived in 4 cities and 6 different homes. We have become really good at moving, and have even begun storing our everyday items in transparent, color coded, labeled boxes to make the next move easier. Here comes lucky home number 7!

We will be moving back to Salt Lake City in about 2 weeks. This move was not exactly planned, hoped for, or desired, but we think it will be the right thing for our family.We are moving back to prepare to help his parents transition into retirement, and we are hoping to do a lot of good for our own little family along the way. Luckily, we love Salt Lake, and Christopher landed a great job at a Fortune 100 company. We are very sad to be leaving the state we hoped to call home for good, but hope that this transition will allow us to enjoy our family, buy a home, and get my little butt through grad school.

We plan to soak up every last drop of California sun as we wrap things up here, and have made a serious dent in our Bay Area bucket list. I know we will be back! Most of our home is packed up and ready to go, and we should be in SLC sometime around Thanksgiving.

Give us a call if you are dying to help us fill up a u-haul in California, or unload a U-haul in Utah!

P.S. Our phone numbers and email addresses should remain the same, so please keep in touch!

The Raveonettes

We had a great night in San Francisco earlier this month. We stopped off for pizza on the way into town. We spend hours just walking around the city and talking--even bumping in to a couple of old friends on market street.

The show was at a club called Bimbo 365--a name that made me very nervous. To our surprise the club was quite nice, and not the dilapidated strip club I had imagined.

Christopher has wanted to see the Raveonettes as long as I have known him. He finally got to last week! The band was great live, and played all of our favorites. the audience begged for an encore, and after they came back on stage, some geek in the audience yelled out "You guys seem like really nice people." When the Sune tried to figure out what the guy had said, he was to embarrassed to answer. We danced the night away--although most of the hipsters in the club where way to cool to show any interest. It was a great show!

P.S. How cute was my date!?!?!?!