So we got the following monday off from work and it was glorious.. why you might ask.. well because one of our close friends/cousin/ex-roommate came into town and stayed with us for the extended weekend.. Was super fun! We chilled, worked out, went thrifting, actually went out to eat at a restaurant, then went over to a 4th get together at the amaro’s.
Ok, so Grant and I have one main Luxury that we pay for. We don’t need iphones at all,but being really frugally with other areas of our lives, this is the one area we like to splurge a little bit. Also, we know that the second these phones become to expensive, we can cancel the data plan and start using regular phones again. Anyway, as some of you may have heard, the iphone 4 just came out. So, Grant and I sold our older iphones 3Gs phones, and Grant wanted to preorder both of our phones. Well, he was lucky enough to right when he woke up on the June 15th which was the first day to preorder he some how got his preorder in… then all of the servers crashed. So, it was looking like only Grant would get a phone on release day. He tried ALL DAY to put my preorder in, only to find out that they are only allowing one preorder per Apple account. If he had known that, it would have saved him some time. He then decided to order my phone through AT&T and have it delivered to our apartment.
As the days went by, Grant kept reading all of the latest news on what was going on with the iphones since this was vital information for him. He then told me that he was really sorry that he wasn’t able to get my order in with Apple, or sooner with AT&T because my phone might come as late as July 2nd or July 14th rather than June 24th. Well, As time went on, we realized that Apple didn’t put a hold on the shipped phones this year. This means that, once they made it into a town they were able to be delivered to their new owners with out being held. Last year, the phones could be housed in a warehouse across the street,but until the 24th you wouldn’t be able to get your hands on it. This year they didn’t care, so some people were receiving their new iphones on the 22nd which was two days early. Now Grant was annoyed because if he had known that, the would have ordered both of our phones to be delivered to our apartment because his preorder was only for one day at the Apple store. If he were not get into line to late, he could miss his phone and have to wait until at least July 14 which would be a huge bummer.
So as Grant would say, “Long story Long.” My Iphone came the day before preorder dates. It was delivered the 23rd. Also, we found out that if you leave a signed note the UPS person will take the note, and leave your item even if you are not here.
Here you can see our Awesome UPS person disguising my phone box under the mat. The box was very nondescript, so no one would have been able to tell where it was from and what was inside,but the extra precautions were very appreciated non the less.
Here you can see the new box design. The old ones looked completely different.
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There are some more pictures of my phone. Grant then got up around 4:30 am to go stand in line while I already had my phone. He had a decent time in line, so I don’t think it was too bad, but if we had had both of ours delivered to our door it would have been nice. We have had fun finding out all the new features, and we even got the apple bumper cases as well. Pictures to come soon. Hope you are all well, and we have phones again WOOT!
Totally am posting this from my new iPhone 4. Jessica and I both got our phones.
Jessica and I are proud ex-owners of iphone 3GS’s!!!!  We both just sold our phones on ebay.  My goodness at how expensive ebay has gotten.  But now we are without any phones until june 24th.  To find out what we will be waiting for like it is christmas day.. go here  http://www.tipb.com/2010/06/13/iphone-4-preview/
(Warning: this may be a boring post to some people because we are just talking about trying to be healthy….nothing too cool or exciting.)
As some of you know, Grant and I decided it was time to change how we were living. We were eating unhealthy, just lots of snack foods since I could get them so cheaply with coupons, and we weren’t exercising at all. I think everyone has these unspoken rules in their heads like, ” If I can’t see my belt buckle, then I will start working out again….” Well, the promises we had made to ourselves came and went, and we never changed anything. We were both feeling a lot more tired, and just not very confident in how we looked. So, we took drastic action!!! We saw some Transformation Pictures of otherpeople,and I know that helped motivate me.
This is Grant’s Favorite shirt, and it says it all. We were going camping with the young married’s group from church that we hang out with. This was our second time going, and it was soo much more fun actually knowing people.
One of the coolest parts of this trip, was the fact that our stuff was out of the storage unit, and we could use our own stuff.
Our Ghetto way to filter the water that went into our water cooler thingy.
There was a deal that day at Papa Johns Pizza, and Grant was waiting for this day.
The pizza that we ended up eating. It was great, and it made the hour + drive much more fun.
Here you can see Grant driving there, and yes, he still had the IV at this time.
This is what happens when Grant tries to help people set up their tents. ;p Shea and Anthony’s tent pegs and Grant didn’t get a long…
Grant got this awesome water cooler from his grandpa, and it was awesome to actually put it to good use.
We were going to share a tent with Shea and Anthony since we didn’t have a tent so this is where we were sleeping.
Of course if turned out that Shea didn’t spend the night, and Anthony slept outside… so we had this HUGE tent for 2 people how goofy. Anyway, I should have taken more pictures,but completely didn’t think about it. Anyway, it was a great camping trip with a lot of fun people. We played an AWESOME and funny game of volleyball which was way fun. We also had some tasty smores, and it was just great fellowship.