First snow storm

While we were down in Utah this past weekend (see another post below). Idaho was hit with its first snow storm. Well i should our part of Idaho was. We had about 2 inches of snow at Kevin's brother Lynn's house in Utah when we were leaving Sunday morning. We had heard all sorts of different reports about the snow fall in Idaho. So we took off earlier then planned. Sorry Shauna about not being there for lunch/dinner! We saw a notice on the freeway that I-84 at the Idaho border was closed. That's our road home! So we got up to Snowville UT and sure enough it was still closed. Well thankfully we only waited about 20 mins at the gas station and heard that the old highway opened up, so we jumped on that and made it home! Kevin's parents had about a foot of snow so we had a good snow fight for about an hour. We were excited to see how much snow we had at our house...40 mins to the west. There was NOTHING! We were slightly disappointed, but at least it was fun to play in it and then not have to deal with it. :) Here are some pictures from our adventures in the snow.

Kevin running through the snow to get to the trampoline.

Kevin trying to bounce the snow off.
It wasn't going anywhere!
It was so heavy.

So he decided to sweep it off.
I guess its time to take down the trampoline.

Me making my first snow angel of the winter.

the finished product.

the snow that was on our car as it was parked out front.

trying to show how much snow there was.
It's hard to tell, but it's up to the ridges
on the handle of the scrapper.

house pictures

Ok, these are not the finished house pictures, but these are just some random pictures of us painting and Kevin in the garage.

Kitchen/Dining room taped ready to be painted.
We had them paint everything white and we painted the colors we wanted
instead of having to choose from the colors they provided.
Most of the house is a Toasted Almond (tan) with two accent walls.
One in the dining room and one in Kevin's office.

Kevin in the pantry painting.

Kevin behind the fridge painting.

Me painting our green accent wall in the dining room.
Well i'm actually touching up with white floorboard.
It really looks great!!

Kevin plugging in the garage door opener!
We had to put our own in, it was an "extra" thing for the builder to do
and they wanted way too much $$ for it!

We hung some shelves from the ceiling in the garage.
Kevin is getting a box down and he standing ON the car as a ladder.
I guess we should buy a ladder! LOL.

weekend in SLC

We went to SLC this weekend to attend the marriage of Kevin's Uncle Jim to his new wife Angie. I am glad we went and supported them. She seems really nice. I hope all works out for them. Here are two pics of them outside the SLC UT LDS Temple. And then some pictures of flowers i took around the grounds. I was talking with a worker and he said that they had scheduled 300 youth to come and rip out the flowers to prepare for the winter and plant the bulbs for spring. But unfortunately the weather turned bad and they did not complete their project. Which is good for me. I love the flowers at Temple Square! It was raining/sleeting while we were in the Temple, but thankfully we just got the tail end of some sprinkles and just cold cloudy weather.

bugs

We live pretty much in a field. We get some weird bugs & ALOT of flies. Here are two i got pictures of...

Friends Visit

Our WONDERFUL/FANTASTIC/BEST friends Chris & Sarah came up from Utah to visit us the weekend after Labor Day. We had a great time! We sure do miss them A WHOLE LOT!! Here are some pictures of them from their trip up. They came a perfect weekend because it was the Perrine Bridge Festival. There were TONS of bridge jumpers!

Chris, Max & Sam standing on the Perrine Bridge that crosses the Snake River.

Max getting his face painted, brother Sam watching.

Batman

Chris, Sarah & Family with the Perrine Bridge in the background.

As the boys (Max & Sam) called it "our Indiana Jones Adventure".
Going down the trail to go under the waterfall.

Everyone walking on the path to go under the waterfall.

The boys weren't too keen on the water dripping from above.
It was "raining" on them. LOL.

Chris, Sarah & family by the waterfall.

Keith's Wedding - belated pics

Keith & Tisa Brown's Wedding. August 30, 2008.
OK, not NEARLY all the pictures, but i just grabbed some.

The Happy Couple

The wedding Party. (all the boys are brothers)

their rings & her flowers

Karson (Nephew) hanging out with Grandpa on a bench swing.

Karter & Charlee (nephew & niece) checking out the Snake River.

The guys' shoes. They weren't your "normal" tux shoes. They were tennis shoes.

Lynn (brother #3) with daughter Charlee. She LOVES her daddy!

Charlee was the Flower girl. She did a great job.

Karter was the ring bearer, but those must be on Shauna's camera. I kind of used both cause ours started acting up.

i lied

So I've told MANY people that look Monday I'll post pictures of the house...well it's Monday and i think the 2nd/3rd/4th Monday I've said that to people...still no pictures. I apologize. I promise soon. :)

me

Since it's been awhile since I've posted any pictures. Here is a picture of me as of about 3 minutes ago! :)

interesting poll

Kevin sent THIS to me. I found it very interesting. See how you do in the polls.

Coupon

I have finally signed up to get our TV converter box coupon. YAY!! We are one of those that just can not pay money for more TV stations. Yes, we'd LOVE to have more stations (sports stations & I'd love TLC), but it's just not something we want to pay for right now. Lisa at work said she got her converter box and it has really helped with her TV. She now gets 12 channels! Wow! I don't know what we'll do with 12 channels. We really only watch 3-4 we have about 7 i think, not all come in good. We mainly just watch NBC, FOX, CW & PBS. Lisa said it gave her 4 PBS channels. I am hoping we get good results too!

exciting news...

WE GOT BOTH CARS IN THE GARAGE LAST NIGHT! YAY!!!

We are so excited! We even made a special trip into Twin Falls to go to Home Depot and purchase one more hanging shelf to put things on. It made a world of difference. Though we had the garage open for awhile to "let in some cool air". Well not a lot of cool air came in, but A LOT of flies did. ugh! that's what we get for living in dairy country and living in a field. I need to go buy a fly strip to catch those little suckers!

Off the wagon

Well...I did not last the weekend. :( I am a bit disappointed in myself, but I knew it would be difficult. So I think I'm going to do this..."NO soda during the week and one (maybe two) on the weekends". I need to ween myself off. :)

But good news over the weekend, we got more situated in the house. We bought these cool shelves that hang from your garage ceiling and created some room in the garage! We need to get both cars in there...they don't like the cold mornings we've been having.

Also, i did some 3 hours of weeding Saturday morning and i must say...it looks GREAT! With no construction on either side of us, the weeds sure like to grow!

Last night i was going through a few "odd" boxes we have and i found my cassette tape of this...
I literally was SO excited when i found it. I jumped up and immediately called my sister Natalie to tell her. I need to figure out how to change it from cassette tape to CD and get her a copy. We LOVED this tape and we were both so sad when we thought we had gotten rid of it. Thank goodness i keep things sometimes too long. :)

Fitness Crazy

So the month's of Aug & Sept I did not attend a fitness class with moving and such. Well today I just signed up for TWO fitness classes for October! I'm CRAZY! Spinning on M, T Th during lunch. Then T Th F after work i have a Total Body Fitness class. I'm nervous but VERY excited!!

3 days and going strong...

OH! How i love this stuff...

but....it's SO not good for me. I have gone 3 days without a Soda!! GO ME GO ME GO ME!!! May not seem long for some people, but even a day with out it is a big step.

I was off soda for a good 8-9 months back in 2004-2005. Then we went on vacation...I've been back on it ever since. So sad. If i can make it over the weekend without one, that is a major bonus for me! Weekends i always seem to need a soda. Especially Sunday's. LOL.

a few feet short

So while i was doing said weeding (in post below). I noticed that there were some landscapers across the street working on a new house going in. Well i went over to them to ask how they found the posts that mark the end of that houses lot. He said it was really easy, probably because it wasn't covered up with mounds of dirt, like our back yard. Well they had marked the length of the backyard, which happens to join with our friend's (Ray & Emily) yard. So after the landscapers left we went over and with our little tape measurer we figured out how deep their yard was. We then went to our house and measured out our backyard (which is complete dirt). Kevin & I have dug out there before trying to look for it with no luck. Well apparently we were digging a little too close to the house. About 17 FEET too close! Yes, our yard is 17 feet LONGER then what we thought. WOO HOO!!!!

lesson learned

So Saturday morning i decided to do some weeding. Which i must say i love WAY MORE then painting. I'd rather weed all day then have to paint again. LOL. So i have this cool little tool...
I bought ours from Walmart last summer when we bought the town-home. Didn't have much time to use it there. So its been sitting in storage for just such a weekend. Well apparently my little gardening gloves for pulling weeds are NOT the type of gloves you want to wear while using the tool pictured above. I got a nice big blister on my thumb. Boy did it burn like hell when i washed my hands. OUCH!!

So when we went to Home Depot later Saturday afternoon we bought me some new work gloves! Similar to these...
YAY!!! Hopefully no more blisters!!

Dentist update

So i survived! Really nice old guy dentist. He said the pain could be cause from the crowding of the teeth but he said there is some inflammation as well. So they did a really good cleaning and gave me some mouth wash to help with my gums...HIGHLY recommended i start flossing everyday. Never been good at that. Also gave me a number for a orthodontist to get a consultation to see what it might cost to fix the crowding. I thought i was DONE with braces in 7th grade! Actually i don't mind...i just want me teeth to not hurt and to look nice.

dentist appt

*nervous* I have a dentist appt tomorrow morning at 9:45am. I am having a bit of pain. I think one tooth is pushing another and it hurts. :(

I've been thinking...

...which isn't always a good thing. LOL.

I had plans of being DONE with having kids by 30...now that 30 has come and I'm ever getting closer to the 31 mark (next April-yikes!) i have been feeling quite depressed with the thoughts of not having a family, or not being able to have the family we wanted (4 kids). I don't want to be near 40 and still having kids. This all really came into focus these last few weeks.

I set up an appt with Dr. Brown (cool huh? he is LDS too) in Twin Falls to be my Family doctor. I met with him to just get all set up and get my history there so IF i need to go in for anything it would be MUCH easier to be seen. Well we were talking about my female problems and what medicine I'm taking (or should be taking). He made a comment to me that for some reason really hit home that day. He said, "as your doctor i care about your health, but not as much as you should care!" He said that when i told him i am supposed to be taking Metformin due to my PCOS. So i got a new prescription of that and i have been ever so faithful taking it since we met!

I've known for A LONG TIME that weight control has a lot to do with my "problem" as well and i WAS doing so good with working out this summer. But this whole moving situation has put a little kink in it. So I am signing up for classes again for October! YAY!! I have a strong motivation to loose weight. I don't want to go home FAT for Christmas. :)

There are other things in my life that need "put in order" and of course this morning as i pondered writing this blog, i was checking my email and i received an LDS news email with THIS article in it. How appropriate.

* sorry to be a slight downer today.

Change

OK, i don't understand how people change their blog site backgrounds to something OTHER than what blogspot provides.

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!

unnatural

I am doing alot of google searches today and i ran across this picture on a companies website.

WHY would he think that looks natural?!

California Christmas

YAY!!! Our vacation request has been approved! We are going to CA for Christmas this year! I better loose a lot of weight before we go cause we're gonna eat at In-n-Out like EVERYDAY!!!!

all done

YAY! All done with the "touch up" work on the paint. Kevin sacrificed his sleep last night so we can just be DONE with it! I was in bed at midnight...Kevin came in around 4am! He did the bulk of it, because i just couldn't reach some spots and have the right leverage to make it look good and not get more paint somewhere else. IT LOOKS SO GOOD! You all need to come for a visit! :)

So...NOW THE UNPACKING TRULY BEGINS!!!!

Chocolate Cake...in a mug

My friend Laura L. sent this to me. Sounds DIVINE! I know there are days that i just need some chocolate! I can't wait to try it. Let me know if you try it how it worked.

The 5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

4 Tbsp plain flour
4 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp baking cocoa
1 egg
3 Tbsp milk
3 Tbsp oil
3 Tbsp chocolate chips
a small splash of vanilla
1 coffee mug


Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well.
Add egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in milk & oil and mix well
Add the chocolate chips and vanilla, mix

Put mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes
(1000 watts). The cake will rise over the top of
the mug, but don't be alarmed.

Allow to cool a little and tip out onto a plate,
if desired.

EAT! (This can serve 2, if you want to feel
slightly more virtuous)

update

Hello! Seems like it's been a while, but I'm sure it hasn't been too long. I apologize for not having more pictures of the house. We don't have our computer up yet, so i can't download the pictures. I still haven't downloaded the pictures from Keith's wedding. But soon you'll be bombarded with pictures.

WE ARE LOVING OUR HOUSE!!!! It's so nice to have no neighbors above or below us and connected in any way. Actually we have NO neighbors anywhere on our section of the street. It's great!

Last week i posted (i think) that we were painting before unpacking. Well that we did. We currently have...the living room, dining room, kitchen, guest bathroom, two hallways, two closets and pantry all painted! We then took a break for the weekend because our friends came into town from Utah. We had SUCH a GREAT time!! Last night it was back to work. I taped off Kevin's office and he started painting last night. He got the closet and two walls done. Then called it a night. It was late. Tonight he should finish that and we will be done painting for awhile...well after we do ALL the touch up painting. UGH! This is a much bigger process then i imagined. But it LOOKS GREAT!!!

Blonde Joke

thanks Meg W.

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats
right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.

“Oh, I really liked it,” she replied, “especially the tight pants and all the big muscles,
but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents!”

Dumbfounded, her date asked, “What do you mean?”

“Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game,
all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!'
I'm like...Helloooooooooooooo? It's only 25 freaking cents!!!!!!”

wedding pics

OK, so i "stole" these of my sis-in-law's blog. These are some pictures she took at Keith's wedding that was this past weekend.

The whole Brown Family.
(I really didn't think i was standing THAT far away)

Jeff, Lynn & Kevin on this little rolling log thing. It was hilarious! Good thing those are rented tux's. LOL. I wouldn't want Kevin to be doing that in his suit. LOL. (Above & Below)

Karter & Charlee checking out the Snake River.
Karter was the ring bearer and Charlee was the flower girl.
I wish we video taped it. They were SO cute!! (Above & Below)

Twin Falls Temple Video

I get Church emails and there was THIS cool link to watch a small video on the celebration and dedication of our new Temple. We didn't go to the dedication or celebration. But we heard great things.

exhausted

These past 4-5 days have been so exhausting!

Thursday a BIG THANK YOU to Kevin's baby bro Jeff. He helped Kevin get all our "big stuff" out of our 3rd floor apartment while i babysit Jeff's two boys. When we got over to the house (late of course) and a lot of people from work were there. It took Kevin & Jeff 2 hours to load the truck...it took about 20 mins to unload the truck! Another BIG THANK YOU to our friends from work that took the time to help us out!!

Friday was spent running errands in the morning and getting the apartment cleaned in the afternoon. A BIG THANK YOU to Kevin's brother Lynn & wife Shauna for helping us out with the cleaning! We couldn't have done it without you guys!!!

Saturday was spent all day out in Burley at Keith & Tisa's wedding! The last Brown boy is married off. It was a beautiful day. We had some cloud coverage for part of the day, so that was nice. The wedding took place right along the Snake River at 6pm. It was beautiful! Though i got a little sunburned & 4 big mosquito bites! One of them still itches! Welcome to the family Tisa! You make a great addition!

Sunday we drove up to Rigby/Rexburg for the day. Our friends Rochelle & Eric blessed little Abe. Eric's parents were here from CA, so they thought they'd do it now instead of them making another trip out. Abe is SO TINY! I swear my shoes (Doc Martens) weigh more then he does. LOL. Rochelle said "your kids will never be this tiny." I said "nope, only if they are 3 months premature." (Kevin was 9.15 & i was 8.11 when we were born). LOL. He is adorable though. Thanks for a great day you guys!! Congrats again!

Monday was spent painting the house! Well, we got the living room/dining room/kitchen & both hallways painted yesterday. Oh, and inside the pantry & both closets. It was an ALL Day/Night project! We started about 7am and finished somewhere around 1am. I went to bed at midnight. I just wasn't functioning that late at night. LOL. Most of the house is a "toasted almond" color and we have an accent wall in the dining room which is "Bayleaf". I'll take pictures soon. We don't have the computer unpacked yet. So those pics will have to wait a little bit.

Tonight we'll do some touch up work and then paint the bathroom and laundry room. I'll be SO GLAD when the painting is done and we can really unpack!

We have to be somewhat unpacked by this weekend. Our dear friends Chris & Sarah are coming up from Sandy (w/ their 3 kids) for the weekend. Should be LOTS of fun! We are excited!

Oh! And tonight our friend Ray & Emily move into their new house...which is across the street from us! YAY!

Well, i guess i should get some work done.