saturday tubing

Kevin's parents called this week asked if we wanted to go tubing sometime soon.
My response..."HECK YA!!!"
So we are going this Saturday!
I'll post pictures then.

OH! Congrats to Tiff & Donny!
They found out they are having a GIRL!!

blogging from...

... HOME!

Yup, we FINALLY got internet at home hooked up yesterday. Kevin was gracious and stayed and waited for the cable guy. Kevin finally got into work at 3pm. LOL.

Well, we are off to Valentine's lunch. So we'll chat more later.  :)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

new pics of ME

This is my "cool" new Profile pic. My "Elvis" glasses i got from a Rock Star Party.

Don't i look SO OLD in this bottom picture?!

What the heck!?!?

pregnancy/baby articles

Hearing talk of caffeine and pregnancy issues i was doing a little internet searching. Ran across a fun article about choosing your baby's sex. Then in that article there was a link to a different one where if you are already pregnant that "predicts" what you are having.

HERE is the first article.

HERE is the second one.

we are gamers

Saturday was a day of playing games. Well i guess i should say an afternoon/evening of games. We ran to Burley to make a quick stop to the Church Bookstore out there and then went to Kevin's parents house to eat their food for lunch.  :)   Thanks Doug & Linda for the free meal. Well we decided to break out the Wii. We ended up playing Raving Rabbids, which they got for Christmas. It was SO much fun! I totally kicked butt!

Then we ran back to Jerome to make a dessert to go over to Jeff & Jen's for game night at 5pm. I still needed to shower for the day. Gross i know. Then we left there and went to the Roger's for a 7pm Rock Star party. We didn't dress up. We're slackers. Plus we didn't get there till about 730pm. Which was OK, since they themselves had just "gotten ready".

Needless to say when we got home (11-ish i would guess) and sat in the beanbag...we totally crashed!

What a fun day! Plus i organized our Pantry. It's been needing it, but i was thinking it would take forever...which it didn't! So, i think it just needs to be a monthly thing.

calling it....

... a wash. 

Follicle isn't growing and lining is thinning & becoming unstable.

So, it didn't work this month but there is always next.

no good news...

Went in this morning. If i remember correctly the measurement is smaller then it was on Sunday. I don't know how that's possible. But who knows. Each time i go in for an u/s its done by a different person. So maybe they aren't measuring it the same way. I don't know. I am willing to drive into Boise to have another u/s to have the doc do it herself and so we can chat. So now it's the waiting game to see what the doc says about this mornings u/s.

Thank you for the well wishes and prayers. We truly appreciate it.

more, more & more...

... medicine! This is the longest cycle known to man, I think! Well we are pushing more meds and i have another ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) morning to see what is happening. I almost wanted to pull the plug on this cycle, but we've already invested so much time & money into it, might as well see it thru.  Here's hoping for good results tomorrow.

...till further notice...

Well, the Doc just called. Our trip to Boise is postponed till further notice. I am to go do some blood work in Twin tomorrow (Tuesday) and then they will let me know the plan from there. We are kind of relieved since the roads are HORRIBLE right now, so by tomorrow morning they would have not been any better... probably worse actually. So we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Year of the Ox

I love looking at Horoscopes.

Doesn't mean i believe them.

But find them interesting.

HERE are the 2009 Chinese Horoscopes.

Check it out!

turn around

Well...we went to Boise on Sunday. It was quite the white knuckle drive. It was pretty icy and the snow was drifting across the highway. We made it tho...a little late. But we spent MAYBE 10 mins with the Dr. (not my doc, but the other one-didn't like him as much) and he told us to come back on Tuesday. That should be the day we can do the IUI. Still only ONE follicle that is big enough. Stupid ovaries!!! I am NOT counting on this round happening for us.

But we got to see our friends, Tyler & Jenny, and it was lovely! So we have plans to meet them tomorrow for lunch when we head back. Tomorrow's drive should be worse. It's snowing like mad here today and its not supposed to get above freezing in the next few days. We'll be leaving at the crack of dawn and taking our time on the drive. THANKFULLY my parents bought us chains...so we should be OK if we need to get them out.

weekend trip

Well not really, but we are heading to Boise on Sunday. I have a Drs. appt. at 11-am on Sunday. Who know the Drs. office was even OPEN on Sunday. But i have to do a 3rd ultrasound to see how my little follicles are doing. Thursday view of them was slightly disappointing. I am a bit frustrated. But i am hopeful that Sunday will bring better news. Here's to hoping for good roads for our trek to the BIG city. GIANT really compared to where we are.  :)

Jerome County Population: 18,300 (Approx.)

Boise: 125,000 (Approx.)

not entertaining

So i mentioned to my friend yesterday that i haven't been as good as i have been in the past about updating my blog. She mentioned that she hasn't started one yet cause it seems like alot of work. I said they do feel that way sometimes. Especially for me because i don't feel like i am that "entertaining". I don't have kids to post about or anything truly exciting anymore now that the house is done being built. Maybe I'll have posts in the spring with our yard updates...but that's about it. Hoping to have pregnancy news, but that is always a touchy subject. Many if not all of you know about my fertility problems. We are currently working with a Doc in Boise to help us start our family. I said after our miscarriage almost 5yrs ago that i would NEVER EVER tell anyone we were expecting till i couldn't hide it anymore or i was too sick to hide it. Well we are NOT pregnant yet, but hopefully soon. Many know already that i'm taking meds & what not, so i'll keep you posted. I know many friends have suffered miscarriages and trials with getting pregnant in the past so if i do announce we are expecting (which we are NOT yet) and then have to announce we are no longer expecting (which i HOPE doesn't happen again!!!). Please understand my lack of posting.

Gosh, i don't know why i wrote all that. Maybe because i'm a little stressed and hormonal with all the meds i'm taking. LOL.

** UPDATED 2:45pm**
Thanks everyone for the well wishes and saying that we are "entertaining" enough. I didn't mean to write it like i needed a "boost of confidence" or something. But thanks anyway! I think i needed to vent (or whatever) a little i guess.

help needed

OK. So i don't know ALL there is to know about blogging...obviously. :) But i was curious as to how people set up their "blog lists" to show when people have posted a new post on their blog. Often i click randomly on people's blogs to see if there have been updates. But I'd like to see to not have to do that. Make sense?

THANKS for your help!!

good weekend

I had a great weekend actually! Kevin came home on Friday. YAY!!! I went to the movies with my friends to see "Bride Wars". Loved it! Kevin & I ran into Twin before i went to the movies and got him his new iPod he has been saving for. He is SO good at saving his bday/Christmas $. I on the other hand...am not. :) We also had a little left over Christmas money and such so we purchased a little something....
We've been having so much fun!! We had our friends Tiff & Donny over on Saturday for dinner & games. We ended up playing a little. I think they liked it. They were both so tired that i don't know if they fully enjoyed the game after our great dinner & conversation. :) We'll have to plan a little better next time.

Sunday we went to Kevin's cousin's Mission Homecoming...which happens to be Tiff & Donny's new ward. So that was fun to see them two days in a row. Ryan did a great job. Talked a little less i think then is normal for a mission report. But it was great nonetheless. OH, and Ryan just got home on the 20th of Dec...and he already has a "girlfriend". I was shocked! But Kevin said he has always been a "ladies man". LOL.

cool website

So Kevin is on his way home from a business trip in PA today. YAY!!! They are flying home as we speak. Well they left PA and got to Chicago...where it was/is snowing ALOT...per Kevin's text. He said they even had to de-ice the plane. Which makes me nervous. But I'm sure the people at O'Hare airport are pros at that. Well my friend Sarah told me about a cool website were you can track the flight. You type in the airlines & flight # and it will show you on a map where it is and if they are on-time or delayed. So cool! So now i am watching Kevin fly across the US.

www.flightstats.com

Rainboots

So...i bought these rainboots on Clearance at Target. I love them.

I would like to get another "fun-ner" pair.
These are ones i've chosen off the website.

What do you guys think??

a few pics

OK here are just a couple pictures from our CA trip and what we arrived home to.

We had to shovel before we could pull into the garage. So we parked in the street. Shoveled and then pulled the car into the garage. Thankfully we had Kevin's brother Jeff shovel a day or two while we were gone or it would have been WAY bad! THANKS JEFF!!!!

Kevin using the packaging from a present as a "boa".  Nice Love!

Here are "my girls". When Kevin & I first got married i was put in as their primary teacher. They were approx. 5-6 years old! I taught them for almost 4 yrs. They were darling little kids and now look at them! They are Beautiful Young Women!!

Becca, Me, Kaitlyn & Tori.

Apparently Tori & I are looking at a different camera. LOL.

Lastly the Ostler Family.

With Natalie surprising us for a visit we had hoped that we'd get a family photo taken. Since it's been YEARS since our last good one. Well the lady we wanted to have it done by had to work. So we improvised. Kevin & I took the pics and then when it was time for the group shot we set it on a timer and Kevin would run into the picture. Needs a little touching up for lighting I tried a "quick fix" it helped some. 

Back: Alec, Michael, Carolyn, Dad, Steve, Natalie, Me & Kevin

Front: Derek, Madison, Mom, Dallin & Sam

Kevin & I had a GREAT time going to CA for Christmas. It was the first time home in 3yrs! Way too long! We went to the Beach, the museum for a show of William Wente's paintings, Kevin was SO excited to see it! We bought the book. There were some beautiful paintings. We had In-n-Out. Which was DIVINE!!! It will be SO worth the drive to St. George just for some more! What's 10hrs for a hamburger right?! We went to our old ward in Alhambra. Which was SO AWESOME! That truly felt like going home! How we miss that ward and all our friends there! There were alot of new faces but many many familiar and wonderful faces! We got to chat with alot of our friends. Thanks Lange's & Simpers for a wonderful dinner & conversation!! We just spent alot of time with family and it was great!!

Rockband videos

So my sister Carolyn & her family got Rockband Worldtour for the Wii. And we had a bit of fun Friday evening before we left. Here are some videos i recorded on my phone. So they aren't the best looking...but you can hear things really well.

Michael singing - Beat it


Steve singing a song from CCR

We are home...in Idaho

We made it home yesterday around 3:30pm. Thanks to a call from my friend Emily we knew which way to enter our subdivision. The streets are not plowed and its bad! We parked in the street, shoveled the driveway, and then pulled in. :)

We are glad to be home, but sad to leave family in CA and get back into "real life" other then "vacation life". But we had a great time! PLUS... My sister Natalie came out from NC to surprise me! Boy was i surprised!!! I was so excited to see them. My nephew's were very shy around me, but warmed up by the end of the few days we saw each other.

Pictures to come soon.

awesome deal

So apparently all the news about shoppers NOT shopping...does not consider Redlands. There are SO MANY shoppers out! I was one of them yesterday. Well...i was just going as "moral support" for my sister Carolyn as she was trying to find two last things. Turns out...she found nothing and i made a purchase! YAY!!

Kevin & I have been looking for a new comforter for our bed. With no luck. Well when we stopped in St. George on our way down we walked around Bed, Bath & Beyond to "stretch our legs". Well we ended up finding a new comforter that we liked. So i took a picture of it so we'd remember what it's called. Plus we didn't have the $$ to get it, even on the sale price of $99. Well there so happens to be a new Bed, Bath & Beyond in Redlands. So we ventured in yesterday. Found the same comforter...for only $79...regular price! I was SO excited. Called Kevin, asked if i could get it and use the Christmas money we had just gotten. He agreed! YAY!!!

So last night i was telling my mom of our purchase and she said. "OH! I wish i had known you were going i have a 20% off coupon!" Darn it! So, we decided to go and see if we can use it, or i'd return it and just buy a new one. Well i didn't end up having to get a new one, they just did their magic on the cash register and took off the 20%. WOOO HOOOO!!!! So i now got it for like $65!

HAPPY DAY!!!!

We made it!

We now currently at my parents house in Redlands. It's so great to be home! I can't believe how much things change in 3 years. We had dinner with my sister Carolyn and her family. The kids are SO BIG it's not even funny. My nephew Alec towers over me at 14yrs old. Lovely! I just wish my sister Natalie was here with her family. There is always next year right?

Well the roads were pretty good considering the weather in which we were leaving. So we made it to SLC last night and had dinner with our best friends Chris & Sarah and with Kevin's bro & this family. Great food and great company. Chris & Sarah bought us a gift...you'll be soon introduced to "BLING Crosby". That's what we've decided to name him. :) Then this morning (well all day) drove from SLC to Redlands.

We had an In-N-Out burger in St. George for lunch today. IT WAS DIVINE!!!! We couldn't eat it fast enough! The place was packed as all usually are. But it was because all the BYU people were driving to Vegas for the Bowl game...in which they LOST! lol.

Anyways, i better run. Time for bed.

leaving...on a snowy road...

....don't know if we'll make it down or not.

LOL. Like that?! i thought i was creative.

We are just getting hammered with snow storms and i am SO nervous that we aren't going to make it down to CA. I'm sure all will be fine...but i worry!!! And what's up with Las Vegas getting snow?!?

We take off tomorrow and I have so much to do tonight it's not even funny. Plus i have a primary dinner i should go to, but we'll see. And i still need to get the oil changed in the car. UGH!!!

wish us luck!

Music Tag

I thought this would be fun.

And I tag you all....

1. Put your music player on shuffle (ALL MUSIC).
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

** this is from my work music. I wonder what would be different if i did it from home??**

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OK" YOU SAY:
Headlights On Dark Roads by Snow Patrol

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Won't let you down by Keith Urban

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
We Wish you a Merry Christmas By Snowflake Series/Christmas Piano Moods

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
I Love Beans by Space Ghost (LOL!)

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Man of Constant Sorrow From O Brother where are thou?
(yikes!)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
My Best Friend by Tim McGraw

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Curious by Barenaked Ladies

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen By Christopher West/A Piano Christmas

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Angels We Have Heard On High By Josh Groban

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Holiday By Madonna (Nice!)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
I got it Bad (And that Ain't Good) By Ella Fitzgerald

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Actress hasn't Learned The Lines from Evita the movie

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Falls Apart By Sugar Ray

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! from ABBA

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Crying Shame By Jack Johnson

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Beautifully Broken By Ashlee Simpson

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
The 12 Days of Christmas By Frank Sinatra

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
You Must Love Me By Madonna from Evita

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Wasted By Carrie Underwood

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
They Say It's Wonderful by Frank Sinatra

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
What Child Is This? By Christopher West/A Piano Christmas

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
One more Time By Mitch & Mickey from A Mighty Wind movie

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Thankful by Josh Groban

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Do what you have to do By Sarah McLachlan

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Turn it Loose By The Judds

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Abracadabra By Sugar Ray

lesson learned

So i learned this morning that swearing at your garage door to close in a wind storm doesn't help it close! I sat there trying to close the garage door for 15-20mins this morning! I just ended up having to pull the little red cord and latch it closed. So my morning has started on a sour note. :(

on another note...I LOVE MY CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN IS DAYS...NOT WEEKS! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just briefly checked the High's for Saturday when we arrive... Redlands 57...Jerome 9. ummm. i'll take 57 ANY DAY!

Right now in Jerome is 15...but feels like -3 with 24mph winds! fun times.

Early Merry Christmas

Wishing you & your family a Merry Christmas!

Jackie & Kevin 12/6/08
(with Santa at a Church Christmas Party)

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestions on the punch. I went the way simple route of Raspberry sherbet and 7up. It was tasty. :)

I can not believe I'll be leaving for California a week from TOMORROW! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so stinkin' excited to go home for Christmas this year. I miss my family!

punch

So this week is our Company Christmas Party.
I am in charge of bringing some sort of Punch to drink.

Anyone have any suggestions??

Rockband for the wii

So Thanksgiving day was pretty much RULED by Rockband for the Wii. Kevin's brother Keith brought it. Kevin LOVED IT!!!! His fingertips were all tingly that night and the next morning from playing so much. Kevin got two videos on his cell phone. Not that big or best quality...and i look AWFUL. But here you go....


First video is kevin's parents and then there is Keith & I. I was playing the bass guitar. I was a little more animated before kevin started filming. :)

Christmas Lights

Here are the pics of Kevin on the roof putting up our Christmas lights (not in order). I bet it was about 40 degrees but the wind was wicked cold!! We were freezing!!! Plus it was about 4:30 in the afternoon when we were doing this so it was getting cooler & darker by the minute.







We now have lights on the front pole on the porch. I'll have to get a picture of that too.

WE LOVE OUR LIGHTS!!!

weekend update

We had a great weekend. Thanksgiving was good. It didn't "feel" like Thanksgiving. It was weird. It was just like another family dinner. Kind of sad actually that it was that way. We were glad that Lynn, Shauna & Charlee were able to stay with us. Ended on a bit of a sour note Sunday night when Charlee got sick. poor little girl. Kevin was under the weather on Sunday as well. So i ventured to church alone. Kevin & I for the first time ever got to hang Christmas lights on our house!! I must say they look GREAT! I have pictures of the adventure of hanging the lights in the cold & wind. But i need to download them still. So hopefully i get to that here soon.

So now we just push through these 2.5 weeks of work and then we are OFF TO CALLFORNIA! woo hoo!!!! Our weather, according to the weatherman is above normal. So we haven't seen snow in our area yet (that has stuck around). But i am totally ready for it! Lynn was saying in UT that they were told they wouldn't see snow really till January. Kind of sad. I hope for people spending Christmas here will have a white Christmas. Mine will probably be 80 degrees. :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope we all take a moment to reflect on what we are Thankful for.

Muddy Buddy

I TOTALLY WANT TO DO THIS!!!!!
next year (since they are all over with now)
I wrote them a note that they need to have one of these in Boise.
Hopefully they will look into it!!

MUDDY BUDDY

Thanks Laurie for posting about it on your blog!

...and the calling is...

NURSERY LEADER! I know i am a bit dramatic about it. But with my struggles of lack of pregnancy that's not the place i want to be. All these young mother's rubbing it in my face that they have kids and i don't. Well, I'm sure they are not rubbing it in my face, but there will be days when i will take it like that. I actually thought i was going to be R.S. teacher and i was hoping for it. But unfortunately Jen, who i am replacing in the nursery got that position. We talked about it yesterday and she said she would gladly stay in Nursery and i can teach R.S. :) But the Bishop didn't think it was a good plan...i asked. LOL.

Kevin's calling is.... Ward Mission Leader.

This is a growing period for both of us that's for sure!

church callings...

Well...i haven't had a church calling since Aug 2007! How did i do that?? Well we were moving from our Rexburg ward and we didn't know what weekends we'd be in town and such...so we were released. Then we moved to Twin Falls right in time for the Winter Holiday's. So we got kind of "passed over" for a while. Kevin then was given a calling and the Bishop asked if i had one and my reply was..."yes, i am an active participant in R.S. and it's fantastic!" I was never given a calling in that ward. I felt kind of bad. But oh well. Now we are in our new ward and we got called into the bishops office Tuesday night. All day i had a certain calling in mind that i was going to get. I was sure of it. Well it turns out that that is not the calling they gave me. I did not take the "new" calling well. I bawled in his office, i bawled all evening, i bawled all morning, I skipped work and went to the Temple, i bawled there, i bawled when i told me sister Natalie what they want me to do. I have not cried about it in about 36 hrs. I think I have come to terms with it and i'm sure it's going to be great. They said i should be set apart for it this Sunday.

What do you think it is?!
(and those that DO know...please don't guess)
Kevin got a calling too, but we don't know when he will be set apart yet.
Guess what his calling is.

Updated (4pm 11/14/08)
* those are all great guesses so far...i think I'm a bit more dramatic for my own good. But then i think my reasons are justified. LOL.

worst dinner ever!

So yesterday we decided to try a crock-pot meal I've been wanting to make. Chicken & broccoli. I got it all ready and had it going before we left for church. Kevin's brother Jeff had given us some Rhodes Rolls. So i got those out, they were a little questionable to begin with, but thought we'd see how they rise. We get back from church and i check on the chicken....it's still pink! DUH! I should have had it on HIGH not LOW! The rolls still haven't risen, maybe a little, gave them another good hour or two...still nothing. Made the rice for the chicken. Put the rolls in the oven. Chicken was dry. Broccoli was over done. Rolls tasted like freezer burn. The rice was good! SO we threw out everything but the rice. LOL. We've only thrown out the whole meal like that once before when Kevin decided to try to make something out of leftovers....which did NOT work! We had a good laugh. I have thrown away the recipe since it was nasty!

Video - too funny

I know we all do this sort of thing when we think no one is looking. But this guy posted it on the web. Too funny!! Check out the video HERE.

Voted!

I voted! Have you?????

one year ago today...

...was my last day on the job at BYU-Idaho. I can not believe it's been one year that i moved from Rexburg to Twin Falls. It has been the fastest year ever! I worked a full day my last day at the BYU-Idaho Alumni Office. Well i guess "worked" might not be the correct term. Though i did attend a meeting that morning, that i probably didn't need to, but oh well. It was the last time i knew I'd see some of the people that i worked with. I miss the Alumni Office, I miss "my girls" (BYUI students-most now have moved on to bigger & better things), my coworkers, the beautiful campus, etc... But things have been great since living in Twin. One: it is great to live with Kevin again. LOL. We were a "commuter couple" again. hated it! Since he moved to Twin in August to start his new job and I was still selling our Town-home & finishing work. Two: we have lived in two great wards. Three: we both have great jobs. Four: we bought another house! Five: we are closer to family. Six: We have made some GREAT friends here! Seven: I have been bitten by the exercise bug and I'm loving it!! There are many more things, but that will do.

Much love BYU-Idaho Alumni office!

Chopped!

I decided it was time for a change and CHOPPED my hair off this morning. Not the greatest picture. I'll see if Kevin will take one before church tomorrow. I bet i cut about 6-8 inches off. It's quite the change for me, but it feels great and i love it...THANKS LISA!!!

sunrise

Friday morning leaving for work, i saw this BEAUTIFUL sunrise. I had to run in the house , grab the camera and take a picture. This was taken from our back patio.

playing dress up

Kevin & I had a fun party to go to Thursday night. We had to dress up. So we went as some of Kevin's favorite people. Darth Vader and Princess Leia. Thanks Ray & Emily for a fun night!

It's sad...all we had to buy was Kevin's cape, we had everything else. LOL.

mowing

Kevin mowed the lawn for the first time on Tuesday night. I was at my exercise class and was sad not to be there for this BIG moment in home-ownership history. So Kevin set up the camera and put it on a timer. THANKS LOVE!

He said he had alot of fun, but said to ask him how he felt after next summer. LOL.

South Hills

Last Saturday Kevin & I decided to drive up into the South Hills to see if there were any trees changing colors to produce Fall splendor. I think we were a few weeks too late (i don't know the snow storm 3 weeks ago helped any). But it was still a BEAUTIFUL day.

Kevin & I
(His head is blocking the trees i wanted to get the pic of)

Kevin has to put his feet in most all of the bodies of water we visit. This water felt "really nice" on the banks, but apparently it was FREEZING when we actually got into it!Kevin Drying Off.

Kevin wanted this shot. He has something planned.
I'm not sure what, he won't tell me.
I of course have my Boston Red Sox hat on.

Kevin & I at Ross Falls. It's so small right now
and it's a bit frozen at the bottom.

wicked cool caterpillar.

The Magic Valley of Idaho, has a beauty all it's own.
We literally are on a lava bed.
You can see some lava rock in this bottom pic.

Homemade Applesauce

Kevin's parents have some apples trees. They didn't produce nearly what they did last year, but we got some apples from them and made some applesauce. Here are some pics.

Different angles of view of our Bushel of apples.

Our 35 pints of Cinnamon Applesauce.
It's SO yummy!!

Our nephew Karson that it was fun to sit in the box of unused
pint jars that we were giving back to Kevin's mom.

It was ALOT of work, but well worth it. We'll do it again I'm sure.

Pederson's

So my sister Natalie and her family were in CA for about 2 weeks earlier in the month. They spent some time (obviously) with Steve's family and they had a few snap shots taken of them that i thought were really cute. I "borrowed" these of Natalie's sis-in-law's blog. Looks like fun times were had by all!

Natalie being chased by her "niece" Darbi.
(I think it's more like 2nd cousin once removed or something like that)

Natalie & Sam playing "bumper cars"

Steve & Dallin
(Dallin looks SO much like Natalie when she was younger!)

Oh how i miss you guys!!! I hope to see you guys soon.

hello

Wow, it seems like i haven't written in forever. I think it's only been a week. I guess it was a long week. LOL. Just thought i'd do a little update.

I have not had a caffeinated soda in about 2-3 weeks! I did have a diet A&W rootbeer this weekend. Just to have something other then water. :) I really don't have much of a craving for it either now, i guess some days i do. I drink ALOT more water too, especially for my spinning class. You NEED to be hydrated for that.

I am LOVING my two exercise classes. Especially my spinning class. It really perks me up to make it through the afternoons at work. I get really sad on days i don't have it. Like my friend Monett said..."you'll be addicted" and i am! I even bought a heart monitor this weekend. I was obsessed with looking at it during class today. LOL. But it totally makes you push yourself that much harder.

I have more to say about what we did this weekend. But it will have to wait till i can get the pics up on the blog. We REALLY need to get internet at home again!!