Amy's Engaged!!

Nope not me, that was over 10 years ago for us! But our good friends Amy and Wayne got engaged last night. We are so happy for them, and just love that she is marrying someone we love hanging out with!! Bring on the Cruise!

New Office

So we decided to sell our Day Bed through our new favorite KSL Classifieds. So we have wanted to create a home office that we could both use. We applied the funds procured from the Day bed sell and went shopping for desks. We found this combo at IKEA. Tons of added storage and a place we can study, work on lessons, do crafts, and just hang out in. I think it's so cute that Chad wanted desks facing each other so we could hang out in the same room. I feel so blessed to have him!!

I'm it......

I have been tagged by my good friend Christi

Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

1. I have to clean up while a cook, meaning I have to keep filling the dishwasher, wiping off counters as I go, basically have all the dishes finished by the time dinner is on the table mostly because I hate having a huge stack of dishes at the end of dinner.

2. I have to clean once a week. Even if it doesn't need tons of cleaning. I think it stems from Saturday cleaning every week while growing up.

3. I have to straighten our main floor before going to sleep.

4. Instead of snoring I make a little puffing sound if I am really in a deep sleep. My dad does this exact same thing.

5. I love power tools. I envy my dad's awesome basement shop that houses ban saws, tons of tools and drills etc. I want my own room like that in our house.

6. I have an amazing sense of smell (too good at times). Probably my favorite is freshly bathed babies. And I also love the smell of ski wax. My dad would wax our ski's the night before we would go to skiing, I love that smell, reminds me of winter and home.

I tag, Erin, Tara, Chad, Pat, Kat and Nancy

First 5K and Game Day

Well I have completed my first 5k! Our stake had a Stake Olympics yesterday and our biggest loser group made a goal to walk the 5k. I was defiantly not as prepared as I thought. I have been working out every day and have added in the elliptical sporadically throughout the week...not the same as walking or running on the road... Part of the group participated, a lot of them running and a few of us walked. I now have the 5k bug, I really think I would like the have a way better time so I am going to start preparing for the next race.

So after the race we started prep on our game day food, we had an awesome mini food theme. Chad and I made mini twice baked potatoes, mini meatloaf, and Tara's key-lime tarts. Our friends brought great mushroom quiches, cheese dip and mini chips, and mini cranberry muffins. A great time was had by all, and yes the game was amazing!

The amazing Brandon and Maximus (just check out those legs!)

To close for comfort

Well the BYU game was definitely intense. We would rather win by more than just one point! We had our game friends over and indulged in one of our fav's which is Breakfast for dinner. So we made Vanilla French Toast, Crepes, and Tam brought the best Stratta...so going to have to duplicate that!
So friends left and we settled down at 2am for a somewhat short night before going to Stake Conference. Well Ginger had been a little off all weekend and woke us up at 4 ish crying/yipping and shivering with pain, we got up and quickly dressed and took her to the Animal Hospital. Hours later and several bucks spent, we found out that she has a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection), they started her on antibiotics and some pain meds (liquid form...fun for us). She has stopped shivering and seems a little more normal. We will check with our Vet in a week to see if all is well. So to say the least we missed Stake Conference and have both been sleep deprived all day. You're all thinking...it's a dog and as we would both say (since we live in babyville (for at least a few more months))...but she is our dog and part of our family! No, not at all defensive...

So cute!

This picture was on our nephew Zach's blog. He is truly a wonderful blessing in our family! His parents Doug and Nancy are so loving and patient and just do an awesome job with all of their kids. I so hope that I can be that kind of mom. She has 6 kids and does an amazing job!

Ginger Prison and Game Day

Yes, our little puppy likes to sneak under the fence. So this week I cleaned up the backyard and made what we refer to as Ginger prison. She loves being out there. As much as I love the concrete and plan on putting in a hot tub...(hopefully for Christmas), I do wish we had a little patch of grass for her to hang out on. Now she sits on the porch and barks at planes going by and I don't have to worry about her doing an army crawl under the fence.
Yep...looks like hot tub ground to me...
Game Day shirts Baby! (yep, kind of a freaky celestial glow to the B)

We had a successful game day with a win from the Cougs! Our friends brought Ho-Ho cake (yes, ho ho, it tastes like a ho ho but even better, it's divine!)Tomato cups, Potato Salad, and yummy Spinach salad. We had sausages on the grill, 7 layer dip and one of our favorites a Layered Salad. All had a good time, as you can see from the pics below. We wish family had been here to party and watch football! Baby Burrito Max watching football.




Yes, and our purchase for the year..... the tablecloth...no my whole kitchen isn't BYU, I just couldn't resist buying a new game day accessory