General Conference!

 

I meant to put this up yesterday, but totally forgot until conference had already started. It was AMAZING today! I'm sorry if you missed it, it was so good! Everything seemed to be just for me! That is one of my favorite things about conference! If you missed it, it will be online soon! And you can tune in tomorrow! 

Productive Saturday

This weekend we were able to get quite a bit done!

Friday we just relaxed, 

first we went to our friends' home and watched a basketball game and ate good food.

Then we came home and had a Law and Order marathon, lol. We love that show. 

The new Psych (our other favorite) isn't on hulu yet... so we watch Law and Order on Netflix.

Saturday was more productive though.

My sweet husband is the scout leader in our ward.

He does a great job!

He took the scouts on a hike in the mountains by our home.

Here they are just before I picked them up.

While my sweet husband was hiking a friend of ours offered us their Hunger Game tickets.

We are suckers for free stuff, so we took them up on the offer.

We decided to de-redneck ourselves a little and take some of the junk we've had in our backyard from fixing up the house to the dump.

One reason I was so excited for the truck was it meant that all of that junk would find another home.

We also pulled out some junk from our garage.

Then when we picked up the tickets we asked our friends if they had anything they'd like taken to the dump.

They did, so we loaded it up (the picture is just of our junk, the bed was COMPLETELY full by the time we loaded their stuff too.

They felt getting rid of their junk and the tickets were a fair trade.. lol.

*WARNING* 

Some people may not agree with me on this next part, that is totally fine, I'm only giving my opinion.

 First off, I need to say that I read The Hunger Games. When I read it I thought it was entertaining... not really the right word because honestly I think the whole idea of the book is extremely morbid. I think that is why I didn't really like them. I read all three of them, but I just could not get past how morbid the whole idea  of it was. So honestly, I wasn't really planning on seeing the movie. But like I said, we're suckers for free stuff. So we went to the movie. The movie was very intense! It kept us on the edge of our seats the entire time, until the end of course, where it just kind of ended. My sweet husband did not read the book and didn't really get the point of the movie. After it was over I asked him what he thought of it, he said he didn't really like it. I told him how I thought it was a bit morbid that they make them have the games to get food. He said, "I didn't get that at all." So basically, I don't think they did a very good job explaining that part of it very well. I kind of think that they made the movie thinking that everyone watching it would have read the book. So I don't know, we had a good time, but it was a little weird. 

Off my soapbox now and back to our Saturday.

We went to the dump after that.

I felt so free getting rid of our junk.

Sadly, as soon as we got home we created more junk.

We've been painting interior doors this week.

So Saturday was installation day.. I think we actually started on like Thursday or something.

We got most of them installed on Saturday. 

We need to fix a few of them. We inherited a few doors from my parents. Two of them fit our doors, but one did not. Sadly, some how the one that didn't fit got painted and the second door that fit did not get painted. So we were short one door, but we'll get it painted soon.

So the old doors were the junk we created.

Oh well.

Then it was dinner time.

Because it was a beautifully sunny day we decided we should BBQ!

We've had two bags of charcoal in our garage for a LONG time because they were on sale at Home Depot a while ago.

So my handsome husband grilled us some steak! My favorite! 

 It was super yummy!

We worked on the doors a bit more after dinner.

Then we started the demolition of our closet.

We're making a closet organizer!

I can't even describe how excited I am for it!

 After we cleared one side we got tired and decided to call it a night.

Then we had another Law and Order Marathon.. lol.

I thought I would also show you the lights and fan my sweet husband installed in our bathrooms.

This the guest bathroom, they aren't hooked up yet, but they are in the ceiling.. step one.

 This is the master bathroom.

They are all connected and work like a champ.

My plan today is to paint the ceiling.

Lol, the reason it looks like blood got smeared on the wall was that my sweet husband used the roller from our bedroom to put the primer on the ceiling... lol. He rinsed the roller for like an hour but apparently there was A LOT of paint in the roller. Oh well.

Fact about remodeling: You are bound to have several projects going on at once because you are also bound to get bored of one project and start on another... lol. At least that has been our experience.

Congrats if you made it to the end of this really long post!

Winter fun

Winter has never been my favorite season,

but I've been trying to enjoy it more.

Sure I may have picked one of the best winters EVER to decide to try to like winter,

but hey, I'm trying okay?! Lol!

Although, I think I may be allergic to snow, 

whenever it starts snowing I get sick 

(yesterday I spent the entire day in bed with a fever and terrible aches).

It snowed/rained all day yesterday.

It would stick for a while, then it would start raining and the snow would melt. It did this several times.

Then this morning we woke up to at least 4 or 5 inches of snow.

It was still coming down.

It stopped around 11ish, but by the time we were in our second hour of church 

(we start at 1) it was really coming down again, and has been ever since.

So after church we decided to play in it.

We built this beauty!

I don't know if you can see her arms, 

but it kind of looks like she is doing the yoga pose called Warrior 2...lol,

totally on accident I promise.

Of course we also had a snowball or snow shovels worth (my sweet husband) fight.

It was really fun, even if I got slaughtered.

 Then to warm up we started a fire in our fireplace.

Here is my handsome husband talking to his dad and warming by the fire.

 Then I remembered seeing that a friend of ours put on her facebook that she and her family roasted marshmallows in their fireplace and thought it was a good idea. So we roasted some marshmallows.

And they were delicious!

P.S. I think the key to not hating winter is wearing enough warm clothes and staying dry.

I hated winter at school because my pants would always get wet because I didn't hem them and they would drag, but once I discovered the short sizes it was so much better!

And today we got all decked out in snow gear before we went and it was totally fine because I was toasty the whole time!

Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day!

Can't ever pass up a day to make

and eat a pie!

Flash from the Past!

This morning I found that

Saved by the Bell

is on Netflix!

I used to watch this show everyday after school!

Getaway Weekend

We needed a getaway.

I realize we just visited my family two weeks ago, but we decided it would be fun to see them again!

We also decided it would be fun to go skiing.

Side note, when I told a friend we'd gone skiing she said thought I meant water skiing and told me we were crazy, but she also said she wouldn't be surprised if we'd gone water skiing in March.. lol, it made me laugh!

So no, folks, we didn't go water skiing, we went snow skiing.

We had a great time!

We asked my parents if they would like to go.

They used to go, my mom hadn't gone for 27 years! My dad hadn't gone for 23!

They decided that it would be fun, so they said yes!

We found out the day we left that my baby brother was also going to come!

The adventure started at my sister's opera.

Thank you facebook for this picture, since I forgot to take one.

My sister is the one on the left. 

She did wonderfully well!

As did her roommates (the other three).

My sister was the maid, 

my sweet husband asked her why we don't see those traits a little more at home, lol!

We then went to eat at a very fancy restaurant, Denny's!

They're always open!

It was actually pretty good, slow, but good.

I was reminded of many trips to Denny's in the middle of the night during college...

I was reminded of this because I almost fell asleep in my food.

I think I'm getting old.

Then we went and stayed the night at a five star hotel (minus several stars)...lol.

It was fun!

The next morning, we hit the slops!

Here we are on the lift 

And here are my brother, dad, and mom on the lift

My little brother had never been skiing before, but turned out to be a pro!

He went straight down the mountain!

No slow s-turns for this boy!

However, in this picture below, he realized that maybe going down slower may be a better idea.

You see, we'd gone down several easy hills previously (those were the ones he just went straight down),

then we decided to get on a different lift, 

and apparently part of the hill was a blue (intermediate) if you didn't turn,

if you did turn it stayed green (easy),

but we missed the turn.

So he FLEW down the hill, yelling to people "GET OUT OF THE WAY!"

It was funny and kind of sad.

So then my mom and dad taught him how to get down the mountain in a controlled way, 

I think that is what they are doing here:

In the picture above my mom is in the back with the orange hat, my brother is in the middle (the one without polls), and my dad is on the right.

This is the beautiful view from the top of one of the lifts.

Here we are with the beautiful view.

After a great day on the mountain, seriously it was awesome!

It was not very crowded at all, it was warm 

(which I realize isn't the best for skiing, but I hate being cold, so I liked it),

and we had great company, and all had a great time!

Back to what I was saying though, after a great day on the mountain, we met up with our cousins who live just south of the ski resort, well most of them (we missed a few who were at a wedding).

It was really fun to eat and talk with them!

My mom was there too, but she took the picture, silly me, I should have had the waitress take the picture.

On the way home we stopped and saw my best friend from high school!
It was so good to see her and her new apartment!

P.S. If you hate the time change as much as me, go skiing the day before the change, you'll be so exhausted that going to bed early will be no problem!

This makes me happy

Recently we've started doing yoga,

my sweet husband thinks we're turning into hippies...

we do yoga and eat oatmeal... lol! 

Can you be a hippy and a hillbilly?

I don't know.

And I will be honest, I do more yoga than he does, but he will do it with me sometimes.

It's a really good workout! And I actually enjoy it! I usually hate working out, but I enjoy yoga!

I may have found a workout I can stick with!

We also found this song and we both love it!

I think it basically describes our relationship, except we do golf and we don't drink.. lol.

Slowly becoming hillbillies...

Recently we acquired a truck.

We weren't able to drive it home because it was leaking coolant,

so my sweet husband borrowed a truck and a trailer from two different people,

and towed it home!

He has since fixed the leakage,

but there is still a rattling in the transfer case that he needs to clear up.

He got it smog checked yesterday-a hurdle we weren't sure it could jump,

but it passed!

Here it is on the side of our house, 

in this picture you can see the boat (under that blue tarp),

and next to the truck is the Scout trailer, but you can't really see that,

we're slowly acquiring a collection of vehicles and projects... lol!

I'm sure our neighbors love us!

In fact, one neighbor came over and talked with my sweet husband about the truck.

My sweet husband did mention to the neighbor that this truck is going to bring in our lawn

and everything else to make the outside of our home a little more presentable, 

so I think our neighbors will appreciate that.

I love watching my sweet husband work on it and drive it because he always has a big smile on his face! He's wanted an old truck since he was a little boy.