Recent Happenings

Remember less than a year ago when Kory and I were planting grass in our back yard? How proud we all were of the beautiful yard that came in? Those were glorious times. The snow has melted and this is what we have found. Yes those are eaten away tracks. 75% of our back yard has been uprooted by mice. We found various nests that were hidden under the snow and in the small part where snow had not melted, a network of tunnels. Not to mention the couple of mice Kory chased with a shovel today. This is a common problem, at least on our street. However, last year we only had a small portion of our yard by the creek that had been targeted. Our hopes were high that if we watched closely enough our hard work in the back yard would be safe. Not so! Looks like another spring of replanting.

On a much brighter note I have finally gone snowboarding! I have never done either snowboarding or skiing so this was an exciting day. And let me tell you, I am good! Well, at least I felt like I was doing pretty good for the last 15 minutes or so of our 4 hour adventure. The rest of the time was pretty miserable and I haven't been that sore well ever. I think maybe I will try again next year :-) I wish I had a picture of Kory with me to document this momentous occasion but I could not get him to pose with me! I guess you will just have to imagine!

I realized I never posted any pictures from our Christmas Vacation. Here we are on the beach in Delaware!

Christmas Chaos

Be warned! This is a long ventful post!

We had a very eventful trip to get to Maryland for Christmas this year. We were very worried about making it because we had a layover in Minnesota and there were all kinds of warnings that flights may be cancelled going in and out of Minnesota. We called the airport numerous times before the flight to make sure we were good to go, they kept telling us we were but to make sure we got there two hours early just in case. Our flight left at 5:47 so like dutiful flyers we arrived at the airport at 3:30. The baggage takers (i'm sure they have a name but I don't know it) did not arrive til 4:30. Grrr. Oh well, we just dozed on some chairs and watched the cleaners.

This flight left without a hitch and we were told we were just fine to land in Minnesota. After we landed there was another plane in our holding spot so we had to wait off to the side for 40 minutes before we were allowed to finally pull up-the only problem was we landed at 9:25 and our next flight left at 10. I was in a panic!!!! We finally got off the flight in the "G" gates and our flight to leave was in the "C" gates. If you have ever been to the Minnesota airport you can get an idea of exactly how far we had to run to try and get on a flight that left 5 minutes ago! And on top of that the ticket agents refused to call the correct gate to let them know we were on our way. Lucky enough the flight was delayed to leave until 10:15, a blessing we thought. Apparently, however, the pilot for this flight did not know he was supposed to be flying it so we had to wait another hour for him to arrive to fly our plane!!! Ridiculous!! Then another half-hour for them to de-ice our wings. It's okay, all we had to get to was Baltimore, and we were just grateful there were no taking off or landing hitches in Minnesota.

We arrived to Baltimore and felt like the plane just kept circling and circling and circling. Sure enough the pilot gets on the intercom and tells us it is too foggy to land and he is going to keep circling until it clears up. We circled for about 10 minutes when we started gaining a lot of altitude. We figured, it's okay, if we can't land he will just take us to the nearest airport in D.C. and that will be fine. The pilot gets on the intercom and tells us that for safety reasons he has to land the plane as fast as he can and he is heading to his nearest landing option-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WHAT!!!!! That is 4 hours away from my parents!!!!! Noooo!!!! (By the way: My Little Sisters flight landed with no hitches in Baltimore 30 minutes later!)

We landed and they assured us they would do whatever it took to get us to Baltimore. Whatever! 15 minutes later they told us to get off the plane because they were headed back to Minnesota and if we wanted to go back that way then we could stay on the plane. Oh and by the way, there are no flights out to Baltimore but we will pay for a bus ride or for a hotel room for you. Great! We decided the best way to go was just to get on the bus, it wouldn't arrive for another 4 hours and we would get there about midnight. We just wanted to get there and figured that would just be the best way. 20 minutes later-never mind on the bus, they can't get one to go to Baltimore. This is Crazy!!!!! Are we not meant to get to Maryland for Christmas?

The guy behind us in line received a call from his wife who had been looking online and found a flight that the airport claimed to know nothing about. That flight doesn't exist, they tell us. After a lot of badgering from the people in the lines this flight all of a sudden opened up!!! How weird is that?!?!? We only had to fly to Detroit, Michigan, and from there D.C. It was better than any other options and we would arrive there at 10:00 at night.

We made it! 9 1/2 hours late and in the wrong city but we got there! I'm sorry that was a long spiel but I just had to vent somewhere! Kory has had a goal all year long to accomplish when we made it to Maryland and as you can see below he made it! I think you better watch out Kory!

2 years!!

It's true Kory and I have made it a whole 2 years! I'm not shocked but it still feels like an accomplishment! We tried to remember throughout the day exactly what we were doing at that time 2 years ago. It was fun to remember all the fun details of the wedding day. Kory had bought a clock for me that I really wanted for Christmas but he accidentally slipped one day when he told me to go outside while he hid something because he didn't want me to find the claaaaawwwww...(he stopped midword and pushed me outside.) While I was outside it hit me what it was he had hidden and after some convincing he agreed he needed to give it to me for our anniversary. :-) Isn't it great?!? He did so well!!

I also just had to throw in a picture of Buster in this cute sweater I found at Walmart for only $5. I know, its bad news, I'm starting to clothe my dog...
Here's to 2 FABULOUS years and an eternity of more years to come!

Kory the Builder

We're Baaa-aaack!!! It's been awhile but we are back with a new vigor for the blogging world.

My friend and her husband recently built an ottoman and posted pictures on her blog. I thought it was the coolest thing and set out to convince Kory we should do the same, it didn't take much he was all for it. We bought all of our supplies, borrowed the saw and got to work. We were sure we could get it all done in one day-not so much. It took us a couple Saturdays and a little bit of work in between. We are pretty proud of our finished project. It's nice to have somewhere to put our blankets and our feet. :-)

Green Thumb?

I have been receiving a lot of hints that I need to blog again. It is true it has been awhile. I have been racking my brain trying to think of things I could blog about and came up with just about nothing. So that means once again you all get to hear about our yard! It is our pride and joy right now. I am so proud of my garden and Kory is so proud of his grass coming up and the working sprinklers! Take a look at my garden. Side #1

Side #2

We have planted peas, red and green bell peppers, cantaloupes, tomatoes, onions, zucchinis, and cucumbers. I think the cutest thing ever is the little peppers when they first start growing. Isn't that so cute?
Our grass is coming in really well right now. When you drive up to our house during certain times of the day it looks like we have a full lawn back there.

One of the things I wanted to do this summer was drive to Brigham and go on the hike behind my old house there. We finally were able to go about a week ago. Either that hike got a whole lot steeper or I was much more in shape when I was a young spry little thing. It had to be a few million degrees outside and the waterfall has basically been grown over with foliage. It was still fun to walk by my old house and reminisce a little bit, but I don't think we will be doing that again anytime in the near future. Look at that! Does that look steep to you? It looks steep to me! As you can see Buster was a trooper. She only ended up with 1 cactus in her paw.

The excitement of the summer is just beginning for us. We have a busy remainder and will be posting again soon. I promise!

Oodles of Stuff

Kory and I have been busy, busy, busy. This may be a long blog, I have lots to write about. Kory has finished his semester at school and much to our surprise he doesn't have to retake any classes. (That is really true, we had our doubts.) So with just work our nights have been devoted to getting a garden in and putting in sprinklers. This is much harder than it sounds. Our yard is so extremely rocky. We started with high hopes of getting all the rocks out to plant grass and have been told by all the neighbors not to waste our time and just plant over the rocks. Slowly our aspirations have diminished and now we are just getting out the large rocks. The garden on the other hand is a different story. All rocks are being removed there. Kory is working on getting the sprinklers in and so far we have a lot of trenches in our backyard. Our next door neighbor came over the other day to examine what we were doing and the first question out of his mouth was "Are you guys preparing for World War 1?" That is definitely how our backyard looks right now on a slightly smaller scale. Along with our yard, if you have been to our house you have seen our lovely creek (please pronounce "crick") on the side of our house. We love having our creek but we didn't realize that having a creek would bring such wildlife to our yard. We have a new family of ducks that likes to hang out there. Here are a couple of pictures of our little family in their growing stages. We can't forget the many, many snakes, and something that we found out is called a vole. I have faithfully been trying to get a picture for you to see these disgusting things but they are really fast! In the winter everyone has tracks through all their grass as if snakes just go over the same pattern over and over but it is actually from these voles eating the grass in squiggly patterns. They are disgusting!
On a prettier note we have just gotten our new entertainment center! We have had a large one for quite some time that did not fit our TV. Thank you Heather and Brian, it has been wonderful and is ready for you when you are. It has taken awhile for Kory and I to agree on an entertainment center and then we saw it...in Boise Idaho. Of course we had no way to get it from Idaho and since Kory isn't an impulse buyer and had to think on it for awhile we decided to wait. Then we found out this same store was in Logan. They happened to have the same one here but it was the wrong color and they said they couldn't order us in the right one until the end of the year. Yeah right!!! We started our search again. Then on Thursday they called us and said never mind, we will get it here for you by Saturday if you still want it. We were so excited!!! And it looks absolutely wonderful! Well that is our life in a nutshell right now. And of course a fond farewell from our cute little dog who has become accustomed to always sitting in the window.

Computer Problemos.

Just a quick update our hard drive completely crashed so we have been computer less for a couple weeks now. We had a small amount of hope it was just our video card so that we would be able to save ALL of our pictures (no we never backed them up somewhere else and are kicking ourselves now) however, the hard drive was the problem and we had to re whatever you do and erase everything. So now we have a computer again but nothing on it! I just thought I would let you all know the reasons for no blogs recently. A lesson for all: BACK UP YOUR PICTURES!