Monday, November 29, 2010

A Child at Heart

Logan calls it childish, I prefer childlike. Apparently it's a condition many elementary school teachers suffer from, and I guess I'm no exception...

Look at my new toy!


The Fisher Price Little People Nativity! I think it's AWESOME! Now we have a big people and a little people nativity to enjoy! Merry Christmas!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Fall Leaves

Sort of... Our leaves didn't turn colors, but they sure did fall down:) Early on Thanksgiving morning the boys came over to help us rake and to play in the leaves. It was really fun! One thing I love most about Logan is that everything I do with him is fun, even things like raking leaves. Here are some pictures I stole from Anisa. I didn't take any pictures of my own, as usual:)
Terek kept saying, "Wo-wo's turn!" (That's what he calls Logan).

It was so chilly that me and the T snuggled most of the time!

And since I never posted about this, and since I've been stealing pictures from Anisa's blog, I thought I'd post some pictures of us carving pumpkins with them as well. It's been awesome to be able to "borrow" the children and pretend they're ours!

Terek is my little buddy, once I even got him to admit that he wants to come and be my baby!!!



Saturday, November 20, 2010

Turkey Shoot

Winner!!!
Logan is on a roll this weekend! First, he passed his test to inspect Reinforced Concrete for work, and now he won us a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner! Way to go Logan!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Boys Night In

Parent's night out means boys night in with "Ninny and Wo-Wo"! We dined on gourmet mac and cheese with hotdogs dipped in ketchup. All topped off with a grape gatorade:) They are currently enjoying cutting up and gluing colored paper. This house just feels happy to have children in it again, even if it's only for an evening.

PS notice my table which has been thoroughly salted. That was the work of the little one:)

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Happy Halloween from the Blake Family




Some of you may remember this from elementary school:)

"Witches sailing through the sky, on their broomsticks way up high,
Black cats howl as they go by for this is Halloween.
Jack O' Lanterns, big and round, on each step they can be found,
Ghosts and Goblins all around, for this is Halloween.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ohh! This is Halloween!
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ohh! This is Halloween!"

Friday, October 29, 2010

Update

I just thought I should write an update since some of you who read our blog don't talk to me everyday:) Things have been crazy for the last couple of months and I will try to sum things up briefly...

  • We moved! (Everyone knows that).
  • I started student teaching (Very fun, very stressful).
  • Logan has been out of town working almost continually since we moved!!!! (Horrible).
  • I wrecked my car. (OOPS).
  • We bought a 2010 Toyota Corolla. (Nice!).
  • I have finally convinced Terek that he wants to be my baby:)
  • Our washer broke. (We're fixing it cuz it's that good!).
  • I write lesson plans non-stop.
  • Logan and I never see each other!
  • Our air satellite doesn't work very well on this side of town so we have to watch Grey's online a day late:(
Sorry, I have so many things to blog about, like the before and after of my cars and Logan's new addiction to reading on his phone. I also had Halloween with my class today and it was AWESOME! Too bad it would be illegal for me to post pictures of their adorable-ness. I really do enjoy it most of the time.

Well, that's it for now. My life should slow down about mid-December when I GRADUATE!!! And then maybe I'll blog more:)

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

A Red Robin Birthday:)


Today was Logan's birthday. Since his favorite place to eat is at Red Robin I signed him up for their birthday club a few months ago, and apparently Red Robin is the place to eat on your birthday because you not only get a free gourmet burger of your choice (Logan picked the most expensive), but you also get your free sundae:)


And just because I'm mean, I will include this video;)

Happy Birthday! I love you:)

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Fun Gift:)

So a really long time ago, like a year at least, I found this fun bridal shower gift on one of my favorite craft blogs. I'm sorry that I don't remember which one. Anyway, all I've been waiting for now is for a friend to get married. Well, a girl from I know from Malibu Cleaners is getting married and her shower is on Saturday. I decided that the time had come for me to make this fun gift:)

I embroidered these pillow cases with some sweet skills I picked up in my youth from my mother, along with a quick refresher course from YouTube. All I did was print the stuff out on the computer and trace it on with pencil. Embroider, wash, complete!!! I am really pleased that I can still do it and I hope that this gift will be a hit at the bridal shower. I think it's the perfect balance of useful and silly for a shower!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

New House



So, I haven't had internet for over a week and that is because WE MOVED! Yes, we moved into a real house which is really exciting. We are really happy to be living in a home and that it is in Santa Clara. It is the house Logan grew up in and we are having a really fun time making it our own:)


We moved in on the 4th and painted the kitchen this last weekend. Logan picked the color and did a fabulous job! It's not all finished yet, but if anyone wants to come visit, you're sure welcome!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

You decide...

I found these awesome videos on my phone, and I want all of your comments to see which one is better.




Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Happy Anniversary to US!

The day we were married, I was so deliriously happy I just giggled all the way to the temple. Being sealed for time and all eternity was the best gift Heavenly Father could ever give me. At that time, I could have never believed it, but I love Logan even more now than I did three years ago. And the funny thing is, I am confident that it will only get better with time. I love you Logan! Happy 3rd Anniversary baby!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Mi goreng Renunion




An Asian food store recently opened in St. George and Logan and I went and checked it out today. Logan was very pleased to find his long lost Mi goreng that he ate in Australia. Basically it's glorified Ramen.


The main difference is that there are four little packets: seasoned oil, sweet soy sauce, flavored powder and chili powder. He only likes a bit of chili powder. He was so happy, it was easy to get a smiling picture:)

Yellowstone and the Stairs

Here is a collage of some of the pictures we took whilst on out trip to Yellowstone. We had a good time up there other than having to deal with tourists taking pictures of wildlife and causing major traffic delays. The park is beautiful and we never got attacked by bears, much to Sydney's relief. We had fun driving all of these back roads to get around, like through the High Uintas and back around passed the snake river near alpine and around bear lake over Logan Canyon which never ended it seemed. We had a little scare with my check engine light coming on but the guys at Tunex told me it was "intermittent" so I had them change my fuel filter and it's been running fine ever since.

On a side note, I drug Sydney down a trail to get a cool view of the water fall in Yellowstone. She had an aversion for these stairs, she said they kicked her butt. In her defense there were 328 of them.

On the other hand these stairs at Lucas and Shellie's Almost killed me as I ran up them in the middle of the night to pee. They caused me to pass out and fall into the bath tub.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

I made a floofy thing:)

Today I was eating at 25 Main with some friends and the restaurant had these cute floofy things in the window. I looked at them and concluded that I could make some out of a Styrofoam ball and cup cake liners. I went to the dollar store to look for supplies. I was unable to find cup cake liners, but I did find coffee filters which I thought would work. It would also be cheaper since I could get about a million coffee filters for a dollar versus about 35 cup cake liners at Wal-mart. I headed next door and I bought a 3.5 inch Styrofoam ball at Michael's. Then I went home and went to work.

My supplies:
  • Styrofoam ball ($3)
  • Million coffee filters ($1)
  • Million pins (on hand)
Then I began assembly.

Please excuse the Xbox controller. I enjoy streaming Netflix while crafting:) {Currently playing is a documentary about Ancient Egypt:)}

Directions: Take coffee filter and fold into quarters. Pin in place. Repeat as close together as desired until entire ball is covered. One ball took exactly half of my enormous package of coffee filters.

And eventually, I ended up with this:

The ones at the restaurant had been spray painted, but I kind of like it just white. What do you think?

Of course my door will not be it's permanent location. It just doesn't have a real home yet:) I'm thinking of making more to decorate a certain baby shower I will be throwing in the coming weeks...

Also, I entered this to the Link Love on this awesome blog:)



Sunday, July 4, 2010

Coyote Gulch Over-nighter


Sydney and I completed our first over night backpacking trip together. We went to Coyote Gulch which is 50 miles southeast of Escalante.
As you can see, we brought along our two hoodlum children Cash and Adam who made the trip much more entertaining.



We basically did the same hike we did a few years ago (before Sydney) only we hiked the distance between the two trailheads. It was nice weather, except we had to drink hot water some of the time. We did eventually find some nice cool springs to filter water from.


This is Sydney and I climbing out of the canyon up the slick rock near Jacob Hamblin Arch (please note that this is the only portion of the journey that Sydney didn't carry her pack).

We do not recommend taking water shoes on this trip even though the majority of the hike is in a river canyon, there is an excessive amount of sand that will get in you shoes and rub your toes into ginormous blisters as evidenced below. We recommend a good pair of shoes that will keep the sand out. Bare foot doesn't work either just ask Adam.