Drip Drip Drop, little...May?...showers!

Yesterday it rained pretty much all day. In the morning I opened the window and just listened to the rain while I woke up slowly. Then at work we have sky lights almost right above my cubicle, so I got to listen to the pitter patter of rain while at work too.

When I got home from work, I read my book while listening to the rain through the open window. It was warm enough that we even left the window cracked open all night so we got to listen to the rain as we fell asleep, too.

I love summer rain! It's so relaxing!

n.b: I don't think I could live anywhere that it rained ALL the time, but occasional rains are va bene.

Bear Lake

When we got engaged, we got suckered into one of those time share meeting things where they promise all sorts of free trips and gift cards. We ended up getting a time share with World Mark (and a lot of free stuff including gas cards, home depot gift cards, and a free trip we ended up not using), which we used for our honeymoon in Mexico. We get 6000 points per year (the smallest amount available), and they can roll over for one year before they disappear. Since we didn't use it last year, we had 6000 points that were about to disappear. We ended up getting a 6 person condo up at Bear Lake for our anniversary weekend (4 nights 5 days...pretty sweet).

So if you've ever been to bear lake you know about the wonderfully soft beaches, the delicious raspberries (dipped in chocolate, shakes, fresh, etc.). There's also hiking, a cool cave, horseback riding, tours of old buildings, and other fun activities.

Yeah, those are only if you go after Memorial day.

The whole weekend it was cold, windy, and snowed off and on. The beaches were still there of course, and we didn't have to pay to park or anything! But I was pretty surprised there weren't chunks of ice floating in the lake.

Luckily the type of vacation we were needing was the type where you go somewhere where there aren't a ton of people, and no technology (cell phone reception, computers galore, internet), and do nothing. It was PERFECT!

We drove up to Montpilier for groceries and noticed that the Paris Tabernacle's front door was cracked open, so we invited ourselves in. There was a guy practicing the organ for the organ recitals that start next month. We scared him half to death when he noticed us.

I really think that this Tabernacle may be my favorite. I loved all the woodwork. The ceiling was especially entertaining to look at. You can see the guy practicing the organ. This was before he knew we were there.

I have more pictures of our time actually at bear lake, but I have to find the cord to my camera before I can post them.

We spent most of our last day in Logan. Dave surprised me with flowers on our anniversary, and I got to hold them in my lap all day on Monday as we drove to Logan, around Logan, and home.

We went up to the Logan temple while we were waiting for the next showing of How to Train Your Dragon 3D to start. We were going to walk around, but we ended up just napping in the car instead.

All in all it was a great trip. I'll post more pictures with captions when I get them off my camera (these were all cell phone pictures, sorry about the graininess)

Project Update #7

Well, here's the thing. A lot of people have been asking me how the couch is coming. It's not. I'm really good at starting projects and going gung-ho on them for a good month or so, and then getting super busy with other things.

The zippers and dust cloth came in the mail a while ago, and they've been sitting next to my sewing machine ever since. I have the squares all cut out for the cushions. All I need to do now is sew them together. It'd be nice to have a couch that's completely put together.

Hopefully I'll have more to post about this by next week. (Giving myself a deadline)

Project Update #6

I ordered zippers for the cushions and dust cover for the bottom of the couch last week

....I'm just still waiting for them to come in the mail...

...still waiting.

Red Meat

So lately I've been trying to cook dinner more often because Dave loves me more when I do...the key to his heart is his stomach.

So my friend has a website where she puts up recipes of what she cooks. (shameless plug...I've tried a few of her recipes and they've all been so delicious and easy!)

On Saturday I got the brilliant idea to make steak! I've never made steak before, so it was an adventure.

So this first picture is the lovely lovely gravy I made. It was my first gravy EVER, and it wasn't lumpy, and it was delicious. (be in awe...)

Here is a picture of all the food. I made peas with white sauce (which was leftover from a few nights ago and was lumpy, but still yummy) to go with it. There's also mashed potatoes that Dave made and a jello fruit salad thing. We had yummy cherry apple juice to drink. Doesn't it look so fancy?

Neither of us could finish our food and we both had only one bite of the salad. We were stuffed to the brim with delciousness.

This last picture is what Monkey's "corner" of the kitchen looked like when I was done cooking. When we feast, she feasts. No wonder she hangs out in the kitchen while we cook.

Sadly, I did wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat again from eating meat so late in the day, but it was totally worth it.

Because I felt like it

1. What time did you get up this morning? 8AM, yes, I was late…again.

2. How do you like your steak? medium. Yummy!

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Saw The Chipmunks, the Squeekquel at the Dollar theater. Cute!

4. What is your favorite TV show? Right now it’s Community. It's HILARIOUS!

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Easy question - > Vienna, Austria

6. What did you have for breakfast? Homemade egg mcmuffin, half a grapefruit, yogurt, fritos, and a can of country time lemonade, and I was still hungry. I love a big breakfast.

7. What is your favorite cuisine? Sushi

8. What foods do you dislike? Olives, Pickles, Mushrooms, Mustard, Celery, Shrimp, tofu, and other things that taste bad.

9. Favorite place to eat? Home

10. Favorite dressing? Basalmic Vinegar and olive oil from Smith’s (it’s a kind of dressing, not just oil and vinegar)

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? Nissan Altima, BMW 540i, or Chevy Tahoe, depending on the occasion.

12. What are your favorite clothes? Jeans and anything from H&M, oh and shoes, of course.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? Vienna!, Spain, Germany, England.

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? Depends on if I’m thirsty.

15. Where would you want to retire? Psh, I’m not even close yet, so why think about it?! I need to figure out where I would want to live first.

16. Favorite time of day? Mid-day on Saturday

17. Where were you born? Los Alamos, NM

18. What is your favorite sport to watch? Football, Hockey, and Soccer.

19. Who do you think will not tag you back? Tag? Hmmm…I don’t plan on tagging anyone.

20. Person you expect to tag you back first? See above

21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this? Meh.

22. Bird watcher? Who has time for that?!

23. Are you a morning person or a night person? Morning I think. I’m leaning more towards neither though.

24. Do you have any pets? Yes! We have a Puppy and a Hamster

25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? Nope, same ol, same ol.

6. What did you want to be when you were little? I don’t remember ever wanting to be anything.

27. What is your best childhood memory? Playing with legos, riding my bike around, sunshine!

28. Are you a cat or dog person? Dogs!

29. Are you married? Yup! Coming up on 2 whole years!

30. Always wear your seat belt? Yes!

31. Been in a car accident? Nope! Never

32. Any pet peeves? Bad grammar and misuse of words.

33. Favorite pizza toppings? Cheese, chicken, bacon, not necessarily together.

34. Favorite flower? Bird of Paradise

35. Favorite ice cream? Sherbet, particularly Lime

36. Favorite fast food restaurant? Carl’s Jr.

37. How many times did you fail your driver's test? zero

38. From whom did you get your last email? I think Temma or Lyndell, or maybe Marga. I get a lot of emails on various addresses all day.

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Endless.com or H&M, but I’d pay cash, credit cards are stupid.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately? Booked a trip to Bear Lake 

41. Like your job? It’s a job. I’d rather be at home, but it’s a good place to work since I have to work.

42. Broccoli? Yum! (don’t tell Dave)

43. What was your favorite vacation? The ones I’ve been on with Dave  (awww how sweet of me!)

44. Last person you went out to dinner with? Dave and Ceightie and David

45. What are you listening to right now? Some weird song on “New Sounds” Playlist. Oh good, it’s over.

46. What is your favorite color? Blue, in any shade or hue.

47. How many tattoos do you have? zero

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz? Not planning on tagging any. If you want to be tagged, consider yourself tagged.

49. What time did you finish this quiz? 1pm on the dot

50. Coffee Drinker? Random last question…nope, but it sure does smell good.

Can I Get a Wit-ness?!

The other Saturday I dragged Dave along with me to run some errands, as usual. He had a few things to do out, too.

We were on our way back home and we saw an accident happen! Well, Dave saw it happen...in the rear-view mirror, at least). So we stopped.

So this car was the initiator.

The girl driving the blue car probably wasn't wearing a seat belt because she hit her head on the windshield. The blue car rear-ended this car:

The silver car veered into the truck, which side swiped the red car, pushing it off the road.

We stood out in the snow for a good hour and a half since we witnessed it and everything, and then it turns out that the cop never even asked for a statement. Oh well, it was an adventure for sure.