Maple Valley Week!!!

Writing in my blog as my mom looks at me with unbelieving eyes. Things happen when you move to a small town called Rexburg, you get crafty, start cooking great meals for your family, fill your house to make it feel like a home away from home, make new friends, and yes, starting a blog!!!!

This week has just been one crazy week! We started off by cleaning our house before we left Rexburg and packing everything for the summer so we wouldn't have to go back next week and do it then right before Amanda and Chris' wedding! I still can't believe they're getting married in a couple weeks! It was a lot of work with Chris doing finals! We left on Wednesday for Maple Valley to spend some time with my familt before the summer starts. We stopped in Ellensburg to see Chris' best friend, Jared. We hadn't seen him in such a long time, it was really nice! I love how Chris and Jared want to kill eachother constantly. Haha. Chris went out to the Car to get a hard drive for Jared and he comes back to Jared shooting him with this machine air soft gun. I really do love my husband, I promise.

We did finally make it home, but not until around midnight. One long day. Especially since we woke up at 6 that morning to go donate plasma. :)

It has been so nice this week to hang out with my family and to not really make any plans. Very relaxing! Chris and I went out on Thursday and test drove cars! It was a lot of funn, we went to downtown Renton to the Toyota, and Nissan dealerships. I have been set on a Toyota 4 Runner for the longest time and what do you think we absolutely feel in love with? NOT THE 4 RUNNER! I was surprised, but we really liked the Nissan Pathfinder! It was so nice. So this summer, we will be saving mega bucks! :)

And on Saturday Chris left for St. Louis for the week to take care of Josh and Bandit while his parents go on their anniversary cruise. They went on one of the Eastern Caribbean cruises, I think. I hope they have a great time!!! 

P.S. I miss and love my hubby!!!

Easter in Rexburg!!

For our last weekend in Rexburg, it has been so much fun!!! We had the Cornelius' over last night after General Conference, to do Easter eggs and watch the new greatest movie, Sherlocke Holmes!! Funny story, before we got to the dying of the Easter eggs, we had to hard boil the eggs, OF COURSE! But in my husbands family, they don't do that. They just dye regular eggs. WEIRD!!! 

Chris' first attempt to hard boil eggs was a total bust. I don't think he boiled them long enough, so they weren't quite done, but of course we didn't even think about it. I accidentally dropped one of the eggs after taking it out of being dyed. OOPS! So I drop this egg on the table and this white gooieness plopped out. It was really gross actually, but funny. We finished dying the eggs and I headed to the store for some more edible eggs. :)

So today, I boiled the eggs and so good!!! We decorated some more eggs, and tried a couple new things. One thing we did with the eggs last night was drizzle rubber cement over them. This coats and seals that portion of the egg so when you go to dye it it doesn't get colored. Very cool effect!!! We also made some blown eggs this morning. Those are still a work in progress. Haven't figured out how to decorate them yet. 

And for tonight we will have people over for a dinner party....Yay for Spaghetti! And of course games!!! It shall be a great night!

Our FIRST blog EVER!!!

This is our first blog that we have ever had and boy are we excited! Excited to tell everyone about our lives!!! Chris and I have almost been married for a year now, how weird is that!

Chris and I got hitched June 27, 2009 in the Las Vegas Temple where Chris served his mission. We spent a week in Las Vegas for our honeymoon and spent another week in a beach house in North Carolina with Chris' family. We came back home to Seattle to have a reception and spent the rest of our summer in St. Louis with my wonderful new family!!!

We are now living in Rexburg, Idaho, soon to be leaving to spend another summer in St. Louis! We love it here in Rexburg, but we've never had such a case of cabin fever in our lives! Rexburg is a very small town with the closest city being almost an hour away. Thank goodness for wonderful friends. :)

Chris is about halfway through school to get his bachelor's in Business Management and I start going to school for a degree in Elementary Education in September. :) Life is great and we're enjoying every minute of it especially when we have the pleasure to spend most of it with friends and the family that we love!!!