A shout out to Moms!

As you all know Mother's Day is coming up and I just wanted to let all those moms out there know how amazing they are, especially my own sister-in-laws, my wonderful mother-in-law and of course my own mom! They are all amazing examples and are all beautiful inside and out. Thanks for all you do!

Moving Again?!

So I swore that once we moved into a place here in Spokane that we would not move again till we moved back to Utah after Blake was done with school. But we didn't even wait a year!! 6 months later after moving to Spokane we move! At least this time it was only around the corner! We only took one picture of the actual moving process but lots of our new place! Hope you enjoy! Oh and I had to take a picture of the ice maker and the pantry because they are two of our favorite features!!!

SpRiNgTiMe

I am excited that Easter is coming up. That means that spring is here and warm weather is on its way! Yeah!! I am so sick of the cold! I will miss our Easter traditions back home, especially the egg rolling For those of you who don't know what egg rolling is let me explain. For as long as I can remember we have always decorated hard boiled eggs on Easter and then take them to Murray Park and roll them down a big hill. Strange I know, but lots of fun! The boys usually get bored with just rolling the eggs down the hill and start chucking them at the thousands of seagulls that usually accumulate to eat all the left overs. That is until one of my cousins actually hit one and thought he killed it! Luckily he didn't cuz he would get into a lot of trouble killing our state bird. I will be very sad to miss that!
Good news though! It looks like Blake is going to be able to get an externship this summer with a judge who works downtown Salt Lake!! YEAH!! So we will be able to come home for the summer. I am super excited! Love you all!

BABY BOSTON

Man I feel like the luckiest aunt ever!! Two new little ones only a couple of days apart!! Congrats to Neal and Shan!! Baby Boston was born very early in the morning on March 4th!! Kennedy and Kyson are thrilled to have a new baby brother!! I am way excited for their family!!

BABY LIESEL

I just have to say that I am so excited for Matt and Jen!! They have a beautiful baby girl that was born on March 2nd!! Man! She is just so adorable and lucky to have Matt and Jen as parents! They will be wonderful!! The hardest part is that we are living away and I was not able to be there to see her right away, but luckily Blake has spring break during the second week of March and the doctor that I work for is away on vacation so we are coming home for the week!! Hurray!! Congrats to Matt and Jen love you guys!!

It's about time!

Hey sorry that I haven't updated in forever! But nothing has too exciting has happened. We had so much fun over the Christmas break. I realize now more than ever how much I really love and appreciate all of my family!! Being away from home is way hard. People keep telling me that it is a good experience and that it pays off in the end and I sure hope that they are right! Man now my dream vacation is going home and spending time with family. It really made Christmas really special this year. Then we got back and started into the routine of things, work and school repeated fifty million times. Luckily my mom was able to fly out for the weekend to good old Spokane. We were able to go to the the temple together which was awesome. Our time flew by but it was nice and we were spoiled! And now I get to come home for a few days which is exciting, I can't wait!

Let it snow!!!

Holy Cow!!!! It started snowing yesterday around 7:00 in the morning and has not stopped since. There is about two feet of snow here. Crazy enough I was able to make it to work this morning, but the roads were terrible! I was there for only a couple of hours until we decided to cancel this afternoon appointments and go home before the roads got worse, cuz it's still snowing hard. So I thought I wasn't going to make it out of the parking lot at work but was finally able to. They don't plow the roads here very well. So I have never driven on roads that are this crazy!

Man they were so bad that even Blake's last final was canceled. I couldn't believe it cuz before finals started the school sent out an email that said that they were not going to cancel finals for bad weather so you needed to make the necessary arrangements to get there cuz there were no make-ups either. So he was happy that he is done for now. They said that they would make-up the final after Christmas break sometime. So he is FREE!!! yeah!! He has never been so relieved! I am suppose to work tomorrow morning but if it keeps snowing like this there is no way I will be able to make it. I just hope that it clears up before Saturday cuz that's the day we fly home.

Christmas

We don't have very many Christmas decorations but we decided that it was okay for now since we really won't be here for Christmas anyway. But we did put up the tree and I have to say that even though it is small I love that it is pre-lit and we were able to fit it back into its original box which was amazing. Our friend Rachel showed me how to make home made ornaments. It was so fun and easy to do. All it takes is two cups of flour and a cup of salt, add water and food coloring to make it like playdough and make whatever you want. Then bake it at 300 degree for about 25 mins. I made some mini stockings, a reindeer, and my favorite a little snowman. You should try it! It was way fun!

It's Freezing!!!

Man! These last couple of days have been the coldest I have ever experienced. I thought living in Utah I had felt cold weather, but man it seems to be even colder here. The high today was 3 degrees! And to make matters worse there is a wind chill that makes it seem like it is -20 degrees. The wind is blowing at 10-20 mph and it is the kind of wind that chills you to the bone!. I was watching the news last night and they were talking about warming centers for the homeless being over crowded and I can't even imagine living outside at these temperatures. They were saying that at night your skin could freeze in a matter of minutes! And those who know me know that I hate being cold. So everyday when I get home I throw on a warm sweatshirt and comfy pants and sit under my electric blanket all night. The heater is always going in our apartment. Funny story, there was some cold air leaking through our air conditioning system so Blake had the brilliant idea of using that Glad press n' seal stuff and he covered the whole thing! It is funny to see it but it seems to work. Now we are trying to figure out how to keep air from coming through the outside doors. So if you have any bright ideas like Blake did let us know!!

Happy Birthday to us!!

This year I have been so excited for the best birthday present ever! I get to come home! Since Lacey's birthday is only 4 days before mine we have always celebrated our birthdays together. I don't know if I loved this when we were young but now I do. It's something special that Lacey and I get to share every year! So Happy Birthday to us!