Celebration

So John and I just got back from celebrating.... Celebrating what, you might ask? We're celebrating that our baby is 12 weeks old (in my tummy) and still has a heart beat! YAY!!! We're so excited and in John's words, "it's the best day of our lives ;)" Just wanted to let you all in on it!

Things I love

In life lately i've tried to find those things that i love, those things that i can be passionate about and honestly, i've hard a hard time. I want to just love something, something that is such a part of me, and i'm not talking about loving my husband or my family but i'm talking more about a hobby of somesort, something i could just do and something that i love to do. Well, here's my list of things i love

1.I've been to 2 of the USU Gymnastics meets this last weekend and i've come to the conclusion that i LOVE gymnastics, i wish i would have stuck with it as a kid but i just love it
2. Soccer's another thing that i love, its fun, and i could watch it whenever.
3. I love the summer, i love everything about it, i love boating, skiing, wakeboarding, tubing, cliff jumping, sunbathing, snokeling (thanks to Jay), i love being in the mountains in warm weather, and i love sitting on our front or back porch and not being cold, having a BBQ and enjoying ourselves, i love that.

But so many of the things i love aren't things that are even possible to do at any given time. I hope to someday find something that i truly love to do, and could do whenever i had nothing else to do but in the meantime, i'll envy my husband, he loves to do so many things, he could shoot his bow all day long and absolutly love it, he could ride his motorcycle and never get bored, he could hike aorund in the foothills or mountains and never even feel tired but just love it. I guess i've yet to learn a few things from my husband.....and i'm thinking thats probably a good thing. But if any body out there has some ideas for me of things that i can do, in the winter time, in Logan UT without a sewing machine, let me know ;)

For Sale! And a fun Saturday

Hey! If anybody's interested, John is selling his motorcycle, it runs great but we're not going to be using it this summer so we figure there's no reason for it to sit around here.

Anyway, yesterday was a beautiful day, it feels like Spring! John worked til 2 and then we took an adventure. We went out into the back yard, by the river looking for ducks, i with my bread, and John with his bow. Well, it seems like the ducks weren't hungry yesterday because they never even came close to my bread... but they never came class to John's bow either. weird... The only place we saw them was flying through the sky, but we had a good time and seriously, it was beautiful. Last night we hung out with friends and had a great time, i finally found someone that loves fast card games as much as i do!


We even tried calling in something with John's distress call....still nothing, but you can see behind us the river, it really is fun to have that right in our back yard, even if it is kinda a hike to get there. Oh, and for all of you that are wondering yes I'm the blonde with that cute guy, and yes we finally found John's Hoyt hat that he thought he'd lost (It was in a bag with all of his hats....honestly, who would have looked there?.... :

John's latest obbsession....

Well, John's been obsessed with lots of things in the past, for a while it was sharpening knives and he's actually gotten really good at it (I used to catch him watching you-tube vidoes on how to do it). But his latest obsession is his new traditional bow he got for Christmas. He LOVES shooting it. He used to shoot it in our front yard into a pumpkin from Halloween but then it got too mushy...this brought about a very creative side of my husband that i haven't seen very often...

John decided to make a new target, he got boxes from Macey's that they didn't need anymore and brought them home to make his very own deer target. So now he can shoot his bow whenever, wherever but his favoite thing to do is take it in the back yard, (below-where those beautiful trees are is the Logan river) find ducks and try to shoot them. It's probably a good thing that he hasn't yet actually hit any (although he's been pretty close) but i told him that next time he wants to go, i'll go with him and take some bread to feed the ducks and lure them in (why don't guys think of this???). LOL, he says that if i can feed these ducks that he's been trying to sneak up on and shoot he'll break his bow and never hunt again hahaha, i know he really wouldn't do that and i don't want him to but i do think he'd be pretty funny if these ducks that he's been chasing are actually the tame ones that everybody feeds on the golf course and the logan river parkway, we'll see and i'll let you know!Hopefully John's next obsession will be getting his truck fixed! I can't wait to have that thing working again, it'll be so fun to be able to go in the mountains again! We miss that. Thanks so much to Jason and Papa V for draggin it all the way up here for us so John can work his magic! Love you guys!

I Love John's truck. Its the truck we dated in, its the truck that John has always loved so much, there are so many memories in that truck, i hope it'll be around for a long time. It really is fun for me to just see it because its the truck i always watched (and listened) for that meant John was here! So even though our car doesn't yet fit in the garage again i don't mind too much, i'm glad his truck is finally here and someday it will run again :)

Pampered Chef Party

Hey everyone! So, i didn't get all of my invites out because i'm a slacker so if anyone around here wants to come and didn't get an invite please do! Its Tuesday, January 27th at 6:30 pm. (tomorrow) Also, if anyone that doesn't live around here wants to order anything from the catalog let me know and i can get you a catalog and order it for you! Thanks Everyone!

Embarrassing moments...

So, my father-in-law's been giving me a hard time because i don't post enough! So i'm trying to catch up, as i was looking at one of my friends blog she had blogged about embarrassing moments...This blog reminded me about last Saturday.... so i thought i'd share. Okay, so we're at a friends house up in Saratoga Springs and all the guys were standing around in the kitchen. Notice the Shirt John is wearing in the post previous this one, it's brown, thermalish and long sleeve. Well, John happened to be wearing this exact shirt last Saturday, so as i came into the kitchen, i put my arm through this brown, long-sleeve, thermalish sleeved arm and kinda leaned up against him. Well, next thing i know someone, whose voice i don't really recognize says "Elise, i think you've got the wrong guy." Wow, i'd tried to cuddle up to somebody else's husband wearing a brown, long sleeve, thermalish shirt. Super embarrassing, until Saturday i can't even remember the last time my face went bright red but it sure did that day... Hey, at least i gave everyone a good laugh huh?

Thank yoU!

Thank you all for your comments and input! I appreciate it, i'm pretty sure that me staying a brunette actually won in votes, but since my husbands vote is the most important and he wants his blonde girlfriend back, i'm going to go back to blonde :) I'm actually way excited about it because i feel like blonde is me, its what my hair color would really be if i still had hair, so, even through it may look better on John, its going to be the new me.... Not yet, but sometime soon ;)

Blonde, or Brunette?

So, its once again time for a change, i'm taking a poll, Blonde or Brunette, that is the question!

Finally! A Sunday Afternoon

John and i decided to go on a walk. We went to the walkway by the river but it was pretty cold, we weren't sure how far we'd want to go so first we stayed in the sun and balanced on the railroad tracks. After that we were pretty warmed up from balancing so we kept going down the trail...

Next we came to this, and balanced across.... I guess we were feeling pretty confident with our balancing skills because when we saw this:

I jokingly said "Lets balance across that". Well John doesn't do well with reading me because he took the challenge seriously, and after he started i couldn't back down so we did it, and we didn't even fall in!
It was pretty intense, probably the stupidest thing we've ever done together, but it sure was invigorating! And i'm sure the fall into the ice cold water would have been invigorating too!

Happy 2009!

Wow! I can't believe its 2009, thats going to take some getting used to, and starting school tomorrow...crazy. One more semester left for me though! I think i can handle it. I'm actually excited to be starting a new year, i always feel like a new year brings a clean slate and now i have another opportunity to change for the better. 2009 will be a great year! Happy New Year to all! Good luck with your resolutions, i know we all need it!

Christmas! Dinners! Snow Boarding! Sunsets! and NO MORE WAITING!

2 weeks ago John and I were asked to speak in sacrament meeting, that same day i had to teach Young Womens too, it was a crazy weekend, and i was very stressed, but so relieved when it was over. Our computer had a virus so we didn't get to use it as a source, we just had to use all the books as references but it ended up being great.

Emily, Peter, and John and I went snowboarding at brighton on the food pantry day for $15 and a bag of canned foods. It was a blast, but it sure was cold that that day, the sun was out but the wind was blowing, good times....
I made this spagetti squash spagetti for dinner a few nights ago and it was amazing! We loved it, and i wish i took a picture while the salad was still on the plate, it was gorgeous ;).

We went to John's family Thomas Christmas Party last weekend in Provo and this was the drive up, it was a beautiful sunset (you really can't tell in the picture but it was). The party was fun, it was fun to be with family because it had been a while.

And we're sure not waiting for snow any longer! We keep getting dumped on. After Christmas we came home to 8 new inches of snow, it was wild and we couldn't even get into our driveway because of the snow plow. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas was awesome, we spent Christmas eve with John's family in Ephriam, Christmas morning with mine, then Christmas morning with John's (They wake up later then mine do) and then the rest of Christmas day with mine until that night and then we headed back to John's house. It was fun to be with everyone, although jumping back and forth got a little old, i think next time, we'll just spend more time with one of them and then switch off years.

For Christmas i got snow boots from my mom and a pair from John (thats the only thing i could think of that i wanted) i got decorations for our house from John parents which i love ;) and my mom made the cutest aprons for all of us girls, there's a picture of debbie in her's down here somewhere.....John also got me the most beautiful picture of the Manti temple which he and a friend made, I love it! John got a sleeping bag, bullets, beanie, money, a flashlight, a couple movies and i gave him a recurve bow and snow pants.
Here's our matching beanies from John's parents, we love them!

Here's John and i with our stockings Christmas morning ;) Debbie was hilarious, everytime she opened a present she could put it on, she's got a pair of new clothes, her cute apron and her gloves on for this picuture...
Peter got mostly clothes i think, and Dane got this awesome Ripstick, we've been riding it all week.
Christmas night we headed over to Jay and Lauries for a potluck dinner with the Pili's who came to visit. It was fun to see them!

Anyway, there's a little catch up of us, i'm so grateful for family! We love them all so much and it was so good to be home and with family. Merry Christmas everyone! And a happy New Year!

We're still waiting....

We're still waiting for the winter wonderland outside but on the inside it sure does look like Christmas! I've been decorating and i think i've finally figured out my style of decor, its Christmas! I love the way it looks and i love the colors, so my house is going to look just like i want it to for at least 1 month of the year ;). Here's some pic's...our front room!(Above)

And here's my kitchen, i finally got something up on the wall ;)

Here's our entertainment center

Our super-cute christmas tree! And i covered our couch with our red sheet to make it look more christmasy, i like how it turned out ;)

I also finally got some stuff on my built in shelf, its about time. I guess these are some new pictures for most that haven't been to our house, but we love it! It's been so perfect for us. I love this time of year, everyone just seems happier, Merry Christmas!!!!