Skyler and I are moving to Portland...In a few days. I don't know how i forgot to announce it to the blogging world but we are moving out of rexburg, for 5 months. Skyler is going to work all summer in Portland, then we will come back to the burg in the fall. I am SO excited for a change of scenery...and free rent! This should be an adventure!!
The other weekend Skyler, His brother Ladd, and I took a quick weekend road trip to San Diego to visit family that was there on spring break. There was A TON of driving but we all had so much fun and the driving didn't even phase us too much. We spent a few days at the beach, got to stay with the Hazens and spend some time with them, See little brother Zach before he leaves on his mission to Mexico, got some sexy sunburns, and just had some genuine fun laughing with the Evans family alll day long.
I have been slacking bad when it comes to blogging, so here's a little catch up of the last month or so...
3. Skyler has a new obsession with building snowboard ramps. He borrowed a tow rope from a friend and he connects it to the back of our friends car. The driver gets up to about 30 MPH pulling skyler till they get to the ramp and skyler thinks he gets "good air"...not the safest obsession in the world.
4. There is so much snow here that it is higher than our mailbox...sad.
5. FHE, we try to do FHE every week with our family that is here in town. The other week Skyler tried to be creative and came up with "7 minute craft box". He filled a box with random stuff from around the house and we had 7 minutes to make our own creations. After the time was up we all explained our inventions and had a good laugh.
6. We got to babysit a friends little boy HUNTER and he is an ANGEL! He is about 4 1/2 months and Skyler and him were buddies, it was SO cute. We had so much fun having him over here, but it get's us both a little baby hungry...watch out mom!
potty training hunter
7. This last weekend some friends of ours were in Utah. They kept trying to get us to go down there to go snowboarding but we had other plans for friday night and didn't have time to get there before saturday. SO friday night we got home about 11:30 and at about midnight Skyler decided that we should go on an adventure and we went down to Utah. We got there about 4 a.m. and had to wake up at 7:30 to go boarding. The day was absolutely beautiful, it was warm and the sun was shining. I had no goggles because they got stolen a few months back and i got the WORSE sunburn. My face had ugly tan lines from my beanie and my eyes were blood shot. My under eyes and eye lids were so burnt that the next morning i could not even open my eyes and my face looked like a freakin tomato. Even though i felt like death after we had a ton of fun, but by the time we got back to rexburg we were EXHAUSTED. [yes, we drove home that same night and got back about 3 a.m.]
OK there we go, welcome to my life for the last few weeks!!
finalizing the purchase
The first ride home!!!This last weekend we went out to watch the Jackson Hole Moose hockey game with a bunch of friends. I developed a love for hockey. Just a few reasons...
1. Skating is SO much more fun to watch then running around on a field
2. They let the players fight!! The ref's don't break it up until someone is on the ground
3. Figure Skating during intermission
4. The crowd...INSANE, loved LOVED that
5. You aren't in the BURNING SUN or FREEZING COLD, you are inside
A hockey game was definently out of the norm but we actually had a REALLY good time. We became big fans just being in such a pumped crowd. Definently a good date idea!!
Every wednesday night a group of guys play basketball at the stake center. Back in the day Skyler used to be baller and loves to go play. Last night i went to go cheer him. Turned out that they had an odd number of guys there and I had to jump in and play. I have NEVER played basketball before and i was probably NO help but it was fun to be able to play with Skyler. He was a stud out there!!
Yesterday was Mine and Skyler's 6 month anniversary. SO we decided to celebrate!! My cute husband took a break from work and brought me a card and some goodies, it was so cute to see that he 1. remembered and 2. thought about me!! Then that night we went out to eat, [since Skyler got laid off we haven't eaten out once and have been CHEAP so it was so fun to be able to get out!!] We went
out to hardhat steak house and had the yummiest dinner, and the scones there...to die for!! The whole day he was like "this time 6 months ago we were in the temple, at our reception, and so on." He really made the day special for me and i am so lucky to have a husband who loves me SO much!!
Last week Cousin Kayla and I were both very, VERY sick. SO we decided for FHE to make some soup, A family favorite, Tortellini. This family recipe calls for a little bit of wine [don't worry, the alcohol cooks out!] After the adventure of trying to buy wine in a mormon town, we had another set back, opening the bottle. It had a rubber cork in it, something that both kayla and i are clueless about. We tried EVERYTHING to open the bottle
....The bottom of a beater to a mixer
....Scissors
....Tweezers
....I had the amazing idea of reversing an electric drill
and after about 30 minutes of pulling, tugging, squeezing, and prayer we FINALLY got it open.
