Snowboarding Fun!

Yay! I finally got to go snowboarding again! Last time I went there was powder on the small slope we were jammin down - this time we went to Snowbowl and it was pretty much all hard packed snow. A bit more challenging than last time if I do say so, but it was wonderful fun!

Tricia was thumbing up ready to go!! It was about 5:20 AM

I was ready to go back to sleep...

Once we started driving I was totally thumbs up ready!!



In this one, we were almost to flagstaff. We were getting pretty excited when we could see the snow tops!

Jammin down -

Sister and I on the lift -

After my first thrashing from the hill - my sister was nice enough to photograph my pain -

All in all I had tons of fun. Planning another trip up soon =D

BBQ (vegan style) and Game night

Well I finally was able to drag a great friend of mine out to see the house. I don't usually have out of town visitors so I was quite happy Carrie was able to come over! We played my new favorite game, Whoonu (compliments of Carrie), grilled vegan hotdogs (yummy!) and had some quite tasty Cran-apple Vodka and Pink Ladies (Deb's signature) to drink. We kind of stopped taking pictures for some reason (?), but I posted a few from earlier in the night below:

Carrie & I

Me, Carrie, and Sister (Tricia) - I have an apron on btw - I love those things =D

My friend Lexy and sister - not sure what they were talking about/doing, but this one makes me laugh.
Ash had to be involved in picture time too - I'm happy Carrie didn't steal him

Lexy's husband Brandon was able to come too! We hadn't seen him in about 6 months. Nick was pretty happy to have him back too so he'd have a friend to watch Scary 3D movies with

(Nick let Lexy check out the film and loaned her his glasses for a minute)

They have the cutest kids, but they were already in bed before picture time =(

I discovered while typing this blog that everytime I type Carrie's name I want to add an "s" or "d" at the end of it then I laughed when I though maybe carrie wouldn't mind being carried haha.

Oh no....2 months!!!

That's right people - it has been almost 2 months since I have last blogged! I can't believe it either. Most everyone know what has been going on, so I will only catch you up on the most recent:

It has been a while - but I finally went to ETC. I loved love that place. Thanks so much to Deb and Carrie for taking me over!

We discovered that our "female" cat is actually a male =/ - but his name is Lois the male-cat. He enjoys: climbing on doors (the tops of them) and....

Hanging out inside the pantry - even though one night he was accidently locked in. He broke open a bottle of soy sauce. We found him the next morning covered in it, as well as our pantry and everything in it. This was a picture of the destruction.



I finally did a deep clean on my front yard. My trees look like trees again and not just big bushes. We removed several "plants" that came with the house, but really just looked like really big weeds. Below is all that was removed -

I wanted a person and a car in the picture to give you an idea of just how big this pile was. We ended up wrapping it in a tarp and driving out to the desert to dispose of it.

We were proud of our work. (Oh, this took approx 4 hours. In this time - Nick finish a 360 game and had no idea jsut what we were doing...I like to give him a hard time about it now =D )

The cleanup enabled me to find a home for my new lawn decor - I am a sucker for gnomes...not sure why though

I did get a little crafting done. Here are my first 2 diaper cakes. I really liked how they turned out and that I was able to hide goodies throughout them =D Hopefully everything inside is usefule!

Yay for Janae and her 2 babies!!

I've been busy, but I have a couple of other unfinished crafts that I hope to finish soon. I'll post them as soon as I finish them up.

Thanks for catching up with this long blog!!