Garden Update

Our first produce from our Garden. A tomato for you and a Tomato for me..oh and we can share the Banana Pepper.

Valentines Tickets put to good use....

Well we were finally able to use my Valentine's tickets to Phantom of the Opera. We were the front row on the Mezzanine. It was my third time to see the Opera and it was just as fabulous as the first time. Hurray Wicked is coming next year!!

Here are a couple of Pic's



This is the Chandelier, not a very good picture though. Sorry!!

Oklahoma Commercials

First of all I have to say I was watching T.V. about two weeks ago and all of a sudden there was this familiar face on the screen playing Jesus...then I realized it was Stan Bronson and it was the LDS church's commercial for the Lamb of God Video. You can't get away from Blanding even in the Bible Belt.

But here is another one of my favorites. Sorry I recorded it off the T.V. so the quality isn't the best.



Can that seriously be put on Public T.V.???

About Me

5 things I was doing 10 years ago
1. Going to BYU and chasing boys in Ghetto ville
2. Living on my own in Provo on 3rd S
3. Working at Nu Skin
4. Working at UpWard Bound in the Summer as a Counselor
5.Living with Linds

5 things on my to do list:
1. Exercise
2. Clean House
3. Cook Dinner
4. Do Laundry
5. Blog

5 favorite snacks/food:
1. Better than Sex Desserts (there are two)
2. No Bake Cookies
3. Pots of Gold
4. Chocolate anything (never craved it until I had Sam...man she screwed up my hormones)
5. Brahms or DQ (anything from them)

5 things I would do if I was a billionaire:
1. Travel to EU (all countries), Africa, Asia (all countries), South America
2. Live in Hawaii where at least humidity has a beach
3. Buy a house with lots of land to go 4 wheeling on
4. Set aside money for kids college/weddings (if they're good kids I'll give it to them :)
5. Put in a home gym.

5 bad habits:
1. Cracking my knuckles
2. Wasting time
3. Eating Junk Food
4. Interrupting in conversations ...sorry!
5. Taking all the hot water, for my own personal shower and leaving only the cold...for everyone else.

5 Places I've lived:
1. Blanding, Ut
2. Provo, Ut
3. Orem, Ut
4. Provo, Ut
5. Owasso, Ok

5 People I'm Tagging (Yep! You guys gotta do this now)
1. Tina
2. Misty
3. Andrea
4. Karen
5. who else checks my blog? I don't know who you are...but if you're reading this then you've been tagged!

The Last 20 Years...

20 Years ago...

1. I was almost 11 years old.
2. I was excited to go into mutual and into the middle school.
3. Beginning of Linds and my strong friendship. We were friends before with a whole bunch of other girls but it was this year that we started becoming close.

10 Years ago...
1. I was 21 and lived in Provo at 3rd South with none other than Linds and our hideaways.
2. I was working at Nu Skin and going to BYU and trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up.
3. I bought my first 4 wheeler and piano. Man I was blessed to buy so many toys while working and going to school.

5 Years ago...
1.I had finished BYU and was still working at Nu Skin.
2. I lived in Orem with Linds and Tiff and Jola. This is the year I met Grant. Can't believe it has been 5 years.
3. I bought my second 4 wheeler and finished paying off my pickup.

3 Years ago...
1. I was putting Grant through school at BYU and we were living in our apartment.
2. I took my first trip to Oklahoma and said I never want to live there.
3. I taught Sunday School for my first time ever as a partner with Grant.

1 Year ago...
1. I was 5 month pregnant.
2. I just got home from San Fransisco and Yellowstone earlier in the year.
3. I turned 30.

So far this year I...
1. I have had a baby and moved to Oklahoma and quit working after 11 years at Nu Skin and with the severance package from there we were able to have a better down payment for a home and bought our first house. Spoiled me it was brand new. Grant asked there is something I need to know...in the future will your homes have to be brand new?
2. I work with the Young Women in our ward and enjoy their strength and spirit.
3. Loved every minute of being married. (yep, every minute)

Yesterday I...
1. Worked out and cleaned my house and updated my blogs.
2. Started my antibiotic for my abscessed tooth before the root canal.
3. Watched National Treasure 2 with Grant and kept plugging info into our new phones.

Today I...
1. Update my blogs some more.
2. Do some more cleaning, dishes, dinner, go to mutual which is swimming, and hopefully Sam will sleep through the entire night.
3. Work out if my teeth ever quit hurting today. I thought the medicine was supposed to help??!?!?!?!

Tomorrow I...
1. Will Clean my house in preparation for Mom and Dad-in-laws to babysit Friday while Grant and I go to Phantom of the Opera.
2. Workout!! See a pattern??
3. Prepare my lesson for Sunday and do some laundry.

In the next year I...
1. Will read The Book of Mormon again.
2.Will continue to get in shape.
3. Will continue to teach Sam things and learn things myself.

Now---I tag... Hillary, Karen, Andrea, Ann, Kara, Misty, Tricia, Cassie, Mom, Linds, Ashley, anyone else who wants to do it! Also, those who don't have blogs...perfect opportunity to start one!

Dinner and a Show

If you happened to be eating at the Cracker Barrel restaurant here in Owasso on Sunday night, you'd have seen a really interesting sight - a truck tire busting through the front window! The Owasso Reporter story can be read in full here. Glad we weren't there.

Guest Bathroom

We finally are getting our house a little decorated. Here is our guest/Sam's bathroom. I wanted it to be fun for her.

After the Ice Storm

Some are broken down but still growing leaves.


As you can see in a couple of these pictures there are still tons of trees that need to be cleaned up after the ice storm. They say it can take up to 5 years to get it all restored.

Girls Camp Certification

So for Mutual Wed night we had cooking on the campfire certification. Out here most grass is just a variety of different weeds, we went to the Bishops house and dug a hole right in his grass in his back yard and built a fire. We cooked blueberry muffins in orange rinds. Then the greatest part of all the SMORES!!!

Garden Update

Well we have now had a turtle, a frog, and a bunny in our garden. Missed the first two on camera but caught the little hopper. It is hard to see but it was just a baby about the size of your fist. Click on the picture above and it will enlarge and you can see it.

Girls Night Out

We had Girls Night Out with some ladies from our ward last night. We went into town and went to the river walk and ate at Los Cabos and then walked around. Here are a couple of pics after dinner. One of the women is moving and it was another's b-day this week.

Fire Flies

I hope you can see them. It is so cool!


This is one of the positive things about living somewhere new...So excited to see the little things in nature and the amazing beautiful things God gives us.

Good Ole Oklahoma

Here are some fun pictures we have taken of Oklahoma. I knew some of you were missing it and needed to feel the humidity through these pictures!


This is a weed that was growing in our backyard. Pretty huh? New landscape no work required.



These two (above & below) were pictures of a storm coming our way. They look North same as our backyard, but Grant went to the road on the East side of our house to take them.




Sunset pictures taken from in front of our house

Everyone who has a little girl should have one!

I have a friend who has decided to start her own business and she is making adorable hats and hair clips for little girls. Visit her site and find something for your little girls! http://www.englishrosecreations.etsy.com