Twin Falls Trip

So, we made the trip up to visit our friends the Dilworths again last summer and true to form, didn't take any pictures of them or us all together... We're real good at that :) We were touristy a little and saw Shoshone Falls, and the Snake River. We also saw Toy Story 3 with them and grilled steaks and celebrated Father's Day with them.

{Museum of Natural History- with friends}

Spreadin' the Luv

Here's a fun blog game courtesy of Jenny!

The first 3 people to respond to this post will get something made by me.
My choice. Made especially for you.

Restrictions and Limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It will be done this year.
4. You have no clue what it's going to be, because I don't even know what it's going to be!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The Catch:

You must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who comment on your post and agree to do the same!

So get ready for your mystery treat but be prepared to share the love!

Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you get when you get it.

Wishing you all a Wonderful New Year!

Baking Day

{assorted Thanksgiving crafts from school}

Today I am baking and baking and brining and baking....

all new recipes this year...

pumpkin-banana bread

chocolate pumpkin cheesecake

white chocolate raspberry bars

apple pie

and our new this year tradition...

the boys pick a pie and then make it with Daddy

this years choice... oreo

Tonight a new turkey trick, brine. We'll see if we can cook like the pros.

We wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and are grateful for you all!

Anyone want to come for pie?? We'll have pu-len-ty!!

Enhanced Diva-licious-ness

Remember this photo?

Check it out now!

Huh?! Huh?! Pretty cool right?!

Our friend Bethany over at Elegant Word Art by Bethany is a pro with the digital scrapping and has her own line of word art and digital scrapbooking stuff. (I'm so lame I don't even know the real name for it Sorry Bethany!) Anyway, you should take a looky at her work and leave her some love. Maybe pick yourself up something real nice. Her word art can possibly be made into vinyls too. Let me help you help me help the home business moms out there. As the Nester says, buy from real people, not robots! Except just pretend that I'm the only one you know with a vinyl business, ok thanks :) Our website is back up and running again too!

trendycrafts.net

new products are being added just as fast as I can get them on there!

Project Update & Happy Birthday Megan

Remember this little cutie?

This is the inspiration:

That Ali Edwards is so creative! She does it all!

Here it is so far:

I need to take the time to pick out and print out pictures in the right sizes.

I also need some more "R"s

** I think today is Megan's Birthday!**

Hence the song... That's how I remember it.

Happy Birthday Megan!

(If it's not til the 23rd then just read this post again then :)

It's a small world in T Falls

This last weekend we took a little trip up to Twin Falls to visit 1 of Jim's old mission companions Will Dilworth and his family. His wife Collette, was 1 of my (our) friends at Ricks. Jim played matchmaker and got them together. We hadn't seen them for about 12 years. It was so fun to see them again! They have 2 kids 9 and 6 who did a great job taking care of Brooke and Max for me the whole time. They are expecting a baby in a couple months and this was really good practice and a good reminder for them. We didn't take any pics though for some reason. While we were there I happened to see their ward directory and found our friend Megan and her family are in their ward too! We know them from Texas and so we went over and surprise visited them for a bit. Sunday we went to church with them and Jim ran into a guy that looked very familiar to him. It turned out to be a family he knew from New Mexico from when he was about 14. The Niccums are really good friends with Jim's dad and step-mom. And they live right next door to the Dilworths! It's so crazy how small the world gets in the church! We did take a couple pics off the bridge across the Snake River, which is an incredible view to behold!

(the pictures don't do it justice)

To Kim & Lisa

Happy Birthday Girls!!

Hope it was a great, fun, fantastic one!

OK Admit it!

So I just happened to catch the NEW "New Kids on the Block" on the TODAY show today. Kelly did you see them? I felt a little strange watching these 40 yr old guys singing their hits when I know that ol' Joey McIntire is a big "born again-er" and bashes Mormons, and ol' Donny Wahlberg was the psycho-killer in that "I see dead people" movie that I can never remember the name of. They seemed a little uncomfortable with the dance moves and Jordan had sunglasses on, to hide his age I'm guessing. They all had really good skin for their age though! Make-up works wonders :) I never was a fan of the NKOTB though so that may sway my feelings now. They were big during High School when I was a BIG hip-hop, rap, r&b fan. I know! Don't laugh! :) I have to go see if they are going to perform again, maybe something new?? If I can get Brooke to turn off the Yo Gabba for a minute. Maybe that will change my opinion!

Birfday Girl!

It's Jennalee's Birthday!

This month is such a special one it's birthday time for you!

We'd really like to celebrate this happy day with you, So,

Zippidee a and hi dee ho there's something we can do

We'll sing a song that we all know,

Happy Birthday to You!

Love you! Miss you!

Look at all the "look at us and love us" moments we have shared!
(and that's only 6 out of the huge pile of photos)

100th Post Test

OK it's our 100th post! Not too impressive since we have been blogging for almost 3 yrs now... :) But I want to test you to see who really reads this thing. I need ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week next week! If you read this post please leave a comment and any TAW gift ideas that I can use or steal or modify and make like my own, that can be made or bought pretty quickly since it's already Wednesday. Thanks a million!

Happy Birthday Sister Jones!

Happy Birthday Kelly! Hope you have a great holiday month! XOXO

Last Lunch with Amy in California!

Well we were sad to leave friends behind in California, but we were able to get together one last time with Amy, Roger, Julia and Alex for lunch at Red Robbin which has become a small tradition whenever we get together. Afterwards we had fun watching the kids play on the Nintendo Wii back at the house.

Happy Birthday Lisa!

It was 6 years ago on a night just like tonight... We had spent all day moving our stuff out of our house in The Colony, Texas, putting half of it in storage and half in Lisa and Garth's house. My feet were swollen up huge and Jim had a sore throat. We went out to dinner at Mimi's Cafe with our new landlords for Lisa's birthday. We had a great time and the next day our lives changed forever with the birth of our first child, Jake. We hope you had a great birthday Lisa! Especially since you are sooo much older than us now ;) Love ya lots! Sorry no pictures of our fantastic time together.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNALEE!!

This is our friend Jennalee! Today she is 30-something and in Texas so we can't be together for her special day ( and Melis is a bad friend who forgot to send her a card even though it was on the calendar all month!) These pictures are pretty old, but classics for obvious reasons! We were together in Texas for a little while, but I don't have any pictures to prove it. Jim says "Do I have something in my teeth?"

We sure love and miss you and hope you have a great Birthday!!