Hey everyone been holding off blogging cuz there really hasn't been anything that's happened since I last blogged. I live a very uneventful life. I finished painting my second nativity set, a smaller one then those in the pics that I posted. I've now started painting a ceramic horse it's going to be pretty, I should be done painting it tomorrow and I'll have pics of it up soon. Other then that it's been pretty boring uneventful. It snowed today I'm excited about that!

I finally finished

I finally finished this nativity set that I've been painting

Yeah it's been awhile since I updated I have been avoiding it, it has been pretty boring around here. To pass the time I've sewing on some Christmas stockings for my aunt Susie's boutique. here's what they're going to look like each stocking is going to look different

Road trip, a few bumps in the road :0)

So I'm back from my road trip and there where a few bumps in the road here they all are in pictures......
We got into camp around 1 am so we left the car lights on the campsite so we could see to put up our tent.........the next morning the cars battery was dead so we had to push it out for someone to jump us.... not easy thing to do when your on a slant.......so we finally got someone to jump our car by then we were very hungry we started to get breakfast ready only to have our BRAN NEW OUT OF THE BOX!! cooking stove not work......

luckily there was a town nearby and we drove out there to get a new stove....got back to camp and got coals burning in our new stove, started to cook the eggs only to realize that we forgot a spatula............so we had to use a fork..... scrambled was the order of the day
Our tiny blue tent was well...... tiny and when it came to getting dressed or moving around it was a struggle so we went and bought a bigger tent......that evening it started raining and it kept raining into the next day, we woke up to our bran new tent leaking....... we had to go to the store to get some tent sealer stuff

We had a few rough moments but in the end its something to look back on and laugh

Getting sick

Well Nick is starting to get sick, he has a really bad cough and he woke up with the chills this morning :0( I went to the store and got a lot of medicine and juices hopefully he will pull through for our road trip

I was just thinking about how I needed to start writing in my journal, it has always been challenging for me to do......but then as I go back and review my blog I realize that blogging is similar to keeping a journal and this is the best I have ever done. I had to take a moment and pat myself on the back :0)

It is almost our 1st year anniversary so I wanted to post some of the pictures that were taken on that amazing day

Road trip

So Me and Nick have planned a road trip for our 1 year anniversary, I am really excited. We are going to drive up to Washington on the night of the 2nd of July, after Nick gets off of work. Go visit Nick's family and from there northern California coast and a few days camping in the Redwoods. Whahooo! This will be mine and Nicks first camping trip together

100 things about me

1. I love my husband
2. I was born in Fillmore, UT
3. I love soft serve ice cream with fries :0)
4. I like it when it's cloudy
5. Loud cars and motorcycles irritate me
6. Love the smell of hay
7. Love the smell of an old truck
8. Love camping
9. Want to get a house with a good sized property
10.Want to grow raspberries
11.Love playing video games with Nick
12.I get nervous around big, operating, machinery
13.I enjoy painting walls ( it's relaxing to me)
14.I lived in Burley, Idaho for 16 years
15.I want a rabbit
16.I have never won anything
17.My right shoulder almost always pops when I lift my arm
18.I love decorating for Christmas
19.I love craft stores (or as Nick calls it "the froofy forest")
20.I want a golden retriever
21. I HATE!! scary, horror movies
22. One of my all time favorite funny movies is Pure Luck
23.I really have a hard time with Math
24.I love french bread pizza
25.I enjoy fishing
26. Though I have never caught a fish
27.Love to watch lighting storms
28.Love the mountains
29.The ocean scares me
30.Love riding horses
31.Nobody cries in my presence alone
32.Love my old 1990 subaru car
33.I love the smell of cedar
34.I am not a morning person
35.Love reading books
36.The first movie in the theater I ever walked out on was The Dark Knight
37.I love water parks
38.I played volleyball in High school
39.I have never been to another country
40.I love canned mandarin oranges
41.I hate washing dishes
42.I am the worst at returning phone calls.... sorry :0(
43.I love jordan candied almonds
44.I fall asleep easier when I'm in a moving car (not driving)
45.I cannot fall asleep with cold feet, no matter how tired I am
46.I love pestering Nick
47.My favorite part of the day is when Nick comes home
48.I get really giggly when I'm tired
49.I wish I had perfect vision
50.I have a hard time grocery shopping
51. I had my gal bladder taken out after high school
52.Hate thick melted cheese (gag)
53.Love fruit
54.Can't eat chocolate when I'm hot
55.I hate mowing the lawn
56.I'm learning to play the violin
57.I am the youngest of five
58.I love cook books that have pictures with every recipe
59.I love sleeping on the trampoline in the summer
60.I love the redwoods
61.I want to own a couple of horses someday
62.I have to have my nails short
63.I had my first car accident a year and a half ago
64.Love listening to the bagpipes
65.I have never been to a concert
66.I love the temple
67.I love shopping at Hobby Lobby
68.Me and Nick both have an October birthday( mine is the 1st his the 7th)
69.I love watching Tortoises eat
70.I love painting ceramics
71.I want to sell my artwork some day
72.I don't have any allergies
73.I love my family
74.I collect Bryer horse figures
75.I love roasting marshmallows
76.Scented deodorant gives me a headache
77. My brother and Nick served in the same mission (Birmingham AL)
78.I like playing Spore
79.I have never broken a bone
80.I am three years younger than Nick
81.I love dutch oven food (especially potatoes)
82.I want to start riding my bike more
83.My favorite color is blue
84.I hate driving in big, busy cities
85.My favorite cry movie is Steal Magnolias
86.Nick makes me laugh every day ( even if he's gone for a couple days I just think of the things that he's done or said and I laugh)
87.Out of all the cleaning chores I love vacuuming
88.I love swimming
89.I love to go tubing on the river
90.Love playing with the guinea pigs
91. I hate spiders
92. I have never changed a flat tire
93. I love pasta
94. I love looking at old picture albums
95. I couldn't have found a better husband for me
96. My favorite place to eat is Texas Roadhouse (they have the best rolls, yummm)
97.I think Nick looks extremely good looking in his police uniform :0)
98.I don't cook as much as a should
99.I hate schedules and rushing
100. I'm one lucky girl

The hair of many colors

Funny story, Nick decided a few weeks ago that he wanted to dye his hair black, so he did......... but he didn't realize that store bought black hair dye always has blue put into it. So his hair was a dark blue, he has to go to work in a couple days and a blue haired deputy is not going be good :) (I didn't get a picture), called my mom for help and the poor kid had to get his hair bleached............................ now he had orange hair........Nick didn't want to go to work with orange hair either so he bought some mahogany brown hair color..... he didn't realize that mahogany is a deep red.......forgot to take a picture of it as red :(. Then this time he let me choose the hair color and finally we got a brown, though still a little red was visible......his poor scalp was so tender

Sorry I abandoned my blog, didn't feel like doing much of it lately.......... still searching for a job not having much luck, I'm going to start painting again since I have a lot of time on my hands. I'm also looking at taking courses on home staging and interior decorating I found a good source and am thinking of taking it.
Nick and I have been busy, aside from our little hamster that I've already told you about, we now have three rats, and two guinea pigs they're all cute. I know many of you are thinking "RATS!" but really they are very playful especially Saphire, our blue rat, she loves it when you crinkle paper, when you crinkle it she shakes her head and starts to run and jump around then she'll tackle the paper and wrestle with it, she's a cutie.

This is Saphire, the other two wouldn't hold still for me to get a good picture, maybe later.

Here is Moe(darker one) and Joe(lighter one) we adopted them I'm pretty sure they are brothers, the store we adopted them from said that they were brought in together, plus they have similar calics making thier fur lay the same

We did not get the other house, I've just decided that I'll let you know when it happens. Which wont be for a long time, some shitty stuff has happened over the last couple days which lead to me quitting my job and losing out on our house loan. I'm in a very bad mood, I hope everyone is having a better weekend then me

Offer on a house

Its been a busy month Nick and I have been house hunting and we found a house that we really like. It's an older home that could use some fixing up as far as interior design goes but it has one acre of land that I would love to have. Oh and it smells really bad of cigarette smoke in the house, it stunk, but nothing a lot of carpet washing and fabreez can't handle :-)...................

Earlier this month I went to Burley to go to my old friend Kamila's bridal shower and had a lot of fun there I'm so excited for her. It was fun to sit down and reminisce about old times.

Here is me with Carrie, Kamila and Amber

My fish tank

Bincey

Here is my little critter-friend Bincey, she loves the cotton balls that I but in her cage. Now don't get me wrong from working in the pet department going on three years I have learned that hamsters are EVIL!!! little creatures (for the most part) I can't tell you how many times they've tried to bite me. Bincey is probably the only exception, she is so sweet, which is very surprising to me. I adopted her from my store, they were going to put her down because her left eye was really bad and swollen all the time and she went to the vet 3 different times and was on three different medication and was in the stores sick room for six months having a syringe put in her mouth twice a day, she stayed sweet whereas other hamsters get very mean. I couldn't bare the thought of her being put down so the store adopted her to me and I changed her bedding from wood chips to torn up toilet paper and cotton balls and her eye is not bad anymore though she'll get goobers in her left eye every once in awhile, she'll just sit in my hand as I wash it off.
Here is Bincey in her seed bowl, It is so cute I use to just refill her dish inside her cage whenever she ran out of seeds, but I noticed some seeds she didn't like would litter her cage so I dumped the hamster seed bag into a Tupperware bowl and set it outside her little door and when I open it up she'll come out and choose the seeds she likes and fills both sides of her cheeks, and turns around and goes back in her cage. Its very entertaining after a couple of seed runs I'll close her door so she doesn't get to many seeds.

Hit and run

sorry I abandoned my blog for awhile It's hard for me to think of stuff to write about. The last few weeks have been a blurr, a couple weeks ago Nick came from his work to see me at my work and while he was in Petsmart some kid backed into his mazda and drove away! Luckily a VERY nice couple saw what happened and got the licence plate, called the cops and stayed by Nicks car till the cops arrived. There's about 2300 dollars damage to the trunk and bumper, we have the other persons insurance info so YAY! we don't have to pay for it.