I know some pretty awesome people...

I have the best husband ever. Yes, he's more awesome than yours. He came home from the store and was wandering around the kitchen. I was wanting to help him out (he doesn't spend much time in the kitchen), but he wouldn't tell me what he was looking for! I turn around to the table and there were flowers! He was looking for a vase. haha. The first thing I commented on was how cool the green flowers were--he said that's the whole reason he bought that bouquet. =)
I also have the best in-laws ever--thank you so much, Ashley & Julie! I almost thought the postman left the box of flowers at the wrong address! I had no idea who would be nice enough to send me flowers! They are beautiful!

I's gonna git me some pigs

We've spent our Christmas break in good'ol Star Valley, Wy-O-min'. Not much has happened, but today we finally got some action when some renegade animals tried to escape. We looked out the window, and sure enough four 300 lb. pigs were waltzing down the road.

Of course, at noon I am still in my PJ's, so Michael goes to try to lure them back into "storage" while I get all dressed up for such a special occasion. A truck comes down the road and stops. The pigs got so scared! One peed right there on the road while the others ran all the way back to their pen.

Not really...that's what should've happened though. Instead, they walked up to the truck, smelled the bumper, smelled the tires, they would've smelled the driver if they could have. By the time I got outside, the four beasts still hadn't been wrangled. There was Michael, Maison (nephew-in-law), Brandon (brother-in-law), and me--four people to four pigs, but so far they were winning.

Brandon's weapon of choice was a rake, Michael had food, Maison had...well nothing really...he just wanted to wrestle one, and I had my...wit. I also got left all alone with the last pig! I told him...hmm I guess it was a her....she was stupid, because all her friends were on the other side of the road and had food. With sheer brilliance and maybe a little chasing I got the pig to it's safe shelter. All by myself.

Now I can cross off "be a pig herder" from my list of things to do before I die.

Happy 2 Years Together!

I love you cwapface!

=)

Completely Handmade Gift

Whew! I have always wanted to make everyone's gift for Christmas...but some things you just can't make...especially boy gifts. Anyway, this year I made a whole gift for my sister-in-law (Mike's sister) by hand! ...And hopefully she doesn't have a link to this or else I just ruined what her gift is! Oh, well. I am just so proud of it...I would keep it if it didn't have Carolyn's name on it.
Here's the basket...


Handmade book with helicopters that I laboriously collected from the parking lot and cut a window in the binder's board for. Sorry I didn't flip the picture.
Custom gift tags that I designed...


With matching thank you cards all wrapped up with envelopes.
It doesn't seem like much now that I post about it, but all this took several days of work! I am glad I went to the effort though. I guess it's always a good sign of a good gift when you don't want to give it away.

The Incredible, Dangerous, Freaking Ridiculous, ARCTIC BLAST!

I was sound asleep Sunday morning until Michael lovingly shook me half to death and said, "Guess what?!!"

"..whut..." as I wiped eyeboogies from my tearducts.

"It's Christmas!"

I sleep pretty dang good-I actually consider myself quite talented in the area of sleeping-but I am not that good! "..uh..what? no it's not..."

Michael was as giddy as a school boy. "But it is snowing outside!!"

"hmm...hopefully they'll cancel church!" I said very sarcastically, but I did have my hopes up.

I try to go back to sleep, although it was already 9 o'clock in the morning. But to no avail. Another shaking came about a half hour later. "Church is cancelled!"

With enough snow to make things white, they really did cancel church! I was in shock, but I was so happy I didn't have to prepare a lesson! Yes, shoot me with lightning now, but however cute those kids are...and how much they make you laugh...they are tiring!

Not only was church cancelled, so were Michael's Monday finals! And today's finals! Tomorrow's weather doesn't look any better...maybe those finals will be cancelled too!

Besides the news sounding like the world is closing up and practically ending in the Northwest, not much else is going on. We just hope Saturday will be good enough weather to travel home for Christmas!

Recent Happenings

We went to the WSCC Gala (Formal Party) last Saturday...mmmm such good food!

Then Sunday was Michael's birthday! We had a few friends over for dinner--Michael requested pizza, so we did sun-dried tomato pesto pizza and regular pepperoni/salami/whatever toppings people wanted pizza. In all I made 8 pizzas (for only 7 people) and only had a few slices of leftovers (which are all gone but 2!). Piggy piggies. =)

Since Michael doesn't like chocolate (or regular cake all that much) I made angel food cake! With whipped cream and strawberry topping. It was yummo. (Don't confuse the look on my face for boredom...that's just the way I look!)Happy 26th!