Taking a bit of a break...

I decided quite a bit a go to take a small blogging break. I need to clear my head a bit and get reinspired. Love you all!!

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Moment #1

The Holiday Season 2008
I deem this the #1 moment for many reasons, or lessons learned

-This was the first Christmas season without a few members of our family... and it was a hard one.
-We became a stronger family unit.
-We also realized how much we love and appreciate and sometimes even take for granted those who are so close.
-Money doesn't buy happiness... you can't put a dollar figure on it.
-True friends are just as good as family sometimes, and this year our family grew seven fold.

(I am not including any pictures with this because they are probably just further down the page a bit.)

Moment #2

The 3 Day Walk For the Cure

60 Miles or Bust

Its such an awesome experience. I mean, there are literally thousands of people here walking, along with thousands of supporters. The level of devotion and commitment literally blows me away. You get a little teary standing among the supporters cheering on someone you will probably never meet... yet you are all unified by a single common bond, hope for a cure! We will definetly be here next year.

Ever heard of a sausage fest? Well this is the complete opposite... its a total boob fest. There are bras everywhere.... and LOTS of pink!!!


Decorating the bushes at the first cheer station of the day.


The crazy ladies down the way. I think they had a bit too much caffiene, they were seriously weirding me out a bit.




Real men wear pink.... with rhinestones


The Boob Mobile



One of the many bra themed tents






Adams Tail (insert cat call here)


Team Freshly Squeezed and the reason they are walking.


The Double D ranch.

The Husband Tag

My friend Becca tagged me so I figured I would do it. I may have already done it but I can't remember, so here you go...

1) Where did you meet your husband?

At the Shakespeare Festival. A mutual friend of ours worked for him.

2) How long did you date before getting married?
We started dating in May, got engaged in November and got married in March.... and June :)

3) How long have you been married?

2 years, 9moths, 4 weeks and 1 day... thanks to my handy dandy ticker

4) What does he do that suprises you?

How much he loves me, how often he gets up in the middle of the night to let the dogs out even when he has to be up early and he puts up with a lot... mostly at work. He never ceases to amaze me.

5) What is your favorite feature of his?

Which one isn't.... hmmm.... He has a cute butt!!! Hey, I am only being honest :)

6) What is his best quality?
He loves to cook, he is such a hard worker, he doesn't settle for less than he should, and le lets me be me. He is without a doubt my very best friend... and he lets me stick my cold toes by his warm ones

7) Does he have a nickname for you?

We call each other "My Smile".... other than the usual, honey etc.... I can't think of a specific nickname

8) What is his favorite food?
This is kind of a hard one. He loves a bit of everything. Indian, Thai, Italian, Mexican... I guess I would say his favorite is anything that is homemade... with lots of love.

9) What is his favorite sport?
Probably football, even then he really doesn't get into it.

10) When did you first kiss?
On our first real date... by my car, in front of O.C. by the mall... we used to have all these dates in the calendar until we had to wipe the hard drive clean.... sad...

11) What is your favorite thing to do as a couple?
We love to travel, camp, eat at new exotic places, watch movies, play games.

12) Do you have any children?

If you count animals, we have 2 together and he has 3 from a previous relationship, LOL :)

13) Does he have any hidden talents?

I think he is a better baker than I am. :) And he is a home improvement genious, and is really, really good with kids

14) How old is he?
28

15) What is his favorite music?

Thats kind of hard.... he likes a bit of a lot of different genres... if I had to narrow it down I would sat country and older rock are pretty high on the list.

16) What do you admire about him?

His drive, his hard work, his unconditional love for my family

17) What is his favorite color?
Green and Blue

18) Will he read this?

Probably

19) Who said "I love you" first?
He did, in a letter. I still have that letter somewhere

20) Who do you tag?
Brenda Davis, Emily Judd, Jana Russell, Christine Taylor and anyone else that has the time to do it.

Moment #3

Goodbye green bathtub!!!!
Matt and I like to think we make a
DANG GOOD TEAM



Sub floor replaced with Hardibacker, new vanity in place, new jetted bath tub installed.... WOOT!!


What my counter and sink look like. They are going to look awesome when they are done!


Really horrible picture of me but proof that I did the tiling all by myself!!


Kind of shows my tiling job in the shower area.


This is a decent pic of the tiling on the tub and floor.

Aside from a few very miniscule details, our bathroom is done. Here are a few pictures.


The sinks.

The shower and tub.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the color of the counter top. The picture doesn't do it justice. The little cubby is PERFECT for the laundry hamper.

I really like the color of my rugs a lot. We went and bought a few new towels too. You can't tell but we put the shower curtain on lightweight curtain track so we could pull in all the way over against the wall keeping the bathroom open. Love it! Makes the small room feel so much bigger.

Moment #4

I had such a blast this summer. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to camp.
I am sure if we could live in a tent all summer
WE WOULD
This year we caught a ton more fish, and forged many new friendships,
while strengthening those we already had.
I am counting down the days until we can go again!!!

This is how we spent a good deal of our time. We perfected lake fishing and basically lived on the docks at Alturus Lake for 3 days before we attacked the Salmon River. In total, we caught 34 fish and ate about 28 of them.



Mmm.... One of the recipes we tried for Dutch oven trout.



Then our camp got raided and somebody stole our Pirate flag..... there were so many people in our party not one of us heard anything unusual. If we heard anything we probably thought it was one of us getting up to go to the bathroom. Why just the pirate flag.



Our fearless leader chopping wood. I bet you don't know how many inebriated stage hands it takes to get this stump chopped. Answer? Two, and about ten others surrounding them laughing and taking pictures at their expense. HAHAHA



Matt, Jenn and I at the top of Galena Summit.

AAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!






The sunset on the White Cloud Mnts, our view from where our camp was



Piper was bound and determined to catch something... even if it means digging to China!!



Tony being a fish :)



Tony and Matt trying to catch dinner!!!


The weird people in our spot. And they were SOO weird. They had a teenage son that walked around the campground with a revolver and a huge knife under his belt.... creepy!!








Dagger Falls. They were built to aid the returning salmons journey upstream to spawn. Very cool and very pretty!
The Salmon River

Moment #5

This summer we spent a couple weeks in Sun Valley working on the ampitheatre. It was quite the adventure to say the least. Here are some pictures.

Here are some pictures of us on our last day before we drove home.

From the back.



From the front entrance.



Hanging 25 feet above the ground on top of one of the ceiling panels.



Putting the canopy on.... it took them 3 days... :)



View into the house from the stage.





The front truss with the cheapest moving lights ever made.