It's for the best

Happy late New Years! Happily i didn't have to work so chad and i had a little house marathon baked some cookies, drank kool aid, and ate some pizza. It was pretty good. We also wrote out new years resolutions together which im doing something cute with that i'll post about once im finished :)

I also printed off about 100 pictures to catch up my photo album to this year! When i was putting them into the album i realized there are a lot of darcy. haha.

Lately i've been wanting to change our living room around. Since we've moved our tv has been on a little side table thing which is not the prettiest. The cords are all showing and stuff which is not my favorite. Sooo.. i had been seeing on pinterest a lot of people putting their tvs on these big/long dresser like things. I eventually found out that this thing is called a buffet. I've been searching craiglist and trying to get to di to find a cheap one that i could repaint and didn't have any luck. So today chad was going to rexburg while i was at work and i told him if he found one that i would like that was cheap he should buy it. And he did! We went after work to go take a look at it and i am quite excited about it. Chad picked a good one. But... it doesn't fit in our car. So we have to figure that out. I think it'll fit in the pruis we just need to try again. So we plan to bring blacky and the pruis to rexburg on wednesday to figure out how to get it here. 

And I only work Sunday through Tuesday so i'll have all next week to work on it!

Also.. i found some frames i really want to buy for the living room as well,which i plan to buy 3 of. But they are from ikea and i can't buy them online so i'll either wait till we go to salt lake some day orrr find something similar online. 

It means i was wrong

We were lucky enough to get to go to Canada to spend Christmas with chads family. It was fantastic. I loved getting a week of work, leaving Idaho for a little, and spending time with family.

Heres some pictures!!

 We decorated sugar cookies....

 Dipped pretzels in chocolate.

 Duke ate them..

Kasey and Duke with the Christmas tree

I got some new sparkly shoes!!

And we did a quick little photo shoot with Kasey and Rachel.

I also got a new recipe for a salad dressing that is delicious.

I remember every sunset, I remember every word you said.

We didn't get a chance to go anywhere for thanksgiving like we were planning so when i ended up getting two days off in a row we took a quick trip up to Utah to visit Nathan and Lacey and their cute little baby bridger. We also took a quick look at Ikea! It was fun.

Group Picture!

Lonely Kasey picture!


Chad took this picture of darcy that i think is adorable.

Also... i sold my laptop. I never ever use it and was wanting to sell it but it has a charging problem that just needs a simple new cord or something so selling it online i thought would be annoying to explain. So when my parents told me they were looking for a laptop for jenna it worked perfectly. It was sad to say goodbye but its a good thing.

I'm dying aren't i? .... Probably

Well yes its been FORever... but i've figured things out and am now posting again! The next couple posts will be of old things that we have done, which hasn't been much. So heres the first!

We went to the animal shelter... again...

There were these two super cute white kitties that i loved lots. We went back to the animal shelter a little while later and only one of the cats were left and she was very whiny and wouldn't sit still not like when we first met her. I think she missed her sister. It was sad.

And this is Kaseys pal. He was Giant!

Sad Puppy

And this is a bad picture but its a funny story. Kasey wanted to pet this little puppy so she went into the cage and closed the door behind her. I took the picture then went to join chad looking at other dogs. We heard kasey calling and it ended up that of course there are no handles on the inside of the cage so she was locked in with the puppy. Good times.

Watch me count all my money till it go high

Lately....

I made banana chocolate chip bread for the first time.

Kasey turned 19! We had cake and ate at wingers....

I started working at shopko seasonally.. Its not too bad.


I enjoy going to this website that has old/vintagy pictures of cats...

I got another etsy order! I was surprised because i kind of stopped doing stuff with it. haha.. But this lady is ordering 5 vases and one large vase, She calls it a wishing tree? for a baby shower. i'll make $70! This is a picture of what im making her... 3 will look like this then 2 will be baby blue colored (is a gender reveal party). fun fun.

My dreams they are just empty

The other day we took a trip to the animal shelter and they had more adorable kittens... they always do...i finally brought my camera to take a couple pictures! Here they are... 

Also chad and kasey found out about this survey calling job for Romney that pays $10 an hour. Its not like a legit job with certain hours, you just go in for as many hours as you want and such..So on Saturday chad went to rexburg and they called for 7 hours. He wanted to do this so he could go on a little shopping spree. I didn't do it because i went to my friends baby shower.. and that kind of survey calling stuff makes me very stressed and nervous. So chad came home and we went to the mall and he bought some gloves he saw that he really wanted and.. he bought me some perfume! It wasn't just any perfume.. i've been wanting this stuff for like months and months. Every time we go to the mall we stop in there and i spray some.. I really love it. Chads a nicey and told me i had to get it.

Broken down like a mirror smashed to pieces..

Last night i made some hot caramel apples in the crock-pot using this recipe. And.. i loved them. I think i cooked mine a little longer then the recipe said to but i liked it extra soft. Next time i might use caramel syrup instead of actual caramels because the caramels got hard again after taking them out of the crock-pot. But altogether i really liked these.. even had one for breakfast this morning : )

used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin size bed

I love fall and winter because of all the exciting holidays.. and for the pretty colors outside, which includes white when snow covers every thing. And today was the first day of snow here! It stopped after a little and then melted very quickly, but still.. it was exciting.

Also kasey chad and i carved pumpkins this past weekend. They were both pretty much pros. I've always just done triangle eye plain pumpkin carving my whole life. I looked for some old pictures and here are two....

This ones from 2007, ben is pretty good at posing.

And this ones from last year (2011), Chad stepped on it before i could get a picture of it....

And here is this years! It goes in order from left to right of chad, kasey, and mine.

And... one of my favorite parts of pumkin carving is baking pumpkin seeds afterwards! I cooked mine a little bit too long this time but they are still pretty good.

Your soul is like a secret that i never could keep.

Today we went to place called Ririe Reservoir.. its in Tex Creek wildlife management area. Its about 20 mins or so from our house. I found it on this website which has a bunch of other places i want to try going to another time. It was pretty cool. And an unexpected cool part was seeing the windmills up close. We can see them from in town and i've always wanted to drive till i got to them. The road that brought us to the reservoir went right next to them. Once we got to the reservoir we went on a little hike towards the beach area and hung out for a little it was fun. I'd want to go back some time and have a fire. So.. here are a Bunch of pictures!......

And lastly.. here is chad and i trying to take a picture.. chad almost always has a little trouble with this.