Moving Day

Jason's sister Amanda and her husband Billy bought our house that was for sale so we moved out on the 27th of February, and since the house that we are buying isn't closing until the end of this month or the first of April (the owners live in Oregon and can't come up until then to the all of the junk, and I mean a lot of junk, out of the house until then). So in the mean time we are staying with my parents until we can move into our new house. It was a really hard move for everyone. It was Jason and my's first house together, and it was the only house the dogs have lived in. Shanyce has been taking it the hardest, she has been very mopy and sad, especially when she saw all of her things being taken out of the house. She starts shaking everytime we go to the storage bay. The night we left her and Oso layed down where their chair used to be and wouldn't leave. We had to practally drag them out of the house. It was sad and wasn't helping me any since I was already having a hard time leaving myself. But we all managed to make it to the car and out to mom and dad's by about 11:00pm.

BaBy TiMe!

That's right, we're having a baby! We are very excited even though it still hasn't sunk in all the way yet. We are due the first part of September and can't wait. I will be 14 weeks tomorrow. This kind of explains why I'm so behind. I had the flu on top of being pregnant for a couple of weeks in January plus I was really busy at work so I got really behind in blogging. Another reason why I'm so far behind is that we sold our house and were busy moving, but I'll post more on that with pictures in the next post. So anyways that is our good news!

Vegas!

Jason's work made him take a week off of work (it was a week that he had to carry over from last year, so he had to take it or lose it), so we decided to go to Vegas for a week. Our flight left on Monday February 16th at 6:00 at night. We left our dogs with my parents and my dad drove back down to the airport with us and brought our car back. Such a nice dad. By the time we got to our hotel, Excalibur, it was 9:00pm so we just stayed in for the night. the next day we decided to go shopping. We went to an outside mall and Jason got some good deals at Old Navy but that was the only place that had any. So then we went to an outlet mall, the deals there were even worse than the regular mall! So we finally gave up on shopping and decided to go back to the Excalibur (the hotel that we stayed at). Then that night we walked through some of the casinos and down the strip to the M&M factory. Then on Wednesday we decided to go to Hoover Dam. We took a tour of the power plant. I hadn't been there for quite a while and Jason had never been there so it was pretty fun. Then we just bummed around our hotel for a while, and later that night we went to The Tournament of Kings. It was a dinner show that was at our hotel. It was really fun, you had to eat dinner with your hands, and while you were eating they had a whole show going on about King Arther and different knights from certain countries. Our knight was Ireland. He didn't win but it was still really fun to watch. On Thursday we head downtown to Fremont Street for more shopping, That night we ate at Hard Rock Cafe and then went to Planet Hollywood and parked our car so we could make it further down the strip. We made it as far as the Mirage before we turned around and headed back to car, but we did hit the Mirage about the time that they were doing the Volcano show, so we stayed and watched the show before we went back to our car, and the hotel for the night. Jason said that Vegas was not our town, we were in our by 9:00 by the latest every night! Most nights as we were getting ready to go back to our hotel we would stop and get small ice cream (we had a Cold Stone in our hotel) to share, or some other kind of treat (there was also a Krispy Kreme in Excalibur). Then on Friday we went and ate brunch and then had to head back to the airport to return our rental car and to wait for our flight back to cold old Idaho Falls. When we got back to Idaho my dad came and picked us back up. It was a fun trip but we were sure glad to home again.

Valentines!

Well I know this is really late but, better late than never, right? On Valentines Day we opted to go out for lunch instead of trying to beat the crowds for dinner. We decided to go to the Olive Garden. It was so good! We both really like eating there, and since we haven't for a while it seemed like the perfect place to go. After eating lunch we ended up just going home to pack for our trip to Vegas, more on that later.

Jason waiting for our food.

Quick Post

I was downloading my recent pictures onto the computer when I saw this picture. I had completely forgotton that I taken it. It is after church one Sunday, Jason was watching TV and both dogs got on the chair with him and decided to have a nap. I couldn't resist taking the picture. :)

ChRiStMaS PaRtY AnD NeW YeAr'S EvE

The Saturday after Christmas my family had their Christmas party. (Jason's family's party was rescheduled from it's original date, due to bad weather to a day that we couldn't go.) It was nice to get to have everyone all together for a couple of hours. All of my brother's and their kids, with the exception of one niece and her husband and my oldest nephew's wife, were there. We just hung out, ate food, and us kids exchanged presents. We used to draw names but now we just rotate through everyone so you get a chance to have everyone and not just keep getting the same person, which actually happened a lot. This year we had my brother Krey and his wife Brandi, we got them a game for their WII. We also gave my parents their framed big picture of the whole family which we took over Thanksgiving and a digital frame to put pictures of everyone in. It was fun to see everyone and to spend the time together.

Now on to New Year's. I only had to work until 4, but Jason of course had to work until 7 again, so we headed out to my brother's house after work to play games and ring in the New Year with my parents and Krey, Brandi and Seriniti, and Jaden Julie and kids. We played pictionary and pinochle and some other game that I don't know the name of, until midnight, then we rang in the new year and all went home to bed. Were not to big of party animals.;) Well that is our holiday experience in a nut shell.

CHRISTMAS!

I have been such a slacker. I have been so busy with work that I have totally not kept up with our blog but I will try to play catch up now. Christmas was great! We got to spend lots of time with family even though it didn't feel like it was any longer of a weekend than normal, I got Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the day after off, Jason only got Christmas Day off so I think that had something to do with the fact that it didn't seem like an extended weekend. Jason got off of work on Wednesday at 7:00 so we didn't do much that night. We clean up our house and I made chocolate chip cookies (which Jason asked for and then only ate ONE!), while he wrapped his presents for me. Then we ate some taco soup and watched a movie. Christmas Day we woke up at 6:00AM! You would think that since we don't have any kids that we could sleep in on Christmas but Jason has none of that, normally we have to get up at like 5:00am, but Jason slept in a little this year. I am such a slacker and didn't take too many pictures. The majority of our pictures are of the dogs, but there are a few that you can at least see us in. At 9:30 we headed out to my brother and sister-in-law's house for mountain men breakfast. It is kind of a tradition, and so good. After breakfast we went to my oldest brother and his wife's house to see what their kids got from Santa. Then we just hung around my parent's house until about noon then it was off to Jason's parent's house. We had lunch with his family (it was delicious) then we hung out there and played games with his sister's and their husbands until about 5:00 then it was back home. Oh I forgot to mention that during all of our driving, especially the morning. It was snowing bad, and they hadn't plowed any of the roads so what normally takes us 15-20 minutes to get to parent's house took us like 45-60 minutes. It was not fun driving. Then after we got home we just vegged and watched some of the new movies that we had gotten. All in all it was a very fun, and tiring day.




Shanyce with Oso's new collar around her waist.


Such a funny dog. This is his "pose" whenever he sees us point the camera at him.

Oso got some rawhide in his stocking and immediately took it outside to eat it in the snow.



These were taken a couple of days before Christmas we had more snow by the time Christmas came. The second one is of the road in front of house. They hadn't plowed it yet and you about had to put you car into four-wheel drive to get to our house!