spring cleaning

Well, I have been putting it off for weeks. But Blair is in Wendover this weekend competing in a basketball tournament, so its just me and Charlee at home. I felt like I had run out of excuses and my house needed some love. So I took a trip to Ikea and Walmart to get a few extras to help me get excited about getting things organized. But I'm still having a hard time staying focused (this is me putting it off). I live in a 3 bedroom condo, its not like I have a huge house to clean or anything, but for some reason it still feels so daunting. There is so much I need to get cleaned and organized.....

I guess I should get back to it. Dang it.

sunny st. george

Last weekend Blair and I took a quick get away trip down to St. George! We went with some friends of ours. The weather was beautiful and it was nice to be outside with just a t-shirt for the weekend (no coats!).

Our mini-trip was filled full of:

pickle ball

rock climbing

karaoke

glee sing-a-longs
road-trip

Vegas

and the weekend would not have been the same without watching

Emily eat a scorpion filled sucker.

I'm not a super great rock climber but Blair and his friend Jordan are really good! So I got some good pics of them:

As you can see I'm not quite as good as Blair, but we had a lot fun hanging out with the Anderson's and totally LOVED the sunshine! :)

oh january

I feel like I should blog, since its the middle of January, and I need to post my monthly blog.

But the truth is, is that there's not much going on I feel is "blog worthy".

Lets be honest, its January, and nothing fun ever goes on in January. Except for of coarse the starting of a new year. The excitement of a new beginning. New resolutions and the excitement and anticipation of the "new you" that we are all hoping to become. And I'll be honest, I do like the excitement of it all. Blair will tell you, that all my goals are "Starting Monday". I like to start fresh. So with it being a new year instead of just a new week, gets me really geared up and motivated. I feel like maybe this time, I will actually follow through and accomplish the goals I have set for myself.

I have set a few new years resolutions for myself and going into the 4th week of year, I can say that I've made it this far and feel like I'm going strong. I'm still feeling good.

So here's to a new year and becoming the people we want to become and accomplishing new goals.

(And we can almost say good bye to the most boring month out the year! )

got kinect?

If you haven't seen this thing in action yet... you need to!

These puppies are hard to come by this time of year. We got lucky to find one in stores last week.

For Christmas this year, we decided to get the XBox Kinect for our family gift. And I just couldn't hold out that long before busting it open and playing. To be honest, I couldn't even wait 10 minutes after getting home to start playing!

This is seriously, the best thing ever invented! I'm addicted!

We got the Dance Central game, that you see on all the commercials. I told Blair the other day I feel like I could one day make it to "So You Think You Can Dance"! LOL (kinda like I play Rock Band and think I should play the guitar in real life, never gonna happen.....) But I can dream :)

Put it on your wish list this year, you won't regret it!

cooking....

Some times I wish I could stay home all day and cook. There are so many receipes I want to try and I want to become a better cook....

So yes, I need ALL day (well quite a few days) to stay home and cook!


But given the opportunity, would I do it?

feels like home

I've been feeling a little domestic lately. I always have these great ambitions to cook these fabulous meals and to be the best house keeper, blah blah blah....

Ask people I work with, I'm always looking for a new recipe to try (on my new favorite website check it out HERE). I mean well, and I try to do better. Except I seem to fall short - when I get home from work all of my motivation to cook a great meal, do the laundry, and clean the kitchen, all goes out the window, especially when I could be doing better things, like watching GLEE! ;)

BUT, I can't help but give myself a tiny tap on the back, because this week (granted its only Wednesday) I have cooked dinner every night this week. AND I used my crock pot twice! This may not be a very big feat for most people, but I've used my crock pot more this week than I have in my whole 2 years of marriage! LOL

a year of not-so-plenty

Earlier this summer I posted some pictures of my attempted garden. I thought it was a brilliant idea that my brother and mom gave me, and my mom and dad even helped me buy everything I needed to get started when they came out this spring. So I felt like at that point my porch garden was fool proof. How could I go wrong? I've learned from the experts here!

Well, apparently there is more to it. I'm not sure where I went wrong. Did I over water? Did I under water? I'm not so sure to be honest with you. But what I can tell you..... is my little garden did not produce. I started it out with a flower basket, 2 zucchini, 2 cucumbers, beans, peas, and a tomato plant. Shortly after planted I lost both cucumbers, all my flowers and my peas. My zucchini and tomato plant seemed to have been doing pretty good and looked they had the potential of bringing us some delicious veggies. Not so much.

However, I did get 1 tomato!!! That's it.... I think they went a couple days with out water and now there is no hope of bringing them back. I've tried.... they're gone. Its a shame... I don't know what I did or didn't do. I haven't quite decided if I want to try again next year, or if it will just lower my confidence. Or maybe by then I will have forgotten how hard it was to make my little garden grow.