still alive

The pressure...finally got to me. If you don't blog, you're boring, right? Also - tired of staring at our Twilight post every time I pull up our blog to see if anybody we care about has updated theirs. Sorry it's been a while if you like reading this kind of stuff. I guess if you consider blog posts about kids, which we obviously don't have, and recipes, which we really don't have either, then we post about as much as anybody else (actually, it probably ends up being a little more). Nothing too exciting to fill you in on at the moment. We're enjoying life and staying busy. Caren's still teaching, and I'm still dealing. Sounds narcotic, but it's not. = ) We've been on a couple of good vacations since the last post. Working hard to feed that beach addiction, ya know.? Maybe Caren can post a couple of pictures of that later since I don't know how. Between work, church, Lost, American Idol, Survivor, Grey's Anatomy, The Bachelor, eating out, sleeping, and some bow chica wow wow, we are happily married. I just used church and bow chica wow wow in the same sentence! That should make up for having a boring blog. Since the last post, we've had Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and the most important day ever - Groundhogs day. 29 feels older than it should, so I think it's time for a gym membership. It's nice to be around family in UT. It's really nice to fly to TX and see family that we're not around. Still feels like we're winging life and shooting from the hip so to speak. Wondering if any big changes are around the corner...we get an itch to switch things up a little about every six months (going on 8 now, so maybe we'll really have something to blog about soon). Yeap...

I WON!

Isn't winning something, no matter what it is the best! Well the other day on my way to work the radio was giving away tickets to go see NEW MOON, so I decided that I would call in. I've tried this a few times and usually call for a few minutes with nothing but a busy signal. This time on the second try it started ringing. I thought, "I'm probably caller three, that was fast". Then the guy answers and starts asking me my name and where I work and how I'm doing. I was thinking, no way, no way, no way. It's true though... I won 2 tickets to see New Moon! This is extra awesome because I was going to see it anyways, now we get to go for free. It looks so good, even Dustin wants to go see it!

Mike Tyson

Just thought I'd let everybody know that Caren tried to punch me for some lame joke while we were eating out at my favorite Peruvian restaurant last night. Somehow, she punched herself in the jaw and completely missed me. ha It reminded me of our second date where we decided to skip rocks across the water at Rock Canyon Park, and her first throw aimed at the water sailed the opposite direction skipping through the rocks behind us...I still don't know how that happened either. There are few things as hilarious as seeing somebody try to hit you and popping herself in the face, though. Luckily, she's tough enough to withstand her own strength - no injuries. I'll also let everybody know that she's the best wife a guy could wish for. I'm lucky to have such a happy, loving, and beautiful person in my life (who is talking really crazy in her sleep right this moment).

I LOVE COUPONS

This last month I have been collecting coupons because I have heard you can save a lot of money and get great deals (and because our tennants didn't cancel their paper for a few weeks after we moved in). My neighbor did a class that showed us how to organize and use all the coupons to get the best deals. I made my first trip today and I am SOLD on coupon shopping! I went to Smith's because they were having a big sale and I took my coupons. Aside from the one little glitch that I quickly fixed, it was super easy and I got 135 dollars of groceries for 29 BUCKS!!! In that purchase I got 8 bottles of Herbal Essence stuff (moouse, shampoo and conditioner) and each bottle cost me only 50 cents. Isn't that amazing! Here is a picture so you can appreciate how much I really got for $29.
P.S. I just got back from Walgreens where I got 10 candybars for FREE! This is seriously awesome! :)

Sister Sleepover

My little sis. came down this week to have a sleepover and hang out. We painted picture frames, watched the season finale of the Bachelorette (boo Ed), went to seven peaks and painted our nails. It was a really fun couple of days! Thanks for coming Bekah!

4th of July and Landscaping

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. It's got to be one of my favorite holidays with the parades, carnivals, bbq's, swimming and FIREWORKS! I LOVE fireworks. This year we went down to the parade and met up with Matt, Dani and their two kids. That made the parade so much better. Lexi kept pointing to all the royalty and saying "Look it's another princess in her castle". And everytime there was a marching band or loud music playing, Jax would start bustin' a move. So stinking cute! After the parade we headed to Dustin's store for a few hours. I decided I would go wave a sign around outside to get peoples attention and we ended up putting a monster sak on top of the van and I layed there, got a sun tan and wiggled the sign around a bit. Got lots of honks and hopefully some people will come back! There was a nice breeze that would cool me off occasionally. Then we closed up shop and went to a bbq at Roxanne's club house. It was really nice and they had an outdoor pool. We ate then went swimming with the kids. We then came home and took naps until Matt, Dani and the kids came to our place and we watched fireworks from our roof again. It was a gorgeous night until about 10 minutes before the fireworks started when it started raining. We had big blankets so we covered up and braved the rain to watch the fireworks (it wasn't raining too hard). Fun night with lots of great conversation! ha ha Sunday we went to Kaysville to celebrate my little sisters 17th birthday. We had a delicious dinner then played croquet and washers and just relaxed outside. I love the summer! Sorry I didn't take my camera.

In other summer news, I finally finished landscaping our front flowerbeds. What a project that turned out to be. My mom came down to help me plant everything and when we tried to dig a hole we hit nothing but rock. Long story short, two 8 hour days digging down a foot of rock and clay, 1 8 hour day putting good dirt back in and planting everything and now I can just go sit and enjoy it! Thanks Jim and Mom for all the help in getting it ready! Here are the pics.
Digging out the bad dirt. Yeah, all those rocks came out of the flower garden.This was one of the biggest boulders we pulled out! And the finished product. Everything is really small this year put it will all come up again next year. Also, there are bulbs that are just starting to pop through and we planted ivy to cover the tall gray part of the house and the stairs. I'm so excited to watch everything grow!

Oh and all the rocks in the flower garden are rocks we pulled out of the garden.
Hope you're having a great summer!

Welcome to the World!

This week we had two new additions to our family! Dustin's sister Rachel had their twins this week. A little girl, Zoey Ann and a little boy Zachary Cole. (I LOVE their names!) They are two months early and are just over 3 lbs each but they are doing good. I can't wait to meet them! Congrats Rachel and Brandon!