Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Brandon works...Michelle holds a cardboard sign!!!


Brandon works 6 days a week while I hold a cardboard sign...MEANING I AM A BUM!!!! I look for jobs constantly but other than that I cook, bake, and do all of my crafts! I did finally find a job so we will see how that goes, I train this weekend...I'm officially working for Vector, selling Cutco Cutlery!!!! I am so excited to do my little presentations! I know...you can call my knife geek, but I won't mind! I will post more about it later!

For now, I'm just going to update you on what's been going on!

This first picture is a picture of the boys...they don't miss a beat, they went right back to old times, getting cozy together! How cute are they!?!

This next one is a random recipe I found online...COOKIE DOUGH BROWNIES! Who would have thought?!?! So you make your favorite brownies, whatever recipe you like best, I use my Aunt Lin's recipe (IT"S THE BEST)!!!! Then make a simple cookie dough, then a chocolate sauce.
COOKIE DOUGH
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
GLAZE
1 cup semi-sweet choc chips
1tbsp canola oil
melt together in micorwave
Make brownies, cool brownies commpletely. Then spread the cookie dough on top of the cooled brownies, then spread the warmed chocolate sauce covering the cookie dough. Place in freezer until frozen, tastes much better as a bar then as a gooey thing that falls apart! Enjoy!

If you haven't seen my previous posts, you must look at the snow in Denver...we thought that the snow would be long gone by the time we got here, but we experienced a nice little blizzard already and then it decided to snow again :( Here are just a couple pics below to prove that I wasn't making it up!!!!
This is the night it started snowing late in the evening....



This is the very next morning...I don't know if you can tell, but we had about 6inches!!!



There is more to come...I made some jalapeno poppers...that will be the next post!!!


Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Result of Brandon's Unibrow


So, last night I went to go plug in the wax warmer so that I could wax Brandon's unibrow...however, the box was sealed shut...dun dun dun...after struggling for a minute we finally got it open and realized that the wax spilled all over the entire box (result of moving and not sealing the wax container lol), the warmer, the lotions, etc. It was piled on the bottom of the box and caked up on the warmer like you would not believe!!! I didn't think to take pics of it at first because I just thought I would throw it away, but my husband corrected me and said that we were going to clean it no matter what, we are not buying another waxing kit anytime soon. Therfore I had to clean it. I tried to clean up some of it last night but I finally realized it was going to be a big process and that I'd wait for the morning. So I waited for the morning!!! After Brandon left for work this morning, I decided I would try to accomplish this task. Knowing that this would be a long process, I decided to put a movie in to watch to keep me somewhat entertained... then I got out the fingernail polish remover, cottonballs, and wax paper then away I went. The movie was over and I had already gone through a half bag of cottonballs and a whole bottle of polish remover.

Decided to take a break ( AFTER 3 HOURS of trying to accomplish this task)...went to the store, grabbed more fingernail polish remover(just in case), bottle of pure acetone (figured it would probably work a lot better being 100% acetone), more cottonballs and LOTION! After having acetone on your hands all day, you are bound to need lots of lotion!

Back to our place I went...Kandis called me on my way home and offered to come and assisst me. I don't know if she thought it would be fun or what, but if I were her, I probably would have run the other way. However, Kandis is a lot more considerate than I am and was at my door before I was. She must have been excited! It only took us an hour to finish it. It's all about the team work!!! So below are just a few pics, Kandis and I probably had more fun with it than our pictures show, but it was definitely a once in a lifetime experience. I encourage everybody to try this the first opportunity they get!

This first picture you see was right after I had cleaned up the wax that I "purposely " poured down the drain. I was so focused on cleaning up the wax that I didn't pay attention to the fact that I had the wax container in the sink when I went to wash my hands. Therefore, water got mixed in with the wax...earlier I had done the same thing, but the wax was cold then...this time I forgot that I had warmed up the wax to make it thinner so it would be easier to clean...Resulting in was all over the sink and down the drain OOPS.



I didn't think to take pictures until we were 3/4 of the way done...I apologize, so let me try to explain to you what it looked like. The pink wax you see was caked on this entire wax warmer, about an inch thick. Try to clean up that much wax, we had to take it apart to be able to get all of the wax that drained inside out of there for it to work properly...I think smart people would have bought a new one, so obviously I am not the smartest lol, I just want to save money!!!!








The finished product! Looks better than new!!! We are professionals, we think we should go on the Martha Stewart show to share nationwide, the secrets of cleaning up your waxing kits. I'm sure everybody would appreciate these helpful hints. So I am officially copywriting this page so that nobody can steal our ideas lol
Now you know why this is called the result of Brandon's unibrow...because if he didn't need his unibrow waxed, then I wouldn't have had to get the waxing kit out, therefore I wouldn't have known that this wax and spilt everywhere....However, if I were getting it out for my use, I probably would have called it "The Results of Michelle's hairy legs" hehe jk

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Denver Temple


First time to the Denver Temple! It was so nice to be able to attend the temple again! It was so spiritual! I enjoyed it very much...prayer is never-ending, you must say your prayers throughout the entire day, every day, it's the only way to strengthen our relationship with our Heavenly Father! Not only do we need to pray, but we need to pray with faith!!! I am so grateful for always being able to have a temple so close to us, no matter where we have lived, it's always been so close and yes, sometimes we take advantage of that, but you quickly learn how great it is to have the temple near to us no matter where we are, even when on vaca! I think that's the best time to go to the temple...what better way to celebrate time with your family then at the temple then on vacation when everybody gets together!!!



The crew at the Denver Colorado Temple for the first time!


They think they're missionaries again (notice their Elder's tags) SHHH don't tell em'

Last Week in Oregon...


Brandon's 23rd birthday! He got to celebrate twice! Once at home with all of our families where I got to make my first ice cream cake! It was absolutely deliciuos!!! Shaped as a heart too hehe!!! This is also where he got his tractors lol He was watching youtube videos and wanted these tractors to build his own little town like he saw others do online lol. So his wish came true hehe!!!! Then he got to celebrate again at the dunes that weekend!!!! That's what he does every birthday because it always falls on or around April General Conference...lucky him!!!

Went the entire dune trip and though that we'd be fine...of course we jinxed ourselves...after airing up getting ready to leave, the last of the trucks gets stuck...it took the two front trucks to get the thrid truck and trailer out of there!!! It was a fun conference dune trip though!!!





The Bopsie Twins! We bought the same shirts !!! They are cute, we know!!!! Got pedicures and went out to one last dinner with all of our families!!!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Another Heading!!!!


Just to let you know! I made this heading! My second one so far! I feel pretty good about myself right now hehe If you read my previous blog about the other header I made, then you know why, if not, then you better go back and research on my blog!!! It's quite fun. I'll tell you again how to do it...scrapblog.com Create new, blank page, then upload pics, pick out stamps, frames, etc. Then save and publish it. Then go to file...export it to save it to your computer, then go to your layout on blog and just upload it into where you would normally put a header picture. That's it!!! Simple! Have fun, let me know when you make your own so I can take a peek!!!

Monday, April 20, 2009

April Showers bring May Flowers?!?!?!


First day in Colorado...cloudy :(
We were told that we probably wouldn't have another cloudy day the entire month. The second day...cloudy...apparently we brought the bad weather with us. We only had a couple days that were decent....it was cloudy, sunny, cloudy, freezing cold, then a SNOW STORM!!!!



A few pics to show the beginning and middle of the snow storm...sorry I didn't take the ending pics of the storm

















I didn't want to sit at home all day, so I made everone go play badminton at the tennis courts in the snow! Only one downside to that...we thought the snow would be long gone, so we left our snow clothes at home, so we wore jeans and sweatshirts! It is one thing that I highly recommend doing at least once in a lifetime!
My cheer when my team would score a point! hehe

























Ice would pile up on the bottom of your shoes, it was almost liek you were wearing high heels when you walked!
The team players of the new sport...SNOW BADMINTON!!!!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Mario's 23rd Birthday!!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIO!!!
Mario excitd to be an old man!
Preparing to spank someone 23 times jk....

Mario decided he wanted to light the chapstick for an extra candle for some reason!


Mario's birthday crew!



We are grateful for Joanna and Ken for giving birth to their son, Mario! We were excited to be able to celebrate a birthday! I made mole, rice, beans and salsa for dinner. Then I made a lemon cake for Mario, so he feels some what at home. Then of course we got him a few presents too...the most important gift he received was a nerf gun so he can join us in our dart gun wars!!! We hope you had a wonderful birthday Mario! We are excited for this summer!

Brandon's First Day w/ People in Denver


Brandon's first day of work selling security systems in Denver! Sounded like he had a great time...door to door all over again...you think he would have had enough of that over the 2 years he was in England. But I guess he misses it, so he wants to make people safe hehe

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter Sunday!!!



Had a sleepover last night (due to some ppl getting to town too late to get keys to their apartments hehe), ate breakfast, wrote in journal, went to church, ate lunch, took Easter pics, played games, went to Uncle Stephen's for Easter dinner. We had delicious dinner!!!! Celebrated Carston's 2nd birthday!!! It was so adorable!!! He is just so cute and I'm so sad I didn't take my camera with me to show you just how adorable he is, but I will post some eventually this summer!!! He had an Elmo cake that Aunt Nicole made (professional) and Ashley made a pinata that he couldn't even put a dent in lol!!! Then we watched Bedtime Stories, it was a pretty cute movie, definitely worth watching at least once!!! Then made the Easter phone calls this evening, called all of my family!!! I miss everyone so much!!! I can't believe how much I miss everyone, no offense, but I didn't think I would miss everyone this much!!! It's like we are always told...we don't realize how much we miss something until we don't have it anymore... We love and miss y'all!!! Can't wait to see you again!!!

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Colorado!!!


We finally are off on our new adventure! We left on Tuesday, the 7th, to head to Centerville, UT to stay with Brandt and Kelli!!!  (BTW, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING US STAY WITH YOU!!!) We stayed there Tues. and Wed. night, then left to Denver on Thursday! We are now here staying with Brandon's Uncle Stephen until we can move into our place tomorrow evening! We are having a great time seeing all of his family, we just don't enjoy the looooooong drive, but thanks to my wonderful man, he drove all the way from grants pass to centerville and centerville to denver minus about three hours!!! It's fabulous when you just get to relax, sleep, etc. 

Oh and Brandon totally made fun of me, but I thought it was sweet...when we first get off the freeway in aurora (right outside denver) we saw like a thousand prairie dogs in this dirt field! It was pretty sweet I thought, but I guess I have a lot to see in this world, if I think that is sweet, I wonder what I'll think when I see dolphins in the ocean lol 

Friday, April 3, 2009

Who LOVES Surprises?!?!?!?!


The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice--for you! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations...
1.) I make NO guarantees that you will LIKE what I make! (I can only hope)...
2.) What I create will be just for you.
3.) It WILL be done this year.
4.) You have no CLUE what it’s going to be … it may be cards, something delicious or a complete surprise to you (and me!) … who knows?
5.) Most importantly, you MUST offer the same deal on your blog - the first 5 people to comment on your blog get something made by YOU!
I am excited to start, so leave comments!!!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Card Making









Laura got me into this and I absolutely love it! You can make some cute stuff...I'm still in my early stages, I'll get better!!!

Auntie Bell...


The girls get antzy being in the car for ten minutes. They have never been on a long raod trip before. Aidyn slept all of about 20minutes on our way up there. The whole time I heard, "Are we there yet?" "When are we gonna see Nana?" "When do we get to see the doggies?" "I wanna go to McDonalds" You learn to ignore her after so long.




Multnomah Falls, Ashlyn hates being dirty as you will later find out, she was disgusted at how dirty her hands were after holding onto the rail lol.





On the road...jolly ranchers, Ashlyn's "tinky" (stinky) toes and Mickey D's.






At the mall!!!

This picture is for you Deanne!!!



The 5 of us got manicures!!! You can't tell but Aidyn has wax on her hands, it makes your hands so soft! She thought is was so neat, while Ashlyn thought it was disgusting and wouldn't touch it...SHE'S A CLEAN FREAK!!!


Making pendants for necklaces!!! Thanks to a very amazing person who taught me how!!!





I did my mom's hair!!! Cut about a foot off it and colored it. I can't believe she let me do her hair, but she has had a million compliments on it and is so glad she got her hair done by a non-professional!!! (Sorry these pics were late at night cuz that's the only chance we had to do it. She's a cutie though, I promise!!!)




"Auntie Bell, look it...Aidyn kissed my hand hehehehe"