John Deere Kitchen

Last weekend we finally moved into our house...yeah! My parents and sister Jill came to help, and I am really glad they did. Well we are moved in, but not unpacked. I am slowly getting things put together. My kitchen is pretty much all done, we even got my decorations up. I think it turned out really good!!

Red Neck Armor

This post is not going to make a lot of sense to most of you, but this to all Dave's Friends. Kyle's version of Red Neck Bullet Proofing.

Third Times the Charm... really?

Okay so I know you probably won't believe me, but I have been hit by deer 3 times in my pickup. I mean deer have run into me.... not me running into them, no joke! Today while I was parked at work, a deer jumped a fence into the parking lot landing on my pickup. Here is the damage....





Well on the lighter note... after a couple hangups on our loan for the house, we finally got an accepted loan. We hope to sign closing Tuesday or Wednesday, so by next weekend we hope to be moving.... Yah!!!

When it rains it pours....

Our offer on a home was accepted!! Well I can't believe we are finally going to be homeowners. It just seemed like everything fell into place, but I think I might be crazy. I now have to try get everything together on the loan and closing, packing and preparing to move. Not too mention that it is my busiest few months at work... working long hours and weekends. We are excited... we will keep you updated and get some pictures soon.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Well Christmas and New Years have both come and gone... way to fast. I am really bad at taking pictures, didn't take any during the holidays, but we had an enjoyable long holiday. I had off 11 days from work... Christmas Eve and will return finally on Monday. It was a nice break. We spent Christmas Eve with Dave's Family, Christmas Day at home, and after the weekend after Christmas with my family. Here are a few random pictures:

I had my hair cut yesterday, adding some layers... I guess it is a new look for the New Year!


This is a really old sheep herders cabin Dave took me to one day I was off. It was fun to see. The windows were cut by hand with an ax.

This is the quilt I made Dave's friend, Kyle, for Christmas! We gave it to him early, and he is getting a lot of good use out of it.

Brrr!

Check out this icicle Dave took off of our house. Well it has been really cold... below zero temperatures here in town. Brrr!

Well it has been a long time since I have posted well... it is starting to look like Christmas. We went and cut our tree. Here is the finished product.
We spent Thansgiving... like the Pilgrims. Dave and I went camping. It was kind of nice to do something different. It was cold and even snowed a bit one day, but we stayed roasty toasty in our nice tent with wood stove! It was also a very productive weekend stocking up on wood for the winter. That hard work is paying off now because that wood stove is feeling really cold with these super cold temperatures.

Our Thanksgiving camp... we spent most of our time playing cards in the tent staying warm by the stove.
We used our ATV trailer to fill up with oak... we are cutting down trees that burned in a fire a couple years ago.
Check out this dirty working face... I seem to get the black from the burned parts all over me. I do the loading and stacking so I handle all of it I guess that is why get so dirty!

Finally an Update!!

So I know I am a big blog slacker, but here is quite a few pictures of what we have done over the past month or so.....

We went up to Enteprise Reservoir, with some friends. The reservoirs were pretty much empty because they have been doing dam repair, but we walked through the tunnel while we were there.

Me taking a self portrait in front of the tunnel.
Dave found this little toad on the rocks, while we were going through the tunnel. Me at the far end taking a picture back at Dave on the other end of the tunnel.

I tried coupon shopping... I did pretty well all of this plus a few other freezer/fridge items and some duplicate items not in the picture only $35.

We webt to the David Allen Coe concert in St. George.

Over Labor Day weekend we went camping, and did some geocaching with Dave's brother and sister-in-law.
This old cellar was kind of neat looking, and close to the above geocache box.

And finally with the end of summer, and the beginning of fall we have been getting ready for the deer hunt. It is nine days, and I will have the time off work. We decided to buy a new tent... we set it up on our front lawn to finish the waterproofing process. If it is cold this deer season we should be just toasty with our wood stove.

The tent stove, we got for free from a friend, who can beat that!

I is kind of like a teepee, but this is one of the smaller tents we could find that had a stove jack. However Dave really wanted this one because it can be setup by one person in about 5 minutes. That is pretty good for a canvas tent. Well only two more weekends tell the opening day. Happy Fall!