Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year girls!

Is anyone going out to do anything fun & exciting? We'll be staying home as always. "First Night" just ins't for me!

Aquatica - coming Spring 2008

This place looks awesome. It's like Sea World meets Wet-n-Wild.
I totally want to go! Anyone want to come with?

AquaticaBySeaWold
The website loads very SSLLOOOOOWWWWWly.

Indian Food

Love the tips girls. Ang you said to grind up the Cardamoms, what about using Cardamom powder? My recipe calls for both and I was wondering if I could just use more cardamom powder in leu of the seeds. And Heat please send me your Tikki recipe I would like to compare it to the one I found on line. I basically found the one that took a lot of spices with quit a bit of prep work and figured It was probably a good one. Im pretty clueless! Thanks All!

Fat and Happy

Unfortunately I am not the one that is fat AND happy, but my little guy sure is. So how many of you gals are ready for Christmas? I mean in the commercialized sense. Husbands are so hard to shop for. This year I decided I would give of myself and learn how to cook India food, So I am buying all the spices and am going to cook Chicken Tikka Masala One of Chad favorite dishes. Wish me luck or if any of you have tips I would greatly appreciate them. What is everyone else doing for the Christmas break. I'd love to get together with whoever is in St. G.

Tony's Grove

I had to cheat to0 by posting a picture from summer time. Tony's Grove is a small lake a ways up the canyon. It was beautiful. The water was surprisingly warm! I don't know how it could possibly be that warm, but it was. We also saw a bald eagle soaring above us. We will be going there again for sure.

Home sweet home

This is the home that we live in right now. We rent it from Chris. Mark (Matt's brother)and Alli also live here. They live in the apartment in the basement. They are awesome and we will miss living close by. The house is really close to campus.

Happy

First of all I would like to say how COOL life here in Logan. We have been so happy here in every aspect of our lives. Work, school, building, family, romance, branch, and home. After a week of living here I just felt like this was the place meant for us. I'm even skinnier than I have ever been since I married Matt. What I should post a picture of is me looking outrageously happy! but for now I will post a picture of the home we are building in Richmond. We just got our windows put in two nights ago. It was freaking cold too.

on your marks..

here are some triathlons in utah we could do:

a short course in logan on april 12

a short course in st. g on april 19

a women's only tri in bountiful on may 17

these are really short, easy races that any of you could finish. if you think you need a little extra help then you can read this book.

of course, the whole point of me doing triathlons is to change the body i have now.

i didn't list the st. g triathlon because i don't really like it and it costs a billion dollars. it also lost a lot of coolness since jared sold it.

if you don't want to do a whole triathlon we could do a relay team or find some running race. i also loved the cache valley tri at the end of the summer. but i was looking for a quicker deadline.

let me know if you are on board or if you have a different suggestion.

my bad

so i kinda dropped the ball on the photo a day gig. i guess i just don't get out much. and when i do i forget the camera. or if i have the camera i don't take the time to pull over and snap a picture. because kids are ticking time bombs without an accurate count-down. one second you're browsing the frozen food aisle and the next it's WWIII. you abort mission and drive directly home (not stopping to take photos) screaming, "i'm taking back all your Christmas presents!"
i owe you a couple of pictures so i plan on surprising you at my convenience.
who's turn is it now?

Holy Family

we got to hang out in a barn with a donkey while people stared and took pictures of us. it was cool. more about this on our family blog.

cheating

sorry for the lack of picture yesterday. i forgot to take the camera with me when i went out. today is so dreary. everything is grey. so i'm going to post pictures of things around here that we like. like maple canyon (easy climbing):

this was a year ago. i was skinny. now i'm 80% fat and lazy. so...how does a fitness goal sound? anyone want to help motivate me by getting in shape together? we could each sign up for a triathlon/marathon/5k/whatever in our home towns or we could meet and do the same race together. any takers?

Looking for the right Christmas gift?

no, you can't have my boys... i just figured out the picture thing, but i'm not sure about the layout, so they're staying here where they are, i don't want to push my luck.

so, i'm on a roll. two posts in less than two days. awesome. angie, this is dedicated to you particularly. these auctions have ended, which i'm sure you'll be sorely disappointed about. but scroll down so that you can read the original description. anyone that served a mission to latin speaking countries (or have ever made friends with a mexican) will particularly enjoy the first selection
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280174052632&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D280174052632%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1
or
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280174046998&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D280174046998%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1
or even
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280174040130&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D280174040130%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1

and i figured out how to post pics, so even though it has nothing to do with the blog topic, here is my lincoln and sam. lincoln wanted to be curious george for halloween, but then he decided it was a gorilla, which you see pictured here. if you look hard enough you can see remnants of my double chin i attempted to crop out.

holy crap i finally got into the blog

and ye-ha. so, for months i have been reading all about your lives and feeling 1. like my friends are super cool and 2. a little snakey-predatorish secretly reading your blog without you really knowing it. you may be thinking, 'i thought sarah worked at ibm for 5 years' and to that i say you're right. but it still took me a year to figure out how to blog. so anyhooters, i'm attaching a pic of my boys and just wanted to say love you all and i'm excited to be a bonafied member of your club.
-- actually i can't attach a pic (shocker). maybe next time. just saying hello.

front yard views

we love where we live. not slc. not provo. but easy access to both. american fork canyon is just up the road. there is close climbing. we get ski passes every year. and i love that our neighborhood/ward (same thing) is very defined. it makes it easier to get to know people.

when we first moved here 4 years ago (our house is about 9 years old) there were 40 kids in nursery. stella is in nursery now. i think there are 3 different classes. i love that there are so many kids. every day of summer and on snow days there are kids everywhere.

but we are thinking of selling because we are out-growing our house and now is a good time to sell. i always liked change but now i'm lazy. i like our neighbors--i even know most of their names. i just have to tell myself that utah is probably filled with neighborhoods of good people like ours. there are lots of pretty places we would love to live--like idaho, montana, colorado--but we don't want to live far away from both our families. flying with kids is a pain and very expensive. so we have to be in driving distance to at least one side.

I'm confused

I realized I don't know everybody on this blog. I know Katie, Angie, Heather, Danika.
Who else is there? Everyone is disguised.

Lehi 1

the view from my back window. looking west. utah lake is to the left, point of the mountain is north.

last one from St. Looey - Logan University

Since Logan is the whole reason we're in St. Louis, I decided to post a pic. The campus is huge, and really pretty (except at this time of year) with acres and acres of trees and lakes. The school part is pretty small though, with fewer buildings than Dixie and only about 2,000 students (20% are LDS, I've heard). I'm on campus a couple times a week either going to the fitness center or to the clinic, but since there are so few students, it seems like I know everyone. Tye and I are SOOOOOO super excited that we only have 9 more months here--we can't wait to move on to the next chapter in our lives (in which we hope to actually get a paycheck!)