esuoh wolley eht ta gnirps

What would you guess this little beauty is?

it is the inside of our bathroom vent...A.K.A...the home of some loud little baby birds. 

These birds have been living "with us" since March. We didn't think much of it at the time and weren't to bothered by it. But, it got put on a little list of things to tell our landlord during the past week. 

The photo below is of the birds mother...at least I think. As I was taking the pictures of the vent the bird was making a ruckus and I was a little afraid to get close to it. It seemed a little upset. haha.

On the bright side, we have a great little noisy reminder right in our bathroom vent that it is spring outside. This is nice since we live in a cave and sometimes forget that it is no longer winter...although, it seems like Rexburg forgets that too at times so we don't feel too bad about it.

Thank goodness for the internet. Without it I think my dear husband would never have seen these beautiful flowers that bloomed outside of our house. He may someday pay enough attention to see them when he is right next to them but until then he can see it right here on our blog :) haha. Aren't they pretty? They even match the house!

One of the other things on our 'landlord list' was our non-functioning lawnmower. Our landlord was nice enough to come this week and mow and he even pruned the fruit trees :) It's so pretty now :)...except for the dead spots...

Speaking of outside, Scott and I have got our seed supply mostly ready to plant our garden in the next month-ish. We might wait until after the "June frost" to plant...that or when we have time...

I have gotten addicted to these amazing coupon-ing blogs and for the last couple of weeks I have been watching these people post about how much money they saved and where the deals are. So this week was my first personal experience with it. I had printed some Kellogg's coupons and we went to Winco yesterday and got 10 boxes of cereal (2 of each pictured below) for $4.50 total! Isn't that AMAZING?! I sure thought so.

This beautiful FAUCET (not sink as I have been calling it for the past two days) was put in by our landlord on Friday. It has been so nice to use both sides of the sink! We had noticed a few months ago that the right side had a leak so we just stopped using it. I was getting sick of the nasty smell though so I finally called to let them know about it and the rest of the above items. They came that same night to see the sink problem and it was actually the first time we met our landlords. haha. Scott has been living here for almost nine months and I have been living here eight so we thought it was funny that this was the first time we had met them.

We have started having dinner with our friends, the Frongner's, every week. It will be so nice to see them more regularly and share good food :) This week it was at our house and before dinner the guys were enjoying watching Dan finish up a game he and Scott had been playing on their 'day off' from school (they have no classes on Tuesday and Thursday so they sometimes get to play together like the old days 'before Cassie'). Scott really enjoyed playing with Isaac, he is such a smiley baby! Always so happy. It was so fun having them over! We are so lucky to have such great friends sooo close to us.

So this picture is a little old but I was curious if anyone could guess what kind of restaurant we were eating at...what's your guess?

Here is an example of my "overachieving" as my brother, Timmy, would say. A few days before classes started I got a ton of books to read. I learned the hard way that it is so much smarter to just rent the whole series of a book so you don't have to wait for 'the next one' to be checked back in to the library. So I went ahead and got five different whole series to read in two days. haha. I did come to my senses but Scott and I sure got a chuckle out of my not-thinking-it-through experience.

Isn't my husband's shadow cool? He has like NO chin! I love it! :)

Well, have a happy week everyone! Sorry it's been so long since you got a real update. I will try to do better :) 

Happy Spring!

tsop laer

This is a real post. 

With real words.

Not much to talk about though...

We are both taking classes now...

We are both working...

We are both alive...

What do you wanna know?? :)

Oh, maybe you would be interested to know that Elder David A. Bednar presided over our sacrament meeting today. Yeah. That was pretty neat :)

Well...

Happy week everyone!

(yllaer) eltit a tsuj si siht

nedrag dna rehpargotohp suomaf, shtnom xis

What a great week we have had. Classes start up again tomorrow and go until July. We are looking forward to getting closer to graduating :). We are also lucky to still have Dan and Emily in town to play with during this amazing summer weather, hopefully some camping in the future, a family reunion in Vernal and getting to see Brooke and her family while we are there :) and HOPEFULLY a trip to Vegas or somewhere in between to visit long lost Sarah :) 

We went to get our books before everyone came back into town so we could get as many "used" books as possible. Even still my books cost a ton! I am going to be taking 6 classes, many of those being only 2 credit classes. For some reason though my 2 credit class teachers think we need many books to go over the material. So in the end I had to buy 11 books (hopefully no more are added to the list when classes actually start) totaling a whopping $650. Ugh. Scott, on the other hand, only needed two books for his four classes. Lucky bug. My book load does get me a little worried about what the future entails...

I, the WIFE of a mechanical engineering major, put together this beautiful desk for us. My family was nice enough to give it to us and we brought it back with us in peices. I put the puzzle together with many phone calls to my sister Tina and a little help from Emily with the keyboard tray. I was happy with myself and now our front room is even smaller. haha. So I have a desk for my TWO computers. haha. One PC and one Mac...instead of comparing the two different types of computers I just gave in and have both of them. They are both good computers, the mac gets no viruses (and will be used more) but the PC has pretty lights...

On Friday we celebrated our 6 month anniversary. It worked out well for us because it was right on our weekly date night day so we went ahead and celebrated. Otherwise I think we would have just realized it before going to bed, or even the next day. haha. So here are our 6 month anniversary day highlights:

Bajios for dinner :)

They even had one of my favorite drinks, Orange Bang! It tastes like orange cream-cicle. 

After dinner we went to the jewelry store close by and got my rings polished. They are so shiny now!

Then we went to DQ and got tasty blizzards!

Scott was too scared for his ice cream to try this, but my ice cream survived and was a blizzard through and through.

We also went on a bike ride that day. There is a picture of me ON my new bike further down :)

We also watched twilight :) It was longer than we had remembered but still very good (I think we were both just tired)

We also took Emily with us shopping to Winco for our monthly grocery trip. It is amazing how much money we save doing this one big shopping trip once a month and we really enjoy going together. 

Now for our famous photographers recent pictures...

Can you tell what this is?

What about this?

And this?? Yeah, I have no idea either...

Yesterday Scott did us a huge favor and tilled the garden. It's going to be a nicely sized one too :)

So this is Cassie and Pearly. Isn't she pretty? (the bike I mean) It's been so nice to get to go on bike rides together and it will sure help us during the semester! Saving money is fun, and biking is funner! It's a win win situation.

retsaE dna lanreV

Scott and I went to Vernal this past weekend to visit my family. We realized (with help from my sisters) that the weekend we were planning to come was actually Easter! What a happy surprise. Nothing like some good chocolate without having to pay for it ;) THANKS MOM AND DAD!

The easter bunny did a good job at hiding our candy this year...

He makes us 'work' for our sugar high :)

Scott even had to reach high, we used his height to our advantage many a time. :)

We also got to spend some time with our adorable nephew, Mayson. He loved playing  on this ball. Those are his feet after flipping over the top...

And this is his face after regaining his balance :) he thought he was pretty funny.

We girls had funny painting the easter eggs with Mayson. Ben even came to help a little later.

Meagan got really creative and speckled the eggs with a sponge and paint. She fits in our family so well like that.

Mayson was also a big fan of his mom using the paint. He took advantage of the paint she put on his plate.

Somehow Tina's hand was mistaken for an egg...

One evening we had everyone over for some hot dogs and good stuff. They turned on Tarzan for Mayson to watch and he got a huge kick out of it. He absolutley LOVES the part of the movie with baby Tarzan. He thought we were all laughing with him during that part but we were all laughing at him. This is him turning to me to "laugh with me."

Dad made us an amazing fire for our weiners...it was so amazing that you could get first degree burns standing any closer than those shown in this picture...haha.

Tim got pretty creative in his way of keeping the heat away so he could cook his food in comfort.

Ben was overwhelmed by the flash on my camera.

That night we played phase 10. 

The game started with seven of us...

And three of us endured to the end! haha. Everyone else either got sick of the game or was too tired to play.

As I packed up the last of my belonging that had accidently been left at home (I hope I really got it all) Scott and Ben and Hallie played with the lite brite. haha.

Aren't they amazing artists?!

We had so much fun and we are so blessed to have such great families! Yay for happy times.

swen laiceps

WE GOT A TABLE!!!!!! Scott and I both think it adds to the house and it now seems even more like a home :)

Scott thought it was important to document the tables first cleaning in it's new home. 

So here are the pictures from our homemade ice cream experience. MMMM, yummy. I think I might go have a bowl right after this...

This is my birthday "cake" (brownies) with the tasty vanilla custard. Mmmmmm.

My dear husband has really wanted to contribute more to our blog. I offered to let him write the next blog but I think he would rather just be our blogs unofficial photographer. I am sorry if anyone finds any of the following to be offensive...

Scott was proud of me for not killing this already dead spider that is in a web on our stairs. I will just let him be proud. (As I silently become ill as I look at this picture)

He was very proud of himself for giving me a 'tattoo.'

...maybe he wanted to document the fact that we actually clean? :s

or not...apparently someone who so likes taking pictures of the inside of garbage cans could care less to share the fact that his wife likes to have a clean house...since he likes to show everyone our trash.

evila llits era ew

Our camera batteries are having issues and I (Cassie) was waiting for the batteries to charge so I could put pictures up, but sadly yet truly the batteries are just dead. So I will update you...without pictures. How boring is that?!

We had a week full of work for both of us and school for Scott. He got feeling well enough to go to classes and got caught up before finals (which are this week). I pretty much just worked. I did get a day off on Friday and ran some errands and went to a baby shower for my friend Aly. It was fun to see her and play the baby shower games. For the weekend Scott and I were able to watch all the sessions of conference here in Rexburg. As much as we would have liked to go to Salt Lake and see some family, we did enjoy having a somewhat relaxing weekend without rushing here and there. We also made my birthday ice cream (homemade vanilla custard) and it was delicious. Scott keeps saying how great it turned out, even after being frozen. He was pretty proud of us.

So now we have some things to look forward to this week:

*Scott getting done with two more classes

*getting Cassie's bike (hopefully, cross your fingers!)

*getting a real table and chairs!

*Going to Vernal 

*Roasting s'mores and wieners

*eating Cadbury cream eggs

*seeing Mayson (our adorable nephew)...and everybody else

and last but not least...

*coming home to Emily and Dan :) (they will be staying with us from the 10th to around the 20th)

Yay for family!