The Usness

5/27/09

dnekeew dellif nuf

(my fish face was best)

This week is already almost half way over and I'm just getting started...I have so much homework to catch up on so words will come later :)

Enjoy all the lots of tonz of pictures! :)

(captions courtesy of scott)

breakfast the first day

some of my family phone call pics... there were more like a great shot of dan's feet, and cassie's ear, but I guess they aren't here for me to caption.

so it all started when we went on a stationary road trip. First Cassie took a funny picture of my face, then I took one of her, and so EVERYONE got to make funny faces. And then fish faces. And then I tried to touch my nose with my tongue.

Ah, dinner at cafe rio. It was good. All the guys got a burrito, all the girls got a salad, and I finished off everyones leftovers. Dan helped some with Sarah's I guess, but it was pretty much me (hence all the platers.)

Some pictures as we drove into the strip.

Fremont Ave. I think I may have enjoyed it more than everyone else, and it wasn't that great in my opinion. Umm, it was exciting because a drunk guy fell over a police barricade, and as he fell onto me his butt crack rubbed down my leg. For serious. You should all be glad there isn't a picture of that. Oh, I was wearing shorts. I like soap.

Pretty flower stuff from inside the bellagio.

In my defense, that was the third group pic in a row, I figured the first two were good...

A frog made of flowers. Yep.

The fountains/music thing. It was romantic, and would have been even more so if there hadn't been hundreds of other people. That's Sarah and Larin getting cozy in the background.

Moving floors are fun. It turns out that the railing moved slower than the floor, as demonstrated by Dan.

Another picture of Vegas. I mean, we were in France too! didn't you all know?

A cockroach. Instead of admiring it's remarkable resilience, we killed it and took it's picture.

We made an amazing mess of potatoes, onions, mushrooms, sausage, and eggs. We also had fresh tomatoes on top. It was sooooo good. We all helped make it and it was fun.

Speed scrabble.

In a pickle.

These cards tell a story. There was danger in the soul of a cat. It ended up in lunch eaten by a movie star. Someone stuffed the movie star in a sofa, which ended up in a whale. The whale, contents included, ended up in stuffing, in a trunk. My advice is don't eat the stuffing.

Turtle cream pie. Each piece contained more than 50% of our daily saturated fat.

We tried licking our elbows. I was worse at that than at licking my nose.

We went to Larin's house to watch a movie, and Cassie and I rode on the love sack in the back of his truck. Heh, and we got followed by a cop for a while and Larin's drivers license wasn't with him...

I was trying to blind Sarah and Emily, but they closed their eyes.

Breakfast on Monday.

Lunch on Monday was obviously in and out. It was good.

Larin and Sarah are weak, half a burger each.

So... I ate their fries. Stay tuned for awesome videos, including me doing ketchup shots.

5/26/09

noisulcnoc

What happens in Vegas...

stays

Vegas

5/22/09

.P.I.R

The birds are dead (quiet rejoicing...). Our land lord tried to get them out of the bathroom vent last week to no avail so he ended up putting the vent back on and duct taping the hole shut. Scott and I weren't sure if he had gotten the birds out. We decided that we would find out if we end up having a weird stentch coming from the bathroom vent...which does now exist. I am interested to see how bad it gets once we come back from our break. Today I was outside with my friend swinging on the porch swing when the baby birds mother came over to the bathroom vent. She landed on the grass and looked up at the vent and then over at us and up at the vent and over at us. My friend was sure getting a kick out of me as I kept telling the bird not to look at me and that it wasn't my fault that her babies are dead, I'm not the one that had the bright idea of putting a NEST in a BATHROOM VENT! Anyways, the birds are dead and we are going to Vegas! Not to rejoice, but to have a fun break :) We are going with Dan and Emily to see Sarah and her special friend :) Yay for happy times of life! Scott has never been to Vegas, Dan served his mission in Vegas, I lived in Vegas for a total of 8 months (not in a row) and Emily has been to visit Sarah before. We are bound to have some super exciting times, come back for more detials Tuesday! :)

5/11/09

sdrib ysion

I tried to get a video of this yesterday and failed. Today they were being louder than they have been in the past so I got it documented for posterity and blog sake :)

It's funny what happens after you blog about something. Yesterday I wanted the baby birds to be noisy so I could get a video and now they are listening to me. A day late and I don't wanna hear it every five minutes! I just want them to go away and learn to fly...

5/10/09

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.