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So I have been doing such a good job being  a little wife...up until yesterday. What makes this so depressing is that yesterday was our one month anniversary (which Scott pointed out to me after church Sunday! Good job Scott! Way to set a high standard for yourself ;) ) So my day went along very slowly and I got home with enough time to clean and cook dinner before Scott got home at 7pm. Problem is, I got so caught up in the cleaning that I lost track of time :( as I was finishing up the last of it, my amazing husband (whom I had not seen all day) walked in the door. He was good enough to notice the nice smell of cleaning supplies and was very patient with my not having dinner ready. This was the first time since we had gotten married that I had not got dinner on the table within 5 minutes of him being home. BUT, we did survive. I was able to pull together a chicken nacho kind of thing-a-ma-gig. It was so nice to be with Scott and have a clean house. I am so lucky to have such a great man in my life. Horray! 

So, as the title suggestes, I FIGURED IT OUT! I had the hardest time deciding what I wanted to make for dinner yesterday because I made it so late. I wanted something filling and fast. All the things I could think of call for lots of time and attention.  So from now on I will use the lovely crockpot of life. Our little crockpot deserves a name...he will save lives. (mainly Scott's)

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Cassie has been racking her brain, trying to decide a creative way to inform you all of our excitable life. So by a fluke she came up with a real tricky way :) first you must understand that she was really bummed after putting all the pictures of this blog in backwards order. The idea of putting them in the right order made her head hurt. So Cassie realized how creative she could be :) Everything will be backwards! Now you can read the title of the blog and understand that it actually says "backwards date info" hehe. Cool huh?! Sorry for those of you who thought it was Portuguese, no, it is so much more excitable than that. So now I will tell you all about our fun and excitable date, "letting the last be the first and the first be the last..."

We ended our amazing date at our Stake Conference. We are very lucky to be able to attend church in the stake center next to the Rexburg Temple. We are very truly blessed! How many people in the world don't even have a temple in their city? We are so grateful for this privilege. This meeting was especially neat for Cassie, since her Area President and his wife (Elder and Sister Arnold) were the visiting members of the 70. This was very special because it is th fourth time that they have spoken at important times in Cassie's life. She first heard them in the Brazil MTC, then again in the field (during her first and most important area). The next time was when she returned to BYU-Idaho they spoke at a devotional on campus. Now this special first stake conference that Cassie and Scott attended as a married couple. 

Before heading back to Rexburg Cassie and Scott went to Target to look at desks, get printer ink, look at shavers and get their free smoothies from the Target Cafe. They got these tasty treats because they registered at Target for their wedding :)
Then we were also able to hit up Petco to check out the animals (mostly the snakes). These cute little birds were so fun to watch. The one on the left has the coolest hair/head feathers EVER! We also saw: a corn snake, pythons, a baby boa constrictor, lots of lizards, dry land and swimming turtles, hermit crabs, frogs, fish, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, mice and lots of various birds. Pet stores are so fun!
After lunch we ended up behind a person that had a big expensive muffler that was tied onto their car with BAILING TWINE! HAHAHAHA. We thought it was pretty much awesome :) Betsy (Scott's car) will suit us fine though. No need for us to trade her in for this beauty above. 
2 big bowls of tasty Olive Garden salad (Cassie did help with this, but Scott ate way more for sure). He also had a lot of breadsticks. It was so worth the wait and just really super tasty! (THANKS JOHN!)
We found out that the special at Olive Garden during lunch time is a $6.50 deal for all the soup, salad and breadsticks you can eat. What a deal when you are feeding a hungry Scott boy! He got to have four bowls of soup and...
Scott and Cassie have set the goal to have a weekly date. This week we had it on Saturday so we could fill it with lots of excitement. We started out with lunch at the Olive Garden. John gave us a gift card so we are going to use it and abuse it until we run it out. (this is a picture of the pager they give you as you wait for a seat)

I am now legal and legit! :) I am a resident of Idaho with my very own Idaho Driver's license, yes, it DOES say KINGHORN, Cassandra Lynn :) haha. My new name is so cool and long, sometimes it barely fits on the cards or papers or places I have to sign. haha. So fun! My I-Card is also behind my driver's license, isn't it funny how different I look? I am all growed up :) That actually has nothing to do with our date, but it excitable so I wanted to 'start' out with this :)

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Only SIX of Scott's quirks, written by Cassie

1. Inside out-ness of shirts. 

So the first time we did laundry together Scott kindly said, "You don't HAVE to turn my shirts right side out..." I didn't think much of it, I thought he was just being nice. But then as I did more of his laundry with him I was starting to be amazed at how all of his shirts were inside out. So he then demonstrated his masterful ability to put a inside-out shirt on right side out. It is pretty much amazing, and super funny. So we have tonz of piles of Scott's inside out shirts folded in our closet. It is really very impressive. I would tell you to have him show you sometime, but that would be a little awkward for all of us...so, yeah. 

2. Leftovers.

Scott loves food and he really likes it cold and leftover from the night before. We were at my parents house and my mom offered us some dinner that my brother John had made. It was some really tasty eggplant lasagna. So at first when Scott dug in and ate a plate cold I thought he just must have been starving and didn't think much of it. Then when he went for his second bowl I pointed out the microwave that my family did have, being the technologically advanced family that we are... ;) He kindly refused and said that he just really likes it cold. Very interesting...and not too shabby in most cases either.

3. Head OFF the bed.

Scott has a feather pillow that he got when he was possibly in middle school or high school. It is a pillow that he inherited from who knows where (I asked him), meaning that it is OLD. So this pillow is no longer feathery and light. It is as hard as a rock, it amazes me every morning as I pick it up to make the bed. It is sooo solid and weighs a lot more than a normal feather pillow would. Many times before we go to sleep Scott's demonstrates how perfect his pillow is and how it performs the important duty that a pillow should: It keeps his head off the bed. 

4. Dishes...

Scott actually just confessed that he used to be embarrassed about this quirk but now that he is married he doesn't care. haha. The first time I noticed this was when we were dating. He would go back to his bedroom where he kept most of his food and pans and cooking things (to keep the safe from roommates...i think?). He had made us Macaroni and Cheese the day before and was getting his pan out to make rice or something. I noticed that there was some orange film...I thought, "What is that? Is his pan orange?" Then I asked him, "Hey, did you wash that from yesterday?" he looked at me and smiled and said, "Nope." and just kept cooking. He probably would have laughed if he had seen the look on my face but I got over it. So then after we got married I got into the habit of cleaning up our dishes before going to school in the mornings. After a few days of this habit Scott and I were on the couch after dinner and he said, (kindly, yet again) "You know, you really don't need to wash my bowl every morning." This was after the shirt incident, so instead of assuming that he was just looking out for me and my 'going the extra mile' I asked, "Why not?" and he explained how really it just didn't need cleaned every day. That it is all just food and it doesn't matter, or something to that effect. haha. 

5. Internet lover

When Scott gets home he puts his stuff in the room on the dresser and usually heads to the computer, after saying hi to his wife of course. (He is really good about showing me he cares) He checks his email, plays WOW, plays Sudoku (daily unless something comes up), read the news, watch homestar runner, listens to GRock, checks facebook and obsessively checks the bank accounts. It will be nice when he has a desk and doesn't have to be banished to the kitchen counter so that while I am doing homework on the couch he can more easily point out funny news and things to me.

6. Toothpaste

Scott currently has two kinds of toothpaste, with their own personal toothbrushes. Since one is 'mint' and the other is 'cinnamon' he doesn't want the flavors to 'mix' so he uses separate toothbrushes.

These were only six of the many quirks Scott has. They are a big part of what make us different and so in love with each other :)

Cassie's Quirks by Scott (who is not nearly as verbose)

1. When Cassie puts a shirt on, she can tell what the shirt will look like when it is on her.  Obviously she hasn't had her shirts for enough years to know by the tag and general color EXACTLY which of her shirts it is.  She'll get better.

2. Leftovers.  What's not to love?  It's like the food you ate the night before, but different because it's cold and the fat has congealed.  Mmmm.  So Cassie thinks that leftovers should be microwaved.  Microwaves are for oatmeal and baking potatoes... and maybe popcorn.  And that's it.

3. Cassie likes to sleep on pillowS, and even odder than the multiplicity of pillows is the fact that they eat her head.  I'm not sure how she breaths with them wrapped around her head like that.  And they do not provide the necessary support that the head needs to keep it up and off of the bed.

4. Cassie spends alot of time doing dishes.  I have no problem with clean dishes, at restaurants I expect nothing less.  But when I know exactly where the dish has been, and who's eaten what from it...  Lets just say we could use that money we spend on dish soap on... More PORK AND BEANS!!!!!!

5. Cassie has the odd quirk of spending an entirely appropriate amount of time on the internet.  I have no idea how much time that is, I'm over at my computer in the kitchen.  All by myself.

6. Cassie seems to not have noticed the many new and exciting flavors of toothpaste that are on the market now.  It's kind of like eating, but you have to spit out the toothpaste when you are done.  May as well enjoy the good flavorS until then.  and keep them separate. no commingling of flavors.

PS  Scott put very little thought or seriousness into Cassie's quirks, in case that's not blatantly obvious.

1. YOUR ROCK START NAME: (FIRST PET & CURRENT CAR)

SCOTT: SHIZ CAVELIER

CASSIE: BLOSSOM BETSY

2. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR'S NAME ("THE" + YOUR FAVE HOBBY/CRAFT, FAVE WEATHER ELEMENT + "TOUR")

SCOTT: THE BIKING FREEZING RAIN TOUR

CASSIE: THE SCRAPPIN' THUNDERSTORM TOUR

3. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (FAVE ICE CREAM FLAVOR, FAV COOKIE)

SCOTT: MINT CHOCO OATMEAL CHIP

CASSIE: ANYTHING BUT THE... MACADAMIA

4. YOUR "FLY GUY/GIRL" NAME (FIRST INITIAL OF FIRST NAME, FIRST THREE LETTERS OF YOUR LAST NAME)

SCOTT: SKIN

CASSIE: CKIN

(BOTH PRONOUNCED 'SKIN')

5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (FAVORITE COLOR, FAV ANIMAL)

SCOTT: BLUE SNAKE

CASSIE: YELLOW COCKATIEL

6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (MIDDLE NAME, CITY WHERE YOU WERE BORN)

SCOTT: JOHN PROVO

CASSIE: LYNN VERNAL (ACCORDING TO SCOTT MY NAME SHOWS THAT I AM A KIND OF CHARACTER THAT WILL GET KILLED AFTER A FEW EPISODES...)

7. YOUR STAR WARS NAME ( THE FIRST 3 LETTERS OF YOUR LAST NAME, FIRST 2 LETTERS OF YOUR FIRST

SCOTT: KINSC

CASSIE: KINCA (CASSIE'S IS COOLER)

8. SUPERHERO NAME ("THE" + 2ND FAVORITE COLOR, FAVORITE DRINK)

SCOTT: THE GREEN WATER

CASSIE: THE BLUE DR. PEPPER

9. NASCAR NAME (THE FIRST NAMES OF YOUR GRANDFATHERS)

SCOTT: CLYDE WILMER

CASSIE: LARRY STERLING

10. STRIPPER NAME (THE NAME OF YOUR FAVORITE PERFUME/COLOGNE/SCENT, FAVORITE CANDY)

SCOTT: VANILLA SNICKERS (I THINK WE ARE SAFE TO SAY THAT SCOTT WOULD NOT BE A VERY SUCCESSFUL STRIPPER, THAT IS NOT A VERY GOOD NAME)

CASSIE: LOVE SPELL CHOCOLATE

11. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME (MOTHER'S & FATHER'S MIDDLE NAMES)

SCOTT: BERT LYNN

CASSIE: SEARLE EUGENE 

12. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (YOUR 5TH GRADE TEACHER'S LAST NAME, A MAJOR CITY THAT STARTS WITH THE SAME LETTER)

SCOTT: PEIRCE PORTLAND

CASSIE: REYNOLDS RICHMOND

13. SPY NAME (YOUR FAVORITE SEASON/HOLIDAY, FAV FLOWER)

SCOTT: THANKSGIVING ORCHID

CASSIE: SPRING LILY

14. CARTOON NAME (FAVORITE FRUIT, ARTICLE OF CLOTHING YOU'RE WEARING RIGHT NOW + "IE" OR "Y")

SCOTT: PEACH SOCKY

CASSIE: PINEAPPLE SLIPIE

15. HIPPY NAME (WHAT YOU ATE FOR BREAKFAST, YOUR FAVORITE TREE)

SCOTT: BAGEL SASSAFRAS

CASSIE: AIR SPRUCE

Timely Potatoes of Life

Yay for having time! And yay for Scott inspiring me. I kept putting off writing any posts because I was feeling overwhelmed with all I needed to write. Then Scott told me the most inspirational thing I have heard all week. He said, "Like Bishop's tell people when they are behind on tithing, 'Just start with today.' So that is what I am going to do...

 Today as Scott made dinner...(which actually has a fun story with it...more on that later)...I set up our picture clock :) Yay for decorations!

As you can see it is full of our wedding pictures. Such a fun decoration I think. This is an idea that I got while I was living in Las Vegas with my Aunt Mary and Uncle Lon a few years ago and I used it in past apartments with special roommates. I was so excited to use it again, in my own house! Horray!

This afternoon Kristen called and came over with Isaac and Zoie to visit me while Scott was at work. Zoie got to play with my Puppies in my Pocket pets that I found finally a few days ago while unpacking. Isaac got to stare at us and smile and suck on his pacifier :) He is getting so big! He scratched his face a little, thus the restraining devices (a.k.a-socks) on his hands, which you actually can't see in this picture, but you can imagine what i looks like. :)

Scott and I have been having a lot of fun cooking now that he is healthy again and can shallow food like a big boy again. Yesterday I made us our first creation as a married couple :) My very own chicken enchiladas. They were soooo super tasty!

So, the coolest picture of them all is not being nice for some reason. It won't let me load it :( It is a picture of Scott with the tasty dinner he made us today. Story time! While I was in classes today I was thinking about what I could make for dinner tonight (I was thinking about it during a preparation time, not during a lesson, no worries, I was still learning :) ). I decided that I would make Scott's tasty hashbrown like potatoes, since we haven't had it in so long and it just sounded really good. So I made up my mind, that was what I was going to make. So then I go to pick up Scott from work and he says he wants to make his tasty potatoes for dinner! What are the odds! He had been thinking about potatoes all day, just as I had been. We were sooo made for each other! :)