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What happens in Vegas...

stays

in

Vegas

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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! :)

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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...

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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.