We're Coming!

I am so excited...we're coming to Utah for Easter. After talking to my Mom I realized if I didn't come in March I wouldn't be able to come until July. That would mean 8 months without seeing my family. No way! So I quickly planned a trip to come and then...I realized Cole gets a day off of work in March so we were able to work it out so he can come too! We will be there March 20-25 (but don't really count the 20th or 25th because we will be in the sky most of the time). I am really excited we will be there for the Easter festivities. I think I will make myself a count down. It is so nice to have something exciting to look forward to. If only we could swing by Pennsylvania too so we could see Cole's family then it would be perfect. We had so much fun there over Christmas and can't wait to get back there.

Valentine's Day

We had a really nice Valentine's day. I made Cole breakfast in the morning. We both made each other cards. Cole's is awesome. He told me it is a 4 bar mechanism. He made it so that you spin one thing and then it changes the words it says. They are discriptive words about me...the catch is they are missing the first letter. Above that he has my name written on a paper that slides back and forth so you have to use one of the letters of my name to start each word. What can I say he is amazing (and romantic)! He also gave me a gift card to Hobby Lobby (my favorite place and I've already spent it:). We went to my favorite place in central Illinois to eat Biaggi's.

It is an italian restaurant and is reallly scrumptous. The neat thing was I always thought it was only here but I read on the back of the menu there is one in Salt Lake City. Whew who!! All you Utah'ans should go try it. Thanks Cole for a special day!

Workshop

This is what my kitchen has turned into.
We don't have any place to do projects so Cole's latest awesome invention has been crafted on my kitchen countertop. The limited counterspace you see is pretty much all the counter space we have. It can be pretty interesting trying to find a space to prepare a meal. I am waiting for the day I find plastic and metal shavings in my food. He uses the little red dirt devil to try to keep it clean as he goes. It has been really fun to watch him make his invention but for now it is top secret!:) It has made us quite antsy to get into a house but we still have two more years of this moving stuff. Next month we should find out where will be moving next June. Cross your fingers for CA or NC!

Snow day and COLE day

Today all the schools are cancelled because we had a big snow storm yesterday. It wouldn't be too big of a deal in Utah but out here snow can be very dangerous. They don't really plow the roads until it is completely done snowing (so it doesn't really work too well). The people that live out in the country don't get plowed out for days and they often close their roads completely. It is really dangerous out there because when the corn is gone the winds get really strong and can blow you off the road. We're just fine and luckily we live really close to CAT so Cole can go to work easily. We live in town so our roads are okay.

Cole kind of gets left out of the blog sometimes so this ones for him.

C ~ Creative, Compassionate, Charitable, Caterpillar
O ~ Outstanding, Optomistic, Out of this world:), Original
L ~ Loving, Learner, LOST #1fan, Logical
E ~ Efficient, Entrepreneur, Energetic, Exciting, Engineer

What can I say... english was never my best subject but hopefully you get the point. I'm lucky to have such a great husband and I love him a lot!

Yes, Another Embarrasing Moment!

There are a few people in my ward that scrapbook and make cards. We decided that on Friday's we would get together and do it together. Well, this Friday was my first time going. We went to Kameka's house (which I hadn't ever been to). We made sandwiches and were going to eat them downstairs. I took my first step down the stairs (while holding my food with both hands) and fell down her stairs. I didn't just fall, I fell and kept falling. I slid down the entire stairway and just watched as my potato chips when flying through the air everywhere and my sandwich landed face down on her tile landing. I was so embarrased and in a lot of pain. I landed on my tail bone (however you spell that) and it hurt so bad. I quickly picked up my mess and was too embarrased to ask to make a new sandwich so I picked up my meat and bread and put it back together and just ate it (yes, the queen of germafobia ate off the floor!).

Embarrasing moment...(s)

I am the activity day leader for the 8-12 year old girls in my ward. Well, I have only been having about 3 of them each time so I decided to try really hard to get some of the others to come to our jewelery making activity. (The girls below are the "regulars" and this was "talent night")I arranged to pick up Bailey and finally got accurate phone numbers for Emily and Riley and got them to commit to coming. I hadn't met Emily and Riley because they don't come to church. Well, I was running late because I had to travel 40 minutes to pick up Bailey. She is a darling energetic girl and entertained me the entire trip to the church. I got to the church at about 7:10 (ten minutes late) and the regular girls were already there. We meet in the nursery room which I hate because the girls just want to play house instead of do the activity sometimes.

I frantically tried to calm the girls down and get the activity started. I asked if Emily and Riley were there. They weren't. I called their home to see if they were coming and to my dismay they said they had already been dropped off at the church. Where were they? I didn't even know what they looked like. While still on the phone with their family I ran around the church trying to find them. I saw two girls I didn't recognize in with the Young Women (who were having New Beginnings) and motioned for them to come out in the hall. Everyone in the room thought I was pointing to them so I went to whisper "are you Emily and Riley" when I stopped mid sentence and realized that there was a group of Young Women in the front singing a solo. My face went bright red and I grasped my head in shame and went back into the hall saying to myself "oh my goodness". I had just totally interrupted their special moment and ruined New Beginnings. I was mortified and to say the least embarrassed.

Well, that's not all. So we get to the nursery room with all the girls there (all 7 of them) and start our activity. I just finish telling the girls how careful they need to be with the beads because we are in the nursery and don't want to leave any behind that the kids could choke on when I knock a can of beads all over myself, the table, and the floor.

Well, believe it or not that's not all. A few minutes later one of the Young Women counselors comes in and tells me that Riley and Emily were supposed to be at New Beginnings because Riley was going to turn 12 that year. The girls didn't really know what was going on because they don't come to church so they didn't really know where they were supposed to be. They let the girls stay with me because they knew they'd have more fun and a better experience with us. Anyway, I know this doesn't make a lot of sense and is poorly written but I was just reflecting on it and am glad it's over!

$91.00

I have been looking for someone to do my hair out here. I don't trust many people to do my hair, especially coloring my hair. I've had one lady do it forever and of course she is in Utah and couldn't fit me in last time I went. She is wonderful though and only charges me like $40 for a cut and color. Well, I like some of the girls hair at work but knew the lady they went to was expensive. After 6 months without a color I decided I'd go to her anyway. Well, $91 dollars later (plus tip) I have a very cute cut, one of my favorites, and a duddy color. She didn't do hardly anything and didn't even match my old color to my new color. Grrrr