Winter at the new house

This is the first real winter the puppies have endured and they had an absolute great time playing in the snow. Sammy probably had the most fun, every time Nick would go out and shovel the drive and walks he would take the dogs with them and Sammy would try and catch the snow Nick was shoveling. Charleigh doesn't really like to get wet so she would follow Nick in the paths he made so she would stay as dry as possible. Kody just love the snow and playing outside.

Making up for lost time

Today I have time to catch our blog up to date. Tons has happened since the last time I was on here. There have been 3 births since the first of the year - Jessica had Savanna, Sharee had Brooklyn and Alicia had Addison and all three little girls are growing so fast. Nick is finishing up his commercial rating for flight school, that should be done at the end of next week at the latest and then he's trying to go to a school in Phoenix for a week to get his multi-engine rating. He is working so hard and he is also planning on starting at Weber State this fall. I've been working in my garden and flower beds and reading lately and it has been wonderful. Randy and Cassi were able to come visit this last week and it was great seeing them. This weekend we are planning on building a deck of the back of the house; so we have our work cut out for us.

Christmas Eve at Temple Square

It was COLD!!! I forgot how cold it get here, Washington got cold but nothing like this. I thought my nose was going to fall off, but I'm just a big baby. The Guthrie family has a tradition that on Christmas Eve they gather together, eat crepes, see the lights at Temple Square in Salt Lake and open their pajamas. This year Linda switched things around and we had crepes first then open the gifts and then went and saw the lights. This new schedule worked wonderfully, she is always full of great ideas. Nick was excited to see the lights because this is the first time he's celebrated Christmas in two years, the previous years he has been deployed with the Navy. I think that everyone had a great time.
Nick & Me Streator, Shawn & Nick Kaite, Elizabeth & Shawn, and the family: Shawn, Linda, Nick, Me, Matt, Sharee, Carson, Jesse, Jessica, Streator, Jake, Alicia, Jared, Elizabeth & Katie. (Randy & Cassi aren't pictured, they are living in New Hampshire)

Halloween 2008

K, I'm trying to get post and pictures caught up. We've had computer problems (to say the least) so I'm getting as much done today just in case the computer has stress again. Nick & I haven't been home for Halloween in 7 years and I wasn't sure quite what to expect at the Halloween party. There were tons of people and everyone was dressed up and it was a lot of fun. Jared, Shawn & Nick went through so many costumes that night so I'll put the best of the lot on.
Nick & I are on the left, Nick is an Angle wearing a cowboy hat, Jared is the busty blond, Shawn in the blond in glasses, Katie is an Angle holding Streator, and Sharee is the blond packin' heat.

Family Pictures

Shawn & Linda wanted family pictures done (Randy and Cassie are missing because they are having an adventure in New Hampshire while Randy attends law school. Go Randy!!!) The pictures were taken in the park below Farmington Canyon in the middle of November. The weather was wonderful, Linda was hoping for snow but I'm glad that it was pretty dry. I didn't get any pictures with everyone but here are a couple of picture I did get.
Nick & I being silly, Nick being the Karate Kid and Nick making faces at Streator.

Super Glue

Super Glue is what holds the world together along with dental floss and duct tape, but sometimes things don't need to be that secure. Let me give you an example of why super glue should be as super. I have been painting and finishing up a Christmas project so I will be ready for next year. Nick and I have been going to craft stores (ask Nick how much he loves craft stores, he actually laid on the ground in the Quilted Bear two weeks ago because he said he couldn't go on any more) looking for a certain color of paint that has been discontinued but trying to find the two colors that mix together to make the one color is also impossible to find. We finally found the discontinued paint at the Ben Franklin down from our house, but I was also looking for Lambs Wool, which NO ONE CARRIES!!! Anyway, I got some doll hair instead to see if that will work (no it won't work) so I decided to just super glue everything together and keep looking for the wool. Nick got me a brand new thing of super glue, so I opened the top and used the poinkie thing to make a hole and the whole stupid tube blew up all over my hands. I yelled for Nick to come help and save the counter top where I was gluing everything, I put my hands under cold water to harden the glue and Nick is yelling the whole time "Keep your fingers apart"!!! Apparently Nick has a 6th sense about super glue, I didn't even tell him that I was going to be gluing. So to finish up my story - Super glue is super when it isn't all over your hands!!! We are going to Nick's parents tonight to drop off some movies and I will see if I can borrow some of Linda's fingernail polish remover.

Long Time

It has been absolutely forever since I've written, but work has been super hectic and stressful - anyway. Nick finally bullied me into getting a face book account and I've been putting that together tonight.

Last month Nick was able to get some GREAT tickets to the Coldplay concert at Energy Solutions, we were on the 4th row. The show was incredible, they sounded great, the lasers were really cool too. They would show video and live feed on these balloon thing that were hanging from the ceiling. We thought that the band was possibly lip syncing or on a track or something but during one song they messed up and you could tell they were singing live. It was sooo cool!!!

We finally have the house completely set up (thanks to Nick) right now he is studying for his next flight test and listening to Queen (I don't know why) in the "study". All the study really is, is a couple of chairs and an end table in our third bedroom but he feels like this is a sanctuary. Well I need to get ready for bed.