7/28/09 4:57 PM

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POP

BJ



I used to LOVE opening these packages. You know; the biscuit packages....the kind that you pull the paper and without a warning the package "POPS" open giving you a little scare. Well, now it is something I dread and one of the scariest things I have to do before I cook these yummy biscuits. I HATE opening them. I try looking away but it still makes my whole body jump so high it is embaressing. Or, how bout the times when after you pull the paper away it doesn't open, so you have to take a knife and force the POP. Oh man, I love biscuits but I dont know if it is worth my sympathetic system going crazy! Anyone else relate to this or is this just me?

7/23/09 6:46 AM

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NEW Straightener!

BJ


I finally got it! My new hair straightener came in the mail a couple days ago and I was super excited. About TWO weeks ago my old straightener's cord started smoking and making crackle sounds, so I threw it away and my wonderful husband ordered me this one.
I had a CHI before and it has lasted me since highschool, but it did short out a lot but I just dealt with it cause they are sooo expensive. Well, BJ did some research and found this "SOLIA" brand. It has a 2 year warranty and was a tiny bit cheaper than the CHI because we got it online and on sale but I believe it is usually a tiny bit more expensive than the CHI normally and the CHI only has 1 year warranty, and the SOLIA has different temperature settings instead of just one so after all the research and debating we took the chance and got it. I will keep ya updated on if I like it better than the CHI and if it is worth it. Oh and on the pix on the left you can see the cute little mini one that we got free with a coupon BJ found online as well.
YA! I am going to go straighten my hair right now!

7/12/09 2:20 PM

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SUMMER TIME

BJ

Wow it has been a while since I have posted. It must be summer time :D I wont bore you with tell you EVERYHING we have done and making this the longest post ever, I will just do a quick re-cap of a few things that have kept us busy and enjoying our summer.


This is WAY back in May. May 31st to be exact. We celebrated BJ's birthday by speaking in church :) and then had a small BBQ at our house afterwards. It was a lot of fun.






This are his sweeet shoes I bought for him













For the 4th of July BJ, my brother Johnathon and my cousin did a fun little competition of "leap frog" and won this wonderful frog trophy. Good job boys







Her is a picture of the team. The Malad, Idaho enterprise took this picture for the newspaper.










July 3rd BJ suprised me and brough home some fireworks to do at our house. It was just the two of us and we had a blast








This is a picture of my playing with my niece brooklyn, waiting for the parade to start in Idaho.









I can't remember when this was. But this was our experiment of making a homemade "costa vida salad" and boy did it taste good but it was A LOT of work and we didn't eat till like 830 that night. lol oh well


BJ was painting and got this black paint all over his hands. He couldn't get it off so we put these fancy plastic gloves over his hands and he headed off to the store to get paint thinner. I had the hardest time not laughing as I was helping him put these gloves on his sticky paint filled hands lol
As far as updates:
- BJ is working hard on the house and has a lot of vegetables in our garden getting ready (cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, lettuce, beans, and even a few pumpkin plants)
- I am going to school this summer but finish in a few weeks and we are off to our trip to Italy which we are super excited for.
- More updates to come :)

6/29/09 8:52 PM

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BJ made the paper

BJ

If you remember, Christie made the paper a few months ago for nursing school. Well, BJ got really jealous and he made the paper too! (This is "The Idaho Enterprise" Vol 128 No. 44. Not too much going on in the small city of Malad, Idaho!)


Oh, and it was definitely more than $33.50!

6/7/09 2:31 PM

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Painting

BJ

We spent our Saturday doing some painting! Christie has been wanting to paint for a while, and I keep putting it off... But a free Saturday came around an no excuses could be made. :) I was supposed to go to my parents house and help them pull a tree out, so I taped up the windows and base boards and Christie invited her friend Heidi over to paint.
Christie is super excited to get started!

That wall looks good!
I ended up not going to help my parents, but don't worry I didn't feel left out. Our front yard needed some painting done... the Morning glory is coming up a little too well.
Painting the morning glory leaves with Round-up - what work!

Cleaning up the base boards

Tell us what you think of the color!

6/2/09 3:00 PM

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People Watching

BJ


Today I was running errands, returning some things after deciding we didn't want it/didn't need it etc. As I was walking to my car from the mall I overheard a 8 or 9 year old say to his dad while examining the license plate "Dad, don't we need to get our 2010 car registration renewed." His dad asked him to look at the license plate and tell him when it needed to be renewed.

I don't have kids, but I was pretty impressed with this little boy!

Walking out of Home Depot I pass a male and female probably in their late 60's having a very interesting conversation about their family's health history.

Female: "my dad had hypertension and a heart attack and my mom had a stroke"
Male: "really, well my family has a history of heart failure....."

I just chuckled. I have no idea how these two people know each other but either way it was funny.

Oh and LAST WEEK

I had just gone shopping at smiths for some food for BJ's Birthday BBQ and decided to go through the checkout line instead of doing self checkout. I immediately handed the checker my smiths card to scan before he had even started scanning the food. He was chatting with me and then in the middle he just paused and looked at me and grabbed my keys with my smiths card and scanned it again. I said, "oh you already did that." He just looked at me for what seemed like forever so I said it again, "oh, ya you already scanned that at the very beginning :D". He just looked confused and said, "oh we're good". Then stopped his friendly conversation in the middle and nothing was said until I was walking away and he said, "have a nice day". It was the most akward conversation. I think he was just confused and then got embarrassed.

Then I was driving from Smith's marketplace to their gas station. I saw a spot and started to drive towards it. I then saw a car heading the same direction. I had no idea who was their first but I decided to let them take the spot assuming they were their first. As the car rushes past me and into the spot, the driver...an older lady started yelling and waving with her hands. She even did the "oh no you didn't...with her pointer finger waving back and forth". I couldn't believe it. I BURST out laughing. There are 10 spots and I was more than happy to give her that spot. LOL crazy people

ONE more random thought. So I did something kind of bad. I had been running errands around for an hour in a half so I was starting to get done and wanted to go home. I went into Walmart to return a bike tire. I saw a line of 3 ladies waiting for them to put that 'return sticker' on their item to be returned at the front of the store. I quickly passed them speed walking to the return/costumer service desk and handed my item to the nice lady where she started working on my return. Shortly after, all three ladies were standing behind me. Then the "nice lady" said, "you didn't get a return sticker put on your item as you walked in". I said, "uh...oh..." and before I could say anything she said, "dont tell me you didn't know you were supposed to get a sticker". I didn't say anything and she finished and explained to me the importance of putting a sticker on my item etc.... MOTED! as NINA would say. I guess that is what I get for trying to pass all of those nice ladies. :D

5/17/09 2:43 PM

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Forza Italia!

BJ

We're so excited because we're going to Italy August 5 until August 18. BJ served his mission there and we are excited to go back and visit many of the people he taught and served with. Of course, we're going to stop in Venice and Florence though he didn't serve in those cities. Many people wonder "why not Rome?" That just gives us an excuse to go back!!!
Here is the map of our plans

View Our Italy Trip in a larger map
Thursday, August 6 - Arrive at Milan, Italy and drive immediately to Torino.
Saturday, August 8 - Go to Piacenza (we had to get a hotel in the city of Cremona.) We'll go to Church here.
Sunday, August 9 - Drive to Lugano Switzerland. We'll stay with Liliana Sampietro (she lives near the Church)
Tuesday, August 11 - Drive to Venice, Italy
Thursday, August 13 - Drive To Florence, Italy
Saturday, August 15 - Drive to Rimini, Italy
Monday, August 17 - Return to Milan, Italy
Tuesday, August 18 - Fly home

We have lots of stops and places and are excited to get worn out and visit the most beautiful place in the world! Forza Italia!