Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Snowshoeing Lava Lake 3/28/09

There was a 'field pot luck' and then a few of us went snowshoeing.

The view from the trailhead

I love how the one tree that is bent over has all the snow on it.

ahhh. A snow and stream picture.

It says ' Steve was not here :('
Steven stayed home to study.

You can tell where the streams are when there is snow.

The air was warm and causing the snow to fall off the branches. I love this picture cause you can see where there are branches above the snow.

Lava Lake

those that went hiking....
Kyle, Sharman, Devin, Britt, Nate

Friday, April 3, 2009

Bobcat Challenge 3/27/09

So, the bobcat challenge was a bunch of quirky challenges.
We thought it would be fun to put together a team.

Raquel, Devin, Teresa, Candy & Steven

our feet... Eli, Raquel, Devin, Teresa, Candy and Steven (being a little backwards! :P)

Eli
our groups photographer! :)
Thanks Eli!

started with a 6 legged race.

on to a swim relay..
Steven & Devin were awesome and did twice as much so the girls didn't get wet! :)

this one they could just use a kick board

and then a t-shirt race.. that they had to trade between swimmers

and a jello eating contest.
two suckers (actually I think there were a lot of us that were suckers for competing :))
one that held the bottom of the tube.
and two 'mushers'

I don't think any of us will be craving peach jello any time soon! :)

There were also free group fitness classes. this is just of champ spinning.

Raquel & Champ

and a racquetball drop....
one dropped 13 balls in 30 seconds and the person on the bottom had to let it bounce once and catch it in the bucket on their head. fun!

not us..
but a giant suduko game.

the fastest to eat 100 raisins with chopsticks

beer goggle race... Candy giving it a whirl

and Teresa

Steven

and Devin

an SAE team

so, the top 6 made it into a tug a war for prizes.
we made it. but we don't have any pictures of us, as Eli had left! :)



standing behind another group of SAE guys

yay! we were #4 and we won stuff! haha!

it was SOOO much fun. a great way to spend a Friday night! :D

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Handmade Suprise...

Well, it seems like I've put a little more time into our blog lately. Which has lead to blog surfing. And it may get me into trouble! :) So this is what I stumbled upon.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:


1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!

2- What I create will be just for you.

3- It'll be done this year.

4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!

5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog.

The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

So....who will be the first 5 people?????

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Construction 2/6-7, 2/14-16, 3/7-8

Living room ceiling tiling
February 6 and 7

This has nothing to do remodeling, BUT we made it for supper and it turned out so awesome I just had to put it on here! :)

all our stuff in the dining room!

Chuck and Steven putting tiles up, and Devin, uh, licking the ceiling glue.

The ceiling halfway tiled!


Kitchen/hallway ceiling tiling.
February 14 and 16

Devin 'helping'

Chuck putting up the ceiling

our valentines day dinner! :)
pretty fancy

all our stuff piled in our living room! :)

putting up the trim around our new door.


Master Bathroom Remodel
March 7 and 8

Pulling up the carpet, and the crazy red tile stuff

and the 70's linoleum

Putting down the new base floor
(at some insane hour in the morning)

laying out the template in the living room to cut out the new floor for the bathroom.

Babysitting 3/26/09

We watched Kim's kids while she got a massage.

Brooklyn

Joey

Brooklyn, again

Devin losing a wrestling match with Lucas and Joey

A baby shower for Michelle 3/22/09

waiting for Michelle to show up

Michelle figuring out that the party was for her!

Wendy

One of the tables

A picture of the other end of that table

another table

The beautiful cake!

trying to get the kids together for a picture.

But getting them all together was harder then possible.

Michelle was reading the 'advice' that we had all brought for her!

some of the gifts

showing off one of her gifts

a toy that all the kids wanted! :)

one of her homemade blankets

Michelle talking to one of the kids.

After the party.. sitting around talking.