Our New Ward

We have been enjoying out new ward a lot. There is diversity in ages unlike our last ward. Ryan would always tease that we needed to check pulses in our last ward since there were a lot of older people in our ward. So far we have met a lot of new people all the time we have people coming up and talking to us.

When we knew we were going to move up here I teased I didn't want to be put into primary again since I wanted to get to know the ward better and sooner then I did in the El Camino Ward. I immediately got put into the primary and didn't really get to know too many people for a long time.

The first week I got to go to the new ward the kids in primary were singing in Sacrament meeting and I got the feeling that I was going to miss primary. Little did I know that I was going to be back into primary. They called me first, and then Ryan the week after. I am the Valliant 10 and He is the Valliant 11 teacher. His class is all boys and mine is all girls. I would have had one of his boys, but the teachers felt bad for the boy being the only one. So they put him with the older class since they are still on the same book anyway. They called me to be the teacher of this class since there is a girl that has autism in my class. It is kind of nice knowing that I was called for my patience since I've always been told I have patience but it really feels good to know that my Heavenly Father sees and Admires my patience. ;-D I really like the Idea also that Ryan is in the same book as me because now we can prepare our lessons together. I like this cause we really are terrible are FHE and this can be our FHE study together.

I really have only been recently introduced to Autism. I've known it was out there but I have only interacted with people with it in the last year and half. Daphne was the first. She was a sweetheart. Very quiet but was bright and mostly liked to play on her own. The other girl in Safekey was way different, very active, and sometimes loud. The last was J.J. he was not very talkative but active and liked to be around. though since this was at church it was more difficult to work with him since we wanted him to be quiet while we tried to teach the other children. It was very difficult. Sydni is much more mellow at church. Though Sis. Swenson makes it sound like that is because she is one a new medication than she was before and this one seems to be working well for her.

Garden Update

The very tiny little specs to the farthest left is my romaine lettuce, next you will see some smaller leaves and that is my row of green beans. In the third row you will see my peppers and broccoli. I planted two red, one orange and one green. The farther part of that row is my broccoli. The next too very faint rows are my chives and carrots. You'll only see them if you enlarge the image by double clicking on it. Then the last row in the back is my tomatoes. The two closer ones are cherry tomatoes and the farther are large round tomatoes.

When you enlarge the image you will see some grass in the lower right hand corner. I had about that thickness of grass throughout my whole garden. It was a pain in the but to go out there and pick it all especially around my romaine lettuce, carrots and chives since I didn't want to pull them up with the grass. Luckily I haven't had too many weeds just yet.... cross my fingers. Today I just found one of my least favorite weed pop up near my carrots. :-( Another plus to having this garden is that it gets me outside of the house though I haven't started work yet and I'm getting some color to my whitey self haha.

Here are the little bitty romaine lettuce. I was getting a little nervous if they would come since these the carrots and chives took a bit longer to germinate than the green beens. Also a guy at Fred Meyer said that they don't like the warmer weather when germinating. At first I thought that they might be more weeds since I was getting a TON of grass growing in. But as I let them grow I noticed that they were definitely in a row and not scattered everywhere like the grass was. I'm happy since this will more likely be one of the things I eat more of.

My happy and sad broccoli plants. I had an ant infestation on my broccoli plants. They were living in the root of the four plants on the left. When I look close to the ground I can see that the ants were eating the stems also. I put the chopsticks in the ground next to them and a twisty around them to hold them up in last attempt to save them but I'm pretty sure I will be pulling them. :-( Though I am grateful that I still have four healthy plants :-D

The green bean process. First we have the bean on the left that still has his head stuck in the ground. That's how they start. It's quite funny to me. Then one they pop up I notices that they had two things to the side of them that remind me of cashew peanut halves.

This is my orange pepper. He's already got some blooms on him, so maybe I'll start to have some peppers growing soon.

The little grass in front is my carrots and the very fine grass in the back is my chives. :-D

This picture is for Tara. This is her favorite flower, I think, I know that she likes them though. I got lucky to have them in my front yard though. One time I was watching Jaiden and Rylan when I was their nanny and she had these in a flower pot from Pete. They were gorgeous but I couldn't figure out what was this funny pee scent coming from. Since the boys were still in diapers I thought it was that. Well I figured it out these blooms may be beautiful but I don't care for their scent :-D So I'm glad to have them outside.

Here is the rest of that clump of bushes waiting to bloom.

Some of my strawberry plants. I have alot of these in my planter. It's fun. Though I realized that you need alot of these plants in order to get even a few strawberries. I still need to pick more of the surrounding plants. I'm not sure what they are but they're crowding my strawberries. I even had quite a few onions in my planter area though I plucked most of then by now since their leaves were looking dead. Though most of them out since I don't really eat a lot of onions but I did keep a few in my fridge.

More pretty flowers. I have rose and flower galore in my yard.

And another set of those pink flowers waiting to bloom.

Fourth of July

We made hamburgers in our bitty George Forman that my mom gave us for Christmas. It's small so it was only able to cook one patty at a time but we didn't want to quite buy a bbq grill just yet. And Ry will probably want to look up a good model on the internet too. He likes researching things before we purchase :-D

Here are some fruit pizza's that I made. I bought the sugar cookies to make things more simple. The frosting is a pkg of cream cheese and 1/3 c. sugar and I used my egg slicer to slice the strawberries. I've been eyeing these kind of platters for some time and decided to buy one for now and buy more later.

These are blue Kool-Aide star ice cubes on a red drink :-D

I will add more pictures soon since I was able to capture a few fireworks while sitting on my couch.

Thunderstorm Last Night

I've been kinda wanting to try and catch some lightning with my camera again some time soon but I didn't know when I would be able to do it. Well We had quite the storm last night Ry mentioned that maybe I pull out my camera. Then when I started to go scrounging for the bits and pieces tripod, locking cable and stuff like that he thought that I might miss it. I didn't care I was going to at least attempt. We'll I didn't and got some good ones :-D

There was one really loud pop right when it flashed. We knew that one was right on top of us. It took me back to when we went to Logandale's Red Rock. That time I wan't to take pictures too but I was too afraid to even stand up. It was crazy the thunder was right after every flash we knew it was on top of us then.

Not starting work just yet.

Ryan started right away since they needed him four weeks before I got here. Things are still getting settled at the office for the news plans to fall into place. until Mike got here and was able to change things I was not needed at the office. So I am at my new home settling where things should go.

Though the second day Ryan was at work I was SO in the mood for making some homemade bread. I kinda have a goal of doing better at cooking while I'm up here. Well bread was on my mind unboxing had to wait haha. I made home made bread and scones all on my own from grinding the wheat to frosting the scones for the first time. I have made home made bread quite a few times before. I even tried to teach Sheree how to do it one time. I think she requested to do it more so cause she felt like eating it haha. But never before have I done every step all on my own. I'm pretty proud of myself. Usually mom steps in and tries to help, thinking that I don't quite know how to do every step. I think she forgets how many times I had made it with her, and even a few times with out her.

I've been pretty good at putting together some better meals with a little more than something I pull out of the freezer and warm up.

Part of me is wondering if I am starting work next week but I kind don't think so.... we'll see but I'm not too worried about it since I have enjoying a little down time.


In these pictures it may look like Ryan did all of the work, but don't let that fool you. We did equal share. I started pulling weeds while he mowed the lawn and then he came to help. He did the shoveling to loosen up the dirt while I plucked them and stomped off the dry clumps of dirt. Near the end I gave up on getting the dirt off and was throwing it away haha. I was going to replace it better dirt anyway right? :-D




I am also looking forward to starting our garden. Ryan and I had pulled up more weeds I have in my life. I hope to not have to them like that again. I learned by pulling the little ones in the front yard are not so bad at the ones that were in the pace of my garden. When they are small they are so much easier to pull out. You barely have to tug on them and they plop right out. Now as for the the huge ones we brought out we had to loosen the dirt below. It was a lot of work.

On Friday we did a little shopping and Ryan wanted to stop in Best Buy for upgrading his windows operating system on his laptop. He doesn't care much for vista. Well we walked out without that and something else Ryan had his eye one for quite some time. He's been wanting a Mac. Well we ended up deciding that it was about the same price as on the online store I like. So now we are a Mac owner. It's a little funny going back and forth though right now since I haven't gotten my programs on it just yet, the keyboard commands are different, also the sensitivity of my mouse old is way better then the Mac mouse. Though I do love the Magic Mouse scrolling capability.

This image right here is why I think that one day we go looking for a house I want one in this same area. There is grass and trees along a lot of the roads.

Ryan came to pick me up

Ryan made his trip down to come get me. He drove down on the 9th. He brought the UHaul for the 3rd trip of stuff to come up since it was cheaper round trip as opposed to one way. We picked up the car trailer on the 11th and loaded up the truck with more stuff. We were taking up a few last minute things of ours which barley filled it at all and then some more stuff from the cedarview house. That stuff will go into storage once Mike gets up here.

Girls Night and Goodbyes

I had a girls night on the first of June. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed hanging out with my sisters, mom, aunt, grandma and two friends. I wanted to have a girls night since I missed the girls night the night of dad's Father and Sons camp out. We had a barbecue and swam, well mostly sat in the hot tub :-D It was a little breezy.
















My friend Chandree wasn't able to make it so she offered to take me to dinner one night. This last Tuesday she took me to Macayos. I wanted to go there since they don't have any locations up there in Boise and it was our families restaurant that we went to on the rare occasion that we went out to eat. It was good to see her. We got there about 8 and left at about 9:30 or 40ish. It was good catching up with her.