Easter Weekend

I wish I would have taken pictures of this past weekend, but such is life.  It was so great to just relax and listen to General Conference!  As a child, I could barely make it through the Sunday morning session and now I hate it when I miss any of the talks, because it seems like it's always the ones that I need to hear.  Sunday, I decided to put an Easter basket together for Clay, although it was pretty wimpy because I did everything last minute.  I hid 23 eggs around the house, to which Clay had no idea they were hidden :) So...I sent him on his own hunt!  I absolutely love celebrating holidays but since we don't really have a family right now, it seems pointless to get all decorated, etc.  We were going to dye eggs, but alas, never made it to that.  It was still a great weekend though just relaxing and listening to the words of the leaders of the church!  Now I just can't wait for one more week until we head to Idaho!!!

Time for Family Chaos

I've been trying to stay updated with my blog, but sadly, Clay and I (or at least me) lead a boring life.  It's spring break here so I'm not substituting and I'm back to being lazy, however, I've got a lot of projects that I need to finish!  Clay and I are so excited to take a road trip to Idaho in a few weeks! Quinn, Clay's youngest brother, is getting home from his mission in England. We are so psyched to see him!

He's one of the funniest guys I know (other than Clay;), but when you get them together...whoa, it's freaking hilarious!  So all my friends...if you have any good looking single girl friends...:) (I'm sure they'll love his english accent!) ha ha ha

Some other GREAT news...Clay's other older brother, Tyler, is getting MARRIED!  We absolutely love Caeli, and have gotten lots of time to hang around her last summer.  We went four wheeling a few times, camping, fishing, watching fireworks, so it's good to know who Tyler is marrying and we definitely approve :)  I have a new SIL :)  Here's to the adorable new couple!

So here's the rough itinerary: 

Thursday early a.m. we drive all day.  Make a stop in Boise to have lunch with my fam :). Arrive in Rexburg late evening, drive to Idaho Falls airport, pick up Quinn!  Friday day, drive to Salt Lake, create chaos.  Saturday morning, attend the Temple wedding/sealing in the Draper Temple, PARTAY in the p.m., drive back to Idaho that night.  Sunday morning, Quinn's Homecoming talk, luncheon afterwards.  Then we have the whole week to visit with friends, travel, do whatever! That Saturday, Rexburg reception in the p.m.  Sunday, drive the forever long distance back to the rainy state of Washington (ok, so it's not too rainy or dreary).  Woo Hoo! I can't wait!

My first burlap adventure

A couple posts ago I showed you those candlesticks that I was wanting to make...well here's the original ones from Drab to Fab.

And here's mine now...

So it's not quite as good as hers, but I'll settle for mine :) It's not your perfectly cut 4x4's since it was leftovers from Clay's work, but it gives it more of that vintage, whatever, look that I like anyway.

Now, my latest project that I tortured Clay into standing in line at JoAnn's for 40 minutes just to get my burlap cut...

I got this idea from Tatertots and Jello that got it from Chris, Erin, and Jayce, which was originally for necklaces.  Since I already had a necklace holder (well, sufficient for me), I decided to untangle all my earrings and put them on here! I am in love!

There's some things you just don't say

This last weekend getaway went by too fast.  We got into Minneapolis early evening Thursday and headed to a social hour with all of Clay's company members.  It consisted of heavy hors d'oeurves and plenty of alcohol...to which we stayed in the ballroom eating shrimp while most everyone was taking advantage of the free open bar!  Friday Clay had meetings all day so I headed off to the Mall of America!  Let me just say, I definitely got my exercise in.  I don't think I ever really stopped walking from 10 to 3:30 with 4 floors.  You would think this would be a girl's dream of having all these stores to go shopping in.  Well, I think I broke a record for the least amount of money spent. :)  Maybe I'm too much of a bargain shopper now and I really didn't see many sales.  Anywho, it was still fun to look around.  That night Clay and I went to the company dinner full of tons of great food!!! This isn't the best angle of us but it was fun to get to know Clay's work team members and enjoy the excellent food.

Saturday morning Clay wanted to go shopping ! So we headed off to the Mall again and basically did the same routine as I did the previous day.  However, Clay was a better shopper than I and took advantage of the no sales tax on clothes and shoes (mostly for shoes:)!!!  

They had a big dance in the middle of the bottom floor and had a Michael Jackson impersonator who danced to all the songs, including moon walking!  We should have ridden at least one of the roller coasters while we were there, but the shopping wore us out!

Later that night we headed off to a dinner theater with some of the team and their guests.  It was an awesome place!  It had over 400 tables/booths with the stage in the front and center.  Dinner was excellent and we also got free dessert with the company deal!  So, we had one dessert to share before the show started, then they brought us out the other one during intermission...well planned out :)  We got to see Footloose and it was actually pretty dang good!  It's definitely not your Playmill Theater in West Yellowstone that I'm used to, but more of a formal type of theater which was just as much fun.  

Anyway, the weekend was great, we headed out to the airport early Sunday morning and were about to load on the plane when Clay started telling a story from the news to one of his buddies that he works with.  First thing, we all know that you don't ever yell "fire" when there isn't one, or better yet, "bomb" or "terrorist" or anything like that, *especially* in the airport! So, Clay's telling this story about that "underwear bomber" from a month or so ago in the news, and as soon as he said "bomber", he was escorted away.  I've told him before that you don't say things like that there and now he got what was coming to him.  Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  I thought he'd be detained and since I am his wife, that I would be too and we'd miss our flight, but they only took him aside, checked his bag thoroughly, and took a sample from his hand to check for bomb material or whatever.  Anyway, we finally made it on the plane and then one of his co-workers asked if they found anything. To answer, Clay said "only these guns" (while flexing his biceps) and I hit him and said "Freak, Clay, you don't say things like that" while everyone was staring at us.  Wow.  Luckily, no one freaked out or complained so our flight home was dandy, other than the man next to Clay who he said stunk like b.o. and onion breath.  Lovely trip.

Time for a little vacay

Yup, that's right! I'm going there this weekend! Clay has his annual company meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota and fortunately they are letting me fly there with him.  While he's in meetings all day, I thought that I'd get myself lost inside here and see all the cool things they have!  This will make for a nice little weekend getaway, although we'll be going somewhere colder and with snow!  Once we get through this mini vacation, we only have about one more month until we head to Idaho!  We're so excited to see family again and see Clay's youngest brother, Quinn, get home from his mission!!!

Stinkin' Cute Candlesticks

I am so in love with these! I was at a craft show a while back and was going to buy a set of candlesticks, and now I am so glad I didn't!  With it being my day off today, I think I shall run to the store to buy some cute candles and some accessories and get this started! Check this out here.

Those Little Rascals...

After six months of living here in Washington, I have finally gotten myself out of the house! ha ha I have decided that I was going to substitute teach here since we would be moving around a lot and with that, I wouldn't be tied down with a job or anything.  Well, I put in my application to the school district I live in in November.  I still have not heard back from them for when they finished my reference checks.  Oh. my. heck. So, I decided that I would try another school district close by.  I did my whole application in one day and heard back from them after the weekend and set up an orientation to get started.  Wow. Forget about the other district that has been taking months! Annoying!  Anyway, so I just had my first day subbing Friday! I have my teaching certificate in secondary education, but I am able to sub anywhere, any class. Most of the ones I have lined up are those little rascals in the elementary and middle schools-ok, they really aren't that bad.  I'm just glad to finally get to start subbing and keep myself somewhat busy and out of the house.  I am keeping busy though still with my other blog, crocheting away! I'll be getting new style of beanies up there hopefully soon so check back again!