My one and only..

If anyone knows me..i mean really knows me. They know I always, always have my eyelash curler with me wherever I go. Why you may ask? Well let's just say my loving sisters always had to remind me that i had stick straight eyelashes. One of the many names they call me is horse eyelashes. (Hence the horse picture depicting my beautiful eyelashes) So for many years I have just bought those cheap revlon eyelash curlers. I found this beauty on eyes lips face.com for $1.00! AMAZING! In it's time of working use it was wonderful. I even took it to a Mary Kay party and was selling it to everyone..well, i just let them try it out! Well the other day I went to use it prolly for the 3rd or 4th time for the day and noticed it wasn't opening and closing as easy..well the spring had snapped in it. I have yet to find another one that compares to the superior performance it gave. Are there any other fellow horse eyelash friends out there that have a good eyelash curler to recommend?

Project

Well..this has been one long process! I talked my friend into buying this highchair at a yard sale last summer because she was expecting. Well, her husband didn't want it so I gladly bought it from her even though it will be awhile before I will ever need to use it! These things go for over 200.00 at the antique stores...I've checked! I had this guy build me a tray to go with it since it didn't come with one! I am completely in love with this. I decided to antique it was some glaze and all Nick could say was that it just looked really dirty! Men..its okay! I still like it and am on the hunt for cute fabric for chair pads!

Cruise!!! LoTs OF PiCtUrEs!

Well we did it! After spending wayyy too many hours in the SLC, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale airports we have been on a cruise and are now back to reality! I won't bore you with all the details of me writing it so I have compiled (or tried) to get the pictures sorted in collages by each day. It's much more fun to look at pictures than read a boring journal about it! We ate way too much food and had a great time with my dear friend and her husband. We went to Key West Florida, Cozumel Mexico, and the Bahamas. We had beautiful weather and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. I of course spent too much time in the sun without the use of sunscreen so I am suffering the consequences of that stupidity. We got to snorkel which was actually really fun even though I almost died by freaking out when I sucked up water through my snorkel but Nick showed me how to blow the water out so I survived. We are happy to be back in Utah where the air is a little easier to breathe! Although, I did go running on our cruise and boy it felt like I could run 20 miles! That dang elevation does really make a difference! Needless to say..loved the cruise..Who is ready for the next one!?


DAY 1


DAY 2


DAY 3


DAY 4


DAY 5


You think that's a lot of pictures..just be glad we didn't go on a 7 day cruise!

one week...

one week until this...and i can't wait!!

Meet our daughter...

Okay..so not our daughter but my car's daughter! Had ya going for a second there didn't I! Ha well no.. We just received the baby this last weekend since my parents were so kind to deliver her to us..kind of like a stork! She is definitely a beauty and we are so ecstatic of having a running car that smells so good..(thanks to the previous owners)! Just wanted to introduce you all to her! We are still trying to come up with a name but haven't so we'll let you know when we decide! Have a wonderful day! I have a feeling spring is right around the corner!


Look at her good lookin body!


Her bum is pretty cute too huh!

RIP

Now..I regret to post this but my dearest, trustworthy, dependable, fun, friend has said goodbye to us. Yes it's true. My one and only camry. She lived a good life yes she did. I cherish so many memories with her. Even when she wasn't mine to claim she went the distances to Moscow Idaho a couple of times. She traveled to Yellowstone National park with us when we thought it was cool to stick not one of our heads but three of our heads out the sunroof and take memorable photos. She's been camping, she's been fishing, she's been skiing, (gotta love those pull down back seats!) and as I do recall she has been pulled over a few times in her day..I won't mention how fast she has gone but I will say my dearest friends and I challenged her to get us to Declo from Raft River on one New Year's Eve in less than 15 minutes! I will dearly miss her and we won't ever forget her and that's why we have high hopes of purchasing a cousin or maybe a younger sister (even with all the dumb Toyota recalls!) In her last dying breath she made it to 303,239 miles!
Please feel free to leave your condolences and any memories you have of her.



P.S. We are looking for a new car so if you are selling one or know of someone selling one please let us know!!

Here we come 2010

We survived the holidays! We had a great time spending it with family on both sides. We are not sure if we are ready for another semester but regardless it is here. Nick starts school again tomorrow! We did go ice-skating on New Years day which was really fun. Nick gets really into the speed of it and just wants to go really fast. I just try not to fall, which as you can tell from the picture I still managed to eat it once and my good husband made me stay on the ice until he took a picture! Nick surprised me with a bedspread that I had begged him for hence the awesome look on my face. We got fishing poles from my parents and can't wait to use them! Nick got a tackle box too, even though he thought it was a rather large lunch box!! The last couple pictures are a few we had for our christmas card..nick really wishes he could grow a mustache..for now black eyeliner will have to do! We have already made quite a large list of our new resolutions! To name a few..go on a cruise..(already booked for May 8, 2010!) get our butts into shape so we don't scare everyone away on the cruise..go camping..be nicer to each other.. attend the temple more often..and many more! Best wishes in 2010!!

Christmas is almost here!!

I can't wait for Christmas to be here. I love doing all the christmas things we do to get ready for the day. I always take wrapping a little too serious and spend wayy too much time and making sure the wrapping looks just as cute if not cuter than what's inside! To me..the outside really does matter! I thought the wrapping paper I found this year was so cute and it came in huge rolls so I will be using them for awhile. I also was over at a friends and saw her being so crafty and she was making stockings out of sweaters! What a great idea! I of course stole the idea and headed off to DI to see if I could find any fat/chunky sweaters that could be used as stockings. I found this sweater and thought it could be cute..I didn't take a before picture of when it was a sweater but here are our stockings for this year! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

12/6/09

Lately we have been able to go to a few USU basketball games and they have been dang good games! Like when we beat stupid BYU!! That was a good game! We went to USU's last football game and Nick's little sister came with us and we saw some awesome hats! Check em out! I couldn't stop laughing hence me taking pictures of random strangers! Then Thanksgiving came and me, my sister Ericka and sis-in-law ran in the Turkey trot and it was so cold..so it made us run faster! We played some football and basketball and we definitely ate..alot! All I need to say is I got Texas Roadhouse rolls for Thanksgiving dinner and I would have been happy if we didn't have anything else..I ate that many anyway. We saw New Moon and it was ok..way better than Twilight but the actors need some work still..Finals are this week for Nick and he is so ready to be done with this semester. On the flip side of those fun things we've been able to enjoy..it has poured with "trials" this last month..Our storage still isn't fixed so our crap is in our house still because we don't want to go swimming for it. We got a nice letter from the IRS saying we owe 2,500.00. We got booted last night for 70.00 We had to replace the brakes on our car..Our computer has died once again..and we're paying to have it fixed again..We have to pay tuition in full + books next week..ouch! I should probably list some things that I am grateful for before I get struck by lightning as I'm complaining about all of these dreadful things..Heres a few to list..not in order by any means. I still have all 10 fingers so that I can type this blog post in a timely manner. We do have a roof over our heads and it keeps us pretty warm. We do have two cars which do run most of the time. We have cell phones in case one doesn't run. We have jobs. We have great families. We have food to eat even if it gets burnt sometimes. We have eachother! I figured if I have to go through this life I might as well have Nick telling me it's going to be okay since I freak out over everything! Here are a few pics of the past few weeks! I sure hope you all are having wonderful holidays and are grateful for what you have too!

Projects Projects Projects

I just finished a few small projects so if you want to see them go to 3thriftysisters.blogspot.com!