oh the boredom!

Jordan is back from Cincinnati and I am back from Centerville. He didn't take any pictures but enjoyed his time eating out, going to baseball games, lounging around in his hotel room and oh ya the reason he went getting trained for some new laser software.

After spending a week in Centerville with so much going on, I find myself quite bored at home in Price. I try to keep myself busy but find myself counting the hours until Jordan comes home from work. Here are some things I have done to keep myself busy:

I am working on refinishing an old dresser. Jordan has helped much to my thanks. It still has a long way to go, but there is some promise.
While I was in Centerville with the help of my sister I made these cute letter blocks for Josie's room.
Pulled out food storage and made some recipes. Who knew powdered eggs and taco tvp really taste like the real thing. Now I just have to be diligent and use up what I have opened.

I did read an entire book in one day. Goose Girl. I highly recommend it. I also like Shannon Hale's Princess Academy.

I decided to try and learn to crochet. Problem is I am no good. I won't show my attempts, but it gives me something to do while I watch sesame street with Josie.

Looking, Looking and Looking for houses. Ones with nice big yards, and ones that fit in our price range. Jordan spends his time looking with me and I am afraid we are almost obsessed, but still being patient for the perfect one to come on the market.

Spend time outside with Josie. We watched the thunderstorm from the front porch and she was awed at the noise. These pictures were taken on Sunday.

Listening to Josie jabber. She is so cute. Don't you love her 80's jacket.

And finally:

Always Always listening and watching the train go by. I actually don't mind living by the train.

Life is good here in Price! We have friends a lovely place to live, and Jordan has a great job. Now all we need is summer weather and lots of weekends to go camping. If you are ever headed to Moab, stop by. If not at least honk as you pass by.

Redo on Jordan's Graduation and my week's projects

paper flowers, took forever but were fun to make.

Button necklace, I also made earring to match

Color book for Josie. each button has Velcro on it and you can stick it to the page that has the right color. I hope she likes it.

When I was in NM I went shopping with my sister Brenda and we bought buttons and started a button flower bouquet. I finished it yesterday. It was simple and fun and now I can have fresh bright looking flowers all the time.

Last weekend we went up to Jordan's graduation from Utah State. Such a beautiful day!!! I am so proud of Jordan and his hard work. I think there are few people that were so dedicated to their schooling. I thought I was a good student, until I met Jordan. I had fun myself reminiscing about my days there at USU. Such good memories.

GO AGGIES

Happy Birthday Jordan

Happy 26th Birthday Jordan

This is a birthday banner I made and on the other side it says congratulations

Jordan got some horseshoes and a new pair of binoculars.

Josie eating the whip cream batters

Sunday best

Josie likes to imitate her dad by doing her version of a duck quack. We finally caught it on video when she was taking a bath.

Easter Weekend

Jordan had Friday off of work. We left and drove down to Monticello and stayed in a cheap motel. Josie loved being out of the car and in a new place. She explored the whole room several times cooing because she was so excited. Friday we drove to Mesa Verde National Park. It was so fun, to be outside, hiking and seeing such cool ruins. We had to hurry and so we hope we can go back soon and see the whole park. We then drove to Farmington NM to my sister Brenda's house. Long drives through Indian Reservations and a whole lot of nothing. Once there we went camping out at Angel Peak. We had dutch oven and saw a beautiful sunset. Saturday we came back to Farmington cleaned up and went to a easter egg hunt. Then we went and played Frisbee and had Easter dinner. We colored eggs and relaxed watching North and South ( a pride and prejudice type movie). Sunday we went to the Spanish Branch with Brenda and Fran and then drove home. We stopped in Blanding to see an college friend of mine. It was such a fun trip and so good to see family and visit. A long drive, but well worth it. Oh yeah on our drive through Moab we got to see all the jeeps from the Jeep Safari. Next on our wish list a JEEP!!

Mesa Verde

Josie loved being outside

Such cool Indian ruins

Peekaboo

A coyote

Josie was so good in her car seat the whole15 hrs or more of driving

Camping with Brenda at Angel Peak in NM

On the road again. Such a beautiful drive

Twin rocks in Bluff Utah. I would live there if it wasn't so far away.

The Monticello temple

Brenda took pictures of our easter egg hunt. Check her blog. http://brendablackburn.blogspot.com/

Video of Josie climbing the stairs at mesa verde

Spring is here

Josie and Carly enjoying the beautiful spring weather
We made bird feeders with peanut butter and acorns. So far no birds yet.
Our date night on Friday we went to McDonald's and got ice cream cones.

We went on a hike up behind the golf course. We just hiked up a dry wash. I used my new pack and Josie rode with Daddy in our pack from the D.I.

Easter Egg hunt in Price. Josie and I practiced all week picking up eggs and she did rather well on Saturday picking up her own. There were so many eggs and little kids, it was crazy.

More projects

Our little dare devil. She thinks it is fun to get on our foot rest and rock back and forth. Scares me to death, so the foot rest spends a lot of time on the bed where she can't get to it.
It has been hard getting Josie to take naps in her crib, this is just one place she finally just crashed at.
Josie enjoying just one of my messes I make when working on things.
Felt shape box. I remember when my mom made these for my younger siblings. They are easy and lots of fun. You put a piece of felt on the inside and the felt shapes stick to it.
I got one of my old science books and went through and cut out every single animal and made this flip book of all different categories of animals. ( reptiles, horns, pollinators, desert, cold etc.)
I made my own princess matching game. I love to color and this was fun and easy to do.
I planted some beans, cucumber, tomatoes, and some flowers, and this is what came up. Now I have to figure out what to do when they get to big.

Fun Packed Weekend

This weekend was very eventful:

1. Friday: we went and ate the balance rock cafe for the first time. Such good food. We ran into our landlords and Josie had fun eating the super buttery toast.

2. We came home and camped out in our living room in our new tent. It was so much fun, but would have been better if we were outside.

2. Saturday morning we woke up before day light and drove up to Emma Park Road. Once there we met up with some rangers and looked for sage grouse. It is their mating season and the males put on quite a display. It was cold so we only got to see a few. We were able to borrow some scopes of other people there. We saw the males strut, gawk, and blow up their air sacks.

3. Came home from the sage grouse and ate breakfast, got ready for the day and did a few chores.

4. We went and saw the baby chicks at IFA. Josie couldn't stop cooing over them.

5. We went the to open house of a for sale by owner. We loved it and may end up buying it. It is so beautiful inside. My favorite things about it were: Yard, peach trees, deck, stainless steel appliances, stainglass windows, and large family room with a fire place. If you want to see more it is on KSL classifieds.
6. After seeing the house we came home and did some research on buying a home and looking into all those details, since we know little or nothing about buying a home.

7. We went to a furniture store and looked around for fun.

8. We went to Tony to see if we could win a free car. There were tons of people there and it was really cold. We had fun although we didn't win. Josie was really good and had fun staring at all the different types of people.

9. Came home ate some dinner watched some "Monk" ( Our new favorite T.V. show) and went to bed.

GOODBYE WEEKEND CAN'T WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEKEND!