May odds-n-ends

We've been cutting lots and lots of stickers!

My hunny knows how I love Hot Chocolate, so he bought me this super cute ceramic/polkadotted cup to use at work every morning. Keeps my drinks hotter longer ;) Yumm.

I've been finding lots of yummy new recipes and trying them out {I know- wrong time of year for soup, but it was yummy}

Been lovin this + smothered, and Crazy Bread!

We got to go see my good friends- Nichole and Taylor's new house a few weekends ago, and had to take them a "Happy New Home" Gift!

I spent a day on the farm a few weekends ago, and Trish and Ali came out to play too. Ali got to see her first camp-fire. Loved it! The girls' a natural!

Dad and Justin- Racing the Fourwheeler and Go-cart. Gotta love em.

Herculese

Some of dad's Hens had been sitting really well, so he left the eggs with them, and look what happened! 2 Babies! So cute.

Trish and My Thursday lunch ended up at Wingers one day, and you can't leave Wingers without eating one of these guys! Yumm.

Still trying to catch up with stickers!

They're Awesome.

I want this Skirt SO BAD! And can't find it for sale, so my awesome mom is going to help me make it, when I can find the fabric. {We need a JoAnn's so bad}

Houston

I spent April 30-May 3in Houston for work. Lots of traveling huh! This time was for a Quarterly Meeting for the Project Services group. It was a lot of flying, and hotel-ing, and flying, and hotel-ing, and flying again, but it was a fun trip!

I hadn't ever been to Texas before, and I was surprised at how Green it was! I was expecting Rusty Dusty Desert with Cactus and tumbleweeds everywhere.

My bad.

My iPad saved me during my many lay-overs between Vernal-Denver-Houston Then Houston-Back to Denver- Overnight- Back through Denver Airport and finally home to Vernal again! Whew.

They had originally booked us in some yucky hotel that we were all afraid to go to- luckily our boss got there before us and did not approve, so we got to move to the only hotel rooms left in town- which of course were the super fancy Suites at some Spa/Resort 12 miles outside of town. It was lovely.

After our meetings that Tuesday, they took our whole group on a "Team Building Activity" to the Astros vs. Mets Baseball game at Minute Maid stadium.
I had never been to a professional baseball game before, and it was super fun!

Driving into the City.

The stadium from the outside

We sat in row 5, at the end of the foul line. They hit quite a few foul balls our direction- thank goodness for all the little kids running around with their Gloves on catching all of them!

We also got to go to the Offshore Technology Conference while there, and it was super-duper fancy. The fact that I know just enough about offshore drilling to be dangerous meant, it was kindof boring- and kindof educational at the same time.

Of course, I landed in Vernal on Justin and My 4 Yr. anniversary and when I walked out into the parking lot, I immediately saw- he got the windows tinted on my car for me while I was gone.

So so nice in this hot summer sun!!

I also came home to one-sick-puppy. Ace hadn't been feeling good all week while I was gone and when I got home, he couldn't even walk up the stairs. Justin had taken him to the vet once already, but he just wasn't getting better. I had to carry him into the vet, and when I laid him down, he did the 'splits' - couldn't even hold himself up.
Poor guy! He had lost 16 lbs. and was super dehydrated.
Thank goodness for our amazing vet George that helps us with everything our sweet "kids" have to go through! lol

All-in-all it was a good quick trip with lots of traveling, laughing, good food and lots and lots of walking {sore feet!}. I love working for such an amazing company that lets me travel and take opportunities to learn and see new places whenever possible.

Today is also little Ace's 1st Birthday!

I remember the long night- 1 year ago all those whiney little furr balls were born. I'm so glad they're all growing up and doing well so far!!



Memorial Day Weekend

I decided to finish posting our pictures from the Super Busy/Super Fun Memorial Day Weekend, and I'll catch up the rest of my posts later.

We had a super busy weekend. Justin had to work, but I can't remember the last time I had a 3 1/2 day weekend {Lame sauce, I know}.

Friday I got off work early, so I had to run around downtown for a while replacing my debit/credit cards/checks, etc. since we never found/got my wallet back.

After Running errands, I went home and got ready for graduation. At the last minute, my plans changed, and my family wasn't able to go, so Justin took me on a date instead.

We went and saw MIB 3 in 3D. Justin thought it would be good, and I figured it would be okay.

Wrong.

It was dumb. And ugly. and did I mention dumb? And ugly?

Saturday, I helped Trish build a Super Cute "growing board" for Ali.

It turned out great and matches her room so well!

I can't believe how big she is getting now too! She babbles, and laughs and smiles, and will stand and hold onto my fingers. She's starting to recognize who I am now too. score.  I'm the awesome Aunt Chelsie ;)

After working with vinyl all morning, I cleaned the house all afternoon.

I mean cleaned! and cleaned! and cleaned!

Justin got home and he helped me clean even more!

It felt so good to have the whole house clean!

After all the cleaning, we went to dinner at The Quarry with his parents, since Monty was home for the weekend.

I got the Chicken Parmesan (thanks for the reccomendation Candice) and it was really good!

I'm so picky with how thin the Chicken is on Chicken Parmesan that I won't usually order it anywhere but Johnny Carino's- but theirs was perfect. Yummy!

Then we went back to the house and watched "Play the Game" on the big screen in the basement.

Oh.My.Funny!

We laughed so hard! It was Awesome!

Sunday morning, I got to go and watch Tyler bless Baby Zoey in their ward, and it was so sweet.

Then after going to my own ward, we headed to Jensen for a birthday party, and to visit with my Wadsworth Grandparents.

They came down from Wyoming for the weekend and we got to visit and play with them. Always a great time.

We also got to celebrate Grandpa Dee's birthday with him. He's always so fun to talk to and listen to all his stories about the farm and his family and what growing up was like for him.

On Monday- Memorial Day, I headed to Jensen again to go to the Garden Center with my family and buy some vegetables for the garden, and some flowers for the new flower beds I was planning to build, (aka my castle). After the garden center my Grandparents headed back over the mountain to Wyoming and Mom and Dad and I had to come into town to Basin Nursery to get a few things that we couldn't find in Jensen.

I got the rest of the things I needed and went home and started buildling "my castle."

When Justin got home, we went to Jensen to help plant the garden, but when we got there, we got a little distracted.

The girls and Tiffany and Jason were down and were buildling a "redneck slip n' slide/pool," so of course, we had to help.

Justin even got in his suit and went down the slide a few times. They had a blast!

Hailey got a little cold after playing in the pool, so she had grandma take her in the house and make her some hot chocolate. Funny stinker!

After all the watery-fun we planted the garden with my parents and headed back to town.

We had to go to Lowes and buy another pallet of Cinder-Blocks to finish "my castle."

Tuesday came and I was back to work- but right after work, we went home and finished buildling the flower beds, and got most of our plants in it.

It looks awesome.

All-in-all, busy, great, fun, warm weekend!

The latest project....

I'm skipping ahead a little bit in my "catching up" timeline, but I had to share a picture of what we worked on for most of Memorial Day Weekend and most of last night.

I'll post a before and after pic. later, so you can see the difference.

I'm calling it my castle- cause it's just that awesome.

Denver...

Now that I look through my pictures, I realize that they're 4/5 of food. I guess you can tell what I was excited about for this trip!

I got to go to attend a class with a co-worker of mine. Candice and I were "on the hunt" for good food. Although, the class we went to: "Petroleum Engineering for the Non-Engineer" was a great glass! I learned so much, and I also learned that I knew more than I thought I did, which is always awesome.

I'm basically a sucker for a good bakery. Candice got the "Cookie Dough" Cupcake and I got the "Snickers" Cupcake. They didn't disappoint.

The Lava Cake from "The Chophouse" -- I always expect lava cakes to be warm-- this one wasn't, so I  wasn't amazed. Plus I don't love fruit and chocolate, and that red "drizzle" was raspberry.

We stopped for Gelato at Amore's Gelato Shop twice while on this trip. It was super delicious. Candice tried starting with a small cup, but by the time she got all her "scoops" chosen, they had to graduate her up to a large cup. Pretty funny, but she ate it! It was super yummy!

Every time I see a Horse-drawn carriage, I think of my dad. He loves his horses and loves to hitch them up to the wagon and have them pull, so I had to send him a picture of the one that was at the 16th street mall.

The Bruschetta from Maggiano's. Our entire meal at this place was amazing. I love Italian food, so that might have swayed my "vote" a litte, but still-- so delicious.

Also, Note to self. Anytime I have to go back to Denver in the future, it is so worth it  to just Fly. It's a 1 hour flight on a tiny plane vs. 6 Hours of crappy driving a crappy company truck into a super busy city with crapp-ily named streets.

Never again, will I drive to Denver, unless I absolutely have to.

Little planes. They're the way to go!