You know you're tired when....

Your husband finds this in the sink and not the fridge after dinner

Tessa

So these pictures are a few months old, but I seriously love this little girl. She is SO cute!

 

 Don't you love her flower costume?

 

 

"What? I don't have anything..."

This is the Hawaiian dress Jake and I brought back for her from Kauai.

Riley Misses Jake

This is what happens when Jake leaves for work.

A Whole Year!

Swan Lake at The Capitol Theatre

Yesterday was our First Anniversary. Jake surprised me with getting the day off. We went to breakfast and got to spend the whole day together. We even took a nap! :) Jake made me dinner that night and then took me to see a Ballet at the Capitol Theater. I love the arts and hate that Utah doesn't have more. But I loved the Ballet, the atmosphere, the live orchestra. It was great. I can't wait to be able to spend more time outside of Utah, where there is Culture. ;)

Riley

Riley is now 62 lbs. Her ears are finally starting to stand on their own. We still have to keep posting them, but we're getting closer!

Ears standing on their own :)

This means, "I want to go outside!"

Puppy Gate for when we leave her home.

"RAWRAWRA" also known as Riley Back-talk. ;)

Riley's posts, this is what she's looked like for the past few weeks.

An Unwanted Investment

This all started about 3 weeks ago. We happened to be running the washing machine at the same time as the shower as well as using the toilet. When we went in to change the laundry, we noticed there was more water than usual on the washing room floor. ;) We called a plumber and they arrived around 9:30 am the next morning. After spending a couple hours on the roof, snaking the drain from there, they started at the street and tried to snake the main sewer line from the clean-out. A few more hours passed and they came back into the house to take the toilet off and try snaking the drain from there. They honestly spent ALL day here. I heard multiple phone calls where the plumber was calling clients asking if they could move their appointment. (which Jake and I greatly appreciate!) After a while he came out and asked us if we had kids, because they'd been pulling diaper wipes out of the drain for a few hours now. These guys were here until after 9 pm. The final conclusion was that the main sewer line had collapsed. They said so much junk was in it that it was being held open by the diaper wipes and slowly being allowed to drain through. Now, however, the sewer line had collapsed in a couple places, one of which was in the middle of the city street. After lots of researching we found out that our homeowners insurance didn't cover any of this. 10k later we got the drain fixed. They brought in a big "toy" and dug up our whole yard. They also had to truck in gravel from Geneva to level the ground under the new pipe. During all this waiting, (about 2 weeks) we couldn't use any sort of drain in our house. No toilet, sinks, shower, washer. Its amazing the little things you take for granted. :) So thank you Mom and Dad for letting us stay with you, use the facilities, eat you out of house and home, and of course torture Beau with Riley. And thank you for being so willing to help however you could. It means a lot to us. Although we would have been great friends with the 7 eleven employees by now. ;)

Things that must go, Round 2

• The RECESSION! (really can't emphasize that one enough)
• Provo
  
• People who think that suddenly they are professional photographers because they got an expensive camera.
• Homework
• Students who think they are in a private tutor lesson in a math class of 40. I'm all for asking questions, but come ON, can we get past ch 3 please?!
• Bills
• Lying
  
• Ulterior motives
• Debt
• Flaky, un-reliable Professors.
• People who can't say their S's without whistling.
• Drama
• Manipulative People
• Fractions and Polynomials, lets just say Math classes all together. :)
  
• Health Problems
• People who get dogs and just leave them tied up outside. Whats the point?!
• Snakes
• People who make blogs out of pictures and videos that OTHER people created.
  
• American Idol (enough is enough)
• Forgetting where you parked your car in a large parking lot like UVU (I do this almost every day!)
• People who walk slower than a 95 year old with a walker down the middle of the aisle at the grocery store.
• Overly Sarcastic people
• People who say "okay" or "yah" after everything you say.
• Lady Gaga (seriously, she's gross)
• Dog hair on the couch
• Leggings
• Cursive (who writes in cursive anymore?)
• saying, "I seen it"
  
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Winter!