Legacy

So. Today I got the sweetest letter from one of my favorite volunteer sites, Legacy House of Assisted Living. Which also included $20 to Sizzlers, a nice unexpected bonus. They are just the nicest people and that letter brought me right to tears, happy tears of course. I just love helping out over there. I love the people that live there and the ones that work there. Seriously, there have been times when I have planned to stay for an hour and left after 3. Time just seems to fly. This letter has just made my day and I had to share, which made me realize that I haven't posted any stories about the ladies and gents I've met at Legacy. And let me tell you, I have some good ones.

1. Alice. Alice has Alzheimer's disease, as do the people I work with most often. She loves treats! We will be handing out cookies and she will ask for some for her mom and sisters and friends and whoever else pops into her head at the moment. If you tell her to eat hers first, she will begin to hide her cookie or cookies in her shirt. We have to make sure she gets one for each hand. She also really likes men. She will often hit on the younger men, either volunteers or CNAs. It's hilarious. A pick up line would be something like, "If I wait up for you tonight what will happen?"

2. Coral. Coral loves puzzles. BUT there are things you have to know before you do a puzzle with her. If you start to get more pieces than her, she will get so frustrated with you. She has to win the puzzle. Also, one time we had to do the puzzle completely upside down, matching the brown undersides of the pieces. It was nearly impossible. She hates men.

3. Lafaire. She had 5 boys and went back to school at Utah State with the youngest one alongside. She always gives me good advice for marriage. This one is my favorite, "Don't serve your husband too much or he'll get used to it. He should do his own laundry." ha ha

sorry for the long post of words and no pictures.
P.S. Dal and I missed a week and the puppies should come next week :)

Pepper Puppies

Once upon a time our puppy ran away with a Great Pyrenees for two days. We were very sad and we missed her a lot. We were going to get rid of her puppies but it made us sad again. Now Pepper is looking miserable and waddling quite slowly. We are expecting Shag-Collie Great Pyrenees puppies Thursday or Friday :)

more posts will follow, I'm sure that the puppies will be adorable.
Hopefully we have better control over our human daughters. . . wish us luck.

TV Junkies?

Why yes. Yes we are.

Mike & Molly is on the list.

Castle is a favorite also. I keep watching just hoping and hoping that Castle and Kate Beckett will get together.

Modern Family always makes me laugh! And I wish they would have a new episode every week. Dalan says I am a lot like Claire. . . it makes us laugh when we both know he is right.

The Bachelorette. Ally and Roberto :) This addiction started in Nebraska. Not because we only had one channel, but because this was my girl night. Dalan would go to the neighbors and they would have fun roping and talking. I would have some time to be the girl who could take a long bath, curl up in a blanket, eat ice-cream & do my nails and watch the show.

The Bachelor. Brad & Emily. Totally wanted her to win! This was also considered my girl time and I watched it on my computer almost every Tuesday morning as I got ready for school. Unless I had a test and I would have to really focus and reward myself later in the week to be able to watch :) Luckily nobody I know watches this and no beans were ever spilled.

There are others to add to the list also. The Office. Outsourced. The Big Bang Theory. Parenthood. Hawaii 5-0, Two and A Half Men (although with him officially being crazy it's a little weird now), Seinfeld . . . . you get the idea :) We like TV.

Where I live . . .

I have little words {today}
So I will talk in Haiku
Sharing where we live

This is Honeyville
Sunflowers grow next to the road
The mountains are close


I am glad it's spring
And the dirty snow has melted away
And my puffy coat retires

{*except to keep off the rain*}

tractor rides with my hubby
making slow circles back and forth
singing and talking about life

I better get to class
to take a test I might fail
in front of the class . . .

Off Track . . .

Somewhere, somehow I got very off track. You see I had these intentions of blogging for thirty days straight which would create a blogging habit that I would not be able to stop. This little chain of events didn't quite line out just right. It's been a while since I blogged Day 9. Day 10, we'll call that today, is all about my favorite place to eat. . .

1. Texas Roadhouse. This is the place to go in Logan. It has such a fun atmosphere. They line dance down the isles, sit you on a saddle on your birthday and yell, Yeehaw! (which is embarrassing when it's you and so much fun when it's someone else) It is fun to go here with big groups or just Dal and I.


2. Applebees. This restaurant would not have been on my list just two months ago. Dalan and I went here for our anniversary dinner and it was so nice. Applebees needs to give credit to Dalan for me putting it on this list.

3. Last but surely not least is another of my newest favorites. We went here on our 2nd anniversary dinner . . . I know, I know. We are spoiled. (Thanks mom and dad) I want to decorate my house like Ruby River. It is so pretty and classy and cowboy. The food is great too.

So. there it is. Day 10. My favorite restaurants.

Treats & Photo Shoot

So be warned. This post has many, many of the same pictures.

This was the dessert I made for my almost-sister-in-law's bridal shower today. Brownie Pops.
(10 points for me Sheree liked them and brownies are her favorite)

They were so much fun to make, super easy and great for a chocolate fix.

I have also been playing with Photoshop, because it is Spring Break and I finally can do what I want. Which explains the excess of pictures. Sorry. Seriously. It's in my blood.

The bridal shower was fun and these were a hit.

I had intentions of trimming the chocolate around the edges, but I decided against it. Can't have have too much chocolate, right.

I like this one with the sprinkles and the shadow.

The batch made about 40 . . .almost 50!! It was great.

I wasn't quite quick with the sprinkles, it was a hard balance between too soft and too hard. It just made it look like I was trying to accommodate for sprinkle lovers and haters.

Pepper Today

Pepper was so exited to go on a drive with me today. Little did she know, it was going to be a very slow drive.

Following Dalan in the tractor on the way to Tremonton.

Once we got back home I captured some of Pepper's new tricks.
Here are a couple videos of Pepper's new favorite thing to do.
(For a better climax click the second video before the first . . .)

The background story: Sunday, a couple weeks ago while Dalan was still at church, I moved my truck next to this little blue trailer. I had had seen Pepper eying Dalan's truck from the trailer and thought it would give her some confidence. Of course, within a few minutes she had mastered jumping into my truck and when Dalan took his usual parking spot she made the bigger jump in no time. She can jump into mine with the tailgate up and all, but I think this is more fun. Now when Dalan asks her to get into his truck this is her method :) She's a good jumper.

1 year!

Tomorrow is our 1st anniversary :) And today I came home to beautiful flowers.
So pretty. I love them.

It has been a great year. I'm so glad to be spending my life with Dalan, he is the best husband and my best friend. This year has gone by so fast.

Thanks Dal! I love you so so much. I can't wait for many many more years with you.

It's been a while

I guess I haven't had much to tell anyone lately. Nothing exiting going on. Just school and work. School is suddenly completely boring and long. At one point in my life I loved school. . . I don't think it's ever coming back. I have made some great friends in my classes though. It is so nice being in my upper level classes. More interesting, even if I am reluctant, and I am always in the same classes with the same girls. It is nice to have little "reunions" after each semester begins again and reconnect. They are all so sweet and fun. It's funny how majors tend to have a personality that comes with them. Like when I compare people in Dalan's major vs. mine.

SLP:

• We are all type A
• we are full of stress
• we are perfectionists
  
• we all have a planner and strictly follow it

Animal Science

• very laid back, almost no stress
  
• not many planners

Now, just to clarify, I am not saying one major is smarter than the other. So not true. It is just funny to see how people react and handle different situations and how they are grouped together within majors. I had no idea that my personality fit so well into SLP until I was there. Now it makes me laugh that we are all so ridiculous. I wouldn't ever change it though.

Thanks for reading my picture-less thoughts and ideas.