My Favorites:

8 favorite TV shows:
1. We don't have a TV right now so we really don't watch much. When we go to my parents home we watch what they have on their DVR. So this is what we end up watching.
2. Lie to Me
3. Ellen

4. Office
5. American Idol
6. Darma and Greg
7. The Morning Show
8. CMT

8 Things I'm looking forward to:
1. Christmas Time
2. Summer Vacations
3. Having Big J's this weekend
4. Going to Costa Rica
5. Being busy at work
6. Doing a half marathon in my life time
7. Going to Wicked and having a fun day celebrating Chels' birthday
8. Elder Scotty getting home in December from his mission and then going back with him to visit after he normalizes...

8 Favorite restaurants:
1. Big J's and Pizza Villa
2. Cheesecake Factory
3. Jimmy Johns

4. Red Lobster
5. Mia Casas
6. Anything Italian
7. Olive Garden
8. The restaurant in Disney World at Epoct that serves the best Escargot!!

8 Things on my wish list:
1. Travel the world minus China, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, or any other STAN in general.
2. Get a yellow lab just like Daisey Mae
3. Live on every continent
4. Do a little bit of everything
5. Have a huge tree inside our house with a swing, rock climbing wall, sky light, and a couple of hammocks to relax in all year long
6. Open my own fancy Day Spa
7. Own a jet plane so that we can travel wherever whenever
8. Win a bazillion dollars

Kyle finished our kitchen today! He did such a great job. Kyle and I both agree that doing our dishes in a real sink is so much better then doing them in a bucket. It is so much fun that we can actually do dishes in the sink while looking out the window at the nice yard and apple trees. Also the cupboards are so nice to put our food and everything else in. So much better then the open shelves and unorganized mess that we used to have.

Here is the view of our living room. Our house is the BEST! Good work Kyle!

Our house under construction....

This was, in my opinion, the funnest thing to do in the whole construction process. It is no wonder why kids love to color on walls and have so much fun while doing it.

Kyle loved tearing down things. My favorite was a toss up between using the seldge hammer and just going crazy hitting the wall and throwing the ax at the wall and then doing it again trying to hit the same place twice.

Here is what our kitchen looked like without a sink and cabinets. My favorite is the lights.

Kyle taught me how to use a backhoe, I am a pro now.

Plumbing for the sink.

Happiest Day EVER!! We don't ever have to use a tiny little bathroom sink EVER again to clean dishes!! BEST DAY EVER!

Lets go fly a kite, up to the highest flight.....

Or until it crashes and burns into the river....

And we have to fish it out.

Friday it was a perfect day to go out and have a little fun with flying our dragon kite. It was a little on the cold side, but that is Rexburg for ya. The "wind" suddenly got really bad and flew our kite into the river. Dang wind....

The other day Kyle and I ran out of clean clothes and we still had another week before we were going to Preston. So we had no other choice but to go to the laundry mat. It was my very first time at a laundry mat. I will admit I was a little lost but we got it under control.

We live right across the street from the South Fork of the Teton River. It has been frozen for the entire time that we have lived here up until about two weeks ago. We decided that we really needed to go kayaking even though Rexburg is still in the dead of winter. Here is what became of it.

Ten foot snow drifts.

When we finally were at the end, Shane was drenched from head to toe, and I was drenched from my knees up. I bet another 30 minutes of being on the river would have turned us into icicles. Kyle on the other hand hardly got even a drop of water on him.

My helmet and sunglasses were covered in ice.

It was such a great adventure. It was both mine and Shanes first time. There was a part in the river where it turned into a huge opening and it was really windy at that time. That is where we got the wettest. Shane and mines kayak was meant to have wet suits with it and sat real low. Our skirts had holes in them and did not protect us as well as we would have liked. But it was all worth it!

A couple of Sundays ago we went on a drive to the Tetons. It was so beautiful and amazing! Here are some of our pictures from our drive.

Kyle thought that it would be funny to throw me in the snow. The snow was so deep!