Sunday, June 21, 2009
Batter Up!
Last Friday night we attended our first baseball game together. It was great fun. The Hooks are a AA Team that feed the Houston Astros (Anth just told me). We got to sit on the green grass behind the outfield, but they weren't bad seats, it's a pretty small ballpark (8 to 9 thousand seats). I was pretty disappointed that I didn't get to catch a foul ball (Anth just told me that we wouldn't have caught a foul ball seeing as we were sitting in right field and not on the baseline. I promise I grew up playing ball) but we got to see a beautiful sunset and we got to take pictures with the cardboard HOOK!!! If you come visit us before the end of September we'll take you to a game.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Louis, or should I say Lois, Graduated!!
Both the program and his diploma spelled his name Lois.
It was a fun filled day celebrating Louis's graduation. I can't believe he's 18 and all graduated. The big event took place at the Dee Events Center (you would have loved it Rachel). I'd never been there so that was fun. Brown and gold definitely don't go with purple. Louis graduated with a class of over 700. Lots of "you'll go far" talks and shout outs to those accepting diplomas. We went to the Timberline or Timbermine restaurant after (I can't remember what it was called) with all of Pat's family. It was fun to be there and join in the grand event. Congrats Louis!!!
It was a fun filled day celebrating Louis's graduation. I can't believe he's 18 and all graduated. The big event took place at the Dee Events Center (you would have loved it Rachel). I'd never been there so that was fun. Brown and gold definitely don't go with purple. Louis graduated with a class of over 700. Lots of "you'll go far" talks and shout outs to those accepting diplomas. We went to the Timberline or Timbermine restaurant after (I can't remember what it was called) with all of Pat's family. It was fun to be there and join in the grand event. Congrats Louis!!!
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Merry Month of May
May was a crazy month!! Here's a list of going ons and some pictures to go with it:
-We finished tiling the floor
-Sara Anne came home, left again and then came home again
-Anth Graduated from the U of U (Family- thanks for all the support)
-Sanded and painted furniture (thanks Joey)
-Moved to Texas (I came back to finish school)
-Finished teaching school (really June 5th)
-Now in Texas for good (fun apt)
-We finished tiling the floor
-Sara Anne came home, left again and then came home again
-Anth Graduated from the U of U (Family- thanks for all the support)
-Sanded and painted furniture (thanks Joey)
-Moved to Texas (I came back to finish school)
-Finished teaching school (really June 5th)
-Now in Texas for good (fun apt)
April 11, 2009
Anth turned 26!!!
We had a great celebration! He got some great gifts and then I told him I was taking him to a new restaurant in town, the Mikado. For those that have been there I'm sure it's great but Anth is not a fan of anything seafood-y. He was a bit confused and kept asking why I chose that restaurant. I told him I heard it was really good and I was sure he'd love it. Just as we pulled in I told him that we were actually going to Texas Roadhouse. He was pretty happy about it. The best part was that it was a surprise and his/my family members were all waiting inside. He was totally shocked! I loved it! Dinner was good and the best part is that they don't sing "Happy Birthday" to you, they have you sit on a saddle while the WHOLE restaurant gives a shout out Yeee Haaaw. It was hilarious!
We finished the night back at the house eating Banana Cream Pie! Happy Birthday Anth!!
We had a great celebration! He got some great gifts and then I told him I was taking him to a new restaurant in town, the Mikado. For those that have been there I'm sure it's great but Anth is not a fan of anything seafood-y. He was a bit confused and kept asking why I chose that restaurant. I told him I heard it was really good and I was sure he'd love it. Just as we pulled in I told him that we were actually going to Texas Roadhouse. He was pretty happy about it. The best part was that it was a surprise and his/my family members were all waiting inside. He was totally shocked! I loved it! Dinner was good and the best part is that they don't sing "Happy Birthday" to you, they have you sit on a saddle while the WHOLE restaurant gives a shout out Yeee Haaaw. It was hilarious!
We finished the night back at the house eating Banana Cream Pie! Happy Birthday Anth!!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Books...
I stole this from someone elses blog.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?Instructions:Copy and paste, then put an 'x' after those you have read.Tally your total at the bottom.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee(X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(x)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (x)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (x)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (x)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
I've read 36 of them! I now have some ideas of what to read next.
ps-I'll post pictures of Anth's party soon!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?Instructions:Copy and paste, then put an 'x' after those you have read.Tally your total at the bottom.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee(X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(x)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (x)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (x)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (x)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
I've read 36 of them! I now have some ideas of what to read next.
ps-I'll post pictures of Anth's party soon!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Happy Birthday Anthony!
Anthony is 26 today!! Happy Birthday! Now we're just 4 years apart :)
(I'll post pictures later.)
(I'll post pictures later.)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
SOLD
We just sold our tan, microfiber loveseat! I love Craigslist and KSL.com! I listed it around noon and the first man that called on it came saw it and took it away. We bought it a year ago and hardly used it so it sold for what we bought it for. Nice.
We're getting more and more ready to move. Plans have changed a bit. We were planning on leaving mid June but now Anthony starts the end of May so we'll drive down mid May, and I'll come back to finish school. I still can't believe we're leaving.
I'm in the middle of sanding our furniture and can't wait to finish it all so I can post the finished product. Anthony is also getting the tiling finished and working on getting a couple, last huge, projects for school completed. It's going to be a busy month. Also we're getting excited for Sara Anne to come home!!! We can't wait!
We're getting more and more ready to move. Plans have changed a bit. We were planning on leaving mid June but now Anthony starts the end of May so we'll drive down mid May, and I'll come back to finish school. I still can't believe we're leaving.
I'm in the middle of sanding our furniture and can't wait to finish it all so I can post the finished product. Anthony is also getting the tiling finished and working on getting a couple, last huge, projects for school completed. It's going to be a busy month. Also we're getting excited for Sara Anne to come home!!! We can't wait!
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