A House becoming a Home

Okay so here are some pictures from about a month ago to now, the bottom picture is one I took this morning! It's coming along great!Footings
That's dad and my Uncle Gary doing the floor by hand.
Top flooring is laid

Walls are up for the upstairs and exterior sheet walls are going up

My Cakes so far

So I kinda got sidetracked on the cake deal....what with school and work and the internship and everything, but here are some pictures of the ones I did in the spring/summer.

Here is a clown cake we made for class... I went a little too crazy on it..lol

Here is a daisy, my mom did the middle and got sick of it so I did the rest
This is a rose bouquet cake we had to make for class, I made it for my mother in law for mothers day
Here is Ally's graduation day cake. My mom paid me handsomely in supplies for making it. :D
Here is a three tiered cake I made for my parents 25th Anniversary party Jana and I threw for them. That was a DAY of baking!

Underneath this photo is one of Cadens 1st Birthday cake. It did NOT turn out like the perfect picture on the wilton website :(. The problem was mostly that we couldn't get the brown sugar to stick to the castle pieces. But the white chocolate seashells were perfect!

Whew!

Hey all!
It's about time for an update isn't it?

So Mitch and I are busier than we have ever been in either of our lives. He is taking five classes and working for two companies, on very little pay or on equity in the company, who are trying to get investor money for their video games. The promising of the two is SeekMobile Interactive, which is making a video game for the Iphone. Oem is moving very quickly with their investors and we hope to have him working for money within a month or so.

I am working for the Post office for one more week and then it's on to TSA to be a Security Officer. The federal benefits are awesome. Health insurance here we come! I get sworn in as a federal employee on Sep. 29th. I am also taking 4 classes and one other class where I do 8 hours of internship a week. I intern with Tooele City Police department and I am having a blast there.

The house is coming along awesomely and my dad is doing amazing work for having a full time job and coming home and doing construction all by himself. Mitch and I owe him more than we can ever repay.

We are also going to Arizona next week after classes and between leaving my job and starting the new one. We are sooo excited to go see Lee and Jana and our neice and nephew. We miss them a lot.

I'll upload house progress pictures tonight or so. Latez!

Eternal Marriage

We are going to be sealed for time and all eternity on December 27th! We are so excited. We love studying the scriptures together and praying together, its so fun! How weird eh? When did it become fun to me? Lol. Well I know when, when I decided I wanted to do it instead of doing it because I "needed" to. We would love to have any of you family members with us at the temple! So please get ready for that if you feel you would like to be there.
Anyway, we are still in the process of finding mitch a self sustaining, weekday only, part time job for school this next year which is coming up quickly. I am almost through the process with TSA and they should be contacting me soon about when I will do training and such, so I am very excited about that. Yay!

Oregon Trip 2008

Okay so I've finally gotten around to posting about our Oregon trip. We went back in June, lol. It was great. We left on a thursday and stayed overnight in Boise, then went on up to Portland and stayed with my aunt and uncle. Saturday we fished on the Columbia river with my uncle Buck, for sturgeon. It was the funnest fishing trip I have ever been on. We first fished for shad. Shad were the biggest fish we (my brother Jeff, Mitch, and I) had ever caught. Jeff caught two, Mitch caught one, and I caught three! I laughed at them cause I caught my three in the last half hour of fishing after they had already got theirs.

So after we get six shad, thats how many we need, we move the boat downstream a bit and my uncle hooks one of these huge shad to a hook and ties the string around it and throws it in! Mitch was astonished. He thought my uncle was going to cut these fish up and use a peice of them for bait, lol. So I have my pole and I've been in for about 10 min when I get a bite. My dad steps in to help me set the hook and then I began my fight with the monster. I reeled every little bit of that fish in to the boat. It took half an hour and mitch helped me lift the pole every few seconds so that I could reel again as I let the pole drop. This fish would let me reel him in a little, mind you, I had to do it very quickly, before he took a bunch of line with him. I probably lost a little more than I gained there for a little while. It was honestly one of THE most EXHAUSTING things I have ever done in my life!!! I finally brought it up to the boat and Buck stuck his hand into its mouth (It has no teeth) and pulled it a little up out of the water so we could get pictures of it. He said it was between 7-8 feet long and weighed about 200-300 pounds. Can you imagine how that hurt my poor little arms?!? Haha. It did. Alot.

After I caught mine and we set it back into the water (It has to be between 4 to 6 feet to take home) my dad used my pole and hooked another. This one was really big! Mitch and Jeff stepped in to help after a few minutes and the three of them fought that sucker for an hour and fifteen minutes, in which they got it close twice and it surfaced (after surfacing it dove and took line with a hell like fury). My uncle estimated it to be 9-10 feet and 400-500 pounds. They gave up the fight and layed around completely wasted from the exertion. Ha, it was A LOT of fun!

After that day we (Dad&Mom, Jeff, and Mitch and I) rented a van and drove up to Seaside, which is in Northern Oregon on the coast. We did alot of stuff in our week there, including visiting a small aquarium with seals, hiking and finding some sea lions in the wild, beachcombing, visiting the cheese factory, and eating at Mos famous seafood.

Here are some pics

Updates!

Okay so lots of things have happened in our little two person family that are pretty cool.

-We are debt free, as of June, and are currently saving our three to six months of expenses emergency fund.

-Jeff, Jana, Mitch, and I threw a surprise party for my parents for their 25th anniversary. It was great. Lots of people showed up and my parents were in awe. We did a slideshow of them, with music, a cake, and appetizers.

-Our trip to Oregon was very fun, I caught a seven and a half foot fish, and we saw sea lions in the wild on a hike.

-We went to the bishop and started the process of getting ready to be sealed in the temple. We were incredibly happy before but are even happier now as we feel the Lord in our lives more these days.

-Mitch's job sounds as though it may take off in a matter of weeks. (Please pray for this one with us!)

-Mitch has been going to school continously and is doing wonderfully, he's only three semesters away from his Associate's and his transfer to UVU. I am starting in a few weeks, full time, at Weber to finish for my bachelors.

It has been forever!!!

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. I have been doing all sorts of crazy stuff. Mitch is now taking three online classes and still working security, but looking to get a job with maybe UPS who has good incentives for students. I have decided to go to Weber State this fall and that should be a blast. I only have three more semesters until I get my Bachelor of Science so I am looking forward to that. Life is good. I'll write again later, gotta go run errands now!