A Little Fun

This 7 week while school has been out I have been painting. The houses that we manage have had a ton of rooms that have needed to be painted. I have had a lot of help by some of my friends.


While Amanda and I were painting the other day we decided that we should leave our mark and write our names on the walls with the primer. We figured that when we rolled on the primer and the other two coats it would cover it up. After we wrote our names I decided to write some more.


Ya I pretty much like love him a lot! We finished trimming the rest of the room and rolled the primer on. But it still showed a little. After we got the next two coats on it covered it up.


It was fun like our own little secret :)

Camping With the Fam

We went camping again this last weekend in Kilgore with both sides of our families. Alex and I have only gone camping with one side of the family at a time so it was fun to go with both. We camped in a different spot than last time so that we could get Paul (Alex's dad) and Justin's (Alex's brother) trailers in. On Saturday we took a little four-wheeler ride to the other camp spot to cut down some trees that were dead. The boys then decided that it would be fun to push a tree down. I wish I had a picture because it pretty funny. It was Alex, my brother Jordan and my sister's husband Devan. They went from tree to tree until they finally pushed one down. They were pretty tough. We went on some four-wheeler rides and the boys went and paint balled. Then we thought it would be to ride the four-wheelers through the creek next top our camp.


When we went to take our tent down we had a little hard time getting one of our stakes out of the ground. It was stuck really good!!!

Alex tried, my brother tired, Devan tried, but no one could get it out. They dug around it with a shovel and had almost the whole thing dug up. Finally, my dad got it pulled out, but he was very red afterwards. They decided that it must have been stuck in a tree root.

Bike Riding Fun!

Alex has started riding his bike to work so I ride with him and then I come back home. Then I make lunch and meet him at Porter Park for lunch. (Which is half way between our house and Alex's work.) Alex has a lot more experience riding bikes then I do, he had to teach me how to shift the bike. It has been fun riding to work with him, but sometimes I almost die by the time we get to his work because Alex goes sooooo fast. But it is good for me.

We decided to ride to the park tonight and swing on the swings. (swin* on the swin*s) Since it was only the two of us Alex had the camera and took some crazy pictures of me on the swing, but here is a picture of our bikes next to the swing set.

The Secret is Out!!!

So Alex and I had been planning and saving for a "secret" get away for a long time. I planned that on Friday night we could come down to Idaho Falls and stay in Destinations (a themed hotel) then on Saturday go down to Pocatello and stay in the Black Swan (another themed hotel). It was going to be our little secret and stress free weekend for us. The week had finally come of our "secret" get away. (This past Friday and Saturday) Alex got off work early and I washed the car to make it look nice. We packed our bags and headed down to Idaho Falls. We checked in at Destinations and looked around. We then decided to go to dinner. When we got out to our car Alex noticed that it was leaking anti-freeze. We drove to dinner and watched to make sure that the car didn't over heat. Dinner was great and we decided to drive back to the hotel. On the way back we noticed that the car was getting kinda hot. Then hotter and soon the gage was in the red and we had to stop. Alex looked under the hood and noticed a leak. We were going to need some help. Since my parents live in Shelley (like 10 miles from where we were) we called them. Our secret get away was not so secret anymore. My mom had to come pick us up and follow us back to their house where our car would have to sit until the following day when Alex would fix it. My parents let us borrow their car to go back to our hotel. The next day Alex called around to several different junk yards to find the part that we needed to get our car running so we could go down to Pocatello. He found a junk yard that had the part. We then went there and Alex and got the part our of the old car. We drove back to my house to fix the car. Alex put the new over flow tank in in like 5 minutes. We thought we would be on our way. Nope, that over flow tank wouldn't work either. We thought about our options and decided that Alex would skip work on Monday and we would again borrow one of my parents cars to go down to Pocatello. This time we got to drive down to Pocatello in my old high school and college car. What I like to call "the Beast." It is an old Ford Taurus that has had quite the life. This car is equipped with a door that falls off, a handle that falls off, and rumbles at times when driving 75 miles per hour down the high way. It also has a great AC where you roll the windows down , but only the front two roll down. Actually, it was fun driving the Beast again, it brought back a lot of old memories. We tried to get as much of the car in the picture as we could.

That night when we got down to Pocatello we went to Red Lobster. I didn't really like the crab legs or the lobster, but it was fun cracking them open and then Alex would eat them. We took this picture in front of Red Lobster ourselves into the sun. It is pretty much the best.


Then we went to the late showing of "The Dark Knight." Here is Alex calling to see the times for the movie. This movie was so intense! It defiantly kept me awake and that is saying alot!



The next morning we were getting ready to leave and I thought that I would changed the toilet paper on the roll. I took out the old roll and went to reach for the new roll and hear a plop! Half the dispenser thing fell right in the toilet! I called to Alex to help me and he dug it out with a butter knife. It was amazing!



The weekend wasn't exactly what we expected, but it all worked out and we had a really good time! It will be fun to see what the next vacation brings.