For sale by owner

Yep, that's right, we finally nailed the for sale sign up.It's a pretty cute house in the winter, eh? (see and winter brings out my Canadian side)
So if you know anyone who might be interested, have them check out our house blog:
www.138RexburgIdaho.blogspot.com. Thanks!!


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Our Anniversary... not a disaster.

See how happy I am? This was a great anniversary. Ben decided to surprise me, and he sure did! First we went to Toucano's, I Brazilian restaurant with all-you-can-eat meat and chicken hearts and other great things. I had to excuse myself while Ben ate the chicken hearts. If you know me, I am NOT a big meat person, and big hunks of meat make me feel queasy. So you can tell how thrilled I was by the big meat...

Then Ben said we had to be somewhere by a certain time. So we raced there. We stopped at some ampitheater, and I figured it had to be a concert. I REALLY REALLY hoped it was a Jack Johnson concert, but I had guessed that a week before and Ben had gotten mad at me since he said if I thought it was that I'd be disappointed by what it really was. So I tried not to guess that, and as we're walking up to the concert arena I kept guessing names of bands we like.

It wasn't until I saw the merchandise booths that I found it was a Jack Johnson concert! I was so excited! Ben and I got his newest cd, Jack Johnson tee-shirts, and relaxed on the grass with cheese and crackers.

The concert was a blast! We stood and danced and sang along the whole time. Jack didn't do any commentary really, but he did stop in the middle of a song because some had said something disturbing. A man had yelled "I want my wife to have your baby!" and Jack hit a wrong chord, and he said it kept running through his mind. He (jokingly) asked to see the guys wife, and told her she was a "lovely lady" before restarting the song.

All in all, it was a great anniversary!

Ben has been DYING for me to blog and brag about this anniversary. Why would a husband desire that so much? Maybe that's because of the stories I tell about the previous anniversaries. Curious? Well, if so, we'll start with the first anniversary...

Our 1st anniversary my parents came and stayed out our house for the weekend. It fell on a Saturday, the Saturday of the Rush triathlon, so Ben was gone all weekend. At least my parents were there to celebrate.

We decided to something a few days later. Ben surprised me with a trip to the "Bar J Wranglers." The show and dinner were awesome. We were then going to camp at Jenny's Lake and hike the 8 miles around it in the morning. It wasn't until about 10pm (still at the show) that we realized we had forgotten our bags that had the tent, sleeping bag, water, camera, food, etc. You know, just the basics. We decided, hey we're hard core, let's tough it out anyway. Keep in mind that Indy is just 6 weeks old, and on this trip with us.

So we ran to K-MArt and bought a sleeping bag. We parked on a side street in Jackson, in front of someone's house, and slept in the back of the car. If they were curious who it was, they could have looked out the window, the light in the car was on every two hours while I nursed.

A view of Jenny's Lake

We hiked around the lake with a diaper bag, filled with water. We took turns between carrying Indy in the one-shoulder snuggli and carrying the one-shoulder diaper bag. Needless to say, after about 6 miles we had rigged the diaper bag around our waist and were carrying Indy outside of the snuggli. Anniversary #1.

Hmmm... On to Anniversary #2:

We concluded the whole "bring your kid with you" on your anniversary was just a plain bad idea. So this time we left Indy, and went on a 3-day backpacking trip (again, a few days after the RUSH triathlon, which fell on our anniversary). We were going to hike from Jenny's Lake (why do we keep picking that spot?!) through Cascade canyon, Hurricane pass, and start through fox creek, take a trail to summit Fossil Peak, and come down the other side and out through Darby Canyon. That's what we were supposed to do.

By the way, we had just found out that I was pregnant a week before. We hadn't told anyone, but we mentioned it on our filming Which is how my mother-in-law knew months before anyone else.

The first day was great. We made it all the way to Alaska Basin, covering over 10 of our 20 miles total. We figured, hey, the next two days will be a piece of cake! While I was cooking our dinner at Alaska Basin, our camping neighbors yelled "Bear!" I was good safe distance from the tent (I am a bear-ophobe.) I look, and coming up the grassy hill towards me, is a black bear! I back slowly away from my stove (stupidly carrying my food with me,) and call to Ben for support.

Ben whips out our video camera, filming how close to the tent the bear comes. He has the bear mace, and his helpless pregnant wife is alone with the food. Catching this on film takes top priority. I love dramatizing this part.

Anyway, the bear actually went to our neighbors tent and then left. We saw him again in the morning, but only at a distance.

Day two it rained. Poured. All day. And we covered about 8 miles. And got lost.

Really it was the 3rd day that we got lost. The trail to summit Fossil Peak didn't exist. I wasn't feeling well (morning sickness) and didn't really feel like bushwhacking. So we kept going through fox creek. Except the trail disappeared. And Ben found some bear mace, and thought, Free bear mace! and picked it up. Little did we know it had been used, and got on Ben's hands, face, and in his eyes. He cried for a few hours, and for some reason seemed bitter when I whipped out the camera to catch it on film.

Then we decided (using our GPS and topo maps) that we could bushwhack to an unknown road, and take that in. (We had already gone like an extra 6 miles more than what we expected). So we did. Excpet the unknown road was really the parking lot of some explosive company, and as we were hiking there was all this rubble and warning signs about explosives. Once we got onto some real roads, we called family to let them know why they hadn't heard from us earlier like planned. We came across an old man on a four-wheeler, and were trying to convince him to give us a ride to our car, when our 3rd black bear came up onto the road, not 20ft from us. The man's dog hopped out of the 4-wheeler, and chased it off of the road, which was neat. So we ended up getting a ride back to the car, and all was well.

All 3 have been great, just the first 2 were a little more "eventful" than most! Thank you Ben for great anniversaries!

A new blog for me

Updates are coming... the pictures are on the computer, so I am one step closer. Summer is just too crazy for things like this!!

Anyway, I started up a simple blog to help sell a few of the things I like to sew. Check it out if you get the chance. Thanks!

http://sweetbabysomethings.blogspot.com/