Our Last Three Months

This blog is in leiu of Karens (Brady's Karen) threat to take our link off their blog if we didn't update ours...Here you are Karen! Enjoy!!! :)

Easter Fun:

We had Karen's sister and her husband come up to have dinner and decorate easter eggs. It was a lot of fun and Dave and I got really creative with our eggs. We won the contest! Okay, so there wasn't a contest but ours was the best!

This is Dave's egg. It is Humpty Dumpty. Classic!

A collection of all the eggs that were colored that night.

Karen surprised me by waking up in the middle of the night and hiding eggs all around the house. She said it was really fun but tricky to set her alarm, get up, hide the eggs, and get in bed without me waking up. What I didn't realize was that she snoozed her alarm for forty minutes! Oh how I love my fan! I didn't hear a thing.

I was really excited to find this egg...it was hidden in the shower. "Clever girl".

Karen went out and bought me this shirt for easter. It fits really nice, and she says it makes me look hot!

Critters in the Attic:

The first month that we were married, Karen and I were talking in the living room when all of a sudden we heard some thumping and scratching in the attic. We have heard it several times since! At first it wasn't that loud of a noise but as time went on the noise became increasingly louder. One night it was so loud we thought it was a "rodent of unusual size" and called for help. We told Paul and Angela about it. Paul was so intrigued, he wanted to come over for Family Home Evening with his boys and take a look inside.

The pictures below are when Karen was home by herself. She got so unnerved by the noise that she went over to Paul and Angela's to have them come and take a look. Unfortunately they didn't discover anything that night so an exterminator came, looked around, and put some poison all over.

To this day we have no idea what it is. Karen thinks it was a raccoon. Ideas have been thrown around of it being a bat, rat, pigeon, owl, and cat. When the exterminator went in the attic he found a carcass of a bird. I guess that eliminates the idea of it being a pigeon. Since the exterminator, we haven't heard anything.

Dad looking in the attic

Paul getting in the attic

and...Ryan looking in the attic

This is for Cory: Meals!

In February our fridge broke. It was still cold enough so we put most of the food on the balcony. In the morning we heard some strange noises coming from outside. We peeked out our window and saw that a magpie had pecked a hole in the bag and was eating our cheese. Here are the leftovers.

This is Karen making bread in the new bosch we got from our wedding. It works great!

This dinner may look good. We struggled making it. It was our first meal we made together. The potatoes were too runny. The gravy tasted like flour and we didn't have any real chicken. We used the chicken patties as a replacement. The corn and grape juice however, tasted great!

Our valentines day breakfast. This meal turned out much better than the potatoes.

We had NO food. We had not yet gone shopping and our fridge had broken so we threw out our eggs and milk. The water was a good substitute.

Random Activities:

We couldn't help but take this picture. At the Draper open house we were in line to get on the bus and saw this adorable looking kid with a one of a kind haircut. Maybe this haircut will come back in style.

Valentines day dinner at Breadstix. You can't really see it in the picture but Karen was clever enough to get a picture of the server (she is above the flower), who was hitting on everyone else's husbands. It was a good thing she didn't serve our table, Karen would have been upset!

Right before going to dinner.

This is just a before and after picture of me getting a haircut from Karen. It took about an hour and a half because Karen was so nervous about making me look good.
BEFORE:

AFTER: She did a good job

We got a gift certificate to go to Tucanos. I got really excited when I saw the grilled pineapple.

Just loving it!

Paul gave us tickets to go watch the Jazz game. We were seated on the 11th row. It was AWESOME!

Look how close we were. We were able to hear Williams yelling at his teammates.

GO JAZZ!

I am personally happy, and I may cry, but I am glad the Jazz won tonight! How bout them Jazz!!!