Meet Lou and Sophie

Advantages of rats:
They are super clean
They are sweet and very playful
They never bite
They eventually respond to their name
You can train them
They enjoy listening to MoTab

Lou

Sophie

Husband o' Mine

I married the accumulation of everything sweet, wonderful, amazing, and intelligent. He is the best man ever. Just thought you should know.

Hard times ahead for all of us

As Sariah and I were going into the temple this last Friday, we went our separate ways to the locker rooms and as I rounded the corner to mine, I noticed a sign that said "Name Issue." Just below the words was an arrow pointing in the direction of said issue, but as my eyes followed to where the arrow pointed, they landed on something unexpected: a little old man sitting quietly about two feet from the sign. He wore a suit and a confused look on his face. I couldn't help but stop and ponder on the how the situation came together. I finally concluded that he must've forgotten what his name was and his fellow temple workers were hoping to recruit anyone possible who could assist him in resolving what came to be known as the "name issue."

Aren't we a little old for this?

This was my first thought when I looked out the kitchen window. It also was running through my mind as I stomped around cleaning up the mess. The pictures only show a small portion, they got every tree in the yard and all the fences. Thank you dear friend or stranger who made us feel like the most popular sixteen year-olds on the block again...

View out my kitchen window

A New Way to Celebrate President's Day

While I was sitting around enjoying my day off on President's Day it hit me that I have never really celebrated the day before. Even through 20+ years of getting it off of school, I have never done anything to show my respect or appreciation for the presidents of this amazing country. So, Brett and I started brainstorming what we could possibly do to show them the respect they (most of them) deserve. In the end, we decided to start a tradition and to learn about one president each year on President's Day we also thought it appropriate to involve dessert. So, naturally we started with George Washington. We made this cake highlighting his most famous line and we read some facts about him on Wikipedia while we enjoyed the cake. It was a blast. Did you know George Washington was the only President ever to receive 100% of the electoral college votes. Way to go George!

Day after Valentines Day=A lot less expensive

Disclaimer: I tried really hard to get this pictures right side up, but in the end I decided you can all see them just fine this way and so I won't waste my whole morning working on it and ending up completely frustrated with my blog and then being too scared to add another post for another 7 months. So be happy with what you get :)

We are not very good about celebrating holidays on the right day. For Valentines Day, the Saturday before the actual day, we went out to this nice new Mexican restaurant called Milagros, it was delicious and surprisingly cheap. On Valentines Day, Brett took a test and I cleaned the house. The pictures below are what I did for him the day after Valentines Day. It's actually a really good set up because holidays last a lot longer.

Birthday's are fun!

We weren't actually at a rave...

Brett and I went to The Mayan in Salt Lake for my birthday! It was so much fun! The Mayan is a restaurant with Mexican style food and a crazy 3 story waterfall in the middle. There were people jumping and diving three stories into the little pool at the bottom. We also saw some cool trapeze stuff and there was a girl who did a bunch of cool stuff on two long curtain things. AMAZING! :) It made us really want to go see Cirque du Soleil, which, after later looking up the cost online, we decided will have to wait 10-20 years. The Mayan was really fun. We were very impressed by the food, the birthday dessert, and the entertainment.