A few more Blizzard Pictures

An eventful weekend in Park City. We went down to find some options for living this winter. Good news is we found lots of options. Bad news is we should have taken the Jeep! There was plenty of snow to be had. It snowed our entire trip. We saw some deer, hiked some hills and grabbed lots of classifieds. We were so grateful we did not have to traverse the pass during the night. THANK YOU mom & dad! I don't know if we could have made it.

Chris threw me the camera and said, "I'm in charge of cleaning off the car... you're in charge of documenting". What neither of us knew is how crazy the plow man was. I think he got pretty close to hitting me 2 or 3 times!

Chris loves throwing snowballs at me. The camera was my only save this time.

There was so much snow. The snow was above the bottom of the door, so opening it was fun, seeing all the snow get pushed and leaving a perfectly leveled surface. Here we have the tire barely showing above the snow line. Didn't help our chances the plowman had gone behind and made a nice little wall behind the car. We had fun digging it out.

Warmth Again!

So after a bitter cold night, we finaly have heat again! Plus the hot water! When we drove to school this morning it was 4 degrees. One of my teachers said it was -2 when he drove to school. We're just happy ours is back on and running!
Helps us remember how lucky we are to have heat. The people who settled places like Rexburg without heated homes were crazy... I guess they had fireplaces though.

A little Cold....

So the Gas company didn't enjoy that we ignored their letters for a week (while we were gone for Thanksgiving) so they decided to turn our gas off today. We're excited for the morning... it'll be WAY cold! But Chris already has the Gas company's number in his phone prepared to call them when they open tomorrow. We would be a little upset, since they never billed us so how were we supposed to know who to pay? but its funny enough that at least for right now we laugh. We'll see how things go in the morning. This will be the first chance I've ever gotten to practice lighting a pilot light after the many times my Dad has explained it to me "just in case".

Oregon Coast Thanksgiving

Short Hair & Chris Beard!We touched some of thoseLet me put my foot here...

The view from the Darrington's placeThere were a lot of stairs, but we climbed them all!Here We've got it figured out... other than the sun

More Salt Lake Pictures

Here are a few more of our favorites!

We love this picture... I think we look like we could be on a billboard

I cannot believe we got to ride away in a carriage! Little did Mom and Dad King know, but I always wanted to ride in a carriage in Salt Lake ever since I was little. It was perfect.

This could be some sort of movie poster

Steven and Jill voted best faces!

I like Kissing my new husband

I look a little angry...

I loved my wiggly dress!

Salt Lake Temple Pictures!

We finally got our picture from our wedding day in salt lake. We were very excited. So here are a few of our favorites (picked out of about 800)... its really hard to pick

Here we are just barely coming out of the Temple. I think we were pretty happy.

This picture is fun not only because of the sweet view of the temple, (and of 2 dang good looking people) but also you can see our shadows kissing on the sidewalk!

I think this is a close "giving the eye" face... Chris got a lot of those.

I love this picture of me and my dad!

I don't know why I love this picture so much... I just think its really cool. I'm glad my legs aren't showing, Julie's tan legs puts everyone to shame!

This is one of our favorite favorite pictures. We want to get this one printed HUGE and put it in our living room.

Chris looks very serious here... but you can see the beautiful pearl necklase from Mom King, and pearl earings from Mom Rice.

Everyone loves Chris... Especially his mom!

Yay! I love this picture. PS Cameo I LOVED my flowers! They look really good in this picture.

The cool boys. Steven has the best "I'm Cool" face.

We thought this picture was fun. A little weird... but still pretty cool. This is in front of the Salk Lake Temple Doors.

The Kitten we saved

One night Chris and I were sitting in our office, working on some homework. (I had convinced Chris to work 1 hour straight on some hard assignment without one distraction). Then we heard it. We tried to ignor it for a few minutes, but the noise got louder. We couldn't tell where it was coming from, so we opened the window. It sounded like it was right outside our window, and it sounded like something was dying. We both thought of our neighbors cat and ran to find coats and shoes. It was FREEZING outside. One of the coldest nights since last winter. We ran to my car to find my flashlight, took a little bit of panic digging to find since my car's dome light doesn't work (we needed a flashlight to find our flashlight). We ran around to the back of our building and a little lump of grey was trying to run to Chris as he picked the little guy up. He felt super cold. We took him up to our place and I sat with him in a blanket until he warmed up. We did a little research and figured he was about 4 weeks old, and too young to be away from his mother. He seemed to be on a constant search, even though his walking skills were less than pro, so we named him Diego after the little boy on dora the explorer (name by Chris). We tried to give him some milk, figuring his constant Meowing had something to do with food. But he couldn't quite figure out the whole milk in a bowl thing. He seemed to be able to smell the milk, go a little crazy, but he'd snort up a bit and start choking. He tried to suck on any skin of ours he could find. Then in frustration he'd start to bite. So we made him a little box and I ran to the store. 1 bag of cheap kitty litter and 1 free syringe later I had the kitten pretty well fed. It still was pretty hard to get him to figure out the syringe, but after a while I figured he'd eaten a lot. Surprizingly the kitten didn't make a noise all night, at least that we could hear. Chris put him in the farthest corner, white board over the box, then blanket, then 2 closed doors with pillows stuffed into the cracks.... so we didn't hear a thing. He was alive in the morning. So I faught some milk down him and we ran him over to our friends LeaDawn and Daniel early in the morning. (nothing was open before we had to be at classes). LeaDawn was nice enough to take care of him, then take him to a bunch of places to see who would take him. Finaly the Four Paws shelter took him in. In the end Chris got his homework done and we saved a kitten.

Oh if we could have a dog... and they didn't cost so much

We decided that if all was perfect... we'd like to get this sweet looking dog! Its a smaller version of a husky called the Alaska Klee Kai. SOO CUTE!

Matching Monday

Every Monday we have what is called- Matching Monday. So this Monday we double matched, so that when we were outside or inside we were celebrating Matching Monday
These are the hoodies we got for Easter down in Isla Mujeres. They are pretty sweet. And draw a fair amount of attention when we both wear them together.

Chris wanted me to put up these pictures of our pictures. We are slowly covering our blank walls. My cousin Heidi made this super cute fame for my bridal shower and I couldn't wait to fill it full of "happy memories" (thats what the wire on the side and little label say) I wanted to put lots of different things that Chris and I have done together. Dirtbiking with my family in the mountains, Hiking to the darby wind caves with some friends and climbing under a little waterfall, road trip to Utah to go sky diving, lost on a beach in Hawaii somewhere for our HoneyMoon, and the Sunrise that Chris proposed to me at on Isla Mujeres. Now we just have to find the right wall to put it on.

While we were lost on the beach, waiting for the bus to come back, we decided to take some fun pictures. So here we are trying to kiss from different picture frames. These are up in our hall, right across from our bedroom so we can see them right when we get up and going in the mornings, and remember-no matter how tired we are, how much work we have to do, how many homework assignments we forgot and have to hurry and do- that we are lovable and like to have fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

For a birthday Present Mom & Dad King gave me a new table! But the tough choice was picking it out. It was SO hard! So while I was trying to figure things out, we didn't have a table. We hit our heads on the light... and our plant needed some sun, so we killed two birds with one stone here. We used our couches and cofee table to eat... Here is the table. I love it. It is counter height and has a cool top with little rivet things. The legs are bomb-dig thick and the chairs have a nice cushion on them. It was my favorite table from any place we looked (and we looked at a lot). It had all my favorite things. I like the top with the rivets, the legs are thick so the table doesn't wobble when you push it sideways, I love the color of the wood, its square... I could probably keep going. But pretty much I love it. (doiley hand made by Granny)
This is the table with the leaf folded in. We'll probably keep it small unless we have a bunch of people over. Jill gave me that center peice! So while we were at the furniture store to pick up a diferent table than this one... I wanted to look at this one first. I had seen it before, and LOVED it, but the other table was a lot less expensive. Chris let me stand looking at the tables for a really long time. Even the salesman gave up on me... standing in the middle of all the tables holding my hands, looking around helplessly. He called out to see if I needed any help a few times, and laughed really hard when I said I was doing okay. I don't think I sounded convincing.

Chris knew that this one was my favorite. He walked over while I was standing in pain, looked over and said "I'm convinced". I was so excited I actually almost cried. We took it home and our neighbor helped Chris carry it up (I was afraid I'd drop it).

This is the table with the leaf folded out. Chris unfolded it just so we could take pictures! It still fits just fine folded out, but it is a little tight. But it will be perfect for games. We were excited to get one with a leaf so that it will last us a really long time. THANK YOU MOM & DAD!
This my birthday present from Jenise. I was so excited when I got it in the mail! Its a really fun shirt. The white/blue band wraps around and ties in the back. Its really fun. I need to find a different tank top to wear under it... the black isn't the best. But the shirt is WAY cute!