General Confrence, Rockies and Amazing Cinnamon Rolls!

Well... I have a lot to blog about today! I guess that's what I get for avoiding it for the past week.

Thursday I was fortunate enough to get to go to the Rockies game with Gary, Eric and a girl Eric brought (her name was Erin). I don't really love baseball as much as I do football or basketball so I was a wee bit excited but figured it would be long. Well... we got there and luckily it was sunny and warm-ish. We were sitting about 8 rows back from the field so we had a great view! It turned out to be pretty fun and entertaining. We won which gave us a wild card so the fans were pretty dang excited!
Eric was asked to play a game between innings. He said yes and was pretty excited. When it came time to play and the camera was all ready the announcer decided he had a better idea! So Eric didn't get to play. He did receive a $50 visa gift card though!

Friday we hung out with Eric, Bua, Taryn, Kris, and Derick. We mostly just  at around our house waiting for everyone to show up, at which point 6 hours had passed and it was midnight so they went to go party and we went to bed.

Then, this past weekend was General Conference. Everyone always asks one of two questions so I'll answer them both for you.
1) What was your favorite talk?
Answer: I really loved President Monson's talk. I loved the service ideas and how it helped me see the millions of little things I can do to serve others!

2) What did you think the theme was?
Answer: I saw a few themes but mostly, love and service. I loved it!

We went up to Gary's parents Saturday morning to watch Saturday's two sessions and stay the night to watch Sunday's two sessions. I woke up at 7:00 on Saturday and make some homemade cinnamon rolls using a "Clone of a Cinnabon" recipe. They were amazing! We enjoyed eating them as we watched the Saturday Morning session. The rest of our weekend was spent just hanging out with the family and enjoying each other's company!

New Grass!

When we moved into the new house the yard was filled with weeds! We knew it needed to be tilled and that we should put in some grass seed but we were going to wait til Spring. Well, Monday morning we found out that the church was going to be taking out some grass to put in some pipes. We rented a sod cutter and ta da! We had grass! Ok, it was not that easy! The guys (Gary, Mark and their dad) cut sod for a few hours, loaded it up in the trailer, tilled the yard, we all raked and Gary's mom pulled weeds. Then we had to lay the sod. It was our Monday activity.

When it was all finished, we ran to Home Depot and bought a few flowers for the flower bed. It was dark by then but I was so excited to have a presentable yard that I put them in right away!

This sod business actually ended up taking another day since on Monday we really only did a quarter of the yard... So now it's beautiful!!!! I'm pretty thrilled to have such a nice front yard. I haven't taken pictures yet but I will put some up this week. With the new paint and the new yard, this is a pretty hip house!

Uneventful Weekend

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd give an update. Then I realized there is nothing TO update.

Gary is doing an amazing job selling SEO (search engine optimization) and web development for the business he and his dad started. They are bringing in enough money for us to get by. A few more sales and we'll be living cozy! If any of you know any business owners who need some internet marketing send them our way!!!!

I am working on finding a good job (that entails good hours, good pay and good location). I'm also helping out anywhere I need to or can. Oh my heck!! How could I forget? Gary and I are going to tax school! We're learning about taxes and it's overwhelming but fun!

Friday I got the opportunity to go to "Fantastic Friday" at the ward building in Arvada. Jeanette (Gary's mother) invited me and I'm SO glad she did! We helped do crafts and learned how to make egg rolls!!!!! It was simply AMAZING! SO FUN!

Saturday we spent the morning painting the outside of the new house!! Then we relaxed the rest of the day. Sunday we went to stake confrence, which was out in tim-buck-two- Aurora. It was great. After that we, as in I, took a nap and headed to Arvada to visit with Gary's family. We played Master Piece and had a delicious dinner!! After that we went with them to the youth fireside. The fireside was good other than the speaker did not do what he was assigned to do... he did give a great talk though!

Now for this week, I'm working on getting my Colorado driver's license! Pray that it goes well. I have to prove I'm a resident and I'm not sure how I'm going to do that... but my license expires in a couple weeks so I need to get my new one ASAP!

Opinionated Food!

Alright, I have been a little less than busy since I moved to Denver. I'm looking for a fun job, but those don't just come easy so in the mean time... I'm creating a new blog!! It's all about food and its just glorious! I'd suggest you check it out.

Opinionated Food

New House!!!

The tippy top is one of the livingrooms. Next one is From livingroom into "fish room"

Above: Dining Room!

Above are both pictures of the kitchen, behind the kitchen is my laundry room!

This is the lovely bathroom!!!

This is the bedroom!

and this is the office/spare bedroom.

We also have a family room off past the dining room but I forgot to take picutres of it. I'll post them another day.

Below are other not as cool pictures of the house! I'll add more when I get around to it!