the two men in my life

regardless of what i say, kendall insists on having butch "cuddle" up with him on the couch. with the stove being as warm as it is in the living room it works as a tranquilizer for the dogs. it looks like it worked on kendall as well!

temple square

last weekend we went to temple square with kendall's brother's family. we met jason, nicole and their kids at the gateway and ate dinner at tucanos. we were really impressed with mckade. he actually enjoyed a lot of food we didn't think he would. he ate chicken hearts and liked them! gage spent a lot of the time feeding kendall and "frying" up some bannana bacon. it was pretty funny. after dinner we road tracks to temple square. the lights looked great as usually. it was so neat to see so many people gathering to see the nativity scene and also the christos. those few moments we had in front of the christos to ponder on the life of our savior was the only time when it was quite. it was a great opportunity to take a few moments in such a large crowd to think of our savior. i couldn't help but think of our sunday school class and how they just light up when they see the picture of the christos. their pure love for christ is so amazing to me and such a strength to my testimony. i am so grateful for this time of year! we really enjoyed our weekend with jason and nicole and were glad that we could also stop and see mark, bryson and brindy. it is great that they live so close to eachother and are in the same ward!

our pigs our here!

many of you have already seen our pigs because we are slow at getting pictures taken, but our pigs are finally here! we decided that if we named them fat names they would get really big and fat! the all black one is named tubbs and the one with the pink "collar" is named porky.

This is tubbs after he was eating his sour cream and cottage cheese!

Here is porky after he ate his dairy too!

EAT PIGGYS EAT!!!

we have also had the time to work on the fireplace more. here are some updated photos of the progress. hopefully the next photos will be of the completed project!

roxi loves to sit by the fire and keep warm!

we've been married a year!!!

happy anniversary honey bun! i love you!!!... and like you too! it's crazy that it has already been a year. a great year at that!

our first fire!!!

we just decided one day that we would put in a wood burning stove. the idea came from me just mentioning that my parents had a stove they wanted to get rid of. kendall said let's do it and started making the plans before he even looked at the stove or had any idea if it would even fit in our little house! well.... he went and measured it, hauled it to our house, and started "playing" with the wall he wanted it to go on. much to our surprise there was a chimney behind the plaster wall!!! now for a little history on our house, it is very old! the chimney is actually from the coal bin that is in our basement that was once used to heat this house. so... we decided to chip out some of the brick to see how much room we would have because this changed our whole plan of how to make the stove fit. so long story short, our furnace pipe had been put through the chimney so we had to re-route that (behind the wall and into the hallway) so we could fit the stove and use the chimney for the stove pipe. we have worked on it only a few days here and there when we have had the time and with much help from dad jaussi we are just about done. kendall and i positioned it on the platform tonight and started our first fire!! here was the progress. THANKS MOM & DAD FINDLAY FOR THE STOVE AND THANKS DAD JAUSSI FOR ALL THE HELP WITH THE STOVE AND GETTING OUR HOUSE DIRTY WITH COAL :) !!

a few things...

we were so blessed to have such a great garden! we thought this year would most likely not turn out really good mostly because the soil didn't seem that good and it's our first garden but WOW it's been amazing. we have been so blessed!! this picture is one of the carrots from our garden. the hand is kirsti's NOT kendall's, but still it's a good sized carrot!

this next video is of the dogs in our house playing with their rope. it's so funny to watch them play tug o war with each other. we are mostly putting this video on for mckade and gage. we figured they would get a kick out of it! we miss you boys!

have i ever told you how i feel like a little girl in her daddy's shoes??? i wear kendall's shoes around the house (of course because mine are put away... :) ) a lot of the time and i can barely walk! this was a fun picture just to show the major difference! of course his are the new bright whites! mine are my camping shoes.

once again...

unfortunatly kendall is hurt once again. he has torn all of his ligaments and possibly fractured his ankle, but it is still too swollen to tell. he has an appointment later this week with his doctor to check on his shoulder (which of course he isn't released from yet) and he will look at it again then. bet you can't guess how he did it!! anyway, here are some pictures of the damage.

summer fun

ahh! it's been crazy, but i am finally doing another post. i just got the pictures downloaded from when we went camping at the findlay ranch. i have been meaning to post some of them. it was a ton of fun! the pups really enjoyed themselves. they were completely exhausted for a few days after but they had a blast! we went up with my parents (reed & shelly findlay) and thanks to them we have pictures to show! the ranch is in bloomington, id. we love to go there to get away, see my grandpa, enjoy the camp ground and let the dogs run! and run they did! anyway... here are some pictures!

butch sleeping while he canroxi would climb under the 4 wheeler to get out of the sun

oh, and here is a video of the dogs following us on the 4 wheelers. it was pretty funny to watch. this is how they followed us all day long.. unless we were going fast and they were trying to run on the side of us!

kendall had his surgery

the day finally came for kendall. he couldn't wait to get his surgery and start the healing process... only because he can't wait to play basketball again. we had to be at the hospital at 8:30 wednesday morning. he had already done his paperwork so we just had to wait for them to take him. the surgeon was ahead of schedule so it didn't take very long. i was told to be back in about an hour so the surgeon could talk to me and show me the pictures. i ran home to take roxi to the vet to get her stitches taken out and then back home again to drop her off. once i got back to the hospital it was just over an hour. the surgeon basically followed me into his room and then spent about 10 mins showing me everything and giving me his instructions for kendall. i waited maybe 20 mins and kendall came rolling in. he was already asking to use the bathroom. the two nurses just looked at me funny and said "we don't normally let you go just yet". kendall just told them again that he really needed to go. the RN questioned him a few times about being ready and then we helped him up and into the bathroom. i think he only said it was okay because the bathroom was right across the hall (plus he probably didn't want to clean up the mess!). once we got back to the room the RN couldn't believe how well he was doing, so he set him up in the recliner and looked at his vitals. they were already back to normal. he kind of laughed and said "well it looks like you are ready to go home. you have already paid for the hour so lets be patient and wait a bit longer". he just kept telling us how he has never seen anyone come out of surgery so quickly. kendall is pretty proud of himself because he has just set a new record! the RN told us that he has never released anyone with 16's all across the board, let alone 10 mins after coming out of surgery. (only kendall can turn surgery into a competition!) as we have found, kendalls high tolerance for anesthetics is both a blessing and a course. his so called block (man epidural) that was supposed to last 18 hours really only lasted 3. we were home at 12:00 and in pain at 1:30. he is doing good now, but if it weren't for the cryo cuff he would probably still be in some pain. i just can't wait until i get to use it, that's my one perk of his surgery!

taking vitals

looking pretty good after surgery

kendall was excited for the juice

what a hard recovery!

cryo cuff

roxi's fixed

this is roxi right after we brought her home. she was still very much out of it the rest of the night from her medication. we had to keep her inside and away from butch. butch wasn't very happy with us. that night roxi would fall asleep standing and when she started to fall over she would jump and run away. you could tell she was scared cause she had no idea what was going on. we felt pretty bad for her. as long as she was bundled up in her towel and one of us was rubbing her she did all right. she is doing great now and gets her stitches out this week!

jaussi family reunion

these pictures are from our jaussi family reunion over july 4th. kendall, troy and jason were spending most of the time at the sand dune jumping and of course competing to see who could get the farthest. (and just so you know kendall won!) kirsti and merissa spent awhile digging trying to find snow, but didn't ever find any. guess it was just too hot.

love you honey!

here are some of my favorite pictures of my man! LOVE YOU KENDALL!!!