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.