Food Storage

Part of the reason I married who I married is the shear entertainment value he holds. He is always saying something hilarious. The things he says are usually funny because of the way he presents them. He will find a round about way of making a statement so I will agree with him.

Last night he came home and said, "You know when we are older and more established and own a house and land I am always going to have a meat cow, a pig, and chickens. (then he hurriedly said this next sentence before I could say anything else). The prophet tells us we need to be prepared, so that would be our food storage."
Yup. Very convincing. He is a keeper.

Dish Washer to Houses

This is not a complaint post. It is a post about gratefulness in the future. One day I will be so grateful for a dishwasher. One day I will have one of these shiny beauties.

I write this post because I am in the process of doing dishes right now. Process yes that is right. A tiny sink plus a pile of dishes means lots of soaking sessions for groups of dishes. I realize that while we are in this apartment I will be the dish washer. However, we are buying a house soon. Trevor is in it for the house. I am in it for the dishwasher (and a second outlet in my bathroom).
Speaking of houses.
As we are in this process of buying a house we go back and forth and pretty much everything. When to buy this year, what to buy, how to buy it, etc. Do we put down a down payment or use that money to fix up the house. What kind of house do we want a brand new one? an older home with character? Yup lots of decisions. Also a whole lot of learning about home buying. Who knew that you had to learn so much! All these new terms make my head spin sometimes.
I seriously think they need to have a class in college just for things you have to do as a responsible adult that you never learn about in school.
We put an offer on a house last friday. The house is a cute older brick home. It needs some work but its mostly cosmetic things. My favorite part about it is the gorgeous old wood floor that covers the entire upstairs.  We are waiting on the bank to approve the price. They are some issues right now. Hopefully they will wise up. Hopefully I will be moving to a place with a dishwasher. Then I will do a whole post dedicated to how much I love my dishwasher :D

Gorgeous!

 

Candy Bouquet

So my dad's birthday was Friday and Trevor's birthday is tomorrow. I made an awesome candy jerky bouquet for my dad. Trevor said he wanted one. Since I am a awesome wife and all I decided I would make him a candy bouquet. It was really easy and way cute and cheap. Here are pictures of them:

Dad's

Trevor's

So with my dad's I used full size candy bars and with Trevor's I used the fun size candy bars. I think I like the look of Trevor's better but I can't quite decide.

This is what you need if you want to make one. I bought all of these things at the dollar store.

• Glue gun/sticks
• Vase
• Rocks or filler for inside the vase
• Fake greenery 
• Ribbon
• Candy lots and lots or anything else you would like to use (I used jerky sticks too)
• Shikabob sticks or something of the likes

Then start gluing and arranging!

ADELE

Sometimes I find songs/artists that just get to me. I can play them over and over and never tire of them. Adele is one of those. I loved her before she was on the radio. Her voice is so unique. She isn't just another thin blonde crappy voiced pop singer. Right now her song "Rolling in the Deep" is on repeat for me right now. Plus the music video is amazing. There are so many things I love about it, her hair and clothes, the pile of broken dishes, the person dancing, the duct taped sheet on the wall, oh and the best part of it is the hundreds of glasses of water throbbing to the beat of the drums. It makes me thirsty. I feel bad for the intern that had to fill up all those glasses though!

Take a look!

"You Know He Married You For The Barn?"

Last year when we were still dating my husband decided that he would take full advantage of the 4 1/2 acres and barn my parents own. He bought 25 baby chicks, built a chicken pen in the barn and a run out into the field. He loved those chickens with all his heart. In fact he was obsessed with them. Any spare minute was spent "chicken whispering" as my family calls it.

The night before our wedding we had our wedding dinner. After dinner we were running around getting stuff ready for the reception. Trevor went off to do something for me. After awhile I realized that he was taking way too long. Sure enough I went out to the barn and there he was building a ramp up to the nesting boxes for his chickens. My reaction was that of any bride under lots of stress :S  I eventually laughed about it. Eventually being the keyword. Little did I realize at that moment what I really was in for.

Skip ahead a year.

Last Friday my husband and dad went up to Salt Lake to get some more chicks. They came home with a hundred and three to be exact. 103. So now the little flock has grown to over a hundred and twenty five chickens ranging in size from a enourmous annoying rooster to the cutest little mini chick you have ever seen.

 

 (This isn't actually my hand. It is some random person on google.)

Oh the chicks are cute right now but give it a couple weeks and they will grow and be between fuzz and feathers which makes them not so cute. My mom said to me the other day, "You know he married you for the barn?" Yup mom I know.

Come August when all the new chicks start laying we will have major amounts of eggs. When I say major I am talking MAJOR. Last year with the flock of twenty five chicks we were getting over twenty dozen eggs a week. Now add one hundred more chickens and BAM! Omelets galore! 

Oh and I also have two incubators in the second bedroom of my apartment. Give it twenty days and I may have some baby chicks hatching in my apartment!

So if anybody out there wants some real fresh eggs CLICK HERE!