The Oven Rebellion

So my day started pretty normal. I took Justin to his bar review class this morning. Usually he walks to the bus and Dexter and I walk with him but he had alarm issues this morning. (He was still there an hour early to study.) So I decided to take Dexter to the park to play some doggie soccer since he didn't get his walk. The park was great and the weather was beautiful. Dexter was worn out and slept the rest of the morning.

I have been talking about making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for a couple of days and decided that I was going to make them this afternoon. So everything was going normally until the cookies needed to come out of the oven. I can't tell you what happened but I ended up dumping the entire sheet of cookies into the oven. I have no idea what happened??? How do you dump a whole pan of cookies??? Especially ones with extra chocolate chips??? Maybe it's a sign that Heavenly Father wants me to eat fewer cookies and would rather that I hit the gym a little more? Or maybe my cookware doesn't get along with my new oven? Maybe they preferred our old gas stove with the dent in the top so everything slid to the middle? Maybe my new stove just doesn't like me because this is the second thing that I have dumped in the oven and we've only been here a month!!! Twice in one month and it has never been a problem before!

And if you will notice in the picture most of the cookies (with their extra chocolate chippy goodness) slid right down in the crack between the door and the oven. It took me about 30 -40 minutes to clean everything up. There was cookie and chocolate everywhere... I took this picture so that I could laugh about it later rather than crying at that moment. I am sure that someday this will be very funny...but today...not so much. Luckily, the rest of the cookies stayed in the pan. Take that OVEN!

King of the Pants

You are probably wondering why I have such a ridiculous title on my blog. But you will have to read to the end to find out. SORRY!

The weather here has been so nice. It has been sunny and hot! This week it was in the 90's...good thing we have central AC! As a reminder of how great this weather is, I just wanted to do a little reminiscing. Valentines Day 2007. We were snowed in...I couldn't (not just because I didn't want to...but really because I really COULDN'T) get out of our garage to go to work that day. We also got another huge storm this past winter and didn't leave the house all weekend. We are talking feet of snow people!! The very efficient Cleveland Snow Plow Team (1 man who works in 5 minute shifts every other Tuesday with his rusty shovel) never plowed the road in front of our apartment building...EVER! These are just a few of the reasons I am enjoying the hot, not humid Idaho summer! So BEAUTIFUL! Poor Dexter, someone threw him in a snow drift (I wonder who would do that????)

So a couple of weeks ago I was able to go home again and visit my family. Jared went through the Temple in Logan. It was pretty cool. I haven't been through the Logan Temple before!

Mom and Jared

Mom, Jared and Dad
(P.S. - I took a bunch of pictures of you three and there are about 2 pictures that are good. In the rest of them you are either talking or laughing or your eyes are shut! You kids are a little difficult!)

Ok, Now we come to the KING OF THE PANTS. Well really they are more like gym shorts, but for our purposes here today, they will be pants. We are dog people through and through. We love our dog and because we love our dog we tease him like we tease all the rest of our family. Sometimes he gets colored, sometimes Justin tries to give him weird things to eat (like lemon juice and hot sauce - PLEASE NOTE - usually he is smart enough not to eat the things Justin likes to give him. I don't know if he can smell it's funny or if Justin's evil laughing tips him off.) and sometimes we put weird stuff on his head...this is one of those times....Ladies and Gentlemen, All Hail King of the Pants.

Justin and I find this very amusing. If you don't....too bad! Eat our shorts!

One of a million reasons

Just one of the million reasons I love my husband....he makes me laugh. He makes me laugh so hard that I cry and my sides hurt and I almost wet my pants at the dinner table. Good thing nothing came out my nose!

I LOVE YOU JUSTIN!

Pie and Picnics in the Park with the Pooch...

This is Justin not throwing pie in my face. Isn't he so NICE?? He is the nicest husband I have! Ladies and Gentlemen... $5.99 pie at Marie Callender's! (We got a key lime and a chocolate silk) They are SUPER tasty!

Since I got home from visiting my family, Dexter has been a little bit mopey. It's probably because we are completely boring, or maybe it's because there aren't 50 people for him to play with. We all really needed to get out of our apartment! On Saturday, we packed a picnic lunch, went to the store and bought Dexter a soccer ball and went to the park. The weather has been cooler (weird) but sunny. So, we enjoyed our lunch (turkey salad wraps - which I looked at some recipes and made something with what we had on hand - turkey, egg, apple, green onion, mandarin oranges, craisins, mayo, a little ranch dressing, some chopped ginger, salt, pepper and chipotle Tabasco sauce - sounds weird but it was super tasty) and relaxed a little bit. I played soccer with Dexter while Justin (you will never guess...) studied. It was nice to get out and play in the sunshine.

So, Justin bought this set of flashcards to help him study for the bar. We go over them together during or after dinner. I ask him the questions, he explains the answer and then we will go over what the card says. It's been nice because I feel like I can contribute something to his studies. Plus, I have learned a lot about the laws and exceptions to the laws and exceptions to the exceptions to the laws....

Other than that, we are pretty boring, we are both still applying for jobs, trying to unpack and Justin studies like a mad man!

Home for a visit!

Friday I left Idaho and went to visit my family in Utah! They were very excited that Dexter and I could visit. Justin couldn't go because of his bar review class. Poor Justin! All he did all weekend was study! Grandma and Grandpa Cranney invited him over for dinner and it's a good thing too, otherwise he might not have had any vegetables all weekend long! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

So, Friday night we went to get some Mexican food at Javier's. It was SOOOO GOOD! Then we went to see Prince Caspian. I thought it was good! Saturday I ran some errands with my parents and just hung out. Sunday we had a cook out! We roasted hot dogs (Hebrew National - All Beef Franks, cause they are tasty) for dinner and had s'mores for dessert.

Grandma, Jason and Jen roasting their dogs. Tasty!!

Dad, Mom, me and Jared roasting our dogs. (Ketchup only, no mooseturd for me)

This is my brother Jared!! Hello Jared - You are on my blog. He is going on a mission next month to Everett, WA. He is going to be SUPER AWESOME! Love you DUDE! Jared is one of the funniest kids I know. HE IS CRAZY!! That's why we like him.

After our dogs, the coals were perfect for mallows, so we made some S'mores! Who doesn't love a s'more? No one I know!

Justin and Jared enjoying some S'mores.

These are the pictures I got when I asked everyone to show me their S'MORE LOVE!!!!

This is my Dad. He is one of the most calm, boring people I know. HA!

Mom and Jason loving their s'mores

Dad and Jen's See-S'mores

Even Grandma was in on a little S'more Love. Nice moves Granny!

We had some left over marshmallows (the big ones), so Jordan decided that he was going to see how many he could fit in his mouth...(Mom is rolling her eyes at this point.) He could only put 9 in his mouth before he...well...lets just say we were laughing so hard that he might have gagged a little bit and lost his mallows in the bushes.

For $5, I was going to beat Jordan's sad little 9 marshmallows. So, I did 10 and the bushes didn't get any of my mallows! NICE! Take that Jordo!

Me...Winning!

My Mom isn't so keen on marshmallow kisses. Weird.

On Monday, Mom, Aunt Sue and I went to this crazy little Mexican place (No, I can never get enough Mexican food!) by my Aunt's house and I got fajitas. When they brought out the plate, (this is not an exaggeration, this is the Honest truth, you can call my Mom and ask her) the plate was big enough to hold a large pizza. It's true! I had enough leftovers for at least 2-3 meals. It was crazy! That night we went bowling and had a blast. We played one game for fun, one game of Skittle bowling (Each color of Skittle is associated with a certain ridiculous way to bowl - you get a random Skittle before each turn) and one game for some dough. Dad won $10 because he is a cool bowler. (He won by 1 point!!)

I had to come home today because I had a job interview this afternoon. We will see what happens...

Anyway, I had a great time! Thanks MOM and DAD and Crazy KIDS! Miss you!