My New Best Friend...

Yup, here's my newest best friend... the tissue box. I'm home sick with a nasty cold. :( I've decided that 2 days home sick is too many.

And this is what Stuart get's to come home to, my nasty pile of used tissues. Don't worry, I did clean them up today... and finally got somewhat dressed around noon. Blah.

St. Patty's Day!

Every year for St. Patricks day my family single-handedly keeps the green food-coloring business in business! This is our meal that we had the Sunday before St. Patty's Day. Yum! At least Mom didn't dye milk green!

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Sea Lions

So, these are the sea lions we can see from our condo window... this picture was taken from the beach however. They come every morning durring low tide and hang out on this rock untill the tide sweeps them away. It's pretty funny, they just lay there and twitch and scratch themselves enjoying the sun.

I climbed out to this point to get a picture with them, and almost fell! The rocks tend to get a little bit slippery when wet! :)

And here's Stuart enjoying the company of the sea lions!

Beautiful Beaches

Here are a few pictures of the beautiful beaches here in Oregon. We went walking at low-tide and were able to spot this poor little starfish waiting for the tide to return. So pretty!

Valentines Day!

I know this is out of order, but I figured the longer I wait, the worse it will be! :) For Valentine's Day we (Stuart, me, Paul, Whit, Mom and Dad) went to Texas Roadhouse. It was tons of fun. Great food...as Whitney is showing...and some lovely pictures... Mom and Dad! (and that man hand holding my face is Stuart's.... even if it looks like it should be mine!)

Oregon!

Yes, we are in beautiful Oregon! This was the sunset on the first day we were there...

We left Logan at 4:30 p.m. on Friday and arrived at our condo at 5:00 a.m. on Saturday. We were so sleepy.... this is us later in the day on Saturday, we took a few pictures before, but we looked sleepy, so this is us looking wide-awake!

Here's a picture of Stu on the beach. It really is a very beautiful place, the view from out condo is gorgeous. I'll post some more pictures a little bit later.

Sledding!

Nicole and Jeremy stopped by on Saturday and we all got to go sledding on the hill by our house! It was FREEZING outside, but it was tons of fun!

Makelle's hat may not have been super warm, but it was "cute"!

The Burton's.... plus Morty :)

Stuart catching some air off of nothing...

WHAT?!? A NEW FLU?

So, a few days ago I had a close friend (sorry no names) tell me a funny little story. She had the TV on the news but had the volume muted. As she was watching, the bottom scroll bar mentioned something about the HINI (obviously pronounced hin-e) flu. Now, this friend of mine was shocked to hear that there was a new flu out! It was only later that her husband was kind enough to explain to her that the "I"s she saw were actually "1"s! :) I'm sure some of you can guess who this lovely person is. Here's a clue for those of you who might get it: "Limiat-ed.... limitat-ed...." (lol)

For Annaka ...

Ok, so has anyone seen New Moon yet?!? This post was requested by my darling 18 year old sister Annaka. All of us sisters went and saw New Moon on Saturday night, we had a blast, and we all agreed that Jacob is HOT! This was the best picture I could find but his body is awesome. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. :) I thought it was perhaps important to point out what I got to go home to though! :)

MUCH hotter than Jacob!

I love you honey!

My Handsome Hubby...

As many of you know, Stuart is in the Young Men's Presidency. Well, all the YM leaders decided to grow mustaches for 2 weeks and then wear them to church together. So, Stuart actually grew a beard for 2 weeks (which was very attractive), then shaved it for Halloween (see picture below) and then to just the mustache for church. Now, I am a huge fan of facial hair, but after this fun little experiment, I've realized I'm not a fan of ALL facial hair! :)

Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! We had our annual party at our house. It was a ton of fun! These are all the characters that showed up!


We had a fun "candy-corn toss". If you notice Whitney, we had some cheaters... or maybe it was just strategy? :)

As per Paul's request, we had to have a drinking contest. Stuart's idea this year was to have O'douls to drink. It's farily obvious we don't have may alcoholics in our family as nearly everyone was gagging theirs down. Although, Justin drank his fairly quickly... :)

More Games...

Dougnut Eating contest! The kids were so cute, we let them go first and they were a little un-sure of what we wanted them to do, but they all got the hang of it pretty quick!

Then it was the adults turn...it's harder than it looks!


We also had a pinata! I bought it at the dollar store and it was made of cardboard... I guess you get what you pay for, the kids tried it for a while, then we had to call in the adults to break the stupid thing! :)

Just bad luck...

Whitney, Stuart and I went 4-wheeling today down at my mom's house. Stuart decided to go through the creek, well, he made it fine, but Whitney was only in 2 wheel drive when she went....

and she got stuck. No problem though, we sent Stuart for a tow-chain....

and he got stuck! Luckily we had 3 4-wheelers there, so...

we pulled him out then Whitney next, then I thought, "I'll bet I can make it through..."

and I got stuck! :)

Happy Birthday Howie!

Howie (Hadley) celebrated her first birthday today! We got to go to her party out at my Mom's house and we had a blast! She is such a cutie!

Cake

Hadley got to eat the center of her birthday cake all by herself. She was enjoying it until she rubbed her eyes... poor thing. I guess frosting doesn't feel too great in your eyes!

New Website

Well, it's official... Stuart has his own website! :) We've been working so hard at getting it up and running, and I think it turned out really well. Check it out for yourself
www.utahidahohomeloans.com. I can't believe how difficult it was to put together! We've worked weeks on it now... although if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy!

4-Wheeling!

The Brower-family boys go on an annual 4-wheeler ride every year. This year Justin, Michael, Stuart and Ethan went. They rode from Millville Canyon to Bear Lake (120 miles round trip). It took them 11 hours! They had a blast!

Stuart getting ready to ride.


Apparently it was necessary to "Fuel up" with some Mountian Dew before the big trip!

Here is Ethan securing the extra gas tanks.