yo yo idaho

we took a little road trip up to parker idaho to my aunt and uncles house.

i love that place and it was the first time that kasey and jord had been there.

we did so much, so here i go to fill you in!we took a break out by the rexburg airport with aunt jeane while watching the air show. it was really cool, the planes were super loud and it was cool to watch them drop from the sky straight down and pulling up like 5 feet off the ground... i cringed every time.

our next stop was yellowstone bear world. it was fun!
there was so much to do there and because it was fathers day weekend
kasey got to do some of the stuff for free.
they had a ton of baby bear cubs rolling around,

a petting zoo...

with a pregnant doe and some two week old triplet baby deer.

a moose named stilts, tons of elk, free carnival rides...
and besides letting you drive through the park you can ride in the back of a
topless bus and actually feed the bears and other wild life.
it was so cool.

jord loved it when the bears would wave for their food.
it was so cute, they would sit right back and throw their paws in the air.
but out of 28 black bears only 5 came out to see us.

the st. anthony sand dunes and egin lakes was so much fun.
i remember going out to the dunes with all the cousins and playing all day!
i loved it, but this was the first time that i had gone to egin lakes,
a natural spring where you can see the water bubbling up from the ground.

the rest of the time was spent at the cabin hanging out in the hot tub, eating,

chatting about the flowers,

playing with the cats, maggie & patty, and of course riding bikes...

thank you jack and jeane for letting us come visit!
we love you!

my husband... my babies daddy...
my love...
happy fathers day!i love you kb

happy fathers day daddy-oi love you

point one percent

thats me. or at least it was.
well i guess there is some sort of significance about that, me being part of the .1% in the u.s.,
in the world maybe. dunno. but i'm a part of it.
so let me begin...
so it has nothing to do with school, work, how fast i run, or even how many times a day i apply lotion to my weather hands...
it has to do with "the box".
you know, the box that always tells you its 99.9% accurate.
so as some of you know kasey and i have been enjoying
working on having a baby.
its been fun, don't get me wrong ;), but at times very upsetting.
the months just keep adding up and
maybe the tests just don't like to be peed on.
even after four months of meds
(with kaseys testimony of my many mood swings due to them)
we were done. it was time for the next thing. the expensive stuff.
our doc told us to take the month off and relax and then we will go for the artificial stuff the following month. so we did. we went to a bed and breakfast for my birthday and relaxed.
weeks went by, waiting to do our next step... nothing.
so we found our selves opening yet another box. negative.
week later, hey why not. negative.
and then a couple a weeks later (8 weeks to be exact) it hit me.
about every morning since... with all its glory.
so we retook yet another test,
30 seconds later our house was spinning.
kasey was running around yelling
'its positive! we did it! you're a mamma!'
and me yelling (in disbelief from all the past box experiences)
'more juice, i need more juice! i need to do it again!'
(graphic borrowed from heather)
so all in all, very much stoked...
now that i am starting to feel better in the morning and
trying to show my hubs that i love him tons,
and seeing a baby in my belly for the first time friday on the screen...
i wanted to cry. i'm stoked. our miracle.
now on to week 13....

10 years ago?

i graduated from kahuku high school...so can you believe it? i really can't!

has it really been that long... what happened to the time?
i really liked high school,
tons of learning, discovering talents and really who i was.
with loads of friends, waterpolo and swimming. i had fun...
good times, good times.

what do you remember about your graduation?

finally...

we were able to enjoy some nice warm weather all weekend.

i even got some sun on my face
and am starting to feel good in my skin.

i love summer!

while kasey was helping our friends frame their new garage the moms had a visit

and the girls ran wild.

bottom to top- kayla, megan and jord

they were back and forth from the playground to the pool.
baby shay (kayla's sister) was still sleeping so the girls had to wait to put their suits on sooo...
with me being me, hosed em. hey,
i would have loved it!

i have never heard so much fussing, so much tattle tailing...
experienced so much pouts, snuffs and dirty looks.
man, were we like that when we were kids???
but all in all, it is amazing how quickly they make up.
girls will be girls right?

{memory lane tag...}

opps just realized that it has been over a week since i have posted. sorry. i guess that you just need to be in the mood and i've been sick... so i guess no mood.

i was tagged the other day by trudi and have done that one before so i thought that i would

take a trip down memory lane this tag....

20 years ago i was 8. i had just gotten baptized a month ago at temple beach in laie and had convinced myself that i wasn't doing a good job at it cause my ctr ring was turning my finger green. no matter how hard i tried to choose the right, it was green. then my mom bought me a cool new one from the bookstore and it never did it again. i was amazed... i was 8.

10 years ago i was 18. i had just gotten back from europe with the photo club, had gone to my senior prom, and was just getting ready to graduate. i was so ready to graduate from kahuku high school and go onto college...

5 years ago i was 23. i was living down the street from my parents, taking a year off from college to make money and working full time at surf n sea in haleiwa. it was fun, surfing, talking about the surf and selling the surf to tourists. i also got to meet wayne brady, david hasselhoff, christine taylor, drew barrymore and bryan brown from cocktail.

3 years ago i was 25. i was living in orem and was packing up my things to move back to laie to go back and finish school at byu hawaii. little did i now that things just worn't going to work out the way that i planned and i would be moving back to utah at christmas.

1 year ago i was 27. i was anxiously waiting to go back to hawaii... for vacation... had just started a new job that i love... 4 days out of 5... |stress| and would be getting married in a few months to kasey. great decision... i'm excited to grow old with this guy... s-l-o-w-l-y.

so far this year i have been really cold. i am ready for summer to be here and tan my legs. i want to cry everytime i look at them. kasey and i have been trying to finish the house, but that is never ending. one of my christmas presents this year will be a finished house though.

today i woke up by myself(mind you i wrote this post on saturday and forgot to publish it). kasey is off framing a garage for his customer and i was able to sleep in for the first time in months. i cleaned the house, did laundry, still searching out that smell... ate some malto meal with tons of brown sugar and, yes ginger, contemplated making mochi. now what movie to watch???

this year my goal is to get kasey surfing, jord to ride her bike with out training wheels, finish the house, not get so cranky, sleep better, relax more, finish more books then magazines, be a better friend, a better wife and learn from my mother.

anyone that needs a post and would like to do this one, its fun...
i'm not going to tag anyone... its a free-bee... go for it!

{go speed racer!}

well, kasey is on a plane to north carolina to the nascar showdown with our friend, and one of kaseys vendors,
ozz daynes. jealous. to hang out in the pit... talk about cars and guy stuff.

the roaring cars, the burning rubber, the screaming mullet crazed fans...
oh yes...

pretty much ozz says that this is the race of all races and none other will compare.

okay, so this will be fun for kasey and he needs a break from work... but i miss the guy.

i've been cleaning and organizing since i got home... a bit bored... the volume is busted on kaseys big man tv... and so i am stuck watching movies on the other tv in the room... so i guess that i will have a lot of me time to read, catch up on my desperate housewives and lost on the internet
and do adventure walks with jord.

much relaxation is needed. happy wednesday.

happy mamas day mother!

i love you soooo much!

i'm glad that your my mother and that you,

are even still to this day, a kid at heart!

sorry, i had to put this picture in i love it!
that was the night that you kicked butt at ping pong!
love you!
i miss you so much, i can't wait to see you in 3 months!

happy birthday betsy wetsy...

never mind that we hardly got along when we were kids
(don't get me wrong though, we had alot of laughs too!)
i used to break your glasses cause i was jealous and wanted some, i would cut your barbies hair cause i wanted mine to stay pretty, i would color on your feet and legs while you were sleeping cause i thought it was funny, and i would 'borrow' your clothes after you went to school...
but you were always my best friend no matter how we treated each other...
i wouldn't trade you for the world... i'm glad that i have you!
and it was the little things that we did that made the memories...
like putting on all our shirts and walking down the street.
i love you sister!

{chores can be fun}

ever weekend jord has her list of chores. they usually consist of the same old things everytime such as make bed, pick up toys, dust living room, fold towels and pair socks and now since it has been a bit warmer out side, water the flowers... to earn something out of the bag... i'm not even going to attempt the money thing again until she is older.

on saturday while she was out water the flowers i noticed that she was watering the neighbors flowers, not ours! she said that she had to start with the 'roses'...

so then she went over and recruited her friends nico and mim to help her do our yard before the started to decorate the drive way with chalk and paint. needless to say, the whole drive was covered... until the sprinklers came on...