Damion's Mission Farewell

Our nephew is serving and LDS mission at the Salt Lake Family History Center.
He just had his farewell and is leaving for his mission on Friday!
We are so proud of him and know that he's going to be an awesome missionary.
Good Luck D, we love you and are going to miss you!

I'm a little slow...

I've been slacking on the bloggin life lately. So here are some things that have been going on in our lives over the last few months.

A). I went home to go to a concert with my big sissy and I got to spend time with my little boo bear.

Grandma made little miss this cute headband.



We had a "slaweeep over" together at Grandma's.

My sister and I went and saw the Queen of Country and The King of Country. I has been our tradition to go see Reba together since we were kids. It was absolutely amazing!







B). It's been a slooooow spring but it's here now.

The Pond by our house a couple months ago after a rainstorm.

C). My Brother Mike, his wife Nicole and my cute little nephew came for a brief weekend visit.





D). We did our annual trip to Yellowstone to look for animals.

Cyote



Bear





Moosey

Epic

Seriously? Seriously? I honestly cannot believe Harry Potter is coming to an end. I started my EPIC journey with the first book, "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" when I was 16 and I finished the last book "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows" when I was 24. It has SERIOUSLY been a huge part of my life as nerdy as that may sound. I have always had a couple year gap in between books and the films to satisfy my adventure needs (there has always been either a new book or a new film). I've finished the books and now....I will finish the movies...Tear:( I will have to find something new to live for....hahaha....
I couldn't resist posting this trailer on my blog, it honestly gave me chills and I can't believe I have to wait until JULY 15 to see the rest!!! Even though I know how it all shakes out I feel anxious to watch the madness go down.
You can either embrace my love for Harry Potter or you can judge me, the choice is yours:)
(Too bad this Harry Potter thing wasn't my idea....dang)

HAPPY MAY!

I had a sneaky friend plant these cute flowers in our yard on May 1st! It was such a fun surprise to come out of my house and find happy bright flowers in my yard. It has been a pretty gloomy spring so far and I've been itching for my flowers to be up and my grass to turn green. This suprise definately put a burst of hope in my day! (thanks Kiley)

HAPPY EASTER!

We wanted to thank everyone for their love and support with our Adoption journey. It is so nice to know that we have great friends and family all over the country who are willing to help us out. Thank you so much for your kind words and efforts to spread the word for us! Thanks:)

HAPPY EASTER

I love this time of year! I love all of the new life around us from the green grass, blooming flowers and trees, to new baby lambs & baby calves. It makes me happy to see the sunshine and blue skies again as well as the longer warmer days. This time of year always makes me excited to be out planting and working in my yard and garden. I also start counting down to our first hike and camp trip.  

Most of all though, I love this time of year to reflect on the blessings that we have through the life of the Savior Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful that because of his Atonement and Resurrection I can be with my loved ones. I'm grateful for this Easter Sunday to think about him and to remember the things that he wants me to be an do. I love the hope that the Savior brings into our lives, that there is always a way through him. Our life and happiness is built around the life of our Savior and his gospel and I know that through him is where we find our greatest joys.

Happy Easter

I remember Elder Holland giving this talk in Conference and it touched me so much. It made me think about the Atonement in such a different way and it still brings tears to my eyes when I hear him talk about the Saviors last days.

Read the whole article HERE.

OUR EASTER CELEBRATIONS

We ate all our meals today with some of our best pals. We started our day with a delish Brunch at John & Halsey's house with all the fixings you can imagine. Later for dinner we headed over to the Lennon's for a huge Easter dinner. I basically ate until my eyes popped out of my head, it was wonderful! I'm so grateful that we have good friends who take care of us even though the favor is RARELY returned.

 The Easter Bunny popped by our house and dropped off some of our favorite Easter treats! 

I love candy in all it's many forms and flavors but I especially love it when it is sold in pastel colors:)

'TILL NEXT EASTER

Our Adoption Blog

Many of you know (if you didn't know...now you do) that Brock and I were approved for adoption through LDS Family Services last spring. We are super excited to adopt and pray that we can piece our family together through adoption.

We are ready to take on a baby anytime, unfortunately it is not up to us. The Birth parents are the ones who study adoptive couples and then ultimately pick the placement of their infant. We have a profile on LDS Family services which is a great place for birth parents to browse couples but unfortunately it is somewhat limiting on what you can post about yourself.

Okay, so here's my point...we created an Adoption Blog! We felt it would create a better environment for people to learn more about us. It has been a lot of work and really time consuming, but it's finally done. I'm not 100% in love with it but it will do for now. Please take a peek and feel free to add our button (link) to your blog, facebook page or wherever  else you think that it would get some traffic. Adoption placement usually comes from "word of mouth" and through acquaintances, so we could use everyone's help. Also, the birth parents do not have to be LDS to work with us. Please keep us in mind if you ever know of a couple looking into adoption.
Here are our links:
http://kimandbrockadoption.blogspot.com/
https://www.itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/24348390/ourMessage.jsf

If you want.....

.....Grab this picture and add it to your blog with our link to our Adoption blog.
(you should be able to resize it, I don't know why mine in my side bar on this blog is so big. The one on my other blog isn't so huge).

Thanks again for all your help!

HOLY COW...8?

We just celebrated our 8th (holy cow) Wedding Anniversary! I seriously cannot believe it's been 8 YEARS already...craziness!

                                         
Wedding Day Highlights:
-Snow on our SPRING wedding.
-Starving and talking about food on the way to the Temple.
-Stoping at McDonald's to get some food so we could survive the day.
-Getting to the Temple late.
-Both our Mom's frantic faces when we finally arrived.
-Spending time talking in the elevator in the Temple and then realizing we had no idea where they told us to go.
-Getting lost in the Temple together.
-Freezing outside for pictures.
-Being late for pictures at the reception.
-Having that "awkward talk" with my mom & sister.
-Brock having his "awkward talk" with his mom.
-My cake getting knocked over.
-Casey driving us to our hidden car.
-Everyone being upset that we hid our car.

Okay so here are some of the top highlights over the last 8 years:

-Kim learning how to cook full meals for two people.
-Going to college together.
-Taking a Chemistry Class together (not recomended).
-Living in CHICAGO for a summer.
-Learning that you have to mix hot water in with Jell-o for it to set up right.
-Brock teaching Kim how to drive a clutch.
-Buying our first car Jeep together.
-Finding out that liquid dish soap doesn't work like dishwasher liquid soap does in a dishwasher.
-Vacationing like "grown ups".
-Brock Graduating from school & starting his career.
-Buying our first home and then buying our second home 9 months later.
-Learning how to build/manage a yard together: assembling a sprinkling system, building a fence, planting & re-planting trees and planting a garden.
-Living off of $500 a month while going to school. (I still don't know how that worked).
-Making lasting frienships.
-Moving to Montana
-Kai, Boog & Brutus
-Christmas together
-Brock buying a "grown up truck".
-Breakfast at 3:00 am at some random diner "just cuz".
-Sleeping in the back of our Jeep.
-Staying up late and eating junk food because we can.

There are many more hightlights but those are just of the few things that come to mind! We look forward to many more crazy and fun years to come:)

* We didn't do much on our Anniversary because it was a Sunday and I was out of town but Brock surprised me with some pretty flowers. He also finished up some projects around the yard and house for us!

Jake's Homecoming

 HOLA
My nephew Jake has finally returned home from his LDS Mission in the Dominican Republic. He severed there for 2 years and came home on March 2nd. We were able to go home a few weeks ago for his homecoming to see him for the first time in over 2 years. I was super excited to see him and visit with him but I literally spent less than 5 minutes with him the whole weekend. He was waaaay too busy hanging out with his friends and the hoards of girls to acknowledge any of his family. I was pretty bummed about it but at least I got to see most of my extended family so that was a bonus.

My brother Marlon & his wife Christy had a huge party after church at there house for friends and family. Here are some pics of the family.

The warm weather gave me spring fever like craaaazy!

My top 2 NEW Favorite Shows

I typically don't get into shows until they have been on the air for some time and somebody convinces me it's worth watching. For example, we had a friend bug us over and over again to give The Office a chance so we finally did and we've been hooked since.

In this season of new shows we've found a couple new favorites all on our own so I thought I would share the LOVE.

We have one show we watch on Tuesdays and we pretty much watch the entire Thursday night line up on NBC. That's about it and other than that we watch A LOT of reruns of our favorite sitcoms and A LOT of Basketball.

Here is our #1 NEW Favorite this year.....drum roll....

PERFECT COUPLES

This show is HILARIOUS, we LOVE it! It's about 3 extreme couples that are close friends and their relationships are all soooo different and eccentric. Here is the Wikipedia definition: Perfect Couples revolves around three couples at various stages in their relationships, yet who face similar problems. Vance and Amy are a couple who fight a lot and have a very active sex life. Rex and Leigh view themselves as relationship experts and therefore a "perfect couple", while Dave and Julia are considered the normal pair to whom everyone can relate.

Here is the Trailer to the series

( think that they changed one of the main actors since the trailer-weird)

The show is on Thursday nights at 7:30, you should give it a shot!

 

Our second NEW favorite is RAISING HOPE. This is our Tuesday night dessert and we look forward to it every week. We were huge "My Name is Earl" fans and enjoyed the white trash comedy. Raising Hope is our new white trash favorite and we think it is HILARIOUS!

 

This show is about a really dysfunctional family that is able to function even under their strange circumstances. Here's the professional discription:  A 23-year-old must raise his infant daughter, conceived by a one-night stand, with the help of his flawed family after the baby's mother (who has killed multiple boyfriends) is given a death sentence and executed when the baby is only six months old.

Check out the Trailer

The show is on at 8 on Tuesdays

ICE FISHING....

.......AT FORT PECK

We spent a really cold and fun weekend with our good pals at Fort Peck Ice Fishing. Brock and John spent most of the time out on the ice and Halsey and I spent time on the ice here and there. 

The first day we caught some Pike, which was super fun because neither Brock or I have fished for pike before. The next day we ventured out further on the lake and we were there for HOURS and didn't even have a bite. Oh and did I mention that the guys had like 18 holes going?....yeah, it was really lame fishing that day.
The guys brought an Ice Hut for me and Halsey to hang out in and we were FA-REEEEZING even with the mini heater going. Neither of us could feel our feet by the time we got back to our rooms, I even had the onset of frostbite on my little toe! OUCH!!!

It was a memorable trip to say the least and we had a great time despite the cold and spotty fishing.

We stayed in a motel built for stinky MEN! 

Halsey and I could NOT stop laughing when we first arrived because of the decor in the rooms. Also, I have never stayed in a room where is specifically asks you NOT to clean your fish in your room. Oh, and the drying hangers over the heater where pretty classy too.

We totally added to the "REDNECK-NESS" on the lake by pulling each other around the lake on Brock's Drift Boat trailer behind the 4 Wheeler. Yeah, it was ridiculous.

 

XCountry Skiing in Yellowstone

Brock and I have made a goal to make it to the Temple every month this year so a couple weekends ago we made the 2hr trip to the Billings Temple. After the Temple we did some quick shopping and got Brock a new suit and me some new running shoes. We also enjoyed a yummy meal at the Olive Garden.
After dinner we headed to Gardiner to spend the night for a weekend of Cross Country Skiing. Saturday morning we woke up and drove through the park to look at the animals. In the afternoon we made our trek to Tower Falls on our skies.
It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun skiing. It was a 5 mile round trip and a really great work out. When we got to the bottom there was a lone Buffalo at the bottom of the trail blocking our way. I was waaay too freaked out to ski past him. We had to wait awhile for him to move so we could pass.
We were planning on sitting in the Boiling River after but it was waaaay tooo cold for that, so we just headed home.

 

Brock suprised me with this...

The other day Brock brought this home and placed it in our office with out telling me about it. He was just waiting for me to find it on my own. One morning I went in there and flipped on the light to find this dead fish starring at me. Brock wanted to freak surprise me with my fish I caught on my fly rod a year previous. It startled me so much that I let out a yelp and he knew what I had just found.


A couple years ago I caught this HUGE fish on my fly rod and apparently Brock kept it and had it mounted. He says that he told me about his plans to do that but I have no memory of it. So here is my awesome fish that has found his new home in mine.

The newest creepy member of our "dead room".

I think it turned out really great and I'm actually really happy about that.