Merry Late Christmas to US!!!

Santa was a little late in getting to our house this year. I guess he was looking for the best product for the least amount of $$. We have been looking for a massage chair for a LONG time. We wanted to get one for each other for Christmas. Unfortunately, we couldn't find one for the right price around Christmas. Al (being the great bargain shopper that he is) found this one online. He ordered it while we were on our Moab biking trip and it arrived that next week! We are so excited. I think I could live in this chair...it is that good.

The chair has an MP3 plug in and the bass vibrates through the seat of the chair and the head rest has the other speakers.

Here is Al massage chair dancing. I will apologize in advance...you can here me cackling quite loudly in the background.

I think I'm just a little weird b/c I thought this was hilarious!

It is official...I'm in love with this chair.

Moab on Easter Weekend

Alan's family has a tradition of going to Moab on Easter Weekend. This came about for two reasons:

1. Jeep Safari

2. Jean's spring break (Jean is Al's sister)

Our land cruiser broke 2 years ago and we haven't fixed it since. So we have not been Jeeping since Easter 2007. I think the picture below is the "notorious" obstical that broke the front axel...
We have started going down and riding mountain bikes more the last year. Granted, Al and I are not in that great of shape and each time we go down to Moab with his sister and her husband, we feel even more out of shape! Jean and Kent are totally athletic and they kick our butts in that department 6 ways from Sunday. We had a great time (despite our lack of physical abilities!). One day, we biked on these trails that meander through downtown Moab.

Here is Kent (Jean's Husband) and Seirra (their daughter) on a BMX bike course:
Seirra was laughing and squeeling like crazy! It was so dang cute! You can see her smiling below. You can see the group of us biking downtown. Starting from front to back: Skyler, Kent, Seirra, me and Jean. Alan is taking the picture. We ended up in this awesome park that had all these musical instruments they had created. Al groovin on the bongos. Alan playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star



The second day we went on a ride called Klondike bluffs. It is about a 7 mile ride with some slick rock that even novices like me could do. :)

Here is Jean, Kent, and Seirra:
Al and I after the steep climb... View from the top:

Alan climbed out to the farthest peek and took some awesome photos!

Food Storage links...

Because of my obsession, I have searched and found some great resources for those of you who want to start using your food storage in your everyday cooking.

Here are my favorite sites thus far:

http://everydayfoodstorage.net

http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net

http://funwithfoodstorage.net/forum

http://mormonfoodstorage.blogspot.com

I hope you enjoy! They really are helpful and I've already started implementing some of the ideas I've found here.

My new obsession

Our ward had an emergency preparedness fair a couple months ago and I've caught the bug. So we have started our food storage and I'm super excited. I've become obsessed with organizing and reading all I can on how to be better prepared.

If anyone has good recipes using your food storage, please share.

Road Trip & Chunky Baby

I offered to travel to Ogden & Pocatello to perform environmental rounds in the VA Clinics located there. I had a hidden agenda...I wanted to see my sister and her cute, chunky, smiley baby, Ellie.

Ellie is so dang cute. She is interactive, smiley, and has the biggest bluest eyes ever! So I'm going to share some cute pictures and brag about my cute niece.

Look at her gummer grin!

Don't mind the slobber spot on her shirt.

Here is the cute family!

Ashley & Ellie. Ellie looks more and more like Ashley each time I see her. She is going to be a heart breaker just like her mom!

I really don't think she understands peek-a-boo yet! She looks a little confused in the picture below.

I must say, she is pretty cute! But then again, I might be a little biased.