Holiday Trifecta

Well it is obvious we don't update our blog that often so we are grouping three holidays in one... so deal with it.
First up.... Halloween ooooooo And here we have our wonderful pumpkins that we carved. We also participated in our first Trunk or Treat where we displayed our pumpkins. Then we took them over to our friends and put them on their porch so people would see them since we don't get trick or treaters. (Megan's left and Kenny's right)
Next up... Sir Gobbalot. Doesn't he just look delicious. Thanksgiving was just the two of us which was great. That also meant a lot of leftovers just for us... ok mostly Kenny.

And finally, bum bum bum bum our Christmas tree. It has come such a long way from our first Christmas, we had one strand of lights and a couple of decorations, it would have made Charlie Brown cry a little. Thanks to after Christmas sales we now have a beautiful tree.

We wanted to get our tree up as soon as possible since we are heading out to Utah early. So, we thought hey lets do it on Thanksgiving day... yeaaah bad idea. After all the cooking and eating, it was pretty painful getting everything out and putting up the tree.

Maybe we will have another post in a week or two... or maybe not.

Summer Visitors Take Two

Ok Ok Ok it has been forever since we updated our blog, but here it is. I know you have all been waiting for it. First, Megan's parents and sister. Second, my parents came to visit our little place out here in Denver.

(Not a great picture.)

Doesn't this look like the most beautiful day? I mean look at that blue blue sky. Pictured above is called the Garden of the Gods. This is located just outside Colorado Springs. It is quite beautiful. I really enjoyed the almost perfectly shaped trees surrounding the rock formation. It looks like the trees are trimmed by an army of gardeners.

It was great little stop before we went up to the BYU/Air Force game. In fact, Colorado Springs is a nice little town as well.

Megan, always the perfect model.

The beautiful day made for excellent conditions to watch the game, even though we got a little sunburned and BYU lost. It is still a neat experience to see a game at the Air Force Academy.

Much of my parents visit was spent working on our china hutch. When, Megan and I got married my dad promised to make a china hutch for us as a wedding gift. He does wonderful work and we, of course, were very excited. One really old tree from Preston, ID, a new work shop, and 3 years later the master piece was finished.

It was worth the wait! This is going to last us forever.

Summer Vacations!!

So we have finally updated our blog. It has been a long time coming. This past summer not only did we have great visitors, but we also got to go on some great vacations as well. It started out with the Jaussi Family Reunion at the Westergard's cabin. Now, these pictures are not in order.
On the drive back to Colorado, we drove through Farson and stopped to have ice cream. Growing up we often stopped here to grab ice cream. This is their 2 scoop ice cream which is their small. They go up to 4 scoops. Megan says she will never get 2 scoops again.

This trip was so fun and exciting that it wiped us all out especially Eliza.

There were canoes, kayaks, jet skis, four wheelers, and the motor boat. Plenty of things to occupy our time.

And of course, smothering the newest member of the family, Makia.

A Jaussi Family tradition is stopping by Big Judd's to have lunch. Big Judd is famous for 1 lb hamburgers, which nobody gets. :) Don't we look cute in our matching shirts?

Our other great adventure took us to Florida. My sister Liz and her husband Dave adopted their first little girl Jessica. The family all came together for the sealing of Jessica to her family. First stop, Orlando. One day was spent at Universal Studios Island Adventure.

Harry Potter land at Universal Studios. This was by far the best part of the whole park and most popular. The set and buildings were amazing.

There were great ways to immerse yourselves into the World of Harry Potter like drinking Butterbeer (cream soda with butterscotch topping) and lunch at the 3 Broom Sticks.

Second stop, Jupiter. Liz and Dave took us letter boxing. Basically, people post clues on line that lead you to hidden boxes that have stamps in them. When you find you stamp your book with the stamp in the box and use your stamp to mark the book in the letter box.

If you go to Florida you have to experience the ocean or at least the inlet right next to the ocean. We got to see a bunch of neat fish!

Ok, this is back up in Orlando, but we went to Downtown Disney. Megan did not mean to wear this shirt to Downtown Disney. We stopped at the lego store. The dragon behind us is made of legos which is awesome! All and all we had a pretty amazing summer.

Summer Visitors

We had a fun and busy summer this year. Really fun summer. Our first visitors of the summer, and in our new home, was Mom and Dad. This is at Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park.

We spent one day in downtown Denver. We went to the Capital Building had dinner at the 16th Street Mall and then wen to a Rockies game. A very long and hot Rockies game.

This is a cute little marmot at Rocky Mountain.

And the highlight of the whole trip, at least for my Mom was the Keith Urban concert. It had rained a couple of hours before the concert so the ground was nothing but a muddy mess. But it was still fun to go.


A couple of weeks ago we had the Liston's come and visit.

Russell was so nice and helped Kenny replace our counters.

Look at how much better our kitchen looks. Thanks Russell.

We spent one day at Water World, the largest water park in America. This picture is at the end of the day, so we are all pretty worn out. The day was kind of cloudy, but that was okay because the lines were really short.

This is the beach at the Cherry Creek Reservoir. Also a somewhat cold and cloudy day. We tried to go on a little walk afterwards, but we were eaten alive by mosquitoes.

And once again this is Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a lot of fun having the Liston's here and my parents. Can't wait for the next visitors to come.

Stake Youth Trek

The cutest grandparents ever! On the trek we were the grandparents of our little family. They called a Laurel and a Priest to be the Ma and Pa and they were in charge. We were just there to make sure no one got hurt.

Our family. The kids arrived at the church for the trek at 5:30 am to find out that they were in assigned families. They were given a number and told to find their family. They weren't with their friends or even people from their ward. We didn't know anybody anyways so it didn't really matter. Though it would have been nice to have some kids from our ward, but whatever we had a great family.

Walking through the mud. Probably the best part of the whole thing. :) (I am being serious it was a lot of fun going through the mud).

This was a huge muddy and unexpected hole. There was a huge drop off the went right up to my thigh. You can see me in the background with two of my girls. The three of us decided to cross the mud holding hands, we could have walked around it, but I'm glad we didn't. Luckily, we were holding hands, or I would have fallen at the drop off, my girls held me up. A lot of flip flops were lost in the mud. Note to people in charge of the next trek: flip flops are not good water or mud shoes.

Going as a grandparent was the best way to go. It sounds horrible but I could get away with not doing anything, unlike the kids. I only pushed the cart once during the Women's Pull, "Oh you want dinner, you better go get it," "What clean up time, I guess you better do that." Our family was really great. They were hard workers and very proactive about helping. Since they were all away from their friends it was hard to keep them together. That was the most tiring part, getting the kids to stay together. All in all it was a lot of fun. Will we do this again in four years...maybe ask us in eight.

Rocky Mountain National Park II (The Bear Lake Excursion)

Here we are at Rocky Mountain National Park. We were feeling bored and I needed a break from studying for my Prelim Exam. So, we decided to make a spur of the moment trip up to the park.

Bear Lake is a little lake that can be reached easily by the roads. There is about a mile trail that circles the lake and the hike was a little harder with snow drifts. Obviously, it is a beautiful little spot.

It is great being in Colorado with the mountains nearby. Makes a great trip and vacation, wink wink.

Megan is our little tour guide. There were sign posts all along the trail, we stopped at everyone and Megan read very enthusiastically all the fun facts about the lake, wildlife, and region.

Mother's Day

See that beautiful mixer I'm sitting next to? That was my wonderful Mother's day present from Kenny. Along with the flowers. He really spoiled me. I love holidays that give an excuse for me to get presents!
We've really been needing a mixer. Up to this point I've been making bread by hand, and that pretty much sucks.

To celebrate our new mixer we made cookies! It was so much better than with a hand mixer.

Don't those look delicious? They were, especially the cookie dough! I love my mixer!