Internship

Third day in Arizona and the boys are hard at work. Literally. They had to work on a farm in 110 degree weather.  That should teach them to stay in school! haha When they came home they were filthy!

Summer

Last Thursday Brock and I finished up our Spring Semester at BYU. Lets just say that was the worst, most crammed semester of my life and I am so grateful that it is finally over!!! Now we can officially start our vacation, well sort of a vacation. We drove down to AZ with my cousin Jason on Saturday. The boys have an internship down here that my Uncle Dan set up for them and I am teaching swim lessons. So we are all working, but at least we are out of the Orem/Provo area for a little while which makes it feel like a vacation. I will say that I am missing the weather in Utah. I always thought that I would end up in Arizona after I finished school, but now that I am back I don't think I will live here... It is so HOT! I don't know how I ever survived summers here before. I am looking forward to this weekend. Brock and I are going up to Boise, Idaho to get out of the heat (yes already) and to see his cousin who just got home from his mission in France!

Utah Valley Parade of Homes

For those of you who do not know what parade of homes is you are missing out. It is a self-guide tour through unique homes (I mean some are REALLY unique) in the Utah Valley. Brock, Aunt Kari, and I spent all day looking at homes and here are some of the highlights...

THINGS I THOUGHT WERE INTERESTING

Cotton balls or  dust collectors?

Did they spray paint this design on their doors?

 This flooring was throughout the whole house. Looked like someone forgot to rub off the wax

 Stadium Seating?

 Where does the water come out?

 Tramp, low roof... not a good combo

 When we turned these on it got so hot! Guess you'll never miss a hair when plucking your eyebrows

 Craziest sink I have ever seen in a kitchen

haha just thought these were funny 

Toilet paper roll please

This bed had to be custom made and someone would have to take off their legs to lay here and read a book in the hole in the wall 

THINGS I LIKED BUT WOULD NEVER PUT IN MY HOME

 Maybe a cabin, but not a home with a dead deer on the wall

Liked the headboard, but didn't like it matched the wall color 

where is the door? My bathroom would be flooded. 

This bar is the highest bar I have ever seen. Even when Brock sat down it went up to his chin.

Yes this is to the master bedroom. Totally see through and you could even see the bed! They didn't think of that before they put in these doors 

Mismatched chairs, but different colors? 

THINGS I LOVED

 Cute little play room

This little door is in the pantry and goes into the garage so when you come home for the store you can just shove it all through the door instead of carrying a million bags into the house through the garage door. Brilliant!

 Indoor half basketball court. Brock said we have to build one of these. We'll see

The cutest little kids area. Set up with a play kitchen and a little fireplace with a sitting area. It was to die for and would make any child's dreams!

My Sunday

Last week Brock and I were asked to give talks in sacrament meeting about bearing testimonies through the way we live our lives. We just barely gave talks in our last ward, but since we are new to this ward they cornered us and asked us to speak, well they cornered Brock and asked him and he said yes for the two of us. Thanks Love :) He wasn't going to tell me about it until Friday since this past week has been crazy since it is the last week of Spring Semester. I had two papers and a final and this up coming week I have two more finals, but one of the members of the bishopric came over to formally invite us to speak so he couldn't hide it from me. Aunt Kari, knowing I had a limited amount of time helped me so much with it. How grateful I am for all her help!!! Brock however, saved to write the second half of his this morning. I don't know how he did it, I would be freaking out if I were him! Well anyways I think our talks went well, its over with and that is all that matters.

Then when I thought I was finally stress free for the afternoon, Brock has a grand idea to invite our friends over for dinner which he invited during Sunday School. I hadn't even thought of what I was going to make for dinner. Well I threw something together in the crock-pot (which we got four for our wedding if anyone needs one... we don't know where they came from). Then I had to think about dessert. Brock bought a huge thing of strawberries from Costco and there is no way we would be able to eat all of them before we leave to Arizona on Saturday so I had to find something that I could use all those strawberries in. I found a recipe for Strawberry Meringue Pie which was A LOT more work than I thought it was going to be. You are suppose to have refrigerated uncooked pie crust, but of course I don't just keep that on hand so I had to make my pie crust from scratch, then refrigerate it for an hour then bake it. Then I started to make the meringue and found that you needed lemon curd. Now why would I just have that in my fridge? So of course I had to make that from scratch as well. Lets just say a few hours later, a huge mess in the kitchen, flour on my Sunday dress, and no space to put anything else on the counter I finished... It actually tasted good even though it kind of collapsed.  Here is a picture of our eaten Strawberry Meringue Pie. Really Yummy!

Recipe: http://www.bhg.com/recipe/pies/strawberry-meringue-pie/