Our Vacation

So many, if not all of you who read this already know that Ricky and I just came back from a trip home to Idaho. We both took 3 weeks off and drove up there, and before you ask, yes it was a long drive, about 1,300 miles one way. But totally worth it. We got to see some great places and we had the freedom of having our own vehicle so that we didn't have to rely on others to get around.
We took shifts driving and taking pictures of the scenery. For the first part the only thing to really see was each other.

Me driving.

Ricky driving.

The road... and not much else...

After we got through New Mexico the scenery started getting prettier. These are a few of the pictures that we (mostly Ricky) took and I edited.

A cool hole.

The first mountains with snow we saw. Ricky hasn't seen snow for a year and was getting really excited about it.

A very pretty stream.

Train tunnels.

This is one of my favorites.
 We left early on a Monday morning and were in Salt Lake by Tuesday. We stayed the night there so that Ricky could tour temple square and the conference center. It was really cool. It's been almost 5+ years since I've been there so it was great to see it again.

Ricky and me on temple square.

The Salt Lake Temple. It's so pretty.

The cobble stone was so pretty with the moss growing in between them.

The conference center.
 Then we snaked over to Elko, Nevada to visit Ricky's dad. Neither of us have seen him or Lisa since our wedding 2 years ago, so it was really great to catch up with them again.
We got to see the great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt flats.

The Salt Lake.

I think it is a very pretty lake.

The salt flats were cool, but kind of boring. Once again not much to see.
I didn't get hardly any pictures in Elko. In fact I only got one.

This one of Ricky and his dad.

From there we made our way up to good old Idaho. It was great to be back with family. Both Ricky and I really loved it. It snowed while there so we went out and played in it.

I was a horrible aim with my snowballs.

Ricky was nice enough to not through snowballs but he did through snow at me.

We tried to build a snowman.

Ricky tried to help but when he put his ball on it smashed mine and then the snow stopped sticking together so we had to make due.

Our tiny snowman on top of the ruined one.
While there we got to go snowmobiling. Unfortunately we were having to much fun to take photos.
 We did have time to take some photos of us. You'll have to tell me what you think.

Us at Ricky's mom's house.

Us out by the River on a covered bridge.

We thought it was really cool, not only cause it was pretty but also because Ken, Ricky's step-dad built it.

Us at the train bridge.
I didn't get any photos of my family. We did get a few of Ricky's little brother. He turned out to be pretty good at taking photos. They looked posed, but he did it all on is own, I just edited them.

He's getting big.

This one isn't a posed as the others but it is still cute.

This one is by absolutely favorite one of him.
It's hard being so far away from family. I really felt like we've been missing out on so much cause we live so far away. We are both ready to get out of Texas. Now if only we can get orders then we will be great.

Ricky's Anniversary/Birthday Present

 This is Ricky's present. He somehow talked me out of getting a new car for our anniversary present and into getting him a new bike for his anniversary/birthday present. I honestly don't mind though, cause now I get to be that super cool hot chick on the back of the bike!

He is so excited to learn how to ride it. Unfortunately for him we are going out of town on Monday for 3 weeks so he has to wait till we get back.

For all those people out there who might be wondering about the bike it is a Buell Blast, 500 cc, 1 cylinder. I don't know what most of that means but I don't think I really need to, considering I don't plan on driving it anywhere anytime soon, or ever... :) And I'm ok with that. 

Valentines Day Present

Ricky has been wanting to get a bigger and better TV for about a year now. We had agreed that eventually we would get one but I honestly didn't think it would be soon. So Friday we went to town and we decided to go window shopping and just get an overall price range for TVs and sound systems, to sort of know what we were going to eventually have to pay. Well we found a really good deal at sears. We had agreed to wait till Tuesday to get it, but we changed our minds and decided to go back and get it that night. Lucky we got there when we did cause 3 other people showed up after us for the exact same TV, unfortunately for them we got the last one in stock. 

So to sort of justify getting it we decided to call it our Valentines Day present. 

Now I just have to figure out a way to get him away from it. 

He's home!!!!

Ricky's home! Life is once again wonderful. 

He's only been back a week so we're still in the processes of getting used to one another again. 

But even though we have each grown and changed while apart we still love each other more then anything in this world and life has never been better!

SNOW!!!

So as most everyone knows snow has come. A lot of it, and Abilene was not the exception. We got quite a bit, and it's actually stuck around for more then a day. Of course all the schools are closed, and a lot of the stores have been closing early as well. In fact I haven't had to work the last 2 days because of the weather. So you may ask yourselves, "Audrey, what did you do with yourself if you didn't work for two days and have pretty much been snowed in?" Well I'll tell you...

I cooked, more then I have for all of January. I tried to make tamales. They didn't turn out great but now I know that I can only improve on them from here on out.

But since the tamales didn't really turn out I had to make something that did, so I made mini banana bread loafs. Those did turn out really well. I ate two loafs that first day. 

I also tried to experiment with my muffin recipe and well those didn't turn out good at all. I also made pretzels. Those were delicious and are all gone. I would have gotten a picture, but I was to enjoying them too much and then they were gone. 

I've actually really enjoyed just spending my days at home, but today I was stir crazy and I needed a few things from town so I braved the weather and went to town. I don't ever remember driving on 2 inches of ice before now but I am glad that I was taught how to drive on ice, which is more then most of Abilene can say. I didn't get stuck and I wasn't ever scared of being out of control. Ricky, if only you could have seen me, I'm pretty sure you would be so proud. I drove like a pro! :) 

Progress on my project

Anyone who reads this knows that I have been doing a lot of projects lately. Well I have finally made quiet a bit of progress on my latest one. 

It has gone from this...

To this...

To this.

I'm almost done. I'm still trying to decide if I want to leave it white, or if I want to paint it a different color since all my walls are white. Or if I want to do a design on it. I don't know. What do you all think I should do? Any suggestions would be welcome cause I'm just kind of stuck.

Story time

If your wondering why is there a picture of an iphone don't wonder for too long. There is a story that goes along with this picture just below.

The story goes as follow... Not to long ago, Ricky was doing laundry, and without really thinking put a pair of pants in without checking the pockets, which isn't like him. Even he said it was weird for him to do that. And wouldn't you know it, he had his phone in them. He didn't realize until it was to late to save the phone. Needless to say he was very upset, so in order to help him feel better I told him that we could just upgrade his phone and I would send that to him. He agreed and that was the plan for about one night, but the next day he decided that I should upgrade my phone and just send him my old one, that way if he did end up destroying another phone it wouldn't be the new one. So I readily agreed and now I have the new iphone, and he has my old one. So for anyone who is reading this just know that my husband is the best, cause even though I was going to give him the new phone, he gave it to me instead. 

Thus the photo.