Tuesday, November 23, 2010

I am no longer a teenager.

It's true, I know crazy. On Sunday the 14th I turned 20 years old. I know this post is a little delayed, but we had a CRAZY week starting early Monday morning. So a week and two days later my birthday will get a little recognition.

Saturday was my "birthday day" with Joey. He took me to a movie at riverfront in the morning, dinner at the white house grill, yum! And then we had cake and presents with his parents when we got back. I LOVED/LOVE my birthday presents.



Here's my banana split ice cream cake mmm...




Okay maybe I already knew what I was getting, but still, I had to show how excited I was to be getting it





YUP! I finally got a sewing machine! I'm just reading how to use my new toy...what should my first project be?

Thanks Plumb family for the gift, I love it.


Sunday I spent the day with my family and my mommy made me whatever I wanted for dinner and a DIVINE home made carrot cake! And since I don't have a picture of what she got me I'll just tell you. I got a lamp stand! Okay it may not sound that fun but I have really been wanting one because I've had a lamp shade, that I picked out, for a while but no stand to use it with. I can't wait to get back to Rexburg and set it up! Thanks mom...a little late :)

Sorry this post is super boring, but I can't just not say anything about my 20th Birthday.



Thursday, November 11, 2010

Goodbye Rexburg, Hello Spokane!

It was a little crazy for a while.  All of the sudden we decide that we need to head to Spokane, until school started up for us again, where both our families are so that Joey can get some work with his dad...because as poor college students on off track with no scholarships to live off, we need the money.  The plan to find a job in Rexburg was a joke, we quickly found our that everyone in Rexburg is looking for a job. And by staying with our parents that meant free rent! So we were fortunate enough to sell our apartment contract very quickly


What a great blessing it was to even have this as an option, to have family to take us in on such short notice, to have parents that own a business so we can work for them, and to be able to sell our contract.


  How ironic it was that once we had this all planned out and then, to make a long story short, Joey was offered a job at Melalueca and I was offered one at Porter's. I know right??!! Well Joey was offered the job first and after going over finances, with it being a very part time job, we could not afford to stay in Rexburg for him to take it. Even though it meant a job in Rexburg for the long run of schooling, and at a place we really wanted to work.  A few days after turning down the Melalueca job I got the call from Porter's and unfortunately had to tell them I was heading out of town until January.  And I so badly wanted to work there, because I love that store! (more on that later).  


It seemed like such a bummer to have it happen that way, where we had to turn down jobs that we both really would have liked and definitely needed.  But after a trip to the temple we realized that it was a blessing really, that we needed to come back to Spokane for more reasons than we probably know yet.  But I know that we will be blessed for our faithfulness and hard work. And hopefully we will be able to tie something down when we get back to Rexburg.  As my mom once said, "Heavenly Father is so much wiser than I am." What an amazing mother I have.


Okay...so I captured a few pictures of the quick move. We packed up on Monday, brought stuff to the storage unit. And then Tuesday we cleaned, cleaned, cleaned! And cleaned some more! And left for the drive the next morning.


Joey cleaning the window
 this is when we were almost done so the stuff on the floor was way cleaner than earlier



When I was cleaning out the fridge I thought it was pretty cool that I could fit in it.


...and so can Joey!


No we are not drugged in any of these pictures we were simply exhausted.
And no we don't where matching cleaning gloves because we don't want to get our hands icky, we simply needed them so our hands wouldn't fall off into a pile of dried prunes from all the scrubbing.
But it did feel good when our, let's just say picky, apartment manager loved how clean it was and was so impressed that she offered to be a reference if we ever needed one, and said she would welcome us back into the complex with a waved application fee (not that that will ever happen).


After  staying up til four in the morning cleaning and then waking up at 7 to get the last few things done before clean check and then leaving for the seven hour drive right after we were pretty beat.  But, we are glad to be back in Spokane with family and friends. Sorry if this bored you, but it's for the record really.



Sunday, October 31, 2010

Tis the season of...

PUMPKIN CARVING AND...

 
 
We had Kim and Tyler over for FHE pumpkin carving


Joey scraping the slimy stuff out


Kim and Tyler putting on their pattern


The final product! (Joey's, mine, Kim and Tyler’s)


I also made Halloween sugar cookies for a treat...but this is the only picture I took of them. Don't you like his hair do?

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 HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!

We dressed up for our ward party that was Saturday night, but unfortunately we forgot the camera so the pictures were taken afterwards at the apartment. The party was fun and there were lots of cute costumes, but that was to be expected in a young married ward with so many adorable babies.

Can you guess who we dressed up as?
...John Smith and Pocahontas of course!


...Joey makes a WAY better John Smith, don't ya think?
It may or may not have something to do with the fact that he's not made out of cardboard
(This picture was taken my 2nd year as a YCL at girls camp, our level was...Pocahontas. My loving mom made me this AMAZING Pocahontas dress that turned into a great Halloween costume.)



Here he is in full costume, made by me. It was really easy cheap costume. Black boot, mine. Little kids sweat pants, DI $2. Cut up T-shirt flipped inside-out, free. White Sunday shirt, his. Belt sash thing, his. Homemade cardboard hat, free. I'd say we didn't do too bad.


My full costume (minus the moccasins cut off in the pic.)
Pocahontas dress made by mom years back, already owned. Moccasins, already owned. Pocahontas necklace made out of cardboard and a cut up shirt, DI shirt $2. Awesome Pocahontas tattoo, drawn by Joey. Although I do wish my hair was as long as the girls camp picture, much more Pocahontas. 

Overall our costumes only $4 total, not too shabby!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Crime Scene

This is our front porch...
THAT is where a pile of cat poop once lay...


I imagined the cat that did the deed looked a little like this...

So what in the world am I am talking about?

The other night Joey and I were eating a late dinner quietly at our kitchen table when we heard some strange noises coming from just outside our front door, that was clearly a cat in distress(Just think of a crazy cat scared out of it's mind by something probably chasing it...thats pretty much what we heard), in addition to the distressed cat was a loud "thump" against our door.We glanced at one another and both jumped up to go check it out. Joey went to the peep hole in the door and I went to our bedroom window that faces the front of our apartment. We both reported to see nothing and then switched...once again nothing. We laughed at the, as Joey called it, "morbid" sounds and continued on with the evening.

Having totally forgotten about the event from the night previous, I stepped out our front door to find, you guessed it, a pile of cat poop.

Nothing else exciting happened, I showed Joey, told the management about it, and they cleaned it up the best they could...but how WEIRD is that?! I just makes me wondered what happened to that poor cat that pooped itself on our doorstep?


Saturday, October 16, 2010

Donut or Cake?

I would first like to say I think making blogs into books for family history reasons is a great idea, therefore my posts will probably be things we did a while ago that I would like to remember. This is one that we did a while ago but was fun...


Thanks to sister Julian, we own a donut cake pan that turned into yet another date night.

How cool is that?!

And very YUMMY!!

However with pieces this size, we could not possibly eat the WHOLE thing...maybe with some company we will try it out again.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Date night...for free!

If you are looking for an idea for an AWESOME date night, that costs you nothing, than this is the date for you.

supplies you will need:
-One matress
-pillows
-lots of sheets and blankets
-dining room chairs
-tape...lots of tape
-footsy pajamas
-a good movie
-some popcorn

step one: convince your spouse this is a good idea.

step two: convince your spouse that footsy pajamas are cool and comfy.

step three: build an awesome fort with your matress from your bed in it so it can be a sleepover.

don't forget to build it over your TV...


step four: pick a movie and pop some popcorn.

step five: take really cool pictures so you can remember the awesome date night.




step six: ENJOY!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

My very first post

My first blog post ever, how exciting! I would first like to say, creating a blog was harder than I thought it would be...improvements will come in the near future hopefully. Kim you will probably be getting a call soon.

The name of our blog "hand picked Plumbs" has a little story behind it. When I was living back home, my mom left me a note on the front door. It read something like this, "Whitney, please pick up all the plums from the front yard". My good friend Jeanelle came home with me after school, read the note, and then responded, "I know a plumb you'd like to pick".  We of coursed laughed for five minutes about the joke, which is actually not that funny.  Nonetheless, the inspiration for my blog name.  And I did in fact pick the plumb I wanted :)