MORE THAN MATERIAL

Hey just wanted to let anyone know who may be following my blog, which if your not I don't blame you I NEVER update it. Anyhow you really should check out Tempestt blog morethanmaterial.blogspot.com. Tempestt just won first place in the UVU photo contest and got 4 honorable mentions. I am so proud of her. Check out her work!

UNDER CONTRACT!!!

We will be moving hopfully very soon. We have had an offer on a short sale for three months and finally got tired of waiting and gave up. I found this house and saw it on friday, had Tempestt and her Mom see it later that same friday night, then by the next monday we submitted an offer and after a few hours and a few counters we had it under contract! Amazing how quick things can work when banks are motivated. I will post more pictures once we close next week. This picture is from our appraisal

Garden

I have finally gotten around to planting a garden. It has not been a matter of laziness, I just keep delaying it till we close and move to our new house. Well, we don’t know when we will eventually close, so I went ahead a planted a small garden, my hope is that I will be able to move it onto my little trailer and move it with us when we go. We have 4 different types of tomatoes, including cherry tomatoes, squash, cucumber, zucchini, and a watermelon, I am excited to see how it goes.

Cherries!

Our cheery tree has finally gotten cherries, it only lasted a few days, the birds quickly ate them up. It finally gave fruit now that we are getting ready to move.

Whats in the Laundry

This is what happens when I leave laundry out and don't fold it right away.

Update

The update… Work is going well for me; Tempestt is in Italy and having a blast! And we have a house under contract. We were supposed to close a week ago, but due to short sale complication we still have not. After being in Rome for a few weeks Tempestt is now in Florence and loving it. Not that Rome was bad, but Italy has more fun markets and better food. You can look at some of her pictures at morethanmaterial.blogspot.com. I will post some pictures of our house when and if we ever close.

New Dog

Wow it has been way too long since I have posted anything, though I feel you have not missed too much. Only two events really. One is that I am working at New York Life Insurance and I like it a lot. The other is that we have a new Dog. His name is Ralphie and he is a boxer. I went to the vet to get something checked out on our turtle and casually asked what kind of dog would be good as a companion for a Chihuahua. I asked about a boxer and the vets eyes got big and she hurried away to bring and introduce me to Ralphie one of their rescued dogs. We have had him since just before Christmas and despite a lazy eye and longer than average boxer tail we love him. He is absolutely goofy and does the funniest things. He loves to watch the traffic go by and rest his head on anything, the chair, your shoulder as you drive, tempest head, etc… My favorite picture has to be the one with him curled up in Taters bed. I am also attaching a video of the dogs playing together, Tater is working so hard and Ralphie is just standing there.

Watching traffic The head rest He finds the oddest possitions comforitable

Famous!!!

Tempestt picture has been featured in a NY Times blog, “the caucus”… this picture was taken while she was at a rally in Grand Junction. Just so happened that I googled her name when I was bored one day and found it.

The caption read "Tempestt Turman, 22, shielded herself from the sun as Senator Barack Obama spoke at a rally Monday in Grand Junction, Colo. (Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times)"

Halloween

Our yearly tradition consists of traveling to Clinton where Tempestt Dad, Brett, has the coolest/scariest yard! This year Tempestt plan was to be a Zombie (to keep with her dads themed yard) but stubbled across this snake costume at the DI for $15. Pretty funny huh?

Barak Oboma

Tempestt got to meet President Elect Oboma and shake his hand, pretty cool huh!!! About 6 weeks ago we went to canvas in Colorado; Tempestt stayed the extra day and got to shake his hand as he left a rally held in Grand Junction. Here are a few pictures from her time there.

LOOK HOW CREATIVE MY MOM IS!!!

I am so jealous of her crafty skills!



These candies are so cute I can't eat them!

Tater's new Toy

He really donsn't care for it much, but hey it was 88 cent. Nothing like a cold "Dog Beer" (sorry its fuzzy)

Speedy

Speedy needs some love too; here he is enjoying a day out in the yard. He loves hanging around outside, I made him a small pin and next spring maybe he will get an upgrade.

Tater and his Bone

Yep it is Huge! He can't run near as fast when fetching it.

I bought Tater a ham bone at the store. Tempestt thought it would be too big for him, but I wanted to see what he would do with it. As you can see it is HUGE, but he is able to carry it. When we first gave it to him, he did not care about it at all. In the middle of the night however, he left the room (he never does that) the next morning we found his bone had been nawed on quite a bit. Later that day he didn’t want to play fetch with anything but his bone. We usually play fetch with a miniature tennis ball and I occasionally and accidentally hit him with it. So playing fetch with the bone was pretty worrisome, if I was to accidentally hit him with this bone it might have killed him!

Long time no blog!

Hello sorry for the neglect of our blog as of late, but here are some Thailand pictures to try and make up for it. We are both way bussy with school and it is a shame that we are just now getting a few pictures up from our trip.

actually this is where I am falling

I'm falling.....ahhhhh

here I am at the petronas towers in Malaysia. They are the tallest buildings in the WORLD. It is 88 stories tall plus some extra stuff on top.

I've been everywere

After Cambodia we went to Malaysia and now we are Indonesia ,Bali. I know I am a bad blogger and I am sorry. It has been so hectic and I have not been able to have internet so my apologies. Yesterday we went to a traditional Balinese dance and a volcano. Today we just hung on the beach. I forgot how much I love the beach. It is so beautiful here and the waves are amazing. They are so BIG and there are so many surfers here. So total count of countries I have visited on my trip are Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia,and Thailand. My passport is getting full. It is so cool.

Sorry

sorry about my last post... it was wierd. We are in Cambodia right now we have been here for 2 days and tommorrow we are leaving for Malayasia. Before Cambodia we were in Vietnam. We have been traveling so much it has been hard for me to keep up with our blog.
Today we went to Tole Slang ( the torture prison during the Pol Pot regime) it was extemely sad. We also saw the killing fields today...very sad. But I think it was important to see these things because then they become real. They are no longer just pictures...you have been there and witnessed these trageties. Tommorrow we will be visiting the Roya Palace.