Brandon & Keia Blake

new blog

2011-12-18T12:40:00.001-07:00

Hello everybody!
I had to start a new blog today so please visit this one and cancel the old one.... it is http://keiablake.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you over there :)

2011-11-12T07:20:00.000-07:00

Most of you that know me know that I like sports. More specifically I love sports when I'm watching my litte brother play. Last night Ty and the Desert Hills Thunder played the Cedar Redmen in the final playoff game to determine who would compete against Hurricane Tigers in the State Championship next weekend. And....

THUNDER WON! 23-21!

It was quite an eventful game and I loved every minute of it. Yes being 4 weeks away from having a baby definitely made it uncomfortable but there isn't any where else I would have rather been.

Ty catching a long pass for a touchdown!

My family after the game! Yes Brandon just got off the mountain and yes I'm 35 weeks pregnant!

ADDITCTED

2011-10-05T18:48:00.000-06:00

So I stumbled across a new website on pinterest of all places and I am addicted to it!

It is called The Red Headed Hostess and it is amazing.

This girl has some amazing ideas and helpful tips and free stuff to help you successfully study your scriptures and the gospel more! She also has tons of stuff for teaching Young Women's, Relief Society, Primary, etc. I have spent quite a bit of time browsing her site and saving stuff that I can use.

It has definitely motivated me to study the gospel!

I love it!

Oh the website is http://www.theredheadedhostess.com/

CRIB!

2011-09-21T20:21:00.000-06:00

Yep we finally bought our crib and it should be here tomorrow!

YEAH!

I'm seriously so excited about this. I feel like everything is finally coming together and things are in line for baby girl :)

Brandon's 28th Birthday!

2011-09-12T20:58:00.000-06:00

We went to Lake Powell for Brandon's birthday over labor day weekend with Brandon's family. It was alot of fun! This is us in front of Rainbow Bridge on B's birthday :)

It was definitely nice to get out of St George for a couple days.

Oh and yes I look prego for sure!

Oh how time flies!

2011-08-31T21:05:00.000-06:00

So it dawned on me yesterday how much time I DONT have left until this baby gets here! And how much I DONT have done yet! Um ya I kind of panicked for a second! So I wrote out my big list of stuff that I want done before baby gets here. Obviously one of those things is getting the babies room cleaned out and decorated. I couldn't decide what I wanted to do in the babies room for a long time but I think I finally figured it out and I'm really really exicted about it. There isn't really a theme but it is going to be dang cute! I'm going a little vintage and I'm going to use Teal as my main color (kind of a faded teal not so bright) along with a faded lime green and butter. No there is NOOOOOOO pink involved. I'm not a huge fan of pink!

So the reason for this post is not only because I had a panic attack but because I actually got to cross one thing off of my "Before Baby To Do List" today!

The armoir we are using for the babies dresser is officially cleaned out and ready to fill with fun baby stuff! YEAH!

I also started on the closet but I still have some rearranging to do in there.

But I'm starting to feel a little bit better about the fact that baby will be here in about 15 weeks!

I think I may have over done it tonight though cus my belly is feeling super tight right now :(

BOOTIES!

2011-08-26T16:54:00.000-06:00

So I have decided to try and tackle these baby booties!

No I am not much of a crocheter (is that a word?) but I think these are adorable and I am determined to figure this out!

Aren't they cute!

Quote of the day

2011-08-09T22:03:00.000-06:00

Its a GIRL!

2011-08-04T22:03:00.000-06:00

We had our ultrasound today and its a girl! CRAZY! I was seriously convinced that we were having a boy! When the nurse said its a girl I was seriously floored. It took me a second to wrap my head around that cus I was seriously going in there to get confirmation that it was a boy and she shocked the crap out of us!

We weren't able to get any good pictures of her little face thought which really bummed me out. I would love to have had a picture of her to bring home but baby was not cooperating. She just wouldn't turn for the doctors. They seriously tried everything I layed on each side and they had me stand up and lean over to try to get my belly to relax. They even tilted the bed back to try to use gravity to move the baby but she was stubborn! Imagine that our baby being stubborn. So unfortunately we didn't really get to see the baby very well at all.

But the doctor was able to get enough pictures to see that our baby girl is healthy and that is all that matters at the end of the day!

I seriously can't wait to hold her now!

Burp Cloths!

2011-07-25T14:06:00.000-06:00

Well I have today off work so I started sewing!

These burp cloths are super super easy!

I had left over fabric from blankets that I had made for friends so I made a girl one & a boy one :)

Cus unfortunately I still don't know what my little one is :(

But I think they turned out really cute!

NEWS

2011-07-20T14:40:00.000-06:00

Well I have a little bit of news. Today is my last day with SGI Mortgage. I have decided to move over to Axiom Financial with Scott Gibson & Brittany. It's been kind of stressful the past few weeks trying to get everything closed out at SGI and get everything set up at Axiom but I'm ready for the move and hope that it will all work to be for the better. So far I have been very impressed with Axiom and am honestly looking forward to getting things underway there but its still a change and I'm sad to leave SGI. But ya that's my big change in life right now and it is all coming smack dab in the middle of my pregnancy. Which honestly had me very worried in the beginning because I wasn't sure when the new companies insurance was going to pick me up but it is all working out and everything should be taken care of by the end of the week.
So wish me luck! I have a whole new set of bosses that I have to impress :)

Lagoon 2011

2011-07-18T09:36:00.000-06:00

Well my family went to Lagoon a couple weekends ago and it was alot of fun!

I wasn't able to ride many of the rides cus I'm prego but it was still fun cus Teresa came with us and she doesn't ride the rides cus she will get sick! So she kept me company!

Everyone had a blast though. I believe the favorite roller coaster was Wicked. Everybody couldn't stop talking about that one!

I do have to say that we were not impressed with LagoonABeach though... it was pretty lame.

And I was quite bummed cus the Rapid ride was closed the whole day!

That is one of my favorite rides!

Riding the train :) this was one of the only rides I got to go on! The animals were pretty cool! Brandon was bummed cus they didn't have a buffalo though!

Ty, Kevin & Brandon... yes Brandon is cheesing it for the camera!

Jessie, Bre, Devri

The whole family is at the back of this roller coaster!

So yes it was a lot of fun!

BaBy!!!!

2011-05-31T09:19:00.000-06:00

Well we are making the announcement officially now.

We are expecting our first baby!

My due date is December 13th! So I'm about 12 weeks along!

We went and heard the heartbeat for the first time on Friday and it was amazing!

We also got to do an ultrasound to watch the baby for a minute. I was very surprised to see how big the baby is already! Brandon was really excited to cus this is the first thing he has seen that shows the baby ya know. Up until now he has just had a sick wife to deal with.

We are very anxious to find out what the baby is but we won't find that out until the end of July. Which is fine we can wait it's just something to look forward too!

I haven't been all that sick but I haven't felt very good either. I have been nauseaus but haven't actually thrown up yet so I can't complain to much! And I still fit into my pants which is awesome!

But ya that's about it for now!

FINALLY 2 CHAIRS!

2011-04-12T13:16:00.000-06:00

Yep thats right I FINALLY have 2 normal chairs to go with my table I finished.

I forgot to take the before pictures but I bought them at the DI for $10 a peice and they were in pretty bad shape! The cushions especially were stained and nasty but not any more!

The pictures really don't do them much justice they are beat up and aged and I think they turned out great!

Oh and I discovered the most amazing thing ever! Kilz primer! I can't believe nobody has told me about this stuff before. It completely cut my time in half for these chairs. I read about it on allthingsthrifty.com if you haven't been to her site before you need to check it out cus she does some amazing things. But she said that she uses Kilz primer instead of sanding. I was blown away by this so since I already had one of the chairs sanded I decided to spray the primer on the other one that wasn't sanded and they look exactly the same! YEAH! I am quite excited about this because sanding is by far the worse part about it all and it takes the longest! So hello Kilz primer! I'm going to get so many more projects done now!

Now I just need 2 more chairs and a bench!

PaRk CiTy 2011

2011-03-20T13:22:00.000-06:00

Well it has been a really long time since I did anything on this blog and these are some of the most recent pictures I have. We went to Salt Lake to visit Travis & Teresa the first part of February and ended up in Park City one of the days. It was very cold but alot of fun! It was B's first time there to so it was good!

There really isn't much else going on with us right now.

But I'm going to try to do better at this blog thing... I always hate when other people dont update theres so I should probably be better at mine :)

$25 TABLE!

2010-10-12T17:31:00.000-06:00

Thats right folks I bought a table at the DI for $25 and fixed it up!

BEFORE!

AFTER!

I was so excited to bring it home! Now I just need chairs! hahaha I already have 2 that I bought for $10 I just have to fix them up and then I'll get 2 more and my dad is going to make me a bench to go on the window side!

Can you tell I'm excited or what!

TARZAN

2010-08-27T08:40:00.000-06:00

Last weekend we went to see Tarzan at Tuachan and it was a lot of fun! Here are a few pictures from that night!

We ate at Pasta Factory before the show! YUMMY!

And of course we got suckers!

(Top picture is Me & Teresa and the next one is me and my mom!)

At Tuachan! The show was amazing but it was so hot outside it was ridiculous! Note to self don't go to Tuachan in August!!! Bad Idea!

Friday Night Football! YEAH!

2010-08-21T17:13:00.002-06:00

It has begun... Friday Night Football! And I LOVE IT!

We went to Ty's first football game this year last night. He is playing Varsity now as a Sophmore! Proud sister right here! We played against Emery High School and won 19-6! Anyways Here are a few picts from the game. Oh and his number is 1

This is Ty catching the pass to him I was so mad that line marker got in my way!

He caught every pass that was thrown to him!

He played Receiver on offense and played on all of the special teams.

Sisters!

All of us after the game!

MoNdAy!!!

2010-08-09T17:38:00.000-06:00

Well I had quite the intersting Monday today!

I get to work and my computer is not working... none of my programs will open and its really making me mad! So I call our tech lady Shelly and she is luckily just passing our office so she stops by. She is working on my computer for almost an hour and I hear her say "Uh-oh" ya not something you want her to say! So she had to take my computer with her because I had a virus on my computer! Needles to say I was not very productive today without a computer!

Then..........

I had to go on my lunch break and get my tire changed because it was flat with a nail in it! FUN!

Then..........

I'm sitting at my desk trying to get something done and I keep hearing this rustling sound. I kept looking up thinking it was the AC fans above me. Well then I notice my blinds are moving on the window next to me so I move them a little bit and this is what comes out!

Yep its a lizard... this picture doesn't do it justice it was quite big. So I shut my office door and go for help. It took 3 of us to get it in the trash can... the poor lizard was freaking out!

Finally my computer shows up around 230 and she tells me that I had 3 SEVERE Viruses on my computer! Not good! But it is working now so all is good!

All in all it was quite an eventful Monday and I hardly got anything done! But it did give me something to post about! Hahaha how lame!

THE Deer!

2010-07-23T22:45:00.001-06:00

I would like to introduce you all to THE Deer! This is the buck Brandon shot last year. He just brought it home yesterday and he is oh so proud!

As you will see in the pictures it is hanging in my LIVING ROOM! Ya he brought it home last night and took down the clock that is supposed to be hanging there and replaced it with THE Deer!

I gave him a month to leave it up there and then its going in the man room! After all that is what its for!

I will say though that the taxidermist did a really good job on it! It really is a pretty deer.

Oh and I have to share that once the deer was hanging and Brandon had soaked in all of its glory, he went looking through my bathroom drawers for a comb that he could use to comb the deers fur out! Yes he did! I guess the taxidermist told him too but I was laughing pretty hard watching him comb this deers fur!

Oh and that comb is officially the deers comb!

Chelsi Run 2010

2010-07-19T10:27:00.000-06:00

This year was the 3rd Chelsi Run and it was HOT HOT HOT as always! But it was alot of fun. Below are a couple picts we took. We had an ice war after the run but of course none of that was caught on film. So you just have to believe that it was fun!

left to right: Abby, Bailey, Ty, Keia, Bre, Jessie

Left to right: Bailey, Keia, Bre (and yes they shrunk to my size for the pict! I'm seriously a midget standing next to them!)

Klutzo!!!

2010-07-09T11:11:00.000-06:00

Let me tell you a story about what a KLUTZ I am!

Last night I got home from my cousins baby shower and decided I was going to paint my toes & fingers. I usually do this on the carpet in front of the TV but tonight I decided to do it at the table in the kitchen.

And it is a good thing I did!!!!!!!

I had just finished my toes and was moving on to my fingers when I went to pick up the bottle of polish. Apparently I did not tighten the lid because when I tried to pick it up by the lid it started to come loose so I tried to grab it with my other hand to stop it from spilling and somehow I ended up flipping the entire bottle end over end and it spilled ALL of its contents onto me, the tile floor, my table and the chair I was sitting in. Yeah a few choice words came out of my mouth!

So I run over to grab a rag to wipe it up not paying attention to the fact that I too am covered in it and I left beautiful pale purple foot prints through my kitchen!

Fortunately I was able to clean it all up and it all came off of my tile, table and chair. As for me I got the big stuff off in the shower and thought that I had gotten all of it but I am still finding little spots of pale purple polish on my hands, arms and legs.

So there is the story of what a major klutz I am! I just had to share... Brandon definitely thought it was hilarious... he keeps bringing it up!

It's been awhile!!!

2010-06-23T12:49:00.000-06:00

I know it has been a LONG time since I have posted anything but I have a few minutes and wanted to put up some pictures from this summer so far!

This is a picture when we went on the Mount Caramel about a month ago. This is the only pict I got because we didn't have our camera with us. But if any of you have been on that ride I will tell you that the water was so high in the river that I was soaked. The 4 wheeler would go almost all the way under water on most parts. There was even one spot where I took my chances crossing the river on a small log because I didn't want to ride across it in the river. And it was a good call on my part because Brandon was standing on the seat of the 4 wheeler and still got wet!

But it was a BLAST! I definitely want to do it again! And next time take more picts!

I also wanted to post some pictures of Brandons adventures so far this summer!

This is Brandon's fishing trip he took up to the Flaming Gorge lake. With his buddy Jared.

Pretty sweet fish huh!

Jared, Ridge & Brandon with their fish!

And this is Brandon with his Turkey he shot this year up to Kolob!

He was pretty happy!

Well that is about all that has happened with us so far this summer.

I'll try to keep this better updated in the future!

New Year's Day

2010-01-25T09:16:00.003-07:00

IcE SkAtInG!!!

Me & Bre

Me, Bre, Ty & Jessie

We had a lot of fun Ice Skating... Brandon was taking the pictures. He was to big of a woos to come out there with us!!!

2009-12-22T09:06:00.001-07:00

Brandon & I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

We love you all!

I want a Nook!

2009-12-02T09:00:00.002-07:00

So I have decided that I want a Nook! It is the new technology I have to have! I have done my research and I am sold on it! Now I just have to save up the $$$$ to buy it!

For those of you who don't know what this is go to www.barnesandnoble.com and click on "Nook" and read all about it! If you are a reader like me you will probably want one as well!

ThRiLlEr

2009-10-26T09:02:00.004-06:00

We went to Thriller Friday night! It was amazing!

It was Teresa's first experience with Thriller and she didn't like the Zombies very much!!! But they LOVED her!
Jess & Bre developed a crush on this one! He was pretty funny!

Can't wait until next year!

Deer Hunt!!!

2009-10-18T21:24:00.004-06:00

BUCK DOWN!

2 of them to be exact!

We went hunting this weekend and it was my first year to hunt. I shot a 2 by 3 buck from about 300 yards away! I was so excited... I seriously can't believe I actually hit it and dropped it!

Brandon & Jared went out the next day and got this once in a lifetime buck! Brandon is on cloud 9! He is so stoked about it! It's an even 29 inch 4 point with 3 cheaters!

Do you think he looks a little excited???!!! All in all it was a very very successful weekend and I honestly can't wait until the deer hunt next year! I think I'm hooked!

Brandon's Birthday big 26

2009-09-09T19:31:00.003-06:00

We go to the lake EVERY year for Brandon's birthday!

This is us at Sandhollow with a bunch of our friends and family.

Corey & Rachelle, Brandon & Keia, Teresa & Travis

Brandon holding on for dear life!

Brandon on top of Joel! Quite funny!!!
I have ALOT more picts to come from this weekend... just don't have time right now! Plus I have to get some from Teresa & my mother in law.
So stay tuned!

2009-08-28T09:37:00.002-06:00

I have to post about this stupid bookshelf because it gave me ALOT of grief!

I received this lovely bookshelf from my uncle (he was getting rid of it) and it was a weird brown color so I decided I could paint it and make it cute and it wouldn't take very long! Was I ever wrong! Everything that could go wrong went wrong... the paint wasn't the right color, the paint wasn't taking to the wood, the antiquing methods I was using weren't working! It took me forever!

But I have to say I am proud of how it turned out considering ALL of the stress behind it!

And I have put it to good use!

24th in Salt Lake

2009-07-26T20:45:00.005-06:00

Days of 47 Rodeo!!!

I love Rodeos!

We ate at Moochies because we saw it on Diners Drive-Ins and Dives! Delicious!

Raging Waters
This is Justin & Brandon!

We had a lot of fun in SLC. It was definitely a needed break!

North Carolina

2009-05-21T20:41:00.005-06:00

Well we just got back from our trip back to North Carolina where Brandon served his mission.

It was a lot of fun. We got rained out most of the time and weren't able to go out the Cape to see the lighthouse but that just means that we have to go back out there again soon!

This is me, Bobbi Lynn & Brandon.

Bobby, Brandon & Judy (we stayed with them while we were there)

Brandon at Shell Point. This is the closest we got to the Cape and the lighthouse.

Me and Blackbeard

At Shell Point

Brandon's new ride!

This is the lighthouse on the Outerbanks that we tried to get to and couldn't because of the rain. But we will get there someday soon!

I cut my HAIR!!!

2009-04-21T14:29:00.002-06:00

That's right folks I got daring last night and chopped it off!

FaMiLy PiCtUrEs

2009-01-19T13:09:00.003-07:00

We had family pictures taken over the Thanksgiving break!

I know I suck at blogging lately but I have been slammed at work, which is a good thing!!

I'll try to do better I promise!

2 posts in one!

2008-11-13T15:11:00.004-07:00

So I have to spread the love because my little brother's football team won the championship last night against Hurricane who hasn't been beat for like 3 years!!! It was pretty awesome!

My mom & Ty hugging after the game... I'm sure my mom was crying!
This is me and Ty! He was so excited after the game that when I went to hug him he picked me up and jumped around like a little boy! Kinda sad he can pick me up now but he's only going to get bigger!
Isn't he the cutest kid you've ever seen! Proud sister here what can I say!

Okay now these pictures are old but I finally got them off my camera...

THE DEER HUNT!!!!!

I think this picture is pretty sweet! It's Brandon overlooking their property up to Kolob!

Brandon, Austin & Kelly with their bucks!

Brandon and his buck out front of the cabin!

Okay that's all I have for now!

MeMoRiEs!!!!

2008-11-02T18:18:00.003-07:00

So I was just flipping through some old pictures and thought that I would share some of them with you! They are pretty funny and some of them scary! But this is me & Brandon over

many many years!

This is me & Brandon in 10th grade! I think!!! Pretty funny huh! I know you all are loving the eye shadow and lip stick and of course Brandon's bleached blonde hair!!!

This is at Grad Night in 2002!

This is when we were dating after Brandon got home from his mission! We always went 4-wheeling out to sandhollow... this is just one of many pictures out there!

This was my 22nd birthday a couple months before we got engaged!

And this is us on our Honeymoon!

I know you all enjoyed going over the past with me!

I sure did!!!

I know I have ALOT pictures of us when we were young I just have to dig them up!

Salt Lake City

2008-10-28T12:34:00.005-06:00

A couple of weekends ago I went up to Salt Lake City to hang out with some friends and more importantly to throw my friends baby shower!

Here are some pictures from the trip!!!

Me & Kylee

Me & Corinn
Corinn right before the shower. And yes she is the pregnant one!

Me & Corinn with the cute blanket I made for her!

and this is Jinks.... the beloved dog!

Corinn and I adopted her when she was just a puppy and now I have visitation

rights because she lives with Corinn! Which is a good thing cus' I don't

think Brandon could handle her!

Brandon's Birthday!

2008-10-23T16:50:00.006-06:00

I know it's really really late but here are some pictures from Brandon's Birthday last month!

BIRTHDAY BOY!! 25!!!

Joel, Corey, Brandon, Teresa & Travis

Me & Ty (my little brother)

My Siblings

Corey, Joel & Brandon being boys!

Me & Teresa

Cliff Jumping!

BoRiNg!!!

2008-10-17T15:57:00.002-06:00

I am so unbelievably bored at work right now! It is Friday and I literally had nothing to do at work today. I was just waiting around for documents to come to me so that I could move forward with my files and of course because it is UEA weekend there isn't a whole lot of people in town to get me the information that I need. So instead I cleaned out my desk, rearranged my desk and stared at my computer all day long! Gotta love it!

So I'm reading "The Life of Bees" right now and it's good but I'm honestly having a hard time really getting into it, which is quite disappointing because they are making a movie, which comes out this weekend, and so I thought it would be alot more exciting I guess. But right now I'm kind of in a rut with it! So I thought I would share my frustrations with it seeing how I'm seriously bored at work right now!

Speaking of books though if any one is reading something good right now please let me know because I am always looking for the next book I can read!

Oh we are going hunting this weekend up in Kolob so that's exciting... hopefully I will have some fun pictures to post on Monday and hopefully there is one with Brandon and a monsterous buck!

Sorry my posts have been super boring lately but that's what happens when all you do is go to work and home all day everyday!!!

Tagged

2008-10-13T12:35:00.003-06:00

This is what you do.....You go to your pictures area on your computer and pick the 4th folder and 4th picture and then explain it! Here's my picture:

This is a picture of Brandon standing next to a tree near there cabin in Kolob. It is tradition to carve your initials in a tree surrounding the cabin with your initials and the year you were married!

2008-10-13T11:14:00.002-06:00

Here are the rules:I have to answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then I must pass it on to seven others.

Here are the questions:
1. Where is your cell phone? DESK
2. Where is your significant other? MOUNTAINS
3. Your hair color? BLONDE
4. Your mother? FUNNY
5. Your father? BUSY
6. Your favorite thing? FOOD
7. Your dream last night? DUNNO
8. Your dream/goal? HEAVEN
9. The room you're in? OFFICE
10. Your hobby? READING
11. Your fear? DEATH
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? ST. GEORGE, UT
13. Where were you last night? COUCH
14. What you're not? RICH
15. One of your wish-list items? VACATION
16. Where you grew up? ST. GEORGE, UT
17. The last thing you did? WORK
18. What are you wearing? SWEATER
19. Your TV? PLASMA
20. Your pet? NONE
21. Your computer? DELL
22. Your mood? EXHAUSTED
23. Missing someone? BRANDON
24. Your car? CAMRY
25. Something you're not wearing? SHOES
26. Favorite store? BOOKSTORE
27. Your summer? DULL
28. Love someone? BRANDON
29. Your favorite color? GREEN
30. When is the last time you laughed? TODAY
31. Last time you cried? DUNNO
7 PEOPLE I TAG:
JESSIE
NIKKI
RACHELLE
BLAIRE
CAMI
KRISTAL
KIMI

Update

2008-10-06T13:45:00.003-06:00

Well I haven't written anything in awhile so I thought I would update you all on what is going on!

Brandon had his 25th Birthday last month and I do have some really fun pictures of a bunch of us at the lake but I'll have to post them later.

We just closed our loan on our house so we are officially grown ups and officially don't have any money!!! But it's the 'American Dream' right!

We are currently getting our front and backyards finished, which is a lot of work but I can't wait for it to be done! Especially the backyard I didn't think that would be done for a long time!

Other than that we are just enjoying being married. It has already been a year and a half and it's seriously crazy how quickly time flies!

Hopefully I'll beable to get some pictures up here soon and beable to write about something more interesting next time!

Love you all!

Horseback Riding

2008-09-04T13:53:00.004-06:00

For Labor Day we went up to Kolob with Corey & Rachelle and rode horses!

It was a lot of fun!

This picture above is Me and Playboy and Brandon and Pepe.

These are just a few pictures of all of us... unfortunately there wasn't a 5th person up there to take a picture of all 4 of us on the horses!

This is a picture of us at the end of the day! It was definitley a lot of fun!

Hunting & Vegas!

2008-08-25T13:15:00.003-06:00

This weekend was pretty eventful...
Brandon shot his elk late Friday night and then got lost on the mountain so he didn't make it home in time to go to Vegas Saturday morning with me to take my Loan Officer test! Needless to say I was pretty upset!
But it all worked out because my sister-in-law was more than willing to come with me and visit her mom and do some shopping! So it turned out to be a fun trip! Plus Brandon had the elk all cut up and cleaned up by the time I got home so that was really nice!

Oh and I did pass my test!!! YEAH! I am so happy that it is over with you have no idea!

FISH LAKE

2008-08-19T13:02:00.004-06:00

Fish Lake...

Well we went up to Fish Lake this past weekend for Brandon to hunt down an Elk. And I must say I was pretty excited to go up there. I had never been there before. So we borrowed my Grandparents trailer and headed up the mountain Friday.
When we got there it immediatley became quite the adventure... we couldn't find where the rest of our group was at on the mountain and seeing how Brandon has only been there once and me never it was interesting to say the least. We drove up and down the stretch of property that we were told they would be on for about an hour and a half before we finally ran into somebody we knew and figured out that we were supposed to be further up the mountain!
But once we got all settled in it was alot of fun! COLD but a lot of fun!

Here is a picture of the view just down the road from our campsite!

Unfortanetly I was a slacker when it came to taking picutres so the only pictures I have of the trip are right here! I did get a couple good ones of Brandon sitting and waiting for his elk to come in to the pasture.

Brandon didn't get to kill his elk this trip because we couldn't get into the private property that he was allowed to hunt on which really put a damper on the entire trip. But all in all I thought it was a lot of fun!

My only complaint is that I now have a wonderful cold that I'm sure is a result of going from 108 degree weather to 60 and below! And we weren't so smart our first night there cus' we froze to death in the trailer because we didn't realize that it had a heater until the next day! Ya I know we are brilliant!

Kristals Digital Creations

2008-08-05T10:02:00.002-06:00

Hey everybody,

My Aunt has started a new business and I thought it would be something that alot of you would be interested in.

It's called Kristals Digital Creations and it is full of really reall cute scrapbook pages, she really has some amazing stuff on there so check it out... it is listed in my friends section!

Thanks

Bag Tag

2008-08-01T16:35:00.006-06:00

Here are the rules:

1. Take a picture of your bag

2. Show a picture of ALL the contents in your bag and then name themNO CLEANING OUT FIRST!!!!

3. "Bag Tag" five to ten people

4. Leave a comment on their blog that says "You've Been Bag Tagged"

Yes I have so much crap in my purse that I had to take 3 different pictures to get it all!

This picture shows my check book, hair tie, head band, shopping list, chapstick, lip gloss, pen, headset, golds gym pass, borders pass, tuachan tickets, 2 bandaids, usb port, TJ Maxx gift card and 2 Pier 1 gift cards....

This picture shows my wallet, car keys, ipod, pill bottle (its only IBprofin I swear), a book (yes I always have a book in my purse), oh and the mess of papers below is some receipts, check stubs and bills!

I didn't pull this out cus' it's a mess but this is the bottom of my purse with loose change and a bunch of bobby pins.

I tag: Mindy Blake, Jess Leany, & Lynsee Turok

Boring

2008-07-25T09:00:00.002-06:00

Well I wish I could post about something fun and exciting or just something other than about our house... cus' as you have all noticed that has been all that I have posted about over the last couple of months! But honestly that was all we did for a couple of months!!! So now our lives are quite boring... we just hang out at our new house! I know aren't we fun!! Well I just wanted to say something on here since I haven't for awhile. So hello to you all and hopefully I will have something new to post about in the near future!

MoViNg!!!!

2008-07-09T16:53:00.003-06:00

WE ARE MOVING IN!

WE PASSED OUR INSPECTION THIS MORNING SO WE ARE SLOWLY GOING TO BE MOVING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS!

YEAH!

DONE!!!

2008-07-09T09:24:00.004-06:00

YEP WE ARE FINISHED!

well for the most part anyways. the only thing we are missing is mirrors in the bathrooms

and our landscaping otherwise we are finished and we get our

inspection today! So everybody cross your fingers

that we will pass!!!!

We plan to move in this weekend!

Here is a view of the kitchen

Here is the kitchen, dinning area and a part of the living room. and no the freezer

is not staying in the dinning area... we moved into the storage room right after I took

this picture

And here is the best picture I could get of the master bathroom.

It looks good huh!!!

Oh yeah we don't have blinds yet either but they are ordered and on there way!

HOUSE!!!

2008-06-22T19:33:00.006-06:00

We have ROCK!!! yeah!

I know its been awhile since I last posted and ALOT has changed at the house!

As you can see from this picture the outside of the house is basically finished... minus the shutters that me and my mom are going to make and my front door needs to be stained and my garage door will be in this week sometime!

Here are some pictures of the inside! The walls are all painted and the doors are all hung!

Tomorrow we get the cabinets put in! YEAH! and then the lights will be installed Tuesday and from there the granite and carpet and plumbing fixtures will be in!

Here is a couple pictures of the master shower... It looks amazing!

We are hoping to move in a couple weeks!

I'll try to be better at posting! I know I have slacked alot lately!

HOUSE UPDATE!!!

2008-05-23T08:13:00.003-06:00

Here is a picture of what our house looks like right now!

We have windows and doors and our roof is almost finished!

Oh and you can see our cute little courtyard!

So Exciting!!!

This is a picture of the side of the house where they have started the

stucco stuff! It wraps around the whole back of the house

like that and over to the other side!

And here is the inside!!! Yeah! They have blown in all of insulation

they will finish the ceiling once the dry wall is finished. I guess they blow it in

or something like that!

It actually looks a little different then this now! They started the dry wall yesterday

and they said that they should be finished with it and the texture by Thursday of

next week and then the fun stuff comes... I get my doors in and we start

the tile and the trim and THEN the painter comes!

Yes it is all so exciting!

I will try to be better at posting more but life has been a bit crazy lately!

Oh big news I officially got my promotion at work! Which is perfect timing cus' we need

the extra money for this house! So I am now processing loans! I love it it's a LOT

of work but I'm learing a ton and its so much better!

That's it for now!

2008-05-02T15:11:00.002-06:00

Here is another picture of the house! It has actually looked like this since last Friday but I'm a slacker and never put it up on here... we are actually alot further now but it is all on

the inside so I didn't really want to take those boring pictures... so I'll tell you...

Right now the rough plumbing is done meaning I have my tubs in and all the piping to my sinks and all that... and Brandon will be finishing the heating and air this weekend and then the

electrician will be there first thing next week and should finish in about 2 days! Yeah!

After that we get an inspection and then we order the fun stuff... like the carpet

and the tile and the cabinets YEAH! We should also have our windows

next week sometime!

So there you have it! I will try not to be such a slacker any more!

BYE!!

WE HAVE WALLS!!!

2008-04-23T20:05:00.003-06:00

So on Monday we went out to the lot and saw this!

The very next day we had WALLS!!!

And then the next day we had even more WALLS!

I know it probably doesn't sound to exciting but they are seriously bookin' it on getting the framing up! We are actually supposed to have the roof up by tomorrow! So yes to say the least we are very very excited!!!

Building woes!!!

2008-04-08T09:10:00.004-06:00

Does anyone see something seriously wrong with this picture???

NO?!!!

Let me show you a closer view!

Yep that's right I have a giant whole in my backyard wall!!!

Let me tell you the story! We officially got started building our house yesterday, we got our permit and everything! So we had the excavator over there building up the pad for house so they can dig the footings and poor concrete! Well that excavator backed his big a** truck into my wall knocking it over! Yep fun huh! So we get to deal with the lazy wall guy again! Yeah! It's hard to be mad though cus' the guy felt really really bad about it and is going to fix it so it's all good! I just wanted to share with you all the woes of house building!

AdDiCtIoNs!!!!

2008-04-04T14:26:00.003-06:00

My two biggest addictions Dr. Pepper and ice cream, all kinds of ice cream! I love it! And unfortunately because of my love for both of these things I am gaining unnecessary pounds and therefore am going to try to cut them out of my life compelety. I know alot of you are thinking ya good luck Keia! I know I'm addicted but I'm really going to do this because I'm sick of the way I feel! So today is April 4, 2008 and I am going to keep track of how long I can go with out these 2 essential items in my life! Everybody wish me good luck!!!!

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

2008-04-01T11:07:00.004-06:00

CAN YOU BELIEVE WE MADE IT TO 1 YEAR! IT'S CRAZY HOW TIME FLIES!!! WE DIDN'T PLAN A BIG TRIP BECAUSE WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE FURTHER ALONG ON OUR HOUSE THEN WE ARE BUT WHAT DO YA DO! WE DID END UP GOING TO ZIONS THOUGH AND THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN! I HAVEN'T BEEN UP THERE SINCE I WAS IN 6TH GRADE SO IT WAS REALLY COOL! THE DOWNFALL WAS THAT THE SERPENTINE BELT IN MY CAR SNAPPED ON THE FREEWAY AND SO WE HAD TO TURN AROUND AND COME BACK AND THEN GET THE TRUCK AND HEAD UP THERE BUT IT'S ALL GOOD CUS' IT WAS ONLY LIKE $40 TO FIX SO NO COMPLAINTS HERE! HERE ARE SOMEPICTURES...

OKAY SO I BROKE DOWN AND BOUGHT BRANDON A GUN FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY... HE LOOKS AT THIS GUN EVERYTIME WE GO TO SPORTSMANS. IT IS A "COWBOY GUN" IN BRANDON'S WORDS... A 45 LONG COLT REVOLVER TO BE EXACT THOUGH OH AND ITS A RUGER! HE WAS A LITTLE BIT EXCITED FROM THE PICTURE DON'T YA THINK! HE JUST KEPT SAYING I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BOUGHT ME A GUN! IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!

AND HERE IS A PICTURE OF ME WITH MY NEW LAPTOP!!! SO MUCH FUN I LOVE IT!!!

LOT

2008-04-01T10:54:00.003-06:00

Here are some pictures of our Lot out in Hurricane! It is Brandon and his Dad working in the background! It's very exciting to actually get moving on all of this instead of waiting!!! Hopefully we will get the foundation poured this week and really get moving! I'm going to try to keep you all posted as we move along!

2008-03-31T15:21:00.002-06:00

I found this articel very interesting and worth the few minutes it takes to read it! I'm scared for what our country might become! So please read and repost if you too are scared!

Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun

It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first. We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.

The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him. Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts. Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he l ost. Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.

Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty." Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.

Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.

Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francis co values, not Middle America values.

The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs. But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton. It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.

Subject: Kind of scary, wouldn't you think I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it! If you think I am crazy..Im sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the "unknown" candidate

2008-03-27T09:16:00.005-06:00

EaStEr

For Easter my family went to Gunlock to go 4-wheeling with the Anderson side of the fam... it was alot of fun, really really windy but alot of fun! Brandon was so excited because we got to take his Grandpa's rhino out there with us! And if you know Brandon at all you would know that that made his day, he is obsessed with rhino's he wants one so bad its funny! So ya it was a lot of fun... we got to see alot of Gunlock that I didn't even know was there!

Bre and Regan driving around in a Razor

Brandon, Jessie and Regan!

Sophie being freaking cute riding the big 4-wheeler!

LaP tOp

2008-03-19T09:53:00.001-06:00

So I came home last night from work and found this cute little lap top on my bed!!! Yes Brandon went out and bought me, well us a lap top for easter/our anniversary! I was so excited I was jumping up and down! I can't believe he did though! We have been talking about buying one for awhile now but since we are about to build our house I didn't think that he would spend this kind of money but boy did he prove me wrong!!! I am so excited I can barely stand it! So everybody watch out cus' as soon as I get this bad boy up and running full force with all my digital scrapbooking and pictures you are all in trouble cus' I'll probably be posting alot and I mean ALOT more!

RASCAL FLATTS!!!!

2008-03-10T18:24:00.008-06:00

So we just went to the Rascal Flatts Concert in Salt Lake! And it was so much fun! Seriously amazing! We went with my two sisters and brother as well as Brandon's buddy and his date! This is the best shot we got of them and yes they were so unbelievably talented and entertaining!

Me and Brandon! He got all dressed up in his cowboy attire! It was funny and cute!

Me, Ty and Bre!!! Fun family I know!

Me and my siblings! Ty, Me, Bre, and Jessie! So much fun!!!

House Building Speed Bumps 1-4

2008-03-04T14:05:00.003-07:00

As some of you know we are about to start building our house! Exciting I know! But it is a rather stressful process! We are doing alot of the work ourselves so it puts more pressure then normal on us but it's worth it! We were getting so excited because we are supposed to start building in a couple weeks right, wrong! We hit a few speed bumps just barely...
Speed Bump #1 we just found out that we have to haul about $5,000 worth of dirt onto our lot so that we can build up the area where our house is going to sit, because as of right now we are low enough that if there were a moderate amount of water coming down the road that we would get flooded! Minor problem I know! And this dirt was not in our budget so that sucks and puts us a little over but we will just have to cut a corner some where else!
Speed Bump #2 When we bought the lot the block wall surrounding our property was included in the price! We were really excited about that, but the block wall guy is some what of an idiot and quite lazy! For example we bought the lot about 5 months ago and the wall has been slowly going up since then well in December we found out that the wall guy didn't pay his material bill and so WE got a lien put on our property! Lame I know! Well we finally got that taken off just barely so there is one headache gone and we thought all would be good now! Wrong again! When we went out there this weekend we found out that he has built the wall in our backyard completely wrong... it is supposed to be a retaining wall to help hold the dirt in but he has built a normal wall that is not going to pass the inspection so now he has to tear the whole thing down and start over! And if that's no bad enough he has left all of his equipment on our lot and dumped his excess materials onto our lot so now we have big mounds of concrete that have to be chipped out! Well that HE has to chip out cus' it's his fault and I don't like him right now! So we are having to wait for dumb wall guy to fix his mistakes and clean up his mess before we can even bring the dirt in that we need to start building! So Speed Bump #2 actually is like 3 Speed Bumps!!!

So ya that about sums up our dilemma's right now! I'm sure there will be more to come but I felt like complaining today so there you have it!
I will try to keep updates going on the process of the house building with pictures as we get more into it!

SnOwBoArDiNg @ BrIgHtOn

2008-02-19T07:23:00.005-07:00

We just got back from a snowboarding trip at Brighton Ski Resort in SLC and it was such a blast! We went with our friends Travis and Teresa and it was seriously so much fun! I haven't been snowboarding in way to long :( ! It was really really cold up there though. We didn't have too many bad crashes while we were on the mountain. Brandon said that he had a pretty good one when we weren't together so unfortunately I missed it and can't really make fun of him! Oh on the way it was pretty cool we saw 2 Moose off the side of the road in the canyon... just chillin' by the river! It was awesome!

Cruisin'

2008-01-15T09:27:00.000-07:00

Well we just got back from another cruise down to Baja Mexico!! It was alot of fun... I love Catalina Island!! Although Ensenada, Mexico is not my favorite place but hey I got a hammock there for really cheap so that's a plus!