All things Idaho!

This last weekend Colin, our good friend Becka and I made the trip out to Boise Idaho for our college friend's (Clint) wedding. I love going to weddings! And especially when I can turn it into an excuse to hang out and see some of your best friends!! One of my best friends from college lives in Caldwell Idaho with her husband, we only get to see them about once a year, but they are so much fun to hang out with and they love to give you a true "country" experience!! Here are some fun pictures that capture the events of the weekend.



Colin and I at Clint's wedding. and yes, his beard is getting just a little out of control!


The day after the wedding we went out to a place called Leslie Gultch to fish. Here are the girls, Michelle, me and Becka!


With Michelle and Andrew our wonderful Hosts!


Hey look, I caught a fish!! If you can't tell from the picture I was pretty excited :)

One thing we didn't catch on camera were the wild mustangs that we drove around to find. They have a refuge for them and it was so cool to see! Wish we could have gotten close to take some pics!

That is all for now from this adventure. There will be many more to come. We are planning a bunch of fun trips. In a couple weeks we will be driving down to the Bend area for a 19 miles trial run that Colin is doing. We are possibly going up to Sitka at the end of May. And we will be headed up to Seattle at the begining of June for a triathlon. Looking forward to some spring/summer fun and good weather!

Forward Motion

I am titling this blog after one of my fave songs right now. I usually will have a favorite song and listen to it on repeat constantly until it starts to drive me crazy. haha! I should end that crazy cycle. Anyway, I am going to try and post it on here for you to enjoy as well. It's got kind of a cool rock vibe, which isn't always my favorite, but I love it! (Ok, I can't figure out how to post a video or a link to a video...help!!)


I have many things in the coming months that I am looking forward to, that will help me move in a "forward motion" (I had to tie it all in ;)). First off, Colin and I going up to Seattle this weekend to visit some friends. Colin's friend that he grew up with in Sitka, Brian and his wife Elisa live up there. Colin and Brian are both into triathlons, so it will be good for Colin to have a training buddy for the weekend, and it will just be nice to get away!

In 2 weeks we will be making the drive out to Boise for our friend Clint's wedding and we'll be staying with my friend Michelle. I am super excited for the wedding and to spend some time with Michelle and her husband Andrew. Ever since she transfered from Pacific after our freshman year we have made it a point to visit each other every year. Usually it is a spring break trip, since she and her husband are both teachers, this is going to be very quick trip only for a weekend, but it is better than nothing!

Then we have 2 weddings in June, my cousin is getting married (very excited for them!!) and then I am in a wedding for one of my good friends that I worked with at the pool through high school. Weddings are always fun! I love celebrating love :)

Then in July our good friends Brian and Ashlee, from college will be down visiting from Alaska! We haven't seen them since our wedding and they have since had 2 beautiful twin boys!

So lots of fun with good friends!

Project Update!

So in some of my earlier posts I posted pictures of all my ambitious ideas I wanted to do in our small apartment. I have actually only completed a couple of them and that is the little grocery list clip board & I printed out the freezer labels. Probably the easiest ones from the list. haha. I continually add projects to this list, but I haven't been able to accomplish many of them because we have decided not to give ourselves allowance until we get the car paid off. Hopefully it will only take 2 more months! Then maybe I can negotiate "back pay" with Colin. haha. Just kidding, that would kind of defeat the purpose of giving it up in the first place. So the projects will just keep adding up I guess. Here are a few more fun ideas from Design Sponge and Martha!


I want to sew throw pillows! And apparently prints with birds on them are totally in right now :)


Homemade air/drawer freshener


I think this is so neat! It's a jewelery holder made out of wood and painted white. So girly!!


These are three small benches painted and put together to create shelving. I think it looks very Pottery Barn-ish. Probably not something I can do in our current apartment, but someday!


This would be an easy thing to do and free up some space on our coat racks!

Ok, I think that is all for now!! Hopefully in a couple months I will be able to take pictures of some of these projects completed!!