Bottom's up!

There's really no good way to blog this, or any story behind these pictures, I just thought I'd show off Kirsta's naked baby for all of you. I love baby butts, they are so cute!! So after PJ made a get-away while getting his diaper changed Jonathan and I saw that as a Kodak moment. Here he is :

Bedtime Bliss :)

Jonathan and I love to watch movies as we fall asleep. We always said that we would never have a tv in our room, but we have a laptop in there, as if there's a difference. We are both the kind of people that like to fall asleep to light or noise. So almost every night we go pick a good "falling asleep to" movie. The other night he went and picked "50 first dates." Great movie. We were lauging though because after going to Hawaii this summer we recognized a lot of the places in the movie! Apparently it was filmed on Oahu around where we stayed! (North Shore-ish.) Then we noticed something that both of us thought was SOO cool. Here it is:


We looked and looked for this pic on the internet without sucess, so Jonathan played the movie on our computer, paused on the scene and copied the pic. Haha. Now you all should go watch that movie because it's just so cute!

Jonathan Dan Phelps

Elsha tagged me to do this survey about my husband so here it is:


1) Where did you meet? He was my manager at BB&B. Sneaky sneaky
2) How long til you got married? Since the day I met him- almost exactly 2 years
3) How long have you been married? 5 months 8 days
4) Your favorite feature of his? His arms
5) Your favorite quality of his? His calmness (is that a word?)
6) Does he have a nickname for you? No but he should get one!
7) His favorite food? He's a meat lover. Any kind. Any way
8) What is his favorite sport to watch? Definitely Football
9) When was your first kiss? At his house the day after homegirl got the boot :)
10) What's your favorite thing to do as a couple? We like to go to Wal Mart and by a couple of things like: stickers, baked beans, a $5 movie, a hole punch, and alfredo sauce.
11) Do you have kids? Not yet but we both really want one ASAP please!!
12) Does he have a hidden talent? If you haven't read my blog he's an awsome woodworker. So far he's built a cd tower, DVD shelves and a pantry for us!
13) How old is he? 29. aka Old.
14) Who said I love you first? I did :)
15) What do you admire most about him? His willingness to always apologize. Because we all know that is NOT a quality I aquired
16) What is his favorite type of music? I would say Hip-hop is his favorite, but we have a whole cd tower to prove that he listens to EVERYTHING. it's crazy
17) Do you think he will read this? Nope.
18) What is his favorite article of clothing? I think his black zip up sweater with the stars on it
19) What is his favorite hobby? He's loves to do projects. Build stuff for the house.
20) How did you decide he was the one for you? At the time it wasn't so much realizing he was the one I wanted to spend forever with, it was realizing I didn't want to spend any time without him. Ever. Does that make sense? In other words, I thought I lost him and I just couldn't take it..

CSU/BYU game

As Kirsta mentioned, it's was an AWSOME game. I cheerd for BYU even though I was wearing CSU gear, haha. If you want details, read her post (I don't know how to link them), but here are some good pics!! You can always rely on me for that. :)
Pj and Grandpa G.

The fam

Jonathan and I

Espen and I

Jacob's

Parents and I

Babies!

Halloween

Here is me on Halloween by day:

And us by night:

I love Halloween!

Kitchen project

As most of you know, all of my kitchen appliances are pink. Before I married Jonathan I already had the stand mixer, the blender and a lot of smaller miscellaneous items, in pink. Then for our wedding we got TONS more pink stuff, like the hand mixer, the stand up ice cream maker, the toaster, and more small items. Jonathan knew this of course, and he said it was fine that my kitchen be pink, as long as we could paint the walls brown. :) We were noticing a couple weeks ago that the wall in our basement and the wall border above our kitchen cabinets had grooves in them that would make it perfect to stripe the walls because the lines are already there for you!! Here's an example :

(I hope that's not really hard to see!) So Jonathan got this BRILLIANT idea to stripe the kitchen pink and brown.. I love his ideas sometimes!! Here are the before and afters! Tell me HONESTLY what you think. I'm sure I'll hear a lot of, "well, I never would have done it in my house, but it's cute in yours!!" :)
Before:

After:


Close up:

Recipe help

Ever since we got married, cooking has been a whole new adventure for me. No longer can I just cook whatever I like, whenever I want it. I have to figure out what Jonathan likes, and have them prepared in a timely manner when we get home from work. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing this, it's just new. I find myself spending a lot of time sitting at the kitchen table just looking through different cook books for things that look delicious, and realistic, for me to prepare. For the past couple weeks I have only made things that I've never made before. It's definitely an adventure. You never really know how your food will turn out. There have been some really good things, (keepers, as we call them), and some things that we might never wanna try again :) I was actually just getting on the computer to find a good pasta salad recipe on BHG.com (love that site), and I thought I'd check the blog while I was on here, and now here I am writing to you guys to seek some thoughts from all of you! Of course, we all have our favorites from Mom: chicken enchiladas, beef stroganof, roast and potatoes, chili, well, you all know. But I was wondering what other favorite recipes you guys have that I have been missing out on! Kirsta has given me a few that we tried and LOVED! Although, I made one of them wrong so we'll have to try it again, we didn't give up on it! So, fill me in on your favorite dinners so I can try them Please!! If you don't wanna write down a whole recipe on here you can email it to me at Karigustav@aol.com. Thanks!