Clean Baby Clean #3, or Colby Barney, with the goo goo googley eyes.

So yesterday while Colby and Russell put up the trim in our room I cleaned out my drawers in our bathroom. Man did I have a lot of junk. This photo of Colby is to show how many pairs of glasses I had in the drawers, 5 pairs of reading glasses and one old pair of prescription glasses. I haven't needed reading glasses for about 2 years now so they have just been taking up space in the drawers. When I looked at this photo I just kept thinkng of the song, Barney Google, with the goo goo googly eyes, but in this case Colby Barney with the goo goo googly eyes.

Also, I had 5 toothbrushes and I have used an electric toothbrush for about 3 years now, so I guess going though things now and again is a good thing.

Perfect reason for moving to Salt Lake City...

Well, I must admit I did not do any cleaning today because I had to spend the day going to Idaho Falls to run some errands. We painted our bedroom a while back and have needed some white trim to finish it so off to Idaho Falls we went today. A trip to Idaho Falls generally takes most of the day so we don't get much other stuff done when we go there. It was a fun trip though, we picked Colby up in Rexburg and she came home with us for the weekend. We had a yummy lunch at Red Robin, went to Lowe's and of course Walmart and spent a little time in the mall. Instead of cleaning when we got home I painted the trim for the bedroom and it will hopefully get put up on Monday. We have a really cool picture of the Salt Lake temple we can hang after the trim is up so we will be able to get that done also. Now, when we get to Salt Lake I imagine we can run to a hardware store and home in an hours time so that will be nice. Wow, that is going to be exciting!!!!!

Ooh...Gross!

Okay so knowing that cleaning is a big part of moving I started today with the dastardly deed. First job, under the kitchen sink, a job that hasn't been done for a while. Any way, I figure I might as well make it memorable while I am doing it so I am going to bore you all with a play by play account as I go along. Whats under your kitchen sink? I had 2 bottlesof Kaboom, 3 bottles of Windex, 4 packaging tape dispensers, 2 kinds of ceramic stove top cleaner, 3 flyswatters, dishwasher parts, assorted sponges, scrapers, squeegees, dishwasher soap, dish soap, Jet Dry, vinegar water, Murphy's oil soap water, stainless steel appliance cleaner, a few rags, hand towels, 3 kinds of carpet cleaner, and the list goes on. My whole plan was to chuck some of it, but mostly I just dispersed it to the bathrooms in the house. I did find two plant pots that will be great in a garage sale.

Here is the mess underneath my sink after all those bottles and junk are gone. What a lovely surprise! I can't wait for under the refrigerator!



How many packaging tape dispensers does one person need, don't you even fret about them though because we will be needing them all in the next few months.

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All clean and shiny...



One job down and 100 more to go...your welcome to come and help anytime!

Our March is coming in like a lion for sure, hope it goes out like a lamb!

I intended to change my blog when March got here, and it is already a week into the month, whoops! Since spring is suppose to arrive in March I am being optimistic and putting some little robin eggs on my blog. We still have quite a bit of snow so I really don't imagine we will have any such thing this month. When I looked at Royce and Aubree's blog with their cute little pictures of Grace there were flowers and oranges in the trees and they didn't even have on a jacket. I just hope it will be warm when we head to Ohio to visit Blake and Lindsey in a few weeks. Their weather is usually warming up by now so I hope it will be when we get there.

I had a great visit with my family last weekend when I drove over to the Boise area and attended the blessing of a new little niece, Sage Solosabal. It was fun to spend some time them and with Meredith, Augie, Saria and Easton. I think the best part happened right before I left to come home when my brothers gave my dad a blessing. He will be starting cancer radiation this week so it was nice the boys could give him a blessing before that all begins. As you are growing up you always think of your dad taking care of you but not your brothers, so thanks Mark and Darrin for helping dad now that he needs someone to help take care of him!

I must be having a boring life....

I haven't had anything to blog about lately. I keep forgetting to take a camera with me when I go places so I don't have anything new to add. I have been hitting the road quite regularly though, with a trip to Kuna, and Provo in the last few days. Plus I am excited to see my family this weekend when we assemble at the baby blessing of a new little niece. So....sorry about all the boringness lately.

A Day Off

Today is parent teacher conferences at the schools so I have the day off. Plus, we had a snow day on Tuesday because it was 39 below at some places in our valley so...I had only two days of working this week. It's a rough life huh? Russell wants to know why bankers never get a snow day, sorry honey. We finally have some snow here. It has been slow coming but I suppose it is here to stay now. Our weather has been so crazy, it was in the 40s last week so lots of the snow melted and it was getting pretty thin in spots.

When the kids were here for the holidays they made a snowman which sits in the front yard and was really cute. After all the melting it looked pretty sad and kind of scary actually, here some photos of the poor guy:

Only in Teton Valley will you find a cow in your backyard!

We went out our front door on Saturday and guess what we found? A herd of cows coming fast into our yard. Colby herded them out of our yard into an empty field by our house, so far so good. Well, we went out into our backyard a little while later and there was one cow in our yard and another on its way into our yard. It was so funny, I was just a little worried though that we would end up with all that herd of cows in our back yard so Colby chased them out. I just wish I would have had my camera then because its not very often you find a cow in your backyard!

Happy Birthday to Me!

So I had my birthday in June and turned 50. Is that crazy or what? Anyway I wanted to show you what Russell paid for and Colby and Jim made me for my birthday. They built 10 of these tables for a motel in Jackson and made really good money doing it, but they were kind enough to build them for me for my birthday for cost only. They turned out really nice. Jim designed them and he and Colby spent many a night building the tables for their costumer. Thanks and good job guys!

A woman's work is never done........

Especially when your washer has been on the fritz! I was just reading Rae Jean's blog and thought, wow, she has some exciting things happening! Here is my exciting news, after a month of going to the laundry mat, my washer is now working!!!! It promptly quit after all the Christmas company left and I had all towels and sheets etc. to get clean. Well, the part that was not working arrived this week and the repair man was here this morning and got it running. Hurray! (That laundry mat can really add up)

Russell and I have our last day at the Rexburg temple tomorrow, January 25th, 2008. We have been so lucky to be tour guides at the temple each Friday in January and it has been a great experience. It has been my pleasure to take turns with Russell guiding the tours where one of us talks about the temple and the other is the sheep herder and follows after everyone on the tour and keeps us all together. He has said some nice things about us in the sealing room which is the last stop on the tour. He always says he is thankful to be sealed to his best friend and that really touches my heart. It has been a wonderful time for us. He is definitely a blessing for me and our kids. I guess I do have some exciting things going on besides getting the washer fixed!