Painting House

Luke and I decided to have our house painted. It was looking a bit shabby from the weather, plus getting tagged didn't help our curb appeal. We hired our friend Todd - and what a task he had. It took over a week to finish the work, but I think it turned out nicely so far. We are going to add cedar shutters and put up a new flower box to add more character to the house. In the future cedar shakes will go in the eve above the window and we will add a new front porch. It looks a bit plain right now, but over time I think it will come together nicely. We really like our small home and hope to stay in it for many more years. Here are a few photos of the house in the phases we were here for. (We left on vacation to New Mexico before any of the paint went on the house- so I was a bit worried to see what we would come home to find).

4th of July

Summer finally came, well sort of...

We are excited to have a break from all of the rain. We have been getting outside and are loving it. For the 4th we were able to get away early with my dad and headed up to the cabin. It was so nice to leave and see the gorgeous mountains and see how green and lush everything was. We relaxed on friday and took a short boat ride between the rain showers. Saturday Luke and I ran a trail race at Kelly Canyon. Luke took 2nd overall in the 10 mile race, and I took 1st women overall in the 5.5 mile. It was a ton of fun, and I pretty sure I am getting turned into a trail runner. Sat. afternoon we headed to Jackson Hole Wyoming and we watched the fire works and enjoyed walking around to some of the shops. We finally headed home on Sunday after a great relaxing weekend.

Catch UP

Well it should be no surprise that I have not done well at updating this blog. I apologize to the family that lives far away from us and is not able to see Brynlee. I hope to get more blogs posted so that you can follow, and that I can document her growth. It is amazing to look back and see how much has changed in the past year. You will see when you compare the photos from last summer to now.

Some of Brynlee's favorite things...

• Juice and chocolate milk
• Ice cream cones
• Going to the park and eating lunch
• Playing with the big girls
• She likes to say "OK" for about anything
• She loves getting pushed on her bike
• Rides with Papa Allred on the 4-wheeler
• Playing outside

Photos

Here are a few photos of this last month

Spring Break

This week is the beginning of spring break for ISU, but it has not started off well. Yesterday we received 3-4 inches of snow, and the forecast for the following days are not looking up. This past month we have been in our usual routine, work and school. We have gotten in a few days up at pebble and Luke has spent the last three weekends in randonnee races in Pocatello, Utah, and Jackson Hole. Those are now completed and we are heading into the beginning of running starting in April. Overall, we have not been doing anything exciting. We basically just go day to day and week to week... at least now through school, but we are looking forward to Spring.

Brynlee has been growing up a lot lately, she learns so much every day. We are getting close to 2yrs old now and she is quite the "big girl" now. We are slowly trying to decrease time with her binky, sometimes we have meltdowns, but she is gradually having it less and less. Her vocabulary is growing daily, and she is talking more and more. Her new sayings are now "Sure" instead of saying "yes," and she has been say "help you" instead of "help ME." That one has been a little confusing to her. She likes to help around the house and will cook dinner or "soup" on her little kitchen set. Her favorite movies right now are #1: shrek and #2: Nemo. We cannot get enough of Shrek, in fact she wants to watch it so much we actually had to take a break from Shrek for a week because she would wake up at night and want to watch Shrek. Who knew that a big green ogre could be so interesting for a 2 yr old. One day we might move on to princesses, but right now Shrek will do. 

I guess I should mention that we did have something interesting or crappy happen to us last weekend. We had some punk come through our neighborhood and spray painted several houses, fences, and cars. Our car, house, and renters truck were all tagged. It wasn't fun, but it did come off with some elbow grease. I just hope the ones responsible will get caught- I'm voting for lots of community service!  

Mistake

I need to mention that I have made a mistake with using Blogger. In an attempt to update my information I accidentally created a new blog. Whoops. So....you can also see us at lukeandtanaenelson.blogspot.com  I will attempt to merge these two if anyone even attempts to look at our blog. So please stay tuned.