I've been trying to do better at updating this as best as I can, seeing as I am apparently the worst at updating this according to some people (I will not mention names...but you know who you are.) So let me start with what fun stuff has been happening in the past couple of weeks.
One Friday evening, Peter and I have decided to relive an old "single-status" tradition called a "Denny's Run". This is where you grab a bunch of people late at night and head to Idaho Falls to have a meal at Denny's. While we didn't have a TON of people with us and we didn't end up at Denny's, we still enjoyed the company of Lisa and Shane and the food of the next best, if not better, place, IHOP. After stuffing ourselves with pancakes and omelets, we headed to Super Wal-Mart for a few things that our 'normal' Wal-Mart in Rexburg doesn't offer, and Lisa and Shane had fun with the camera while we were heading back home.
Over Christmas, I received a beautiful new Kitchen-aid from my wonderful Father-in-law and Mother-in-law and a few days ago, I finally found a good recipe to put it to use and I'm proud to say that it was a success. I can't wait to use my awesome Kitchen-aid even more in the future.
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| The cake's a bit small and the frosting could've been better, but everyone else seemed to like it! |
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And on a more recent note, we've enjoyed the company of Lori and Lisa at our home the past couple of days and with today being the Superbowl, we thought it would be fun to have a little family party with every Barnes in Rexburg, plus Zachary. We all met up at Melissa's (Peter's cousin) house and enjoyed making our own pizzas and skyping with Annette wishing her many birthday wishes from the West.
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| We've come to discover that the men are better at laying down pizza dough. The trays on the far left and far right are Peter's and Zach's. The one in the middle is Lori's... |
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| Happy Birthday Annette! We love you! |
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| Just had to get a cute candid of the cute couple:) |
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| Zach had to go and ruin this photo with his PDA. Gross. |
After the food and the game was over (we're not big football fans, so we just kind of had the TV on while we finished up our food) we had to say our goodbyes to Lori who had to travel back to Provo and then we all sat down for a couponing lesson from Melissa. We decided to have this lesson due to Peter's love of the show "Extreme Couponing" and the discovery of the wonderful food storage that Melissa had because of her coupon skills. We are very excited to see how much we save this week due to our new coupon binders!
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| Peter's dream came true! He has a coupon binder! |
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| Just like a kid at Christmas. |
It's been great fun getting to know Melissa and having our little family gatherings as much as we have. Having family here makes the winter here a little more bearable. I can't imagine the fun that we are going to have come summer!
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