A Baadsgaard Christmas

So this Christmas was Baadsgaard Christmas....meaning we stayed here in Utah and hung out with Jed's family. It was some good times! The first picture is Christmas Eve--we cruised around the farm in Jed's dad's new toy. It's called a Rhino and I guess you could say it's just like a golf cart/4-wheeler on crack. It was pretty fun and Cody is convinced he would rather have one of those than a truck or car to drive around.
















This is probably my favorite picture of Christmas day. Notice anything a little weird.....how about the fact that poor Carter is having to fight with 5 adults to get to play with his new race track!! I was considering going to Target today to get one for Jed and Chad. Below is a picture of Kylee with her new Dora tent---no boys allowed!!! Christmas night we went to the Clarks and had a grubbin meal---I can't believe I forgot to take pictures ---especially since I got a new camera for Christmas from Jed----he did tell me there was one stipulation with my new camera "No pictures of me for your dumb blog!" ------yeah right!

Creepy Angel

So we have a new addition to the Baadsgaard Christmas decorations. Yip, it's a creepy angel. Basically I had brought home 3 different angels for our tree and Jed didn't like any of them. (I asked him why he couldn't be like most husbands out there and just not care?!) I guess he had a vision of what our angel should be (actually he saw an angel on a K-Mart commercial and decided that was the angel for us.) So we raced to K-mart one night only to find that they were out of this precious angel so we literally had to speed across town to the other K-mart before they closed and wouldn't you know it (just my luck) they had it---the very one Jed had been dreaming of! So I decided I would compromise and let him get it. Little did I know that once we got it home and plugged it in that the wings were made of real feathers....they have fiber optic lights in them that turn a nice green...to red...to purple...to blue....to white!!! Oh but it gets better---they move up and down like she's flying!!! I wish I could get a picture of the fiber optics but the flash on the camera ruins it. So please feel free to come over to our house and enjoy our creepy angel yourself this holiday season!

Santa has Arrived...and so has Snomobiling Season!

So Jed thinks it's pretty funny to put obnoxious Christmas decorations up outside of our house just to bug me. The scary part is he hasn't even got to the reindeer and santa's sleigh on top of our roof with another santa that looks like he's fallen out of the sleigh and is hanging from the raingutter. He thinks it's funny.....I think it's white trash. Jen and Chris Cameron were kind enough to give us the inflatable Santa in the picture above last year (thanks jerks!). The next picture is of Jed this morning leaving for the first day of snowmobiling for the year......he was soooo excited! You might notice I had to secretly take the picture out of my window because first of all Jed hates getting his picture taken for the blog and secondly I had the flu so I wasn't dressed yet but I had a good chuckle to myself thinking what he would do if I had gone outside in my fuzzy blue robe, no make-up, scary hair and said in a fun mom voice "ok boys! Everyone scooch together so I can get you all in this fun picture!!"

Random Update

So here's a few random pictures from Thanksgiving weekend. I figured I wouldn't give all the details of Thanksgiving Day since you've probably already read about what I did on Thanksgiving on Carrie or Cody's blog. So here's a few of MY favorite pictures from the week. First of all my parents & Kami came to town which was super fun! Of course we all had to go to lunch with just the girls one day (ok, we actually did it several days but here's just one picture). The next picture is of my BFF Rylee. I got to babysit her one night and it was super fun--she thought putting olives on ALL of her fingers was about the coolest thing ever! See, I'm a fun babysitter like that---the Rylee gets to do whatever she wants --we usually play princess and paint our nails and play games or color. Needless to say Thanksgiving was pretty much a week long party at the Oram and Baadsgaard homes.

Roommate Reunion

Ok, fine----the picture above is not of our roommate reunion but it pretty much sums up my Ricks College Days...........the biggest excitement in my life was Wednesday night when 90210 came on!!!! (and the the first season did just come out on DVD so could someone please tell Jed that getting it for Christmas would be the highlight of my year!) Anyway....Natalie, Carrie and I -along with our husbands did have a little reunion on Friday night. Natalie and Ian were in town from Michigan so we got together for some good grub and good conversation....way fun! I was so bummed though because I had found my 90210 barbie dolls in my garage a few days before our reunion and I was planning on having the waitor bring them out on a silver platter for us for dinner as a joke and I totally forget them on my kitchen table back home!!! Wouldn't that have seriously been so funny!!! Oh well, maybe next time. Oh and just in case anyone is interested in trying out their 90210 knowledge I've included a link to a 90210 trivia game---enjoy!
http://www.helicon7.com/90210/

While Jed Was Out

Above is the new and below is old





















So as most of you know Jed has started traveling again for work. Well, this week he was gone for the entire week so needless to say I felt the need to keep myself busy. Soooooo I decided I would paint my bathroom! Now I'll be honest.....if Jed was home I'm not sure that he would have agreed with me on the paint choice but oh well, it's done now. I just need to find a few accessories to complete the project but at least you get the general idea.

Brocston has an owie on his Heart

My little nephew Brocston (Jed's sister Shay's little boy) had to have open heart surgery. He's doing great and we hope he has a speedy recovery. We went to visit him in Primary Childrens Hospital and even though he's doing great it was so sad to see all those wires and tubes hooked up to him. One cool thing though was that my friend Little Julie is a nurse on the floor he's on so she made sure that he was well taken care of.....she's a great friend and nurse like that. Hopefully Broc will get to come home soon.

Surprise--Sharon is Sixty!

It was pretty much one surprise after another for my mom this last weekend. It was her 60th Birthday so we all flew up to Seattle to surprise her. The first picture is when she turned around and saw Cody, Karena, Jed and I all just sitting on the couch. The next picture is when she walked downstairs for the big party we were having on Saturday night and was surprised by Uncle Paul, Uncle Phil, Uncle Carl and Aunt Pat. She had NO CLUE!!! I wish I would have got a picture of her being surprised by Kami and Ben and Friday afternoon and then Maile and Nate on Saturday. It was SO FUN! I love the picture of Jed and Cody having a fight with wet kitchen towels.... who do you think won??? And last but not least is my favorite picture. After a couple of days of partying we finally accomplished the impossible..........we wore Quinn out!!!!

Witches Night Out!!

Saturday night was "Witches Night Out" at Gardner Village. It was in sane! I couldn't believe how many witches were there. Basically it's a girls night out where you all dress up like witches and go shopping at Gardner Village. They have all these fun little events going on during the evening like dancing and cackling for coupons and other random stuff. Above is Tracy, Missy, Amy, Lani, Me, and Jen.
















Here's a great shot of Missy, Jen and Tracy doing the boot scoot boogie!! Below is Me, Nikki, April May (I swear that's her real name---isn't it great!!) and Kimmy Sue--her real name is Kim but I just like to call her Kimmy Sue.

Murder Mystery

So this past weekend we went to a murder mystery dinner at Gardner Village with some friends. As many of you know Gardner Village is a super fun place that has all these cute little shops and they go all out for Halloween. I have to admit that the murder mystery was kind of a disappointment. The food wasn't that great and the acting was terrible---I told Jed I could act better than any of the actors that night and he said "yeah that's probably true because you are kind of a drama queen"----rude! As you can tell from the picture below Nikki was a little annoyed with the actress and Brendan and Jed just tried to avoid the actors whenever they came over to our table. Oh well, we still had fun.















I also had a fun day on Saturday shopping with Sarah all day---she came down to bring Katie to a dance competition. Then Sunday Jed and I went to dinner at my old mission companion Mindi Nordfelts for dinner and that was way fun---especially for Jed because he got to listen to all the old mission stories---hey, at least he got a good meal out of it because Mindi is an excellent cook!!!

2 Years!!!

So this past Saturday was our 2 year anniversary! I can't believe it's already been 2 years. I have to say it's been the best two years of my life so far! I lucked out marrying such a great guy. We had a fun day on Saturday. We started off the day by going to my old co-worker Mikey's baptism. Then we went to breakfast at Mimi's and it was gooood. We then headed off on a fun drive in the Ashley National Forest. At the top of the mountain we ran into quite a bit of mud and SNOW. You can see that the Jeep did us proud and managed the snow quite nicely--(as well as all the little side trails Jed just HAD to go on). We ended the day with a big ole Prime Rib dinner at Magelby's. Good times.

Fun Fall Family Pictures

So today we went up to Payson Canyon and had Cody take some Baadsgaard Family Pictures. Didn't he do an awesome job!!! I picked just a few of my favorites for you all to enjoy!!














Jed & I looking like we're going to a sadyhawkins dance in our matching outfits!!!















Carter, Kade, Kylee, Brocston, Cambry. I love this picture because it shows their true personalities but even better is the picture below.....















Now isn't this a precious picture of Lynn and Jeanne and their perfect little grandchildren--HA! HA! I love the death grip Lynn has on Carter and the look on Jeanne's face is priceless!















The whole Baadsgaard fam-damly. What a good-lookin bunch!

Slow and Steady

Today was a SCARY day for me...we got our new hot tub a couple of days ago and so now we needed a way to get it onto our deck in back. So the only was to get it there was to have a crane lift it OVER the house and place it ever so GENTLY on the deck. Needless to say I was a basket case until it was done. Here's some pictures----sorry, they're kind of in reverse order.





















The hot tub being ever so gently placed on the deck
















The hot tub being lifted in the air by the crane--about to go over the house. (this would be the point I started biting my nails!!
















Jed, Jason (Jed's best friend) and Lynn (Jed's dad) getting the straps ready to secure around the hot tub to prepare it to take flight!

You will be amazed to know it only took the crane guy about 5 minutes to lift it up over the house and onto the deck---what a pro!!!

Fall Colors

So this was yet another fun weekend with the Wheelers. Caleb and Sarah stopped in Provo on their way home from a buiness trip in Denver and spent the day with us. We went to dinner up in Heber at the Claimjumper and decided to drive up to Squaw Peak on our way to check out the fall colors. Of course the men had to be suckered into taking a few pictures for this blog worthy event!! As usual we had a blast hanging out with Sarah and Caleb and by the end of the night we all were sick from laughing so much. By the way---doesn't my husband look HOT in this picture!!

My Girlfriends Kitchen

So here's a fun new thing that my friends and I are trying......it's called "My Girlfriends Kitchen". Basically what you do is you go to this place and put together different meals that you can take home and put in your freezer and cook whenver you want to. All the food is already chopped and prepared for you and you just put it together. So tonight we made 6 meals including mexican lasagna, chicken and bisquits, pot roast and I can't remember the other ones. It only took us about an hour to make all of them. I would HIGHLY suggest it to all you out there who don't have a ton of time to cook. Plus---it was so fun!!! Oh yeah---and it's not that expensive either. You can check it out on www.mygirlfriendskitchen.com

BOYS and their TOYS!!

Most of you are aware that my husband has a hobby of selling and buying cars. I like to tease him that as soon as a car looses that new car smell he has to get rid of it. The fact of the matter is though that I can't complain cause he always seems to make money on the deals! In the two years we've been married he has had 5 different cars---and that's not including the junkers that he drives inbetween selling one vehicle and deciding what he'll get for his next vehicle. (Just go ahead and ask me about the 1992 Honda Accord that he made me drive for a month that had no 4th gear!) He even sold my car without me knowing!! I've learned that the term "every thing is for sale for the right price" is his motto. So here's the latest vehicle. I have to admit it has been so fun to have.
















He even saved up his money to buy new tires and wheels. (don't anyone tell him I posted this picture without shining the wheels and tires before taking the picture----he would be mortified!)
















Here's Cody driving the jeep to see how the new wheels are---whatever---he just wanted to drive it! Oh well, it was a good excuse to go with Jed, Cody and Missy to visit Shandy in the hospital---oh wait---she's still not there yet and it's 10pm----that's right--she's going in at 2am to be induced!!! Oh and one more thing......Jed wanted me to let you all know that if anyone wants a fun 2005 Jeep Rubicon---he happens to have one for sale!

So Long Seven Peaks

Rylee's ROCKSTAR pose!















Today was a tragic day.....it was our last day at Seven Peaks Water Park. This is where I've been pretty much every Saturday all summer long. No, I'm not 16 years old----I just love the sun ok! My friend Amy's little girl Rylee has been my faithful companion this summer. We said our good-bye's to Seven Peaks today by going down a few water slides, floating the lazy river and chillin in the wave pool. And just in case any of you are wondering...........no, Jed doesn't go with me, he prefers to get his tan by working on the farm.......how boring!

Rockin' Sunday!!!

Once a month my family gets together for Sunday dinner. This month it was at my house and we grubbed!!! Cody brought over his new PS2 game. I can't remember exactly what it's called but basically it's like karoke but with guitars---that's how Cody explained it anyway. So you have two players, two guitars (instead of controllers) and the notes that you have to play come up on the screen. At the end of the song it tells you who won and what percentage of the notes you hit. Needless to say it was quite the competition!! As you can tell by the look on Uncle Carl's face below you have to concentrate pretty hard & it can get a little nerve racking!!! My friend Missy and I kept on playing after everyone left and finally had to quit about 10pm because our hands were starting to cramp up. We'll be playing it again tonight for FHE if anyone wants to come over!!!

Garage Sale!!!!

Jed's sister Lesa asked us if she could have a garage sale at our house on Saturday----I said "sure---as long as I don't have to do any of the work but more importantly that I don't end up with more junk then I started with.......basically meaning that Jed was not allowed to keep anyting that Lesa brought over. I love my father-in-law but he has cursed all of his children with a terrible habit........being Pack RATS!!!!! For instance......when Jed's grandma died she had saved little bunches of yarn that was left over from her knitting----and yes, Lesa actually took it home!!!---dont' deny it Lesa---it's true! They even tried to divide up her old rusty cookie sheets and I'm all "chuck those suckers!!!" Anyway, I could go on and on about with more stories so I should probably stop now. The garage sale was a huge success. Lesa sold tons and tons of kids clothes.
















I think Kylee was much more excited about the 10 sodas that she sold though. Every time someone would buy one she would come running to me and yelling at the top of her lungs "Aunt Malani (yes she says malani, not nalani) I sold another one!!!!!" As you can tell from the picture ..Chad was just as much into the garage sale as I was!

BENJI WON!!!!!

I am happy to report that Benji won!!! He's a cute little returned missionary that tried out for the show to get over the fact that his girlfriend sent him a wedding annoucement a week before he got home!! As the judge Nigel said after his first performance (which was my favorite dance of the whole show---it was a hip-hop dance with Donyelle) "she'll wish she could come back to you sunshine after seeing that performance!" The picture above is of Benji dancing with his cousin Heidi who got 4th place in the whole show! I have no idea what I'll do on Wednesday nights now that the show is over----------only a few more weeks until the Bachelor starts!!!!

Look who's 60!!!

Here's something kind of funny.....both my dad and my father-in-law turned 60 this week!!! Now that is OLD!!! We celebrated my dad's b-day a month ago when we were all home. We celebrated my father-in-law Lynn's birthday on Sunday. The best part of the whole party is when Grandma Baadsgaard re-lit the birthday candles 5 times so each grandkid could have a turn blowing them out----she's fun like that!














This is a pretty typical Sunday out at the Baadsgaard "farm" as we like to call it. Jed's mom makes grubbin food every week and we all sit around stuffing our faces and having fun. I swear she nevers makes the same thing twice either! Above is Marie, Chad (Jed's brother), Brady and Lesa (Jed's sister). Fun stuff.

Weekend With the Wheelers

So we had a super fun weekend with Sarah and Caleb and their kids last weekend. They came down Friday night and Saturday morning we got up bright and early (9:30am) and the girls headed off for shopping and 7 Peaks Water Park and the boys headed off to go 4-wheelin!!!!! Jed took the boys up a trail called Mona Pole which basically goes up to Mount Nebo. You can see the awesome view behind Caleb in one picture. The other picture is of Jack and Carter at the opening of an old nickel mine. They thought they were pretty brave to go into the CAVE. You should have seen the bath water after the two little boys took a bath----Sarah and I were totally gagging! That night we had a good ole bbq and played games. We had so much fun with the Wheelers and their kids that we're going to do it all over again the first of September at their house---and of course go to the Blackfoot Fair!!!!