Update!

Hello everyone! I just thought I would let you all know what has been going on. Nothing singularly is worthy of its own post so I thought I would just catch you all up at once.

1.) Brent is currently engrossed in finals. I have not talked to him about just about anything else since before thanksgiving break. I have no doubt that he is doing amazinginly well but we will not officially find out until late january when grades and rankings come out. He has two more final exams. One on Tuesday and the other on thursday.

2.) I am also slowly finishing up this semester. I plan to submit one of my finals today, and then take one monday tuesday and wednesday. I think I will do fairly well on all of them, well I don't forsee any major issues but you never really know. I am hoping to achieve all A's this semester but honestly I am not sure I care if I recieve a B in one or two courses.

3.) So as most all of you know the company I work for is down sizing... well going out of business. This has been happening for a while now so I am not surprised and have been expecting to be let go for a while now, this, however, has not happened. Yesterday I was pulled into my supervisors office and she asked me to stay on through next January and increase my hours a little. Well I am kinda done with the job and have made arrangments to start T.A. ing for Prof. Lott 20 hours next semester which should cover all of our needs but I said yes. I figure it is better to use that extra money from that month to save up for a harder time or even better, put it towards brents law school fund. Regardless I will still be working with Icon until the mid or late January time.

4.) Brents football team did make it to the championship game but they lost. I did not go because it was ten degrees out and I am intelligent, but brent told me that to win the championship they would have had to beat the team twice because they were undefeated. He also told me that right before the game they over heard the officials saying that they had to make sure Brents team lost so they would not have to work on saturday. I think that would have been very demoralizing and I am sure Brents team would have had a much better shot if the refs had been decent.

5.) Ericas Wedding in on Saturday. I have been helping out here and there but not a ton. I am excited and this week should be really good for her! Brent is really excited that he gets to eat at Tacano's and that we get it all for free makes him even happier! It should be a great time but I am ready freeze for pictures!

6.) WE GET TO GO HOME! Brent and I are both getting very very antzy about leaving for christmas break. Thanks to somewonderful sisters in our ward we have substitutes for our class and then we have a friend who is willing to watch Caliah while we are in Arizona! Well I should get to homework but hope you all enjoyed this!

Cooking Cooking Cooking

So I should be working on one of the many papers that I have due this week but I think I will take just a few minutes to post a blog about my first time making lemon chicken. So, my mom makes amazing lemon chicken and I have never been much of a cook. So I made her give me the recipe and I tired it our. Enjoy some pictures of the process

here I am gathering all the food I need to make my masterpiece. The PJ's are because it is sunday before church and I haven't quite gotten ready yet.

Just Breading the chicken before I fry them!

Ok here it is! Cooking away! It turned out delicious. I have been inspired to try and make some better food, I would love some good suggestions!

Stage 3

As many of you loyal follwers already know I am going through a process of trying to make my small apartment more "liveable" to say the least. One problem that we have always had is how dirty our apartment is. Now you may say "Why Mallory, do you simply live like pigs?" and my answer is... "well kinda" but the point is when we moved in there was dirt left from the previous tenets that brent and I didn't know how to fix, and this weekend I found the solution! While Brents parents were in town for the Salt Lake City Christmas show we were able to go up and check out the fair. That is when this little tool caught my eye, and it took very little convincing that I needed it! Brents parents were nice enough to let us trade their product for it! So far we are very satisfied, check it out!

This is the little tool which is basically a highpower electric tooth bursh with different head!

Here is one of out problem areas: The inside of sink harware. We tried everything to get this out and nothing really worked well enough to actually get it out.

Don't worry Brent informed me the video is boring! but look at the after effect! Pretty impressive!

This is the wall behind the oven, Half is pre-tool and the other half is after. Can you tell the difference!?!? Well I certenly can!

Overall there is a very profound effect, and the tool is not always easy and you do have to work, but I am happy to know at some point (once I get around to all those little areas) I will only have to do maintance cleaning not all the big stuff. I do need suggestions about what you think my next project should be! Any Ideas!?!?!

UPDATE!

Every now and again I like to post a blog that just updates our life and so here we go again!

1.) I am probably losing my job either today or tomorrow. No notmy T.A. job but my office job at Icon Secuirty. You see there was a merger with pinnacle and so basically the entire office is being let go because pinnacle doesn't need us. I was talking to one of my co-workers today who just informed me that he was offered today either a severance package or a job in collections, but not everyone was offered both. I am fairly concerned that I will not be offered collections job, or that it will simply be to unbareable... so I need help... what do I do if I get let go the next time I go into work.

2.) Brents parents are in town! Yup Mama and Daddy Huntley are in town for a show and thank goodness! It has been way to long since we have seen them and Brent has set out a schedule of when and where we are eating! I enjoy the games (card games, and dominos) more than the eating out but I am not complaining.

3.) Brents football team is in the elite eight. I am not really sure what that means except that he is really good! Every game Brent has been able to injure himself in one way or another and this last game he fell after doing a spin mid-air and then landing on his hip, there is now a huge bruise. His next game is this evening and I intend to take pictures, so look forward to that!

4.) My classes have decided to become more difficult! I am getting through it ok but it is not always the best time of my life! I am writing an interesting paper about nursing pay discrimination, if you have any questions just ask!

5.) One of my best friends for about 15 years now is getting married! She is being such a gem and letting me help so much in the planning, I am having an absolute ball and can't wait to update everyone with pictures from the wedding which will be on DEc. 20, 2008, CONGRATS SPENCER AND ERICA!

6.) Caliah is doing well as always but she has become more whining than usual. She is confused by rain and often looks to us as if to ask "Can you please just make it stop already!?" T0 entertain her while it is yucky out we put down a ball of yarn, and she loves attacking it! I will have to take a video. It is not baby but we lover her just the same!

7.) So for next semester I am considering going to school part time and working full time to get health insurance so I can go see a doctor, but that would cost me more in tutition and it would take me longer to graduate, but I would have health insurance, and still graduate... SO WHAT DO I DO?!?! There are som big challenges for me right now, and I would love some actual input on what to do! I appreciate all the love right now, I need it!

Halloween

Happy All Saints Day everyone! I just thought I would let everyone know what we did for Halloween and show off my new layout! We celebrated halloween by watching Brent play intermural football (blog to follow at a later date) and then we went to Golden Corrall with friends. After eating we went and carved pumpkins, here are some of the fun pictures!

This us scrapping out the guts! I was in charge of the dirty work and brent was designing a cougar outline for our pumpkin!

Brent drew on the pumpkin and everything but then he gave up, so I took over. At this point Jeremy was already done with his pumpkin, so he gave me creative advice!

Here is Erica and Spencer working on their pumpkin, you would have to ask them to explain what they carved and why!

Cute Halloween picture, but unfortunatly it turned out a little fuzzy!

Every year I have ever carved a pumpkin, I have always carved an M into the back, and this year was no exception. I was going to put a B in it but I ran out of room :(

Ok here are the Final Products! On the right back, is Spencer and Erica's split face! In the front right is Jeremy's (who is by far the best), He described it as a demon cat thingy, and on the other side we have ours! Since I was working with half a cougar cut out already I had to kind of improvise! It turned out to be an anima cat (just for Kalen!)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Nebo Loop

Once again we were on a quest to have a fun relaxing weekend. So on saturday, instead of watching the BYU football game we set off with Erica and Spencer to drive the nebo loop! It was a grand old time! Tell us what you think!

Brents favorite picture of the weekend

I forgot my camera in the car! Erica is snapping a picture of spencer who is on the log brent is taking the picture from!
Unfortunatly, Brent and Spencer can both be a little overadventureous! aka "I don't care if there is a barrier I am going over it!"

There were a lot of white barked trees with great neon green leaves, here is a favorite picture!

We couldn't find any bolders so we threw rocks off the side of the cliff instead! Brent loves throwing things! I bet him and Braden will get along great!

Taking pictures of taking pictures?!?!? Crazy!

We weren't the only ones out and about that day... others chose to do it insytle... one day!

Wild Cow?!?! Yup we saw them... and there herders who were right behond them! I would have never guessed people actually walked their cows!

Well we had a great adventure and BYU won so no harm no foul right?! Does anyone know any other noteable outdoor adventure we should take while we are here?!

Cute Kitty Clubhouse

Ok, it is time again for my cute little kitty. She recently found a new hang out that she enjoys!

Can you find her?

Even when we took all the clothes out she continued to stay! She just live the hominess of it all!