Only in Idaho!

This last weekend, Kelv took me to a special little drive in found in downtown Boise. It's a quaint little place called the Westside Drive In. Kelv has many memories eating here as a child which made it all the more fun to go enjoy a delicious (and huge) meal at this little place. One item we enjoyed wasn't quite your typical entree however. ICE CREAM baked potato anyone?


Actually, you might have guessed, but it's not a potato at all! It's a ball of ice cream, rolled in cocoa. Then after a dollop of whip topping, some nuts, and oreo chucks, they slap it on a plate of chocolate sauce and you're ready to go! Pretty "cool" huh?!

On our way to Boise...

As we were driving to Boise we passed a massive sign. We took the exit to try and find him. But, alas, he was not to be found. We thought for sure we'd see him with the sign describing him so exactly. Oh well, we'll just have to meet up with Alene's brother some other time...

Come on everybody it's FAMILY NIGHT!

Monday Night we had a fun and necessary activity for our FHE. While watching Legacy on DVD Kelv had an incredible transformation! Here's the proof!

BEFORE:


............AND AFTER!!!!

Much Better! If only all our FHE's could be this great! :-D

Anniverary Celebration

Although our anniversary was a few weeks ago, we have been so busy we couldn't find a good time to do anything together for a couple weeks. Sooooo, yesterday we had a belated 1st anniversary celebration appropriately at... the Anniversary Inn! It was so much fun!

We stayed in the Swiss Family Robinson room (since I have always loved that movie) which meant we got to sleep in a tree!!! Plus take our mornings showers under a rock waterfall... AND dance under the tree limbs to the light of a fish tank! Pretty sweet!! It was especially just a nice chance to be together and just have a fun time. We've both been so busy with work lately AND with our schedules not matching as much anymore, it was just nice to get away!

*I just wish these pictures did the room justice!! It was incredible!

Plus... the true highlight of the trip was the car we passed on our way there! :-D

Kelv's Birthday

Happy Birthday to Kelv!!!

So once again, I know this is a month late, but I just wanted to post a little something about Kelv's birthday! We just had a little get together with close family and friends to celebrate just how wonderful Kelv is and how glad he's been alive for 23 years! wOOt! He's getting to be an old man!

This was also my first attempt at decorating a birthday cake so I figured that moment needed documentation... big time.

Also please note the little lego biker and also the biker on his birthday sign! Thanks to Paul and Jason for getting him the cyclometer to keep the biking theme "rolling"! ;-D

Valentine's Day

Hey there!

So I know that it's a little bit late for this, but better now then never right?! Well, we've finally got a laptop back that we can download our pictures onto, so we wanted to do a couple posts of the things we've been doing over the past few months!

Our Valentine's celebration started the weekend prior to the 14th and we had a romantic theme dinner! Ratitouille, salad, and sparkling cider baby!

After learning how to make Ratitouille on the Rachel Ray show, I went and rented the exotic film from Red Box and we made a night of it! It was so fun to chop and roast all the vegetables and pasta together. Plus even though we halfed the recipe, we had enough Ratitouille leftover for Kelv's lunches the rest of the week! It also made a terrific mess of the oven!