The Daniel Boone Cabin

My parent's cabin is basically finished. They are trying to sell it and are renting it out until then. I am so proud of their hard work that I had to post some pictures!

We have nicknamed it the Daniel Boone cabin because it's made the old fashioned way, using logs and a pulley system etc. Plus my mom put a quote on the wall from Daniel Boone that says, "We continued not in a state of indolence, but hunted every day, and prepared a little cottage to defend us from the winter storms."

After I took these pictures, they staged it differently and brought in beds etc...but get the picture!

Downstairs guest room

Master bedroom downstairs

Main floor bathroom

Upstairs bathroom

Jenay getting ready upstairs

Dad on the back deck

View into front room and entry from the loft.

View of entry and stairway from the loft

I Hate Groundhogs!

I have been so happy the sun has come out. It makes me so happy and wanting to open the windows, air out the house, and do a bunch of cleaning.

Yesterday, Christian and I cleaned out a lot of clutter and took a station wagon full of things to Goodwill. We organized the office, kitchen and bathroom. It felt so good to be out of hibernation and into spring again.

This morning we woke up and started getting ready for church. Christian had a headache, but we started to take our showers and get dressed. After I was finished with my church preparation routine, I went to find Christian. He was doubled over on the floor of our closet with one of the worst headaches he's had in a while.

We ended up staying home. I fell asleep this sunny Sunday afternoon on the couch and woke up to snow. It is coming down heavily, and then I realized that this could be the reason Christian was in extreme pain today.

The plus side? The sun is out and is so bright.

I hate groundhogs and their shadows.

I am Curious.

I am curious what everyone else thinks in regards to friends who are trying to sell things and want to come to your house to give you a sales pitch. I'm not talking about things like Scentsy parties or Jewelry parties etc. I'm talking about things such as, "Hey friend, I haven't talked to you in a while, but I would like to come and pressure you to buy an air purifier."

Do you think that it is being of service to friends to let them come and sell you things? Leave your answer on the poll to the left please! I am curious.

Nothing New

There hasn't been anything extremely exciting going on in our lives. We are still working and I am still going to school. The bathrooms...well they aren't finished yet due to school starting, but they are slowly getting there.

Highlights this week:

1) Christian got home for being gone for about 2 weeks. He visited Oregon, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming on this trip. He was deeply missed.

2) Even though Christian was missed, I made up for it through shopping! :) I bought a beautiful bench for the foot of our bed, stools for the bar, clothes and other things that I don't know if I actually needed, but it was fun to do!

3) I held a rooster! I HATE chickens because they peck and have talons that could hurt. However there was a rooster that got it's two "feet" tangled in some bailing (string that holds a bail of straw together) and it couldn't walk. Of course it was surrounded by the other roosters, which I was not keen on.

I grabbed the end of the piece of twine and all the other roosters scrambled to get away while I grabbed this rooster and untangled it's legs/paw/what ever they are actually called. Needless to say, I was pretty proud of myself on that day! It's the little things that make me feel important.

4) The weather has been so BEAUTIFUL lately. It makes me want to go for walks and clean. So...I walked all over going shopping and I started my spring cleaning.

As you can see, our life is full of excitement. So what if others are traveling the world, I can save a chicken!

CAUTION! Drinking Organic Milk May be Harmful to Your Health!

On Saturday my sister, Jenay, and I were shopping at Costco. I had grabbed two boxes of regular milk (4 gallons) and one box of their organic milk (1 1/2 gallons) amongst all of my other loot I acquired throughout the store.

We were over by the meat section and a nice old lady (in her 60's probably) stopped me and asked me, "Can I ask you a question?" She was looking in my cart and so I thought she needed to know where I got something so I said sure. Here's how the rest of the conversation went:

Kendra: (I don't know exactly what words I said, but it was something along these lines) My husband and I have read many studies showing that non-organic milk has more pesticides, antibiotics, and other chemicals than organic milk. In fact, the higher the fat content in the milk, the more chemicals are present.

Old Woman: Those studies are false! She proceeded to get in my face and let me know that she was a dairy farmer and they would never sell milk like that! If my cart was not between us she would certainly have invaded my personal bubble.

Kendra: So you are telling me that all of the scientific studies I have read are not true?

Old Bag: "Yes!" Which was proceeded by more loud, angry talking.

Kendra: "Okay, thank you."

Old Fart: More angry talking (I have started to tune her out at this moment).

I realized that no matter what I said, she would still be arguing, so I walked away. However, she ended up shewing Jenay's ear off about how regular dairy is not bad etc. Jenay finally walked away.

BOY were we (basically me) fuming for the next 15 minutes. Now I find it funny. Of course only a stranger would approach ME and chew me out for buying organic milk. Since when does a complete stranger approach you and chew you out for what you have in your cart? Did she think she was going to change my mind?

I had no idea organic milk was so hazardous to my health!

Nothing too Exciting!

I have been informed that I have not written anything...sorry!

Life has been busy. This is the last week of school and next week is finals. I made it through the first semester back...barely made it! I have never been so excited for Christmas to come.

Our bathrooms are also getting finished. I decided to not work full time during the break and keep part-time so that I could recuperate and also try to finish up the bathrooms. The wiring is done and so is the insulation. The Sheetrock is almost all up and next is the taping and the mudding and the tiling and then paint and medicine cabinets and then this whole project will be complete!

I will let everyone know when the celebration party will be. We are suggesting everyone bring a roll of Charmin toilet paper to our bathroom party. (Only a joke, there will be no party...but there is a couple of new potties!)

We are excited to see family this season. My brother and his family are stopping by on the way to Pocatello next week so we get to see them for a short time. Then my sister and her husband are coming in town for Christmas.

Of course our activities will include target practicing...it has to since Christian, my Dad, Jenay and I have new guns to test out! Plus it's a tradition.

Everyone is then taking off to go to my niece's baptism in Pocatello. Unfortunately Christian and I can't go. We had committed to go out of town on business that weekend and visit my brother's family in Medford, but then we found out they would be in Portland. We are sorry we are going to miss it Natalie! We are proud of your excellent choice!

The house is still a mess which means that I don't get to put up my Christmas decorations. Anyone who knows me knows that this is a HUGE downer for me. I have loved Christmas decorations since I can remember and am sad to not even have a place for my tree this year. What should we put our presents under...a toilet?

For those who asked, the Thanksgiving goose turned out deliciously! I was pleasantly surprised. It was the first time doing that and it was tasty. Basically a goose tastes like the dark meat of a turkey. It was scrumptious. Christian really outdid himself. Although the juice was mostly grease and so if you make one, you need to skim off a ton of grease.

That is pretty much what is new with us. As the title says, it's nothing too exciting! Happy holidays everyone!