Sweet Addiction

Daniel and I developed a new addiction this past week. We couldn't eat. We couldn't sleep. We wouldn't study. ...Okay, well it wasn't quite that bad. But, really, we put off studying, we put off eating dinner. It was a surprise that this one little thing could be so distracting and addicting.

Our addiction came in the form of a jigsaw puzzle. Who knew a little puzzle could be so addicting? We didn't!! We decided to start working on this little puzzle for family home evening, and for the next two days after that, we would spend hours working on it. It only took us three days to complete, when it should have taken us maybe a week or two. We spent far too much time with it.


This is Tuesday, and we are already half-way done.


So, we found out we kind of like puzzles. And, so, we decided that we probably shouldn't be doing puzzles during school. But trust us ... we'll be doing puzzles once school gets out! Maybe everyday for hours and hours!!!

Thanks to some help from my brother Michael I got an internship in Washington D.C. for this summer. I was really lucky to get such a good internship with Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services. We are really excited to spend the summer in D.C.! We've never been there, so great adventures are ahead!

Happy Valentine's Day

We had a fun Valentine's day today and we hope you all did too. Have fun looking at our pictures!!!!

Leslie received a teddy bear for Valentines and is so happy.


I really love this picture of Leslie, I caught her a little off guard if you can't tell.

Christmas Part 2

I just thought Leslie looked way cute in this picture so that's why I added it. It was taken just before we went on a date to the arcade.

Scott received a really nice new bow for Christmas so we went to a ranch and did some target practice. If you look really close in the picture above I think you can see the arrow flying through the air!


We went a different day with Leslie and Dad, but unfortunately they didn't make it this time. Leslie almost got a bulls-eye. We all did awesome and had fun. Oh and Tiki (the dog) loved the ranch, he went cow and horse chasing and just about got trampled by the horse. Some are sad he didn't.

Look at Scott's sweet shot group!



So we decided to do ginger bread houses, luckily we planned to do two because I left one in the oven too long and we ended up with a black house. And a black house doesn't look very Christmasy. They must not have had fire insurance.




It was like a mansion for the gummy bears!

Didn't we do awesome!! Our first ginger bread house from scratch.

Christmas

We had a blast over Christmas Break, it was nice to not be stressed about school. Above you can see our Christmas Tree. And if you were wondering, that is our normal tree that we've had for a long time. We just covered it in Christmas Decorations and put presents under it and suddenly it became a Christmas Tree!!

We spent most of the break in Medford, OR with the Fernandez. We had tons of fun there. We had a really delicious, nice, formal dinner Christmas Eve. Below is Santa falling through the Fernandez's kitchen ceiling. Woops!

Golfing with Mom and Dad

For Daniel's birthday dinner we played miniature golf with Mom and Dad. It was freezing, but we had a good time. Dad whooped everybody. Who knew he would be so good at it? No offense Dad, we just haven't ever played with you before.

Our House ... In the middle of a street.

The other night, as I was trying to fall asleep, I was thinking about our little apartment and how much we love it! It's so cute and cozy! It's OLD, and it has some really fun features, but we really like it, and we really like the complex. We feel really fortunate and blessed to be living in such a great place.

When we first moved in, and saw the place all empty, and AS IS, we sort of rethought our plan (even though it was far too late). But after we got all moved in, we really started to like it. And now we LOVE it. Anyway, so I thought I would give you all a little tour. Please keep your arms and legs within the vehicle when in motion, and enjoy!

This is our living/family room. It's not very big. You can't see it, but we have two really big couches (both of which we got for 100 bucks from the people who lived here previously...not bad!), and they are really squished and taking up, like, half of the room. It's kind of funny.

This is our "dining room". It has our dining table, so I guess we could call it that. But it's mainly a run-off of the living room. Sorry, the salt and pepper shakers are stealing the show here! They're such show-offs!

This is a shot of our tiny kitchen...There I am, pretending to do something useful! It's really a tiny kitchen. No big deal. One of my favorite features of our house is in the kitchen. Keep reading!

Our bedroom... not much to say about it. That pink quilt is only temporary. We have an AWESOME quilt coming soon, so Dan won't have to sleep under something pink anymore. Poor guy! He doesn't mind much, though.

Bathroom and laundry and extra bedroom (mostly used as extra storage). We are so lucky that we have laundry machines! Thanks to Mom and Dad Holbrook!

Daniel's reading a book on being romantic. Dang, he's a good one.

Okay, now is the fun part. There are a few interesting parts of our apartment, but that we really love, mostly because they make us laugh.

First of all, I don't know if this is a good picture, but our living room carpet is SO awesome. It's, like turquoisey green, but it's color fades from darker to lighter around the whole carpet (that's on purpose, I'm pretty sure). And there are these deep ravines in some funky pattern in it. This is where those deep shadows are in the picture. I think when Dan first saw this part, he was rethinking the apartment. Now its just a fun conversational piece.

This is our oven/stove, my favorite part. Look at it! It's BROWN! It just exudes age and experience, doesn't it? It functions just fine, which is great. Sometimes the door to the oven falls off, but that's just funny. LOVE IT!

Okay, now, look how HIGH these cupboards are! Anyone reading this blog knows how short I am. Why does every place of dwelling have cupboards, like, 7 feet high up? They're like 5 stories up! No one but people, like, 10 feet or taller can reach those upper shelves! And then what about us shorties? It's quite a dilemma wherever I go. I have to jump up on counters or get a chair. Good stuff. At least I get some exercise climbing up on stuff.

And another picture showing how high it is.

So, in order to fix this problem that we have...Daniel bought me a tiny stool:

It's not very big, but it does the trick. It just sits in the kitchen, floats around to different places. I trip on it every once in a while. But it's my trusty little kitchen helper. No more jumping on counters for me, thank you! I've got little Fiona to help me (no I didn't really name it, ...but I'm thinking about it).

And that concludes our tour of the Holbrook Home. Thank you and come again!