The Watsons

So here it goes… We celebrated Troys 23rd birthday!  Hooray!  And it was technically the first party we threw in our house.  We had the family over for cake and ice cream and had fun opening presents!  I made his cake again. I’m not too good, but I do like to make them.  I like to think Liz taught me how to frost cakes because she is the best I know..  Thanks Lizbeth!  Anyway, He got a new saw, shaver, shirts, chevy battery charger, some robot stuff, etc.. Overall, great birthday!

We had a fish tank for a while and we finally decided to fill ‘er up. We have some mollys, albino tiger barbs, rainbow shark and a ghost shrimp swimmin around now. They’re pretty fun!  And ink loves to watch them.  Recently Troy came home and caught her elbow deep in the water trying to hook one. haha. .. wish I was there for that one.

There was a pretty big snow storm that happened a few weeks ago, and we decided to take the Heavy Chevy out for a ride.  The wiper blades had broken so he had to get out every once in a while to scrape them off… Bad News!  But it was a fun little ride that probably took 20 minutes to go around two blocks. 

We also went out to Charlie Chows for his and Sheeps birthday dinner. We had a huge awesome group and had rons of fun and awesome food.  Thanks for the pics Jen!

So ink has this new, “I love smelly things and need to drop shoulder and rub all over them”  kind of thing going on.  She especially loves shoes, wash clothes and socks…. Coles socks! LOL!

We finally got our first Double yolk egg! Thanks Daisy Bird!

Troy built his huge desk.  It’s pretty sweet! We can fit all of his geek stuff and my sewing stuff on it as well.

Coles ponytail… nuff said.

Here are our Ratties.  I’ve been trying to get some good pics of them lately. Here are some of our faves.. here is Ruby and Pearl.

We are plant-sitting my Grandma Turners Cactus while there in Arizona and Mexico.  He’s kind of growing on me.  I like to call him Gus.

So here you go..

Holy smokes we’ve done a lot to this house! Check out the kitchen after we gutted it.

And here it is after we got our hands on it.

To start off our lovely night, we went to Cody and Joelle’s wedding where Troy was a groomsman… and almost didn’t make it on time.  Ha ha. We had some major malfunctions with his wardrobe and had to run to walmart for some quick fixes a few minutes before it was to start.  I wish we grabbed a few more pics of it, but this is what we have.  It was very nice and I loved that it was citrus themed.  But I’m very glad we got invited and Troy got to see some old friends.

After the wedding we had some fun watching movies and the New Years shows and eating pizza.  I bought some whistles and a few other fun accessories. We ended up playing with them early and snagging some pictures… and it’s a good thing because I crashed out before midnight, but I did wake up right before though ha ha.  I think it drives Troy crazy! anyway, Happy New Years everyone!

Tonight is New Years Eve! I am so excited. We get to go to one of Troys best friends weddings tonight, so we can get dressed up and ready for parties! Or just a party for ourselves, we havent decided yet.  Anyway, I will get some pics up tomorrow to show you how much fun the night was.  Hope you all have a good one!

Since this was our first Christmas together we decided that we needed to get our first tree ornament… And this is the one that we… well, I liked best.  This year was full of family parties and dinners.  Some were fun and the others… well,  you know. ha ha.  But anyways, it was all fun and I couldn’t believe how fast the day actually crept up on us. I did all of my in-store shopping the week before and luckily had everything shipped on time, so all went well. We got a ton of stuff this year from each other, our pets, Santa and both sides of our families. We received gifts from arduinos to coats and ladders, and books from cooking to a book on cats wearing wigs.  Glamour Puss to be exact. I’m sure you’ve all heard of it. Thanks Troy! heh. Even the rats, cat and chickens got some treat presents. Anyways, Best Christmas Evar!

Java, Jumpin Java Bean, Mean Bean, Lumpy Tato, Swamp Rat, Jamba, Jibby, Whichever name we called you by, we will always remember you, love you and miss you…  Your Mama, Troy, Pearly Girl and Mama Rube.

We were lucky enough to get invited to go to Moab with Troy and Kalynn for a weekend and it was awesome. I had only been there once before, but didn’t have half the experience as I did this time. We stayed in these little cabins where we barbecued our dinners out on the little grills and Troy Jr and Kalynn played catch with these Velcro tennis ball things… Troy was quite entertaining. ha ha. We also went to Castle Creek and Spanish Valley for wine tasting. I think we all agreed on Spanish Valley being amazing.

The next day we went to Arches National Park. We hiked to the north and south windows, landscape arch and delicate arch. It was the perfect day to go and it was so gorgeous out there.

And finally, on the way home we stopped at Crystal Geyser. Troy Sr and Kalynn had been a few times but had never seen it go off. So we walked around just checking out the calcium deposits left by the geyser and the river, when it started to bubble. So we stuck around for a while and it finally went off! It was a fun little last stop to our trip. Thanks Mama and Papa Watson.

To start it off, we picked our pumpkins at Dr. Colledge’s farm. We also got a few from Troys moms garden.  The day before Halloween I got to dress up for work  and from there we went to Troys extravagant work party with Sheep.  I was dressed as Betty Boop and Troy was Samwise Gamgee.  It was pretty fun.  And I think I did quite well with the costumes.  On Halloween day, I decided I didn’t want to wear a dress and heels again, so when we were at my moms house for her chili and doughnut dinner, I dug through all of our old costumes.  Weston stole my purple unicorn outfit, so I settled with this Jester get-up that I wore when I was six years old. When we finally got back home, we stayed and watched a  lame scary movie and handed out candy to 6 children. ha ha. Overall, it was a pretty good one with lots of leftover treats.

We got crafty today and we ended up succeeding. I busted out my jig-saw skillz and made, like the love in our marriage a strong foundation for his enormous body. Some wire and Kristin’s mad old lady sewing skillz later we wound up bleeding profusely and quite happy with the outcome. And it was Wilhem Von Hugefangs. They’re actually quite huge! (that’s what she said).

The fun stuff:

We have a paved driveway now! Rather than a bunch of rocks, dirt and weeds all holding hands. Check it out:

I wasted about 2 hours shoveling out dirt and weeds. They brought a bobcat and dug everything out in about 20 minutes.

Here’s the finished product! This should be a lot better for Kristin to shovel snow off of haha.