Tuesday, November 15, 2011

It's a BOY!

After weeks of wondering we just found out that our little peanut is a....
BOY!!!

During the Ultrasound the technician told us that our little boy was going to be very tall!...hmm I think we could have told her that one. ;) Apparently his legs and arms are dating 2 and a half weeks longer than the rest of the body and are in the 96% for his age.  We also found out that our son is very active, he kept kicking and turning and moving the whole time and it took us almost a hour to find out what we are expecting.  

We are so excited to welcome this little boy into our life in April! 

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Big News!!!

Jake and I have some exciting news!
 I am PREGNANT! 
I am 17 weeks along and due April 13th, we are so excited for this little person to arrive.
We know that our lives are going to forever be changed and we are so excited to be parents!
We are scheduled to find out the big secret November 15th so stay tuned....  :)

Reno 911

Over Halloween weekend Jake and I had the opportunity to fly to Reno for a business trip.  It was so much fun and a very much needed break from the craziness of our "normal" lives. It was also the first time that Jake and I have flown together! Did I mention that I love being married? I thought that I would take my work bag and put in my hundred pound calculus book, seriously it is in a binder and I have to go try to find an even bigger binder because it barely fits. Luckily Jake decided it was his job to tot that bag around rather than to see me struggle/complain about it.  Oh and for those of you wondering it did not get opened once!:) My teacher thankfully moved back my test and I got to enjoy a wonderful, homework free weekend with my amazing husband!:)
For those of you that do not know, Jake has a serious addiction.... He is addicted to sushi.  Now you may think that I am kidding or being a little over dramatic but I'm not.  Jake has even taken up making sushi.  Yes we now own "sushi china", chopsticks and our very own bamboo rolling mats.  So when it came time for dinner he knew right away where he wanted to go: The Oceano. We originally ventured out to go to a piano bar, which Jake wanted to take me to, and when he spotted this restaurant he knew we had to go. 
Doesn't that look delicious! Oh and no that was not the end of the rolls for the night. Unfortunately I wasn't able to eat any............:) 
I did settle for a yummy salmon salad. The best part of the dinner was when the waiter brought out a large bowl on a saucer before he brought out the salad.  I told Jake I didn't order any soup and proceeded to lift up my spoon ----before Jake informed me that it was my salad dressing.

It was such a fun weekend and I am so lucky to be married to Jake! 



Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Fall Festivities

I have always loved fall! One of the things I miss most about home is Sardine Canyon, I loved driving and being able to admire the beauty of the changing seasons. I miss the smells of the farm---okay I don't miss the smell of silage. However, there is something about being on the farm and the naustalgic fragrance of the farm that takes me back to my childhood and reminds me of the coming festivities.  I also have another great reason to love the fall and that is my birthday. This year I thought I would be spending my birthday with Jake.  However, conveniently Emily's UEA weekend allowed her to come up and spend my birthday with me and she was able to bring my mom as well!:)

We had so much fun catching up (until 2 AM!--Emily apparently isn't used to going to bed early...yet), making lots of yummy food, going to the farmers market, a home show, and of course enjoying a FULL day of shopping!:)  Thanks mom and Emily for coming up and making my birthday amazing! Carin we missed you and I can't wait until we can all be together again!

Also thanks to my sweetheart for making me waffles and surprising me with presents and flowers! I love you so much!

I loved this first picture and that it is probably a more realistic look at what we normally look like.  That and the fact Jake kept snapping pictures until he finally got ONE where we were all paying attention.

The Farmer's Market is phenomenal in Boise! We all loved sampling all of the yummy food and checking out some of the fun booths. If you look closely you can see Kathleen and Kate who surprised us right after this picture. Kathleen was also able to come stay with us for a couple of days and it was so much fun to be able to have everyone there.:)

Bronco NATION!

Remember that part about Jake being excited to move to Boise because of a certain college team that he loves??? Ya I don't remember that either....okay I might just be reminded about that fact and the fact that Boise State is one of the GREATEST parts of Boise...correction the state of Idaho. No these are not my words, simply what I have been hearing non stop since we moved here. I do love Boise though, I have defnitely been converted to being a Bronco fan and I enjoy living in a city/state where everyone is united in supporting a team. Jake's parents came up a few weekends ago and we were able to get in on all of the action and attend one of these infamous games. Besides the almost unbearable heat I loved it! The tailgaters definitely are some of the best that I have seen and I am excited to go to more games, especially if I can find that mouth watering Bronco Chili that I snagged last time!:)





Monday, August 1, 2011

August resolutions and a little bit of everything!

First of all Thank You to all of you have reminded me that I need to update my blog more often! I'm sorry that I have been neglecting it.  With all that we have going on around here there seems to never be an available minute. I also seems to always forget to bring my camera! That's is part of my August resolution to take more pictures and update my blog more frequently! This post will also contain a little bit of everything we have been up to the past little while. Enjoy!

June 24th proved to be exciting at the Kinghorn house! Much to Jake's surprise, his sister Kate and I showed up with a cheesecake (half) birthday cake and presents to boot! Jake's birthday falls on Christmas Eve and because of all that we had going on this year...wedding...honeymoon...Christmas... it didn't leave too much time to celebrate. So this year we celebrated his half birthday! You can tell he looks super excited! Right??
                                                            Happy Half Birthday Hunny!
A couple weeks ago I was here....
Jake and I have loved exploring new places this summer and camping has become one of our favorite things to do! Speaking of which there are some amazing natural hot springs up Boise canyon! We spent a weekend checking out all the different hot springs up there with Jake's sister Kate. We highly recommend them! Over the 4th of July we decided to venture out a little farther and drive to the Oregon coast! It was so much fun and we were able to check out some fun campsites along the way.  The coast was so beautiful! One of the beaches that we stayed by had the most incredible beach. It followed alongside a series of cliffs which had some waterfalls coming off of them and connecting to the ocean. Jake's favorite part of the trip was checking out all of the local seafood restaurants along the way. I will never again doubt my husbands love for fresh seafood or his ability to eat seafood! 
                                                                 Us on the Coast!
Our fabulous tent that I put up by myself every night!  Jake decided that his duty was starting the fire and cooking dinner and mine was setting up the tent. Jake is such a fantastic cook so I was happy to leave that part to him!:)





Our last night we camped at Mt St. Helens! I wish I would have gotten a picture of where we stayed because this is just a picture that we took on our way home at a look out spot. We actually stayed on the peak right next to Mt St. Helens at the very tippy top! It was interesting to see the area after the devastation. From what we gather we were right where the lava would have spilled down and where the top blew off to.

On the way back down the mountain we ran into hundreds and hundreds of cars.  This peaked our curiosity of course why they were all there. The first couple of people that we asked, that mind you were wearing tie dye and definitely did not value personal hygiene or believe in wearing bras, told us that they were here for a "Welcome Home" ya we didn't really understand either but luckily our next friend let us know that it was for a rainbow festival. Yep looked up it up and they have one every year in a different state and they usually have around 2,000 in attendance. Apparently our invite got lost in the mail.  




 It's official I have been infected with the decorating bug! It seems I am always looking for a new project in our home and with a new home to decorate it seems like there is always something new for me to tackle! This is a photo of a wall in our front room that I thought turned out super cute! I found the ship at pottery barn and fell in love! Although I didn't buy into the full nautical beach look that pottery barn was showcasing this summer I definitely pulled out a few things that I thought were awesome! 
 This is definitely a working progress but this is what above my cabinets looks like right now. The crate and the cheese sign are from the barn! I love the crates because they have so much history stamped into them. I believe this one has Boston stamped on the front of it. 
I found the holder at a thrift store awhile back and thought that it would make a fun memo board until I found out how perfectly it fits my calendar! It was originally brown so I painted it black and sanded it down and added the beads!

Obviously I didn't leave the piece of fabric draped up there but I did make curtains out of it! I also added a lot more fun pillows to this couch and a few other touches! Don't we love the lamp!?!?! I found it at pottery barn the other day and was priced at originally $300. It had been marked down to $80 and when I took it up to the counter it rang in at $40!!! The lady checking me out was just as shocked as I was but definitely an exciting day! I am questioning the lamp shade that I currently have on it. I feel like it needs to be bigger and possibly have a triangular shape to it. Let me know your thoughts and suggestions!

I might as well open up my own catering business with the amount of food that I have been making lately. These are the infamous cafe rio pork salads that I made for a doctor's office that Jake brought lunch for. This morning I made chicken salad sandwiches and they are yummy! 

This is a picture of our old house in Logan! We went up there to put the front lawn in and I thought I would take a picture, because I thought it looked so great! I am sad I never got enjoy my flowers in the front and bushes that are finally starting to grow. We did get to enjoy the huckleberries from that big tree in the front. We had no clue what bounty we were leaving behind. There are raspberries in the backyard:(
This is random I know. But I did tell you this post was going to be an update about everything! I thought this picture turned out so cool especially since I took it on my phone. This weekend when Jake and I went to Rigby we passed a falcon on the road. We turned back wondering why it hadn't flew away and it flew up on this post. I was excited that it stayed long enough for me to take this picture!:)

Last but certainly not least! See this board here... Well I broke it in half....with my bare hand! Yes I might as well be a black belt in Karate because I Karate chopped it in half when I went to training in Vegas a few weeks ago. It was an exercise that they had us perform to get past barriers in our life. I don't know about barriers but I do know that I broke through that piece of wood. You can't tell I was excited about it at all, can you? Hope everyone is doing well! We are loving Boise and are welcome to visitors if anyone wants to come and stay, we promise a good time! -Melissa

Thursday, April 21, 2011

1558 E 1140 N Logan Home for Sale - Youngblood Real Estate, LLC Utah Real Estate For Sale

Jake and I are busier then ever. Jake has been in Idaho most of this month working and coming home on the weekends. For the past two weekends he has only been home for 8 hours before we turn around and leave at 3AM to go house hunting in Boise, which is about a 4 and a half hour drive from logan. So between Jake starting a new job me finishing up with my job in Logan and trying to transfer and of course buying a house in Boise and selling our house in Logan life has been hectic! For those of you that have never seen our house in Logan here is the link for the listing. We just put in an offer on a house in Nampa an will hopefully find out shortly if it was accepted. I will post a link to it soon or you can just come for a visit!:) Wish us luck as life becomes even more hectic for the next two weeks.

1558 E 1140 N Logan Home for Sale - Youngblood Real Estate, LLC Utah Real Estate For Sale

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Home Sweet...Boise?

It's official we are moving to....BOISE!  As of May 1st we will be Boise residents and we are so excited!  We are going to be sad to leave Logan since we both have made so many amazing friends and will be sad to leave them! But we are excited for the new adventure!  The reason we are moving is because Jake is starting a new job April 1st as a Medical Distributer for Bledsoe and although he will be working all over Idaho the company wants him to be located in Boise since that is where 75% of the Orthopedic surgeons that will be his clientale are located.  However, before we take off to the big city we have to get down to business.  First off is our house, I am really sad to sell it since I have only been able to live in it for a few months and we have done quite a bit of remodeling to make it a home and a place that we love to be! So...if you know anyone that is looking for a great house with a great ward and the most amazing neighbors let us know!  I will probably be posting some pictures on here after we finish getting everything ready.   



Did I mention that Jake is a Boise State fan? 
I will miss this! I see this everyday as I head down 400 North on my way to work.:(
Goodbye Logan! Thank you for all the adventures and for letting me meet so many Incredible friends! I hope you all come to visit in BOISE!
-Melissa

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Busy as Bees!

It seems like there is always something going on lately in our house.  We have been married for almost two months and we have already checked a lot off of our "To Do List." 

 For example we have....
  • Refinished two dressers
  • Sanded and stained the floor in the living room
  • Stained the built in bookcase in the living room
  • Tiled the bathroom floor
  • Painted the bathroom
  • Refinished the cabinets in the bathroom
  • Put together Jake's office (one of my fav's!) Daniel will be extra proud of me for this project.
  • Put together both guest rooms downstairs
  • Rearranged the living room TWICE! ...still may need some tweaking:)
  • Numerous craft and decorating projects
  • Refinished our kitchen table and reupholstered the chairs
  • Turned a hobbit closet into a built in pantry/shelving unit. It'll make more sense when you see it.
  • Widened two doorways
  • Put slate on the kitchen floor and travertine on the countertops. Put in a slate backsplash and stained the cabintets....okay we may have done the last two before we were married...but they still count!:)
I told you we have been busy!!!

I never know what to expect when I get home from work. Projects that I thought we would hold off on for awhile, are in full demolition when I walk in my door!  Jake is amazing at not procrastinating projects and getting them done ASAP!  One of my favorite things about Jake is when I text him to remind him about things that need to be done his reply is usually that he has already done them!:)

One of my favorite craft projects that I have done is painting kinghorn on my mirrors.
It's king of hard to see with the reflection in the mirrors but I love it! What are your thoughts? I have contemplated putting a second shelf above this one and removing the mirrors but I worry I would have to lower my shelf too low and it sits right above my kitchen table.

As for the rest of the projects I'll try to remember to take pictures of them so that I can post about them as well. Hope everyone is having an AMAZING DAY!




Friday, January 7, 2011

Squirrels anyone?



This morning on the drive back from Jake's and my failed attempt at going to the temple (who knew they closed the temple the entire month of January for cleaning), we witnessed our neighbor who lives acrossed the street hanging her squirrels out to dry. We had to drive around the block a few times to confirm what we saw and to get a couple of laughs. Luckily when I drove by on my way to work she was gone, so I decided to be brave and get a picture.:)  We have quite a few squirrels that hangout in the area, but I guess this means they may need to relocate or fear being the next one to be hung out to dry.