Billy Goat's Gruff

For the past 16 years (literally every year for 16 years) my dad has put in to get his Goat Tag. *For those of you who don't hunt or know anyone that does, that means he entered into a lottery to get a chance to hunt a Billy Goat. Every year he would tell us it was his year and sadly every year he would end up tag less but earning a point to help him out the next year. (think Hunger Games only for a good reason) Anyway, this is getting wordy so.. Last year my dad was the only hunter in Utah with maximum points so we all figured he would finally draw out his tag. To all our disappointment, somehow he did not. So this year when it came time, I'm pretty sure we were all praying for it to happen for him.

1. So he could finally get his goat and we could stop hearing about it :)

2. He isn't getting any younger (DOH!) and billy goats don't exactly live in the flatlands. It's a strenuous hunt and you have to be in great shape to be successful. My dad IS in excellent shape but seriously not getting any younger...

3. Hunting is expensive and well $$ doesn't grow on trees

Long story short. HA RIGHT?! Dad finally drew out and prepared for months, hiking every week to get in shape and making sure all his crap aka. hunting gear was in mint condition. He headed up? Down? can't remember where the hunt was but anyway he went with 4 hunting buddies and after leaving camp at 0600 he finally shot his Billy at 7 o'clock in the evening. It took them another hour or so just to get to him and then another 2.5 hours to clean him out, in complete darkness. The men split up the meat and dad carried the head and cape and they headed for camp. 4 hours later (mind you it's now 230 in the morning) they made it back to camp. They had nothing more than one water bottle for each guy and some fun size candy bars all day but it was totally worth it, dad finally got his goat!

I can't wait to get my gorgeous goat rug for Christmas. Just Kidding Dad ;)

Juice

*I realize I haven't posted anything more about the house. We love it and are spending our time (and all our $$) to make it beautiful. When it is ready, you will hear more about it.


Now on to our "juicy" new blog post. Jeff and I have started, as of today, Day 1 to be exact a 10 day juice cleanse. Jeff has been calling it a diet but I prefer to call it a cleanse. In fact, if you are wondering why we would ever do such a thing, our inspiration if you will, came from another documentary we watched recently. Get on Netflix and watch Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, it will answer all your questions and I'm guessing you will probably be joining us very soon. Maybe not, but I bet you will at least think about it.

Today was Day 1. We woke up and weighed ourselves, like I said we are not calling it a diet and that is not the reason we are doing the cleanse either but, if we happened to lose 5 or 10 or 15 lbs, I don't think either of us would complain. :)

We started off breakfast with a simple and super delicious,

Carrot Fruit Juice:

4 large carrots
2 apples

It was so yummy! I could drink that stuff all day.

Lunch is the one meal where neither Jeff and I are home so that makes juicing a bit difficult and without access to a fridge (Jeff) we just decided to forgo juicing for lunch (only on the weekdays) and just eat fresh fruits and veggies and nuts. It is a bit unconventional but you have to make it work for you and that's just what we are trying to do.

After starving and having a good but let's be honest, rough first day dinner was a juice called Lunch in a Glass. It sounded wholesome and filling.

Lunch in a Glass:

2 Tomatoes
2 Carrots
1/2 head of Cabbage
2 Celery Stalks
1 Broccoli head

It was anything but wholesome and feeling. In fact, it had a hard time wanting to stay in and fill by belly. I don't repeat, I DON'T recommend this "juice" to anyone! We drank half of it and out of determination to finish and not let it waste we juiced 2 granny smith apples to help it slide down the chute (and stay!) It didn't make it delicious but knowing the apples were in there just made me feel better. We decided no more full veggie juices for us, they definitely need to be supplemented with yummy juicy fruits.

Overall, Day One started strong, we felt weak in the middle of the day, determined at dinner and desperate just after. We have resolved to take it one juice 'meal' at a time and see it through for the full 10 days.

Let's hope Day 2 is a bit easier on the taste buds!

making breakfast

yummy Carrot Apple juice

Dinner

Don't let the smile on my face fool you, I'm about to cry out of dread!

Bottoms up

PS. a big Thank You to Dave and Becky for our Housewarming gift, a brand new shiny Jack La Lanne juicer!

A Serious Update

 I am sad to see it's almost been a full month since I last posted here, it's not because we have nothing to post about, quite the opposite actually. The past month has been full of amazing and big changes for us and we have been busy counting our many blessings.

August 30, 2012

Jeff worked his last day at Desert Orthopedics. Goodbye Adults and total joints, hellooooo peds!

August 31, 2012

We did the final walk through of our house and signed off on it. (They finished a week ahead of schedule. Woohoo!)

September 04, 2012

We went to title, closed and became first time homeowners. We moved into our new home that very same day!

Jeff snuck in before we picked up the keys and left me flowers and a card. I'm a very lucky girl.

Jeff had his first Doritos Locos Taco. I also had my first, and last. 

We spent the next week cleaning, organizing, and planning our next project(s) for the house. On friday we took off out of town to enjoy the last day of Jeff's unemployment. We 'hiked' the narrows for the day in Zion National Park. It was a perfect day with my hard-working husband. 

September 10, 2012

Jeff started his first day at Children's Bone and Spine Surgery and has thankfully loved every day at work since.

September 15, 2012

Jeff did his second triathlon and kicked some butt!

What a Hottie

September 18, 2012

Scout turned 1 years old!

Doesn't he look adorable in a bow tie???

I started my new full-time nanny job.

September 21, 2012

Today I worked my last day at the spa. It feels so good!

Tomorrow ( September 22, 2012) we are having our very first dinner guests over to the new house. We can't wait.

Much more to come!

Munchkin Land

Sunday was our last day in Primary in the Castleridge ward. We are really going to miss these munchkins and all the pure, innocent and most of all hilarious entertainment they provide. Seriously though, they are the cutest, smartest (awesome parents!) little group and we are sad to be leaving them behind. 

left to right: Jace, Andrew, Eric, Bro. Seare, Katelyn and our visitor Tyler

left to right: Athena, Katelyn, Eric, Jordan and Jace

So long tiny humans, we will miss you!

Livin' for the Weekend!

Chris and Tess came to town for the weekend with some friends and we met up with them for the day at the pool. After the pool we cleaned up, grabbed some snacks, piled in the car and took off to the state line to ride the one and only Desperado roller coaster at Buffalo Bills. Jeff and I grabbed the front car with the girls right behind us and Chris and his friend Landon took the last car. It was all very exciting and some may have felt a little sick afterwards but it was well worth it. We went to dinner afterwards, walked them through our house and Chris and Jeff measured our windows for blinds (Thanks Chris!) and then of course, our favorite, we went to get yogurt afterwards. We love when friends and fam come into town and we get to pretend we're on vacation too!

Ready to go!

 Our "Before" hair shot

 "After" hair shot. It may not look bad but brushing my hair later that night was terrible!

Newport

We made a quick getaway to Newport for the weekend a few weeks ago. We dropped Scout off at Aunt Jodi's house and we were on our way! It was just what we needed. Tanner and Margot were going out of town but we did get to have lunch with them and a HUGE thank you to them for letting us crash at their place! We did some shopping, eating and of course spent a few glorious hours at the beach. We already want to go back!

Sadly these are the only picture we took, I guess we were too busy having fun and relaxing to care!

Breakfast on the pier before heading home. Ruby's french toast is to die for. I have been craving since we left!

 As soon as we got back into town we did our 'daily' walk-through of the house. It's looking awesome and more like a habitable house every day!