It's that time of year....

It's Christmas card time! You would think that I would have everyone's addresses since I sent wedding announcements out recently, but I don't :-) Actually, it's been A WHOLE YEAR since I was compiling my wedding invitation list - can you belive it? Anyway, if you want a Christmas card, don't assume that I have your address! Email it to me at katie.haycock@gmail.com
Happy Thanksgiving to all!

We really are good dancers - see!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

This is SO Funny

Many thanks to Brittany for posting this on her blog. I almost died I was laughing so hard!

Where should we settle?

I found this quiz on someone else's blog and thought it would be kind of fun. Here are the top places it said we should settle:
1. Page, AZ
2. Payson, AZ
3. Sandpoint, ID
4. Hood River, OR
5. Dillon, MT
6. Jackson, WY
7. Leavenworth, WA
8. Moscow, ID
9. Bisbee, AZ
10. Salida, CO
11. Sheridan, WY
12. Divide, CO
13. Seward, AK
13. Whitefish, MT
14. Metaline Falls, WA
15. Durango, CO
16. Bremerton, WA
17. Helena, MT
18. Wenatchee, WA
19. Steamboat Springs, CO
20. Sedona, AZ
21. Ketchikan, AK
22. Bozeman, MT
23. Moab, UT

These are all seriously small towns in my book. I really need to get Moose to take it and see what it says for him. One thing I know for sure - I sure don't want to be neighbors with Sarah Palin, so we won't be moving to Alaska anytime soon :-)

I'm trying to avoid anything productive right now...

On my way home from work today I was thinking that I need a new hairstyle. Low and behold, I found this website where I could try some new ones on. I came up with some new ideas for the Moose while I was at it. What do you think?

Happy Belated Nevada Day!

Last weekend we had a 3-day weekend to celebrate the day that Nevada became a state. Yeah for Nevada. No state income tax and Nevada day are the two best reasons to live in Nevada!
For the long weekend, we went to Pine Valley, Utah (near St. George). The main purpose of the trip was Jensen family pictures (hopefully you can see those soon), but we also had a chance to relax a lot and go fishing.
Here are some pictures of the festivities (apparantly I don't take any pictures of myself)

This is the reservoir that we fished at and also where our pictures were taken

This is Moose's best fake smile. On the outside he may be smiling, but on the inside he was thinking - take the picture so that I can fish already!This is Moose baiting his hook. The fish REALLY liked the powerbait we were using. Unfortunately, they were really smart fish and kept figuring out how to get it off of the hook without biting down on the hook. Darn those smart fish!

If you know me, you know that I'm not really into fish in any form. This is a picture of me being a really good helper and holding the smelly jar of powerbait.
Moose is a really good fisherman. At one point he brought in two of them at a time! Okay, maybe it was just a fluke, but I still think he should be proud.

This is my sister-in-law, Kami and one of the fish that she caught. No one was catching anything for a while and then all of a sudden she got several right in a row. The boys were getting pretty frustrated that she was beating them in the fish count.I'm not sure for the technical term for it, but everyone was catching a lot of what I call lake-weed. It looked like seaweed, but clearly, we were not anywhere near the sea. This is Moose picking the lake-weed off of his hook.
This is my father-in -law, Jeff, and one of his many catches.
While we were out fishing, I read one of Moose's favorite books - The Hatchet. It was a really good book - I don't know how I never read it before. It was especially fun to read outside.

Moose's brother Kaden and his wife Heather were also there, but for some reason I don't have any pictures of them - sorry guys!

I almost fogot! For those of you who know how much I hate fish, you will be proud. I tried some of it and I didn't die! I didn't like it, but I would probably choose it over some other horrible things if I had to. I think my main problem is that I really get nauseous when I have any meat on my plate that resembles the animal that it came from (whole fish, chicken on the bone, etc.) I know, I have issues.

All in all, a great time was had by all. I'm pretty excited about the 4 day weekend this week - Hooray for Veteran's Day!

finally.............

gObama!