Christmas in Washington

This year we got to spend Christmas with the Kofoed's in Washington! We got to spend a whopping 11 days there!  We flew in to Spokane on the 22nd, and of course we had to have lunch at the famous Dicks, haha Gare loves it.  Then we we headed to good ol' Moses Lake, where we began to help set up for Kamille and Ben's wedding! We were so happy that we got to be there with them on their special day, Kamille looked beautiful :]] We spent the rest of our trip just hanging out with family all of Garett's siblings were able to be there with their families as well (except for Derek, lil' stinker). We had so much fun, and had a nice relaxing christmas :]] I feel so blessed to have such great in-laws, and am so glad we got to spend this Christmas together.  Here are a few pictures of our trip!

Spokane

The Newlyweds :]]

Woody's = yummy caramel coke

Cute Gare and Carter at Chico's

Four-wheelin' on the farm with Marley

Bowling :]]

We had fun :]] Thanks family for the fun memories!

xoxo, Pres

26!

Happy birthday to this guy. . .

haha

Dang he is gettin' old! Gares birthday was on Thanksgiving this year, so that was kinda fun. He definitely got a good birthday meal :]] Gare loves movies so we saw the 10 o'clock showing of Immortals with Keith and Derek. The movie was actually pretty good, it was a 300ish type movie.  And of course we had to celebrate at Texas Roadhouse, his favorite restaurant. We went there on Saturday with the Hirzes and Derek, it was delish. We also saw The Muppets on Saturday, I didn't enjoy it but Gare thought it was fun :]] Remember how Gare has a new BBQ obsession? Well he spent the whole week preparing to "smoke" a turkey for Thanksgiving/his birthday. Haha it was a little crazy but he is a stud and of course his "smoked turkey" was delish and was a big hit at grandmas! Well I sure do love this boy, I am glad we both had time off from school and work, we were able to spend his whole birthday week together :]]

beauty

xoxo, Pres

Hello again. . .

Welp, I have been slackin' with the blog :/ Oops. Oh well I am here now and am ready to document what has been going on in our busy little lives :]] We are still supper busy with school and work. I just started my "field experience" which is like mini student teaching. My partner and I are in a 5th grade class at Barrett Elementary. So far it has been great! The students love us and we have a great supervising teacher.  Gare is still working at the group home, going to class at the UofU 2 days a week and is doing his practicum at an alternative high school 2 days out of the week, he is the "intern counselor" he loves it. Gare also has a new obsession, he got an "early birthday present" from my mom cause he is spoiled. He has had his eye on this weber grill for months and when it went on sale he couldn't take it anymore and bought the thing, haha my mom reimburse him the money and said it could be his birthday present. What a nice mother-in-law :]] Anyway Gare has been BBQing up a storm, and let me tell you it is tasty. So far he has made pulled pork, ribs, chicken, burgers, corn, asparagus, and steak. He is so cute :]] Here is a picture of his beloved bbq...

Yumm :]]

I also have a new obsession, her name is Charlotte, but I call her Lottie for short. She is my new MacBook Pro, and we are best of friends. She is beautiful and can do amazing things. She helps me with my homework and keeps me entertained! Here is what she looks like in her lovely "peacock" case :]] Yes I know I am a dork haha.

Isn't she lovely? :]]

We have also been having a blast at my brother's hockey games! It is so fun to watch him play. One of his last games was against Utah State, they are ranked #1 so it was a pretty big game. It was so crazy!! Fights were breakin' out all over the place. Towards the very end of the game every single player was out on the ice in a massive brawl, even the goalies! Haha it was insane, we lost but it was still a good game :]]

Fight! Check the goalies :]]

Me, Ali, and my mom in our Utah Hockey hoodies :]]

#3 Cade in the box

I have also been doing a lot of reading I am almost done with "The Pretty Little Liars" series I am more than half way done with the last book! I love them, I also stumbled upon this book the other day in the library. . .

It is hysterical! I can't put it down! I have been cooped up in the house for 3 days with bronchitis, so I am very happy that I have this book by my side :]] It is so funny people, and very interesting to see what life is like for a young single mormon living in Manhattan. I love it!  Oh, remember how I mention that I have been cooped up in this tiny basement apartment for three days? Well last night I couldn't take it anymore and made Garett take me to Joannes. Gare's blanket that I made for him over a year ago is kinda disgusting so I wanted to make him a new one. Well like always I left Joannes with more than I came in for. I ended up with a new blanket for Gare. . . and for me :]] Look how cute . . .

His is Marvel characters and mine is cheetah and pink!

Welp, thats pretty much it people.

Until next time,

xoxo, Pres

Turducken!

   We made TURDUCKEN!!!! (My mommy and I, Presley took some good pictures.)

  Turducken - a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey.

Birds finishing defrosting.

IT WAS AWESOME! ...But it sucked to de-bone all those birdies. They were really cold and I (Garett) had to play around for awhile with them to figure out how to do it. The duck was the worse to do... I hacked that sucker up and there was not a lot of meat on the sucker. I now know why guys go out and shoot 5 of 6 of them out of the sky at a time, you might as well hunt for rats.

Hacking the duck.

They say that you can de-bone your turkey and it will cook faster and it will be much easier to carve up! After I got all the birds free from their skeletons I took this next picture of the pile of meat we had!

BAM! That's a pile of meat right?!

We padded our layers of bird with a layer of stuffing. Then we sewed it all up with some skewers.

"That looks so nasty." -Presley

 Well after 15 hours of cooking and being cut up in to small tantalizing bite size pieces even Presley loved the Turducken!

A bird with no bones = Real easy to cut up!

We kind of ended up with some visible layers.

I liked it too! I was worried that we would end up with a funky tasting pile of bird flesh and have a Thanksgiving lacking a lovely turkey bird BUT it was truly scrumptious. Next time we are going to have WHOLE STUFFED CAMEL!

Garett