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Red Dwarf - USA style

2007-07-16T07:13:00.000-05:00

For all those Red Dwarf fans out there - prepare to laugh. I guess the USA tried to do a version of the British Red Dwarf and it's so funny! I guess there were two pilots...The Cat changes from the first to the second. Kryten is the same actor - why he agreed to do it, I don't know. Anyways have a lookse and see what you think. I just put the first parts of each different pilot on here, you can always look at the others on YouTube if you want.

Enjoy!

The second one wouldn't go on my blog so I just put the link.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VXU-tXkQcHw

Birthday Bliss, Tractor Pull, Kiara and My Garden!

2007-07-10T10:30:00.000-05:00

Hi!

I've been very naughty and haven't blogged in FOREVER! Heaps of cool and exciting things have happened since I last blogged.. The weather is beautiful and warm - sometimes too warm. It's different because it's humid here...i'm enjoying it though. :-)

My BiRtHdAy!!!

I guess the most exciting thing is that I had my 19th birthday last week! It was one of the best birthday's ever! Seth surprised me a few weeks ago with an awesome birthday present...a 1996 Oldsmobile Bravada SUV!! He like just drove home with it....and said "Happy Birthday Honey!" I was speechless...I was like "you can't be serious!". It was a fantastic and fun surprise.

My SUV is sooo pretty and in really good condition. It's black and is an automatic which is nice! It's really cool it has: automatic windows, CD player, electric seat adjustment, 4 cup holders, funky little lights like in an aeroplane that you can shine wherever you want, automatic 4WD, a really really roomy backseat and the backseat folds down, a large boot (truck), leather seats, tinted windows and other cool stuff..

Here are some pics...

Isn't it cool!!!

Anyways...on my actual birthday my sister-in-law, Jean, took me shopping to a horse shop because I was looking at getting a saddle. We didn't just find a saddle though, we got EVERYTHING I needed to ride a horse! Guess what colour most everything was??

So...we got

a 15" barrel saddle, it had been on a horse twice and it was heaps cheaper because of that! It fit's Beauty (the horse) fantastically!
a purple blanket
a head stall/bridle with awesome purple glittery diamonds
a bit
a breast plate that matches the head stall
purple riens
a belly sinch...it feels so cool cause it's neopreen
a purple halter
a purple lead rope

Everything looks awesome and I love it!!

When we got home from our shopping trip Seth and I went for a ride! It was really really fun. I loved it! I can't wait to go riding again. After than we went to Seth's parent's house and had a cookout with hotdogs on sticks and smores...mmmm...chocolate! It was a great day!

TrAcToR pUlL

A few weeks ago Seth and I went to a tractor pull. It was cool. It's basically suped up cars and tractors pulling these huge weights as far as they can. I couldn't beleive the black smoke that came out of those things!!! We had some interesting guys in front of us....they all had a bit too much to drink by the end of the night. The tractors were soooooooooooo loud!!! I was so glad I took ear plugs...

KiArA

Kia is going fantastically well - you can't even see the limp anymore. she looks a bit stiff in one leg but that's it! She's so silly and can be very naughty at times...hopefully she'll grow out of it! She's growing like a weed I can't beleive how big she is! Hopefully she continues to heal and will get completely better.

My GaRdEn

My Garden is growing like crazy! We have beans and peas ready. One of my tomatos is turning red and I have little tiny capsicums (peppers) and cucumbers growing. It's so cool to see it grow. I'll post some pics another day...I took pics a month or so ago but it's grown so much i'll need to take more so you can see how big it is... The corn Seth's parents are growing is taller than me!! Today I need to get my beans and peas ready to freeze because the other day we picked a 5 gallon bucket full of beans!

Anyways..that's all I can think of to post about. I'll try my very best to keep upto date! Love you all!

An Update!!

2007-05-25T11:36:00.000-05:00

Sorry everyone for taking so long to let you know how everything is going!!

Things are going well I think. The way Kiara behaves you wouldn't even know she had broken her leg (apart from the limp). We decided to try and let the leg heal naturally - mainly because the surgery would have costed $2000-$3000. She seems to be doing really well - only she wants to run around and play like she did before. She gets around really well - she's even really really naughty sometimes and jumps on the lounge when we're not looking. I don't think she's in very much pain which is really good - she was given two different medications, she's off one and i don't think she'd be concerned if she went off the other. During the day she stays in her outside pen because she LOVES to be outside so she prefers that to her crate and it restricts her movements. I watch her sometimes - she's either sleeping or listening to the birds and other animals. The first few days after she broke it when she was inside everytime i'd let her out all she wanted to do is go on walks and lay ouside so she's been much happier spending the days outside. So everything is going great!

hmmm...what else... the garden is growing so well!! Everything looks fantastic. One the tomatos we have at our house has a little tomato on it...it's so cute...i'll have to take a pic of it. It's very exciting...I check on it everyday to make sure it's ok. lol. The weather has been beautiful and warm, with lots of rain so everything is soooo GREEN!! It's sooo pretty.

I finally tried american Cadbury Chocolate! It's pretty good - not as good as the stuff at home but it's perfect to sastify my cravings.. mmmmm chocolate!! I rekon next time I come to visit I'm gonna bring heaps of lollies and chocolate home. lol. Stock up!!

Something else really exciting...one of my friends from school, Ashlee is coming to visit in August! She is going to be working at a Summer Camp in Michigan so we're going to pick her up from camp when she's done. It'll be so cool. I'm totally excited!

Hmm that's about all I can think of right now... anyone that hasn't already seen it should go and check out an ultrasound of my neice/nephew on my sis-in-law Zarna's blog.

HAVE A FANTABULOUS DAY!!! KEEP SMILING!!!!

Bad News

2007-05-14T08:07:00.000-05:00

On Sunday morning...just as we were about to leave for chuch our little kia landed badly and broke her back leg. Thankfully Heather (my sis-in-law) was here and she's a vet tech so she was able to help us decide what to do. We took her to the emergancy vet and they gave her some pain medications and took an x-ray detirmining that it was broken. We had hoped she'd just dislocated it...but oh well. The break is quite high so they're unable to put a cast or bandages on so we can either let it try and heal naturally or have surgery and have plates and pins put in. We will need to keep her movements to a minimum for about 8-12 weeks regardless of which way we go. She's in alot of pain but the meds help and she's kind of docile. She actually sits still when you pat her. Lol. Much worse things could have happened so we have LOTS to be thankful for!

BYE!!

Videos of Kia

2007-05-03T19:40:00.000-05:00

HI!

Pete's awesome video's of the kids inspired me to figure out how to post video's through you tube...it's actually very easy. So I took some videos of my beautiful Kia.

This first one is her sitting and then lying down on command. We're still working on it but she's getting pretty good.

The second one is Kia playing with her milk bottle...and me yabbering on in the background. She is such a silly puppy.

Enjoy...I shall have to post some more video's later...

BYE

And we're back in the game.......

2007-05-03T11:51:00.000-05:00

We're back online!

We got a new computer a few days ago which is awesome! Its a compaq presario with vista. It doesn't seem to work too differently than XP which is nice. Its so good to have a computer and the internet again.

Hmmm...lets see what's been happening since I last blogged. The snow that we were having the last time I blogged melted in like 3 days which was nice and we have been having absolutely gorgeous weather. It's been sunny and warm. I have even worn a pair of shorts!!

Kiara is growing so much! She got desexed yesterday - it definately didn't slow her down...she is still as crazy as ever!! The info sheet we got said we need to limit her activity....no jumping, running etc... so far...we havn't managed to prevent that. She is wild. I can get her to sit and lay down on command so that's really really exciting. Now i'll have to focus on some other things. She is so heavy. I can't pick her up for more than like a minute...esp. if she squirms. Now that the weather is warmer she spends alot of time outside...she seems to enjoy that.

We are going to have a joint vegetable garden with Seth's parents at their house a short walk away. I am really excited to have fresh veggies. We are planning on growing...sugar snap peas, snow peas, green beans, cucumber, brocoli, cauliflower, capsicum and tomatos...and maybe some others...who knows. It'll be fun.

I have been going to work with Seth most days. I am trying to conquor my fear of heights and i'm slowly getting using being up on the roof...as long as it's not too tall. I just don't like getting near the edge. That's the scary bit....and getting up and down...but I am detirmined!

Not much else has been going on...just routine.

I've been tagged to do these doovys....so here goes....

1. Four Places you have Lived:
I have only ever lived in two places...
Parkes, NSW, Australia and
Warrens, WI, USA

2. Four TV. shows I like to watch:
CSI
NCIS
The Bachelor (I know I know it's sad...)
Survivor

3. Four Places I have been on vacation:
California (Disneyland)
Warrens
New Caledonia
Boona in QLD

4. Four of my favorite foods:
Cadbury Chocolate - anything Cadbury
Desserts and sweet things like pie, cake, muffins, cookies, golden balls, pudding...now im making myself hungry...lol
Pizza
Mum's potato bake

5. Four places I'd rather be right now:
Hmm...i dunno if places I'd rather be is a good description...cause that kind of implies that im not happy where I am...which isn't true...but....places that i think would be cool to be are...
Heaven
Parkes
In a rainforrest (minus the creepy bugs and leeches and stuff)
At a waterpark

6. Four people with Blogs that I am going to "Tag" for this:
Deborah
and everyone else I know with blogs has either already done it or already been tagged... so i tag anyone who reads my blog who has a blog.

and I was also tagged to do this one....

Wikipedia

The rules are:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays
5) List two deaths
6) One holiday or observance (if any)
7) Tag 5 other bloggers to complete

The 5th of July

Three Events

1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll.

1989 - The sitcom Seinfeld aired its first episode.

Two Birthdays

1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician

1996 - Dolly, first cloned mammal (d. 2003) she was a sheep

Two Deaths

1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)

One Holiday

Venezuela: Independence Day (1811).

Tag some people

I'm just gonna be lazy and tag anyone who reads this and hasn't done it.

It's good to be back!!

Yes...We are alive!

2007-04-11T11:07:00.001-05:00

Hey Everybody!!

Just wanted to do a quick post to let you know that we are still out there. Our computer is being evil and won't work for some reason. We tried reformatting it and it's still being subborn, so we haven't had a computer for about two weeks. My mother-in-law was kind enough to let me use her computer so I could check up on everything.

We finished maple syurping a few days after we started..and surprisingly we got quite a bit of syrup for the short time it ran. It tastes heavenly...it has a really nice smokey flavour to it - it's great! I'll have to post some pics once we get our computer back online.

Kia is going really well and growing like a weed. We are taking her to vet today to get her second puppy shot. She is such a sweetie...even when she tries to bite my hands off.

It is snowing today and looks like every bit of winter. It is blowing really really hard and there is a covering of snow on the ground. A few weeks back we had a weekend of GORGEOUS weather - like 26C - it was an awesome day to spend outside... and then it turned really really cold which was a shock to the system after that nice weather. Oh well...it's just given us a taste of what's to come. I can't wait till summer!!

Tonight we have bible study, Seth and I have helping run a neighbouring church with the youth bible study. It's really awesome to be able to have the opportunity to make a difference in someone's life.

Anyways...not sure when we'll officially be back online..but you'll know when we are..lol.

Love to you all!

Maple Syruping and other stuff

2007-03-23T15:15:00.000-05:00

HI!

Seth and I have been collecting maple sap from the maple trees this last week so we can boil it down to make real maple syrup! I took some pics to help explain the process. The first time we came to the USA we were able to try some - it's really good...just ask my Dad. It has a nice smokey flavour to it. It is soooo much better than Golden Syrup.

So..first you have to drill a hole in the tree and then tap in these plug thingys. Then we attached a can or milk jugs to the thingys. The trees drip out a clear sap. Usually on a good day you can get about 1 US gallon (about 3.8 Litres) from each tree.

Then, each day you have to collect the sap in buckets and carry it upto the house. The sap runs best if it freezes at night and gets really warm during the day. It's not very sweet at this stage.

After collecting the sap, it needs to be boiled down so it can become syrup. It takes about 50 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup so it takes a lot of boiling. As it get boiled more and more, it becomes sweeter as most of the moisture is evaporated and the sugar is left. You light a fire in the drum and it heats the pans with the syrup in them on the top. You just keep topping it up as the syrup evaporates

I'll have to let you know how it tastes once it's finished boiling.

Kiara is doing really good! The first few nights were rather a trial. The first night we put her in the bathroom and she scratched the door and whined all night. Then the second night we put her in her crate...and she whined all night... at least when she wasn't sleeping. I was getting up at least 3 times a night cause I was worried she needed to go out. Anyways..the third night...in a desperate need for sleep and after reading about countless others on the net with the same problem..we let her sleep in our bedroom floor. She did soooo much better. I guess she just needed people. She usually only needs to be taken out once and doesn't whine at all. She has her toys in there and usually creeps under the bed although im sure she's not gonna fit very long. So yea..we're able to get a full night's sleep.

We have only had a few accidents...cause I wasn't watching her like a hawk. She loves to chew everything including me, just like all puppies. She's a real people person and loves to cuddle and play with you. She loves to be outside, explore and go on walks.

She went to the vet the other day for a check up and her first shots. The vet said she is really really healthy and everything looks good. As a part of a puppy package we bought I got the clicker training book and some clickers and she seems to be doing really well with it...even after a few days....and she loves treats. She sits all the time by herself so I think it'll be pretty easy to teach her to sit on command. I just know that I want to train her now, while she's small enough to handle...cause we don't really want a full grown lab jumping on people. lol.

I took some more pics on her cause she's such a cutie!!

Chewing on one of her toys.

Chewing on her bottle. She LOVES it! She can chase it around the house for ages!!

Eating..see how her ears almost hang in her food lol.

With her stuffed dog...Ted. She loves him.

Sleeping in a strange position.

I found this cool looking potato so I thought i'd take a pic! Potato's always remind me of Deb and our cupcake doll gas masks! lol

Seth bought a bobcat the other day. It is so cool and I got to drive it and it's so easy to drive! It's a 2002 t200..that's about all i know about the make a model etc...lol. It has heat and air conditioning and heaps of other cool stuff. Here are some pics..

Have fun!! Bye

New Addition to the Family!!

2007-03-15T14:14:00.000-05:00

Seth and I are now the proud owners of our very own gorgeous puppy!

Kiara (Kia) Lilly Frost is a purebread black labrador retriever. We named her Kiara because it means small and dark, but im sure she won't be small for long. She was born on 18 Jan 2007 and has 7 brothers and sisters who she is missing heaps right now. She is absolutely adorable!! We had about 2 1/2 hrs drive home and she was so good - she mostly slept. When we got home, after sniffing around and exploring she started to whine heaps and look around frantically. I think she's missing her buddies. She's sleeping right now...I wore her out playing.

Here are some pics of our beautiful girl.

Bye!!!

For Pete....& Adrian cause it's his 7th birthday today!

2007-03-14T21:05:00.000-05:00

This one is basically the same as ours.

This is a diff dogopoly I found! It looks pretty awesome

Adventures!!

2007-03-13T17:11:00.001-05:00

Hi Everybody!!

I Know, I know, I've been very very very bad in not blogging for so long but im hoping to make up for it now. Since I last blogged I've been on so many cool adventures and have done a ginormous amount of traveling.

Seth, his cousin and I went to Michigan for them to look at a machine. We drove through Chicago, though Indiana into Michigan. I slept the majority of the time. I was quite cozy in the back with heaps of blankets and pillows. We stopped and had an AWESOME breakfast at Denny's and then drove a few more hrs until we got to our destination. Then, after maybe an hour stop we started to travel home. I guess we travelled for about 24hrs straight. On the way home we went over one of the great lakes - it was cool. About an hr away from home it started to snow REALLY heavy. You could only see about 3metres in front of you and we were going about 15mph. Thankfully the snow lightened up enough to drive home.

Anyways, the next day, we woke up to about 10 inches of snow! It was so cool. Seth and I got to go ploughing again - more driving - lol. The snow was really heavy and hard to push so it took a little longer to plough. We got another 8 or so inches the next night too so we had ALOT of snow!! We got to do all the mobile phone towers and were done just before it snowed again! We got another 6 or so inches so we got to plough everything again. We spent about a week straight driving. lol. It's not too bad though. I only felt sick once from going back and forth back and forth.

Here are some pics of the snow

Pictures of me shoveling some snow.

Pretty snow

Me standing next to a huge snow bank.

Seth holding an imprint the snow made of his tyre.

Life is going great! The weather is slowly warming up so it seems like more of an Australian winter. The snow is all melting already. There is so much water and mud around! It's looks like everyone has their own personal lake in their backyard. I've been going with Seth these last few days to work which is fun. I get to hand him stuff : - ).

Anyways, I had better go, I'll try to blog more frequently.

You guys are awesome!!

Dogopoly and Smarties

2007-02-16T14:15:00.000-06:00

I've had heaps of ppl ask me about Dogopoly cause Seth had mentioned we'd been playing it in my babble box so I thought i'd let everyone know what it is.

Dogopoly is a game - very much like monopoly in the way that it is played except instead of properties the squares are dog breeds and other dog related things and you buy them. It is really cute! There are cute tokens related to dogs such as: a mailman, a dog bowl, a scared cat, a steak, a flea and a fire hydrent. Seth and I have played a few times and I have won twice!!! That's very exciting because normally Seth always wins at Monopoly.

I just also thought I would post pictures of Australian smarties and American smarties.

Australian smarties are like M&Ms (chocolate in a hard shell) except a little bigger and with much cooler colours like purple! They are made by Nestle and are basically very very cool.

American smarties are rolls of sherbety lollies. We have them in Australia but I can't remember what they are called, but you'll know what they are when you see the pic.

Anyways - I just thought I'd share my stores with you.

BYE!!

Drumroll please........

2007-02-08T16:31:00.000-06:00

I know this is LONG overdue but I am finally going to post pictures of our house.

But first.. a review of my life since I last posted. About a week ago, Seth fell about 8feet off the scaffolding at work. Thankfully, he wasn't hurt too badly. The main problem was that his square was in his pouch and he landed on it and it dug into his back. He was in alot of pain moving around, he is not 100% yet but he is so much better than he was.

It's been EXTREAMLY cold here these past few days but thankfully the house is always warm. I still haven't been able to make a snowman yet cause the snow just falls apart when you try to pack it. We went out and cut some wood some of the days but it wasn't too bad - as long as you kept moving.

Anyways....Welcome to our house....

This is our lounge room.

The lounge chairs came with the house and they are extreamly comfy.

This is our kitchen

Down our hallway.

The first room is the laundry. Half of the room is filled with tools and lumber and stuff. It is actually a bedroom but functions well as a laundry.

The next room is the bathroom. I am still looking for an awesome power shower curtain that matches our shower hooks but I haven't found one yet. The reason there is a toilet in a box next to the toilet is cause the toilet we had was leaking so Seth had to install a new one. We weren't planning of having side by side toilets. Don't you just love our green bath tub..lol.

And at the end of the hallway is our bedroom. We got the quilt and pillows for our wedding. We also got this aweosme purple quilt that I will take a pic of sometime. The bed came with the house too.

This is looking down the hallway from out bedroom.

And this is the outside of the house.

So yea thats our house. We do have another room coming off the lounge room but its a mess so I'll take a pic of that later once it's organised.

Have a great day!!

Ploughing!

2007-01-26T11:08:00.000-06:00

HI!

We got more snow last weekend!! It was snowing when we went to church, and I got to shovel the snow of the footpath. It was so fun except my hands were frozen by the time I had finished. I kept snowing for ages...and we got about 4-5 inches.

Seth is contracted to plough about 40 mobile phone towers so we had to plough all of those. We left on Sunday after church and ploughed till late and we ploughed for the next 3 days. All up we did about 1900kms!!! How crazy is that!! We didn't leave Wisconsin but we travelled around and saw heaps of cool stuff. It's so fun to see the snow come off the plough. It's strange but it doesn't seem like we travelled that far because you stop all the time and get out and stuff. It's much easier than just straight driving.

Nearly every house has icicles hanging off the roofs! It's so werid. I got Seth to grab one from somewhere so I could eat it. We took some pics of me with my icicles......

KEEP SMILING!

2007-01-25T14:56:00.000-06:00

1. NAME: Claire Louise Frost (nee Gould)

2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Nope, I don't think so. Mum and Dad just like this name...

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? hmmm..I can't remember... I must not have watched to many sad movies lately...

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Yep, I usually think its cool but sometimes when I have a shocker it can look awful...lol

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Smoked Ham

6. KIDS? Not yet...we would like to have some one day, but we want to enjoy being together for more than a month at a time...lol...Although I could handle a puppy.....

7. WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? A vet, but I decided I didn't want to do that after I realised vets don't just play with the animals...they have to operate on them...

8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? No, not unless you count my blog....When I was little I used to try and start journals but it never lasted more than a few days so I just gave up.

9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? what? me?? no....never.....

10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yep! I think they're bigger than they're sposed to be though because I can ALWAYS see them...they look huge...I'll show anyone who wants to see if you don't beleive me...lol

11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? No...I don't like heights...I couldn't bring myself to throw my body off an extreamly high object...

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? I don't eat cereal...I am totally in love with TOASTED Blueberry Bagels though. The first time I had a bagel...it was on a plane on the way to Seth's house for the first time..and we were given these werid dounut looking bread products...they were disgusting because they were cold and tasted stale...to have a truely good bagel you need to have it nicely toasted...its great with cream cheese and jam on top!

13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No...not usually...at least I try my very hardest to get them off without untieing my shoes...I usually succeed except with my snow boots... I am also quite got a putting them on without untieing the laces too!

14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY? Well...I don't think im either, but I know I'm a weaking so I'd have to lean toward mentally...

15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Well...America has THE BEST ICECREAM EVER!! There are so many funky flavours...I have a few faves such as:

This blackberry flavoured stuff with chocolate chunks all the way through..
A caramel one with swirled caramel throughout it with these tiny chocolate cups filled with caramel
A mint one with a chocolate fudge swirl and these small chocolate cows filled with pepermint crisp stuff

16. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? How much taller they are than me..

17.RED OR PINK? Pink

18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My huge legs

19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My family and everyone in Parkes

20. FAVOURITE ACTOR AND ACTRESS? Actor: Michael Vartan, Actress: Drew Barrymore

21. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES YOU ARE WEARING? Black

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Purple

23. FAVORITE SMELL? Rain, or the smell of airconditioners when they are just starting up for the summer...

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Seth

25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? YEP!! Nomes is awesome and she has a funky blog! Click Here to check it out

26.FAVORITE DRINK? Water...but I also really like Fanta and Creaming Soda

27. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? Gymnastics..they are so cool!

28. HAIR AND EYE COLOR? My hair is brown and my eyes are hazel

29. FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD TV SHOW? I had so many! Play School (for the craft activites), Art Attack, Seseme Street, Arthur, Captain Planet...there were heaps more but that's all I can remember right now...

30. MUSIC CONCERT OR THEATRE? hmm - I love both but I'd probably lean toward theatre...

31. FAVORITE FOOD? Chinese

32. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? HAPPY! :-D

33. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? The man from Snowy River...I'd never seen it before...

34. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Red

35. SUMMER OR WINTER? hmm...probably Summer but I do love the snow...just not the cold

36. HUGS OR KISSES? Both, but i'd prob lean toward hugs...

37. FAVORITE DESSERT? Apple Pie and Nick's Golden Balls

38. ARE YOU TICKLISH? Maybe....lol

39. WHAT SUPER POWER WOULD YOU WISH FOR? To be able to fly...

40. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? The Princess by Lori Wick for the 5th million time...lol

41. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? We don't have one

42. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST ON TV LAST NIGHT? Our wedding video

43. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Rain and laughter

44. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles

45. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Well..right now Australia is the furthest I've been from home...but before, when Australia was home...America was the furthest I've been from home..

46. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I could probably sleep all day and still be tired...

47. WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? 5th of July 1988 at the Parkes District Hospital

48. TRAVEL THE WORLD? Hmm..maybe just a few countries....there are some countries in the world I really wouldn't care to visit...

49. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE? Be happy, buy a puppy, have kids, get fit, travel back and forth to Australia as many times as possible...and heaps of other things..

50. HOW DO YOU FALL ASLEEP AT NIGHT? Usually praying while listening to the sound of Seth's snoring...

SNOW!!! and other cool and exciting stuff!!

2007-01-20T15:49:00.000-06:00

HEY!!

What an awesomely exciting week we've had! Let me start at the beginning of all the excitingness...

Well... last Saturday (exactly a week ago), Seth and I decided that we would have to buy a new fridge. The trailer we were given included some various items of furniture like a very comfy lounge set, kitchen table a chairs, a fridge and heaps of other stuff. The fridge worked, although not brilliantly, it was functional. For about a week or so I noticed that our ice cream was a mush, we realised the freezer was dying and when the other frozen foods started to get mushy we decided we had to get a new fridge. We went to La Crosse (a place about an hr away with heaps of cool shops) and looked around at the fridge places (most of them twice), but we couldn't decide. So anyways...on Sunday we went back and looked around again, after another long day of searching, we found our fridge at a great price. It is a side-by-side stainless steel, with an ice maker (I LOVE crushed ice!) and water dispenser, digital temp thingys, it has this cool drawer in the fridge that you can set to a diff temp so you can defrost meat or chill something quickly. Its totally cool!

This is the outside, sorry it's such a dodgy pic..its hard to take a picture of a reflective surface...

and...this is the inside, the fridge looks empty because I can fit most everything in the door and the drawers, but its nice to know we have space if we need it. The freezer also has glass shelving which is a really cool feature...

Anyways, on Sunday, when we were picking up our fridge it began to snow, which made it kinda difficult to get it in the house, but we accomplished it. I was SOOOO EXCITED about the snow!!! We had about 4-5 inches which is so cool!! Its so pretty and fluffy. I haven't made a snowman yet because the snow is too fluffy to pack yet...but when its good I'm gonna make a snowman. I've been eating heaps of snow too, its so cool, like eating cold fluff.

The occurrence of snow means that Seth gets to plough snow which is so fun. He is contracted to plough for like 32 mobile phone towers so on Monday and Tuesday, Seth and I went snow ploughing, he didn't have to plough very many because he only has to plough if they get more than 6 inches, but he ploughed the really scary ones....lucky for me...and some new ones that he's never done before. It was fun, I'm just glad I have heaps of faith in Seth's driving ability. The sites are all over Wisconsin so you get to see lots of cool stuff. OOH!! I just remembered, we saw this AWESOME PURPLE HOUSE! as we were driving along. It wasn't like an ugly purple, like you usually see...like that lilac colour, it was a dark purple with a lighter purple round the bottom...when we go ploughing again I will get a picture for you because it is the coolest house I have ever seen in my life!

I took some pics of the snow outside our house on Tuesday morning.... they don't do it justice...its so beautiful...

This is Seth and I driving after it has snowed ... the flag shows where the end of the plough is...

This is outside the front our our house.

This a picture of Seth's tractor covered in snow!

The weather has been rather cold along with the snow, a few mornings it has been -17.7 degrees Celsius but it usually warms up to about -7C during the day. This morning, we saw some deer in our back yard, it was cool so we took a picture...the pic is kinda dodge because it was through the window but still cool anyway...

Hmm....what other exciting stuff has happened this week...

Levi (Seth's cousin), came over for breakfast the other day and we had the best breakfast ever! We had:

Waffles with maple syrup, blueberry syrup, fruit (blueberry's, blackberry's and raspberry's) and cream

Scrambled eggs with capsicum, tomato, ham and cheese in it..

Bacon

It was good - I especially loved the waffles cause i think waffles are awesome!

I bought cool jumpers yesterday! They were a total bargain. They were normally $40 each...but I got them for $12 each. I took a pic so you could see how awesome they are...

I also thought I'd post some random pics to make up for my unbloggingness...

This is a pic of my nephew, Evan and I with a Reindeer.

This is a pic of me after I got my hair cut...It was cut early december and pic was taken just after...

This is an awesome drawing someone gave to us as a gift...she painted it from a picture she was given. It is gorgeous!

Anyways! Enjoy the pics...I'll try to keep you posted!

Have a good one!

Love Clairey Lou

Bob the Builder...

2007-01-11T14:01:00.000-06:00

Hey...

The other day, as I was flicking throught the 4 occasionally clear channels on our TV when I found Bob the Builder. I thought it was cool and left it on that. As it continued to play, I could tell something was werid but I couldn't put my finger on it until Bob began to talk - he had an american accent and so did all the other characters!! It was so funny, I had to sit down and watch. They had just dubed over the original British version we're all used to. I just thought I'd share that with everyone because I thought it was amusing. The characters just didn't have the same personality with different accents...lol.

Life has been going well. There is still no snow though, which I find very sad, but they are forcasting some snow for the weekend. I still haven't made a snowman since we've been here and I have a desperate need to play in the snow, lol.

I bought Seth the New Super Mario Brothers game for Christmas for his Nintendo DS, but now he is very dejected because he a mastered it. I can't even get thought the first world lol. I'm very bad at it...

Anyways, I had best be off, I just wanted to share my Bob the Builder discoveries with you!

Love BEAR

Star Wars Pics!

2007-01-05T12:20:00.000-06:00

Hey!

When I was reading Naomi's blog the other day I was greatly amused by the Star Wars inspired M&M pictures, so much so that I went in search of more. I found some more on the official M&Ms Mpire site. I loved them and I thought those other Star Wars fans out there would also appriciate it so I put them on my blog (I also inlcuded the one Naomi had, incase you didn't see that)...Enjoy!

I have to say that this next one is my personal favourite...I laughed at it for a long time.

Aren't they great! Seth hasn't ever seen any Star Wars movies...(I know it's sad but true). Will, Deanna and I were planning on introducing him to the wonderful series.

Speaking of M&Ms, I was eating some the other day and I was examining the packet and it said you could make personalised M&Ms! So I checked it out on the site. Unfortunately for all the fantastical Aussies out there this is only allowed in the USA but still it was very very funky. You pick two colours and then you can write a message to go on it. I was excited so I thought I would share my awesome discovery with you.

Cya!

P.S It's my half bithday today! I am officially 18 and a half! Woohoo!

HAPPY (belated) NEW YEAR!!

2007-01-03T17:08:00.000-06:00

Hey Everyone!!

Happy New Year! ( I know I'm three days late but hey..) 2007 is finally here (i'm gonna be 20 next year, lol). I hope everyone had a wonderful time as they welcomed in the new year. As we enter the new year, I thought it would be a nice time to reflect on the year that has past with this servey type thingy that I was sent in an email. So here goes....

1) Where did you begin 2006? In America at Seth's sisters' house watching movies.

2) What was your status by Valentine's Day? Engaged

3) Were you in school (anytime this year)? Yep, pretty much all year, well..at least until 2 November.

4) How did you earn your money? Working at Target Country

5) Did you have to go to the hospital? Not that I can recall

6) Did you have any encounters with the police? Well I had to go to the police station to get a police check and get finger printed for my visa.

7) Where did you go on holiday? America, the Blue Mountains and I went to Sydney a few times but I don't really class that as a holiday...

8) What did you purchase that was over $1000? Travellers Cheques..lol

9) Did you know anybody who got married? Yep! Me and Seth, and Seth's cousin Dusty got married to Stacey

10) Did you know anybody who passed away? No

11) Have you run into anybody you left high school/primary school with? Yep - I saw heaps and heaps of people this year...it was really cool!

12) Did you move anywhere? Yep, to the lovely, although slightly cold state of Wisconsin.

13) What sporting events did you go to? Well I went to the School Swimming Carnival and Athletics Carnival but I'm not sure they count.

14) What concerts/shows did you go to? None

15) Are you registered to vote? Well I was...and then I unenrolled because I was moving overseas...so I guess the answer is no...

16) Who did you want to win Big Brother? Jamie

17) Where do you live now? Warrens Wisconsin

18) Describe your birthday. I slept untill my Mum woke me up because Seth was online and so I talked to him for ages. I helped Mum make my cake and then I iced it and we had my fave food - Chinese for dinner. I can't really remember much else...

19) What's the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2006? Hmm... I can't really think of anything that I did that was unexpected...everything big and influentual was pretty much planned...

21.) What's something you learned about yourself? hmm... I don't like eggnog

22.) Any new additions to your family? Yep heaps - a mother-in-law, father-in-law, two sisters-in-law, a brother-in-law and three adorable nephews, Ethan, Evan and Crusher.. :-)

23.) What was your best month? October - I got married!!

24.) What music will you remember 2006 by? Scissor Sisters - I don't feel like dancing and Summer of 69 - they remind me of school.

25) Who has been your best drinking buddy? I don't drink alcohol but my favourite fizzy drink, drinking buddy will always be Katie cause we always used to mix the different types of fizzy to create new and exciting drinks

26) Made new friends? Um...not that I can think of...2006 was more of maintaining old friendships...

27) Best new friend? No one...

28) Favorite Night out/in? Any of our famous game nights are always well worth it! They are the best!

29) Any regrets? Hmm... I wish I had eaten more Cadburry Chocolate and Milo because im having withdrawals...lol

30) Did you get ur nails painted? Yep! I got them done the day before my wedding with my bridesmaid Amy.

So, that's my review of 2006. Hope you liked it. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had heaps of fun and spent it with family.

This is a picture of our very first christmas tree!

Anyways I shall blog more later!

CYA

My new blog....YAY

2006-12-27T16:24:00.000-06:00

Hi!

Welocme to my new and improved blog. The reason it's new is because a few weeks ago, when I was going to be good and do some LONG overdue posting, I was told by the blogger site that they were changing and that I should sign up to the google thingy affiliated with blogger. So, thinking this would be a good thing to do, i signed up, but then I unable to access my blog or edit it. This left me pondering for the last few weeks about what to do and eventually I decided that I would have to create a new blog and this is the result. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to work it all again because I forgot but I'm sure it will all come back to me eventually...

Everything has changed heaps since my last post on my old blog, if you want to check that out go to: http://clairescrazycorner.blogspot.com/.

So, the four major things that have changed are:

Well the biggest most life changing one is that I got married on the 7th of October!!! YAY!! It was so fun and everything went very very smoothly - a wonderful day - I will post some pics later...
My visa was approved (thanks to lots of prayer) and I moved to the beautiful state of Wisconsin with my husband on the 23 November
I finished school!!!!! That is absolutely awesome!!! I got my results last week and I was really really happy and recieved a UAI of 75.35
I turned 18 in July - I think that is rather obvious considering that I got married but I thought I'd point that out anyway because it was very exciting.

Anyways! Thats my life (basically) up until this point.

I shall blog some more later.

Love you all

BEAR