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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!

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!

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!!

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...

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!

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!!

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