Mini Excavator

This weekend was so nice!!!! I am so ready for summer (not mosquito's though). Yesterday we were out to the ranch and then girls were having so much fun, playing with sticks, finding pretty sparkly rocks, and throwing rocks in the water. Our summer has begun. Jake on the other hand was having his own kind of fun. (I can't get the photos of him to upload, but I will keep trying). Kendall rented a mini excavator to clean out the irrigation ditches and where they flood irrigate. Jake was in 7th heaven. He asked me if I wanted to give it a try, and I jumped at the opportunity. It was kind of fun. If he would have given me a couple more minutes, I might have mastered it, but I kept hearing him say, "Oh dear, (pause) Oh dear." Which is his nice way of saying "Oh &**$@" So here I am, digging ditches:

And here is where Jake made me get out. See the pipe, the dirt is supposed to be flush with that, ok, I got a little to deep, but hey, it was my first time! And it was fun. Now I know why Jake was so excited!

This picture was back in the first part of February. Just shows you how fast time flies by. The girls were so excited for even a little bit of warm weather to get to go outside. They ended up chasing eachother and wrestling. It was hillarious!

New Calling

Do you ever feel like just when you get settled and feel like you have control of your life and you can breathe for a minute, things get shook up again? Well I got a new calling last night from the stake. I am going to be one of the assistant stake camp directors or assistant to the stake camp director (for those office fans out there). And I couldn't be more excited about it!!! It has been quite a few years since I have been to girls camp and I have missed it every summer. I have no idea where we are going, what the theme is, or who I am going to find to watch my girls (Jake will be out of town for work, and two weeks later we go to Hawaii), but I am so excited!!! I found out some of the other leaders and we are going to have GOOD TIMES!!!!! So all you young women out there in the Salina Stake, hold on tight, it is going to be a wild ride!

"Rocking my new look"

The girls wanted to do my makeup one day, so after church I didn't have anywhere to be, and they gave me a new look. This is all out of Tai's makeup kit:

They enjoyed DIGGING their make up tools into the makeup, it gave for added color.

If it looks like my eyes are watering, it is because they are! They had that orange so caked on there that it started to irritate my eyes.
My new look: Orange on the eyes and sparkle clumps on the cheeks! Watch for it this spring season on all top models.

Our Plea for a Sandbox

This is what we see everyday- sometimes more or less water, but you get the idea. So this is my plea-my friend Katie knows there is a rich stranger out there that looks at her blog from time to time, so why can't I have a rich stranger for a blog stalker too? "So, to my strange blog stalker who is rich beyond measure, I need a sandbox for my kids to play in that is NOT close to the road. I have an idea where I would like it and also how big, leave me a comment and I will give you the details and where you can send the cash!!!- Thanks your strange blog friend, Tiffany P.S. You can come and play in it to, Jake (my husband) has really cool Tonka Toys that he got for his birthday a couple years back, you might think we are kind of fun to hang out with!"

The Damage has been done and we BOUGHT OUR TICKETS TO PARADISE!!! At this point, I could care less how much the airline stuck it to us (ok, I do care, but for acting tough sake), I can't wait for July to come!!!! All I know is I want to be sitting on a beach similar to this one, getting the tan of a lifetime, sipping something good, and enjoying our time in paradise!!!

Of all things

Of all the things that I SHOULD be doing today, I am looking around on the internet. I was on my favorite site http://www.sugardoodle.net/joomla/ trying to find a fully customized FREE printable calendar to make for my partner primary teacher and our activity day girls, when I came across this site http://thedahlingdatingdivas.blogspot.com/

I must say that life often takes over and I feel like Jake is the last one to get a piece of my time. Which I know he is a big boy and can handle it, but it is nice to have your spouses undivided attention even if it is only for a minute. But this site is super cute and has lots of good ideas. So come on women, buck up and give your spouse some time!!!!!

p.s. i am having a hard time finding a site to design my own CUTE calendar, any ideas?

Most upsetting

We are getting our trip planned for Hawaii in july--Wait back up the train, let me tell you why we HAVE to go to Hawaii. Tanner, Jake's brother is graduating from high school this year and after the traditional church history trip, some of his buddies wanted to go on a Hawaii trip. Well, they are not old enough to go by themselves, get a rental car, check into the time share, ect... so Tanner asked Jake and I if we wanted to "Chaperone" their trip. Of course we were like "HECK YES!!!" (Thank you Napoleon Dynamite for that quote). This has been in the making for quite a while and I have been checking airfare for a couple months and nothing less than about $750 has come about. Well yesterday Suz had found airfare for $477. WHAT???!!!???!!!! But by the time I had gathered all info needed to book our tickets, fares had gone back up into the 700's!!! What the **^>??#)<<%%+_<%! That SUCKS!!!

My Dad Rocks!!!

I have always been very appreciative of my dad's skills!!! But this last time my parents came down he just moved up a couple pedestals. This home we have doesn't have a whole lot of room for storage, so he came down to help us out with his amazing shelf building skills!!! We had a room in the basement that was an old coal storage room with nothing in it but insulation on the walls. So my dad transformed it into three walls full of shelves. And now it went from this:

To this: I can't believe how much I missed having somewhere to store food, and that you can actually see what you have. I know, I know, my shelves are a little bare still, but hopefully in the next couple months we can build up some storage.



As you can see, the much needed necessity of mac and cheese, ramen noodles, and soda pop!

Jake had an idea for dad to build some shelves above the stairs for his boots. At first I was like, "Whatev," but as you can see, YAHOO FOR KIM!!! They are perfect. Now his boots are off the floor and off the stairs. And "how do you reach?" you might ask, well, we are both tall. And the non working fire alarm works great for a hat hanger!!! Ha, Ha, ha!


Thanks again dad for helping us!!!! We love you!!!

Our first ever family snowman

On Teya's birthday, we woke up to snow. How bad of a mother am I? I have never made a snowman with my kids. I gotta tell you, it was kind of fun. Other than we weren't really prepared for sticking our hands in the snow (no gloves, the kids coats not zipped up) So after the first circle (or whatever you snowman makers call the bottom of the snowman), I ran inside to get something on my hands and we were off making our first snowman. The girls loved picking out rocks with the help of grandma, for the eyes and mouth.

We even have a dead branch in our back yard which made for easy arms! A little to long for his body, but hey, he'll grow into them right?

Here he is. A BYU beanie and all! Gotta show some love!

Here they are:

Here are some pictures of the other two boots that I am dying to have. I have tried them all on again, and the winner is... all of them. I still can't decide! They all ROCK!!!! So what is a girl to do? On one hand I should just have them all, Jake's one pair of boots costs as much as all 4 of these together, but on the other hand, where would I put them all? So I am looking for input from all my peeps out there- WHICH ONES ARE THE MOST AWESOME????

My new love!!!!!

While in Scottsdale, Arizona-I fell in love, just in time for Valentine's Day!!!! I fell in love with cowgirl boots. It has taken me a while to catch on to the whole boot things. Jake has worn them forever, since he was a baby boy, but me on the other hand, have never owned a pair until Christmas, when Jake gave me a pair of Luchesse Classics. I gotta say that most of the boots that I had seen weren't really my style. The past week, I went to Scottsdale with Jake to set up a booth at the Arabian Horse Show. I had so much fun, and I found four pairs of boots that I am DYING to own. I was going to bring two of them home with me, but Jake wouldn't let me because I apparently have a popular shoe size (and the customer always comes first), so I had to leave my love's behind. I could only find the pictures of two of them, but believe me, I am still looking for the other two. Two of them are Stetson brand and the other two are Charlie One Horse, by Luchesse.

Great New Cooking Blog

As many of you NOW know, I am not a really great cook. I try hard, but I just can't get the bug for gourmet cooking. I really want to be one of those people that LOVE to cook and have dinner made at 6:00 every evening with three courses and dessert and actually like doing it! Because I really do enjoy making something and having people be like "WOW-who made this?" Instead of "Please don't make that again." Ha, Ha!! Anyway, I checked on Jake's cousin Nate and his wife Kerianne's blog today and saw she started a cooking blog with new recipies. So I thought I would pass on the site so that everyone can enjoy!!! And maybe, just maybe, I can turn into a half decent cook! Check it out and pass it along!

http://www.thewhickerbasket.blogspot.com/

Digging for Dinosaur bones

For Christmas, Uncle Dustin & Grandma Snell gave Tai some dinosaur bones that have to be dug out of the dirt. She was so excited to do her dinosaur dig. She had to wear goggles to keep the dirt from flying into her eyes (it flew everywhere, all over the room), got her "Shizzle", aka chizzle, and her brush and away her and daddy went. It took them about 3 hours to get the dinosaur out of the dirt, but she loved ever minute of it!!!! Finally finding some bones:Tai was so cute, she just kept saying, "Come on guys, lets find those bones." Teya was hillarious. She wanted to help, so I got out the other set of digging tools out of another box, and found some swim goggles (the second set didn't come with them) and she was ready to help too. She just liked to use the brush and brush away the pebbles.

Daddy was such a good "Assistant to the Paleontologist" or "Assistant Paleontologist" however you want to look at it! :)

The first bone dug out of the dirt: A Tail

Trying to poison my family?

Since Jake and I have been married, I have asked him to tell me if he doesn't like something that I make for dinner. I would hate to slave over something (because I have) that I think he likes and have him not really like it. There have been a couple things over the years that he has really hated, and he has nicely asked me not to make EVER again! My personality is totally not offended by that, we have got more laughs out of it than anything! Well, this week I went above and beyond!!! I haven't been so good at getting dinner done, and at the last minute, I will throw something together. But on Tuesday, I was being good and got dinner made and cooked before I had to be to cheer. At lunch, I told Jake that dinner was cooked and in the fridge, all he had to do was warm it up. He ended up coming to get the girls from cheer for me, so that meant he was on daddy duty to get them fed. About an hour after he got home, he called me at cheer and our conversation went something like this:

J: What is that you made for dinner?
T: it is cream of chicken enchilada's, why?
J:Tiff, you should have seen your little two year old, she started to dry heave.
t:Why, what is wrong with it?
J: I am not trying to be rude or anything, but it sucks, where did you get the recipie?
T: We used to make them at college all the time. What is wrong with them?
J: Tiff, they are not good. All of us are sick, and couldn't get them down.
t: (ha ha ha) I am sorry, we used to make them all the time, I wonder why they taste so bad.
j: I wish I could have got it on video to see Teya trying so hard to gag it down so that she could have icecream after dinner, and then Tai got grossed out too!
t: (still giggling) Well sorry, I will see what they taste like when I get home.
j: please don't ever make those again!!!!

Well, when I got home, THEY WERE NOT GOOD!!! I even started to gag on them. I am not sure where I went wrong, but wow!!! Jake and I laughed about it all night. Right before we went to bed he said, "I have had some pretty disgusting things in my life, but that ranks in the top two, were you trying to poison us?!?" I started laughing so hard.

So I want to hear it, any story of yours, so I don't feel like the only bad cook around here!!!

Haunted House Fundraiser

For a fundraiser for the Dynamite Cheerleaders, they did a Haunted House. All the girls got involved and were in charge of a room in the house. We had it up to the Blackhawk Arena, it was cold, it was dark, and it was fun. My girls wanted to go through it, so the night before I got dressed up, Kellie and I took our girls through and told all the cheerleaders to not be scarry! My girls liked it pretty good, they just kept wondering what they were doing looking like that. Coach Tiffany & Coach Mindy:

Grandma Snell's

Everytime we go to my parent's house, my mom always has something fun planned for the girls to do. Over the holiday's they make mummy cookies out of gingerbread men, and she also dipped strawberries in chocholate. YUMMY!!! The kids always make a mess and she never cares, Thanks mom for being so fun and patient with the 4 girls!!!! My mom's work sent the strawberries home with her, so they were freshly picked from Cook's Farm and Greenhouse, and they were oh so good!!!!

Grandma gave each of the girls their own plate with chocholate on it and a couple strawberries to dip in it. Of course Teya's picture says it all:

Tai took special care to get hers done before tasting:


My parents are so good to us!!! Thank you for all you guys do for our family! And for all the fun times we have had over the last couple months while we have been down about Jake being out of town!!! You guys are always there with open arms!!!

Twlight girls

A group of us girls got together to go see the Second Twilight movie. We had so much fun. The crowd was into it and it was a killer movie!!!Thanks girls for a fun night out!!! And Thank you Edward & Jacob!!!

Just for laughs:

One day when Mal was up, we came across our boys' letterman jackets from high school, so what did we do, we modeled them!!!! We hired the best photographer we could find (AKA Tanner) and got to work! We were laughing so hard!!!

And I can't believe that I have been in the Quarnberg family for 9 years and never thought to take a picture like this behind the festive yule log!!! We laughed pretty hard about this one too!

Birthday gift

Tai has been wanting her ears pierced ever since last winter when she went to work with daddy and he was ear tagging some calves and he told Tai that he was piercing their ears. From then on, she has wanted to get hers done. So for her 5th birthday, Jake and I decided that she could get them done. He just happened to be out of town (lucky dog) for the event. But my mom filled in as my support. Anyone who knows me, knows how well I love shots or needles. So I needed someone to help me through this. (How funny that Tai was just calm as could be, I was the one that was a mess). Here she is getting ready. She got to pick what earing she wanted and she picked the cutest one in my opinion. Here the lady was talking to us, I love how I am not really focused, but Tai is all ears!!! (no pun intended, ha ha) Ok, this is where things got bad, Like seriously, look at my face, I saw the needles coming and freaked!!! But once again, Tai was cool, calm, and collected!

It all went well for Tai!! She only jumped a little bit, didn't cry or anything, just was like, "what just happened!!!!" Me on the otherhand, had to sit there on the chair and put my head down, I was starting to hyperventilate, and my world was getting dizzy. The lady that helped us and all the spectators (there was like 4 or 5) were laughing at me, including my mom!!!!! The worst thing was, this didn't even happen to me, Tai was fine and I was the one about to pass out!!!

Good job Tai, for being so brave!!!!
And thanks mom for being there to help me through this rough time. :)

Another one of our gifts to Tai for her birthday was to go riding with daddy! Tai has always loved doing this and they just happened to need to move cattle around the time of her big day:

My little Cowgirl!!!