So Much to Say, So Little Time... Ok, Scratch that and Reverse It!

And I'm back after a long hiatus. I've had so many memorable things happen. I hope every one had a great Thanksgiving. Jason and I got to go to Utah and enjoy time with both our families over the holiday.

We first enjoyed a long ride to Utah... a mere 10 hours. My great accomplishment is that I got Jason listening to Harry Potter. I feel very good about this. He wasn't too excited about it, but I totally got him into it!!!

But to the exciting business... The Annual Pincock Family Rice Krispie bake-off! We had it over Thanksgiving this year, to accommodate with everyone's schedule. But Jason and I have been planning for this...well...since FOREVER! In our spare time over the past year, we have collaborated ideas of flavors that would taste really good with rice krispies. We had some good thoughts and then we had some just plain belly flops. But Jason and I practiced, had people test them and we finally came up with the recipes that would win us the gold... or at least we hoped it would.

But then the day came, the Day of Judgment.















The competition was pretty steep.

Jason pulled out a secret recipe from the Myers side... Peanut Butter Balls...recipe will be forthcoming. He concocted a fiesta of flavors culminating in a Reese's Cup Rice Krispie Treat. Pure Gold!















These aren't the actual presented Krispies (the other ones were devoured by the judges), but this shows a good representation.

I, however, tried a more sophisticated palette. We created a perfect rice Krispie treat, slathered a layer of caramel onto of that. Then put apple pie filling atop that. Crumbled an oatmeal, cinnamon crisp over the apples, and topped it all off with a drizzle of white chocolate. A creation of genius.














So with our creations, Jason and I had hope to win 1st and 2nd place, a clean sweep. However, dreams are not always possible. I was able to take 3rd place. Very honorable in such competition. My sister Lillie took 2nd place with a churro creation that was really, really good... and then the coveted 1st place...

This is were the true controversy lies. My brother Tommy has consistently won the past 3 years. Would the tyrant continue his rule? No, Jason captured first place!

A Myers won the Pincock Family Rice Krispie contest! Who would have thought? What did he win, you ask? None other than the impressive trophy of a golden spatula. Pretty much awesome.

Ok, enough with the theatrics... The next day we got to go down to Provo and visit and hang with Jason's family. We got to have Thanksgiving II. It was really fun to see them all again, especially since I was a little stressed out the last time we were all together(its funny how getting married can do that to you).

We visited, we went over to the church house just to shoot some hoops and have enough space to all run around. Learned a fun game called Ninja Distraction...totally might have to use this as a substitute teacher tool...ok, maybe not, it would be too distracting.

But we had a lot of fun.

Then came the moving. I'm officially moved out of Logan. It was a little sad, but really my old roommate can only handle my stuff being there so long. I got to see a couple of friends, which I'm really glad I did. But just like time, it keeps going, so Jason and I had to keep going too.

We headed back to the TUNDRA! South Dakota. This time driving my dad's truck so we could pull the trailer full of my stuff. All went fine and dandy until....... is the suspense killing you?




(not my deer, I would be seen as careless if I had taken a picture of the deer before I hit it!)


We were about 30-45 minutes from home right through the dead zone with no cell phone range... and I hit my first deer. Technically my second, but I hit my first LIVE deer. It really freaked me out. We stopped to see the damage, but we decided to try to make it home since we were so close and...we had no cell range. Cell phones are only good if you have service.

I thought we were going to make it, but 25 minutes later, the truck overheated, stinky white fumes were coming out of the hood and we had to stop...because the truck stopped too.

I was now REALLY freaking out. We were there maybe a minute and some one stopped and asked if we needed help. They said they were going in the opposite direction, but saw that we were in a "pickle" so they flipped their car around to help. They took us to their home and we made some phone calls, and we got home maybe 2 hours later than we estimated, but we were safe. No whiplash, but I guess I did get an injury from walking full force into some barbed wire when I was trying to find some rocks to put behind the trailers wheels so it wouldn't roll. I feel silly about it now, but at the moment it was a little too much.

So My dad drove out my car and these were the pictures we got of the damage.



























Not too bad, but all the damage seems to be internal. The truck was totaled. I feel pretty bad that I was the one that ALWAYS has issues with this truck... I guess if it had to go, it had to be by me... seems to be fate! But I'm really grateful that everything worked out fine. That we were picked up so we could get help, that my dad was able to get to South Dakota in safety, and that HE didn't hit a deer as well. They apparently really like to jump out of nowhere this time of season. And I'm really grateful that everything with the truck went well. I'm a blessed little girl!

But here's my update for now...more to follow...

My Life the Past Couple of Months

So I finally decided to update my blog because I was getting frustrated that every time I checked if any one else had blogged lately... there was nothing. So I guess it's only fair to blog...I can't expect everybody else to do the blogging.

To start... we have built a greenhouse. Square foot gardening. I finally got pictures to post of the greenhouse.














(This is before the blasted snow came!)


Pretty exciting stuff. It's taken a lot of man-hours trying to get this thing up and running. Let's wish it the best of luck!
But it's a car port with thick MIL plastic over it, twice. Helps with the insulation, apparently.

















Here's Jason. The greenhouse doesn't have all the poles in it for height. Do it's a little short for Jason, but perfect for me.































Here's the lovely tomatoes. They're looking good here, but it looks like I still have a little more to learn before I get my green thumb. Let's just say we won't be having tomatoes this winter.


Next item of business. After camp this year, Jason and I totally scored with getting a lot of cheap camp food. Cereal. Canned foods. And MEAT. We got 2 tubes of ground turkey (10 lbs each). It was all fine and dandy. We stuck them in the freezer and we were very excited about our purchases. But then it came time to use the meat... a 10 lb tube of rock hard, frozen meat. We had no idea of how to tackle this problem. We didn't want to use all 10 lbs at once so this was Jason's idea...














(please note the oven mitt... that's my favorite part...no frost bite here!)


We got our scariest, biggest, most serrated knife we had and went at it! I think this is how he got all his muscles :)















Look at the determination in his face. Such focus.















It was pretty funny. I'm just glad it worked out. And the knife is just fine.


So Jason woke up the other day and his hair made me realize he needed a haircut. I doubt anyone would disagree with me.































So we took care of the problem...sorry, no before and after pictures for this one.















He didn't really enjoy me using the squirt bottle on him.


Well... that's all for now. I have no other exciting photos, extravagant tales to tell, or really any lies that I could pretend that were true. But I'll can't promise I'll do better at writing on my blog, but I guess if people don't update their blogs I'll eventually get to mine. Until then.