For my first time ever I cooked the best pork loin ever! While in Billings on Saturday we went to Sam's Club and they had their samples out! I love sample time, anyways one of their samples was a Apple Wood Bacon Pork Loin, and it was so scrumptious! They twisted our arms just right and yep we bought one. So for dinner tonight I cooked it and made some yummy green beans with corn. Russ even requested that I figure out what all ingredients they used on top so that I can make the same thing only with other meats. What the heck there's just another something new I need to do and it's right up my ally I love to cook and create new things! Anyways there you have it for tonight can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
Love to all,
Torie
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Saturday, Day 26
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Friday, Day 25
For my first time ever today I went for a 3 mile speed walk in 50* weather on February 18th in Wyoming none the less! I know, I know it's not the most exciting thing but for me it was very exciting! I've been waiting and waiting to get out and do some speed walking. I'm so excited for the spring and summer so I can get back into my walking and hoping to attempt jogging this year. If I can succeed my goal than I will by the end of the summer walk to the farm which is about 5 miles out of town and then take the back roads and walk to Byron which is about another 6 miles down the road. I will most definitely keep everybody up to speed on that goal. As for tonight I hope that everyone sleeps well and I'll be back tomorrow.
Torie
Torie
Monday, February 21, 2011
Thursday, Day 24
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Thursday, Day 24
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Thursday, Day 24
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Wednesday, Day 23
The after shot of the road we got pulled out of! Once again this is for you Beckie, never a dull moment when you put us together. LOL
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Wednesday, Day 23
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Wednesday, Day 23
We got STUCK in the mud in Cowley, WY. In a 15 passenger van to top it off!
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Tuesday, Day 22
Still did not get pics, but this is what I did for the WHOLE day! For about 8 hrs I worked on nothing but Algebra with my son. Let me tell you the whole dreaming about numbers and equations is really getting old. I know that's not much but I promise to bring something more exciting for tomorrow. Till then everyone have a great night!
Torie
Torie
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, Day 21 VALENTINE'S DAY!
After Russ and I came home from our date our children surprised us with this...
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Sunday, Day 20
So today had to be my laziest day ever! I slept up until 30 min before my meeting with the Bishop, went to my meeting, came home and went back to bed! I believe this is a first ever. My only thoughts are hopefully next time I will not miss church. Anyways I know this is short and simple but what can I say I slept all day!
Love to all,
Torie
Love to all,
Torie
Friday, February 11, 2011
Friday, Day 18
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Thursday, Day 17
Today was another boring day.... negative temps., results in no going outside. Which means needing to find something new to do in the house. Let me tell you I'm quickly running out of ideas. But the one thing that I did is spoke with the person that I'll be interviewing with for a job tomorrow.
We did all of our communicating via email and the interview will be via Skype tomorrow. So my first ever for today was setting up a job interview via email.
1st- I've never done the entire process of application, set up interview, and interview via computers in my life! I never spoke to anyone on the phone or anything yet. Kind of weird but way cool.
2nd- I'm interviewing tomorrow with Eleutians and that's who I've been talking to all day. I'll try to get a pic of me tomorrow.
Well that's all for today hopefully more to for tomorrow. Sorry it's been a little boring lately but once the weather warms up I promise to make it more exciting.
Have a great night,
Torie
We did all of our communicating via email and the interview will be via Skype tomorrow. So my first ever for today was setting up a job interview via email.
1st- I've never done the entire process of application, set up interview, and interview via computers in my life! I never spoke to anyone on the phone or anything yet. Kind of weird but way cool.
2nd- I'm interviewing tomorrow with Eleutians and that's who I've been talking to all day. I'll try to get a pic of me tomorrow.
Well that's all for today hopefully more to for tomorrow. Sorry it's been a little boring lately but once the weather warms up I promise to make it more exciting.
Have a great night,
Torie
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Wednesday, Day 16
Hopefully tomorrow will be better weather so I can go out and find something more exciting.
Till then have a great nite.
Torie
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday, Day 15
Today for my first ever I went to square table (yes you read that correct, that's what they call it here for Cub Scouts in Lovell). While there I learned two things, one good and one not so good.
1st- There is some exciting stuff coming up with Cub Scouts and you can learn a lot about of it if you go to square table every month.
2nd- Just how messed up Lovell is. Apparently sports are far more important than Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts! Everything we plan we have to plan it around all of the sports here! Day camp has to be shortened and cannot offer nearly as many activities as it should because we will be going into the time that our baseball players need for practice or games! Now understand I'm not opposed to sports, in fact I think they are a great thing for all kids, but I am opposed to it controlling everything else in life. Tell me how far did that baseball, basketball, football, or wrestling career take you once you left Lovell? O.K. so maybe it paid for some schooling in college but really when you're in an interview for, um let's say, a job in business do you really think your boss is really going to care if you can throw a 80mph ball, make 5 3point shots in a row, pin down a 250lb. guy, or run a whole football field without being tackled; maybe if they have a company sports team.? No I think not he's going to be more impressed if you have on your application and resume that you earned your Eagle, and what you did to earn your Eagle. So seriously people in Lovell why don't you get your head on straight and figure it out! There truly is more to life than sports!
I'll leave it at that and will not even go into what has happened recently with Girl Scouts and this community!
I hope I haven't offended anyone but I just felt it was about time someone spoke up and let it out. I love everyone in this community and I hope you understand that I do love living here it's just sometimes things like this truly infuriate me.
In closing everyone have a nice evening and I'm off to bed!
Sweet dreams to everyone,
Torie
1st- There is some exciting stuff coming up with Cub Scouts and you can learn a lot about of it if you go to square table every month.
2nd- Just how messed up Lovell is. Apparently sports are far more important than Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts! Everything we plan we have to plan it around all of the sports here! Day camp has to be shortened and cannot offer nearly as many activities as it should because we will be going into the time that our baseball players need for practice or games! Now understand I'm not opposed to sports, in fact I think they are a great thing for all kids, but I am opposed to it controlling everything else in life. Tell me how far did that baseball, basketball, football, or wrestling career take you once you left Lovell? O.K. so maybe it paid for some schooling in college but really when you're in an interview for, um let's say, a job in business do you really think your boss is really going to care if you can throw a 80mph ball, make 5 3point shots in a row, pin down a 250lb. guy, or run a whole football field without being tackled; maybe if they have a company sports team.? No I think not he's going to be more impressed if you have on your application and resume that you earned your Eagle, and what you did to earn your Eagle. So seriously people in Lovell why don't you get your head on straight and figure it out! There truly is more to life than sports!
I'll leave it at that and will not even go into what has happened recently with Girl Scouts and this community!
I hope I haven't offended anyone but I just felt it was about time someone spoke up and let it out. I love everyone in this community and I hope you understand that I do love living here it's just sometimes things like this truly infuriate me.
In closing everyone have a nice evening and I'm off to bed!
Sweet dreams to everyone,
Torie
Monday, Day 14
Bald eagle on the right, more about this in the post below.
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Monday, Day 14
Today was full of events so I'll just start at the beginning....
1st- It's 3:30 am and I'm on the route with AJ we turn and start heading up Rd. 12 when low and behold I almost hit a horse! Yes you read that correctly a horse! We look over and I kid you not there are at least 30 if not 40 wild horses running up the road! I pulled out my phone to video and take pics but nothing shows up!
2nd- I'm heading back into town now it's about 4 am, I've just passed Rd 16 and Ln 11 coming down the big hill when holy cow I almost hit another horse! This time there's about 10 wild horses running down the highway! I could not believe it, it was one of the coolest things I've ever encountered on my route before!
3rd- Now it's about 12:30 pm and we decide to go to the farm for lunch today. As we're traveling down the road we pass this field that has a dead deer laying in it. Perched on top of the deer is a Huge beautiful bald eagle, just below him on the ground are several crows bowing there heads to him! It was the coolest thing. We turned around so that I could get a pic but then they all flew away, I did however get a pic of them further out in the field and some video feed on them.
4th and final- We decide to go to Billings for the rest of the afternood and evening and I offer to drive. (Which turned out to be a good thing cause Russ just slept) The weather was total white out and slick roads the entire way! I can say I've never driven in complete white out situation before. Now it's 9:30 at night and we decide to drive home; Russ offers to drive so I'm all for it. You won't believe this....Dry roads, no wind, no snow, no ice for him all the way to Warren which is about 30 miles out of Lovell! Once we get to Warren he decides I need to take over cause he can't keep his eyes open, so being the nice wife I am, I take over. Now I kid you not... Only about 3 minutes down the road the weather does a complete change, wind (30+ mph), snow, ice on the roads, complete white out again! Needless to say all Russ and AJ can do is laugh, they think it's so funny, no not me! Now we're about 10 more miles down the road and they both crash! I can't believe it here I am driving in this awful stuff all the way to Billings and now for the last 30 miles of the trip with everyone sleeping again! Sorry I once again have no pics for you on this one all I was thinking about was getting home safely.
But I do have pics and some video feed on the eagle so I'll upload them. It will be quite exciting to see what I have for a first for today!
1st- It's 3:30 am and I'm on the route with AJ we turn and start heading up Rd. 12 when low and behold I almost hit a horse! Yes you read that correctly a horse! We look over and I kid you not there are at least 30 if not 40 wild horses running up the road! I pulled out my phone to video and take pics but nothing shows up!
2nd- I'm heading back into town now it's about 4 am, I've just passed Rd 16 and Ln 11 coming down the big hill when holy cow I almost hit another horse! This time there's about 10 wild horses running down the highway! I could not believe it, it was one of the coolest things I've ever encountered on my route before!
3rd- Now it's about 12:30 pm and we decide to go to the farm for lunch today. As we're traveling down the road we pass this field that has a dead deer laying in it. Perched on top of the deer is a Huge beautiful bald eagle, just below him on the ground are several crows bowing there heads to him! It was the coolest thing. We turned around so that I could get a pic but then they all flew away, I did however get a pic of them further out in the field and some video feed on them.
4th and final- We decide to go to Billings for the rest of the afternood and evening and I offer to drive. (Which turned out to be a good thing cause Russ just slept) The weather was total white out and slick roads the entire way! I can say I've never driven in complete white out situation before. Now it's 9:30 at night and we decide to drive home; Russ offers to drive so I'm all for it. You won't believe this....Dry roads, no wind, no snow, no ice for him all the way to Warren which is about 30 miles out of Lovell! Once we get to Warren he decides I need to take over cause he can't keep his eyes open, so being the nice wife I am, I take over. Now I kid you not... Only about 3 minutes down the road the weather does a complete change, wind (30+ mph), snow, ice on the roads, complete white out again! Needless to say all Russ and AJ can do is laugh, they think it's so funny, no not me! Now we're about 10 more miles down the road and they both crash! I can't believe it here I am driving in this awful stuff all the way to Billings and now for the last 30 miles of the trip with everyone sleeping again! Sorry I once again have no pics for you on this one all I was thinking about was getting home safely.
But I do have pics and some video feed on the eagle so I'll upload them. It will be quite exciting to see what I have for a first for today!
Sunday, Day 13
So super bowl is over and we are needing to get Russ from his cousins house when AJ asks if he can drive! I've yet to allow him to drive at night in the snow! All I can say is we made it to CaMee's safely and successfully.
Sorry about all of the back ground noise. My kids sure like to make noise.
Sorry about all of the back ground noise. My kids sure like to make noise.
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Saturday. Day 12
So today I did something really smart. Haha. My mother in law and I were driving around looking at stuff when I told her to just pull into this driveway and back out to get turned around. In doing so the car (Buick) sled and got stuck! I tried and tried to push us out but between the crappy shoes I had on and the ice and snow I was very unsuccessful. Luckily for us two very nice young men came out to help us out. They pushed and pushed and we were free!!!! Three things I learned today, 1 never to own a Buick in Wyoming, 2 there really are nice people still out there that care, and 3 for now on when we decide to go driving around we take my Suburban!
Sorry we have no pics however my mother in law says she will always have a wonderful pic in her head to keep her laughing! Apperently the faces I was making our priceless!
Sorry we have no pics however my mother in law says she will always have a wonderful pic in her head to keep her laughing! Apperently the faces I was making our priceless!
Friday Day 11
So right after Girl Scouts it started to hail & JR suggested I jump on the trampoline with him with no shoes or socks! Let's just say COLD!
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Day 10
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Day 9
Ok so I know I haven't been posting everyday but we have ran into some problems with our property and house plan that we've been working on. So needless to say that has been my top priority. But here is the low down...
Today Russ and I went to check into purchasing an old motel here in town and convert it into a house, while there we went underneath it to check out the furnace and water heater. We had to go down some dark stairs into a low ceiling dark crawl space! Oh yes I was terrified but I did it. The only thing is I also left my phone in the car so needless to say Russ didn't get any pictures of me down there. But trust me I did it and it was terrifying for me!
There will be more to come for the next days that I've missed. Have a great day!
Torie
Today Russ and I went to check into purchasing an old motel here in town and convert it into a house, while there we went underneath it to check out the furnace and water heater. We had to go down some dark stairs into a low ceiling dark crawl space! Oh yes I was terrified but I did it. The only thing is I also left my phone in the car so needless to say Russ didn't get any pictures of me down there. But trust me I did it and it was terrifying for me!
There will be more to come for the next days that I've missed. Have a great day!
Torie
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Day 8 Alexandra & KinCaid's birthday dinner
Today is Alexandra's birthday so for our first ever we made cake, green beans, corn, & apples for the birthday dinner. Still trying to figure out of it's a healthy dinner or not. Oh well I guess sometimes you just make what they really want. Anyways everyone have a wonderful night and we'll have something new tomorrow.
Torie
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