Gratuitous Drug Use?

Well, it has been a while since I have last posted, and for good reason. I have spent the past month fighting off the sinus infection from you know where, which has left me in a prescription drug/antibiotic induced haze.



Fun, I know. Don't be jealous. I can pass it on to you for a very minimal fee. Then you too can have the sensation of sledgehammers smacking you on your skull. I'll also throw in itchy throat, watery eyes and crazy fatigue as well. As a bonus, dizziness and nausea are also included. Ear infections are extra $$, but I do have some to throw around if the price is right. Hurry up and order this wonderful experience before it goes away. Operators are standing by.

Fishing with Dad

Earlier this week Becky needed a break, so I decided to get out of the house with the girls. I decided to use the fishing license I bought last year and haven't used much. The girls and I packed up and headed up to Spanish Fork Reservoir. It is a great place to go with young kids because it is easy to catch fish and close. We had a blast and each of us caught a fish. Here are the girls holding up some of the fish.

















Camie caught the second fish and when I was trying to remove the hook, I got a big suprise. It apparently was a very fertile fish and was full of eggs. The eggs started falling all over the ground. The girls thought it was the coolest thing and they were picking them up. Luckily they are to young to ask any questions and thought that it was cool. Here is a picture of the eggs since I know all of you were wondering what trout eggs look like!


















Anyways, we had a great time. Nothing better than spending time with the kids and not having my pager go off.

Come, come ye saints...Please?

After we found our house, we decided to tour around our soon to be hometown to see what it had to offer. We toured the town square, with the historic county courthouse...





Checked out the beautiful architecture and the amazing stained glass dome...

And decided that we would like to go and find the church that we will be attending in just a few months time.

Oh wait... is that a church or a strip mall? Why it's both!!!

Never in my life did I imagine going to church at the same place where I could buy a slurpee and get my nails done. Sweet. Also, we were told that church attendance is 20-30 people on a good day. I guess you are about to know a relief society teacher/primary chorister/visiting teaching supervisor/ward pianist (who can barely play)/scout leader. Am I missing anything? Can't wait. ;0)

Happy House Hunting!!

I can't believe that we actually did it, but we bought a house!!!! I seriously thought that this day would never come. Here it is in all of it's glory. It is over one hundred years old, has an acre of land and is around 3,000 square feet. It has such character and I am really excited to be able to get to work on it and make it my own.




This is a picture of our back yard. The present owner did alot of work on it and it has a great pergola and deck in the back. He also planted over 3000 bulbs in the front and back, so in the springtime it will be really beautiful.

This is our front room. I love the window it has and it has really great hardwood floors as well.

This is the dining room. It has the same great hardwood as the living room and a great light fixture .

This is the kitchen. It has amish-made cabinets (shout out to amish) and great appliances. It has carpet in part of it (what they were thinking I will never know), but it is still cute and it will look better once I start ripping things out.

I'll post some more picture next time I blog, hopefully, so you can see some of the upstairs as well. We are so excited about this whole house buying thing and about finally having something to call our own. Hopefully all of the loan process goes smoothly and everything goes as planned.

The Suite Life of Rob and Becky

We arrived in Illinois today with the goal to pick out our new house!!! We made it here with no problems, except for the fact that we left Rob's briefcase, with his laptop and our camera, sitting on a curb in a St. Louis parking garage. No big deal at all, of course......Yeah......And no big deal that we left it in the most crime ridden city in the nation (just passed up Detriot......congrats St. Louis!) Hmmm, like I said no big deal.

Anyway, despite the fact that we didn't realize it was gone until we had almost reached the Illinois state line and despite the fact that we left it in the ghetto we were blessed and some good samaritan found it and took it straight to the airport police. We were able to pick it up right away and only lost about an hour of travel time.

We made it to our hotel and we were greeted with this in the lobby:

The kids loved it and it made my day too. We were also very happy because they had upgraded our hotel room to a suite!! Last time we stayed at this hotel, we were in a room with water leaking from the roof. We called them and told them about it and asked them for a new room. They just came and just moved our beds and swore up and down that all of their rooms were full. It started leaking more and more throughout the day and by the nightime it was incredibly wet and incredibly loud from all of the dripping. I went to the lobby and threw a fit and miraculously (cue angelic music) they had JUST had a room open up at 2 in the morning. How wonderful. Anyway, long story short, they owed us something for our next trip.

The kids loved taking a bath in the huge whirlpool tub:

And jumping up and down on the two king beds:

And they loved watching TV in the little living room:

It's not much, but it made our day much better because we felt like we go something extra. Score for the Mehls!!!

We'll try to keep you posted on our house hunting advertures during the week, if I am not stricken blind by the overzealous use of faux wood paneling, bad 80's flashback wallpaper and American flag wall borders that seem to abound in these parts. Pray for me.

Sacrifical Peeps

So we had a pretty good Easter this year. The night before Easter Becky got the easter baskets ready for the kids because I fell asleep. The next morning, the kids brought their baskets up to show us. The first thing that I saw were Peeps on a stick. I had never seen this before and I started laughing like crazy. I asked Becky what they were. She said that she hated touching the Peeps because they are crusty and gooey. To avoid touching them, she put them on the sticks. I told her that they looked like sacrifical Peeps and we laughed together for five minutes. Here are some pictures of the sacrifical Peeps.

The girls had a fun day. We had a easter egg hunt in our backyard and a scavenger hunt for an Easter Prize. The girls got new Easter dresses which is always fun for them since they love princesses and dresses. Here's a picture of them in their dresses. The lighting is not that good but they will only stay clean and with cute hair temporarily, so you have to take pictures as fast as you can.

Seasonal depression

We haven't posted in a while mainly because most of our family has been sick all week. Becky, Kaitlin and Camie all were sick with Influenza. They were in bed for about 3 days straight. I was the only one to get my flu shot this year, so I was lucky and didn't get it too bad. At this time of year most of us get sick of the snow and the inversion and are ready for spring to come. It has been worse this year due to all of the snow. I know that others have complained about the snow, so I have to also.

Most of the time I love running in the snow. I cannot stand running on the treadmill, so I bundle up and run outside. I must say that I am tired of it this year. There has been so much snow that the sidewalks are not clear. Running on ice is not too fun. You do use muscles that you never thought that you had though. I have only fallen on my face once so far. Here is a picture of me after running a week or two ago. When I left the house the weather wasn't bad and it was not snowing. After I got about 1 mile away, it started snowing like crazy with a strong wind. I could hardly see because of the snow blowing in my eyes.

We have tried to have some fun in the snow. This hill is close to our house so we try to go there and tube every once in a while. Kaitlin and Camie love going on the tubes all by them selves.

Well, hopefully we will have some sun and get out of the seasonal depression soon. Becky will post about Camie's b-day party soon. That's right, if we weren't crazy enough having Kaitlin's birthday party with friends, we had Camie's a few weeks later. I think that Camie and her friends had fun. As for the rest of us, let's just say that everybody became sick the day of the party.