Happy Birthday Desaray!!!

It's Desaray's birthday and Teralee and I wanted to list our favorite top 5 things about Desaray!!

1. How she always listens and when I stop by the office she takes about an hour out of her day just to chat with me!
2. She's always willing to go and play with us! Doing whatever adventure we choose!
3. When Teralee first moved to Utah, Desaray helped with the transition process and even wrote little notes of encouragement.
4. You can always count on her to be there when you need help, she's the first in line every time!
5. She laughs and understands all your stupid little stories.

Desaray is the best oldest sister we could ask for! Have a great birthday!

Sabrina said:
She is always happy.
She is willing to help.
She loves tennis.
A good driver. haha

I HAVE NEW BRAKES!!!

As a citizen of our country, safety is my first priority when driving.  I like to protect other citizens from crazy driving.  So lately my brakes have been shaking pretty bad when I drive.  Which is not fun at all and frankly endangers others on the road when you're in a tight squeeze!  (haha) So Jake told me to go to Les Schwabs and have my brakes checked.  I did and my driver side front brakes were .8 something and legal limit where you HAVE to change is .32 or something.  You get the idea!  Then Jake made me go to Checkers by myself!  Do you know what they do to girls when they are there alone?  They stalk them and constantly banter them with questions b/c a girl can't possibly know what they are doing at Checkers!  Actually the guy that helped me was really nice and got me brakes for my car that cost 26 dollars!!  And they wanted to charge me 280 at Les Schwabs to get new brakes!  I got my brakes and it took a week for Jake to have time to install them but on my way to get a break change, I picked up 5 qt. of oil and a new oil filter.  So on the beautiful freezing day of October 9th, Jake put new brakes on my car, Ruby, and gave her an oil change.  It started raining when I got to his house and then quickly changed to snow.  I tried to get a good picture but who knows if you can really see the white flakes.  They were sure big though!!  Our first snow of the year!  It was a whopping 38 degrees while I sat outside and kept Jake company during the renovations on Ruby.  She is working good now!!!  And it saved me a ton of money!  The driver side brake pad was metal on metal, no wonder it shook so bad!  The other side was still pretty nice which was a relief.  But now it's new and ready to go!!!

 Me Freezing outside in the shop!
Donnie, Jake's dog, he's taking the tire off of the other side of Ruby.
 Grain fields while it's snowing.
 Jake's yard, trying to get the snow and if you look close you can see it!

Cooking Magic

Hi everyone!!  I started a new blog.  It's called Cooking Magic, my link is meganscookingmagic.blogspot.com  if you're interested.  Make sure your read the first post b/c I tell you that you can e-mail me recipes to add to the blog if you would like.  I'm excited because I've been talking about it for a long time!  If you have any ideas or tips that would be helpful let me know!!  It's Cooking Magic time!!