Easter Weekend

All of my family, minus my sister Stacy in Alabama went to my parents house for Easter. My little sister Melanie got her young women's recognition--so it was fun for all of us to be there for her. It was kind of a Fennell filled day--my parents spoke in sacrament meeting and then all of us participated in Melanie's program. I'll tell you what--one gene that is dominate in the Fennell family is we all cry....all the time. I'm sure that everyone at Melanie's program besides our familiy probably wonder if we ever stop. I myself cried 3 different times that day...but every speaker, singer, audience attender...ok maybe minus John or David cried that day. But it was a great day at church--the spirit was really strong, I think with it being Easter Sunday excellerated that also--I love Easter Sundays. After church we went back to my parents and had a huge Easter dinner--my mom is such a great cook, you never leave hungry there! We are moving to Maryland, and Mary and Brian are moving to Texas for the summer, so it was fun to have everyone there together before we all left.

We're Moving On

The past couple weeks have been pretty busy/crazy for us. We've been talking about how we can't wait to get out of Rexburg forever...and when it finally came it was kind of sad to leave friends and family and a lot of our memories. The good thing about it though was I was finally able to quit my job--one of the greatest days :) We started out our celebrations with Eric's birthday party--we went bowling it was really fun. Now his birthday is a significate date for us...it's where we formed our triangle. For those of you who don't know, Eric and Adam grew up together and then were roommates at college, and really good friends; me and Beth were neighbors our freshman year at college, and then roommates the rest of the time at college until she got married, John is my brother and Meagan is Beth's sister--John & Meagan got married, Eric & Beth got married...and last but not least me & Adam got married. And all of the flirting and hooking up initially started at Eric's birthday party like 4 years ago. Anyways we were the first to leave Rexburg from the triangle...and it was really sad. We all lived in the same complex, us and the Farmers lived right across the way and the Fennell's lived in the row behind us. Now...we're related to the Fennell's...so we know we'll see them a lot--but it was really sad to say bye to Beth & Eric and Lincoln--we hung out with them al the time--but hopefully we'll run into them in Colorado or something. We'll miss you guys!

And from the good ol days....

I think this was at one of John's softball games...

Adam's version of the vacation

Well hello, it has been awhile for me to post. Michelle, the delicate hot lady that she is told you her version of vacation; but here is the real version. Our original flight was delayed an hour due to some kid dancing on the airport heater. This impressed the pilots and they said they didn't want to leave until the kid was done. An hour later we were off. We landed with Michelle gripping my hand so hard because she thought she saw Wayne Newton...we didn't. The next day we did appreciate the sun, which we only get a couple days a year in Idaho. On Tuesday we left bright and early to Phoenix that way Michelle could sleep and not sing her terrible road songs...jk. We pulled into where my interview was held a tad early. We decided to eat at the Taco Bell. I just knew it would help my chances to have the runs and gas in the interview, naturally I thought of the Bell. We crashed at my Grandparents that night, listening to my Grandma brag about how hot she was when she was 18...ackward. Ok she didn't brag she is just a great jokester and we love them. Then we were off, back to Vegas.
The next day we hit up some casinos to end our being broke streak. We tried winning it big on the penny slots. We ending up winning about $1,310. We were in aww and skipped like school children through the casino. We ended up knocking some bewildered old lady right off her feet. She said she wouldn't press charges if we gave her $1,309. We both thought that it was so odd that she would pick that number. Only 1 dollar less than what we just won. Oh well, we paid her and went back on our way.
Michelle's flight was not delayed or broken. The truth is she could not pass security because the metal detectors kept beeping on her. She received a tattoo that had real silver ink in it. It is a cute little tattoo of a stingray stabbing the crocodile hunter in the heart. I thought it was a little harsh, but whatever. So it took her 6 hours to go through security. What happens in Vegas for Michelle does not stay in Vegas.
As for me the following few days, I won some money on basketball, witnessed two fights at a spectacular hockey game; one with the players and one in the crowd, became deaf from my sister yelling at the stupid teenage girls in front of us that would not shut up, and dance on the jumbo screen for 30 seconds to please the crowd from all the hostility. What can I say I am a pacifist. Then, Sunday I came back to hell...I mean rexburg. There must be something wrong with the keyboard.
Anyway, that is the real version of our vacation.

We Love the Vegas

We took off last Sunday night to Vegas. We got great deals to go, 3 of the 4 tickets were $29 one way. The plane was delayed an hour on our flight out--that didn't put a damper on a trip at all, but as we were getting ready to board they had the news playing at the airport and they were showing a plane crash, they plane landed to fast and it pretty much blew up the thing and killed a lot of people, so that wasn't very nice of them--I'm already scared of flying. We stayed with Adam's sister Kim and her family on Sunday and Monday night. While everyone was at work and school--me and Adam were outside a lot of the day soaking up the sun rays--it was so nice there! We checked out a couple of the hotel/casino's, and that night we played with the kids and went to in and out burger, good times.

The next morning we took off at 5:30 am and headed to Phoenix...I LOVED it! It had to be in the 80's...there wasn't a cloud in the sky, palm trees all over...and it was just beautiful sunny and green! And the funny thing is we went to quite a few places that day and I was about the only one wearing shorts there--I guess it must've been to cold for everyone else. That night we stayed with his grandparents--they were so cute. They have some citrus trees in their back yard--so breakfast the next morning was amazing, freshly squeezed orange juice, fresh grapefruit...and a lot of other fruit and healthy stuff. I love Arizona!

That afternoon we headed back to Vegas--and I was able to meet up with Emily that night--it was so fun to see her again! We haven't seen each other for quite a while--it was fun to see where she lived (which is so dang cute) and catch up. The next day we went to another casino place and we threw down some money on some slot machine's, it was really fun--we just played 5 cent black jacket and penny slot machines--we just put in a dollar and it lasts forever.I flew out that afternoon...soon to find out why the tickets were so cheap. I got to the airport around 1:30...my flight was at 3:30--we boarded the plane and just sat on there forever--it was about 4:10 and we still hadn't moved..finally they got on the intercom and said the plane was broken, so we got off and loaded back on a spare plane (which took another hour) when we finally took off we got to about Utah, I'd say about half way, and they said the plane wouldn't pressurize, so we had to turn around and go back to Vegas...and wait for a 3rd plane. At this point I was SO frustrated and tired and was about to cry, I was already scared to fly--and all of the planes were broken. So about an hour later, we board the 3rd plane...and thankfully made it safely to Idaho Falls at almost 11. It was a long day. Adam flew back on Sunday--had a better flight--it left and landed on time...but he got to come home to a blizzard. So on our treacherous drive back that was one sheet of ice --with cars all over off the road...us going 20-25 mph the whole way...we decided that we are so sick of this weather--we've lived in it long enough, and it's time to move. Here are some pictures from our trip...

Arizona...
World's largest grapefruit
Vegas...

Vacation

I finally hit my year mark at work and got a little vacation time...that was very muchly needed. It was so much fun...we were able to see a lot of family...but it was SUPER busy--we went from one place to another. Within that week I believe I slept at 5 different houses. Me and my sister Rachel had a craft fair this last Friday and Saturday. So the Friday before (the 20th) we went to Rupert so we could get all of our picture frames done, thank goodness for our dad who is a master woodworker :) we were able to bust out about 50 picture frames in about 4 hours. Here are some action shots of the process...we had a little system going:

My dad would cut the frames out....

Austin was over the nail gun and put them together....
Rachel and I would take turns sanding while the other one painted...because after a while your hand would go numb....
Melanie came along to help out also...I'll post the final products in a little bit. That Saturday after we got finished, I went to Pocatello to Rachel's house to do a few more things for the frames--then that night my friend Stafford had a reception there that we went to, I was able to see a few of my high school friends...that I haven't seen since high school--so it was fun to be there. Thats how the week started....