We have moved!

The Allen's have switched blogs. The explanation is on the new blog.

http://brianjessallen.blogspot.com/

Hmmm

What has happened since the last post? I guess not too much. We had our one year anniversary this last week and Brian got me golf clubs. I have really wanted to learn to play so I can go with him. We have just been to the driving range a couple times and I am starting to get frustrated. I am horrible and I don't like to do things I am not good at. I will still keep going though. Brian has meetings this week and will travel to Peoria for a couple days. Now that he is in to the swing of things I think he truly is enjoying it. I am really happy for him.

Last night we were driving to the driving range. The road we were traveling was like 17th street if you are familiar with Idaho Falls. Next thing we know the car in front of us swerves all over the road! We were like what the heck! That is when we see a ginormous tire/wheel coming straight for us! We too then had to swerve and thank heavens no one hit each other. It was scary! Brian said the wheel came from a brand new Ford Explorer. He thought it looked like the wheels were new and could have been they just got them and the tire store didn't put on the lug nuts.

Anyways, nothing else is new. I can tell it is going to be a long week. I am sick of living in a college town and having everything revolve around the college. The wards are just typical college wards and as of today, still not my new favorite place to live.

They Are HERE!

Our cars FINALLY CAME!!!! I feel so much better about things! I haven't drove a car in weeks so I honestly felt a little funny driving for the first time again! It was so great! I feel like I have freedom again! And... my ZUMBA disks came! I finally decided to order the new set because I have now been to 2 classes here... two locations, two teachers and last night was so bad I walked out early. I did a disk this morning and it is still not as great as Kelsie's ZUMBA class but better than anything here! It has been a good day!

A Good Day

Well, Brian started work this last Monday the 8th. His supervisor is in Peoria so no one really knew what to have him do. I think he got a little bored. Tomorrow they have some new hires so a big orientation is going to happen so I think that he is going to go to that and get more familiar with things. From the sounds of things, he will get off work at 4 every day which will be really nice. He has been able to come home and have lunch with me and it has been really nice. We still don't have our cars here yet so I am home all day. It will be nice once they are here so I can get out and go do things. I decided to order new Zumba disks and hope they get here soon so I can start back up my exercise routine. Tuesday we fed the missionaries and they were nice. Nothing else exciting happened the rest of the week. At nights we just find random stores to go to and walk around. We are looking for some new furniture. Well I say new, I mean new to us. We went to the Good Will store, like the DI, and they must not believe in selling furniture. We may have to start garage selling on saturdays. Yesterday we cleaned the church and there was a really cute boy there named John. He is 6 years old and was born in Hawaii and his family moved here a couple years ago. He was my cleaning partner. We were in charge of vacuuming and he used the 'wand' to get the roaming fuzzies. We spent the day cleaning the house and went and got some grocery shopping done. We made some really yummy shishcabobs! super good. I was proud. With grilled bacon potatoes :) While we were grilling we saw some black clouds over the top of some distant houses. By the time we got done grilling the wind was blowing very badly and the rain started comind down in buckets. We think we even heard sirens... maybe not... The storm lasted an hour and I don't think I have ever been in a storm like that. You don't get storms like that in Idaho.

Today we had to speak in church and it went well. We got invited to eat at the couples house we cleaned the church with. rumor is that they are very good cooks. We also went to the Gardner's homes. We had roast and Idaho mashed potatoes :) It was very good. I wanted to go back for seconds but that is not polite. We sat and talked for a couple hours and it was so nice. I love the wife. I would really like to get to know her.

Well that is all for this week.

Jessica

We have been Nabbed

Well we have been nabbed! At church today we got asked to speak in church next sunday, Brian got asked to teach Priesthood, we are cleaning the church Saturday, and they needed someone to feed the missionaries this Tuesday... guess who is doing that? ME! Now what to fix??

The Lake County Fair!

Brian has been very excited about moving here because sled/tractor pulling is a big deal. Well on the radio the other day he heard about the Lake County Fair. We decided to go yesterday afternoon. We put it in our GPS and we soon found out that the NW part of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone. We thought it was going to be two hours away but it ended up only being an hour away. We get off the main road and drive about 9 miles out in the country. We think it had to have been a really good size town but you couldn't see it because of all the trees. We passed a signed that said soccer parking here, soccer parking and shuttle here etc. etc. Next thing you know you see a sign that says soccer field 1-30 turn right now. Holy freaking soccer fields!! Soccer must be a big deal around here! There was free parking at the Crown Point High School and they have shuttles that would take you to the fair grounds. It is a really really nice town. BEAUTIFUL! Way prettier than Lafayette. Trees everywhere and people's yards are immaculate and big ponds everywhere. We got to the high school and it may be the biggest, nicest high school that I have ever seen. We load up on a bus and head to the fair about five minutes away. I was expecting a hick-ville fair like the county fairs you find in Idaho or a fair with a single booth and two food stands and two chickens. This fair was legit! They had really nice venues and just as many food stands as the Eastern Idaho State Fair. They had lots of multiples though.... like 8 corn dog stands ha! It was really fun though. I needed it. We got looking through the fair guide they give you and they had a pig race for a cookie... random we know, but needed something to do while we waiting for the sled pulls. It was really quite hysterical to see these little piggies race for a cookie.





You can ride camels at this fair!



This is a family joke between Brian and Logan. Brian is always joking that he wants a mini horse.







We went to the produce barn and it is amazing how many things grow here that just don't exist in Idaho. The best part was this potato that got the award for being the best and largest potato. Don't worry Idaho farmers... I think you are going to be ok!




The tractor broke and they didn't get it working until the sled pulls were supposed to start so we waited a long time for them to get the pull strip perfect. We had to get a video of how the Fords did in the working class vs the dodge :)

House

Well the long awaited house pictures are here. I have not got the decorating bug yet. Too much money. But if anyone has decorating ideas, you just let me know :) And instead of taking pictures, I took movies for a change. Let's see how they work!

Here is my living room


This is my kitchen, laundry, pantry and a little of outside



Here is my upstairs.


We have another bedroom upstairs but it is my 'War Zone.' Everything that hasn't found a home yet lives in that room.