The Stache

After graduation Nels shaved his goatee, but he left a little surprise for me.

Oh, dear. I don't like it much. Do the words "Vote for Pedro," come to mind? Of course, Nels' mustache is much better than Pedro's. :) I won't even ask for you to vote what you like best this time.

Tag, You're It

My friend Lora tagged me, so here it goes:
Here's how it works:
A ~ Each person has to list 6 facts / habits about them
B ~ After part A go to 6 people's blogs and leave a comment letting them know to read your blog and that they have been tagged. List at the end of your posting who you have tagged.
All righty:
1. My first one is a habit. I am a two time snooze pusher person with a ten minute faster than normal time clock setting. That's a mouth full. When I set my alarm I take into account my habit and the additional ten minute "cushion." It's very complex. :)
2. Another habit is that I say "just kidding" after almost everything. This is a habit I'm trying to break, so it is getting better.
3. Another thing I say is "Do you want to...?" Nels really dislikes this, because I'll say "Do you want to do the dishes?" or "Do you want to help me cook?" Nels thinks in his head, "No, I don't want to do the dishes, but I will." So I'm trying to phrase my questions as "Will you please...?"
Very hard habit to break.
4. Now I'm going to do three about Nels.
Nels is a terrific speller. He can spell anything and he can spell backwards...which is especially useful when playing the game Cranium.
5. Nels loves Othello and Checkers. I think he could play them all day long, fortunately he doesn't.
6. Pretty much everyone knows this about Nels, but, oh well, I'll state it for the record. Nels loooooves cars. He researches them, collects brochures about cars and test drives cars.
Quick story:
Earlier in April Nels had a 15-page research paper that he needed to work on. He kept complaining about it until I got tired of hearing about it. So, I bribed him. (a technique I learned from my parents:) I told him that if he didn't complain about this paper anymore then I would go test driving with him for 60 minutes. But every time he complained then I would subtract 5 minutes from the time. He stopped complaining about it and went to work on the paper. Worked like a charm, and he only complained one time so we went test driving for 55 minutes last Saturday. We test drove the Nissan Altima.
Anyway, I tag Rachel, Katrina, Kayli, Stephanie, both Heather's and Dalee
Have fun and I look forward to reading them! :)

Cards

Thursday night I went to a Stampin' Up party and made 5 beautiful cards. Each card was already pre-cut so we just had to put them together. I don't like cutting the paper because I usually do it crooked, so I really enjoyed making these cards. I also learned about a cool website that gives card ideas for the stamp sets from stampin' up. Here's some pictures of the cards we did.

I loved this butterfly stamp set.

Thankful for Warm Weather

I am so happy that warmer weather is coming our way. My mom sent me some pictures of the snow at the end of March. After seeing these pictures I tried not to complain about the cold weather, because at least we didn't have 4 feet of snow to trudge through!

Here's a picture of the trampoline. It's almost to the top! My Dad's old Chevrolet truck covered with snow. I don't think he drove it for a while.
Wow, I don't know how I survived winters in Idaho!

So anyway, like my title says, I'm thankful for warm weather today.

Lately, Nels has been playing soccer. He plays indoor soccer on Fridays and then they usually have a game on Monday. For the first THREE weeks in March/April the games were cancelled due to rain. : ( But he finally got to play two games and they won both of them. Here's a sweet action shot, but it's kind of dark. I tried to lighten it up a bit. They played around 8 p.m. Notice how he is wearing all Adidas, his favorite type of clothing. I'll have to blog about that another time.Oh and don't worry, I won't quit my day job to become a sport action photographer. I was sometimes too slow taking the picture and ended up getting just grass, so that was the best picture I got.

Chicago Video

Here's a video that I took when we were in chicago. Our computer is slow, so it took forever to load!

Nels' Facial Hair

Friday, Nels picked me up from work. I got in the car and did a double take. "You shaved!" Yep, Nels has gone from a full beard, to a goatee, to no facial hair. So below are the pictures of what he has looked like these past couple of months. I don't know how to put a "vote" thing on here, so if you want, leave a comment for which one you think Nels looks best in.

The BEARD:

The GOATEE:

CLEAN SHAVEN

Catch Up!

I finally got the computer away from Nels, so I'm going to make a quick post. :)

Quick catch up. For Easter, Nels' family came down the day before. They brought the ham and we did the fixin's. Nels did the potatoes with his now famous salt rub. (It's famous to our family because we made it more than once now.) Nels and his dad talked about tires and cars. Nels' mom, sister Anna-Lisa and I did our nails. Then we all dyed eggs and played chicken foot. I have to give props to Mom Nyborg who won chicken foot. The funniest line that was said while playing this game was the following exchange between Mom and Anna-Lisa.

Mom says, "I love this game because I don't have to think."

Anna-Lisa chides back, "Then what's taking you so long!"

The rest of the game Mom would go super fast and then when it was Anna-Lisa's turn Mom would say, "come on, what's taking you so long."

We always have a good time when they come to visit. So thanks for coming!!!

Not much has happened during the week other than Nels' midterms and me going to work. So we were excited when yesterday, Friday night rolled around. We went to Curtis and Shayla's place. They are just a lot of fun. We ate pizza and played...Guitar Hero. It was awesome. Before last night, the only time I played Guitar Hero was in Wal-Mart for 5 minutes because Nels made me. (I didn't want to play in Wal-Mart because, well, you know, it's crowded, I felt a little self-conscious.) The boys would play then Shayla and I would play. I stayed on the "easy" level, but I think I was getting better as the night went on. I'll have to try "medium" next time. Nels is so funny when he plays because he pretends like its a real guitar and he's singing the songs. So cute. Here's a picture...don't you love my rockin' "I love you" sign. I'm still a rock and roller in training. :)