HeidiJeffandEvan

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2009-07-12T16:25:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of our baby. It's, it's.... a boy? At least we were told this by a gentelman we ran into in Memphis one day. This gentelmen said he had died and come back to life and that he could speak with birds. When he found out I was expecting he told us that it would be a son. We are still a bit skeptical.

Jeff's birthday! He requested a german chocolate cake. A first for me to make.

This is our solar oven we made. Our first attempt at banana bread didn't work out but our Chicken Delight was "delish".

This is us at the Memphis Tennessee temple. We are sad to be leaving Memphis since it was so close to the temple. Now back to 3 hour drives to Dallas. Not that we are complaining.

What does this picture say about...?

2009-02-08T14:40:00.001-08:00

So Heidi and I were on a "we need something sweet kick" and noticed something that made our evening. Yes, we are both easily amused...but back to the point. There was something wrong with this picture of the donut racks at Wal-Mart in Shreveport, Louisiana. The shape of that brownie is not a triangle, it is in fact a rectangle (this was confirmed on Wikipedia).

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle)

At first we thought that they just have the label there for either brownies OR triangles and just had brownies there that day. But after dedicated efforts to ascertain the facts, we have never seen triangles there. Not that we know what a triangle donut is since we have never seen one, but we do know what a brownie is and have eaten many so we are somewhat experts on brownies. Some may even say Heidi has a "Brownie Obsession"...

So you be the judge as to what this picture says about_______.

****Disclaimer, the editor has censored the conclusions of this post as she thinks they are too demeaning to the various groups (wal-mart, educational system in Louisiana, bakers, people who put up labels for donut racks) involved in this sensitive matter.

I HATE Cats!

2009-02-01T19:12:00.000-08:00

I hate cats. Maybe not your cat in particular, but I hate cats. An unknown number of cats peed on our scooter. PEED ON OUR SCOOTER! Not only our scooter but our scooter cover (which is now in the garbage). Our scooter however is not in the garbage. Our scooter had such a thick coat of feline urine that it not only penetrated my pants and my underwear but it reached the skin on my...well let's just not go there. And this was only from sitting on it for 30 seconds to start it.
So as I said before. I HATE CATS!

PS If you own a stinkin' cat or a peeing one you better keep it away from me. This is not a threat, but for informational purposes only. No cat has been harmed in the making of this post...yet....

"Your cat better not ruin my scooter!"

Heidi's Christmas Present

2009-01-11T18:02:00.000-08:00

This is Heidi's Christmas present from me. ISn't it great? And no, I did not draw the picture freehand. I took a couple drawings I found and combined them. Some folk may have only needed a day or two, but it took me about a week. Heidi's reaction was that she got all teary. I took that as either a really good thing or a really bad thing, but she also said "It was very thoughtful. " (Heidi says ask her for a better quote.) To get the full effect you may want to click on the pic to make it real big.

More Yellowstone

2009-01-11T16:42:00.002-08:00

Jumping into Firehole is probably the coolest thing in Yellowstone, except for maybe if you saw a bear. This was our favorite place to go. The water is about 5-10 degress warmer than a regular 'ol river cuz there are some hot springs that feed into it as well. So jumping in doesn't freeze your toosh off. Anyway don't we just look like we are having fun?

Another Part of Our Trip to Utah

2009-01-11T16:18:00.000-08:00

With the Schultzs, (that sounds weird don't it?) we went to Yellowstone and got our fill of clean mountain air, rivers that you can see the bottom, and mountains that are over 552 ft high. Oh, yeah we also got to hang out with Heidi's family. I learned many things about Heidi that explain so much...soooooo much.

Look at the lovely water fall. To get down here you had to walk down a bazillion steps. Most of us made it all the way down. Going down was easy, getting back up was a lot more work.

I think he is crazy.

Heidi loves my hair style!

Doesn't that just look so clean?

Part of our trip to Utah over the summer

2009-01-04T19:10:00.000-08:00

Over the summer we took a trip back to Utah to visit family and friends and mountains. We were really excited when Tom and Brook told us they were getting sealed while we were there...actually I think they were nice enough to wait for us to come. We were all trying to avoid the blinding sun.

Ahhh...look at the cute little happy couple.

Nice cheesy grins.

Uh, are you ready Dad?

Getting closer to everyone at least looking at the camera.

No! I was not passing gas.

That's how we do it Louisiana.

Don't you love candid pictures of real life?

Look! You can see the valley behind us! Isn't it great to climb up a mountainside?

So, our trip wasn't total relaxation. Heidi had to work for our room by mowing the lawn. I can't remember clearly, but I think she said she had never mowed a lawn before. She must have been depraived growing up.

Christmas Decorations

2009-01-04T18:54:00.000-08:00

Heidi got out the Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving and decorated the whole house. IT was such a huge task and she did it all by her self! It took about 20 minutes...if you include vacuuming and cleaning. We didn't want to buy a tree this year again, but we wanted to have something that resembled a tree. So we decided that we would decorate one of our plants that is still living. As you can see we don't have many decorations. This is cuz we are buying/acquiring one ornament a year. I don't think we will ever get a cooler ornament then the one we got last year. IT was Santa riding a scooter. But wait there's more, if you pull the present it plays a song. And as an added bonus the headlight lights up. Topping that one will require something pretty amazing...but I am sure that Heidi will get one next year (hint, hint).

Ice Cream

2009-01-04T18:27:00.000-08:00

For Christmas we got the best gift from some friends. These friends shall remain nameless to prevent any future repercussions from the ice cream parlor named after a rock with a low temperature...cough...ColdStone...cough...cough...when Heidi and I have the most delicious and therefore most popular ice cream establishment in the East and the West and that other place is out of business. But we don't want it to go out right now as we still want to go there until our place is big and famous. So back to the gift. It was a stone slab and two ice cream scoops- just like the ones they use at Coldstone- that you put in the freezer and then you can take regular ice cream and toppings and turn it into what you would pay $5 for. Now if you don't know what I am talking about and you have not been to Coldstone before, then this whole post probably holds no meaning for you. But Heidi and I are very excited about this gift. We think that if I get bored with OT that we could open up our own private "Frigid Rock". Thank you anonymous friends.

We Love Cheese!!!

2008-12-31T13:12:00.000-08:00

Heidi and I thought we would try our hand at making mozzarella cheese. Fortunately you can benefit from our effort the following is our detailed process to make cheese.

How to make cheese:

Step 1- Boil some ingredients and then press out all the liquid.

Step 2- Knead it...I think. Then reheat it and knead it again and again and again.

Step 3- Grate it.

Step 4- Show off the grated cheese...and then eat!

Jeff's Bad Grammar

2008-09-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

Now I just posted a bunch of posts and I fully realize that my grammar and spelling and sense is skewed cuz school takes all my mental capacity so I don't have any left to use for English in these posts and the spell check only tells you that you spelled a word wrong, not how to fix it I am way to lazy to actaully think about it also I am a bad typer I just go and hope my fingers are in the right spot. So if you must feel free to make a game of to find all my mistakes. You can make corrections and email them to me and maybe I will get around to fixing them. But considering it took me about 6 months to make all those mistakes I will probably not get around to fixing them ever.
Sincerly
Jeff M. Clift, Esquire

Getting out of Dodge!

2008-09-14T19:38:00.000-07:00

So in May we decided that we needed to go to a place where we could relax in the outdoors more than 50 feet from a major road and see the bottom of a river. So we headed north to Arkansas. We chose a very out of the way place. We were the only people camping there from Monday to Friday. Very Nice. We swam in the river cuz we could see the bottom. hiked around in the wilderness. Saw some cool animals. But Heidi (ok, and me) was freaked out about the snakes. We came upon the snakes as we were climbing around on the rocks. Yes they are water moccasins, but that was not the creepiest part. We watched one of them slither into the water and go under a rock. It came out again about half way (all under the water) then kinda backed up under the rock again. I don't think we went into the water again after that without quickly making our way to a deep area or faster current area. Cuz we thought that an attack may occur at our ankles by a snake laying in wait. The other weird thing was we saw a racoon when we first got to the camp and thought it wouldn't mess with one of our water bottles. Nope, just as I was falling asleep (not Heidi, she had already been asleep for about 58 minutes more than I) we heard our water bottle fall off the log we left it on, then it proceeded to wrestle with the racoon for about 10 minutes until the racoon bit a hole in and realized it was only water. Just as I was going to sleep I saw this greenish glow float by my side of the tent...a little creepy. But I just thought it was the racoon and somehow the moon light caught his eyes. I realized about a month later that it was just a firefly floating past. Oh, yeah, Heidi has a little difficulty skipping rocks, note the lack of good skip throwing form, but after countless hours of lessons she skipped a rock 5 times!!!!!!!

After our stay in this secluded paradise, we thought we would go to one of the highest points in Arkansas. Which is way higher than any place in Louisiana. But it was a little weird that at the highest point of the mountain range there was a Lodge, mini train, KOA style camp ground. I guess I am just used to the inaccessable mountain peaks.

We also are starting a family legend about how I scared off a bear and how Heidi saved me. So we didn't want to sleep on a hard concrete slab, so we chose the tent site that you had to hike about 1/2 a mile away form anyone else. We (me) carried all our stuff down there. The first night we thought it might rain so we were going to cover the tent with a tarp, so I get out of the tent to open the tarp up by shaking it and when I did that we heard this huge thing run away. Heidi immediately jumped in the tent and pulled me in too! Heidi maintains that it was a bear. We had been told there were bears that frequented this area so we needed to keep our food on a bear pole. My theory is that the main campground was full from bikers and one of them got really drunk and passed out in the bushes by our tent and when I shook the tarp it startled him and he got up and ran away! But Heidi thinks the bear story is better. So we'll probably tell the bear one when we get older.

Mardi Gras in Shreveport

2008-09-14T19:11:00.000-07:00

We really like Mardi Gras! For all those who have only experienced a "western" parade- in the morning, daylight, fairly quiet except the high school marching band that plays just a little of key. This is similar to that, but put it at night, with loud music blaring from every float. We got cups and balls and beads, but this was a family friendly parade. But alas, no candy. I really like having it at night cuz then you can sit by the parade route and BBQ all day before they come. If you own a home along the parade route you can actually ask more for your house! Crazy, Eh? So we saw some friends there and gave all the beads they threw to Heidi to their little girl who seems to be suffocating under all the beads. We went to a party that the parades throw to stock all their floats with beads, cups, balls, frisbees, etc. On one float each crew member put a dozen bags of a 100 or so necklaces, there are about 10 members, so that's....alot of necklaces for one float. There were about 50-60 floats. I think I am going to invest in the plastic bead market. This is probably the busy season for the Chinese bead makers. Oh, we got a kick out of the child's love seat atop the ladder. It's an easy way to keep them from running off and you can still see them. I love louisiana ingenuity!

Moving???? Nope

2008-09-14T19:05:00.000-07:00

So we were going to move to a different apartment cuz it was cheaper. We signed the lease and I went to open the windows to air it out before moving our stuff in. Well I hear the sound of water spraying behind the fridge, so pulled it out and found the we already had guests. Some big cockraoches that you can see, but many more of their little ones that don't show up. So we decided that we would just stay where we were and let someone else drop in to the permanent residents of the other apartment.

Our New Orleans Trip

2008-09-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

So this is the Mississippi...I think. Doesn't it look so fresh and so clean!? Heidi had a difficult time persuading me from jumping in to swim. Her final argument was that we didn't want mutated kids in the future.

Now, most people think "let's party" when they think about going to New Orleans. Well, if you are reading this then we had to tell you about our blog and you probably know that Heidi and I think a little differently than most people...maybe, possibly including you. So we decided to go to New Orleans cuz they have more scooters there that we could buy. Not that we had one specific one that we were going to buy, there were just more choices. Which is weird considering how slow we are at making decisions.

This is the famous Burbon street in the French Quarter. When we told some of our friends they were confused at what we did there, cuz we don't drink, gamble, or participate in any questionable activities that are sexually related. Then I pointed out that the time of day we were there...see picture. It was afternoon, all those people that do the things previously described hadn't even figured out where they are yet.

This is on here at Heidi's request. She just got a kick out of it.
If you want more details you'll have to ask her.

Back to the reason we came to New Orleans. We thought we would just buy a scooter in the afternoon and then drive it home the next day. Good thing Heidi convinced me to borrow a friends mini-van. If you don't like this long story then you can just skip to the next picture.

We get to New Orleans and call a guy who had one posted up for sale. He said to come by about 5:00 and we could look at it. We give him a call when we get closer and he just says that he has to go to the hospital for an emergency and was a little bit weird about it. we didn't want to pry into his personal life, so we let it go. We decided to stop and at least look at the scooter parked outside his house since we were close. Heidi made an interesting joke. It was dark and the scooter was parked outside by some mud, so Heidi joked gross there is blood on it. (Both of us thinking it was just mud). The next day we call him again and go see it, well the reason he had to go to the hospital ER was cuz he crashed on the scooter and that really was his blood that had dripped onto the scooter. You would think that would be enough to stop someone from buying it but no. We thought it was better than the other one we looked at. So we decide to get it and he is going to meet us at the Wal-Mart (yes Wal-mart deals in automobile car title changed here) When he got there he said his title was with his girlfriend in Minnesota. That was what stopped us from getting it and then we called the other guy and bought his. Now we had to stay over night to buy it the next day. So instead of looking for a cheap hotel, we planned ahead and brought air mattresses for the back of the van. So the picture below is the inside our friend's van. You can't see cuz we covered the windows, but we are in Cabella's parking lot. Don't worry we brought our lap-top and watched a movie until we fell asleep.

(yes we know that this whole trip was dedicated to getting a scooter and we have no picture of our scooter)

Jeff's Grades!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-17T07:11:00.000-08:00

These are Jeff's grades...just in case you can't see the individual grades

they are let's see... A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A & A

Jeff's Mustache

2007-12-13T17:35:00.000-08:00

Heidi says I look a bit creepy with my sparse mustache...don't worry I shaved it off.

Christmas Tree and decorations

2007-12-13T17:30:00.000-08:00

This is our homemade Christmas tree. Yah, I know that it was such an amazingly cool idea, Obviously Jeff (me) thought up the brilliant idea. But at least we have our stockings hung by a real fireplace for the first time in my life. I hoping for some good stuff in the stocking!

Baton Rouge Temple

2007-12-13T17:25:00.000-08:00

The Baton Rouge Temple over Thanksgiving. We stayed with my

classmate Vance and his family.

The Myrtle Plantation

2007-12-13T17:13:00.000-08:00

We are standing by a haunted mirror where the spirits of those who have died in the house reside....ooooooooooo!

The Myrtle Plantation is said to be one of the most haunted places in America...at least their tour guides give a good "scary" speech. It was a very beautiful home. If you are just ever so curious can read all about the place at http://www.prairieghosts.com/myrtles.html

Heidi's Haircut Services

2007-12-11T09:22:00.000-08:00

Not bad for her 2nd cut...she even cut the time from 3 hours to an 1.5 hours.

Great-Aunt Mable

2007-12-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

Who would have thought I'd go all the way to Shreveport, Louisiana to meet my Great-Aunt. She does look like a Johnson though. We hung out for a while and chatted about the fam. She also gave me a photo of Great Grandma and Grandpa Johnson. She also told me that Great Grandma's family died from an Indian attack as they traveled by wagon out west, she was overlooked by the Indians and a family passing by picked her up and she stayed with that family.

Lake Clairborne

2007-12-11T08:58:00.000-08:00

It's not as great as it looks. The water is very shallow so it feels like warm bathtub water, a little creepy when you think you are going for a nice cool dip after getting all hot and sweaty. This is not a resivour, it was not made for water storage. It was made cuz the residents nearby wanted a lake to play on... Please Governor can we have a lake...please...

Hurray!! We found a bike trial that is not within 100 ft of a major road...and that isn't private property where you will get shot.

2007-11-06T20:21:00.000-08:00

This is the incredible amount of groceries that Heidi single-handedly brought home from the store on her bicycle...ask me if she was proud of her accomplishment. Um...yeah she was extremely proud of it!

Our Apartment

2007-08-05T15:25:00.000-07:00

This is our lovely place. These drapes are Heidi's masterful conversion of a shower curtain to drapes.

Alligators, Alligators!!

2007-08-05T14:58:00.001-07:00

These guys were gunna go swimming, but changed their minds.

Holy tons of alligators Batman...this was just in one area!!

You can't go to an alligator farm and pass up these great photo opportunities.

Don't let the picture fool you. Some how the pic didn't come out right and we became giants, cuz that is really a 1o foot gator...

LAST DAY!!!

2007-08-05T14:53:00.000-07:00

This was my last day of anatomy, so no more smelling like fermaldahyde. I don't know who was happier, Heidi or me.

This is us... nice, huh?

2007-07-29T13:32:00.000-07:00

This is from our 2 year anniversary trip to Denver, floating down the River of Loooove.

Still going...

2007-07-29T13:26:00.000-07:00

The Saturn reached 300,000 in May or June this year...we can't remember exactly, but we have a picture to prove it.