Our New 1991 Mazda miata

Look at Her Shine

Our two little red Mazdas next to each other... Can you say Red mazda?

My Miata History

For those who dont know my history of miata’s  let me tell you about it.  Summer of 2005 i got home from my mission and my dad had a brand new 2005 mazda miata car he leased from Ford.  This is when i realized that these cars handle so well and i love this convertible thing that allows me to jump in the car without opening the door. This car was just flat out fun to drive. That spring i went back to school and my brother in law Scott asked me to take his 1990 red mazda miata to school with me so i could fix it up. New Brakes, tires, convertible top you name it. This is where i realized how cheap and easy these cars were to work on.

When all is said and done

So now i have one of my own and a small budget (which will go along way) to make this car the Miata that i will never forget. The best part about this is that i get a project car and Meghan gets a brand new reliable safe car (the Mazdaspeed3) to take to rexburg in the winter.

P.S. This cars 20th birthday is on September 14. We are so excited! And meghan will be making a car shape cake that the miata will blow the candles out on… these cars smile in case you didnt know (see below picture)

As for me, I love work.  It is a blast.  I spend most days drafting, going to bases to talk to clients about what their needs are, and measuring rooms.  Their is tons of work, as military is feeling pressure to spend the rest of their budgets.  Funny, I seem to work more efficiently when there is stress-I enjoy it.

On the weekends we have been enjoying our down time-one weekend we went to Steve and Bethany’s reception, (Steve was Tony’s roommate at college and then before we were married).  It was a beautiful reception and they were both soooo happy.  (It brought back fun memories for us:)

Steve and Bethany's Wedding Reception

Yesterday we went boating with Paul and Debbie and their kids.  We had a blast.  Ryan knee boarded, everyone wake boarded and water skiied.  Tony impressed everyone by jumping the wake on the wake board, and skiing with only one ski.  I was able to learn to water ski, as I had only wake boarded before.  We enjoyed the company, the activity, and the sun.  We had a blast.  However, we are definitely paying for it today-we are both sore in places we didn’t know we had.  (Not so fun.)

Last weekend we went and saw Inception- I was thoroughly impressed.  I love those kind of movies where you have no idea what is going on until the last little bit.  We also celebrated Bethany’s birthday at BJs, (YUM:)  BJs apparently makes their own soda using beet sugar…weird, but good:)

The past three weeks of church have been an adventure to say the least.  We were asked to sub in Nursrey….ahhh.  I realized I haven’t been around little kids like that forever!  We walked in the first week and I had no idea what to do.  Tony, however taught me a thing or two about how to play.  He sat right down and dug into the pile of toys in the middle of the floor, while I watched in amazement as the kids crowded around him seeking his attention.  I was so proud:)  We got really good at running Nursrey-there is a schedule.  Play time, lesson time, singing time, snack time, drawing time, second round of play time, and bubbles.  We were not too excited about it, but being subs in nursrey wasn’t too bad at all.

This weekend we visited Coldstone.  :)  We got these amazing cupcakes; cake on the bottom, a layer of ice cream above that, and then real frosting that tasted good on the top of that.  The whole cupcake was encased in a shell of dark chocolate.  I am not sure you can get any better than this…unless I had made them of course:)

We also went to an Art exhibit down town.  It was in an old, non air conditioned building, with several different artist’s work displayed.  It was all modern work, which I love because it has the ability to show so much emotion.  The event was a wine and cheese event, but needless to say we did not partake of either, as we don’t drink wine, and we don’t eat cheese that has been sitting in a 85 degree room for longer than 30 seconds.  This was a blast.

Some of the art at the show

Last week Tony was out town in San Jose area at a Velocity conference that focused the problems that cause the internet to be slow, which of those problems it was most effective to fix, and how to fix them.  He really enjoyed it, and took more notes that I ever did in all my classes in one semester combined.  (I am not a light note taker.)  I was very proud of him.

While Tony was in CA, I stayed here and enjoyed myself.  I did not eat one dinner with meat in it (I grew up eating less meat in a month than we do now in week:)  I had pancakes with peanut butter and syrup, after which I did not feel like an adult.  I exercised, did yoga, read my book, and sat in the sun at the pool.  It was wonderful.

I also had an icecream swap with Alisha-Tony and I had made cake batter ice cream with gummy bears, (using fun-fetti).  YUM:)  The next night we had a girls night out to a Mexican Restaurant.  My week was great, but I was really happy to have Tony back-life at home was pretty boring without someone to share it with.

Chick-fil-a Royal Treatment

Free CHICK-FIL-A ... we are living like kings

Friday we went to Prince of Persia-we were a little worried when we got there and saw the line that wrapped around the corner. Twice.  Everyone in that line was a middle aged woman dressed ready for a serious night on the town.  We were standing there with out motorcycle helmets and jackets, and felt slightly out of place.  Good thing that line was for the opening night of Sex and the City, not Prince of Persia.  The movie was good (I even approved of it).  It was a Persia style Pirates of the Caribbean.

The longer I live in Texas, the more I understand that the saying, “Everything is bigger in Texas” is true.  Including the friendly attitudes.  People talk to you at the Post Office, in the Movie Theater, and the Passport Office, all of which are uninvited conversations, and usually are quite amusing.

Somehow we ended up at Bass Pro Shop, not sure how that happened, but we did.  They had live fish and lots of guns.  We made a major investment at this store: we put 25 cents toward the shooting gallery.  Tony was amazing at this game, (I wonder where he got all his practice) and I failed miserably.

- Meghan Farnsworth

Wedding Day: Meghan And Tony at the Portland Temple

YES WE ARE FINALLY MARRIED. And with this recent life event comes a change and re-dedication to posting what use to be my blog but is now OUR blog Meghan and I were married april 24 2010 in the Portland Oregon Temple.

Well Meghan is a champion trophy wife becuase with this new marriage comes… you called it THANK YOU NOTES! and Meghan has them done and i want to publicly thank her for them. (see picture below)

Holy Thank you notes batman!

Our LED Lamp Project

We threw in the towel for attempting to buy a lamp we liked and decided to make one. It was a process but boy was it fun. We decided to make a lamp for our living room (due to the darkness it did contain). It involved lots of eBay shopping, tiles glue’in , led soldering fun! Follow the pictures below to see the process…

Step 1: soldering the LEDS together

Step 2: Meg glues all of the mosaic mirror tiles together

Step 3: Assemble the structure

Step 4: Install LED's

Step Last: Plug'er In!

This was a great project, great product and a good team effort. It took about a week to build and included alot of trial and error but we are able to draw many parallels from what we learned on this project into our married life it is an investment of a lifetime! this light will shine long (because they are LED’s not bulbs) just like the love we have for one another will

Wow that last paragraph was “AWESOMELY CHEESY” and pretty much sums up our married.

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WOW! I’m pretty sure the world is a happier place because of this video

December 30, 2009 i proposed to my girlfriend Meghan Smith and she said yes. Love is such a great thing. While we know the road will not be all sunshine and glitter we are taking in the rays while the clouds are gone. Meghan is the best thing that has ever happened to me and im just THRILLED that she feels the same way. Wedding plans are already underway for our marriage on April 24, 2010 in the Portland Oregon temple. We have colors, cakes, registries and flowers galore to decide on. Luckly my beautiful fiancee has pretty much had all the details planned since she was 4 so… you could say we are prepare for this

What else is new?

Besides the engagement i went to Baltimore and spent time with my family and it was a blast! Going to the Mall in DC and getting pie in little Italy(downtown Baltimore). But my favorite part was my sister Michelle wearing her favorite Christmas present of the year that i gave her

Michelles Fav Present

eating at christmas time

michelles fog photoshoot

entertaining madaline on our long tours in DC

Right before this picture of my niece laughing was a picture of her crying… so i decided that sitting on her might cheer her up… and i was right!

My skills with Michelles camera thats worth more than my car

My Family

And here it is… My beautiful Family… This is what life is all about folks. Doesn’t get much better than this… maybe i should Photoshop Meghan in to make this photo complete.

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FHE FUN

My Thankfull Turkey Hand

My Thankful turkey roaming free with everyone else's thankfull turkeys

These are the Turkey hands we made for FHE this week. We traced our hands and made turkeys out of them and put what we are thankful for on them. My turkey is roaming in the mountains so i think its the most happy and thankful of the bunch. We really got a chance to show all those primary kids that we could put up cool hand made crafts too…

Mini Golf Fun

The final putt putt hole. Its the alamo!

So im not so good at putt putt. I feel ashamed because i worked at Pheasant Run Golf Coarse for over 4 years and had a handycap so low that numbers cannot display it! I’m not sure what went wrong here. I think it is because there were hazards on this coarse i had never seen inall my years at a real golf coarse.

YSA Fun

Night at the Mormies

Yeah im a GQ model...

Last weekend was a YSA conference and these are from “night at the Mormies” a red carpet event where everyone showed of funny videos they had mad the week before. It was entertaining to say the least.

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Service

Work wasn’t the only thing i did this week i was able to help clean up a park in San Antonio. It was organized by USAA but of coarse all of us BYU-Idaho Grads teamed together to help out. It was a blast. I worked to put together a few sets of bleachers. The First one took 1.5 hours to complete and the second took 1/2 hr. Go figure. The city workers said that the bleacher benches we put together would be stolen within the next 2 weeks. They trade the metal in for $. After that the workers put wood planks down. Steve and i will have to check back in a few weeks to see how they held up. Along with building benches we painted lines on basketball courts, built fences and assembled a play scape. The best part was that it was 70’s and a cool breeze… IN NOVEMBER!
I LOVE SAN ANTONIO!

All in all a busy week of work/play and fun!
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