Congratulations Mark!

Just have to congratulate my awesome hubby- he just found a new job! I am so proud and we are very excited for this new adventure in his career!

Name that Vegetable...

Any guesses?

SUmMer FUn

Can I just say how much I love summer? It is fantastic! We had a BBQ yesterday with some of the coolest friends yesterday and it was a blast- I am so glad that we all still get together even though it is no longer as simple as walking down the street or shimmying through the hole in the fence!

Notice the little one that got more naked as the afternoon progressed...

We love to steal the little cuties!Happy Birthday Jenn!

One of my new favorite things...

Isn't it interesting that the first time you do something it is so fun and exciting and then if you do it enough it can become drudgery? Well, if you can't tell already this is the first year for the Pidcacks to experiment with a green thumb--so it is extremely cool to me right now. But, I remember having to pick the vegetables in the dead of summer when I was a kid, getting sunburned and attacked by bugs so I know it will not always be my new favorite thing :)
For now I love checking out all the plants and seeing how they are doing! Our little tomato flowers!

-Ashlee

Cross country drive from NC to UT

Since we have a house now we decided to finally get the rest of my things from my parents in North Carolina. Well, that involved renting a truck and driving it all back to Utah. It worked out rather well for us though since my parents gave us everything they are not using that we can use! We had a lot of fun with my mom and dad, but didn't stay long since we had the whole drive back...

The Big Coca-Cola 500 Nascar race was happening over Memorial Day weekend- so we went to downtown Charlotte to experience "Speed Street". All the sponsors set up booths for drawings and samples and they have concerts and all kinds of fun things for the whole weekend. Mark loved all the free samples- he thought it was like trick-or-treating!
Mark and my dad also got to race changing a tire- I don't think they are quite ready to join the pit crew though!

On the way back we stopped in Nashville and saw the Grand Ole Opry,
the Parthenon- which is just in a park in Nashville. It was really cool, but kind of a random thing?

And we stayed at the Heartbreak hotel in Memphis. It was really cool to see Elvis's mansion, planes and cars.

We also got to stop in St. Louis. We had to stop and have BBQ and ice cream at a couple of places where Mark ate on his mission- it was fun hearing mission stories as we drove through some of the little towns nearby.

We also got to stop at some of the church history sites like Liberty Jail, the Independance visitor's center and winter quarters. It was a cool experience to take the tours and learn more about what the pioneers went through. It sure makes me appreciate what we have!

-Ashlee

Pictures for mom and grandma

So Grandma Sugar can't get pictures through her email so I told her I would post a couple more on the blog-->

We got a new coffee table donated from Mike & Becky...
YAY!!! furniture in our front room! Thanks Momma & Dad!
Our little flowers beds...

-Ashlee

Before and after

I have been threatened to be removed from the links list of others if we did not make a post, so I thought this might be a fun one... A few pictures of the house pre and post move-in. I do not claim to be an interior decorator, or even that great of a house keeper sometimes, but it is amazing how much fun it has been to turn this into our home. The only hard thing is that we have learned the definition of "house-poor" so camp chairs will have to do for now!

-Ashlee