To Blog or not to Blog again.......

Sooo My blog has been on my mind again... it has been 11 months since I blogged last...... I have thought to blog about something... but then most things I do are on my facebook..... So I shall think long and hard about what I would like to blog about!!!! Thinking............. This could be good for me!!!!! :D

Horse Ridding!!!

I have started taking Horse Ridding Lessons!!!!!!! I had my third lesson today! I use to love to ride horses with my friends when I was little, but it was always on back!!!! Sooo now.. I have decided to start learning how to really ride a horse by myself... I am loving it!!! Of course so far I just sit on the horse doing excercises while being pulled... which I love!!! It is just that bonding with the horse that feels awesome!!!!

LONG over due for a post, so I have been told!! :)

My very first car by the new car!!!!

We got a new Maxima 2009. I have fallen madly in love with it! However Igor has decided he needs to enjoy it.. so he flew in and we drove it back to California and I brought back my old 2004! So here are a couple pics of this beautiful car!

Monterey, California!!

Igor got a great new job in Monterey, California! He started the beginning of April! He is teaching Russian to the Military! I drove him and stayed a week to help him get settled, then I left him and my car and flew home! I went back for a week last week, and saw some amazing beautiful scenery! My mother will be joining me for another week trip on the 18th of June! I can't wait to show her all the beautiful places!
I guess I am silly for not being there with him yet, but for now I am staying in Logan and enjoying my family, and taking care of my wonderful clients!!!!

I took this picture from my phone! This is Big Sur it is just South of Monterey!!

This is Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park... It is my dream paradise, notice the waterfall! The blue of the water is soo much prettier than all the rest of the of the beaches!!

My Gift to my lucky 5!! Well, ok it turned out to be 3!!

I am making a blanket with the blocks in the back ground and decided why not make them a bit bigger and stitch them onto pillows for my gift!! My Friend, Donna, has 3 blankets with this pattern that her mom made her while we were in highschool!! I was always jealous cause I thought it was soo beautiful! So I had my mom look at it and she figured out the pattern, and I followed her instructions and, poof, it turned out just like Donna's!!!! It is hard to see in a picture but the rose petals are layered and stand out!

This has been a fun pattern to learn and it is pretty easy!!!

Lucky 5

So this is circulating in the blog world..... Sounds life fun!! Sign up, you won't be sorry!The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me, Valori. My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.(but there's a pretty good chance you might!)
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done by April 7th.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may scrapbook something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did it will then win a fabulous homemade gift made by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Have fun playing!

First couple of days in England!!

It is blurry, but it is me, saying goodbye as I leave on the British Airway! See my screen in front of me, I to watch unlimited movies, which made it hard to sleep!!Here are the backward cars, I keep thinking Marci should drive. I keep asking Mark if he is going to deliver mail...hahah, so strange to drive on the left side of the road!!
Here is Marci and Mark's home! Their's is the middle red door!!


Here is the famous British Fish and Chips! Wow Chips are actually french fries! :)
(I was not the one eating Fish, for those that know I hate fish).

This is Stone Henge! Near Amesbury!

This is Bath!

Ancient baths used by the romans! Awesome Sauna, I could have worked here!

Tickets to Wicked for Tuesday night!!!

Here is Mark and Marci buying our tickets, with McDonalds in the background.

London Tower!

London Tower Bridge, soo pretty!!

Gift Shop at London Tower!!

Beyond Hair Salon

After working 3 years at Beyond Hair, I have decided it is time to quit!

It was a hard decision to make!

I will miss the girls, the room and my clients!

I have cleaned my stuff out of the room and it no longer seems the same! :(

I am going on a TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am headed to England!!!! February 17th to the 25th!

I am soo excited, I am flying with my Aunt Sonya and we are going to visit her daughter

Marci and her awesome British husband Mark!!

I love traveling! And what better than to go visit family!

It will be great to see how life is for Marci in England!

I will post my actual pictures when I get back!

No Recipe, Secret's in the Sauce! JK

Sooo, I don't have a recipe for the Pelmeni, I may need to have a class on making them!! Or do a video! We have made them a second time since these photo's, and I am ready to make the 3rd batch!!!

Pelmeni - Homemade Ravioli's

Igor and I have a lot of fun making these scrumptious russian Ravioli's called Pelmeni!

Don't they look YUM?

They taste even better than they look!!

My Brother and I

Brother and Sister!!

My first LARGE afghan

So this is the first afghan, I learned how to crochet on!! Actually almost looks more like a rug. Stitches started out small and tight and ended larger and looser!! But it sure is comfy and warm!!

I am soo happy to have it done! It took me a year and half to finish it last monday!

O Christmas Tree!!

So Here is my Beautiful Christmas tree!! I was seriously thinking of not doing a tree, or atleast getting a small one! But when Igor and I went out, he talked me into getting a real tree, we looked at small trees. When we laid eyes on this one it practically reached out and grabbed us both! It is beautiful, Huge and perfect! Probably the biggest tree I have ever gotten!

Jayme and her son Carson came over and helped me decorate the tree! She did a fabulous job with it! I don't think I even want to leave my tree to go to work at all! I may just stay at home loving my tree!!

Ok, so I am soo behind, let me get Caught UP!!

Here is our Thanksgiving Dinner with mom and dad! I think I must have been sleeping! Dinner was wonderful! We deep fried our Turkey!

For those who love to play Wii, so do we!! My dad came to play with us! Check out his Mii and how close we have it to his actual looks!! :)

This is the Smartest 2 year old that I know!!!

His name is Miles, he is my cousin Stacey's first child!

We went to visit Stacey and her parents, Steve and Sonya the day after Stacey's Birthday on November 23rd.

If you get a book full of Flags, country's, or states, Miles can name most of them!! So hard to imagine a 2 year old remembering all the country's! He also has the alphabet memorized in the correct order! Miles is amazing! He has great powerful arms, that I think some day he could use for massage!!