Thursday, August 30, 2012

When the lights go out....

You And Me Goin Fishing Caving In The Dark....

It's just my luck that just a little bit ago we had a relief society activiy and part of the things they highlighted were about being prepaired. They had 72 hour kits and water supplies there for demonstration......things you need in case there is a emergency. I sat there and listened thinking "huh......this is all very good information, maybe I should get my big butt in gear and get prepaired". Well thats about as far as it got....a thought ! Well as my luck has it Sunday I am at home after church making dinner JUST about to stick it in the oven when..........BAM......the power goes out. I had already pre heated the oven ( only smart thing I did ) so I stuck dinner in there hoping it would warm through because I was starving,  grumpy, and ready for some grub! The power has gone out a few times in the last couple months but the longest it has been out is about 5 minutes so I was expecting it to be the same. A big storms starts coming in and I had a feeling that this actually could last a while. This was at about 2:30 when the power went out.....and hour later I took dinner out and it was warm so we ate. Still no power.......then Hank and I start talking about what we should do.....card game??....naw it's not fun with only two people. Watch a movie?.....dang still no power. (Somehow almost everything we thought of to do needed power, shows we would not survive very long without power) So we thought well......lets go for a drive. Hank and I pretty regularly take sunday drives I LOVE THEM! We drove around for a couple hours......once that gets boring what else is there to do when there is no guns in the truck......WE GO CHECK OUT SOME CAVES!!! Reason # to many to count why I love living in the country.
This cave might not took to cool from here....but it goes pretty deep. You have to go down a rather narrow tunnel to get to another big opening. Its pretty darn cool. Hank brought me here when we were first dating.

Hank giving me his best "cheeser smile"

We didn't make it all the way down to the bottom....we kinda were not prepaired to go caving ether. I was  in flip flops, Hank in his slippers. And of course.....we didn't bring a flash light. I was not to excited to crawl down a narrow tunnel not knowing what I may crawl into....snake, MOUSE, any other wild creature. I don't care who you are, if you had somthing jump out on ya in the dark it would scare you to!( and yes I am pretty much a scardy cat) I just figure.....narrow tunnel.....me.......startled wild whatever....there is no fast get away! So we I decided it would be smart not to go all the way down.
Well after our little Sunday drive we went back home, it was about 6 now....STILL NO POWER!! By this point it was starting to get dark. I start to think........UHHHHHHHH-OHHHHH.....I DON'T EVEN HAVE A FLASH LIGHT! Hank then says "oh no big deal, just light a candle"........I DON'T EVEN HAVE A CANDLE, I USE SCENTSY, and those need POWER!!! Well the moral of this post is folks don't just think about getting prepaire....GET PREPAIRED. I'll be ready for the next power out now!!!! (FYI the power didn't come on until the middle of the night)

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Our story recap


I have put this off long enough. I love reading everyone else’s blog and have thought about starting one myself for well over a year now. I just feel like I have a very uneventful life, and my blogs would just be too boring. Well I decided I’m not going to be nice anymore. I’m going to bore you all with my very uneventful life, and will love every minute of it!!!! I’m just going to jump in with a little history I started writing it all out and it was going to be a novel so I found these questions so I stole them from my sister-in-laws blog. Enjoy!!!! ( and if you dont....Tuff noogies, I had fun!!!:)



How long did you date?
Hank and I dated for almost 7 months (our first date was May 8th 2009 and he popped the question December 11th 2009, and we were married in the Twin Falls temple on March 12th 2010)

 

Who kissed who first?
Hank kissed me……..though the fight still goes on about who started the first make out (ha ha I know too much information, but it’s still makes me laugh….fyi he started it)



Who said I love you first?
He did….and I said it back…… about 4 months later ha ha. I’m a little slow!








Who asked who out first?

Well that’s a tough one….I’m not sure if it was Juniel who asked me out for hank or if Hank actually asked me out. I was at my high school rodeo and I saw Juniel walk in with her new hubby, so I decided I would go say hi. Stewart   (Juniel’s husband, who also happens to be cousins to Hank) was sitting by Hank and Whit (Whit is Hank’s little brother) but I didn’t who they were at the time so I paid little attention to them at first. I just struck up a conversation with Juniel, and then somewhere in the conversation she introduced me to Whit and Hank.  Finally I could put a face to the name Hank. See I had heard about Hank for a while before this.  Hank a few months before meeting me had dated my sister. Yup that’s right! It was a little awkward at the beginning but we soon got over it. Later that night I got a text from Juniel asking if Hank could have my number. And from there on I can’t remember who brought up a date……

                                              






Who sings better

? We both can rock out pretty dang good in the car with the radio blasting (just one of the many things I love about him)


Who is smarter?
I like to think I am but am greatly disappointed about how often I am asking Hank something or how to put together….well anything. I’m not a handy woman. So I have to admit……..Hank is the smarter one here



What are your full names
? Hank Ray Bingham….mine…..Mekala Bingham (yeah I know I’m lame…I’m middle nameless)

Who pays the bills? I do

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Depends on who you ask. I say I sleep on the left, Hank on the right. But Hank would say him on the edge…me…….the middle ha ha.


Who mows the lawn?
I do…..not my favorite task (but it has gotten much better since we got a new mower that is not duck taped together J )

 

Who proposed?
Hank….My Dad had Christmas company party in twin at the Golden Corel I asked Hank to come with me to this. We were planning on going to a singles ward dance after. So we got all dressed up in our Sunday best and headed out for the dance. Well somebody……not point fingers… (But it was hank) forgot which church building the dance was in. In Twin Falls there are a million churches we looked at three and still couldn’t find it. So we decided to just go walk around the temple. He liked to do this at the end of our dates usually. But this time I knew something was up. Hank kinda looked like he was walking to his death. He seemed very nervous and was not acting like his usually self. So I kinda had an idea of what could be coming up. We got to the back of the temple where there is a fountain and that’s where Hank got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I guess I didn’t say yes but I think he got what I meant ha ha. Then he stood up and put the ring on my finger….my right ring finger ha ha. I made fun of him that night about doing that but then. Then we spend the next good 45 minutes in the car calling everyone in our family to tell them the news.  I found out when Hank asked my Dad, my Dad told him he would kill him if he asked me before I was nineteen…..So I was nineteen and 1 day. I got my pay back the day we got married because in the temple I put it on his right Hand as well. I never noticed it at the time till my sister-in-law informed me a little later.
                  At temple sqaure about a week after getting engaged
 




Who cooks dinner?
Me…..he has surprised me a few times while we were living in Twin with dinner. But 99.9% of the time it’s me.

Who drives?
Hank……Hank thinks I’m a bad driver


Who is more stubborn?
That one may be a tie…….He would say I am but I say he is so………we will never know I guess ;)


Who has more siblings?
I do....I have 3 sisters and 1 brother. Good thing Jami broke Hank in a little bit. Hank has 3 brothers….he was not too used to being around lots of girls.







Who wears the pants?

Depends on the topic….sometimes he does……sometimes I do

Who is taller?
Hank…..by a good bit. I got Koyle blood in my veins. We don’t get very tall in my family.





How long have you been married? 2 1/2 years! CRAZY!!!!

Well thats the last three years in a nut shell.