Sunday, September 6, 2009

We Bleed Blue...Still!






We're finally getting settled here in southernland. Life is getting even more exciting because now we have friends! last night we had our new friends, Olga, Mike and their 2 yr. old daughter Stacia (good name, huh!) over for dinner and watched the first half of the BYU football game on our brand new TV! It was great! Mike is from Utah and Olga's from Russia. They're also newlyweds (just 4 months), so it's fun to hang out with them. Stacie made some incredible fajitas (she's become an incredible chef) and Olga made a delicious cake. Just before the end of the first half we went on a beautiful walk down the waterway in The Woodlands. Ben and Stacia had the time of their life playing "cuckoo" - which is like a Russian hide and seek. Stacia and Stacie are now best friends, and Stacie has decided that she 'wants one'. Ben's not opposed to the idea either ;)...

The Waterway was AMAZING. We'll have to put up some pictures on this some time, but the walk is beautiful, and near the town center there is an incredible setup of fountains for kids to play in that have lights that change colors for the kids to play in. We didn't come in our swimming suits, so we couldn't play last night, but we GUARANTEE we'll be back.


After the walk, we headed back and were in time to catch the last five minutes of the game. WAHOOOOO!!!! It was great! Good job guys! you made us proud...literally. I think they were mentioned in atleast three testimonies at church today. It's looking like this could be a GREAT season for BYU. Here's to hoping anyway. Stacie just had to take this picture of me in front of our new TV eating ice cream and watching football because she thought it was 'cute'...I'm still scratching my head, but whatever keeps her loving me, I'm just fine with. We're sure we'll have more updates on the way.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Houston Temple and 3 week-versary




For our 3 week-versary we went to the Houston Temple and then to Rudy's to eat BBQ. It was a fun day! Ben didn't have to wake up at 5 am and we got to relax all day!! Great way to spend such a great saturday!

TEXAS!!!







Some of the great things about texas:



1. Everything is Red White and Blue


2. The Cheese at HEB is in the shape of the state of Texas


3. You can buy food from all over the world. This is truely an international hub of the world.


4. You can eat at Rudy's (Ben's new favorite BBQ restaurant).


5. You meet friends everywhere... the people are super friendly.


6. You hear or read spanish everywhere. (Stacie's own little piece of heaven).


7. It is soooo green- because it rains once a day


8. (well that is all for now, we've only been here for a week and half-so more to be added soon)

Our Home


























































This is our home. We waited to take pictures once we finally had things kinda in place and pictures on the wall. It is still a work in progress. The two chairs we have in the family/living room are both gifts from a good friend of my moms who lives in Houston. We can now have company over and kinda entertain them (while we sit on our card table chairs). We have two bedrooms and two bath (so we enjoyIt is so fun being married and we love fixing up the house to be our home! See if you can spot Ben in a few of the pictures (he is the new waldo).

The Cheney Chefs




We have been cooking a new recipie every night, and it just happened to be German pancake night, and we failed! Oh well! We have loved using Chelsea's cookbook she made us and a few other cook books we recieved as gifts. We have made pork chops that were "yum yum" and lemon spaghetti that was to die for! We loved it and made so much we had enough for a few days!! Sunday we had the missionaries over for dinner and we made homemade pizzas for them. They were good, but I don't think great. Ben is so sweet to tell me how great things are, but I really think he can eat just about anything! Our most recent cooking adventure brought us to Quiche. I have never made Quiche, but am in love with eating it. Last night we made it, but we couldn't do one of the important steps (cook it in the microwave for ten minutes before cooking it in the oven. The pie tin we have is aluminum and we didn't want fireworks in our new microwave, so we were worried it wouldn't cook, but IT DID!!! We left it in the oven for 15 minutes more than called for and two beautiful quiches came out of the oven!! Our next adventure (after we finish off the quiches) will be Rocky Mountain Salad!