Pictures!

Finally, here are some pics! There are like a trillion that I haven't blogged, so I basically just randomly chose ones for your viewing pleasure :) So, without further adieu, here are some of the amazing events happening in the lives of Kasie and Jer!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and Stephen came to visit us in Australia and stayed for one week of vacation bliss!

We visited the St. Kilda Pier . . .


Admired the local art . . .


And the locals . . .


We ATE yummy yummy food . . .


We saw spiders in the museum . . .


And were entertained by Jer's amazing ability to discover the unusual . . .


We played with koalas . . .




And trees . . .



And saw giant kangaroos in the wild! We saw this huge mommy with a baby in her pouch . . .


And a field with 22 kangaroos in it!



We went fishing in the ocean on this boat . . .




And Mom caught a fish!


We had a night out on the town at Cirque Du Soleil's Dralion which was so freaking amazingly wonderful that I must have peed my pants!


Anyone up for a photo shoot while waiting for the train?



We went to the chocolate factory where Jer made his very own chocolate concoction - white chocolate with cola filling!



We went to the beach even though it was freezing . . .


Took this amazingly corny beauty . . .


And wrote this message for my stinky sister :)


So true, so true.

Today . . .

I know that you all want to see pictures and hear updates about Australia . . . but I just don't feel like blogging those much needed updates. Instead, I thought I would share some of my new thoughts with you . . . so here it is. Kasie's profound thoughts/reflections/feelings of the day.

1- I have a serious love/hate relationship with popcorn. Love the delicious low-calorie-ness, hate the fact that no matter what I either end up with hundreds of kernel duds or gross over-cooked and black popcorn. Seriously people, why can't there be a better way? I end up stressing out for the two minutes that the popcorn is cooking - trying to count seconds - just to stop it either too early or too late and open up the bag to reveal disaster. Today I was preemptive - poor little unpopped kernels - they will never know their full potential.

2- My success for the day - beating everyone's score on Bejeweled - a facebook game. Failure of the day - not doing one productive thing. What does that say about my life?

3- Why can't finger nail polish just stay on? I hate painting my finger nails, but (suprise!) I have actually stopped biting them and they are long! Still - they chip in, like, 2 hours! Puuhhhllleeaasseee!

4- Today the thing I miss most about Utah is Costa Vida - actually that's the thing I miss most almost everyday (sorry family)!

5- Lately I've been feeling like there is something super amazingly awesome and cool that I should do with my life, but I can't think of it. I don't want to be a teacher, poet, writer, lawyer, dentist, FBI agent, dancer, mom, fashion consultant, marine biologist, t.v. producer, or truck driver. Weirdly enough, the ONLY thing that I want to do for the rest of my life is be a student . . . anyone want to pay me to go to school?

Well . . . I guess that's enough for now. Maybe tomorrow I will find the desire to post pictures, or maybe not. I never can tell these days!

I still care, I promise!

I haven't forgotten about ya'll or my recipe challenge - I just seriously have not found the time to blog! (I'm a loser, I know) I just uploaded my massive amounts of pictures to my computer, so watch for an update! Also, we only have two more recipes to try for our mexican/pumpkin recipe challenge. Winners to be announced soon!!!!!!!! And . . . we have our return date (kinda). Jer's last day of work in Australia is Friday, July 10th! We will probably be taking a vacation in New Zealand before we return home, so more than likely we will fly out that next weekend, the 18th-ish. I will let you know as soon as it is finalized!

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Random Post . . . I have been looking at these adorable baby headbands ALL MORNING trying to possibly conceive of any reason I might have to buy some . . . but, alas, I came up with zilch. I even asked my mom if she could think of any reasons, but she couldn't. So . . . I thought that I would live my life vicariously through my friends and ask you guys to take a look and buy some of these adorable flowers. They have TONS of cute styles! Hurry! They are only on sale until the end of April! (Psst, sorry Becca for stealing your pictures! Hopefully you won't mind!)

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