The start of a life long goal

Well I did it. After years and years of daydreaming and playing with flight simulators on my computer, I took my first flying lesson last week. I've always wanted to get my pilots licence and hope to one day have it under my belt. Sadly at the rate I'll be going, it will probably take me a year. But oh well, no real hurry I guess. Its pretty funny in the fact that when I moved up here, I looked into flying lessons, but was sad to find out that there weren't any offered in Twin falls. So once again my dream of flying went onto the back burner. But early last week I started to really want to take lessons again and even got to the point that three nights in a row I dreamed about flying. Low and behold I got to work the next day and flipped to the front page of the newspaper only to find a whole article about a guy who was opening a flying class here!! IT WAS A SIGN!!!....... or at least that's what I told myself. So I called him up, made an appointment and went for a fun little flight last Wednesday! How was it you ask? Very fun...and nerve racking to say the least, because this guy's style of teaching is saying "OK, your flying the plane, I'm just here to fix it if you do anything wrong." Needless to say my many hours on flight simulators meant nothing except for the fact that i knew what all the little gauges meant! Well I'll try to keep you posted as to my progress. Maybe some day in a year or so I'll be able to take you all on rides and be able to get to Salt Lake in half the time!! WONT THAT BE FUN!!!!

my new FAVORITE room in the house.

First off we apologise for not updating our blog as of late. we are A class slackers. But anyway we will try to be better. As most of you know, when Kimmi and I bought our new house we slowly but surely began to take upon ourselves a series of remodeling projects. Probably the biggest to date was the basement!! Below you will see a slide show of our progress from uninhabitable dungeon to my favorite room in the house. It was quite the job. we ripped down all the wood paneling. we replaced all the 70 year old wiring, insulated, drywalled, painted, re-carpeted, and the list goes on and on. More then anything I wanted to have a TV room with a big flat screen. While we remodeled we kept our old TV in the guest bedroom and watched TV in bed. we grew tiresome of this arrangement...mostly because we bought a really comfortable couch that took quite a bit of work to get downstairs in the firstplace and we weren't even using it!! anyway I just wanted to show off our wonderful work. all that is left to do in the room is trim around the doors, put up some shelves that we still need to buy from Ikea and finish decorating. YEAH for making progress!!

J-E-L-L-O

So Kimmi and I are on quite the kick at the moment.....Jello. Its extremely weird. I probably went all 24 years of my life without making any and now we cant even go a day without having a bowl of jello in or fridge. The other day Kimmi was at the store and they had a big sale on it so we stalked our shelves. Jello's a great dessert. its easy to make but I'd have to say the only downfall is the fact that it has to set in the fridge for 4 hours. we try to speed up the process at times by sticking it in the freezer but you have to be careful with that because if you let it sit in there for too long it starts to freeze. I think Ill go read the side of the box to see if it has any addictive properties because at work all I can think about is "man I cant wait to get home and have some jello!" Plus on top of that, for heavens sake I'm writing a blog about it! anyway I just thought you should know that yes my name is Mark Dibb and I'm a Jelloholic.

AHHH FRIENDS!

So I just thought I'd make a quick mention as to how nice it was to have some of our good friends visit us here in Twin Falls over the last few weeks (not the Aspers however cause Kendall is lame!!) First off the Bischoffs came up with cute little Easton. It was a fun short visit but it was awesome to catch up. Dan even brought me a sign from his work "Protection One" that makes it look like we have a security system when we really don't!! hopefully it will sway any of the crazy's in our neighborhood from even thinking about breaking into our house and thus saving me from having to bust a cap with my gun I got from Kimmi's parents for Christmas! While they were here I got to practice my BBQ skills while making dinner and we all played one of my favorite board games. "Ticket to Ride" Then two weeks later (last week) our best friends Tim and Ashley came with their little dog Poodie. Can I just start by saying that Poodie is one of the ugliest dogs in the world (as seen below) . I really think she could have a chance in the ugliest dog competition. Its funny because she is soooo ugly I kind of think she's cute. And dont try to sugar coat it just because she has bows in her hair! SHE'S UGLY. Anyway yeah its just nice to visit and catch up with our friends. Moving up to Twin Falls has been a great opportunity for me and I don't regret it at all but I miss all of you. Thanks for your continued friendship. Anyone and everyone is invited to come and stay whenever you want.

My quarter life crisis

As most of you well know I am a huge fan of the automobile. (hence my chosen profession) But most of you may not know the fact that the love of cars runs in my family's blood. Talk to most of the direct, or even extended family Dibb boys and they will all tell you that they like cars. driving them, washing them, fixing them. Its just fun. And well..... I turn 25 this year, so in celebration I decided to take a line out of a song I enjoy to heart. John Mayer sings a song called "Why Georgia" and in the song they talk about having a quarter life crisis. Therefore as any self respecting car fan would do for their quarter life crisis I bought a sports car. A Honda S2000 to be exact. I've always wanted one ever since they first came out eight years ago. Plus what a better time to have a two seater convertible. I'm young, newly married, and have no kids.
The search began right after the new year (I told myself I wouldn't look until after January 1) I enlisted the help of my used car manager in order to find the best one and after a month of intense searching I found the perfect car that even just so happened to be in Boise (2 hours away) Its a 2005 and it only had 11,600 miles on it! I was pretty excited about it to say the least. I added some photos below. I haven't taken pictures earlier because I wanted it to be nice and clean however the rain and snow every few days has prevented me to do so. Therefore I decided to finally brake down and just show the world my new wheels dirty or not.

Is branding in style?

I think I will forever be branded with a small symbol shaped like a U. Yes, I am that dedicated to my Alma mater! The story goes as follows...I decided to make a terrific meal for my terrific husband. It was this really good stuffed chicken dish that you first have to cook in a pan, and then transfer the pan and chicken into the oven for continued cooking time. I have made this recipe several times now, so I must have been a little over confident with what I has doing. When the time was up, I carefully pulled out the siring hot pan and placed it on the stove top. I continued to reach over the pan to get my tongs when disaster struck! My arm hit the pan handle, and it took its vengeance out on poor little me! Oh, it was painful! And the worst part of it was I could no longer enjoy my meal. What a tragedy! It has now been about three weeks since the incident, and I still have a very prominent mark on my arm. I am beginning to wonder if the scar will ever fade or will I be forever branded by the U? Only time will tell.

I will be happy to give out the terrific recipe, but warn that this could happen to you!!

Quick trip to Salt Lake

Well with it being President Hinkley's Funeral last saturday I took the day off so that Kimmi and I could drive down to Salt Lake and pay our respects. As funerals go it was awesome. the mo-tab is always Perfect and it was an extremely spiritual meeting. I think one of my favorite parts was walking into the conference center and having the whole place smell like a flower shop. There were the biggest flower arrangments on the stage, it really looked cool. It was also fun to see my sister and her family who flew in, seeing I havent seen them since July. Another great part about coming down to salt lake is the fact that we get to see friends. As most of you know, since moving to Twin falls Kimmi and I have lost all social interaction with other people of our own age..... thats a nice way of putting "we have no friends here!!" but when we come down we try to make it a point to hang out with someone in order to prevent us from going crazy. This week happened to be our friend Ashey's birthday.... well actually its until the 8th but we wont be around then.... Well we wanted to do something nice so we took her to eat at one of our favorite restauraunts. P. F.in Changs. Great stuff. We had a great time and a great server. my drink was never empty!!! she got a good tip. good service is so hard to find these days. Anyway I just thought I would shoot out a plee. "We need friends, move to Twin Falls!"

p.s. spell check didnt work for some reason so pardon my spelling. I suck at it