Heather and Adam

I survived

2011-12-23T09:31:00.000-08:00

I am finally back to blogging for a little while now that school is out. I survive the semester and although it was stressful at times it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I finished my dental assisting class at the ATC back in September and I'm now just waiting to start my externship. I hope that I start soon so I don't forget everything that I learned. School at Weber was great. My worst class was public speaking because I hate speaking in front of people but thanks to my mom who listened to my speeches over and over while I practice I ended up with an acceptable grade. All of my other classes were alright except some of them were really boring but I didn't care as long as I got a good grade. Next semester I'm taking math and I'm a little nervous because I haven't done the school type of math for about 5 years. Hopefully I will have some time to blog a couple more times before school starts again.

Christmas Eve Shirts

2011-12-22T17:38:00.000-08:00

We did another project that I found on Pinterest. You use the kids foot and hands to make a reindeer they turned out super cute. Zoey's has a bit of character because she did not want to open her hand. I don't know if anyone has ever tried to get a 2 month old to lay their hand down flat but it's not easy. My mom, Robyn and me were all trying to pry her hand open and we still couldn't keep it open. Don't mind that the kids don't have clothes on we were using paint and didn't want to get it on their clothes. Addisyn was so patient when we made her wait to finish her shirt while we finished the younger kids shirts. I don't have a picture of the final product yet because we were waiting for them to dry but I will definitely post a picture when I see the girls in their shirts on Christmas Eve.
We decided to have them sit on the counter so that we didn't have to work on the floor.
It definitely got a little crazy when we got the paint on Zoey's hand she was very upset which upset Oakley who thought that we were hurting her sister and they both ended up crying.
Oakley was very insistent that I sit on the counter with her.I was so glad that my mom was about to come help because it took all three of us to get this project done without making a giant mess.

On a side note I have to say that Oakley is really cute and always makes me feel so good about myself when I see her. She can be quite the handful sometimes because she is very busy but I sure do love her. The other day I was watching Zoey while Robyn and my mom took the girls on a field trip for preschool to see Santa and Oakley wanted to go with me so bad that she climbed into the back seat of my car.

Family Pictures

2011-12-22T17:35:00.000-08:00

It was decided that we would take individual family pictures for my grandma's birthday since she needed updated pictures. This is one of the few good pictures that we got. I learned that I don't know how to hold my head up straight in picture. I guess I will have to work on keeping my head straight before we get family pictures taken since Robyn and Brittany are ruining the family.
This is Adam trying to make me smile for the picture like I'm a little kid.
This is me trying to act scared. What can I say I'm not a very good actress. Adam was less than impressed with my performance.

My Creation

2011-12-22T17:33:00.000-08:00

I am totally addicted to pinterest. I think that it's pretty much the best thing ever invented. I saw an idea on there to make a cheeseball into a snowman so when I needed to bring something to our family Christmas party I knew what I needed to bring. Robyn will try to tell you that she made it but we all know that's not true. It turned out super cute and I look forward to making many more things that I find from pinterest.

Graduation

2011-12-22T17:26:00.000-08:00

Brittany and Andy graduated from Weber this month so of course we all went to graduation. The speak was boring so I was glad to take Oakley out in the hall to run around. Robyn brought her girls and they were good throughout the whole three hour graduation. Brittany was nice enough to let Dayton graduate with her. When we got to graduation we realized that a lot of people that we knew were graduating so it was fun to try to find them in the crowd. The best part of graduation was going to Olive Garden after. I'm sure Bryce would agree.

I love that when I told them to pose for a picture Addisyn thought that she needed to help Oakley smile.

wardrobe malfunction

Aquarium

2011-12-22T17:12:00.000-08:00

Back in November I took a week off and since Robyn is off on maternity leave we decided to go to the aquarium. I had never been to the aquarium before and it was definitely something I would do again especially since they're getting otters January. We kind of got a late start to the day because with three kids it takes Robyn forever to get ready but it turned out OK because we left so late my mom was able to come with us. The first thing we did when we got there was go watch the peguins eat. The penguins that they have are the fastest species of penguin so it was very interesting to watch them zip around in the tank. When they were being fed it was very interesting watch them because they lined up and waited patiently for their turn to get a fish.
Doesn't this look like it would be such a delicious dinner.
We were trying to hide from my mom. It was a tight squeeze.
They had a display where you could touch different sea creatures I was a little nervous at first but none of them were slimy. It was my first time touching string ray and they were very interesting. There was one string ray that kept swimming up the side of the tank and that freaked me out everytime.

This display shocked you when you touched it and my mom refused to touch it. It was so hilarious to watch her try to get the courage to touch it. I tried to convince her by telling her that she didn't want to be shown up by a two year old because Oakley was touching it and smiling. That didn't seem to convince her and she never touched it.

Crazy

2011-08-10T14:15:00.000-07:00

If I'm not crazy now I will definitely be crazy by December. Starting August 22nd I am going to be going to school at the ATC 9 hours a week, taking 12 credits at Weber and working full time. I was hoping to be done at the ATC by the time that Weber starts but it's not going to happen and I don't want to wait a whole semester to start at Weber so for the next few months I am going to be pull my hair out busy. So, if I don't blog until December you know why. Wish me luck.

Owls

2011-08-09T23:03:00.000-07:00

There is this cool new store that just opened up by my house that has a whole bunch of wood cut out that you can just paint. We found some super cute owls and decided to paint them. I love to paint things with my sisters and my mom because everyone's stuff always turns out so cute but so different. Whenever we do a project we make a mini version for Addisyn to paint and her owl was sitting on my mom's kitchen table the other day and she picked it up and the legs fell off and she got mad at my mom for not telling her that the legs weren't hooked on yet. I think it's funny because Addisyn has gotten an attitude lately but she is still adorable.

This has nothing to do with making the owls but the other day I was talking to my cousin Jenn and she was telling me a funny story about Addisyn. They were at a baby shower and Addisyn said "ugh my grandma said this was going to be fun but this is a grown up party. I wish Heather was here." Jenn asked her why she wanted me to be there and Addisyn's response was "She has games on her phone" I'm glad to here that she doesn't actually like me just my phone. The first thing she does when she sees me is ask to have my phone. Luckily Jenn was nice enough to download some games for her to play.

I can't turn this picture around for some reason but they all turned out way different but all very cute. The legs still need to be hooked on so maybe one day I will post a completed picture.
Brittany was having a ton of fun helping Oakley paint.
Here I am deep in concentration painting my owls stomach.

All Girl

2011-08-09T23:01:00.000-07:00

I took my mom's memory card for her camera to post some pictures on Facebook and I found this picture and just had to post it on my blog. Oakley is definitely all girl she loves shoes and purses. Everytime I go over to my parents Oakley takes my shoes off my feet so that she can wear them and she always returns them and puts then back on my fee when she is done playing with them. She also carries my purse around which is especially funny because its almost as big as her and is usually really heavy. Oakley is so funny to talk to her favorite thing to say is "huh" no matter what you say to her the response is always "huh". She is super smart and totally knows how to get her way. If she doesn't want to do what you tell her to do she just gives your a mischievious grin says "huh" and then does whatever she wants. Unfortunately, Adam is learning from Oakley and now if he doesn't want to do what I ask him to do he will just keep saying "huh" no matter how many times I repeat myself.

Adventures in Softball

2011-08-09T22:58:00.000-07:00

So I have been playing softball for the past few years with the same team and I love it. I may not be the best but it's nice to have a scheduled time each week to get some exercise. Last night was our first game of the fall season and my cousin Jenn was player catcher and the second batter of the night hit a foul ball that hit Jenn in the mouth. Her lip immediately started to bleed so she was just going to sit out until she could get it to stop bleeding but and then play again. When it stopped bleeding she went to the bathroom to wash her hands and when she looked at her lip she decided that she needed to go get stitches rather than play. One of the guys on our team can't play right now so he was going to take her to the instacare but my mom and Laurie came to watch right then so they took her instead. Unfortunately, the instacare was closed she ended up going to the ER. Five stitches and some pain medication later she is as good as new. I learned a good lesson from this whole situation. I learned that I need to be more prepared when I go to softball. Sometimes I don't bring my wallet or my phone which would be really bad if I got hurt. Jenn didn't have her insurance card so she had to call Ryan who is in Oklahoma working to get the information. Because Jenn had to leave we needed another girl so that all of our guys could bat. One of the girls on our team broke her hand so we was just watching but she ended up filling in and did an amazin job batting with just one hand. We ended up winning the game 22-5 and I even got a triple. After the stitches

Before the stitches

zumba

2011-03-30T12:01:00.000-07:00

I never thought that I would say this but I love Zumba. There are a few different reasons why I never thought that I would like zumba the first being the fact that I hate to workout and the second being the fact that I am really white and have no rhythm. My friend Larissa has been asking me to go to Zumba with her for a few weeks and I managed to make an excuse the first couple of weeks but yesterday I started to feel guilty about not going so I decided to just suck it up and go and boy am I glad that I went. I still have no rhythm and I can't dance but going to class yesterday made me realize that it doesn't matter if I have rhythm or not because everyone is there to have fun and workout. Also everyone else is so worried about being able to do the moves that the instructor is doing that they don't have time to worry about what other people are doing. I am only a little sore today and will definitely be going back next week and every week before we start to play softball and even then if we have a late game I might go to Zumba before softball because I am not officially a Zumba addict. Sorry that I don't have any pictures I'm sure you would all enjoy my sweet dance moves but I was too busy to take pictures.

Hockey

2011-03-26T09:25:00.001-07:00

A few weeks ago my cousin Morgan invited us to come and watch her play hockey the game started at 9pm which was kind of late but I was glad because that made it so I was able to go after I got off work. The first question Adam asked me when I invited him to come to the game was "Is there going to be any fight?" I told him that there probably weren't going to be any fights but he still came and I think that he still had fun. It has been a long time since we got to watch Morgan play hockey and it was so fun to watch her. When her team first skated out onto the ice we were all trying to find her and just as we spotted her she fell down. It was really funny that she happened to fall right then because we were all looking at her. She had a really good cheering section there for her since she invited us all on Facebook and she hardly ever plays in Utah because there aren't too many womens teams. She scored her team's only goal of the night and was really excited when she scored. She is a really good skater and really agressive I wish that she played games here more often. Unfortunately her team lost but she played really well. It was just a practice game and it was kind of obvious that some of the people didn't care rather they won or not. Hopefully they will do better when they go to play in the national tournament in a couple of weeks. Thanks Robyn for letting me steal your pictures since I didn't take any of my own.

What I've been up to

2011-03-26T09:14:00.000-07:00

I know that I always say that I will blog more and then I don't but here is what has been keeping busy. At school I have been taking impressions to make models, bleach trays, and mouth guards. I am so glad that I am done with that section because I swear I was getting worse at taking impressions the more that I practiced. Now on to amalgams, composites, IRMs and coronal polishing.

Girls night

2011-03-26T09:05:00.001-07:00

About a month ago I decided to have a girls night Addisyn loves to have sleepover and asks to spend the night all of the time. Usually when she asks to spend the night I have to work or go to school but there was a holiday so I thought that it would be a perfect time to have her spend the night and since I'm not too much fun decided to invite Whitney and Jacee. We had a good time watching movies, playing games and painting nails. I do have to say that by the time they left the next day I was ready for a nap. I mean really who wakes up at 7:45am on their day off. They were showing me their fingernails but Jacee looks more like she's in a gang.

Door Hangers

2011-02-09T11:59:00.000-08:00

We try to do a craft every month of two and now that we all have houses we usually make something to decorate our house. Most months we make door hangers but now we have a different door hanger for almost every month we are going to have to figure out another craft to do. Let me know if you have any ideas of what we can make. I know that I have posted pictures of some of the door hangers that I have made but I haven't posted all of them so I decided to dedicate a post just to the door hangers.

Crafty

2011-02-09T11:32:00.000-08:00

I know that I have been an absentee blogger for a while now ever since we had a week off of school for Christmas I have had a really hard time getting back into a routine but I am now back into my old routine so hopefully I will have more time to blog and something to blog about. Lately my life has consisted of pretending to study and working.

For a while now I have been wanting to make a Valentines decoration to put on the top of my kitchen cabinets and I saw a cute project on another blog that I wanted to try. Usually when I do crafts I do them with my mom and sisters so when I get frustrated I can just have someone else finish my project for me. Last night when I was out grocery shopping I decided to stop at the craft store to see if I could find the stuff to make the project I had seen online. At the first craft store I couldn't find everything that I needed but I did find some cute paper to use. So I went to Joanns to see if I could find the rest of the stuff since I was already out and I usually don't have time to go to the store unless it 8 o'clock at night and I hate going to the store after work when I get off late. I found the rest of the stuff that I needed and headed home. I decided to just work on the project even though it was kind of late because I was excited to see the finised product. Adam gave me a few suggestions on how to do things but other than that I did it all on my own and I actually like how it turned out.

Emergency!

2010-12-15T19:48:00.000-08:00

You may all think that the picture above is from Adam's surgery last month but unfortunately it isn't. On Monday Adam started having a pain in his right side so he made a doctor's appointment for the next morning. He has been having this pain on and off for the last year but this time it was worse. The next morning the doctor's office called and said that the doctor was sick luckily they were able to reschedule him to see another doctor. At the doctors they did blood work and everything was normal but when the doctor pressed on his stomach it was obvious that he was in severe pain so she sent him to get a CT scan and told him not to eat or drink anything just in case they needed to do surgery. He called me and let me know what was going on so I left school and met him to go get the CT scan. After the CT scan they told him that they couldn't see anything wrong so she was referring him to go see a gastroenterologist and gave him a prescription that might help him. When we were waiting fat the pharmacy to get the prescription filled someone that worked there asked Adam if he had his phone with him and he said yes. Right after that the doctor called him apparently the doctor had read to CT wrong at first and he actually had something wrong with his appendix and we needed to go the ER immediately so that he could have his appendix removed. When we got to the ER We only waited for about two minutes before they took us back to a room. After he got into a gown they started an IV and then moved him to the Surgical section of the hospital. They were kind of rushing us through everything because they wanted to get him into surgery but then we had to sit and wait for a while. Apparenly the anesthesiologist was working on another case and we were just waiting for him to finish. They did the surgery by making three small incisions and then they took his appendix out through one of the incisions. He seemed to being doing much better when I walked into recovery this time than when I saw him after his nose surgery. The doctor gave him the choice of staying the night or going home and he decided to go home. We just had to wait until he could get up and walk around to make sure that he still was doing OK after that. Today he is still doing well he has trouble standing up and sitting down because he has to use his stomach muscles but other than that he is doing great. Oh and I am not allowed to smile, laugh or talk when I am around him because laughing really makes his stomach hurt.

Food

2010-12-03T14:32:00.000-08:00

Adam has a knack for eating everything thing that I want to eat right before I want it. An example of this is whenever I buy Totinos pizzas no matter how many I buy he will always eat the last one a day or two before I try to make one. Since this has happened so many times the other night when I decided that I wanted ice cream I decided to ask him if he had already eaten it all he told me that he had because it was better than the ice cream that he had bought. He was generous enough to offer me his ice cream which he informed me wasn't as good as mine. It also had peanut butter cups in it which I don't like. I decided to still go downstairs and see if we had anything else to eat when I opened the freezer I saw my ice cream still in the freezer so I pulled it out and opened it to find out that he had left one spoonful of ice cream in the container. I was so glad that I had asked him about it before because I would have been so angry if I had opened to container and found only a tiny bit left if he hadn't already told me that it was all gone.

Black Friday

2010-12-03T12:39:00.000-08:00

This year for black friday I didn't see any really great deals on things that I wanted but since I love to go shopping I still went. Austin was my shopping buddy this year. Our first stop was walmart for DVDs at midnight. We had a ton of people so it was easy to make sure that everyone got what they wanted we even ended up with some extras that we had to put back. After we were done at walmart we had sometime to kill so we were going to wait in line at Best Buy but when we got there the line was already around the building and its freezing so we decided to go to Denny's instead. After Denny's Austin was really tired and was starting to fall asleep so I took him home (he's a rookie). After I dropped Austin off I went and met up with everyone else and then my mom and I went to Best Buy and just sat in the car until the whole line went in. We were still able to get everything we went for without waiting in line. Our next stop was Staples to get some office chairs. Adam and I each have our own desk and we have just been using folding chairs but I saw office chairs were only $30.00 (normally $100.00) so I thought that it would be worth getting them. Staples was the least organized place that we went and they were kind of rude. They had two different lines and we found out that we were in the wrong line when we got almost to the front but there was nothing designating that there was a difference between to two lines. Apparently one was for getting computers and the other one was just for regular checkout. Our black friday tradition is to go get pretzels from Pretzel Maker when we are done shopping so after a quick stop at Target we went and had pretzels and then I went home to take a quick hour nap before I had to go to work. I don't have any pictures because I was too busy shopping.

Thanksgiving

2010-12-03T12:28:00.000-08:00

This year we had thanksgiving dinner at Ann and Calvin's our contribution to dinner was mashed potatoes and Adam was obsessed with making the perfect mashed potatoes. He did extensive research on different ways to make mashed potatoes and finally found a recipe that he thought would be great. Unfortunately the recipe required a specific type of potatoes and it wasn't the type that we have 50 lbs. of in the pantry (every year my parents buy us a 50 lbs. bag of Idaho potatoes). Since I was at work and he was still taking pain medication he asked my mom if she would get the stuff for the potatoes and since Robyn was already out my mom passed the task on to her. I'm so glad that I have a great family that is willing to help us out. He missed calculated how long it would take to make the potatoes so we were 45 minutes late getting to dinner luckily my family is always running a little behind so they were just finishing everything up when we got there. There was so much good food and I felt like I didn't get to eat enough of it because I got full too quickly. Next year I think that I will start training for thanksgiving so I can eat more. Every year after dinner we always sit down and look at the ads to plan our strategy for shopping the next. I can't believe that store just keeping opening earlier and earlier.There were a lot more pictures with people showing their chewed up food but I thought that one was enough for this post Adam was dumping his gravy off his plate and onto all of the rolls

Surgery

2010-11-20T20:00:00.000-08:00

So on Wednesday Adam was scheduled to be a the surgical center at 9:30. I got up early because I had to go get my TB test checked and get some groceries before we went in for the surgery. Once we got to the surgical center we had to wait a few minutes before they took us back and had Adam change into a gown and started his IV. After we had sat in the room for a while the doctor came in and talked to us. I really liked his doctor he was really nice when answering all my questions. I thought that it was really funny because his doctor had on shiny black dress shoes with his scrubs. The surgery only took about half an hour and then I had to wait another half an hour for him to be out of the first recovery area so that I could go sit with him. He was pretty out of it when I first saw him because they didn't have to break his nose so it didn't even look like he had surgery. After about an hour in the recovery area they released us to go home.He didn't like me taking his picture so he kept pulling faces.

Yesterday his nose was bleeding quite a bit so we decided to go into the doctor's so that we didn't have to pay to go to the ER Saturday or Sunday. The doctor said that he nose was bleeding a bit more than he would like to see so he took out the splints a couple of days early. Adam was shocked to see how large the splints were when the doctor pulled them out of his nose. He was also very relieved to have them out because they had been causing a lot of pressure in his head.

Today he is doing a lot better a lot less bleeding and he hasn't had to take as much pain medication today. I just wish that he would lay down with ice on his nose more but I guess that would be really old after a while. Maybe by thanksgiving we will both be feeling better.

Field trip

2010-11-20T19:28:00.001-08:00

On Tuesday Addisyn had a field trip for school and since I had the day off I got to go with her. They had been learning about grain so for the field trip they went to Great Harvest Bread. The girl that did the tour made it the perfect length for three and four year olds. She told them all the ingredients that went into the bread and let them touch them. She showed them the giant oven that they cook the bread in and the machine that they use to dump the dough out onto the table. The end was the best part they gave everyone a slice of bread or a cookie. After the field trip was over I decided to take Addisyn with me to Kohl's because I had to exchange some stuff and then to McDonald's to eat and play on the toys. While we were at Kohl's we decided to look at the shoe's and Addisyn found the perfect pink rain boots so I let her get them since I had $10.00 Kohl's cash so her boots were basically free. It was a fun day but it reminded me why I don't have kids I was exhausted when I dropped her off at her grandparents.

Some of the kids didn't want to pose for a picture

Spoon Boy

2010-11-20T19:09:00.000-08:00

Last night we went to dinner at the Spaghetti Factory for two reasons one because its delicious and two because Fremont was playing the state championship football game at the University of Utah so we would already be in Salt Lake. Unfortunately I didn't get to go to the game because I had to take Adam to the doctor's but my dad and Calvin were going down after they got off work so I was still able to go to dinner. Because the Group of people at dinner was so large it took us a long time to eat so Austin found a way to entertain himself while everyone else was finishing their food. He decided to see how many spoons he could stick to his face. If anyone is looking for a new way to pick up girls this is the way to do it. The table next to us had about 30 girls sitting at it and Austin noticed that they were watching him put the spoons on his face and then a couple of minutes later they all came and stood around him and said that they needed to get their picture taken with him. When we were leaving he got one of their numbers mostly because his dad didn't think that he would do it.I think that Ann enjoyed her dinner a bit too much.

Quite the pair

2010-11-17T19:12:00.000-08:00

Adam had his surgery today and everything went well. His nose is sore and he is really tired but other than that he is doing great. I on the other hand feel like I am about to die. OK not really I am just a big baby when I am sick. Like I said in my previous post I have a really bad cold and I feel like every day I am getting worse not better. Next time you need someone to take care of you when you are sick don't call me I am not a good nurse. I am supposed to be taking care of Adam but instead he has to take of me because I am such a baby. Good thing I only get sick once every four years.

Halloween

2010-10-26T18:42:00.000-07:00

Every year we have a family Halloween party and the rule is everyone has to dress up I think that pictures speak for themselves.

Busy Busy

2010-10-23T13:44:00.000-07:00

The purpose of this post it not to make people feel sorry for me its to explain the lack of posts lately. I have been super busy with school and work lately and anyone who knows me knows that I need to sleep a lot to survive. So lately my life has pretty much consisted of school, work, a little bit of studying and sleep. Hopefully in the next few months we will be doing some fun stuff so that I will have something to blog about.
Here are just a few things that have happened in our lives in the last few months. I got a new job, I am still at the credit union in the call center I am just a team lead now instead of a back-up. Luckily my job is mostly the same so not too much new stuff to learn. I am really liking my new job so far especially now that I have had time to get organized I am usually very organized so it was driving my crazy not having everything perfect. I am also still loving school except for the fact that I have to be at school at 8 everyday but the stuff that I am learning is super interesting. I am excited to start doing more of the hands on stuff soon but for now I am just learning about all of the teeth. I never knew that there was so much to learn about teeth.
Adam is still working as a teller at the credit union but is looking to move up to a different position. He recently went to the doctor because he has a really hard time breathing and he found out that he has a deviated septum so he is going to be having surgery for that in November hopefully that will help him breath better. He Also went to a doctor because his back has been hurting and he found out that he had hurt his back I can't remember exactly what is wrong with it but they are hoping they can fix it with exercises.
We also carved pumpkins last night so I will be posting about that soon I just need to take pictures.

RSL and The Spaghetti Factory

2010-08-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

I am officially addicted to major league soccer. I have always liked soccer and played soccer until I was in high school when I had to choose if I wanted to play soccer or volleyball and I chose volleyball. Since I am starting school I had to change my work schedule so I work every Saturday so my friends from work and I decided that we should do something before school started and we would all be too busy to hangout. We usually just hangout and watch Chuck at someone's house but this time we decided to invite our husbands since they all have a lot in common and since we all like soccer we decided that it would be fun to go to a RSL game. I also convinced them to go the The Spaghetti Factory since its my favorite restaurant and we were going to be in Salt Lake for the game. We decided to ride Frontrunner to Salt Lake since we would have had to take two car otherwise. It took a little longer to get there because we rode frontrunner but it was definitely fun riding together. I was a little nervous because I was in charge of knowing which train to get on at each stop and to make sure that we made it the game on time but everything worked out well. I was a little disappointed with our meal at first they tried sticking us in a little booth where we could hardly move our arms so we asked to move and the waitress who's table we were originally sitting at kept giving us dirty looks the whole time we were eating. Then our waiter seemed to be rushing us a little bit I was only half done with my food when he asked what type of ice cream we wanted and brought us our checks. I am going to eat at the spaghetti factory again tomorrow so hopefully it will be a better experience. The train on the way to the soccer game was really crowded and I got separated from everyone I was trapped in the corner and when I was finally able to make it to where everyone else was sitting my friend Nicole's husband cheered for me. Our seats at the soccer game were right behind the goal and it was awesome we could see the action really well. We were all really into the game and at one point one of our players got past the goalie with the ball and had a chance to shoot on the open goal and somehow during all the excitement Sarah hit me and smacked her knee on the chair in front of her apparently she is very dangerous to watch a soccer game with. I hope that someday soon I can have season tickets because MLS is officially my new favorite sport to watch. Riding trax to the game Sarah wasn't trying to hide she was trying to lean into the picture Adam on the train doesn't he look thrilled?

Our view of the field

Roy Days

2010-08-20T21:41:00.000-07:00

For Roy Days we always go to the parade early in the morning and the last couple of years I have been in charge of saving our spot. This year I didn't know who was coming to sit by us so I just saved a really big spot and I'm really glad that I did because we ended up having quite a large group. The parade was a little too long and there were some really big spaces between the floats. I really enjoyed helping the little kids get the candy and they definitely all got plenty. It was my job to go out into the middle of the street and throw the candy closer to the curb that would have just gotten run over otherwise. Larissa's little girl Mylee was hilarious at first she didn't like the parade but by the end she was totally into running out into the road to get the candy. After the parade we decided to go over to the park and see Calvin's motorcycle in the car show and of course get some cotton candy. On the way to the park I had a few extra passengers and Jacee and Addisyn were both getting tired and started to fight because one person was touching the other, it definitely reminded me why I don't want kids anytime soon. After we all hung out at the park for a while we went school shopping for Whitney which was really fun because Whitney and I have very similar taste so I liked picking clothes out for her.This is us wasting time waiting for the parade to finally start.Tanner was entertaining us before the parade. If you go to a parade and want a lot of candy invite Tanner he will cheer for all the floats and then they throw you lots of candy.

Mylee didn't like the fire trucks
Oakley wasn't so sure about the fire trucks either so she hung out on my dad's lap

The aquatic center always has a float in the parade and they always have water. When I saw that they were coming I told everyone sitting by Brittany they may want to move because she was about to get wet. She tried telling everyone that the people from her work weren't going to get her wet because they respected her. Ann and I totally didn't believe her so we moved her out into the middle of the road.This is Brittany waiting in her chair in the road. I think that she was starting to doubt how much the people that she bosses around everyday respect her. This is one of the people showing Brittany how much he respects her.
This is Brittany after everyone showed her how much they respect her. She was just a little wet.

We also knew a lot of people in the parade this year.
This is my mom's boss he made sure to throw us some candy.
This is Whitney she is an officer at Rocky Mtn. Jr. High
Jacee riding her scooter and Ann was putting Anika on the trailer. Anika definitely knew what she was doing she watched half of the parade and got tons of candy and then she rode on the dance trailer for the other half.Alayna was on a float with her soccer team.

Hopefully I fixed all the grammatical errors in this post I was really tired when I was writing it and I was having a hard time making my sentences make sense.

Snakes

2010-08-05T20:30:00.000-07:00

So this summer I have tried to go hiking at least once a week usually just after work one night a group of us will hike up to waterfall canyon it has been really good exercise. Well since sadly summer is coming to an end it is starting to get dark earlier. Last week I made it to the waterfall in record time thanks to Austin making me feel old and out of shape by asking me if I needed to rest all the time. This week the hike totally kicked my butt it felt like I had exercised in years. On the way down it was starting to get dark so we were trying to hurry but we didn't want to get too far ahead of my mom and Linda who had just made it to the top when we decided to start making our way back down. About half way down we saw a guy with a snake on a stick Jenn and Austin were totally excited to get a closer look I just wanted to get past. Apparently it was a rattlesnake and it had been coiled right by the trail and he was afraid that it would bite someone so he killed it. He cut of the head and put it under a rock since apparently rattlesnakes can still bite for 24 hrs after they are dead. He took the rest of the snake since he wanted the rattler after that I was terrified of there being a snake on the trail. We decided to go down and throw rocks at the containers and waste sometime while waiting for my Mom and Linda. Right as we got to the containers Austin saw a rattlesnake and screamed which caused me to scream and as we were trying to run away Austin was pushing me towards the snake.I already hated snakes before this hike but after seeing two snakes right of the trail I was petrified and it was starting to get really dark. I carried a rock the whole rest of the way day just in case we saw another snake and needed to throw something at it. After that Jenn was in the front of the line and I really wanted to be in the middle but since Austin is such a baby he got to be in the middle and I had to be on the end. I was right on Austin's heels the whole time and was so relieved when we finally got to the bottom. When we got to the bottom their was a guy from animal control he was talking to the guy with the rattlesnake apparently its illegal to kill rattlesnakes in Utah luckily that isn't actually the reason he was there he was there to give citations to anyone without there dog on a lease. When I got home and stopped to get the mail and I was still a bit jittery so I had to check to make sure there were no snakes outside my car before I got out and I almost checked in the bathtub for snakes before I got in it to take a shower. Luckily I think I am recovering from this very traumatic experience I only had two dreams about snakes last night and I have stopped checking for snakes everywhere I go. Hopefully tonight I won't have any dreams about snakes. I took the pictures I added on the way up to the waterfall I didn't take any on the way down because I was took busy looking for snakesAustin wasn't actually throwing a rock he was just mimicking Jenn.

Austin's trying to look cool throwing his rock I love that Jenn's mouth is open in this picture

Rodeo

2010-07-28T20:05:00.001-07:00

Every year I go to the rodeo with my family which is good because Adam doesn't like the rodeo so he chooses to stay home. I always have to get some cotton candy at the rodeo this year I also got a soda which cost $3.00 which was the most expensive soda I have ever bought that is until I went to the Real Salt Lake game and paid $3.50. Its not cheap being a soda addict. Addisyn was sitting on my lap when the skydivers landed in the stadium and she informed me that she is going to parachute when she is older. There was one really close call with one of the bulls he almost go one of the clowns.Once Addisyn got the cotton candy she completely forgot the change so it was my job to wait for it.This is how Addisyn spent most of her time at the Rodeo

Back to School

2010-07-26T22:24:00.001-07:00

I have been talking about going back to school for a long time and for one reason or another I have ended up not going but I am really going back this fall. I got my work schedule all arranged and today I went to sign up for Classes. My ultimate goal is to become a dental hygienist so I am starting out by going to the ATC to get my dental assisting certificate. Brittany is going into the same thing with so hopefully we can keep each other motivated. I have about another month of freedom and then it will be all work and no play. Hopefully it will be worth it when I finally get my degree. I took some pictures of us waiting to meet with someone to sign up for school

Adam's Birthday

2010-07-26T21:18:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was Adam's birthday and I hope that he had really great birthday it was pretty relaxed he went to the movies by himself because he was going to a movie I didn't want to see and he enjoys going to see movies by himself. In the evening we went to my parent's for dinner. I was so excited to give Adam his present that I had to give it to him right at midnight after we got home from the Real Salt Lake game. I got him a Seattle Sounders soccer jersey that says Ethington on the back he mentioned that he wanted a jersey a while ago so I was excited that I remembered. He didn't want a Real Jersey because he doesn't like the way that their jersey looks.

I just want to wish Adam happy birthday and tell him how much I love and appreciate him. He is really great and is always willing to help me out with cleaning the house and making dinner when he gets off work before me. He is also always trying to make me smile and laugh and is always trying to make everything fun.

Real Salt Lake

2010-07-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

Adam and I took of few days off for his birthday and were planning to go on a little trip but since we went out of town last weekend we decided to just stay home so Adam got to choose what he wanted to do. His choose was to go to a Real Salt Lake Game I love every sport and Adam really likes soccer so it worked out perfect for both of us. We had talked about going to a Real game for a while now so I was really excited to go and since it was the 24th of July they had fireworks after the game. We had really good seats we were on the 6th row at midfield so we had a great view of the field. I took a picture of us before the game started but I forgot to take pictures during the game because I was so into watching the game. Unfortunately Real didn't win, the game ended in a tie but I guesses its better that they tied than lost. I am really excited to go to another game in a couple if weeks with my friends from work. On our way down to the game we stopped at Adam's parent's house to have dinner for his birthday it was really nice to get to visit. Adam's Dad made the cake and his sister Liz decorated it. After the game they let people onto the field to watch the fireworks and it was crazy down on the field so we decided to just stay in our seats.

Lava Hot Springs

2010-07-23T21:33:00.000-07:00

We went on a family camping trip Lava Hot Springs and although it had its moments of not being very much fun overall it was an OK trip. We were going to go tubing on Friday when we got there but we got a late start and then got stuck in construction so it was too late to tube by the time we got their. I have never actually had to set up a tent before but Jenn and I set up a tent all by ourselves. After camp was all set up we decided to play softball because there was a big open field next to our camp. I have to say the teams were not really fair it was me and all the little kids against all of the adults luckily the little kids were really good. The next day we went to the pool every time I go to Lava I always jump off the platforms but I am always a little nervous. This time I went up to the second platform but I couldn't force myself to go to the third one, after all I am afraid of heights. There are also some really fun slides at the pool unfortunately there was a little bit of a breeze so it was cold waiting in line for the slides. I had to check and see how high it was before I jumped off the 2nd platform I was so nervous that I was flailing my arms and hit Adam This was the first time I jumped off the 1st platform Adam was trying to jump off at the same time as me but I got nervous and had to take an extra second before I jumped This is me and Addisyn hanging out in the deep end of the pool waiting for Adam to just off the platforms. Holding her made me realize that I never want to gain weight it was a lot harder to keep my head above the water holding and extra 25 pounds. This is Adam jumping off the top platform when he screamed like a little girl.Oakley hanging out in the pack n play after her nap

July 3rd

2010-07-23T17:01:00.000-07:00

Since the 4th happened to fall on a Sunday this year most of the festivities happened on Saturday the 3rd. I had to work all day so I couldn't go to any of the parades but I was able to go to the annual party at my uncle Jerry's and aunt Darcia's house. We always have a BBQ and then swim until its time for the fireworks. This year Adam's sister Liz came with us it was really fun to get to hang out with her. Unfortunately Adam couldn't find his camera so I don't have any pictures.

The 4th of July

2010-07-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

When my grandparent's were alive we used to always have a big family BBQ on the 4th of July. This year one of my Mom's cousins decided to start the tradition again so we all got together for some good food and some games. We got a bunch of people to play volleyball so I was in heaven I love playing volleyball even if it was like 100 degrees outside. It was a really fun party and I hope that we can all get together again next year.

Father's Day

2010-07-20T07:37:00.000-07:00

I have a lot of stuff to blog about I just haven't felt like actually blogging when I get home from work and sometimes I type up my posts at work and then just add the pictures at home but work has been ridiculously busy so I haven't had time to do that.

My parent's were in California with Robyn and her family for father's day which was good because it gave us an extra week to make my Dad's present. We decided to make raised garden boxes for my dad because he had mentioned to my Mom that he would like to have some. Our original plan was to pour cement around the garden but I am glad that we decided to make the garden boxes since none of us know how to pour cement. My Dad had been too busy this summer to even plant his garden so before we could make the garden boxes we had to weed the garden which was a lot of work. Weeding was pretty traumatic for me around my parents garden they had boards to keep the grass out and the boards were kind of rotting away from being against the dirt for so long. So when we started to pull the boards out they had tons of ants on them then my eye really started to burn really bad so I was rubbing it because I thought that maybe I got dirt in it and it started to burn worse so I asked Jenn if she could see something wrong with my eye. She told me that I had an ant stuck in my eyelashes and it was biting my eyelid. Jenn is terrified of ants but she was nice enough to get it off my eye so that it would stop biting me. The next day we were weeding and I was at one end of the garden working and Jenn was at the other end spraying weed killer and all of a sudden a mouse came running towards me. I almost had a heartattack but luckily the next day the neighbors dog caught the mouse and killed it.

The next day we took the boards and some grass to the dump and Austin and I almost got buried in a pile of garbage when it started to fall down on top of us. After that we finally put the garden box together and it turned out really well. My Dad is going to make a few more boxes to finish filling up the garden and then get some bark to go around the boxes so that no weeds get in them.

The World's Best Gum

2010-07-06T12:59:00.000-07:00

I just ate my last piece of the world's best gum. If you haven't tried Trident Layers (green apple and golden pineapple) then you are missing out it is the world's best gum.

Friday Night Recap

2010-07-03T13:54:00.000-07:00

So I love the Twilight series I am not super crazy like some people but I definitely enjoy reading the books and seeing the movies. So I went to see Eclipse with Jenn and Beth last night. When I told Adam I was going with them he seemed upset that I didn't ask him to go. I think that he is a closet lover of Twilight. The movie was great I would have to say that it was the best one so far I liked that all of Charlie's lines were funny. Someone brought a little kid that was like 2 and a brand new baby to the movie and they were a bit loud but thankfully they left half way through the movie. Then the people behind us were talking but Jenn took care of that quick when she turned around and told them to shut up. we also made the movie better by adding our own commentary. Overall it was a really good movie and I will definitely buy it.

After the movie was over we went to Beth and Bob's to wait for Marn to bring T back while we were waiting we started to do a puzzle and once we started it we had to finish. It took a really long time since it had trees and water which were really had to put together. I realized that I really suck at doing puzzles and definitely didn't do my share on this one but I got to put in the last piece because I was hoarding the pieces. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures because I forgot to bring my camera

Bored

2010-06-26T17:42:00.000-07:00

When I am bored at work I just read blogs or KSl. Apparently when Adam is bored at work they have races through the grocery store. I sent Adam and IM at work telling him I was bored and he told me that were having races through predetermined routes through the grocery store that sounds like much more fun than reading blogs or KSL.

Torture!

2010-06-08T07:55:00.000-07:00

Since Monday's hike went so well we decided that we were going to go hiking again on Saturday but this time we were going to Hike Malans Basin. We added a few people to our group Marilyn, John, Dave, Lesa, Sloane, and Taz decided to join us for this hike and boy did they not know what they were getting themselves into. Apparently we need to research the hikes we go on better because this hike was definitely hard it took us 6 hours and it was pure toture. We didn't bring enough water because we didn't think that the hike would be that bad and how long it would take us. I am going to buy a camelbak today so they we always have enough water. I must not be very smart because even though the hike Saturday was really hard I am going hiking again tomorrow and on Saturday. John was the oldest person hiking with us and he totally kicked our butts he was cutting up through the trees where it was much steeper and he beat us all to the top by about 20 minutes. John and Marilyn go geocaching sometimes so John found some for us to find. Taz really liked doing this.

Hiking

2010-06-02T11:51:00.000-07:00

I don't really like doing things in nature like camping or hiking but Adam and I always talk about going hiking for exercise but then when it is time to actually go hiking we never go. Since Monday was a holiday and we both had the day off I decided that we were going hiking for sure. As motivation I invited some other people to come with us I invited Brittany and Andy who decided not to go because they are lazy and wanted to sleep all day, I invited Cody and Robyn who also decided not to come, I also invited my parents my Mom decided to come and my Dad stayed home to mow the grass, and I also invited Jenn and Ryan since Ryan had to be a grown up and work Jenn came by herself. We decided to hike up waterfall canyon because I thought that it would be an easy hike to start out with. It was definitely not as easy as I thought that it would be due to me being out of shape but hiking made me decide that I really don't mind being out in nature too much as long as its not for an extended period of time. I am going to try to go hiking a lot this summer so hopefully I can hike waterfall canyon again at the end of the summer and it will be easy. On the way back down the trail we saw some EMTs about half way up the trail as we passed them we found out that they had come up to help someone that had passed out on the trail and then one of the EMTs started having problems so they had gotten the person off the mountain that they originally came to help and they were now waiting for more EMTs to come help them get the EMT that was having problems off the mountain. As we got to the car we heard the life flight helicopter so we decided to wait around and see what happened it was really interesting because the helicopter landed at the trailhead and then was flying up to try to pick the patient (EMT) up off the trail. After this we decided to go to Chic-fil-a and get our free spicy chicken sandwiches they were definitely not as good as the original chic-fil-a sandwich but I can't really complain since it were free.

Craft Night

2010-05-18T21:24:00.000-07:00

I love to make decorations to hang on my door because they are simple to make which is especially good for me since I'm not too crafty. This time we decided to make flowers since I finally took my clover down a month after St. Patrick's Day and Jenn couldn't find my house last time she came to pick me up for softball. We cut them all out and then everyone brought there own paint so they could make their flower whatever color they wanted to. I love making crafts with my sisters and mom because it shows our individual styles we each start out with the same thing and they all end up looking totally different. Addisyn always insists on paint with us so this time we decided to give her her own flower. She chose to paint hers pink and my mom painted her name on it for her so she can hang it on her bedroom door when they move into their new house. Addisyn lost interest in painting after the first coat so my dad helped her finish while she went and helped her dad garden.

Volleyball

2010-05-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

For work they were having a volleyball tournament and I wasn't going to play because I usually get annoyed at things that like and I don't like trying new things but my friend Larissa convinced me to play and I am so glad that I did it was way fun. Adam also played in this tournament but we were on different teams and never got to play each other. I was kind of worried before we started to play because I thought that it was going to be like church volleyball with just passing the ball back and forth but it was really competitive. I had a ton of fun especially when I blocked a guy in the last game. Unfortunately we were playing at the same time as Adam so I didn't get to watch him that much but my mom and Robyn both said that he did really well. Thanks to everyone who came and watched us play it really meant a lot to have you there. Now hopefully my muscles will be recovered enough to be able to play softball since I can still barely walk today.

Badminton

2010-05-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

Since it was such a nice day after the baby show we decided to play badmitton. I have a really hard time playing badminton and Tennis because I can never decide which hand to hold the racket with. I play most sports left handed but I write right handed and neither hand really feel normal when I hold the racket. It was really fun just hanging out playing badminton and getting some sun unfortunately I got a bit to much sun and my legs got really sunburned.

Baby Shower

2010-05-17T11:55:00.000-07:00

My cousin Stacie is having a baby so Robyn and My Mom threw a shower for her. Robyn came up with most of the ideas and my mom and I just helped to put everything together. The theme for the shower was Dr. Seuss and it turned out really cute. The decorations were simple and we tried to base them on different books and then we just used some books to decorate. Each game that we played was based on a book we played the game where each person gets a star and they can't say the word baby if they say the word baby they get their star taken away this game was based on the the book The Sneetches. Then we play guess how many candies are in the jar to go with the book One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. After that we played the game where you try to cut a string to be the right size to fit around the mom. I was pretty proud of myself because I was really close. It was really fun to get to spend time with my Dad's side of the family and to see all the cute presents Stacie got.

Game Face

2010-05-17T11:54:00.000-07:00

This post is a little late I am technologically challenged so it took me a long time to get the pictures off of my phone We're having a volleyball tournament for work so I decided I should practice so I don't totally suck. So last night I invited some people to go play volleyball and it was way fun we will definitely be playing again soon. The first two games it was Larissa and I VS Adam, Andy, and Brittany and of course since Larissa and I are pros we won both games but Adam, Andy, and Brittany were definitely more entertaining to watch they were trying to do cheers and after every play they would run around and give each other high fives. After that we decided to switch teams so it was Adam and I VS. Andy, Brittany, and Larissa at first I wasn't sure that these would be good teams since I'm really competitive and I thought that I might get mad at Adam but apparently he has been hiding his awesome volleyball skills from me since we got married because he was really good and it was really fun to be on the same team as him. The first game me and Adam lost but I blame it on the beam that was on our side of the court, every time we got the ball it would hit the beam and go flying in some random direction. For the next game we switched sides of the court Adam and I won so we had to have a tie breaker game. Adam and I won the tie breaker which made me the ultimate winner of the night because I won the most games. I can definitely tell that I haven't played in a while because my whole body is sore today especially my arms from passing the ball. Brittany's face was so funny every time that she got the ball so I told her it was her game face which gave me the idea to take pictures of everyone's game face (I don't have one because I tried to smile for my game face picture and they wouldn't allow it so I just didn't get one).Andy has wimpy arms so he got a bruise from passing the ball

Late Night Mischief

2010-05-01T17:37:00.000-07:00

Today is My cousin Jack's birthday A.K.A. Austin so last night my mom and Robyn decided that we were going to wake him up at midnight and take him to eat. When we got to his house he was asleep on the couch so Robyn started to pull him of the couch to wake him up. Once he was kind of awake we told him to go get his shoes and as he was walking to his room he stepped on the tile and fell down it was really funny. We decided to go to Village INN to eat while we were waiting for our food Austin decided that he needed a mustache and then he shaved it off with his straw he's still not old enough to handle sharp objects maybe next year. It was really fun but I was definitely tired when I had to get up for work this morning.

I'm Back

2010-03-21T23:04:00.001-07:00

I haven't had the internet since we moved so it was hard to update my blog but we just got the internet last week so I can blog again. I did a lot of posts today so make sure the keep scrolling so that you can read all of them

Adam's Room

2010-03-21T22:44:00.001-07:00

So these pictures go with the post below but I thought that they deserved their own post. I always told Adam that when we bought a house he could have his own room and he could do whatever he wanted with it so when we bought our house he got to choose which room he wanted and I have let him decorate it however he wanted. Well I asked him to take pictures of each room in the house so I could put them on my blog and he took one or two pictures of each room except for his. Below I posted all of the pictures he took of his room.

Our Home

2010-03-21T22:08:00.000-07:00

Linda this post is for you. I know that we have lived in our house to four months but I finally got around to taking some pictures of it and when I say I took the pictures I mean that I got Adam to take them for me while I was playing on Facebook. I tried to put them in order you would see the rooms if you were walking through the house. The entryway the table in the entryway is the designated spot for our keys I love always knowing where to find my keys.

I love the kitchen it is so bright and there is plenty of counter space.The dining room we didn't have a dining room table at our last place or for the first few months of living her so we are trying to get used to eating at the table instead of on the couch. I do have to say that I spill on myself a lot less when I eat at the table.

living room Our bedroom I love my closet it has plenty of room for all my clothes I hate having my clothes squished in my closet. Unfortunately its not big enough for me to share it with Adam so he has to have his clothes in the closet in his room. My bathroom I'm not very good at sharing and my hair gets everywhere in the bathroom when I am getting ready so Adam and I have separate bathrooms.Adam's bathroomWhen we were looking for a house I told Adam that I really wanted a laundry room and not just a laundry closet and that is exactly what I got.
The guest room The guest room

Sunday dinner

2010-03-21T21:56:00.000-07:00

We have lived in our house for almost four months and we haven't been able to find a time to invite Adam's parents up to see our house but we were finally able to find a time when we could invite them up for dinner and to see our new house. It was really nice to have them over and Adam took care of almost everything for dinner so I could just relax. After dinner we played Skip-Bo and I won it was awesome.

Chuck

2010-03-21T21:38:00.000-07:00

I recently started watching the TV show Chuck and I am totally addicted Adam has been watching it since it first came on TV but it didn't seem interesting to me. I have decided that Adam and I can't watch TV together because when he suggests us watching a show together the show never seems interesting and then when I start watching a show that he likes he yells at the TV through the whole show and I get so annoyed that I can't watch it with him anymore. Well my friend Nicole from work loves Chuck as much as I do and my friend Sarah had never watched Chuck before so we decided to have a Chuck marathon. It was really fun to hangout with Sarah and Nicole outside of work. We made Sarah really confused because we kept trying to explain what was going on in the show and we kept telling her things that hadn't happened yet so it made the show really confusing for her. I meant to take pictures of our Chuck marathon and I charged my camera to take pictures but I forgot to take my camera out of my purse. I only have two complaints about chuck I really hate Morgan's hair in the first season but I didn't realize how bad it really was until now when I am going back and rewatching the first season. Also, I also hate Sarah's teeth her front teeth are too long and it drives my crazy to have to see them in every episode but other than that I love Chuck and would highly recommend it to everyone.

Plays

2010-03-21T20:14:00.001-07:00

Last Thursday I went to see my cousin Whitney in The Pirates of Penzance. She was a pirate and did a really good job. We also had the perfect seats to see her we were on the front row on the side of the stage that she was always on. At one point on the play there were cops running all over right in front of our seats and I was really afraid that my toes were going to get stomped on. Unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera so I only have one picture from my phone. At the beginning of the play the drama teacher told us that we couldn't use flash photography well I am not really technologically savvy so I didn't know that my phone had a flash so when I took this picture is flashed really bright and I didn't know how to turn the flash off so I only have one picture.

The week before I went to see Whitney's play I went to see my aunt Lesa's play Hurricane Smith. Every time I go to see a play that Lesa directed I am astounded she is such a great director and comes up with the most clever ideas. Her play was really funny and she did a great job with casting the parts in the play. The only downside to the play was the lady sitting next to me who kept giving me dirty looks because she thought that I had moved her stuff that she had put on the chair to save her seat. She said that she needed to sit right in the middle because she needed to take pictures. I thought that she was the official photographer for the play or something so it made sense that she wanted to be in the middle stage in the front row but when she started taking pictures I discovered that this was not the case at all. Her daughter was in the play and she was just taking pictures with her cell phone.

Larissa's Birthday Dinner

2010-03-19T21:21:00.003-07:00

When I was in high school I had a really close group of friends and as we have graduated and moved on with our lives it is sometimes hard to get together to hangout but we always try to go out to dinner for each persons birthday. The 20th was Larissa's birthday and she chose to go to Goodwood. The last time I went Goodwood I was not impressed but this time is was pretty good.

After we went to dinner we all decided to go to Graywhale in one car because Larissa needed to buy something. I love car rides with Sarah and Larissa we have some of our best memories from car rides. We used to drive to school together and also go to lunch every day in high school so some of our funniest stories happened in the car. After we went to Graywhale we decided to go to Larissa's house and play Nintendo 64 we only ended up playing video games for an hour and then we just hung out until like 1 in the morning. Larissa said that she could stay up that late because she is a real person now that she is 21.

P.S. Brittany you're dead to Sarah because you ignored her texts.

It was like 1 in the morning when we took this picture and it took like twenty tries to get a good picture of us.

The Tallest Tower

2010-01-31T20:42:00.001-08:00

My niece loves princesses and princes and one day after my softball game she pointed up to the light pole and told us that the light pole was the tallest tower and that the princess lives at the top of the tallest tower and ever since then she has been talking about the tallest tower. My Mom had a box one day and decided to make my niece her own tallest tower. It is really cute and it is one of my nieces favorite toys. It never ceases to amaze me the ideas that my Mom comes up with.

This is Addisyn's arm she was trying to reach her quesdilla. The plate wouldn't fit in her tower so my Mom set the plate on a chair outside her tower and told her to reach out the window to eat it unfortunately my Mom didn't realize that Addisyn's arm wasn't long enough to reach the plate out the window.

Jazz Game

2010-01-31T20:25:00.000-08:00

My cousin Whitney's dance group got to dance before the Jazz game on Friday so we all went down to watch her it was really fun. We decided to ride Frontrunner to the game so that no one had to worry about driving and it turned out great. This was my first time riding Frontrunner and I would definitely do it again. It was really fun watching Whitney dance because she is a great dancer and it made it even better that the Jazz won the game. The one bad part of the game was the lady sitting behind us she was really onery and complained about everything.

Lasagna hates me!

2010-01-13T14:36:00.000-08:00

So, I would definitely say that I am not a gourmet chef but I can usually make dinner without ruining it with the exception of Lasagna. For my mom's birthday back in August I thought that I would be nice and invite everyone over for dinner and make lasagna. Well when I was making the sauce I was adding salt (we had a salt grinder) and the lids popped off and dumped all the salt into the sauce I tried to scoop out the salt because it was too late to start over but it didn't work so well and was still pretty salty. Then yesterday I invited my parents over for lasagna because we always have tons left over if it is just me and Adam eating it since it makes such a big pan. My Mom had mutual but she said my dad would still come over so that she didn't have to worry about making him dinner before mutual. So I got off work at 5 and my Dad was coming over at six thirty which was just enough time to make the lasagna. I had Adam start boiling the water for the noodles and cooking the meat before I got home so the food would for sure be done on time. I was so proud of myself for being so prepared and that the lasagna would definitely be done on time. I must have been feeling a bit too confident because that is when disaster hit. I was layering the lasagna into the dish and started to smell something really bad. At first I thought it may be the cheese but I smelled the cheese and it was fine. So I had Adam smell it and decided that something was definitely bad. We finally decided that it was the tomatoes in the sauce. So I had to throw all that food away and figure out something else to make which was not an easy task since all the meat I had was frozen and my Dad was going to be there in 45 minutes. I ended up making chicken and mashed potatoes and I have officially decided that lasagna hates me.

Brittany's Birthday

2010-01-03T22:45:00.001-08:00

Sunday was Brittany's birthday she is no longer a teenager. For our birthdays we always go to my parents and my mom makes us whatever we want for dinner. When we were younger it was fun to just get to eat whatever we wanted now it is even better because you get to eat what you want and you don't have to make it. She chose to have enchiladas and they were so good. Thanks Mom for making them. For Christmas my parents brought the game Telestrations for my aunt and uncle and my aunt let me borrow it because she said that it was so fun and she definitely didn't lie. It was the most hilarious game sometime we would get laughing so hard that we were crying and couldn't talk. Its like the telephone game but with pictures and I am definitely not an artist so that made the game even more funny. Robyn made the cutest cake for Brittany it was a swimming pool and she used starburst for the tiles around the edge of the pool and she used gummy lifesavers as tubes with gummi bears sitting on them. I made Brittany an Apron for her birthday because she like Addisyn's that I made her for Christmas and I am very proud of myself I made it all by myself and didn't even end up in tears. I will post a picture of her in her apron once she emails me one.

Cute Pictures

2009-12-25T23:14:00.000-08:00

I just had to put these on here because I thought that they were so cute.

These are Addisyn's Christmas PJ's they say what Santa doesn't bring me Grandma will and the pajamas didn't lie she is spoiled rotten and I think that she got more presents then anyone else.I think that every little kid loves to wear adults shoes. The other day when I was at my parents I Addisyn put my shoes on and she was sitting on the floor coloring with them on.

Christmas Eve

2009-12-25T23:01:00.000-08:00

For Christmas Eve we always have a party with my Mom's family since we don't get together on Christmas. This year we played bingo and let me just say I will not be going to Vegas anytime soon I am so not lucky. I was the last person to win at Bingo I finally won when there were only three numbers left to call. When you won you got to pick a bag with a prize in it and you could look at what was in it but you couldn't tell anyone else. When you were picking your bag you could either choose one from the table or steal someone else's bag. By the time that I finally got to pick a bag they were all gone off of the table so I had to steal one from someone else and people were trying to hide their bags so I couldn't steal it. I did end up with a bag and Adam was one of the lucky few who ended up with two bags so he shared his second bag with me and I ended up walking away with $5.00.They referred to this as the loser table because no one on this table was winning at bingo They referred to this as the winner table because everyone on this table had won at least once before anyone on the other table won.The young people The old people

Christmas Presents

2009-12-25T22:53:00.000-08:00

I just have to brag a bit. I am not a crafty person and when I try to make something homemade I usually end up getting stressed out and call my Mom crying because its not working out like I imagined it but for Christmas I made 5 homemade presents and 4 of them turned out really well so I was super excited.First for the failure I made oakley's hat too big so I guess she can just grow into it or become a cone head and it will work perfectly.We decided that she looked like Marge Simpson or The Bride of Frankenstein.Addisyn loved her hat and scarf that I made and the hat really did fit just not with her ponytails and big bow that she had in her hair. I guess that I didn't get a picture of the other presents but I made two aprons for Addisyn and they turned out really cute. I will have to see if someone else got a picture of the aprons that I can steal.

Christmas

2009-12-25T21:59:00.000-08:00

I am so sad that Christmas is almost over it is my favorite holiday and I look forward to it for so long and it seems like the day just goes by too fast. I had no idea what I was getting for Christmas and was so annoyed that I couldn't get anyone to tell me. I only had two presents from Adam so that made me even more curious. When we opened presents he only brought me one present which is a thing that I can plug into my computer so that I can record TV shows onto my computer since we don't have cable right now and I opened it and then he acted like we were done and started to get breakfast. I didn't say anything about the other present still under the tree for about five minutes and when I finally said something about it he just tried to act like he had forgotten all about it. It was a new laptop I already had a laptop but my new one is way better. It has a built in Camera and microphone so when we were over at my parents we were able to get on Skype and do a video chat with my aunt Linda in Canada. My niece Addisyn was so funny when she was opening her presents she was just opening them as quick as possible but she had to make sure that every piece of wrapping paper was off of her presents. When she finished opening all her presents she decided that she needed to open Oakley's too. Then we went to My aunt and uncles and had dinner is was nice to just get to hangout with some of my cousins on my Dad's side of the family because it seems like I don't get to see them that often. It was a great Christmas and now I guess I will just have to start looking forward to next Christmas.My dad trying out his new golf club which he picked out and bought for himself.Poor little boy sitting in the corner no one wanted to play with him.I had to be unsocial and try out my new game. I wanted to play it two weeks ago when Adam bought it but he wrapped it before I could play it and yes I did change my shirt I didn't get any new clothes until we went to my parents so I changed once I opened my clothes there.

Proud New Owners

2009-12-18T21:40:00.000-08:00

Our Kia has been having problems ever since we got it so we thought that it would be a good idea to get a new car before we had to register the Kia in January. Before we went shopping Adam told me that no matter what we were not going to get a car that night that if we found something that we liked we were going to just think about it for a while before we made a decision but we came home with this.I couldn't get a good picture of it because of how it was parked and it was freezing so I didn't want to move it. It a Subaru Impreza and I love it. When we were at the dealership it just felt right and we got a really good deal.

Hayride and Fantasy at the Bay

2009-12-18T20:47:00.001-08:00

I am a little behind because we don't have the internet at our house so I have to go to my parents to post. Every year we go on a hayride through Layton park to see the Christmas lights and then we go to Fantasy at the Bay out in Willard to see the lights their. The hayride only cost to dollars and the money is all donated to different charities plus its nice because everyone can look at the lights because no one has to drive.

House warming gift

2009-11-29T16:48:00.001-08:00

On Black Friday there was a drill on sale at Kmart and my Mom got one and told me that it was for Andy. When we were at the store I mentioned to my mom that I would like one of them for Christmas because we had to borrow my Dad's drill to put stuff up at our new house and she totally ignored me. Then the next day when I was at my parents my Dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told him "I wanted one of the drills that was on sale at Kmart yesterday and I told Mom and she totally ignored me." Then when we were leaving the pizzeria they told us they had something for us and when we opened the house warming present that they had it was the drill. They had been lying when they said that it was for Andy it had been for us the whole time we had a good laugh about it when I fill Adam in on the story of telling my parents that I wanted a drill.

Black Friday

2009-11-29T16:40:00.000-08:00

I am definitely not a morning person but I love to shop so on Black Friday shopping always wins over sleeping. This year I had to work but not until 11:30 so I was still able to go shopping. I really only needed to get one thing at the first store I went to but I went to at least five stores after that with my family. We lucked out and everyone found everything that they wanted. When we were done shopping we went to get pretzels at Pretzel Maker; I think that this is the only reason that my mom goes shopping because she hates shopping. By the time I finally had to go to work I had already been shopping for 7 hours and to make things worse since everyone was still out shopping no one was calling into my work I thought that I was going to fall asleep at my desk but luckily I made it through the day and had Saturday and Sunday off to catch up on my sleep. As I am writing about going to get pretzels after shopping I am thinking back to my other posts and I am realizing that almost every tradition my family has involves food.

Christmas Parade

2009-11-29T16:36:00.000-08:00

We always go to the Christmas parade in Ogden the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We took Oakley to the parade with us since her parents had gone to get Christmas trees, and she loved all the lights on the floats but when there was a lull in the parade and nothing was in front of us for her to look at she would start to cry. This year my cousin Whitney was in the parade and when we yelled her name she acted like she didn't know us. I told her Dad that he should make her pay for her own dinner since she shunned us. After the parade we went to the Ogden Pizzeria it

was so good.Oakley's first parade Whitney is the one looking away trying to hide her face.

Moving

2009-11-28T11:55:00.000-08:00

We finally moved into our house after waiting for what seems like forever. It is so nice to be able to spread out all of our stuff. We have been staying with my parents for about a month and I am so grateful for them allowing us to stay with them but it is so nice to have our own space again. Adam asked his friends to help us move and they were very efficient and had us moved in no time. I hardly helped out all because I felt more in the way than anything. Once I get unpacked I will post pictures of the finished product but for now here are some pictures of us moving. Ok so none of the pictures actually show us moving they are all of us eating after we finished moving.

Christmas trees

2009-11-28T11:40:00.000-08:00

Last year we went with Cody's family to cut down Christmas trees. This year my family decided to continue that tradition but we decided to go the Saturday before Thanksgiving instead of the Saturday after Thanksgiving so that we can go to the Christmas parade the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We drive up past Evanston to the Wasatch National Forest and we buy passes and then go hike out into the forest to find the perfect Christmas tree to chop down. Unfortunately both years that we have gone Adam has had to work so I was on my own. Last year was pretty scary because the road was really icy and cars were sliding everywhere this year its wasn't really too icy except for when we got into the parking lot where we buy our passes. Right after we drove into the parking lot my car started to slide on the ice I thought that I was going to run into some rocks but luckily we stopped soon enough to miss them.We always take family pictures when we get up into the trees and since Adam had to work these two had to fill in as my family.This is me carrying my tree after we chopped it down.Whitney missed the memo that the green coat people were getting their picture taken.We had to stop for some Wendy's after all our hard work of cutting down the trees.

Thanksgiving

2009-11-28T11:22:00.000-08:00

I would have to say that Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it kicks off the Christmas season and I love Christmas. This year for Thanksgiving we went to my aunt and uncles and as always there was plenty of food. It is a Thanksgiving tradition that after dinner we all sit around and look at the ads for the black Friday sales and make our Christmas lists. Oh and let me just add that if anyone knows Santa Austin wants Miley Cyrus for Christmas so could you please put in a good word for him.When they were trying to do chew and show for the picture Whitney's food fell out of her mouth it was so funny.

Pie Night

2009-11-28T11:16:00.000-08:00

For 30 years my Mom's side of the family has had the tradition of pie night. The night before Thanksgiving we all get together and eat pie because everyone knows you don't have enough room to eat pie on Thanksgiving after you eat dinner. Before my grandma passed away she used to make all the pies for pie night which was about 30 pies, but now everyone just brings a pie or some kind of dessert with them. I was a little disappointed this year because there was no banana cream pie which is my favorite. At pie night we always play dodgeball in the backyard no matter how cold it is. I would have to say that this year was a success because no one got hit in the face with the ball.
This is the wall of shame. This is where the losers sit when they get out in dodgeball.
Sloane playing dodgeball

House update

2009-11-19T23:14:00.000-08:00

So we are set to close on our house today at three they have switched the date at least 20 times and I'm not even exaggerating. So I will have more pictures to post soon unless they change the date again and they better not do that because I had to return my tickets for New Moon. I bought my tickets two months ago and they just happened to schedule our closing at the same time as the show I had tickets for. I am a little bummed about that. The one plus is that we had to go to Salt Lake to get our money back for the tickets since they were for the Megaplex at the gateway and since we had already driven down there we decided to go to the best restaurant in the world The Spaghetti Factory.

Hooray for the Yankees!!!!

2009-11-05T09:36:00.000-08:00

I may not watch a ton of baseball but I have always been a Yankees fan so I was really excited when the Yankees won last night. This morning right after I got to work I got an email from my managers that was sent to all of the supervisors in our department. The subject was FYI so I opened it expecting to read some really important information and this is what the message say.......I just wanted to let everyone know - and I know that most of you don't really care, however,

THE YANKEES WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!

Hip Hip Hooray for the Yankees!!!

It was a great email to get first thing in the morning and made me laugh.

Softball

2009-11-04T10:38:00.000-08:00

So I mentioned a while ago that I have been playing softball and even though it is practically winter we are still playing. We got rained out a few weeks so we are trying to make up those games and we still have the tournament to play. Last night we played after about a month of being rained out and I was so annoyed. The person who is in charge of our team is awesome, she always makes sure that we are going to have enough people and if people can't play then she finds people to cover for them. Well last night we played at 9:30 and it was freezing and to top it off two people that said that they were coming didn't show up so we had to play two people short. I was so annoyed because if they would have just said that they weren't going to come then we could have easily found two people to cover for them. I told my dad about it when I got home because I was so annoyed and he said that even though he is trying to be retired from softball he would have come to play with us because he knows how annoying it is to be short and Robyn came to watch us play so she could have easily played if she would have known but because we thought that we were going to have enough people we didn't tell her to wear clothes that she could play in. I wish people would just do what they say that they are going to do.

Another Halloween party

2009-11-01T20:49:00.000-08:00

Jenn and Ryan had a Halloween party and it was tons of fun. I'm not really the biggest fan of Halloween and I don't like to dress up but Jenn told me that I couldn't come to her party if I didn't dress up and then she informed me that there would be bean dip and Cheese soup which are two of my favorite foods so I decided that it was worth it to dress up. I decided last minute that I wanted to be a fairy so being the good Mom that she is my mom stayed up until two in the morning helping me make my costume. I also got help from Andy, Brittany, and Adam so I guess you could say it was a group effort. Adam was trying to keep his costume a secret from me but as he asked me to get things that he needed I figured out what he was going to be. He was Edward from Twilight. He was a very good Edward and he even had the Zune box hooked to him playing the Twilight theme song all night.

Bob makes an awesome fairy with my wings.

Moving

2009-11-01T20:42:00.000-08:00

This weekend didn't have a moment for rest. We had to be out of our apartment on Saturday so we spent part of the day over there cleaning. My Mom pointed out something that I had already thought about while I was cleaning she said "isn't it funny that we will clean for other people to live there but that we won't clean that well for ourselves to live there". I thought that it was so funny and so true I guess in my case money was the motivator I wanted to make the place super clean so they had no excuse for not giving our deposit back.I'm a good supervisor Waving goodbye

Also here are some random house pictures
We now have toilets

Motorcycle

2009-11-01T20:27:00.000-08:00

Adam and Austin are always up for a good adventure so they decided that they needed to ride Calvin's motorcycle and I couldn't let them have all the fun so I rode too. It was my first time riding a motorcycle and I did pretty well except that I kept forgetting how to use the break. Austin liked to show off and do tricks.

The only shoes I had were high heels I guess thats how really ladies ride motorcycles.

Oakley's Blessing

2009-11-01T20:09:00.000-08:00

Today Oakley got blessed Cody did a really good job with the blessing. We went to Cody's parents to eat after and as always with me family we had a really fun time.In case you can't tell I was kicking Brittany's butt at tetherball.

After we finished eating a lot of people went to look at the new house.

Addisyn was giving me my Mcdonalds order.There was a random tube next to our house and everyone turned it into a toy that they all had tons of fun playing with

Halloween party

2009-10-26T18:58:00.000-07:00

Every year we have a family Halloween party and everyone has to wear a costume. I have to say that I am not really a fan of dressing up and on the day of the party I still didn't have a costume but then adam pulled a bat hat out of his movie costume box when we were moving so I just wore that. It is always super fun and there are tons of game for the little kids and some games for the big kids. We usually bob to apples but because of swine flu they decided that this was not the best idea so instead everyone got gummy worms covered with whip cream and you had to eat them off your plate without using your hands it was super fun and only a little messy. There was also the classic eat the doughnut off the string game. I'm not a big fan of doughnuts so I couldn't finish my doughnut; my favorite part of the game was swinging the doughnut next to Austin and hitting him in the face.

Octomom
My doughnut was so low to the ground I just laid on the floor to eat it.
After I gave up on my doughnut I started swinging that doughnut at Austin.
The big kids were the messiest.
I think I'm going to be sick!
I guess Marn and John missed the memo about dressing up.
I guess Jenn got the memo about everyone dressing like a bat.
The mummy making contest was so fun!
Oakley hated her hat and who could blame her it kept going over her eyes.
Whitney was too good for our party she went to her dance party instead.
YMCA

Another house post

2009-10-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

I have been slacking a little on my house updates I usually write the posts at work but I have to load the pictures at home and I just never seems to get around to it. We are mostly moved into my parents house and they only have dial-up internet so it takes a lot of patiences to upload these pictures. They are getting faster internet hopefully this week thank goodness. We now have cabinets I only have pictures of the lower ones because the upper ones weren't in the day that I went to take pictures but the upper ones are now in. I think that it may be harder to get into the house from now on since they put door knobs on the outside doors. It is really starting to seem like a house now and I'm not really sure how it could possibly take another month to finish the house so my fingers are still crossed for closing before November 24th. They have done more since these pictures were taken and I am going to go on Thursday to see the progress so I will try to post more pictures then.

This is what my mom thinks is the living room everyone else calls it the garage. I guess the big opening didn't give it away that it was actually the garage

Paint and Tile

2009-10-21T11:26:00.000-07:00

Written 10/22/2009

They have now painted and tiled our house I am hoping that they will put in the cabinets this week. They also have the siding on the back and the side. I am really hoping that they will finish our house early because I am really excited to move in and decorate. We are moving in with my parents at the end of this month so that we don't have to pay for a whole months worth of rent and only live there part of the month. We are planning on moving this weekend and I only have 5 boxes packed so I better start packing a lot more.

The zoo from the view of a two year old

2009-10-08T14:53:00.000-07:00

Robyn got a new camera so she gave addisyn her old camera to play with she insisted that she needed to take it to the zoo and it was a good thing since both and my mom's camera batteries died. We decided that we wouldn't help addisyn take pictures unless she asked us to and just see how they turned out since we wouldn't be wasting film or anything. She actually did pretty good considering that when she takes a picture she holds the camera above her head. She is also a very bossy photographer she kept telling us to scoot back or sideways and then she would always tell us to "Say cheese".

Soccer

2009-10-08T11:07:00.000-07:00

A couple weekends ago I went to watch my cousin Jacee play soccer she is seven so her team is just past the stage of what I call bunch ball where they all just fun around right by the ball. They only get to play with five people and a goalie so the only have forwards and fullbacks. Jacee is amazing she was playing fullback and the other girl that was playing the same position was just standing there not really paying attention to what was going on in the game while Jacee was running all over getting the ball away from the other team everytime. I just wish that he coach would teach her that if no one is in front of her to just keep the ball and take it to the goal even if she is playing fullback. Twice she got past everyone on the other team and her team and there was no one in front of her to pass the ball to but when she would get to half field she would just kick it hard towards the other teams goal and then her teammates would have to run past her to get the ball. I guess she has been taught that if she is playing fullback then she can't go past half field we tried to tell her that if no one else is in front of her she could just keep going but she wouldn't listen to us.

Brew Crew

2009-10-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

So I have been playing softball with my cousin and some other people on a co-ed team. It has been really fun and we are pretty good we have only lost once. I do have to say that softball is definitely not my sport I end up with at least one bruise every week. It has also made me realize how out of shape I am but then I push the thought of working out more out of my head until the next week when I have someone right behind me running around the bases.Jenn getting ready to hitSince I'm a lefty you only get a picture of my backside

Ryan getting ready to hit

Zoo

2009-10-06T10:30:00.001-07:00

Addisyn kept yelling at the giraffe to stand up because it was laying down when we first when to see it. It must have understood her because it finally stood up.
I was kind of disappointed because the doors were closed so the Giraffes couldn't go inside and it was really cool last time when they were inside because you could get so close to them.
This was the main reason for our trip to the zoo to see the new baby elephant It was very cute.
Too bad Cody missed this last time we went to turtle was far away and just laying there.
Addisyn had been asking to ride the train for a while so we decided to ride it right before we left.
This is right before she went down the slide and it threw her off the end and she landed on her face.
She was too afraid to go down at first but once she went down there was no stopping her.
It was a tight squeeze.
but I made it!
I went to the zoo last tuesday with my mom and Addisyn it turned out to be the perfect day especially since it has been freezing everyday since then. Addisyn really loved the baby elephant she said "aww she's so cute". It was really fun to not have to rush and it was definitely less crowded than when we went on labor day. The one animal she asked to see again just happened to be the one animal that we saw that was not actually part of the zoo. There was a squirrel that was running around and she wanted to go back and see it. We also realized that we missed seeing a big portion of the zoo last time we went so I was glad to go back and be able to see all the animals that we missed. For lunch we decided to sit and eat at the tables by the penguins I was hoping that the trainer would come out feed them while we were sitting there and it must have been my lucky day because she did come out and feed them and we got to watch. While we were eating Addisyn kept wanting to get a drink out of the lion drinking fountain it was right next to our table to that worked out great but unfortunately she wasn't strong enough to push the button to make the water come out so someone had to get up and help her everytime. It was definitely fun and I want to go back soon.

Softball

2009-10-06T10:27:00.000-07:00

So Tuesday we were supposed to have a softball game at 9:30 pm of course our only late game had to be at the end of the season when it is freezing but then they canceled the game. We already got rained out one week during the season and it just happened to be the week that we had a doubleheader. So now we have to make up three games at this rate we will be playing until Christmas.

New member of the family

2009-09-21T13:27:00.000-07:00

On Thursday September 17, 2009 my sister Robyn had her baby girl Oakley Ann Burrows. She was born at 9:36am and weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. and was 21 inches long. I forgot how little new babies are she seems smaller then addisyn was when she was born but she is actually 1 lb. 6 oz. bigger. I have some pictures of her but I will have to post them tonight when Adam can help me I misplaced my camera and we can't find the cord for Adam's camera so we have to use Adam's phone to put the pictures on the computer and I have no idea how to do that. This is yet another reason why I am so excited to move we are so cramped in our apartment now that we keep losing stuff.

House update

2009-09-21T12:48:00.000-07:00

The house is really coming along the plumbing is all done and the electrical work should all be done by the end of this week. It is amazing how quickly everything is getting done. We made some changes to where the electrical outlets and internet plug so last night we went to check and make sure that everything had been moved to the correct spots. It was a really good thing that we went and checked because some of the outlets were not in the right place and we also noticed that they had not put the right kind of bathtub in the master bath. They put in a normal tub and we are supposed to be getting a jetted tub which I have to admit I am super excited about because I love to take baths. I am super excited to get to move into a place that is our own and I love watching them build it.

What is a lifetime guarantee?

2009-09-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

My Junior year in high school I was on the swim team and everyday after practice there was four of us that would sit int the sauna and talk. One day the question of what is a lifetime guarantee came up. None of us knew what the right answer was but we did come up with a few different options for what a lifetime guarantee could be. The first option is that a lifetime guarantee would be for the lifetime of the product which would be pretty pointless because that would mean that when the product breaks or stops working then it wouldn't be guaranteed anymore so you couldn't get it replaced. Another option was that it was guaranteed for the lifetime of the person who purchased the product and if the is the case is it no longer guaranteed when I die or if I purchase the product when I am twenty and I die when I am ninety is the product still guaranteed for 20 years after I die since I only had it for 70 years and my lifetime is actually 90 years long? I suddenly thought of this of conversation last night that we had 4 years ago and we have still not come up with the correct answer. Honestly I don't even know if there is a right answer but I thought that I would write a post about it to see what other people think.

Lesson learned

2009-09-14T13:40:00.001-07:00

When I came to work today it was sunny and warm so I left my sunroof open. Well when I just looked outside it was raining so I had to run out in the rain to close my sunroof and right when I got outside it started raining really harder. By the time I got to my car I was way wet and my hair was looking pretty crazy because the wind was blowing pretty hard. So I learned my lesson even when it looks sunny and warm I shouldn't leave my sunroof open because if I do I will end up soaking wet and freezing and all the time that I spent straightening my hair will be wasted because my hair will be wavy from the rain.

House update

2009-09-13T15:31:00.000-07:00

I went and checked out the progress again and it is getting done really fast. we now have a second floor and a roof. I took pictures of the inside but its had to tell what is going on so I will post different pictures when it is easier to tell what it going on.

Zoo

2009-09-13T15:19:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday when everyone was at my parents house my niece invited us to go to the zoo and see the"aminals" with her. I hadn't gone to the zoo since I was in about first grade so it sounded like fun especially since Adam was out of town and I would have just sat at home all day on Monday. My sister said that last year when they went it wasn't very crowded well that was definitely not the case this year it took us like twenty minutes to find a parking place but it wasn't too bad once we got inside and everyone spread out. My mom and me have decided that we are going to go back at the end of the month and take my niece to see the baby elephant because it wasn't out yet and hopefully some of the animals will be more active since it will be cooler.Jacee was the wrong height all the railings were at eye level so he either had to duck and look under or have someone pick her up It was really cool because when the giraffes were eating they were super close

Comments

2009-09-06T21:41:00.001-07:00

People have told me that my blog won't allow them to leave a comment but I think that I have it fixed now. If its not fixed then I don't know how to fix it.

Birthday BBQ

2009-09-06T21:02:00.000-07:00

Yesterday September 5th was my Grandpa Marietti's 79th birthday. My sister decided plan a big BBQ for everyone to get together to celebrate his birthday. It was really fun and good to see everyone that we don't get to see too often.Everyone brought tons of yummy salads and I don't think that I will need to eat again for about a week. I have a ton of picture with this post because I want to try to post at least one picture of each person that was at the BBQ.

Drive-in

2009-09-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

Last night I went to the drive in with two of my sister in laws, Cassi and Liz. It was really fun to just get to hang out and get to know them better. There were not really any good movies playing so we just decided to go see Shorts and Transformers. I had never seen the first Transformers movie so I was hoping that I would still be able to understand the movie. It turns out that I didn't really care to watch Transformers because it was boring so I just went to sleep. One tradition we have for the drive in is to take pizza with us for dinner. I had been looking forward to having Papa John's pizza all week because it is my favorite. On my way to get the pizza I realized that I didn't have anything to listen to the movie on so after a short detour to my parents house to get my old school boom box we finally made it to the movie. Unfortunately because it gets dark so early nowand we were running a little late because of our detour we didn't have time to play cards before the movie started. Oh well I guess we will just have to plan that for another night.

We finally found a house

2009-09-04T22:42:00.000-07:00

A girl that I work with lives in a townhouse in West Haven I went to her house to watch twilight a while ago and really liked her house. I have been telling Adam that we should buy one of the townhouses by her. They are just building them so we would be able to pick everything out. When the last house we were going to buy fell through we decided to check out the townhouses just to see if it was even an option for us and it turned out that all the ones that were almost done were already sold and the next ones wouldn't be done until the end of November. We were sure that we wanted to wait that long so we were going to just keep looking for a house but then the realtor called us and said someone had backed out so there was a unit that was available and we could move in within about a week. We decided that it was worth looking at but when we went and looked at it we decided it would be more worth it to wait rather than have what someone else wanted. So we are now getting one of the townhouses and we are waiting until November for it to be done so that we can have it done the way that we want. My friend Suggested that I take pictures and the construction progresses so my mom and my niece Addisyn went and took some pictures yesterday. I am going to try to take pictures ever week or two so that I can have pictures of the whole process. They are building it really fast last week when we went it was just the foundation now the have most of the first floor walls up. We took pictures of both end units
because we have a contract on one but we are hoping to be able to switch to the other end we are just waiting to see if the lady who has the other end either wants to change to a middle unit or if she doesn't sell her house she can't buying. So we are hoping that we can get that one. That seem mean like we are kicking someone else out of their house. Don't mind my hair and glasses in the pictures I stayed up until two in the morning playing farm town on facebook and had to be at work at 8 the next morning. Probably not the best choice I have ever made but I am a little addicted to that game.

Wedding

2009-09-04T22:39:00.000-07:00

On August 13th my little sister Brittany got married to Andy Edwards. I haven't blogged about it sooner because I didn't have any pictures of my own. I didn't forget to take my camera with me or anything I just never took it out of my purse. They got married at the bountiful temple and had their reception at The Victorian in Layton. At The Victorian they take your car and hide it so that it can't be decorated so we decided to decorate the car at the luncheon. I don't have any pictures of that so I will have to find one and post it. Brittany's friend Jenny didn't want to go and try to catch the boquet but my aunt forced her to and Brittany ended up throwing the boquet right to her. Jenny even tried to knock it on the ground so she didn't have to have it but she still ended up with it. I guess it was just meant to be. When they were leaving instead of having guest throw rice or blow bubbles they gave out balloons in their wedding colors and everyone let them go as they walked by it looked really neat I will have to find a picture of it and post it. I got a new dress for her wedding and decided that my siblings need to get married more often so that I can get a new dress unfortunately she was my last sibling that wasn't married. So I will have to figure out another reason to get new outfits. Does anyone have any ideas?

I seriously don't get people sometimes

2009-09-04T22:36:00.001-07:00

The other night I went to the store after work and when I was getting in my car to leave I looked up and saw a lady with oxygen on smoking in a car. Seriously that is just one big explosion waiting to happen and honestly if she needs oxygen I don't think that she needs to smoke.