FUN TIMES WITH THE FISHER'S

Poop stains and Hanes

2012-01-08T21:59:00.004-07:00

New Years eve 2011....the day I realized how out of touch I am with my feminine side/reality/society in general.

No really.

The game: Cranium.
8 of us playing. Guys against girls. I only know one other couple in the room.

Question for the girls: Write down the first 3 words that come to mind when you hear the word 'underwear'. To win, 2 of our answers have to match up with someone from our team.

So, all 4 of us write down our answers.

Their answers (that actually match up with each other!):
Panties
Victorias Secret
Lingerie

My answers (that actually matched up with NO ONE):
Poop stains and Hanes.
I couldn't even come up with a 3rd

Imagine how awesome it was for me to read those out loud after hearing their answers! I managed to get through it with tears of laughter. Although, a piece of me still died in that moment.

Next stop: Victorias Secret for some "panties"

I hope your new year started off as humiliating as mine!

This is how you know you're pregnant

2012-01-08T12:12:00.001-07:00

You know you're pregnant when...

You can't breath.

You get excited over a breast pump.

Your first thought after buying a pump is to try it out on your husband. What?

You clean the kitchen and you're flat out exhausted afterward.

You try to convince yourself that breast feeding will be awesome...

Every website you visit has something to do with babies

Heartburn. Need I say more?

You think the 3D pictures of your baby isn't creepy. In fact, it's adorable!

You can make it to the toilet in pitch darkness....4 times a night.

It's a great day when you don't dry heave while brushing your teeth!

You've researched every product on your baby registry extensively.

Bedtime is at 8pm

You have 3 shirts that actually fit and it sucks when they're all dirty.

Coughing and peeing are no longer two seperate tasks. Aye!

You feel like your hips are about to break in half when you stand up.

You walk into a room and people move so you can sit down. Yessss

Your husband doesn't look at you weird when you eat a gallon of milk and a box of cereal every three days. Or does he look at you weird and you just don't care?

You find out that they sell maternity garments in your 8th month and you're totally stoked to wear them! (And you're husband looks at them and says "what.are.those?"

You have to text your aunt and ask her how the crap you nurse with garments. Pull them up? Pull them down? Cut a hole in the boob? Oh, nursing garments you say? ah!

You take your nephew to the Dr's appointment with you and he screams "I see Juju's butt!" over and over and over....and you want to die, but you don't. You laugh and pretend like he's not saying it.

You go to the baby's room just to look how cute his crib is.

And last but not least, you pray for 10 fingers and 10 toes and dark hair. Haha!

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-25T18:22:00.004-06:00

Zayden and I made witch hats for Halloween. 1 Hershey kiss, 1 keebler cookie, and a dab of frosting. He was so proud, he wanted pictures, and he wanted to carry them around all day.

The tips of the witch hats were just too temping....he had to bite every.single.one of them off. And I let him, because that's what cool aunts do...they let their nephews do whatever they want, then they send them home with mommy.

Next hat

Taa daa! The tipless witch hats

Doesn't he look so proud? He insisted the pumpkins be in the picture as well

The magic of an abacus

2011-09-14T16:36:00.004-06:00

This post is for my mom to see what we'll be making ASAP for the fishy in my belly. I bet you all thought I was actually going to blog something, didn't you? One day friends, one day.

Mom, the worst part about this is there are no instructions. Hahaha. Ours will turn out to be a triangle. And how awesome is the yellow dresser? I'd never dare, but someone awesome would dare.

p.s. thanks for pinning this, Camille. I believe since you pinned it, you have to help me make it!

He Drives!

2011-07-03T19:57:00.000-06:00

Today I have been reflecting on the last 6 years of this bittersweet thing we call life. Lots of bitter mixed in with a lot of sweet. In the end, we are blessed. oh so blessed. In 2004 Dan was trying desperately to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up. (I was desperately trying to figure out why he hadn't thought of this before the age of 22?!) One night we drove past a fire department and I said "why don't you be a fireman?" I obviously had no idea what we were getting into. Six years later we know what the life of a fireman entails, and I'm so glad we do! Dan has worked so hard. I'm amazed at his persistent determination to get what he deserves. Anyone that knows the process of becoming a full time firefighter knows how depleting it can be. Dan was told "no" far too many times, but he never threw in the towel...even when I did. In 2008 he started as a full time firefighter. Just two days ago he found out he got promoted to Driver. I'm so happy for him! There were 15guys testing for only 2 positions and he landed one of them because he's a rock star! Even though he was happy he got the position and passed all 2 days of testing, he is very sad to leave the current crew he has worked with for the last 5 months. Dan has worked with some awesome guys and he has also worked with some really not awesome guys in his career. These guys were some of the awesome guys. They all just clicked...(and I'm pretty sure they all had man crushes on each other. Shhhhhh.) I'm sure his new crew will be fine. Change is hard, but we're excited for it! Good luck to my little Gomer!

Badge pinning

Remember when...

2011-05-29T21:29:00.003-06:00

We drove backward to church?

We live right at the foot of the mountain, so naturally we have to climb a mountain to get to our church building because there was no better place to build it? Anyway, my really nice, expensive car has a hard time going up the hill when it's not snowing...so you can imagine how awesome it is when it's snowing, right? Before we even turned onto the street we saw 2 cars sliding down the hill backward. So Dan guns it (like a true Arizonan) thinking he was going to make it up the hill? I guess? Growing up in Idaho where we actually have seasons I knew this was a bad idea, but I also knew it would be hilarious. So we make it like 6.2 feet up the hill and start sliding back, then sideways, and now we're facing the wrong direction. At this point I would have just gone home and jumped back in bed, but I had to teach Sunday School and we were already late(me, late? never). Without hesitation Dan put the car in reverse and we drove backward to church. The coolest part was neither of us turned around to watch behind us. We looked forward and Dan glanced in the mirror every once in awhile. We were going backward, and looking forward. Just picture it, then laugh. Because that's funny.

My 100th Post!

2011-04-18T17:31:00.005-06:00

Happy Easter!
I hope to remember what we're truly celebrating this Easter.

"I am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in me....shall live:and whoever liveth, shall never die"

Underoos

2011-04-12T21:40:00.003-06:00

The door bell rang. Dan opened it. Two guys from the Elders Quorum presidency stood at the door. I invited them in. I turned around and realized we had underwear spread all over the living room. Literally. My nephew had taken every piece of underwear out of the laundry basket and threw it while I wasn't watching. Tops and bottoms. About 25 undies lay spread eagle on the floor, couch, chair, ottoman....you name it.

And all I could say was "Um, our underwear are all over the house."

This is not my life.

The underwear slinger.
It's a good thing he's cute.

You're thirty, dirty, and a bit nerdy

2011-04-09T13:42:00.002-06:00

My favorite person just turned 30! Seems like just yesterday I was changing your diapers and making you bottles.....wait, what?

I love you times 30!

p.s. can you tell by the clothing that it was freezing in San Diego?!!

Tomorrow...

2011-04-03T20:14:00.003-06:00

...we'll be here. Yessssssssss!

San Diego

Yum

2011-04-01T22:36:00.003-06:00

My new fave cooking website. I always love new ideas for Dan and the firefighters!
Click Here

Another one

2011-03-24T12:07:00.003-06:00

This is one that I have told a lot of people. BUT I have to write it down so I can look back in 3 years and remember the hilarity. This story is pretty much par for our life....weird and hilarious. It's kind of long because it has a back story with it.

Just in case you didn't know already, I'm a Mormon, yes I am. There are all sorts of people that belong to the LDS church.....Nice, fat, skinny, pretty, weird, awesome, fugly, and completely crazy.

Completely crazy is who I'll be telling you about today...mixed in with nice.

There's this lady in our ward that is seriously one of the nicest people on earth. She loves me and I don't even know her name. When I taught Gospel Doctrine she would come up to me or call me after church to tell me (and I quote) "What an amazingly spiritual person you are. You have so much wisdom for your age." Dan and I would die laughing every time. It is pretty funny if you really think about it. Using spiritual and wisdom in the same sentence as Julie Fisher=kinda funny. Obnoxious and negative would be better words to use, but whatever. We'll stick with the first description.

Sister Nice is the ward choir director, and she takes this calling very seriously. She even takes it upon herself to re-compose the songs they sing. She does this by holding notes out in weird places, or pausing in the middle of sentences. A person listening to this music will do one of two things...#1-feel so awkward that they want to crawl out of their own skin. #2-Bend over in the pew and pee their pants laughing. We tried #1 the first few times we heard the angels singing, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. So I rudely chose option numero dos. I'm sorry, I cannot help it. It is THAT funny. Let me give you an example: "There is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunSHINE in my soul today, more glorious...............pause.....................and bright!"
Try to convince me that's not funny!

One week Dan and I regrettably sat about 4 rows from the front on a week that the choir was to be singing. Before the meeting started Sister Nice came down and asked me to sing with the choir. Ok, I've NEVER been to any practice....not one. I've never even shown interest in joining the choir...soooo wtf? I told her I didn't even know the song and she said it was just a song from the hymn book. Dan thinks he's being all funny and says "You should do it hun." then he looks and Sister Nice and says, "She has a really really good singing voice." That's when I piped in and said "So does he, do you need more men to sing?" Of course Sister Nice got all excited and we were officially members of the choir! Yay!

I didn't get nervous until I was up on stage because that is when I suddenly remembered her weird stops and starts and note holding obsession. To make a long story short, she did re-compose it and I wasn't holding out the right notes or pausing at the right moments....and neither were half the people around me that had been to choir practice. So it sounded terrible and my eyes were watering from holding my laugh for so long. Pretty much it was an embarrassing disaster.

Fast forward 4 weeks. Some choir members were on the stage when we walked into Sacrament meeting, so to avoid being asked to join the choir once again, Dan and I leave and walk around the halls until right before the meeting started. We came in and sat on the very back row. We thought we were safe, but we underestimated Sister Nice. After the first talk, the choir got up to sing. Sister nice turns around toward the audience and is staring right at us. So I look at Dan and say "DO NOT make eye contact." By this time all the choir members are on the stage trying to get into their seats. I look up and Sister Nice catches my eye and starts waving us forward. At first it was just a little wave with her fingers, like "come on up here buddy." Then it got worse. She started using both of her arms, raised above her head, smiling, nodding, waving like a maniac. Dan is looking down at a hymn book trying not to laugh, and I am looking past her pretending like I don't see the waving....as if it could go unnoticed. Everyone in the audience is looking around while I sit on the back row with a straight face. In my head I am thinking "OH MY HELL IS THIS SERIOUSLY HAPPENING. STOP LADY, JUST STOP WAVING YOUR ARMS AND SING!" Finally she gives up because everyone is in their seats ready to sing. So she turns around and says something to the choir, and just when we thought the awkwardness was over she turns around AGAIN. She waves her arms at us with the biggest smile on her face. I wish I could have taken a picture of my face right there in that moment. I was stunned. Who does this?! Dan is now bent over laughing....I have tears coming out of my eyes from holding in the laughter. She proceeds to wave like a wild animal over and over and over while I proceed to look past her and smile. Finally, after what seemed like 31 minutes, she gave up.....and I gave up on holding back the laughter. The funniest part of the whole thing is that the couple in front of us thought she was waving at them. So they're sitting there shaking their heads, motioning no with their hands, mouthing NO, and feeling really uncomfortable. We were laughing so hard we were crying. Totally irreverent. Then, as if that wasn't funny enough the choir starts singing the re-composed words of Sister Nice......and the somewhat quiet laughter turned into completely inappropriate and we had to get up and leave before we were struck with lightening.

My last words as we stood on the sidewalk and laughed: "That did NOT just happen!"

p.s. You ought to see Dan' impression of Sister Nice. Diapers must be worn when you watch it.

p.s.s. She called me after church and left a 3 min. 10 second voice mail about how she was waving at us to come up there to sing and how spiritual I am.

Yep...this is my life.

Remember when?

2011-03-21T21:11:00.004-06:00

Dan went to Hastings to rent a movie or a game....I can't remember which, irrelevant really. He went to check out and the amazingly clueless teenager ringing him up told him that his membership expired. Here's the conversation....

Clueless: This membership expired.

Dan: Ok, can I renew it? Or do I need to sign up for a new one?

Clueless: Um. No.

Dan: No?

Clueless: Your membership is expired so you can't rent this.

Dan: I realize it's expired, how do I get one that isn't expired?

Clueless: You can't. It's expired.

Dan (can you just picture the look on his face at this point?): Uhhhhh

Clueless: *stands there and stares*

Dan: So I can't ever rent from here because it expired.

Clueless: That's right

Dan: So what you're telling me right now is that since this card that you give to customers for free expired, there is no way that I can get a new one, which means I can never ever rent from Hastings again?

Clueless: Yes, that's correct.

Dan's mind was officially blown. He started laughing and left.

He came home and told me the story and I laid on the bed and laughed my face off.

Here's what I get from this story....

#1-People are extremely stupid. wow.

#2-How on earth did that kid get a job?????? It took me three months to find a job here and I have common sense!

#3-Who trained him and why does that trainer still have a job?

#4-Dan is too nice. I would have laughed in the kids face and told him to get a supervisor.

#5-Who are his parents?

#6-Our life is hilarious.

I've got nothin'

2011-03-16T00:42:00.002-06:00

Update anyone? Oh I'd love to give you one....but I've got nothing to say. Usually when something awesomely awesome happens in my life I come to my blog and jot a few notes down about it to remind myself to write about it, but I have not been doing this lately so I don't remember anything. Also, I feel like I have missed writing about so many events that I hate to just move on like nothing ever happened....but I must!
I'll start keeping better notes starting today.

You know what else I started today? Jillians Michaels 30 day shred.....and I used Zayden's spaghetti o's as weights. I hated every second of it. I wish I was one of those people that hated food and loved working out. Life would be awesome. Speaking of food, I cannot wait to end this blog so I can go whip up some lemon poppy seed muffins. Who'd like to join me?

A few weeks ago we went to Twin to see Adyson. Love her to bits!
Her latest funnies:

Ady: "Grandma is your house trashed?"
My mom and I start laughing
Grandma: "What???"
Ady: "Is your house trashed?"
Grandma: "No, why do you ask that?"
Ady: "Oh I don't know, I just thought maybe Zayden had been there."
My mom and I died. What 4 year old uses the word "trashed"? Seriously hilarious.

Her big thing that she loves loves loves to play is school. She's always the teacher. My mom has bought her a whole school set up....pointer and all. She thinks it's so awesome to boss us around and we think it's not awesome but we play along anyway.

Ady: "Draw the number five. Don't make me call the cops on you!"

Apparently she had just learned about the police and 911 in school. So all weekend we heard her threats of calling the cops and the ambulance if we didn't obey her. At one point I got kind of worried that she didn't truly understand that you can't just call the cops for stupid stuff, so I double checked with her about when we should actually call them. I do not want her to end up on "the stupidest 911 calls" on youtube one day. She seemed to understand pretty well.

She's still in love with dogs and cats and she cannot understand why I hate cats. Don't worry, I refrain from telling her how stinky and selfish they are. She tries to keep her cat away from me and apologizes for it when it comes near me. One time the dogs started barking outside and she looked at me and said, "Ugh! Be quiet dumb dogs! I am sorry they are acting like this, Ju." lol she cracks me up.

Dan just recently changed stations at work and he l.o.v.e.s it. Sometimes he forgets to call home during the day because he l.o.v.e.s it so much. Turd. He likes the guys he works with and they all seem to get along pretty well. Dan gets along with almost anybody, but he met his match at the last station he worked at. It was a rough year, but we've moved on & we're oh so glad.
I always find it funny how excited people get when they find out Dan is a firefighter. We actually had one guy ask Dan if he could come to the station and try on his turn outs just to see what it feels like. Not even kidding. I always warn Dan about getting a big head over peoples comments. Lets face it, there are some firefighters out there that are just a little too excited to be labeled "heroes". Call me a bad wife, but I refuse to have my husband be one of those. Men are usually the ones that start oogling over the fact that he can call himself DanDan the fireman (okay, maybe only I call him that). The other day he went to the chiropractor and the dude instantly fell in love with him once he found out his profession....and upon leaving the office the Chiro said "Cool, now I can say that I actually KNOW a firefighter." Really? Does it automatically make you cool amongst your peers to KNOW a firefighter? If so, I am one lucky SOB because I married one. Yessssss. People can hate me all they want, but once I drop the "my eternal companion is a fireman" bomb, I'm automatically in like flynn. How lucky is my life?!

Speaking of the fireman, he turns 30 next month! Who's exciteeeed?! Not him! He thinks it's lame that he's 30 with no child. I think it's pretty lame as well. If I could buy him a baby for his birthday, I would. In fact, I'd buy him 30 babies just so we could get our own TV show on TLC. What isn't lame is that he's 30 and he's still pretty awesome. Although, in 30 years he's acquired some pretty troublesome habits...let me name 30 of them for you. Hahaha I kid I kid...but seriously, for your next 30 years lets work on the sniffing and twitching in bed while I'm trying to snooze, can we? kthanksbye.

I will close with these tidbit gems:

-Don't you love when you're in sacrament meeting and the speaker that has gone on and on for the past 35 minutes says "I will close with....". Oh man my heart skips a beat because I know they're about to shut their pie hole. Haha...don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.

-My arm has been twitching all night. I literally started punching myself to try and stop it. Still twitching....

-I just looked through pictures of when Adyson & Zayden were babes....hellz bellz they are stinkin adorable. The pictures of them in their car seats and bassinets make me want to have a baby like you wouldn't believe. I cannot wait to take pictures of my babies all snuggled up in a bassinet with their bums up in the air. (Yes, I know babies aren't supposed to sleep on their bellies...I've read 6 parenting books. Crazy much?)

-I didn't shower today.

-We're going to San Diego next month!

-I miss my husband today.

-I'm in the 'clean it out and throw it away' mood.

-My mom reminded me today of when we saw Chris Cagle in concert and he started fake crying. I'm laughing as I type this. Seriously awkward.

-Speaking of awkward how 'bout the After the Final Rose show? Uhhhhhh....2 months, tops.

-This is what is on my night stand right now.....a 3oz jar of Mentholatum (I'm addicted, so what?). Deodorant. Water. IB Profen. A giraffe that holds my wedding ring. A box from Honduras. Earrings. A lamp. And the best thing off all, Flarp. Google it. Should I try to squeeze any other non essential item on my night stand?

-I just got the funniest text from my bff. Tears.

-I told you I had absolutely nothing to talk about.

-No pictures because I'm Laz-zay.

Mish mashed and out of order.

2011-01-04T20:25:00.004-07:00

How is it that a one and a half year old can completely exhaust a 26 year old? Shouldn't I have 26 times more energy?? Every time I turned around today my nephew had a pen, or scissors, or the dogs bone in his mouth. He's lucky he's cute is all I can say.

Isn't internet shopping fantastic? I've sufficiently drained the bank account while shopping in my underwear the last few weeks and it's been wonderful. No shoes, no shirt=no service at Target. But target.com is whole different story. No shoes, no shirt, no pants=come on in! Nothin better.

If you want to read something hilarious, you should go here. I don't even know this lady and I almost peed my pants laughing at her. Why? Because this is so something that would happen in my life. http://meanmommyuniversity.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-i-told-my-kids-mama-was-one-child.html">

Dan got new bedding last week. He's obsessed with it. It was supposed to be for work, but he kept it home instead. That night I was telling him something (really important, I'm sure!) and this was his reply, "What? I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the awesomeness of my pillow." I didn't know whether I should laugh or smack him. So I did both simultaneously.

On the 9th Dan and I volunteered at the Christmas Box house. We got to help sort through all of the stocking stuffer stuff. Plus we got to see all of the toys that were donated by the community. It was neat to see. When we were getting ready to leave a lady and her little boy brought in a whole suburban full of toys. It filled the whole living room area! Dan said next time he would like to volunteer with the children. I'm not sure I'm up for something like that. It's too sad for me. We'll see.

Dan's little brother got engaged recently. Yay for them! They're getting married on Dan's 30th birthday. If you remember back in one of my other posts I told you I had some great plans up my sleeve for his big 3-0. Well, a wedding wasn't exactly what I was referring to, but it is now! This is the first year in 10 years that he will be in Arizona with his family for his birthday. I think that's a great birthday gift =)

Remember the new bedding I told you about? We bought it about 2 weeks before Christmas. In fact, we went out shopping for other people and came home with $90 worth of stuff for ourselves. oh the selfishness. Dan was feeling really guilty about it once we piled it in the trunk, I was only feeling a tinge of guilt because all I bought was a pair of $5 gloves I needed. The whole way home he was feeling kind of bad. Being the good wife that I am I tried to justify every penny to help him feel better. As we were hauling our Santa sack full of goods up the stairs, our neighbor came out and told us he has been trying to get a hold of us for awhile because his vacuum broke and he wondered if he could borrow ours. My mind instantly went back 3 months earlier when I ignored his door bell ringing...I knew I should have just opened the door. We're awesome neighbors if you couldn't tell. The man had obviously been vacuum less for at least 3 months. Dan graciously offered to let him borrow ours on Sunday (because that's when he does his cleaning). As our door closed behind us Dan and I just stared at each other and all of our crap and I said, "we're buying him a vacuum, right?" Dan nodded and off to Walmart we went! We put the vacuum together and put in on his door step with a bow a few days later so he could wake up to surprise. He caught Dan as he was leaving for work that morning and told him thank you. The bad part is now he wants to be our BFF. I told Dan I didn't want him to feel that way. I wanted to give a vacuum with no strings attached. Dan's reply? "too late, he's coming over for dinner on Wednesday." Dan is too nice, he cant say no, and he doesn't know how to get out of ANYTHING. He is the official YES man, unless I'm the person wanting a yes out of him. He has no trouble saying no to "Hey, how 'bout putting child locks on the cabinet under the sink so little man doesn't eat Ajax for lunch one of these days?" or "That smell you're are gagging on is the garbage. Dumpster anyone?" Anyway, lunch with *G-fry tomorrow at 7pm. Who's joining the awkwardness? We've already conned Zayden into joining us...poor kid doesn't even know what's coming. *his name really isn't G-fry...obviously. It's Godfrey. He's from Nigeria. We called him God for awhile, but for some reason it just didn't feel right, so now his official name (when he's not around) is G-fry.

A few weeks ago I was nice and warm, sleeping so soundly when all of the sudden I feel the bed shaking. I was kind of scared for a second until I realized it was Dan laughing. I'm not talking a little chuckle either. It was uncontrollable laughter. I lay there with my eyes open trying to see if he was watching something on the computer, or reading something, or if his eyes were even open. None of the above were happening so I finally said "HONEY!" more bed shaking. "HONEY!?" The bed stopped shaking and he's trying to act all innocent, "Huh?" Right then I knew he had been asleep the whole time, but I said "Are awake? What are you laughing at you're shaking the bed!" he paused for a second, humiliated "Eh, nothin. I'll tell you later." And back to sleep land he went. Don't worry, I told him all about it the next morning.

For Christmas Dan and I got to buy all the presents for a family he helped host. It was fun, but more work than I thought it would be. We had 4 boys to buy for between the ages of 7 & 14. I've always wanted to this, but I never really knew how to go about doing it. This year Dan made it happen and I'm so glad. Even though I don't know the family, I thought about those boys off and on all Christmas day. I hope they enjoyed it despite their circumstances.

Josh and his family got to come visit us the weekend before Christmas. It was such a fun time. Ady is getting so big. She talks like she's 16 and it cracks us all up. She likes to be in charge and boss people around. I'm scared for when she's really 16. Her mean streak comes out once in awhile, which scares us because it reminds us of her mother. Yikes! She's definitely smart, and loves loves loves animals. I could squeeze her to death. We had lots of fun times, decorating gingerbread houses, snow ball fights, food, dance offs, lights, barbies, presents, and lots of laughing. It was great! We love Josh's new wife Michelle and her son Dylan. She is so laid back and a go with the flow type person. Such a breath of fresh air for all of us.

Next year Dan will be attending tithing settlement without me. He doesn't know this yet because he's still at work. I did it by myself this year whilst wrangling a fussy 18 month old who kept farting. Plus I got called the wrong name the entire time even though I kindly told him my name is Julie Fisher. You know, the Julie Fisher that comes to church every week, been in the ward 2.5 years, taught Sunday school for a year with your wife, hands you tithing EVERY WEEK because we get paid opposite weeks. Yeah, that Julie Fisher. Bless him for his efforts. Bless me not to judge. It gets harder every week. *sigh* Oh how I miss Idaho.

Christmas Eve turned crappy real fast, but only for like an hour. The weekend before while the family was here, Dan had misplaced his keys. If anyone knows Dan you know that this is so out of character for him. He never loses anything...and I lose everything. So he tried to blame me a few times, then he tried to blame the baby a few times. I was convinced it was in the toy box. That week was busy and Dan had just been using the truck key off my key chain, so we really didn't worry much about it. On Christmas eve Dan finally decided we were going to go make a new set of keys later that day when I got home. My mom and I decided to stop at DI to look for an Operation game (remember that game?) because the one she had has a broken nose and doesn't light up. When we got done shopping we put the stuff in the trunk and went to get in the car and it was locked. I had locked my keys in the trunk while looking through a bag that needed to be donated to DI. Nooooooooo! I called Dan to come get us because it was freezing and the store was closing. I was surprised at how many people came to help us. Finally an employee came out and said he had the tools to open car doors because employees lock keys in their car on a weekly basis there. Awesome, I've now been compared to a DI employee. In the meantime 2 people drove up and told us to just stick another key in the door and turn it and try to jiggle it open. Dan did it with his truck key (which is a crappy flimsy copy) and bent his key. Not awesome. 2 key stores later we got someone to make a copy, and luckily it worked! It's a Christmas miracle.

On Christmas day we got a call from my aunt saying that they were going to take my Gram to the hospital. A few days earlier she had slipped on some ice and hit her head pretty hard, so we thought maybe she had bleeding on her brain because she had been dizzy and nauseous. Come to find out it is her heart. She was in A-fib which is a pre cursor to a stroke. She's doing lots better now and we're happy she's ok. I'm so lucky to still have living grandparents, not everyone does! I love that Dan calls them grandma and grandpa, it give me a tickle every time he does. He loves them as much as I do.

On the 27th my sister called me and told me that Zayden had just tripped and cut his head open on a TV speaker. She said it was pretty bad and wondered if we could come help her hold him down at the Doctor's office because her boyfriend was at work in Logan. Luckily Dan was home that day. He did indeed need stitches and he was not happy one bit. Poor little guy. I left the room to go play with Mylie and CJ, while Joni and Dan watched him suffer. Joni cried of course and Dan admitted that was one of the more traumatic things he had seen in his life and had a hard time not crying (do not tell him I told you). He said the worst part was numbing it. The Doctor had to stick the needle in his incision 6 different times to make sure it was all numb. Blood was everywhere. He got 6 or 7 stitches total...I've never been able to count them because he never stops long enough for me to do so =)

On Christmas Eve (before the key incident), my mom went to Lee's grocery store to buy some meat for Christmas dinner. She went and looked at the prime rib, just to see how much it was. At $7 a lb she decided she would forgo the prime and find something else. As she was walking away she saw a huge bow on one of the prime ribs so she picked it up and looked at the price. It was only $2.50 a lb. It looked exactly like the other prime rib packaging, so she went and asked the butcher why it was so cheap. He smiled and said, "Merry Christmas! Every few hours we take the best part of the prime rib and mark it down and put a bow on it until someone finds it." My mom was so excited, she came home and called me right away. I love when the Christmas spirit comes out in people!

I realize I have not given an update on my office visit after my surgery. There's not much to tell, really. I have mild endometriosis, and my Doctor lasered what he could find. Still no baby though. Infertility is rough. Never in a million did I think I would have to say those words. Never. I guess it's the same mentality that a lot of us have about medical problems, "It will never happen to me." But it is happening to me and it's sad, and heartbreaking, and unfair. I was telling my mom some of the things I have to worry about everyday....ya know, peeing on this at this time, watching this, doing that, is it high, is it low, is it peaking, did I take that pill, did I do that today or was that yesterday...it never ends. My mom said "jeeeez, this is like a full time freaking job!" and it is. Except I haven't gotten paid for it yet, that's the crappy part. I realize this could all be so much worse. Life could be worse, and it is worse for a lot of people. So for now, I will count the blessings I do have, and have faith that maybe now is just not the time for us to have children. Easier said than done =)

Life is good.

I have a lot of pictures to post, so I am going to do another post with a slide show.

What shall we give?

2010-12-10T21:22:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FSQuHDIsVw&feature=player_embedded

Re-do

2010-12-04T12:46:00.001-07:00

How about that last post, yeah? It's so amazing I'm going to leave it. Love me some blogger...

Is it really Christmas time again? I swear I just took the star off the tree and packed it up in the shed last week! I love Christmas, I do, but it seems like it was just here.

I love the spirit of Christmas, or the spirit of Christ rather, and how it fills the air this time of year. I feel happier and a little more charitable in December, don't you?Ah, I hope so.

The last couple of years have been bores-ville Christmases, so I am determined to make this year a good one! Here's how.....

-See a Christmas play. Check! My friend and I went to Five Carols for Christmas/Jingle Jacks. 5 carols was cute...jingle jacks could use some work. haha.

-Decorate the tree and be satisfied with it. I didn't like our tree last year. It was such a bummer because I had such great plans for it, but it just didn't turn out the way I wanted it. Trimming the tree this year started out pretty rough. I wanted to do my blue and silver tree this year. We found the blue and silver bulbs and put them on the tree. When we went to get the other decorations we could not find them....still can't find them to this day. How do you lose a Christmas box of decorations? I know how....you pack up half your house in hopes of selling it, and a year later it is still up for sale. Son of a....
Anyways, we improvised, and a WEEK later our tree is finished. I'm determined to convince myself I love it...but secretly I hate the blasted thing. I even uttered these words to Dan "just put tinsel on it and forget it." TINSEL! I said TINSEL! Of course my husband knows me well enough to know that the sight of tinsel on my tree makes me vomit profusely, so we went to my moms house and found a few things to spruce up this disaster we call our Christmas tree. It actually turned out way better than planned! Waalaa....it is now complete. Check!
Speaking of waalaa, have you ever tried the WaaLaa comb? AMAZIIIIING. Google it.

-Go to the light parade. Check! Who knew that the city I have called home for the past 6 years has a light parade every year?? Not me! I now know, and I'm glad we went. So fun! Check!
-Build a gingerbread house. One year I built one with my mom and it turned out adorable. This year I built one with Dan and, well, not as adorable but fun none the less! We got sick of it half way through and wanted to stop....but I saw it through, because gosh dangit we were going to check this off our Christmas to-do list! Check!

-Actually buy people Dan works with gifts....I won't even go into last year, but lets just say Awkwaaard. This year we're not going to be the ids (short for idiots). Gifts for the firefighters bought and ready to go! Check!

-Volunteer somewhere. Check! On the 10th Danroid and I are going to the Christmas Box house and sorting through all of the gifts the community has donated to abused/neglected children. I'm hoping for a good, memorable experience.

-Listen to Christmas songs as much as possible. Check! We only get to hear them once a year, so I might as well listen to them until I want to punch the radio.

-Put some thought into the gifts I give this year. Sometimes I feel like we (myself included) go to the store and grab something off the shelf just so we can cross that person off our list. It usually ends up being something lame like bath gel. The sad part about that is the person receiving the gift can usually tell we just grabbed it off the shelf with no thought involved. This year I'm going to use my brain while shopping!
-Read Christmas With the Prophets. Check! We've been reading it since the middle of November. Each chapter talks about a different prophet and what their Christmas traditions were. Pretty neat.
-Go to the Nativity display. Check! We did that tonight and it was actually pretty neat! They had nativities that people brought in from all around the world. I can't believe how many varieties there are.

-Go see some Christmas lights. There are a few cities around here that decorate their parks with lights. We went to the one in Layton one year and it was FREEZING, but fun. It's on our list of things to do when Ady comes to see us!

-Soak it alllll in. Two years ago I remember being in such a hurry all season I was completely flustered every day for 25 days straight. On January 1st I looked back and wondered what the crap just happened. My holiday was gone and I forgot to enjoy it. I wanted a re-do. Where's the rewind button when you need it?

Here's hoping your Christmas season is as great as mine!

It's the most wonderful time of the year

2010-12-03T23:52:00.003-07:00

Is it really Christmas time again? I swear I just took the star off the tree and packed it up in the shed last week! I love Christmas, I do, but it seems like it was just here.

I love the spirit of Christmas, or the spirit of Christ rather, and how it fills the air this time of year. I feel happier and a little more charitable in December, don't you?Ah, I hope so.

The last couple of years have been bores-ville Christmases, so I am determined to make this year a good one! Here's how.....

-See a Christmas play. Check! My friend and I went to Five Carols for Christmas/Jingle Jacks. 5 carols was cute...jingle jacks could use some work. haha.

-Decorate the tree and be satisfied with it. I didn't like our tree last year. It was such a bummer because I had such great plans for it, but it just didn't turn out the way I wanted it. Trimming the tree this year started out pretty rough. I wanted to do my blue and silver tree this year. We found the blue and silver bulbs and put them on the tree. When we went to get the other decorations we could not find them....still can't find them to this day. How do you lose a Christmas box of decorations? I know how....you pack up half your house in hopes of selling it, and a year later it is still up for sale. Son of a....
Anyways, we improvised, and a WEEK later our tree is finished. I'm determined to convince myself I love it...but secretly I hate the blasted thing. I even uttered these words to Dan "just put tinsel on it and forget it." TINSEL! I said TINSEL! Of course my husband knows me well enough to know that the sight of tinsel on my tree makes me vomit profusely, so we went to my moms house and found a few things to spruce up this disaster we call our Christmas tree. It actually turned out way better than planned! Waalaa....it is now complete. Check!
Speaking of waalaa, have you ever tried the WaaLaa comb? AMAZIIIIING. Google it.

-Go to the light parade. Check! Who knew that the city I have called home for the past 6 years has a light parade every year?? Not me! I now know, and I'm glad we went. So fun! Check!
-Build a gingerbread house. One year I built one with my mom and it turned out adorable. This year I built one with Dan and, well, not as adorable but fun none the less! We got sick of it half way through and wanted to stop....but I saw it through, because gosh dangit we were going to check this off our Christmas to-do list! Check!

-Actually buy people Dan works with gifts....I won't even go into last year, but lets just say Awkwaaard. This year we're not going to be the ids (short for idiots). Gifts for the firefighters bought and ready to go! Check!

-Volunteer somewhere. Check! On the 10th Danroid and I are going to the Christmas Box house and sorting through all of the gifts the community has donated to abused/neglected children. I'm hoping for a good, memorable experience.

-Listen to Christmas songs as much as possible. Check! We only get to hear them once a year, so I might as well listen to them until I want to punch the radio.

-Put some thought into the gifts I give this year. Sometimes I feel like we (myself included) go to the store and grab something off the shelf just so we can cross that person off our list. It usually ends up being something lame like bath gel. The sad part about that is the person receiving the gift can usually tell we just grabbed it off the shelf with no thought involved. This year I'm going to use my brain while shopping!
-Read Christmas With the Prophets. Check! We've been reading it since the middle of November. Each chapter talks about a different prophet and what their Christmas traditions were. Pretty neat.
-Go to the Nativity display. Check! We did that tonight and it was actually pretty neat! They had nativities that people brought in from all around the world. I can't believe how many varieties there are.

-Go see some Christmas lights. There are a few cities around here that decorate their parks with lights. We went to the one in Layton one year and it was FREEZING, but fun. It's on our list of things to do when Ady comes to see us!

-Soak it alllll in. Two years ago I remember being in such a hurry all season I was completely flustered every day for 25 days straight. On January 1st I looked back and wondered what the crap just happened. My holiday was gone and I forgot to enjoy it. I wanted a re-do. Where's the rewind button when you need it?

Here's hoping your Christmas season is as great as mine!

Remember when....

2010-11-29T18:19:00.004-07:00

I'm going to start a new fad right now. This is groundbreaking I tell you....groundbreaking.
Ok, not really. BUT I am starting a new thing on my blog called REMEMBER WHEN?
I always think of funny things that happened in the past, but I never write them down because they're just random. Usually they'll just be short little stories that are pretty much only funny to me and those who were there....but I'd like to remember them. So I'm going to write them down, and you'll just have to suffer through them. Hey, it's my blog and I write what I want!

Yesterday while I was helping my mutha decorate her tree, I remembered a really awesome tree decorating incident from back when I was 6 years old.

We had softball size bulbs for our tree and I thought it was AmAzInG that I could see my reflection in them. I was making all sorts of dashing-ly funny faces in this bulb, laughing all the way HA HA HA (did you catch that? Yess). At one point I started opening my mouth really wide just to see what that little hangy down thing in the back of my mouth looked like in a bulb. I'm pretty sure that at this point something possessed my 6 year old body, because I got the sudden urge to bite the glass bulb...and I did it. Who in their right mind does that?? Honestly! You can guess what happened next. The bulb shattered into millions of pieces all over in my mouth and I thought I was going to die....literally. How did I get it out, you ask? This next part is ingenious! My mom got out the VACUUM, put an attachment on the hose, and sucked my mouth out! How disgusting/germ ridden is that?? Yet completely clever! Props to my mom for saving my life that day via the vacuum.

Adding a little somethin somethin to the pictures

2010-11-22T23:53:00.003-07:00

We played laser tag with these fools, then KellzBellz had the audacity to say I ruined her pictures. Honestly...how rude.

Ok, so I looked like total turd that night...but I see nothing wrong with popping up out of nowhere & making the ugliest face you can muster in the background of someones picture.

Lucky day and surgery

2010-11-11T15:36:00.006-07:00

Can I just start by saying that I cannot stand the Fresh Start Dental commercial?! Has anyone seen this? You know, the old lady finally gets her teeth fixed and she *fake* cries as she bites into an apple? Hellz bellz. Could this be any cheesier. I mean, I'm sure the lady is excited to be able to bite into an apple after 30 years of not being able to do so....but to add the *fake* crying is just more than I can handle at this point in my life. One of these days I want to take a picture of my face while I'm watching that commercial. It will have baffled written all over it.

*sigh* on to more important things. Can you tell I've been watching a lot of TV the last few days?

Today has been a better day than I planned for. I woke up not feeling so good. Sore, weak, tired...ya know, the usual post surgery complaints. I was bound and determined to get out of the house though. I felt cooped up, and I've watched the apple scenario mentioned above one too many times the last three days. I ventured out and actually took a shower today. Who's proud of me? My goal for today was to get my car Emission and inspection done. I have a broken windshield...one big ol long crack. I knew it wouldn't pass, but I went to get it checked out anyway. The front desk girl was super awkward/weird. After I had been there for 10 min she looked at me and said "do you want a tootsie roll?" uhhh. Of course the fella checking out my car came in and said my windshield needed to be replaced, so he would have to fail me for now. I went to the awkward front desk girl to pay and she gave me a $7 discount for being an Intermountain employee. Then when I got my paperwork back it said I had passed! He "forgot" to mark it as FAIL. Woohoo! Guess who gets to drive around with a broken windshield for the next 2 years??? I am fully aware that cracked windshields are white trash. I get that. But if being white trash saves me $250, I am all for it. I might have to give up my pride, but who needs that anyway? THEN I was feeling so good about all of my savings that I headed to Rite Aid to buy Mascara. When I got there it was on sale for 40% off plus I found a $2 off coupon in my purse. When was the last time you spent $2.49 on your mascara, huh? I bet you wish you were me right now.

Lets get to the surgery everyone keeps asking me about. Dr Beer (ok, it's really Bierer but it's pronounced Beer-er...I even clarified the pronunciation with his nurse the first time I saw him) did find endometriosis. He lasered it out, he flushed my tubes with saline, and the next thing I knew I was in the recovery room next to a crazy lady wanting morphine every 2.5 seconds. As far as I'm concerned I was the most normal patient in the recovery room at that time. The lady to the left of me was being dramatic and her nurse kept telling her...very sternly.... to relax and go back to sleep. The lady on the right was the morphine-queen and her nurse had to keep telling her she couldn't have more meds. The girl in the middle just cried and calmly asked for her husband and a drink of water. This may or may not have been me. Ok, it was me. Dangit!

Ten minutes after I woke up they wheeled me into my room, and my nurse told the other nurse to go get my husband stat....ok, he didn't say stat. That was just for dramatic affect. Dan came into the room and I was all better. We got to go home a half hour later. Isn't it weird how the side effects and pains from surgery usually have nothing to do with the area that was operated on? The worst pain I have had has been in my shoulder and my right side from the gas that was pumped into me. For some reason it plants itself in those two places and it feels like someone is constantly stabbing me. Oh, and lets not forget about trying to pee. "Feel the burn" took on a whole new meaning! Yikes. Speaking of urine, the CNA got mad at me for not being able to give her a sample when I first got there for a pregnancy test. I finally told her I hadn't drank anything for 12 hours (as directed by your nursing staff) so she'd have to draw blood. She rolled her eyes at me and sighed. Seriously??!! After that I never had to see her again. A nice nurse came in and started my IV and drew my blood. Then she hooked me up to Bair Paws which is a warming device that blows warm air into plastic chambers inside your gown, and it makes you look like a gigantic fatlard. Fun huh? Don't worry, we took pictures. I have 2 incisions, one in my belly button and one 3 inches down from my belly button. They're pretty cool to look at in the mirror. Just sayin.

Dan took care of me Tuesday and Wednesday (in between playing Black Ops along with 3 MILLION other people), and today I am going at it alone because Dan had to work. I wish he could have stayed home. It's much more fun to have someone else make you french toast. My great friend Krista brought over a shake, a kit kat, pumpkin soup, a card, and a Dr Pepper yesterday. Isn't she fab? Just what the doctor ordered! =)

Bair Paws

I have no urine to give

Lameness

2010-11-08T21:36:00.000-07:00

As I sit here my home looks like a tornado hit it. In a way, it did. It's name was Zayden. My makeup spread from here to next week, pen mark on my couch, videos drug out, puffs scattered all over the floor, toys laying lifeless, and pee filled diapers sitting by the garbage can. I usually try to have this cleaned up before I go to bed, but today I am breaking my own rules and leaving it. I'll feel guilty about it all night just so you know. When Dan walks in tomorrow morning and sees it I'll pretend I'm asleep, but really I'll be beating myself up wondering why I didn't just clean it up before I went to bed. Ah well.

We visited Arizona land last week. The flight is only 1 hour and 30 minutes. When we boarded the plane I realized how spoiled/crazy we are these days. For one 90 minute flight we brought: 2 IPODS, 1 PSP, 6 PSP games, 1 laptop, 1 flash drive with 3 movies on it, and two headphones. Honestly! Is it just me or is that ridiculous?! Whatever happened to reading a book,doing a word search, or getting to know your neighbor that you're awkwardly touching thighs with? The Arizona sun came out just for us. Low to upper 90's all week. Thanks for that. It reminded me of how much I LOVE having actual seasons....(hot and hotter are not seasons hun). The changing of the leaves are incredible every year. The smell of the dusty old heater turning on warms my innards (in nards...hahaha. What kind of word is that?!). Yesterday we took my nephew to the park and he crunched through the leaves, and kicked them up in the air for the first time in his 18 month life. It was awesome. I was excited for him...I can't wait to build snowmen with him! I remember one of the first times Dan saw snow falling from the sky. His eyes lit up like a kid at a candy store. I felt sad that Arizona had deprived him of something so amazing for 21 years! I will say that Arizona is a nice place to visit in late December when I'm starting to get sick of the snow though. It's a nice break from heavy ski coats and ice filled roads.

Back to the subject....this was the first year Dan and I visited his family over Halloween. We usually visit over Christmas or Thanksgiving. Dan of course dressed up.....and me,the Halloween equivalent of the grinch, did not. Boo for fun sponges! He was Where's Waldo. Total nerd. We made most of the costume too. I was quite proud of us! On Saturday night we went miniature golfing with Dan's little brother and his new found love, Kamri. We also found out that Dan's parents call it goofy golfing. Uhhhhhh. I find nothing goofy about miniature golfing...it's serious stuff. Dan beat me by ONE point. That's the closest I have ever been to beating him....it felt almost as good as winning.

On Monday we went to the cheesecake factory with Dan's parents for his mom's birthday. We didn't have cheese cake though...does that make us weird?

We got to see Dan's friends, ate at Jack in the Box way too many times, got sick (probably from the aforementioned), had family dinner, & Dan went trick or treating with some of the kids. I stayed home and dominated at Bubble Talk.....orrrr totally sucked...I can't remember.

Looks like there are some weddings in the works with the Fisher boys, so hopefully we will be get to be there for those next year!

On to other shtuff.

Shaun T visited my living room last week. He's the dude from the INSANITY workout videos. His video's should be called pure and utter hell. I saw my life flash before my eyes during this workout. Don't ever do it. Never ever. Stick to Richard Simmons, he's much kinder.

Did I really just fill out a paper planning my husbands funeral "just in case"? Yes, I did. His work asked for it. It asked who would give his eulogy, what song he wants played, & what poem he wants read. It even asked who his pallbearers would be. It had too much detail. I didn't like that paper. It's going in the mail tomorrow. Let's hope we don't have to see it again for a long time! As a side note....when I googled "songs to be played at a funeral" it popped up with Rape Me by Nirvana. Uhhh. Awkwaaard.

We started our Bunco group the other night. SUPER FUN! I won a fall centerpiece. It's a fantastic addition to our home. Can't wait for next month!

A few weeks ago we went to a Suns game with some friends, Travis & Hillary. Of course we were rooting for the Suns in the Jazz arena. I feel so alone in that place wearing purple and cheering while every one else is silent and/or booing. I feel like the fat kid that everyone hates at recess. It's terrible. I'm not sure I knew what marrying a Suns fan completely entailed. I learned quickly though. The things we do for love!

Tomorrow is the big day for my surgery! I'm sorry, but I have seen one too many intubations to NOT be worried about this. What if my trachea is all weird and small or something and they have to keep trying. What if they let a Henager try to intubate me? What if I start throwing up profusely through the tube and the suction isn't hooked up so everyone starts scrambling and trying to hook it up...meanwhile someone is bagging me, pushing all the $%#@ into my lungs. Ok, that last one was just something I watched happen and I pray to never see it again...and you thought everything went perfect in hospitals, didn't you? Back to the surgery-it's only supposed to last 45 minutes. The scope will go through my belly button, and if any lesions are found they will be lasered away. I'm paranoid that they aren't going to find any lesions and I'm going to wake up in the same situation I am in now....but I'll have a sore throat and a weird looking belly button to go along with it.Oh, and a bill bigger than my budget. That's the risk I take though. Everything will be fine. I feel like my doctor is competent and he seems to be very confident in his work. I cooked 3 casseroles tonight so Dan could have something to eat for the next few days while I lay in bed dreaming about having a baby. We got the Xbox Kinect (google it) today, so I'm sure he will be out in the living room jumping around like a maniac keeping himself highly entertained. Could someone text him every few hours and remind him to check on his wife? K, thanks. ;)

I've been writing this post off and on for two weeks. It's choppy and terrible....and it has no pictures. Boo for lameness, but I must get some sleep and some house cleaning done before tomorrow.

P.S.--just so you know, whenever Dan creates an avatar of himself he always has it wear a monocle. He thinks it's hilarious...I'm secretly worried he will start wearing one when he's old.

A real once a weeker

2010-10-07T22:16:00.005-06:00

This is going to be a real Once A Weeker. The last one was more like a Once a Summer-er....or something like that.

I decorated my house for Halloween this year. Who's proud of me? You should be. Halloween is my least fave, but it's Dan's fave. In an effort to keep my husband happy I give into the Halloween spirit....every other year. I thought my nephew would be scared of all of our decorations, but it looks like I stand alone in the scared department again this year. I do not like the feeling of fear. If there was one feeling I could take away it would be fear. Like the good husband that he is, Dan preys upon my fear of fear. Just the other day while at our friends house he jumped out of a closet and almost made me pee my pants. One of these days he is going to get punched right in the face. It's a natural reflex of mine to start punching when scared....don't say I didn't warn you.
If you haven't already guessed, haunted houses are out of the question in my life. Dan begs every year, and every year I have to tell him the same horrific story from my past......It was 1996 (ok, I don't really know the exact year), my mom has this grand idea, "Lets go to a haunted house!" This wasn't a baby haunted house that the old creepy neighbor next door set up in his garage. This was an old abandoned house on a scary street that you don't even walk down in daylight. The line was long. I remember exactly what I was wearing...an awesome tie dye-ish dress/skirt thing, with white shoes embellished with a bow on the top (it was 1996, give me a friggin break). When it was our turn I was trying to act all calm and cool, but really I was crying and screaming inside wishing I were dead. We had my brother and sister and some of their friends with us, so I had to be the cool little sister, right? This fasad only worked for .42 seconds. Someone started chasing after me with a chain saw and as I ran I lost one of my awesome shoes. Somehow I ended up losing my family and trying to go back for my shoe but there were so many people I couldn't make my way back, plus this freak was about to chainsaw my face off. Somehow I ended up "behind the scenes" of this freak show, standing next to a guy in a scary mask behind black sheets. He was trying to help me, but he was scaring the pee right out of me. I was crying...scratch that....WHALING for my mom & my shoe. Finally my mom realizes that her last born child might be dead and she comes back to find me. She's laughing hysterically at my hysterical-ness and tries telling me to come with her. The music and the chain saws in our faces are so loud that she can't hear me telling her that my shoe is lost. So she's pulling me toward her and I am pulling back (does this sound like a nightmare to anyone else?!). Finally Freddy Krueger brings me my shoe, and we escaped with our lives flashing before our eyes. I cried the whole way home, I'm sure of it.
If that story doesn't get Dan off my back, then I just lay it out for him..... "I'm sorry honey, haunted houses were not listed in our vows." He hasn't caught on to the fact that we never said vows...shhhhh.

Speaking of 1996, remember penny loafers? All the cool kids had them. I actually saw an older man wearing penny loafers with the pennies in them. I almost burst out laughing. Who does that? I had to look at his shirt to make sure it wasn't a Hypercolor T-shirts.
Remember hypercolor T-shirts? Can we say awesome? I haven't seen anyone wearing one of those as of late, but if you stick around long enough you might find me wearing one. Those were/are the coolest shirts ever made.

My Bff from work is starting a bunco group and I will be gracing her with my presence. I'll keep you posted on all the cool stuff I win. It should be fun!

On Monday Dan called me from work and said, "I cannot leave work." Usually he says this when they are in the middle of ping pong or basketball game. Apparently they were having an open house for the community to come check out the fire department. They had mock rooms set up in the parking lot, and charged hose laying out so Dan couldn't back out. Poor dude had to stay at work 3 extra hours. I don't think it bothered him too much, they ate pizza and lit things on fire the whole time. Freakin pyromaniacs I tell you.

We found out yesterday that Adyson is going to be a mermaid for Halloween. My mom asked her if she had her costume and she said "yes I DO" all matter of fact-like. My mom asked her if she was going to wear a wig and Ady said her mom told her she was going to have pink hair. My mom asked how she was going to get it pink and she said, "well, I guess we'll just have to paint it." Her voice is so cute, I wish I could record everything she says.

I came home the other day to a SPOTless house and roses from the Mister. He even vacuumed! Could I have a better husband?! Nah. Speaking of good husbands, I just found out the other day that he is 29, not 28! HOW did I miss a year? ugh. Worst wife award goes to J-Fish. I have plans up my sleeve for the big 3-0....you just wait. Bad wife award will be off my record soon enough!

Today was a weird day. Bittersweet if you will. I went to my doctor begging him to give me a baby....ok maybe I wasn't that blunt. Could infertility be any more expensive? I kid you not I was in his office 15 minutes and I had to give him 100 of my (husbands) hard earned dollars. And that's the cheapest part of it! All he said was "endometriosis my friend, endotmetriosis." Those weren't his exact words, I just kind of summed up those 15 minutes for you. Laparoscopy will be in my near future. Boooo for infertility. The sweet part of my day was the fact that I have somewhat of an answer to my "why no baby?" question. I just hoped it involved Clomid instead of surgery. Beggars can't be choosers I suppose.
I know some of you have told me you feel out of the loop and/or are scared to ask about my bum ovaries. I'll keep you posted on here as much as I can so you don't have to ask if you don't want to. If you don't like the word 'ovaries' you might want to find another blog...cuz it's mah blog, and I write what I want. (secretly, I don't like the word either).

To end on a happy note, I hope my kid likes fruits and veggies as much as my nephew. To date, he has thrown 3 fits in stores with me because he wants to eat fruit before we buy it.
1st time-fruit stand. He saw blackberries and almost fell out of the cart crying for them.
2nd time-fruit stand. Picked up tomatoes that weren't ours, nor were they paid for, and started eating them like apples. He ate 3 of them. No lie.
3rd time-Walmart. In the check out line. Bananas coming down the conveyor belt and he spots them. Of course the bananas have to be weighed, so I can't just give him one. The bad news was there was still a lady in front of me waiting to check out. He threw some serious fit action right there. Stood up in the cart and freaked out, pointing at the bananas. Children are humiliating, aren't they?

Don't you hate wedgies?

Once a weeker rears its ugly head

2010-10-06T12:09:00.003-06:00

My grand idea of the 'Once a Weeker' has really fallen off the face of the earth the last couple of months. Summer is busy, isn't it? There were so many times that I thought "I should blog about that" but I never did. Shame on me. I will try my hardest to remember what has happened. It's been a good summer, but I am ready for the fall. I love fall. I love the cool weather & the changing of the leaves. Dan drives through a canyon to get to work. During this time of year he comes home every few days and tells me how the colors have changed and how awesome it looks. We usually take a drive up Ogden Canyon and down the North Ogden divide, and it always reminds me of how much Heavenly Father loves us.

Labor day weekend we found ourselves in Heber City hanging out with the fam and helping my uncle lay cement for his boat to park on. Like the dumb dumbs that we are, we forgot our camera. It was a fun time. Josh, Michelle, and Adyson came and we loved having them! We took Ady & Zayden to the swiss days parade where they got too much candy. On our way to the parade a deer ran across the road right in front of us and Ady said "awww that was so adorable!" She cracks us up. When the parade was over Ady called her dad:
Ady: We got so much candy Dad, guess how many?
Josh: How many?
Ady: FIVE
Grandma: Million
Ady: (laughing) YEAH, five MILLIOOOON.

Adyson is always wanting to please her daddy and always makes sure he is ok and happy. After the cement was poured Josh was sore so Ady said "I am going to go stretch my daddy's legs for him." After we had all the fun we could have, we went to the Outlet mall in Park City so Josh and Michelle could find Ady some clothes for preschool. My brother picked out some pants for her to try on and at first she was not too thrilled about the idea of trying stuff on, but after she put the pants on and Josh told her how much he loved them she was hooked! She kept putting things on and asking me "Do you think my dad is going to love this too?" She loves the mirror. She put her hand on her hip, and twirled, and bent over, and posed with every outfit. She's such a doll, I miss her already.

The weekend before Labor Day we went to a family reunion for my grandpa's side of the family. It was actually a lot more fun than we thought. It was very humid and warm though. They had a lady come sing country music...she was good if you didn't look at her. She made THE WEIRDEST face when she sang...I couldn't tell if she was having a bowel movement or what. Other than that, she was great. They also had a magician come. Zayden loved him. He couldn't take his eyes off of his tricks. Afterwards he let all of the kids pet the bunny and bird. Zayden thought it was pretty cool, I thought it was gross and immediately needed to find hand sanitizer.

Dan is still working up in the valley. He has been at the other station up there for awhile now, and he is so ready for a change. He's tired of the valley, tired of some of the people. In December they are doing shift bids which means they will get to choose which station they want to be at for the next 2 years. Hopefully he gets what he wants.

Here's my negative rant for this post........Twice this summer we have ordered from Bountiful Baskets. Have you heard of this? It's a fad...Utahns are always looking for new fads, aren't they? I don't consider myself a Utahn, but I fell into the hype of it all. I admit, the thought of getting all of these awesome fruits and veggies was amazing in my mind. After all, we love summer and fall for all of the garden goodness! It turned out to be the biggest waste of $33.48 I have ever wasted! The tomatoes were the worst tomatoes known to man. They were as crunchy as an apple. GROSS! Both times they gave us 16 plums......16! Who eats 16 plums before they go bad? Dan loves plums...but he doesn't love 32 plums. The lettuce was fine. Lettuce is lettuce. I don't even want to get into the 8 mango's we threw away or the green oranges or the hard as rock nectarines. Who are these people and why are they recommending something like this to me???? Bottom line is, all of this stuff is in season and should be very tasty and ripe....everything we got was not ripe and had been refrigerated which is a no no with most fruits and some veggies. I highly un-recommend this.

A few weeks ago we went to a summer party for Dan's work. Ah, work parties....who thought of those? They had a BBQ and a raffle. We won two hair cuts......that expired in March. Awesome.

At the fist of the summer Joni and I took Zayden to get his pictures taken by a lady that she hired, Mel Howlett Photography. We had one hour to get good shots....that seems adequate, right? We were so disappointed in this lady. All she kept saying to Zayde was "boo". He was so over that after the third time. I decided that we were paying good money for this, so I danced around and made Zayden smile. Pretty much she should have paid me because I was doing her job. We got some really cute shots of him, but her editing is terrible. His face is whited out in all of them. He looks albino. I KINDLY emailed her and asked her if she could darken the images a smidgen. She replied very coarsely and said that she would edit ours after she edited 22 other peoples. Which by my calculations would have been 1.5 years before my sister got pictures back. lol. People kill me. I think she realized she was being an imbecile because she wrote back 2 hours later and said she would edit a few of our favorites if I emailed them to her. What has happened to customer service? If you were trying to run a business wouldn't you try to make sure your customers were happy before they left your door step with a CD full of pictures? Yikesoid.

In July we went to Bearlake with my BFF from work and her boyfriend Ryster (ok, his name is Ryan and he has no idea I call him Ryster...shhh.) It was a little windy...to say the least. Our tent almost blew away, and our pillows got soaked by the rain. Our tin foil dinners burnt because it was raining so hard we couldn't leave the tent to check on them. We even had to have family prayer inside our tent because we were getting scared....when I say "we" I mean Krista and me. The boys were acting all tough, but they were really peeing their pants, I know it. Needless to say Dan was very un impressed by his first experience at Bearlake. I am determined to make him love it like I do. So next year there will be a cabin and some wave runners in the mix.

We made our usual trek to Cleveland (rocks) for the 24th of July. Always a good time there.
We ate lamb, sat and talked on grandma's grass for hours, climbed up the telephone pole.....yeah...I'm not sure why either...ate, ate, ate, people watched, and watched babies get thrown from laundry baskets during the races. Ahhh, it's a great life, isn't it?

In August we went to the Powder mountain motocross with the Stevenson's. We sat by the finish line because it had the biggest jump by it. Pretty cool to see. I'd totally biff it if I were to try anything like that.

This year we are heading down to A.Z. land for Halloween. Halloween=one of my least favorite holidays..but it comes once a year so I better start loving it. I'm not the type that likes to dress up I guess....unless I get to be this

Many more things have happened but they're not comin to me. 2010 was a good summer. Bring on Fall!....and bring on tons of pictures!

Can you tell that everyone is exhuasted?

Lovin her Tinker Bell pj's

Could she be any cooler?

We took her to DI one night. She cried the whole way there because she didn't want to go. She was so tired of being in the car. Once we got there she didn't want to leave. These glasses were her idea.

Adorable even when he hair is a mess.

So proud of those 2 in 1 glassses

Petting the bird at the family reunion

The magician gave him a sword

He can't take his eyes off all the mad tricks that magician was pullin out

How cute is his arm resting on Dan's shoulder? he loves his uncle Dan. He gets hyper when he is around. Surprised?

My grandpa is on the right, his brother is on the left, I have no idea who is in the middle =)

There was a bird singing in the tree

Grandma and Dano...pretty sure they were laughing at the singers face. Why didn't I get a picture of her?!

Typical faces. haha!

Zayden LOVED the root beer dry ice

Ahahahaha how cute is that?

The Hogs and Hydrants softball game (I blogged about it awhile ago, but never posted a picture) They won! Way fun game!

Dan

Trendyn came to play! These two got SO dirty within minutes!

I'm so glad I finally got this posted! I've been working on it since 9/7!

What Happened in Vegas?

2010-09-06T21:05:00.010-06:00

I left for Vegas with money in my pocket and came home with a negative balance in my pocket. Dang those penny slots. Luckily I came home with a fantastic new sister in law to make up for it. I'd take her over winning money any day. (Shhhh, don't tell the slot machine that.) There is one exception to that....if I won 266 million dollars I would have to betray her. But only for like 5 minutes until I could buy her back with my new found wealth.

We called Ceasers Palace, Little Ceasers no less than 64 times each. The coolest part is that we didn't even correct ourselves most of the time.

Highlight of the trip was when my brother fainted at breakfast. My mom and I were walking away from the cashier to be seated and we turned around to see why Josh wasn't following us. He was standing there swaying and sweating. Then he collapsed. My mom and I tried holding him up, but he fell to a squat. Then the Chinese lady that worked there said "I call security, I call security." We assured her that he was fine....mortified, but fine. We walked a few steps and he kept saying "I'm fine", but I knew he was not fine. I could tell by the sweat dripping off his face that he was not fine. I sat him down at a table and I'm pretty sure he passed out again. Pretty much everyone in the restaurant was staring at this point. We finally got to our seat and got him some water and he felt better. I diagnosed him with dehydration and food poisoning from a hot dog he ate the night before. (Who the freak eats a hot dog in Las Vegas?!). Josh was so embarrassed. He said "Everyone in here is thinking I'm wasted at 10am"...but I bet he's not embarrassed that I'm writing this for all three of you to read.The funny part is that the night before while we were at the Mirage, Michelle had the exact same thing happen to her...except she let go of her pride and sat down before she fainted. Both of them got really bad stomach aches, then started getting really hot, then felt like they were going to faint. Luckily they both survived, and no one fainted at the alter. Whew!

We got to meet Michelle's sister and her cousin. One is a cop, one is a chiropractor. I usually don't like to be in the presence of cops, but she's actually pretty cool. I got to ask her questions like, "how fast can I go without getting a ticket?" "If you pulled me over for my tags being expired by 6 days would you give me a ticket?" (BTW, the answers were 10, and no.....I will find the shemale cop that gave me the 6 day over ticket and smack her, then pull her braided pony tail). At one point all seven of us smashed into my mom's Altima and drove around LV trying to find this casino my brother recommended....(when I say 'we all smashed into the car' I mean 'they all smashed into the car.' I was sitting in the front seat quite comfy, while they were in the back sweating and swearing). Most people would call 7 people in a 5 person car "illegal", I call it "we have a firefighter AND a cop in this car...there is NO WAY we're getting a ticket no matter what we do!"

We watched karaoke at Buffalo Bills. Played roulette for the first time, lost at roulette for the first time. Consumed second hand smoke by the gallons full. Couldn't breath by the end of the trip...or for five days afterwards. Ate at the planet hollywood buffet (delish). Swam in the shark tank at the Golden Nugget. Got lost. Shopped at the outlets. Went to M&M world. Saw the lions at the MGM. Watched the fountains at the Bellagio. Got yelled at by an angry black woman...yeah I was scared. Walked and walked and walked.

Boo for losing!

Some guy offered to take our picture....weird how his blurry drunkenness showed through the camera.

Now we're laughing at him because he has no idea how to take a picture.

Dan took the picture.....with sober eyes.

Dan's face=awesome

Silvester Stallone was 12 inches away from us! He was walking really fast.

Picking Dan's nose with lobster

The screening of The Expendables movie was being shown at Planet Hollywood. Dan waited around for an hour and half to get a peek of the stars! Sylvster Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Ludgren, Mickey Rourke & Arnold Schwarzenegger

Gaylord Restaraunt

Superman walking around all cool like..

Something about M&M world makes you do gay things.

M&M's anyone? Only $14.99 per pound!

I totally didn't plan the shirt....no, seriously, I didn't.

Mom's BF

The Flamingo buffet had cotton candy. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

Sharks at the Golden Nugget

Buggy with a side cart..not for me.

I bet you're wondering why there are no wedding pictures on here? 2 reasons

Numero 1-We were running late and forgot the camera in the hotel room, OK?

2- They don't allow camera's anywhere near the chapel. I'm pretty sure they will taze you if you try bringing one in.

I will scan one in when my mom's gets hers in the mail.

Had a great time..but I don't think I'll be visiting Vegas for many years. Twice in two years is plenty for this old soul

To Erin:

2010-08-15T14:25:00.002-06:00

5 (A)nte (M)eridiem randomness

2010-08-08T05:44:00.004-06:00

Dan and I have recently come to the realization that people are pretty flakey and unreliable. No particular incident, just an observation. When it comes down to it, everyone is out for themselves...especially when something new and exciting comes up in life. A new job, a new car, a new friend, a new TV series....and everyone else is left on the back burner....rotting away like a moldy grilled cheese sandwich. Sad, isn't it? Maybe I'll work on being more reliable. I don't like the thought of my acquaintances turning into moldy cheese. The longer I leave them there, the less desirable they become and I might just end up throwing them in the garbage.

Ask me who has the cleanest laundry room in Utah. Go ahead, ask. It starts with Julie and ends with Fisher. Lets just say we had a little mishap with the water heater. Our water heater had been pulled out of the closet and disconnected for a week and a half (!!) because we were having some issues (and Dan was at work for 6,000 hours straight). We finally got it all hooked back up and looking good. When we turned the water back on, it started dripping from one of the hoses. The gasket was worn out. Easy fix, right? We turned off the water and went to home depot (for the 3rd time that day...I despise that store). When we got home with our new and improved gasket we took the hose off and it started spraying EVERYWHERE...the best part was it had some mad power behind it! We filled up our garbage can and an 18 gallon storage container at least 3 times each, and it showed no signs of stopping. I still can't really figure out what was happening because it wasn't hooked up to the house, and the water was shut off to the water heater. At one point Dan and I were standing there dripping wet from head to toe, my makeup was running down my face, and we just looked at each other and started laughing. There was nothing else we could do. Finally we grew a brain and turned the water to the house off and it slowly but surely fizzled down to a drip. My procrastination did play a handy roll though. I had washed and dried a load of towels before all of this happened and I left them in the dryer. It made it really nice and handy to just open the dryer and throw 10 towels on the ground to start soaking up the water. Luckily we survived so I could live to tell this tale. It's times like these that I want to punch the saying "Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life" right in the face. That saying should have exceptions to the rule....You're allowed to not be happy for this moment when your water heater sprays water in your face at a high PSI....or when your tire blows out in the middle of the freeway....or when you can't sell your condo...or when The Bachelor picks the wrong girl....things like that. As a result of this madness my baseboards are so clean you could eat off them. Lucky us. Once everything was cleaned up I told Dan that all I could think about was "we should be filming this." He looked at me all disgusted-like and said, "really? Our house is flooding and you have time to think of THAT?" Uh, yeah...maybe it could have won us a million dollars on AFV and we could fix the flooded house with the money that we won. Geez. Think outside the box babe.

I am trying to find the perfect saying for a our bedroom wall. I want something cute, but not lame. I'm tired of the "always kiss me goodnight" saying. It's overused and under paid. I just want something that I fall in love with every time I read it. Any ideas? Maybe I'll put "be happy for this moment, for the moment is your life" but at the bottom I will list my exceptions. Splendid idea.

Life as we know it today.

2010-08-03T13:28:00.004-06:00

Sometimes I feel like blogs are all about the happy moments, and that's it. When I read other people's blogs I think "is there life really that perfect?" So, in an effort to save you all from thinking my life is glamorous every single day....I will tell you why we are depressed and we need a bottle of Prozac.

#1-We took our condo off the market. It's not worth as much as we owe. Sad day for us. After we found out, we looked at each other and said "lets go get a shake." And we did. Kit Kat with chocolate syrup was my choice, and Dan's was brownie earthquake.

#2- Water is leaking down into the neighbors house from our house. We had to unhook the water heater and the air conditioner condensation is now dripping into my popcorn bowl. Looks like No showers or popcorn for awhile.

#3-Dan has had 1.5 days off of work in the last 8 days. Me, not being able to deal with it all, went to my mom's house for 4 days straight and pretended like I didn't even own a condo.

(excuse me while I take a break to empty the popcorn bowl)

#4- We can't refinance our home because of #1. I need a shake.

#5- Found out there really is no point in consolidating school loans. All they do is draw out the length of loan so my monthly payment is lower....this amounts to me paying more in the end. Um, please explain how this is helping a human out?

#6-My garbage stinks and it's a long walk to take it out.

#7- There's no room here for a baby in this condo. My room is too small, and my bed is too big. And a loft is no place for an infant. It's too far away from momma. This is why we were selling our house in the first place. (this in no way implies that we have, or are having a baby...oh, but I wish it did!)

But of course we still have the good stuff!

#1-The truck is paid off as of yesterday!

#2- Dan will have 48 hours of overtime on his next check!

#3- There are no longer peecicles in the freezer!

#4- Our loft is huge, and maybe, just maybe, a baby could sleep up there.

#5- We are going to Vegas next week to my brother's wedding. Have I ever told you how much we love Michelle?? One of these days I will write a post about her loveliness!

#6- We have a place to call home! Not everyone does.

#7- We got Zayde's pictures back...isn't he cute?

Happy Happy Birthday Ady Dear. Happy Days Will Come to You all Year!

2010-07-14T11:52:00.007-06:00

Happy birthday to this sweet face! She's turning 4 years old...I can't even believe it!! I wish we got to see her more. Her birthday isn't until next week, but next week is going to be busy busy busy, so I am posting this now while I have the time.

Top 4 reasons why I absolutely love you...

1.) You have an imagination. Tea parties, teacher, mommy...you name it.

2.) You are sassy massy. Whew. What are we going to do with you when you're a teenager!?

3.) You are SO smart. You are very observant and you remember EVERYTHING. You're always listening....even when we don't think you are =)

4.) You're adorable in every way! Your big brown eyes make me smile...and so does that cheesy grin you pull when I say "SMILE for the camera!"

Her new dress she picked out for herself and her dolly. Grandma took her shopping and she said "I love this dress. Can I have it?" Who can resist this face? No one...especially Gramma Dene.

This is usually what she does when you try to take her picture....

...But sometimes she'll stop and give you a half smile and a pose

Booty shakin' to the chipmunks

Shake it!

The fakest smile she could muster. She makes me laugh.

I.will.not.take.my.eyes.off.tv.

Happy Birthday little lady!

Once a weeker

2010-07-02T11:34:00.007-06:00

My once a weeker has kind of slipped through the cracks. I'm bizzy, ok?

Dan and I went to Causey reservoir and we saw a moose on the way. We turned around and parked 15 feet away from it. He was eating a bush and totally didn't mind that we were starring him. I didn't get a picture because my phone was dead. Boo. It was neat to see one up close though!

We FINALLY celebrated Zayden's birthday. We had been planning it and planning it, but we had to keep putting it off for different reasons. By the time it got here we were all sick of it and the party hadn't even started! We were going to go to the amazing splash park, but it was raining so we had it my mom's house. It turned out fun. My mom made a dinosaur cake (super cute) and my grandma frosted lots of cup cakes for everyone. Joni and I did the decorating and we were about 14.2 seconds away from killing each other by the time we hung the last balloon. Good times. My mom and I gave Zayden a little powerwheel four wheeler. He LOVES it, and we love watching him ride it. We laugh the whole time. He can even push the button to make it go with his thumb. I will say that he thinks he's pretty awesome on it....and he is.

We got to go see Miss Ady last weekend. She's adorable and hilarious. She loves to sing, so her and grandma started singing while using the ends of the jump rope as microphones (a girl after my own heart...everything is a microphone in my world!). I was sitting on the couch and decided to join in. Ady immediately stopped singing and looked at me like I had just committed the greatest sin and said, "Don't sing. You don't have a microphone." Excuuuuse meeee. Of course I obeyed her command because she's the boss, and we all know that. Later that night when I was taking her to her mom she told me that her friend "was just having an emotional day, so she sat at the table by herself at school." Emotional? I don't even use that word and I'm 26. She cracks me up. She just got her tonsils taken out the other day. Poor little thing. From what I have heard she is doing just fine. She told my mom that she got a teddy bear from the Doctor, and in a 3 year olds eyes that is totally awesome. She got to leave the hospital just a few hours after her surgery. She wasn't even there long enough for us to send her balloons! My mom is going up to see her next week, so hopefully I will have more pictures of her when she gets back. She's turning 4 this month...I can hardly believe it!

The waterline to my moms culinary water broke this week. We spent three days digging in the mud. Not awesome. Come to find out, whoever laid the pipe bent it at a 90 degree angle. It's amazing that it has even lasted this long without leaking. I'm no plumber, but I'm pretty sure you can't bend copper in half and expect water to run through it. Our friends Jake and Kara came over and helped us dig. What would we do without kind people in our lives? We'd still be digging a hole, that's what. Everything is fixed and working....lets hope we never have to do that again. Oh, and if you're the one that laid the pipe and you're reading this, don't ever let me find you.

Dan played in the hogs and hydrants softball game again this year. It was good stuff. Double overtime. I'll have to post pictures later. Dan hit a home run because he's cool like that.
That's all I can think of for now....here are (a lot) of pictures.

lol

Poser

Showing off her tonsils

Cheeeeeese

Happy birthday

He loves the hat, can you tell?

Cruisin

Smashing the cake

Yum

Eating ranch off the carrot

Sweet boy

Grandma and Me

The party table. I didn't get a good picture of the cake. Boo

Playing before the party

Cutest face ever

Gross

Helping grandma pick the weeds

Eating dirt...and liking it

Parks, Beer, and an Ambulance. Once a weeker #5

2010-06-04T12:23:00.009-06:00

Well it's that time again, so here we go...

I took Zayde to a new park while my sister was getting her hair cut. They had the coolest splash pad ever! When I found the park online, I figured that Zayden wouldn't even want to get near it because it was pretty cold out, so I didn't plan ahead....oops...he loved the water and couldn't get enough of it. He had no bathing suit, no towel, no sunscreen, nothing. Me=worst babysitter ever that day. But he loved it and I can't tell him no because he's too cute. So here he is, getting soaking wet in his clothes. (sorry about the quality of the pictures, they're off my phone.)

On Wednesday Dan spent the day driving to every station to teach a customer service class. When they're doing work related things they can't take their own cars, obviously. So he took the old ambulance from his station and set out to conquer the customer service world. By the way, this is the image that comes to mind whenever he says old ambulance...

It actually looks nothing like this, but it makes it more funny to picture Dan driving this around town. What a bad A. Anyway, he was on his way back to his regular station and the ambulance started putting and died. Apparently the gas gauge doesn't work on the ol Ghost buster wagon, who knew?! I actually started laughing when he called and told me he was stranded, because he is ALWAYS telling me that he will not come help me if I ever run out of gas! So rude, so rude. (ok...I admit it, my car is out of gas 85% of the time. I like to push it to the limit and see how far it will go because I'm a rebel like that. Dan thinks I'm asking for it, I think he should fill up my gas tank more often. Ha!) We all know he would come and help me no matter what, because he loves me and could never leave me stranded...right honey? RIGHT? In the end, the guys at the station ended up rescuing him. But lets have it be known that if he ever runs out of gas in his truck, I will surely come save him!

Remember last month when our debit card got stolen so we cancelled it? Well now all the bills are late this month because everything is linked to that card. How annoying it is that the stupid choices of others affect me and my life. As if I have time to re-do every bill....and heaven knows we have a lot of them!

Memorial day was a bust. Pretty much I can't stand dirt in between my fingers or toes so camping was out of the question....oh, and don't forget about the claustrophobia that ensues when I get into a sleeping bag. Yikes. I'm better off at home in clean sheets that smell like downy.

We watched Avatar for the first time. It took two days. I'm sorry, but a three hour movie is just too much...even when it's a good one. It was a good movie. Different/weird, but good. I don't think I'll ever watch it again, but I'm glad I saw it once so I can be apart of the cool crowd. Now I will no longer get those disgusted looks when I tell someone "I've never seen it." I still get those looks when people try to strike up Twilight conversations with me. Ugh. Don't even get me started on the book that has destroyed the brains of our youth!

When my mom got home from work on Thursday there was a case of beer sitting on her door step. My mom seriously has the most random funny crap happen to her. It was a full case of beer too...except one can. One can was empty, and put back in the case. I asked her what she did with it, totally thinking she threw it in the trash can, but she didn't....she put it in her garage...maybe she has a secret drinking problem? I kid I kid. She did offer me one though because I was having a melt down about school...don't worry, I resisted the peer pressure. Maybe we can make use of it and wash our hair with it? Maybe I will put it in my 72 hour kit? Or maybe I'll give it away as a white elephant gift at the ward Christmas party....maybe they'll release me from Gospel Doctrine teacher....it's worth a shot.

So that's my week.....parks, beer, and ambulances. Nothin better than this thing I call LIFE!

The comments are back

2010-06-01T01:23:00.003-06:00

So my comments have been off for months and months. I decided if I got one more email about the blasted thing being off, I would turn them back on. Mrs. Julie Hyatt Vasquez is the winner! You win absolutely nothing...except the gift of commenting on my blog instead of through email. Her exact words were "So I'm sad that you don't have comments enabled on your blog. I always think of something funny to say afterward, but then am too lazy to email you." So here's to all you lazy butts out there......

p.s. Julie, if I do not see a comment from you on here when I get out of bed in the morning....so help me......

p.s.s. Don't you love when you hit the spell check button and it says "no misspellings found"?

Once a weeker numero 4

2010-05-31T22:13:00.003-06:00

I'm three days late on my update....and I've got nothin'.

I do have something that will blow your mind though. Brittany sent this to me when we got home from our cruise. So, just to justify my 4 lbs of weight gain that week, I present to you "Cruise consumption in pounds"

What is it about cruising that attracts so many travelers to the seven seas? Is it the opportunity to see the world? The remarkable cultures waiting to be experienced in exotic ports of call? The promise of a perfect family vacation?Or is it the 1,400 lbs. of lobster?"Cruising has long been associated with delicious, abundant food, so just for fun we asked what it takes to supply a typical week-long cruise on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, the largest ship afloat.

Here's what is consumed every 7 days:

234,000 appetizers; 105,000 meals and 300,680 desserts
20,000 lbs. of beef, including 69,000 steaks
12,000 lbs. of chicken
4,000 lbs. of seafood; 2,500 lbs. of salmon and 1,400 lbs. of lobster
65,000 lbs. of fresh vegetables and 35,000 lbs. of fresh fruits
5,800 lbs. of cheese
28,000 fresh eggs
18,000 slices of pizza
8,000 gallons of ice cream
1,500 lbs. of coffee and 1,500 gallons of milk
11,500 cans of soda; 19,200 bottles and cans of beer and 2,900 bottles of wine

This is obviously a few years old, because Freedom of the Seas is not the biggest ship any longer, but it's still pretty amazing.

I'm hungry.

How old are you my dear little friend?

2010-05-27T22:08:00.009-06:00

He's ONE!

*Reasons why I love you to bits....1 for every month you've been with us*

1.) You bring a smile to every face when you come into the room.
2.) You get into everything because you want to know what everything feels like and tastes like.
3.) You love Dr. pepper.
4.) Your laugh is adorable.
5.) You already smell like a boy.
6.) You get excited when you see someone you know.
7.) You say "what's that" and it's the cutest little "what's that" I've ever heard.
8.) You love weird foods like avocados and kiwi.
9.) People always comment on how cute you are when we go to stores...I love that they think you're mine =)
10.) You bring a happy spirit with you when you come to my house.
11.) You're cheeks are irresistible!
12.) You're simply the cutest little boy I've ever seen!

The pictures go from newest to oldest....because I forgot that blogger works like that.

We have so enjoyed every minute of the last 365 days!

2010-05-23T07:50:00.000-06:00

We went to baby animal days in Logan a few weeks ago. Ady got to come and she loved it! She decided that she wanted to dress herself that morning....hence the outfit =). It was so fun to be able to hold baby chicks, ducks, and rabbits. They even go to ride pony's. Ady was a pro. She didn't even need help. It was a fun day and the weather was perfect!

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Once a weeker #3

2010-05-23T07:06:00.008-06:00

It's been a week...and oh what a fun one it has been. Ok, not really.

We celebrated our anniversary on Monday. As planned, we didn't do much. Dan had been working for 3 days straight so we had errands to run and a lot of catching up to do. Dan brought me cinnamon rolls (my fave) and I brought him nothing but unconditional love. We ate at Ruby River and gained 46 pounds just looking at the deep fried baked potato. Somehow the waiter managed to make our visit pretty awkward by saying weird things and not completing his thoughts. To add to the awkwardness when we left he said "Have a good anniversary" and I said "you too!" It could have been his anniversary, you don't know.

Dan got to be involved in the Weber County Disaster drill again this year. I believe the scenario was something about a bus crashing into a lot of cars. Here's a picture from the scene. Dan is not in this picture, BUT he did put the red tie around the passengers arm...such good tying skills honey! Boy scouts paid off. I kid I kid. He did more than that. He rode with the patients in a bus and treated them on the way to the hospital.

We are replacing our doors inside our house because one of them has a fist hole in it. Not from us, we're not THAT psycho. It came with the condo....an added bonus if you will. It doesn't go all the way through either, just the front part of the door. Well Dan thought it would be funnyfunny to lock me out of the bedroom. As I stood there and looked at the fist hole, this grand scenario ran through my mind....I would punch the fist hole as hard as I could and then my arm would be sticking out the other side right where Dan was standing. Funny, right? Wrongo. I punched it. It did nothing. Didn't even budge. I screamed "ahhh" and Dan opened the door laughing. No sympathy...just a "that was stupid" laugh. Only one knuckle got cut...and at this point it's looking a little red and infected.

The EAGER study is going well....I guess. Don't you hate it when someone tells you they need a urine sample and you can't go...but right when you walk out the door you have to go? Stage fright.

My mom called me on Saturday and told me I needed to "come over and tell her if she is too scary to leave the house." What?! I got to her house and found this....

Needless to say, I told her to stay in doors until the demons that possessed her body left.

Little Man started taking steps! He's so cute and careful. Somehow I have no pictures of him walking.

He had his first dentist appointment today and Joni said he did really well. He went right to the dentist when they sat down. He's oblivious to stranger danger.

Dan is the worst Ebay buyer known to man. Well, actually, he is every sellers dream come true. Last week he told me he bought a guitar....well, TWO identical guitars landed on my door step. If you recall the Xbox bought on Ebay and add it to the guitar bought on Ebay, it equals two items "accidentally" bought on Ebay by Mr. Fisher. Oh wait, my memory was just jogged...add PSP #2 to the equation and you have 3 unintentional purchases. I still stand by the fact that I am not a complete retard, therefore I know that the Xbox was not an oops....not even a little one. The other two items were just a result of wanting them so badly at that moment, that he bid on more than one....and won both. Bless his 12 year old little heart. Bless me for laughing instead of killing. So is anyone in the market for a PSP or a guitar? We have a couple extras lying around.

I believe that is for the week. Back to hemodynamics land I go.

Once a weeker #2

2010-05-14T23:26:00.002-06:00

Has it been a week already?! Yikes.

Guess what this week has been filled with? Yep, work and homework....and lots of it. I'm tired of this week and wish it was over. Who's with me?

I have to teach Sunday School this week. Aye aye aye. Oh how I love spending my weekend reading the Old Testament, gearing up for weird questions from 80 year olds. It's the best!

The suns won..."They didn't just win, they SWEPT the Spurs." Dan's exact words with a smile bigger than Zayden's on his face. His life is complete!

Dan is on a 72 hour work binge. Doesn't that sound lovely? I can barely handle 4 hours of work. Today when he called I heard him say to the guy driving the ambulance "Uh, you hit the tree a little." lol. Awesome.

Me having a baby seems to be the topic of conversation lately no matter who I talk to. Weird, I know. But since everyone is already asking about it I may as well talk about it on the ol blog. I have joined The Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction study http://www.eagertrial.org/index.php at the hospital that I work at. It should be interesting. Dan's already loving the thought of my urine next to his corn dogs in the freezer. Oh yes, I'm serious. The things we do for a baby. What next?

I wish we could get a good night sleep...but no can do. We live close to the Smith's grocery store and they are remodeling their pharmacy that is inside the store. They have taken it upon themselves to make sure no one within a 5 mile radius sleeps, by only working at night. It has woken me out of a dead sleep many times over the last couple of months. Do we really need a drive thru pharmacy? How fat have we become?

I can't believe that I didn't mention this in last weeks "Once a Weeker" (that's the official name. I just decided.) The grocery store Winco has made it's grand appearance less than two miles from my house! It's wonderful news. I grew up on Winco, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the price of their paper plates from the time of infancy. Plus 5 L.B's of strawberries were only $2.98. Amazingness around every corner. Oh, and I forgot to mention their Peachies...in bulk might I add. Heaven sent. Their bulk food is amazing. I've never bought anything but peachies from their bulk section, but every time I go to winco I have to go down the bulk bin aisles because it's incredible. What other store can you go to and get dog food out of a bulk bin? How about bulk Cheetos? Nowhere. Not even Costco is this cool.

How could I forget to mention my friend Edubs on here? Ugh. Worst friend=me. We've been friends since 7th grade. To my delight she moved to Lehi about two years ago to go to school. To my dismay she graduated and moved back home to Idaho a few weeks ago. Boooooo. The loft parties were great while they lasted. Now she's all professional and grown up. Ok, scratch that last sentence. But she IS a Dental Hygienist! I love successful people. They give hope and encouragement to the people around them. I got to go to her graduation and it was so fun to feel their excitement. I'm lame and didn't take any pictures...#1 because our camera is full of ocean water...and #2 I was sick that night and lucky to make it there.

Josh's dog Laycie ran away. Sad day for him. He's had her for a long time and they were buds. =(

I passed my final yesterday and that means I only have one class left. I still have to take the CRTsae this month though...we'll see how that goes. I'm a little nervous that all this crap in my head is not linking together. We will find out soon enough.

The Anniversary is Monday. Seven years of wedded bliss..is that what they say? I'd like to say we're doing something cool like hanging out with a group of midgets on motorcycles, but we're not. I have come to realize that after 7 years your anniversaries are spent sitting around in your pj's with no makeup and greasy hair, while eating a Popsicle. Fabulous.

Party like a rockstar

2010-05-10T22:44:00.002-06:00

Rockin' out after church in Heber City

Once a weeker

2010-05-07T22:25:00.005-06:00

Grand idea: Blog once a week about your week...even it is lame and boring 97% of the time.

I'm up to the grand challenge. It may only last a week (if you're lucky).

The last couple of weeks...I have to catch up:

I just realized yesterday that our anniversary is this month. That tells you how crazy my mind has been. My brain feels like a stressed out maniac...and it is. Life has been a blurr since we got home from paradise. Homework, work, homework, work, homework, work, family, friends, homework, babysitting, work, homework. That right there is the sickening reality of my life. sigh. One day I'm going to win the lottery...and if it is any less than $266 million I refuse to take it. Why? Because Dan and I sat down last night and planned out how we were going to spend all 266 millie-ano. We agreed on some stuff...like a million dollar house in Utah, Arizona, Florida, California, Mexico, and Roatan...and we argued about most of it. I mean, do we really need 60 PS3's? We agreed that after you hear the amount 266 million everything you own instantly turns into the crappiest crap ever. Your 52 inch flat screen TV you saved up for? Sucks. A TV bigger than Texas is so much better. Your RC Willey furniture? Junk. Your table you HAD to get? Throw it in the trash can on your way out to buy the Phoenix Suns. Pretty much everything you valued and worked your ace off for is worth nothing in your mind...because you have 266 million freaking dollars. Enough about this...this is supposed to be about my week, not about my oh-so-real hopes for the future.

K, so, school sucks. I'm just throwin' that out there. If there is one thing I could kill and get away with, it would be school...oh, and the moron that took 1.5 hours to change my oil in my car today-but that's besides the point. Here's the thing about school...you go to all of this work...you learn (I mean teach yourself) about fetal asphyxia, P big A O2, P little A O2, and right to left shunt. You also learn "who or what is torr" (probably one of the funnier days at SHITR)....and in the end all you have is a bunch of information rolling around in your brain, and all you want to do is kill yourself. You don't want to be a Respiratory Therapist, you want to be dead. That's all. Life isn't that easy though. You can't just voluntarily take the death pentalty when it gets hard. So Respiratory Therapist it is. One more month and I can sing up for my boards. Lets hope this whole living hell pays off, because sadly enough, that is what it has been. A nightmare that I never wish to relive. Bitter? A little.

On the brighter side of life...Zayden is getting so big. His personality is so fun (unless he is teething. yikes). His smile makes me smile. He's even starting to give hugs. Oh, and next time you see him, how about you ask him how old he is. He puts up his little index finger so cute-like, it's sure to make you saw "aww". He loves to dance, and Mexican music is his favorite. lol. Oh man he goes to dancing town in the Mexican market. No bueno! He's adorable. Sometimes you can't help but look at him and say "Oh my gosh, he is the cutest thing I have ever seen." A lady in Best Buy couldn't get over the handsome little man the other day. My sister said she just kept saying "Oh my goodneeeeessssss, he is one of the cutest kids I have ever seeeeeeen." I pray to the beauty Gods that my kids will be as cute as him.

Speaking of kids. We still have yet to accumulate one. My doctor diagnosed me with infertility without doing any tests or anything. Um, on to the next doctor I guess? Oh how we want a little baby to hold...Dan especially. One day friends, one day.

Ady came to visit us a couple of weekends ago. Can we say SASSY? Lets all say it in unison. SAAAASSSYYYY. Holy hannah. She's still adorable though and I love her to bits. Her laugh is contagious and her little voice is so innocent and sweet. She's to the stage that poop, underwear, and butts are the funniest words she has ever heard in her entire life. She talks like a 12 year old. Her vocabulary is amazing and I'm impressed at how smart she is. She LOVES animals. We took her to the baby animal days in Logan and she was in HEAVEN. She got to hold chicks, and ducks, and rabbits. Her face lit up every time she got up from holding the animal. So cute. Josh said she is in swimming lessons now and she came up to him and said "DAD, I have been practicing floating in the bath tub!!" lol. We wish we got to see her little face more, because it makes our day when we do get to see her!

Dan is going to the Jazz vs Lakers basketball game tomorrow night. Check this out, I don't have to go. Amazing, huh? He conned 7 other people into it, so I'm off the hook. What a wonderful life.

Our debit/credit card number got stolen this week. Not awesome. They bought some movies. Probably porn. Our cards and pin number have been cancelled, so it's been awesome living without money for a couple of days. People are mean, aren't they? Shame on them.

I haven't cleaned my house one time this week. Isn't that cool? My husband loves it..I just know it. I actually feel so guilty about this that I had to write him a note that said "One day I will be a good wife, just not today." How sad for him. How happy for me that I didn't have to clean.

As of this week the condo is still up for sale. If only these people knew about the loft parties they are missing out on. Come on.

Found out yesterday that Dan bought another xbox since he got banned from LIVE for doing illegal things with his xbox. Surprisingly enough I really didn't give a crap. I've got more important things to worry about, like not cleaning the house.

So there's my last couple of weeks. Stay tuned...next week is sure to be just as exciting!

One last thing....I wished all week that I was standing here....

Tapping moments

2010-05-04T12:56:00.001-06:00

Thank you Annie

2010-04-27T11:41:00.004-06:00

Annie is a hilarious blogger/writer for the Standard Examiner. Did I mention she's hilarious? The title to her column caught my eye today.

Financial dishonesty seems tempting to many

One of the reasons I really like her is because she's down right honest...even if it hurts your feelin's a little. She's so real about everyday life and everyday issues..I love it!

Here's the link to her column http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2010/04/23/financial-dishonesty-seems-tempting-many I highly recommend reading it. It's not long at all.

And here is the link to her hilarious blog, http://regardingannie.wordpress.com/ also highly recommended when you don't have homework, dishes, laundry, vacuuming, work, babysitting, or sleep to do.

Cheerio!

2010-04-20T23:50:00.004-06:00

This is the word our cruise director used every time he said goodbye. He's from England and he was great! It made me happy every time he said it....he even made us say it back to him, which made me twice as happy just to say it. Cheerio was just the start of the awesomely fantastic happiness we enjoyed for 7 days straight! I have been sitting here starring at my screen for 5 minutes because I honestly cannot find the words to describe this vacation. It was so fantastic it almost brings a tear to the eye!

Here's a brief overview and millions (no, seriously) of pictures.

We had two and a half days at sea. The first day and a half, and the very last day were spent on the ship people watching, eating, people watching, eating, people watching, eating, people watching....you get the gist of it, right? In between all the people watching and eating we went to dancing shows, comedy shows, illusionist show, juggling show, karaoke, trivia, hairy man competition, booty shaking competitions, water slide, mini golf, and whatever else we could find. I ate so much ice cream it should be illegal....but it's not illegal, so I did it. By day number three I was so sick of (I cannot believe I am saying this) food, I wanted to puke. Speaking of food, how amazing is it that they can make that much food for 3,600 people?! Craziness.

One of my favorite parts of the actual ship experience was the towel animals. Seriously cute. I couldn't wait to see what Pedro had made for us every night.

Cozumel-We went to Mr. Sanchos beach. I didn't think we would make it there alive because the drivers there are almost as bad as Utah drivers. We snorkeled and laid on the beach. Nothing too spectacular....but it was fun to be on the beach just relaxing and hanging out. Before we left on our cruise, everything that we read said that the shopping in Cozumel was really expensive compared to other ports. Not so. It's the same...and I actually felt like Cozumel had better/more options. I'm not a big souvenir fan so we didn't buy much of anything the whole vacation....but it was fun to look around.

Belize-We went on an excursion in Belize. We took pictures with a waterproof camera, so I will have to scan the pictures in and put them on here later. We went cave tubing & we had to hike through the jungle for 30 minutes to get to the cave. This was one of Dan's favorite parts. The jungle was thick (except for the trail that we were on) and green....just like you see in pictures! It was neat to see. The cave tubing was fun...the water was pretty low so the guides had to pull all of us over lots of rocks....they worked so hard..I kind of felt sad for them. My favorite part was the drive there and back. We rode in a big (hot!) bus and the tour guides told us all about their city and Belizean life.

Roatan-AMAZING. Our favorite place by far. Ronald was our tour guide. He took us all over the Island and told us everything about everything! We loved it. His dream in life is to work on a cruise ship. He is 23 (with 4 daughters) and is trying to finish high school. He kept telling us how boring Roatan was....there is nothing there for him to do. I kept thinking, uh, are you crazy?! He hunts Iguaners (Iguanas), snorkels, and plays basketball after church for fun....his exact words...sounds horribly boring Ronald! The snorkeling at Tabyana beach was incredible! There were fish literally swarming around you. There were so many that I got freaked out and had to go back to shore...I'm a wuss. Fish and fowl....not my favorite things in the world. Dan came and got me and made me go back out with him. It was so awesome we forgot to take pictures. We have some, but none of them do it justice. We even saw an octopus. Craziness! There are no words for this place....you just need to go there!

Grand Cayman-Also amazing! We went to the stingray sand bar on wave runners. We got to hold, pet, kiss, & feed the stingrays. The water was SO clear it was unbelievable. I was so glad that we took wave runners there....the people that went with big groups in boats were all standing together in a HUGE group and I doubt that all of them got to touch one. There were only about 10 of us in our group. It was awesomely fantastic! Loved every minute of it. We took pictures on our waterproof camera here too, so I will have to scan them in and post them later.

I am so glad we got to go on this vacation together....I'd do it again in a heartbeat....but lets keep the camera out of the water this time honey buns, mmmmkaaaay?

There is too much to write about. I wish I had more time to write every little detail....but I have an exam to study for, a baby to watch, and an itchy running nose to wipe (mine, not his). Cheerio!

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Update

2010-04-18T00:15:00.001-06:00

**Update: Text from Dan 4/18/10 at 5:06pm, "Just saw the blog. You're dead."

He reads it!

We're baaaaaaaack

2010-04-14T23:27:00.004-06:00

We made it back from our awesome vacation, but I have not had time to post pictures yet. Isn't it sad that the moment you get home from vacation, life hits you in the face and you're back into the swing of things within minutes?! I will post pictures soon. Here's a sneak peek...I am seriously laughing an evil laugh as I post this. Dan is going to kill me with his bare hands when he sees this......this will be a test to see if he really reads this. He's coming up the stairs now....hehehahahahaha

4 DAYS

2010-03-31T12:12:00.005-06:00

Only 4 days until we see Caribbean sunshine! (It's snowing outside as I write this)

Here's the sunshine I won't get to babysit on Tuesday and Thursday of next week...

Our new found love at the grocery store.....I don't even WANT to know how many germs are on that thing!

As his mom would sing.. "I'm a cool dude, I'm a cool dude!"

He gets all sorts of crazy in the sink. The cupboards and counter were SOAKED. He loved it.

How sweet is this face?

The kid hates getting dressed. Oh, and diaper changes have become melt downs.

Taking a ride in his KSL bargain wagon!

I love grandma.... because she gives me graham crackers before bed =)

You're the one that I want.....You are the one I want, oo oo oo honey!

2010-03-21T02:07:00.004-06:00

I love being married.

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

-Rita Rudner (Julie Fisher)

Little Miss Ady

2010-03-16T23:37:00.006-06:00

This cute face came to see us last month. She's so grown up! She talks like a 7 year old (with an attitude...I seriously love it.) On the last morning she was at our house she had been running around saying NO to everything that anyone would say to her. Finally grandma had to get after her and tell her to stop being mean and saying no. Obviously Ady was beyond offended by that because while grandma was doing her hair (which she said NO to 30 times) she picked up her play cell phone and said, "Yeah. Ok. Well, just come pick me up because grandma is being mean and getting all crazy." Exact words. Getting all crazy?! lol.
One night Zayden fell off the bed (seriously the saddest thing ever, we all cried) and the next day Ady would NOT quit talking about it. She kept asking Joni questions about it...
Adyson-"When was the last time Zayden fell off the bed?"
Joni-"Last night."
Adyson-"Is he going to fall off the bed again?"
Joni-"No, we hope not."
Adyson-"Me too, that was the saddest thing in the world."

Is it possible to get two kids to look at the camera at once?

Grandma made her a cookie at the store that said "I love Ady"

Josh's birthday is on the 12th and mine is on the 11th so Ady helped grandma make a cake.

So proud of her sprinkles

Lighting the candles

Grandma bought her a new Easter dress, but there was no way she was waiting until Easter to wear it. This dress became the official outfit of the weekend. She even slept in it.

It obviously made her feel like twirling!

We were trying to make her hold still for 5 seconds to take a picture...she despises pictures.

Her hair is getting so long and pretty.

See the tutu? There's a story that goes along with it. We had been telling Ady all weekend that we were going to make her a tutu. We started making it pretty late one night, so Ady went to bed and we promised her we would have it ready by morning. Of course the FIRST thing she said when her eyes opened was "Is my tutu ready?" Of course it was...my mom and I stayed up until 2am getting it done. When she walked out into the living room she looked at it and said, "That looks itchy, I'm not wearing it." And that was the end of the tutu. She refused to even look at it again. She needs to be spanked for that one.

Zayden thought it was pretty cool though, so at least someone appreciated it =)

Come see us again little missy, we miss you!

Counting Down

2010-03-12T22:56:00.009-07:00

Carnival Glory

We are SO excited to go on a cruise! I believe our little counter to the left says 23 more days. My heart skips a beat and I almost pee myself in excitement just thinking about it! Here's where we're going (in no particular order, because I can't ever remember)

Cozumel
Grand Cayman
Belize
Isla Roatan

We are going to Stingray City in Cayman and we'll be arriving on wave runners. How fun will that be?!

We will be in Belize on Dan's birthday...and his gift from me is cave tubing even though I get claustrophobia just thinking about it!

I'm also feeling slightly awkward about linking feet with the person in front of me. Hopefully I remember to shave my legs beforehand for the sake of fellow riders. I also hope the person in back of me doesn't have toenails that are 3 feet long with fungus (I'm thinking of Dumb and Dumber right now, is anyone else?)

A couple of Dan's friends have been to Roatan and they said it was by far their favorite beach and it has awesome snorkeling.We'll be hanging out here, at Half Moon Bay......eatin' banana pancakes and wearing coconut shells as bras...Ok, maybe not, but we'll be at Half Moon Bay snorkeling our lives away!

We actually have no plans for Cozumel. It will be a surprise for all of us!

They even have baby bassinets for adults on board...Did I mention this cruise was all inclusive?

This Easter will be spent in the sunshine with lots of food......there will be none of this http://www.danandju.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-in-mud.html and I couldn't be more thrilled!

8 month old on the loose

2010-03-08T23:22:00.007-07:00

Last month was exciting for us because....

This little face (with sweet potatoes all over it because he freaked out when I tried to wipe it)....

...started doing this!....

...and pulling himself up on everything!

It has been so fun to watch him grow up! He is a little busy body now...

This is his "I want whatever you have in your hand" face.(Can I borrow some of his eyelashes, please?!)

26 years of livin'

2010-02-25T20:51:00.003-07:00

I meant to publish this post before my birthday on the 11th.....I'm a little late, as always.

26 lessons in 26 years.....some I've learned, but most I'm still learning....sometimes over and over.....

1. I am blessed beyond measure. I have a family, a home, a husband, a car, a job, 10 fingers, & 10 toes. Has every moment been perfect? No. Has every situation been ideal? Absolutely not. But blessed am I.

2. There are no short cuts in life. Never. Ever. Ever. I have learned this twice in my life and I hope that I never have to learn it again. They have been two of the worst experiences/challenges I have ever had to face.

3. Karma is great (when it doesn't happen to you). I can always count on karma. It may not happen today, it may not happen this week, or this decade....but she will get you. What goes around comes around.

4. Laughing is the greatest thing in the world. Nothing better than laughing so hard you have to hold yourself. (You know you've been there...wipe that disgusted look off your face).

5. Real friends are rare.

6. It doesn't matter how big or small your home is. It doesn't matter what car you drive, or what brand of clothing you wear. If you take care of what you have, keep it nice, keep it clean, keep it organized and take some pride in it...it will be enough to keep you happy and satisfied. A huge house that is filthy does not compare to a small house that is clean.

7. Don't ever say, "Teaching Gospel Doctrine would be the worst calling in the world"... because guess what's waiting for you right around the corner? Yep, Your Bishop holding a Gospel Doctrine manual with your name written in it.

8. We get to choose whether we are happy or sad, whether it's a good day or a bad day.

9. If you want a different result, do something different. You can't follow the same path and hope for a different outcome.

10. Losing weight sucks, and it's hard. Gaining weight is easy and it tastes good.

11. Marriage takes work. Every single day.

12. Life is hilarious.....or maybe it's just so ridiculous that it is hilarious. I could write a book on this.

13. Tell the people you love that you love them. I never want to find myself in the habit of leaving the house or hanging up the phone without saying I love you to my husband.

14. I've learned to shut up. Not everyone cares what I have to say....just like I don't always care what other people have to say. Sometimes it's best to nod and smile (while thinking omg are they serious?! )

15. Why are other people's kids so annoying? Mine will never be annoying =0)

16. Keep in touch with the people that have made an influential impact on your life.....and tell them that. Isn't it nice to hear you've enriched someone else's life?

17. Utah drivers are the most horrible drivers on this earth and every other planet without number.

18. I've learned that Dan is hilarious with babies. He said to Zayden the other day as he was getting him out of the highchair, "Alright, listen up....we need to talk. What do you want to do today?" Zayden is 8 months old.

19. Not everything needs a plan and a minute by minute schedule. (oh but I love it when they do!)

20. Prayer works and I am glad I know that.

21. Some people get annoyed that I use coupons and try to only buy what's on sale. To them I say, I'm annoyed that you don't.

22. Forgiveness is huge. "The past can affect your future if you let it."

23. I can find lots of ways to procrastinate. (Like blogging about 26 life lessons when I should be planning a Sunday School lesson.)

24. Mom's are great, aren't they? Oh man, where would I be without my mom? My husband would be eating mac and cheese everyday (instead of every other day) & I wouldn't have a bargain shopping buddy. Plus all those other things she taught me like manners & using a dryer sheet to get the static off my dress.

25. Guilt will eat you alive. Nothing causes more shame, anxiety, or remorse than living with a guilty conscience.

26. Dr Pepper + Reeses Peanut Butter Cup=delicious!

Rantings of a non sports fan.

2010-01-27T21:53:00.003-07:00

I'm not a sports fan. In fact, I'm the most un-competitive person I know. I would love it if everyone could win and we could all go home happy. But alas, that dream of mine will never come true. Dan on the other hand....sports fan...competitive....likes to talk "trash" as they call it. How did he end up with a humbug like me? Only heaven knows.

On Monday Dan took me on a date to the Suns vs Jazz basketball game in Salt Lake (he cons me in by calling it a date). I hate going (can I just lay it out there like that?). My anxiety rises to 100% when we go and here's why....

We can't just go with the flow. No, we have to root AGAINST the Jazz while everyone else in the stadium is rooting FOR them. My heart rate increases just thinking of this. You are automatically hated by 20,000 people (give or take) because you're wearing purple and everyone else is wearing blue. Is anyone else feeling awkward yet? There is so much tension between you and the persons next to you that you could cut it with a knife (if you don't cut your wrist first).

The seats are waaaay too close together & there should be rules about these seats, kind of like airplanes. If your buns cannot fit in one seat, you must buy two.. Now lets face it, I'm not the skinniest person in America (close second), but my "A" fits in one seat (and I thank my lucky stars daily for that). The lady next to me on the other hand needed to follow the airplane rule. I'm not being rude, I'm just sayin'....it's a bit awkward when I have to scoot over and lean to one side for 3 hours because she decided she could fit in one seat.

People are rude, inconsiderate, poor sports. I COULD NOT believe what was coming out of people's mouths. Heaven forbid the ref actually call a foul against YOUR TEAM. Good freaking grief! I don't think there was one time during the entire game that at least one person around me didn't complain about a foul against their team. This is why I love Dan--even though he is a HUGE Suns fan, he still admits when a call is unfair or when it could have gone one way or the other. He's not one of the jack holes that cries over every call and starts yelling obscenity's to the ref that is 3 million miles away from him and cannot hear a WORD he is saying...nor does he care about your objections. These people just sound ridiculous. The worst is when other fans around them start agreeing. People literally turn around and give each other thumbs up for yelling out like angry vultures.

The smell of beer is enough to make a person vomit. I'm not one to care if you drink or not. It has no affect on me...but 7 beers for one person sitting inches away from hundreds of other people is too many. It just is.

When your team loses (like the Suns did) you have to walk out with thousands of other people mocking you. Dan and I were smart enough to remove/hide our Suns paraphernalia before leaving the stadium so no one would say anything to us....lest Dan punch them in the face.

It's loud in there. Especially when the Jazz fans get mad at their team and start booing them (seriously the funniest part of the night...I laughed so hard I almost forgot about the lady's thighs taking up half my seat.)!!

It costs too much. $40 for one seat in the upper bowl is redonkulous. As far as I'm concerned Dan bought me $80 worth of anxiety, but I still love him.

Alas, the night ended and we drove home.....but not before 15 trash-talking text messages and 3 calls from Dan's Jazz fan buddies.

What a lovely date...(hey, I'm just glad my husband likes to hang out with me)....can't wait til next year!

Just in case...

2010-01-20T14:37:00.002-07:00

...you needed something to say "awww" about today

Non-new year resolutions

2010-01-07T17:26:00.012-07:00

I usually don't make new year resolutions. A year seems like a long time and a lot can change in a 12 month period. These are some things I plan on working on this year....but I refuse to call them new year resolutions!

1.) Saying please and thank you to the Hubs. So often I demand things without a "please"....ie: rub my feet, do the laundry, give me a facial.....what? ok, totally unrealistic demands....but if I were to demand a facial this year, it will start with please and end with thank you! I say please and thank you to friends and strangers regularly....why not my spouse?

2.) Go to the temple more. It's 5 minutes away from my house...it can't be THAT hard.

3.) Get to bed earlier a few nights a week. I'm a night owl, what can I say?

4.) Smiling more at my family and husband. Not that I never smile around them, of course I do...they're hilarious people. I mean like, when my husband walks in the door from work, there is going to be a big, radiant, genuine smile waiting for him. Because lets be honest, I AM happy to see him after 24 hours of being gone....so why not show it?!

5.) Graduate. Oh what a miracle it will be!

6.) And maybe if we're lucky, we'll have one of these to hold....

6.) And maybe if we're really lucky we will sell our house and buy a new one...while interest rates are low. One can always dream, right? Right.

Christmas, The New Year, and going to work in your diaper

2010-01-01T22:41:00.009-07:00

We went tubing in Mendon the weekend after Christmas...fun, but COLD!

Tubing in Mendon. I'm not wearing snow clothes because I was not planning on tubing....obviously I just wanted to stand around and blow bubbles....but that didn't work out as planned. It was very cold.

Kiera picked us up at the bottom.

This is where are the wuss's sat...although they WERE warm....

...and we were freezing!

Dan threw snow in my face right before the picture. Thank you.

Darcey and Navie getting ready to go down!

We opened all of our gifts on Christmas eve. Dan got me a Miche Bag http://www.michebag.com/

Love it! My mom also got me a purse and we got a new comforter. Once I get it on my bed I will have to take a picture of it...I love it!

I gave Dan some Phoenix Suns slippers that he wanted. He also got a Suns hat and a Quesadilla maker from my mom. (He's a quesadilla freak--he calls them cheese crisps...because he's weird like that ;)

Zayden's favorite Christmas gift...the ribbon.

His 2nd favorite gift....he seriously loves this thing, and he holds on so well!

Enthralled by the horses hair. He likes to pull it out.

Playing with Dan's tree

For New Years we went to Pleasant Grove to party with the whole fam damily. Good times...thanks for having us!

Zayden with all the girls!

Tired (but darling) baby Ava, and (extremely happy) Zayden with Great Grandma Hansen and Aunt Darcey.

Zayden came over with this outfit on the other day. It says, "I want to be a firefighter when I grow up." Cute. This kid loves Uncle Dan....he always stares at him and watches EVERY move Dan makes.....it makes me laugh.

And lastly.....

Hard at work in his diaper.

Hemostats=chip clip

2009-12-25T18:30:00.003-07:00

You know it's a weird day
when
you start using hemostats as chip clips.
I seriously did this the other day...
on purpose.
I even said out loud
"really?"
Yes really.

On the other hand,
where did all of the chip clips
disappear to?
Cheese louise!

Merry Christmas from Zayden!

2009-12-23T21:37:00.006-07:00

We aren't visiting family this Christmas (ew,Grinches!), so I will shower my fam with pictures of the Little Man since you don't get to see him in his cute outfit.(plus my mom likes to use my blog as her brag book at work). We went to my mom's ward last Sunday and everyone loved him. All he wanted to do was stand up and smile at all the ladies behind him. He's getting a little temper...I tell him I'll give him spankins, but my threats have not worked yet...I will include a picture of one of his arched back moments.

Enjoy the chubby cheeked monster.....and Merry Christmas!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Stuff

2009-12-09T14:05:00.008-07:00

I love people watching. I could do it for hours...as long as I have Depends on. People are hilarious. The other day I saw a guy cross country skiing on the SIDEWALK. Yeah. The side walk that was pure ice with some patches of dry cement poking through......was he for real? I almost wrecked because I had to do a quadruple take to make sure my eyes were not fooling me. He was having the hardest time too. It was the classic one step forward two steps back routine. I laughed and wished I had someone in the passenger seat to be a witness such humor.

We got our Christmas tree up and decorated. I am slightly disappointed in it this year....it didn't turn out as magnificent as I had dreamed. Once again, Dan tried to put tinsel on it while my back was turned. I'm not a fan of tinsel and Dan cannot believe his ears when I tell him that. We're not in 1980 anymore honey buns! Here's the ironic thing about it.....I bought a little tree last year for Dan to put all of his ornaments on....he has family guy ornaments, and Phoenix Suns stuff, and Superman crap (crap? did I say that out loud?) that he likes to put on our big tree. Then he tops it off with tinsel. Basically all of my hard work of coordinating colors and schemes is completely ruined by his lovely, un-matching stuff. So I thought having his own personal tree would somehow fix all of my problems. It didn't. He hates it. In fact, he looked at it and said "that looks stupid." Oh, and to top it all off....he didn't even put tinsel on his tree! What?! I'm so confused. Now all the sudden I am the one concerned that we have no tinsel on the freakin' tree! He's at work today.....by the time he gets home tomorrow morning there will be tinsel lovingly wrapped around his tree. I refuse to be tinsel-less!

Have you heard the new David Archuleta Christmas From the Heart CD? Its great! We bought it last night and listened to it in the car all the way home. Then Dan told me he could "out sing David." I died laughing.

Here's the little monster, growing up oh so fast. (I realize he's in a pink bouncer...it's a hand-me-down from little Miss Ady.)

Speaking of the Littly Missy.....here she is, milking a fake cow...and talking to a fake sheep.

Hope your Christmas is Magical!

Thankgivin'

2009-12-03T17:00:00.004-07:00

We drove to Arizona for Thanksgiving this year....yes, I said DROVE. Eleven hours in a car is not awesome. We made it, but I don't plan on making this a yearly tradition. Flying is heavenly, and I like heavenly things. We actually hardly took any pictures this year. We were there for 5 days and only came home with two pictures. In our defense we really only saw Dan's whole family once for a couple of hours on Thanksgiving Day.

Dan and McKenna. We were outside helping Joey hang up lights.

Matt has an awesome air soft gun. I could do some damage with that thing!

My favorite picture of Dan. Everyone else in the picture is smiling nicely.....then there's Dan.
(bad picture quality...I was taking a picture of a picture.)

We saw the END of a rainbow!! It was so cool! Although, there was no gold...and no leprechaun.

While we were in Arizona, Josh, Michelle, and Ady came to see my mom in Utah. I will have to post pictures of their happenings another day. I talked to Ady on the phone while we were traveling home and she asked "Aunt Julie, are you coming home from Arizona's house?" lol, the innocent mind of a three year old.

Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful!

My Newphew is Famous-ish

2009-11-18T16:08:00.005-07:00

Little Man is famous....ok, maybe not FAMOUS, but close. His picture was on the morning talk show STUDIO 5 today!! I entered him in to win a basket of goodies & with that entry I had to submit a picture. (The drawing was random, it wasn't based off the picture or he WOULD have won ;) Well we didn't win the basket, but they chose a few of their favorite pictures to display on the show and his was one of them! I guess his five minutes of fame can be checked off his bucket list.....at 6 months old. (I'm still waiting for my moment.....at 303 months old.)

Here's the picture I submitted......

Awwwwww!

The joys of life

2009-10-29T15:36:00.004-06:00

Fall always seems to make me feel more thankful.....maybe it's Thanksgiving....maybe it's the cool weather....maybe I'm just crazy...who knows?

Here are some things that I have been grateful for this month...

*I found my wedding ring! I'm always losing things....it drives me (as well as my husband) INSANE. In fact, this is how bad it has become---I hate when Dan is at work because that means he will not be home to keep track of my glasses for me.....all four pair. (How can a person lose 4 pairs of glasses in one day? I'm still trying to figure it out!)*

**That brings me to the next thing on my list......Dan. Oh, what would I do without him? Sometimes I really just want to smack him....but most of the time he's quite fun to have around ;). Along with being the guardian of my glasses, he is also my dictionary, encyclopedia, handy man, auto mechanic, Book of Mormon Scholar, and my bunk mate. Oh yes ladies, all of this wrapped into one man.....how lucky can one girl be?!**

***Sleep has been my friend this month. I started going to clinicals just once per week and it has been a wonderful thing!***

****A clean house. As you know, we're selling our condo. This place has to be ready for someone to look at 24/7. I thoroughly enjoy the fresh lines on the carpet from the vacuum....On that note, have I ever told you how much I love vacuuming? Seriously. I got this fantastic vacuum for my wedding (from my fave person Ginny) and it has a canister instead of a bag. This means I get to see all of my filth each time I vacuum! Sometimes I'm amazed at what it picks up. We don't even wear shoes in our house and it STILL picks up enormous amounts of who-knows-what?!****

*****Children's Church songs. I've been playing them for Little Man when I babysit him. I'm impressed at how many I still remember! I'm also impressed at the messages in the songs....so simple and easy to understand.....I guess that's why they are children's songs....If you haven't listened to them in awhile, I highly recommend them*****

******The lady from The Biggest Loser...I believe her name is Abby? (Yes, I love reality TV.....don't pretend like you don't). She is amazing! Her husband and 2 kids died in a car accident two years ago. Her outlook on life=amazing. I highly recommend this show too.....I also recommend eating something healthy while watching it. I tried ice cream once and every bite was full of guilt******

*******This Little Missy..that hates her picture taken*******

********And this Little Man..... with chubby cheeks********

September in October

2009-10-01T14:47:00.006-06:00

I started this post the end of September...and here it is October...Hm, where does time go?

Here's a brief summary of events for Septiembre 2009....(oh yes, my Spanish kicks in every now and again)

We put our house up for sale! It took Dan 2 months to convince me to do it, but I gave in....stubborn? Slightly......

My mom got a new car. So sporty and cute.

Dan went to a day long fire school and loved it. They had 4 houses for the firefighters to do damage to and he took full advantage.

Dan taught me about "man planning"... it's not like "women planning". Apparently they don't plan out every detail...who knew?

I found this website http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ and almost peed my pants laughing!

Zayden's Torticollis seems to be better...although he does have lazy days sometimes.

Dan changed his first diaper....oh wow....lets just say packing tape was involved.

A pretty boring month if I don't say so myself! October will be better.....only because I have pictures of Zayden and Adyson to add!

Out with the buzz, in with the music

2009-09-29T02:19:00.002-06:00

How cool is it that my washer and dryer sing to me instead of buzz? So clever.

Love Sweet Love

2009-09-09T21:01:00.004-06:00

I have been wanting a new washer and dryer since we moved over a year ago. We have been using the oldest washer and dryer known to man. Last week it took 6 hours to dry 1 load of towels...yeah....6 hours....I totally wanted to kill myself. So, in an effort to save my life, we bought these puppies.....

How excited am I???? Pretty much I want to quit school and my job so I can stay home and do laundry all day. The best part is we got an awesome deal on them (and you all know how much a love a good deal)! They were marked $599.99 each. With all the rebates, sales, and coupons, we got them for a little over $700 for both. PLUS they are only supposed to cost $13 a YEAR to operate! Amazing.

Anyone want to bring their laundry over?

Facebook

2009-08-25T04:36:00.007-06:00

I think facebook needs to establish some ground rules....and make every person take an oath to oblige. This site is getting out of control. Every time I get on facebook I threaten to cancel my account. I don't know 'who' I threaten....I just say out loud "why the #$!! do I keep getting on this thing!?!". Then I show The Hubs things that people say, or pictures that people post and he says "Why the #$!! do you keep getting on this thing?!" Then we get into an argument about facebook and I find myself defending it, and sticking up for it, while trying to convince him to sign up for it. Yeah, that's all we need....TWO facebook accounts in our household. Sometimes I wonder if people actually have REAL face-to-face conversations with their husbands and children anymore. My sources say no. This can't be good. So, in an effort to save facebooker marriages and family relationships...and to learn how to be a less annoying facebooker... I have established some rules for you......oh yes, these ARE official.

1.) This is not TWITTER. If you want to update your status every 2.4 seconds, start tweeting! To be quite frank, no one really cares about EVERY aspect of your life...I know, surprising huh? We don't need play by plays. One or two status updates every one or two days is sufficient. (Just an FYI for you offenders-there is a little button called "hide" next to your name...I'm pretty sure many of your friends use this option).

2.) This is not FLICKR. We don't need 400 pictures of you...and we REALLY don't need 156 pictures of you taking a picture of yourself. 400 pictures does not equal a cool, popular person with lots of friends. 400 pictures equals you taking too many pictures to try and convince facebook "friends" that you actually have a life.

3.) This is not the psychiatrists office. Keep your personal problems, well, personal. If you need counseling, facebook is not the place to find it. Try the yellow pages.....LDS family services.....Google......anywhere but facebook. Please. I get so uncomfortable/embarrassed for people that air their dirty laundry on their status updates. There is a time and there is a place for situations like this....facebook is not the time or the place.

4.) The results to facebook quizzes aren't real. Don't take these as personal revelation. They're just for fun.... (Yes, I have seen MANY people talk about these like they are real.)

5.) While we're on the subject of quizzes, lets try to keep them to a minimum, eh? For the love, I do not need 35 quiz results bombarding my news feed....don't you know I have 15 status updates to read about Suzie's divorce plans?

6.) Don't whine and expect people to comment on your wall if you never comment on their wall. Enough said.

7.) Facebook is not a place to get attention. It's just not.

8.) This is not your bedroom. I don't care about what you and your husband did last night.....seriously, I don't, not even a little bit.

9.) Facebook is not AKA: A Love Letter to Your Spouse. A cute little "happy anniversary, I love you" here and there is appropriate....but a "I have lain awake many sleepless nights trying to compose words that might adequately describe the feelings of my heart that I have for you..." is not appropriate. Again, that time and place issue goes into effect here.

10.) No pictures is also an issue. Lets get real with each other once and for all, the only reason we all got facebook accounts is so we could see how fat our high school buddies got. 400 pictures is too many, zero pictures is not enough. If you're going to judge all the fatty's from high school, make sure there is ample opportunity for them to do the same.

Ten rules seems to be adequate....for now. I wouldn't want to overwhelm any one. I've come to the conclusion that if you are offended by this post, you're probably the one breaking all of these official facebook rules. So save the hate mail and go update your status instead....you know you want to.

Going Private

2009-08-24T13:32:00.002-06:00

I'm going to make my blog private now. If you want to continue to see my blog you have to leave me a comment with your email address, or email me at ju71@hotmail.com. I know there are a lot of blog stalkers out there (including me), and I am totally ok with it. Even if you've never left me a comment (or never will) I will still add you...unless you're a whack job. There are very few people on my list of "deny access" =)

Just sayin'

2009-08-20T22:23:00.005-06:00

Can I brag for a moment? Of course I can. It's my blog, I can do what I want.

The other day my mom and I were looking for for a vase, so we stopped at the Salvation Army to see if they had one we liked.....oh yes, I shop there. When we walked in they had a bunch of new items from Target out on tables. Tons of stuff...clothes, shoes, napkins, swimming suits, everything. Everything still had the tags on it and everything was 50%! Here's what we found...

We got all of this for $28!

The waffle maker was only $8...it's a flip one, like at hotels. The waffles are HUGE! I saw it at Shopko for $39.99 on sale!

The bumbo.....$10! It was still in the box, never been used, no tears, stains, nothing. How cool is that? (for those of you that don't know what a bumbo is, it's the green chair thing on the left. They're $40 at Walmart....oh, and they're the coolest thing ever invented for kids.)

All the clothes were $.50-$1.50. We got a couple of skirts, some shirts, swimming suits, a jacket, and some shorts for Adyson and Zayden.

Sometimes I impress myself =)

While I'm bragging I will show you some pictures I found that I forgot about from Joni's shower a few months ago. My mom did all of this, even the diaper cake. Isn't she great?

I'm done boasting now....feel free to brag on your blog....afterall, it is your blog and you can do what you want!

He loves me....he loves me not.....

2009-08-16T23:55:00.002-06:00

He loves me!

Camp Nah Nah Mah

2009-08-15T00:46:00.005-06:00

Dan's work asked for volunteers to make and serve breakfast for the kids at the SLC burn camp. The real name of this camp is NAH NAH MAH....I'm not making this up. Dan asked me to go with him because only 3 guys signed up and 2 of them cancelled. Luckily, more showed up than signed up. I'm glad that Dan likes to volunteer and do things like this (even if it means waking up at 5am). A little service is good for the soul!

Do you see why we don't get family pictures taken?

(I was actually really glad to see the reflectors on his jacket work so well)

Z'ster overload...no seriously.

2009-08-14T23:43:00.012-06:00

Zayden is getting so big! He's almost 3 months, and we just love him to pieces. Seriously, could a little boy get any cuter? I think not.

On to the other pictures that make me smile.....

Zayden got blessed while we were in Cleveland. His tux was freakin' adorable. We put it on him in the store and said "Awwwwww" in unison (the cashier too). My mom sewed the pants into shorts and it seriously couldn't have been any cuter. Oh, and the shoes you ask? Brand new. Yard sale. 50 cents. Just sayin'.

K, so he wasn't really digging "picture time" after the blessing. BUT he didn't cry once while being blessed! Oh what a blessing.....no pun intended.

Don't mind the gangsta signs he's throwin'

Spencer blessed him...and did a really great job. Thank you so much!

This is his first fireworks show. I know he looks kind of frightened in this picture, but he really wasn't. My sister was trying to cover his ears with the blanket, and he wasn't liking that. He really liked the fireworks! I was surprised. (Did I mention how awesome Cleveland fireworks are? Seriously, even 2 month old babies like them...that's how cool they are.)

Happy little man

The best babysitter in Emery County. (my cousin's daughter) She loved Zayden and took such good care of him during the softball game. Isn't she cute?

Happy to be with Grandma Dene

Warm and cozy in a towel at Grandma's

This picture needs an explanation. No, we are not torturing him....ok, maybe a little....but it was for a good reason...I swear. You see, when Zayden was born he had the cutest head of hair. I usually don't like it when baby's have hair, but his was adorable. Then one day Joni gave him a bath and his hair started falling out in handfuls. To be quite frank, he looked like a doofus. He had bald patches all over his head. So, we took some action and shaved it. He HATED it at first......

...then he kinda liked the vibrating massage. I am happy to report that the shaving did some good. His hair has grown in and he's back to his non-doofus self! He'll thank me later...I just know it!

He also got to meet his Great Grandma Fletcher for the first time (my dad's mom). He slept right through it...good thing we have cameras to catch these moments as proof.

Then he got to meet some more of the Fletcher side. Aunt Sherrie and Cousin Heather...pretty sure he slept through this as well...

Look at those chubby cheeks. Could you just eat them? I do.

Grandma Dene is so funny

Precious baby. In his Bumbo already!

I'm pretty sure this picture is going the wrong way....and the dog is getting a little close to his head....don't worry, I'll discuss this situation with Grandma Dene A-SAP =). Zayden is holding his new softie...we usually don't like pooh bear stuff, but isn't he cute with it?

Laughing at Grandma again!

A big boy in his bumbo! Seriously, why don't they make these for adults?

By the way, we do realize his neck is crooked.....it ads character, leave him alone.....jk. He had his first physical therapy appointment today...and he slept all the way through it. He is such a good baby. I told someone the other day that I'm not having kids because my brother and sister already took the cute, good babies from heaven (Yes, there were only two...sorry.) .

Bundled up & ready for a walk. Don't ask me why we have to wear jackets in July around here....I'm not in charge of the thermostat.

I'm BIZZY

2009-08-12T13:37:00.018-06:00

I'm so behind on blogging....and homework...and dishes....and one of the tubs has had AJAX sitting in it since last night....but I just had to show you all how cute my niece is. We went to visit her and Josh a couple of weekends ago. She's getting so big! She's got her daddy wrapped around her cute little finger. She adores him. EVERYTHING she does she has to "go show daddy" and EVERYWHERE she goes "is daddy coming?"

We had a little birthday celebration for her and she loved loved loved blowing out the candles. She made us sing "you've had a birthday" over and over and over so she (and daddy, of course) could blow out the candles over and over and over.

We also took her to the park to play. Josh showed her how to roll down the hill and she loved it.
Every time she got to the bottom of the hill she'd say "Daddy I'm bizzy now!"

Now...onto the pictures that make me smile....

Lighting the candles

Getting excited!

She was excited/embarrassed while we sang to her.

Making a wish!

Tinker Bell cake (the second day)

Mmmmmm. Eatin frosting of Tink's legs

I love this picture. So cute. Rollin rollin rollin.

I'm so "bizzy" my head is spinnin'

The never ending game of "CHASE ME!"

Look at those chubby little fingers

Blowin bubbles....where are they?

Sweet

Isn't she lovely?

Bubbles. Again, where are they?

She LOVES the swing. We had to bribe her with bubbles to get off.

I had to include this because it makes me laugh. These are her art projects that she made with all of her new art supplies she got from Grandma Dene. The one on the left has a tag that she took off her new outfit lol.

Once again, I realize the pictures are all messed up. I tried for an hour to fix it. The captions for the pictures are under the pictures.

There's no place like Cleveland

2009-07-20T22:46:00.008-06:00

Every year we pack our bags and head to Cleveland, Utah for the 24th of July celebrations....nowhere else on earth can you get so many great things wrapped into one weekend....

Where else can you get ping pong balls dumped from an airplane right into the road...or a tree?

Where else can you bob for quarters in a tub full of watered down snot?

Where else can your children work in a Coke booth for 2 days straight and not get paid for it?

Where else can you light fireworks in a dry field full of weeds?

Where else can you play in a softball tournament....and lose every year.

Where else can you eat enormous amounts of lamb and scones with honey butter?

Where else can you put your infant in a basket and run a race with them?

Where else can you watch infants fly out of baskets during the race?

Where else can you play a seriously competitive game of balloon toss?

Where else can you get Joe (I won't say the last name...there is great chance that this blog has reached out to millions and he might be one of them) doing the Robot dance to Pop Corn Popping on the Apricot Tree?

Where else does an air force jet fly so close to your head at a parade that you fear for your life??..

Nowhere!....Cleveland is where the magic happens. See you there next year....you know you want to. (somehow I left Cleveland Days without any blogworthy pictures. What was I thinking?!)

This year we were lucky enough to have our car overheat on the way down to Cleveland. It started overheating just before we started up the canyon. Keep in mind it is the 24th of July, and in Utah that is a huge holiday. No one is open....including mechanic shops. Our only option: Walmart. Ok, seriously, don't ever rely on Walmart for anything except toilet paper and doritos. Car problems are NOT their specialty.. We pulled into the lube and oil center, hoping they could help us out. No such luck. Turns out my sister's dog knows more about cars than the Walmart boys. The greatest story of the day happened at this moment....we decided to have them do an oil change and top off all of our fluids. Meanwhile, my mom was calling every mechanic within a 30 mile radius to see if she could find anyone that was open. She finally got a hold of a shop that said they would stay there and wait for us to come in. By this time Wally World boys had managed to pull our car in (a 15 min process). My mom and sister went to the front desk to ask the boy (I say "boy" because he was a 10 year old in a 30 year old body) if he would see how long it was going to take for the oil change, and to let them know that we were in a hurry to get to the mechanic shop before it closed. So the boy leans his head out the window and says (exact words) "How long is the oil change going to take? These guys need you to hurry because they need to get to the Police Department." POLICE DEPARTMENT? The look on my sister's face was priceless, and she says to him, "What?! You don't even know what you're talking about!" I am in the waiting room holding Zayden laughing my freaking head off while watching all of this from the window (best seat in the house). My mom is standing at the door, knocking on it and telling the boy to open it for her (for some reason the front desk boy has to hit a button before you can open the door) so she can talk to the Wally World "mechanic" herself. The funniest part is that the boy keeps going on and on about how we need to get to the Police Department before 5:00....he doesn't even realize that my sister is telling him what an idiot he is, and that my mom is knocking on the door. It's as if nothing is going on around him. I wanted to lay on the floor and die laughing. Long story short, we told them we didn't want the freaking oil change and we headed to the police department....I mean, mechanic shop.

When we got to the mechanic shop we quickly learned they did not have A/C. 2009 and no air conditioner in your building? Who are you? Sadly enough it was cooler outside than inside....aaaaand it was 100 degrees outside. We were dying. I hope I never have to go to that shop again. I felt bad for the people that worked there! 3 hours later we were in a rental car that was 1/2 the size of my mom's car, and back on the road with only half of our stuff.

This is not my life, is it?

Zayden chillin in the sauna

**it's 4am....this post may not make any sense**

5am annoyances

2009-07-16T05:31:00.005-06:00

Seriously.....don't chew gum unless you can do it quietly. My nerves have reached their limit tonight....my clinical instructor has been chomping her gum for two hours....I might explode.

Holy crap she just spit it out (can she read this?).....Sweet relief! Prayers DO get answered!

It's all about us

2009-07-08T00:28:00.007-06:00

Sometimes I forget that other people read this besides my family and close friends. I just realized I talk about things and post pictures like everyone knows who and what I am talking about. Allow me to re-introduce ourselves so you can follow my blog a little better (I did this awhile back http://danandju.blogspot.com/2008/12/here.html, but that's all old news....times have changed, we've moved on to bigger and better things.....not really).

This is Dan....

This is me...

This is us...

>We've been married 6 years....I still like him.....he still likes me...imagine that!

>We have no kids...I know, Mormon & living in Utah with no kids?! We might as well be aliens from a different planet....or a different state at least.

>Dan is still a firefighter and still loves it.

>I am still a girl that answers random phone calls at the hospital from all the crazies out there....If you're one of the crazies, please stop calling.

>I am going to school to be a Respiratory Therapist....and it's kicking my butt. So much to learn, not enough brain power.

>There was a racoon in our yard a few months back....he has since been removed from the premises.

>I have one niece, Adyson...AKA the funniest little 3 year old I've ever met. She's my brother's.

>We also just added a nephew to the clan. Zayden is such a sweet baby....and a little chunky monkey. He's my sisters's.

>Dan has 7 (if I counted right) nieces and nephews. We only get to see them about once a year because they all live in the state where you melt, Arizona. I don't have a picture of all of them together to post, but they all love to play with Dan when they see him....except Savannah.

>Dan and I enjoy spending time together....we have crazy schedules, but we make it work somehow.

>We also love to spend time with our family. They're good people and I am glad we have them in our lives.

>We are blessed in so many ways. I don't always admit it, but we are.

That about sums us up. Now you will know who all these people are when I talk about them.

June in a nutshell

2009-06-29T21:19:00.015-06:00

A few things from June...

1.) Adyson and Josh came to Utah!

Adyson LOVED taking the dogs on walks....many times a day

This is what she does when you tell her to smile

We took her for a train ride

She didn't want me to take her picture

Sweet

Josh & Zayden

2.) Zayden Got to go on his first stroller ride.

How cute are his shoes?

3.) Grandma and Grandpa came to visit

They got to go on a train ride too.

3.) Dan got to play in the Hogs and Hydrants softball game....almost....it ended up getting rained out.

There's work to be done

2009-06-28T13:44:00.004-06:00

Here's how my morning has gone thus far....

7:45 phone rings, it's work. I ignore it.

7:48 listen to my message "Hi Julie, you were supposed to be to work at 7:30. Running a little late?"

7:49 Panic. Jump out of bed and put on yesterdays clothes. Gross. DANGIT! I stayed at my mom's house because my grandparents came to visit and Dan was at work.....so those were the only clothes I had....orrr I just really like to wear the same clothes 2 days in a row? You decide.

7:50 Start driving toward work.

7:51 Debating with myself about whether or not I should take the time to go home and get my laptop & makeup.

7:55 Decided I would rather die than go to work with nothing to do....aka my laptop

8:05 Run up the stairs to my house

8:06 look at my hair in the mirror.....YIKES...no time to fix....pony tail

8:10 Washed my face, brushed my teeth....I may be disgusting enough to wear the same clothes two days in a row, but I draw the line at greasy face and dirty teeth.

8:13 grab laptop, makeup & granola bar

8:14 Realize this is going to be a long day....really really long

8:15 run to my car & drive to work

8:27 Only 57 minutes late....impressive

8:35 Phone call from psych ward dining room "This is Marty Schwartz. I mean, Dr Schwartz. I need an outside line." Me: Who are you trying to reach sir? "I need to call some family members. This about security stuff, CIA stuff." Me: CLICK

8:37 Ahhhh....this is going to be a great day.

Father's Day

2009-06-22T03:06:00.005-06:00

Today is fathers day. A holiday I have never really celebrated. I look forward to having children and making this a special day for Dan in the future, but for now it is just another Sunday for me. My whole life I have had people ask me "How do you feel about your dad?" (In fact, my mom just asked me that question today.) I have never really had an answer until I saw "my dad" a few weeks ago for the first time in 6 years....I say "my dad" because he was not the dad I remember. He was old, gray, unkempt. Ever since that day I have been asking myself the same question, how do I feel about my dad?

In one word, sad.

Not so much sad for myself, but sad for him. Sad that he missed out and continues to miss out on so much.. Sad that his grandchildren and his son in law will never know the real Grandpa Don....the funny, light hearted, athletic, good looking, compassionate Grandpa Don. Instead, they will see a completely different man who is selfish, dishonest, and apathetic. A man who let his addictions get the best of him. Growing up I never really minded not having a dad around. I didn't know any different. In fact, I thought other families were weird for having a dad at their house all the time. It seems that the older I get, the more I realize how much I missed out on not having him around....rather, how much HE missed out on. He never got to see my first steps, hear my first words, see my first art work hanging on the fridge. He never got to see me grow up, graduate, move away to college, get engaged, get married, buy my first house. He never saw my happy moments or my sad moments. If only he knew how much he was missing!

I also feel blessed (in a weird twisted way) to have him as my dad. In all honesty, he has been a terrific example of what NOT to be. He has shown me what addiction does to a person, to a family. He has shown me where CTL (choosing the left) instead of CTR (choosing the right) takes you.....and it's not to a happy place. Also, in his short periods of soberness, he has taught me about love, service, and compassion. We saw his old home teaching companion a few months ago, and he told us that my dad was the best home teaching companion he had ever had. Never missed a month, mowed their lawns, checked up on them, truly cared. That is the dad I wish to remember.

So for today, I will remember my real Dad, not the addict.

Maybe I will dig up a picture of him and scan it in tomorrow...until then, enjoy my future children's Daddy-O.

First Photo shoot

2009-06-13T19:09:00.001-06:00

Joni got Zayden's pictures taken today. Here are a couple of them. Isn't he cute?

2 A.M. ranting

2009-06-12T01:32:00.006-06:00

I've reached my limit of stupid. Seriously. Could Utah drivers suck any worse? I will answer this. No. No they can't. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get to clinicals tonight. It normally takes me around an hour and twenty minutes....weaving in and out of all the lackadaisical idiots of course. Does anyone in this state know the meaning of a SPEED LIMIT. This is not a suggestion people. This is a law. Going 40 on a 65 MPH road is NOT acceptable. It's just not. Just because 4 raindrops fell on your windshield does not mean you can slow down to a crawl on I-15. If you can't handle a little rain now and then, I suggest you move to the dessert where the sun always shines and (if we're lucky) you die of heat. It's like no one around here has a sense of urgency....ever. How do these people get anything done? If it took me 45 minutes to get to the grocery store that is 30 seconds away from my house, my house would always be a wreck, my laundry would never be done, and dinner would never be made. I am the most boring person on earth and I still have things to get done, people to see, places to go, and a time frame to do it in. Why doesn't anyone else in Utah? The worst part is the speed limit isn't the only major problem. No one uses turn signals, everyone rides their brakes, a red light is a "suggestion" to stop, everyone stares at the other three cars at a four way stop like stupid monkeys, & no one knows what yield means. Not to mention the fact that I have seen MULTIPLE people drive on the wrong side of the road (this is a habit of the Logan-ians). Oh, and how about the idiots that get in the right turn lane at a stop light, and decide last minute that they really want to turn left....yeah, you can imagine the obscene gestures that flare when that happens. All I can say is you better be glad I don't take laws as suggestions like the rest of Utah....otherwise we would need more cemeteries.

Miss Ady

2009-06-04T22:24:00.006-06:00

With all of the excitement of a new baby in the family, I haven't blogged about our trip to Twin Falls to see Josh & Adyson. We went Saturday morning and came home Sunday afternoon just before Zayde was born. Adyson got to sleep with grandma Saturday night. She woke up at 4:30am because the dogs were barking outside. She went and stood by the window (with her hand on her hip I might add) and yelled "SAGIE! Stop barking! I am going to spank your bum. It's fine, it's JUST the wind!" Then she got back in bed and said "Jeez, she acts like she lost her marbles!" How hilarious is she?! 3 years old and already sassy!

Here are some pictures of the little Missy.
(I have no idea why the pictures are scattered all over)

Picture overload

2009-05-31T21:24:00.014-06:00

Here are a lot of pictures of Zayden from the first week of his life. He is one week old today! The most recent pictures are on top

Here's what Zayden has been doing:
-Grandma read him his first book today
-He listened to the Children's church songs with enormous head phones
-He weighs 7 lbs 8 oz
-He likes to eat
-He hates poopy diapers
-He loves to be held
-He loves his mommy's voice
-He doesn't mind his carseat
-Mommy lets him have a binki, and he's happy about that!

Rockin' out to Children's church songs

General trying to lick him

Meeting his doggie

Tired Mommy

Getting fed by a syringe.

"Oh brother"

Little monkey

Snoozin'

Napping on the couch

First day home

All wrapped up

In the hospital with his Great Grandma and Grandpa Hansen

Thanks!

2009-05-26T16:09:00.003-06:00

Thank you everyone for your emails, visits, and phone calls to congratulate Joni! I will be sure to pass them along to her!
I don't have any new pictures of Zayden to upload. I left my camera at the hospital. He gets cuter by the day and is finally eating! The swelling in his eyes is almost gone, and his blood sugar levels are back to normal. Hopefully they will get to go home tomorrow.
I am off to a long night of clinicals. More pictures later!

The stork stops here!

2009-05-25T05:56:00.008-06:00

The screaming little man has arrived...and we love him to death already!
(Blogger will not let me write under the pictures. I will try again later.)

Here's what we know about him so far....
8.3 LBS
19.5 inches tall
Dark hair!
Born at 4:26 pm on May 24th
Likes to cry...I mean, scream
Hates when you take his hat off
Loves his Mama's voice
Won't eat
Despises bath time
Loves to be wrapped tight
Has big feet
Gets cuter by the second
Has the cutest pouty lip I've ever seen
Has the softest skin
And I'm pretty sure I heard him say he can't wait to hang out with his aunt Julie!

Big News

2009-05-21T23:17:00.004-06:00

Just an update for my family and some of Joni's friends that read this....
Joni went to the doctor today, and here is what we learned from the ultra sound.

1. He is still breech
2. He weighs 8.5 lbs!
3. He has hair!
4. He has chubby cheeks like his mama
And the big news is...
5. HE WILL BE BORN THIS SUNDAY!!

I can't wait to meet him!
I will post pictures of the little man on Sunday or Monday.

Hey baby lets go to Vegas!

2009-05-19T20:11:00.002-06:00

We had a fun time in Vegas this past week for our anniversary! I'm not sure that I will make a yearly tradition out of this...the nude women everywhere were enough to make a Mormon gal like myself wonder if I needed to see my Bishop Sunday morning to somehow cleanse myself...I'm kidding....we had a great time, and I'm sure we will return some day! We saw so many different things, walked in the hot sun 12 hours per day, road the NYNY roller coaster, went to the top of the stratosphere, and breathed in enough cigarette smoke to cause lung cancer. What more could you ask for in a vacation?

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Results not typical

2009-05-18T19:47:00.006-06:00

My sister's baby is still breech, so we googled (always an accurate source, right?) how to turn a breech baby. Here are the results....

....needless to say, he's still breech.

Let me count the ways....

2009-05-12T17:38:00.005-06:00

The 17th is our 6 year anniversary! How exciting is that? It doesn't feel like it has been that long, but I double checked the calender and it has! We are headed to Las Vegas for the weekend, so I thought I would post this before we left.

Reasons I love him.....

1.) He lets me wear his crappy free T-shirts as PJ shirts.

2.) He makes me laugh. I'm laughing right now just thinking about how he makes me laugh.

3.) He knows I'm a freak, and he still loves me anyway!

4.) He takes me to get frosty's at 11pm.

5.) He's kind to everyone.

6.) He makes friends easily.

7.) He tries to make me less anti social....(I actually really have a love/hate relationship with this quality of his)

8.) He doesn't get mad at me when I am still in my pj's when he gets home from work.

9.) He's smart. I can always rely on him for the right answer to any question.

10.) He's dependable.

11.) He's trustworthy. I never have to worry if he's telling the truth.

12.) He laughs at my lame jokes.

13.) He'll hang out with my mom, my sister, and me.....but only for awhile =).

14.) He helps with the laundry and the dishes sometimes.

15.) He never overreacts...like someone I know....

16.) He knows the scriptures very well.

17.) Kids love him.

18.) He laughs at movies and TV shows, and got me to do the same! I seriously NEVER did that until I met him.

19.) He doesn't complain about what I cook...even if it really does taste like crap.

20.) He is good at basketball and tries to get me to play with him....to no avail.

21.) He's good to me and treats me well.

22.) He doesn't mind that I still think I'm in high school and have sleepovers with my BFF, Erin!

23.) He likes my family and knows they are important to me!

24.) He's pretty much the coolest guy I know...how lucky am I to be married to someone so great!?

I know I am missing a million more reasons, but 24 reasons will have to do for today!

Check before you shop

2009-05-09T20:05:00.003-06:00

Here's a website that has lots of coupons (that you can print and take to the store) and coupon codes (for online purchases)! Just type in the name of the store and it will pull up all the coupons that are available. I have used one for Target, one for shoes.com, and 4 for bath and body works. Make sure you check the success rate of the coupon before taking it to a store.

http://www.retailmenot.com/

Happy shopping!

Project Baby's Room

2009-05-04T13:09:00.004-06:00

A couple of weeks ago we helped my sister move. As an added bonus we got to help her setup Zayden's crib! Isn't it lovely? What makes it even more lovely is we got the WHOLE crib set (wallpaper, lamp, curtains, bedding..everything) from Babies R Us for....drum roll please........$36. That's a saving of over $250! Can you even STAND that price?! Me neither!

This is her "stop taking pictures" face.

Easter in the mud

2009-04-29T12:27:00.015-06:00

Every year my family has a tradition of going to the desert to ride motorcycles & four wheelers the Friday and Saturday before Easter...every year we come home with a new story.
I will sum up this Easter story with a picture collage. Keep in mind as you're looking at this that I am not a fan of mud or dirt....at all....not even a little bit.

This is where I found Dan Saturday morning at 10am. Sleeping in the motorcycle trailer while the rain was pouring down outside. He refused to get out of bed.

This is where I found everyone else. Smashed into a camper. Keep in mind, this is only half of us...

We decided we had enough of the smashed camper scene. So we left. This is what happens when you leave while it's raining....you get stuck and have to dig the mud out from the wheels so they will turn....

Then you drive 2 inches and start all over again.....and your hands end up looking like this....

Then the Donner Party comes over the hill on their ATV's to rescue you....laughing all the way....so we result in obscene gestures....

and they keep laughing....then they take us back to the smashed camper scene that we so desperately wanted to get away from.
Once we were rescued, Gerald decides to have family scripture study...turns out he was really just reading out loud to himself.

Here is where we hiked a mountain to see this "awesome" cave.

Not awesome.

Then someone decides to take the scenic route back to camp. This is a picture of my sister and mom about to cry because we are about to slide off a cliff.

This is the Fisher's view of their near death experience. After all was said and done my uncle said "What was so bad about that? This happens all the time." Not in my life Corey!

Dan and Corey in the tunnel the Chinese dug with shovels. Quite amazing...I'm glad that wasn't my job.

This looks a lot like the "camper scene" but it's not. We obviously like to squish a lot of people in little areas and take pictures of it, ok?

At least it's not raining anymore!

This is where Dan decided to relieve himself....right where everyone could see him....thank you hun.

Back at camp. Are we having fun yet??

How about now?

Now?

This is my "kill me now" face.

The dogs seem to be enjoying it!

It finally dried up enough (5 hours later) so we could go home and shower.
When we got in the car it started shaking uncontrollably. So, we took it to the car wash to spray the mud out of the wheels. Now instead of just muddy, we are wet and muddy....awesome.

Dan's face says it all. "Disgusted"

This is where I said "lets take a picture, pretend like this is funny."

Me, Dan, & my mom. My sister is in the car enjoying a mud free life.

Once we got home....and clogged up the tubs with mud....we headed to Elmo for my sister's baby shower!

Prego lady! Only 5 more weeks!

Thinking hard....

Joni, my dad's sister Sherrie, and her daughter Zoe! We were so glad they came!

Some of the wonderful gifts!

Thank you to everyone that came, and thank you Jill for letting us use your house!

Side note: I don't know why the spacing my posts are always messed up...sorry.

Community pet

2009-04-16T12:50:00.006-06:00

I need to give you (all 2 of you that read this) an update on the mysterious badger in my yard. First of all, I found out it's a raccoon....like that makes it any better...I'm still terrified of it. I swear I am the only one in the neighborhood that has seen the stupid thing! Either that, or no one else sees a problem in having a raccoon hanging out with us like it's a community pet. Why has no one called 911?? Ok, 911 might be a little crazy person-ish, but for the LOVE people. Call animal control, call Animal Planet, call SOMEONE! I'm not usually one to go around calling and complaining about stupid things that happen within the neighborhood, but I draw the line at raccoon. The other day I saw it walking around the pool area like it owned the place. Of course I'M the person pulling into the parking lot at this time. No one else was around...just Julie and the coon. I let this encounter slide thinking someone else would see it and do something about it. No. That did not happen. Last night Dan comes in the house laughing and tells me that the raccoon is out again and it ran under a car. Whose car you ask? I'll give you one guess. MINE. MINE! There are at least 100 cars in our parking lot and it runs under stall #83! Could it not have picked the whiskey tango (white trash for all you non phonetic alphabet readers) El freaking Camino parked in the stall next door? Obviously not. Julie's car it is. I was up all night wondering how I was going to get in my car at 5am to go to work without the raccoon attacking my face. Erin volunteered to put some work gloves on and catch it for me, but I don't trust her raccoon catching abilities (Plus I don't think she even knows what work gloves really are :))! Back to the story....I called the HOA, aka Kier Property Management, and left them a voice mail. I let them know that there was a raccoon about to eat me and I'd really appreciate it if it was dead by 5am. Who wants to bet that he raccoon is still all snuggled up in it's little hole (I found that too) waiting for me to walk out to my car? I'd like to think otherwise....

Don't try to tell me this picture doesn't scare the crap out of you. (btw, this is not an actual picture of our pet raccoon...I would never get that close....but this is EXACTLY what the disgusting thing looks like...in fact it might be its twin. It's huge. HUGE I tell you!)

Good website

2009-04-12T23:02:00.001-06:00

Here's another good website for coupons and saving money tips. I may even like it better than Frugal....hard to believe, I know.
http://iloveagooddeal.blogspot.com/

They say it's your birthday!

2009-04-07T10:20:00.010-06:00

Dan turns 28 today. Such an old man! We both have to work today, so we celebrated yesterday. It's times like these that I wish my Kodak camera wasn't always dead, so I could capture the kodak moments of our lives.

Here's a run down of the festivities. Watch out, we party hard...

We ate at Jasoh. I wouldn't recommend it. First we got an appetizer... Bruschetta with some foul smelling cheese. The waitress could tell we didn't like it (probably because we didn't eat any of it) and brought us out some pot stickers. Much better! The main entrees were OK at best. Mine had a mini tree coming out of the center of it. I have no idea why, but it was hilarious. Just imagine a piece of a pine tree sticking out of mashed potatoes and pot roast. Once the waitress walked away we both burst out laughing. I had a hard time containing myself while she was still standing there. Luckily I held in the laughter until she got 3 feet away from our table. Dan's came out with an enormous bone in the middle of it and a wing. It was literally HALF a chicken. Like, they cut the chicken directly in half and put it on Dan's plate. Obviously we should stick to the lower class restaurants from now on. Trees, stinky cheese, and wings are too much for the lame folk to handle. We went to Walmart afterwards...because we're classy like that..... Right when we walked in Dan saw a sign for McDonalds and said "Oh man that looks so good, we should have come here to eat!" I'm sure the look on my face was priceless (another missed kodak moment).The Walmart McDonalds? Seriously? We've lowered ourselves to this?! We'll have to save that romantic dinner for MY birthday. Anyways, Walmart is always an interesting place to be, isn't it? Having a bad day? Try Walmart. We were there for no more than 10 minutes and within that time we saw: A lady carrying diapers around with purple hair (thank you for NOT reproducing ma'am), a Mexican family following us around singing "oo ee oo ahah ching chang wadda wadda bing bang" at the top of their lungs OVER AND OVER AND OVER, and a man wearing no shirt and 1960's jacket with only the middle button snapped (bow chica wow wow). OH and last but not least, someone threw a piece of candy at Dan's head while were standing in line. I could not stop laughing. That just topped it all off. Walmart....it never fails me. NEVER. Bargains and entertainment. It's one stop shopping. What more could you ask for?

We also went to TOADS to play miniture golf, arcade games, and take pictures in the little booth thingy. Fun times! Lets do it all again next year, Hun! (Minus Jasoh and Walmart of course)

28 going on 12....and that's the way I like it!