To Erin:

5 (A)nte (M)eridiem randomness

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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?

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!