Goodbye SLC!

My friends and family helped me celebrate my last weekend living in Salt Lake in an unforgettable way!

Friday was a night at the Sandbar with Tilila, Alisha and Chris.


Saturday my girlfriends threw me a really awesome party. It was perfect. Thanks to everyone that came!












Sunday my mom threw a really awesome dinner party for the fam. It was super nice!




The goodbyes were sad and I'll miss all the people in Utah!
Next stop: Sunnyvale, CA!

Merry Christmas!

Marrdy sent me this in email form, but I thought that it was funny enough to share.



I can't believe Christmas is already here. Life has been rather strange for me these last couple of months and Christmas has been the furthest thing from my mind. It just snuck up on me!

We already had Christmas with my dad fam last weekend. They got me a sewing machine for Christmas, so I'm going to get serious with this sewing hobby. The hard part will be to decide what to make.

This week it's Christmas with my mom fam. I get to talk to my little brother Randall tomorrow! He's calling from Ecuador where he is currently serving an LDS mission.

I hope each and every one of you has a happy and safe holiday season!

Since I've been gone

I haven't been blogging much lately, which also means I haven't been checking my friends' blogs either! I've been feeling out of the loop, but I'm back now, no worries!

To catch you up, here is what I've been up to the last two weeks!

The first collage contains photos from a Jazz game that I attended, Thanksgiving photos from both dinners and a girls night out at Skybar.


This second collage contains photos from Lisa's birthday party, girls night out to Port O Call, cheer Christmas party at the Olympic skating oval, and girls night out at Skybar.


I'll use busy as the excuse for being gone.

Holywar

I don't really feel the need to say much about the BYU vs. U of U football game on Saturday. I only saw the first half of it and it was highly entertaining. Rick and Trish hosted a game watching party at their house, and I would say the attendees were fairly evenly split as to who they were rooting for.

Birthday!

I used to say that I was "Two, two times." I can not say this anymore because now I am 23!

Birthday celebrations sort of started last Friday when Mike and Traci took me out to play.

Tuesday night, Sean took me out for Sushi as he had class to attend on my actual birthday. Sean has finally got me eating sushi. I've never been a fan of any sort of seafood in the past, but with Sean I have tried a couple things now and I've got to say, it was quite delicious!

On my birthday, I went out to lunch with Marrdy, Brett and Robin. I'm kind of lame and didn't take any photos with them.

Later that evening, most of the dad-fam was together for dinner, cake and presents.



More to come this weekend...

Freaky Friday

When the alarm went off Friday morning, something told me that I really should just stay in bed. I pressed snooze, but eventually my need to be responsible got me out of bed and out the door. 

Due to some rather shocking events that morning, I am now in the need of a new full time job. I mention this in the hopes that maybe someone reading this might know of something. If you do, email me. 

That afternoon was the first round of playoff football so I travel with Wendy and the girls we coach on a school bus up to Syracuse for the game. Since my mom lives so close to where game was being played, she, my grandma and my sister all came to watch the game. Sadly, we lost the game so football season is over for us this year. 

Wendy and I

Me, my grandma, my mom and my sister

Getting my grandma to cheer

My girls stunting

Goodbye Randall

I've put off writing about this a little bit because the emotions are still fresh. Yesterday I said goodbye to my youngest brother. He is going to be serving a mission in Quito, Ecuador for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yesterday the family accompanied him to the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah to say goodbye. He will be gone for two years and I'll be nearly 25 the next time I see him. I'm going to miss him so much, but I'm so proud of him. I can tell he's excited for this opportunity and I know he'll do great. All I can hope is that he doesn't grow too much while he's away, he already towers over me!

Weekend recap

Wow, life has just kind of gotten away from me lately. I don't even know how I spend my time sometimes.

...that must mean it's time for a weekend recap!

Last weekend was the second football game of the season. The school my cheer girls are from played the high school that Wendy went to and which her sister now coaches cheer at, so it was kind of an exciting game. My girls, flying high from a stellar performance at the school earlier that day, really made me proud out there cheering their team on.

My mom, stepdad and sister came out to support me at the game. I did not plan well for the afternoon plans. Wearing a body-con dress and high heeled mary-janes didn't exactly equal comfortable attire to be climbing bleachers in. As predicted, my mom eyed my hemline and declared it too short. Gotta love my mom. :)

Me, Jessica, Steph and Wendy

Steph and Jessica

My family

Our team won the game with ease! The season is looking good!

Saturday, I felt the urge to make something so I went out to the fabric store and ended up with some stuff to make some skirts. I finished one skirt late Saturday night. I think I'll be wearing it later this week so watch for that.

Sunday, Sean and I went out for some sushi. I'm not really a fan of seafood in general, but I got brave and tried some of Sean's vegas roll and ended upo really liking it. I was surprised. I just may have to try out some more sushi sometime.

Monday, the cold, wet weather ruined our plans to go to Raging Waters. Instead, Sean and I did some shopping before heading over to his parents' house for a Labor Day barbeque. Most of Sean's siblings were there and we had a good time hanging out and preparing dinner. After dinner, we played several rounds of volleyball in the freakish 50-something degree weather. I was so unbelievably cold! I'd like to blame my poor volleyball skills on that, but I don't think anyone would believe that.

After volleyball, Sean and I went to see Traitor. I had never heard of it till Sean suggested it, but I really ended up liking it. You do have to be in the mood for a serious movie and Sean made that comment that it was slower-paced than he had expected. After I got home from the movie, my night got really wild, but that is a story for another time, so watch for that!

I really enjoyed my long holiday weekend. I'll have to make time to post more often this week because I have a lot to share! Hope you all had a great weekend whether you were celebrating Labor Day or not.

Weekend recap.

The weekend went by far too quickly for me!

Friday night, Sean and I went out to Iggy's for some dinner. Our waiter was such a weirdo, but our food was really good. After, we came back to my house and watched Entourage and this old show called Fletch. It was funny in a "this movie is nuts" sort of way. Then, after that we fell asleep watching The Break Up.

Saturday, Steph and I were supposed to go to Amy's pool to hang out. Amy ended up caught up at the furniture store. Steph and I hung out with our little step-sisters for a while (Steph, I want those pictures!), then we wandered Target for an hour. I got another Gryson bag for really cheap and some studded sandals while I was there. Finally we were able to meet Amy at her pool. We girls hung out by the pool and swam for a bit before we had to leave for our evening plans.



I went out with some girl friends Saturday night. Jamie, Nicole, Brandi, Anna, Neyra and I went out to the Sky Bar for a night of dancing. I had an absolute blast despite the fact that the Sky Bar was void any remotely cute guys to dance with. All of the pictures are on Nicole's camera so I'll have to post them when I get them from her.

Sunday, we celebrated my mom's birthday. We all went up there for dinner.

[Sean collapses when the camera is pulled out.]

[Clearly she's happy about Steph's gift]

[My mom poses with the lamp Adam bought her.]

[We're oh so attractive when distracted]

[Randall the cameraman]

[Steph and Jon]

Now my mom wanted to get some family pictures taken while we were all together. Here are some of the outtakes from said photoshoot.

[Yeah, all of our eyes are closed. Go us.]

[My posing skills come in handy...]

[I'm buff, I can pick up Adam]

[...and then we almost fall]

[The wind does miraculous things to our hair]

[Walking back to the house after pictures]

[There were no candles to be found so we improvised a bit...]

Dinner was lots of fun and after we played a little Wackee 6, which I almost won!

That was my weekend! How was yours?

Pioneer Day

Yesterday, we Utahns celebrated Pioneer Day. My company is part of a national corporation so I did not get the day off because its only a state holiday. However, my boss kicked us out of the office around noon. Hooray!

A whole group of my friends and family went to the Bees game that afternoon. Here are some pictures from the game.

[Steph and Jon]

[Sean and I]

[Steph's perfect mustard squiggle]

[Relaxing in the grass]

[Adam and Amy]

[The game]

[Posing]

[The Bees win it...]

[and the crowd loves it!]

[Everyone takes their seats for the fireworks show]

Random Thoughts

Wendy and Traci have gotten my quite addicted to So You Think You Can Dance this summer. I've always liked this show, just not really ever had time for it.
Now I've become obsessed.
My favorite is Katee despite the fact that she had a really bad attitude in Vegas.

Last night, my mom called right as Katee and Twitch were about to do their contemporary. Inwardly I fought with myself, I love talking to my mom and I miss her so much, but... but... Katee! Twitch! Contemporary!

Family won out.
I answered the phone.

We're talking, making plans for her birthday dinner, talking about her being in Portland, etc.

Meanwhile Twitch is dancing to one of my favorite Duffy songs with Amy Winehouse. Is making out really called dancing? Wow! I wish someone would kiss me like that.
But wait, no... Is that Amy? This girl is much healthier looking and much prettier. That's right, her name is Katee.

Torn between watching the dance and listening to my loving mother, my brain was pulling apart.

Again, family won out.
I shut my brain off to the dancing and focused on my mother.

I missed most of the dancing sadly, but luckily I was able to find it on YouTube.
For your viewing pleasure...


Good, right?

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I've never really given much thought to what Pop'rs were before. I've seen the term around the internet, but didn't think too much of it. Yesterday I realized them for what they are: Awesome! I don't really have a problem eating fruits and vegetables, I love them! However, if you are struggling with getting enough fruits and veggies in your diet and with eating healthy, you really out to find out about Pop'rs too. They sound awesome! I've gotta try them too!

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That's all for my random thoughts at the moment...
Carry on!

Weekend recap.

After work on Friday, I had to run some errands. I ended up at Target and decided that storing my shoes in laundry baskets has gotten pretty ridiculous. I was looking for some shelves that I thought might work. They didn't have anything that I loved, but I found some melamine shelves for just $12 so I decided to give them a try. I also tried on a bunch of things from the Go International line and I left with these three items.


I don't know if I love the way the shorts look on me and I don't know what to wear that red top with so they might go back to the store. I love the black top though. I wore it this weekend. I also got a studded belt for only $2.50, I'm going to have to get creative with it though.

When I got home from Target I put together the shoe shelves, but there were a couple problems. My high heels don't fit too well in the allotted space, not all of my shoes fit on the shelves and there isn't really enough room for my clothes to hang and my shelves. See for yourself:
I need more closet space.
Or less clothes and shoes.
If you have any suggestions for my storage problems, let me know.

Later that night, Sean and I met up for dinner and then we went to see the 10:20 showing of The Dark Knight. Wow, that movie brought out the crowds. There were so many people there and we kept running into people that we knew. All I'm going to say about the so I don't spoil it for anyone is that it was long. We didn't get out of the theater till about 1 AM. It was so worth it though.

Saturday, I spent a good portion of the day reading more of The Host. Reading of course led to me falling asleep.

My little brother got his mission call this week. We all went over to my dad's house for him to open it. While we were waiting for everyone to show up, there was a little DDR going on. Randall's girlfriend Jacquie was also taking votes of where he might go. After opening the letter, the news is that Randall will be serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Quito Ecuador mission. He will be leaving October 1st. I'm super proud of my brother and I will be sad to see him leave, but I think its great that he's doing the things he believes in.

[Dance, Dance Revolution!]

[The list of guesses]

[Steph and Randall]

[Randall talking to our Mother, who was in Portland for work]

After leaving my dad's, I went with a bunch of my friends down to Keys on Main. It was my first time there and I had a great time. It was nice to just relax and hang out with my friends.

[Christina and I]

[The girls]

[Traci and I]

Sunday, I spent more time reading and nearly finished the Host. Later, Sean and I went down to Gateway for some delicious food at Happy Sumo. After eating, we walked around the mall for a bit. Surprisingly enough, in the hour we spent there, I didn't buy a single thing. I did get to check out a few of the things I've been eyeing online. The only bad thing about this wonderful afternoon is when I got pooped on by a bird, smack dab on top of my head. So gross!

When we got home, we watched The Island. I had never seen that movie before, and despite hearing many bad things about it, I've always wanted to. Turns out, I quite liked it.

That was my weekend. I was kind of lame and didn't get a single full-bodied outfit picture. I'll have to be more diligent with it from now on.

Hope you all had good weekends as well!

Weekend recap.

I can't believe the weekend is over, it basically just flew by!

Friday, Sean helped me chop wood for something I'd be making later in the weekend. Later, he and I went out to dinner and a movie. We saw the Incredible Hulk. For a long time, the theater was pretty empty and there weren't any other females in there. Midway through the trailers, more people came in and I wasn't the only woman in the theater anymore. The movie was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. I liked the little tie-in at the end, but I won't say what with so that people can be surprised when they see it.

Saturday, I went boating with my dad, Lisa, and Steph. We went to Utah Lake for the first time. We each had a turn on the wakeboard and then we decided to go anchor off for lunch. We ended up on the west side of the lake and came across a wakeboarding competition. It was pretty cool to watch all the stuff those people could do. Sean joined up with us after lunch. I wasn't fully impressed with Utah Lake, we all agree that there was something about the waves and the wind made it extremely hard to wakeboard. It was so exhausting to be on the wakeboard on that lake. Also, the marina is a complete unorganized mess. I'm not sure how I felt about it. I'll have to give it another try before I form an opinion. Here is a picture I took of my dad before my camera batteries died.

After boating, Sean and I met up with Mike and Traci. We were hanging out in Mike's backyard with his dad, picking peas off the plant and eating them. Mike and Sean convinced me to try doing back a back handspring on the tramp. I tried, but I couldn't do it anymore. I haven't tried for about four years, and now I've got a mental block about it. After that, we went to get some ice cream on the way to South Jordan's Country Fest to watch fireworks.

[Traci and I]

[Sean and I making awesome faces]

[Traci and Mike looking normal]

After the fireworks, Traci and I wanted to ride some of the carnival rides. Traci and I convinced Mike to go with us on the Inverter, but Sean opted out, which was fine with me because that way Sean could hold my purse and take this picture of us. After that, all four of us went on this ride that was similar to the Screamer at Lagoon. At first, we were spinning forwards, and it was mildly fun. Then they switched directions so that we were spinning backwards. Not a good idea. Sean and I got so sick. It was the first time that I had ever thought that I might not make it to the end of the ride without throwing up. I thought for sure that I was gonna be that person that barfs on the ride and it flies everywhere. Luckily I made it off the ride and ended up not getting sick at all, although the motion sickness didn't go away for quite sometime. Next, Traci wanted to win a goldfish, but sadly left empty handed. When we went back to Mike's, his parents were watching some crazy killer alligator movie. It was nuts! I was so tired from the previous week that I ended up falling asleep and missing the end. What a shame.

Sunday, I had to get everything ready for cheer camp. I ran errands and made preparations all day long until it was time to head up to my mom's for Sunday dinner. My cousin Melody was there, along with my brothers' girlfriends. I decided to make a spirit stick for camp so I finished it up at my mom's. Here she is holding the stick that I made.

After dinner we had my mom's delicious enchilada's, chatted and played Wackee 6. My sister and I left around 9:30 pm. About a mile after we got on the freeway, we ran into a traffic jam that was at a dead stop. After a few phone calls, we discovered that the freeway was down to one lane in Kaysville for construction. It took 45 minutes to get from point A to point B.










By the time we got to point B, they were opening it back up to three lanes. It took a total of an hour and forty-five minutes to get home. It was a crappy end to my weekend, but this week should be fun with cheer camp and all.

Weekend recap

Weekend recap time!

Friday after work, Nicole and I hit up the mall before meeting up with Chaz and Phillip. I had to return a dress and ended up leaving with two clutches and another dress. After the mall, Nicole and I met up with the guys and went to dinner at Famous Dave's.

After dinner, we played Mario Kart on Wii for a bit. Let me just tell you, every time I play Wii, I want one more and more. Then we walked to Gateway to watch a movie. I was wearing my new-ish gladiator sandals and let me tell you, it was not fun to walk those few blocks it took to get there. Phil ended up having to carry me part of the way, what a good sport.

Saturday, I was supposed to go boating, but being irrational in my half-awake and overly tired state, I for some reason decided not to go. When I finally woke up in the late morning I regretted that decision. Craving some sun, I decided to go out to pool by myself. I ended having a really relaxing few hours laying out in the sun reading. The only down side was that I forgot my iPod and ended up having to listen to the pool's music.

Driving home after the pool, I decided that I needed a pedicure so I stopped at this place called V-J Nails & Spa. This lady named Ann gave me the best pedicure that I've ever received. It was so amazing that I want to start going to that place to get my nails done as well.

That night Sean and I went to our favorite dining spot, Joy Luck. The service and the food was great, as usual! Following dinner, we went to see The Happening because we're pretty big fans of Mark Wahlberg. Lets just say I was less than impressed. I'll be real honest though, I did get scared quite a bit. I'm just not a fan of all the gore and the ending. I'll leave it at that for people that haven't seen it and still want to.

Sunday, Adam, Steph and I had to do our last minute Father's Day gift shopping. We spent some time walking around the mall and I ate a yummy chocolate dipped strawberry from Godiva. We wrapped my dad's gifts with cutouts from a golf magazine. I got a picture of it that I'll have to upload when I get my camera back, I left it at my dad's.

Dinner was delicious, everyone brought something so there was loads of food. I'm pretty sure I ate my weight's worth of food. Lisa's parents, brother and his wife came over for dinner and after we all played Apples to Apples. It was a pretty loud game, but lots of fun. I went home and went to bed by 9pm and I still felt full!

All in all, a great weekend. How about you?

Happy (Belated) Father's Day!

[My dad and I as a baby]

I know I'm a day late, but I didn't really have much time to get on the computer all weekend.

I just wanted to wish my dad a happy father's day, again. I love that we've become closer as I've become an adult. I hope that our relationship will continue to improve.

I love my dad!

My brothers are better than yours

nyah, nyah!

Okay, fine. I probably don't know your brother, but I like both of mine, a lot.
Back in the day, I told you about my pretty awesome siblings coming to the rescue on a pretty terrible day for me.

Well, here is another reason why I love my siblings.

I've been pleading, begging and being pathetically hopeful for votes for the contest I'm a semi-finalist in. My youngest brother responded to my begging/email with this link.

My other brother posted the link to the contest in his chat server and on google talk.

You can't tell me they're not awesome, even if you like your brother more.

Now go here and vote!

Weekend recap - Lake Powell Edition

I'll try and summarize my weekend/trip to Lake Powell for you as best as I can. Obviously a 5-day trip leaves a lot to talk about.

Steph, Teri, Sean and I rode together in Sean's car. We watched Season 8 of Friends on the way so the trip went by fairly quick because we were entertained. There was a slight delay when my dad got a flat on the boat trailer, but that was quickly swapped out for the spare and they were on their way again in no time.

We arrived at the Bullfrog Marina at probably 8pm on Thursday. It took two trips across the lake to get all of our people and and our junk across the lake to the beach we decided to camp at. It was pretty chilly outside so we had to hurry to set up camp, get a fire going and get dinner ready before it got too dark. We set our tents up way up on the beach, back towards the trees/bushes.

Saturday I woke up with hopes of getting out on the lake, but the weather had slightly different plans. It was overcast with a little wind all morning, but towards noon it started to clear up just a bit so we decided to go out on the lake. By the time we got out there, it was already starting to cloud up again. Sean and my dad got some good time out on the wakeboard, but partway through Steph's ride, it started to rain. We started to head back for camp, but we didn't make it before it started to hail! It was so crazy. We got off the boat and into our tents just in time for the lightning to start up. I took a nap and when I woke up, the weather had cleared quite a bit. We went out on the water again that afternoon.

[Me, Lindy and Annie with Teri sticking her hand in.]

[Steph and I]

[Sean and I]

[Lisa and I]

Saturday the weather was a little better than the day before. I actually got out in the water for a bit. Even with a wetsuit, the cold water still took my breath away.

[Me with Sean]

[Me on the wakeboard]

Sunday ending up being mostly a gorgeous day. I spent a lot of time laying out in the sun reading and on the boat. This resulted in me getting a sunburn on my back. I guess I wasn't as diligent with the sunscreen as I had thought I'd been.

[Sean is sad because I sat on his chips. They were his breakfast.]

[Randall digging a moat for his sandcastle]

[Sean and I]

Saturday night my dad stuck this at the shoreline because he suspected the water level was rapidly rising. This is what it looked like midday on Sunday.

There was an emergency tent moving operation to get Adam, Randall, Jacquie and Amy's tent back from the shoreline.The four of them ended up leaving Sunday night anyway, but if they hadn't, their tent still would've been under water by Monday morning. The waves were coming right up to Sean's tent on Monday morning. Take a look at the picture right above, Sean's tent can be seen on the left. That should tell you just how much the water level rose.

We had to pack up camp and head home on Monday morning. The wait on the boat ramp seemed to go by quite quickly and we were on the road home by lunchtime. Entertainment for the trip home was provided by Seasons 8 & 9 of Friends. I love so much that Sean put that system in that plays DVDs. Its certainly comes in handy.

I had a lot of fun on this trip despite the weather. I want to go again real soon though and get some better weather! There are way more pictures than what I put on here, on my camera alone there were 500+ . I'll post a link to the rest once I get them all up.

Thanks to my dad, Lisa, Adam, Steph, Randall, Trevor, Jason, Carter, Miles, Annalise, Loralyn, Sean, Jacquie, Teri, Amy, Kent, Carol, Heather, Kim, and Andrew for a fun trip!


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For those that may be interested, these are some of the things I wore in the above pictures:
White sunglasses, Friday swimsuit, skirt, Saturday swimsuit, Sunday swimsuit, wakeboard, bindings

Lake Powell, Here I come!

Well, I'm off for a little vacation. The dad-fam and I are going to Lake Powell for a little wakeboarding, boating, tubing, swimming adventure.






I'm a camera whore and I can guarantee there will be at a minimum 4-6 different cameras, not including camera phones, so be prepared for picture not overload. Just kidding, I'll keep it reasonable.






If I get downtime, I'll be updating my twitter, so make sure you're following me!


Hope everyone has a lovely Memorial Day weekend!

Weekend recap.

Friday I decided I couldn't watch the Jazz game. Too much stress. Glad I didn't because it sounds like it was a heartbreaker. *tear*
Instead, I went out and about with a friend.
Here are a few pictures of me on friday night.

Yeah, I'm hot

A more normal face...

I'm sporting the O-gloss and O-glow here...
Can you tell? What do ya think?

Saturday, Steph and I went shopping in preparation for Lake Powell. Later we met up with Suzi and Aline to get pedicures.

After pedicures, Suzi, Aline and I went shopping. I got a pair of denim shorts from Express, let me tell you these are the first pair I've purchased since I was probably 16. Suzi had her daughter there and I ended up holding her a lot. All I have to say is you people with kids must have buff arms. She's pretty much 25 lbs of dead weight when asleep!

Saturday night I got dinner and watched a movie with a friend. Cafe Rio is now open till 11 on the weekends. I'll bet you didn't know that, because when we went there after ten, no one was there! We were the only ones.

Sunday morning I had a craving for IHOP, random, I know. So we went out to "breakfast" at 1pm. I'm a sucker for their stuffed french toast. Yum!

Traci and her family got back from Hawaii Sunday morning so I got to catch up with all of them. I'm no longer all alone in that big house and now the dogs can have more attention, because lets face it, I don't give them what they need. Traci brought me back a cute little pineapple keychain, it was very nice of her. It was also nice to have someone to go for a run with that night.

Also, just in case you were wondering, I challenged "Bob" to buy some new shoes this weekend. He did not. I guess he needs some more encouragement.

Weekend recap.

Alright, I've put it off all day. Here comes the weekend recap...

Friday night I watched the Jazz pull off a win over the Lakers with an old friend and talked the night away.

Saturday was the W.O.W. (Women On Water) class. In preparation for the upcoming trip to Lake Powell, Steph, Lisa and I went to this class to be a better help to my dad with the boat.

Steph, Me, Lisa wearing out W.O.W. hats

Me concentrating on backing up the boat.

Yeah, I backed that up!

Saturday evening I decided to take the rest of the day for myself. I got lots of personal stuff done and enjoyed a very relaxing evening.

Sunday was Mother's Day, as you should already know. We went up to Darin's parent's in Layton for dinner.

*A quick thing that made my day*
"Yuck to the onions, yuck to the pickles, I give my pickles to Amy!" - Adam

Mother's Day balloons I'm assuming...

Out in the backyard...

My camera batteries died shortly after taking this video so most of the pictures we took are on my mother's camera.

Here is the video of my mother opening the gift from me and my siblings.
-An explanation of the video-
Steph and I decided to record her opening her gift because of the card. We happened to find the perfect card for her at the Hallmark store. It was a card that plays "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" by Gloria Estefan when opened. My mother is a huge Gloria fan so it was such an awesome find. We knew she'd dance when she heard the card so we knew it needed to be recorded. The clothes and shoes were all from American Eagle. The mascara we got her is More Than Mascara by Estee Lauder.

Sunday evening produced a major wind storm that knocked over an awning on the back porch and a completely sleepless night for me.

...and now I'm back to another beautiful week!

I ♥ my mom!

Words cannot express how grateful I am for my mother. She's been such a huge inspiration to me my whole life and I've always looked up to her. I hope one day I can become as great of a person as she is.

I love you!

I love my people!

My people, you are great. I so didn't think that I had a lot of people that I could count on, but I've had so many people going out of their way to help me out through this rough spot. I want to name everyone, but I'm afraid I might forget someone and then I'd just feel terrible. You know who you are though. I just want you all to know how much you mean to me! I couldn't be surviving right now without you! Thanks for the listening ear and the great advice.

LOVE YOU!

Weekend recap.

What a weekend. My entire life changed.

Friday I got to do a friend's hair and makeup for her. Thats always kind of fun. Then I went shopping with Suzi, thats always a fun time. Then I went home and got my heart and life ripped to shreds but Sean's evil twin. Traci came home and brought me some Gatorade which I thought was brilliant.

I couldn't sleep very well so I woke up bright and early on saturday. I talked to my mom for a bit. Once I managed to get out of bed and shower, I went to my dad's. I talked to my stepmom for a while, and that helped me out a bit. Then I became overcome with exhaustion and went to take a nap for a bit. After I woke up, I went to Happy Sumo and then shopping with Suzi. She is such an absolute doll. What a great friend. Later I went to a late dinner with my siblings, Amy and Jacquie. That turned out to be a nice distraction. Then after finding out Sean is an even bigger jerk than I ever could've possibly imagined, I went home and took a sleeping pill then passed out.

The sleeping pill turned out to be bad news because it made me sleep through my alarm and miss my work meeting at panty heaven/hell. I watched a trashy movie about breakup that made me feel better for a bit. Then after chatting with Traci for a bit, I sat down and watched the ANTM marathon on MTV. I had seen that cycle way too many times so I ended up falling asleep some more. After that, I went to my dad's for Randall's birthday dinner. There were so many people there, yet I managed to fall asleep once again. Crying that much sure takes a lot out of you. Dinner with the fam was nice. After that, I went home and watched Juno with Traci.

That was my crazy, life-changing, eventful weekend.
Hope you enjoyed my recap of it.

Weekend recap.

So I had a pretty busy weekend. You might have noticed due to the lack of updates on here.

Friday night, Sean and I went to our favorite dinner spot for some yummy chinese. After dinner we received our fortune cookies. I have heard somewhere that you're supposed to eat the fortune cookie before you read the fortune, so I follow that rule. However Sean was for some reason rushing me to read my fortune. I gobbled up my cookie and read my fortune. It read, "You and your wife will be happy in your life together." I told Sean what it said and he laughed and said, "You're joking right?" I replied that I was not joking, that apparently I was a lesbian. He told me he got the exact same fortune and that he had thought it was funny that his fortune mentioned wife, given the events of the last few weeks.


Saturday morning was beautiful. The weather was super nice, therefore it was a lovely day to be at the MS Walk. My cheer girls were volunteering at the walk. So we spent the morning enjoying the blue sky outside at The Gateway. It was really nice to see how many people showed up there to participate in the walk.




Later on Saturday, I went up to Park City with some girlfriends. We went out to dinner at Squatters and went dancing at Harry O's. The night was super fun despite some minor drama that involved losing my car key and the condo key. Luckily, and I never thought I'd say this, one of the girls had gone out on the balcony to have a smoke and accidentally left the door open. Because of that, we were able to get back into the condo. There was still the matter of me not having a way to drive home in the morning, so Sean was nice enough to rescue us by going to my house, finding my spare key and driving it up to me in Park City. He is so awesome and I'm lucky to have him. Thanks to him I was able to drive back down to the valley and enjoy a beautiful Sunday.
Pictures from this night to come...

I went and visited at my dad's house where my little brother was showing of his collection of nerf weaponry.

Later I went to Sean's for sunday dinner. After dinner we all spent some time outside where I ended up playing catch with Sean's brother in high heels. The funniest part of that was Sean's sister thought that I played softball until she saw me throw. The best way to describe how I throw would be "like a girl".

Good times!

My siblings are better than yours.

I've been been having one of the worst days of my life today. There have been so many supportive people that have been here for me today. My boss took me out to lunch, one of my coworkers brought me starbucks, my mom gave me some helpful advice, those few supportive friends that have been keeping my mind distracted all day...
I want to thank you so much. You've made this day bareable for me.

...but then, about twenty minutes ago, three people I know walked in my office.
Stephanie, Adam and Randall. My sister and brothers.
The brought me flowers!

Of course, it made me start crying again, but it was nice to be loved.

Thank you to everyone that has been there for me and thanks to my siblings for being so great! I love you!

Weekend recap.

Saturday we all went out to dinner for Traci's birthday at Mountain Mike's Pizza. It was pretty good. After, we went over to Mike's to play House of the Dead 2 & 3 which is apparently an old arcade game where you kill zombies.

[Sean and Justin aka zombie slayers]

[Traci and Mike, Traci sporting her new hair a la Zach Norman]

[A blurry picture of Sean and I, but you can kind of see my new hair color in this one.]


Sunday, Sean and I went up to Darin's parents' house in Layton for Easter dinner and the kids' Easter egg hunt.

[Sean and I watching the hunt.]

[Playing with cute little Brutus.]

[The cousins with the results of the hunt.]


I had a great weekend! Too bad its over now!

Look-alike meter.

I stumbled upon this new feature on myheritage.com today. Just for fun, I gave it a try.

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Free genealogy - Family tree researcher

I'll bet if I changed up the pictures, I'd get different results though.

Weekend recap.

The last few days have been nuts for me. I've been so busy, I've barely had time to stop and think! I'll share some of the highlights with you.

Friday morning I had the opportunity to help a dear friend out and judge tryouts for Wendy's high school cheer squad. It was fun to be involved with something cheer related again, even for just a day. I was also flattered that she thought of me. It made me realize that I do miss cheering. Wendy was so cute providing us with great treats and by color coordinating all the judging materials. She's so neat! Wendy and I realized that we hadn't actually seen one another since high school, so it was great to get to visit with her in person once again.


After I finished the tryouts, I had to run straight home to pack up my room. I spent about 4.5 hours packing and cleaning. I was so exhausted at that point that I didn't know how I could possibly move everything at that point. Thankfully Sean showed up at that point to help me. Traci's parents were also great about getting the stuff down to my new bedroom for me. It was great to have the extra manpower. I sure couldn't have done it alone. We ran into an issue with my couches however. I had nowhere to store them. There was no room at Traci's house, my dad's house and they couldn't fit down the stairs at my mom's house. I was worried that I'd have to get rid of them, but my sister decided that she'd take them for her apartment. I do need a new TV stand now though as I decided my old was too much bulk to keep moving around. I was so exhausted that I passed out around 11pm that night, which is early for a Friday night.

Saturday was another busy day for me. I got up fairly early considering I like to sleep late on Saturdays. I had to go to my cousin's fiance's bridal shower. It was nice to see extended family that I hadn't seen in quite a long time. It also didn't hurt that they had some pretty good food to snack on while they're there.

After that it was time to head to Ashley's baby shower. Ashley and I have been friends since we were five. I've been through a lot with this girl so it was nice to be able to be there with her at her bridal shower. She is a little over a month away from her due date, but I'm sure she's feeling pretty ready now. She looks so adorable with her little belly! It was fun to get to see her family again as well. Ashley's house used to be my second house growing up, but I hadn't seen her parents or sister in years. There were also lots of other people that I hadn't seen in a long time, such as Megan. I hadn't seen her since she was pregnant with her first little boy and now her second is 8 months! It was such a nice few hours.




After the two showers, I finally had some time to unpack. I thought it would take forever to get everything in its place, but it really wasn't bad. It only took an hour or so to unpack everything. What a nice feeling it is to be all settled once again.

Sunday I had a meeting at panty heaven/hell. We had an opportunity to learn about some exciting new products and changes at the store. I do love working there a couple nights a week. My friend from work, Suzi, and I went to lunch after. She's such a fun girl to hang out with.

Later I got the opportunity to hang out with family again. Many people were up at my mom's for enchilada night. The food was delicious and I love being able to see my mom. We played apples to apples with 11 people! That was a challenge!

My weekend was great, but I'm sure ready for a break!