Busy Week part 2

On Wednesday, February 11, 2009, my darling cousin Chelsea got married.  Since Neil works in Salt Lake, I thought I would be brave and ride the train down to meet him so he didn't have to drive back and forth all day long (actually it was my Mom's genius plan).

I am a nervous nellie, so I was worried to do this because I'd never been on the FrontRunner before.  But I was determined to be brave and that no one would try to rape me while riding the train.  So I park my car and I'm walking to go see if I can figure out how to buy a ticket, when I hear someone call my name.  Lo and Behold, it is my good friend Jed Smed.  He was going to ride the train to Salt Lake too, so I didn't have to be afraid anymore!  Neil was glad I wasn't coming alone too.

Here's Jed and I.  He had literally (like 4 hours before this) just come back from traveling around South America for a month, so he was FREEZING!

  I had planned on taking my own picture of me riding the train since it was my first time and i was planning on blogging about it of course, but the picture (and the experience in general) turned out much better because of this friend.  We reminisced of all our hilarious times the whole way down.

Neil picked me up at the SL train station and we went to Chelsea and Eric's wedding.

Here's 2 of my hottie cousins, Haley and Madison
Chelsea and Eric (the reason the picture is just of the tops of their heads is because there was a lady in front of me and I was trying to see over her big hair!)
She looked so beautiful

A busy week! Part 1

On Sunday we celebrated Seany's b-day with a Dairy Queen ice cream cake, of course!
His birthday was Monday, but we almost always just celebrate on Sundays when the whole family can come.
On Tuesday, my friends threw a baby shower for jenelle and her little baby girl.
She's got about exactly 1 month left.

PLUS- this came in the mail, so I haven't had a lot of time for anything else!!  I'm pretty sure this issue makes more money than all of it's yearly subscriptions combined!

It's been a while

Thanks Natalie :)



1) Post rules on blog

2) Answer the six 8 items

3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment



8 Favorite TV Shows:

1. Girls Next Door

2. Platinum Weddings

3. Ace of Cakes

4. The Soup

5. Dr. 90210

6. The Fabulous Life of...(on VH1)

7. Anything on HGTV (especially if Carter Oosterhouse is in it)

8. All the other wedding shows on WE tv

(those were actually really, really hard to think of!)



8 Things I did Yesterday:

1. Went to the gym

2. Took a shower (surprised?)

3. Went to "New in Town" w/ Nicole

4. Went to Target

5. Went to Costa Vida to get delicious tortillas

6. Went to Ruby Tuesday's w/ Neil, Missy, Aaron, and Brinley

7. Went to Grizzlies Hockey game to watch my school's choir sing the national anthem (they were great!)

8. Watched Friends and Simpsons



8 Things I Look Forward To:

1. My birthday (in April)

2. Next Monday --No school!!

3. SUMMER

4. DISNEYLAND (in 2 1/2 weeks)

5. Dinner

6. Neil coming home from Dallas

7. Dessert

8. Pay Day



8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Market Street

2. Cutler's

3. Red Lobster

4. Garcia's

5. Melting Pot

6. Paradise Bakery

7. Olive Garden

8. Costa Vida



8 Things I Wish For:

1. More Sleep

2. A perfect body

3. More money

4. More vacations

5. More space to put stuff

6. A few new houses (spread throughout the world)

7. Lots of new clothes

8. For someone to do my hair and makeup every day!



8 People I Tag:

1. Stefanie Robins Christensen

2. Michelle Kelly Noel

3. Nicole Beckstead

4. Madison Nelson Sargent

5. Michelle Parrish? Garrett

6. Kelsey McNeil Love

7. Jamie Gilleland Whitesides

8. Bonnie Jean Barlow Riley

4 Years Down...

Yesterday was mine and Neil's FOUR YEAR anniversary~

I can't even believe it's been 4 years already!

Neil surprised me by taking me to Market Street Grill.  That was kind of where our first date was, plus I love everything they make!

Since we didn't take any pictures together inside the restaurant, we decided to have the Valet take our picture on our way out.
They have their Crab Festival right now, so I got 3 different types of crab and was in heaven!!
This is my attempt at taking our picture while driving.  Neil's trying to not crash the car.

We started 2nd semester about a week and a half ago and as I was looking at my new grade book I noticed something funny.  

In the front of the book, it give you an example of how to use the book.

The student's name on the left side is Shelly Young and my sister's name is Shelley Young.  I got a kick out of it, it's not like Shelley is a common name. Although the next name on the list is Chuck and that's definitely not a common name either.

Just so you don't think teachers are still stuck in the stone age, writing down all the scores on paper and figuring out the grades and whatever, I only use this for grading my student's drama performances so that I can grade as they perform.  Everything is done on computers, LUCKILY!! 

shoot em up

If you know anything about Neil, you know that he loves shooting and that he is really good at it too!

Yesterday, we decided to go to an indoor shooting range and try out the new gun he got for Christmas.  Neil was lethal with that thing!  He had about a million bulls eyes.  I was pretty proud of my skills as well, I think I had 5 bulls eyes!  You robbers and rapists better watch out!

Sundance

Chelse, Jeff, and Georgy went up to The Sundance Film Festival while George was here.

The first picture is of Georgy before Chel picked her up to go.   I just really love that dress!

  Neil and I couldn't go because it was a school/work night and they were staying the night in Park City.  :(  

It looked like they had a lot of fun though.

You might wanna barf!

Last Sunday everyone was just hanging out at my parents house, as usual, when Reagan comes upstairs and keeps saying spilled, spilled, spilled, etc. So Jill runs downstairs because she realizes that Tinkerbell and Olivia have been left alone for way too long. We hear her yell a little and then she comes back up with soaking wet towels and bath mats from the bathroom.

This is what had happened.

Tink and Liv were playing "Finding Nemo" in the toilet...not the bath tub, not the sink, the freaking toilet! They had found a ziploc baggie somewhere and were pretending Nemo was in it or something. When Jill showed up, Liv had the ziploc baggie filled with toilet water and was DRINKING IT!! Now, you all probably realize that that part isn't in the Disney show Finding Nemo, so I don't have any idea what made her decide to drink the poisonous water. Surprisingly, it's been an entire week and she hasn't gotten sick or died or anything!

These are the culprits:

They really shouldn't be allowed to even associate with each other because as soon as they get together they become the 2 naughtiest little girls you could ever imagine!

Let's Go Outback Tonight!

We always like to take our Australian friends to the Outback and laugh about the fact that NOTHING there is Australian!  It's still pretty good food whether it's australian or not.

At some point during Georgy's stay, Neil brought up the fact that there is a "sexy missionary" calendar.  That same night George found it on the internet and ordered it.  Luckily it showed up on our doorstep the day before she went to San Francisco!  Here's what ya get...

And a Sneak Peek at the Inside!

We liked this picture best because of the fact that if you look closely, the Plan of Salvation is drawn on the chalkboard!  Those sneaks.

I also love the fact that the actual calendar part of the calendar is about 2 inches big.  It's more of a poster than a calendar!

Igloo

My neighbor down the road built this enormous igloo and Georgy was especially impressed with it.  It was tall enough to fully stand up inside, but it was beyond slippery, we needed ice skates in that thing.  Anyways, One night after visiting Cold Stone we pulled over and snuck into the igloo.  Luckily we had Neil with us to photograph our big adventure and protect us in case there were any polar bears or mean eskimos inside :) 

Last night we wanted to take Georgy to a type of restaurant that they don't have in Australia.  We were going to go down to Rodizio's at Trolley Square, but decided it would be closer/cheaper/quicker to just go over to the Braza Grill in Clearfield.

To Georgy's dismay, I made her hold the waiter's meat sword!  It was super hilarious!  You can see in Georgy's face just how excited she was!  I think the waiter was quite pleased (he he he)  

Tay's concert

Last night, Me, Neil, and Georgy went to my little brothers concert.  He plays with Jason, Seth, Cam, and Rob

An attempted self portrait

Rob's shirt was absolutely FANTASTIC!!  This picture doesn't show just how cool it is.  It had these vertical lines on it and it was like a sound reader (I'm sure there's a name for that, but I don't know it).  When the beats got louder, the lines lit up to the noise level.  I'm not describing it well, but I just know it was a sweet shirt that lit up- that's all that matters.  

Look who came for a visit

You'll have to wait til the end to see!

Meanwhile, we had a great time with Sean & Shelley's babies last night at my mom's house.  This is me with Lindsay and Ethers.

Here we are with the boys helping LaLa make cookies.
Neil and Lindsay watching Baby Mozart or something
Alex found Livvie's old sunnies and would NOT take them off!  He likes being a little rockstar!

And finally, our Visitor is 

GEORGINA CHILTON!

She's my friend from Australia that I met when I lived there 5 years ago.  We still see each other at least once a year though :)
The reason she's holding a Health bar is because she loves Cold Stone (and so do neil and I), so we went there the first night she came in.  While we were sitting at Cold Stone eating are amazing desserts, she goes, "Why would you want to put a health bar in your ice cream!?"  Neil and I just started laughing at her awesome-ness!  So we explained that it was a Heath bar and it was made of toffee, it wasn't the protein/nutrition bar you would find in the diet section of the grocery store.   She is such a riot, you all should spend some time with Georgy while she's here!

Happy Birthday Jeff

Jeff is the very first brother in law I ever had!  He's been in our family for probably 13-14 years! He had his 36th birthday on Monday and we celebrated with Mom's delicious manicotti and homemade Dutch Apple pie!  (and a few cupcakes too)
YUMMM!

This is what took up my 2 week break

I tend to get bored when school is on break and I don't have stuff going on.  Christmas break is always full of parties and shopping and all sorts of stuff to do, but since I had 2 whole weeks off, I thought I'd better give myself a big project to do. 

Our house has a little loft-type area that has been a very boring off-white color the whole time we've lived here.  I've wanted to do painting projects before but Neil never wanted to.  I figured this was a small enough area that even if Neil didn't want to help, I could do it myself.  I don't know how well you can see the color of the walls in these pictures, but I painted them yellow and re-painted the trim too!  (the wall with the design thing on it is the color that the whole area used to be, but not anymore!)

I really love the color and it was such a fun thing for us to do- yes Neil did end up helping and I was glad.

Don't mind the missing doors on the closet, that is the last part of my project and I'm planning on finishing that today!

Oh, and in case you're wondering; neither Neil or myself made New Years Resolutions this year (actually I don't know that we ever have!)