The Effects of Xbox Live

And I didn't even know he owned sweats...

Christmas!!

This is what it looked like when we woke up at seven. Notice the Stockings have been filled...

Logan had to divide the gifts into piles. Left is mine, center is ours, and right is Logans. Apparently the Blu-Ray belongs to me.

The glorious Christmas Mess.

This is the Loot.
Overall, we came out pretty well. Power tools, a Blu-Ray player. TONS of DVDs and Blu-Rays. Clothes, toys, and some other fun stuff. Hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours!

Sledding in Monroe

SNOW DAY!!

This little boy who was playing in the streets confirmed it for me. It is indeed a snow day in Washington County. I assume he knows what he is talking about... I think this is so fun! I never expected to see snow actually stick here. This is amazing! (Isn't it? I'm not a native so I don't know.) I like it though.

Does this look like St. George to you?

White Christmas, huh? Well, here it is...

This is what we awoke to this morning. I'm pretty excited, Logan is not so much. Last night Kim texted me and said "Snow?" Well Kimtastic, here is your reply.

Pine Valley

We went to Pine Valley yesterday to go tubing. We didnt end up tubing since we didnt have the cap to our tube with us:) Pine Valley is beautiful. If anyone doesnt know what to get me for Christmas, a cabin up there would be just fine!

What is this about???

Chubby Man

This is what Logan looks like when he gets home from the airport, as a matter of fact, this was taken merely seconds ago. No one would ever guess that under all of those chubby clothes, there was a skinny guy.

Weeweechu

It's a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, "Hey, mamacita, let's do Weeweechu." Oh no, not now, let's look at the moon!" said Rosita. Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Pedro begged. "But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon." replied Rosita. Please, corazoncito, just once, do Weeweechu with me." Rosita looked at Pedro and said, "OK, one time, we'll do Weeweechu." Pedro grabbed his guitar and they both sang..... "Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year." MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Sydney's Birthday

I decided to pay Sydney back for the embarrassing pictures she posted of me for my birthday

I woke her up at 8am and she opened her presents.

This is Sydney "posing with her spoils". She got socks, windshield wipers, 2 pairs of Silver jeans, a ring, and a wad of cash.

-Logan

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for my awesome presents. I felt so loved and just wanted to let everyone know how much I love them too! Thanks!

-Sydney

This is random

I was just listening to the Top 40 Country Countdown and doing laundry (yes, yes I am a sinner), and I heard a song I have never heard before and I had to sit down and laugh my butt off. It' may not be your style, but the frank and hilarious lyrics had me cracking up. Here's the link to the video http://www.cmt.com/videos/joey-rory/266100/cheater-cheater.jhtml

My Turn

So Logan took me to Twilight this afternoon, and thanks to you all, I really liked it. Everyone made me go into it expecting NOTHING, and thus, it was much better than expected. I was expecting worse effects, worse acting, worse everything. The only thing I didnt like was Jacob...it would help if he was really an indian, and didnt look like a girl, and had real hair, etc. I was also not too impressed with Jasper, but he grew on me a tiny bit. I just thought he was supposed to be hot. Anyway... This is the end of my ramblings.

Christmas at our house

We put up my Mom's Christmas tree and her outside decorations (by "we" I mean me and mom), and picked up our tree that my Aunt Verlin gave us. This is what Christmas prep looks like at our house.
Yeah, it's messy..
But you can't beat the finished product...MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wal-Mart at 3:45

Logan didnt want to go shopping with me for "Black Friday" until he saw his Samsung Blu-Ray DVD player for a great price in the Wal-Mart ad, and then he became a crazy man.


This is us standing outside Wal-Mart at 3:45, we stood there in the cold til 5 and then I saw something I thought I would never see.

As soon as the doors opened Logan grabbed my hand and bolted through the people who had been standing in front of us and pushing and shoving his way in. I stuck with him for a while, but when he began to encounter shopping carts, the maneuvering became much more tricky and I was quickly cast aside. I seriously wish I would have thought to video this. He was running and jumping and dodging like I have never seen anyone do before. People who say women are crazy at these sales clearly have never witnessed a man on a quest for his Blu-Ray.

We were in and out in under 15 minutes. This is Logan, at approximately 5:30, back at my Mom's house posing with his spoils.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year it was my family's turn to have us over for Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't end up taking a ton of pictures, but I think you will get the idea.

These are the pies my sister Katie made. She was really proud of the cherry one, so I thought I would take a picture and blog about it for her.

This is my Mom making her famous rolls with her not-so-secret family recipe. She never lets us take pictures of her, so I am blogging this monumental event.

Logan took his Xbox with him and that made him the most popular guy after dinner. Everyone loved trying their hand at Halo3, and everyone had a great time.

Thanksgiving was a total success, it was the first time in a long time that everyone was able to make it over for dinner. The sibs were late, but it all worked out just fine.

Christmas Music

I'm about to admit something huge here! There is Christmas Music on the Radio and I am SO GLAD THAT IT'S ON!! My mom totally burned me out on Christmas Music when I lived with her. She had these horrible CD's with corny santa pictures on the cover with bad renditions of all the Christmas classics, and all the ones we wish had never been written. Last year, working at Storytellers, I got so irritated with all the Christmas music the other collators would bring and insist on listening to, but this year, I am TOTALLY IN THE SPIRIT! I cant explain what has changed, but I have been so excited since Halloween that I have all my shopping done, I am humming Christmas songs all the time, and I can't wait to put up my tree (which would probably be up if it was not at my Mom's). I don't know what has changed, but this year I will be listening to FM100 all December long!

Airport Update

The Airport is coming along pretty good. here is a video I got with my phone of a blast last Tuesday.

Sydney's Mean

On Wednesday, Sydney called and got me and appointment with a Dermatologist to get some spots on my head looked at that are suspicious. This morning we went and the spot that Sydney was worrying about was nothing, he called it a wisdom wart. The spot that I have had forever, was pre-cancerous. He still burned them all off. He checked my back, and there was nothing there. Here are the pictures of my wounds.


The pre-cancer is is the big one by my eye. I can't believe that I am 27 and already getting crap burned off my face. Oh the long road ahead.

This is my life now...

Thanks to Lucas, Logan had to get Xbox live. It was fun for a little while, but Logan's work buddy Alec plays too and they have the exact same schedule, so every time they have a day off, yesterday and today and probably tomorrow, they play constantly. Logan was up at 7am yesterday playing it and went to bed at 11pm (That's so not Logan, for those of you who know he had a strict 10 o'clock bed time, which has recently been changed to 9 o'clock) Anyway, I got sick of listening him talk to Alec and the sounds of 9 foot Spartans getting gunned down somewhere on the Halo and decided to snap a photo and come blog about it.




There he sits, in his jammies (complete with the "handles curves superbly" shirt), surrounded by blankets, and fighting what appears to be the most important battle of his life.

Our Trip Up Yonder

This was what was really fun about heading up to Elsinore for Aunt Nette's funeral...chillin' with the family. This is the whole gang at our favorite hangout, Bullies. It wasnt as good as my high school memories remembered, but it was good to be back on familiar turf.

My New Pet

Right now it looks like this...

But soon, it will look like this...

I am really excited about my new "pet". It requires love and attention, I dont' have to clean out its tank/cage, and it doesn't poop. Looks like I have finally found a pet I can love.

SCENTSY!!!

Last night Logan had a friend over to play (Tanner) and we went and got him. As many of you know, Melanie sells Scentsy and I have really been wanting a holiday-ish scent.


I FOUND ONE!!! Yum, Cinnamon Cider is delicious, my house smells like heaven!

Costumes From Your Closet.

This is what Logan and I dressed up as for Halloween.

For those of you who don't know who we're supposed to be, we are Jim and Pam from The Office.

This Cracked Me Up!

Happy almost Halloween!

I thought this was HILARIOUS!!

Fun Haloween Activity

Today I made some yummy Halloween sugar cookies.

And I even made some especially for Logan.

Food

This thought came to me this morning as I was eating my low-fat pop tart. Low-fat/light foods help people lose weight because they are so gross they make you lose your appetite completely.

Hobby

I am oficially in a search for a hobby. This is due to the fact that I am alone all the time. I have no friends, and I am apparently not able to make any since I have not had to do so since I was in kindergarten. Logan has stated that he will provide all things necessary for my new hobby if I will just choose one. This is a generous offer, even though I am certain that my budget is around $20. I'm looking for something to fill in the hours between school and work...basically anything that can take the place of friends and family. I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

Thanks,
Sydney

Airport

So this is where I've been hiding from Sydney lately working 13-14 hour days Thursday to Sunday. The St. George Replacement Airport. It causes us grief but it will be cool to say I worked on it.

Cable Shmable

So Sydney hated last Sunday because I was gone all day and she begged me to get rabbit ears. Well I've been putting it off because I've been hearing all the talk about digital TV and I thought you needed a certain thing to make it work. I did some research and it turns out that my new TV doesn't need the thing. So I got some HDTV rabbit ears at Wal-Mart for 20 bucks, then came home and hooked them up.I didn't like having them where they are in this picture so I rewired the cable in the walls
and moved the antenna to the bed room window were I got better reception anyway. I'm in process of looking for a more permanent location, but I can get more of the channels where it is here, but there is an annoying cable on the floor. I get 12 Channels, 3 of which are in HD not bad for 20 bucks that's less than 1 month of cable with no HD channels.

Now You See Me!

As many of you know for my birthday last year Sydney got me a shovel, because that is what I wanted. This year she got me a High Visibility Carhartt Hoody. It's so I don't get run over by a scrapper out at the air port. Thanks Sydney I love you!

Good News

Just wanted to let everyone know that I recieved my acceptance letter into the Dixie State College of Utah Education Program. YAY!!!

TAG!! You're it!

8 TV shows that I love to watch:
1. The Office
2. The Big Bang Theory
3. Golden Girls reruns
4. Designing Women reruns
5. CMT
6. We don't have TV so that's it.
7.
8.

8 favorite restaurants:
1. Olive Garden
2. Applebee's 3. Jimmy John's4. Red Lobster
5. In N' Out
6. South China
7. Wendy's
8. Panda Express

8 things that happened yesterday:
1. Fought with Logan about him hating his birthday
2. Showered and got ready
3. Locked us out of the house
4. Had to walk to the Bishops house to borrow phonebook to call locksmith
5. Shelled out $40 to get back in
6. Went to Ron and Debbie's
7. Took a nap (We're sick!)
8. Went to work

8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. Sleeping tonight
2. Logan coming home (he drives me nuts but I still look forward to that)
3. Next weekend I am going to see my mom, or she's coming to see me (we don't know yet)
4. Finding out if I made it in the program or not.
5. Halloween, everyone knows it's my favorite!
6. The new Taylor Swift CD coming out.
7. Dinner, although I don't know what we are going to have
8. Getting over this dang cold!

8 things on my wish list (interesting, I just wrote one a couple days ago)
1. New contact lenses
2. New shoes
3. A new job
4. Swiffer duster (I got that but I am going off my written list)
5. Another pair of pants that fit me well
6. Logan to help with the dishes sometimes.
7. Logan's birthday present to get here (I ordered it 2 weeks ago!)
8. New car (someday)
8 people I tag

1. Kim
2. Shellie
3.Jessie
4. Logan
5.Jen
6. Anisa
7. Logan
8. And anyone who wants to!

Happy 27th Birthday!

Today was Logan's 27th Birthday and I had a lot of fun...and Logan was a party pooper as usual.

This year, instead of baking (and ruining) an Aunt Ellen cake, I made Apple Crisp instead.

Yep, I made him blow out the candles and the whole shebang. I also gave the party a Transformers theme, complete with party hats and blower things.

Logan didn't think that was cool. He pouted about it.

Maybe we can blame Logan for not letting me have kids, or my mom for me not having younger siblings, but I am WILD about birthday parties...too bad Logan crashes the party every time.

Two years ago tomorrow

Two years ago tomorrow, I woke up and had no idea that that very night I would meet someone who would completely change my life. I remember being excited as I dressed and got ready for the “Bring Back Summer” party my roommates and I had been invited to. What we didn’t know is that this party was also a birthday party for a guy we had never met named Logan Blake. We were some of the first to arrive all decked out in our Hawaiian outfits. We immediately saw our acquaintances Ross and John, the almost-strangers who showed up at our front door the week before to invite us. It was at their apartment at Willow Brook and the Beach Boys were blasting out of the speakers so loudly that we could hear them from the parking lot. Ross was blending up some virgin margaritas and daiquiris. He called back the hallway and Logan shyly stepped into the room. He was wearing a navy blue t-shirt and board shorts; I also remember his blue eyes. Logan, it seemed, was not very social, for he remained in the kitchen while we awkwardly huddled on the couch trying to fight the frigid air that hit us each time the door opened to admit more guests. By now I had finished with my margarita and set off for the kitchen to try a daiquiri. It was then that I was offered cake by the shy, yet very attractive boy. (It was Aunt Ellen’s strawberry cake). I remember feeling really stupid and racking my mind for something clever to say. I think I said something like, “This cake is weird, but it’s good.” Then returning to the couch feeling defeated. If I recall correctly, we left around 11:30 to go and catch a midnight movie, all except Mandy who thankfully stayed to get to know Logan a little bit better. If it weren’t for this, I may have never got the second chance to make an impression (which turned out to be snobby, by the way). He remembered Mandy for being so outgoing, Julie for eating all of his chip dip, and Brittney because everyone remembers Brittney. Who would have thought that his future wife would be the one went completely unremembered at his birthday party? I finally made an impression at his 80’s party a couple of months later (thank goodness I was inspired to purchase those tight pleather pants at D.I. for the party!) but by then he was dating someone…that’s another story, but the point is that it has been two short years since I first met the love of my life. Happy Birthday Baby and thank you for giving me a second (and third) chance!!! I love you!!

Just for Fun

Bolded ones are the things I have done! You try too! Mine are the blue ones Logan.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (Always wanted to, but could never get anyone to do it with me.)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (not very far back, in Kirtland, OH)
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke (The game)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain (I'm pretty sure Sydney and I have done it)
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie (I starred in a movie for a history class I took in high school, I was a grieving Confederate widow)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (not proud of it)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job (Well, technically I quit in the nick of time!)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (with Logan, but I don’t think we were speeding!)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (fish)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Yeah ABBA!

Just thought I would share a cool you tube video with you all.

Just as a side note, on the office Andy sang this song to Angela to ask her out on a date.

Lava Point

After I got off work at 1 on Saturday we took off on the last camping trip of the season. We went to the Kolob area of Zions National Park (where I had never been) and stayed over. It rained a lot, but we really had a lot of fun. There are some women who can go camping and look incredible doing it, this picture is proof that I am not one of these women. I've never been much of a camper, but I am starting to think that is because I never had anyone fun to go with. Logan is an excellent cook and makes everything an adventure and I really enjoyed myself, and probably gained 10 pounds from his dutch oven cooking!