Shellie Tagged Me

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.

B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.

C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 years ago: I was ten years old. I was in fourth grade and I hated it. (Fourth grade was a bad year.)

5 things on my to-do list today: Go to class. Do my math homework. Clean the kitchen. Go to St. George with Logan. Prepare primary lesson.

Snacks I enjoy: I love all snacks. I especially love brownies, fruit snacks, Reeses, and pretty much anything that is very bad for me.

Things I would do if I were a billionare: Buy Logan his TV. Buy my mom a new house. Buy Logan and I a house. Take Logan back to Australia. Travel wherever I wanted to.

3 of my bad habits: BITING MY NAILS!!! I also tend to get too upset over little things. I am way too sensitive.

5 places I have lived: Flagstaff, AZ, My mom's in Elsinore, the C'Era apts., and our little cave at University West. (Only four, but that's it.)

5 jobs I have had: Munchies (cashier), KFC/Taco Bell (abused drive-thru employee), Vision Research (telephone surveyor), Wal-mart (fitting room attendent), Storytellers Club, Inc. (scrapbooking collater).

5 things people don't know about me: This is hard because I'm pretty much an open book, but I'll try. I used to be an English major. I have always wanted to write a novel about the crazy people in Elsinore (they really are crazy). I had big dreams of going to BYU. When I was little I had an obsession with my toes. I used to have a crush on CNN's Anderson Cooper. Hmm... I tag Tanner and Jenny.

Logan I'm Scared!

Sydney and I went tubing up on Cedar Mountian today. We did so that you all wouldn't think we were totally boring. I had a great time and I'll let the video speak for Sydney.

Here are some of our other pictures having fun in the snow.

Logan Thoughts: I Married My Brother

Yes it is true! It only took me six months to realize, but I’ve married my brother, only in female form of course. Lucas, when he was living in Mom and Dad’s house, would hoard cups/glasses in his room and any where that wasn’t the kitchen pretty much. Shellie can tell us if he still does this.

I took these pictures today.

As you can see there are glasses strewn about the house some in quite odd places.

Another thing that I remember Mom complaining about Lucas was that he would leave his shoes “where everybody would step on them,” as Mom would say. Sydney does this as well, I don’t have any incriminating photos at the moment but rest assured at any given time there could be as many as three pairs of shoes in the front room. I would say all over the house but a front room is all we have.

Another thing that was brought to my attention today is that both Lucas and Sydney love that hideous Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.

All in all I think that marrying Sydney was a good choice, I love her, and I’ve been raised to live with someone just like her my whole life.

Logan Thoughts: Bad Skin Anonymous

As some of you may know my lovely wife, Sydney, made me purchase the men’s Clinique 3 Step program for bad skin anonymous. She made me do this not because I’ve been having pimples galore, but because my forehead has been really dry. I blame it on the cold Cedar air but she insisted I use this stuff. I don’t have hang ups about using the face wash or putting the moisture stuff on my face but I don’t really like the whole alcohol crap on the cotton ball that’s a bit girly for me. Nonetheless I’ve been using it to appease the wife and as much as it damages my masculinity, I think it’s working. So if any of you men out there are having skin issues the you can go metro-sexual just like I did and clear it up. - Logan

Happy Valentine's Day!

Since our blog was getting a little sad, I decided to share with you all my craft that I made, and to everyone’s dismay, there is a story.

I went to Robert’s Craft in need of a Valentine’s Day decoration. I found many adorable things, among which there were some blocks with XOXO on them. I didn’t really want to shell out $15 bucks on them, so I decided to think. My friend Kristie, who I work with, has a Cricut™ and offered to cut me some vinyl stickers for me. She only had a scrap of white vinyl and since it was a spur of the moment kind of thing, I didn’t run to Robert’s in the freezing cold to buy some. I ended up with some adorable 2” letters and a really cute skinny heart. So the next day I went to Robert’s craft and wandered around forever looking for blocks, thinking that they, as a craft store, would surely sell blocks. I finally asked a lady and she looked at me like I was completely stupid. As if I am the only person who wants blocks that I can paint a color of my choice! So, I wandered some more, looking for some inspiration. I was not giving up…I ended up giving up (for the moment at least) my vinyl letters. I purchased some cute little wooden letters (very cheap!) and a back board thing (also, much cheaper than I had anticipated). With a little paint, and the glue gun I got for Christmas, my craft came in with a grand total of about six bucks. Not exactly what I had in mind at the time, but I am pleased with myself, and it was a lot cheaper than $15. (I just realized that the background looks purple, and it's not. It is brown, not really the shade I was hoping for, but it's okay, at least I'm trying!)
-Sydney

At It Again!

I thought that every one would like to know that the “Ornery Nameless Lady” has resurfaced in a different form. That's right, instead of being a “Nice-Man-Hating Ornery Nameless Lady” she has now come back in the form of a “Blog Bullying Ornery Nameless Lady.” Just read the comments on Shellie’s most recent post. As far as I know, this is a free country and we the people have the right to post or not to post. We shouldn't be subjected to the tyranny and oppression of being forced to post against our will. All of the “Patriots” out there reading this should rise up and help put a stop to this act of terrorism, that a member of our dear family is being subjected to. Will you not help and fight the evil that has been forced upon one of our own? Let us all vote this day to ban Blog Bullies from being allowed to view our blogs. Who’s with me?!

We're too Poor!

The other day Sydney dragged me to watch P.S. I Love You at the Cinema 8 here in Cedar City.

And while we were in line to buy some popcorn, I noticed there was a contest to win one of these.

A Yamaha Raptor, and since Sydney was bored, because she was waiting in line, I told her to go and enter that contest. Yes, I know it was not very smart, but I thought the hassle would be worth a Four-Wheeler like that.

So, a few weeks went by and I got a phone call from some guy saying I didn't win the four-wheeler, but I did win a air fair and a 2 night stay in San Diego or a 3 night stay in Las Vegas, and all I had to do was drive to St. George and listen to a 90 minute presentation on what World Mark by Wyndham was all about.
I thought, "Sure why not, I can put up with that and I might be able to use the hotel stay in Las Vegas for work." So last night Sydney and I drove to St. George for our 5 month anniversary and to listen to their little schpeel. Anyway the lady started to ask us what we did for work and I told her, "We are full time students." She was like, "but you do work right?" I said, "Part time, and Sydney doesn't even get taxable wages." Then she asked, "So about how much do you make in year?" I told her, "I think I made about 20,000 last year." She apologized and said, "They should have told you on the phone that you needed to make at least 40,000 a year to qualify for the prize, because we won't do our presentation to people who can't afford to buy our timeshares." "Oh well, they didn't tell me that on the phone." So she gave us a 10 dollar gas card for driving down and sent us on our way. So we went and talked to Mom, told her our story and while we were there I got another phone call from the Wyndham people telling me I had missed my appointment. I told her, "I went there and they told me I don't make enough money to win the prize." She said she was sorry and left me alone. So there you have it we are officially too poor to win a drawing. So if Shellie thinks I'm cheap I can tell I can't afford not to be. And that phone wasn't free with an upgrade by the way you turd. -Logan

I am so spoiled!

Yesterday my phone was eligible for an upgrade and Logan absolutely spoiled me! He bought me the phone I have been wanting for months, a year even. He got me the new Blue Mint Chocolate! He even surprised me with a 2 GB Micro SD card (I think that's what it is). I love it so much! It will, of course, take some getting used to but it is so much better than my old phone which wouldn't ring (unless I was in class of course). My phone woes are over! Thanks baby, I love you!
-Sydney

Logan's Rafting Song

I've also wrote one for myself. I comes from a song by Brad Paisley, called "I'm gonna miss her."

Well I love her
But I love to raft
I spend all day in this apartment
And worried is all she gets
But today she went down to Dixie
Said she’s behind in school
It seems that she can’t go on this trip
She’ll be takin’ summer school when we shove off in June

We’ll I’m gonna miss her
Till I get home
Right now I’m on this river
And I’m floatn’ in the sun
I’m sure it will hit me
When I sweat in my tent at night
Yeah I’m gonna miss her
I’m, itchy there, mosquito bite

Now there’s a chance
That if I hurry
I could leave a later day
But the rivers right
And the flow is perfect
No tellin’ what she’ll learn in class today

So I’m gonna miss her
Till I get home
Right now I’m on this river
And I’m floatn’ in the sun
I’m sure it will hit me
When I sweat in my tent at night
Yeah I’m gonna miss her
I’m, itchy there, mosquito bite

Posted by Logan

Sydney's Rafting Song

Syndey is a big fan of, famed country music singer, Garth Brooks.
She has told me on numerous occasions that the song "Rodeo" is her rafting song, so I wrote a rafting version just for her. Here it is it's called "Floatn' Boats"






His arms are cold and restless
His burns have almost healed
And she’d give half of Sevier
Just to change the way he feels
She knows his love’s in Utah
And she knows he’s gonna go
Well it ain’t no woman flesh and blood
It’s that damned old floatn’ boats

(Chorus)

Well it’s waves and bugs
It’s DEET and mud
It’s the roar of the rapid sound
It’s the white of his butt cheeks
The smell of the good eats
He’ll flip and Cash will drown
It’s pads and straps
It’s Hooters hats
It’s shorts and mosquitoes
It’s the oars and the frame
And the joy and the pain
And they call the thing floatn’ boats

She does her best to scold him
When his love comes to call
But his need for it controls him
And her butt can’t swim at all
And it’s so long babe I’ll see you
When it’s time for him to go
You know the woman wants her rafter
Like he wants his rowing boats

- Chorus -

It’ll drive his Sydney crazy
It’ll drive his mom insane
And he’ll pack up everything he needs
Just to put it all away
And a muddy raft and some muddy pants
Is all he’ll have to show
For all the days that he spent chasin’
This dream they call floatn’ boats

- Chorus -

It’s the rocks and the bugs
It’s the holes and the mud
And they call the thing floatn’ boats

Posted by Logan

The Ornery Nameless Lady

You must read Libby’s Blind Date Post first.

First of all he is a very nice man and a good sport for going on a blind date in the first place. Also we did show the ornery lady who shall remain nameless a few pictures and even some live footage so it really wasn’t blind for her. In fact she started to whine the moment after we set up the date, which, by the way, she insisted on doing. I (Logan) thought that it would be a one on one date from the time she asked for it, which would have fixed the little problem on not talking to one another. I don’t know any one who would talk to someone they don’t know when someone they do know is sitting across the table.

Just to defend myself (Sydney), she was in the backseat whining that she is shallow and I said that he may not be very attractive, but he is the nicest guy I know, other than Logan of course.

(Logan again) Also I’ve been set up on many blind dates in my time and as blind dates go this was a complete success, it was not awkward at all, and he did answer her few questions to him, like the one about who Peyton Manning is. In addition, there was no lull in the conversation, which I (Sydney) know is the worst part of blind dates.

(Logan again) It wasn’t really the right format for a good blind date anyway. For one thing we all rode in the same car together there was no picking up of the other person on either of the daters part. I went to the door and got him and I drove, so I was there the whole time. I didn’t like the whole way it panned out because it just wasn’t the right way to go about things. I think that another chance should be given on a single date, but I’m not sure I would want to put the nice guy through another date with the ornery nameless lady.

P.S. We will never set Libby up again.

Finally We Had Snow!

It's been about a year since we had a big snow storm here in Cedar City. I mean we've had a few skiffs here and there but nothing to write blog about. We were starting to feel left out from Salt Lake getting all the snow. The Friday before Christmas we got about 4" of snow. It still was nothing compared to last years 18" in one night, but it was still fun nonetheless. So we thought we would share so that those out there that read our blog would know we're not dead.

Our Wee Tree

We may be the Christmas slackers of the family, because it took us till yesterday to finish decorating our tree and it's small. But there were many circumstances that caused us to put it off till now. We needed to go to Elsinore for the tree and then we needed decorations which we got at Target in St. George because we still had wedding money from there. Here's the picture; enjoy.

Sydney is most proud of her Copper Star and the Nativity set

Logan is most proud of his placment of the Nativity set and the Balls on the Tree.

Out with the old in with the new

Oh happy day! We went and picked up our couch last Saturday in the midst the cold stormy weather. We didn’t have any trouble except that Sydney didn’t like the way dad’s tarp smelled, I swear she was going to dry heave. Mom will be happy to know that we got rid of the futon, we gave to one of Sydney’s friends whose getting married in December. So here is a before and after picture, and one last tribute to our beloved futon.

The Coin-op Chronicles

On our Laundry day last Saturday, Sydney found these “Nappy Panties” and naturally Sydney accused me of cheating on her. “How did these get in our Laundry?!” she said, “They must have got mixed in with our clothes when you ripped them off her didn’t they LOGAN!” “First of all,” I said, “When have I not been with you, and second of all I wouldn’t have anything to do with some one who would continue to wear such nappy panties.” “Well I’ll let it slide this time because we have coin-op laundry and they could have been left in one of the washers,” Sydney consented, “But if I find one in our laundry when we have our own machines, you will really get it." - Posted by Logan -