Congratulations to Logan!

Logan has been named the recipient of the Integrated Engineering Academics Award for the 2007-2008 schoool-year by the faculty of the College of Computing, Integegrated Engineering and Technology. He will be recognized at the college's Recognition and Awards Banquet on April 17. Congrats Logan!!

P.S. Can you beat that Tanner?

Paranoia

Okay, Anisa got me all paranoid about people we don't know looking at our blogs, so I put a permission on ours. The funny thing about me writing this is that you wouldn't know it unless you already found out and had to sign in. Anyway I have been looking around and I would like to ask you all nicely to remove anywhere that it says our last name next to Logan and Sydney on your blog links. Also I think we should get rid of the email listings on the family blog and on Jessica's blog. I think we should do this because there is a little to much information (TMI) on the blogs, that I don't think others should be looking at. - Logan

Tuweep! Tuweep!

Last Saturday Sydney and I, well I came up with the idea, decided to go to the Grand Canyon. It has been a while since either of us had been to the Grand Canyon and I saw something on the Travel Channel that said it was the most visited natural wonder in the world with over 5 million visitors each year. We left with a packed lunch and drove all day it seemed to get down there and back. I picked to go to Tuweep because it is free and it is a lot closer than the North or South Rim. I like Tuweep because you can go right up to the edge and it is also cool just the shape of how deep it is to its width.

This is me drinking Bear Grylls style. - Logan

P.S. Okay, this picture needs an explanation. The toilets at Tuweep were the worst toilets I have ever smelled. They were WAY WORSE than the usual "hole in the ground" toilets. These were composting toilets. The idea is that you go, and add a scoop of wood chips in afterward. It said let the wood chips do their job while you do yours. I went in and immediately ran out gagging. The only way I could go through with this is by stuffing my nose full of toilet paper. Logan thought this was great. Just to give you guys an idea about the stink, it was like a human store. You know how pet stores smell like pet pee and wood chips? This smelled like human pee and wood chips. That is all. -Sydney

Spring Break!!!!

I am counting down the days ‘til spring break, I have been for so long now! I am completely lacking motivation to do anything school related and all I want to do is nap and talk to Logan.

My mom and I have been planning to spend a day or two in St. George over spring break since Logan announced that he would be leaving me over spring break again this year. His plans have since changed, but mine haven’t! I want to be somewhere warm and as far away from SUU as I can get. If I can just hold on for two more days I will have made it. Spring break! I have waited so long for you!

Roadtrip: Highway 89

We were in Provo at about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon desperately looking for a Taco Bell. We finally found one and Logan decided to take me up past the MTC since I had never been there, and he wanted to reminisce. While there he had this grand idea of going home on Highway 89. I thought that it sounded like fun. At about this same time I remembered that I had brought the camera. This is us at the beginning of our adventure.

This is where we were.

We stopped to say hi to my mom since she practically lives on Hwy. 89. We visited for about a half hour and we hit the road again.

By the time we made it to Circleville, Logan was looking pretty tired.

By the time we made it to Bear Valley we were both tired. (I had a lot of Pepsi at Taco Bell.)

We finally made it home around nine, I think.

Home sweet home. Well... back in Cedar City.

The Xbox Elite

I am sure you have all heard about Logan's new love but I thought I would include a few pics so everyone could see how happy it made him to get it.

We went to Wal-mart to grab a couple items and Logan went to see if there was a Wii for Anisa. I got a text from Logan saying there was not a Wii but the coveted Xbox 360 Elite that he has been drooling over on the internet for some time. I immediately replied that he should get it (oh how these words haunt me now! Just kidding!) and he did.

It only took him about one day (that's approximately 9 hrs of playing time) to beat Halo 3.

Congrats to Logan on his new Xbox!

Husband Tag

What is his name: Logan. The only one I know who is over the age of 12.

How long have you been married? Six months, 11 days.


How long did you date? It was five months to the day of our first kiss that we got engaged and seven months to the day when we got married.

Who eats more sweets? I eat more sweets, but Logan likes them more than I do, he just has willpower and I don’t.

Who said I love you first? Interesting question. I’m not really sure. He asked me if I loved him and I said I thought that I did. We never really said it ‘til a few days later.

Who is taller? Logan, by about six inches. Just perfect.

Who is smarter? Logan is the most brilliant person I have ever met. He can do just about anything.


Who does the laundry? I do. Logan helps a lot and sometimes he does it while I’m at school.

Who pays the bills? Logan does. I would probably forget.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you’re in the bed I do, if you’re looking at it, Logan does.

Who mows the lawn? I just hope we have one someday.

Who cooks dinner? We both do. Logan is way better at cooking though.

Who drives? I prefer to make Logan drive because to me that is sort of like holding a door open for me or something. It’s chivalrous.

Who is more stubborn? Unfortunately, I think this is a toss up. This makes things very interesting when we disagree.

Who kissed who first? Logan likes to pretend I kissed him, but he kissed me.

Who asked who out first? Well, another interesting story. The whole hanging out thing kind of blurs the lines of dating. I asked him to come over and hang out first, but he asked me on an actual date first.

Who proposed? Logan did. On the St. George Boulevard.

Who has more siblings? We have the same amount, only in reverse. He only has one sister, I only have one brother.

The Cake Saga

It was Valentine’s Day and I was feeling that I needed to surprise Logan with something, since we had (by Logan’s idea) given each other our Valentines on the 12th. A few days before, we had been flipping through the cookbook just looking for things that we might make someday. We came across this cake and Logan thought that it looked great. So it was the morning of Valentine’s Day and this cake popped into my mind, and I decided that I would make it.

Now let me tell you a little about this cake. It is a very “fancy” cake. It has real strawberries in the batter and the frosting involves cream cheese and heavy whipping cream. This might not be a fancy cake to you, but I have never even considered making a cake this complex. So I did.

I am notoriously known for screwing up my surprises for Logan, but this one turned out perfect! I knew this because I had tasted the batter, which was yummy and the frosting was to die for. I was so incredibly proud of myself. It was not burned on the edges, and even more importantly, it was not gooey in the middle. So I wait anxiously for Logan to get home.

Logan got home and I was all excited about the cake (Oh when will I ever learn?!?!). He was like, “It’s a cake.” He was not impressed at all! I really don’t know why I still expect him to be happy, he never is happy when I surprise him. This, as usual, induced tears on my part at a later hour. But he did do better than last time by actually eating a piece of cake (there was a nasty little incident involving mint brownies a few months ago).

He acted alright about it. He tried to act like he liked it. Anyway, the purpose of this post is not to vilify Logan, because I actually decided to taste my masterpiece the next day, and it really isn’t that good, which makes me really mad because I spent so much time making it just right, and a few tears over him hating it, and the stupid cake was SO not worth it. I am hoping that by making this story public, I will be less likely to repeat it with another unwanted, and disappointing dessert.

Klint and Ellen Duet

As you all know, many moons ago Aunt Ellen ordered custom cabinets from Klint, at York’s Custom Cabinetry. She has yet to have them installed, because she feels that it will upset Roberta. Last Thanksgiving the kids all went to Las Vegas together and the popular song “Apologize” by Timbaland Feat. OneRepublic (You can find it on Libby's green playlist thing) came on the radio. Klint, the sweetheart that he is, started to sing along with the radio by saying, “It’s too late to call the guys.” I’ve written yet another song, this one depicting a conversation between Aunt Ellen and Klint concerning the cabinet situation. The parts spoken by Aunt Ellen are in red, and the parts spoken by Klint are in blue. Where they sing together it is in purple. Please enjoy, you may sing along if you like.


“Call the Guys”

[Verse 1]
I’m holdin’ off your help,
Cuz Grandma don’t like the sound.
And I know you’ve got your pay,
But you just can’t come around.
I told you that I want them,
And soon you can bring them down…
But wait…
I hope that I’m not sorry,
When you try and come around.
And say…

[Chorus]
It was too late to call the guys.
It’s too late…
You said it’s too late to call the guys
It’s too late
Yeah!

[Verse 2]
We’ll give another chance,
Take a break, come back just for you.
They’ll go in without missing a beat,
And they’re custom too.
You’ll love your finished kitchen
It will look brand new
And you say…
Sorry, but I think
That this year will be too soon
Then I’m afraid…

[Chorus]
It’ll be too late to call the guys
It’s too late…
I said it’s too late to call the guys
It’s too late
Whoa!

[Interlude]

[Chorus]
It’s too late to call the guys
It’s too late.
I said it’s too late to call the guys
It’s too late.

It’s too late to call the guys. YEAH!
I said it’s too late to call the guys. YEAH!
I’m holdin’ off your help
Cuz Grandma don’t like the sound

Give the "Libby" What She Wants!

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

B. Each player answers the questions about themselves, obviously.

C. At the end of the post, the player then tags people and posts their names (how else would they know they’ve been tagged), 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 (of course how else would they know what the freak being tagged means).

10 Years Ago: I was a dirty dishwasher at Andelin’s Gable house (I hadn’t made cook status yet). My dad just got a new truck, high school sucked, and my brother wasn’t around to bother me. Life was good (JK Lucas).

5 Things on my To-Do List today: Find out how much Libby was going to spend on her round brush. Figure out what to eat. Mail a phone to the person who bought it from me on eBay. Walk back to the house. Figure out what to get Sydney’s sister for her Birthday.

Snacks I enjoy: Pop corn and jerky (minus the pieces left in my teeth), Some sweets in moderation,

Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Let’s see, use 100 Million to start my own company, save a 100 million for retirement, Give a 100 Million to Sydney so she’d get the stuff she wanted, and because she didn’t save any of her billion. Use another 100 million to develop some land. I would take another 100 million to burn in front of the rest of you poor saps just to show you how rich I am. And the last 500 million I would use to carve my face in the side of the red hill for all to see.

3 of my bad habits: I work too hard, I care too much, and sometimes I can be too invested in my job. These are my greatest weaknesses.

5 places I have lived: On a motor cycle at the Sand dunes in California, on a four wheeler in the beaver mountains, on a raft in the Green River, on a house boat in Lake Powel and in Mexico with three college girls. If you haven’t done those, then you haven’t lived.

5 jobs I have had: Dishwasher, Cook, Junior Woodchuck (Plumber), Box maker, Pill Grinder.

5 things people don't know about me: I can’t hawk and spit because it makes me gag. My dad does all my welding. I like the smell of a coal burning stove. I didn’t think the land lord clip with Will Ferrell was funny. I write all my posts in Word then copy them to blogger.

okay! I did it! Now I tag: Kimtastic

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