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Random blogginess.

You don't need anyone to tell you that I am so far behind on blogging. It's really a no brainer. This is my lame attempt at trying to catch up. It might take a day or two considering I am about to pass out from exhaustion at this point.

Here are some random happening from my life is the past few weeks.

*I am currently working for the United States Census Bureau. It has been great so far and I really enjoy it. I am hoping to keep working for as long as possible. It has made things really busy, but a good busy. And it's a little extra income. Can't complain about that.

*Dustyn entered two pieces into the Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon. I hope this year is his year. We should know by the end of next week.

*Remember when I told you about the Pine Wood Derby? Oh yeah... well... he lost. But he sure had fun being a loser. :)

*I am a horrible friend. Remember back when I posted the Pay It Forward Challenge? My awesome friend Shelly sent me a gift. I received it about a week ago and have no posted about it yet. She sent me this cute bracelet. I love it and think it is so cute! Thanks so much Shelly!

(And to those who commented, I still have not forgotten about you. I will mail it out before the end of the year. lol. No really, I will.)

*Over General Conference weekend, Dustyn and I went to SLC to visit friends and family. On Friday we meet up with two of my BFFs. Aubrey and Marci. (Marci even makes cute cards!) We met at McGrath's and had a great time. (and of course the food was good) I seriously think they are pretty cool.

We also went and visited Arianne and her cute family. It was fun to meet her little Miss and hang out and tease Miss A. She loves it when I tease her. ;)

*We were able to attend the Saturday AM session of conference. Wonderful. I loved every session but it was so great to be there in person for one of them. Dustyn and Brandon were also able to attend the Priesthood Session.

*We stayed at JaKell and Brandon's house on Saturday Night. It was good to see them and hang out with my favorite kids. I love them and miss them way too often. I wish we could see them more often. We drove home and brought them with us so they could spend the week with Grandma and Grandpa. They had the entire week off of school for Spring Break.

On the way home we were listening to Eclipse. The kids thought it was so great. (I don't think they were really listening or had any idea what in the world it was) When we would stop for a bathroom break or something, they would ask, "Will you please turn on that talking again." It made me laugh. I think they just liked the background noise.

*Oh yeah, then there was that day that I clamped down on my ear with my straightener. Lovely.

Up next? Easter Weekend!

Do you ever...

get the urge to get your hair cut in the middle of the night, and you just can't wait...
so you do it yourself?

Before:

(taken Thursday. Ew)

After:

(Yep, my face is all washed out, but you get the idea. Don't make fun of it if you see me in public. kthnxbye)

**edited** to add the straight version of my lovely haircut.

Favorites, favorites, favorites.

Here are some of my most favorites at the moment.

I love, love, love this Blueberry Pomegranate Trail Mix Crunch. Love it.
So happy I found it at Costco. Yuuum.
It's a nice healthy snack that is not full of sugar and is somewhat healthy, if you don't eat the whole bag, which is really tough sometimes. Mmm.

I am a Tide girl all the way. I try new detergents out sometimes, but I just keep going back to Tide. I seriously love it.

But with my Tide, I have to have softener. I love a good smelling softener. (I am such a smelly person. (not in that way - come on people)  I LOVE smells.
I have TWO favorite Downy smells.
Vanilla Lavender

with Downy Sheets

and Cashmere and Silk Fresh. Oh, I love it.

and downy sheets

It makes laundry so much more exciting cause it smells so good! Mmm....

I have been LOVING the nice Spring air! I love that I can have my windows and doors open! It is beautiful! I can't wait for things to start greening up.



I never actually finished writing this post after a crazy busy day of yard work, but here you go! You can read the beginning of my post! :)

r-r-r-random!

Things have been going well for Dustyn and I. Poor Dustyn has been quite sick lately. He has a doctors appointment today. I hope that they figure something out and get him back on to the road to health soon!

On a good note: Dustyn finally finished the yearbook! YAY! I know that will relieve a LOT of stress. Hopefully that will help him get better quicker as well.

We were able to go up the the Mt. Timpanogos Temple and attend Brandon and JaKell's sealing. It was a great experience and I was happy that we were able to go. The Temple was beautiful and peaceful! Dustyn was able to take some photos of Brandon and JaKell and family. We haven't downloaded them yet, but I am excited to see how they turned out. Dustyn had to get yearbook done before he could get to them. Dang responsibilities.

On Saturday night we went to the Desert Star Theater and watch Home School Musical. It was hilarious and I would totally recommend it to anyone. We love it. It was my first play at the Desert Star and I can guarantee it won't be the last. I am seriously tempted to get season passes next year. I really enjoyed it! Another random thing happened while we were there... They read birthdays of everyone there and sing a song for the them! One of the birthdays that they read was my Uncle Sheldon. (This was after the play was over) I would have never known he was there unless his name was read. They were on the very front row, so I ran down and said Hello! It was quite funny! And random!

I am SO ready for spring! Mostly just because I am itching to go camping! I can't wait for our weekly outings. It is for sure my most favorite part about summer. Otherwise I wouldn't mind the snow.

I am in the weirdest blogging mood lately. I want to blog, but I just don't want to! Ha ha! I am sorry I have not been reading/commenting on anyones blogs. I hope to get back into the swing of things soon. Maybe life will slow down a little and I will take time to blog.

Speaking of blogging and my last post (well... not the last one, but the Paying it Forward one) I have something coming together.. I will get it to you within the next little while. I am excited to see what you think! (As long as it goes how I want it to). If you are still interested in getting in on the action... leave me a comment and I will see what I can do.

Umm... that is all for now. :)

A POST!!

I know. It's shocking. I have been absent in blogging world for quite some time.
I have been a horrible blog reader/commenter/stalker and I am sorry to all my bloggy friends. But I hope to be better at it in the near future.

I haven't been on my computer as much lately. It's been nice. When I am on, I usually end up on facebook and plurk. My two favorite things.

Not a lot has been going on with us. We have been sick since we returned home from the cruise. It's been pretty bad. Dustyn is finally feeling better, but I am still on the mend. I have had a double ear ache and my ears are still so clogged that I am not hearing well these days. :P I can't wait to be back to my normal self. Free of cough, ear aches and mucus. Ew. I know. :P

Today we were able to go up to our nephew's farewell. Tanner is leaving on his mission here soon! We are so excited for him! He is going to Tucson, AZ - Spanish Speaking. He will be an awesome missionary! It was fun to get together with the family and see everyone!

I am currently making frozen yogurt! I am so excited and I hope it is good!  We'll see. I am hoping it tastes just like Red Mango. Ha ha! I can wish, huh? I'll let you know how it turns out.

We finally bought a fridge! YAY! I am so excited and I can't wait to get it. After we went and ordered it, we came home and got to thinking about our back door. Our door was super narrow. It was basically a closet door. 28 inches wide. We looked up the fridge and found out that we would at least need 36 inches to get the fridge in. Off to Home Depot we go. We ended up buying a 36 inch door. My dad was super nice and helped us put it in. It ended up being better than it could have been, but it was still a project. They ended up cutting into the wood siding to make it wide enough... and it made a lot of dust. My house is covered in dust. But it is so nice to have a nice door! I know it will help keep our house warm. I haven't felt like cleaning it all up yet though... so it's still a nice mess! :) Hopefully this week I will get over feeling sick and get my house clean! We'll see.

On Valentines day we were able to go up the Draper Temple Open House. It was absolutely beautiful! I think it is quickly becoming my favorite temple! If you have not had the chance to see it, you should! Anyone can go. It goes until the 14th of March. It is definitely worth seeing! After we went to the Open House we went to The Pie in SLC to eat. It was really yummy! I had never been to the restaurant and it wasn't what I was expecting at all, but it still was a lot of fun. Loud fun, but fun.

Last Tuesday we were able to go up to the Jazz game. We met Brandon and JaKell up there. It was lots of fun and I am glad we were able to go. They even won! Thank goodness. After all, they were only playing the Grizzlies. I was sad when I found out that Larry H Miller had passed away. He has done a lot of really great things for Utah. It sad how quickly his health declined.

That is about all that has gone on in the past few weeks. Just being sick and survivin'.  Hopefully I will get a chance tomorrow to talk more about the cruise and such.

Have a great week!

I can be random.

Just cause I know you wanted to see my fine face on this fine friday! (i heart my webcam)

So first off, I am already loving the daily question! Thank you so much for playing along! But we will get to that later.

Are you so excited that Nie is back! Wow! It good to know she is recovering! Of course, I have to admit that I had never heard of her before the accident, but I have a feeling I am going to start reading daily.

Speaking of plane accidents, wasn't that pilot/rescue effort in the Hudson River amazing? I just watched and was glued to the TV as everything went down. Even though I bet it was completely scary for those on board, it totally left me with a happy feeling! I love when things go perfect.

Oh, oh. I keep forgetting to mention that for some reason our url for Parent Profiles isn't working and goes to the PP home page. So if you are wondering why our adoption button seems to be advertising PP, that is why. I have emailed them and they are working on the problem. Until then you can use this link.
(http://www.parentprofiles.com/profiles/db19448.html)
Hopefully it will get working soon! Otherwise there are a LOT of pass-along cards out there are that advertising Parent Profiles. Ha ha.

Have I mentioned how excited I am to go on our Cruise? The countdown is on! Yay! Then I can show you my super bargains on my dress! But not until then, sorry.

I have been getting SO many lame spam emails lately. You know the ones. Give me all your personal info and I will send you 100 bizzilion dollars. Love those.

Dustyn and I decided that it would be fun to have a camcorder when we go on the cruise. We have been going to buy one for awhile, but just haven't. We finally bought one. Here it is. Dustyn designed it himself. I really like how it turned out. I told him I wanted black, red, and white stars. He did good! Oh yeah, and those little flip cameras? They are pretty cool.

We finally bought some new luggage! Yay! Well we only got one suitcase each, but they are super nice! The suitcases we have been using (the one from Dustyn's mission that is 15 years old) doesn't have the best zippers. I am glad I don't have to worry about it anymore. Now I am the owner of a nice Jeep suitcase. It did help that it was in clearance in Walmart. I love me a good bargain.

And, we bought the cutest orange/yellow polka-dot ribbon to help us identify our luggage quickly... so if you are going on the cruise to the Mexican Riviera when we are, chose another color. ;)

If anyone has suggestions on what I need to know to have the best time ever on a cruise, let me know! I would love to hear what you have to say.

Oh, oh! And I also bought a bag full of tomatillos yesterday. Anyone know a super good recipe? I love the flavor of them, but I haven't decided what I am going to make with them. I mean I could always make soup, but I am willing to try something new. So if you have a favorite recipe, let me know.

I think Dustyn and I might get to go to Steve's tonight! I am so excited! We are going for our anniversary! I know you are thinking... hey wasn't that like a week ago? Why, yes it was. We went to SLC, but decided to just eat out somewhere not so exciting and to come home and go to Steve's. We might finally make it.

Which brings me to our anniversary. We decided to go to Body Worlds! I was so, so excited. Dustyn bought tickets the week before to make sure that we would be able to get in (since it was the 2nd to last day of the exhibit). Once we got up there, I looked at the tickets and noticed that they said Jan 5th, not Jan 10th. Apparently something happened in the ordering process and the tickets were for the wrong day. They could not change the day, so we were out the tickets and the money. :P  So frustrating! We could have paid to go again I am sure, but I didn't want to pay double to go see the exhibit. So we didn't get to go. :P Instead we went shopping and bought a few outfits for me for the cruise. Well... a dress. I have nothing formal to wear, but I do now! Well... semi-formal. That is as fancy as I get right now. Once we were finished shopping, we went to Sweet Tomatoes to eat. It was okay, but not as good as normal. But we topped it off with some frozen yogurt from Red Mango, so that made it all worth it. We didn't even have to share!

Okay, my laptop is about to die, that means that it is time for me to get in the shower and be productive today! Yes, it is almost 11 and I have yet to shower OR be productive. But for now, here is your question for the day:

Question 2: What was your most favorite class in school? (high school or college)

Answer: Hmm...  of course I really liked all my math classes in high school. But some of my favorite classes were Mr. Walser's classes and Mr. William's classes in college. They were Criminal Justice classes that were quite interesting. I mean who doesn't want to listen to personal cop stories for two years. It was a fun major, for sure!

Have a lovely Friday!

Something fun for a new year!

I really haven't had much to blog about lately. I know that one of these days that will change and I will have so much to say... but lately that is just not the case.

One of my friends, Heather, has been adding a daily question to her posts. I thought that would be a really fun thing to start on my blog. Hope you don't mind me stealing your idea Heather. :) But at least if I have nothing to say, at least we can talk about some random question! Ha ha!

So I will be posting some sort of a question every day (hopefully). Feel free to answer! It will be fun to get to know my readers a little better and maybe even get some lurkers to be brave and comment. If you don't want to answer all of them, that is fine too. I am super excited to read everyone's answers! Yay!

Day 1: Who was the last person that you visited in the hospital?

My Answer: My niece Kelsey! We went to visit her cute baby boy and my very first great nephew!

A post of randomness.

I finally got all the Christmas decor taken down and cleaned up! I am so excited, because it seems like most years I put it off until after the new year. This year I can focus more on partying in the New Year and not having to worry about getting the cleaning done before Monday. Nice. Very nice!

These cool people are coming to our house for New Years! I am so excited. I hope they don't get too bored with our po-dunk town. lol Either way, we can party hard, play lots of games and eat lots of food!

The one part that I do not like about winter - dry skin. Ouch. I have so many cracks on my hands and I am horrible about applying lotion consistently. It is a habit that I need to develop. Is there such thing as waterproof lotion? I wash my hands far too much during the day.

Speaking of ouch, and hands... yesterday when I was packaging up some lights in a cardboard box, I got a BAD cardboard cut on my palm. Ouch! Gotta love those, aye Michelle? Takes you right back to the good 'ole days at Smead. Ugh.

My legs ache today. You know, like "growing" pains ache, but times ten. Ouch. I hope it passes soon. Guess I was on my feet a little too long yesterday.

So one time I read in a blog post that you are only suppose to put one space after a period now-a-days. (And she's smart. And a better reporter than I would ever be.) I really, really, really try hard to do it, but I seriously cannot change the habit that I developed all those many years ago. How do you fix a habit like that? Seriously.

I am tending today and MyMy is still sleeping. Silly girl! It's almost 9:00, that is unusual. Mal, on the other hand, has some serious bed head. lol (She woke up right after I typed that.)

By the way, this is going to end up being an all day entry.

I think I left my phone home. Dang. I hate that. What ever did we do before cell phones and internet?

I keep neglecting to mention our Christmas Eve. I was great! We went to Dustyn's sister's house and had dinner and games. Fun times, fun times. Of course we had Steak and Crab because that is the tradition. (thanks guys, it rocked)  Then we played a few games. They were even good sports and played Quelf with us. If you have never played it, it is a super crazy game. Crazy, I tell you. But there was definitely good food and good times.  (Thanks again guys!)

Oh yeah, I took ZERO pictures during the Christmas Holiday. What is up with that. I have one small video of Dustyn opening his present and that is all. At least I have that! Oh yeah, and pictures of the race track. :)

Dustyn is so funny with his race track. I walk in the room and there he sits staring at his tracks. (during the 15 minute rest time) He comes up with a new configuration tries it out, makes adjustments, tries something new, and over and over again.  It makes me laugh. He's cute. Here is one of the tracks he came up with last night.

I have a lot to clean up. So many new toys! But for sure a disaster. Guess I should get busy. I guess that is all for now. Have a great Tuesday people!

A Blogging Year in Review! Meme.

Take the first sentence from the first post you made each month and string them together.

Wow, it's officially 2008! For me at least! I am a green fan this month! :) Adoption is something that I am passionate about. My house is a mess. OK This is how it works. Of course, ya'll know I love, love Tim McGraw. Well we are finally home for a few days. Wow, what a weekend we had! Can you believe it is already October? A few more before we are off to the happiest place on earth! I have been able to come up with so much to blog about lately, until I sit down.

Wow, what a year in review!  Next year I better make my first sentence count.

Go ahead and give it a try, I betcha it will be better than mine!  :)

Can you tell I am b-o-r-e-d today. :)

I wish I was home getting stuff done!

2.5 more hours!

r-r-r-random!

* I have been able to come up with so much to blog about lately, until I sit down.  Then it's gone.  Long gone.

* My sister's blog is having issues.  Somehow the email that she was using to post is no longer associated with her blog.  Weird.  She has Z.E.R.O. access to her blog.  (since it was private)  And blogger is not so great in the area of support.  We can not find a place to contact them. At. All.  Lame.  When we type in the blog name to see what email it is associated with...  nothing.  She never gets the email.  So, so frustrating.  If anyone has any idea, we are totally open to new ideas!  She would LOVE to have her blog back again.

* Dustyn had been sick.  No fun!  I hope he gets feeling better.  And I hope he stays away from me!  :)

* We have bought so much candy lately!  WHY?  We never buy candy, but don't worry, we have a butt load now.  Funny enough - I probably still won't eat much of it.

* Last night I made pistachio brittle.  It is pretty good, but the nuts taste burnt.  I tried a new recipe.  I should have stuck to my old one.  Oh well.  I also made English Toffee.  It tastes pretty good.  I have only had a small bite, but it was good.

* It has been THREE (well... maybe two) years since I have made Candy at Christmas.  Sad, huh?  We did however make a TON of suckers last year (Heather - Lollipops . (:  )  I am hoping to get a lot more candy made and some ginger snaps for neighbor/friend gifts.  I hope it actually happens.  *think productive, think productive*

* My most favorite Christmas album during the Holidays is this one!  I listen to it every year ALL month! I love, love, love it.  I also love Hilary Weeks Christmas Album .  I have not been too impressed with Faith Hill's Christmas album .  But any Christmas music is good Christmas music!  Wait!!  I can't forget Relient K.  I love them too!  I love Christmas Music!

* I LOVE that they have pomegranate 7-up this time of year.  I love it, so, so good.

* I also love the Candy Cane kisses.  Good thing they are seasonal!  (apparently I am craving lots and lots of candy!)

* My super cute niece, Hads, is turning FOUR tomorrow!  Can you even believe it?  I can't. I can not believe it has been four years.  JaKell was pregnant at the same time I was pregnant.  Time flies.

* Every year we get a new ornament.  This year we bought our ornament at Disneyland!  (Since that was the most exciting thing we did all year!)  If my camera was charged I would recap all the ornaments, just for you!  I just might.  Soon!

* Every time we put up our tree it gets smaller and smaller, I swear.  We just have one of those small 6 foot trees from Wallymart.  You know, the ones that have a 2 foot stem on the bottom, so really, the tree part is 4 feet...  maybe.  I laugh every year.  I do love our tree though.

* Thanksgiving was great!  We spend it with my dad's side of the family.  We ate a lot of good food, played a lot of fun games, and visited with a lot of really cool people!

* One of our favorite games to play is Boxers and Briefs.  It is seriously one of the best games ever.  We love it.  Last year we got it at Wallymart for like ten bucks.  You can see how much it is now.  C-R-A-Z-Y!  I can not believe that.  I almost want to sell mine, but it is far too fun.  Oh yes, Arianne, believe me...  we are soooo playing it on New Years!  Wooohooo!  Seriously though.  So fun!  If you can get your hands on one for under $140.00, do it.

* I am suppose to be folding laundry.  But I guess that can wait, right?  :)

* What is your all time favorite Christmas movie?  Ours for sure is Elf!  We could watch it over and over again!  Seriously, the best.

* Have you heard enough about Christmas?  Ha ha!  I am sooo excited!  Wooohooo!

Randomness

I decided that my blog is ready for a random post.

I haven't had a lot to talk about lately.  I just don't have much to say.  Thus the random post.  I always have randomness going for me!

I am so excited to go to the Twilight Party tomorrow night in St. George!  Wooohooo!  Thank you Amy and Haven for inviting me!  You guys rock!  We will totally have a blast!  Oh yeah, and I am sure the movie *might* be cool too.  We'll see about that.  ;)

I love all the holiday blog give-aways!  Of course I never win, but it sure is fun to have the opportunity.  I wish I could come up with something so I could do a blog giveaway.  I'm thinking.  And thinking.

I am completely stoked about Thanksgiving!  It got to be a favorite holiday of mine (aren't they all?).  Dustyn and I are hoping to get some suckers made before then.  It is becoming a tradition.  A fun one!  I got all the stuff out and washed the other day, now I just need to do it.  Soon.  I can not believe how fast it is coming!  ONE WEEK AWAY!

We decided to tag along with my family on a cruise!  I am so excited because;  1. I have never been on one.  2. Dustyn and I will be having our 5th Anniversary soon! Time to celebrate!  3.  Everyone needs a break.  4.  Mexico in February...  fabulous!

I need a new black dress.  I am really hoping for something like this... (I love, love, love it!) but I have no idea where to look.  I have been searching and searching, but have come up with nothing.  I guess I do have until the end of January to find one.

I had soooo many random thoughts earlier today that I was going to blog about... and now... nothing.  I love that.

Lately, I have been thinking about how old we are getting!  I can not believe that in 6 months, I will be 30.  Crazy!  I remember when my mom turned 30.  Ha ha!  It just seems so weird to realize that I am kinda growing up!  At least in age.

We watched Wall-E last night.  I love that movie!  It is a cute one!  But of course my FAVORITE part is when Wall-E charges and "boots up" when he is fully charged.  I love that.  Of course, it is a Mac start up sound.  That may help.  ;)

It's sad that I don't even have much randomness in me lately.

I suppose this will do for now!  :)

Have a great FRIDAY my friends!