Go Jazz!

A few weeks ago we were able to go to the Jazz game with Brandon and JaKell. We had lots of fun and the Jazz even won! I think it was one of the first games that started their recent 12 game winning streak. It was just a few days before Larry H. Miller died.

Here are a few pics from the game.

Dust and Kam

Brandon and JaKell

We had pretty good seats.

And here I am trying to get a pic of my fav #8. But no... Deron wouldn't look at me. :( I mean... hello!! It's not like you have anything more pressing going on! (He is currently the NBA player of the week... just in case you were wondering) Sadly, not even Kyle Korver would let me get a picture of him. :P At least I got Kirilenko, right?

And that was our trip to SLC for the Jazz game! OH WAIT! We can't forget Chic-fil-a before the game. I love that place.

Busy, busyness.

This weekend was fabulous.

Thursday right after school we headed down to St. George to hang out with Matt, Amy and Miss M.  We had a great time!  Amy made us dinner and even gave us a tour of the new house.  It really is cute!  Around 10:30 PM, Amy and I headed down to the theater to get in line to see Twilight.  We figured we would be waiting in line for-ev-er.  We were pleasantly surprised to find out that there was not a line!  Yay for us!  So we sat in the theater and chatted for about an hour and a half while we waited for the movie to start.  It was so much fun!  I loved chatting with Amy !  Love her!  Matt , Dustyn and Miss M hung out at the house watching movies.  It was a good time for sure!

Twilight!  I thought it was good!  It was really weird for me to watch a book that I have read on the big screen.  I did not really like Edward too much, but overall I liked the movie.  I think if I were to see it again, I would like it far better than the first time.  I am sure that I will get the chance (Dustyn wants to see it) so I will let you know!  :)  Am and I had lots of fun laughing at the cheesy special effects and Jasper's face. ;)

Matt and Amy , thanks so much for having us down!  We had so much fun!  And thanks for letting us be the first guests to stay over at your house!  We'll be back, for sure!

On Friday we headed up to SLC where we met Arianne, Greg and Miss A! Miss A hung out with us while Greg and Arianne went to see Twilight.  We had so much fun with her and had lots of laughs.  She is such a cute princess George.  Just ask her.  :)  Afterwards Arianne and I stayed up and chatted and played on her blog.  They were also nice enough to give us a place to crash, again!  We always kick Miss A out of her bed, sad huh?  They are the best.  The next morning Arianne had a boutique at her house with lots and lots of cute, cute stuff.  It was a fun day.

Thanks for all the fun guys!  It was so good to see you again!  We'll be back up soon!  :)  And don't forget, Greg and Arianne are hoping to adopt!  Please pass along their information!

JaKell and the kids were even able to stop by!  It was so good to see them!  I miss them!  I am excited for Thanksgiving!  YAY!

We spent the rest of Saturday running errands and shopping for Thanksgiving!  It was a great, but busy weekend.

Of course I didn't take one picture, even though my camera was in my purse the entire time.  So, so sad.

And, if you didn't notice, we have a new button!  Feel free to add it to your blogs and help spread the news that we are adopting!

Meeting Anika's Momma and Daddy

On Saturday we had made plans to meet Arianne and Greg.  We we hung out at the Gateway Mall for awhile.  It was so warm (okay - HOT).  But so much fun.  There were so many kids playing in the fountains.  It was so funny to watch them.  Only - I wanted to jump in so bad, but finally refrained.  I mean who really like walking around in wet clothes?  Not I.  While we were wandering we went in all the favorite stores.  Of course the Apple store.  Can't wait for the new 3G phone to come out on July 11th.  Don't know why.  Can't use one down here.  Anyways, back to my story.  We also went into Anthropologie.  I LOVE that store.  Of course I could never afford anything in there, but I love looking.  Last time we went there we found a book with an interesting art project.  Dustyn went home and tried it and we never posted pictures. But I will soon.  You can get a sneak peek here!  Anyways we were wandering and suddenly I smell one of the best smells ever.  Ever.  I walked around for at least 15 minutes trying to figure out where it came from.  Finally I found the culprit.  A super yummy candle.  Now I don't usually burn candles, but I will make an exception for this one!  I LOVE IT.  There was no chance I was leaving the store without that heavenly thing in my little paws.  So we bought it.  And I have never been happier to spend $26.00 on a stinkin' candle.  But O it smells good.   Totally worth the $26.00.  For sure.  Oh yeah, by the way, it kinda smells like Grapefruit, but better.  YUM!

While we were sitting on the bench waiting for Arianne and Greg, this scary guy came up.  I still have no idea why he came up to us.  Just to shoot the breeze i guess.  But I couldn't help but scoot my candle under the bench a little farther.  No one was getting away with my candle.  No one.  And then, he left.  

We met Greg, Arianne and Anika at Costa Vida for lunch.  It was a good time.  They are such a fun family.  I wish we could get cute little Anika a little sister or brother soon!  :)  She is so excited to have a brother or sister.  But we had lots of fun talking and getting to know one another (well in person, of course we chat quite a few times a week!).  We went and watched Greg and Anika play in the fountains.  It was so cute.  Greg is so cute with her.  It was getting a little warm so we decided to leave.  It was such a fun afternoon.  

We were trying to get pictures, but the sun was so bright.  I thought Dustyn was taking pictures, but I guess he hadn't yet.  So this is the only picture we got - as we were walking away.  But Arianne has some more on her blog.  

I was totally hoping Kim would be able to come, but next time for sure.  I didn't plan well.  I think we need to have a girls night out with all you up north bloggers!  That would be so much fun!  Or a big BBQ with our families too!  

Tim in Concert

Of course, ya'll know I love, love Tim McGraw.  Always have and probably always will.  I was so excited to be able to go to his concert last Friday.  I won't even tell you how many I have attended, but more than I can count on one hand.  Bad, I know.  I was super bummed last year though, when Tim and Faith were in concert for the last time together and we got tickets (Luckily we were able to go see them the year before.  I am pathetic, I know).  We ended up giving them to my parents - thinking we would be in Pennsylvania.  When we were in Pennsylvania, we were just chillin' in Pittsburgh and what do we come across . . . the Tim and Faith concert.  I almost stopped.  But I didn't.  

Anyways - we had a ton of fun!  It all started with my driving to pick up Dustyn!  Yay!  It was his last week of camp and he finally is home for the summer.  What a great way to start of the summer, huh?  So I picked Dustyn up and we drove up to SLC.  We checked in at the Red Lion Hotel.  (sweet deals on Priceline - check it out)  Dustyn got cleaned up and ready.  We headed off to dinner.  My brother, Jace and his date, Adrian, were meeting us for dinner.  We went to the Spaghetti Factory.  Yum!  I love it!  Then off to the concert we went.  

Here we are driving in all the traffic.  Blah.  But Jace tried to make it exciting.  He was almost out of gas.  So we sat idling in traffic waiting to run out of gas.  Fun times!

 

First we saw Halfway to Hazard.  I have never heard of them before Friday.  They were probably alright, but the sound was horrible and I couldn't really hear them.  Plus I was more entertained by all the people around me (bad habit of mine).

Next was the reason Jace came along.  Jason Aldean.  He was good.  I love most of his songs and the other ones, I am just not familiar with.  But he was fun.  His guitarist CRACKED-ME-UP.  Again totally distracted by other people.  

Here we are. Every one needs a photo, chubby chin and all. (And my MAJOR bad hairday. Blah!)
Oops. Missed.

There we go!

Last and certainly not least, Tim McGraw.  His show was awesome.  The sound was perfect.   Not too loud, but loud enough and you could even hear him sing (or forget the Lyrics about three times.  lol)  He has a new album coming out (YIPEE) and he sang a few songs off there.  Awesome.  I am already loving his new album.  I know, I am crazy.

Too bad we didn't have our nice camera.  Just my little point and shoot.  But then again, I guess I probably wasn't suppose to have that.  Ha ha.

But then again, I was totally distracted by all the drunk people around me.  There was this guy that totally hooked up with this girl in like 5 minutes.  That made the night quite interesting.  We were all amazed as we watched it happen.  I mean that really happens?  Seriously people.  Ha ha.  

But it was for sure good times.

It took us quite awhile to get out of the parking lot all the while watching the low fuel light.  But we made it.  

I can't wait until he comes back on tour with his next album!  :)

Stay tuned - more updates coming later tonight.  So much to blog about.

Sportsman Expo

Over the weekend we went to SLC to go to the Sportsman Expo.  My mom's elk was in the show.  It was a lot of fun and we saw a lot of cool things! Alan Jackson was in town as well.  So my dad bought us tickets to go to the show.  It was cool!  :) 

I know this is a really bad video, but it is off my cell phone. But this is how mom and dad viewed the sportsman show. It was pretty funny!

On Saturday night we were able to meet up with some friends and go to the Cheesecake Factory!  YUM!  I love that place!  But . . . it took FOREVER!  We had to wait over an hour to get in, then about another hour to get our food.  I think we were there for a good three hours.  It was fun, but I had a MAJOR migraine!  I couldn't handle all the loud noises and chaos!  Maybe that is why I was so irritable!  But I was quite annoyed at the whole situation.  We have been there quite a few times before this and everything went smooth.  But I guess it just wasn't our night!  But at least we ate good food! 

And of course, no pictures!!  I am slacking off when it comes to my camera!  Bad, I know!  But I forgot it in the car for most of the time.

A day in the Sun . . . Er.. Snow!

We had a good day today! We are still in SLC and have just spent the day wondering. It was great. We started out at the Salt Lake City Museum of Art. They had some really cool exhibits. I'm glad we had the opportunity to go! After that we went to the Gateway and just hung out for a few hours. Of course, mostly in the Apple Store.
I am thinking we were in there for at least an hour and maybe two. We played with the iPhones for quite some time! We are still trying to decide if that is what we want to buy. We have decided that we do need something that is multi-functional that will contain the details of our lives. I don't want to carry a planner, and I am horrible at calendars. So we are still playing with the idea for a future day. After we left Apple, we went to Verizon to check out the Samsung, LG, Verizon and Blackberry smart phones. Well, as much as I tried, I just couldn't figure them out. It was frustrating. It seems that the iPhone is far more user friendly. Who knows. Anyways . . . we also went to AT&T to see if they could tell us how good the service is in Richfield. They told us it was great. . . I am not sure if I believe them. I still haven't met anyone in Richfield with AT&T Service, so I am a little nervous about that. But they say it has "best" service where we live, so we shouldn't have any problems. Hmmm...... Who knows.

We also went to Anthropologies. I LOVE that store. It is such a fun store to window shop in! LOVE it!! We also found some great books. There is one that I would LOVE to share... but Dustyn is going to try his hand at the idea, so I will let you know soon when Dustyn is finished! :)
Of course we had to go check out the Fountains! It was a lot of fun! They still have the water on and it was snowing. Too funny!
We also went to Olive Garden and had salad and bread sticks. YUM! Soooo gooood!
After we wondered around all day, we went to Target. Perfect ending to a perfect day! :) Then we went to Rumbi for dinner.
That was our day.
Wait. . . I forgot!!! Can't forget the trash can in Famous Footwear. I think I am trusting them and avoiding that! LOL!
And my favorite sign for the day! YAY! Thanks for the fabulous instructions!!

the Weekend

It was a pretty good weekend. Friday when I got finished with school, we came home and packed and headed for SLC. On Saturday we attended my Uncle Jeff's funeral. It was a really nice funeral and I am glad I was able to attend. All of the kids talked and I was proud of them all. I don't think I could have done that. It was so good to see them all. It's been a long time. We drove home on Saturday afternoon to attend the burial in Elsinore. It was cold and snowing. But it was really nice.

Afterwards we went to my Grandma's house and hung out. CamRee, Tryen and Hadi drove to Richfield with Dustyn, Mom and I. It was so fun to see them. We played all evening. They are going home today. I miss them!