Have you seen this yet?

It gets me excited.

no doubt.

My super cool friend Marci (aka NoDoubtMarci) alerted me to the fact that No Doubt is going on tour this summer!! Apparently she is a fanatic! And who doesn't love Gwen? Love her! Who else would they be going on tour with, you ask? That would be Paramore. (I am thinking anyone who liked the Twilight movie is a fan of Paramore. Love them! Think Decode) Awesome. And so exciting!

Question for the day: Where were you 9.11.01?

I was in bed. I was having a dream of a plane hitting the twin towers. I wake up to find that my alarm was actually going off (the radio) and they were talking about the breaking news. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on. Was it really only a dream? Or actually happening? I ran into the TV room and turned on the TV. It was definitely not a dream. I was glued. For hours. Days. Weeks. I was watching the TV when the second plane hit. After watching for a few hours, I headed off to school.  Listening all the way of course. All my classes were cancelled. I went into the student center and watched some more. Could this really be happening? I went to work that evening at Smead. As soon as it was break time, we were all glued to the TV some more. What a devastating day in history that I will never forget.

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.

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Dustyn. . .

You are intelligent, strong willed and patient. A peaceful lifestyle and helping others is very important to you. You’re not a take charge kind of guy and sometimes rely too much on your feelings when you make decisions, but you always mean well and try
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I love Alice! :)

You are intelligent, outgoing & stylish. A true girly girl, you love shopping & makeovers. Although you are a generous friend, you can be coy, tricky & very persuasive in order to get your way. You are known to zone out occasionally during conversations, but your friends forgive you because you are understanding, supportive & know how to throw one heck of a party!

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More random thoughts be me.

~Tonight I was in charge of Personal Progress in Young Womens.   It went pretty well.  I have a hard time coming up with activities to pass off goals.  I'm pretty much a crappy Personal Progress Leader.  By the way - if anyone was wondering. . . Personal Progress is a program in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) for the Young Women (ages 12-18).  It helps them learn valuable life lessons and keeps them thinking about their spirituality in hopes that when the time comes to make a decision they will have guidelines in place to help them make the best decision.  

~It seems like there is always someone turning around right in front of our house.  It kinda weird.  I don't know if it is the widest part on the street or what.  But it is right where everyone chooses to either turn around or park and look at their map (I guess).  Weird.  

~Verizon is irritating me.  :P  I am so ready to cancel our plan.  So ready.  We bought new phones.  Dustyn's broke within a week.  We called and they were going to send a replacement.   We got the replacement and they had sent it for my number.  My phone sucks and I don't really like it (it is SOOOO slow and freezes all the time), so I didn't really want another one.  :)  Anyways we call Verizon to see if they could change the phone to Dustyn's number and of course they said they couldn't.  (Which turns out is a lie).  So they tell us to send it back.  But the phone is out of stock.  Well they upgraded him to a Palm of some type.  Well that is great.  But now they are not sending it to him.  They just want him to use another phone.  No one will call us back.  We asked to not be charged all the plan fees for Dustyn's phone for the month (yes, he has been without a phone for almost a month) and they thought they were SO nice and gave us a $10.00 credit.  Oh.  Thanks.  Lame.  It's all just a huge mess.  If there were another good service provider around here, I'd switch.  But of course, there's not.  

~Seems like everyone around here is getting cold.  Even me.  Grrr....  I can't be sick yet.  I mean I still have another week of summer left.  Hello?  

~I can not find anywhere in my living room to hang the picture that Dustyn got me for my birthday.  I want it in my living room, but I don't know where.  For now it's sitting on my mantle and might be there for some time.  

~Our house has been so hot lately.  Luckily tonight it has cooled off a lot.  It did rain a little bit so that helped a lot.  I don't know if I can handle another summer without central air or a swamp cooler.  Guess I better start saving up.  

~Does anyone watch Big Brother.  I have been quite entertained in this season.  I still haven't picked out a favorite to win.  It changes weekly.  But I think if the house was smart, they would get rid of Memphis this week, otherwise he has a good chance to win it.  But Jessie does drive me crazy.  He seriously only thinks about himself.  And I am so tired of looking at his muscles.  Blah.  I wonder which it will be.  Oh and Michelle.  Was she mad or what?  She for sure does not like the Leotard as much as Jenn from Season 8.  Ha ha ha.  Speaking of season 8.  Michelle reminds me so much of Amber, except she cries a LOT less.  Keesha reminds me of Danielle in a way.  There are so many similar people in the two seasons.  I am totally loving it.  I loved season 8.  I know, I am easily entertained.

~I am so excited for the adoption conference.  Yay!  There are going to be some great workshops.  We are leaving Thursday afternoon.  If anyone wants to hang out Thursday night, we'll be around.  Email me and I will send you my phone number.  Of course Dustyn won't have a phone by then.  Grrr.....

~I finally found Breaking Dawn.  It was the last one on the shelf at our local Wal-Mart.  There weren't any last time we went.  I have heard a lot of mixed reviews about this book.  I am excited to read it to see what I think.  But I don't know when I will actually read it.  I might save it for when school starts so I have something to read while I am subbing.  I want to read a lot more books this year.  I read quite a few last year, but I stopped after the Twilight series.  I just couldn't find anything to capture my attention.  I hope to keep my library a little more busy this year.  

~I so need to scrub my kitchen floors.  I want to do it, but I am stalling because our house is so hot.  When I clean I get so so hot and sweat to death.  But it has to be done.  I just need to clean up the kitchen and the bathroom and my house will be clean for school to start.  I wanted to get everything caught up so that I wouldn't get behind when I started working more.  

~I can not believe school starts in two weeks from today.  Dustyn starts next week.  Of course we will be spending a lot of time at the school trying to get everything ready.  We have 20 something computers to get set up and posters to hang.  Plus a million other things!  :)  Time to get busy I guess.

~I so need to get to running/exercising.  Usually I lose weight during the summer.  I think I have gained 10 pounds in the past few weeks.  (I had been around the same weight for 2 years, until now.  :P) I don't even feel like I am eating too bad or too much, but apparently I am not doing something right.  I just wanna lose 30 pounds!  That would get me to my pre-marriage weight.  Wouldn't that be awesome?  :)  Now I just need to do it.  I have been getting some healthy recipes lately through a program that my Insurance Company does.  If you wanna see them, I have been posting them on the Anything Cooking blog.  I need to start riding my bike again!

~Well I think that is enough random thoughts for the moment.  Have a fabulous evening.  (Or afternoon for Heather.)

For my mommy.