L-oser

I have a new talent. And I am really good at it. Watching Tv. I have become a couch potato. Yes, its true. I went years without having a TV or watching TV and it was horrible when people would talk about a show and I had no idea what they were talking about. I sat out of so many work, friend, family conversations because I just didnt watch TV, and didnt have a clue what they were talking about.
I am happy to announce to you all, I will be able to join all conversations now. I literally left my house once this weekend, and watched TV the WHOLE rest of the weekend. Loser, with a capital "L".
I have become quite smart though. Ive learned SO much. I now know not to lift my foot off the ground in a lift if I am ever going to be a famous ballroom dance. Ive learned from Dateline not to ever trust finacial investors because they will fake their own deaths and run with my money. Ive learned not trust single dads from Seattle or you might be dumped on national tele. Ive become really good at chewing sugar free Extra gum to curve my cravings from Bob the trainer on Biggest Loser.
See all these things I would have missed if I didnt watch all this TV?
The only thing I havent learned in my down time...to love 17 year old vampires. Sorry Em. I tried.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have big plans to watch Dancing with the Stars, so now if you want to talk about it later...count me in.

Eat this not that

So I have been on a diet for the last 6 weeks. I have the WORST eating habits as my chubby cheeks have shown this last year.
I love burgers, I LOVE pizza, I love yummy desserts. And not only do I love these things, I eat enough for like 4 people.
So as I have been on my new diet, and when I eat out with friends I always choose a salad. Turns out it might not be such a good decision.
Check out this video my friend sent me. Its like 5 min long but make sure and watch the whole thing. Its so crazy.

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Catchin Up

This may be a long post.
I used to be so good at taking pictures of everything I used to do. Its been awhile, but my new months resolution is to start taking more photos like I used to.
I have been pretty down in the dumps the last couple weeks. So I have been trying to keep myself busy. My friend Em and one of our co-workers and friends were going to Vegas and invited me to tag along. I am not a huge fan of Vegas so I was hesitant but it ended up being a lot of fun.

There were 14 of us, and I only knew Em and Sabrina so it was a good chance to meet some new friends. Again...I didnt take a ton of pictures and I am so sad now. We rented an amazing place just 5 min from the strip. They turned into somewhat of a "Real World" theme. It was fun. The house we stayed in was super modern just like you see in the show, it rocked. I loved it.

A few of us eating some yummy caramel popcorn. Sabrina is on the left side with her leg up. We didnt know each other was posing like we were with our legs up. I thought it was funny.
Sabrina is super organized and fun. She put together these little pictures and info about all of us and put them on the wall so we could get to know each other.


We did lots of fun things. We shopped one day, went to a comedy club, saw a movie, played at the huge arcade( I wouldnt recommend it) and ate a TON. We went to In & Out burger a couple times.

One of the nights we went and listend to a band play for a couple hours. Em and I even stopped by the penny slots for a bit.
I hate to brag, but I did win 48 cents.

Dont let Em fool ya with all that money

I feel bad I dont have any pictures of the others. I have this new thing that I dont like to carry a purse and I didnt want to lug my camera around. But I did have fun with everyone and they were a fun group!
One of the nights Em decided at 2 in the morning she wanted her hair dyed. I have never dyed anyones hair before, let alone in the middle of the night. But I think it turned out pretty good!

(I have no idea why some of these pictures are small...oh well.)
The whole time I was in Vegas my phone didnt have one single bar of reception. It drove me half nuts, but I think it was really good for me. I went 4 whole days!
We wanted to drive right on straigh through but we both had to use the bathroom and fill up on gas. So we made one quick stop. I went inside and noticed the line was SO long. My phone was dead by now and I was so anxious to have my phone back. I opted not to use the ladies room and charge my phone instead.

Not one of my better choices. My phone ended up dying like 5 miles down the road and I thought I was not going to make it home to get to a bathroom. Wont happen again.
Next up...High school soccer.
My high school soccer days were some of the funnest times of my life. I would go back in a heart beat just for soccer. I made a lot of life long friends. But things do come up and people get busy. I hadnt seen some of the girls forever! So we got a few of them together to go to dinner. We ate some yummy La Fronterra goodness and chatted. I forgot (AGAIN!) to get my camera out until some of the girls had already left and we were all out in the parking lot ready to leave.

Brook(Stubs), Me, Heather, Ashley(Tycks). I love these girls.

These 2 were a little older then me in high school. I played Varsity my freshman year so they would sometimes come pick me up from middle school for practice. Wow, we had some fun times. Ashley and I ran out of gas twice in the same place. Stubs and I had an almost near crash when she forgot she was in reverse and had plans to go forward. Ah...fun times. Sorry to the other girls who I didnt get pictures of that night.
Here is a pictures of Heather and me. She was younger then me, and our goalie. We started playing indoor soccer about a year ago. I feel so lucky we reconnected. We have a lot of fun together, and she has a sweet hubby that lets her come out and play with the girls still. haha.

Next, Thai food. I love Thai food right now. I could eat it everyday. My friend Angi's sister went on her mission to Thailand and made a huge dinner for a group of us the other night.

Angi & Becky.
I didnt get a picture of the group of course, but thanks again Becky. She made a yummy curry, stir fry, pot stickers, pad thai and mango sticky rice. For like 10 people! She did an awesome job. Of course, Em and I had to snag a corny picture like always while we all chatted after

Friday night my sister invited me over to her house for some homemade pizza, also a favorite, and to play the Wii Fit. I hadnt ever played it before. I had such a fun time. They kicked my butt in everything but it was such a good time.
Her kids are the freakin cutest in the world.


This lil stinker wanted to play with me at 3 in the morning. All the sudden I see this little 2 year old in my face saying...Come on bubba!
Here are the lil twins. For some reason my camera makes their eyes go weird.


I love them. They just have the happiest kids. Its so fun.
Once these kiddos went to bed me, CC, and B played the Wii fit for hours.



They had this game that was like a rollar coaster ride and you would have to lean your leg and lift to one side when it was turning and jump at certain times. It was killer fun.
Then B made yummy desserts of lime sherbet with sprite. Then they spoiled me with pancakes in the morning. Yum. Thanks guys.
Last but not least. Ecko.
When I had my old car I would let her and the dogs ride in the back seat of my car. And I decided never again. I just bought a car a couple months ago and decided to get an SUV so Ecko could ride in the back. I just hadnt ever taken her yet. So Saturday I got her some duck sheets and covered the whole back part, and then the back seat just in case she climbed over the top.
I dont think she loved it. She likes to be right close to me with her head and body half out the window. But she had a good time once we got down by the river...until she got bit in the face by another dog. I was so proud though, she didnt fight back. She has such a sweet heart.


And thats about it. Sorry again for the long post!

Concert Fun

My sweet friend and her family invited me to go see Celine Dion with them.
I was excited to see her and listened to her music throughout the day but I had no idea how awesome it really would be. She is such a fun performer. She is super quirky which I didnt think she would be so it was funny.
She had a lot of awesome costume changes. It was fun to see some of her outfits. Some of them I loved, others I was like...why does her crotch have sequins all over. Its weird. But she her voice was absolutely amazing and I had the best time.
Thanks again Em, and mamma Rachel for the amazing tickets. I had the best time!!
This is a horrible picture of me but my friends look cute! Here we are before the show.

Here she is singing the Titanic song. Loved it.

No wonder she stays so skinny, she had so much energy through the whole show.

I was so sad I missed her in Vegas so I was very grateful to be able to see her while she was here.
Thanks again Creswells!

Im just not that into it...

I saw the previews for this movie months ago and I thought it looked great!
I was pretty excited for it to come out. Last night, me and about 20 other people(along with the rest of Utah I swear) went to see this movie.
I'll be honest. I didnt love it. There were some really funny parts, that did make me laugh out loud and its true, men and women do not get each other. I wont give examples in case you guys were one of the opening nighters.
But over all, I wasnt that impressed. Maybe its because of everything going on in my life...I dont know. I just didnt like some of the messages they were protraying.
Plus when I got back to my car my left over Thai food had spilled everywhere. My car smells so lovely :)
Dont mean to be such a downer, but if any of you saw it, what did you honestly think?

Welcome Home Cuz!

My cousin came home from his mission on New Year's Eve and its been fun having him home. He is the closest thing I have ever had to having a little brother so I love it.
He has helped me through so many hard times and he has become so wise serving a mish. He always knows the right things to say.
My friend Emiliee invited me to go through the Draper temple open house the other day and I invited my cuz Garrett to come with!
We snapped this picture on our way out and I thought it was really pretty with the temple and the awesome clouds in the back ground.
I know this is kind of late but welcome home! Its been fun having you home.

Fun Weekend

I had a fun weekend. This Friday my work took us up to Park City as a reward for hitting some goals. We had the option to go sledding, skiing/snowboarding, or shopping and our company would pay for it. Last year I went shopping so this year I decided to go sledding! It was raining on our way up there and when we got to the tubing hill, it was kind of slushy and everyone was coming down the hill in slow motion. So we decided to go to the Alpine Coaster. Its kind of like a one man roller coaster, and it is Fu-un! I had been on it during the summer, but winter rocked. The track was all slippery so it gave you an extra rush wondering if your sled would come off the track.
The first time we went up we went solo and it was a ton of fun. When we got off, there was no one in line, so we asked if we could go again (even though you pay per ride). So we went again, this time we went in couples because they said it goes even faster.
Here is the group shot of our first ride when we all went on our own.

Here is my Alpine coaster riding partner Angi...we were hauling butt. Im sure Angi's ears were dying by the end from me screaming. I was lovin it.

I have no idea why this picture is so small.
I rode up with LaNae and Em. These girls love their Rockstars so they were on a high before we even got there. Thanks for letting me ride up with you guys!

LaNae, Em, Me
I think this ghetto picture is funny.

Then Saturday my friend Tiffany gathered us all for a lil mini reunion. I had a great group of high school friends. There were 11 or 12 of us that were always really close. We did everything together. Sleepovers, crazy dancing and singing moments, dressing up and looking for someone that stole my rockin hubcaps on my sweet 84 escort. Ahh good times. Well we of course all went our separate ways after high school but we still keep in touch every once in awhile. Not all of us were able to meet up Saturday but those that could went to Trolley Square for dinner.

I love these girls. All of them. It was so fun reminiscing of all our fun memories.
Jeanette...thanks for being my date :)
A couple of the girls are expecting babies and I am so excited for them. They are going to be amazing moms.
Here is one of the soon to be moms Kailey,Rachel and myself.

I had a blast with all of you girls and Im glad we are going to get together more often.
And I promise I will look for all of our crazy videos for next time ;)