66 Random Facts Because I Don't Want To Think of 100.

Here are 66 random facts about me. Feel free to skim since 66 is a lot!

1- I hate Almond Joys.
2- I love homemade grape juice.
3- 3 is my favorite number.
4- I have the funniest husband ever. He is absolutely hilarious. He makes me laugh so much.
5- I should hopefully be done with my associates at the end of this coming summer semester.
6- I really like the movie Despicable Me. Mike even watched it with me last night. It's so cute!
7- I own the movie 7 Pounds but have never watched it, because I don't want to cry.
8- Although I am not excited for winter or cold weather, I am excited for a change in wardrobe! Here comes cute layering, hoodies, long sleeve shirts, beanies, and boots!!
9- One of my current favorite U2 lines is "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
10- Speaking of number 9, my very favorite band is U2. I hope they come to Utah again.
11- I have a U2 poster hanging on my wall at work. I think ts about 3 feet by 2 feet. Pretty big.
12- I hope that one day Mike and I can backpack Europe. I think I would want to start in Scotland or Ireland and squiggle our way down to Italy.
13- I can't wait until I am all done with school!
14- I am very proud of Mike and how well he is doing at his current job.
15- I like my job!
16- I miss teaching sunbeams in church.
17- I do, however, enjoy being in the YW.
18- Our next vacation is going to be to San Deigo!
19- We have 2 dogs. They are hilarious. I love their unique personalities and quirks. They are both smart in different ways and I love watching them play.
20- I can't wait (but I can wait) till we have a little baby and I get to dress it up so cute and dress it up for Halloween!
21- I would like to go sky diving again.
22- I already got Mike's birthday present and it's hiding in our house somewhere!
23- I ate honey nut Cheerios for breakfast this morning.
24- I don't like the word "module" because of how it sounds.
25- Lately I have been really wanting to eat some BROWNIES! Yum!
26- I have a lot of cute crafts and things I would like to do, but I have a lack of time.
27- I do not like my accounting class. It is soooo hard!
28- I wish I could surprise Mike with a dinner for two on the pitcher's mound at Fenway Park.
29- I get nervous when I order food at a restaurant.
30- Sometimes I have dreams where I save people, Mike, or the world. I'm a hero!
31- The other day I wrote on Mike's facebook wall. I wrote "I love you more than pigs love slop." Haha! He didn't think it was as funny as I thought it was.
32- After this semester I will have all my generals done, except math! I will also have 4 degree required classes done. Getting close!
33- One of my favorite terms for someone that isn't fun is "wet blanket." Who came up with that? It's hilarious.
34- My favorite characters on The Office are Kevin and Stanley.
35- My favorite character on How I Met Your Mother is Marshall.
36- I often quote Disney movies. This morning on the way out the door I said to Mike, "I can't believe I have to drive to work on a Saturday!" All the way to work!" (Toy Story 2). The other night I made Mike guess which movie had the song I was singing. I was singing - So This Is Love (Cinderella).
37- Even though I'm not a huge fan of 3D movies, I want to go see Finding Nemo in 3D.
38- If I get hungry at work lately I have been eating slivered almonds. I think they are healthy.
39- I love the name Grace for a girl, and the name Boston for a boy.
40- Mike makes fun of me when I say I'm doing a specific thing (washing my hands, cleaning the counters, throwing something away, washing something, etc) because of the germs.
41-I like the color orange. And blue.
42- One of my all time favorite movies is The Princess Bride. "Have fun storming the castle!"
43- I want to write a blog post about my favorite lines from movies.
44- I got some Lucky and Big Star jeans from Downeast for $5 each. And a pair of Sevens for $15. Holla! I love jeans!
45- Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever reads my blog because I don't get very many comments anymore. I still blog though.
46- I hate when people get mad over stupid things.
47- Sometimes I get mad over stupid things. Usually Mike is pretty good at helping me realize how stupid and little these things are.
48- I should be done with SLCC at the end of summer semester next year.
49- I wish all our troops would come home. No more war!
50- Ain't no party like a Scranton party, cuz the Scranton party don't stop!
51- Sometimes I feel like a kid stuck in a grown up body.
52- I'm scared of bugs.
53- I am also scared of fish kind of! I've never taken one off a line because they freak me out! Thanks Syd, for helping me with that when we were in the Windrivers. She even killed it for me on a rock. I didn't eat it though.. I don't like fish.
54- I've never eaten shrimp.
55- One time I think it would be fun to go to the Pawn Shop that is on the History Channel and ask for one of their autographs. Then I would want to  come in a little bit later and try to sell said autograph.
56- One of my weird habits is to make sound effects for things.
57- I love making inanimate objects talk. I crack myself up.
58-This year I want to drive up a canyon and take pictures once all the leaves have changed colors.
59- I like dark wood floors. Mike thinks the dark color ruins floors, but I love it.
60- Waffle's bark irritates the crap out of me. It's kind of whiney! Woof! Woo-woo-woo-woof! Woof! Ugh. I can't stand it.
61- I wish I had a pretzel cart and a worker in my basement. That way, whenever I wanted a soft pretzel I could have one. For free!
62- I'm pretty excited for the holidays this year. Usually I'm a little Scrooge-ish and slow to warm up to the holidays, but I'm already looking forward to it.
63- Occasionally, I call Mike Mr. Grumpy Gills. Only when he is really grumpy though.
64- I can't wait till egg nog comes out.
65- I am a good cook! Just a dessert cooker though. I make meals fine, but my specialty is desserts :)
66- I wish I knew how to use PhotoShop.

Skydiving - 2009

Well, I guess I never put my skydiving pictures up on here from when I went in 2009. Weird. I thought I did. Here they are in case you missed them.

Don't want to get kicked by a parachuter! If I did though, I'd make sure my body was stiff like a board like the man in the illustration above.

There is my name on the board! Yay!

My friend Jake and I getting ready to jump out of an airplane.

Tom. The man that made sure I didn't die.

Look at my big grin jumping out! Whoo! 

Totally rocked.

Obviously I loved every second of it.

Except for when Tom made us spin when the parachute was out. I made him stop so I didn't get sick. This picture is pre-spinning though.

Literally, I enjoyed every second of it.

 Huge grin. Who wants to look at the camera?! Not me. I'd like to look at the ground, thank you.

 Last shot before the parachute comes out and yanks me up by my boot straps!

And safely landing. See how my feet are out? I landed on my bum.

Would I do it again?! Most definitely. Scariest part? Flying up in the airplane. I hated the anticipation. Funnest part? Free falling. Just like Tom Petty.

Coffee Table

I have recently joined Pinterest. I held out as long as I could! I just hopped on once and saw so many ideas that I needed to join so I could remember all the ideas that I want to do! One of the ideas I saw recently was to re-do the top of an Ikea coffee table. Since Mike and I have an Ikea coffee table and I wanted it to look cuter, I decided we were going to try it. So here are the pictures from before during and after. I wish our living room had better lighting to show off how cute it is, but oh well. Maybe I'll do the lighting in our living room next..

Here they are!

Before

 This is my cute man sanding. I helped too, I promise. He is so cute!

 These are the pine boards we used.

 Short and long boards so we can do both of our tables. These are after they are sanded.

 Staining the boards an oak color.

 All stained!

 This is before I glued the boards down. I was so excited!

This is after the boards are glued down.. on the front one. I have not glued  the tiny table yet. Doesn't it looks pretty!?

 Table all redecorated! I love the color! Please feel free to come over and look at my pretty tables and visit us!!

Maybe Kramer can add my coffee table to his book of coffee tables!

Dean's List

That's right. You read it correctly. I am the newest member appearing on the Dean's List. Why? This last semester of Summer 2012, I took 15 credits. I also earned a 3.62 GPA. That is apparently quite a feat. Score! I hope I can do it again!

A Golden Celebration!

Last Friday night, we went to one of the coolest things ever. Golden days: A Celebration of Life

Let me back up. Sometime in June my mom emailed me and told me I could put into a drawing for President Monson's birthday celebration. So of course, I went to the church website and entered in. The winners would be picked July 5 or something. I was under the impression that I'd be getting an email if I won the tickets and when no email came I was a little disappointed. A few days later, I got a little envelope in the mail. Well, Mike got an envelope in the mail from the church. I started shaking and my heart started pounding as I tore open the envelope. It was what I thought it was! Tickets!! HOORAY!! I ran in to the computer room and told Mike, while jumping up and down. I was so excited! I hurried and called my mom (because I had asked for 4 tickets and I told her if I got them and she didn't she could go with us!) and she was just as excited as I was. All the way from the beginning of July to mid August every time I talked to my mom on the phone we would talk about how excited we were for 85th birthday celebration for President Monson. I even skipped the yearly family Windrivers trip so I could go to this! Finally, the day came.


I was sooo excited! A little before 5 I left and went down to meet Mike at his work. Once he came out of work we walked to the car and parked it in a parking garage where I had a free pass. We then walked down to the Macaroni Grill. Side note: I had the worst ear ache ever. No joke. Worst ear ache/infection I've ever had. It hurt when I talked, when I chewed food, and I couldn't open my mouth all the way because I think the muscle or tube or whatever from my ear and down my neck was really swollen. Also, it hurt when I would walk because apparently my head bobbles. Not really, but it hurt when I walked, too. Lovely. Anyway, we went to the Macaroni Grill and my lovely parents met us there. My mom looked very pretty in her cute outfit with her purple shirt. Anyway, my mom ordered chicken under a brick, Mike ordered a salad and some shrimp stuff and I think my dad got a salad too. I didn't get anything because my ear hurt sooo bad. I did eat a little of Mike's salad and some bread though. We ate and talked and had a wonderful time visiting. Then the waitress asked if we wanted a box, and I wanted a box for the loaf of bread that we hadn't eaten, but I didn't want to say that so my mom said that yes we wanted a box. The girl ended up getting a box and scraping my mom's chicken left overs into the box. My mom had like one potato and a little chicken skin left. Hilarious. So then we paid and when we left we just put the bread in the bag with the chicken stuff. Haha. We dropped the food off at the car and headed on our way! On the way there my dad spotted a distressed woman. Her car tire had popped. My dad, being the good Samaritan and outstanding example that he is, stopped to give her a hand. In his suit. What a great guy. Seriously. Well my mom and I are in skirts and the boys looked like they had it handled, so I left two tickets with Mike and my mom and I took off! We got to the conference center and stood in line. There was a big line! I mean.. of course there was it was the birthday celebration for President Monson. 85 years. YEEEAAARS! Holy moly. We finally got in and found some seats. Then we waited. The men showed up just as President Monson walked in. After everyone sat down they came and sat by us. FINALLY the night started! It was amazing! The choir performed and they had special guest singers. And these weren't just picked up off the street or off American Idol singers. No no. They were from BROADWAY. And other places like Broadway... like the Opera. It was amazing. My favorite pieces were 76 Trombones, All I Ask of You, and You Raise Me Up. But I think my two favorites were 76 Trombones and All I Ask of You. I don't think I can pick a favorite of those two. The music was absolutely beautiful. The orchestra did an amazing job. I loved the music. And all of the people that had clips or spoke of President Monson were so sweet! What a great man. 76 Trombones was a really fun, and the Orchestra did amazing! I loved it. All I Ask of You is one of my all time favorite songs from Phantom of the Opera, and Rebecca Luker knocked it right out of the water. Ho-ly COW! It was an amazing night. I was so happy I won tickets and I could spend the night with some of my most favorite people.

The opening prayer was really long. So long that Mike said, "Do you think he's ever eaten a warm dinner?" Haha!

What a great night.

Counting

Today I was watching some TV and Mike came in and sat on the bed. I asked what he had been doing and he said he was looking at potential Christmas presents for me. I told him that he had already said previously that he knew what he was getting me. He then told me that what I would get for Christmas could be "up to $1,000.00" Haha. Right. Anyway, I argued with him a little bit and he told me it would be based "on good behavior". I laughed, and then he told me that he would count to 1,000 for me so I would know how much it was. So he started counting. He held me in bed, and wouldn't let me leave until he was done. Cracked me up. He'd also take a small pause between each number, and pronounce each number, so instead of "one thirty-seven" he would say "One hundred thirTy seven. It took a while. He finally got to one thousand and then he kept going. I thought we were going to be stuck counting all night!!

Cahoots Duo Challenge

Here are the pics I was talking about in the last blog post. So fun!

Fun in the Sun

First of all, I just want to say I made it through my summer semester. I thought I was going to die there at the end. But I did it! I was a little disappointed with my grades. My business class was graded on a curve and I had no idea what my grade was the whole semester. I ended up with a B, which is good but I was really trying for a 3.8 again. I ended up with a 3.62 GPA. Not bad for 15 credits and some hard classes. I'm debating on doing 15 credits again this coming semester. It's horrible and not fun but then I'll be done with school sooner!

Mike and I had a lot of fun this weekend. We did an obstacle course down in Midway, UT. It was a lot of fun. We are finally not sore.. 4 days later. Let me get my complaints out of the way and then I'll list all the fun we had. 1- They did not have my shirt size. They had even asked what my shirt size was, but of course they didn't have it and only had mediums left. Good for Mike because he now gets 2 really nice dry-fit shirts. 2- They only had 1 table up for check-in. There were over 1,000 people doing the course throughout the day I heard. You'd think they would have a few more tables for check in. Whatever. 3- We missed our heat because the lines were so long, and we got there 45 minutes early. And then when we started with the next heat the guy said "This is the 11:30 heat! If you are the 11:30 heat or from an earlier heat because you were LATE, it's almost time for you to race" or something like that. Excuse me? LATE? No no. I got there 45 minutes early, like the instructions said. I wasn't late. Thank you very much. 4- Half the obstacles had lines at them. We had to wait a good 45 minutes to an hour for the zip line. Ridiculous. Put up more zip lines. Geez. Another obstacle we waited probably around a half hour. Those were the only problems I could think of. The rest of it we had a blast. As soon as they post pictures I'll put them up. It was so fun. We had to jump in waist high mud water, run up a mud hill, climb over a 10 foot wall, go through huge construction type tubes that were half submersed in mud water, go over a cargo net, army crawl and duck under boards in mud water, hold hands and avoid touching an electric line (don't worry it didn't shock too much, but it definitely shocked my arm and traveled to my leg), ride a zip line, go down a tube slide headfirst into a big mud water pit, do a three legged walk through a lot of tires and over a bale of way and do a wheelbarrow through pretty deep mud. We had a blast. It was so fun. We were soooo dirty by the end of it. It was great. They had a little shower type thing that was like a PVC pipe with holes in it, so we got to wash off a bit. I was so glad I brought us a change of clothes. We got back to the car and got out the wipes I had brought. It was a pretty decent sized bag and we went through like 3/4 of it. After we wiped off and changed we were off! We headed to Park City for a little shopping. Mike spoiled me. I love him. He got me a really nice purse with a matching little wallet, a really nice winter coat, a jacket, a pair of jeans, two pairs of shorts, and a cute purple skirt! Mike got a few nice jackets and some sun glasses. He also got a long sleeve light weight shirt, a polo, and 2 pairs of slacks. He looks so good in all of them. I made him give me a fashion show.

Funny story. A few weeks ago Mike came into our room or something and said, "Hey." And I said, "wait a minute. I don't get a hey honey, or hey sweetie or even a hey hot baby?" I was joking about the hot baby thing. So now ever since then he calls me hot baby. In fact, we were at Winco about a week and a half ago and I was in the produce section. Mike wandered off and when I was done I was looking for him. He spotted me first, so he kindly said in a very loud voice.. "HEY! HOT BABY! I'M OVER HERE!" I just about died on the spot. Silly boy. I love him.

The End is Near!

I am getting so excited.

This semester is almost over. Sooo close... I only have this next week that is coming up and the one after that. It will be so nice to be done with this semester. This has by far been the hardest semester I've had. Knock on wood.

I've also learned a lot about myself, surprisingly. I learned that I can juggle a lot of things at the same time and I'm really good at writing lists of what needs to get done. I also learned I am excellent at not procrastinating when I don't have time to. I haven't procrastinated ONCE this semester! ONCE! I never thought I could ever say that. Ever. I've also learned that I like to be busy, and I feel better about myself when I accomplish something every day. (I partly learned this at work when I took a Strength Finders test, I will talk about that in a minute). I also learned how much I can miss Mike even when we are in the same house. I miss spending time with him. Sigh. I don't get to spend much time with Mike because I'm spending it with homework instead.

Last month I took the Cliftons StregthsFinder test. It was interesting. It asked me all these questions, and then at the end it gave me my strengths. It was funny to read about myself and have things click like "oh. And that is why I do this or feel that way." My top strength is "Achiever". On their site that is described as "People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive." It goes into a little more depth on the paper I got after I finished it, but I can't remember much of it. It says something like these people feel like they need to achieve something each day. Which is totally true! Now I know why I HATE having just lazy days. I don't mind having like a half lazy day with Mike, but I always have the feeling when I haven't accomplished anything at all during the day. It bugs Mike sometimes that I can't just have an occasional lazy day with him. Haha. I can't remember them all in order, but another in my top 5 is Harmony. Harmony says "People strong in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don't enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement."Another one is Developer. "People strong in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements." I wish I could remember the other two, but I can't at this moment. It was really cool to figure these out so I can work at making these strengths better.


The other week, we went to the zoo. It was so fun! The new exhibit is very, very cool. I loved the polar bear. It was pretty big! And the seals were playing in the water which was fun to watch.

Good News and the 4th of July

This past month has been a good one. Mike found out that he nailed his interviews at Fidelity and got a job offer. He will be starting on the 23rd of this month. I will miss having lunch with him almost everyday but I am very excited for his opportunity to move into a job where he will be paid more and enjoy it more. Hopefully he will also have more opportunity to move up and utilize his degree more. And I also hope he will want to pursue a Masters degree once he gets into this job.

 To celebrate his new job, I took him to a Real game against the L.A. Galaxy. We had a great time! Besides, of course, the retarded people in front of us that would not sit down. It was a fun game to go to, and we had a good time.

This past week some of Mike's family was out. Mike's great aunt Eva passed away, and her funeral was on the 3rd. It was a very nice service. On the night of the viewing (July 2) we had Mike's brother Brandon, dad, aunt Elva and Mike's dad's cousin Kathleen over for dinner. Mike made a wonderful dinner! He made Cafe Rio pork burritos and made smoothies for the drink. Very yummy!

On Tuesday (July 3) after the funeral we went to the Jordan River temple as a family and did baptisms for the dead. Steve had a lot of family names to get done. We had a good time and stopped by Winder Dairy on the way home. I don't ever complain about going there. Yum!

I love the 4th of July. It is my favorite holiday. I love the breakfasts, I love the BBQ's, I love the fireworks, I love the Patriotism floating around in the air, and I love the warm weather. This year was mine and Mike's first 4th of July in Utah since we've been married. In the morning Kathleen, Elva and Steve came over to our house. Brandon made crepes and I made french toast for breakfast. After that we all headed up to Ogden to hang out with my family. Once we got there, a group was leaving to go to Kirt's for lunch. I had Brandon come along, and we all went to Kirt's. There was me, Brandon, Syd, Aimee, Cody (Syd's friend), Jasi, Doug, and Jade. Sorry if I forgot anyone. I ended up getting a grasshopper cookie shake. It was really good! I really liked it, I might even get it next time.

We headed back to the house and hung out for a bit. We played bolo toss/ladder ball and we ended up getting one of the golf ball things stuck in a tree. Mike threw one of his shoes at it, and his shoe then got stuck in a tree. We ended up having to get a ladder and a long stick to get his shoe out. We also got the golf ball thing down. We then moved the game to a different part of the yard.

After the game we went inside to cool down. It was really hot out! Brandon played a few songs on the piano for us, and Jasi even sang for us. She has such a beautiful voice. I love when she sings. I always end up crying though. Every time.

Later in the afternoon Mike and I made some homemade ice cream. We also had a BBQ. It was pretty good. It was even late enough in the afternoon we had some shade to sit in and everything. After that Mike and I took a little mini hike up at the Nature Center place by the mountain above my parent's house.

After we got back we broke out the ice cream. Talk about refreshing. And cold. And delish. Mmm. After a bit we headed to Barker Park for the fireworks. I really liked them at Barker Park this year! After the fireworks we headed home where we played with sparklers and the boys put on a great firework show. They even did some aerial fireworks which did not disappoint!

It was a really good 4th of July. The worst part was going to work the next day. I was exhausted.

Yesterday, the 7th, Brandon and I went rock climbing at Momentum. It was pretty fun. I'm not as good as I used to be, but it felt good to be climbing. I ended on a 5.11a. Not bad I guess. We also went to a Real soccer game last night. Me, Mike, Steve, Brandon, Ryan and one of my friends and his wife all went. It was against Portland and real won 3-0. The goals were all pretty sweet.

I only have about 4 weeks of school left. Thank goodness! I'm starting to go crazy from all of my homework. Then I get to start back later in August. It is crazy how fast the year has gone this year!

Love you all!