bye laurie

laurie lived across the street growing up. she always carried her shovel and pail, twirling the shovel around her finger. i loved testimony meetings because she always got up and shared her testimony including how much she loved my dad. she was always fun to be around and will be greatly missed.

another long forgotten tag

1. where did you meet your husband?

we met at liquid joe's at a given concert, i was there with a bunch of boys.

2. what was the first thing you said to him?

"aren't you in my singles ward?" he pretended he knew who i was, even though he had no idea.

3. where was your first date?

gurus

4. where was your first kiss?

in my car in his driveway. i was in the driver seat and he was wedged somehow in between the driver and passenger seat.

5. how long did you date?

about a year

6. did you have a long or short engagement?

short. it was about 1 month

7. where did you get engaged?

on the trampoline at his parents house.

8. where were you married?

jordan river temple

9. where did you honeymoon?

park city for a couple days, then san carlos, mexico. san carlos was part of my mission, and i don't know how but somehow i forgot how unbearably hot it is in august. we had a great time anyway.

employment history

i'm going to copy emily on this one too:

1. stamper of boxes of rubber gloves with "for veterinary use only"
2. food demo girl
3. medical dictation file girl
4. lifeguard/swim instructor
5. swim team coach
6. ski program supervisor
7. medical records
8. esl aide
9. private swim instructor
10. lift ticket sales at brighton ski resort
11. janitor (traded work for the volkswagon van)
12. graduate instructor at usu
13. elementary school esl teacher
14. medical research (selling my body to science)
15. babysitter

i think that's it. impressive huh?

death by chocolate?

would it be better to die from a brain hemorrhage or from heart disease? really i just want to know what kind of yogurt to buy. should i get the light variety (containing aspartame) which can cause brain hemorrhages, or the regular kind that has sugar and high-fructose corn syrup and more calories which contribute to my obesity problem leading to heart disease? i guess it doesn't really matter, they both come in plastic containers that cause cancer.

i'm still cool, right?

you know you're old when you go to a concert, they check your bag, and the only thing questionable you have is a diaper and wipes.

evil

why is it that i would never eat more than one candy bar a day (the regular sized ones - i rarely eat them anyway), but i think it is ok to eat 50-100 miniature or snack-sized candy bars in one day?

must see t.v.

globe trekker. tonight at 9:00 p.m. on pbs. this is the one show we (almost) faithfully watch. tonight they go to cyprus and crete. bon voyage.

maybe i'll just stay on the couch

so last night i started week 4 of the couch to 5k running program. it consisted of 5 min warm up walk, 3 min run, 90 sec walk, 5 min run, 2.5 min walk, then repeat. running for 5 min just about did me in. sad huh. the last time i ran i think i was in high school where they make the girls run the mile. the boys were always playing badminton or something else gay like that. anyway, if i follow this program for 9 weeks i am supposed to be able to run a 5k. yeah right.

tagged

in april, liz tagged me with writing 5 little known facts about myself, recently i was tagged by alisa with the same thing, but the number has grown to 7. i guess that's what i get for not completing it the first time. bad luck kinda like a broken chain letter. well i guess i better do this one because there is only so much you don't know about me (and most of this you may already know).

• i am a true band nerd. i played in jr. high, high school (concert band, pep band, and jazz band), a couple years in college, and i currently play with the wasatch winds (american fork community band) and i love it. so there.
  


• i had a bunion fixed last year in one of those medical studies that you see commercials for on t.v.. i made $700 for selling my body to science.
  


• like alisa, i can pick things up with my toes. dan sometimes throws things and misses the garbage can on purpose just so he can see me pick up stuff with my toes.
  


• the first real concert i went to was sting. and i had no idea who he was at the time, sad huh. i was 16.
  


• in jr. high/high school i played bass guitar in a rock band. we played gigs at the 49th street galleria, state fair, and a church dance.
  


• i feel guilty if i shop at wal-mart so i usually avoid it.
  


• i love hanging out with friends, but hate using the phone. so call me. ok?

in-laws

this is my father-in-law at lake powell last year. the first time i met him it was at bear lake, we were there for a singles ward trip, and i was standing around with some friends and this weird guy came up to us and told us we should have a contest to run down the beach into the water and see who fell first. i thought he was some kind of perv. i had no idea he was dan's dad. and now he is my father-in-law. and i now know he's not a perv. he's just ummm unique.

job opportunity?

so as i was thinking about the sign i saw yesterday (see yesterday's post), i thought i could start a business. i would capitalize on the mormons and start a visiting/home teaching company. nobody likes doing it, but everybody wants to get it done, so what if i became a broker for visiting/home teachers. people would pay me and i would pay someone else to do their teaching for them (i wouldn't want to do it myself). it could work right? i mean, i would totally pay someone to do my visiting teaching. i could even run advertisements during conference. maybe i could even figure out how to make it some kind of pyramid scheme. hmm. anyone looking for a job?

as seen in lehi

as i was driving to a baby shower today in lehi, i saw a sign in front of a store. i assume it was a candy store because the sign advertised "our visiting and home teaching messages are sweet!" yes i live in utah county.

who invented the trunk or treat?

for halloween we went to the trunk or treat (trick or treating at the cars in the parking lot) for our ward. we met with the other three wards that meet in our building. there were hot dogs, and some silly games for the kids. at 7:oo they started trick or treating, and it was a madhouse. there were kids crowding around the cars to get their candy. it was pretty lame. it seems like the point was to get as much candy with as little effort as possible. when we were kids we had to work for our candy. it was over with by 7:45 or when people started running out of candy. when we got home, dan took annie to some of the houses in our neighborhood to get the real trick or treating experience. we decided that we will probably boycott next year and just do real trick or treating. anyway, annie had a fun time running around with the kids, and getting some candy. the bad part is i had kept some candy at the house for kids to come by later, and we got 5 kids. so now i have a bunch of candy that i will end up eating myself.


here's the cute minnie mouse costume that my mom bought for annie.

she wanted, however, to be spiderman. so this is the final product for halloween. she hung out with all the other little spiderman boys at the party.

eva's first halloween. she didn't seem to care what she dressed up as.

happy halloween!

NaBloPoMo

i'm in. i'll give it a valiant effort.

getting ready for halloween

annie watched this probably fifty times the other day. she always laughs when the seeds come out of the mouth.

annie and eva

funny face lunch

annie's lunch the other day. sometimes i'm the greatest mom...

yeah, we're white trash

a couple of photos taken at the logan demolition derby in september. this is the third year in a row we have gone. we have started a tradition of going to the september demolition derby for dan's birthday. part of the tradition includes stopping in brigham city for peaches, and going to paradise to eat prime rib at the ghetto cracker barrel restaurant.

eva's first demolition derby, annie's third.

check out the boots on new sister-in-law kristen!

she's got the hang of it

today i decided that we'd give potty training a try. this morning annie put on her panties for the first time. about an hour later i asked her to come to the bathroom to go potty. she started to come, but then went back and picked up this newspaper ad to read while she was sitting. she's a quick learner.

ipod shuffle

everybodys doing it...first 10, no skipping.

1. i will (no man's land), Radiohead - mellow loveliness.
2. chicken out, Gomez - gomez puts on a great show. check them out.
3. donna and blitzen, Badly Drawn Boy - from one of my favorite movies About a Boy
4. sometimes i make you sad, Supergrass - i should've gone to the concert where they opened for pearl jam in idaho...
5. american girl, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - dan's favorite band
6. crush with eyeliner, R.E.M. - i went through a rem phase during early college years. i still like 'em. emily made probably 10 volumes of tapes (yes tapes) of pure rem goodness that i listened to too much.
7. we haven't turned around (x-ray mix), Gomez - what are the odds? two gomez songs in my 10.
8. kate, Ben Folds - fun and peppy.
9. china roses, Enya - this song reminds me of my mission. enya was probably my favorite mission- acceptable music, and i listened to it until we got robbed and my tape player got stolen. (does all this talk of tapes date me?)
10. full flavor, Unified Theory - i have memories of going to the unified theory concert with trevor, emily and amy at liquid joes. at the t-shirt/cd/goods table they were selling unified theory thongs. yep.

there you have it.