A & W

A perfectly rainy day

2010-10-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

(View from my office window at DSC)

The rain makes me so happy even though I am neck deep in textbooks and studying. Not studying has finally caught up with me and I'm heading into a hurricane of grade altering tests! But for now, the rain makes the worrying go away....I'll save the flipping out for tomorrow.

2 Little Monkey's

2010-07-19T15:44:00.000-07:00

My two little nephews Sam and Nate were born 2 days apart, so for their birthday I wanted to do something fun and creative. I was inspired by Emily Martin's Black Apple portrait of Monkey C. Hall from her Lost on the Midway collection. I just loved the little guy and had to have him for my two little monkey buddies, but of course, she wasn't going to release the prints for another 2 months! So I decided to make 2 monkey felt dolls. Really, I was hoping they would turn out a little cuter but Nate and Sam loved them no matter what! I hand painted the faces and then went to work. I have never done anything like this before so my felt dolls can only get better with time :) P.S. Birthday hint for my family...Since my birthday is coming up soon I would love love LOVE one of Emily Martin's 8x10 prints. My two favorites are Heart and Key and Lost on the Midway

Monkey C. Hall

A Top Secret Mission

2010-07-10T00:18:00.000-07:00

My two best friends Staci and Steph invited me to join in on a fun little escapade in dressing up for an all Silly Girls Unite photo shoot. The idea came from the two creators of Silly Girls Photography. They wanted tons of groups of girls all around the world to get together and do a silly girls photo shoot and then we would all share our awesome pictures! They had a voting poll where the groups voted on their favorite theme. Staci and Steph wanted Futuristic to win but Stripes & Polka Dots or Secret Agents won. So we did "Futuristic Secret Agents." Thanks to Staci and Steph we had AMAZING costumes via DI! Who knew you could find such sweet stuff! When Stephs in a DI she's like a kid in a candy store! They created a St. George group and got down to business with my afro that they both have been dying to do. So, while they worked on my fabulous fro, I got down to business on discovering my saucy inner secret agent....GinJet!

The Omega Force

GingJet
Specializes in: Persuasion, Sex appeal, and the Thigh Squeeze

Scooti Manista
Intelligence Commander

Specializes in: Technology, Linguiststics, and Problem Solving

Chi Eekway
Specializes in: Flexibility, Jujitsu, and Masters in Ninja training.

Veet
European Chemical Engineer with built in mammary canons
Specializes in:
Pyrotechnics, and Bomb making

Astrid

Commander-in-chief
Specializes in: Leadership, Intimidation,

& every fight training imaginable

Bonjella Lefavre
Mad Scientist of all that is evil & will one day rule the World

"This WORLD will be MINE"

For those of you who don't know...."I sold my hair!"

2010-06-03T20:55:00.001-07:00

Not really but I've always wanted to say that ever since I saw Little Women when I was 9 years old and Joe cut her hair. I've finally done it and it feels fabulous! Ok, I cut my hair about a month ago and it's already grown an INCH+! I don't know if I'll ever go back to long hair again! Maybe it will be my summer ritual to chop off my hair.

BEFORE

AFTER

Will said he likes my hair better short and curly instead of short and strait. What do you think?

Katie and Tyler's Wedding

2010-05-26T17:02:00.000-07:00

My little sister Katie and fiance Tyler were married in the St. George temple on May 14. It was an amazing experience because we were all together in the temple, all of my sister's and their husbands, my mom and dad and grandma and grandpa. Not one person was missing. What makes it even cooler is that we have all been sealed in the same room in the St. George temple (except for Karen :(, Mike I blame this on you!) I'm so proud of Katie for choosing to be worthy to be married in the temple and for choosing such a great guy!

Katie being so BEAUTIFUL and happy on her wedding day!

The cake and the flowers turned out BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING! My favorite were the dark purple mum's. I've never ever seen a mum!

Mike eating a delicious cream puff (aka, an expensive twinkie) like a Nobleman

This picture makes me laugh every time! Family pictures with the Colvin's consist of Jake and Jackson making faces and or being distracted, Sammy giving the grump face and Kelly looking beautiful. Boys...this makes me think of the episode of Malcom in the Middle when they try to get family pictures. Haha, so funny!

These little nuggets of joy were the best things I have ever eaten in all my life! They were like a brownie dipped in milk chocolate and then sprinkled with toffee bits. I seriously ate like 50 of them!

Sammy and Nate love Uncle Will.

That is they LOVE Uncle Will to chase them around like he's a ZOMBIE coming to EAT their little BRAINS!!!!

What's on my mind

2010-05-11T11:20:00.000-07:00

I feel the need to just write. I feel like I’m nearing a turning point in my life and I’m just too excited to sleep. You know that feeling you get the week before you go to Disneyland or Christmas and you’re so excited that you can’t do anything but think about it? Ya, that’s how I feel. And to top it off I am going to Disneyland in a week and I haven’t had a break or vacation in such a long time that I’m counting down every minute of every hour! I feel like I’ve taken crazy pills….the good kind of course. Haha. That’s what I’m feeling right now. This summer my work cut my hours. I was sad about it at first because I was hoping to earn some extra money for cushion, just in case something happens and Will doesn’t get the job he’s been working for. We might need to move to wherever teacher’s are being hired and I’m excited about that. Change is coming and I’m so ready for a change. I just want to get away and do something new. So, what will be will be. I’m going to use all my extra time to do fun projects that I’ve been dying to do. It’s been so long since I’ve been able to be creative and create my own art. This will be a summer of new beginnings. I will not start projects and then never finish them. Homemade things don’t need to be perfect. In fact, homemade things are made even better for their imperfections. I think back to an American flag quilt that I made about 6 years ago and it was PERFECT….except for one star that was backwards. I didn’t notice it until I had completely finished it. There was no turning back to fix it. It made me laugh how much work I had put into that quilt and how much I wanted to make it perfect. It took me about a year and a half to finish it. I kept starting it and then stopping it. I went over it again and again to make sure nothing was out of place and now that it was finished after a year and a half of work and a single star was backwards. Since there was no turning back I had to accept it. It was a learning lesson for me because it was PERFECTLY IMPERFECT! I loved it and I’m so glad I had made that mistake. It was beautiful in every way. I’ve already finished 2 projects and have started on the 3rd which will be done by Friday hopefully. Most of it is sewing. I hope to show you all pictures of projects galore!

Happy Anniversary Will!

2010-04-06T12:29:00.001-07:00

Will and I have been married for 3 years today April 6th! Isn't it crazy how time flies?

I love you sugar!

I wish I could relive this day. I had so much fun!

Will and I met in Nutrition class at Dixie College while I was in my senior year of high school. Will was of course the class clown and the only person who would actually talk in class so I knew of him. After we were married he confessed to me that he would purposely drop his pen while in class so that he could turn and sneak a peek at me. I had NO IDEA! He asked me for my phone number while I was walking out to my car and when I told him sure he got so excited and he was so nervous that he said "GREAT!" and then walked away without my phone number. Haha!

I Love You Will! I'm glad your my adventure buddy!

This is our fairytale picture.

This is how I wish I fealt...

2009-12-10T11:22:00.001-08:00

I want to barf at the thought of school...Here's to studying till 4 in the morning and living off of soda to stay awake. I'm going to have a terrible weekend.

Ghosts of Halloween's Past

2009-11-01T20:43:00.000-08:00

So here's my sad sob story. I had these huge plans for my costume and I was so busy with school that I didn't have time to finish it :( And on top of that, our plans for Halloween fun kinda fell through. Next year will be better, at least it better be! Will and I have decided to throw our own Halloween Party so everyone reading this better be coming!!!! We've already started brain storming for next years fun. So, since you weren't able to see my sweet-awesome costume this year, you'll have to settle for my old costumes. Enjoy!

Me as an evil Witch! Karen and Kelly as Swedish people, and Katie as an angry clown!

This one isn't halloween, but I lovvved dressing up as a kid. That day I decided to dress up as a Russian doll. You know one of those dolls that open up and theres a smaller version of itself inside. I loved playing with those dolls. I'm totally gonna dress up as a Russian Doll next year!

Ah, the hideous teens. I was a bananna that year. That was a fun costume but really hard to walk in, especially if your racing for candy!

The trying to be cute faze of teens. I remember being soo excited for this costume. I had glitter in my hair and everything!

Oh! Who is the adorable bunny? It's me! Kelly was little red ridinghood and Karen was a granny. Haha! Maybe I'll be a granny next year. What makes Karen's costume even better is that she is missing a tooth in front, like a little old lady missing teeth! Haha!

This clown costume was the BEST! It had these huge pockets on the sides to stuff candy in. No need for a candy bag!

I still love cupcakes!

Me as Ragety Ann and Karen as a Cheerleader.

My latest projects

2009-10-31T20:48:00.001-07:00

Over Summer break I did a whole bunch of projects that I never got a chance to post, so here they are! Of course there is a pile still in my corner of unfinished projects and projects that I just gave up on but, those will have to wait till next summer :( Ugg... I miss my project fun! If anyone else has some fun project ideas let me know! I'm getting bored of school.

I made this mug for my dad for Father's Day. He can never find a mug that has a wide enough lip to dip toast in his Hot Chocolate so this was perfect! And I painted this cool argile print on one side that I am most proud of! He loves it and uses it often.

Anyone recognize this table? Yes, its the ghetto lip gloss table from B&BW! I am so glad April saved this table from being dumpsterd. I love it and it makes the perfect craft and homework table. It was pretty nastified so I scraped off the old gum on the bottom and sanded down the whole thing.

The finished look! I painted it black and I love it!

For Aprils baby shower I made her this cute picture frame. Her colors were pink and brown and her theme was elephants so I quilted this little felt elephant. Then I added little pink knobs so that she could hang stuff from them. I turned out just how I had imagined it! Yay for sucessful ideas!

The Tricksters of Halloween!

2009-10-31T20:42:00.000-07:00

Ahhh!!! I love halloween. When I'm 80 years old I'll still be dressing up for Halloween. It's one of my favorite holidays. I have some of the best memories dressing up a kid and going out and getting pillow cases full of candy and then at the end of the night, dumping at all out and sorting it, counting it, and putting each candy in its own catagory...wierd, but who hasn't done that! My Trick-or-Treat record is 1 3/4 pillow cases. I'm pretty proud of that. So what better way to celebrate Halloween than hangin out with some new Tricksters of this generation!

My nephew Jackson was Peter Pan. He loveeed his costume and he was so proud of it. My sister Kelly made his cute little costume. She did an awesome job.

My sister Kelly (as a mean hideously beautiful witch), Little Sam (as a puppy), and me (as nothing :(. I know! I'm still a little depressed that I didn't get dressed up. That's a later story)

Jake as his own twin.

This house was soooo cool! The picture is not very good, but there was a house set up down the street from my sisters that was all decked out like a haunted house. The kids had to go through in order to get their candy. So fun. Yep, I'm totally going to do that once I have my own house. I want to be the coolest house on the block that all the kids run to!

Craft Night!

2009-10-31T20:23:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this is way late, along with all of my other latest posts. I've been crazy busy with stupid tests and homework. I just got to keep telling myself that it will all be worth it someday. You know, the killing of my brains after math tests have been pelting at it for more than 15 years strait in exchange for a good job and good money.... *sigh*... someday. So my brain needed a little vacation from all the analytical crap and Halleluya!! My friends Staci and Steph came to rescue and invited me to a fun craft night! I haven't had a craft night in about a year so it was fun getting my creative juices flowing.

The girls were both planning on going to WITCHAPALOOZA. From what I've heard it's a little village that gets all decked out in halloween decorations and everyone dresses like witches and there are prizes and contests and fun stuff like that! And you have to make your own witch hat...It's pretty much a requirement if you want to be cool :) I didn't get to go, but I will be going next year! So I made a witch hat anyways and I wore it to work on Friday the 30th.

I added lace to the brim of my hat. It's my favorite!

Lagoon

2009-08-19T15:44:00.001-07:00

Over the Summer Will and I went to Lagoon with my family. We had a blast! It was the perfect day to go because it would sprinkle rain every other hour so we all stayed pretty cool. Will has only gone to Lagoon once before when he was younger so there were a lot of new rides for him to try out. Example: Wicked!!! This ride drops you at an almost 90 degree angle so you think your gonna die but you dont, you just peed your pants a little.

Karen, Mom, Mike, Tyler and Katie just getting off Wicked!

Will is getting ready to go on the Collosus. A classic.

Will didn't go on the Samuri. He refused. The Samuri is one of my favorites, as long as you get an end seat. Oh Yeah!

We ate lunch and dinner in the park. My mom made this yummy greek spinach and pasta salad. That's what's great about Lagoon. Just bring a cooler stuffed with food and snacks and a blanket and you don't have to worry about anyone stealing your stuff.

Me and Will riding on the skii lift to other side of the park. Another classic of Lagoon.

Karen and Mike

Another classic of Lagoon is the super cheesy haunted house. I don't know why, but the haunted house has always smelled like burnt cotten candy that permiates the Lagoon entrance. I remeber that smell as a kid and have always looked forward to it when I go again. I can see the terror in Will's face!

Who doesn't love riding on the ship! Another childhood favorite!

Sammy and Jackson going on one last kiddie ride before the park closes. They had a blast! They loved every single ride and didn't cry once. Boys are so awesome. They are made for adventure!

My all time favorite is the Rocket: Re-entry. This ride gives me butterfly’s just thinking about it! I went on this one 3 times. The Re-entry slowly pulls you up to the top of its 217 foot tower and when you least expect it, it drops you! Oh Yeah!

Katie and Tyler getting ready to go on my favorite ride

We all had so much fun. I can't wait to go on another fun trip with my family. I would have to say that my favorite memory is when Katie, Tyler, Kelly, Will, and I went on Raddle Snake Rappids. This is a water ride which means your gonna get wet but we didn't think we were gonna get that wet so we went for it. The entire time we all tried not to get wet. Katie, Kelly, and I were screaming and Tyler and Will were laughing like crazy! We were all standing up on the ride trying to not get wet and tried to avoid the waterfalls. We were all dripping wet head to toe by the end of the ride. Best memory ever! I wish we had a picture.

So You Think You Can Dance

2009-06-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

These are a few of my favorite things!

2009-05-22T09:50:00.000-07:00

As I am loving my summer free of school I've decided to make a list of all of my favorites so far:

1. Reading fun books with Will (we read aloud to each other. Yes we are dorks :) ) Right now we are reading the Fablehaven series and we are loving it!

2. Having picnics in the huge field neer the library

3. Summer movies! We've seen Star Trek and just last night THE TERMINATOR. Oh my they were so good! Im still freiking out a little about Terminator. It was awesome. I did enjoy Star Trek too which I am a little surprised. It had a really good story and it was a very pretty film (picture wise), but maybe thats because we were sitting about 12 inches from the screen! We showed up late so we got the crapy seats on the front row. But I loved it and I would totally see both again! My new favorite actor is Anton Yelchin. He was in both Terminator and Star Trek. He's a little nerdy but he's a great actor.

4. Fun projects! I love being creative. Right now I'm working on a project for April's baby shower. I'm really excited about it and I'll post pics once I give it to April. It has to be a surprise and she might see it on my blog!

5. Games. What can I say, I just love em. Yesterday we played Hand and Foot with Katie and Tyler and Will and I totally killed them! It was Tylers first time playing it so I'll give em a rematch. I'm a sucker for games.

6. Smoothies in the summer, especially the ones from Inta-Juice. Yum...my mouth waters for them

7. Sandwiches. I love sandwiches. Woo for Tom's Deli!

8. Warm summer nights

9. And the top favorite thing of mine is.....No Homework! YAY!

Graduating 2009

2009-05-14T12:23:00.000-07:00

My sister KATIE is graduating this year from Desert Hills High. Its crazy that she's graduating, it feels like I just graduated a year ago! She invited me to go with her to get her Senior Pictures done and I'm so glad that I got to go. It was so much fun! It was fun to watch Katie posing for the camera. She was a little nervous at first but then got comfortable with the camera and did all these cute poses. Her photographer was Andrea Watkins. She did a really good job. They turned out AMAZING! She is so photogenic. I love the ones where she has the serious face. Man! I can't pull off the serious face. I always end up looking retarded.

The photos with the trucks turned out awesomely! Those are my favorites.

This one is just gorgeous. Katie looks friggin rad and the green truck just looks so sweet. I am officially jelouse.

Sweet Smell of Summer

2009-05-08T13:57:00.000-07:00

Awwww.....The sweet smell of freedom. School has been over for about 2 weeks now and I LOVE it! I feel guilty I have so much free time. I have a list of projects that I've been waiting to do since January.

1) DI all the crap in my spare room and finally decorate it!

2) Refinish my sweet table that April gave me from Bath and Body Works (can you guess which one, the lipgloss table! Its a little gross now but its gonna look friggin sweet when I'm done with it and I've had such good memmories with B&BW so it pretty much one of the best souvineers ever!)

3) Put together a photo album with all of mine and Will's engagements pics and my bridals.

4) Sewing projects gallor and....

5) Cut my hair! AHHHH!!! A little terrifying but I've been planning it since last summer when I didn't have the guts to do it.

Wooo! I'm so excited.

Happy Birthday Will!

2009-04-12T21:47:00.000-07:00

Will's birthday was totally a month ago but I finally got some free time to post some pics! For Wills birthday we had breakfast at The Bear Paw with our friends Rob and Stacie. We had to wait for about an hour to get in but it was totally worth it. While we waited we all walked down to the little water park and watched Miles play in the stream. It was a lot of fun :) Thanks for hangin out with us guys!

Will's family was out of town so I got to make him a cake. It turned out really well and I had a blast making it.! Hmm...I wonder how old he turned?

(up close, my pro icing skills! Just kidding. I didn't realize how long it actually took to decorate a cake! Hence, the not very decorative orange border that kinda turned out more of a salmon than orange, but it still tasted great!)

We had a little party for Will at the Warby's which was kinda wierd because the Warby's weren't even home! Thanks for letting us borrow your house for the night. Will had fun hangin with the guys. Jeremy loves the camera as you can see :)

The boys busted out the old original nintendo and played some classic games.

We're full of beans....Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog

2009-03-28T19:39:00.000-07:00

For Spring Break weekend Will and I drove up north to visit my sister Karen, Mike, and little Nate. We had so much fun! Karen and I went shopping and we found the cutest shoes and outfits. I hadn't been shopping in forever so I had a blast! We also ate at some awesome restaurants. Carrabas, an italian place that had the best pasta ever, and Jason's Deli.

I love sandwiches and this was the best sandwhich I have ever had! The crossaunt was buttery and flakey and the turkey and ham was devine! The best part was that at the end of our meal they gave us free ice cream cones!

We had a lot of fun playing with Nate-Dog. I would throw pillows at him and he would try and hide from me. Nate also introduced us to the The Mickey Mouse Club House. On our way home, Will and I started singing "We're full of beans....Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog" just like in the show. It's my new fav. song :)

For my cousin Emily's baby shower, I made her a baby blanket. I had so much fun making it, knowing that baby Steele and Emily would have some of their first baby memories with it. (I'm so glad that you love it Emily!)

The monkey and the lion were my favorite.

It turned out super cute and it matched her colors perfectly! I've used the same animal fabric before in another baby blanket I made for my friend Sarah and I loved it so much that I had to use it again.

Happy Birthday Jackson!

2009-03-28T14:08:00.000-07:00

My Nephew Jackson turned 5 a couple months ago and he invited Will and I to his Birthday party! Notice that the cupcake hasn't been eaten but the all the frosting has! Haha! Little Boys .

I made him a Pirate Treasure Map and had him go on a scavenger hunt for the burried treasure/presents. He loved it!

One clue was hiding in the bathroom!

For his birthday I bought him Peter Pan, one of his favorite movies and two swords because he loves to sword fight. Thanks for inviting us Jack! We had an awesome time!

Pretending to be working...

2009-03-26T08:01:00.000-07:00

So, I'm pretty bored here at work and there is seriously absolutley nothing for me to do. It's like a fight for the phone when it rings because we're all bored and I hate answering the phones! I hate looking like a lazy at work. Sometimes I do homework but I can tell that the boss doesn't like it so much because it proves to everyone I have nothing to do. Usually I'm going non-stop and have a whole bunch to do. Uh-oh, I hope we're not turning into Ashley Furniture where we all fought for the phones, pretended to look busy, and then ultimately we all got laid off! AAHHHHH!!!!! I need to look busy! Any ideas for looking busy :)

25 RANDOM things about me

2009-03-11T15:37:00.000-07:00

This was on my facebook but I decided to post it on my blog too!

1. I am a perfectionist when it comes to me and my projects. Everything has to be perfect and turn out exactly how I imagined it or I stop the project immediately!

2. I have a problem with starting projects and then not finishing them. This is partly due because I am a perfectionist. I have a corner in my house dedicated to my unfinished projects that didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to.

3. My biggest goal in life is to be successful and happy in whatever I do.

4. I absolutely love games. From board games, card games, hide and go seek, ping pong, and video games. Every game you can think of I probably love. I’m very competitive.

5. I love shoes. I think it’s been passed down from my grandma to my mom, to me and all my sisters. Nothing beats a new pair of shoes which sucks because I can’t really find a nice pair of shoes because stores like Dillard’s and Kohl’s hardly ever carries size 5 ½.

6. I’m afraid of the dark…..It’s super embarrassing, but I slept with a night light since I was about 14 years old! I would sleep with one now but Will keeps me safe from the Boogie man :)

7. I love chips and salsa from Macayo’s in Las Vegas. I grew up on that stuff and nothing can beat it. Next time you’re in Vegas you should check it out. They’re Mexican food is the best!

8. I was President of my Elementary School in Las Vegas. Surprise? I used to be extremely outgoing and not shy at all!

9. Because I was President of Halle Hewetson, I actually got to shake hands with Hillary Clinton when she came to our school. Not that she’s the coolest person ever to shake hands with. I shook Goofy’s hand at Disneyland and that was even more exciting!

10. I love the show So You Think You Can Dance. I wish I could dance like that!

11. I love all music. Rap, pop, screamo, rock, emo, a little bit of country, old jazz club music, big band music…Right now I like listening to the Gospel rock channel. Sounds lame but they’ve got some really good music on that station.

12. I love old Disney classics. My favorites are Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.

13. I love flowers. If I had money to throw away, I would buy fresh flowers for myself every other day. I love how vibrant their colors are and their smell. They remind me of spring, my favorite.

14. I love to learn. I actually get super excited right before school starts in the fall after summer vacation. Sometimes I can’t sleep all night because I’m so excited.

15. Some of my pet peeves are people biting their forks when their eating, loud people in movie theaters whether laughing weird or just talking, blue tooths, people who don’t take care of your stuff when you let them borrow something and waiters/waitresses who ask how your food is tasting. This used to not bug me, but it’s starting to sound kinda cheep. The other night after the waiter asked how everything tasted Will said it would taste better if his burger had bacon. The waiter’s response, “Oh, umm… yeah…. that’s… uuuu...I’ll just bre….” And he was gone. He had no response, he just left!

16. I love new clothes and I love to dress up. I haven’t been new clothes shopping in forever and it’s killing me!

17. I’m a total penny pincher. I must get it from my grandpa or something :) The other day when I was at Target they “forgot” to give me my change back which was about 10 cents. I think it’s their new technique in getting as much money as possible from customers because they’ve done it to me about 4 times and I finally got mad and had to ask for my change.

18. I know this sounds cheesy but I’ve never been to prom or any event where you got to dress up all fancy and get your hair done in an updo. It’s my secret wish to get asked out on some romantic place where I need to get all dressed up like that.

19. I love going to the movies. Learning about other peoples lives, even if they are made up, is just super fascinating to me.

20. I have a fear that my teeth are going to fall out and I’m going to have to wear dentures!

21. Chewy things make me gag, like fatty chicken and most seafood. Any kind of Chinese food or Japanese food makes me want to RALF!

22. My favorite cartoon to watch on Saturday morning is the Mighty Bee and The Fairly Odd Parents

23. Similar to #21, unknown food makes me sick. I would love to travel and go to all of these foreign places but I can’t handle the food. Anything that isn’t American makes me sick. My stomach just can’t handle it.

24. Something that I can’t stand is people not taking their job seriously and being rude to customers. It’s like, in this economy you can’t even risk losing your lob to your own laziness and rudeness, but people are doing it more than ever!

25. I have a weird attraction to office supplies. Whenever I go to Staple or Office Depot, I see all the colorful office supplies and I’m drawn to them for some reason. Will usually has to stop me from buying unneeded paperclips, sticky notes, or pens.

ATTENTION: Any students at Dixie who have been helped by the guy at the Registration Office the past 2 weeks!

2009-02-25T23:14:00.000-08:00

Wow. So I pretty much suck at staying up to date with my blog. It's practically March and I'm just blogging about Christmas. Anyways, to catch everyone up on what's going on in my life I'd like to start it with the most amazing day of my life which was Friday last week! Why? Because the guy I had to work with at the registration office was finally fired on Friday! He only made my life extremely stressful for the past couple months! Walking around the office with pepper spray in my pocket gets old fast, let me tell you.

Ever since he was hired I've gotten this creepy molestor vibe from him and the sick thing is that he just applied to the education program to teach 2nd grade. When he told me I wanted to barf. I'm usually the only one who worked up at the front with him so I was basically the only one who heard his freaky views on religion, politics, and his “deep” morals and ideas. Long story short, he was a complete perv and everyone else at the office thought he was wonderful because they didn't have to actually work with him!

A blessing in disguise, he came to work high on something and while I was secretly giddy at the fact he showed up to work wasted, the whole office found out what a psyco he was! Oh, he completely flipped out! He would go back and forth to the bathroom every ten minutes and bring his coffee in with him to the bathroom, he would show up calm for about 5 minutes, freak out again, and then go back into the bathroom with his coffee. And that's just one of the many wierd stories.

Before he left he completely screwed with some students accounts, dropping a class here, adding a class there and so on. So far we've caught about 5 students accounts that he messed with so if he helped you within 2 weeks ago, come to me and I'll double check your account! Finally I am free!

Christmas 2008

2009-02-25T22:41:00.001-08:00

This is my attempt at a photo collage. Not too shabby! Stacie and Steph's always look ten time better though :)

Christmas was awesome as always! We spent the night at Will’s house and celebrated Christmas morning with the Bowen’s. Will and I had a hard time sleeping. Will was awake at 5:30 and was ready to open presents! Thanks to everyone for the sweet gifts! Will and I had pretty much given up on ever having a Wii, our new bookshelves look awesome as well as my new clock, and I love my cute shirt from Karen! I wear it often which you can probably tell by the sweat marks that I have already branded (ick). Although recieving gifts are always a plus, I'd have to say giving is much funner. My favorite gift that I gave was to my dad. When I was about 4 years old my mom made my dad what we call his "smoking jacket", which is really just a sexy way of saying loung jacket. Well, he has loved that jacket ever since and now about 17 years later he is still wearing the same jacket my mom made for him when I was 4. It has holes in the elbows, the inside lining is tattered and worn, and the batting was falling out of it! I decided to make him a new one which he has wanted since about 3 years ago. Finally I finished it. In the pic I didn't have it completely finished, but I made it from with what looked like dark green cordiroy with a green silk lining. It was a lot of hard work and being me, I held off until a week before christmas to start it. He loved it! He was so happy that he got a little teary eyed because he thought he would never get a new! It made me so happy to see him happy. I love my dad so much.

SNOWING!!!! In St. George!!!!!

2008-12-29T18:43:00.000-08:00

Will and I had a snow ball fight! It was so much fun! It snowed for 3 days off and on. We probably got a total of 1 inch of snow and the funny thing is school was cancelled!

Oh Christmas tree

2008-12-29T18:30:00.000-08:00

We decided to buy a small one this year. I absolutely love it! Even more than our first one which was pretty big. The little one’s our so much easier to maintain and its super cute! Thanks for the old ornaments mom and grandma! I love the rocking horses and the apples. It reminds me of Christmas when I was little.

The dust that is!

A lot of Umm’s and What’s?

2008-12-29T16:46:00.000-08:00

“I need to register for this math class.” Some random kid says as I look up from my chemistry book. My response, “Ummm…. Right….OK….. Ummmm…. Hmmm…. What was that again?” This is my brain on chemistry and biology. All communication responses in my brain completely shut down when I’m using the left side of my brain. Which is kind of embarrassing because then the kid looks at me like I’m retarded and the school must have felt bad for me so they hired me to drool and look like I’m helping. That’s how I felt anyways. But, I must admit that it was totally worth it to look like an idiot because I scored an A in my Biology and Chemistry! Woot! Very exciting since I must have beat my head against the wall about 50 times stressing over my chemistry and biology, worrying that no school would accept me because I suck at Science. I also found joy in my beginning jazz dance class. I was super worried since I’d never danced before. It was a blast! I had so much fun and I would really like to take another class. I’m thinking about taking a beginning ballet class to strengthen my technique.

I'm the one on the back row in the middle

And....We rocked out!

2008-12-18T22:37:00.000-08:00

So, remember how I said that I was not too excited for the Aquabats concert, well....I had a blast! And the best part was that I totally did not expect to have fun. I was a little worried about not having fun on the car ride over to the electric theater and then we rounded the corner. A huge line of about 300 or so people. I gawked at the line comprised of 14 year old poser emo girls, guys who looked like jocks, complete nerds, dudes that actually looked like they knew what music actually was and parents with their 3-4 yr old children. It was an OMG moment, What did I get myself into! 4 year old children were coming! I was going to a concert that this line of people probably had no idea who these Aquabats even were. I mean, they are like 40 year old men who are overweight, right? Well, Im going into too much detail so I'll get to the point.

The crowd went wild for DJ Lance Rock from Yo Gabba Gabba (Its the Aquabats kids show thats on nickalodian). The crowd was kinda like "ok....what is this?" at first. But after a while everyone got into it. There were robots on stage telling us to get our wiggles out and we sang "Theres a party in my tummy, so yummy, so yummy!" Its Yo Gabba Gabba's way of teaching kinds to eat healthy food. Although a little different and wierd, I had a blast gettin back down to my kindergarden roots and rockin out with my abc's and the emo's played along.

I must say that the best part of the show was Suburban Legends who opened the show for the Aquabats. They were Awesome! They put on a show! They had a guy on the trumpet and a guy playing the trombone and the whole thing was coreographed. They danced and sang at the same time. They were unbelievably awesome and they pretty much stole the show!

By the time the Aquabats came on stage it had been 3 hours of rockin already, but (I'm totally an old lady when I say this) my feet really hurt and I was super tired and ready for bed. So, the Aquabats didn't get my full attention but they were good, but Suburban Legends was trully worth my 15 bucks!

End of School Jitters!

2008-12-04T12:06:00.000-08:00

Yes!!!! Halla freikin luya! School is finally coming to a close this semester. I'm so excited for finals to be over! Of course I haven't studied for any of my finals yet. My Jazz dance final is on Monday and I'm a little nervouse on how its going to turn out. My teacher is going to be reviewing our performance tape and grading us on how well we do. I saw the dance stage for the first time today. SCARY! The stage pretty much looks like a black tarp of death! I hope I do well and not let my nerves get to me.

Also, Will is taking me to my first concert on friday! I'm excited, but no jumpin outa my pants excited! I'm not the hugest fan of the Aquabats, but Will is litterally counting down the hours till friday so it makes me happy to see him so excited.

Happy Halloween!

2008-11-13T22:49:00.000-08:00

At the office we all decided to dress up as villains and super heros for Halloween. We had so much fun! This is one of many photos we took. Jamie was Captain Underpants, I was Robin Hood, TJ was the Grim Reaper and Haylie was a Crazed Doctor. Ann's costume was pretty awesome! She was Malificent from Sleeping Beauty. David (my boss) decided that we should all take a break from work and watch halloween movies in the office all day. I work with such awesome people. They really do make work fun!

Pictures Will Be Coming!

2008-11-04T12:47:00.000-08:00

I have decided to start adding new posts during the day when there is some down time in the office and then add pictures later when I get home! So, if you ever come across boring writing with no pictures, don't worry! Pictures will be posted soon!

Also, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to display my friends blogs on the right hand column of my page? If you know how, please leave me a comment. Any help would be great. Thanks!

The Subway Fairy!

2008-10-29T15:14:00.000-07:00

I was looking through some picture files and I came across these pictures of Katie at Subway when I worked there in 2004! Katie would come over and help me clean up fast so I could close the shop early. She would sweap, wipe down counters, and even wash the dishes for me! I don't know what the wings were about. It must've been Halloween or something? I can't believe what an awesome sister I have! She would come so I didn't have to walk out to my car alone. It was super creepy there at night!

How we're doin!

2008-10-21T11:47:00.000-07:00

After wracking my brain on doing something cool for one of my first posts I've decided to give up on being a perfectionist and just decided to let everyone know what Will and I are up to right now. Will just got accepted to the Education Program here at Dixie! He is way excited and I am so proud of him. He can't decide on whether to teach 3rd grade or 6th.

For me, I'll finally be getting my associates this December! This semester has been super difficult for me. The time has come where I can't rely on my ability to miraculously get good grades anymore, I have to actually try and put forth the effort :( I've literally been studying my butt off, about 2-3 hours a day. I haven't seen the light of day in like 5 weeks it feels. I am so exhausted. So far I have survived by just the thought having a 3 day vacation (UEA weekend) and I ended up going Will's grandpa's funeral, which took 2 days of my vacation! I have still not recoved from my loss (I hope I don't sound selfish for saying that, but it's the truth). I've decided that History is by far my worst subject. While trying to study for my impossible History test, I watched Will cut out triangles and then past numbers to them for his elemenatry math. I am so jelous! I love my dance class! I'm having so much fun in dance, even though I prob. look silly since I'm not the best. Surprisingly I'm doing the best my Chemistry and Biology class. I have no idea how that happend. I hate science! I probably wont be liking it much next semester.

Sorry there aren't any pics. I still havent figured out how to post pics yet? Hopefully I'll have something a little more interesting to talk about next post. See ya!

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Playin Dress Up!

2008-04-28T15:45:00.000-07:00

Will and I decided to dress up for the release of the final Harry Potter book at Little Professor Book Store. I dressed up as Ginny Weasly and Will dressed up as Mad Eye Moody. The owners of the store made Will in charge of the mega phone and it was his job to direct the costume contests and other activities and I coached Quiditch. It was so much fun! Sadley, since we participted as leaders, we couldn't win the costume contest. We totally would have won :)!

About Me

2008-04-26T00:33:00.000-07:00

Hey! For all of those who don't know me, here's a little sample of THE ALEX. I was born in Las Vegas and lived there for 12 years before I moved to St. George Utah. I was pretty much a wallflower all throughout middle school and high school, but I'm slowing learning how to become a-non-social-retard. Right now I am going to DSC and am working on my Bachelors of Science. I love learning and I can't wait to become Dr. Marshall, the world greatest Optometrist and open my very own business. Last year on April 6, 2007, I married Will Bowen. He's like those guys you read about in fairy tales that no one believes is real in the real world. He's charming, funny, charismatic, creative, handsom, and very polite. He is my best friend in the entire world. He's got an imagination like no other. He loves writing stories and sharing them with me. I just need to get him to write them all down so that we can get rich and greedy! Just kidding. I love any movie, from total sci-fi's to Walt Disney to chick flicks. I love them all! Some of my fav's are Beauty & the Beast, X-Men, Anchorman and Gone With The Wind. My favorite books are Meg Cabot's Mediator series and Harry Potter (who doesn't). Jimmy Eat World is my all time favorite band, Macayo's is still and will forever be my favorite place to eat, and my favorite thing to do is watch decorating shows and pretend that I know style. Oh yeah! and did I mention games? To list a few that I love, Hand and Foot, Kent, Hide and Go Seak (I have no idea why), Settlers of Catan, and the Bucket Game.