The Thorpe's

Super Fun Weekend!

2010-04-12T19:04:00.005-06:00

We had some great fun these last few days! Now that I have Weekends off I can play with my friends and family more!

A bunch of us and our friends got together for a VERY fun outing. We went to the Cheesecake Factory, and OMG - YUM! Me and Christian, Kaycee and Austin, Jeff and Jessica, and Taryn and Nick all met up at the restaurant, got our name on the list, and then walked around the mall until it was time to eat. It was such a great night! We laughed like crazy! We ended up staying for a long time talking and laughing. We actually noticed all the tables around us had switched out parties, some twice! HAHA

Nick and Taryn

Austin and Kaycee

Jeff and Christian

I got some delicious orange chicken and Christian got spaghetti. After dinner (even though we were stuffed) we obviously had to get cheesecake! I got a banana cream piece and Christian got snickers. They were both incredible! So, it was a fabulous night!

Next we had another party planned with our friends! POKER NIGHT! We went to Ashlee's house and met up with a bunch of friends. Unfortunately Christian got out pretty early, but he had to work in the morning so it was probably good. So, he hung out for awhile, but ended up going home. I actually did pretty good! Almost won, but Shawn decided to destroy me! HAHA It was a ton of fun though! We ended around 12:30 and some of the guys said they wanted pancakes, so Meg, Ashlee, and I went upstairs to talk and make pancakes. We hung out until about 2am. It was super fun! Nice to just chill, without spending a ton of money! Good Times!

On Saturday Jamie and Jon got REAL Soccer game tickets, so we got to watch the kids! I love having them over! So fun! So, first, we had a little caesers picnic on the front lawn. Then we walked to the park to let the kids play. When we got back we watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks! It was a very fun night! In the morning we got to eat pancakes! The kids came to church with us, which I love! And then we drove to Layton for a birthday bbq for Cody. After dinner we played games.

It was a great weekend! Lots of fun with family and friends!

Good News!!!

2010-03-27T11:15:00.003-06:00

Well, not much has been going on with us, but the job hunt ended! And I am sooo glad! Even though, I was really enjoying being home! HAHA Time for crafts, sewing, cleaning, and playing with friends and family! But I guess I knew it would end. I did need a job! And I found one!

I am now working for Simmons Mattress Company. I am so excited to work there! So far it is going great! It is lots to learn, but I am getting the hang of it. Luckily I am being trained by my friend so she is making it fun and not so scary! Best part of all, I finally get to feel what its like to have a real job. Weekends off, Holidays off (and paid) and a set schedule, and money I deserve! I have had the complete opposite for 6 years at my previous job! So, I really think I will enjoy this! I am technically the Payroll Manager, but I have a lot of other tasks. I have my own office! I am working in the office that is connected to the Simmons factory. It's pretty cool seeing how they make mattresses. Those tags and "do not remove" labels, ya, I make those! HAHA

This past week I had the chance to tend my neices and nephews for 4 days! My sister went on a cruise and dropped them off to me! It was super fun! We played, went to the park, Went to lunch with Grandpa B, went swimming, and played some more! I got to experience life as a stay at home mom~ Seriously, I have never worked so hard. Not a 9-5 job by any means! Maybe a 7-10 job. Crazy but so fun!!! Weird, but I didn't take any pics. Sad! But we had a lot of fun!

This weekend for Conference we have a tradition that we go to Layton. So, I am excited for that! We get together, stay up late playing, watch conference in our PJ's while we veg out. And then Saturday night we have a girl's night while the guys go to priesthood! Should be fun! So, I will post about that after.

Update #2

2010-03-14T23:26:00.003-06:00

How do I go from blogging a few times a month to having to do 2 "update" blogs? Ugh! Oh well, here it goes for our February Update, I should really call it February and March update, since it will soon be over.

~Anywho~
How about I start updating, eh?

Well, in my previous post I talked about my friend Mandy who is pregnant. Things are going GREAT with her. They are busy planning, discussing, and arranging their new lives as parents-to-be! They have started to organize thier house and make room for a nursery, we are beginning to plan her baby shower and I am busy making her invitations! We are all so excited!!!

Also, in my previous post I talked about the strong little guy, Owen, who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. This is also going GREAT! Great for Owen, Mommy, Daddy, and siblings! We have all gotten down how to test him, give him shots, count carbs, measure food, and the list goes on and on. But overall we have realized this is definitely something we can handle!!! I am actually really excited for this weekend! My sister and Brother-in-law will be going on a cruise and leaving the children in the hands of me and Christian for half the week, and my mom and dad for the other half! I super excited! I get to see what being a stay at home mom really is! And they get to have a much needed vacation!

Let's see, what else has happened?
Well, I have another great friend who is also pregnant! We had a shower for her a few weekends ago and it was great! All the girls there were from High School so we were all able to catch up! It was so fun seeing everybody! It is so crazy how time flies! Every one of us is married, and everybody but myself and one other friend have a baby or are pregnant! So fun! It was a really fun time and Pattyanne got some really cool gifts!

I was also able to attend a concert downtown. It was the Up and Coming Tour at "In the Venue" My brother's band was actually playing in it. I headed there with a friend and met up with my mom and dad. They did AWESOME! Seriously! You know what you think of when you hear High School band, but it was great! They are all naturals! My brother is the lead singer, but he also wrote some of thier songs, and plays guitar on some songs. Pretty cool, hopefully they will be able to play at the Warped Tour! Check them out on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beacon-Hill/176506727280?ref=ts

I think the last update would be the update most of you already know, but for those of you that don't, here ya go.... At the end of February, I lost my job. Not such a great update, but an update non the less. I worked for Sportsman's Warehouse for almost 6 years. It was pretty crazy to lose it, but in all honesty it was such a relief! For about 3 months I had been nothing, but miserable! Unfortunately new management came in and it was pretty clear after a few months that I would no longer have my position. Shortly after that I was let go. However, I am truly excited for my next adventure! I am not sure what is next for me, but I do know that I am happy at the moment and I can't wait to have a position where I don't live at work, stress constantly about work, and get paid the amount I deserve to do work! And I am soooo excited to never work a Sunday again! To answer your question, yes, Christian does still work there. For now, he is still currently enjoying his position, and since he does not work directly with the new management like I did, he has not had any problems, and he definitely has not been miserable. So, at this time we are very grateful for Christian having his position! We are sure that something will come up soon for me. And yes, when it does you can expect another update! (Until then, if you know of anything, please let me know.) Thanks!

So, that is our update. Hope things are well with all of my readers. (the 3 of you) Hopefully, with all of my free time now I can update my blog more often! Guess we will see!

January in a nutshell

2010-01-28T11:38:00.004-07:00

January was pretty quite for us. We worked, played, worked, and played a little more. We have gone to see some fun movies. We have gone to Jazz games. We have hung out with friends and family. But for the most part, nothing too exciting. However, there were some big things happening to those we love! So, we will update you on what's going on in the world around us!

First big thing was from my best friend, Mandy and her husband Troy! She is pregnant!!! I am so excited for her! She has wanted a baby for awhile and her husband actually had to get a reversal, so it could have taken a very long time to get pregnant. However, everything went great and she was able to get pregnant! She sent me a picture message of the pregnancy test that showed positive! I was so excited!!!

We hung out a few days ago and I brought her her first baby gift! We went shopping and she got a super cute diaper bag and some cute baby clothes! I am so excited for her!

She just went to her first appointment and everything is great! She is measuring correctly, and everything looks healthy. She had an ultrasound and was able to hear the heartbeat and get a picture! So, hopefully things continue to go well for her! Congrats guys!

The next big thing is from this cute little guy! It is a sad story, but one that

we can handle! Our family has come together already to support him and he is doing great!!!

My Sister's son, Owen was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last week. He is only 17 months old, but he is being such a trooper! He doesn't even cry when he gets his shots! Incredible!

This came at a huge shock for Jamie and Jon. This diabetes does not run in either side of the family. However, they have been able to learn a ton about the disease and are so happy that it is just a way of life now. He can still live a completely normal life, and almost a better one because he will be living so healthy with the way he eats. When I went to visit them in Primary Children's hospital they were all doing so well. I played with Owen just like I would have at home. Jamie and Jon were able to explain it all to us. They all seemed so "ok" with it. I think their doctor was awesome! He explained it so well so they would understand it was something they could handle, explained that it had nothing to do with them, they didn't do anything wrong, and that someday soon, it would become a way of life and it wouldn't be so scary. Jamie, Jon, and Owen are all being sooo strong! I am super impressed! So, it is very sad that Owen will be pricked on the finger and given a shot multiple times a day, but it is something that is very easy to deal with and since he was diagnosed so young, he will grow up with it and understand this is just his way of life! But Owen is still his happy, chipper self!

So, Our life has been full of surprises, but still full of fun! We are looking forward to February and March, and even more looking forward to Spring!!! We are done with winter! In February we have the Western Hunting Expo that we will be running for a week, which is always fun! In March my sister is going on a cruise for her anniversary so we get the kids for a week! Which is even more fun! I get to see what it's like to be a stay at home mom, which I am way excited for! I'm sure there will be more fun to come. Friday we have another Jazz game with our friends from work, We will be having a superbowl party, and I'm sure we will do something fun for Valentine's day. So, nothing too exciting coming up, but I'm sure it will be a fun February! Until then, Hope you have a wonderful day!

My Birthday gift!

2010-01-07T20:20:00.003-07:00

For my birthday I had to work all day, so my birthday lasted for 4 days!

The night before my birthday Christian took me shopping, to dinner, and to the Jazz game!

I bought a new case for my phone, it's plaid with pink and brown. It's cute! We ate dinner in the food court, I got a yummy Subway sandwich and he got Panda Express. The Jazz was fun! I haven't been to a game in so long! Our seats weren't fantastic, but it was still fun. We had our binoculars, and Christian took some great pics with our new camera.

The day after my birthday our friends and us went out to Olive Garden! It was a great time! Lots of fun, great food, and my friends are so nice I even got gifts! I got some super cute jewelry, clothing, and a super cute scarf! Thanks for all those who came and gave me gifts!

On Tuesday my girlfriends took me to lunch! Roxsan, Meghann, Ally, and Kaycee all came with me to Wingers to celebrate somemore! It was great fun! And of course, more great food!

So, my birthday...s were great! Thanks friends!

For my birthday, I was able to get a new bedroom set!

I have been wanting one forever, and on Black Friday a really cute was on sale! So, I got this one! It is brown, khaki, and blue with little flowers. It came with the comforter, shams, skirt, and 3 decorative pillows!

Since our room before was maroon and green we had to change a few things in our room along with the bedset. So, I went to Robert's and found the square frame in the middle of the wall here. It was half off and the perfect colors! Then I replaced one of our candles with a cute blue one from tai pan, and I got another little frame from Robert's that was also half off! So, we redecorated our bedroom for under $100!!!

Above our window I have the word "LOVE" in wooden block letters. I painted them maroon for our bedroom before, and needed to change them for our new colors. So, instead of painting them I decided to cover them with scrapbook paper. It is a little difficult to see in this pic, but if you double click on it you should be able to enlarge it. Each paper is blue and brown colors with flowers, and then I added some extra flowers and ribbon to each one. They match my bedset perfectly!

So, I had a great birthday, and I am really excited for our new bedroom!

Christmas!!!!

2010-01-07T19:58:00.002-07:00

Christmas this year was super fun! Boulter Christmas party, with yummy food, the white elephant pass around, the nativity, and lots of crazy kids! I'm so glad we continue this tradition with my mom's side of the family! It is so great to see everyone, and I know my grandpa loves it!

Christmas with Christian's family was also a great time! We had it at his parent's house where we ha an excellent ham dinner with funeral potatoes, mmmm..... We watched a very cool "testimonies of the Prophets" dvd, and exchanged gifts. This year we decided to put together a little photo book for his parents and they loved it! It showed pictures of them when they were little and pictures of their wedding and it had family pictures of each kid. It was really fun putting together and I'm really glad they liked it. It was another great Thorpe Christmas!

On Christmas Eve we went to my mom's for dinner. After dinner we made and decorated gingerbread houses. The kids loved it! After that I handed out a new ornament for each person to write their name on it and hang it on Nana's tree. Nana gave each grandkid a present to open and they were new jammies! The kids put them on and then Nana read them a new Christmas story. This is a new tradition my mom started and after she reads them the story she gives them the book. It is so cute! the last thing we did was watch the claymation The Santa Claus. We got back to Jamie's house where we were sleeping and set out cookies for santa and went to bed.
Christmas morning we went downstairs and Santa had come!!! The kids opened their Santa gifts and we all opened the gifts in our stockings. Christian and I both got a Vikings shirt from Santa! After that we all exchanged gifts, ate a super yummy breakfast, and then the kids played with their toys and we took a nap.
Christmas night we went to Robyn's house for the Smith family party. We all mingled for a bit, took some pictures, and then had a great dinner. After dinner we played the white elephant game and there were some very hilarious gifts. We got the lamp from a Christmas Story!

So, Our Christmas was Excellent! And with Christmas gone it means we don't have to work as much which is always a plus! Now it is on to festivities for New Year's and my birthday!!! Hope you all had a great Christmas!!!
(pics coming soon)

Thanksgiving!!!

2010-01-07T19:17:00.004-07:00

Thanksgiving this year was with Christian's family. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays....OK, let me rephrase that, I love Thanksgiving, but only because of Black Friday Deals!!! Ever since I was 18 years old I would go shopping with my Mom and Sister on Black Friday normally sometime around 4am! I know some of you think I am crazy, but when you hear the deals you will understand!

So, this year we ate at Christian's sister's house. On our way there we drove past a house that still had the paper on their driveway. Well, anybody who actually looks at the ads starts early in the moring, so I convinced Christian to stop so I could take the newspaper. Yes, I guess technically I stole the paper, but I did knock on their door and was fully prepared to ask them if I could have it, but nobody answered....so I just took it! HAHA!

So, I spent most of my time at Tiff's house looking through the ads. And we ended up getting a great deal on a Nikon D3000! An awesome camera I have wanted forever! With an additional zoom lens, and Nikon carry bag! I was super excited! We were able to order it on BestBuy.com, without having to go to the store super early!

Our Thanksgiving dinner was excellent! Yummy rolls, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, yams, and of course turkey! We had two! John made a special one that apparently he cooked upside down! AMAZING! It was so moist! We were all super stuffed so we waited a bit to eat dessert and while we waited we listened to Adam, our nephew, play the piano. He is an amazing player! He even writes his own songs!

It was a great Thanksgiving, and at the end we took a family picture. Great shot Dev! Thanks for a great meal and a fabulous time!

SHOPPING!!!!

So, since I got my Office Manager position 4 years ago I haven't been able to go shopping on Black Friday because I have had to work at 5am. So, I check out the ads and then tell my mom what to get me, and hope that it happens. Well, this year my friends and I decided we wanted to go out at midnight. So, after we left Tiff's house I slept on the way home, and slept for about 4 hours until it was time to go shopping! Mind you, this meant I wouldn't get anymore sleep because I would have to go to work! Good part about that though, two of the girl's that came with me also had to work. So, I met up at the mall with Mandy, Ally, and Tiff. Mandy told us when she got there that Troy had told her of secret midnight deals at Walmart! so we headed there instead of standing in line at the mall. So, the three of us met up with Kaycee and Meghann and Ashlee at Walmart. When the clock struck midnight the associates ripped open the pallets of deals and we started filling our carts! We got DVD's for $2 and $7, pyrex dishes for $9, Video games for $10, and I got a new bedset for $35 bucks! (normally $80) We got everything we wanted and had a blast!

After Walmart, we headed to Toys R US, but it was an hour wait just to get into the store so we bagged that idea and headed to Fashion Place mall. It was about 2:00am at this point. We shopped around a little bit there, but decided we wanted to go back to Southtowne Mall. When we got to Southtowne we shopped in most of the stores, but there weren't any crazy good deals so just played around with the camera and tried on the ugliest things we could find! It was great! At around 3:30am we were all starving so we decided to go to Denny's for dinner/breakfast. After sitting for about 15 minutes we all realized how tired we really were. But oh well, we had to go to work!

That day at work was interesting, but a lot of fun! I'm just glad I had my friends there to be loopy with me!

Good Times!

2009-11-20T20:52:00.007-07:00

Weekend Off!

This weekend I was able to take some time off before the crazy rush. However, I didn't take it off for no reason. I'm sure most girls know why. It was for New Moon! Thursday night we were going to go to the movie at midnight, which meant there was no way I was going to work at 7 the next day! So, I took Friday off! Thursday and Sunday are my normal days off. Then since the Front End got Deparment of the Month I won a free day. So, I took Saturday! I was super excited to have 4 days off in a row!

We were all very excited for New Moon! We all read the books, and really liked the first movie. So one of our friend's company rented out a bunch of theaters so we said sure! Send out Cards is the company and because they rented out so many theatres The District gave her an advanced screening at 8:00. So we got to go at 8, instead of midnight! Jackpot! BTW I am on Team Jacob!

To start it off, my friend Kaycee and I wanted to do some shopping. We had Aeropostale coupons so we started there. I bought some cute clothes for Christmas gifts, and of course one for me! She bought some cute shirts too. It was fun shopping with her, and very funny! Apparently the employees that work there are drilled about customer service. We probably got asked if we needed help 25 times, seriously like every 3 minutes! "Can I find a size for you, Are you doing ok, are you still doing ok, are you finding everything ok, can I help you find anything, are you still finding everything ok." I mean I am all about service, but WOW! We couldn't help but laugh about it! However I ended up getting a killer deal! $69 worth of stuff for $27! SWEET!

After Aero we headed over to Ross. Didn't find very many cute clothes, but we found a ton of hideous clothes that we made fun of! Kaycee even found a bodysuit! Yikes! I ended up buying towels, and she got a cute picture frame. We met up with our friend Meghann at Target where we looked around for a bit, but then decided we were hungry and it was time for dinner. We headed over to Training Table, which was quite tasty! (always is) And we really enjoyed ourselves, and ate way too much! (always do)

Then it was time.......for the show! The three of us met up with Angela, Ashlee, and Leann, to watch New Moon. They set us up with little gift bags when we walked in. Also they were doing prizes! We didn't win any, but it was fun. There was only one preview and it was for a new movie that Robert Pattinson (Edward) is in. Looks good. It was pretty funny throughout the movie though, almost every scene all the girls would hoot and hollar. When they saw Edward, screams! When they saw Jacob, screams! There was even a scream for Bella's dad! It was hilarious, but made it that much more fun! So, we had a great time and YES! The movie was also great!

Kaycee and I were super excited after the show! Why? Because we had tickets for the show again the next day! This time it was during the day, at the Gateway. So, we met up with My mom Karen, Sister Jamie, cousins Stephanie and Shara, and friends Enoch and Christina at Applebees. The food was excellent! And it was fun getting together before the show to talk, especially talking about the movie! After lunch Marie met us at the theater to watch the movie again! And yes! The movie was just as great the second time!

So, I had a great couple of days. Really enjoyed the movie! And LOVED hanging out with all the awesome people! Thanks guys! Now I get to look forward to Saturday night! Game Night at the Thorpe home! We LOVE game nights! I will blog about that soon! But so far great weekend off!

Christmas is everywhere at the Thorpe home!

2009-11-09T19:33:00.009-07:00

I know, I know, many of you may think I'm crazy. But I am so obsessed with Christmas! Every year on November 1st the Christmas decorations go up! We have two Christmas trees, lights all over the front of the house, and lots of decorations all over the house. We LOVE decorating.

This is one of our decorations. It is cinnamon scented pine cones in a basket with holly berries, and some snowman decor. It sits on our kitchen counter.

We have some great Christmas traditions. Every year with Christian's family we do a name drawing, gift exchange. We get together for a good dinner, exchange gifts, and have a great time!

Here is our tree! It's funny every year my mom would have what we called a "pretty tree" and I always thought it was so boring without fun kid decorations. And would you look at that, now I have one!

We get together with my family every year too. It is with my Grandpa, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, second cousins, the whole shibang! There is about 40 people there, sounds crazy, but that is why it is so fun! We have the tradition of the kids doing the nativity, making and decorating cookies for Santa, each family singing, playing the piano, telling stories, whatever they choose to do, So cute to see the kids sing! Then we have a white elephant pass around story with some pretty funny gifts afterwards. Santa always comes and gives us all pajamas for us to wear on Christmas Eve. We eat, we mingle, but we always have a great time! I LOVE Christmas!

Here is Christian putting up the lights. Apparently he thinks they go in his mouth instead of on the house. For being scared of hieghts he sure does tough it out to get the lights hung for me! Luv ya dear! Thanks!

A new tradition we started last year was to go to Layton on Christmas Eve. Since we don't have kids yet, Christmas day can get very boring. So, we sleep over at my sister's house so we are there when her kids wake up to Santa! My parents come over in the morning so we can all open our gifts. And every year my step dad makes this AWESOME breakfast with eggs, potatoes, sausage, cheese, and a little piece of heaven!

Here is another decoration, new this year. Gotta love Tai Pan! I Love Josh Groban's song believe! what a better sying during Christmas than "we still believe"

So, I would say, ya! I love Christmas! I just love this time of the year. The people all buying gifts, the Christmas music! All of it! And, just to let you know we are not the only crazy ones, two other families on our street put their lights up the day after we did! That's how we do it on Gullane!!! Hopefully you and your family have a marvelous Christmas! Oh and I guess, Happy Thanksgiving as well! But really, it's just a day to eat lots of food.

Happy Halloween!!!

2009-11-02T20:14:00.008-07:00

Our October was full of Halloween festivities. It took us awhile to figure out what we wanted to dress up as, but this was definitely a good choice! I told Christian "We should be something together, and you should be the girl." So, this is what we came up with! With the help of my mom and her sewing machine, we were able to make his cheer top. We found his skirt and leggings at Walmart ,(thanks to Miley Cyrus) and the rest of his costume and mine we had at home. We got some great reactions out of it! We were pretty happy with our choice!

Our first extravaganza was with Christian's family. Bricker and Bridgett had us all over. We had our first costume party with them this year and it was GREAT! Tons of fun, great costumes and yummy chili! We had a couple games for the kids, and then the adults played Pictionary while the kids watched Corpse Bride.

Jeremy, Angela, and Kaitlyn

All the cute kids!

This is Christian's mom playing. Pictionary is a perfect party game! It was so fun! And hilarious to see what people would draw! It was a great party! We had a ton of fun, and laughed a bunch!

Every year at work we have a costume contest and a pot luck party! This year went just as great! We had some EXCELLENT food! Homemade chicken noodle soup from Meghann, Chili, rolls, salads, drinks, and lots of desserts! It was very tasty! This year a bunch of people dressed up! There were quite a few good ideas and really cute costumes. It is so great that we are able to have so much fun at work. Everybody seemed to have a great time and a great day!

On Halloween night we had a party to go to. Our friends Joe and Jessica hosted, and they always go all out! It was super fun! Wii zombie killing, dancing, TONS of great food, bobbing for apples, caramel apple making, mingling, and more great costumes! They set their house up with black lights, fog machines, halloween lights, and lots of other decor. It was really cool, and lots of fun!

Wayne and Garth

Baker's with a bun in the oven

Me and Kellie (Kip)

Nick and Richard, killing Zombies

So, Halloween was great fun! Now we are just super excited for Christmas!
**53 shopping days left!

Round 2!!!

2009-10-25T10:31:00.003-06:00

Well, in my previous post I talked about how we traded in one car for a newer nicer one with a better payment.
So, we thought why not do it again?!?! So we did just that! We were driving what we called, "The Crappy Car" a 2002 Hyundai Accent with 100,000 miles, back windows that were taped up because the gears broke so they couldn't roll down or up, but would frequently fall down. No guts, AT ALL. It struggled to go up the slightest hill. OK, so I guess we were lucky because we never had huge engine problems, but come on. That good news can only go so far. So, anyway this car lead us to go back to the dealership for round two!

Round two brought us back to the dealership for more test drives and more calculating from Doug Smith Dodge. We knew we were a little upside down in our crappy car, but they were so awesome and gave us way more than we thought we would get! We only had to pay $72 bucks to get out of our car! Awesome! So, they were able to get us into a car that would have been $8,900. We ended up getting it for just under $6,000! And again, lower payments than we had on our crappy car! Just kept getting better and better!

The car they found for us is a Dodge Stratus. 2005, only 61,000 miles, and definitely NOT a crappy car! We got lucky again! They gave us a great amount for our trade, lowered the amount of this car almost $3,000 bucks, and we were able to get a newer, less miles, WAY better car. We are super excited, and can't believe how lucky we are! Everything fell into place for us! We are so grateful! We have been blessed!

A trip to the car dealership!

2009-10-21T09:56:00.003-06:00

Well, it is sad day for the Thorpe Home, Our Dodge Caliber's lease is up! Which means on halloween we have to go give this car back to Doug Smith Dodge. This has been the best car we have ever had! It is just the basic model, but we loved it! It is spacious, awesome color, great gas mileage, and I love the hatchback trunk space! This car would be a perfect family car, could fit three car seats if I needed to (would most likely get a bigger car with three kids though) Plus, it is blue, for the cougars!!! All in all it has been the perfect car! I sound like I could be in a commercial huh! Ha!

Anyway~So, Last Thursday we headed down to Doug's to start the process of finding a new car. We only work with Doug, no other car dealerships EVER again! Too much hassle. Plus, since it is a family business we always get the Smith Family Hookup, very nice! So, for the last few days they have been searching for a new car for us. Yesterday, they found it!!!!

Our Pretty New Car!!!

That's right, we got another Caliber! Told ya we loved it! However this is a newer model, with tons of extras! It is an R/T, Sunroof, Leather seats, heated seats, alloy rims, chrome accents, cruise control, radio controls on steering wheel, ESP, which means Electronic Stability Program - is accident avoidance, power everything, night vision rear view mirror, Homelink - garage door opener built in to the car, subwoofer in back that pulls out for tailgating, chill zone drink cooler, low mileage, excellent exterior and interior. This car has everything! We love it! Best part of all! Our payments will be cheaper than with our other Caliber! We are super excited for this car and for the payment! Gotta love the Smith Family Hookup!

A bunch of fun stuff!

2009-10-19T11:10:00.008-06:00

Conference Weekend we had a blast!

We stayed at my sister's house in Layton (which is a tradition) Friday to Sunday. Saturday morning we woke up early to go to the kids soccer games. All three kids play, it was awesome to watch them! Taylor's team was awesome and scored 9 goals! Morgan played next and it was so cute to watch this big clump of girls go after the ball and get it into this cute little goal. She NEVER stopped smiling! So cute! Kelby's game was last and he also did an awesome job! Jon is his coach and Jamie is the coach of the two girl's teams. I am glad we got a Saturday off for Conference and we were able to see the games!

Taylor is in Pink

Morgan was great at going to the ball!

After the games we went back to Jamie's to watch conference. It was a great session! Mandy came up too. She had to work Saturday morning, but was able to join us for the second session of conference! Saturday night we always have a girl's night while he boys go to Priesthood. We all bring a ton of food, pig out, play games, talk, laugh, and the kids all play. Unfotunately we played too hard and forgot to take pics, but it was a lot of fun! This year Rod Works had 50% off any one item, so we went there after the girl's night. We all got some really cute house decor.

Our Conference weekend, like always, was a ton of fun! I'm so glad we have this tradition and get to do it twice a year!

Ashlee is 21!

Our next fun outing was for one of my best friend's brithday!
Ashlee turned 21!!! So, we went to Chili's to celebrate! It was a ton of fun!
We got her a bunch of jewelry and some lotions from bath and body works. I think she ended up having a great brithday!

Me and Christian

Meghann and Carly

Ashlee and Jake

Company Party

We had a company party on Sunday, the 11th. We went up Millcreek Canyon and got a large picnic area. It was pot luck and we had a ton of great food! Our Store Manager has recently moved from Texas, so he wanted to show us what Texas BBQ was like. I am here to tell ya, AMAZING! He made Ribs and he seasoned them with barbeque sauce, brown sugar, and heaven! They were juicy, they practically fell off the bone! It was just Really yummy!

We also had a fire there which was awesome! I love sitting by the fire, especially with all of our friends from work just sitting there mingling! It was great! And the canyon was gorgeous! We had a great time laughing and talking with everybody in such a relaxing environment.

For most of the night Christian and I stole Scott, our store manager's, baby. He was so cute and wouldn't cry when we took him! We tried to get Scott to trade him for our turtle, but his wife said no. :(

This is all of us around the campfire, great shot of me Christian!

Austin and Kaycee, so cute!

Austin is 20!

Saturday night we went to Texas Roadhouse for a surprise birthday dinner for Austin! It was awesome becasue he was truly surprised! There was a bunch of us there waiting and I had been texting Kaycee and we got it all situated, told her where we were in the restaurant, and she brought him back! It was awesome to see the look on his face! Even better was the look on his face, that you see here, of him on the Saddle while they yelled to the entire place that it was his birthday! It was great! And oh man was the food amazing! We were all so stuffed! But it was a great night, and yes, I forgot to take pictures other than this one at the very end. haha! Oh well!

Great weekend Kickoff!

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We have not been back to the Bountiful Temple since we were endowed there almost 3 years ago. We were heading to Layton to stay for conference weekend so we planned to go to the Bountiful Temple with my family. My sister Jamie and her husband Jon met us there, as long as my mom and step dad Jeff. As we were walking in my sister said, "Hey do you guys wanna do sealings?" So we all said sure! Our Sealer was amazing. He shared so much with us while he went through it. I felt he spirit so strong. Plus, I have not done sealings with my family so it was so great to watch my parents and my sister completing a sealing. It was a great experience!

After the Temple we went to Mimi's Cafe for dinner. Unfortunately I did not take any pics, but we really enjoyed ourselves. Christian was extremely excited when he found out the served breakfast all day. HAHA It was great to catch up with the family and share the temple experience. It was the perfect start to our great conference weekend! Blog about that coming soon!

A night full of laughs!!!

2009-09-19T17:36:00.005-06:00

We were able to add a new Temple to our list! The Oquirrh Mountain Temple recently opened in Daybreak and we were eager to check it out! We had been wanting to go to the Temple with Natalie and John (My sis in law and bro in law) So, we set up a date. We met at their house and then headed over to the Temple and had plans to go to dinner afterward. It was great to catch up with them and awesome to share a temple session with them. At the Oquirrh Mtn Temple you have to make reservations, so we got it scheduled for 4:00pm. This temple was so gorgeous! It is so modernized. Dark woods in some rooms, really light wood in other rooms with really pretty white furniture and just amazing chandeliers. I really love going to new temples to see what they do differently. It was an excellent experience. One funny thing about our temple session, however. During the session Natalie's Veil fell off and they were really struggling to get it back on correctly. So, John started to snicker a little bit. Well, when you are not supposed to laugh it really just makes you laugh that much harder, so because he was laughing we all started laughing. Luckily I could control myself. The other three however, not so lucky. They all got the giggles and could barely control themselves. Luckily they were able to brush it off like coughs, but it was pretty funny to see three grown adults have a giggle fest. We ended our session and even with the giggle fest, it was a very spiritual very good session! And again, the temple was gorgeous!

When we were finished we headed over to Olive Garden for dinner. The food was excellent and we were able to have some great conversation! Of course we laughed more about the fact that they had a giggle fest, but we also talked about the great session, talked about work, and a bunch of other stuff. We had another funny thing at dinner. So, John and Christian ordered the all you can eat pasta, which means you can choose what you want. So, originally John ordered sausage on his pasta, but it came with meatballs. No big deal he will get sausage on his next round he said. So, the next round he orders sausage and Christian orders meatballs. Well, Johns came out with meatballs again and Christian's came out with nothing. So, we laughed about it and asked to get some sausage. About 4 minutes later a different Waiter came to our table with a side dish of food and said, "did somebody need some meatballs?" We all busted out laughing!!!! And said again, we actually needed sausage, but since Christian had ordered meatballs we kept those and waited for John's sausage for him. I know you are wondering, so Yes, he did finally get them, but wow! It was so funny! We couldn't help but laugh about everything that had happened!

It was an excellent night and we had such a great time laughing and talking! Plus, we were able to add to our Temple list! If you didn't know this before we are trying to get to as many temples as possible and would like to at least do all of the ones in Utah. We are getting closer! Our next one is going to be Draper!

John and Natalie

Me and Christian

Weird excitement!

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If you are a driver, you know that this picture pretty much sums up how we feel about road construction. However, I bet you have never gotten excited about road construction!

Well, if you live in Eagle Mountain or Saratoga you are ready to cheer with me!!! Seems funny to blog about this, but seriously we are excited!

Driving home today we go to experience Redwood Road as a 5 lane highway! Who knew it could be so amazing!!! I could pass the slow grandma drivers, the crazy speed demons could pass me instead of drive 5 feet from my car, best thing.....I didn't have to wait for anybody to turn left or right!!! Turn lanes are a wonderful thing!!! It actually came together on time, and we didn't have too many delays because of it. Well done Geneva Rock, well done!

So, yes you may be laughing at me right now for blogging about my excitement about road construction, but if you live out here, or drive out here frequently, you know why I am so happy! From Bangerter to the crossroads in Saratoga you have 5 lanes!!! And the rest of the construction is about 95% complete! Woohoo!!! Come visit!!!

A wonderful day off!!!

2009-09-12T21:50:00.008-06:00

"I bless you and Seal you for time and all eternity!"

The best phrase I have EVER heard!!! The day i got sealed to

Christian! You hear in movies, till death do you part, as long as you both shall live, etc. But no, we get... for time and all eternity!!! So, great! It doesn't get any longer than that!!! So, Christian and I decided we were going to go to the Temple Thursday. Since we hadn't done sealings in a long time we thought that we should. Then when we got to the temple, there sign was up asking for sealling proxies! Obviously the spirit was with us when we were deciding! I am so glad we did sealings! I mean I love doing endowment sessions, but you don't get to be with your husband at all. You just get to see him wink and smile at you from across the room. During the sealing you get to hold his hand and feel the spirit so strong for somebody else! the best part is when children are sealed to thier parents! I LOVE that part! So, we didn't get to add a new temple to our list, but I'm so glad we went and sososo glad we did sealings!

Since the football season has begun we have had BYU on the brain! And after that AWESOME game against Oklahoma where nobody thought BYU would win we have to sport some cougar blue!!!! We couldn't help but increase our BYU fan memorabilia! So, after the Temple we headed to the Byu Bookstore. I really wanted a BYU zip up hoodie, but couldn't find one that I really loved. And since I will be spending $45 bucks I definitely have to LOVE it! So, I decided that I would go back when it got a little colder and hopefully they will have more. We did however buy a window sticker for our red car and Christian got the 2009 shirt. Every year they have a $5 shirt and Christian always gets one. So, it was great fun! Christian of course wanted to buy EVERYTHING for our office, but that didn't happen. I told him when we finish our basement we can have a byu room. Or when we have a boy, whichever comes faster I guess. haha! So, we are super excited for BYU games! Another win today! Or should I say a blowout!!!! Check out this awesome pic of JJ Diluigi getting his second touchdown of the game!!! Our second game of the season we played Tullane and won 54 to 3!!!! Woot Woot!!! Go Cougars!!!

So, at the Thorpe home we are super big BYU fans! We are getting ready for the Florida State game next weekend! Keep your fingers crossed!!!

Our day off ended up being excellent! The Temple and BYU, what gets better than that?!?

MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-08-30T22:10:00.002-06:00

"Love! Above all things I believe in love! Love is a many splendid thing, Love, lifts you up where you belong, all you need is love." ~ Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge~ One of my favorite movies! I know many people may be saying, "Is she crazy" If you didn't like it the first time, watch it again. Fast forward or don't pay attention to the first 20 minutes and you will LOVE it! Now, that being said. I also love this saying! And for the longest time I agreed! Really all you need is love in life. But today I realized you need so much more. Well, maybe not more, but there is so much that goes into love, you need to make sure you have everything. Once it is all in place, you may love. At this moment, all you need is love!

My husband and I are in Primary, which means we have spiritual lessons, but mostly spend our time babysitting. don't get me wrong I LOVE my calling. But I have to tell you how much I look forward to the fifth Sundays!!! And today I NEEDED it. No, nothing in my life is terrible, I'm not seeking marriage counseling, but I needed a spiritual boost! Today was PERFECT!!! And wouldn't have been if my husband wasn't sitting beside me. So, today at our church we had the chance to hear from a licensed marriage counselor.

Aimee Francom is in our Ward and shared her secrets with us today in church. It was incredible! I love my husband! I feel very lucky to have him. But obviously nothing in life is perfect. But I thought, as I listened to Aimee today, We are in a great position. We don't do everything exactly as we should, but when she talked about compromise I realized, Hey! we do that! When she talked about sacrifice, again, I said hey! we do that! She explained how your marriage is about commitment. If you both have commitment, no marriage can fail! Below commitment she placed the words. Self Esteem and Communication. Self Esteem? I thought, that's interesting. But she made it so clear. If you don't love yourself, why would your spouse? Tell yourself, you are great! gorgeous! lovable! Etc. Love yourself! She told us to use "I Feel" statements instead of just getting angry. Which makes perfect sense. Saying"You are such a jerk." Gets nothing accomplished. But saying, "I feel like you think this football game is more important than helping me clean" works every time! She also told us to make sure we have quality time. It requires three things, No arguing, no kids, and no electronics. Spending time together does not mean going to a movie, unless on the way to the movie you are engaging in active conversation, with the radio OFF! There were so many things she talked about that inspired me!

After the lesson as Christian and I were walking to the car I asked him what he thought and he said, "I feel.......like that was a great lesson." HAHA! So great to know your husband was paying attention and "feels" the same way you do.

I didn't expect this post to be so long, but I had to explain how I felt about out our lesson today! I don't know what I would do without this Gospel. I am so grateful to have it in my life. I am so grateful to be a part of this wonderful ward, and to be able to live in this city where there are so many active members! I am so grateful to have a marriage that is wrapped around the Gospel. I know without the Lord's help we would fail!!!! I LOVE my husband and I am grateful for him and his sense of humor, his commitment to me, his constant compliments, and how he told me he will never go a day without telling me he loves me. 6 years later, He has never missed a beat.

If you feel like you might need a boost, let me know! Aimee is an amazing person and I know could help anybody! Thanks for reading! Enjoy the company of your spouse, do not take them for granted!

"To those who keep the covenant of marriage, god promises the fullness of his glory, eternal lives, eternal increase, exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom, and the fullness of joy."

Thorpe Family Luau!!!

2009-08-30T21:58:00.003-06:00

We had a GREAT Saturday night! We only get to see christian's family once a month, if that. But it is ALWAYS such a great night! We all live in different towns, have our own families, and busy schedules, but when we meet up it's as if we see each other everyday. We all get along so great and I can't tell you how much we laugh! I am so grateful to be a part of this awesome family!

Saturday, John and Natalie had planned a luau for the family. Unfortunately Mom and Dad could not make it, but the rest of the family was there, minus a few of thie kids. Natalie and John had put so much into this party it was excellent!!! She had everything set up outside with tiki torches, hawaiian decorations, Liei's for each of us, fun candles set in sand, fruit, lemonade, fun music, and her backyard was so pretty, and we had perfect weather!

We started the night with a bunch of games for the kids. Sack races, three legged races, a blind folded game where each of the kids had to try to get dressed in hawaiian outfits. So cute! After the game John started to cook up the meat while we watched Jim gaffigan's comedy show. It was hilarious!!! I think everyone enjoyed it!

For dinner They had made teriyaki chicken and beef, had some great rice, rolls, salad, and really tasty veggies. For dessert she had found these frozen treats inside the shells. For example, it was a pineapple slush inside a hallowed pineapple, an orange mango treat inside a hallowed orange, and a coconut treat inside a cocunt shell. It was awesome! And perfect for our theme!

We stayed outside while the kids played just talking for hours. We all ended up leaving around 11:00. It was so good to have such a great conversation! Normally we play games, which is fun, but just talking is great!

Thanks John and Nat!!! Thanks to Dev for always making sure we have great shots at every party and putting this collage together!!!

Another group date!

2009-08-23T17:04:00.003-06:00

We have been lucky enough to be hanging out with a bunch of our friends lately! This past week we had fun! Friday we had fun! And Saturday we decided to do it again!

Our friends form High School Dave and Sarah Martin asked us to come out with them and to come see Sarah in a play. So, last night after work we met up with them at Five Guys. Neither one of us had ever been there, but we heard it was such a good place to eat that we decided to try it out! We really enjoyed it! they have very decent pricing and really tasty burgers! they also have very good fries! It was great to catch up with them! If you ever get Dave and Christian together be prepared to laugh the hardest you have laughed in a very long time!!! They are both so hilarious! They had a great time together! After dinner we headed over to the play. Sarah had to be there early so we just hung out in the lobby talking and laughing and talking a laughin a whole lot more!!! My stomache still hurts from laughing at them!

The play was great! We also had another friend from high school in the play too! Both Sarah and Adam did an amazing job! It was the play Beauty and the Beast and all of the actors were great! Unfortunately all night I forgot to take pictures! But that's okay! It was another great group date! We made plans to have a game night sometime very soon! We don't get to hang out with them very often so it was great to catch up! and the laughs weren't too bad either!

Blind Date!!!

2009-08-23T16:51:00.004-06:00

As my previous post told you, we had some fun coming up! So, on Friday night we took Meg out for her first date! We set her up with our friend who used to work with us in the store, now he works at corporate, his name is Tim Jensen. It was a lot of fun and they both enjoyed themselves!

We went to Winger's for dinner. It was way good! So it was Christian and I, Meg and Tim, and our friends enoch and Christina met us there. We had great conversation, great food, and a great time! We decided after dinner we wanted to play games, but Enoch and Christina wanted to see Meghann's new place so we went back to her house to show them and to grab our other car. After they saw her place we headed to Enoch and Christina's to play games and eat yummy ice cream!!!

When we got to their place we wanted a tour! So, they walked us around thier house and showed us. it is a gorgeous home and has been decorated so cute by Christina! They live behind Cabela's, but up on the mountain side so thier view is amazing!!!

We started out playing Apples to Apples then moved into the living room to play spoons. Which I am TERIBLE at I came to realize! I think i got a spoon twice out of about 20 rounds! It was hilarious! We had a great time! In the middle of games we stopped to eat some tasty ice cream with every topping imaginable!

During the games I took some pics, but failed to get any of myself. Oh well!

Christian being his normal goofy self with Meg

Enoch and Christina

Tim and Meghann

After spoons we all kindof just started talking. We talked a lot about work, which was a good thing, it was actually fun talk! We ended up staying there until almost 1am talking! It was great fun though! I think Tim and Meg had a good time, but who knows maybe neither one of them will never speak to me again!

Another fun Week!!!

2009-08-20T22:02:00.010-06:00

This week I am not on a vacation, but we had a lot of fun!

On Our day off, Christian and I had a bunch of errands to run, but managed to squeeze some fun in as well! We went to Tahnksgiving Point and fed the animals. We are weird I know, but this is one of our favorite activities! Go to ponds and feed the ducks, Feed fish, or feed a bunch of animals!! If you have never been to Farm Country I suggest going! it is only $3 bucks and you get to pet, feed, and even ride on real animals!

Note to self: Do not get too close to the animals you are feeding. This goat started eating my earring!!! Yikes!

Keys on Main

On Saturday night we went to Key on Main! When we went to Vegas we went to a piano bar and have been wanting to go again since! So, our friend Sarah from work was leaving and so we decided to throw her a going away party there! It was so much fun! Besides paying 10 bucks for 2 diet cokes, It was awesome! (no free refills!) It was Me, Christian, Meg, Sarah and her friend, Mandy, and Zack and his wife. We had a great time singing along to "B B B Benny and the Jets" "Sweet caroline" "Hotel California" and MANY other great ones! It was also hilarious to see the crazy drunk people dance!!! We will definitely go back! We obvioulsy don't drink, but it was just fun to hang out with friends and sing along to fun songs!

Sarah and her friend

Christian rocking out and below Zack and Tori

Sexy chicas, and my $10

diet coke!

On Tuesday we all met up in Bountiful to celebrate my Mom's birthday!!! We went to Texas roadhouse which we had never been to and it was super tasty! And we had great service! the best part was when they made my mom sit on a saddle to sing her happy birthday! They were so loud and got the entire restaurants attention, exactly what my mom hates!!! It was perfect! I'm glad we were all able to get together to celebrate!

So, we have been having an excellent time! and only have more fun times planned ahead! Tomorrow we are taking our friend Meghann on her first date since her divorce! Then Saturday we get to play with our friends Dave and Sarah Martin and see Sarah in her play Beauty and the Beast! We are excited! Things are going great for us! Work is great, life is great!

More fun!

2009-08-20T21:54:00.006-06:00

After Island Park I went back to hang out at my sister's house! We just hung out and relaxed on Wednesday night. We watched Fast and Furious, which was better than I thought it was! The next day We went to the Pool in Clearfield! It was pretty cool! It had a slide, whirlpool, kiddie area, and then outside there was a pirate ship with another slide. I had a really good time playing with Jamie and the kids and getting a little bit of sun!

The cute kids!

Owen LOVED going down the slide!

That night Owen gave a new meaning to the word "Flower Child"

Jamie was making bread and Owen decided he needed to help her with the flour! He got it all over him and get reaching in the bag for more!! It was hilarious!

The next day Jamie had a day Camp to go to with Taylor so I stayed home with the rest of the kids. I realized what it will be like when I have a baby, going to bed at midnight and waking up with Owen at 6:30! Yikes! It was fun though! my Mom came over at 9:00 to help out a little bit and then we went to her house around 11:00. I wanted my hair colored again so while the kids were playing with their friends she did my hair!

It was a GREAT vacation! Boating, hanging with the family, Island park, and then more playing with kids! the only thing that would have made it better was if Christian was there too! But that's ok, next time for sure! Now it is back to the daily grind! Back to work! Back to Life, Back to reality! Ugh!

Island Park, Idaho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-08-20T21:33:00.013-06:00

Meghann's family invited me to come along with them to Island Park to go to their cabin and hang out and play! I was so excited!!! Our car ride went very well, and was very fun!!!

So, their cabin was gorgeous!!! Huge wood beams allover the house! A gorgeous view out the front back and sides of the entire cabin! Plus, I got my own room downstairs with my own bathroom! They were very nice to me! So, the first night we just relaxed, watched a movie, and hung out. And I went to bed in my very cold room! (This is a good thing for those of you thinking it's bad! I LOVE to sleep in the cold because then I can cuddle in the blankets, it was heaven!)

The next day we woke up to delicious blueberry pancakes!!! Thanks Lori! Lori needed something to make syrup so Meg and I took the Razor to the store it was super fun! It's like a 4 wheeler, and we took this little back path, just for ATV's. I loved it! At the store we decided to play the Idaho Lottery!!! HAHA which basically means we put in a quarter and ripped of the tabs to see if we won! We both won a quarter! The most you could have won was $4o bucks!!! haha

After breakfast they decided they wanted to go down to the river and feed the fish and the birds. It was fun!

We even saw a muskrat!

Then her dad had the idea to go get a raft and float down the river. It was awesome! It was such a pretty view! We saw birds and fish and a bunch of other animals! Halfway down the river there was a rope swing, so Carter and Meghann swung on it, but Meg was too chicken to actually jump in the water, but I don't blame her!!! The water was super cold!!! So, we had fun! I think her boys really enjoyed it!

We saw a moose going down the river! It was awesome!

After rafting we stopped at Subway for lunch which was great because we were all starving!!! then we went back to the cabin to shower and relax a bit. Brett (Meghann's Dad) had gotten a new grill for Christmas and wanted to use it so that night we had really yummy hot dog shaped Hamburgers (we only had hot dog buns) While we were waiting for dinner Meg and I decided to go for a ride on the Razor, and this time she let me drive!!! It was awesome! We went down this trail that was really cool, pretty bumpy, but fun! We thought we were having a great time until Meg decided to blurt out, "Ya know, there could be bears all over the place out here!" Thanks a lot Meg!!! But we realized it was time to head back anyway when we saw this Mountain in front of us......

Okay, so the picture doesn't do it justice, but I swear it was huge!

So, I turned it around and we headed back. But it was way fun to drive it!

Our next day there we had another delicious breakfast this time made by Brett and his new grill! Hash browns, bacon, and eggs! Very tasty!

That day we were heading into West Yellowstone. We drove about a half hour into Yellowstone to see if we could see some animals, but only ended up seeing a bunch of Elk. But it was really pretty! So, we went back to the town and got some really yummy Ice Cream and walked around the shops a bit. the town is so cute, it is such a small town feeling! I loved it!

It is such a cute town! Super small town vibe, and lots of cute little shops! They said in the wintertime you only see snowmobiles, no cars!

That night Lori made an amazing dutch oven dinner and peach cobbler! I think dutch Oven cooking is my favorite type of cooking ever!!! and she did a great job!!! After dinner we sat out on the porch for about 2 hours eating our cobbler and just talking. It was perfect weather and such a pretty view I couldn't get myself to go inside!

That night we were pretty wiped so we just went to bed after talking on the porch. the next day was our drive home. I had an awesome time in Island Park and I am so so so glad I went! We are planning a trip there in September or October and this time with Christian!!! We can't wait!!

Boating fun!!!

2009-08-20T21:07:00.011-06:00

A few weeks ago I packed a bag, kissed my husband goodbye and headed for Layton. Yes, unfortunately this vacation would happen without him! But it would be ok! We are planning one for us together soon!

So, Saturday morning very early I drove to my cousin's house to ride withe her to the lake. It was fun to catch up with her on the way there! This boating trip was probably the funnest trip we have had in a long time!!! There were a ton of us there!!! Me, My sister's whole family, my Mom and Jeff, Cody and his friend Shannon, My Grandpa, My aunt Linda and Frank, my Aunt Brenda, and my cousin Shara and her daughter. It was so much fun!!! We were all able to lounge around up on the grassy area, and we were all able to have a great time on the boat!!! My mom has a water banana, a tube, skis, and a wake board! My Sister, Cousin, and I went on the banana and it was just like we were all little kids again! We could NOT stop laughing!!! I am so glad we were all able to go! my Grandpa LOVED watching us and watching their kids act like we all used to! I wish we could go boating more often, but obviously when you get older and everybody has jobs it is difficult to work it around every one's schedules! But maybe once more this year we will get to go!

Cody on the tube with me, Jamie, and Shara on the banana

My aunt Linda and Me

Cody and Shannon

The cute girlies!

Thanks for the awesome time Mom and Jeff!!!

Sunday I went to church with my sister and her family, and then Meghann came to pick me up! We were off for Island Park for a few days!!! It was a very fun trip! We talked a ton and rocked out to Carrie Underwood, Rent, and a mix of a bunch of different stuff. We realized we really don't sound like the artist when we sing, but hey it's fun! the drive takes about 3 and half hours, but it went by so fast because it was so much fun! We stopped in Idaho Falls to fill up and ate at Olive Garden where we had a VERY interesting Waiter. (when Meghann's phone rang, he knew it was the Spice Girl's, enough said!)

We had a very fun ride that included great tunes, great snacks, and two crazy chicas! This is meg with Hot tamale vampire teeth! And this is a pic getting back on the freeway in Idaho....

Does it get any better than this road trip?

(click on this pic to make it bigger, It says Roberts Butt!!! We were laughing so hard at this sign!!!)
We had a great drive!

So, we met up with her parent's and her boys at the cabin to begin our super fun vacation...

Girl's Night!

2009-07-26T16:51:00.005-06:00

Who would have thought, pizza, Friends DVDs, a couch, snacks, and a camera could be so much fun!!!

Last night we had an impromptu girl's night at Meghann's new condo. Meg, Me, Ashlee, and Kaycee all decided we wanted to hang out! So glad we did too!!! I have not laughed that hard in a long time! I felt like Junior High all over again, but in a good way. When you can be really stupid and not care what somebody thinks of you! Where you and your friends laugh at everything! Where taking goofy pics is the funnest activity EVER!!!

Yes, we are all adults. Yes I realize I am 24 years old, but I also realize we can still have fun!

We decided after counting to 3 you had to make a face for the picture.

Kaycee's 3 second shot

Meghann's 3 second shot

My 3 second shot

Ashlee's 3 second shot

Ash and Meg

We had an awesome time! We all love Friends so we were laughing a lot at that, but we were all so tired that everything was super funny! We were all pretty crazy, but that just made it more fun! I can't wait to do it again!

July 24th Kassing Style!

2009-07-26T16:31:00.005-06:00

On the night of Pioneer Day Meghann's Mom had invited us over to her house for a barbecue and fireworks! We have basically been adopted into her family! We love it! Her brothers and their wives are so nice and so accepting! Also, they all have very cute kids! We had a very yummy barbecue while we talked, hung out, played with the kids, and stuffed our faces! Christian and i loved the Baby Drew liked us! He kept reaching for Christian during the fireworks and Christian was having a blast!

The Kassing Family is super fun and we had a great time talking and laughing with them. We played with the kids too! Meghann and I pushed Gunner and Marin on the swings for a little bit. Gunner and I played rockEm SockEm robots! We watched some funny Utube videos, and then after dinner we went to the front yard to watch the guys light fireworks.

Angela, Meghann, and Kristin and her baby Drew

The kids enjoyed sitting and watching the fireworks for about 20 minutes and then played with cars, blankets, ate a ton of cookies, and ran around! But the adults were enjoying them! They had a great set of fireworks! And even though Meghann's brother probably doesn't have any hair left on his arm I think they enjoyed lighting them!

I love this pic of Sammy and Halle playing in the blanket!

Overall our 24th was excellent! The parade was great! The barbecue was great! The company was great and the fireworks show to end the night was great! Hope you all had a great one! Thanks to all who shared it with us!

Pioneer Day!

2009-07-26T15:51:00.011-06:00

Christian and I have made a tradition for Pioneer day! Every year for the past 3 years we have slept over on the parade route for the 24th! We have had a blast doing it! We have the same spot every year, and enjoy ourselves every year!

This year we headed down around 5:30. We laid our blankets down on our spot and then headed to dinner. We went to the Gateway and ate at the Skybox which is very delicious! After dinner we walked around Gateway for about an hour, Christian got a Minnesota Vikings towel and I got a cute tank top from Old Navy.

In previous years they have had an Arts Festival going on at Gallivan Plaza. They have booths, music, and at the end a big fireworks display. Well this year they have started "Twilight Concert Series" (no not the book) And apparently it is HUGE!!! There were so many people there you could barely walk! We decided we would chek it out anyway, so we bobbed and weaved through the crowd, checked out a couple booths, got some snowies, listened to the music a little bit and decided we were done! Worst part! they weren't even going to do fireworks! Super sad day! So, we just decided to head back to our spot!

We got our stuff all set up and ready for the night. We brought games, movies, and a bunch of snacks so we were set! We decided to play Scrabble first, then we watched "Yes Man" on our Laptop. By the end of the movie it was about 1:00am so we decided to try to sleep. Good Luck! When there are a million people walking back and forth talking, music playing form the break dancers across the street, and the "glowstick salesman" yelling every 2 minutes it becomes very difficult to sleep!

Christian slept for about a half an hour and then was wide awake the rest of the night! I slept for about 2 hours. So we ended up taking silly pics to pass the time.

At 5:00am we were starving so we walked down to burger King to get breakfast and a very large diet coke to keep us awake! After Breakfast we set up our chairs on the parade route and watched the 10k runners go past! (I'm still baffled that people run for fun!) It is cool to see the age groups though! Some little kids probably around 10 years ran it, Old men and women probably in thier 70's were running it, and this guy even ran pushing his kids through the race! Pretty cool to see!

Mandy and Troy and Meghann and her boys, and Ashlee all came to meet up with us to watch the parade! Meghann's boys had never been to a parade before! (I know deprived kids huh!) haha! They enjoyed it! Call me crazy but for some reason I really enjoy parades! The floats, the bands, the crazy bike riders, The cops with mustaches on motorcycles, the heat, and especially the pooper scoopers! It is just so much fun! I can't wait to continue this tradition with my kids! I'm glad our friends were able to join us this year! I think the kids really liked it, even though halfway through they both asked to leave! guess everybody isn't as obsessed as me! Oh well!

There were some great floats this year! There were some cool cowgirls standing on top of horses instead of riding them.

Christian really liked the bagpipe marching band.

And my favorite!!! The "Utah Original Float" that included Fry Sauce!!!
I really enjoy our tradition! Even though you don't get much sleep it is super fun! And who doesn't like to watch the parade?!?

Fun Fun Fun!!!

2009-07-26T15:21:00.007-06:00

Tuesday, July 21st was Owen's 1st birthday! So, after work we headed to Layton for his birthday party. His party was at my mom's house and it was our family there to celebrate! Jamie had made him a cake, he had a bunch of gifts to open and he was super excited!

Jamie had made Owen a car cake. owen is a little obsessed with cars and balls. He knows how to drive a car and makes the sound as he does it. So, what better cake than a car cake! Our family tradition is for the first birthday we let them "dig in" Her other 3 kids had to be forced to grab it because of the wierd texture. But Owen wasn't scared! He dug right in and got very messy!

For his gift we bought him a very cute outfit with camo pants and a yellow shirt with a monkey on the front! Plus, we got him a car with four little animals in it that can come out and when you press them down it plays a song! He wouldn't leave it alone! He just wanted to keep pushing it around it was super cute!

After the party Taylor had a play performance. She has been in a summer play camp and they were performing Hairspray! It was super cute and you could tell she LOVED being up on stage! I don't think she stopped smiling once! She did an excellent job!

That night we slept over at my mom's place and jon decided to go rent the movie Push. Don' waste your time! HAHA I fell asleep about 20 minutes into it, and apparently I didn't miss much! My family said it was a pretty weird movie, way too many twists and turns to follow! But it was fun to hang out with them and sleep over!

The next day we all went to the Hogle Zoo! We LOVE going there! My sister has a large family pass so we go quite a bit! the kids love watching the brid show, Owen LOVES the bears, and I just love seeing all the animals and watching them play. Especially the monkeys! There was a new baby monkey and it was so crazy to watch this little thing swing from his tail!

The Eagle in front of the flag is a cool shot!

We also enjoyed seeing the rhinos! They were so close to the window that we were able to get some great shots!

Christian got a great picture of the Red panda

We had an excellent time hanging out with the family, going to the zoo, and celebrating Owen's birthday! I still can't believe he grew up that fast!!! He is super cute and fun! We really enjoyed ourselves and can't wait to hang out again!

Fun Stuff!!!

2009-07-19T20:00:00.005-06:00

On Wednesday night I drove to Layton to spend some time with my family. Wednesday night Jamie and Jon were on a date so my mom was tending. I helped her out and we decided we would go to Arctic Circle for dinner. They kids like their food and there is a play place. After dinner we let the kids play for a little bit and I was talking owen on the slides and he would go up and down the stairs and just LOVED the tunnel! He could hear his echo so he would scream and then laugh! It was super cute! So, we hung out with them for a little while and then met up with Jamie and Jon. My brother had a soccer game that night which we were going to go watch, however he thought it would be a good idea if Jamie and I played with him! So we did! It was so fun! It made me miss it really bad!!! I played soccer for 15 years of my life!!! I want to get back into it! However, the feeling of me legs the next couple days made me realize I am NOT 18 anymore! So, we went back to Jamie's and crashed! Well, we crashed on the couch, but Jamie and I stayed up talking until 2am! It was great!

The next day we went to my mom's house so she could color my hair. I decided I wanted to go dark all over! Which I am loving! So, after mine she was cutting Owen's hair, which by the pic you can tell he was not too pleased about!

While we were doing our hair, the girl's were out jumping on the tramp over the sprinkler in their swimming suits! it was so cute and they were laughing so hard that I had to get a pic! they play so well together!

After we got ready we took the kids to the castle park in kaysville, I wish I got a pic of the whole park because it is awesome! Tons of things to do! So, while we were there we played Hide and seek! We also went for a little walk down by the creek. It was super hot so we didn't stay too long, but the kids had fun!

And again, Owen loved playing!

That night My mom wanted to take just the girl's to get pampered! So, we went and got pedicures! it felt so great! it was nice to just relax and get a massage, talk with the girl's, and get our toe nails super cute for summer!

It was really nice of my mom to take us out to do that! We went to Fran Bown which is now a Miranella school which means they have way more money and they are making it look really nice inside! It was fun! We can't wait to do it again! ILOVE girl's nights!!!

Here is the pic of our cute toes! We all loved getting a pedicure! My mom and I got pink and jamie got a pinkish orange color. They were all really cute and bright! plus we all got white flowers on them!

Afterwards we went and got a rainbow at pace's. Which is a slushie with ice cream and fresh strawberries! Super yummy!

The next day I had to go to work. :( It was ok though! We had a great couple of days! Plus we get to go back there on Tuesday for Owen's birhtday party and Taylor's play performance! I can't beleive Owen is one already!!!

Then on Wednesday night we get to sleepover at the parade route! So I will soon have a bunch to blog about!

UFC 100!!!

2009-07-12T14:25:00.005-06:00

Last night we had a bunch of friends come over for the UFC fight! It was great fun! The girl's are obviously not huge fans, but it was great fun to hang out and watch the guys kill each other!! HAHA!

We had a bunch of food, got Little Caesers and all pitched in for the pay per view fight! I can't believe how these guys fight! If they get a a punch in it is so hard! They are bleeding, their faces get swollen! Just craziness! but fun to watch! HAHA!

We had a bunch of people form work, plus Mandy and Troy came over, and Meghann brought her boys! I ended playing with Gunner for a lot of the night! He is so stinkin cute! We played Mr Mouth, which is a game where you flip flies into the frogs mouth. then he said he wanted to play chess, I got the board out, and we started getting the pieces out. I had probably 5 out and he stood up and said, i don't wanna play this anymore and walked away! :( It was funny because everybody in the room heard him and they were all laughing at me! Sad day! So he decided to sit with Carter an stuff his face with Swedish Fish.

Meghann and Me!

We ended having a great time! I'm glad everybody was able to come over! We will definitely do it again!

HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY!!!

2009-07-05T15:02:00.009-06:00

July is one of my favorite months! I love fireworks and I LOVE parades! I LOVE that living in Utah we get to celebrate twice!!! I LOVE getting together for barbecues with family and friends! i LOVE that the weather is nice!!! I LOVE walking outside and seeing that American flag waving in my yard each holiday! I LOVE that the boyscouts put them up and take them down for me! (If only Christmas lights were that easy!)

I LOVE America!!!

Today started out to be a terrible Fourth of July for me!!! Instead of going to work I stayed home throwing up. (and just to stop your thought process right there.....NO I am not pregnant) So, Christian went to work while I stayed hom e and tried to sleep. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, luckily! I started feeling better around 3 or 4. So, I was able to actually get out and enjoy myself. I am NOT a homebody so I had to get out of the house! Since my friends from work were having a relaxing barbecue I decided I would be ok to go. Plus I really just wanted to get out.

So, we got dressed and Christian drove us to Ashlee's place! I'm really glad I went! I ended up havign a great time! Very chill, very low key, but very fun! We had a little barbecue, hung out, talked, and listened to music. After dinner Ashlee pulled out twister! You will see by the pics below that they had a great time! I was the designated spinner since I didn't want to test my luck! After Twister we watched the fireworks. Ashlee's backyard has an amazing view so we were able to see a bunch of different shows! Plus her brother was lighting some of his own.

Being silly with the camera!!! Got a little out of control!!!

Me, Ashlee, and Meghann

Christian and Jake

Meghann, Ashlee, and Landon(who looks a little freaked out!!!)

Twister Fun!!!

So, in the end my fourth was great fun! Nothing crazy, just chillin with friends! It was great! Now I can't wait for the 24th!!! We sleep over on the parade route downtown every year!!! so excited for that!

Hope everybody had a great Independance day!!!

Good times!!!

2009-07-05T14:15:00.007-06:00

On Wednesday night Jamie, jon and the kids came to stay with us! Her kids had been wanting to go to the Lehi pool for awhile, so we decided to go! I also invited Meghann and her boys and their friend Danny came! It was great to get her kids with Jamie's kids they got along great!

We started by all meeting at Wendy's for dinner where the kids sat at their own table and really enjoyed themselves! After dinner we headed over to the pool in a TERRIBLE rain storm. Good thing the pool is inside!

The Legacy Center is really cool! I had never been and it was SO fun! There are a ton of things to do! There is a little kid area with two little slides, and little bouncy seats for babies in the water! Then there is a large pool, but it is only 3 feet so the kids could touch all over. There is a lazy river, with a small lazy river in the middle, there is a very tall, very large, and very dark tunnel slide that goes from the inside of the building winds around the outside and then back to the pool on the inside! (so cool) Then there is a large play area with lots of water falls, tunnels, slides, steps, and a huge bucket of water that dumps when it gets full. It was a very cool place and the kids loved it! Christian and I had a great time!

After the pool we said goodbye to Meg and the kids and headed back to our house. We hung out for a little bit and then went outside to do sparklers! It was fun! The next morning we went to IHOP for breakfast and it was very tasty! On the way back home we stoppped at a park to let the kids play. We all jumped on the swings for a bit and just hung out on the grass. On the way back home from the park we stopped to get snowies! Very yummy! We hung out at our house for a little bit outside, playing mario kart, and eating some snacks, then it was time for them to leave. It was great to have them over!!! I LOVE polaying with the kids and jamie and I don't get to see each other very often so it is always good to catch up!

For some reason Christian and I were so tired we took a nap for a couple hours. When I woke up I got a voicemail from Meghann saying she was headed to Training Table cuz it was half price cheese fries day! Who can pass that up?!? Not us! So we met Meghann there and the Leann and her family also met us there. It was a great meal, but the place was super packed!!!

Christian and I had talked about going to see a movie.

So after Training Table Christian and I went to see Transformers! Very good movie. We liked the first one better, but this was still very good!

So, it was a great day! A great couple of days! Unfortunately Jamie took a TON of pics but her camera or computer wouldn't let her download them, so this is all you get. But just imagine how much fun we had! And if you haven't been to the Lehi Pool you should go!

Updates!!!

2009-06-28T20:31:00.002-06:00

So, I am constantly telling all of you bloggers, "time to update," You need to blog more," "tell me More about your life," Etc, Etc, Etc. and here I am now realizing how updating can sometimes become impossible! I LOVE blogging, but with a full time job, a part time job, and all the fun stuff in between, I very rarely have time to sit down and blog. So, I do apologize! Hopefully I will be able to blog more often as soon as i get this very long post out of the way! I have been checking all the blogs, just haven't updated mine. Seems like everybody has had a good summer so far! If the rain would go away, I think it would be better! But hey, what are ya going to do!
So, since I last blogged we have had a bunch of fun stuff go on! Here ya go! Sorry, no pics. Just imagine everything k!

Christian and I got an elliptical with our tax return money. It took awhile to pick it out since it is a pretty hefty investment we wanted to make sure a pick a good one! So, we bought the same one my mom has. It is a Nordic Track 800. Very cool! Very smooth! and some days it kicks my butt!!! We have both been wanting to lose weight for awhile now. Since we don't have time to have a full workout and don't EVER want to pay to go to the gym, this was the perfect solution. If we come home from work and want to watch some tv, we jump on the elliptical, if we have a "show" to watch we jump on the elliptical while we watch it, if we are bored we jump on the elliptical. I will NEVER regret buying it instead of a gym pass! We can work out whenever we want, don't have to drive somewhere to do it, and can still watch the shows we want or listen to the music we want! If you are wanting to lose weight this is how to do it! (yes, I know i could be in a commercial! maybe after i lose the weight!)

Pampered Chef is still going strong. I am still loving it! I have had 4 shows so far and they have all turned out great! I am still learning, but I really am having fun! I am really looking forward to doing this as a stay at home mom and know I can make good money while I have a blast! I can't wait! It is crazy how easy it all is. Getting sales, getting bookings, it all falls into place you really don't even have to try! I LOVE it! A HUGE thank you goes out to Jamie, my sister for getting me started! (and yes, I realize I could do a commercial about this as well!)

We have also had a GREAT time hanging out with friends and family!!! We have had a bunch or dinner dates, game nights, poker nights, and girls nights! Each of them fun!

We went out with Mandy and Troy to Red Robin for some excellent food and LOTS of laughter! then back to their house for the movie "Bedtime Stories."

We hung out with Meghann and her boys, Carter and Gunner a couple times going to Chick fila, Training Table, and playing the Wii. Also, had a great barbecue with her whole family! Got to meet her grandparents, who were super nice and funny! We LOVE playing at Meghann's house! I LOVE that her kids know us now so we can have fun! they are no longer shy! And I love that Meghann can't put Gunner to bed anymore without him saying "Come on Maxxie!"

I have been spending a bunch of time with my friends from work! Meghann, Ashlee, Kaycee, and I have gone out a bunch! We went shopping and to dinner at, where else, Training Table. We were getting Meghann a cute new outfit for her Divorce Party! That's right it is final and we HAD to celebrate! So, a bunch of us from work, plus Meghann's friends went to Hoppers one night to celebrate! it was great fun! Her friend even had a cake made for her that said Happy divorce! it was awesome! And Meghann looked HOTT in her new outfit! We all had a ton of fun!
We have also been getting together for movie nights, and game nights with our friends form work! We went to see The proposal as a girl's night and it was hilarious! Then we went to Winger's and it was very tasty!

And the most recent event, We went to Layton to spend time with my mom who had just had surgery. We had a barbecue with her, Jeff, Cody, Jamie, Jon, and their kids. It was great to see them! After dinner we played In a pickle! a super fun game!!! The next day we had plans to go to Lagoon with Christian's family. Christian had to work in the morning so I took my mom to the mall so she could get out of the house. It was great to spend time with her! then at 12:30 I met Christian at Lagoon. We had SO much fun!!! Christian's family all went for Dayton's birthday! We hadn't been there for about 6 years so it was great to go! Especially with his family! We all had a great time! I was shocked at the rides Christian went on. He is normally afraid, but he went on the White roller coaster, the spider, the bat, and the rocket!!! It was awesome! I am a HUGE thrill seeker and was super excited about Wicked! The line was long, but I went on it twice! It was great to have his sister's family there to go on the "scary" rides with me! We had an excellent time and can't wait to go again!

Well, that is my May and June all wrapped up! Sorry there weren't any pics! Hopefully I will be able to jump back on the bloggin train! In July we have some fun stuff planned! A cabin trip with friends from work, sleepover/camp out on the 24th of July parade route, Harry Potter, camping trip, boating trip, and I'm sure a bunch of game nights and girl nights will be thrown in the mix!

Hope you are all having an excellent summer so far!

PAMPERED CHEF!!!

2009-05-17T16:15:00.002-06:00

Well, a couple weeks down since I have joined Pampered Chef. So far I am LOVING IT!!! I hosted a party for my sister which made me want to start in the beginning. My first party was hosted by my best friend Mandy. She did a great job getting people together, handing out catalogs, and getting them back! She had an amazing $300 show! we made a delicious Aloha Pizza. (if you want the recipe let me know) She got some excellent discounts, free stuff, and a half price item!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

My next party I am hosting for my ward!

So, anybody who lives in Eagle Mountain is welcome!!!!

Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30!!!!!

The next party after that is held by another best friend Meghann! she is having hers on Thursday!

Thank you to each of you! I am very grateful for your help!

My hope is to get one person from each show to sign up to have another show! and so on and so forth. I am super excited about this new business and hope that down the road it will be a good second income so I can stay home with my children!

The best part about this plan is that the only thing I HAVE to do, is nothing! There is no specific sales goal you have to meet each month. You work at your own pace, your own time, WHENEVER YOU WANT!!! If you have ever wanted a little extra shopping money, vacation money, or need to pay off credit card bills this is definitely the way to go!

Plus! if you LOVE Pampered Chef, like I did. I am sure you would LOVE to get their products at a discount, half price, or even FREE!!! All you have to do is get your friends and family together for a night of GREAT food and fun! Let me know if you are interested!!!

Hope to see you all at one of the next shows!!! THANKS!!!

You think you know, but you could be wrong!!!

2009-04-26T11:56:00.004-06:00

This is all about my husband. My answers and then his answers! Try it out yourself. Comment on mine, and then post it on yours and I will do the same! Have fun!

1. He's sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?

I Said: NFL Network or Xbox 360

He Said: Oblivion (xbox game)

2. You're out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?

I Said: Italian

He Said: Italian

3. What's one food he doesn't like?

I Said: HAHA it will be faster to name what he likes ~ bacon cheeseburgers

He Said: HA! Uh, mexican food

4. You go out to eat and have a drink. His drink would be?

I Said: We only order water, if we are splerging diet coke

He Said: I always get water, but if not than diet pepsi or coke

5. Where did he go to high school?

I Said: Cottonwood, since we went together I better know!

He Said: Cottonwood High

6. What size shoe does he wear?

I Said: 9 or 10

He Said: 9 or 9 and a half

If he was to collect anything, what would it be?

I Said: DVDs!!! He is obsessed!

He Said: DVDs!!!

What is his favorite type of sandwich?

I Said: bacon egg and cheese biscuit

He Said: peanut butter... no wait! Bacon egg and cheese!

9. What would he eat every day if he could?

I Said: Panda Express Orange Chicken

He Said: Breadsticks from the Olive Garden, Peanut Butter M&M's and Orange chicken too, for sure!!

10. What is his favorite cereal?

I Said: Cinnamon toast crunch

He Said: Peanut butter cap'n crunch or cinnamon toast crunch

11. What would he never wear?

I Said: a cowboy hat

He Said: leather pants

12. What is his favorite sports team?

I Said: Minnesota Vikings

He Said: Minnesota Vikings!!!

13. Who did he vote for?

I Said: John McCain

He Said: Chris Allen (idol) haha McCain

14. Who is his best friend?

I Said: me :)

He Said: Brittany!

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do?

I Said: Freak out over small things

He Said: Snore....or freak out

16. What is his Heritage?

I Said: Scottish and ????

He Said: English and Dutch

17. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?

I Said: Marble if it has to be cake, but he would prefer chocolate mouse pie

He Said: Marble

18. Did he play sports in high school?

I Said: Nope, just lots of plays

He Said: No, not even a little bit~My sport was gettin' ladies!

19. What could he spend hours doing?

I Said: Playing xbox, watching NFL Network, or sleeping

He Said: Playing Xbox

20. What is one thing you appreciate about him?

Only One?!? Well, I think the thing I love about him the most is his sense of humor. He ALWAYS knows how to make me smile! No wait there is a tie!!! I also love how much he loves me and is ALWAYS telling me! "I love You, I love your smile, Your hair looks great, You are gorgeous, etc!" Everytime I get ready for the day one of those phrases always comes out of his mouth and I can't thank him enough for that!!! I LOVE HIM!!!

PAMPERED CHEF!!!

2009-04-17T21:12:00.003-06:00

Well, about a month ago my sister jamie became a Pampered Chef Consultant. So I told her I would have a party for her. We did the party last night and it went great!!! We had a great turn out of 11 people! I made so much money that I get a huge discount and she made enough money to pay off her kit!!! YAY!!! Thank you so much for all that came and helped us out! I dunno about you, but it was so much fun! It was just like another girl's night! We had girl's, laughter, strawberries, and chocolate! What more could you need? Oh that's right Pampered Chef products!!! thanks to Jamie for directing a killer show! She really knows her stuff!!!

It was great! I have decided to become a consultant myself! It is really just for the kit. I get $570 worth of products for $155 bucks! You can do it too! Or you can host a party for me if you don't want to spend that much money on a kit. You will get 60% off some items, you will get free items, and a discount on a whole bunch more! Plus you get to have a bunch of girl's over for dinner or dessert! It was a blast! Let me know if you are interested! I already have one party set up by my Best Friend Mandy! Thanks Mandylin!!! There is no pressure to buy or sell! Do everything at your own pace!

We had a great time! I know you could too! Let me know if there is anything you want to order, or if you have questions on anything!

Busy Busy Busy!!!

2009-04-17T19:30:00.011-06:00

Maybe I should have changed the blog title to LONGEST BLOG POST EVER!!!!

Well, obviously I have not blogged in awhile. We have missed Vegas, Conference Weekend, Christian's Dad's 75th birthday party, St. George, and most recently I had a Pampered Chef Party. So, this will be a very condensed version of what we have been up to lately. If you want the step by step go to Mandy's blog, she is WAAAAY better at this than me!http://www.mthargett.blogspot.com/

Well, we have obviously been having some fun!!! I think I talked about it before, but we decided with part of our tax return we wanted to go on a mini vacation. So, we did just that! Our Best Friends Mandy and Troy were planning on going to Vegas and invited us to go along. We had all been wanting to go on a vacation for a long time so we decided this would be it! We went the last weekend in March, the 29th-31st. It was GREAT to get away, and we had a blast with them!!! We did a lot of 21 playing, which I won 36 bucks!!! We ate some great food! We laughed a TON!!! We went to a bunch of different hotels, laid by the pools (which there were three of!) The best part was just being with them, and having a good relaxing time!

Even though we only had 3 days we packed in so much fun it was awesome! We went to a dualing piano show, the Treasure Island show, the M&M factory, the Shark Reef Aquarium, and walked probably 500 miles total. It was a great trip! And we got to fly their thanks to Christian's mom and sister who work for JetBlue! We had a ton of fun! I will post a couple of pics, I took about 100 so I can't do them all, sorry!

We stayed at the Excalibur

We played the slots....Woot Woot I won!!!

I laughed so hard I cried! Seriously, Bawling!!!

YAY for Mardi Gras Beads!!!

The next activity was Conference Weekend. Every year for the past 4 years we have gotten together as a large group Conference weekend. We always go to Layton and we have a girl's night while the guys go to priesthood, and then we all hang out afterwards. Sometimes the guys play xbox, sometimes we all play games together. Then we sleep over at my mom's house and we all watch conference in our pj's at my mom's house! It is pretty much in my top 5 for traditions! Especially sicne we keep adding people to it each year! Mandy and Troy are now regulars for the whole thing, they even sleep over for the next day! It is awesome! So this year we met at Jamie's for a girl game night. We had tons of great food!!! We played Disney Scene It, which we found out Meghann ROCKS at! then the guys came home and we played buzz word. It was a great night! We had a good turn out, and lots of babies!

Babies, 7, 8, 9, and 10 months old all boys!!! How fun!

This was the winning team, obviously Mandy was bitter

Oh how cute our boys are!

The next day we all woke up and Jeff had made us a great breakfast. Then we all got comfy on the couch to watch Conference. It was a GREAT conference! I love it when they speak! they are so inspirational! WOW! So, overall it was a great Conference Weekend! They always are! I LOVE our tradition and I am so glad Mandy and Troy are there to Join us! They are just like family now. My neices and nephews love seeing them as much as me! maybe more than me! haha Morgan is in LOVE with Troy it is so cute!

We ended an awesome weekend with an AWESOME party! Christian's Dad turned 75 on April 1st. So, everybody got together for his birthday dinner. We have a large family and so normally there is a couple here and there that can't make it, but everybody came this time, it was great! We had a great meal of ham and funeral potatoes, and awesome rolls! We had the neices sing a song while Adam played the piano, it was a gorgeous song from Les Miserables. then while we mingled Adam played the piano. He is 14 years old and is amazing!!! He doesn't read music very well, so he plays the piano by ear! He even wrote his own song! It was awesome! So, his music was in the background while Linda pulled out Phil's scrapbooks. All of these old pictures of him in the past, thier wedding announcement in the newspaper, he even had a letter sent to him from one of the Apostles! It was so great to see pics and learn more about him! We had a great time!

Great shot huh!!!
All the girl's and Grammy singing their song!

We gave him a picture of all of the Prophets in their Temple Clothes in the Salt Lake Celestial Room. He LOVED it! YAY!

Jamie and Jon and their kids have had a tradition the last few years to go to St. George for Easter, this year I decided to tag along. No Christian, unfortunately. We had a great time though. We relaxed, played with the kids, went swimming, went shopping, watched movies, had really really yummy food! and Nat had a Pampered Chef party for Jamie while we were there! We decorated easter eggs, had a huge easter egg hunt, and the Easter Bunny came for the kids!!! We threw Steph a baby shower while we were there as well!!! she got a ton of great stuff!!! We also got to go to the Warm Springs in Nevada. About an hour away from St. George is some church owned property with two pools full of warm springs natural water. So we went swimming there all day! Also, there is a large feild of grass to play on, a playground, and a river you can walk through. when you are in the river you feel like you are in Hawaii!!! It is gorgeous! It is completely encased in palm trees, the river is also part of the warm springs so it feels like you are wading through a hot tub! It was great! It was a good trip and it was great to see Brandon, Nat, Grandpa, Granny, and Ty and Steph. We got to play outside!!! Natalie was planting flowers! Meanwhile it was snowing in Salt lake!!! I LOVE ST. GEORGE!!! Everytime we go though, we wonder why we don't live there! I would move there in heart beat!! Just find my husband a job!

Morgan and Halle decided to Lay out with me

Yarn game at the shower, Jamie lost big time!!!

Owen and Taya playing! This weekend Owen figured out what a camera was and would give a huge cheesy grin everytime I put it in front of his face! So cute!!!

This pic doesn't do it jusice, but this is the river.

So, we had some great times!!! Only thing I would have changed was bringing Christian along to St. George! Hopefully next year! Now we are just relaxing and taking it easy for a little bit! Whew!

Pampered Chef

2009-04-11T20:38:00.002-06:00

ALL GIRL'S WELCOME!!!!!!

Just wanted you to all know I am having a pampered chef party on April 16th!!! All girl's are welcome! You don't HAVE to buy something, just come look and hang out with the girls! Also, if you can't make it, but want to order something just let me know and I can get you a catalog!!!

If you have never heard of them or used them, I highly suggest you come check them out! I promise you will love their stuff!!! Most of it has a lifetime guarantee as well!!! Let me know if you have any questions or need more info!

Come hang out! Bring your mom, sisters, friends, anybody interested!!! We can all get to know each other while we cook, eat, and mingle! (kids are ok, don't want to leave you out if you don't have a sitter!!! I have a toy room!)

Pampered Chef Party
Dessert served
Brittany's House (send email address in comment field for directions)
April 16th
7:00pm

Please comment if you are coming or not!!! Hope to see you all there!!! Let me know if you have any questions!!!

Sunbeams

2009-03-22T15:23:00.004-06:00

I LOVE MY CALLING, I LOVE MY CALLING, I LOVE MY CALLING.....

Sitting in singing time I realized today would be a different day that Jessica and I have not had in quite awhile. It left me sitting and repeating the words above over and over again in my head.

Our lesson today was "I am Thankful for Animals." While the kids were a little more rowdy than normal, it was still ok, No worries! Nobody was crying, screaming, or running away so we were good! We could handle this. But oh were we in for a surprise!

The kids were great at telling us all about animals, the sounds they make, were they are from, who created them, and everything! But it seemed today we were not going to learn about animals, but about a "russian dolphin." Now, this may sound to you like an animal, but oh no, you would be wrong!

At our Primary Activity a few weeks ago Jess brought these dolls as one of her show and tell peices. Well, Aiden LOVES it, which means he wanted to play with it. So, if he wants to play with it, all the kids want to play with it. Hence the term dolphin comes into play. To Aiden, this is the Russian Dolphin, not russian doll.

Now, some of you might read this and think, "Oh, I know sunbeams, they can get distracted, that toy was not a good idea, I feel so bad, etc etc." But don't think that!

For today I learned something! Every week I teach I plan my lesson a week or two in advance with activities, coloring pages, object lessons, etc. I found today that these children like to learn on their own. You can make a lesson out of anything. The kids may remember the little wooden peices I used for Noah's Ark. They might even remember going on a safari to find different animals through the church hallways. But ultimately I KNOW they will remember that Russian dolphin. They will remember how to build it, they will also remember that they MUST take turns putting it together and taking it apart. I also know they learned they can't play with it unless they are reverent. I learned for myself today that these children are adorable! You can't help but look at them and smile! They have amazing spirits waiting to burst!

When God gives you a "Russian Dolphin" adapt your animal lesson!

So, I say again,

I LOVE MY CALLING, I LOVE MY CALLING, I LOVE MY CALLING.....

Salt Lake Temple Session

2009-03-22T14:44:00.004-06:00

Christian and I had Thursday off so Wednesday we decided we wanted to go to the Temple. I was talking to my sister about it and she suggested we all go to the Salt lake Temple. We were sealed there, but we had never done a live session there. So we were excited! My Mom and Jeff got to come too!

We all met downtown on Thursday night. It was great because Jamie and Jon hadn't been able to go since before Owen was born so I was glad we were able to go with them! Being in the Salt lake Temple just reminded me again about getting sealed. Having my Mom and Sister right by my side the entire time! Answering all of my questions! And feeling the spirit and sharing their spirit with me! I LOVED it! Jamie and Jon were chose as the witness couple so we didn't get to sit next to her during it, but it was great to watch them!

The live session was amazing! It made the session so real for me! And of course moving from room to room was pretty cool! And each room was gorgeous!!! After we were done we got to sit in the celestial room which is so pretty! I hadn't been in their for 3 and a half years so I had forgotten how amazing it was! The architecture and the details they put on every wall and ceiling is outstanding!

It was a great experience! I am so glad I was able to share it with my family!

"I LOVE to see the temple!
I'm going there someday, to feel the holy spirit, to listen and to pray"

I am so grateful for the chance I have to attend the Temple WHENEVER I want!!!! I am also grateful for a Husband who wants to do the same thing! He LOVES the Temples! I Love to see him during the session. Nobody will ever look more beautiful than the day you see them in the Temple all dressed in white!!! I promise you! Anybody who has been there with their spouse will agree! It is amazing!

We have decided we are going to try to go to the Temple once a week. Anybody who wants to join us is MORE than welcome! My sister and I decided we should have a monthly Girl's Temple Night too! That would be awesome! I will keep you posted!

I'm excited to add to our list the Salt lake Session! Also, in two weeks we will be adding one more! Las Vegas! I have heard it is one of the prettiest temples inside, so we can't wait! I'm excited to take a break from our vacation and be able to attend the Temple! It was definitely the best day off we have had in a very long time!!!

Game Time!

After work on Saturday we had a Thorpe Family Party. We had to close and didn't get off work until 8:30, but Natalie called us and told us they were still partying! So, we headed out to Daybreak. It was great to see them again! the whole family couldn't make it, but we were there, with Christian's parent's, John and Nat's fam, and Tiff and Henry's fam. They were just finishing up their scrabble game when we got there, so we munched on food and talked and laughed with them until they were done. Then Christian picked the next game ~ Beyond Balderdash. It is a fun game and turns out to be a hilarious game, but man do i suck at it!!! So, I was very nervous, but I was on my game that night and kicked butt!!! that's right I won! I think I need to mark it on my calendar and all the Thorpe calendars because I won a game of Balderdash!!!

Christian's family is all about the games so normally I have a good time losing! But it is still fun!

We had a great time! I don't remember the last time I laughed so hard! We always have a great time with his family! And guess what I remembered to take pics, however, when I went into my purse to get my camera I realized I had left it home! So sad! Oh well, just picture us crying from laughing so hard! It was great! And actually while we were there we made plans to attend the temple all together in April!

So, we had a great couple of days! Now I am just super excited for Vegas and St. George! I get two vacations in two weeks! Woot Woot!

Perfect ending to a long week!

2009-03-15T15:37:00.004-06:00

On Saturday night I was abe to go to an amazing Relief Society enrichment! We had Jenny Phillips come and perform her parable of the Princesses. If you have not heard this I suggest you go get it! If you have daughters 10 and older it would be an awesome gift! If you don't know who Jenny Phillips is, she sings for Deseret Book. She has 4 LDS cd's out and she performs at firesides and Enrichments all over the world! she lives here in Salt Lake City with her husband and 3 kids. Her husband actually performs with her on this one, he narrates the book. It was such an amazing show. Her songs and her talk was so powerful and such an amazing way to bring in the spirit!!! I was lucky enough to share it with my sister and my best friend Mandy. I have purchased the book from Amazon and would suggest any women do the same! It is an illustrated book that also comes with the narration from her husband and has a cd with the songs she sang along with it. It is great! I wish you all could have been there with me! So moving!

So, since Christian was the babysitter I convinced Jamie to leave him with them a little longer, cuz it had only been 2 hours. So, we went to Deseret Book and I bought one of Jenny's cd's it was fun! We listened to it while we got ready for church today.

It was great to hang out with Jamie and Mandy more. We came back to the house had a late dinner and then stayed up talking until 1 in the morning! It was great! I love how close the three of us are getting! I LOVE that Mandy is basically family and Jamie's kids love to be around her just like she was thier aunt too! It was a great night!

OH NO!!!!

It all started when Christian and decided we needed to go in and renew our Temple Recommend. I went first, then it was Christian's turn. It all seemed to go fine, until they came out of the room and Bro. Klegg said, well I had to add a question for your husband in there and now I need to ask you....... Will you speak in sacrament this Sunday?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! Seriously?

So, out of my mouth came, oh no, um, sure? And Christian said, "that's what i said!" He actually said in his talk today "I think the exact words I used when Bro. Klegg asked me to speak today was, OH NO! and of course he knew that meant, absolutely!" Wow! That is how they get you! Your meeting goes so well, he just gave you a temple recommend how could you say no? So, today we got to speak in sacrament. So, since Wednesday Christian and I have been stressing! But it went great! Our topic came from a couple scriptures, but it was basically to talk about the importance of following our Prophet and Apostles in preparation for General Conference. Actually it is pretty crazy we have lasted this long! We have been in the ward for a year and 4 months and are just now being asked to speak. Pretty cool! I really did enjoy it! I LOVED seeing and hearing my husband up there pouring out his feeling about the Gospel. I know he loves it, but it is not something we talk about a ton, so it is great hearing his testimony and having him tell the entire congregation how much he loves me and getting teary eyed while he says it. I LOVE IT!!! There is NOTHING sexier than a man dressed up in a tie and dress pants pouring out his love for you and the gospel! Call me crazy, but I'm serious! So, it went very well and I am so glad we were able to do it.

Jamie and the kids slept over at our house Saturday night so they came to church with us and I was able to have Morgan in my class. It was super fun! We had a great lesson "I am thakful for fish" I know sounds wierd, but the kids loved it! They got to go fishing and got little fish cookies! I LOVE teaching the sunbeams! Especially since I have such a great companion! Seriously Jess! thanks for being so understanding with my crazy schedules! You are an excellent teacher, I couldn't have asked for a better companion!

After church we came back home, had some lunch and then they went home. Now I am listening to my new AWESOME cd and getting ready for our hometeachers to come over. I LOVE Sundays! They are so relaxing! Going to church, then coming home, listening to great music, and just relaxing! Oh, and watching Amazing Race!!! Love that show! Hope you all had a spectacular Sabbath as well!

Good Times!

2009-03-08T21:13:00.002-06:00

Last night we decided it was time to PARTAY!!!! Ok, so not really but we did have fun! I didn't get a chance to take any pictures, but oh well.

We had a manager's meeting early that morning so we were off early. So, Meghann, Christian, and I decided to go shopping. So, we started at Sears to take back some pants, which I found out later they forgot to take the security tag off, so now I have to go back to the store before I can wear them! Sad day! Then, we went to Sports Authority to check out their ellipticals, then to K Mart to look at their bed sets. Unfortunately, none of the stops were very successful, but it was fun!

After that Meghann met us at our house to play! We watched a little TV and talked for awhile and then started to play MarioKart!!! It was so much fun! I realized how bad I am at "Battle" I always lost my balloons first! We had a ton of fun though! That game is so addicting! After Christian kicked our trash we decided to watch the movie Mr. Brooks. It is a pretty good movie, but really slow and Meghann and I were so tired from working so early we almost fell asleep! So, as soon as it was over she headed home.

It was super fun! It was nice to stay in and just relax, but have fun with Meg Hann! We are pretty much inseparable! HAHA It's great!

Tonight I decided to go to my mom's in Layton. I have Monday off so I am going to hang out with her and Jamie and the kids. We had a great barbecue chicken dinner and then we had cookies and played games. Jamie is putting her kids to bed and then we are going to have a late night girl's night and do our hair. It is going to be super fun! Gotta go now! I will post pics later with the super cute kids!

SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-02-26T22:14:00.002-07:00

This is going to be a small, but exciting post! I found out today that my best friend Marie is pregnant!!!! Woo Hoo!!!

Congrats Marie! I am so excited for you and Lukas to start your family! I am so excited to go shopping and throw you a shower!!! I know you will be great parents!

So, today I get a text message, "Check your email!!!" So, I ran to the computer to check (I was thinking immediately that she was going to tell me that she was pregnant) So, I pull up her email and it is titled, "What is this?" And attached to the email are pictures of her ultrasound! It was awesome! So I imediately called her! She told me she is 7 weeks along and had her first doctor's appointment yesterday. It was great to talk to her about it and I am so excited to share this experience with her! We are growing up so fast! I am so excited to have our kids grow up together (no I am not pregnant, haha)

This was just a great day! I am so excited for my best friend!

Great Week!

2009-02-24T18:46:00.007-07:00

We had a spectacular week this past week! Work went well, slow, but well. I was able to do a bunch of catching up which is always good! We had a fabulous girl's night on Wednesday! I love getting together with just girls every once in awhile! And the more girl's the more fun we have!!!

On Thursday I had a much needed day off and was able to get things done around the house, and Christian and I ran some errands. We have decided part of our tax return is going to a cheap elliptical, the rest is going in savings. Thanks to Turbo tax we are excited because we are getting a great return this year!!! Hopefully we can get a good "Baby Bank" going! If you have never used it and are wondering, YES!!! Buy it!!! WE spent $26 to get our taxes done this year!!! Can't beat that! It is super easy to use! We are grateful we can get money back without paying a "taxman." So, we went to Sears and Walmart to check out their elliptical. We found a couple that we like, but we are going to look around a little bit more so we make sure we get the right one! Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! I am just excited to work out from home on my FAVORITE piece of gym equipment!

Any who~ So Thursday night I met up with Meghann, Jenna, her daughter, and Leann. We started at Red robin at the District for dinner. I got their chicken tortilla soup, YUMMY!!! We had to save room for the theatre popcorn!!! It was great to hang out with Meghann and Leann again, and also great to finally meet Jenna! Meghann's long time friend from High School, whom she talks about all the time! She was a lot of fun and her daughter was adorable! So, after dinner we walked to the theatre to see Confessions of a Shopaholic. It was a cute movie, kinda strange, but cute. I would recommend seeing it, but wait for Redbox! I am glad I got to hang out with them and see that movie! It was a great night!!! (Pics were forgotten) I love this pic of her though, it shows how we all feel when we just HAVE to have that perfect item!!!

Friday was just a normal day of work, lots of phone calls, data entry, gift cards, dailies, coupons, more phone calls, and stupid Customer charges making me want to rip my head off!!! I HATE taking the spot of an Office Manager who was literally retarded and how NO CLUE how to do her job. This means I get to come in after her and try to clean up the mess. Our corporate office is being audited right now and they are wanting record of all of our old Gift Certificates that were hand written, well since I have been there, 2 years now, I have yet to find them. So, I have people calling left and right trying to get the numbers and I can't help them, that is fun, let me tell you!!! Anyway, it really was a good day at work, plus I got to work with Meghann for a little bit. She left to go shopping with Leann, but text me around 6 and told me she wanted us to meet her at Training Table for dinner, so we did! It was fun and really yummy! It was crazy packed! I didn't realize how popular Training Table was! Weird! Anyway it was fun and Christian was finally able to meet Leann. It was a good night! (Again, no pics)

Saturday we worked and it was a normal day, but unusually slow for a Saturday. Maybe it just went slow because I so excited!!! After work we were going to the Temple Open House!!! We were super excited! It was awesome! We met at Subway for dinner first. It was great because we were able to get so many people to come! Me and Christian, Jamie and Jon and their kids, Mandy, Troy and Nick, My Mom and Jeff, Cody and Shannon, and my Aunt and Uncle, Linda and Frank! We ate the cheap and yummy $5 foot longs at Subway and then headed over.

You park at a church and then take a bus to the Temple. We waited for about 45 minutes for the bus, but we made it fun by taking pictures, and laughing at Owen's new cheesy grin! They first led us into the Chapel to see a film about Temples which was a great beginning! Then we boarded the bus and headed to the Temple. It was awesome because it was night time so the temple looked gorgeous all lit up! It was great to go through with Mandy, who has never seen a Temple. She was so excited! And the kids LOVED it too! I am so glad I was able to be there with my Best Friend on her first time and be able to explain things to her and see her reaction to things! It was a great experience and I am so glad we went!

After the Temple Jamie and Jon and the kids were able to come back to our house and sleep over! We put the kids to bed and played games. We played Whoonu, I LOVE that game. We played a bunch of different rounds! It was great! The next morning they were all able to come to church with us! We had a special Relief Society Lesson so I didn't have to teach. We went into Singing Time where I got to have Morgan in my class and Jamie sat with us too! It was a good singing time, better than most. We only had one kid acting out, instead of 4!!! YAY! That night I cooked a dinner for all of us, and Mandy and Troy came over to Join us as well! I made a maple and brown sugar ham, au gratin potatoes, corn and rolls, Mandy brought a salad, and Jamie made a raspberry dessert and lemon dessert. It was a great dinner and fun to have them all over!

We had a good time with the kids, we watched a veggietales movie, played games, and Jon decided Owen needed a little ride. It was pretty funny because he loved it!

After dinner Mandy and Troy stayed to watch the Oscars! It was fun, but we realized it is a little boring. I actually felt asleep for a little part of it. But it was still cool to watch it, especially with friends over! Mandy decided it is a tradition. If anybody wants to join us next year you are welcome!!!
So, we had a lot of fun! I LOVE having Jamie, Jon, and all my cute little nieces and nephews over! I get to go to their house this week! I am going to stay over Wednesday over to Thursday, cuz I have Thursday off. I'm excited to play with them again. So, it was a great week, followed by a great weekend!

Good Times ~ GG's!!!!

2009-02-19T12:50:00.006-07:00

This Past Monday was an excellent day! Me, Mandy, and Marie were able to hang out ALL together! Unfortunately it was payroll day for me so I couldn't take the whole day off, but I was able to take off a couple hours to hang out with them! It was fantastic! We met up at Kneaders for lunch and it sure was tasty! It was so packed though! I couldn't believe how many people were there, but we found a table and were able to enjoy our lunch!

We talked about so many things! It was so great to catch up and just mingle with all three of us! It doesn't happen very often. I hang out with Mandy all the time, and I had just recently hung out with Marie, but with all of our busy schedules and living far away from each other it makes it difficult sometimes. Since we were having so much fun at lunch, Mandy had an excellent idea to meet up again for dinner with our husbands! Which we also don't get to do very often. We seem to make it work for birthdays, but that is only six times a year. So, we finished up lunch and I went back to work and they went back to Marie's to hang out a little more.

I LOVE playing with my Best Friends! We have such a great time together! It is great because we can reminisce so much because we have been friends for so long! We are fun, goofy, but very sexy girls! HA HA!

We met up at 6 at Red Robin for dinner. It was great to see Lukas and Troy! The six of us have so much fun together! We were able to talk, and Laugh a ton! I cried several times from laughing so hard! We ate some excellent food and took some fun pictures! Some pics turned out, not so cute, ha ha. We had an excellent time! We talked about getting together again soon, hopefully we can make it work with our schedules! Because I LOVE hanging out with all six of us! Or even just the three of us girl's! We had a great night! Unfortunately we didn't take a pic of all six of us. We got just the girls and just the guys, But oh well. We've all got some pretty cute hubbies!

Girl's Night!!!

2009-02-19T12:13:00.007-07:00

The third Wednesday of EVERY month is Girl's Night! We just started this last month so hopefully we end up getting a bunch of girl's in a couple months! We have been having Girl's nights for awhile and decided we needed to set an official Girl's Night date so we can always plan for it! Great idea Meghann!!! We can do it anywhere! We went out to Olive Garden last month! This time we decided to go a little cheaper and just play at my house! So this time it was Me, Mandy, Karen (my mom) Jamie and little owen. We had a great time!

So, last night our plan was to come to my house for chick flicks, yummy food, card making, and just plain fun! Unfortunately not everybody could make it, but it was still fun! We started out the night just talking and catching up, then we watched Idol! We are all a little obsessed with that show and we were all SO happy that Tatiana didn't make it! What a drama queen! We were happy though for Alexis, and Danny!!! During Idol we ate dinner. We had Little Ceasers Pizza, not much, but it is cheap and tasty! We also had other snack food, Jamie had brought a fruit salad and my mom brought donuts, and I had made a strawberry cheescake!

We all started making cards during American Idol and kept making them after it was over. We LOVE to make cards and it is awesome to see what everybody can come up with! We are all so crafty and creative! haha! Since Idol was over we decided it was time for the chick flick. So we put in Fool's Gold and watched it while we made cards. And then we all sat in the living room and watched it when we were done making cards. It was so great to get together with them! We took a bunch of pics and had fun talking and playing with Owen!

It was a great Girl's Night and I am so glad they got to come to my house! We all live far away from each other so don't get to see each other as much as we would like. Mandy lives in Springville, My mom and Jamie live in Layton, I live in Eagle Mountain, and the other girls are scattered from Salt Lake, Bountiful, Riverton, and Murray, so it is very nice when we all get to hang out together! I am so happy we decided to do this and can't wait for more Girl's Nights to come! And look at that~ I remembered to take pics! We are not sure what the next Girl's Night will be, but I can promise you it will be fun!!! Any suggestions let me know! We are thinking of having a Hotel night sometime in March or April and split between all the girl's would make it very cheap! We could swim, watch movies, hang out, and play silly Slumber Party Games!!! Remember girl's you are NEVER too old to play and what better place to make a fool of yourself than with all your best Girlfriends?

Remember.....Every third Wednesday! Mark it on your calendar for next month! EVERY girl is invited whether you know everybody, or just one other person you will feel welcome and have an excellent time! Don't be shy! Hope you join us next time! We had a blast this time and can't wait for the next one!

Brittany and Christian's Day of fun!!!!

2009-02-15T17:14:00.007-07:00

Well, Christian and I usually always have our days off together, but since it is our only day off it is spent doing a lot of errands, cleaning, or we are doing different things. So, since all of our errands and cleaning were done by me earlier in the week, Christian decided he was planning a day for us! It was great! I love when he surprises me with activities! He is a good little planner so we ALWAYS have fun!

Ever since we moved here, a year and a half ago we have wanted to chek out downtown Lehi. Sounds wierd I know, but we both love little town shops. So, first stop was a Pioneer party and Copy shop. It was so funny, it was a store that had everything! Little knick knacks, candy, soda, greeting cards, all your party supplies, a copy center, a balloon center, but also a bunch of stuff that could be found at the quilted bear~Homemade crafts and such. Another row over was a bunch of homemade baby/toddler clothing, and Squeaker Shoes!!!! It was such a cute little family run business! So, we bought a couple penny candies and a drink and then kept going on our little adventure. Our next stop was Deadwood pawn, where we got some great dvd's for $3 bucks each! We also found another wireless xbox controller for 20 bucks!!! We kept looking around and we came across some fishing stuff, and waders, with a big Sportsman's Warehouse log on them! It was awesome! We stopped at a couple more little shops down the road, but didn't purchase anything, just looked. It was great to finally do it though! We enjoyed it! It is just so cute, to see the little places. Even the cute little Barber Shop that still has a great clientel!

Christian's next idea was lunch, but we HAD to eat somewhere we had never been. So we decided to start driving and look. But first, on our drive, we saw a Pet store and We both LOVE animals so we stopped to take a look.

It was so much fun. They had the cutest little puppies, bunnies, and froggies there, it was awesome! We really wanted to buy one, but had to remind ourselves that we just got rid of one!!! They were just so darn cute! I double dog dared Christian to hold a Tarantula, I even offered him 5 bucks, but he said NOWAY!!! I don't think I could do it either though! So we just looked. It was a fun little stop.

After that we started back on our restaurant search. So, we drove a little further into American Fork where we had never been and by the Hospital there was this cute little diner called Spanky's, so we decided that is where we would stop! We were pleasantly surprised!!! They serve breakfast all day so Christian got pancakes, bacon, and eggs and it was great! I got a corndog and fries kids meal and it was also delicious.

We noticed when we were pulling into the restuarant that there was an arcade, so we went to check it out after we ate. We went upstairs and turns out it was much more than an arcade. It was a cute little lounge with nice couches, a large tv, arcade games, an ice hockey table, and a pool table. So we played pool. Christian killed me both times, but it was fun to play! It was such a fun little hang out spot. It would be a fun and cheap little group date if anybody is interested in coming with us next time! We were so glad we picked that spot to eat, because it ended up being our next activity!

On with the fun! After that we went to Thanksgiving point to see a movie, but it didn't start for an hour so we decided to go to the Rod Works Clearance Center. It is Awesome! Everything is Half off, and it is not damaged stuff! It's all really cute! So, we bought our Valentine's present their. Everything outside was already discounted and you got to take an additional 50% off! We got a new rod iron bench for the front of our house. $40 bucks! Normally $100! Woot Woot!!! I LOVE saving money! We also got a vase and placemat for our table super cheap!

So, Christian's final activity was the matinee. After Rod Works we went to our movie. We went to see Taken and it was great! Highly recommended! We both love Liam Neeson and he did an excellent job! After the movie we went home and watched American Idol! We have quite a few favorites right now! We are excited to watch it now that it has gotten down to fewer people! We LOVE that show!

So, Brittany and Christian's Day Of Fun, was just that! Christian did an excellent job planning! I love that we always try new places! Most of the time they are little dives that turn out to be favorites! We had a great time! I am so grateful I can have these days with him! We don't even have to spend a lot of money, it is just fun to be with him! We can make any activity fun! I was luckily enough to marry my Best Friend and can't wait for more exciting days out!!!

Time for some fun!!!

2009-02-15T16:16:00.006-07:00

Since the Expo was a little exhasuting and I had work 8 and a half days straight I decided I needed a few days off!!! So, I took Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off, and had a ton of fun! Also got a TON of stuff accomplished! I have been wanting to clean and organize for awhile now! Luckily I had time to do that and have fun!

But first, I had fun on Monday night! I went to Marie's house! It was so great to catch up with her! We met up at her house and then we both had some errands to run so we went shopping and hung out. We stopped for pizza at Papa Murphy's and went back to her house. It was great to sit and talk with her while we ate some great food! We realized our marriage and our husbands are a lot alike. It was just nice to have a relaxing night with one of my best friends and have such good conversation! Unfortunately we were both having too much fun to stop and take any pics. Oops! Oh well, imagine in your head two amazing looking girls having a great girl's night! Got it? Ya, it was kinda like that!

First day off was Tuesday, February 10th. Meghann's Birthday!!!! We met at Training Table for lunch to celebrate! Just the girl's! It was great! I gave Meghann a gift of her favorite things. Diet Coke, Cinnamon Bears, Wheat Thins, Cookies, 5 gum. I also gave her a cute black frame with a black and white picture of us in it. Kinda cheesy gift, but it's fun!

Me and Meghann's Pose!

Me, Roxsan, Christina, Meghann,

Kaycee, and Meghann's Mom all came to lunch

After lunch I went shopping a little bit with her. We went to the District and went to American Eagle and The Buckle. She got some super cute pants! and they were on sale! YAY! It was great to go out with the girls from work! And Meghann seemed to have a good birthday!

After shopping I went home and started my projects. I am normally not in a cleaning mood, but that day I was! I am always in an organizing mood! That's my OCD coming out! I started cleaning Tuesday and went into Wednesday. I wrote myself a list of everything I wanted to do! I don't remember which day I did what, but this is the gist of what I did.

So, I started in the kitchen, while I watched Ellen (love that show) I cleaned all the cabinets and counters, swept, mopped, and cleaned the stove. Next was dusting (yes Mom I dusted!!!) I just recently got a new microfiber duster and it worked awesome! I dusted all of my light fixtures, tables, vases, book shelf, tv and tv stand, knick knacks, computer desk, computer, I mean everything!!! It was great! Then I did all the normal cleaning, vacuum, bathrooms, laundry, etc.

After the laundry I started my first big project! My closet!!! We have a walk in closet, at least now we do, before it was a storage closet! It was great, I got rid of three garbage bags of clothes! I organized my closet bakc to they way I like it ~ Hoodies, seperated into color groups on one rod. Sweaters and long sleeves, seperated into colors on another rod. Shirts, seperated into colors on another rod. And the final rod seperated into dresses, long skirts, short skirts, and jeans, dress pants, and colored pants. It is a glorious sight to see!!! Again my OCD kicking in!

I was so glad to get that cleaning out of the way!!! I LOVED it! My Mother rubbed off on me and I am glad! After I finished my side of the closet on Tuesday night Christian came home from work so we hung out. Watched movies and had a very intense battle of Mario Kart. It was a great day!

Wednesday I continued my cleaning with Christian's side of the closet. You can now also walk into his side! I organized his in groups as well, but I am pretty sure it has already been mixed up. He obviously does NOT have OCD. Oh well, it is still clean! I also decorated my room a little bit more. I added some letters that I painted on the wall that say "LOVE" and I added a basket with wooden balls. I baked some brownies for our Relief Society Enrichment which was that night and then my sister and her kids came over, so we visited. Christian got to experience "Daddy Life" that night since Jamie and I were going to Relief Society he watched three kids. He said he had a blast! They colored, played guys, and played mario kart.

While Jamie and I had a TON of fun! Our Enrichment was "Chocolate Appreciation night" It was great! We had a huge amount of chocolate goodies! I made chocolate cheescake brownies. Yummy! Every table had a chocolate fountain and plenty of good stuff to dip in it!

If you can't read the little plaque, it says:

Chocolate is the Answer, who cares what the question is

I love it!

After we ate a little bit we played a speed dating type game, but they called it "Fast Friendshipping" We were all lined up across from each other and had certain topics to talk about in a minute, then she would yell out switch, and you would have another girl to talk to. It was SO great! I needed that so bad because I don't know very many people in our ward and now I do! It was a ton of fun, and i had another GREAT girl's night! I was so glad Jamie could come and join me! I love my ward! It is mostly people around my age so it makes each party so much fun! My Enrichment Leader is so awesome! She put this all together and it turned out excellent! Best Enrichment I have been to in a long time!

You can't play after the work! You must play during the work!!!

2009-02-15T15:13:00.008-07:00

February 5-8 was the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo at the Salt lake Convention Center (Salt Palace) Which means I worked off site all week.

This show is put on by FNAWS, which is the Foundation of North American Wild Sheep. This is a very large and Classy group which means most of the people coming are rich and classy as well. So, each night they had a banquet in which they auctioned hunts to the the highest bidder. The most expensive hunt................ $225,000! Yes, I put the right amount of zeros! Pretty crazy huh! Not all hunters are rednecks! These shows are A LOT of work, but fun in the end. It is always good to get out of the store every once in awhile. Plus, I got to spend EVERY day ALL day with my bestest friend Meg-Hann!!! It is great to have my assistant be one of the my best friends! It makes planning, shopping, and working at a very boring booth, WAY MORE FUN!!!

We had a large booth and were one of the main sponsors of the show. We also had our registers in two other booths. They were selling clothing, but we were getting credit for it. But that meant that two cashiers had to be alone at each booth. But since Meghann and I are inseparable we couldn't let that happen. So, she was a cashier and I was "signing people up for our credit card" Ya right! we got two apps in 4 days! haha We were basically standing around, talking, taking pictures, goofing off on our phones, and the best part- making fun of the crazy outfits, hairdos, and people walking through the show! We only had to be at that booth for part of the day, but we made the best of it! The rest of the time we were slacking off in our large booth. Having fun with everybody else- Tim, Ty, Troy, Jon, and Ashlee! Even Christian was able to come and have fun with us! And he didn't even have to work! Unfortunately he got attacked by a bear while we were looking the other way. Oops!

Ashlee, Me, and Meghann Working way too hard!

It was a great show! We had fun, made some money, and it went so smooth! Set up and take down was a breeze. Last year for set up, I decided it would be fun to slice my finger open with a box cutter and then go to the hospital for 5 stitches!!! Turns out, it's really not fun, I wouldn't recommend it! However, our Archery manager decided he needed to try it, but he had to trump me! The take down day he sliced his wrist with a box cutter! He was rushed to the hospital and ended up having to get surgery. He still has no feeling in his arm! Yikes! So, we had minor casualties this year! Meghann cut her knuckle, but she was a trooper. Later that day I sliced my finger on the register, but no worries a band aid was all I needed! It just wouldn't have been an expo without me slicing my finger open. And don't you worry, my coworkers made sure I got a ton of crap for it during the entire show!

Tim may not have cut himself with a box cutter, but he thought it was a good idea to sit down on a cardboard box. Yep, you guessed it, he went right through it! It was hilarious! He was kind enough to let me take a picture of him while he reinacted it for all of us to see.

Poor Jon is a busy man everyday, but put him in charge of a very large expo and you are likely to see him go like Speedy Gonzalez! We had to take a picture of him on his phone because anytime you looked it was attached to his ear!

Meghann and I decided to take up a new hobbie! No, not really. It was pretty funny though to see adults walking around the expo at 10:00 in the morning with a beer! For some reason our registers were the hip place to set down your empty bottles! Even though the garbage can was literally five steps away! People make me laugh sometimes! But hey, what are you gonna do? Also, after taking up drinking, I realized on the way home, I don't hold my alcohol well, and I am not a pretty drunk!

Ok, not really. But we were goofing off with the camera in the car and I got this lovely pic of myself. Goes well with the beer shot eh?

So, it was a great week! Meghann and I were glad the day it ended because we were both so tired, but when we got back Monday to our very large stack of paperwork on my desk, we were both wishing we could have gone back to the Expo!!!

One last pic, with one last story. Unfortunately you can't see the posters very well, but this guy made mormon's look very bad! I agree we shouldn't shoot for fun, but MOST hunters shoot for food. His posters quoted from teh scriptures. One said "The blood of EVERY beast will be upon your hands" He was ranting and raving about how hunting is bad, and guns are bad, etc. It was so funny, we HAD to get a picture! It was the perfect ending to a fun expo! We ended up having a great time and now have so many funny little inside jokes from people yelling at us, Brittany showing her terrible road rage, stinky Sam's Club, and a whole bunch more! It was the best week of work I have had in a very long time!!!

Good Times!!!

2009-02-01T16:28:00.000-07:00

On Saturday night Christian and I were able to go out with our friends Dave and Sarah Martin. We went to high school with Dave and don't get to see them very often so it was great to see them! When Christian and Dave get together it's like they haven't been apart, they can always catch up right where they left off, joking and laughing like crazy! I love it!
So, last night we met up at TGIFridays after work at Foothill for dinner. It was great food, and we were able to catch up with each other.
After dinner we stopped at Dan's to get some ice cream. We then went to their apartment to check it out. They live in the Student Housing apartments by the U, and it was decorated so cute! We got some games and went to Sarah's parents house.

WHO NEEDS A WII, WHEN YOU HAVE AN N64?

We played Mariokart on nintendo 64, it was so much fun! I realized that I am NOT good at that game, but it was still fun! We decided we need to have more old fashioned nintendo nights. Dave and Christian kept talking about
"Starfox" We didn't play that but it was funny to see them talk about the game and how the graphics are so terrible! Dave won pretty much every race, but there was one that I actually finished!!! YAY!
After we played games Sarah made homemade oreo shakes! Sarah and I took turns crushing the oreos while we played. She then took vanilla ice cream and milk and mixed it all together. They were so yummy!
It was a great night and I am so glad we were able to get together with them! Unfortunately I completely forgot to take pictures, but just imagine us laughing so hard I was crying, Having a blast playing nintendo, and eating really good shakes!!! Can't wait until we hang out with them again!

Hand me down!!!!

2009-01-29T21:19:00.003-07:00

Of course when you are a newlyweds you will take any furniture you can get. However, we got VERY lucky with our "hand-me-downs" We got a coffee table and end tables that were like new! We got book shelves, a computer desk, three dressers, a bed and headboard, an entire living room set, and a very nice dining room table. We have been very grateful for everything! If you were to look at the items in our house you would have no idea they were hand me downs! Recently we got a new hand me down from my Grandpa it was an AWESOME queen size bed with head board and nightstand. I love it, and it is SO comfortable! We got an amazing deal on that one! Even though we LOVE our Hand me downs, there are times for upgrades. Pictured here is my adorable husband on one of our hand me downs. This was actually our first hand me down! My Grandpa gave us this couch that we put a slip cover on before we got married. It has lasted 3 years and has worked out great! It is cute, but like I said we could use an upgrade.

What is a better upgrade, than another hand me down? As you can see my adorable husband can enjoy this one much more! This is the exact couch I would have picked out in the store. Lucky for me, my sisters house became a store! She got a couch from my grandpa so we bought hers! A thank you goes out to My Grandpa B, Christian's parent's, and My Grandma Bradford for thier Christmas Gifts. This couch is from them! It is a microfiber couch in the perfect tan color to match our living room and both ends recline as Christian is portraying. I have been wanting a new couch for awhile and we bought this one for half as much as the ones we were looking at and it is WAY better quality! I LOVE it! Jamie and Jon delivered it today and I couldn't have been more excited about it! Thanks again guys! You Rock! Your couch is home again!

So, on top of having an excellent day from getting our couch, we got to spend time with Jamie, Jon, Morgan, and Owen. Jon and Christian moved our old couch downstairs, and our new Awesome one inside. After they were done we all went to lunch at Panda Express! It was great to see them again and spend a little bit of time with them! Later that day I went to the Rod Works clearance center. My plan for the rest of my birthday money is to decorate our bedroom! I'm quite excited! I might even paint it! So, I bought a couple of things that you won't be able to see until I have completed my room. So, in a future blog you will see the final product! Get excited!!! I am!

After Rod Works I went to a Girl's dinner!!! I LOVE days off! Meghann, Christina, and I met up at the new Olive Garden in American Fork for a Girl's night! I LOVE girl's nights! and I LOVE Olive Garden! Christina worked with us during the Holidays, but doesn't anymore and we missed her so we decided we HAD to meet up. It was so great to catch up with her! We had a great time! However we were all stuffed by the time we were done!

So, Listen up girls! We decided we are definitely having a girl's night once a month. The third Wednesday of every month we will be getting together! We will go to dinner, movies, go to each other's houses, make cards, watch chick flicks, whatever we wanna do! and EVERY GIRL is invited! We will be moving them around from Salt Lake, Bountiful, Springville, Eagle Mountain, Riverton, wherever! The next one will be February 19th so I hope you can all make it! I will give you more details when it gets closer. Even if you have never come to a girl's night before, come join! Even if you only know one or two of the girls, come join! What better way to meet more friends! I'm pretty excited about this! Great idea Meghann!!!

See you girl's soon!!!

Crazy couple of days!!!

2009-01-25T20:03:00.005-07:00

Well, I was so grateful for Sunday to come this week! Not only was I looking forward to a day off, but a day off that wasn't stressful! I had a good week, but some crazy things happened!

Monday we had an excellent dinner with the Thorpe Fam! We met at the Midvale Mining Company Restaurant. It was great almost everybody was able to come, and we hadn't seen each other since before Christmas. We had our own little room in the back so we were able to mingle a bunch! If you haven't been there, I suggest you go! It is great food at a pretty reasonable cost. Looks a little sketchy cuz it's just a little Ma and Pops place, but it's good. It was great to see everybody and I can't wait for next month!

So, that was the beginning of the week, I then had some things to look forward to, I was going to take Wednesday and Thursday off, go to Layton and hang out with my family. Sounded like a great plan until I got there, I went up on Tuesday night and hung out with my mom, just talking and staying up late. In the morning on Wednesday we were about to color my hair and my brother in law called to say he was going to take my sister to the hospital. She had mastitus, which is an infection you can get when you are breast feeding. She had just gotten over a bad cold, and the infection must have been caused by that. So, she was down for all of Wednesday and most of Thursday. So, my mom and I went over to her house to babysit the kids. So, it was a fun day for me, but not so much for Jamie. On Thursday she was beginning to feel better, but still needed some help, so I was there to play with the kids, clean the house, bathe and dress the kids, and help her out with Owen. I LOVED it, haha I can definitely say I'm ready to be a stay at home mom!!!

Wednesday was Kelby's birthday, so we had him open all of his gifts on the bed where jamie was lying down so she could see it all. Then since she was feeling a little better we took him to Mcdonald's for dinner. He was so excited to get whatever he wanted!! haha, he got a bunch of awesome Star Wars, pokemon, and Ben Ten stuff for his birthday!

Since Jamie was feeling better on Thursday we went to Classic Fun Center for kelby's birthday. It was awesome! We skated, played on the big blow up slides/toys, played in the arcade, and did lasertag. Kelby LOVED lasertag, and he was really good at it! We had the whole family there, but Christian, unfortunately. But we all had a good time! It's cool because they allow skates, rollerblades, scooters, and even strollers on the floor, so even owen got to go for a ride! It was a great place for a birthday party!!! I'm glad jamie was feeling better and got to enjoy it.

Shannon, Cody, Jeff, and Mom

How many Nana's will fight inside a blow up cage? Taylor loved it!

Friday Morning I woke up, got ready for work, and was thinking that I ended up having a great time. I did feel bad for Jamie, but was happy she was feeling better. So, I loaded up my car, and started it up, just then......
I hear a very loud clicking sound and the whole car is shaking, and there is a ton of exhaust smoke! So, long story short, I have to wait all day fro my car to be fixed. My mom nad I drove it over to Autozone (a very scary drive, I might add) and they tested it, turns out the 3rd cylinder was shot, we needed to replace the spark plugs, get a transmission flush, get an oil change and put it an additive. All I can say is I am SO SO SO grateful for my step dad, Jeff. He knows a ton about cars so, pretty much anytime something is wrong we buy the parts and he can fix it! So, yes, I got to have another day off of work and spend more time with the fam, but I would have rather gone to work then spend $130 bucks to fix my car!!! Oh well.

So, yes! I had fun, but along with it came some craziness! But jamie is doing great and my car is feeling better, so we are good to go!

Today was a great Sunday! I had a good lesson that the kids seemed to enjoy and the kids were pretty well behaved this week, we had a couple of rough patches, but overall I think it was a good class! Also, Christian got called to the primary today. He will be teaching the Valiant class 8-11 year olds. He is super excited!!! Already he has gone to sugardoodle.net for his lesson next week. haha He is glad he won't have to sit in Sunday School alone now. Even though we were both excited to start a Preach My Gospel class. Oh well, maybe next year. I am loving my calling so far! I have a great partner who helps out a ton! The kids are so cute too! I'm sure this year will be great!

I'm also sure, this next week will be great! hopefully my car and my family members will continue to be well!

Come Play With Me!!!!!

2009-01-19T21:18:00.012-07:00

Well, since Mandy tagged me, I guess I have to take this little quiz, but I am going to do it a little bit different. It is supposed to be sections of 5 answers, but I am going to do 6, 3 for me and 3 for Christian. So, Here it goes! And remember if you are tagged on the bottom, I better see one of these on your blogs!!!

Tag...You're It!

Favorite TV Shows:
B:
1. One Tree Hill
2. Heroes
3. Amazing Race
C:
1. Heroes
2. Seinfeld
3. Family Guy

Favorite Restaurants:
B:
1. Olive Garden
2. Bajio
3. Chin Wah
C:
1. Olive Garden
2. Fuddruckers
3. Panda Express

Things that happened yesterday:
B:
1. Had fun with the Sunbeams
2. Folded Laundry (yuck)
3. Watched House Bunny
C:
1. Went to work
2. Watched Football
3. Got to kiss my adorable wife!!!

Things I look forward to:
B:
1. Having a baby!!!!
2. Not working (comes with the baby)
3. Sleep!
C:
1. Being a Daddy!!! (he really is)
2. The NFL Draft
3. Another Cruise

Favorite Disney Movies:
B:
1. The Little Mermaid
2. Wall-E
3. Enchanted
C:
1. Wall-E
2. Toy Story
3. Hercules

5 People I Tag:
1. Mandy
2. Jamie
3. Meghann
4. Natalie
5. Stephanie

Thanks Mandy!
Have Fun Girls!!!!

Our Day off!!

2009-01-17T16:39:00.005-07:00

Well, Sundays and Thursdays are the BEST days of the week!!! Why, you ask? Because we don't have to go to work (well, most of the time) So, on our day off this past Thursday, we finally took down Christmas!!! haha I know I know so sad! The tradition is always to leave it up until after my birthday, but I guess I went a little far!!! haha
So, along with taking down Christmas comes cleaning the house! And our house needed it! I was also very glad when my husband willingly helped out! He dusted the whole house, including our fans, then he did a load of laundry (towels) and vacuumed the whole house! It was great to get some things accomplished!!!
Since we had done so much cleaning we both decided we needed to get out! We had gift cards from Christmas so we decided to go to a movie marathon. We went to Yes Man first. Pretty funny movie! Not as good as some of Jim Carey's work, but we laughed! Then we went shopping a little bit. If you haven't been to the district I suggest your go! It is like a mini Gateway! We LOVE it! So, we stopped at Claire's where they had a ton of clearance so Christian got some cute earrings!!! (ha! just seeing if you are paying attention!!!) then we went to Fanzz, Aero, and Zumiez. We went to Village Inn for dinner and then headed back to the theatre for a 3D Horror Flick! haha It was pretty scary, but the 3D was kinda pointless. Oh well, I don't remember the last time I saw a 3D movie!! It was fun!
So, we had a great day off!!! I love when we get things accomplished and have fun!!! We are so lucky to work at the same place and work the same shifts everyday!!! It is truly a blessing!!!
Then last night, Christian went to a Guy's Poker Night while I went to a movie with some girlfriends! We went to see 4 Christmases at the dollar theatre! It was so cute!!!! Great flick! Also, Christian won poker!!! So, he is now $60 bucks richer!!! Woohoo!!! That is always nice! He loves having his guys nights! I am glad we are able to have so much fun with our friends even though we are married! It is great to get out and hang with just the girls/guys once in awhile! I am glad my husband agrees! I love spending time with him, but we both need our "fun time" so it is great to be able to still do that!
So, we have had quite a fun time the last couple of days! Hopefully this next week is just as fun! We have the Thorpe Family Dinner and my nephew's birthday to look forward to, and I am going to spend a couple days in Layton which is always fun!!! Hope everybody is doing well! Have an excellent day and a wonderful weekend!!!

Locks of love!!!

2009-01-11T16:09:00.006-07:00

That's right!!! It's gone! I chopped my very long hair off! I now have a steep A-line cut and I LOVE it!!! I have been talking about doing it for awhile, I was just nervous. So, after MUCH convincing from me and my sister my mom finally gave in and said she would do it! She was so worried that I was going to hate it afterwards she said she would NEVER be the one to do it! haha well, she did and no worries! I don't hate it at all!!! She did an amazing job! I guess 20 years of doing hair has paid off!!! haha Just playin Mom! We all know you are only 29 years old, so that is impossible!

Nobody could beleive I did it
because of how long it was before!!!
Can you?
This pic shows how crazy I am!

We put my hair in a low braid and then my sister, Jamie did the first cut! She was SOOO excited to do it too! We just slowly made it into a complete hair cut after that. Now I love it!!! But I will admit, I was super scared to do it!

So, I chopped off about 10-12 inches in this very wierd looking braid. It was so wierd to hold my own hair! I am going to be donating it though, so it is all worth it! Christian was very worried at first, but ended up LOVING it!!! He can't stop talking about how much he likes my hair, which is a major plus because he likes long hair way more, so I was worried.

Here is the difference in the hair length,
and now my hair is even shorter,
but this is where we started out.
Crazy how drastic it is huh!!!
So, I amy be crazy, but I really do love it! If you know me at all, you know I like to change my hair a lot! the color, the length, the style. It's just so fun to play around with it! Already I have found 4 styles I can do with this length and it is so easy! I can curls it under, straighten it, flip it out (which looks awesome with the coloring job my mom did!) and then I can have the smallest little piggies sticking out the back which is always fun! Who doesn't like to wear pigtails? So, I am very glad I did it! Thanks Mom!

Christmas in a nutshell

2009-01-06T18:21:00.011-07:00

Yes, this is Christmas morning.......Yikes!

We had a fabulous Christmas!!! Christmas eve, we did have to work but we closed at 4, so it was ok! That night we went to my mom's for a delicious Ham dinner, and some great festivities! We had a much smaller Christmas Eve celebration than we normally do, but it was still fun! After dinner we decorated cookies for Santa, had a white elephant present exchange, the kids all performed a song which included I wanna Hippo for Christmas by Morgan, I'm getting Nuttin for Christmas by Taylor, and Up on the Rooftop by Kelby. It was great! Their kids are so dang cute! Also that night I used the presentation that Christian's sister had made about the nativity with Josh Groban singing, and it was great! We listened to some Christmas songs and at the very end Nana read a new Christmas story and gave the kids new pj's. It was a great night!!! I love the new story tradition as well.

Nana and Taylor

Jamie and Morgan
(and Jon's backside)

That night we slept at Jamie's so we could be there when the kids woke up to Santa, it was very fun to see them get so excited!!! I remember my sister and I doing the same things! That morning we had my all time favorite breakfast! with hash browns, eggs, sausage, and cheese all mixed together and sweet rolls! It was tasty! We all opened our gifts and we all got way too spoiled, but it was fun!

Owen

Look how cute!

He is so innocent!

That night we went to the Smith family Christmas party which was a ton of fun! Another round of great food! It was so nice to see everybody and catch up! I can't believe how many kids there are now! We had a white elephant game there as well and it was hilarious! We ended up getting some very large very scary Santa heads that are supposed to go on your porch lights! Just wait until you get them at the party next year!!! ha ha That's right, I will be keeping them all year!!!

Yes, this is the scary Santa!!!

Robyn and Dale hosted this year

Well, Christmas was excellent! I am glad it is over so we can relax a little bit at work! Also, since it is over we got to take a couple of days off from work to have an awesome weekend!!! Including a great New Year!

****Happy 2009!!!!****

Christian, Jon, and Brandon at our party

We had a rockin New Year's!!! We went up to Layton on New Year's Eve and had a wonderful game night at my sister's! If you haven't played partini, you MUST play it soon! It was hilarious! We also played Mafia, which is ALWAYS included in our game nights and we also had a TON of great food! Just before midnight we watched the very sad Dick Clark and the very weird Ryan Seacrest bring in the new year on TV. Had our New Year's Eve kiss, and went to bed! ha ha! We slept over at her house that night, but we did have to work in the morning so we had to kinda call it an early evening. But it was WAY fun!!! We actually stayed in Layton from the 31st to the 4th! It was very fun too! We had to work on the 1st and 2nd, but went back to Layton afterwards.

On the 3rd, was my Birthday, YAY! But it was also my niece's baptism! That's right the first one to be baptized! Mom, don't you feel old! ha ha. It was a wonderful baptism and even Christian cried! We had all of the family their and Mandy was even able to come out, which Morgan was very excited for! She loves Mandy! After the baptism we had a luncheon with some very yummy food! We were able to visit with the family and play with the kids a little bit. We had a great time! And Taylor was just beaming all day!!!

For my birthday morning my mom decorated the house for me just like she did when I was little, I LOVE that tradition! She had these blocks that said Happy birthday, but for most of the day we kept switching out letters as you can see, many wished me a Rappy Birthdal!!! ha ha Then after the baptism me, Mandy, my mom, and Jamie went shopping, just the girls! It was so much fun to get out with them! I bought a Cheri Call CD, which I love and My mom bought me a cute coat for my birthday! After shopping we went to Olive Garden for my birthday dinner where I had an original Italian love song from our Waiter who was amazing!!! And he was pretty cute! ha ha, no worries Christian! It was great! The whole family came and Mandy and Marie and Lukas even came up! So that was great! Once we got back to my mom's house we watched a movie and Christian had made me a cake!!! So cute!!! It's just not your birthday without a cake! So, I had a great birthday!!! Thanks to all those who sent Birthday wishes!!!

Jon and Jamie

Marie and Lukas

Mom and Jeff

Thorpe Family Christmas Dinner!!!

2008-12-15T19:07:00.006-07:00

On Sunday we celebrated Christmas with Christian's family! This is always our best party! It is so fun to get together with everybody! We draw names earlier in the year and the adults exchange with each other and the children exchange with each other. It is so fun to see the gifts that everybody gets. This year it was held by the newest family, The Child's- Natalie, John, Rickle, Reagen, Kortney, Katie, and Emerson (so sorry if I butchered the spellings!) This year we kept the "Fondue Tradition" alive, just did it a little differently. Normally it is meat that we cook, this year we had broccoli, chips, and pretzels to dip in a cheese fondue for an appetizer. And for dessert we had milk chocolate, white chocolate, and mint chocolate fondue dips for pretzels, marshmallows, and bananas. It was so yummy!!! For the main course we enjoyed WAY too much food! Ham, rolls, chips, veggies, cookies, cakes, candy, and an amazing Egg Nogg made by the newest addition John. (Nat, I guess we can keep him!)

Mom and Dad

Bridger

It was a very fun night and it was great to spend time with the family! We wrapped up the evening with the "Puppet Song" Which Bridget and I agree we should do EVERY year!!!

Yes, they are paper bag puppets!!!

Natalie ended the evening perfectly by showing a presentation she had made about the nativity with songs from Josh Groban singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It was an amazing presentation Nat, way to go! Thanks for Hosting Johnalie!! Thanks for the gifts Family!

Hope Everybody has a Merry Christmas!!!!

Happy Birthday!!!!

We also celebrated earlier that week!!! Christian had his 24th birthday on December 12th!!! That day we did have to work, but I embarrassed him over the P.A. and brought him donuts to work. That night our bestest friends Mandy, Troy, Marie, and Lukas joined us for dinner at JCW's and games back at our place. He had a great birthday and walked away with some great gifts! "Thanks for all who gave gifts, and sent birthday wishes" - Love Christian!

****Happy Holidays!!!****

Hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season!!! We have picked up at the store so I definitely won't have time to update again until after Christmas, possibly after New Years!

I hope everybody is doing well!!! Christian and I are doing very well! Just working, and playing a little in between! We are both VERY excited for Christmas.

Remember the reason for the Season when you celebrate this year!

Set aside some time for our Savior dear!

Love you all! God bless!!! Love, The Thorpes

3 years!!! Let's get to 53!!!!

2008-12-06T18:35:00.003-07:00

Happy Annivi-vegas-ry!!! Happy Plane-aversary!!!

Christian and I celebrated 3 years on December 1st!!!! I can't believe it! No, not that we lasted this long, but how fast it went by!!! It has been nothing but fun too!!! What an adventure we have had! In three years we have accomplished more than I could have ever dreamed!!! 6 months after we got married, I received a promotion! We moved to Federal Way, Washington where we met some amazing people, and had an amazing time! We lived there for a year. While we lived there we were able to accomplish the #1 priority on both of our lists~ Getting Sealed in the Salt Lake Temple for Time and ALL Eternity! Best accomplish by far! After Washington, we moved back to Utah to be with our Family. Here we purchased our first home! A dream home at that! Soon after that Christian received a promotion. In March of this year we completed the #3 priority on my list (#2 is kids, nope not yet) go out of the Country. We went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. BEST VACATION EVER!!!!! We have been able to do so much, and I am so glad we were able to be together for it all! I wouldn't trade Christian for anybody! (well, maybe somebody who ate more, but I can live with that I suppose) I am so glad I was able to find somebody who can make me do my two favorite things~Smile and Laugh! And I think he does a darn good job! Even at work when he paged, "At the risk of getting in trouble I would like to announce that it is our anniversary! Thanks for 3 years, hopefully we can make it to 53!!!"
Luv ya hun! And we better!!!

2008-11-20T20:46:00.003-07:00

Christmas Christmas Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't know me at all, you wouldn't know that I am completely obsessed with Christmas! I love it! I love the mad rush of shoppers! I love the angry people trying to drive and getting mad because there are too many people trying to do the exact same thing as them...shop!!! I love that the radio starts playing Christmas music the day after Halloween! (and I love that my car never leaves that station unless I have a Christmas cd in) I LOVE decorating the tree, and I love that I have a job where I get to decorate three trees every year and get paid for it!!! I love driving around or walking around in the cold weather looking at the lights! I love that we have a Christmas Eve celebration every year with my mom's family in which most of the time there is an argument about something before hand, but once we get there it is nothing but Holiday Cheer and the Spirit of Christmas! Decorating Christmas Cookies!!!! Watching Christmas movies!!! Buying gifts for people and watching their face when they open knowing it was exactly what they wanted!!!! Buying gifts for children I will never meet, but knowing that I just made their day!!! I love the Holiday season and I can't wait to share it with my friends and family!

I love that I have roped my husband into it right along with me! I came home from work today and All the lights had been put up on the outside of my house!!! So cute! Later that night he said, I expect to see a tree decorated in here by the end of the week! I decorated the rest of the house about 2 weeks ago, but yes that's right, I have yet to put up the tree. I can't believe I have waited this long either mom!

So, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!! Have fun decorating, shopping, and getting in the Christmas Spirit!!! Oh, and Have a Happy Turkey Day! Jamie will be upset if I skip right over that. haha

*****MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*****

Fun calm before the storm!!!

2008-11-12T19:21:00.007-07:00

We had an EXCELLENT Week off of work!!! Since we work in retail it is nearly impossible to have a day off after Thanksgiving because it is so busy for the Holidays. So, we decided we needed a little break before the crazy holiday rush happens! So, that is exactly what we did!!! We hung out and relaxed!!!

We did get to have some fun to though!!! We went to the BYU game!!!! We decided not to go to our seats until we absolutely had to, and guess what? We never did!!! That's right! We sat on the front row, 50 yard line, right behind the team!!!! It was great! We went with Mandy and Troy and we had an awesome time!!!
We Went and stayed at my mom's house one night, where we went to the Ogden Temple for the first time with my mom and Jeff. Afterwards they took us to the Farr's Ice cream shop across the street from the temple. It was super good! That night we played games with them and Jamie. The next day my mom colored my hair (looks great, thanks mom!) Also that day I went shopping with Jamie, we played with her kids, and then that night we stayed at Jamie's and played games again. It was awesome to be able to spend some time with my family!

This is my mom and me outside the Ogden Temple

Kelby sure does love his uncle Christian!

On Friday, Christian and I had enjoyed the Temple so much that we decided we wanted to go again. So, we went to the Timpanogas Temple for the first time. Christian and I decided we want to go to all the Temples in Utah, if we can make it to the ones outside of Utah even better! So far we have Bountiful, Salt Lake, Seattle WA, Ogden, and Timpanogas checked off the list!

What comes before Part B? PART-AY!!!!!

Our last activity for the very fun week, was a game night with friends!!! It was a great night too!!! We had great food, fun games, and tons of laughing!!! When you put Dave and Christian in the same room, you can only guarantee laughter!!! It was so great to have so many people come to our house! We started the night off with a very funny game of Mafia! We love that game! We could have played it all night!!! The next game was Buzz word, Girls against boys!!!! Then we played Whoonu, and we really didn't know each other very well, but we had fun guessing!!! The night was a huge success, and we plan to have a game night once a month so if you missed it, you better come next time!!!

Cory and Pattyanne
Mandy and Troy
Sarah and Dave
Natalie and John
We had a great turn out! Unfortunately I can't put up a pic of everybody and everything! Wish I could! So, our week off of work was awesome! We had plenty of time to relax, but also had a great time!!! I'm so glad we were able to spend time with family and friends! Now bring on the Holidays!!!!! HO HO HO!!!!

Halloween Fun!!!!

2008-11-02T13:36:00.009-07:00

This year for Halloween we decided to really get into it! We had fun times the whole month of October!!!! So, we will cram it all into one blog since i have been slacking!

Our first activity was carving pumpkins with the Hargetts. We had a blast too! Christian made a scary pumpkin, Mandy made a cute pumpkin, and mine was the dorky one, of course!! Troy supervised. We enjoy having Family Home Evening with our best friends! We also had spaghetti and meatballs that night for dinner, mmm....mmmm!!!! Thanks for the fun times guys! Tinkerbell!!!!

The pathetic homeless Bum!!!

For Halloween I dressed up Tinkerbell, and Christian was a Homeless Bum!!! We had 4 parties to go to and a Murder Mystery Dinner. It was a great Halloween!!! We went to our Friend's house Rachel (Newren) and Curtis for a party, where they had all sorts of fun games, Tarot cards, great food! and cool costumes! We have gone to this Halloween party every year for the last 6 years, so it is always fun! We also attended, that same night our friends Kellie and Mark's party. There were so many people from high school there that we have not seen in so long, it was great to catch up!!! We had so much fun playing Mafia, and laughing I thought my insides were going to burst!!! Our last party was our Friends Joe and Jessica's house where we again, played some awesome Mafia, had some killer food, and a pumpkin carving contest that we failed at miserably! But it was fun! It was so great to get together with our High School buddies! I'm so glad we have kept in contact and can still have so much fun with them!!!

Kellie was Strawberry Shortcake

Me, and Rachel the painter

Joe and Jessica - Sweeny Todd and Ms. Lovett

On Halloween we had a costume contest at work, and had an awesome turn out of 25 costumes, and a ton of food at our pot luck! It was a very fun day at work! Also this month I went to Jamie's house and we colored pumpkins with the kids!!! It was very fun!!!! Also, while I was there we went to see the New High School Musical 3!!! It was a ton of fun and the girl's loved it!!!

All in all, we had a great October and had some very fun Halloween activities!!! Now we can't wait for Christmas!!!!! Woot Woot!!!

I've been tagged!!!

2008-10-27T18:42:00.004-06:00

Good thing my fourth pic is a good one! This is an adorable pic of me and my bestest friend Mandy Hargett! This is at my birthday party last year at the Mayan. It is so fun to look back at my pics and see all the different colors and lengths my hair is! Looks pretty cute though! Mandy you could put your hair in a ponytail! Wow! Well, it was a great birthday! I am glad I was able to share it with my family and friends! Even though teh food there is not all that great! Oh well! It was fun! I can't beleive my birthday is coming up again soon! Pretty crazy! Well, that was fun to be tagged! Thanks Shara! I now pass along the tag to Jamie, Marie, Meghann, and Amanda. Read below to know what to do!!! Have fun girls!

Tag your friends:

Take the fourth picture from your fourth folder on your computer and post it on your blog. Tell us a little bit about that picture; When it was taken, where it was taken, who is in the picture, etc. Then make sure you tag your friends so they can do it as well! Tag! Your it!

5 Year Reunion!!!!

2008-10-12T12:28:00.008-06:00

Cottonwood High School!!!! Home of the Colts! If you can believe it, we have been graduated for 5 years! Pretty crazy, but so much fun! We had our reunion at Cottonwood on Friday night! Myself, and Rachel Newren basically put the whole thing together. We did have a couple helpers as well. It was so much fun being on the committee and putting the whole thing together! The reunion was a huge success!!!
Thanks Rachel!

The Reunion Committee

I created a cd from all of the awesome tunes from 2000-2003 and it was so fun to listen to them at school with all of our school friends! We also had a great plethora of food! We had set up the inner court with tables, balloons, and we had cakes especially made for us! We had a little survey as people walked in to see what they had been up to lately. We had people who had been married for 5 years, some had three kids already, and we had two who had been in Iraq and are planning to go back. We also gave away some prizes. We had 10 gift cards to Wendy's which if you didn't go to Cwood, it was THE hang out for lunch, after school, and late night hook ups with friends, so it only seemed right. Also, our grand prize was a gift card I had brought from Sportsman's Warehouse. To rap it up, we had a great time! We had a great turn out, and it seemed like everybody enjoyed themselves! I have heard of some very lame 5 year reunions, but ours was a blast! And we actually made money! So, we will have something to put towards our 10 year! So, thanks to all those Colts for coming! Hope you had fun! Here are a couple pics I took, it sucks, but it is a good thing I was too busy mingling to take a lot of pictures. There were a ton of people there that I would have loved to take a picture of, sorry that I couldn't get to everybody! It was great to see each of you!

We hung this banner by the entrance!

Christian, Me, Rachel, and Curtis

Mark and Kellie, who haven't changed a bit!!!

Andi Howell, still super fun and cute!!! Helped us out on the committee!

It was so fun to go back to our High School! We LOVED High School! It was also great to be able to be married to my High School Sweetie so the reunion was fun for both of us! I can't wait for the ten year! We definitely had a blast and can't wait to see all of our friends again!

Vacation Time!!!!

2008-09-25T16:32:00.011-06:00

We went to St George for about a week for one last Summer Fling! We had an awesome time!!! Grandpa let us stay at Arlene's house, which was great! (and free)

We wanted a small vacation where we could just get away, but not spend too much money! So, this was perfect! Our first activity was to go shopping at the outlet stores, and to make a stop at the Sportsman's Warehouse there. It is always fun to go see how other stores are merchandising, and what products they have that we don't. The outlets are always fun, we found some good deals and had fun taking some pictures.

Every Sportsman's has a "bronze" out front, there's was awesome, it even had a waterfall!

We had a lot of fun in the stores! We tried on $1300 coats and vests! Yikes!

We also went to a Tuachan play while we were there. Which if you have never been, I highly recommend it! We went with Brandon and Natalie to see Les Miserables! It was amazing! Every person they got to play the characters was an awesome singer and actor! Before the play we went to dinner at the Cracker Barrel with Brandon and Natalie and Craig and Peggy and the kids. Unfortunately I only took this one picture the whole night, but it is super cute!!! We had tons of fun and were way glad we got to spend time with family while we were there!

Brandon and his adorable Halle!

One of our favorite St. George activities is Hiking on the red rocks! So, we took a bunch of great pictures up there! I love looking down on the town and the gorgeous temple from on top of the rocks! Christian was climbing the rocks, and actually got up really high! We also spent some time outside at Quail Creek Reservoir. Christian went fishing and caught about 20 fish! He loved it! His best catch was a 20 inch Large bass. It was awesome! I also caught two fishies! I more enjoyed being there for the swimming and the laying out though! It was awesome weather and the water wasn't freezing! Christian loved fishing and being outside as well! He swam a little bit, but he wanted to hop right back out and fish somemore!

Hiking the red rocks!

Christian nearly hiked to the top!

Having fun swimming!!!

Christian's pride and Joy! (looks smaller than it was)

We also got to go to the St. George Temple for the first time! It was amazing! It is so awesome to me how gorgeous ALL of the Temples are! The craftsmanship inside is so detailed and outstanding! Christian and I decided we want to go to all of the ones in Utah! If we make it to other ones out of state, that is even better, but we definitely want to go to all of the ones in Utah! So far we have 3 down, and 1 down in Washington!

We took some pictures out in front of the Temple. It is gorgeous!!!

Yes, I planned our outfits! haha

We had plans to go to the "Downtown Friday Night" party, but it was pretty pathetic, I think there were four booths, a terrible band playing (which was hilarious) and probably ten people. So, when we were driving away from it, we noticed that there was a rodeo happening that night. So, we went! It was fun! Christian enjoyed it a little more than myself, (it was very hot and it stunk!!!) but it was fun for both of us! I think my husband is a cowboy at heart, even though he hates country music. There were some pretty cool buck offs, and a 9 year old barrel racer, who got second! It was awesome! So, we add fun, even though it was stinky!

So, St George was a blast! In fact we were having so much fun, the night before we had to come home we pulled an all nighter. Well, kinda we went to bed at like 4. It was fun! We love St. George, if we didn't have our favorite house we would transfer to that store in a heart beat!!! So, since we love our house and love living close to family and friends we decided we will retire there, or have a house here and there, like my Grandpa. We love it! We plan to go there every year! We enjoyed hiking, the weather, and the shopping. Especially after we learned Brandon's little shopping secret!!! Thanks to him Christian bought 4 new shirts!!! Thanks Dino!!! That was the best Summer wrap up ever!!! Now we get to look forward to Christmas!!!! You can count down with me if you look on the side of my blog! haha get excited!!!! Start shopping!!! Wahoo!

First Day of Fall

2008-09-22T19:02:00.004-06:00

Well, since today is the first day of Fall, I decided it was time to update my blog background from Summer to fall. I really wanted to put up Christmas, but I guess I will wait until after Halloween, I will be a good girl! Besides this fall one is cute!

We had an excellent St. George vacation, and pictures and a new blog will be coming soon! Hope everybody is doing well! Happy Fall!!!!

Reminder: Christmas is 100 days away!!!! Woot Woot!!!

Familia!!!

2008-09-16T22:41:00.004-06:00

On Sunday Sept. 14th we had my aunt and uncle's baby blessing for Little Baby Taya. Afterwards we had a luncheon and took some family photos. It was great fun! We don't get to see the whole family very often anymore because we all live far away. Some in Layton, some in Salt Lake, some in St George. So, it was good to see everybody. Our family pictures turned out great! We also decided to have a little fun with the pics too. As you can see below. It was a great way to end the weekend! Now I'm just super excited to go to St. George!

My family, in our pinks and browns

My mom and me!

Silly boys!!!

Me and my bro!

My sis and me!

Fishing Fun!

2008-09-12T10:16:00.007-06:00

So, Christian and I have been wanting to go fishing for awhile now! We finally had time to go! just east of Saratoga Springs on the way to Lehi is a little river that connects Utah lake and the Great Salt Lake. I have no idea what it is called, but it is gorgeous, and we had fun! We didn't catch anything unfortunately, but it was nice to relax outside with a cool breeze! A couple of days ago we went to America's Premier Outfitter, Sportsman's Warehouse to get me a new fishing pole. Well, since I am such an avid fisher-woman (some say I was a pro) I decided to get the pink and purple disney princess pole! It is super cute and it came with my very own tackle box! haha Well, it was only 12 bucks. Christian bought some good curly tailed jigs, some billy bobbers, marshmallow powerbait, and some spinners (I got a pink spinner) The reason I am telling you what he bought is because of the names for these things, they make me laugh! Aren't they hilarious? Anyway~ we had a good time! Even though we didn't get any fish. Maybe we will have better luck in St. George. Here I am with my cute new pole! You are all jealous!

Mine and Christian's pose.

Aren't we cute!

Christian having the time of his life!

He loves fishing!

Thorpe Family Din Din

2008-08-26T19:50:00.004-06:00

Every month we get together with the Thorpe family and have an excellent dinner, great conversation and tons of laughs! Oh my goodness do we laugh! I was hungry by the time I left because I had worked off all of my food! It was great fun! We celebrated Tiffany and Bricker's birthdays while we were there too! Happy B-day guys! We only got one picture (which isn't that great) because unfortunately our photographer Devin, and Gail and Dayton couldn't attend, but hopefully we will catch them next month. The rest of the family did get to come however, Christian's brothers and sisters and all the little kids were there, and even our "almost" new addition Jon who, according to Emerson, "Has the coolest job, cuz he makes toys!" So, it was great to have that many there! We went to Sweet Tomatoes in Sandy. All 22 of us! We all enjoyed the food and had an excellent time! I love getting together with them. I had a blast!

Summer Fun, Having a Blast!

2008-08-20T17:59:00.008-06:00

Christian and I decided to go on a little adventure today. Try things new. So, we went to a restaurant we had never been to called JCW's it is a burger joint by Thanksgiving Point. It was actually very tasty! Real barbequed, juicy hamburgers.

So, I would recommend it!

Next we went to this new place called Liberty Fun Park. If you have heard of Boondock's or Fiesta Fun in St George, it is very similar. Just opened a month ago. It is right off the freeway in Lehi, great for the little kids because everything is miniaturized. Small rollercoaster, small racetrack, small "Rocket" ride and "Tidal Wave" ride. It also has bumper boats, a carousel, a covered pavilion where you can eat, and a very small train track ride. The miniature golf course is 18 holes, and was pretty fun! We love miniature golfing! It was a great atmosphere and since it is new, not many people know about it so there were only two families in the whole place!

Christian decided to show you just how miniature things are here...

So, this I would definitely recommend for parent's! It is 16.50 for an unlimited pass! That is a pretty cheap day, especially with how expensive Lagoon is now. They are still in the process of building the inside, but it will eventually be an arcade and lasertag area.

So, we added to our summer festivities. We didn't exactly complete all we wanted to this summer with our work schedules, but it has been quite fun! We may be taking a vacation to Pheonix to visit some friends in October, so that will be fun! Hope everybody is doing well!

What time is it? Summer Time!!!

2008-07-31T21:59:00.007-06:00

Christian and I have been having a very eventful Summer so far! I haven't had a chance to even Blog about it. This is us at Gallivan Plaza watching the fireworks on the 23rd. We have made it a tradition that last couple of years to camp out on the parade route for Pioneer Days! We had a blast! We set up our tent and sleeping bags and then went to the Culture Fest at Gallivan. We ate at the very crowded (only place open) Carl's Jr. and then went back to our tent and watched Ghostbuster's on our Laptop! We got very little sleep due to all the noise, but it was way fun! the next Morning we watched the parade. Couldn't show you all the floats, but I thought I would show you the most important one!! BYU!!!!!

There were a ton of great floats! I can't beleive the time and money that goes into it! We also got to see Thomas S. Monson riding in a convertible with an adorable Cowboy hat on! It was awesome! After the parade we went home and took a nap. That night we lit our own fireworks (pathetic ones, but fun ones) at our house. It was a great Pioneer Day!!! I can't wait for next year!

Also, This Summer a very exciting thing has happened! I am an aunt again! His name is Owen Benjamin Talbot! He is super cute! To give Mommy a break I took Taylor and Morgan for a girl's night and we watched the 3-D Hannah Montana concert! Man did they love it!!! We got Hannah Montana bracelets, tattoos, and little ceasers pizza! I love spending time with my neices and nephews!!! They are so stinkin cute!!! See, look......

My Mom and I drove to the Hospital in Moroni at 11:30pm. Got there at about 1:00am. and stayed there until 11:00am!!! Owen was a stubborn little boy! He was warm and did not want to come out! I am so glad I got to be there when he was born though! It is great hearing that first cry! Baby Owen and Jamie are both doing excellent! He is super cute and loves his brother and sisters! We are so glad to have another baby and my summer couldn't have been better!

Summer Fun!!!

2008-07-01T21:00:00.006-06:00

Well, not much to update, but we have been having a great Summer so far!

We don't do much, but work. haha On our off days however, we try to have some fun!

Our last day off, we went to a double feature movie at Thanksgiving point. We saw Ironman, and then had a picnic on the grass, walked around the gorgeous gardens!!! and then saw The Hulk. Both were very good movies! And we had a great time together!

We have also been enjoying some family time. We camped outside my Mom's backyard and roasted marshmallows in her firepit with my sister, and neices and nephew and the kids ran through the sprinklers when they came to visit our house, it was great fun!

Also, this summer we have decided to complete our yard. We put in the grass last year and flowers and bushes this year. We aren't finished yet, but it is coming along. finally starting to look like our Home. Christian is loving every minute of it! How many wives can say their husbands get excited to mow the lawn and pull weeds? Mine does! It's great!

Here are a couple pictures of what we have done so far.

We plan to go camping, boating, swimming, to the zoo and play outside as much as possible this summer! We will keep posting picture's along the way! Hope everybody is doing well!

Christian Super Excited about "his" lawn!

He is such a gardner! Cute plants huh!

The almost finished product

Look at our adorable tortuga! (turtle)

Christan caught some fishies!!!

Summer fun for Loui!

Freezing sprinklers!!!

Getting to know us

2008-05-31T23:10:00.000-06:00

Well, most of you already know us, but here is some updated info and new pictures!

We are very excited for summer to come! Luckily the weather has stayed decent, a few scattered showers, but we love the rain. (we miss Washington)

Work is going well, we actually have our Company Party tomorrow, hopefully we will win some cool prizes, but with our luck probably not. Oh well. It will be fun! I planned the whole thing so it better be!

We went on a cruise in March to the Mexican Riviera! So fun! I can't post all the pictures, sorry. But it was the best vacation ever! If you haven't been on a cruise I highly suggest you go! It is worth the money!!!

We have been trying to make our new house look more like our home, so I will post pictures soon of what we have done. Christian is super excited to mow "his lawn" and pull "his Weeds." And I am super excited I don't have to do that. I just get to plant my flowers and greenery!!!

So, here are some pictures of us. By the way, I don't know how to add you to my list of "friends and family" so if somebody could explain to me, that would be great! haha

Hope everybody has a great weekend!

Playing Bingo on the ship

Yes, it is real!

Puerto Vallarta

Mazatlan Beach

A day at the park

Our adorable Loui Lou-i

Christian and me at the zoo

New to Blogging!!!

2008-05-30T22:53:00.000-06:00

Hello!

The Thorpe's have decided to join the blogging community! Hopefully this way we can keep everybody up to date with our crazy lives! I love looking at the other ones in the family, so I thought I would make one as well!

Well, quick update for us is that we have really been up to nothing! Work is starting to pick up a hair, but not much. I have put in for a Regional Office Manager position so that's exciting! Thanks to Brandon I submitted a very good resume, had my interview today which also went well. I will find out in two weeks if I got it or not, so I will keep you posted!

We want to plan a barbecue at our house again soon! Hopefully you can come and everybody wil be in town! Hope everybody is doing well! Have an excellent day!

The Thorpe's

Super Fun Weekend!

Good News!!!

Update #2

January in a nutshell

My Birthday gift!

Christmas!!!!

Thanksgiving!!!

Good Times!

Christmas is everywhere at the Thorpe home!

Happy Halloween!!!

Round 2!!!

A trip to the car dealership!

A bunch of fun stuff!

Great weekend Kickoff!

A night full of laughs!!!

Weird excitement!

A wonderful day off!!!

MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thorpe Family Luau!!!

Another group date!

Blind Date!!!

Another fun Week!!!

More fun!

Island Park, Idaho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boating fun!!!

Girl's Night!

July 24th Kassing Style!

Pioneer Day!

Fun Fun Fun!!!

Fun Stuff!!!

UFC 100!!!

HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY!!!

Good times!!!

Updates!!!

PAMPERED CHEF!!!

You think you know, but you could be wrong!!!

PAMPERED CHEF!!!

Busy Busy Busy!!!

Pampered Chef

Sunbeams

Salt Lake Temple Session

Perfect ending to a long week!

Good Times!

SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Week!

Good Times ~ GG's!!!!

Girl's Night!!!

Brittany and Christian's Day of fun!!!!

Time for some fun!!!

You can't play after the work! You must play during the work!!!

Good Times!!!

Hand me down!!!!

Crazy couple of days!!!

Come Play With Me!!!!!

Our Day off!!

Locks of love!!!

***Christmas in a nutshell***

Thorpe Family Christmas Dinner!!!

3 years!!! Let's get to 53!!!!

Fun calm before the storm!!!

Halloween Fun!!!!

I've been tagged!!!

5 Year Reunion!!!!

Vacation Time!!!!

First Day of Fall

Familia!!!

Fishing Fun!

Thorpe Family Din Din

Summer Fun, Having a Blast!

What time is it? Summer Time!!!

Summer Fun!!!

Getting to know us

New to Blogging!!!

Christmas in a nutshell