Michelle and Landon

Landon's 25th!

2012-01-29T15:06:00.000-08:00

I know I am quite a bit behind but you got to start somewhere!

We always get to start of December with a bang, Landons birthday falls at the first of the month so it just adds to the excitement of the Holidays.

This year Landon turned 25!

which means, now when we go on vacation he can finally drive the rental car.... Legally at least.

For his birthday Landon got a new xbox with a kinect, which we enjoy dancing around the living room and just looking like complete idiots most of the time!

We invited a few friends over for cake and ice cream and had some fun.

I love Landon so much and I am glad I get to spend so much time with him and watch as we continue to grow closer as a couple. He never stops telling me how much he loves me I couldn't ask for a better husband! Happy Birthday Love!

Umm...Happy Halloween

2011-11-28T22:34:00.001-08:00

Now seeing its like a month past Halloween I figured I should really post some pictures.

My adorable little nephew Kyson practicing his scary face!

I was forced to dress up at work so I found random things in my closet and came up with wheres waldo, can you find me. I can totally find a freaking cute monkey in this picture.

My sister brought him over so we could be his first official trick-or-treat house ever!

Alexa was a cub scout, holding a smily monkey.

Roxy cat was got a skeleton costume as well, although she mauled me as I put it on her she surprisingly kept in on most of the night, but she continued to attack me every time she got the chance (you can see the murder in her eyes).

Not much else, we stayed at home and welcomed our 6 trick or treaters with handfulls of candy. We are still eating leftover candy to this day. I made homemade brocoli cheddar soup in pumpkin bread bowls I got from the store. YUM! Hope everyone else had a good Halloween, even if it is a month late!

Roxy

2011-09-10T14:24:00.000-07:00

So for the longest time Landon and I have wanted a pet. When we finally bought our house we figured now was the time! I wanted a dog but with my new job I knew I would not have enough time to devote to a rambunctious puppy. So that is how we came to find our most of the time adorable Roxy cat!

We picked her up from the pet store in June and Landon was amazed that I actually went through with buying here...I have a past of not being able to commit to pets. As a kitten she had a funny personality about her, and loved to chew on and play in my roxy shoes, hence the name!

Its been a couple of months since we first got her and we love her to death! She constantly makes our lives more entertaining.

Here are some of Roxy's quirks:

She is insanely needy when she is left at home all day alone, and will run and meet you at the door and wait for you to pick her up and give her some love and pets. (I love being the first one home from work because of this).

We are pretty sure she is bi-polar, literally, one minute she is a loving lap cat, the next she is zooming around the house like a nut job (I hope to one day catch this on camera).

She hates drinking out of her water bowl so instead she waits and drinks out of everyones cups when the aren't looking. Because of this we have resorted to just leaving a cup by the fridge just for here, even though her water dish is just feet away in the laundry room.

She finds the funniest places/positions to sleep in

She also is a menace lots of the times....

But we love her still.

The world will miss him

2011-08-29T12:29:00.001-07:00

Today I head some awful news. One of my most amazing friends lost her adorable brother yesterday in a car accident, at the young age of 17. It is things like these where I can't help but wonder, "why was it his time?"
I have been blessed to grow up in a religion being taught that we will have the opportunity to see each other again in heaven and that families can be together forever, but it does not make news like this any less hard. He had such a bright future ahead of him, and now the world will never know the amazing person it lost at such a young age.
It makes me kind of of angry that there seem to be so many people who don't even care for or appreciate the life they have but it is the strong, amazing, people who have to face some of the hardest trials. We will never know the completeness of Gods plan on this earth, we just have to have faith.

My heart love and prayers go out to my amazing friend and her family as they cope with the loss of an amazing person.

The great gas light debate!

2011-07-12T18:22:00.000-07:00

So in the last few months a few things have changed in our lives (mostly mine)

New Job

New House

New Cat

(All of which I will update about later in my life) but for now

the thing that makes me happiest of all...

Not seeing this annoying thing as much!

Today was the first day in over two weeks that this unwanted reminder payed me a visit.

When I was going to school and working in Salt Lake I was very familier with this annoying little light because I had to fill up my car with expensive dirty looking water just about every 4 days!!

Needless to say this light cost me mucho mula over the last 2 years, So I am happy to now see him less often.

But this brings me to...duh duh dunn....the great gas debate between Landon and I.

I walk in the house from work today and joyfully tell Landon that my gas light was on, and not burnt out like I was starting to suspect because I had not seen it in awhile.

So Landon brought up the absurd idea and asked if I went and filled up my gas tank?

WHAT?@!? Why would I have done such a thing???

(Let me draw your attention to the left side of the picture in bright neon lights my car proudly proclaims that I have (at least) 50 miles that I can still go on said gas! That will get me to and from work easily for the rest of the week, if not on into next week! Why would inconvenience myself now when I can easily put it off for a few more days!

Landon proceeds to repeatedly bang his head into the wall and states "when you run out of gas...again...I am not coming to help you".

Procrastination at its finest! I am queen of the E as Landon fondly refers to me. I attribute this mostly to the fact that I while commuting I had to fill up so often that I did try to put it off as long as possible. But in my defense I have only ran out of gas once...that Landon knows of...

So who else out there waits till the last second to fill up their car?

University of Utah Graduate!

2011-05-10T08:35:00.000-07:00

Miss me? I havent had much time lately because I have been bustin my butt for this....

I finally graduated from college!!!!
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The last two semesters I took 24 and 26 credits so that I could be done! If you ask me now I say that it was well worth the time, effort and stress. But if you would have asked me two weeks ago during finals my brain was fried!
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I was lucky that one of my favorite authors was the speaker at my graduation, Mitch Albom (he wrote the bestselling book Tuesdays with Morrie, which I highly recommend)! It made it so memorable for me! One of the things that he said that I loved was, that your life is made up of all the grains of sand in an hourglass. When your time is up and that last grain of sand is falling, what is it that you want most? Your big screen TV? or to be surrounded by the people you love to let them know you love them? In your last grain of sand all you want to do is to give your love to everyone. Every grain of sand is exactly like the next, you can discern one from the other, so why should all the other grains of sand in your life be spent doing anything but investing in the relationships that will ultimately be all you want in life?

I graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelors of science degree in Health Promotion and Education with an emphasis in Emergency Medical Services and Search and Rescue. Yeah its a mouthful! So what do I want to do with my life now you ask??? My dream is to be a ER/Life Flight nurse! So I will be finishing out my RN degree and in the mean time I hope to start working in the ER and try to get on with the Utah County Search and Rescue team I love the outdoors and I love the adrenaline rush of helping people when they are at their worst.

I really enjoyed my schooling and all the classes and teachers I had, which helped me realize even more what I wanted in my life! I also want to say that there is no way I could have done any of this with out my family. My parents and grandparents helped me out so much! And Landon, poor thing had to put up with me on a day to day basis while I was a mental case with stress! I love them all so much for helping me get to where I am now!

Here are some more pictures from graduation!!!

I got my die hard BYU fan Dad to wear the red U of U tie I got him for Graduation! Shows how much he loves his daughter!

Im pretty sure there is a future U of U alum in there!

My wonderful family!

Yay Me! It took me a long time, and a few different colleges, but I would change one bit of it!

getting around to it....February Recap!

2011-03-20T18:18:00.000-07:00

Ha ha ha, that seems to be the theme of my life lately

....getting around to it!

It kills me to think that March is almost over and I still havent posted anything about February! So much has happend in the last two months that it overwhelms me to think about blogging about it all and so I haven't.

So here is a quick overview of Feb!

I love the month of February only because it starts off by my birthday! I turned 25 this year, and totally had a quarter life crisis! I cant believe I am so old! I contemplated what I have done with my life so far and what I still want to do! I have vowed to make the next 25 years much more entertaining! One thing that I really look forward to being 25 is now I can rent a car without paying extra fees!!! Landon and I are really excited about this because it opens up more vacation possibilities for us!

For my Birthday I was able to hang out with some great friends and all of my family! I had like 4 birthday cakes!

One present that Landon got me was Kiteboarding lessons!!!! I have been wanting to do this for years now and it was a blast! We learned the basics of how to fly and handle the kite! We get to go again this week and actually get on our boards with the kite!

My other Birthday/Valentines present was a supper nice Bernina sewing machine! I LOVE IT. I never used to be much into sewing but with my sister having a baby I have started to love making quilts. I finally was able to finish a quilt I started when Landon and I first got married!

LOVE IT! Now I just need to get it quilted!

The end of February was so much fun! One of my old roomies from USU is pregnant with her first baby girl! So we found it a good excuse to get together all of our old roommates and their husbands for a brunch date and a baby shower! I had the best time! These girls are some of my BEST friends and I am supper bummed I dont get to see them much anymore! We always laugh and have the best time together!

For the shower I made KJ a baby blanket and to beanie hats from the cutest fabric! I was able to put the baby's name on it seeing they have already picked it!

And last but not least Landon finished off the month by surprising me and taking me to a Jazz game! He rode up to SLC and surprised me when I got off work! It was a great night and a nice surprise!

It was a great month! Hopefully soon I will start posting about the exciting things that have happend this month!

GO ME!

2011-02-04T19:46:00.000-08:00

So I picked up the mail today and saw a letter from the U, I figured it was just something regarding my upcoming graduation....but it wasn't.

It was a letter notifying me I had made the Deans List!!!

I have made the deans list before but I wasn't taking nearly the class load or the upper division classes that I did last semester.

I dont mean to stroke any ego I might have, but I feel so proud of myself! I have been working my butt off to graduate. Last semester I took 26 credits of all upper devision classes, while working and commuting! I spent so much time on homework and tests and I had pretty much punched my ticket to insanity island....but it payed off so I have to say it....GO ME!

Let the Lists begin....+Exciting News!

2011-01-05T17:59:00.000-08:00

I'm going to be mean and leave the exciting new till the end,and let the excitement build!

So I decided to take a idea from one of my Good friends Jenn C! She shall always be know as the queen of lists to me, and she is so good at them! At the beginning of each year she makes some lists an I did list, and a I will do list, and I have decided to do some of my own this year!

I did in 2010...

1. Completed a 24 credit semester with all A's and 1 B!

2. Camped in Lake Powell

3. Welcomed my brother back from his mission.

4. Celebrated our 2 year anniversary.

5. Family vacation in San Diego.

I will do in 2011...

1. GRADUATE from college!

2. Leave the country for a vacation.

3. Go on a cruise.

4. Ace my last semester...(another 24 credits)

5. Eat healthier, and work out more...(isn't this on everyones list?)

6. Learn how to paddle board

7. Finish my first quilt.

8. Spend more time with family and friends.

9. Do at either a triathlon or half marathon.

10. Go parasailing!

And probably many more!

And so now on to the exciting news......

No its not my baby (just a little bummed about this) but it is my big sisters! I'm so excited my I'm finally going to be an Aunt! Im sure my sister is going to get sick of me, but I can't wait to spoil my future niece or nephew! I already have so many ideas for this little one! I can't even contain myself waiting to hear if it's a boy or a girl! My sister broke the new to us on sunday when they invited us all over to dinner, she stuffed little ultrasound pictures in New Years party poppers announcing that she is due on July 21st, yay! Even though I found out on Sunday I had to wait till now to say anything until all of the family knew, we are all so excited!

Finally some Free time!

2010-12-20T10:13:00.000-08:00

I have finally finished my second to last semester! Not with out some trouble though....I missed my last final because I was stuck in traffic from an accident! Lucky for me my teacher was amazingly nice and set up a time with me to take it the next day! I do have to say I am pretty proud of myself, with taking 24 credits I didn't know how well I was going to do in all of my classes, but I managed to pull off all A's and only 1 B! One more semester to go, then Im done!!!!

Since I finished my finals on friday I had some free time to do some christmas crafts that had been collecting dust for awhile!

Two years ago Landon and I were able to get these great silver and gold ornaments for our tree on clearance! I love them and think it gives such a chic classic christmas feel to our house.

But...I didn't have any matching stockings or tree skirt to go with it. I was blog surfing one day and saw someone who had made stockings and a tree skirt out of a $10 canvas drop cloth from Home Depot, I fell in love, and the canvas color would work great with my tree! I have finished my stockings, but im still putting the finishing touches on the tree skirt!

While I was at it I wanted to add some other christmas decorations that matched my tree, but could not find any. So I decided to make some Christmas blocks (I had already made some for thanksgiving and valentines day). It takes me awhile because I have to make the stencils all by hand.....hint hint hubbs....! But I think they turned out really cute!

I LOVE how they turned out, I think they are my best blocks yet! I am horrible at taking pictures while im making things but here is my summarized process.

I had Landon cut and sand the blocks all different sizes from a 2x4 and 2x6 and a skinny piece for the Merry. Then I picked out different fonts for each letter and printed out on card stock and exacto knifed them to make stenciles. I painted the blocks white and sanded down the edges. I then stenciled on the letteres, I used folk art metallic paint to match my glittery tree! I then took some stain and rubbed it along the edges to distress them some. Last but not least, I also cut out snowflake stencils (the hardest and longest part of it all) and painted them on to random blocks. While the snowflake paint was still wet I covered it with some white sparkle glitter!

I now thing my living room looks complete! I am so excited for Christmas if not just for the fact I dont have to worry about school, I also get to spend extra time with my family and Landon!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

November almost come and gone....

2010-11-21T23:02:00.000-08:00

This month has seem to fly by for me mostly because I have had little time to do much of anything besides homework and work. Lets just say that taking 24 credits was not one of my brightest ideas! Many people who find this out think I am some kind of nut job, then they find out im working and commuting on top of it and they ask how I am still alive. On a side note I have a friend who is taking 36 credits and basically lives at Starbucks, so compared to him I am normal!

This last week has been one of the craziest of them all. Now that the term is coming to an end all of my term papers, research papers, assignments, quizes and tests are all due at the same time! Just this last week I busted out both a 10 page and 20 page research papers in 2 days!

But the AMAZING NEWS!!! My graduation application has been officially accepted and I have registered for my last semester of classes (another exciting 21 credits) and I will graduate on May 5th next year! Needless to say I am STOKED! And in all honesty thats the only think keeping me going during these last two horrible semesters! I just want to be done!

A funny thing happens when I get really stressed....I get a perma twitch in my left eye! Loads of fun....it drives me bonkers and random people think im winking at them!

Another cool thing that happened the beging of November...My bro came home from his mission in Rochester, New York!

Its been fun having him back. Since he has been back he has spent a considerable amount of time and our house, cleaning off any leftover dinner we might have! Also now that I spend an annoying amount of time on the computer doing homework, he and Landon spend quality bonding time on the couch....

playing halo. I get the joy listening to them kill people as I try to come up with new ways to feed the hungry in Africa!

Landon and I are continuing to look for a house, it is becoming very tedious and adds even more stress to my life. Some days I think we will never find a house and we will be doomed to live in apartments forever. We get the joy of moving next week also to another apartment that will let us go month to month until we find a house so we dont have to resign another year lease where we are at.

This last saturday after my crap homework week I decided to throw a early Thanksgiving dinner party! Landon and I will be on vacation over Thanksgiving with my family and we wont be able to have a traditional Thanksgiving. So I decided to have one with some friends of ours and it was so much fun having them over for good food and fun! It was my first time ever making a turkey and I was horrified of ruining it. But amazingly it turned out perfect and moist and better than expected for my first time!

Everything turned out so wonderful! I was exhausted from spending all day cooking in the kitchen, but it was so much fun and something I hope to continue for years to come!

I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving! After the break I only have two more weeks of class! After that I can start enjoying winter and hopefully go snowboarding and enjoy Christmas before next semester starts!

Press Pause...

2010-10-17T17:38:00.001-07:00

This last week was my fall break from school and also mine and Landon's two year anniversary! It was nice to finally be able sit down and not have to do any homework, taking 24 credits can burn you out fast...who would have thought! I was finally able to catch up on a few other things, like; cleaning my disaster area apartment! How dose an apartment keep getting dirtier when your never there? And I also finally got around to doing my laundry that I was two week behind on! I was also able to get ahead start on some upcoming homework I have, and finally get around to catching up on my blog!

I have really enjoyed most of my classes this semester! One of my favorites has been my search and rescue class! A few weeks ago we got to go visit the Air Med helicopter pad and the Life Flight plane hanger and talk with the crews! I was in heaven, this is what I want to do with my life so getting to talk to these guys and watch them in action was the highlight of my month! When we were on the air med heli pad we got to see two helicopters land with patients, and see them get a call and take off to go pick up someone else! It was so cool! And in the Life Flight hanger we got to see how they can transport patients by airplane!

For our anniversary we were planning on going to San Francisco but we put an offer on a house we like so we had to stay closer in case we needed to do anything with that. So we ended up going up to Park City for the weekend and stayed in the nicest hotel I have ever seen, it was called The Chateau at Silver Lake! Landon out did himself and I had such a great time! It was nice to be able to see and spend more then 30 min with Landon seeing that we are both so busy! We were planning on riding the alpine slide and zip line but ended up getting rained out, I was so bummed, but it was nice that we didn't spend as much money as we had planned on!

Over all it was a great pause from school and work it helped relieve so much stress and tension i had. I felt bad because with both of us being so busy and stressed in a small little apartment there were times we got on each others nerves. It was nice to take a week and remind ourselves how much we love each other. Needless to say I am dreading to have to start back with everything tomorrow but it is nice to know I am now half way done with my nightmare semester!!!
Also I am excited for the weeks coming up, my little brother gets home from his mission!!! I can't wait to see him! After he gets home we are going on a family vacation over thanksgiving to Cali so that should be fun and oh so entertaining! Nothing like saying welcome home Elder then being confined in cars and hotel rooms with your family for a week!

Rescue practice turns real!

2010-09-29T08:15:00.001-07:00

One of my classes this semester is a High Angle Rescue class which is pretty much the bomb! So for the last few weekends I have spent 12 hours a day dangling off a cliff learning different rescue techniques. The class has by far been one of my favorites but 12 hours a day three days in a row is brutal mentally and physically! I don't think I have ever been so sore, bruised and bleeding in my life.

So on this past Sunday while our class was working on some practice scenarios our instructor saw a climber fall 80 feet from the cliff below us! With in seconds we switched from practice mode to real life application! I feel bad the guy fell and was hurt but this was by far the coolest thing ever! This is the kind of thing I want to do so I was on cloud 9 and full of adrenalin and excitement. We were able to help the climber until EMS arrived, we then helped backboard and carry him across the river to the ambulance and in doing so made it in the news! Here is the link! Deseret News: Climber burns hands in 80 foot fall. and yes that is me in the picture! It was amazing that he fell 80 feet and got away with just severe rope burns on his hands!

Here are some more pictures from the duration on our class:

Landon was so great while I spent these long hours in my class he managed to have the house clean and a wonderful dinner waiting for me with a back rub every night when I got home! It reminded me how incredibly wonderful he is and how lucky I am to have him in my life!

I had so much fun learning how to rescue people in cliff situation! It made me remember how much I missed climbing over the last few years! I am excited and more determined to get back out on the rocks some more to keep these skills sharp and hopefully soon I will have the knowledge and skills I need to apply to be a volunteer on the SLC search and rescue team!

3's and 7's

2010-09-16T10:12:00.000-07:00

Bad things happen in 3's and 7's....

so after having my wallet stolen last week the bad luck streak was just getting started!

On tuesday I was busy canceling all my cards and filing police reports so I forgot that tuition was due that day...opps! I had to go down to the registrars office and beg them not to drop my classes.

Thursday I had to go down to the social security office to get a new SS card (you need that to get a new drivers license). But they would not give me one because I didn't have a drivers license! They said I could go and get a copy of my medical record signed by my doctor, so I went down to my Dr's office. BUT they couldn't give it to me without a ID! I lost it and was bawling in the middle of the office. Finally they felt so bad they let me use my car registration and gave me my record. I was finally able to apply for my SS card. (I have to wait for that to be mailed before I can head down to the DMV which will be another adventure).

Later thursday I had class, so I went up to the U a little early so I could go and get my new student ID and trax pass and do a few other things on campus. After class on my way to my car I could not find my keys in my bag. I spent the next 30 min back tracking around campus, and lucky for me some nice person turned them in to the student union desk!

That weekend I had my cliff face rescue class from 8am-8pm, it was tons of fun! But on Saturday night when I got home from my class I realized that I needed a few things from the store. So I just grabbed a set of car keys and left. When I came back from the store I realized I didn't grab my house keys...I was locked out. This normally wouldn't have been so bad because my Mom usually has a spare key and Landon. But Landon was out of town for work and I had used my Mom's copy awhile back and never gave it back to her. So I had to call the locksmith at 11pm wait for 1 hour for him to come and pay $50 bucks to have him let me in.

It was a really adventurous week! By the end of it was just exhausted! I was just waiting to see what else could happen next. I usually am really good about knowing where I put things, so I feel like my brain has just gone to mush. I think my heavy class load is getting to me and stressing me out just a bit. So I have decided that I am going to cut back on my work hours (lucky me I have a great boss that will let me) So that I can have a few hours for me and to catch up on homework. Hopefully this will help my stress level....I don't have much more stuff to loose!

A No Good Very Bad Day

2010-09-07T21:16:00.000-07:00

So I have noticed lately that when I get stressed my brain goes to applesauce!

And I gave the human race way to much credit thinking that most of us were decent people.

Well apparently not the person that stole my wallet

We went to the movies last night and unbeknownst to me my wallet fell out of my purse and on the floor and was left behind.

This morning when I went to get breakfast from the hospital cafeteria I noticed my loss and called the theater with no such luck.

So lucky me got to spend all morning filling a police report, canceling my credit cards, bank cards and all of my checks, notifying my health insurance, the credit bureaus, my school ID and trax pass so that the thief wouldn't get away with much.

What makes me most upset are those things I cant replace...I had a few gift cards to restaurants and stores I was looking forward to using along with some free movie passes. My original Lifeguard certification (it holds special meaning to me). Some receipts from things I needed to return (guess their mine now). But most importantly to me it had my first full temple recommend, with my endowment stamp on the back and where I very first signed my married name when Landon and I were sealed, that I will never forgive the thief for taking.

A few funny things happened while I was dealing this today

All credit card, bank and insurance companies all nicely told me to Have a Great Day at the end of my depressing call.

After telling the credit card company that I had my wallet stolen, they then preceded to ask me for my card number...sorry kinda dont have that.

I was told by my bank to go to the branch and get a new card made...so I did, but they conveniently forgot to tell me I needed a form of ID to get the new card, non of which I had, I left in tears...They later called Landon and told him he could be my "ID" since its our joint account.

And by far my favorite......I called a card company to report my lost credit card and the coustomer service lady (who I guess had the IQ of a 2 year old) in all seriousness asked "Have you looked for it?", I holding back my amazement and laughter I responded "Yes, I looked and did not find it, which is why I am calling to report it lost"

So if anyone knows anyone who works at the Provo Town theaters please tell them to keep an eye out for my very missed bright pink wallet.....Thanks and Have a GREAT Day!!!

I love being a (U of U) student!

2010-08-26T17:23:00.000-07:00

So I am here sitting on the TRAX train (which is always an entertaining experience in and of itself) coming home from school, contemplating life! This week is my first week in two years in which I am back to being a full time student, and I forgot how much I LOVE it!
So I put U of U in parentheses because I'm not here to boast any opinions of one school is better than another, more that I just love learning. For the last two years since Landon and I were married I have worked full time and done school on the side. But now that I am so close to being graduated I just wanted to get it over with.
During the time I was working full time I was always kinda depressed because I don't like the mundane of day to day routine. So when I started back this semester with my 24 credits (I'm crazy I know) I fell back in love with being a student! I love going to class and learning new things (not exactly paying or doing homework for said classes) and also making new friends and gaining new experiences!
One reason why I love the U so much is the amazing diverseness you see around campus. One of my teachers brought up this idea that when you surround yourself with like minded people there is only so much you can learn. But when your surrounded with so much diversity you have the opportunity to learn and grow so much more and your opinions and beliefs have the opportunity to be challenged and strengthened. I loved that, and that's how I feel!
So even though I'm probably going to have to sell a kidney or something to pay for my last two semesters of school, I can't wait, because I look back on everything I have learned and will learn and I can see how much I have learned and grown as a person! And I am stoked to get to graduate in May! And you better believe I'm going to be throwing a HUGE amazing party next year to celebrate, and everyone is invited!

More Road Trip...More Pictures!

2010-07-03T18:36:00.000-07:00

After our first day in lake powell we stayed in Kanab, Landons parents had won a gift certificate to stay at a hotel.

Apparently it used to be the place where all the stars stayed while they filmed lots of old western movies in southern Utah.

The next day we were going to go back to lake powell and rent some jet skis and play around but it was way to windy and made the lake to choppy for jet skis :(

So instead we decided to take a side trip to Zion's and had lots of fun there. We could not hike angels landing because of the wind, so instead we did a hike called hidden canyon, which was very cool.

We ate at an amazing restaurant that night called sidewinders (I think) and then went to the local candy store in springdell and got some amazing chocolates!

After our last night in Kanab, we started to head home :( on our way back we decided to stop by Bryce Canyon! It was so pretty, I was a little bummed the hike I really wanted to do (called wall street) was closed due to a rock slide, I guess that's a good enough reason. So we did a few smaller hikes and still had some fun.

Funny story about the last picture...so in order to take this great picture Landon decided he needed to stand on the fence! Which entailed him trying to get on the fence and stay balanced on the top of the post, this took about 10 min, I and everyone around was dying laughing! So he finally gets balanced on the fence some foreign lady comes and stand on the other side of the tree totally ruining the shot! She stands there for a good 5 min clueless to the fact she was in our way, while poor Landon was dying trying to stay balanced on the fence post, I could not stop laughing!

So all in all we had a wonderful trip, it was so refreshing to get away from all our cares for awhile and enjoy some great scenery! We came back with lots of amazing pictures, sore legs, and a slight sunburn and we could not have been happier!

Road Trip! Picture Overload!

2010-07-03T18:11:00.001-07:00

A few weekends ago Landon and I too the opportunity of taking a few days off firm work and taking a road trip to southern Utah! It didn't turn out quite like we had planned but we had a great time!

About an hour into our road trip our wonderful brand new car broke down!!! we had to pull of the freeway and wait 30 min in the middle of nowhere for a tow truck to take us back to Orem!

It turned out to be just a faulty sensor, and luckily since the car is under warranty the tow and repair was all free! But non the less it put us 4 hours behind schedule and we still had 6 hours to drive!

On the drive down in. The middle of the night we managed to have some fun...

Somewhere in Panquitch...right after this picture I was climbing up to get a picture and broke the wagon door :( opps!

We also managed to get on the wrong road somehow. Luckily this sign was there before we got to far out in the middle of nowhere!

We finally pulled into our lake powell campsite around two in the morning and then had to pitch our tent by the the headlights of the car.

The next day we did a lot of hiking and saw some beautiful things.....

We went and hike antelope slot canyon. It was so amazing!

I have hundreds of pictures I want to put up, they are all so pretty!

After that we went here...

It's the only place in the Colorado river that makes a 270 degree turn.

After that we went over and took a tour of the dam. Landon had a great time making dam jokes the entire tour.

And the rest of our trip will be concluded in another post, my iPad is getting mad at me for all the pictures I'm putting up!

Parade of Homes

2010-06-23T12:21:00.001-07:00

Every year I look forward to going to this....

I love looking at all the houses, and seeing what money can buy and getting some decorating ideas!

But every year it makes me want one of these...

I don't necessarily want the million dollar houses they have, I can't understand spending that kind of money...mostly because we are nowhere close to having that kind of money. I also don't understand needing that much space and that much stuff. I would just be happy with a small house for me and Landon and maybe +1, 2 or 3 later down the road.

There were a few houses that were in our price range which made me happy because I want nothing more then to have my own hose that I can paint the walls and have a garden, and even a dog!

So after talking to a few builders we are stashing away cash so that hopefully by this time next year we will be homeowners!

Due West

2010-06-23T12:06:00.001-07:00

So a couple of weeks ago was the Springville Art City Days and one of my favorite country bands Due West was supposed to be performing so I was so excited to see them!

But unfortunately the beauty of Utah weather it started storming and rained out the show. I was so bummed! So after they canceled the show and most people fled for home the band took cover under a small ledge and plaed acoustic for the few of us that stuck it out in the rain!

I think that it showed how good of a band they are if they sound that good acoustic. They were also just really nice people as well. When the show was canceled they had already been paid and could have just headed back to the airport, but they stayed and sang for 20 people in the rain!

One of my favorite songs by them is called "Tell Her" and they sang it for Landon and I!

The next night the city had another band that Landon got to mix the sound for, and he was on cloud nine! Landon loves working doing sound for concerts!

After there was fireworks!

I had so much fun! I love city fairs! My stomach felt sick for the next few days because of all the junk food I ate!

Five Faves for Friday....Edition 5

2010-06-12T12:48:00.001-07:00

Well I think to start off this weeks favorites list My first favorite thing of the week is kinda an ode to the start of summer.....

#1-Outdoor Carnivals and city festivals! This past week has been both Orem Summerfest and Springville Art City Days! I love this time of year! The weather is finally warm and I love carnival rides!!!! And even more then carnival rides......carnival food! You can't get better then funnel cakes, scones and all things bad for your "diet".

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Burts Bees is now my new favorite chapstick! It tastes good and makes my lips sooo soft! And I think its the best on chapped lips! And best of all, if you get the one in the small round tin.....it's wash proof!!!! I know from plenty of experience, i have one of these in every pair of scrubs I own and they get washed a lot! If you have ever washed a normal tube of chopstick yup know that it melts and gets everywhere! Not this, it stays in the tin so you dint have to get a new one and you won't have waxy spots on all your cloths!

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Due West is a country band that I like, and I got to meet them this week (another post about that later)! But they were the nicest guys! And sing some great music! So if you like country music check them out!

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So I am now repeating myself.....but that's how much I love these! They have totally made my week!

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Landon the cute husband that he is surprised me this week with this bag! I saw it at the bookstore and wanted it so bad because it would double as my backpack and purse without being to big and bulky! I LOVE IT! And i also love that I have such a thoughtful husband!

So it's been a good week except for the rain :( hopefully next week the sun comes back out! Anybody else have some thing that made your week great?

Rice Cake Heaven!

2010-06-10T19:49:00.001-07:00

They better have rice cakes in heaven, then I will be happy! I know I sound like a health nut now but I'm not, anybody who knows me can attest to my never ending sweet tooth! I don't like plain rice cakes they make me gag... But these....

Are amazing!!!!! I could seriously eat a pack of these a day, Im an addict! They have the Carmel corn flavor and also apple cinnamon and chocolate chip, how can you go wrong! They also have flavors such as ranch and a spicy one but i have not ventured away from the sweet ones long enough to try them (if anyone tries the other flavors before I get a chance let me know how they are!). My co-workers make fun of me for how many of these i down a day!

Killer Hamsters

2010-06-09T14:18:00.001-07:00

So the other night Landon and I had some time to go catch a movie. So we picked this one...

I actually really like it, it was funny and had it's romantic parts and enough shooting and cars to keep Landon entertained as well! The only thing I am disappointed about this movie is that they had to throw the F word in at the end for no reason what so ever...kinda annoying. Other then that I would recommend this movie as a go see!

Also, when we were waiting for the movie to start theaters have commercials now...like we don't see enough commercials already! But this one had me busting up laughing! If you have not seen the hamster commercial for The Kia Soul then you HAVE to watch this! At first I was wondering if they were serious...come on rapping hamsters, I still hate the car! I think they look soo hideous! But the hamster idea was genius!

On other news I'm starting to like my new job, I keep trying to find little things to help me get over missing my old co workers. This is one I found today....

OUTDOOR LAP POOL! There is a fitness center next door to me and they let the hospital employees use the facilities for FREE!!! So this morning I packed up my swimming stuff and I went lap swimming on my lunch break! It felt so amazing! I haven't had much time to work out or even more to make it to the pool to actually swim laps, so it's so nice I have a pool that is so close and convenient! I'm going to try and make this a daily habit now, even though I can only spend about 30 min in the pool it's well worth it and such a relaxing break from my hectic work and school grind.

Saying Goodbye

2010-06-08T20:31:00.001-07:00

Lately I have had a really hard time coping with change, and lately I have also been really emotional on top of everything so that made this last weekend almost unbearable!

To start off with my boss decided that it would be in my "best interests" to transfer me to a clinic in salt lake. So last Friday was my last day working at the clinic I had been at for the last 1 1/2 years! It was hard enough just the thought of working someplace new but on top of that I had to say goodbye to some of my best friends I had made there. They were so sweet and made me a cake and a going away card and helped me pack up all my stuff, I got in my car and drove away....and then proceeded to cry the whole way home.

Also this weekend because I now have to drive up to salt lake every day now Landon decided that I needed to have a more reliable newer car with better gas milage, so we preceded to go through the fun experience of car shopping. After much debate we finally decided on a 09 hyundai sonata and started to sign papers, and my water works started up! I was a mess! Landon kept on asking if I was sure I wanted to go through with it, I finally had to leave the room so he could get all the papers signed I'm sure the salesmen must have thought I was a nut job.

The top picture is my dear car I had to give up, I loved that thing! I bought it on my 22nd birthday! And the bottom picture is my new car I'm breaking in, it wasn't my car till it got its new U of U sticker on the back!

It's not so much that I was not happy getting a new car, it's that I was just I was going to miss my old one so much! I loved my car! It was the first really big thing i bought as an adult by myself, and it's the only car I have owned that I have managed not to get in to some kind of accident! After handing over the keys I sobbed the whole way home in my new car.

Now that i have be wen working in my new job and driving my new car for a week now I have started to get used to all the change and Im doing better. But I still miss my old co workers and it really odd going out to the parking lot and trying to find my car and it not being there. I used to not be so bad with change so I wonder if I will ever be able to handle it with out breaking down to a sobbing mess again.

Race For the Cure!

2010-05-24T10:01:00.001-07:00

First off I have to say I am so spoiled by my husband! I am posting this from my new IPad and LOVING it! It is perfect for school and work! And I can now stay better caught up ion things because I can work on them during the day when I have time!

This is what me and my sisters did a few weeks ago to honor my grandma who has survived breast cancer twice!

The day before mothers day we ran in the Susan G Koman Race For the Cure 5k for our Grandma! It was so much fun to do something like that with my sisters and we had a blast! And it was so amazing to see the thousands and thousands of people there racing in memory or to honor someone they love!

We came up with the ideas for our shirts and made them ourselves! Erin's husband Nathan freehanded the ribbon across the front and then I did the designs on the backs and put our names on the side!

We are so happy and thankful that our grandma is still with us and an amazing survivor! I hope that all the money they raised from this will help one day find a cure for breast cancer so that no one has to race 'in memory' of anyone again!

Sunshine and Rain!

2010-05-21T13:14:00.001-07:00

I hope you are ready for some super cheesy awesomeness because here it is! So earlier this week it had been super rainy and kinda put me in a poopy mood but Tuesday evening I walked out on our balcony and there was all of this wonderful sunshine coming through the poring rain and I could not help but get a huge smile on my face! The last time I remember the sun shining while it was raining was when Landon proposed to me! So it just took me back to that happy day! I called to Landon to come out to the balcony and I pointed to the sky with a big smile on my face he smiled and gave me a big kiss and said "just like when I proposed!"

So this is how cheesy I am. Some people tell me that it must have sucked to be proposed to in the rain, but I would not have had it any other way! So when I stepped out on our balcony and it took me back to that day I could not help but think how much it related to our marriage. Like every couple we have our disagreements (the rain) but no matter how bad it might get our love is still shining through the storm.

I love my Landon so much and I'm so lucky to have him, he is way way to good to me! And even though we fight sometimes about the stupidest stuff I can never stay mad at him for longer then 5 min, because he smiles at me and says "it much harder to me mad so let's just make up" and we do.

Love you Landon!

A day in the City and a Belated Five Faves for Friday...Edition 4

2010-05-15T23:01:00.000-07:00

Weekends are my favorite! Usually Saturday is the one day of the week where I get to see Landon for longer then 10 min. Normally we just kick back and relax on saturdays and get stuff done around the house but today I just wanted to get out....So Landon surprised me and wisked me off to Salt Lake to have some fun!

So we started the day off by finding this cute little sandwich shop across the street from Temple Square, called Hagermann's. It was SOOOO! good I had the best turkey sandwich and cobb salad! Not only was the food amazing but because they aren't open on sunday they had a ton of bread and baked items that would go bad before Monday, So they gave us two loafs of bread, several pastries and brownies and cookies, for FREE! YUM Im so excited for them!

After walking around down town we headed up towards the U of U and decided to head up to the U on the mountain. I had never been up there and thought it would be fun to go. After driving up many winding roads we finally found the one that took us up to the U. It was a fun time to go climb up there, and it made me even more excited to graduate next year and get my picture in front of the U in my cap and gown.

After that we headed over to The District to the Hobby Lobby (my favorite store) to pick up some fabric for a project Im working on (a post to come about this when im finished). After I had some free movie tickets that I earned at work so we caught a movie. We saw The Last Song, I had read the book and wanted to see it. It was pretty good giving the fact that it had Miley Cyrus in it, but like always the book was better. After the movie we ate at WingNutz, Landon and I have a horribly not good for our health love of wings, and theirs are the best!

So it was a great day, spending it with my cute hubby making new memories!

Now for my 5 Favorites from the past week, some of these have been updated after such a great day in the city today!

Awhile ago I saw a preview for an up coming movie called Eat, Pray, Love and I thought it looked really good. I found out it was based off of a book and so I figured that I would read the book first! I have started reading Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert and Love it already, its a good read!

After eating lunch here today I am a HUGE fan, their sandwiches and salads were amazing! And their cookies and bread are so delicious! So if you are ever in SLC and want to somewhere you cant get at home stop in Hagermann's Bakehouse Cafe and have a good meal! You can find them on the web HERE.

Here is another thing that made the list after our day today. The Hobby Lobby! I love this place, it seriously has everything! I am so excited when I found out that they are opening one in Orem, now I wont have to drive so far to get my Hobby Lobby fix. For those of you Oremites wondering what im talking about, anyone remember the old Circuit City building? Well in a few long months it will be the new Hobby Lobby! CANT WAIT!

I saw these at the store the other day and I had to try them. The new Pretzel M&M's are so good! I hope they keep these around because I am already addicted!

I am starting to have a serious need for one of these! I keep on having to steel my Mom's to work on all of the projects I want to make. I used to think I would never use a sewing machine because I would never be "Martha Stewart" enough for one...but now Im thinking I might have to give Mrs. Stewart a run for her money!

So any new favorite things anyone came across this last week??

Till next time!

I Know Vampires are Cool and all....

2010-05-12T19:32:00.000-07:00

As some of you might know I work as a phlebotomist, which in english means that I draw patients blood work all day. After working in said occupation for two years now one thing is starting to bug me.

I have poked, stabbed, tortured (or whatever you want to call it) everyone including:

The four year old who kicked me

The twelve year old who was convinced I was going to take all of her blood and leave her to die

The nervous pre-missionaries who just need to turn in their papers

The marine, cop, high school jock alum (or any other "tough"you know) who are terrified at the sight of blood or needles

The much tougher wives/girlfriends/moms/sisters of the previous category

The grandpas who like to hit on me and the grandmas who all think I look just like their granddaughter

Oh and the occasional schizophrenic nut job!

One thing my wide variety of patients have in common is most refer to me as Vampire. Granted I do in one way or another suck some (not all) blood from your body, I don't necessarily want to, and most of the time I would rather not see anyone in my lab because then that means I have more time to do things such as my homework. So to my whole point of this, I know the whole Vampire thing is cool now-a-days with the Twilight craze but Im getting a little tired of it. Most who use this is trying to be funny and original, but I hate to break it to you, your not as I hear this a least twice a day. Didn't you parents ever teach you that its not nice to call people names :) So the next time you have the great misfortune to come visit someone like me do both of us a favor and leave the Vampier word at home, and I challenge you to come up with something a little more unique and maybe your phlebotomist will reward you by using the baby needle

Five Faves for Friday...Edition 3

2010-04-16T23:37:00.000-07:00

So this week it was a little harder to think of five things that made the week go by faster.

I had some big papers and presentations in my classes this week so I was pretty stressed, but here are the things that made the week semi bearable

So I had to give a presentation on sleep disorders and wanted something funny for my power point and came across Bizkit the amazing sleep walking dog! No matter how many times I watch this clip it makes me giggle!
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If you have not guessed yet these are not MY feet, but since the weather has been warming up and the sun is starting to come out I cant wait to start on my summer CHACO tan! I LOVE these sandals!
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Want another good laugh, Landon and I started watching The Big Bang Theory! Its hilarious! If you have not stumbled across this show already I would suggest adding it to your Netflix cue and adding a few good laughing fits to your week!
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I have a huge sweet tooth! Even more so when I am studying. I found this amazing treat on a late night study munchie run to the Maverik a few blocks from our apartment. Blue Bunny Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Bar's are amazing!
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Need a bright pick me up for spring? Here is mine! I usually stick with darker polish for my nails but saw this color and loved it! Sephora's OPI 'Lost with out my GPS' is a fun bright coral color that make you happy just putting it on!
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What are some of your favorite things for spring and summer, or for a good laugh and stress relief?
Till next week!

Five Faves for Friday...Edition 2

2010-04-09T22:29:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite things to do now. I look forward to it in the week and try to think of all the things I love, which in turn usually puts me in a good mood.

Here are my 5 Favorite things of the past week!

Oh how I love thee!!!! If you don't know, I have always had those annoying red rough bumps on the back of my arms. I have gone to Dermatologists for years trying to get rid of them and nothing has worked. We had samples of this lotion in our office and it started making my arms better!!!! Vaseline Intensive Rescue Moisture Locking Lotion is heaven sent, and its only $4.50 at Walmart for a huge bottle! My skin has never been softer and my bumps are starting to go away!

I am HORRIBLE at video games, I get super motion sickness from most of them. But Landon found the LEGO Batman game for us and it doesn't make me sick! It gives us something to do later at night when were board and we play and laugh together and compete for treasure! The lego Indiana Jones is also very good and we cant wait for the Lego Harry Potter game to come out!

This show is AMAZING! We all need to go through Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution! For those of you who don't know about it Jamie Oliver is a chef and has come to America's unhealthiest city with the highest rate of obesity and is trying to teach people how to eat, cook and choose healthier food! Its fun to watch him battle it out with grumpy lunch ladies and radio show hosts to single handedly try to fix the way we eat! Check it out on ABC.com for previous episodes!

On another entertainment related favorite, Sherlock Holmes.....Enough said! Such a great movie. We love it. Highly recommend it if any of you out there have not seen it yet!

And last but not least....

The Ultimate Make-up/Fragrance/Skin Care Superstore Sephora, has opened in the Provo Towne Mall!

I love this store and used to only get there if we were in Vegas for something. This store has everything! And its so fun to go through the store and try out all the different makeups and skin care and get free trial sizes of things! Stop by, its in JC Penny's, and you might just start loving it too!

Thats it for this week, stay tuned for edition 3 next week....Im interested in seeing how long I can keep going on this before I run out of favorite things!

As always feel free to leave some of your favorite things listed below! You don't have to have five to share the love of something you love!

Five Faves for Friday

2010-04-02T20:02:00.000-07:00

It has been an unusually long week, this week! Its been very busy at work and tons of homework for my classes right after spring break. So I thought it would be fun to share 5 things that I have been loving this week!

I dont know why but I LOVE these cookies, and come on the "bunny" dough boy just makes you smile!

This has actually been on my Fave list for sometime now! But its even better for spring! Its the perfect light fresh citrusy smell! I love the grapefruit sent in it!

I kinda feel like an 80 year old woman admitting to this but Oatmeal Squares are my favorite cereal right now! They also make a great snack while I'm at work, there small and crunchy, the perfect amount of sweetness and healthy!

This came in the mail this week!!!! My favorite magazine by far! I love finding new amazingly good recipes to make. My new favorite, Lemon pepper fettucini alfredo! SO GOOD!

And last but not least.....Landon always makes my favorite list but this week he went out of his way to make me feel special! He has class in the morning and is gone before I wake up. But this week he got out of class early and drove up to Lehi and surprised me with flowers when I got to work!

It was so sweet and way out of his way! I didn't have a vase for them so I had to fill up the sink and let them chill out there for the day!

I dont know if it because I have been stressed out that most of my faves this week are food but stay tuned next friday for my next five faves of the the week!

What have been some of your favorite things in the past week?

Auto-Pilot...

2010-03-30T20:39:00.000-07:00

So many of you know I go to the University of Utah, which means....LOADS of driving. I drive to and from Orem and Salt Lake three nights a week. Since I have driven this stretch of road the past few semesters, I have come to memorize all of it. I think I could drive it in my sleep now. About a month ago my radio died I'm my car so now I am left alone with my thoughts while I drive, annoying right. Well tonight on my way home from school my brain was off in wonderland and all of a sudden I wondered to myself when did I get in the fast lane?? I usually drive in the middle lane most the way and I didn't remember consciously getting into the fast lane! I realized I had been on autopilot for at least 20 min! After thinking hard about it I could vaguely recall signaling to get over to the fast lane to pass a slow car, and then just stayed there.
Now me being alone with my thoughts in my music-less car I started to wonder, How many other people do this, maybe not with driving but just in life?? How much time do we auto-pilot through in our daily life just doing each of our own repetitive day to day tasks?? One of the classes I am taking is called Death and Dying...(kinda morbid I know) but the class has gotten me thinking about really making the most of living! It scares me to think how much of my life is spent in auto-pilot. So now Im trying to come up with good ideas to take my life out of cruise control and give the mundane boring things in my life a little more meaning!
How many others out there catch themselves doing this? Or how do you spice up the routine day to day parts of your life?

I make it hard for Landon!

2010-03-20T11:53:00.000-07:00

So I love being surprised but I don't make it easy! I am always telling Landon that I want him to surprise me and be a sweet and cute husband, but then he is married to me and I have to make it the hardest thing to do. I have to be in the know! I ask way too many questions so that I know what is going on. Landon is the worst lier in the world. These to combos make it almost impossible to surprise me, I ask questions and Landon tries to lie to keep the surprise a surprise, but then I can tell he is lying and get mad and he ends up telling me. So much for that surprise!
And then I am really impatient! So if there is something that I'm eyeing, I want it as soon as possible! Case in point, my favorite author released a new book and I wanted to read it so bad! We didn't have any spending money left until our next payday so I had to wait! Payday came around and Landon thought it would be cute if he got the book and surprised me with it when I got back from school. Well that never happened...I left early for work so I could stop by Target and pick the book up that morning so I could start reading it! After getting home from school I showed Landon what I got, and ruined his whole surprise! I still gave him the credit for remembering and trying to do something so sweet for me.
So either Landon is going to have to get better about lying about surprises or I have to be more patient, who knows if either of these will ever happen so that Landon can finally pull of a surprise for me!

Also go check out my new curtains at my other blog Make it better yourself!

My Birthday and Valentines Day

2010-02-28T12:56:00.000-08:00

I had a great Birthday this year. Since Landon and I have gotten married I get to celebrate my birthday twice at each of our families houses. I got to take the day off from work and relax! It was great, to start it off my sis Lex took me to Kneaders for breakfast! Then Landon surprised me and sent me to the spa for a wonderfull hour massage! We went to Color Me Mine and painted mugs and had a blast, we both had never been and it was so much fun I cant wait to go back. We went out to a wonderful dinner at Carraba's where we went on our first date to a couple years ago, It was SO good! And then Landon gave me my beautiful bed that he had made for me! I LOVE it! It is by far the coolest present ever, and its even better because now over the years I can look at it and sleep in it and remember that Landon made it for me!

A few days later we went snowboarding after some new snow had fallen and had a great time. We both love to snowboard but because of work and school we dont get to go often. It has now become tradition to go for my birthday, something fun and exciting that I look forward to!

For Valentines day we celebrated over the weekend. It was fun just to spend some time with each other. Landon banished me to the bedroom on Friday and surprised me and made a wonderful meal with candles and flowers. Landon got up and surprised me with making "heart shaped" pancakes for breakfast on Sunday, and then I made another romantic dinner for us on Sunday.

Also on another note I have started a new hobby! Not that I really have a ton of extra time to have another hobby but I have fun with it. I always wanted to learn to make pretty cakes! I love watching the show Cake Boss on TLC and thats what started it. So finally I found an excuse to practice making my first fondant cake for our friend Kenna's 20th Birthday. I loved how it turned out! I cant wait to find another reason to make another cake!

Around the house

2010-02-28T12:35:00.000-08:00

So we moved into a new apartment about two months ago and all the walls were bare. So my nesting bug kicked in to make our new place a little more homey. Here are some things I have done.

I saw this picture in the pottery barn magazine and thought it was fun but they wanted $200 bucks for the thing. So me and Landon came up with our own for about $25 with stuff from home depot and walmart. and now were slowly adding pictures and nick nacks to it.

Also I saw this cute entry way decoration and copied it for our from entry table, I got the lantern at Ikea for about $10 bucks and I spray painted it cream and added some decor balls and the letter C.

And then some cute pictures and a hanging planter tin I got for my birthday around the front door to finish it off.

I have a few more things on my to do list for the house. Since Landon made me a beautiful bed for my birthday I am now getting around to decorating our bedroom. Im going to attempt to make a new duvet cover and some curtains add some pictures and tie the whole room together. I will post pictures when its all done!

Everythings Magic

2010-02-17T17:17:00.000-08:00

So hear this please
And watch as your hearts speeds up endlessly
And look for the stars as the sun goes down
Each breath that you take has a thunderous sound
Everything, everything's magic
Just sit back and hold on, but hold on tight
Prepare for the best and the fastest ride
And reach out your hand, and i'll make you mine
Everything, everything's magic

-Angels and Airwaves

I was listening to this song tonight, it made me thing of my wonderful wife Michelle. I feel this is our story. That this was written for us. I am completely in love with my wife. When I am with her everything's magic. When I look back on the time that I have known my wife, my mind is filled the 'best and fastest ride' of my life. She is my everything.

Michelle is my Magic.

-Landon

ITS DONE

2010-02-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

So my wonderful husband surprised me for my birthday and made a beautiful bed frame for me with the help of his dad! I am happy to say that its now done and painted and ready to be assembled in my bedroom where it belongs! IM SO EXCITED! Pictures will soon follow along of the rest of my birthday festivities!

Update pictures!

Happy! So very happy!

2010-01-24T14:53:00.000-08:00

I am so happy with my life right now! Not because its perfect but because its mine and its heading somewhere amazing! Working full time and going to school full time can lots of the time be a pain. But Im going to school for something I love and get to graduate next year which Im so excited about! And I work doing something I enjoy with people I love and laugh with all day! And my wonderful husband! He is my everything, sometimes I take him for granted but then he does something for me even though he didnt have to and I realize how much he loves me! I love planning trips and adventures with him and thinking where we will be in 5 years! He makes me laugh and keeps me sane after long days of school and work! Cars break down, paychecks arnt as genorous as we would like them to be and bills most of the time litter our mail box, but im ok with it (most of the time, I am still human). I love my, most of the time broke, working our way through school, still trying to have as much fun as possible life! And I love my Landon!

Love Blocks!

2010-01-17T22:39:00.000-08:00

So its been decided, the January craft will be LOVE blocks for Valentines day.

Check our the Make It Better Yourself blog to see pictures and let me know if you plan on coming!

Check out the January Crafts ideas!

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I have posted some ideas for a January craft night on my Make it Better Yourself blog! Go over and check it out and if your interested in coming vote on a craft and a day to get together!

Make it Better Yourself!

Enjoy!

December Catch up!

2009-12-27T22:45:00.000-08:00

I used to be able to blog at work when I didn't have any patients but now thatis not the case and so I have been bad at finding time at home to update our blog. So finally after a "relaxing" holiday weekend I have decided its time to update everyone on what has been going on the last month or so of our lives.

First of all we MOVED! We were not planning on moving until January but in the middle of November we found an apt we loved and had to move on it quick to get it. So we spent Thanksgiving break packing all of our belongings into boxes! Landon thought we could fit everything into 10 boxes!!! He quickly found out that was not the case and you accumulate lots of stuff after being married a year! We moved into our new place on December 1st and had loads of fun hauling all of our stuff up three flights of stairs! But we love our new place and its nice not living below anybody anymore, our apartment is so quiet now that we don't have to listen to noisy kids all the time, we had to buy an ipod dock so we can play music to fill the silence now!

We got to celebrate Landon's 23rd birthday on the 6th of December and my Dad's 50th birthday at the end of November and went and saw the Trans Siberian Orchestra, it was lots of fun. I always like to give him a hard time that he finally has caught up to me! For those of you who don't know I am 10 months older than Landon so I have to poke some fun at him that in two months I will be 24. We also got to go up to Logan and see one of my old room mates get married! It was so much fun to see all of my friends I miss them so much, hanging out with those girls make me smile, we always have so much fun! and to see Ash get married to her best friend reminded me of mine and Landons happy day!

We both finished our our semesters of school with some dignity left! Landon and I were both working full time and taking classes, a first for both of us! It proved to take a little more effort to get everything done but we both managed to get all A's and B's which is good! I have finally finished all of my pre requisite classes and so I will be applying for nursing school in January! Im so nervous to find out if I get in or not, and then to finally figure out what I will be doing for the next few years....Nursing school or Plan B (Not sure what that is yet!).

After finals were done Landon and I kept up our tradition we started and went and picked out a real christmas tree and came home to decorate for christmas! I love having a real tree! It was one of my favorite memories as a kid to go and cut down a tree! We had a great Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve down at Landon's grandmas house with all of Landon's extended family. We had a wonderful dinner, played bingo for some totally awesome presents ( Landon got a slinky and I got a cornbread muffin mix!) and just enjoyed everyones company! For Christmas we spent the morning unwrapping the presents we got each other. I got some new snowboard boots, some cloths and a great cake decorating book (my new hobby) and Landon got a snowboarding jacket some cloths and all the star treck DVD's which he had been wanting! Then we went over to my families house had breakfast and more presents and then got to talk to my brother when he called home from his mission! Also, Landon's parents and my parents both pitched in a lot and got Landon and I a way nice kitchen table and chair set! Thanks so much we love it! Now we have all of our snowboarding stuff and night passes up to sundance so we can start going snowboarding after work!

We had a wonderful year and cant wait to see what adventures the next one brings! Thanks to all of our family and friends life would not be as enjoyable without loved ones in it! I am so happy to have been able to spend all this time with Landon, loving and growing closer to him over the past year! We have so much fun together! Love you babe!

New blog!

2009-11-19T09:54:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone I have started a new blog for the monthly craft group I have started up. I got the idea from some girls I know and thought it would be fun to start my own! So come follow the new blog...leave your feedback...take the poll and come enjoy makeing crafts and catch up on some girl talk!

Make it better yourself!

Good at living life...bad at writing about it!

2009-11-12T08:52:00.000-08:00

I keep telling Landon that I need to get around to updating our blog because we have had so much fun stuff happen in the last month! But when all is said and done I run out of time or end up having homework to finish, and its just one thing after another. So I decided that I would take advantage of a slow day at the office and update everyone on our fun filled last month!

The months keep flying by and its hard to keep track of time. When we got married I decided that every year around our anniversary I wanted to get pictures done so that we can look back on them and see how much we have changed. One of our friends Tamera (Tea Marie Photography) took our pictures this year and did such a great job on them, its been hard to pick witch ones I want printed off.

Landon and I have been married for one year now!!! It has gone by so fast its neat to think back on all the things we have done in the last year and how close we have grown and think of all the wonderful years we have to come! For our anniversary we decided that we wanted to do a cruise... unfortunatly were both in school, and working full time so we had to postpone that untill were out of school for break. So we decided to do something small and just get away for the weekend. We went to VEGAS! It was a ton of fun, we went down on the weekend that the U of U was playing UNLV and so we got tickets to the game, stayed in a nice hotel, ate at some amazing resturants, and went to see the Blue man group! It was so nice to get away with Landon and forget about the stresses of school and work and just remember how much we love spending time with each other!

Landon also surprised me with having some anniversary bands made for my wedding ring, and now it looks absolutly amazing! I love them so much(I will have to post a pic later)! I love looking down and being reminded of what a great husband I have!

October was so much fun! School is going good for both of us, I am actually understanding and doing well in Statistics, and im getting close to being able to put in my nursing school application! Landon got a great new job at UVU. We now get to spend most of our nights together having fun going out, working on projects, catching up on some of our favorite tv shows and just having a good time! I cant wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I am so excited to get to go on our cruise next year! I cant wait to make the next year better than the first!

End of Summer 2009

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The last two months of summer have been great and I am sad to see them go. Here are a few fun things that happened during those months. First off I finished off my first and only summer semester of school, and managed to get a B in my organic chemistry class and an A in nutrition. With fall semester I am happy to announce that I am taking my last two pre requisits for the nursing program and I am now currently working on my application to nursing school at the U!!

Me and Landon like to try to work out taking days off together as often as we can because with us both working full time and going to school thats the only time we get to spend with each other. One day we spent the day in SLC and we went to the Rose Butte Gardens, nither of us had ever been and it was a fun adventure. We were some of the only ones there so we were able to spend plenty of time relaxing in the beautiful gardens!

For our 11 month anniversary we got to spend the day at the State Fair. I had not been since 3rd grade and so it was fun to go and see all the booths and animals, we watched a fun alligator show and saw a guy carve a fish out of a block of wood with a chainsaw! My favorite parts were the rabbits (I tried to talk landon into letting me buy one, with no such luck) Landon loved the really fat ones. And the Farris Wheel! It was great to feel like a kid ridding the carnival rides and getting to kiss my cute husband!

Landon surprised me with tickets to a concert for my two favorite singers of all time Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley! It was a great concert, and Landon acctually has started to like country music now. He said next time we were going to splurge and get the really good seats! It was even fun when it rained and we got to cuddle up close under our blanket and slow dance in the rain!

It was bittersweet to see the summer end but I am excited to celebrate our one year anniversary and plan many more fun adventurs for the year to come! I love Landon so much and everything he does for me! he is such a hard worker and my best friend I always am left wishing I had more and more time to spend with him!

Catching Up!

2009-07-26T20:49:00.000-07:00

So its been awhile since my last post and a lot has happened in that time. Here is a breif overview of the last few months of our lives.Landon after being laid of has found a job working sales, In the mean time I went full time at the hospital drawing blood, and also taking the last few classes I need to apply for nursing school in January. With both of us now working and me doing school on top of it we hardly see each other anymore so we have taken some time out to vacation a bit and keep our sanity!

In May we were able to go to South Carolina and visit all of my family that Landon had not had the chance to meet yet. And we were also able to spend a glorious 3 days in my favorite place on earth MYRTLE BEACH! It was so great to show Landon around the place I spent two of the best summers of my life. It made me miss my lifeguarding days at the beach but also realize how many great things I have in my life now!

In July we were able to go to Yellowstone with my

family(minus Brent who is on his mission). It was kinda fun to have the whole family together now that me and my older sister are married. It was fun to go back to Yellowstone and see everything again, the last time we were there I was about 10. Landon and Nathan had both never been to Yellowstone so it was an experiance.

When ever Landon and I get the chance to spend some time togetherwe love it. We love sitting out on our driveway watching the sunset, Or hiking up the canyon that is 5 min from our house. I love being around him, he makes my long days of work and school so much better. I love him so much and enjoy spending my time with my best friend.

MOAB!

2009-04-28T21:54:00.000-07:00

So Landon and I decided to take a few days off of work and take a long weekend vacations down to Moab. Landons aunt Marci and uncle Todd have two jeeps and take their kids jeeping over spring break it was a fun filled family vacation. I had never been jeeping before so it was a new expirence for me and I loved every min of it. We took of thursday after it finished snowing 5 inches in Orem and made the drive down.

We took it easy the first day, hiked around on a few trails and soaked up some much needed warm weather. On friday we took off in the jeeps and headed for the rocks. We did the trail called behind the rocks in the morning and went out to picture frame arch for lunch.

Later that afternoon we did another trail called poison spider. We were half way through the trail on our way to an overlook

that drops off 2000 feet into the colorado river when the battery on Marci's jeep most literally exploded....Not Good....We packed everyone into the other jeep and went out to see

the overlook and let the jeep cool down. When we came back to figure out our exit stratagy the jeep cranked and worked fine! We were able to make it back down all the tough spots in the trail before it gave out on us for good. It was now getting dark and we were still stuck so we ended up rolling the jeep the rest of the way down the trail, and luckily made it safely back to town.

On our last day in Moab we did one more trail called seven mile rim, which over looks moab. it was pretty mellow in most spots which was a good change from all the excitment the first two days. I even got to drive for a good portion of the trail. Freaky I thought I was going to killeveryone driving that tank of a jeep but it was lots of fun after I got the hang of it.

The rest of the trail I found the prime spot to sit....On top of the roll cage in the spare tire. It was great and I got a good idea of what it might feel like to ride an elephant!

Over all we had a great trip and a much needed break from all our everyday stresses. Now the jeeping bug has bitten Landon and I we now have the great idea to buy a jeep of our own and fix it up and have it ready for Moab next year! Now I am starting to get excited for our next adventure, In May we are flying out to South Carolina and Landon gets to meed my extended family and see where I spent two summers of my life bumming it on the beach! CANT WAIT!

Easter Fun!

2009-04-28T21:30:00.000-07:00

I have always been big on holidays and so for our first year being married I wanted to start making traditions how I want them to be! I was so excited for easter this year to go all out in making Landons easter basket the best ever! Landon is a coke lover for life and so I decided to fill his easter basket around that. He has this idea that coke in bottles is better than anything else so I got him a big case from costco and two old school coke mugs. A new shirt and game for his xbox that he had been wanting for awhile. He loved it and promptly popped a bottlecap off a coke. Landon really went over the top on my easter basket he didnt nessesarly fill my basket to the brim but what he did put in it was perfect. Landon got me a new pair of Maui Jim sunglasses that I had been eyeing since he broke my last pair. Knowing that I love girraffs he got me a new one and put my new shades on him! And then he filled the rest with more peeps then you could think about eating. It was kinda wierd only haveing the two of us on easter, but it makes me even more excited for our future family and filling their easter baskets!

Thank God for Humidity...wish Utah had some...

2009-03-31T21:50:00.000-07:00

So almost all last week I have been dying sick, no fun. On wednesday I went to the doctor and was told I had strep...then promptly banned from being anywhere near work. Strep and working in a hospital never works out to well. So I proceded to bore my mind out at home for the next few days. Landon was so sweet, seeing this is the first time I had been really sick since we have been married and he waited on me hand and foot as I got sick on top of my strep compleatly lost my voice, started hacking and weezing and being half near dead on the couch. I love my husband he is the best! Well my saving grace the $15 buck humidifier from walmart that I bought back in college. Me being an avid lover of the southern states and all that comes with it...utah is great but lacks the wonderful humidity! I will swear by it. You dont get as sick with humidity and you can get better faster! Landon was even great with my love of the humidifier and it running 24/7 in our small little apartment making it a sweltering...wet...almost good enough South Carolina in the middle of a summer imitation! Although nothing will be as good but it has brought my voice back and almost cured my cough in a few days, and compleatly gotten rid of my congestion. So when sick and in doubt wondering what to get at the grocery store to cure you...buy the humidifier!

Meeting my Favorite Author, Jodi Picoult!

2009-03-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

So a few years ago I found a book written by Jodi Picoult and started reading in....and didnt stop till I had read all the books she had written over the past 15 years or so. Her books are fantastic, and she is by far one of the best authors, I have not found a book of hers that I did not like. She puts out a book every year and every year I buy it the day it comes out and read it with in a week only to have to wait a whole year for the next one. Well awhile back I heard she was coming to Utah for a book signing! Needless to say there was no way I was going to miss meeting my favorite author! So I drug Landon with me and we made the trip to SLC with my favorite books in hand ready to meet Jodi! She did a reading from her new book, which was really cool to hear her read her own book. Then she took questions from the audience about her upcoming books, the movie My Sisters Keeper that is based off of one of her books and how she comes up with her stories and does her research. It was by far one of the coolest things ever to hear how my favorite author has written these awsome books. After all that she sat to sign books. I brought two of my favorites for her to sign. I wanted to get a picture with her but they would not let me so landon took this while she was signing my book! I got to talk to her one on one for a min SO COOL! She was absolutly amazing, so well spoken and she does everything herself, she doesent have a staff to do her research it she goes and lives the life of the people she is writing about, I only wish I could say I have done some of things that she has. One of the coolest people I have ever met!These are some of my favorite books of hers, "Nineteen Minutes" is about a high school shooting by a disgruntled teen. "The Pact" is about suiside and the aftermath. and "My Sisters Keeper" Is about a a girl who was born to keep her sick sister alive (the movie for this comes out in June). I highly suggest these or any of her other books to read if you want to pass some time. Enjoy!

Best Birthday Ever

2009-02-28T21:28:00.000-08:00

So this is the first birthday that me and Landon have celebrated together and so after Landon heard about my past less amazing birthdays he decided to give me the ultimate birthday ever and he sure did! It started a week before my actual birthday and his family had us over for dinner and his dad made his famous ribs, my favorite! his grandparents gave me a pot and pan set and his mom and sister gave me a clock. He took me out on different dates during the week. On Friday night after getting home we were getting in bed and I was fluffing my pillows and low and behold under my pillow was a card, I picked it up and hidden under it was my ipod! One I had been hinting for to landon for weeks! Total surprise! I was so excited I stayed up for hours playing with my new toy! On saturday we really celebrated we went up and ate at the Cheesecake factory...SO GOOD! Then we went walking around the mall and Landon bought me a new pair of high heels that I wanted. After that we went to the gateway to the Apple store to buy fun stuff for my new toy, we got a screen protector a little cover for it and my fun red case for it!On my acctual birthday sunday (the superbowl we went to my parents house and celebrated with lots of food, fun and cake! I had so much fun spending the week with friends and all my family. But Landon did not leave it at that. Another one of my birthday presents was passes to go snowboarding! Landon had never been so it was a big step for him to promise me a trip.

So a week later we went up to Brighton for a fun fil

led time of night boarding! We invited my sister a long and had a great time teaching Landon the basics and getting a good laugh at him falling time after time! After awhile he started getting the hang of it and we started up the lift and by the end of the night we were on the big kids lift flying down the mountain!

On top of everything Landon did for my Birthday we also got to celebrate Valentines day I spent

all morning mastering the art of making heart shaped pancakes, Landon got me flowers and we got to play in the snow for awhile before we went out and about around town Landon had a surprise

for me and took me to a furniture store in Provo that I like and told me that I could pick out a couch! I had been dying for a new couch seeing that the one in our apartment is balancing on some of my old text books....needless to say I was very excited and loved it. We finally found one we both liked and that Landon was able to haggle for a good price and bought it!

Needless to say I have an amazing Husband and I love him so much Im so lucky to have someone like him in my life to keep each day new and exciting! This was the best birthday/week/month ever...Landon is going to have a tough time topping this next year!

House to Home

2009-02-18T21:23:00.000-08:00

So for the longest time I have been dying to decorate our new apartment. Landon knowing my itch to decorate got me a few things for christmas that I had been eyeing. Due to my supreme capablility of procrastination and business It has taken till now to finally get pictures printed and put in to the frames so that we could hang them up. But the final product is amazing!

It was a fight to get all the pictures the same height on the wall, getting the ribbon tied right. Me and Landon rehung all of the pictures a few time to get them right. Eventually after time were going to start replacing our wedding pictures with pictures of us through out the years and even

longer out in to the future family pictures and pictures of kids.

Also for christmas my parents gave Landon and I a Greg Olsen print called "Walk with Me" that I had been pining over for quite sometime. and now along with our wedding pictures its on the wall and I could not be happier. So our little apartment is starting to come together and be a great place to come home to. Me and Landon could not be happier!

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Financial Aid is run by the Devil

2009-02-13T11:12:00.000-08:00

So I have decided that the finacial aid department at Utah is run by the devil....or at least by someone who gets a kick out of whatching me run around with my head cut off trying to do everything he asks. This all starts out a few months ago when I fill out my paperwork to get aid for the spring semester. Easy process...not so much. I thought everything would be processed in time for tuition to be paid but I was mistaken.
A week before tuition was due I decied I will call up to the financial aid office to see what was going on. As it turns out because I got married during the school year I am applying for, for aid my file is on review...which means I have to turn in a copy of my marriage licence and mine and landons tax returnes....Not so hard, right...WRONG! Turns out I managed to loose our marriage licence in the process of changing my last name, and my wonderful dad who did all my taxes misplaced my tax papers. Trip to the Provo court houses FUN! I went to get a copy of my marriage licence but the computers were down which I did not find out until after I sat there for 30 min, I now get to come back another day. Now on to the IRS office, where I find out that getting a copy of a tax return costs $60 bucks and takes 6 weeks, I dont have that long. Come to find out you can submitt a transcript of you tax return with something called a summery of wage report. YAY a break. So after going back and getting my marriage licence I fax all of these papers to the financial aid department in hopes to resolve all these problems.
NOPE...So its been about a month for all this running around to go down, so I call the aid office to see what is happening only to find out I am going to have to fill out another stupid paper because aparently my taxes are off by TWO DOLLARS!!! Think im kidding, think again, two dollars is a serious thing!!! So I take this new paper to my dad in hopes he can help me find out what is wrong. Well my dad stands by his tax filling capablitities and he ends up finding my tax return that I needed in the first place. Turns out that by some stupid rounding issue with my income is how they came up with the two dollars difference.
So now I have faxed up my original tax return in hopes everything will finaly work out and I will be able to get money to pay for the rest of my tuition. You would think I was trying to borrow money to build a bomb or something. Never underestimate the complexity of financial aid office and the US government...the devil is in there somewhere.

New Hobby

2009-02-13T10:10:00.000-08:00

So as I have noticed you are not a cool married person unless you have a blog...as told to me by one of my married friends. So here I am attempting something new. I have never been really good and writing down events in my life but now that me and Landon are married I feel more inclined to try. So blogging is going to be my new hobby in hopes it will keep me motivated to take more picture and write things down. Good luck to me!!