Just Sayin'

So the other night I caught the very end of the Miss America pagent. I just have to say how disgusted I was. I guess this year they had a new part of the pagent with racey photos. Basically with the girls posing in their bra and panties in a seductive manner. I never saw any of the pictures, but one of the interview questions was how the participants felt about this new part of the pagent because they had gotten alot of flack from the media. Of course the bimbo answered something to the fact that she loved them and thought it was so fun and a good way to show her sexuality and feel sexy. pffff

I just sat there and thought to myself, isnt the whole purpose of pagents to give girls a chance to learn self respect and confidence. To show the polished and educated side of women (okay well i may be exagerated, but im sure thats what they started out to be) I was so completley offended and disgusted that these girls dont realize they are subjecting women as objects of lust and sex symbols and NOT portraying women as respected individuals. What are they teaching other girls!

To add to the mess, the day after the winner was announced, of course inappropiate picures appeared on the internet of her being skanky. Do you see the Irony? They make it a part of the contest to take skanky pictures, and then repremend you when they appear on the internet for ones you took on your own? Idiots. What is the world coming too.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Okay...seriously, this is my confession. Today I went to the mall (i dont know why i even torture myself) but i have no self control. I went to about 5 stores. In each store I managed to find something I wanted to buy, (of course) and carried it around with me while i perused the rest of the store before intentionally buying it. Knowing how guilty i would feel if i did, i finally put it down and walked out of the store. Then I would proceed to go to the next store and do the exact same thing! You think I would just leave the mall right? Oh well i tried, I walked out to my car TWICE with intentions of leaving, only to walk back into the mall because apparently i just didnt get enough. I went back into the same 5 stores. I have PROBLEMS! Although I didnt end up buying anything, I was proud of myself for that, its still not a proud moment admitting my addiction. I guess old habits die hard. (please dont judge me after reading this) Its Pathetic!

Moms Visit

Last week my Mom came to visit for 5 days (not nearly long enough) It always flies by way too fast and I feel like we did everything and nothing at the same time. On thursday we went to Womens Conference together which was great to spend the whole day together, and we got an great workout walking all over BYU. We ate lots of yummy lunches, did a little shopping, hottubing, and we went to Jump on It where they have a building full of continous trampolines. It never ceases to amaze me that my mother can still do a back flip, front flip, hip swivel, play basketball with the men, ect..People even mistaked her as my sister!

Before and After

I have seen this done on HGTV and i have wanted to do it forever. I have been looking at colors and shopping around and getting ideas of how to do it and i finally did it this weekend. I LOVE it (understatement) Here are the before and after pictures!! I want to do this in our bedroom too on the wall our bed is on, is it too do it in two rooms??

Dental Assisting School

The Dentist I Work for is Starting a Dental Assisting School!! It is a great opportunity to get some hands on experience in a real office. If you have ever wanted to be a dental assistant, but didnt want to pay $10,000 for a year long course then here is your pefect opportunity to get training. The course is only 10 weeks long! And you will learn everything you need to know, get to work in a REAL office, and be certified in radiology and CPR! Dental Assisting is a great job and they get paid very well. Its also a job that once your have the experience you can work wherever you want and always get a job with ease. The school is just over the summer in the evenings so spread the word ASAP and lets get people signed up!! Check out the website at http://utahdentalassistingschool.com/ for more information!

Cabin Fever

Its been awhile since I have posted. We really have been up to NOTHING which is why i have not posted anything. Buying a house really puts a damper on the activities we can do these days. We started watching "Minute to win it" (along with about every other show in the world) the show is fun to watch, but its even more fun to do. Its great because its all done with household items and they are fun to see if you can complete them yourself in 60 seconds. It would be nice to earn the money they do on the show, but atleast for now it gives us something to do. You can go here to find out more games!

In this first game you have to try and blow off all the card in the deck except for the last one! Its alot harder than you think!


This game you are supposed to stack 5 apples and it has to stand for atleast 3 seconds, I managed to get a few more even. I heard they have one where you try and stack 3 golf balls, but I havnt tried it yet

Grateful

I have been debating whether or not to post anything about the recent events, but ultimatley I have decided that I want to share my feelings and express my gratitude. Last week, at 6 weeks pregnant, I had a miscarriage. I am not writing this post to announce that I was pregnant or to announce the sad news that I no longer am, but just how I feel about it. Its honestly something I never thought would happen to me, I dont why I thought that way, but I did. It came as a surprise and defineitley a dissapointment.

First I want to thank Tyson for being such a wonderful husband and best friend to me. He has been so loving and comforting to me. Thank you for letting me cry on your shoulder, literally, and for being so caring and concerned when I didnt feel well and everything seemed to fall apart. I have never felt closer to you than this last week, and I love you more than I already thought wasnt possible. I know you will be an amazing father and it just makes me more anxious to start a family with you.

Secondly, I want to thank all my family and friends who also came me words of comfort and showed concern. Whether through email, phone calls, or texts, they all meant so much to me to know that you were thinking about us and keeping us in your prayers. I have grown so much from this experience, I know that it happened for a reason. I know that when the time is right, we will have a beautiful baby, and that in the meantime God has given us a wonderful humbling experience to grow close to him and to each other and I am truly grateful for that.

The way we are headed

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.

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That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.


The professor then said, "OK,
we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".


All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.


After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.


As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.


When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F..

The scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.


All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.


Could not be any simpler than that.

Dumpster Diving

So this weekend I had a wedding and I went down to the wholesaler where I always get my flowers. Apparently the truck did not bring one of my items (the most important one) and would not be coming in until the next morning, which did me no good. The bride wanted red roses with stephanotis. Stephanotis is really a one of a kind type of flower and you cant substitute it without most likely upsetting the bride.


Here is the stephanotis, you have probably seen it before, its a very popular special wedding flower.


So i had to do some searching and found a different wholesaler in Salt Lake. So Amber was nice enough to come with me and we found ourselves a sweet little treat in the process. (Just to clarify, i did NOT get the stephanotis out of the bride, i would never use garbage flowers for a client!) I dont know if it was just because it was right after valentines or we just happened to be in the right place at the right time. As we were leaving the parking lot of the new found wholesaler, the dumpster right outside was FULL of bundles of roses. HUNDREDS of roses and hydrangeas. We grapped about 8 bunches (which is about 16 dozen)! Jealous right? Well we did have to go through the garbage but who cares. I put together a sweet little arrangment for myself, and one for amber too. I was seriously so giddy. I might drive up there again to see if i get lucky again.




These arrangments have about 70 roses in them and would normally cost about $200!

Faith and Prayers

Just in case you wanted to ball your our eyes out, and if you have some time on your hands. These stories of such strong mothers will undeniably change your perspective on life and your children, even your unborn children. Because I am not a mother...yet...and it already makes me want to be a better one and to NEVER take life for granted. Reading these stories have strengthened my testimony of prayer and faith, I cant comprehend how much faith these mothers had.

This first link is to her blog, go back and start reading at DECEMBER 24th
Natalies Blog

This second link was a link from natalies, she is still fighting...
Bronsons Story

Wish List

Here are a few things that are on my furniture/decor wish list...can you catch my style? I love all these pieces...and I want my whole house to coordinate with them. Enjoy :)

All Moved In.

These didnt post in the order I wanted, for some reason when i post pictures it only shows the HTML so i dont know which pictures are which...but none the less....here is what you have been waiting for! Moving in went really fast, we thought we had alot of stuff, but now that we have more room than we know what to do with and spreading our stuff over 3 floors doesnt seem like we have so much stuff anymore. Only two bedrooms have furntiture in it, but thats okay I have so many decorating ideas. It will take me along time to be able to afford to fill the rooms but I cant wait! Tyson and I are so happy to be in our new home and are so grateful for being able to make the next step in our lives! We were lucky enough to get some money back from the sellers and were able to buy a new couch, dining room table, washer & dryer, and fridge. Hope you enjoy these pictures and for all of you who live far away...we now have room for you to visit!! So come see us!

Crapola

Soooo...I am going to have to be a really lame blogger for the next little while until i figure out a solution or get a new camera. Apparently we one have one ethernet cord in our whole house and its downstairs where our TV is. So there is not place in our whole house to set up a desktop computer and have access to the internet. Since my camera is so old, i can only download pictures to my old computer because our laptop has windows 7 and there is not a software for my camera to download that works with windows 7, atleast not yet. Who is there right mind only puts one ethernet cord in a three story house? REALLY!? does anybody know if you can take a phone jack and get an adapter to make it an ethernet plug in? Or any other solution besides a new camera? I want to post pictures so bad!

Dont be mad

Alright its been too long since I have blogged with so much I need to blog about. We have been really busy around here. Unfortunatly we dont have internet and cable set up and our old computer which has my camera software on it is the only one I can upload pictures to. I am currently stealing whatever network i am on. I will give more details and pictures as soon as we get "our" internet! SO many good pictures to come :)

Temple Square

Even though technically it was our turn to go to Tysons family this year, my family came to Utah to help Brian and Becky with some home upgrades. It was so nice to be in Utah for Christmas AND get to be with my family. Wednesday night we all went to the Salt Lake Temple together and did Baptisms. That was only the second time I had ever been inside the Salt Lake Temple and the first time doing baptisms there, it was so neat to see all the details and how beatiful and ornate it is. I feel so blessed to be able to go in the Temple with all my family, the only exception was Dan, who we got to talk to Christmas even via video chat from the Philipines. Afterwards we saw the lights for a few minutes and walked around temple square. Since Tyson was still in his suit and looks like he is 20 everyone thought he was a missionary..haha he gets that alot. Aftwards we went to P.F. Changs it was so delicious! I forgot how good it was.

Coming soon

We had a great Christmas Morning and Holiday...I will post more once I can find my Camera! I cant find it! Stay tuned

The Wait is OVER!!!

After 6 Months of Looking, Searching, Short Sales, High Hopes, and Disapointments we are finally done! As of today, Tyson and I are officially home owners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last wednesday I was looking on KSL, just perusing the classifieds, and I came across an ad for some townhouses we looked at this summer but were a little more than we wanted to spend. Now, 4 Months later, they were offering a $5,000 builder incentive AND a $4100 grant from their lender, AND the basement came finished, where before when we looked at them they didnt. Plus on top of that we still get the $8000 tax credit. Thats a total of $17,100!! We felt like it was a deal we just couldnt pass up and so we decided to ditch the short sale and make the plunge. Today we signed the papers and our closing date as of now is set for January 6th. We were hoping to be in by the end of the year but because of the Holidays the process will take a little longer.

We are so excited to finally have a house of our own and cant wait to move in and decorate! Seriously my mind runs crazy with ideas...oh and the storage! Its a 3 story townhouse in American Fork, it has 4 bedrooms, and 3.5 baths, 2 car garage, clubhouse with pool and hottub, and its in a gated community. Something else we excited about it is just being done with the whole process and not having to work with our realtor anymore! It has been a nightmare for me. Enough talking here are a few pictures of the model house (not Ours) but OF COURSE we will post pictures of ours as soon as we can!