Once there was a snowman...

This is my match stick snow man. I made him in about 2 seconds


The before pic... I promise there is snow coming down... you just cant see it.


Now for the after pic... all after just a couple hours.



This is the view from my patio... so picture perfect :)


Be safe out there!!!
and

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

And the winner is...

The house on Canyon Dawn!!

My lovely Realtor called today with some extremely fantastic news!! We got the house we really really wanted!! YAY!!!

I am so excited and thrilled because it all happened so fast!



If all goes well we will close in mid December. So lets hope that all goes well :)

House Hunting

Today was a very awesome day. Matt and I spent 4 hours looking at 13 homes. Our Realtor (Laura Reide) has been so fantastic and awesome. She initially sent us 74 homes to look at and we narrowed it down to 15 and were able to view 13 today.


My rockin' Realtor Laura!!!

The hunt was fun yet extremely tiring. In then end Matt and I decided to put an offer down on 2 homes.

The first one was Canyon Dawn


This is the ML pic of the front. Its so pretty!!



This is the window in the front. The window sill just screams to be decorated for christmas!



FIRE PLACE!! Gotta love the fire place



This is the kitchen. Now I really don't care too much for the painted cabinets, however, I loved the rest :)


And of course my lovely husband... in front of the gazebo that has a built in bbq (well the space for one anyway)

The second house we put an offer on was on Summer Sun

Its so cute!!


I had to take a pic of the crazy tree! It rocks my world!!

Look at this rocking back yard!! I just loved it!!

All in all it was a really good day. Hopefully Matt and I will get some positive feedback on one of the houses. It would be really nice to be home owners :)

Let me know what you think :) Or if you want Laura's phone number :)

Sleep

I really need to keep up on these things...

I have been having this problem. I am sleeping through my alarm clock. Last Sunday I slept through 3 alarms and I don't know what to do. I want to go to church and enjoy the little bit of church time that I get to have... but I KEEP SLEEPING THROUGH THE STUPID ALARM!!

It may be because I am out of practice as the only day that I need an alarm is Sunday but that is really no excuse. So does anyone have any ideas for me? (The place it across the room thing is not helping)

Becca said she will call me on Sundays to make sure that I am up; and as appreciative as I am for her doing this I feel like a retard. I am 25 years old and cant seem to wake my butt up for church... any suggestions would be very helpful.

Fun times

Matt recently took me on a date to The Wax museum over by the Venetian. It was so much fun!!! Here are some pics :)

Me and the Captain. I just love his bald head!!!

Matt and Andre... they are old friends :)

~Tickle Tickle~


He is just so cute!!


Faith smaith... Tim is all mine :)


Getting giggy with it :P


Thats my man... just another rat pack member

Singing with the greats!!!


Abe and I go WAY back :)


Yep... Matt was on the Moon.


Don't mess with the Master Chief

It was a really great night :)

Drama part 2

I am really feeling picked on at work and I am super frustrated about it. Two of my co workers are out to get me (see drama post) and I feel like I have no friends on my shift. It is bad enough that I have to work swing shift so that I never get to see Matt, but I have no friends or allies and it is really starting to wear on me.

Today I was proud of myself. The other day my co worker Diane (one of the ladies from Drama) told my supervisor that I talk too much and that is one of the problems that she has with me. Well... I know I do. I talk WAY too much so i decided (without being told too) that I will not talk as much. I have been really trying and it has been very hard for me. I guess I am just too much of a social butterfly, but today I did it. I hardly spoke at all and I was so proud of myself. Then it happened.

My desk Sgt came over and sat in a chair between Felicia's (other girl involved in Drama) cube and my cube. She asked me some questions and a conversation started. Well wouldn't you know that would be the ONLY time all night that my trainer would come in and check in on us???

Well... I ended up getting in trouble. I did not get yelled at but i got "You have got to curb your talking or else." I understand that perception is everything and that I got the short end of the stick but COME ON!!!! Or else??? What is that about?? I spent all night listening to Diane and Felicia go on and on about stupid things they did when they were drunk and pools and puffy flaming hot Cheeto's!! I am so frustrated.

I have decided that my only course of action is to not talk at all. Unless absolutely necessary. Ya know the "Hey. Your chair is on fire." necessary. And that sucks for me because I love to talk and socialize and meet people. I guess this is just how it goes for the next year... please pray for me guys. Cause this is gonna be really hard.

I think I am beginning to hate my job- sad cause I use to like it so much.

Drama

I went to work today feeling like i normally do- today is gonna be a good day. I got alot of sleep, i looked cute in my new jeans and it rained today. It was perfect.

Well i got to work today and I immediately felt a tension that i have not felt since high school. It seems that i have irritated two of my co-workers and that they felt it was necessary to email back and forth about me. Well guess what guys... i saw it and i read it and it hurt my feelings. Do they feel better now? Do they feel big and bad and tough because they bad mouthed someone and made them feel bad? I hope they did. Because I am done feeling upset about it. I am done dealing with this kind of high school drama.

The thing that really gets me upset is that one of the girls i have been training with since the very beginning -- almost 8 months ago. I thought we were friends. When i had car trouble she called me every night to make sure that i got home safe. I was even gonna help her paint her house... but it now seems that she doesn't care for me. Doesn't care for our friendship and it really hurts cause i tried to be her friend.

So here is to the two older women that i am training with. GROW THE FREAK UP. We are not in high school anymore and i dont have the will nor time to deal with this crap. If you dont like me then get over it cause i have already gotten over you. Have a nice life and get the hell out of mine.

Mama Mia

My loving husband was a really big trooper today as he braved the movie theaters for a movie that I have wanted to see for a while now. Mama Mia!! And I give it an A+. It was fantastic and I loved it and I can wait to see it again and again. :)

Matt doesn't know it yet but he is going to buy me the dvd when it come out :)

Kids

Yesterday was my official first day back to church (crowd cheers!!) and boy was it an awesome one. It was high council Sunday so I was a little worried that i would fall asleep, but the talks were fantastic and it was really a great experience.

My favorite part about the day was when Ivy (my niece) was told by her mother to pick up the papers that she had thrown on the floor. Ivy climbs off of the bench and begins picking up the papers and all of the sudden you hear the unmistakable voice of a 2 year old singing "Clean up! Clean up! Everybody every where! Clean up! Clean up! Everybody do your share" right in the middle of this really good talk!! I almost died laughing. And the poor High Councilmen... We were sitting in row 2... so i am sure he heard it but he did not skip a beat.

It will always be a church experience that i remember :)

So mean

Okay... its Sunday evening. I decided to take a shower so that i don't have to wake up early tomorrow and shower, and now i can curl my hair in the morning.

Well I am enjoying a nice warm shower... when all the sudden i am ATTACKED from above by FREEZING water from my loving husband. Why would he do such a think you may ask... cause he thinks its funny to make his wife scream and curse and freak out!!!

What a meany head... that is right. I said meany head.

This is what i have to say to my loving husband...

For those who dont read lolcat it says "Your days they is numbered and i not know that many numbers"

This ones for Amber

When I wrote my post about my wedding I realized (more correctly it was brought to my attention :-P) that I forgot to mention the lovely and delicious creations that were made with love by my two lovely sisters Megan and Amber( Co-owners of Sweet Pea Sugar Shack) . They made a marvelous buffet of goodies and deserts for my gusts.

I hear the food was really good (i ate a carrot... it was really good) :)

So heres to you Megen and Amber!!! Job well done!!

***If you are interested in having Megen and Amber a.k.a Sweet Pea Sugar Shack cater your wedding or any kind of get together please let me know. :) ***

Swing shift

The most terrible words you can ever say to a newly wed woman "we are switching you to swing shift". Now it was not a 100% surprise but it still caught me off guard. I mean why on earth would they do something that mean to me??? I would really like to see the man that i married, not be like two boats passing in the night. My new shift will be from 4pm to 1am... so very very lame.

Maybe this will be good. I get a 4% increase in my pay... i get to go back to church and i dont have to deal with that new annoying supervisor. But i will still never be able to see Matt :*( I guess we will just have to see what happens...

This is how i felt when they told me I was going to swing...

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This website brings me so much joy that i can hardly handle it. Come with me on a journey of funny... revel in the funny with me... feel the funny. More pictures later :)

So...

Well... this is the first post...well i guess the first thing to do is talk about my wedding...

March 08,2008 just happens to be the BEST day in the world. It is the day that i got to be married to my best friend and have him near me for ever. I must admit that the day before (March 07,2008)- not so nice a day... lots of stress (sorry Matt), lots of yelling (sorry Megen) and a little bit of tears (sorry Becca).

We had worked from 1400 hrs to 2200 hours on our canopy top and it was looking fantastic and then POP!! Down came one side... i was done. It was ruined. I kept up a brave face and decided to go to the good old fashion Wal-Mart and see if they had the one clippy thingy that could save us all. And they didn't have it... so I did what any logical exhausted and frustrated bride to be would do... I sat in the car and cried harder then I have ever cried before. I honestly don't know how Matt was so calm. I was devastated!! All that hard work for nothing. So we call the folks and said thats it!! Pack it in!! We are done. I didn't even care anymore.

Well its a good thing that my parents and my soon to be in-laws had a clearer head then I did. They decided that they would do WHATEVER they had to do so that i could have my canopy wedding. My dad and brother called every Lowes and Home Depot and when they didn't answer (cause they were all closed) he got a prompting to go to the Wal-Mart next to his house and there it was... the one little clippy thingy that could save my wedding. So he bought it and 0400 hrs the next day he and my mom and my in-laws went to the church and fixed my canopy thingy. And it was beautiful and a huge hit!!

Then there was the wedding which was beautiful and which i am glad that when the Bishop asked Matt "do you take this woman?" he did not answer... "im not saying that i don't" :-P

And then there was the reception. I have no idea what happened during this time cause i was playing -Who Wants to Be a Model- and posing and hugging and kissing so many people and taking so many pictures that it is just one big flash. But it was fantastic and I am so thrilled that it is over and that I have been married now 3 months. Yeah!!!