New Years Eve

I had a VERY good New Year's Eve last night. The best in a very long time. I started the night out with going out to eat with some girls from my ward, Krystale, Katie, and Megan (different one. I am not talking about myself :)) We went to a pretty fancy restaurant for Sushi. It was my first time trying sushi and I was a little nervous, but they made it sound so good, so I was willing to try. I didn't know anything about eating sushi and anyone around us could probably tell by how I was eating it and stuff. But it was actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be, and maybe this makes me not a real sushi eater, but my favorite kind was the chicken. Haha It was really good! :) We had a lot of fun together trying new things. After that we went over to Sub Zero for some ice cream (mmm I love that place!). After ice cream I went over to my friend Cassie's to hit up her party she was having at her house. It was really nice to just sit back and relax and meet new people and play games. My final event of the evening was the Singles Dance at the stake center by the temple. It was a good, usual church dance thing. There wasn't a WHOLE BUNCH of people, but there was still a good amount. I had a lot of fun. I won't go into detail about everything that happened. If you want to know you will just have to ask me. :) But it was a great night and satisfied with my New Year's Eve. Happy 2009!

Michael Scott:Okay. Today is the big day that I am heading to New York to attend a party, with sushi and important people. On an unrelated note, if anyone has an anecdote, that is not boring and easy to memorize please drop by my office before I leave. Thank you.

Jim Halpert:Whoops. Is that what Ryan really wanted you to tell us?

Michael Scott:And... today the Dunder Mifflin Infinity website launches.

Rag Quilt

The past couple of months I have been working on my very first Rag Quilt. I have made quilts before, but this was my first Rag Quilt. I first saw them with Haylee when we were in a material store and I thought they were really cool looking. So I had a bunch of material, so I decided to try and make one! There was a lot of trial and error, trying to get the measurements right, and the right amount of squares, and sewing them together correctly, but at the end it turned out so much better than I thought! I decided to give it to my mom for Christmas since it was my first one. I will definitely be making more in the future cause they are a lot of fun, but take a whole lot of time. I wanted it to be twice as big as I made it but I ran out of time. So here are a couple pictures of the finished product and I can't wait to get started on my next one!

[determining how to demonstrate depression]
Dwight Schrute:Visual aids.
Michael Scott:Yes.
Dwight Schrute:A quilt. A depression quilt.
Michael Scott:No time to sew a quilt.

My 20 Favorite Things About This Christmas

I have been so behind with my blogging that I decided to make it a little fun with my post about the Christmas holiday. So these are my favorite things that have happened this past month!


* Delivering gifts to a family with my ward in a big fire engine and Santa Claus
* Watching Elf!
* Getting stuck in the snow 4 times after a HUGE snow storm and finally going and getting chains for my tires.
* Drinking lots of eggnog and eating all the delicious holiday snacks ( I kind of slacked at going to the gym but hey, that's what the excuse of "It's Christmas!" is for! :)
* Picking out all the gifts for my family and friends (and trying not put myself too much in debt)
* Taking all my little girls to see Santa
* Going in the hot tub while it's snowy and cold outside
* Having my Mom, Lee, Bethany, and Doug come stay at my house! We had a houseful this Christmas but it was tons of fun!
* Listening to Christmas music at full blast all the time
* Playing "The Office" DVD game...I didn't win :(
* Sleeping in many times (I haven't worked that much in the past 2 weeks....:) I guess I will have to pay for that later)
* All the girl's nights and fun times with my awesome friends!
* Eating (I really have eaten whole lot this month ugh)
* Talking to friends and family whom I haven't talked to in a while, feeling that loving christmas spirit.
* Peppermint Hot Chocolate
* Remembering the TRUE Christmas meaning, studying Christ's birth and life, and being grateful for all that He did for us so that we could be here and celebrate this time of year.
* My awesome christmas presents ("House Bunny", yoga mat, pajamas, apron, smelly good stuff, being with my family)
* Watching "Mamma Mia" with Doug and Beth and watching Doug's reactions to it. I LOVE IT! :)
* Buying a box of 10 puzzles that Beth and I started putting together yesterday. They're not easy! We started one of Greece, but it was just a bunch of white buildings and the ocean so that was too hard, and then we started one of Times Square that is still being worked on (and it will be a while till I finish it)
* Delivering Secret Santa gifts with Stephanie, yelling Feliz Navidad to the family's door cause they wouldn't answer it, and spilling beans everywhere cause I got a hole in the bag when we were delivering a basket of food.

I know there are so many more good memories that I have made throughout this past month and this Christmas season. But I dont' have a very good memory, so if you have any, add them! And let me know what your favorite memories are of this holiday!

Michael Scott: Christmas is awesome. First of all, you get to spend time with people you love. Secondly, you can get drunk and no one can say anything. Third, you give presents. What's better than giving presents? And fourth, getting presents. So, four things. Not bad for one day. It's really the greatest day of all time.

Perks of my Job

So today I spent the day with two of my little girls who are just so adorable and so fun. It was an awesome day, and I forgot about how sometimes I just really don't like my job because we had so much fun together! I took them to the Museum of Idaho where around Christmas time they have huge exhibits of every kind of Santa Claus you can think of from every country, Nativity sets from every country and type of material, and a bunch of gingerbread houses that different people in the county have made. It was also great too cause it was FREE! Yeah I can be so cheap sometimes. :) So we spent some time walking around looking at all the things they had to offer. The youngest girl had a hard time looking at every little thing and didn't want to read about them or anything. She was just wanting to run up and down the stairs, so I think I might have to go again with one of my adult clients so I can spend more time reading about each thing. But it was a really cool thing to have for the city and enjoy the holidays! The girls wanted to take a picture with everything they had there, so I am just putting up a few of the pictures I took. So if you are anywhere near Idaho Falls from now until January 7th, you should definitely go!

A Gingerbread Log Cabin! :)

With a Carousel gingerbread thing...

Me and the girls

I also took them to see Santa...we had just been in Victoria Secret playing with the make-up, so that's why they look......like that. :)

Darryl:Come on Michael let me borrow the hat for just a couple of hours.
Michael Scott:You wanna be Santa? Have you ever seen Santa?
Darryl:Yeah, I've seen Santa. Who cares?
Michael Scott:Well I'm sorry it just doesn't work.
Dwight Schrute:Michael, I would like to be the elf.
Michael Scott:That makes sense, because he has elfish features.

A Little Taste....

I just wanted to post the pictures I took yesterday after church of all the snow we have! It really does snow a lot here. I thought people were kidding, but there REALLY is A LOT of snow here! Haha it's fun though and beautiful. We will see how much longer I like it. :) I took these pictures at the park near my house (except for the first one...that's our backyard :)

Michael Scott: Look. Dwight is a wuss. When we rented Armageddon, he cried at the end of it.
Dwight: Michael, I told you. That was because it was New Year's Eve, and it started to snow at exactly midnight.

Thoughts....

Well I did say I was gonna do better at blogging and I guess I don't always have to have something real exciting to write about, right? :) If you get bored of my rambling, please let me know and I will stop. Haha Anyway, today I woke up to a Winter Wonderland. Everything was covered in snow and it looked so beautiful.....until I had to go drive in it. All week I had planned to go do my Christmas shopping today since I got paid yesterday and wanted it done. So I bundled myself up and left our warm house. Then I had to spend 10 minutes scraping off my car and warming it up. The roads weren't too bad but there were a couple times where I slid and my life flashed before my eyes, but luckily I got it going straight again before hitting anything. :) Not only was I fighting for my life out on the roads, but at the mall and Wal-Mart as well! People get crazy during this time and they will not let down for anything! The funniest thing about my shopping extravaganza was that there was so much snow that in the parking lot you couldn't even see the lines so people were just parking however they wanted to and didn't even try to get in a straight line. Awesome. Well I made it home safely and got most of my shopping done. I still have a couple things to buy, but I will do it when not everyone and their dog are out. I am going to try to get some pictures of the whiteness here in Idaho Falls because it's just gorgeous. It hasn't stopped all day but it's too dark now.

Michael Scott: "You know what the only thing I want for Christmas? I want Meredith to get better. That's my only wish. But you know what my wishes never come true. So I'm not going to wish that on her. I... a watch would be nice."

Thanksgiving break

So for Thanksgiving this year I went out to California to visit my mom. It was really nice to go out there for a week and get away from work and stress and life. Our friend's the Dilley's were already driving out there to visit their family, so I was able to catch a ride with them, which was really nice so I didn't have to drive by myself. So the weekend before we left, I drove down to Provo to visit Bethany and Doug and some friends. Bethany and I did a little shopping when I got there, and then that night we went to South Jordan with their friends Grant and Liz to eat at "The Pie" and see "Twilight"! It was my first time eating at The Pie but I had always wanted to eat there and it was delicious. It was my second time seeing "Twilight", but it was still SO GOOD! The theater we went to had assigned seating and they had already bought their tickets, so when I bought mine, I had to sit away from them, but not too far. I didn't mind sitting by myself really. Once the movie starts, it doesn't really matter who you are sitting with. But we got there a little early and so I was there sitting by myself, waiting for someone to sit by me, but my row was empty until the very minute the movie started. I talked to the girl next to me a bit. She had never read the books or knew anything about Twilight, and that was just very disappointing. Anyway, it was really fun and I don't think I could ever tire of watching it.

The next day I went to church with them and then drove up to Layton to the Dilley's house to help them clean and load the car for the trip. We woke up very early the next morning and got on the road to Sacramento. It was a pretty good drive. Clear weather, good music, lots of stops for their 4 kids, and I drove the second half and that always makes trips go by fast for me.

It was really fun to see my mom and get to know Lee more, and have fun with my sister Lindsay. I didn't have to worry about anything and that was awesome. Gennveve got baptized while we were out there and it was so fun to be able to see it. We met the Dilley's when Gennaveve was only 1 year old! So we have been able to see her grow up these past 8 years and celebrate her becoming a member of the church.

The day before Thanksgiving, our friends the Harpers always have a huge dinner at their house so we were able to go over there and eat so much good food! Lindsay, Amelia, and I hung out and watched "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" and ate a bunch of ice cream. The day of Thanksgiving, we just had a small dinner with my mom, Lee, and myself. Lindsay went up to Tahoe to have dinner with our cousins so it was just us. I took my mom and Lee to see "Twilight" and Amelia came with us. It was my third time seeing it and it was still AMAZING! My mom thought it was really scary. Haha. Anyway, my mom and I went shopping for a bit on Black Friday and found some really good deals for christmas presents. Then I headed back to Utah with the Dilley's.

I have some more pictures that I am waiting for Lindsay to post so I can put them on here, so you will have to wait for those. And I am also going to try to do better at blogging because I have been sucking it up bad lately.