Thankful for my Friends

Today I am thankful for a few things.  First, I am thankful for awesome people in my life.  I have the best family in the world, and I get to live by half of them, and I also have the best of friends.  Catherine Bates in one of them.   She was one of my dear roommates, and now good friend and she is awesome enough to get my bum to the gym everyday! I learn a lot from her. She's the most caring and loving person I know.  And I am thankful for her today for being such a good friend to me and making me work my hinnie out.  Second, I am thankful for my good friend Landon today, because he got an extra shirt from the BYU Basketball game today, and gave it to me!!!!!! WHOORAAAA!!  How nice is that! And third thing I am thankful for today, is someone came into the salon today and gave us free tickets to a sneak preview of Breaking Dawn! THE NEW TWILIGHT movie!!!!!! And my manager of course asked me first if I wanted to go because I am the only one in that salon to not be embarrassed to admit that I am stinkin excited for that movie.  Lame it may be, but i do not care! I will probably love every bit of it and can't wait! I just am hoping I can get the last couple hours of my shift taken care of :)


So as you can see, I had a good day where I had a lot to be thankful for!  Hope you're all having a good day!

Luckiest day ever

11.11.11 


Today is officially the luckiest day of the year.  Never again will the entire date be the same number 6 in a row.  (meaning six ones in a row.) 12.12.12 isnt as cool. ANNNND for ever I have always made a wish at 11:11, and this morning I missed it by a minute, but you better believe I won't miss it again tonight! 


We have a few hours everybody, gotta think of a real good wish, cause there's a good chance it'll come true today!!!!!!!!! There won't be a day more lucky than this so take advantage.  


So today, the thing I am thankful for is the date.  Also, I am thankful for fall.  I decided recently that Fall is officially my favorite season.  I like the trees, the colors and I LOVE wearing sweaters and comfy clothes.  It makes me sad Fall isn't very long in Utah, because Winter comes way too quickly, but it is my favorite nonetheless.  I also love the fall smells.  I always think of fall at home... the smell of homemade bread, the house being clean and the fire on.  That was my favorite feeling EVER!  Not living near my mom's cooking during the fall is always tough. I miss her amazing soups and yummy food.  BUUT I am learning! I made a chicken noodle soup the other day with HOMEMADE noodles might I add!!!! It was delicious! I also love the apple spice or cinnnomon or pumpkin candles that are light during the fall.  The house is so cozy and wonderful with these yummy smells and comfy clothes. 


Hope you're all enjoying Fall as much as I am! It's going to be all the way over here pretty soon, so enjoy the last of it! 

Thankful for Jenica

Today I am thankful for Jenica.  Yesterday was her birthday and it got me thinking how awesome of a person she really is.  She spent a while with us for the last little bit and she went home yesterday morning and I already miss her.  If you haven't met or had a conversation with Jenica, you are missing out.  She is one of my all time most favorite people ever.  Why you ask?! Well ill tell you why!!! If you're in a room full of people, you'd probably find Jenica sitting along the edge some where and being pretty quiet.  Laughing at peoples stories but not taking any of the attention away from anyone.  But, if you were to sit by her during a game or anything, you would hear the funny comments she's making the entire time.   She's hilarious and cracks me up allll the time! Also, she might be one of the honest people I know.  Not only does she tell the truth, but she's honest to herself too.  She's not playing any games or trying to be someone else.  It's just, her.  And I love that about her.  Also, you wont hear a single bad thing come out of her mouth. Always positive and talking good about people she knows.  Jenica is my YOUNGER sister, but all my life I have looked up to her.  She's been an example to me for ever.  Teaching me that looks don't matter and playing with Kennex is better. (haha I love those memories where I asked her to play dress up and the look she'd give me and tell me bluntly, "no way, I'm gonna go play kinnex.") Still to this day she'd rather play with kinnex. She's one of the best people I know and I feel so lucky that I get to have her as a sister. I tell her all the time that she has an old soul, and its only because she's already got it all figured out and more mature that I probably will ever be. I have loved the time we have gotten to spend together lately and I am going to miss her LOTS when she goes on a mission soon but she's gonna be a stinkin good missionary and I am so excited for her.

Happy Birthday Nenka!!!! You're the best. 

What I'm Thankful for TODAY

So this month I have been trying to think of things that I am thankful for everyday. And today, I am thankful for:

My moccasins!!!! I'm not even joking when I say I wear them ALLLLL the time!!!! I wake up, and put them on right when I get out of bed.  When I get home from work, I take off my shoes and put them on.  If you haven't owned a pair, then I suggest you get some! I love love love love mine because they are so comfy and cozy! They're the best things of all fall!!!

Quick update

I haven't posted anything in a few days and boy do I have stories for you!!! First off, we got a TV!!!!!! that's right folks, Connor will no longer be watching all of the football games on the computer.  It's pretty fun having a TV now, especially after going a couple years without one.  Now when someone asks me about some upcoming movies, ill know what they're talking about or about some funny commercial these days, I won't look silly when I say I don't have any idea what they're talking about. 

Secondly, Jenica was in town having fun with all of us and she had decided to go back on Friday. It was a sad morning, I had work early, so I went and snuggled with her in bed before I had to leave and I knew she'd be gone when I got home.  It was so sad to think about because I like having her here.  She's such a funny girl, always fun to be around, and so nice and helps out.  Not to mention she laughs at my jokes now!!! (It's taken years for her to find me funny!!!) But guess what happened!!! I was at work and I got some texts from her that she was about to reach the freeway and was sad to be leaving.  Then a little while later I got another text message telling me she couldn't do it!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!! She started having an emotional breakdown about leaving all of us, so she pulled off the road and decided she was going to stay through the weekend.  BAHAHAH she came back and we got to have her here for a little while longer! 

Thridly, I am in a competition at work right now.  Remember how I told you that I might not get to go home for Christmas?! Well, there was no easy fair way to decide who to give the days to, so the manager came up with an idea to have a competition, and who ever won got to pick what days they wanted first and then second place got to pick next and so on.   The competition is whoever has the highest combo percentage after about a month.  (A combo is whenever someone gets a service done, and buys product.) This week is the last week and as of right now I'm pretty neck and neck with one girl for second place.  The silly thing is, the girl that is smoking us doesn't usually sell much product EVER! She's killin it and getting so lucky!  Lucky girl! I'm gonna work my bum off this week and do the best I can to beat her, but I might not be able to do it.  BUUUT the good news is, we get to be with family for the Holidays! We just aren't sure whether it's for Christmas Eve or a couple days after.  We won't know until after the competition.  So, keep your fingers crossed that I kill it this week!!! 

And lastly, I've Connors intramural soccer team is doing pretty good.  He is in the quarter finals and doing pretty well!! They have three more games left before they become the champions!!! I hope they keep doing well.  Poor Connor's been working so hard his legs are all scrapped up like crazy.  Let's hope it ends soon and that they win so he can start healing because I'm tired of cleaning the blood stains on our sheets when a scab rips open in his sleep!  

Well, I think that's all everybody...OH ONE MORE THING! The other day at winco we spent over a hundred dollars and got a free turkey!!!!! Connor went and picked out the biggest turkey he could find.  So, I will be learning how to cook a turkey here pretty soon!!!! We'll see how it goes.

Pictures from my birthday

I know I already had a post about my birthday, but Karissa just sent me pictures from her camera and since I didn't have any, I just wanted to add a few from my big day.  Here they are:

waiting for me to arrive

Surprise!!!!!!!!!

 Pinata time!

Kendra made me a yummy birthday cake!!

BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!! Connor and the Landers threw me the best party ever!!!!! Thanks you guys, Love you all

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

This years Halloween certainly got a high ranking on my list of best halloweens ever!  For work I dressed up as a nerd (or if you ask Connor and Jenica, a school girl). Then the plan was to come home as soon as I was done with work and grab some food and head over to Karissa and Toby's house. But to my surprise, I was expecting to come home to Connor, where instead, I came home to......

A WALRUS!!!!!!! Connor's costume was by far one of my most favorite things I have ever seen. 

Trick or treating with my cute little walrus

Jenica and Zeke were Pirates!!!

The Lander family looked pretttttty good.  Karissa was a Richard Simmons 80's workout chick. Toby was a pumpkin.  Porter couldn't decide between being a Turtle or a Monkey, so he went as BOTH! And Zeke was a gooooood lookin Pirate.

I have never seen kids more excited about trick or treating in my life! After the first house Zeke was literally skipping and saying, "Caaaaaandy! I love candy!!!!!!!" and then a while later to his friend he said, "I LOVE halloween things!" then screamed "HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!"  He was seriously cracking me up! 

But don't you dare think for a second that Zeke was the only one excited about Halloween. Porter LOOOOOVED every second of it.  The kids would get up to the door and ring the door bell.  And if the people didn't come to the door fast enough, Porter would push his way to the door and say out loud "knock knock!!" while actually knocking on the door, so when they opened the door he fell inside! These two kids were seriously the funniest kids ever.  

How many adults can take two kids trick or treating? This year, SEVEN!!!!!!!! 

A zebra, nerd and a walrus

zebra, nerd and their pirate off to trick or treat!

Trent also had one of the best costumes, he was HOT ROD!!! 

We stopped after 2 hours or so of knocking, but Porter and Zeke could have gone all night. Even though we were all tired, they didn't ever want to stop! The weather was absolutely perfect, the kids were stinkin cute and the adults had lots of fun too!!! Some houses were serving Chili, homemade donuts, or even hot dogs!!!! What more can you ask for folks?! This was one of the best Halloweens EVER!!!