Future Finley! :-)

NEW BLOG!!

2010-05-10T20:28:00.000-07:00

Ok now that we are MARRIED I made a new blog :-) here's the address foreverfinleys.blogspot.com

Portland/Vancouver Trip :-)

2010-04-25T15:52:00.000-07:00

Bridal Shower at Alex's Grandma's House! :-)

2010-04-20T11:37:00.000-07:00

Cutting the cake :-)
Alex's Mom Michelle and Grandma Terri and I
My Mommy, Me, Terri and Michelle

Grandma Terri and I :-)

Hair for the wedding :-)

2010-04-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

So Tammy Paris is doing my hair for the wedding so we did a practice on Saturday and I LOVE it! :-) She did such a good job. PLUS, she said that she will do my makeup for FREE as a wedding gift!! I cant wait! Also on Saturday Alex's Grandma threw me a little bridal shower with some of her friends so i'll post some pictures of that later. And sometime this week i'll post pictures from this weekend when Alex and I went to Portland and Vancouver and stayed with Heidi and Ben!

Mom for a day!

2010-04-14T17:30:00.000-07:00

So on Saturday I got to babysit Radley and Cade from 8:30 in the morning til about 9:30 at night. We had a ton of fun :-) We played outside alot and here are some pictures of that...

Better Late Than Never!... Easter Pictures

2010-04-14T16:44:00.000-07:00

We hung out outside alot. Here's Rad fixing his not broken bike :-)

Alex playing with Jared and Amy's dog Finn
Alex making fun of Cades adorable way of watching his mom and dad work!

Melenie and Derrick were building a house for their goats

Cade was helping too...

Alex and Rad

Mmm...

More Food

Alex and Tristin

Radley showing Aunt V his egg

Lisy playing the marble game

The Easter eggs I dyed a few days before Easter

I thought they looked really cool in the glasses!

Totally looks like Finn is smiling in this picture!

Mel and Derrick brought their goats!! SO Cute!

Yet ANOTHER medical problem...

2010-04-07T09:29:00.001-07:00

So on Christmas Day I started getting this sharp pain right in my upper stomach. It hurt so bad that I almost had Alex take me to the ER but I ended up just going home and laying down and it slowly went away. And then after that I would get that same pain 2 or 3 times a month. And then 2 weeks ago I had it at about 10 at night but it was the worst its ever been! I got up to walk to my parents room and just as I got to the door I fainted! Shane was the first one to get to me and he started yelling at my parents to hurry and he got me a pillow for under my head (he loves me :-) Even if he wont admit it!) So they got to me and we were getting ready to go to the ER, they got dressed and everything but it finally starting getting better so we decided to just wait and see what happened. And we went back to bed. So then the night before last the same thing happened at about 1am! I woke up from the pain and it felt like someone was stabbing me with a hot knife! It hurt worse than anything. I have never been in so much pain before. So I waited 15 minutes to see if it would go away again but it didn't so I texted my mom to avoid fainting again walking down the hall lol and she came in and I could barely talk it hurt so bad. No way I sat helped or anything so she got Bob and he gave me a blessing. Then we decided we needed to go to the ER. So Bob started the car and they got dressed.... and then it started going away. I felt SO bad! So we didn't go but yesterday morning mom made an appointment with the doctor. So we went and it turns out I have a stomach ulcer :-( NOT caused by stress. He actually said that stress doesn't really cause ulcers, it just makes it harder to heal them or something. And the anti-depressant I take actually caused ulcers. So we don't know how exactly I got it but I just have to take some pills for 2 weeks to see if it will heal it. First my gall bladder now this! My body hates me.... lol

Engagement Pictures! Taken by Mommy :-)

2010-03-25T09:09:00.000-07:00

This doesn't look that great cause I took it with my phone but this is what the card that will be in with the invitation will pretty much look like :-)

I hate pictures of us kissing but I like this one :-)

Alex's favorite :-) Him and his mom say I look "Sexy and Mysterious" lol
Candid

Candid :-) I didn't know he was going to kiss my cheek so thats a real smile :-)

My Boulder :-) its not a rock, its a boulder lol

Everyone thinks this one is funny :-)

My favorite

I felt dumb doing this but it turned out ok! :-)

Mom did a good job HUH??

Wedding Dress!! And other Utah/Wedding stuff pictures!

2010-03-21T14:24:00.000-07:00

Ok here are pictures of my dress! PLEASE KEEP IN MIND!: This dress in a whole size too small so the one that I am actually getting shipped to me will fit nicer and be more smooth around the tummy area :-)

The back
I love love love it!

here are the ties - from left to right - Bob, Duane, Alex, Jared and Tavin

we got them for the two dads and then of course the groom and my oldest brother Jared is walking me down the isle and then Tavin is the ring bearer :-)

The crop sweater in case Sam gets cold in her flower girl dress

the flower petal basket thing she'll carry

my shoes!

necklace

Tavin's adorable ring bearer suit

Ok so we weren't going to have a flower girl but we walked into the store to get Tavin's suit and we saw this dress that pretty much matched mine! The bottom of it at least.... so now Samantha will be the gorgeous flower girl!

some pictures of the temple that I took while we were there!

Speak now or forever hold your peace....

2010-03-01T14:13:00.001-08:00

K i'm going to the doctor tomorrow at 4:30 to talk about getting the IUD. WE DO NOT WANT AND CAN NOT HAVE KIDS UNTIL WE ARE READY! And the patch is not working for me, and I never remember to take pills. I know alot of people advise against it so have at it :-) Let me know before I go :-)

Valentines Date :-)

2010-02-12T11:43:00.000-08:00

So since V-Day is on a Sunday this year Alex and I are going on our date tonight :-) And then tomorrow we're watching Rad, Cade, Tavin and Tristin so that Mel & Derrick and Jared & Amy can go on their own dates :-) So tonight we're going to.... Applebees!! We LOVE Applebees! Their 2 for $20 deal is awesome! An appitizer and 2 meals for $20! We go there so much I can tell you what we'll most likely get.... We'll get this for the appitizer :-)

Alex will get the FirePit Burger :-)

With a Raspberry Lemonade!

I'll get the 7oz Steak with Parmesian Shrimp on top :-) With Brocolli and Mashed Potatoes!

And a virgin Strawberry Daquiri!

And THEN.... we're going to see

Can't wait!!

My New Phone :-)

2010-02-04T18:42:00.000-08:00

The HTC Droid Eris :-) Finally a phone with internet! :-)

A few of my favorite things....

2010-01-28T14:41:00.000-08:00

Watching TV :-) I'm a little too addicted...

Interior Design! I can't WAIT to decorate our own house/apartment!

Getting flowers :-) (this bouquet was from Alex :-))

Reading!

Photography and my Canon Rebel XS

Heels :-) One day I will master walking in them!

BKE Jeans! Cultures are my favorite :-) Wearing some right now actually :-)

Color Change :-)

2010-01-25T13:17:00.000-08:00

Ok so I dropped red and picked up pink :-) So my colors are orange pink and yellow. The first three are the flowers and the last two pictures are what the two kinds of flowers will look like togeter... let me know what you think!

THE Cake

2010-01-15T10:01:00.000-08:00

So this is the cake i'm getting :-) The amount of layers and the size of the tiers will be different and instead of blue dots it'll be red, orange and yellow dots. But I think it'll look good with my colors and the whole fun theme that i'm going for :-)

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2009-12-31T11:32:00.000-08:00

I WILL have obnoxious shoes like this at my wedding. Just you wait and see :-)

Wedding Stuff

2009-12-31T10:33:00.000-08:00

Ok this dress is the one that I set my mind on but i'm not sure anymore...

I like how this one splits on the bottom

I like SOME parts of this one

One of my favorites :-) I like how its scrunched up top and how it splits on the side at the bottom

I like everything about this one except the neck like

Pretty sure this is the hairstyle I want....?

THOUGHTS???

PHOTOGRAPHY.... no matter what anyone says!

2009-12-24T09:07:00.000-08:00

I am SO tired of people telling me that you can only be a photographer if you've been trained... just because you have a good camera doesn't mean you are talented and last but not least when they look at my pictures and say "Wow, its amazing what the camera can do" The Camera does not set up the picture. The camera does not position everything.... grrrr. Could I take good pictures without this camera? No. But that doesn't mean that I have no talent! I love taking pictures and I'm learning more and more each day. I may not be a photographer but photography is my hobby. The End. Merry Christmas everyone! :-)

Been a while!

2009-12-23T12:54:00.000-08:00

Ok so it's been a while since my last post. I finally got my gall bladder taken out on the 14th (Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary :-)) It went pretty well the only thing I was nervous about was the anesthesia because i've never gone under before but the nurses were really cool and good at taking my mind off it :-) I didn't so much like the gown due to the extreme opening in the back... I thought that was only on movies!! Apparently not. It went pretty fast I think it was like an hour...? and I woke up really well. The doctor came to talk to us after and he was taking to Mom and Alex like I wasn't there and I was responding to the question and he kept saying how surprised he was that I was so awake. I guess most people don't really know whats going on... but I was glad cause thats my biggest fear! Alex is so amazing... after everyone left for a minute he started tearing up and said that he felt so relieved :-) So then I started crying cause I love him so dang much and my heart rate went up so he was like "Stop crying! It JUST got back down to normal and now its up again!" lol :-) I love him. I was super tired and slept most of the day but after taking the hydros I started throwing up. My body doesn't do well with them I guess. And as you can imagine puking after you have an organ removed doesn't help the healing very much.... so I stayed down all week and am feeling tons better now :-)

Christmas Eve is tomorrow! I can't wait. I'm really exicted to go to Alex's grandparents house with his family. We'll be with my family all afternoon and then go to their house later on and I cant wait! It was so much fun last year. I love his family and am SO glad that I have cool in-laws! :-) Its nothing like in the movies where they never get along :-) Speaking of in-law.... only about 5 months til we get married! :-) Its SO long to wait especially because the only reason we planned it that far away is so that there would be no snow and there's snow anyways! Grrr oh well.

2009-12-10T12:35:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

2009-12-09T10:49:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

So many choices....

2009-11-17T15:07:00.000-08:00

Cakes Ideas:

I like how this one is simple, but detailed at the same time. And I'm having a daisy and lily bouqet and the daisys look good on it.

I've always liked this one, but not black and white. Something crazy like yellow fondant with red and orange designs? Or orange designs and red ribbon....?
This one is crazy cool. But I don't think I could find someone in town who could make it!

Centerpieces:

Plain and Cheap
Leaning towards this one, I like the look of the rocks in the vase. Pretty sure i'm sticking with this one..

We're going to State!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-14T16:06:00.000-08:00

Finally after 12 years Bulldogs are going to state again! :-) The team is so good this year, there are so many awesome players who will for sure go on to college football and be awesome there as well. Shane did really well today and got alot of good tackles, and did his job well. One time I sware he threw a guy ten feet. Just grabbed his shirt and threw him! lol So here's some pictures, they are not in order at all.

Look how buff he is!!

They got to ring the victory bell AGAIN

The team and coaches celebrating their win

Praying? Thanking Heavenly Father for the good game? Nope, listening to Smitty from the tower yelling down at him lol

I'm sure that kids back must have popped

This is how he usually gets people off him. With one arm!! No wonder that shoulder is bad!

He did really well at getting his blockers off him and going straight for the ball carrier

That does not look comfortable...

It looks like he's yelling at the ref. but he was just helping that kid up, which is why they are holding hands lol

I'm not sure what was wrong but the doctor was feeling around his stomach. Shane was saying something hurt

Crouch down. Butt Out.

Lifting Anthony Gold up. Anthony is this little black kid who is AMAZING! He runs SO fast. You see him dart into a huge croud of players and seconds later you see him run out lol he's one of the kids who will go on to being an awesome player. Did I mention he's a SOPHMORE??

Smitty's usual pre-game instructions to Shane

The many faces of Smitty....

Just for you Heidi!

2009-11-12T18:37:00.000-08:00

Ok so Alex and I found these on youtube.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC7pilGoPc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUw_SQgNorM

Halloween :-)

2009-11-02T17:59:00.000-08:00

Mandy's Surprise Party!

2009-11-02T17:44:00.000-08:00

Save The Date Pictures....

2009-10-29T15:21:00.000-07:00

Ok so we're doing save the date cards since the wedding is so far away and mom took some pictures yesterday. These pictures are NOT edited, kinda blurry, and I look horrible. Lol, but they will look better on the cards and we're only putting one picture on :-) These are just for you Heidi :-) The one we picked is not one of these :-) So you'll see it when you get yours in the mail!

Lots of Pictures :-)

2009-10-29T14:46:00.000-07:00

Shane during the Moscow game, the field was very muddy!

Singing the school song after they won the game 33-0! Moscow beat the team we're playing tomorrow 40 something to 7 so the fact that we creamed Mosco means we'll hopefully beat Lakeland :-)
Rad pushing Cade around :-) The cake Alex and I made :-)

Gorgeous Mommy and her new hair cut :-)

Stupid Deer...

2009-10-27T12:02:00.001-07:00

So last night Alex and I were driving up to my house (because my mom needed Alex's muscles to move all the couches off the carpet so the carpet guy can clean them) and Alex was driving and so we're driving along and right on the flat part of Baldy BAM!!! A deer hits the side of the car that i'm on!! IT HIT US!!! I was SO mad, more than scared! We didn't stop, we just drove straight to my house and then looked at the damage when we got out and I almost cried :-( My poor car!! There was like a clump of deer hair so big that the door handle wouldn't move haha. Rad said "What happened to the deer? where is he?" And I said I hope it died and he almost cried lol so Grandpa had to tell him that it was dark and he bumped into the car but now he went back to sleep in the woods to get better or something like that :-) Aunt V wasn't very good at making a story up lol. Anyways, luckily bob has some extra parts cars just like mine so we can hopefully take my doors and fender off and trade them. And then just paint them to match. But STILL :-( My poor baby..........

New Camera.... Again :-)

2009-10-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

So they couldn't fix my Nikon D40 so this is my new toy from Best Buy :-)

2009-10-13T12:11:00.000-07:00

So for about 2 years now I have had a pain in my upper right side of my stomach. Like right under my ribs, it comes and goes but when I have it its extremely bad and I have to like bend over cause thats the only way the pain stops. And also for the past 2 years I have had headaches. Horrible headaches like all the time as well as 'growing pains' in my legs. I'm also very tired and have absoloutly no energy no matter how much I sleep. So i've gone to physical therapists for my headaches (80 dollars each appointment and I went like 7 times!) And my doctor has been trying to figure it out. So i've had to give so many blasted blood samples to try and figure it out. I got diagnosed with extreme anemia so I am taking iron pills and vitamin D pills but it hasn't changed anything. Then I had a lukemia scare but I tested negative for that! The pains in my stomach are getting worse and finally a couple people told me that the pain sounds like my gall bladder. So I looked it up on WebMd and guess what? Every symptom I have is connected to my gall bladder!!!!!!!!!!! The tiredness, the leg aches, the headaches, everything! So we went in and got a 500 dollar ultrasound (ouch) and turns out I have gall "sludge" which it stones and gravel like stuff. So I have an appointment with the surgeon on the 20th and he'll tell me if I have to get it out, which is probable, or if I can try antibiotics first. I am SO looking forward to getting it fixed because hopefully it will make me have more energy and take my headaches away!!

Bob's Birthday Present

2009-10-07T12:20:00.001-07:00

So i've had this idea for a long time to make Bob a mail box. First it was going to be for Christmas last year, then fathers day and we finally did it for his birthday :-) Mom and I bought the mail box and we had Chuck from Quality paint it to match his hot rod :-) Chuck did an amazing job! This picture doesn't do it justice! He FINALLY put it up today and its been getting alot of attention :-)

More wedding stuff

2009-10-04T16:06:00.000-07:00

Ok here is what the bouqet will look like except i'll have orange lilys instead of yellow and yellow and red daisys instead or red and orange :-) The yellow lilys are too bright and the yellow daisys will be a more yellow yellow lol

I love this design on the cake but I might want square... not sure. And not sure what colors yet but i'm THINKING I want really colorful.... so like red cake with the orange and yellow designs all over.... maybe

I just like the very bottom layer of this one... it's a tie between the circles and the design above. I'm thinking this bottom one though. The circles on all layers and the ribbon at the bottom edge :-)

WyoTech

2009-09-30T09:45:00.000-07:00

Ok so lots of people are asking me about it so here goes.... there is alot of cool things lol!

What you do is pick what you want to study (Automotive tech, diesel, marine, collision repair) and Alex has picked Automotive. So for the first 6 months he'll be studying that, and then you choose a 3 month program. He chose motorsports chassis fabrication for the 3 months and THEN you can add things on if you want. So he's adding the applied service management program so that he can get his associates degree :-) In three months! Its an awesome program. Some of the cool things about Wyotech are;

* They supply all of the tools you'll need
* While you are enrolled in the school you get 60% off Matco tools and 50% off Snap-On!
* Their placement in a job percentage is 100%, 96-98% is in the first month!
* They have over 40,000 companies who come to their job fairs to hire students. And they go there first.
* After you finish school they send your resume out to all of the companies for you, and after 10 years if you decide you need another job you call them up and for free they will work up another resume and send it out! You're always part of the school.
* If 5 years after you graduate there is a new car or something you want to learn about working on, for FREE you go back to the school as a "floater" and learn about it with the students.
* If you show up to class with your shirt untucked or your hair messy you go home for the day. And employers know this so thats one of the reasons they like to hire students from Wyotech.

There are so many other cool things but thats all I can think of right now. It's a very expensive school but its not like you graduate and then thats it. They always will take care of you and help you find a job.

Candy/Caramel Apples!

2009-09-30T09:43:00.000-07:00

Last night after the meeting with the wyotech guy at Alex's house (which i'll post a blog about later today) Alex and I made caramel and candy apples! It's SO fun and SO easy! we're going to do it again closer to Halloween :-) And I want to do sugar cookies too because WalMart has a ton of cool things to decorate with!

Football!

2009-09-25T08:34:00.000-07:00

Shane was in the newspaper today for last weeks game :-) He took down the quarterback but then got a 15 yard penalty cause he grabbed his collar which is not allowed this year. But it's a good picture!

1 million posts in one!

2009-09-23T09:58:00.000-07:00

I guy that comes into work all the time draws pictures of the guys and this is the one of Bob that I fixed on my phone :-)

I had a face mask on so I made myself a clown on my phone :-)

Arrr... :-)

For Alex's birthday his dad and mom paid for him to do the derby at the spokane fair on him and his mom's birthday (same day :-)) And his dad gave him the car. The red one in the pictures, kinda small pic.

There were a TON of people there! This is like a third of the people. There were 36 cars and Alex came in 10th which is good for his first derby! At one point he had a car on his hood!

Alex with his helmet on lol Cade at his 1st birthday part :-)

He's so cute and so big now! He is walking really well now! Ok so Alex and I don't even know where we're living when we get married yet but we have all the furniture we need! Here is the 36 inch tv bob got yesterday for us! This old lady just moved here from beverly hills and is trying to get rid of extra stuff (all nice stuff) So we have this tv, a kitchen table and chairs, two floor lamps (so pretty that mom is borrowing them til I move out lol) a big couch with two matching chairs (so comfy!) And then we have my computer desk, our beds, a big bookshelve and a entertainment center! Oh and the tv came with a dvd player! We're set! And so thankful for Bob! So for Mel's birthday I watched the boys for the weekend while she and Derrick went to Spokane over night. It was a ton of fun minus Cade having 3 blow outs. Yuck! And he was teething so he cried ALL night! I got 1 hour of sleep. So Alex came over in the morning and watched the boys so I could sleep :-) I love him! Here's a picture of Cade sleepin on him :-)

Shane's Senior Pictures

2009-09-21T14:35:00.000-07:00

Shane being shane.... :-)

He was having a hard time being serious!

This is the one we picked for the yearbook

Totally looks like a model in this one

Candy Bouqet!

2009-09-14T16:06:00.001-07:00

This is the candy bouqet I made for Duane, my future father in law, for his birthday today! So fun to make! :-)

One more thing....

2009-09-08T14:39:00.001-07:00

The same guy takes the football pictures and so here's how you can go and look at some great ones of shane!

http://www.pointphotography.com/#

go to find and print your images and then sports, prep sports, football, football 2009, sandpoint vs lake city! he's number 22 :-)

SO happy!!

2009-09-08T14:32:00.000-07:00

Ok so i've been worrying about the photographer for the wedding... I really want good pictures but they are so dang expensive! So I was looking at the website for the guy here in sandpoint who takes the amazing sports pictures and I saw that if you booked him for a wedding before the end of september then you got 50% off the package for 2010 wedding! I almost cried! lol so mom just called and booked him :-) AND he is splitting up the time for us with no travel charge :-) Because he'll have to go to the temple at 12 for an hour to do our pictures there and then he'll come back here and do the wedding and reception from 5-8 :-) So excited!

http://www.pointphotography.com/#
go to weddings and then galleries and then look at gallery 3 :-)

And The Date Is.....

2009-09-08T08:10:00.000-07:00

May 1st!! :-)

HELP!

2009-09-06T20:23:00.000-07:00

Ok so the three dates we're trying to decide on are April 10, April 24, and May 1. Any opinions?? I really want to have no snow but I don't know....

Ideas :-)

2009-09-04T08:43:00.000-07:00

Almost positive this is the dress! :-) But the store is in utah and I really want to try it on..obviously lol so I really want to plan a trip where My mom and me and my two sisters can all go together!! :-)

I love these flowers and I think they might look good together but i'm not sure....?

More Pictures :-)

2009-09-02T09:26:00.000-07:00

We're engaged!!!!!!!!! :-)

2009-09-01T17:16:00.000-07:00

It's 2 karats with both band...the engagement one has a 5/8 karat center! :-) It's so pretty!!The story: So last night we went on a walk around town... we parked downtown and walked all the way to memorial and just walked the path and went on the swings and the train and stuff just having fun :-) And then we started walking back towards the boat launch and we stopped and sat down on the benches. And then Alex went to the bathroom (which I later learned is when he took the ring out of his wallet and put it in his pocket!) so we continued down the trail and when we got to the grassy hill right by the lake we layed down and were looking up at the stars and just talking and being SO in love :-) :-) And then I was literally thinking to myself 'I love this feeling! I want to feel JUST like this when he proposed to me! :-) So we stayed there for a little bit longer and then stood up to leave and while we were kissing he reached in his pocket and took out the ring and got on his knee and said "Valeri, will you marry me?" And I just took there for like 5 seconds and then said "Babe!...." And then like 10 more seconds after staring in desbelief I FINALLY (his words) said "Yes!" And he put it on my finger.... it's gorgeous! It was so perfect, I was facing the lake and it was one of those time where you're just SO happy you can't even describe the feeling! And the Ring! I love it! It was dark and you could still see it sparkle! I called my mom first and told her. She knew it was coming which leads into how he did it all but first..... so we had to walk all the way back into town to my car and it seemed like a blur I was so excited! We kept seeing people like with there doors open and I was like "Let's go tell them!" lol my phone was in my car so I couldn't get there fast enough!
Ok so apparently he was planning on asking me like a week ago when we drove up to the top of Baldy lol but his car kept overheating so I was in a bad mood and we were like stranded so I was being a whimp and scared of animals.... anyways thankfully he didn't do it then! But he had it in the car :-) But I'm SO glad he did it last night. It was PERFECT! Anyways.... so he did ask my mom permission like 2 weeks ago and I guess he's had the ring a little longer than that :-) He went to CDA twice without me knowing!! :-) And he told his parents by telling them that he had a present for me and wanted to know if they liked it. So he showed them the ring :-) They caught on lol So yeah. That's the story!! We're thinking we'll get married Lost in the 50's weekend, but it's NOT set in stone. And that would be May 15th :-)

Adding to the last post....

2009-08-24T11:30:00.000-07:00

So yesterday at church Cade was acting like he was on crack..... he's so dang cute! But he was being crazy so Alex took him out for melenie! It just made me smile.... its all the little things he does :-) Ahhh... he's awesome. And then this morning work was crazy and I was really stressed and just wanted to cry and Alex came and just gave me a hug and everything was better! I LOVE that I love him so much that he can make everything better!!! :-) :-) :-)

I love Alex because....

2009-08-22T13:04:00.000-07:00

He loves me and tells me several times a day

He is very close to his family :-) and is a mama's boy!

He is very smart, especially about cars!

He's a handy man and can fix pretty much anything! He always figures it out.

His eyes are gorgeous!

His laugh.

He makes me feel like I can never be ugly!

He picks me up and carrys me up the stairs! :-)

He's always reaching for my hand to hold :-)

He loves the church.

He cries often :-) (he's going to kill me for that one...)

He is constantly singing love songs to me :-)

He's always finding songs that remind him of me (usually country ones)

He is always helping out everyone

He talks to my parents like they are his own

He loves kids and is amazing with them! Even babies!

He already is thinking about future kids.. the other day he told me he hopes the girls aren't TOO pretty cause he doesn't want to have to worry about them! :-)

He loves to just drive! Me too!

He watches chick flicks and doesn't complain :-)

We talk about everything and I love it :-)

He pays his tithing - and always rounds up

He reads the scriptures and prays every night! He reminds me to do the same :-)

He has been baptized for a year and already gives me advice about the church :-)

He goes home teaching and seems to like it!

He is honest.

He is kind.

He is PATIENT!

He is caring.

He thinks positivly

He is smart with money

He has a plan

He can and will start up a conversation with anyone :-)

He's not afraid to stand up for himself or someone else

He's protective

He can make a bad day better just by hugging me

He listens to me

He is always trying to be better, which helps me be better

He buys me flowers all the time, and they come with love notes :-)

He makes me laugh

He's always showing up and surprising me :-) And its always when I need him

He makes me smile just by being near him

He's going to be an amazing Daddy

And most of all he makes me HAPPY!

There are so many other reasons! But these are the only ones I can think of right now!

2009-08-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

Nikon D40

2009-08-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

I'm obsessed! This is the most amazing camera.... you really can not take a bad picture!! I'm going to start a portfolio with all my favorites in it. These aren't really amazing ones but just some i've take over the weekend! Most of the scenery ones are from Alex's grandparents house!

Wedding Pictures!! :-)

2009-08-06T14:32:00.000-07:00

Coming out of the Temple :-)
She looked Gorgeous!!

First time I have ever seen them kiss!
Super pretty dress!
Taken care of her man! :-)
Alex and Sam
:-)
Kissin Daddy
Jared and Tavin
Tired little princess
A gross picture of me and cade lol

Trying not to rip her dress (I think she told me later that it has alot of rips in it!)
Andrew flying!
The Cake
Aunt Missy and Tristan (Jared's baby)
Poopy Diaper!
Mom's side of the family!
Me and my love :-)
Family

Cade
Tav
Cute picture! lol even though he is crying
Siblings and I and Papa
Siblings and Mommy
Sisters and Bob
Mom and her siblings (Minus Alan, Josh, and Kim)

Aww :-)
The wedding party

Kidd Siblings (minus heidi, mel, and jared's spouses)
Tongues....?
Us and Papa again
Again....ooops

Father Daughter Dance
Mother Son Dance
My man and little 12 day old Meri Kate :-) (heidi's baby)
Cade and Tristan ....partied too hard
First Dance

Thanks to me and Alex :-)
The sign Heidi and I made
The dress sparkles!!
Missy and Tavin

Teri and Tristan

Tavin and Rad

Heidi's birthday cake!

Andrew

My man and Meri Kate again... he looks good with babies huh? :-)

Tavin and Sam

Tristan with Aunt Candi

Grandpa Bostock and Tristan

Teri and Tristan

Tristan and Meri Kate! :-)

Wedding Pictures..

2009-08-05T09:21:00.000-07:00

I'll post some TOMORROW night hopefully! For all the family who is wanting them :-)

I'm gonna pee my pants!!! :-)

2009-07-22T11:28:00.000-07:00

New Phone!

2009-07-09T12:05:00.000-07:00

I got the dare and I love it!! It keeps me occupied lol :-) I can draw pictures and stuff :-) I made mom a crying clown, cause she's gone and misses me :-) lol, and then Alex a piggy and me a clown! :-) I was bored....

Wedding Fever! :-)

2009-07-02T12:56:00.000-07:00

So a few months ago I started making like a wedding scrapbook. I have like different sections (hair and makeup, dress, jewlry, rings, colors, cakes) and I get bridal magazines and put pictures I like in the different sections. And so when candi came up last time we were looking at it and getting all excited about their wedding :-) so her and mike got here last night and she brought a stack of bride magazines! Lol so we just sat in the kitchen looking at like hairstyles and makeup ideas and stuff :-) It was fun, she's passing her wedding fever to me!! NOT that i'm getting married soon :-) It's just fun to look! :-) These are some dresses I like :-)

and then of course every girl has her dream ring.... :-)

Shane's new room (thanks to mom :-))

2009-06-25T18:05:00.000-07:00

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland!! :-)

2009-06-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

Ahhh!! It's not coming out til March 2010 but I can't wait!! Anne Hatheway, Johnny Depp, and Tim Burton's wife/girlfriend (not sure if they are married) are some of the people in it. The scenes are going to all look so amazing!! In the flower picture up top you can see how all the flowers have faces :-) I love Tim Burton's imagination and all of his movies. I have a Tim Burton movie collection :-)I can't wait for it to come out! :-)

How RUDE is this??

2009-06-25T10:38:00.001-07:00

Ok! So last night Alex took Amanda and I to dinner (not physically but he paid so anyways....) we went to The Hydra and it was all a nightmare. First the waitress put us in a table like right in the middle of the walk way.... it was the dumbest place for a table. So Alex politely asked for a booth instead, so she moved us. And she asked if we wanted anything to drink, we all ordered lemonade and I would say like 20 minutes later our drinks showed up. We ordered an appetizer, and 15-20 minutes later we got that. We knew what we wanted to order by then but she dropped off the appetizer and like walked away before asking if we were ready to order.... so then like 20-25 MORE minutes later she comes back and gets our orders... our soup got there fast but I sware it took like 30 minutes to get our food. And she didn't check on us or anything! And we finally got our food and she came back and alex ordered another drink with took forever to get and we were sitting right next to the pop machine! So we asked in advance about dessert and she told us what there was and then left and came back like 20 minutes later!! I mean we asked about dessert... that should have let her know that we were going to order some!! So we asked for dessert TO GO cause we had already been there close to 2 hours. So we got the dessert and the check and alex gave her his card. And when she brought it back is was like 67.? and so he made it an even 70.00 and gave her like a 2 dollar and something tip (she didn't deserve one at all! The place was almost empty and they were over staffed) so we left it there and walked out the door.... and then we hear this "Excuse Me!" and I was thinking, are you kidding me... so we turn around and she's standing outside the door holding up the receipt! She wanted to know if it was a 'mistake' that we left such a small tip! She was like did you have a problem with the service? And Alex and said yeah, it took a really long time. And Amanda said you didn't even check on us enough so we had to wait for forever. And she started complaining saying something like they have to pay %8 of the tip to the hydra or something like that. I wasn't really listening I was just staring at her wondering if she was seriously standing there trying to get more money from us! Who DOES that?? That is SO rude!! And we could see her talking and stuff so she wasn't busy with other tables. Ugh. I just think thats totally not ok, a tip is NOT something that you HAVE to pay. Alex and I always pay %20. ALWAYS. But she was really not getting that much from us. The only thing you HAVE to pay in the bill. The tip is your choice. Its not our problem that she was a terrible waitress!! So i'm calling today and complaining. So what do you guys think? Was she right to do that? SHOULD we have given her more?

The Finished Product...

2009-06-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

Red! This picture doesn't even do it justice, I couldn't believe how red it is! It's for football camp which starts sunday. He's gone all next week! Sweet!! Me and mom are doing is room while he's gone so i'll be posting pictures of that!! :-)

Mike and Candi's Engagement Pictures!!!

2009-06-18T13:29:00.001-07:00

They posted these on Facebook but I thought since not everyone has them i'd ask if I could put them on my blog for everyone to see! :-) They are sooo hot! Huh? I guess it rained the first time they took them so they did them again later. They are SO cute together and obviously so in love! I am so excited to see Michael so happy, and I can't wait for them to have gorgeous "Kidds"! AND of course for Candi to be officially my sister :-)

Shane....

2009-06-18T13:27:00.000-07:00

Shane's friend Jake buzzed some of his hair... two stripes on one side and "Kidd" on the other :-) Dork!

Alex's Graduation Present :-)

2009-06-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

Ok, so for his present I sent him on a scavenger/treasure hunt for his hidden treasure :-) I text him the clues and he had to go find the place and take a picture and send it to me. If it was right, he got the next clue. He ended up at Memorial Field where I was with the treasure chest :-) I decorated it and put 100 $1 bills in it :-)

Alex's Graduation :-)

2009-06-07T16:57:00.003-07:00

Alex giving the principal, Dr. Kiebert, a hug :-)

After he got his diploma!

Jesse and Alex

It was So windy! They were losing their hats and sashes!

Alex and I at his grandparetns after Graduation

Him and his grandparents

His family

The Cake :-)

The sparkling cider bottle with the graduation cap on top!

The senior class photo in the newspaper. Alex is on the top row like the 4rd from the left

Alex and Jesse at grad night

Alex and I right before he left for grad night

2009-05-24T20:20:00.000-07:00

Ok here's what the pictures are...

#1: Rad and Sam Hugging! :-) I was so happy I got this lol
#2: Mike putting up the bat box. You put bat poop in it and it attracts them so they eat all your bugs :-)
#3: Rad and Sam eating on the porch
#4: Alex and Andrew playing
#5: Sisters :-) I look gross!
#6: Alex and I
#7: Alex and I in the Roadster, Bob let us drive it for like 2 hours! So fun!
#8: Customer Appreciation Day at work
#9: Customer Appreciation Day at work
#10: Rad and Sam eating apples
#11: Sam climbing under the table at dubs
#12: Rad at dubs
#13: Sam and Andrew eating their dubs ice cream :-)
#14: Bob's flames in the parade, bad picture but they were huge!
#15: Mike and Candi in the Roadster and Bob, Yuri, Shane, Robert and Simon in the '52
#16: Same on Granmeri's lap covering her ears :-)
#17: Heidi, Andrew, Sam and mom at the parade

Not Good For The Church....

2009-05-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/05/barack_obamas_mom_is_a_mormon.html?mid=daily-intel--yahoo-buzz

http://perezhilton.com/2009-05-06-not-okay-obamas-mother-posthumously-baptized-by-mormons

:-)

2009-05-05T12:37:00.000-07:00

Sundays we've been watching Rad and Cade while Derrick and Melenie take Beck to dog school, and this sunday we were playing with playdough and Alex made a truck and I made a flower :-) Lol it was actually fun :-) I miss stuff like that :-)

So you know how every once in a while you'll realize there is something that someone does but you just got used to it so you never say thank you? It's just a normal thing that you don't even notice it anymore? Well i've been noticing how many little things Alex does for me that I don't even notice alot of the time. Once thing that I think is SO cute is when I first started dating him I told him that I had read a scary story once where someone was driving there car at night and they looked in their rear view mirror and there was someone in the backseat, so I have always been afraid and always look back constantly to check :-) Well I should say I USED to, because Alex walks me to my car every night that i'm at his house and I rarely even notice it anymore but he always opens up the back door really quick so it turns on the dome light and lights up the car :-) I thought about it the other night and realized he did it everytime! lol :-) There are so many other things like that, it just makes me happy because alot of it is stuff i've never told him, he's just noticed that I do it all the time so he picked up that that's what I like. So it's nice knowing that he pays attention to what makes me happy! :-):-)

Sick...

2009-04-29T10:38:00.000-07:00

So I was fine Sunday, went to church taught my cute little nursury kids about obeying your parents. Then after church went to Alex's house and that's when it started... I felt like I was going to throw up. So I drove home, well half way. I had to stop on Baldy and...well you know. And then I got home and had just enough time to clean the bathroom floor and the toilet with clorox wipes and cover the floor in towels before the puking began. TMI, sorry. But I threw up from about 7:30 at night to 2am. EVERY 20-30 minutes!!!!! I thought I was dying!! It was SO horrible. I was SO weak, the next morning I couldn't even lift my head off my pillow. But Alex was amazing :-) He showed up at 6:30 Monday morning with 6 bottles of 7up, a Lightening McQueene sippy cup, and salteen crackers :-) The sippy cup was awesome because I couldn't lift my head up so it was nice. He came BEFORE he even got ready for school :-) He went to safeway, brought me the stuff and then went home to get ready for school :-) So cute. But yeah I ate a total of 4 crackers and half of bottle of 7up that day. And only lost 2 pounds... :-( I didn't go to work yesterday, I stayed in bed but i'm here today and i'm still so weak. I was cleaning the counter and I had to force my arm to move. Pathetic. Shane's got it now and Mom had it monday and tuesday. Not fun!!! Hope you all are doing better!! :-)

Good Day! :-)

2009-04-24T12:58:00.000-07:00

I just went to JcPennys to get a new pair of jeans because mine were getting too big and I ran out of room to make new holes so I decided it was time. ANYWAYS, so I get there and I was looking for a size smaller but they only had 2 sizes smaller so I was like ok i'll just try. AND THEY FIT!! So now I fit into a size 11 :-) I was very happy :-) And I was expecting them to be on sale for $20.00 because that's what the sign said but when I got to the register they were $3.37!!!! I was like "$30.37?" lol and she said, "No, $3.37" :-) I am SO happy! :-)

Pictures and More Pictures...

2009-04-11T18:36:00.001-07:00

Alex and I just bored taking silly pictures :-)

You can see my freckles lol

Muah! :-)

Our Beautiful Eggs that we dyed and decorated today :-)

I forgot how much fun it is :-)

This is what the food storage room out in the back shop looks like so far. Mike has been doing alot of work in there while he's been home

It's going to look really good!

Ok... so here is Mom's, Shane's, Mike's, and Bob's car.... alot of cars in one driveway right? Oh just wait....

Here's a better picture of Mike's car (For Heidi) it was SO wrecked in the back but Derrick and Bob fixed it up which is kind of their new hobby I think because....

This is what our yard looks like lol :-) So on top of all of the cars we drive (I didn't get a picture of Bob's truck and my car in the turn around so add two more lol)there are all these in the yard!! We call it the Suburban Junkyard (even though they are not all suburbans :-))I couldn't get them all in the picture but I think you can see like 6 in the picture but all the way to the right behind the white blazer are two more trucks :-) But Bob has been buying wrecked cars and him and Derrick are going to fix them and sell them :-)It look super white trash right now lol :-)

This is the 2003 Fully Loaded Suburban that he just got for Heidi :-) It's really wrecked but one of the other suburbans in the picture above has all the right parts so he's just going to use the good ones and eventually it will look just like new like Mike's! :-)

So we went to Liberty Lake Monday night to get new leather furniture for the downstairs living room and when we got there mom saw this and LOVED it! The top slides apart and it has alot of storage inside

So she asked Bob to get it and after talking prices with the guy (Bargain Bob haha) it was loaded onto the trailor along with....

The couch, the love seat, the recliner, and the two end tables! :-)

Mike and Mom also painted the downstairs walls, the hall and around the door and just the bottom of the one wall going up the stairs. You can see where it goes from "relaxed khaki" to the white.

The paint makes it look SO much better! And the furniture is SO SO SO comfy! Both seats of the love seat are recliners and both ends of the couch recline too :-)

:-) :-)

2009-03-31T20:55:00.000-07:00

So Alex just showed me these Brad Paisley songs, he had me listen to them :-) And the second set of lyrics is our song, and the first he said reminds him exactly of me and like how he feels. So HE went through and made those things that I have done (like leaning on his arm til its dead :-), or breaking something of his lol) or he could see me doing, bold :-) He's very very cute :-)

Little Moments lyrics

Well I'll never forget the first time that I heard
That pretty mouth say that dirty word
And I can't even remember now what she backed my truck into
But she covered her mouth and her face got red
And she just looked so darn cute
That I couldn't even act like I was mad
Yeah I live for little moments like that

Well that's just like last year on my birthday
She lost all track of time and burnt the cake
And every smoke detector in the house was goin' off
And she was just about to cry until I took her in my arms
And I tried not to let her see me laugh
Yeah I live for little moments like that

I know she's not perfect but she tries so hard for me
And I thank god that she isn't 'cause how boring would that be
It's the little imperfections it's the sudden change in plans
When she misreads the directions and we're lost but holdin' hands
Yeah I live for little moments like that

When she's layin' on my shoulder on the sofa in the dark
And about the time she falls asleep so does my right arm
And I want so bad to move it 'cause it's tinglin' and it's numb
But she looks so much like an angel that I don't wanna wake her up
Yeah I live for little moments
When she steals my heart again and doesn't even know it
Yeah I live for little moments like that

Then lyrics

I remember, trying not to stare the night that I first met you. You had me mesmerized.
And three weeks later in the front porch light, taking forty five minutes to kiss goodnight.
I hadn't told you yet, but I thought I loved you then.

Now you're my whole life, now you're my whole world. And I just can't believe, the way I feel about you girl.
Like a river meets the sea, stronger than it's ever been. We've come so far since that day.
And I thought I loved you then.

I remember, taking you back to right where I first met you. You were so surprised.
There people around but I didn't care. I got down on one knee right there.
And once again, I thought I loved you then.

Now you're my whole life, now you're my whole world. And I just can't believe, the way I feel about you girl.
Like a river meets the sea, stronger than it's ever been. We've come so far since that day.
And I thought I loved you then.

I can just see you, with a baby on the way. I can just see you, when your hair is turning grey.
What I can't see is how I'm ever going to love you more. But I've said that before.

Now you're my whole life, now you're my whole world. And I just can't believe the way I feel about you girl.
We'll look back someday, at this moment that we're in and I'll look at you and say, "And I thought I loved you then."
And I thought I loved you then.

Saturday Trip To Hope/Clark Fork

2009-03-28T18:15:00.001-07:00

These first three pictures are of waterfalls in Hope, but I guess they aren't real waterfalls because two of them were coming out of colverts :-) But it still looked pretty :-) And one of them I took so that you can see all the way through :-) And I took them with my phone so none of the pictures look that great :-)

This is just a house in Hope, Alex said that it kind of looks like a boat :-)

This is a shack that we drove past and on the side of the house there was a confederate flag aka "Hick Flag" in the window and then in the window facing the road there were some bongs and other sketchy stuff that you could see. It was hardly a shack too, it looked like it had tarps covering bare spots and stuff, crazy.

This was the view of the lake from the cemetary, Alex said it looked like a scene from Twilight :-)

It's an OLD cemetary!!

And a ton of the graves looked like this, they were sinking! Which is really scary lol and Alex said that maybe the coffins collapsed! Yuck.

View of the lake from Hope. I wish I would have had my camera because my phone doesn't take very good pictures and the view was SO pretty!

Girly things I couldn't live without... :-)

2009-03-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

Love love love love love this lipstick! It's like lipstick/gloss/breath mint :-) It has peppermint oil in it and it moisterizes your lips amazingly! :-)

Mascara is one of my must haves. Even if I don't have any other eye makeup on (which i'm trying to do, lay off the eyeshadow) I have to have mascara.

I have never worn foundation, but I found this and I guess it pretty much does the same thing but it's not bad for your skin and its alot lighter and it totally evens out your skin.

OH MY GOSH! I tell everyone about this, everyone needs it. My face is really greasy and onece I use the oil sheets I use this to make the shine go away. Love it! And MaryKay is the only one who has anything like it, or at least I think so. I've looked everywhere else

I love this moisterizer because it's a really thin substance, and it makes your face really smooth and makes an easy surface for your makeup to go on.

This scrub works really really well, it exfoliates amazingly. It goes really fast because I keep it in the shower and Shane uses it too :-)

I use this also, it smells really good and makes your skin feel really clean :-)

Pictures From Shane's Birthday...

2009-03-25T12:33:00.001-07:00

The cake Mom and I made... it's a rasta volcom cake :-) We should have put yellow sprinkles instead of green because it looks like a christmas tree.... so look closely! It's a volcom stone :-)

Shane getting excited to blow out the candles! Oh boy!...Dork

Bob and Cade

Bob and Cade

Gorgeous Mommy cutting the cake

Shane giving Melenie a "Kidd" kiss... yeah.

Melenie and Derrick's new dog Beck

Beck loving Rad's lap

Beck

Beck trying to give Rad kisses...Rad trying to avoid them :-)

Shane and Cade

Shane and Cade

Shane and Cade once again...and Cade was about done at this point. He hated the flashes! We tried to get a picture of the face he made after it would flash but we couldn't

Rad eating his cake, and getting mad that I was taking a picture

Shane's17th Birthday Party!

2009-03-24T16:33:00.000-07:00

Here's the video of the singing and blowing out candles, i'll try to put pictures on later tonight! :-)

...

2009-03-08T19:45:00.000-07:00

Alex and I :-) I forgot to post this with the other! :-)

19th Birthday! :-)

2009-03-08T19:14:00.000-07:00

This is being dumb and all I see is a bunch of codes so I can't post under each picture. So i'll try to remember what I posted :-) We played mario cart on the wii which was fun :-) My cake was amazingly colorful :-) The really colorful flowers were from Alex and so were the Jelly Bellys :-) The white flowers were from Bob, and the balloon that Shane was making out with was from Alex's mom and so was the teddy bear (it was attached to the balloon)There are some pictures of Shane wrestling with Makenzies St. Bernard, she is so cute! And is getting so huge already! Rad loved Candi reading to him and we loved meeting her :-) She fits in perfectly! And I can't wait til Her and Mike get married :-) There are some pictures of Mike doing the ski jump game on the wii...enough said lol :-) And I can't remember what else! But I think those are all the ones that needed explaining :-)

FUNNY!!

2009-02-24T19:40:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ev5HgGACg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhfl4mFH1No

3 Week Update!

2009-02-24T19:40:00.000-08:00

Ok so it's been 3 weeks today and I have (only) lost 13 pounds.... which is ok I guess but it's still not making my jeans fit any different or anything. It's coming off my face and neck and then....well pretty much everywhere from my rib cage up :-) Alex has lost 22 pounds!! I'm almost ready to tell him to stop telling me how much he's losing! It's depressing. You can see it mainly in his face and his upper torso. I'm hoping that the next 13 come off of my stomach and legs mainly!

Funny!

2009-02-18T09:35:00.000-08:00

My friend Amanda sent this email to me, it's hilarious! :-)

WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST

She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.

Keep reading-they get better!!!
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WOMEN'S REVENGE

'Cash, check or charge?' I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.

As she fumbled for her wallet, I not iced a remote control for a television set in her purse.

'So, do you always carry your TV remote?' I asked.

'No,' she replied, 'but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'
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UNDERSTANDING WOMEN (A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, Pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, And still be afraid of a spider.
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CIGARETTES AND TAMPONS

A man walks into a pharmacy and wanders up & down the aisles. The sales girl notices him and asks him if she can help him.

He answers that he is looking for a box of tampons for his wife. She directs him down the correct aisle.

A few minutes later, he deposits a huge bag of cotton balls and a ball of string on the counter.

She says, confused, ' Sir, I thought you were looking for some tampons for your wife?

He answers, ' You see, it's like this, yesterday, I sent my wife to the store to get me a carton of cigarettes, and she came back with a tin of tobacco and some rolling papers; cause it' s sooo-ooo--oo-ooo much cheaper.

So, I figure if I have to roll my own ........... So does she.
(I figure this guy is the one on the milk carton!)
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WIFE VS. HUSBAND

A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position.

As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, The husband asked sarcastically, 'Relatives of yours?'

'Yep,' the wife replied, 'in-laws.'
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WORDS

A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a
day. 30,000 to a man's 15,000.

The wife replied, 'The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men...

The husband then turned to his wife and asked, 'What?'
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CREATION

A man said to his wife one day, 'I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.

'The wife responded, 'Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!
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WHO DOES WHAT

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.

The wife said, 'You should do it because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.'

The husband said, 'You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.'

Wife replies, 'No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.'

Husband replies, 'I can't believe that, show me.'

So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at
the top of several pages, that it indeed says . 'HEBREWS'
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The Silent Treatment

A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.

Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a
piece of paper, 'Please wake me at 5:00 AM.' He left it where he knew she would find it.

The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.

Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.

The paper said, 'It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.'

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

.....

2009-02-17T07:41:00.001-08:00

Ok so it's been 2 weeks today and.......I have lost 10 pounds :-) So that's only 4 this past week but I feel better about it when I say 10 in two weeks :-) I'm frustrated because I don't see a difference, and I thought after 10 I for sure would... oh well. Alex has lost 18 in two weeks!! And you can kind of see it in his face. So we're both kind of wondering how much we'll have to lose before we look different! Ugh!!

Valentines Day <3

2009-02-14T18:07:00.000-08:00

This is the card I made for Alex :-) We got a cardboard Jeff Gordon at work and I kept the box cause I figured I could make something out of it :-) It was really big, you can compare it kinda to the dvds in the background. I wrapped the whole thing in duct tape, it took like 5 rolls! And it took probably a total of like 5 hours to make!

I was going for a kind of cheesy saying inside, obviously :-)

And he said he wanted a garbage can for his room so I got this stuffed animal frog with a kiss on his cheek and put it in the garbage can :-)

.....

2009-02-13T15:22:00.000-08:00

This is Mel making faces at me through her window when she was at work earlier.... :-) She looks.....gorgeous, huh? Haha! :-)

Dancing WIth The Stars!

2009-02-11T09:02:00.001-08:00

So they announced who is doing Dancing with the Stars this time! Steve-O is doing it! I can not picture him being serious enough to learn the routines...it will be interesting.

And Shawn Johnson!! I love her! I have never really watched the show before but I am for SURE watching it this season :-) I am hoping she wins :-) And I can't wait to see what Steve-O will do....!! They also announced the others but nobody I really know :-)

One Week Down... Alot to go!

2009-02-10T07:56:00.001-08:00

Ok so I decided that it would be good motivation for me to give updates on how much i'm losing, so it's been one week today and i've lost 6 pounds! I wanted to lose 10 but 6 works!

Hard Habit To Break...

2009-02-05T15:41:00.001-08:00

Ok so since 8th grade I have been buying checkered vans. They're the only kinds of shoes i'll buy, I just got in the habit of wearing them and couldn't find another shoes I liked. I'm really picky about how they fit over my jeans.. haha. Like if they get scrunched up it looks dumb. So they were perfect because they didn't do that. Anyways..... I found a NEW shoes I LOVE!

They're Keans, and they were kinda expensive but they'll last a while and they are SO confortable. And I guess they are all organic. I'll probably buy another pair for work so I can have one pair I don't have to worry about getting dirty and then another nicer pair. They're great!

Random Pictures Off My Phone...

2009-02-04T18:10:00.000-08:00

Mom was doing laundry the other day and she always throws the socks to the side to sort later and Titan got under them because they were still warm :-) And that's Pheobe at the bottom of the picture not holding still. She's a spaz!

This is 'Hula Sue' I was bored at work so I made her out of candy and popcorn... :-) After I took this picture I made a hula skirt for her out of a sticky note and the guys named her Hula Sue.

This is gross, but Josh was working on a car in the shop and he found this HUGE rat on the heater core. It was shaped like this already it was like permenantly bent. It doesn't look that big in this picture but it was REALLY big!

This is an old picture of Alex holding Cade :-) I LOVE this picture because Cade is staring up at him, it's cute :-)

Super Slim!

2009-02-04T07:30:00.000-08:00

I started super slim yesterday which is a diet pill. It's not FDA approved but a family memeber told me about it and it really works! It has some side effects that i'm already feeling but I lost 2 pounds yesterday so i'm excited!

I'm trying to lose 40 pounds before August so wish me luck!

New Years Eve/ New Years Day**

2009-01-02T14:35:00.000-08:00

Ben and Derrick holding Cade :-)

Andrew :-)

Melenie holding Haddie and Cade :-)

Sam :-)

Rad

Cute :-)

Haha!

Crazy hair! After I took this I showed it to her and Heidi said she walked away smoothing down her hair :-)

Michael playing with Samantha and Rad

Rad and Sam eating Jelly Bellys

Heidi, Cade, Sam, Shane, and Rad

Gangster Rad

Gangster Sam On New Years Day the guys had to shovel off the house roofs and the shed roof.

I don't know why shane is wearing his helmet....

That's Derrick snowboarding off the shed. It was only like 8 feet but that's still pretty high!

That's Ben sledding off.

Ben after landing head first! He had snow packed in his ear :-)

I think that's Mike rolling off the roof...lol

And Shane jumping - sans helmet :-)

The boys dared Shane to run out to the end of the driveway and get the mail in just his boxers.

And of course he did it! :-)
Sam was coloring and decided she would like some makeup :-) But she looked like the Joker :-)

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-12-27T13:19:00.000-08:00

So it snowed like a foot this morning and so Alex was taking me here to work so I could upload all these pictures, and we stopped by melenie's on the way and I was so lucky to have my camera when this happened! She came to the car to talk to me and see that big chunk gone from her roof? Yeah that fell on her!!!!! We were laughing so hard she kept saying "I'm gonna pee i'm gonna pee!" Because well, if you know me and my sisters that's what happens when we get laughing! :-)

This was after she got most of it off :-)

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2008-12-27T13:13:00.000-08:00

I didn't take many pictures christmas day, but here's my stocking :-)

This is the rest of the stuff Alex gave me christmas eve along with the ring:-) That picture says it's not much... but it's all I have :-) Corny but way cute :-)

And he had the ring tied around these flowers :-)

Christmas Eve

2008-12-27T13:03:00.001-08:00

Ok so my cousin Makenzie got a puppy for christmas! It's just like their old dog who they had for forever! They haven't named her yet but she is Beetoven's (from the dog movies) great grand daughter. So that's pretty cool. And her and Cade are 6 weeks apart so we are going to take pictures every like 2 months to see the difference :-)

And this is me holding Cade :-) So cute!

Random Pictures :-)

2008-12-27T12:52:00.001-08:00

So this is the puzzle I got my mom for one of her 12 days of christmas presents. Me and Alex ended up putting it together :-) It was so much fun! I have never been patient enough to do one but I have to say it's probably one of my new favorite things.

Bob went to Paytons birthday party and came home with this hat...and Mel is wearing it.

This is Radley all bundled up with his moon boots :-)

It's been so cold that we've been letting the cats inside. And they love it! The first one is Lucky and the second is Midnight.

Nursury Lesson

2008-12-27T12:44:00.001-08:00

I had the christmas lesson in nursury and so I made these christmas tree ornaments for all the kids. It was really easy, I just got the clear bulbs and opened them up and put glitter and pipe cleaners inside then tied and ribbob and put bells on the outside! :-) And then I wrapped them all. The kids were so excited :-)

Work Christmas Party*

2008-12-27T12:26:00.000-08:00

Ok we had our work christmas party at our house this year because last year it was super expensive and it was really gross food. So this year we got a bunch of stuff from costco and steaks from panhandler pies and transformed our living room! :-) There are also pictures of all the guys playing rock band after dinner! :-) Bob sang mississippi queen and it was so funny!!

My Christmas Present from Alex :-)

2008-12-26T10:03:00.000-08:00

This is what Alex got me for Christmas :-) It's NOT an engagement ring, just a ring. Or a promise ring I guess. Trust me, my engagement ring will be bigger :-) Haha, it looks alot smaller in person. It's a 1/4k with white gold so it's pretty small but for a promise ring it's pretty amazing :-) :-) It's an $800 ring but he got it for a good price! :-) I was so amazed at how expensive real diamonds are! I mean just a quarter karat is just shy of a thousand dollars! But it's super pretty :-)

I'll probably be posting more pictures tomorrow of some other christmas stuff and our work christmas party!! I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!! :-)

(I got these pictures from the place he got it from so this is the same one :-))

Christmas Decorations! :-)

2008-12-09T19:13:00.000-08:00

Ok, so i'm doing the 12 days of christmas for my mom and these are her presents :-)

Just showing some of my mom's wonderful skills :-)

It looks weird with only 4 stockings compared to the 8 we used to have. As you can see there is a space in the middle for when michael comes home with his :-)

This is the countdown angel my mom made. The flowers are from her bouqet when she got married, and the lace is from her veil. And then the buttons on the shoes are off of her favorite sweater she had when she was 16!

In the kitchen above the french doors.

She always wraps the pictures on the walls to look like presents.

Her nutcrackers

The kitchen window

My gingerbread house I made :-)

Her santa collection

This year I decided to take on the task on wrapping all the pictures of us 11 kids and the family pictures. It took a while, but I like it :-)

The tree :-)

Thanksgiving Dinner!!

2008-12-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

Lizzy fell asleep literally 2 minutes after we said the prayer to eat! :-) So Yuri took her upstairs and put her in bed :-)

I was stuck where I was so I just had to reach up and blindly take a picture.
Here's one of the three turkeys we had

We pushed the couches up against the wall and put tables up. We had 27 people over!

I want one of these!

2008-12-03T12:24:00.000-08:00

It's a great dane, one just came into the store and he was so cute! He was attached to my hip haha, and he would lean against me and I thought I was going to fall over. The owner said he weight 120 and had his own couch that he doesn't even fit on. They are really nice dogs, he said its in their nature to be nice and the only time they are mean is if you raise them like that. I want one so bad!!

My New Phone! :-)

2008-11-06T09:22:00.000-08:00

This is my new phone i'm getting today :-) Shane's getting my voyager and then Melenie is getting Shane's Venus! Haha so it works out for everyone!! :-)

Mmmm :-)

2008-11-04T18:08:00.000-08:00

So this weekend Alex and I made this dessert. Its supposed to look like dirt and worms and stuff :-) He was telling me how when he was little he had this at one of his friends' birthday parties and I remembered that my mom had made it before, so I called her and got the recipe :-) So if anyone wants it here it is:

(for this size pot, which was $1.20 at wal*mart!)

* 3 boxes of chocolate pudding ($1 each at wal*mart!)

* 1 package of oreos

* Brownies, either make them from scratch or buy already baked ones somewhere like we did.

First you make the pudding and put it in the fridge while its hardening. And while its in there you can start crushing the oreos and brownies and mixing them together :-) Then you take the pudding out when its done and just mix everything, including some gummy worms together. Then you just sprinkle some more crushed oreos on top to look kind of like fertilizer, and then some more gummy worms and its done! And we obviously put it in a plant thing but Alex said when he had it the boys mom put it in one of those sand castle buckets and she had a little shovel to get it out with :-) Its SO easy. I don't like it because I don't like pudding but its super cheap and it just looks cool! :-)