new purse!

I got my new purse today and I LOVE IT!!! I also got a little cell phone carrier too. It's fantastic!!! Thanks Natalie!!! (it's my b-day present). I'll have to post pics when i get back from CO, but check out these websites too see what i am talking about.

http://californialeashco.com/

http://beachcitieshandbags.com/Home_Page.html

I think the second one is a distributor of the first one. I think. LOL. They are the same bags; the first one has a few more options though.

TGIF!!!!

I am so tired today, but i'm so glad it's FRIDAY!!! I am heading to Denver tomorrow morning to meet with some of our Alumni Ambassador's and also to attend a conference (sun-tues). So kevin will be home for 4 days by himself. Poor guy. But he's got projects that will keep him busy. Now i won't be able to distract him. LOL. I get to see my old roommate Eliza & her family. I'm SO exicted for that. It's been a long time!

So today is a clean up day at work and get things together to take with me to our Ambassador's. So i better get crackin'.

See you all Wednesday. Except you Eliza Jane...see you TOMORROW!!!! :) woo hoo!!!!

OK here's a pic for ya...

So, Kevin is an artist as most of you know. He will paint our kid's rooms (once we are blessed with kids, seeing how we will be married 7 years this July. Not bitter.) Anywhos... here is a picture of Kevin & my nephew Alec standing infront of the wall Kevin painted in Alec's bedroom. I bet this was from 2002-ish. Pretty cool huh? *they are doing the spiderman hand thing where the web shoots out.

weekend update

So the yard sale went pretty good for Tina & Jared. I mostly sat around talking to them and playing with the puppies! There were 4 puppies on Friday and then 11 puppies on Saturday. Their friends had 2 litters 3 days apart (13 puppies total). Four have gone to new homes. I SO wanted to take one, but its not fair to have a dog in a confined area (patio), they need space! So one day we'll get one, when we have a real yard and space.

Saturday we drove down to Pocatello to Darren's surprise b-day party his siblings threw for him. It was alot of fun to hang out with everyone.

Sunday we attended a "going away party" for Tina & Jared. It was alot of fun. These friends of theirs are the same friends that we met when they invited us up to Island Park to go snow mobiling. I hope we stay in touch with them. They are really cool people.

Monday we didn't go to the gym, i slacked and didn't do homework over the weekend, so we stayed home and i worked on that while Kevin worked on his projects. I have class in an hour and i am really looking forward to it. It's an excellent class!

My friend Alecia looked at my blog yesterday and said..."i like looking at pictures, you need more pictures." So i hope to be really good about that this summer.

Well i better get back to work. Happy Tuesday everyone!

two things...

HAPPY 39th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MOM & DAD!!!

Here is a pic of Kevin & Jeff checking out the car last weekend. Thanks again Jeff!!!

Yard Sale

So I will be helping my friends (Tina & Jared) do their yard sale this weekend (Fri & Sat). They are moving to Nebraska for Jared to do his Master's program. They are selling EVERYTHING. They are moving out there with pretty much what ever they can fit in their car and truck. I'm going over tonight after my meeting to help them price & organize things. We are so sad they are leaving, but are so excited for them to be moving in the direction they feel is best for them. Hopefully everything goes this weekend.

Student

I am officially a student again! Working for the University has it's benefits. I can take 6 credits a semester for free. It's great. I have my Associates but not a Bachelor's degree. I'm not sure what i want to get it in, but i know i need to get back into the game. I have not been a student in 8 years!!! Crazy i know! I'm old. LOL. I am taking a Women's Health class. It is going to be great. I did my homework last night. It was weird having homework again. This is a class that has a lot of "busy" work, but i think it will be good. I'm totally excited about it.

Movie Update

oh yes. I failed to mention...though we loved the movie (Blades of Glory) and thought it was hilarious, there is some sexual references and such. Just so you aware.

Beautiful Weekend

So Kevin & I took off work on Friday and went to a few "junk yards" looking for a car part to fix our 87 Honda Accord. We found one, but then we didn't end up needing it, so we took it back and got most of our back because the guy kept $5 of it for taking it off the other car. Kevin got a sweet deal on another brand new part from Checker Auto parts. We also found a new door handle for our 93 Honda at a different junk yard. That was an awesome find! It's not the maroon color of our interior, it's black, but it opens the door, which is what we needed. It had crack in half and we were worried that one of these days we weren't going to be able to get out of the car. LOL. Kevin's brother Jeff came up late Friday night and they worked on the car Saturday morning. Got it done under two hours. We've been driving it and it works great. THANKS JEFF!!!! And a special thank you to Barbara for letting Jeff come out. We treated Jeff to lunch and he then was on his way home by 2pm. Oh! Apparently one of our neighbor's used to be Jeff's roommate when they went to school in Pocatello. Small world! So they chatted for a while and exchanged information. Sunday, totally lazy day. I watched two movies and some car racing on TV. Kevin worked on the computer most of the evening. Friday after car part "shopping" we went and played wiffle ball & catch at a ball field near by then went to the gym. It was a good weekend. I got mopping & vacuuming done Saturday while the boys fixed the car.

total of six

OK, we were two of the six people (3 couples) in the theater last night. So it was a little unnerving thinking that everyone would hear you laugh and know exactly where it was coming from. But once the movie started, i didn't really care who heard me. We thought it was HILARIOUS!!! We laughed the entire time! Kevin was telling me about things he noticed in the "background" of the scenes that i didn't pay attention to. So we kept saying "next time we watch it..." I give it two thumbs up. I say if you like silly movies, then you'd enjoy this. This is one that i'd totally buy and could watch over and over. I hope i'm not getting your hopes up to have you tell me you hated it, but we throughly enjoyed it. We're weird like that. :)

Going to the Movies

So tonight i think we are going to go to the movies and use a gift card that we got at Christmas time. We are going tonight because there aren't alot of students in town yet, since it's between semesters. We thought about going this weekend, but there should be alot of people in town just coming back for school or dropping off new/transfer students. We are going to see "Blades of Glory". I think it looks hilarious!

http://www.bladesofglorymovie.com/

I'll have to let you know tomorrow what we though. :)

longest day

I don't know what it was, but today has felt like THE LONGEST DAY EVER!!! I am so glad it's time to go home.

We went to the gym last night for probably the 1st time in 2 weeks and i was a little dissappointed in my performance. I am really trying to keep my heart rate in my "zone" that Tiffany & i figured out. It's really hard! I guess i am just really out of shape or something cause i'm ALWAYS having to slow down. Then there is Kevin who never even hits the middle numbers of his heart rate zone. So he can go faster and burn more calories and there i am just trying to stay in a good heart rate zone. Man its frustrating. I guess with time i won't let it bug me. LOL. Well off to the gym again tonight.

Graduation & Utah (HUGE POST)

So, graduation ended well. I wasn't a wreck like i was in December, so that was nice. I sat by some great people at the Banquet. Clean up took a little longer than i planned, but oh well. Got it all in the van and home by about 7:30-ish pm. Kevin came and picked me up, we went home, i changed out of my dress, and we hit the road by 8pm. We got down to my Aunt & Uncle's place by 11:30pm. They were still up so we knocked on the door. We ended up talking with my cousin Kristin & one of her daughters Kaylee till about 1am. That was alot of fun. We couldn't remember the last time we had seen eachother. We are guessing at Carolyn's wedding...which will be 14 years ago this May! Crazy! Well as promised there are lots of pictures to show you. Hope you look now before people tell me to take them down. :)

Saturday morning we spent at my Aunt & Uncle's house hanging with the family. Carolyn & Natalie both left around lunch time to make the drive back to CA. Mom, Dad, Kevin & I went into Salt Lake City. We went to the new conference center, and then around temple square. We saw the new "Joseph Smith" movie and it was amazing! We saw it back in March at the Idaho Falls Temple visitors center but we were watching Charlee and didn't get much out of it. This time it was so powerful! Then we had dinner with the family and then back to the house for a fun game of "Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit - DVD edition". Which apparently Nick ALWAYS wins, well the Brown's won this round! WOO HOO! Let us know when you want a rematch! :) hee hee. That was alot of fun.

Sunday said goodbye to my Aunt & Uncle. Hung out with Mom & Dad for about an hour and then they hit the road to make the drive back to CA as well. We will see them around labor Day again. WOO HOO! We went to Sandy to see our friends the Mazuran's. We've been to their house once back in July 2006. We made it back there by just what we rememebered. Not to shabby, huh? We visited with them for about 3 hours. Man i miss those guys!!! It was fun catching up and seeing what they had done to the house since the last time we were there. We will have to make more trips this summer down there.

Easter dinner was PANDA EXPRESS!!! It was so yummy and WAY filling. Thanks Kevin for taking me there. You are the best! :)

Mom & dad infront of the SLC LDS Temple. They got married there almost 39 years ago!
Flowers on Temple Square at the SLC LDS Temple.
Flowers on Temple Square at the SLC LDS Temple.
Flowers on Temple Square at the SLC LDS Temple with the Hyrum & Joseph Smith Statues in the back ground.
Towers on the SLC LDS Temple. I forgot how "castle" like the temple is. Love it!

Mom & Dad with the grandkids.
SLC LDS Temple.
SLC LDS Temple.
Flowers on Temple Square at the SLC LDS Temple.

Dallin with some dirt on the mouth.
Madison & Dallin.
Carolyn, Michael, Alec, Madison & Derek.
Natalie, Steve, Sam & Dallin.

Steve & Sam "playing football".
Sam & Derek "playing football".
Sam tackling Derek.
Carolyn & her "mini me" Madison.

Day one done...

So day one of Cap & Gown pickup is done. YEAH! We gave out about 600 Caps & gowns. Hopefully the other 575-ish will show up tomorrow and we won't have to worry about people coming saturday morning. Well i guess i won't have to worry because i won't be there on Saturday. WOO HOO!!!! They don't really need me anyway. I'd be in the way. LOL.

Tomorrow is Cap & Gown day #2, along with the banquet and 3 convocations. After the banquet i'm really free to go home. YEAH!!!! Well we will be driving to UT actually.

I'm still at work. I need to print Place Cards for the banquet tomorrow. I better go. Hopefully i survive. ;) hee hee.

See you all on Monday! Hoppy Easter everyone!

Is it Saturday yet???

So, graduation is coming together. I'm a little nervous about getting through it all without freaking out! But i've got great people to help me out. Which is fantastic.

We made our plans to go to UT and stay with my aunt & uncle. Actually we are staying in their RV in the drive way. It's going to be fun. My uncle said he'd have it all ready and leave a light on for us...since we will get in so late on Friday night. Thank you so much. Saves us some $$$.

I am really excited to see my family this weekend! I hope all goes well. This will be the last time i see Natalie & family for awhile. They leave for NC at the end of April. So sad.

My cold...still here. I guess i should probably try to get into the Drs office. Which will probably have to wait till next week. Hopefully it will be gone by then. But it seems that Natalie & the boys are sick, Heather (my cousin) is sick. So i think we will ALL be spreading some germs. LOL.

Changes...

So we don't have to move out of our apartment. They are going to work with us this summer. YEAH!!! Too bad we already have stuff packed into a storage unit. Oh well. Luckily we can get to to all. We went and got the recipe books out. LOL.

Tina & Jared, whom we were going to live with, got the EXCITING news they have been accepted into the Masters program in Nebraska! They will become Cornhusker Fans! They are moving either the first weekend of May or sometime in July. They will find out more information probably today. We are SO excited for them, but sad they will not be around. It's been fun hanging out with them again. It had been a long time!

We are heading to UT Friday night instead of getting up early saturday morning. YEAH! I can't wait to see my family, even if it is just for a day. It's been almost a year since i've seen my sisters and about 7 months since i've seen my parents.

My cold is still around. I don't feel as bad, but still not 100%...i'm guessing 75%. I am hoping & praying i will be 100% by Friday. It's graduation & family time. I don't want to spread my germs too much. : )

Guess that's about it. I'm starving...need to see if Kevin's ready for lunch.