New Years 2009

Whats the best way to ring in the News Years if you can't be in Vegas? I would say hanging with friends. That's exactly what I am doing, hanging here at the house watching the TV with Raina, Jay, Scotty, and Emily. We are going to watch the ball drop in New York- someday i would like to go to New York and see it live.

Christmas 2008

For Christmas I went home to hang out with Mom and Dad in Blanding. It was great to drive down with JB, the drive is so long but when you are with someone else time flies by so fast. Brad, Megan, & Kaven were there and it was great to watch Kaven open his Christmas presents. All he cared about was the box and the wrapping paper. Me and JB drove down the day before Christmas- thank goodness for that because it snowed all night long and the following day. The next day we watch Brad and Megan unwrap their presents to get on the road, then the rest of us at breakfast then finished unwrapping presents. The next day we went and played on the snowmobiling machines: I only lasted 5 min then I got on the four wheelers and enjoyed that a lot more. Check out my pics.

Christmas Time

I love the month of December not only because its my birthday, but because it rejuvenates my spirit and boosts my energy. This month builds me up to give service through out the whole year. I enjoy spending time with family and loved ones, and even great to spend time with friends. I love looking for the just the right gift, and then seeing their face as they open the present. Its just a joy to buy things for others, knowing that you are giving them such a simple joy. There are so many things that I love about Christmas, spending time with my dogs, and watching Christmas movies with my roommates. AH! Christmas is so good for the spirit! I love the Christmas caroling, decorating the tree and house with lights, and putting my my Christmas village. I love the giving spirit that comes with this month, but most of all I love that we celebrate the Savior's birthday. Its good for the soul to remember our Savior and to try to be like him. If you are not in the Christmas mood, do something for someone else and soon your mood with change.

Thanksgiving Morning

Thanksgiving morning was beautiful. It had just rained and the view was georgous. I quickly grabbed my camera and took some photos of the dew drops on the leaves. I love the smell of rain after a rainshower. The world is wonderful and fresh.

Thanksgiving was wonderful, as I spent it with my sister and her family. The kids were a joy to be around and the three dogs. My sister did a wonderful job on dinner and the turkey was perfect. I was greatful to spend my day with my sister and her family. Thank You, Tammi and Ken.

Twilight Movie

First off the Movie "Twilight" was great. My expectations were high and the move didn't quite reach those expectations. I do realize that there wasn't a lot of money to put into this first film and hope that in the next books the quality of the book will be more evident in the move. I still loved the move and had the same feeling at the end of the move like I did at the end of the books. Since I own all the books, I must purchase the movie as well. I can't wait to see it again. My roommate Emily and I both dressed up for the movie. Emily was the rogue vampire "Victoria" and I was "Alice". I dressed up for work because our tickets for the movie was right at 5pm. I left work early to make the movie on time. I had a blast!. After the movie, a few of the group who saw the movie went out to eat. Boy the stir that Emily caused, everyone noticed her and she was soking up all the attention.

Getting ready for Twilight

Tonight I spent a few hours shopping for the rest of my custom.
Tomorrow I am going to dress up as Alice from Twilight for the movie.
I am such a twlight nerd- its crazy. I love those books. I also made some silk screen t-shirts with the new Yudu from Provo Craft. I made twilight t-shirt for everyone to wear to the movie.

The effects of dying your Hair

Here is the end result of Dying our Hair! I can't decide if I like myself in brown hair or not. Emily is now a strawberry blond and me a brunette. YAHOO for the Twlight movie.

Getting Ready for Twilight

Tonight we are dying our hair to get ready for Twilight. Emily and I are dressing up as Alice (me) and Victoria (Emily). Friday night is the big opening and I can hardly wait to see this movie. I am little worried about the movie itself. But I am a die Hard van of the books so I plan on buying the DVD when it comes out. Check out our before before and after picture.

Before:

Catching Up

There are a few events that I need to catch everyone up on.
Deer Hunting this year was an event. I took both dogs with me and they had a ball playing with Smokey. The dogs ran around the farm house and played in the weeds to their hearts content. The family had fun roasting marshmallows around the campfire. The kids played and played and collected tons of bones. The women went for a walk down the dirt road, we walked 3 miles right before the sunset- it was really pretty. One funny story, when we the girls headed off to go on our walk the dogs followed us to the cattle guard. Ella and Smokey both stopped at the cattle guard but no not Eddie, he took a running jump and sailed over half of the cattle guard. He landed on the metal parts then moved his feet and his legs sank through the cattle guard. It was so funny. Eddie got he strength to jump the rest of the way to the ground and he looked so proud of him self that he had made it across the cattle guard. Tammi picked him up and put him back with the other dogs. The day of the deer hunt was a lot of fun. Kisti and I went hunting with Dad, he had us push some trees so to try to scare up some deer. We ended up scaring out a deer that JB shot. He was a nice 4 X 4 with a 26 inch spread. The horns set back slimier to elk horns. The horns are really pretty, JB is going to mount them. They will look great on his wall. Later I found out that Dad got his deer on the last day of the hunt. It was really relaxing being down on the farm. I had a ton of fun hanging with the family.

Halloween:
This year for Halloween I chose not to dress up the dogs. Ya I know I really should have but I didn't have the money. We had our annual family Halloween party and I dressed up as a flower child girl, Emily helped me put flower in my wig. I looked great. For the actual Halloween day, I dressed up as a Greek goddess for work. I had a ball in that costume- I even had a dagger. The evening was spent playing games with friends at the house. Then the next night I got to dress up as a Make up girl for a host a murder party. This was the best Halloween ever. I was able to dress up in three different costumes. I plan to dress up for Twilight here in a week. That will be so much fun. I enjoy dressing up in different costumes.

New Friends at the Office

I have a new friend at work. Her name is Halen and she is new to the company. I love spending time with her and appreicate all the help she give me at work.- Halen I think your wonderful!

Singing like a Pro

Applebee's here in Orem has a Karaoke on Tuesday nights. I've started going with a group of friends. They decided to have an Applebee's Idol and somehow I got signed up for the contest. The first week I sang "When you say nothing at all" and I had a group of friends come to vote for me. I made it to the 2nd round, which was last Tuesday night. I sang the song "I will Survive" and did an OK job at it. Even though I did a good job I didn't have very many friends to vote me, so I didn't make it. I still had a great time and I loved wearing my pink hat. Charise came and gave me hints on prepping my voice before I sang my song.

4 girls, 2 dogs, and a big campfire

Yes, I went camping last week up near Kamus and it was so beautiful. Me and three other girls went together and I took the dogs. I don't think they had as much fun as I did, but Eddie sure did bark a lot when people walked by the camp site. We did all the cooking with the dutch ovens and over the fire- this was really fun. The dogs slept a lot and got really dirty laying int he dirt. We went for a few walks, to run to the bathrooms and that was it. We spent the whole Saturday all four of us girls, relaxing near the fireside and reading books. We also ate a bunch of junk food and made a wonderful stew that night. I had so much fun that weekend it was really relaxing and just what I needed. Cassie and Emily enjoyed making the fires and cutting the wood. Can you see the shape of a devilish face in this picture above. We had some big fires on both nights, but what do you expect, when you have four girls who like to play with fire.

The Shoe Fetish

Yes, Eddie has know chewed up three pairs of my favorite shoes. I know that its mostly my fault, because I leave the shoes down on the floor. He is just so fast, and quick, that he gets to my shoes before I know it- yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. The good thing is that he only chews on my shoes instead of the roommates- thank goodness! other wise I would have to buy everyone new pairs of shoes to make up for Eddie's Fetish.

Weekend of three dogs

Over the last few days or maybe its been a week- we've had Smokey spending time with us. Eddie and Smokey have played non stop. I sometimes feel like I have my own personal speedway in the front room. Those two dogs and sometime Ella too, chase each other around and around. Also I must include the barking that goes with the chase. They are are hoot to watch. Most of the time it will be 2 against 1, and it seems that the odd one out is always Eddie but he doesn't seem to mind because he can run so fast. Having Smokey over has been really great for Ella sometimes she gets a break on teasing from Eddie. I think that Eddie will miss Smokey when its time to go, but I think we have another week before he has to go home. His parents and family have been traveling around the East coast and they are having the time of their lives.

Tonight, Smokey seems he has decided that he doesn't like guys, we have some house guests over and he barked at them when they first came into the house. It was so funny to see him act scared towards men.

Another chapter in Eddie's Life

The latest escapade in Eddie's life is is love for new toys. I no longer need to purchase toys for him to chew on and drag around the room. I just need to give him a roll of toilet paper, some plastic bottles, or mail that is not important. He is still trying to chew on my shoes, so I have developed a new habit- keeping my closet door closed. Eddie loves to cuddle or climb into my lap when I am sitting down on the couch. He always manages to squirm under my arm and squeeze himself onto my lap. He is so cute I am glad that I have him in my life.

Eddie and Ella have both gotten new haircuts- I shaved them and since the haircut Ella has played more with Ella (I guess her long coat was too hot and that's why she slept all the time). Its a joy to see Ella playing or chasing more around the house. I hope to breed her soon so she has to loose some weight. It will be fun to see how Eddie handles new puppies around the house.

Eddie's new chew toy

Eddie has decided that he likes to chew off the heads of flowers, stems and even bulbs. Yes, he actually pulled up a flower bulb of mine and was chewing on it in the TV room. I came home from work and found the stem, leaves and bulb all chewed up around the room. What am I going to do with him, I just keep reminding myself that he is a puppy.

Shoes :(

Well the latest update on the dogs, is that Eddie decided he was hungry and wanted to chew on my shoes. Of course, this happened when I wasn't at home, (do you really think I would let me just chew on my shoes) so lets just say that when I came home from the Miss Orem Pageant my favorite white pointy shoes was chewed on and he actually took a bit out of my shoe. I was so upset - they were my favorite shoes. Some other things that Eddie has been getting into is the trash in the bathroom. I guess Ella doesn't have enough energy to keep up with him so he finds other things to chew on. Now I have to close my closet, empty the trash more often and other fun stuff to keep him out of trouble. What can I say, when he looks at you with those sad eyes you can't stay mad at him for too long.

Home with the Cows

Last weekend we (dogs and I) ended up in Blanding to help dad brand calf's. Of course I didn't let the dogs anywhere near the calf's. Eddie would have had a barking fest and lost his voice. They stayed home with Smokey and slept while everyone was gone. Ella is in heat and Eddie's hormones kicked in. My poor family got to experience the wonderful joy of watching a male dog mount a female dog. Yes, my family got to learn about the birds & the bees in regards to dog.(sorry family) This wasn't a good idea either because Eddie shouldn't have done that. So for the next few days we had to really watch Eddie and Ella and I had to keep them separated. Once I realize the situation I asked Tami to watch Eddie this week, so he got to spend the week with Smokey and they played hard everyday. When I pick Eddie up yesterday, Smokey wanted to come. I think he will be kinda sad today at loosing his playtime buddy.

I had a great time with the family and enjoyed every minute with them, after branding we took out the 4-wheelers and played the afternoon away. It was fun!

Eddie's first Hair Cut

Two weeks ago I decided that I was tired of Eddie bringing in all sorts of sticks and stuff that attached to his hair. Yep Eddie got his first hair cut. The groomers said he did a really good job and sat still except when it came to cutting the hair around his eyes. He is all shaved except for the hair on the top of his head. Now he looks like a punk rocker with his new spiky doo. Ella got a hair cut too and she looked so cut with her hair up in bows. See the before and after pictures. As always Ella was a perfect princess for the groomers and soon Eddie will be the perfect prince (maybe).

Sugar and Puppies

The other day my roommate called to tell me that Eddie had gotten into the chocolate. Yep he really did. We (the roommates) leave all sorts of goodies on the coffee table. Well over the last 2 weeks Eddie has learned how to jump up on the couch and since he has discovered his jumping legs he now jumps all over the place including jumping onto the coffee table. Yep that's how he did it, he ate a chocolate sucker and a half of a flake candy bar. When I got home from work he was a spaztic puppy. He was running all over the place full speed ahead, he jumped from the floor on to the top of the couch in like a sec- it was all that sugar. Thank goodness he wasn't really sick and I didn't have to take to the vet. Guess who slept through all this sugar fest- Ella

Puppies, Bloomers and Braziers

Yes, Eddie has decided that he now likes to chew on Bloomers and Braziers aka bras. Today I found one of my roommates braziers on my floor next to a pair of socks, so now he has new fetish. I never had any of this with Ella so this is a whole new experience for me on keeping everything off the floor and the doors closed-its like having a kid in this house-agggggggggg. Even though he does all these funny things we love him very much.

Laundry Basket as a Toy

Eddie & Ella love to play in the Laundry Basket. They will play for hours in the basket. On top of the basket. Ella in the Basket and Eddie outside the basket, they will attack each other through the mesh and play for along time. Some times we will put Eddie in the basket and then throw a ball he will chase the ball throught he basket, making the basket roll. Its so funny.

Easter Pictures

Easter

Eddie & Ella both sniffing the basket. They are looking for treats and of course there are some in their basket.

Easter Egg Coloring

It's been a while since I have posted anything that has been going on in the dogs life. This week we went over to my sisters place to do Easter eggs. OK, I did the Easter eggs with the kids and Ella and Eddie played with Smoky. They chased each other around the house and had a lot of fun. They played out side with the kids and then ended up in the house. One thing I have discovered since Easter is here, is that Eddie likes to play with plastic Easter eggs. He tries to pick up with his mouth and then they fall out and he chases it all over the TV room. Ella sits there and watches him run around the house. He defiantly has more energy then her. I will take some pic and attach later. OK, I colored three eggs but forgot to take pictures. The dogs and I have already eaten 2 of them, so there is only one lonely egg by itself to represent our Easter egg coloring party. Oh Well-
Later