I HATE Bella!!!

OK, so i'm about half way through Breaking Dawn, the 4th book in the Twilight Series. So first off, don't ruin it for me. Actually I already did that to myself by reading the last page. I know i'm horrible. Well anyway, so i'm reading in bed last night and I came to a conclusion. I HATE BELLA. I think she is a horrible heroine, boring, selfish, helpless, a complete waste of skin, and retarded.

She thinks that she is thinking of other people, but it usually ends up hurting these other people. When Edward left in New Moon, it was like she was dying, oh my gosh, get over it. She whines about getting brand new close and fancy Asten Martin cars and a boyfriend who is willing to pay for her to go to Darmouth. Seriously I want to kick her. That's every girls dream!!!!!! And for some reason Edward is in love with this complete waste of life.

OK now that i've got that off my chest, i'm good. Don't take this as a commentary on the book. I love everything else about Twilight, plan on seeing the movie at midnight when it comes out; I just hate Bella. She still has about 300 pages to redeem herself, but that's nearly impossible at this point. Anybody else annoyed by her and think that Edward should love them instead?

Impromptu Vacation

So this past weekend, Bryan and I had previously decided to run up to Idaho and visit his grandparents and Greg and Whitney in Rexburg. Well on Fri, Greg informs us that they are going to Yellowstone the next day and we are welcome to join them. Completely unexpected, but sounds good. I have never been to Yellowstone(weird I know, but i'm really not an outdoorsy person, soryy) and Bryan has not been in a couple years. So we hop in the car on Fri, drive to Blackfoot and stay with grandma and then decide to head up to Yellowstone midday on Sat.

First off, that's a lot of driving, and if anyone knows me and my bladder, that's never a good thing. Plus my new car does not have cruise control..you don't realize what a luxury it is until you actually have to keep your foot on the gas the entire time. Or i'm just lazy and prefer to have my car do all the work for me.

So we get to West Yellowstone, despite Greg's swervy driving, and find out that it's not a cheap city. Not cheap at all, plus the people kinda smell. I understand that your in the "wilderness" but come on people, at least wash yourself in the river!!! So we decide to go into the park and wander around. Saw some gysers and some Elk, but no bears, which was sad, and we saw Old Faithful. Well we visited Old Faithful, didnt' really see it do anything. We arrived to late to see anything and were not willing to wait around for another hour and a half before it went off again. Everyone says it's exciting but I just don't see how exciting a bunch of water spitting out of a hole can be. Well below are a couple of the pictures from our adventure. This is Bryan pretending he doesn't know me. Thanks Honey!!

We found this cool dead tree. In this picture: Taylor, Greg, Bryan, Janica, Whitney and Me

So it was supposed to look like he was holding the water...we aren't cool enough to get that to work : )

We may not have seen it spout water, but we did see it, I even took a picture for proof

This is what Old Faithful looks like when it's not doing anything interesting or cool

MMM, the smell of Sulfer in the air

This particular pool was a hat eater. We counted quite a few hats that have been sucked to the bottom. Heck I almost wanted to jump in, something that pretty can't be THAT dangerous

Bryan touching the water and Bacteria, despite the sign that specifically says DON'T TOUCH THE BACTERIA!!

Putting our feet in the perfect water. Hot water from the thermal pools mixed with the cold water and made it perfect, if I could have stipped down and sat in the water all day, I would have. However, I think nudity is illegal in a National Park

Since we are too poor to afford a $400 bear for our living room, we take pictures instead. Those are free : )The Bear Chair. I want to take it home, except the square footage of the bear is equal to that of my apartment.

So overall it was a good trip. I am more than willing to return to Yellowstone, especially now that I know I don't have to sleep on the ground. I don't believe in camping, i'm sorry. I'm not working my butt off at work everyday to pretend i'm homeless for a couple days and go potty on a tree, i'm just not going to do it. So now I know there are hotels and that makes me happy. The only thing that could have made it better was a Target.

Crazy Cat People

OK, so I have talked before about my super gay kitties. well this past week, they have even topped themselves. First off, understand that these are 2 kitties, only about a year old and they are cooped up, all day long in a tiny 700 sq foot apartment. Well we have noticed, that any time we open a window (one of the 2 we have in our dinky apartment) they come running. They love looking outside, and you can almost see the dreaming in their eyes...the two of them, frolicking in the grass towards each other until they embrace and roll around in the dirt together.

Well we felt bad that they never get to go outside, so we decided to buy them harnesses. First off they don't make harnesses for cats, so ours were made for a dog the size of a Dachsund. Then we got home and put them on the kitties. Well Riddle (Black one) did not like that and thought if he rolled around on the ground enough and rammed into the wall a couple times that it would magically break off. That obviously did not happen. Then we opened the door to the great outdoors. They freaked, it was like they had just left the space shuttle and were about to float off into the universe. We had to pick them up and carry them out to the lawn and drop them there. They layed flat on the ground, as if worrying they might fly away and started to hyperventilate. What made this even more fun, was the neighbors. People are walking on our sidewalk all the time, and at least 6 people, stopped to stare at the crazy couple who walked their cats. We got asked if they were cats ( no they are a new breed of dog that was bred to look like a fluffy fat cat) and some people straight up pointed and starred. So we are no officially the stupid cat walking couple.

Here are the kitties investigating the green carpet

Their first actual steps outdoors

Bryan, trying to "walk" the cats

I need to make a point of saying that you don't actually "walk" cats. You drag them. We tried to get them to follow us and they would not have any part of that, we tried to get them to play, ohh heck no. They stared at us as though we had just punished them. And then when Riddle decided to try and walk around, he walked right into the little river in the yard, so needless to say the cats were not happy with us afterwards.

Since the first experience, we have taken the cats out every day, even just for a couple minutes. Last night Lupin decided to climb some stairs and he actually moved from his own free will. We are making progress. We may not be going on runs with our cats anytime soon, but at least we are getting them outside.

Big Purple Ant Butt

So first, let me begin by saying that my dad arrived safe here in Salt Lake. He actually just left this morning. It was nice having him here with us, but busy and exhausting. I'm used to having my parents on the other side of the country, so when they are here they tend to need entertaining. Every night we were going out to dinner or a movie, staying up till almost midnight talking, and it's not like I could take the entire week off, I still had to work. So here is our week with dad in review:

First when he got here we went straight to the theatre to see "The Dark Knight" and ohh my gosh it was amazing. Obviously Heath Ledger was good, we all know that; but what about Christian Bale. I could watch him all day, I was sad when he didn't do push ups with out his shirt on in this movie..well there is always next time. Than my dad came to church with us on Sunday in our family ward followed by going to dinner with my entire famdamily. I'm not very close to my Dad's side of the family and it's for good reason. The first thing my Grandma does when I walk in the door is yell at me for not coming to visit her more often, let's just say there is a reason I don't visit here, BECAUSE SHE YELLS!!!

Than Monday came along, I took a half day at work to hang out with my dad and Bryan. My dad took us shopping and bought us a nice Red Dresser for our room and than came with us to the South Towne Expo center where we had to Host our float for the parade. We are in the Murray Stake and had helped build the float for the Days of '47 Parade. Because our stake was so involved we got to do a lot of fun things for the Parade. On Monday the 21st we got to be hosts at the South Town Expo Center, where they were showing off all the floats for the parade and people got to vote on which was the best. Our float was 11 short of being the People's Choice and 10 short of being the Children's Choice. Below are some pics from the day at the Expo Center.

This is us in front of our kiosk. It was a bunch of Ants at a Picnic and "working together" they stole all the food.

This is my dad sitting in the float. He got to sit in the float during the show and move the ants heads back and forth.

Bryan taking his turn running the float.

This would be me visiting one of the other floats. This float was a depiction of Noah's Ark.GO UTES!!! And I love the drunk looking woman in the left hand corner.

This float was the Children's Hospital/Walmart, this one totally should have won the Children's Chose. Unfortunately i'm not a child and could not vote as one.

BOO to the Y!!!

After we were done with the judging we actually got to be in the parade. We had to wake up at 4:45 and be in downtown by 5:30, and why? So that we could dress up like ants and be judged for 15 minutes in our costumes. I got to dress up in a purple polyester Ant Suit, with a huge butt on it and this fun purple hat that had huge eyes on it. Bryan had to stand in a smoke stack and move the stack up and down for 3 miles of the parade. After we were judged that morning, we were interviewed by channel 13's Big Buddah!!! I was super excited because I watch it every morning. After that we had to wait around for 4 hours until our float finally got to move. So we took a couple more pics.

This is the back of our float. Our stake started designing it last summer and construction started in Feb.

This is us at about 7:15 in the morning. Do you like my super sexy hat? THis thing gave me the biggest headache after wearing it for 3 hours.

This is the whole effect. That big butt was super fun to waddle around for 3 miles. I also got to carry a giant piece of glittered cheese. I must say it was ridiculously hot outside, super sunny, I had sweat pouring down my back and blisters on my feet from dancing for an hour. But it was ridiculously fun. The kids think you are the coolest thing ever, they all want to hug you and give you high fives, all the parents want your picture with their kids and wave as you walk by. I got to shake my big purple butt in front of hundreds of people. The only sad part was that we didn't get to see ourselves on TV. I can't find it on KUTV and there are no videos anywhere. So if anyone taped the parade or was at the parde who saw us, let me know. Sorry this is so far after Pioneer Day, hope everyone had fun that day!!!!!

Dad's Coming

So...Monday i'm sitting at work, facebook stalking as usual, when my dad calls. First off, let me say a call from my dad in the middle of a Monday is unusual. You see my dad does not believe in cell phones, he refused to own one. He hates to call from work because he's too busy, and he is never home because he is in plays and directs plays for the community. So he usually leaves at 6 in the morning, arrives home at 10 or 11 and calls once or twice a month to inform me that the cats have not eaten him or that he has not fallen down the stairs. So i'm a little confused as to why he is calling me. My first thought is 'did someone die' 'did he infact fall down the stairs and break a hip?'. So I answer and say hi, wonder what he's been up to. He then asks

"So...whatcha doing on Saturday"

"I don't know yet Dad. Why?"

"Well...I had an urge to come out and see you, so I will be there on Sat"

My dad lives in Wisconsin! And despite the fact that gas is over $4 a gallon, he got the "urge" to drive out to Utah. A 20 hour drive that he plans to drive straight through.



So first off, here is a picture of my dad, for those of you who have never met him. This picture pretty much sums him up. So as I mentioned before, my dad does not believe in Cell phones and does not plan on stopping anywhere to sleep. And if you have ever driven i-80 you know it's boring, long, and if something happens to you in the middle of Wyoming, your screwed!!!!

I told him if he does not arrive by Sat @6 that i'm having him pronounced dead and collecting the insurance money.So to sum it up...keep your fingers crossed and say a little prayer that my dad arrives safely. As nice as that insurance money would be, I might feel too guilty to spend it.

Blog Stalking

OK, so I am a self proclaimed Blog/Facebook Stalker. I will look at everyones Blog and everyones Facebook page, and then I will look at your friends and their friends and read their blogs; so even if I have never met you personally, I could probably tell you where you got married, if you have pets, and give you a personal judgement on your pictures. Well I am so entertained by reading others blogs that I have failed to keep up on my own. So first off, I need someone to tell me where they find all these super cute, super cool looking templates. Once I figure out how to make mine look cool, I will be much better at this. Also my comp apparantly has decided to rebel against uploading pictures, and we are in a fight, so I get to do that tomorrow on my work computer (that's right, I plan on getting paid while I blog). So Let's see where life has gone so far.
Since my last entry.....Bryan and I went to Rexburg for Bryan's Cousin's wedding. (Imagine a really cute wedding picture right here)
Greg got married to Whitney in the Boise Temple on April 11th. This was the first time we had met Whitney, but needless to say, she is too good for Greg : ) (Greg you know it's true) Since then we have hung out with the Jensens a couple times, and so far they are our favorite couple to date. Which brings up a weird tangent of mine. I thought you stopped dating when you got married, all you need is each other, it's over. WRONG! Then you have to find friends, couple friends, and not just any couple. The girls have to get along, the boys have to get along and they have to think your sometimes, slightly offensive jokes are funny and not get offended. Well soo far Greg and Whitney fit that description for us best. Thanks guys.
Next...Bryan and I celebrated our 1 Year Anniversary!!! Holy crap a year flies by fast. We went to Vegas where we saw Spamalot. Almost peed my pants at points. We also walked the strip, visited the temple, and drove down to California for a day. Good trip. And the best part, since we're on vacation, I get to spend more money than usual, so I bought a bunch of clothes. Yay!!!

Let's see, there was also a Bridal Shower. My best friend Rachel came home from her mission. My other best friend left me for Omaha ( lucky girl gets to go back to the Midwest, where they have this great thing called water) . Bryan's friend from the Mission got married on June 3rd, weirdly enough to a girl I knew because of my facebook stalking. We met her for dinner and I noticed that she looked familiar, well she was a girl I had seen in pictures on Facebook. Turns out she is really good friends with Jessica Slade and Lisa Western.

Well we have lots more coming up to blog about, so if I go more than a week without an update...beat me.
Events coming up
-My dad will be in town on Saturday
-mini trip to Rexburg/Blackfoot
-Heather Watson's wedding on Aug 23rd
-My little brother coming home from the Mission in October

Update

OK, so it's been about 2 months since I lost posted a blog. I suck. Actually it's been a busy 2 months. Since the last entry we have had Christmas, in 3 different states. Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Bryan and I both had birthdays; Bryan turned 23 on Jan. 21st, and I turned 24 on January 31st. So let's keep people up to date.
Christmas for us this year was crazazy!!! We had our first Christmas with each other a week early here in Utah. Just Bryan and I. We then flew home to Minnesota, spent Christmas with my Mom's family, including my new neice that I met for the first time. Bryan also got to talk to my little brother, who is on a mission, for the first time. We also had Christmas in Wisconsin with my Dad. Finally we drove down to Chicago to do Christmas with Bryan's family. Let's just say it was hectic and we were happy to get home to normal life. Below is Christmas at my mom's, Bryan and my dad on Christmas in the family kilts, and Bryan and I at the Chicago Temple.

Then came birthdays. For Bryan's birthday allhe wanted was a new suit, and since those are expensive that's all he got, well and a Family Guy DVD. For my birthday he took me shopping, which was great. Since I got married the biggest thing I had to give up was clothes, and that killed me. So he indulged my inner shopaholic. They were simple and low key but I loved them. Mostly because I really don't like crowds or parties, so dinner out with my husband was perfect. OOO OOO I also got to get my hair cut and dyed. I have not had my highlights done since our wedding IN MAY OF 2007!!! Let's just say my hair was starting to look like a freak show.
So now life is back to normal. Bryan got promoted to Firedog at Circuit City, making him officially a PT Technician. We will be going to Idaho next weekend to see Bryan's grandma. She just had surgery for breast cancer. So it will be great to see her. We also have a couple weddings coming up. Including Bryan's older sister. Which means my next post will include my Mormon wedding pet peeves. I have a long list of them.