Goodbye Present :)

This weekend Christian went to California for work. Early Thursday we headed to the airport to drop him off. I was telling Critter how I was an excellent driver and would probably already have us at the airport by now... just teasing him about his grandpa driving(which hasn't ever happened before!) and so he smiles at me and speeds up...

I'm not lying when I say no more than two minutes later we were on the side of the road laughing at the irony. I've never had a speeding ticket, and here sits my husband....89 in a 65. thankfully the officer gave it to him for only 9 over, we had nothing to do but laugh :)

Trick-or-Treat

Our Halloween was very chill. We had a few close friends over and we all decided we had to dress up for it, after all, that's what halloween's all about! So about a month ago I decided I was going to sew our costumes so we could keep them forever, and then I decided we should be mummies, very Halloweenish, they didn't even take me that long and I'm loving how they turned out!! The day of, we watched the Halloween movie marathon on TV.. just two of them, but I've always loved that. :) We had quite a few trick-or-treaters which was very fun and we watched a scary movie and played charades!! We really only took pictures right at the begginning, but at least we got a few costume pics in! All in all, a very fun halloween!!

birthday fun!

So it was my birthday earlier this month, and it was A-MAZING! truly it was!! I woke up to love notes all over my house!! Then, while I was at work, in waltzed Christian with roses!!!! What a sweetheart, I swear I don't deserve it. Later that night we went to market street grill for lobster and crab! It was DELISH!! We loved it and our server was awesome(don't you love when that happens?) After dinner Matt and Leslie came with us to nightmare on 13th street!! It is the

#1 Haunted House in America!

It was so scary and fun.. I have always been a huge fan of haunted houses, so really Christian suprised me with the perfect thing!! It was so amazing!! To top it all off, we signed on a new lease and are in a new and wonderful apartment!! pictures to come!!

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Proof that we did the extra long extra scary EXTREME extended version..SOOO worth it :)

I wish that I had a picture of how we walked through the haunted house. Since we were scared we were in a train of sorts(!) It was so funny waddeling along stepping on eachothers heals and screaming in eachothers ears.. that is, until Leslie kept yelling my name for going too fast so the scary people knew my name and Leslie somehow let go of me.. so the haunted undead could scream in my ear and come up around me! AH!!! HAHA LOVE IT :)

This is a random shot of my hubs... he is re-reading Harry Potter, so pretty sure I'm going to do it again soon too.. but I have such a long list of books I have to read.. who knows!

Ruth Lake

Lindsay Robbie MK Leslie Matt Jon Ty Me and Christian all have been planning our Ruth Lake trip for a while now! I've been once, and it is so gorgeous up there I couldn't wait to go again! Since Christian and I both had to work we hiked in when it was pitch black! I may have gotten a little nervous, but Christian kept me pre-occupied by talking about The Office, SUCH a funny show!! So Anyways, we used our tent and sleeping bags and backpacks for the first time!! We love them!!! In the morning I read about how to make muffins in orange peals in the fire, so we did that.. it was so yummy!!! then we went rock climbing, it was Christian and Jon's first time and they did so awesome!! all in all....

RUTH LAKE = HAPPINESS

TAG

What is your current obsession? hmm, if you had asked me this a few weeks ago it would have definately been wave running, but now that I have to wait until next summer I need to move on from that so I would say... reading. Most of the time I can't stand reading more than one book at a time and lately I can't just read one!


What do you hate the most that everybody else seems to love? the movie Taken! Everybody loves it, I swear. But I hated it! I just left feeling so aweful, the action wasn't that cool and the whole story, I dont care if that really happens I dont want to sit and watch how it is impossible to stop it. I can't describe how much I hated it! Good thing I have an amazing husband who doesn't watch it because he knows how much I dislike it, its the only movie that has done that to me!

What are you wearing today? An orange shirt and grey dress pants.

What's for dinner? Im really excited because tonight Christian and I are going to the temple with Leslie and Matt, and then we're all having dinner together.. so I dont know yet!

What would you eat for your last meal? Spaghetti with meatballs, nachos, Papa John's cheesey bread, oatmeal cookie dough ice cream from coldstone, and a mountain dew and blue raspberry mixed slurpee :) oh yeah and training table cheese fries.. with dipping sauce!

What's the last thing you bought? first aid kits for our cars haha!

What are you listening to right now? an xm radio station at work, the song right now is Im like a bird.. by..... Nelly Furtado I think

What do you think of the person that tagged you? Lindsay is very fun and bubbely and always has the cutest stuff.. and I cant wait to go camping with her this weekend!

If you could have a house, fully paid for, and totally furnished anywhere in the world, where would it be? Well I'm just going to assume here that I would already have a normal place to live and this would be my exciting cool house I got for free for being so awesome? I would choose Europe. I want to go, and you could explore so much there!

What is one of your hobbies? I love Yoga and music and pottery! I love learning how to build/make things. Going on adventures. I like to cook crazy things, not that Im a good cook or cook all the time, but when I do I like to make fun stuff and try new recipes! haha okay that was like five hobbies but oh well

What are 3 things that annoy you most? People who are mean and think its being funny is definately my number one thing. I dont know why you would want to make someone feel bad about themself EVER. When somebody thinks its their right to judge somebody elses situation and tell everybody. Women who dont respect themselves and men who don't respect women.

What is your favorite color? BLUE

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your wardrobe? probably my levi jacket

What is your dream job? I would say being a Mom and a writer and a potter and a painter and a yoga instructor on the weekends. :)

Describe your personal style. evolving

What are you going to do after this? Finish the day of work and then go to the temple! woohoo

What inspires you? Things that seem reachable but far away

Who was the last person you kissed? Christian and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!

What are you currently reading? The Notebook, Wolf Speaker and fairy tale retellings :)

What delighted you most today? Remembering its temple night! and my short day is tomorrow! and this weekend we go camping!!!!! such a good day!

What is your favorite dessert? No such thing!! rice krispie treats, chocolate covered raspberries, lemon squares, funfetti cake.. and so much more!

What is a talent you hope to develop? keep running until I'm not emberassed, play the guitar and piano well

What is something new you are planning to try? Make Christian come to shop with me on black friday!! SO EXCITED!!!!!!!

I tag Melanie, Sarah, Natalie and anybody who wants to do it!

The rule: Respond and rework; answer the questions on your blog. Replace one question you dislike with a question of your invention; add one more question of your own.

Bear Lake + Lake Powell = BEST VACATION EVER!

Just a few weeks ago I had one of the best vacations of my life!!! Christian and I took off work Friday and the whole next week for our fav summer vacations!! Firstly we went to Bear Lake for Raspberry days, for my family reunion. SO FUN. I love raspberry days, I LOOOOOVE Bear Lake and I love family reunions! We went up Thursday night and woke up early Friday to go golfing with my Dad and brother Jon. I will be the first to admit, I may not be the worlds best golfer... but that doesn't stop me from wearin a glove having my own set of clubs and going! Really I love it! It is real fun and relaxing. We decided to play teams, so I was with Christian. All morning he had the most amazing drives! He really had such an awesome day!! I on the other hand, was the expert putter!! It was so fun, and really the course up there is so gorgeous... looking at bear lake!! Later that day we went wave running for a while, which just might be my favorite thing in the universe. :) That night my whole family got into town and we all went to Pickleville Playhouse, we do this every year. This year we saw the Juanito Bandito melodrama and I have to say it was hands down the FUNNIEST and my favorite show Ive seen them put on! I loved it so much!! Not only was it clever and up to date.. but my brother Tyler even went up to the girls at the end and asked for a kiss on the cheek... which in itself proved to be pretty entertaining since there were about five cousins following in his footsteps hahaha. On Saturday a bunch of us went and did the Raspberry run! yay for 5k's! Then we went to the craft fair which I always love and then we went wave running again. Raspberry days is one of my favorite things ever, and I'm already super pumped for next year!!

This is Christian as a mermaid.. lol

Sunday night we came home from Bear Lake REALLY sore and wicked tired! We packed that night and the next morning went with Christian's whole family to Lake Powell! We met up and caravanned with his uncles family too! We stayed at a place called Halls Crossing(I think) in a trailer just a couple minutes from the lake. I hadn't ever been to Lake Powell before and let me tell you it is GORGEOUS. It isn't like any lake I've ever been to!! We went on a few hikes, one was kind of a hike, more of a climb. Its called Annie's Crack(I know I know) but it was SO cool! You climb up into this little crack, haha, and its just walls straight up and you can go to the other side climbing all over! It was really awesome! We also went to rainbow bridge... which I was VERY excited about! It is HUGE!! So awesome and I loved it! It was a long boat ride away.. on the way there these two planes flew right over the top of us! they were SO LOUD! I think Christian said the were B somethings(lol) but they were SO COOL. We also went crazy tubing of course.. and I even braved going double skiing with Christian! he is such a good coach :) Lake Powell was So awesome and now I can finally understand why Chrisitan is borderline obsessed with it!! and now its back to work and school...... sigh..... cant wait until next year!!

I know there is a million pics.. lol.... oh well I couldn't choose!

Annie's Crack

This one looks photo shopped!!

We were trying to climb up to see some cool houses and stuff and we had to wade through this crazy place and even swim for a while! I felt like man vs. wild!

This is when we all got up at six oclock to go skiing.. haha IT WAS COLD!!

They have these floating portapotties.. they smell really bad.......

24th of July weekend

For the 24th of July we decided that we wanted to go to the Bee's game, mostly because they have an awesome firework show at the end that you can watch laying ON the field!! We went last year for the 24th and decided we couldn't let it pass us by this year! We ended up going with a group of friends and turns out the Bee's couldn't play! :( But we were okay with it considering we now get another set of Bee's tickets this year, preseason Jazz ticket, and then some carshow tickets(or something like that) The firework show was so awesome!!! We were some of the first people so we ran onto the field in front of everybody and got front row seats! We thought this would be the best, turns out...

front row seats=sunglasses

to shield from the ashes and pieces of firework that land on you!! It was so funny and crazy! We can't wait to make fireworks at a Bee's game a tradition!

The next morning we woke up super early to Andrew knocking on our door!! well, what I should say is, Christian woke up to Andrew knocking on our door.. I woke up to.. "Jenni!! Andrew is here! we're supposed to leave for paintballing RIGHT NOW!" in a very panicked voice...it may have been panicked because we forgot to set our alarm.. or his morning voice was still taking full force! :) hehe. Crit, me, Andrew and Jaron drove down to south salt lake and decided we'd all pick up some breakfast at Maverick while we waited to meet Leslie and Matt. I decided to get this breakfast sausage sandwich thing and Christian got me a strawberry milk. Well, long story short.. the breading on my "sandwich" was tough as nails and the sausage was dry and really hard to look at and smell, let alone taste!! We were all laughing at the nastiness of my sandwich when I got out my strawberry milk.. opened it... and saw that it was white? WHAT?! I was told to shake it.. like the pink could seperate lol... but I tried it to no avail. After a quick glance at the bottle I knew what today was bringing me. MMMM who doesn't love a big jug of half and half in the morning?! hahaha, it was crazy!! The pink wrapper totally fooled us. Anyways we went paintballing and really had a blast! In the end Leslie and I even killed a few very disgruntled (and really intense/serious) players! yay for us!!