time to blog.

has it really been 3 months since i last blogged? pathetic. heres a little summer recap.

sister had a baby - Ashlyn Bella

little brother came home from Africa

baby blessing

lots of family time, lots of spoiling the neice

Vegas with andrea

river trip

as well sleepovers, concerts, birthdays, dates, weddings, bbqs, rodeos, work, work, and work.

life is good, so good.

more to come.

tonight,

i see her.

cannot wait.

more to come...

dear tv people.

i'm going to be honest with you and ask, why do you suck?

i was extremely unhappy with your services and was most definately not pleased with your customer support. i know i racked up their call times week to week and yet my issue was never resolved. in my eyes, that poses a problem; long talk times + frustrated and unhappy customer = no good.

even though i am paying $5 extra each month for a tech to come to my house at my dismay and fix any problems i am having, you refused to send someone out until you sat on the phone with me yet again and then racked up those minutes and forced me to walk myself through technical steps that i have been through before and that only make me feel like i am stupid because they never work.

why do i give you this extra money each month if you are just going to play games with me and keep me on the phone?

why did you have to make things so difficult?

surprisingly enough, i cancelled. when i asked for a tech to come and remove my equipment and satellite that sits on my fence, you replied saying that you would ship me boxes and i would have to package everything up, including the satellite dish which is on my fence, and then ship it back to you. i don't get you people and i don't understand what you are doing.

thankfully, i found new tv people. these new tv people came out the day before thanksgiving and installed everything within 30 minutes. they are my heroes because i still get to pay for tv and actually enjoy it because it works. thank you new people for getting it right and making me one happy person.

today i am happy

and i'm happy for many reasons.

1. i lost 3 pounds this past week. always great.
2. tomorrow is friday.
3. Josh Groban is back in my life for the holidays.
4. this smell, fried ice cream, as traveled throughout my entire house. yummy.
5. i know that what i am doing right now in life is what i need to be doing. what a wonderful, relieving feeling.
6. the empty bedroom in my basement is no longer empty. it is filled with all of my christmas decorations. i had to get over the temptation to put it all out somehow.
7. saturday i get to spend my day with her, her, her, her and her. 1 42, can't wait.
8. thanksgiving is in 2 weeks, 2 weeks people!
9. and someday, i'll get married and have kids. that makes me the happiest.


picture found right here!

wish me luck

so there's a lot going on at work this week...

hope i don't end up like this...

wish me luck...

sundays

today i slept in and missed going to church with my mom. nonetheless, it has been a great day. i stayed in my pajamas all day...

i made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies...

I burned my favorite apple spice candle all day long and it made my house smell so yummy...

i left the back door open and let the fall breeze into the house...

and i listened to church music...wishing it was christmas music.

now i am off to the parents to eat smoked ribs, eat all the tomatoes from the salad, write the litle brother and watch my favorite shows...desperate housewives and brothers and sisters. can't wait!

I'm alive

so i hate not being able to update my blog. i left my labtop in texas and my work computer doesn't do blogger so well so i've been slacking on blogging and i'm sorry.

so i'm alive. i came home from texas (which i will post pics and stories soon, i promise) i got really sick after that and was stuck in bed for 3 days. i watched HGTV all day long and it reminded me how much i LOVE this channel. i'm now back to working and just trying to keep busy!

i have a big week ahead of me so i hope that i will get some blogging in soon! i get to baby sit the kids again this weekend why their parents go to a conference. i am extremely excited because i get to do things with them that i would probably not do otherwise. we're going to go to the pumpkin patch, pick our some pumpkins and to make life easier on me, probably just paint them. i want to make carmel apples and have hot apple cide and watch halloween movies! it is going to be a blast! it is also my mom's 50th birthday this week so i'm busy planning a party for her which hopefully will be a success! other than that, life is good as always!!

clothes, clothes, and more clothes

so i am laying in my bed patiently waiting for the washer to finish doing its thing. i still have to put my whites in and make sure they get to the dryer all before i go to bed. i have been so extremely busy lately with work, decorating my house (seriously) and catching up from last weeks babysitting adventures that I have completely abandoned my laundry and my home life. because i have procrastinated all this, i get to stay up tonight and finish it all. i still need to pack for the exciting trip to texas and i really need to finish it tonight because i know i just won't have time tomorrow.

I really don't know why i am going to show you these pictures of my awful messes but i'm hoping the embarrassment is enough motivation for me to actually do something about the piles (yes, pileS) of clothes.

these are all my clean clothes that I need to sort through and put away or get rid of...

this is a pile of dirty clothes that didn't fit in the washer for round 1...

this is my pile of whites that is on deck for the washer...

and this pile just came out of the dryer (ok i lied, it came out two weeks ago) and it needs to be put away.

pathetic and sad life i live, yes i know.

Utah Valley Parade of Homes

Ever since I can remember, I've always gone to the parade of homes with my mom and grandma. This year is no exception. I have managed to make it to 8 homes non of which I loved. They were all big and nice but they were either to modern or to goddy. My mom and I went to home number 18 tonight and it was beautiful, by far the only one I have liked so far. Although the base price is $610,000, I still loved it.