The "other" ...uh woman?!

Don't get your panties in a wad...it isn't what you think. Granted, there a tinge of jealousy between us two, I know I have the upper hand..after all, he sleeps next to me every night ;) But now that you know how I feel about it...meet Derick's "new fling"

He's had this finished for a couple months now, but I just got the chance to snap some pictures of it while we were up at the cabin this weekend. I really didn't think he would drive it much...but we take this thing everywhere. I'm glad he has one more thing crossed off his list-although now I know he's going to be working on me to sell my truck and buy a GT500...but that won't be happening anytime soon. I mean...where would I put my saddle in a Mustang?! A girl's gotta have a place for her saddle ;)



Here's what Derick thinks of that rebuttle:

(I've censored this for your own good!)

Anyway,

...the "other woman" makes him happy, so that makes me happy :)

Ayden's Pirate Birthday!

I can't believe how big he's getting!! We had a ton of fun with his pirate birthday/water party...and of course we just had to get into a water fight! My sister did such a good job putting everything together, and the decorations were so stinkin cute. She had a little issue getting the cake done, but it turned out super cute. See her post here.

See ALL the pictures on my facebook album here

Oh yeah...

Check out my baby tomatoe plant I've grown from a seed :) Yeah...I'm stroking my own ego here...I'm pretty proud of this little guy!

Euphoria anyone?? YES PLEASE!

When I was young, my family will attest to the fact that I was always an outside girl. Playing in the yard, or begging Dad to take me with him to the farm so I could ride the horse...but unfortunately, I was also a horrible procrastinator. Some days, I'd have chores I'd been assigned-ie: clean your room, clean your bathroom, dust your...everything, but since I was a procrastinator, I'd find ANYTHING to do...EXCEPT what I'd been asked. This little chip I had on my shoulder caused me to be inside ALL DAY LONG!

Don't ask me why I didn't just get my ass up and do my chores so I could go outside, as I'm not sure WHY I did this. All I know is that I'd sit in my room on my bed, and look out my window...longing to be out in the elements.

Now, 18 years later, I've grown out of the procrastination issue (for the most part?!)...but my longing to be outside has always retained a special place in my heart. But...since we moved into our house a year ago, this place hasn't entirely felt like home...until now!

So, what does my procrastination versus my love for the outdoors have to do with the price of rice in China you may ask?? WELL, MY YARD IS DONE .....AND IT ONLY TOOK 2 WEEKS THANKS TO THE WONDERFUY GUYS AT FirstGreenLawns!!

I can not even tell you how much I'm enjoying my yards now! I can now call my home...HOME!

All of the pictures on this post are un-edited, Straight Out of Camera (or SOOC) images...but this one is my favorite of the evening! I had some INSANE settings going on. That may look like the moon behind a tree...but actually, that's the SUN! I took this tonight at 6:20 pm

50mm 1.4 lens---f/22, SS:1/2500, ISO 100

Landscape!!

I can't tell you how excited I am about getting a yard this Spring!! I'm so sick of having to see my neighbor's (behind us) trashy yards...not that ours is any better right now, haha. I also can't wait to have a fence up so they're not always staring at what we're doing, and so their kids won't pester my poor pooch when he's out on his line. We just got our design idea back from our landscape people, and I LOVE IT!! We won't have a ton of grass, which is nice (less grass for Coop to dig up!).

We haven't given them the "go ahead" yet...but I'm sure we will soon. Whaddya think??

Vegas

So we went to Vegas for Derick's birthday...and can you believe I didn't take not ONE picture?! haha, yeah...I know, I'm retarded! Most of the places we went to though wouldn't allow them...so I just always left it in my room! We did a TON of stuff, including the Cirque du Soleil & Criss Angel show, Believe. I absolutely loved it!! Needless to say, no pictures were allowed there either! haha...oh well, atleast we'll always have our memories :)

Ghost 2!!

So, just a few minutes ago, I was sitting her at my computer and all of sudden the surround sound in the game room started getting loud, LoUdEr, then EXTREMELY LOUD! D is in there playing Call of Duty 4 online with his friends, so I ran in there. He said that he was just playing and all of a sudden the sound increased really loudly, really quickly! The remote for that was sitting ontop of the box on the otherside of the room!! He got up and tried to turn it down the dial, and nothing happened, so he just turned off the power!! Yeah, she's ticked today!!

Ghost??

So...as some of you might now, apparently we have a visitor in our home. I had a feeling that there something else was here when Cooper would wake up at 3am, and bark under his breath at our bathroom in our master bedroom. When I told D about this he thought I was crazy. Well...I had an appointment with a pet psychic (yes, I know it sounds crazy, but it was actually VERY VERY interesting!!), and she told me that we DO have a spirit in our home! She said she is a tall grey headed woman that is very sad. She apparently had a lot of loss in her life, and is just stuck between worlds.

Well...apparently she's very upset today. I was sitting here at my computer on the kitchen counter, and all of a sudden, I heard something shatter! D was sitting on the couch and asked what happened. I walked around by the sink, but there was nothing on the floor?! I was so confused! I looked in the dishwasher, under the sink, in the fridge, and in the cabinet where my wine glasses are...and found nothing! I finally looked where I put my bowls and pans and there it was! My Pyrex liquid measuring cup (which I loved because you could measure 4 cups of liquid at a time!!) was shattered! There is no way anything fell on it...so I don't know how this happened? It was sitting inside another glass bowl, and that one didn't break? The glass was shattered all over that shelf. Inside the other bowls & everything! It was a pain to clean up...but I finally got it done. Apparently she was mad that she was all alone on Valentine's Day! haha

Tired...

I don't know what's been going on lately, but it seems like everyone is exhausted all the time...INCLUDING ME! For the last week or so, I've been having to get 4 shots of espresso in my "Marilyn Monroe" in the morning, instead of my usual 2. I'm sure it's not too healthy for me, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do! As I type this morning, I feel like my fingers are stuck to the keys...I hope I get feeling perky again soon! Maybe once it starts to warm up, it'll get better.

Best of 2008

Check it out...me and Derick made it onto our photographer's "Best of 2008, Weddings" pictures...TWICE!! haha
http://tonyapetersonblog.com/2009/01/13/best-of-2008-weddings/
I absolutely envy Tonya's photography! She's amazing with a camera, and she was a lot of fun to work with.

I've been tagged...

Thanks to Jaclyn, I've been tagged, haha.

8 THINGS ABOUT ME

Here are the Rules:
1) Post rules on your blog
2) Answer the six '8' items
3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment.

8 FAVORITE TV SHOWS
1. Dirty Jobs
2. Time Warp
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. True Blood
5. Mythbusters
6. Oprah
7. Superstars of Dance
8. True Beauty

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY
1. Went to the Clinton Anderson Clinic in Ogden
2. Talked to Clinton Anderson (wow! haha)
3. Laughed with my mother-in-law
4. Realized I was doing things ALL WRONG
5. Had a Pina Colada...ok, I had 2
6. Watched the News
7. Took a Shower
8. Slept in a hotel bed

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO
1. Making Valentine's sugar cookies
2. Spring!!
3. Working with my horse to make him more respectful
4. our VEGAS trip in February!!!
5. Talking to the pet psychic again
6. The TWILIGHT movie on DVD (had to copy Jac on that one)
7. The next Clinton Anderson clinic, haha
8. Having some fun this summer with Coop & the hubby

8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
1. My own kitchen :) .....does that count?! haha
2. Ted's in Oklahoma
3. Eischins in Oklahoma (thank goodness those two are far away, or I'd weigh 400 pounds!)
4. Red Lobster
5. Don Pedro's
6. Johnny Corino's
7. Texas Roadhouse
8. Grandma Kellner's kitchen (or just wherever she's cooking) haha

8 THINGS ON MY WISH-LIST
1. Canon 50mm 1.4 lens
2. for my dog to behave
3. finish the Game Room
4. Studio lighting
5. MORE TIME...for everything!
6. a bedroom set :)
7. to get my yard finished this spring/summer
8. be able to make Gr. Kellner's chocolate chip cookies :)

8 PEOPLE I TAG
1. Amy
2. Amanda
3. ....those are really the only people I know on Blogger that didn't tag me! haha, how pathetic :)

Goodbye Christmas :(

I'm so sad to have to say it...but Christmas is over. I admit it...I'm guilty of still having my Christmas Tree & Garland up in my house...but the lights are off. I had to take some pictures of the outside lights though. Till next year I suppose...

Our new addition...

Derick's been wanting me to get the game room cleaned out so he can have his "man cave"! So we finally got it pretty cleaned out the other day, so he went out to SLC today and came home with this!

It's a lot bigger than the one he's putting in the game room (the one that we USE to have in the living room), so we had to try it out tonight on "Superstars of Dance"!...PS, probably one of the coolest shows I've seen for a while!