Need a pick me up?

This will brighten your day! I'm seriously laughing out loud! So funny!

Life sucks sometimes...

It sucks... it's not fair. I really never thought I would be that girl who's 25 and not married and not anywhere close. I'm on my way to being that girl who's the favorite aunt and the favorite sister and the favorite friend because I don't have a family of my own and so I have no one else to focus on. Sometime I hate my life...

I'm thankful

So I've been thinking about posting all day and haven't made time for it. I have a lot to be thankful for today and hopefully this week I'll be able to take some time and write them down... Until then, Happy Thanksgiving!

Laughing Out Loud!

I can't stop laughing... so much fun!

Oh my goodness I've been tagged for the very first time!

So, some of you may think this is dumb but do you know what this means to me? It means that someone thinks I blog enough to actually warrant a tag! I am so so excited! Thanks Beckie and I miss you!!

7 Things Tag

the seven things tag (as tagged by the amazing Beckie)

7 things that attract me to my hubby(We'll just substitute boyfriend in here!):
1. His amazing sense of creativity
2. His love for his family
3. His love of anything extreme(paragliding, kiteboarding i could go on and on)
4. His patience when he is teaching me something new
5. The way he smiles at me when no one else is looking
6. His mad dancing skills
7. His laugh (even when he's laughing at me)

7 things I love to eat:
1. Chocolate Cake
2. Apple Crisp (this has been a big one lately)
3. Spaghetti
4. Mashed potatoes and gravy
5. Christmas toffee
6. Doritos
7. Vanilla ice cream with homemade chocolate sauce. yum

7 things I can do:
1. Turn almost anything into a positive
2. Design and sew my own curtains
3. Work (even went I really don't want to)
4. Make Eden laugh
5. Rock your socks at Mario Kart for the wii
6. Snowboard (ok so I've only done it once but I was great!)
7. Bake a fantastic fall apple crisp

7 things I can't do:
1. Skurf
2. Focus at work today
3. Drive a motorcycle
4. Pass the Provo bakery without going in for a doughnut
5. Get out of bed at the time I want in the morning
6. Wait for Christmas this year
7. Help but feel hopeful

And I tag, Cali, Marsh and Mandy

Daddy's Girl

Happy birthday to the BEST DAD a girl could ask for!

I'm really lucky to have the dad I do! We have such a great relationship and I feel like I could really go to him about anything! Some of my favorite memories of my dad:

*Recreating The New Yorker in Calgary and keeping him awake while we were driving back by asking him what everything in the car did.
*Singing in the Vanigan (some highlights: cats in the cradle, crocodile rock, blue eyes, anything by genesis, yes, phil collins or elton john)
*Dad giving Marci relationship advice (You really hurt him)
*Volvos (They're built for safety!)
*Having him home every Friday growing up! This meant really good breakfasts, bring your dad to school days, and a chaperon to any school field trip! This was especially fun when the teacher thought he was a scientist!
*Basketball in the backyard
*Double bouncing on the trampoline
*Sledding in the coulee
*Rebuilding my supra
*Car auctions, car auctions and more car auctions
*Ice skating with dad and Kayla (he is REALLY fast)
*Thoughts of rollerblading
*Our new shared love of photography
*Lip syncing to U2 on my new portable CD player Christmas morning
* Watching dad watch funny movies (Jungle 2 Jungle)
*Singing
*And always laughing!

These are just a few! I love you dad and I hope you have a great birthday!

Icon brain dump

So no pictures this blog... It feels like a pictureless topic anyways. So I've worked for Icon Security since April of 2006 which is a good chunk of time. On October 29th it was announced that we were merging with another company that does the same thing as us. This was interesting and scary news but a merger sounded not that bad. As things have ironed themselves out it turns out to be an acquisition more than a merger. What does this mean for us? Well our reps and techs are fine! They will pretty much do the same job just for a different company. Operations on the other hand is totally different! Pinnacle is the company that "acquired" Icon and they originally told us they were going to bring over 70-80% of our operations people. This is a big percentage so most of us weren't too worried. They have only hired 4 people so far so it's really not looking that great for the rest of us. I'm really not that worried about it. I have work with Icon for the next few months and that gives me time to find a new job and figure things out. Rodney is already hitting the new job front hard and I'm sure he'll have something good soon.

I'm not really sad about losing my job... I loved Icon but I didn't LOVE going to work everyday so this is probably a good opportunity for me. The sad thing is all the people. I have had a harder time than I thought I would thinking about not working with these amazing people every day. I have been so blessed with amazing co workers and bosses that it is going to be really hard to start all over not knowing anyone at a new place. I will truly miss all the friends I have made throughout my time at Icon and wish everyone well. Now I just have to make some big decisions. Stay in Utah or move somewhere new? Stay in the industry or start something new? Try my hand in a new business venture? Go to school? So many options and so to avoid them... I will just think about visiting my cute nieces and not making any life changing decisions! :)

Please Remember to Vote!

For those of us who can't... please remember to
Along with the rest of you, I'm really interested to see how this will all turn out! Cross your fingers and say a little prayer!

Nieces

How much do I love my nieces? More than I could ever explain in words! Welcome to the world little Ella!

Xoxo

A year ago today, Rodney kissed me for the very first time. I'm so glad he did!

The Life of a Potato

So this weekend Rodney took me up to Burley and we spent some time with his dad on the farm. Unfortunately... they weren't harvesting potatoes because it was too wet, but I did get a tour of everything and now I understand a little about what Rodney is talking about when he talks about the farm. So here's a few pictures of what goes on when harvesting potatoes:

So it all starts with the tractor that pulls "The Harvester". That's right... it's actually named The Harvester. So the harvester has these huge blades that go about 18 inches under the ground and all the dirt and potatoes and everything is run threw a series of conveyers that bounce the potatoes and weed out as much dirt as possible. They then get dumped off the boom into a big truck that is always driving next to the tractor. If you can't tell, that's me on top of the harvester!

The trucks then drive the potatoes to the cellar where it is sent through another series of conveyers. The potatoes first get separated  into 2 lines. The really big potatoes, and the regular to small sized potatoes. The big potatoes get sent down a line for the "Clodders" to pull out the big dirt clods from the real potatoes. The other potatoes get sent through the "Dirt Eliminator" (again, such a clever name)  that continues to separate out the dirt. Potatoes bounce more than dirt so they fall down a couple shoots and the potatoes bounce to higher levels and the dirt gets disposed of. They then all get sent down a conveyer belt that send them in to "The Piler" the final machine that piles the potatoes in the cellar. 

The cellar is kept at a cool temperature to store the potatoes  and they keep it cool by using these huge fans!

The Piler is a really cool machine that is run by remote control and places the potatoes in HUGE piles in the cellar. One of these cellars will hold bout 150000 sacks of potatoes.

Yep... this is us standing on 150000 sacks worth of potatoes! Such a fun weekend! Anyways... not sure if anyone cared too much about how potatoes are harvested but I was sure interested! More to come on Rodney's newest hobby and the intramural championship game!

Fall in Utah

So fall in Utah is absolutely beautiful! We've been lucky this year and it's stayed pretty warm! The last couple weeks we've been driving the Alpine Loop on Rodney's motorcycle and it was been really gorgeous! Here are some pics for your viewing pleasure!



*most of these pictures were taken while we were driving so sorry if they're a little blurry! ;)

Happy Birthday Rodney!!

Happy birthday to the man I love!

20 Bridesmaids and a Ratatat concert

Last weekend Rodney and I headed up to Burley for his sister Helen's wedding. The whole thing was beautiful and it turned out exactly how they wanted it so that was great! They had 20 bridesmaids which was so funny but ended up looking really great in pictures! Helen and Avery looked amazing and they were so so happy so it was really nice to be able to be there for it!


Last night we went with Josh, Tessa and Jory to the Ratatat concert that turned out to be really fun! The crowd was so dumb and really annoying but the show was fantastic! This has been the summer of concerts so this was a good one to lead into fall (that's right... it already feels like fall in Utah). And tonight I get to babysit Eden! I love that girl!!

Friendiversary

So I'm not nearly as on top of things as Mandy is but I wanted to put up a little belated friendiversary picture too! Back in the day I think it was Susan who dubbed this group the "Cool Kids Club" which we all got a good laugh at and this picture is still titled CKC... so here's to 6 of my favorite years! Thanks Mand!!

I love Burley Idaho!

So we headed up to Burley again this weekend to go to the Cassia County Fair and Rodeo amongst other things. I really love Burley. Every time we go there we have so much fun! This weekend was jam packed of course! We went to the Hill AirForce base museum on Friday on our way up. It's free and really cool! Tons of old planes and air force history stuff. You should check it out. Then we went to the fair and ate really greasy but really tasty treats and played rook with the fam. I love card games... especially when I win, which Rodney and I did of course.
The next day we went to the Twin Falls temple open house and it was so beautiful! By far this was the highlight of the trip for me! Rodney's sister Helen is getting married there next week so it was special to be there and see everything inside before the wedding. Then we did the usual wakeboarding, horse races, bridal shower, more fair food and ended the night with a rodeo! Overall, such a fun weekend! I have a lot of life updates so maybe I'll start blogging a little more... we'll see ;) Have a good week everyone!

ps. I love this picture because Rodney and his dad are making the exact same face... so funny!