funny thing

Chavis and I are asked all the time how we met....and frankly its all very classic. Boy meets girl, boy too shy to talk to girl, one year goes by, boy grows 1/2 a pair, girl makes the FIRST move...two years later...here we are! STILL married, and HAPPIER than ever!

Last week was our TWO anniversary, and I must say that IM SO VERY LUCKY! I have a great husband. He is my best friend: the one I live for, LAUGH WITH, dream of, LOVE.

Here's to year three.

Honestly...

I have a million and one things I coull be doing...and all I want to do is NOTHING. I better enjoy this time, because soon enough, I won't have ANY time to do nothing...and I'm not talking about a baby (unfortunately), I'm talking about starting a possibly long journey back to school!
Starting in may I am officially an SUU thunderbird! Im starting their BSN program..then we'll see how I feel after I've completed this program, and if LIFE has decided to ONCE AGAIN take over my life, and NOT go as I planned it :)

also, come MAY there will be some very exciting news to hit this blog...so stay tuned.

You're going to feel it in the morning

This weekend we went to Brian Head to go boarding with a group of friends, and we all had a blast. As of today every muscle in my body is sore..and thats part of the reason i LOVE boarding, you get a WAY better work-out than you realize.

manda, zach, chav, me, bean

me, chav, zach, manda

It was Zach's 1st time boarding, and Chav's 4th...and honestly, it sickens me that they are so athletically inclined. Chav learned carve in one day, and i swear it took me over a year to be able to do that :)

zach & manda



zach


Manda and I started snowboarding in highschool, so we revisited some of our foundest boarding memories, this included: 

The time us and two of our friends all rode one lift and somehow as we got of the lift, we all got entangled in one-anothers' snowboards and we all ate crap!

The time I went off this kicker and for some odd reason closed my eyes and spun around-I ended landing on my head, and my biggest was concern was that i was going to get kicked off the ski-bus for not wearing a helmet!

me

manda

  The weather was PERFECT! It was sunny the whole day, which made the day go by so fast. We boarded from 9:30am-5:00pm. It was a blast hauling down the mountain with everyone: carving, and the occassional or frequent wiping-out (depending on who you are). I loved being back on the mountain after a two-year break.

It was a great weeked spent with some great friends, and we can't wait to get back on the mountain!

Thanksgiving Weekend

         It's that time of year again, time for my family to venture on up to Park City for the holiday!
 We arrived to -1 degree weather!!! Which is a huge drop from St George, and WAY more snow!!! My parents left the pop outside while they went to the store, and when they got home this is what we found.

Look at the car in to top of the pic

We decided to have dinner at 5:30pm so we wouldn't have time to over-eat..haha

Everyone helped get the dinner ready, which was all made from scratch.

apparently it wasn't all made from scratch; thus the plastic wrapped fork still in the salad.



Babysitting

Nov 2nd, what an eventful day for Chavis and I. Aubrie asked me to watch Trevor and Shelbie while she went to help out in Caleb's class for a couple hours. I love Aubrie's kids so I was more than willing to help her out.

The morning started off well. Trevor wanted to play dinosaurs, and it was MORE than entertaining listening to his narration.

The Long-necked dinosaur (diplodocus, per wikipedia) is fighting the other dinosaurs when one calls out:

"Send in the little dinosaur!"

The little dinosaur comes out hollaring, "Oh what?! You think I can't fight like a man!" and then delivers a swift kick to to long necks neck!

Kids really do say the darndest things!

The late morning didnt go as well: (keep in mind, im not a parent, and I haven't babysat since I was 14)

Trevor kept telling me he was hungry, and I was trying to give him healthy snack options: cereal, cheese stick, apple sauce,etc. He told me he ate lunch at school so i didnt want to feed him anything big.

Chavis came over around 1045. Aubrie called shortly after saying there was a situation and she was trying to resolve it and would be home soon.

At 11:15 Trevor tells me, "I really think I need to go to school."

"What time does your school start?" I asked.

"11:30. My mom always drives me to the bus stop."

In my head i'm thinking 'oh sh%#'

"Oh ok, well do you have a back-pack you take?" I say calmly.

"Ya, but I think it's in my van, so are my shoes."

"Can you wear flip-flops?"

Just then we hear the garage door opens. Chavis is sitting on the couch holding Shelbie and Trevor is getting anxious. Chavis tells Trevor to go open the garage door because his mom is home.

Just as Trevor gets to the door, It swings open, and Calab busts through, "I hate school! I hate you!"

Then before I knew it, he was on the floor holding onto one of the table legs as Aubrie grabbed him from the floor and dragged him into his room. I dont recall what Caleb yelled for the next minute, but once it went silent Aubrie said, "I bet he jumped through the window."

Sure enough, and he even tried to put the screen back!

Chav and I just sat there in disbelief (that such a little kid would be dare jump out his window) as Aubrie dragged him back in the house, not missing a beat.

Chavis, "Oh man, he's got the Redd temper." (HAHA, Redd,not red,that how heated things get :D)

Honestly Aubrie is the best mom! I'm so glad she trusts me enough to watch her children, and while I feel bad she had such a rough day, it was quite entertaining for Chavis and I; not to mention an eye-opener for our future.

Oh, and it turns out..trev doesnt eat at school and it doesnt start at 11:30..haha

Weekend to Blanding!

OCT 22-24, 2010:  We headed to Blanding, the BEST place in the State of Utah (according to Chavis), so he could hunt and I could go to Annie and Josh's wedding.

Annie and Josh had an outside wedding in Moab, which I was kind of dreading because it was stormy and I live in St. George now, so I didnt pack as warm as I should've.

Once we arrived some nice fella wiped all the rain off some chairs so we could sit down. when the music started I was waiting in anticipation for the crowd to stand..the last civil wedding I went to people didnt quite know when they should stand..however this group had it down..it's just for the bride :) Annie looked gorgeous as she walked down the aisle. Once the everyone was in place and the ceremony was about to start...Two guys dressed up like PIMPS, halloween pimps-with bright red and bright blue furry hats, animal print jackets, the works, came walking into the wedding!! While it was almost impossible not to laugh, i was mortified that anyone would enter a wedding like that, and LATE to top it off; literally, everyone turned to watch them enter! Must of been friends of the groom due to all the grooms' men busting a gut at the alter! That's Moab for ya. But it gets better, during the vows some beater car drives by playing mexican tunes...haha awkward.

and of course..good times were had by all at the after-party!

sunday was bri's fairwell talk; she did a great job! after, jayne decided she wanted to take some family pictures, so chavis and I were to run down to the singles ward to get quinn.

Chavis runs into the building to find quinn in choir practice:

Chavis-

Quinn, mom wants to do family pictures right now so lets go.

Quinn-

No. I'm in the middle of choir. tell mom to do it later.

Chavis-

Dang Quinn, everyone else would be happy to get out of choir practice. Now lets go!

haha..I love it because it's true, quinn is the only child who would be mad to leave church.

we did get our family pics thanks to uncle Lynn, and they turned out really good!

Girls Weekend

OCT 8-10:  After living in st george for 2 months, two of my best girlfriends from Blanding made the 6 hour drive to come see me!

We had a blast: we went to the show, out to eat, and shopping...and for those of you who have lived in Blanding...that's a BIG deal..getting to eat somewhere other than patio (which is great, but it's no Olive Garden), and getting to shop somewhere besides Alco :)

During our shopping venture we decided to buy some of that maybelline lip stain (i've been wanting to try some for months). Once we got home I told the Marisa and Cindy to get there's out so we could all put it on...Cindy, that little skank, boned out on buying the stain because, and i quote, "I think I look like I whore when I wear lip color." So she borrowed some of mine, and these are our "whorish" results.

haha..I had the best time with them! Next time Annie will have to come down too!