Monday, January 26, 2009

Nothing too exciting to report...


There is not much to report this week. I spent another week with a cold and another week with an inversion in Salt Lake. Jason and I had been talking about taking a trip to somewhere we had never been after getting inspiration from the movie "Yes, Man". We had tossed out the idea of going to Seattle. On Tuesday, Southwest announced that they were putting their flights to Seattle for 1/2 price!! Part of our timeshare (Worldmark) is in Seattle and was available, so we decided to book a trip to Seattle for April. Now we just need to get some passports so we can take the ferry over to Victoria. Best of all, because we have been "budgeting" we were able to pay for our flights and will be getting passports in the next week or so.

Nothing else exciting to report. I have been cooking a lot (like everynight). I have found several cool reciepes from my friends Marci's blog. I never pictured myself in the kitchen, but it is a lot cheaper than us eating out all the time and than I also have lunch the next day and eat A LOT healthier! And I may be a little partial, but I think I am pretty good (well at least I can follow directions). Now I just need to buy some cool new gadgets. Pampered Chef party anyone?

I can't believe January is about over, but that means we are one month closer to the Spring and sunshine and warmer weather and less and less snow.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Utah Parade

On Friday, the city of Salt Lake had a parade to honor the University of Utah football team on State Street. I met up with Amanda, John, Clara, Regan, and Annabelle and we walked down to state street to enjoy the parade.















The "U" flag!

















The TailGaters
The Mountain West commisioner








Kyle Wittingham (in the middle)




















Regan and Bella




















Amanda and CJ





Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Jeff's Birthday

For Jason's buddy Jeff's 27th birthday, Jason, me, Jeff, and Alyssa went to Wendover Saturday night. And of course we had to take the FUN bus!! Let's just say that the bus ride out was a little interesting....

We ate, gambled, drank, gambled, drank, took some shots, gambled, drank, and than came home. Jason and I only lost about $15 (including paying to go on the Fun Bus) !! Not bad for a night out!















Wendover here we come...













On the way out you get to play Bingo--this was on the back of Alyssa's card












Jeff and Jason take a birthday shot
We didn't get back home until 5am on Sunday morning and man were our dogs excited to see us! Happy Birthday Jeff!!!

The Amazing GUS!!!

For Christmas my parents dog, Missy, got my dogs this plastic rope that they can both tug on. Gus absolutely loves it! He will tug for hours on it! The other morning, Gus was getting really strong while we were tugging so we decided to see if he would let us lift him off the ground the way that Dash use to let us do to him when he was a puppy. As you can see from the picture below, he was successful!!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

GO UTES!!!! 13-0!!


In case any of you haven't watched TV this weekend, the Utah Utes kicked the trash out of Alabama 31-17 on Friday, January 2nd. What a fun game to watch (if you are a Ute). It was never a close game with the Utes going up 21-0 in the first quarter and never looking back. It's too bad that the BCS sucks and we won't ever get a chance to be national champions (or anytime soon). I would love to see us play Florida or Oklahoma and get that chance--but we will just have to settle for beating (aka humiliating) Bama. I am proud to be a Ute and they proved that they did belong in the game!!