The last couple of weeks in a nutshell

THE MONSTER TRUCK RALLY!!!

I LOVE REBELS. My shirt says so. I was looking forward to dressing up super white trashy for the monster rally all week, but Saturday rolled around and I was too busy taking a nap to get trashed up. I woke up to find JP got some rad tats all the way up his arm (or an arm sleeve, but it looked pretty convincing). JP will probably post some sweet videos from the rally on his blog, so check it out if you're really bored!
We won an ice fishing trip at a ward auction over a year ago from our neighbor, Drew. Drew, Josh (my little bro), JP, and I woke up bright and early on Saturday morning and went to Yuba lake for the trip. We all caught fish (some of us caught more than others...I only caught one with help) and then some men cooked the fish right there and we got to eat it. I was wearing three coats, a hoodie, and a thermals to keep warm. Josh kept telling me that I looked like a little kid. Che and Bode LOVED it! Che ate five raw fish and Bode was repulsed. He wouldn't even touch the raw fish!







Thanks to JP's parents we got to go to the Jazz game with Kecia and Jake last week. We went to Macaroni Grill before the game and used a ton of $5.00 gift cards. It was kind of funny because the server had to run them one at a time (not very nice I know, but she had it coming to her)! The Jazz won!
Last night we got to go to the Jazz game with Scott and Des. It was tons of fun and the Jazz won again!! P.S. I know I have a giraffe neck in this picture (that's for you Hollie).
Snowmobiling and sledding behind the snowmobile at Tiffany's cabin. Take note of our helmets...you should all wear one!


JP and I skiing on a beautiful day!

Josh was in town for the weekend and we had time to take a total of four runs skiing as fast as we could at Sundance.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHELLE! JP's mom turned ...29 on Sunday. His whole family got together (we missed you Heidi and Sam) to celebrate.
Hollie, Kelene, and I made sugar cookies with Hollie and Chari's kids. The cookie cutters were very festive...bells, gingerbread men, dinosaurs, cars, and a heart! It was pretty crazy and a lot of fun! Happy Valentines everyone! (I have a habit of celebrating holidays after the date).

Holiday Pictures

I thought that maybe this year we would send out a Christmas Picture. Well, we got the pictures taken and all of the sudden Christmas had passed... and then New Years... and now it is the middle of January. I decided I will at least post a few, so Josh's efforts of taking our pictures in the freezing cold aren't completely wasted.

CHRISTMAS BREAK-LONGEST POST EVER

My Christmas Break was almost a month long and I acted like it was the last time I would ever get to play (which might be true for at least the next couple of months with school and my internship). JP and I played hard! We skied everyday we could. Josh was in town and we skied together a bunch of times too!

Our first trip was to Silverton, CO. It was 22 degrees below 0 at the base. The elevation was 13,300 (typo in slideshow) making it harder to breathe. I even woke up with a bloody nose, cause we were so high.. I think. We skied the "resort" the first day. There were signs everywhere saying, "YOU MIGHT DIE TODAY." Each skier was required to have an avalanche beacon, shovel, and probe. There was one twin chair to the top, requiring a hike to the best ski areas. This was the first year you could ski without a guide and they opened the mountain the day we got there! For all the hard core people I went with, this was no big deal, but I'm not afraid to admit that this was a pretty big deal to me! The snow was incredible and we had an amazing time. JP got some good footage too. We did have one little mishap-I kind of got stuck on a cliff without JP and it took me forever to get down! I had to put my skis on my backpack, hike down backwards, one tiny step after another, holding on to a rope. I was praying and swearing all at the same time. When I FINALLY got down, a ski patroller told me I was a "missing person." I had to laugh cause he identified me by my sweet hot pink pants JP gave me for Christmas (what would I have done without those?) Thanks, babe. Anyway, needless to say we survived and had lots of fun (minus the cliff). The next day we skinned up a mountain and skied down. I was a little worried I would not have the lung capacity or strength to keep up, but this was actually my favorite part of the trip! It was a perfect, beautiful day. I loved it. We also got in the hot-pots, danced in the streets, and explored the whole tiny town. This just might become a yearly tradition.

Sunvalley was super fun too! My mom, dad, Josh, JP and I went to ski and visit my dad's family for the weekend. We stayed with my Uncle Jeff who provided a whole grocery store selection of food to choose from, cute Mckenna who gave up her bedroom, and Puff and Izz (their dogs). The first day we skied LONG, FAST groomers, but it snowed about 3+ feet that night (which usually NEVER happens when we go) and had amazing snow the next day. A little boy got buried in a small avalanche on the resort, but fortunately ski patrol found him and pulled him out in time! It was so much fun to ski and relax with (part) of my family and to see all of my grandparents. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE TRIP MOM AND DAD!


This slide show is REALLY random, but I'm just learning how these stupid things work. If I knew another way to post lots of pics without creating a slideshow I would do it, but, just like my big sis (love ya)!, I am technologically/blogger challenged.
It took WAY too long to explain the pics with captions, so here's my explanation:
December 28 was our 3 year anniversary! YAY! Since I STILL have not developed our wedding pics, I thought I would post one.
Indie entered the terrible 2's on the 28th too! New Year's Eve was super fun! Tons of friends were at Sean and Jill's cabin and I stayed up until 6:00am and then woke up at 8:00 (yuck!) to go backcountry skiing. We played board games, guitar hero, got in the hot tub, and went sledding (Des was very insistent!) It was a long, fun-filled night. Thanks Sean and Jill. KT and Nate were in town and it was fun to see them. We owe them big time!! Thanks for taking care of our naughty, naughty dogs-a story to be told later. I think the rest of the pictures pretty much explain themselves.

TAG! I AM IT!

I've been tagged by Julia M.
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:

1. Making hemp bracelets, necklaces, watches, belts...everything. I was kind of
pathetic! I also made the beads out of clay.
2. I was 8th grade President. It was so fun!!
3. I spent too much time at the dance studio!
4. I started wearing mascara. Ooo La la!
5. I played night games, had sleepovers, and tortured
all the boys in Lori's cul-de-sac.

5 Things on my to-do list today
1. Study/homework.
2. Christmas shopping.
3. Get my hair done.
4. Cut down our christmas tree.
5. Make pumpkin pancakes
(this has been on my list for a while).

5 Snacks I enjoy
1. Bubblegum icecream
2. Gummi Bears and sour watermelons
3. Oranges
4. Baked Cheetos ( I have very refined tastebuds!)
5. Dried Mangos

5 Things I would do if I were a Billionaire
1. Buy a house(s)...ski cabins and beach houses.
2. Pay off student loans.
3. Hide the money from JP...sure love ya--
just so we wouldn't be billionaires gone broke.
4. Find worthy charities and donate lots of money
5. Purchase some of the toys/gear on JP's wish list.

3 of my bad habits:
1. Losing things(debeetas!!)
2. Not cleaning up my messes.
3. I have to copy Julia on this one-Pushing the
snooze button way too many times and waking up
two seconds before I'm supposed to be somewhere!

5 places I have lived
1. Orem
2. Another house in Orem.
3. Another house in Orem.
4. Hawaii if you count a semester away as living there.
5. Provo

5 Jobs I’ve had
1. Lifeguard
2. Dance Teacher
3. Sundance: barbecue, kids camp, general store, lodge.
4. Nuskin
5. Medical Spa

5 Things people probably don’t know about me
Most people know most things about me...sorry!
1. I can wiggle my eyes.
2. I have had 13 teeth pulled and I still have a baby tooth.
3. I am super hyper-extended and bow-legged.
4. I absolutely HATE scary movies, haunted houses, basically anything spooky.
5. I can't quit any jobs. I try, and I think I did, but I'm right back at it
for some reason or another. They linger with me for years after I quit.
Maybe that's why I always have 2 or 3 jobs.

I tag japes, bulkley bunch, lori, lisa, and mary.

Two Sexy Individuals

Just in case you were wondering, I didn't get mad at JP for posting that adorable picture of me...I got even. Apparently, he wasn't man enough to handle it and deleted my trick before anyone ever saw it. Just kidding babe, you are the manliest man I've ever met. I'll let the rest of you judge for yourself. Maybe I do wear the pants in the family :)

Conference and the Bowling Game!

My dad started the bowling game when we were little to help keep us entertained/quiet and excited for conference. We got prizes like shrinky dinks, tinker toys, coloring books, and perfume samples (ha ha hollie). This conference the girls all got gift certificates to forever XXI, yeah!!! I love this picture of my dad! Look at all those buckets/prizes! Nash has the cutest laugh ever! Liz will have to get some video on that. Doesn't Peeps look like a natural?
Cute little family.
They should be on commercials or advertisements...or something. I asked Libby if she wanted to be in the tabernacle choir and she said, "Are you kidding me? They are like 'operaset' singers. And everyone stares at you." Hmm... for some odd reason I thought Libby LOVED to be the center of attention. Guess I was wrong.
Weirdos and my mom.

Brit is going to kill me

We are playing a lot of practical jokes on each other like hiding keys, turning the shower water lava temperature or arctic temperature.... petty stuff really. So I thought I'd embarrass her a little with this sexy picture which I happen to adore ;)

Hard to see, but Scott falls into the bushes at the end

Scooter's only crash

This is just a small sample of the gazillions of ladder rides that Brit and Des did in BC. Here's Des.

A taste of Canadian fun

Here are a few little clips of our stay in Fernie, BC.

Just in case you were wondering

My poor mom has passed kidney stones several times throughout her life...two times have been within the last two months. I passed a kidney stone in March and wanted to die. This is a picture of my kidney stone compared to a Sour Patch Kid (it was the only little thing around). If you are thinking there is no way that could cause that much pain... I thought the exact same thing. The doctor said a kidney stone passing through the ureter is comparable to putting a BB through a strand of hair, except it would have to be a BB with spikes. Once you pass a stone, there is a 70% chance that you will again in your life. Please don't let that happen again! I'm going to drink lots and lots of water and pray that genetics won't get me down again!

Arm you kid-kneeing me?

That's what I said when I found out that Josh went to the ER for stitches two weeks ago in Wyoming, Steven went to Urgent care for stitches the next Wednesday night in Salt Lake, my mom went to the ER because of kidney stones on Thursday night in Idaho, and JP went to the ER in Canada because of his arms on Friday. Just in case you don't understand the title, it's a lame attempt on my part to be punny. Let me break it down for you...the arm is for JP, the kidney is for my mom, and the knee is for Josh and Steven because they both got stitches in the knee. No pain, no gain...right?

Now for the happy stuff

Before the accident occured, we had a ton of fun! Besides biking our butts off (literally-ha ha), we had fun camping for a couple of nights, swimming in the lake, sleeping in the front yard of someone's vacation house, staying in the coolest house ever for 3 nights, making campfires, exploring the tiny town, and floating down the freezing cold river in our 'pleasure crafts.' I put that word in quotation marks because our so-called crafts might not be worthy of the term 'pleasure'. They were tiny and the water was FREEZING cold. JP was the last to get in and yelled 'abort! abort mission!' as he ran away from the river. I told him that he couldn't abandon me and forced him to come. I couldn't blame him for wanting to abandon ship after I saw that the majority of his body was submerged in the freezing cold water... we later discovered our $4 crafts could only support 140 pounds! Eventually, we became numb and the water wasn't so bad.

a sad ending to a happy trip

We just got back from a fun road trip to Canada. We somehow survived trails by the names of Hedonism, Dem Bones, and Malice in Plunderland in one piece (and in my opinion, those trails lived up to their names), but had an accident riding back on a trail commonly known as the freeway. We were drafting off of each other and I'm not such a good drafter. I slammed on my brakes, making it necessary for JP to slam on his brakes, which resulted in the worst endo I've ever seen. I thought I killed my husband! Although he is not dead, his arms are basically useless. He can't drive, eat, write...nothing. Let's just say that we've grown REALLY close as a couple this past week.

PARK CITY

Now that I don't work on Saturdays, JP and I are taking advantage of the time I have off. We spent our Saturday in Park City with Jon and Shelby...I love having more time to play!

MORE NEWPORT

I finally got a couple of days off of school and was able to meet JP and his family at the beach! Jon, Shelby, Nate and Katie came down the next day and we had lots of fun! The 4th was insane! Lots of people and lots of parties!

our blog sucks right now

This is a rare sight in California!

EEEEEEEeeeeeeWWWWwww!!!!

JP left for Newport yesterday morning and I have been all by my lonesome self. Actually I've kept pretty busy, so it's been ok. Che and Bode woke me up several times last night, probably because they miss JP. When I woke up this morning, Bode began barking at me and then nodded his head toward the door. He then sat in front on my keys and stared at them. I promised to take him on a bike ride when I got home from school. I didn't know what I was getting myself into.... So, Shelby came with me and we took Che and Bode to get some exercise. A little while later we stopped to look for the dogs and heard a strange noise followed by the most putrid smell ever!!! SKUNK!!! After a little while Shelby and I grew accustomed to the smell and started wondering if the dogs had actually been sprayed after all. Che started rubbing his stinky body into the dirt to get rid of the smell and slid head first down the mountain. It was cute and funny. I wish I had a camera, but JP took that AND the laptop. There was a wedding reception at the bottom of the ride...and food. Bode ran right up to them and we could tell by their reactions that the dogs had indeed been sprayed. Now I stink, my dogs stink, and my car stinks, and I have no husband to do the dirty work for me. He suggested tomatoe soup and baking soda. Any other great ideas?

Funny Faces

Che and Bode

Che and JP Huck Finning it

Team Iron Myelin

We kicked some serious myelin on this 75 mile
race through sometimes scenic Cache County. Vicki, Brit,
Steven, Liz, JP, and Justin were quite the team. Sadly, this
is the only picture of the team and it was taken using a
cell phone.

Solitude on the Alpine loop.