I can't wait to get Bitten

I'm a sucker for cheap fashion. I've been sustained on Target clothes for the past year. Then one of my favorite store Forever 21 just opened up at the University Mall and The Gateway. Now I don't have to make special trips when I'm in Vegas and California to find it.
Then on the way to work this morning I heard an add that said the store Steve & Barry's was coming soon! If you aren't familiar with this store (I personally haven't been to one) it carries Sarah Jessica Parker's new line Bitten where everything, including jeans and jackets, is under $20.00 bucks. How cool is that. Amy got me a cute T-shirt and ring from there when she was in New York and I was envious that she got to shop there. It's opening in Murry in the Vanwinkle Shopping area, hopefully in time for Christmas. I can't wait!

These are a few of my favorite things

My friend Hannah just did a cool post about how her husband makes these kind of cool wood turned pens. This is one my dad made for me.

I thought I would show off some of my favorite things he's made for me. I feel lucky to have so many pieces from him. I love finding new places to put them in my house. One of my favorites is one I made with him the tall center one on the encyclopedia. It was neat to watch him at work. I guess my help was that I asked him to make it and watched him at work. He's in Costa Rica now so it will be a while before I get some new ones but I look forward to what he makes when he gets back. Sorry none of these are for sale, they are Mine, All Mine!
I asked my dad to make me some birds since it's my current obsession. He thought he would be funny and send me this buzzard instead. Very funny dad. You still owe me.

Time flies by

It was a little over a year ago that Sarah took me to another David Sedaris reading. It was my third or forth time seeing him. Yes I'm a little obsessed. I tried to explain once at work that I was going to see my favorite author read. They were very confused. I've recently been included (after a little begging) in a book club. We are currently reading The History of Love, which is so far really good. On our to consider list for next month is Me Talk Pretty One Day by My David. My sister Sharon emailed me today saying it was one of her sons favorite books, sweet! David was as charming and / or neurotic in person...

He drew a picture of me throwing up in Sarah's book. When I told him how appropriate that was since I was pregnant, instead of the usual congrats and what not he asked me what my last name was. I told him and he didn't really have much to say after that. I expect nothing less. His show was brilliant as ever, can't wait for his return and next book.

Side note: Sarah was so twitterpated with him she bought the wrong book for him to sign. It's worth having a second copy just for the pic of me.

Happy Birthday Sarah!

Remember when I made this card for you a million years ago. It's been along time since our first date at Red Rock. You are one of my dearest friends. Have a wonderful Birthday you deserve it.

A Joyous Halloween

One and All!

Thanks Kat for the cute picture comment!

What's your AQ

I've been fascinated with Autism lately, I'm not sure why. Having a baby boy has made me more concerned about it since for whatever reason it affects men more than women. There are a lot of different theories out there about what causes it but I'm being very cautious with immunizing Ike. He won't be getting his first shot till he's six months old and then only one per month. Why risk it.
This morning Tiffany that I work with sent me an interesting link about finding out how Autistic you are. Go HERE to take the test, and HERE to read the article about it. I thought I would score higher than I did, I only got a 10 on it. I had never thought of Autism in terms of adults having it. Supposedly we are all autistic to varying degrees, who knew?

Cupcakes Anyone?

Don't Sarah's cupcakes look delicious. They are my new specialty. I've recently become obsessed with making cupcakes and thankfully friends keep having birthdays so I have an excuse to make them (I make sure to taste test every batch before I give them out) Thanks Sarah and Kellee for getting older. Kellee actually gets younger every year it's a scientific anomaly.
I made these cupcakes for Tiffany at work a while back and they were a big hit at the office, especially with the shop guys I don't know why. I'll pass on the recipe, 1 strawberry cake mix, Strawberry frosting and one strawberry malt ball for the top of each. Easy Peasy. I knew Sarah would appreciate them as well because she loves pink (wink wink).

Ryan wants a goat

He's mentioned getting one before but I don't think I'm ready for a goat. Then we got a magazine thing in the mail from Heifer International about buying animals for children and communities in impoverished countries. A Goat is only 120.00 bucks. You can even buy chicks for 20 bucks. Know a single guy, buy him some chicks for Christmas.
On my way to blockbuster today there were two goats in the road, one was a little goat, um I played that game at a baby shower but I don't know what baby goats are called. Maybe it was a sign. So I guess we are getting a goat for Christmas, but this way I don't have to take care of it.

I was going to post a video that they have on the site about how they help HIV orphans in Africa but I can't bring myself to watch it right now because it will make me cry and Ryan is sitting right here, so I'll watch it later.

Help!

I can't clean. I've known this for a very long time, just ask my mom. My room growing up was never clean and Rainey had to threaten or bribe me to help her clean. Ryan even gets excited about cleaning products and I'd just as soon pass that isle without a glance. I've decided that cleaning is a skill and I just don't have it. So I thought, maybe there is a class somewhere out there that can teach me to clean. Does anybody know of anything? I'll even go to a homemaking meeting to learn. Help me out here, it's the only thing holding me back from being perfect in every possible way.

Rawhide Kid

Really?

The first outed comic book character. He's a classic from the 50's western comics. In 2003 he was outed. Hmm... isn't that about the same time Brokeback came out (no pun intended). Ryan thinks his rival should be The Soreass Bandit (disclaimer, I repeat that was not me) What's next a character from Harry Potter is going to come out, oh wait...

Let's Party

My cute Fiesta Ware collection. This was what I was thinking about with the question about 'my favorite dishes'. I love fiesta ware. I love all the colors but my collection consists mostly of orange, turquoise and white. Right now I'm lusting after the orange butter dish. I was lucky to get a lot of pieces for my wedding. My amazing friend Jacqui and her mother-in-law bought me way too much, thank you! My mom's friends and the lady I was named after got me some fun unique pieces too. This shelf just makes me happy!

I didn't actually get Tagged

But I'm counting this.
From Jen's blog
People I am tagging-anyone that might have actually read this entire long post.
I'm sure Jen meant to tag me so I'm taking it.

4 jobs I've had
Nifty Cool
Kid to Kid
Desert Point
Arby's (my proudest)

Movies I watch over and over
Rushmore (I've watched it countless times) also Bottle Rocket, Royal Tanenbaums I can't wait for Darjeeling Limited
Cinema Paradiso
Amelie
Waiting for Guffman
I'm sure there are more, when I like a movie I will watch it over and over. I especially like making people watch the movies I love to see there reaction

Places I have lived
Born in Camarillo, California lived till I was 18
Provo, UT
Salt lake, UT
Short time in Mesa, AZ
Now Pleasant Grove, UT

Favorite TV Shows
Gilmore Girls was my favorite show but sadly it's not on anymore so I've had to try and find some replacements
Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Flight of the Conchords are Ryan and my new favorites
Hero's and Grey's Anatomy I've DVD'd up on, and I get why everyone was obsessed.
Pushing Daisy's and Chuck are pretty entertaining too.
Right now I'm watching Yo Gabba Gabba and I have to say it's my new favorite kids show, so far the music is actually really good and they had Mark Mothersbaugh on who does the music for all the Wes Anderson films.

Places I have been on Holiday
Chicago and Hawaii with Kellee Kellee
'97 European vacation we went to Paris, Madrid, Seville, Tangier's, Barcelona, Prague, Amsterdam and Nante.
London, New York and Vegas when I work for a clothing designer
Alaskan Cruise with my sister Chris
I'd guess I've been to about half the states in the country and down to Mexico a couple times, even stopped in Canada on the cruise.

Favorite Dishes
I was going to say Fiesta Ware, but those are actual dishes and I think the question refers to food. So I will revise my answer.
Sour Cream Enchiladas
Fettuccine Alfredo
Red Rock Burger
The Pubs Quiche and pasta salad
and Cupcakes!

Websites I visit Daily
Sarah's, Mine, Hannah's, Jen's, Cindy's and random others

Places I would rather be right now
Can't think of any place I'd rather be than at home with my baby and my Husband. But I would love to travel to Europe some more.

People I am Tagging
Hannah is probably the only one who would do it, but anyone can feel free to be tagged like I did.

Blogging Buddies!

I met my second blogging buddy tonight! Jen is way cool, although I don't think she should count as just a Blogging friend since our husbands are friends from high school, but we've been commenting / communicating for the last few months and felt like we had become friends already (oh I hope she feels the same). She has a new born named Karl (his name is really Kody but me and ryan really wanted them to name him Karl) that I just had to see. He's so small I've already forgotten Ike was that small. It was really fun hanging out with them and getting a new 'real' friend. Hope I dream about you tonight, wink wink.

This was the first friend I met from the blogging world. Hannah felt sorry for me after I complained about not having any friends so we set up a play (pitty) date at the park and had a lot of fun. I'm glad it worked cause she is really cool and fun to talk to. She has two little girls who are really cute. She lives in PG too so hopefully we will be able to hang out more often (fingers crossed).

It's kind of funny going from meeting guys online to date to finding girlfriends online. Thankfully they remember their camera's I had to steal both pictures from there blogs. If I could figure out how to post a link I would but I'm not a master blogger yet.

Are you kidding me

This was last night. October 20th we got our first snowfall of the year. Nooo, I'm not ready.
So I woke up to this. Snow on the ground and a lot of it. It will probably be gone by this afternoon.

Does this mean fall is over? I hope not.

I remember my first year at the BYU it had snowed a lot before thanksgiving and I went home for thanksgiving thinking that I wouldn't see the ground in Utah again till spring. I didn't realize there were warm days and cold days. I'm still a little new to seasons, but I'm starting to like them. Fall and Spring that is.

Vegas (excuse to eat In-N-Out)

The real reason we went to Vegas was to eat at IN-N-OUT.

The reason we got to go to Vegas however was to see the BYU vs. UNLV football game. It was a pretty good game, I even got into it. BYU won 24 to 14. Of coarse the spread in Vegas was 11 points but UNLV made a 2 point conversion in the last minute of the game.

I decided cheer leading is pretty cool. Not so much the male cheerleaders. Look at the gut on the one closest to me, and I'm pretty sure the one in the middle was wearing makeup, but I could be wrong. They had a little tail gate party before the game with some not so great food and even worse entertainment.

On the bus over there we traveled with the rest of the 'auto group' that got to go on the trip. Ryan kept making commentary (making fun of) on the two brothers and/or twins riding in front of us with the Donald Trump hair doe's. They had pretty wives while they resembled one Montgomery Burns, although not quite that old, they were deemed the Burns twins the rest of the trip for us. I think they own some Saturn or Lexus dealership so they aren't sweating it.
All in all it was a fun trip, Ike was really easy to travel with and we had a good time even though we skipped Celine Deon sadly.

Power Rangers in TJ

My girls and me back in the day on a trip down to Tijuana we saw these cute little boys in power ranger masks so we had to buy them. I don't think I ever used it as a Halloween costume but I do remember donning them on occasion around Provo just for fun. Those were the days. I always miss my college days around this time of year.

Trying to figure out

How this movie got into my queue on blockbuster. I was just sent the movie Blood and Chocolate, here is the synopsis:

Iron Jawed Angels director Katja von Garnier and the producers of Underworld team to adapt author Annette Curtis Klause's tale of a teenage werewolf who is forced to choose between love and loyalty to the pack when she falls for a handsome young human. Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner) is a 19-year-old girl living in modern-day Bucharest. After spending her entire life running from the truth, Vivian is forced to come to terms with her lycanthropic origins when her growing affections for a visiting American artist threaten to reveal her family's dark secret. For centuries, Vivian's family has been involved with an ancient secret society. Now, in order to be with the one she loves, Vivian will be forced to betray an age-old vow that could bring about the downfall of her entire race.

Hmm. Was it the teenage werewolf who falls in love with a teen in Bucharest that caught my eye. I'm telling myself that I meant to select Blood and Diamonds. I'll let you all know how good it is, maybe it's a little sleeper hit.

it proly need work'n on

My biggest fear when I started my job with a construction company 3 1/2 years ago was that my grammar would be shot and that I would get the 'southern utah' accent. Well I think I maintained pretty good. I usually don't ignore the G in words that end in ING. But I've noticed the word that I've abused the most is Probably, it's become probly and when I'm saying it even proly, which is so bad. I'm really going to start working on that.
Also I fear my vocabulary has been hurt'n. It's hard when you use big words and everyone around you looks at you like 'what did you just call me'. Not that the people I work with aren't intelligent, but I was asked recently how to spell 'sat'.

I love Gas!

I'm talking about the kind you get at the dentist. It doesn't make up for the amount of pain I'm in at the moment, but man. So I hadn't gone to the dentist for a while which is why I'm pretty much in there every week now. I had never gotten gas before, the dentists recommendation was 'gas is nice', truer words never spoken. It kind of gives you that pleasure and pain thing. It made me much more lucid than I am now. I was taking my mind off what was going on by thinking of things to blog about it, I'm such a dork. I do however have to recommend listening to the Killers while getting 'work' done, the lyrics are surprisingly fitting to the situation, plus it's just a good album. Question now, am I going to be looking forward to or fearing my next appointment? Um, I don't think I'm ever going to like going to the dentist, it just takes the edge off. Thank you happy gas!

Grandpa's Girls

My Grandpa was the coolest guy ever. He had an old photo album with pictures of him and his family. I loved looking through it. On the back two pages there were these pictures. I said, 'Grandpa who are those girls, were they your girlfriends.' an embarrassed look came over his face and he closed the book and said 'oh no they were just some girls I knew'. What a stud. I'm sure he didn't know them but I think it's so cool he had these pictures. I miss my grandpa.

Celine Dion or Bust

So Ryan got called into the sales managers office last week and was offered a trip to Vegas with the BYU football team. Sweet huh. Well the trip included tickets to the Celine Dion concert. Do we have to. Ryan remembering that his managers wife actually likes Celine told the sales manager to offer the trip to him instead. Well it ends up he can't go so we are back in. I understand how guys feel about the ballet and opera, I honestly don't think I could sit through it. I've been asked the question before, 'who would be worth getting a dent in your Escalde for.' my answer was always Ms. Dion. Ryan was told we didn't actually have to go to the show if we didn't want to. Now if only we could get our hands on those tickets we could make a pretty penny and really have a fun weekend. I'm looking forward to the trip and the game, not so much the chest beating Canadian, oh sorry french Canadian, even worse.

Mi Hermana's

Happy Birthday Sharon and Chris!

This was from our sisters weekend in 2003. Sadly I think it was the last time we were all together. I'm the baby of the family and then my brother is the oldest but he didn't get to come to sister's weekend. I don't get to see them as much as I'd like but I love them all.

Boobs!

I don't know why I never appreciated my boobs more pre baby. Now they are the bain of my existence. From the first time feeding Ike they have hurt. I thought feeding a baby would be so sweet and tender, well for the most part that's not true. It pretty much hurts like hell. Then I've been dealing with breast infections which make you feel like you have the flu without the frequent trips to the bathroom. I hate to complain about something that is an essential part of motherhood, but I'm trying to function at work today and not being very successful.
Sorry no picture with this post!

Family Portrait Pre Ike

What a cute couple we are, and little Oskar was so small. I'm thinking it's about time for a new family portrait. Problem is I have a phobia of 'portrait studios', so Rainey if you read this come visit and take another pic of us so it's as cute as this one. She did our engagement picture and people still have it up on there fridge a year later.

It's October already

I can't believe it's October already. The leaves changing the weather changing. I broke out the decorations today. I've gotten a few more each year. Being single living in apartments or with family for the last 10 years I didn't acquire any decorations. I feel so domestic now.
This is from last Halloween. Ryan thought he looked better than me in the pic so I assume it's ok to post it. I don't know what we are going to dress up like this year, it always seems to be a last minute thing. So keep posted.