Thanksgiving and Shopping

This was a busy and slightly stressful week! The biggest day of all being Thanksgiving of course. We picked up Tirza at 10:30 and then had Thanksgiving lunch at Mimi's Cafe with Tyson's parents and grandparents and it was so good! We had a good time talking and catching up. We went to Tyson's parents house and played Sequence and Bloody Smash with his mom and grandma and Tirza. We took Tirza home at 4 and then went to my family's house. We looked at Black Friday ads and talked to whoever happened to not be cooking. Dinner was delicious! Two Thanksgiving dinners in one day! We talked to my family for a bit but they were dropping like flies since they were all sleep deprived. We let them crash and went home to relax.

One of the best things about this week was the shopping! We got a new bed frame and night stands in September and we just ordered the two dressers that go with it! We get them on December 10th and I can't wait. Our room will finally match! We got the Blind Side, Zombieland, and the Dark Knight on Blu Ray and we got The Sword in the Stone, Batman Begins, The Grinch, The Iron Giant and a Barbie movie for Tirza. My favorite thing was the Big Bang Theory seasons 1-3 for $12.99 each! The best part was that I ordered it on Target.com and didn't have to fight the crowds! We got some couch pillows and another DVD case since ours is now overflowing. Now we're going to stay at home and watch all those DVDs since we are now too poor to do anything.

So we watched another Jean-Claude Van Damme movie this week called Universal Soldier. It was cool and was actually based in Clinton which is where Tirza lives 5 minutes away! We watched a few episodes of Bones and only have 2 episodes left in Season 5. Then we'll have to wait until season 6 comes out or watch them on Hulu. We finished Into the Wild and I was very disappointed. It had a slow plot and I didn't like the ending. We watched the first episode of Firefly and that was a pretty good series but it only had 14 episodes so we'll probably finish it pretty quick.

Tyson has a new favorite game. It is called Last Night on Earth and it is about the zombie apocalypse. You have the heroes and the zombies and there are different versions that you can play with different goals. At the start of each game you choose the corner pieces of the board that have different buildings so the game board is different every time. It is a very fun game and all of our friends are totally addicted to it. I can see us playing this game every weekend for a long time! Tyson has had it for a week and we've played it four times! It is a fun strategy game and it can keep everyone's attention. The best place to get it for anyone who is interested is boardgameguy.com and it is $35. You can select local pickup and you won't have to pay for shipping. It is addicting and fun!!

The night of the blizzard I was supposed to meet Nicole to cook snacks for the team meeting and then drive to Draper for it at 7. You can bet that didn't happen! The team meeting was cancelled and it was decided that travelling anywhere was not a good idea. Tyson left work before it hit and stopped by the store to get some D batteries and flashlights since ours were not in great shape. I got the camping lantern out of storage just in case the power went out. Tyson got some extra water and some emergency supplies we needed anyway. He was sitting in the Del Taco drive through when it hit. The wind was crazy! We had our balcony covered with snow and it was all the way up to our front door on the covered stairwell! It died down pretty early instead of lasting all night like everyone thought and we kept the blinds open so we could watch it. We had a friend over and hung out and watched a movie and then later had pie with our next door neighbors. It was nice not having to leave the apartment! I would never have gone anywhere in that. I was glad to have a relaxed night at home!

Not much else happened this week besides Thanksgiving and mass amounts of shopping. Hopefully next week we can report that we watched The Blind Side blu ray that we just bought since we haven't seen it yet! I hope its good :)

Christmas Pictures!

Last Week

I am annoyed that I'm posting late but this weekend was very busy and I felt yucky most of it. Lame!

The best thing that happened this week was pictures! It was so stressful and I don't think I EVER want to do pictures again but I am very glad to have it done. We got Tirza's dress on Saturday and it was the one I liked the most. We totally forgot to get her shoes so we got those Sunday right before we got ready along with some leggings. We got her boots and they are so cute :) We also got Tyson a really good looking sweater! He doesn't wear sweaters very much but I think I'm going to convince him to buy some more! I was really stressed right before pictures because it was snowing, I had to get me and Tirza ready and I'm still not used to having bangs so I had no idea how to get them to do what I want. Luckily Tyson is the nicest guy ever and hugged me while I cried my eyes out and then helped me get ready. We made it and took pictures outside in the snow. It was freezing but Tirza was SO good about it and so we got her ice cream after. Not what I would want but hey, she was happy. We got some really good shots and I am so excited to see them! We'll get them in about a week. We were all exhausted afterward and had just enough time to eat and change before we took Tirza home. Phew! I am so glad pictures are over with. Next time we won't wait so long and we'll take it before it snows so we don't freeze to death.

So this last week Tyson and I watched The Quest with Jean-Claude Van Damme. It was pretty awesomely bad. Tyson has a goal to get me to watch all the Arnold and Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. Yeah. All of them. We watched a few episodes of Bones and 10 painful minutes of Star Trek. I went and saw Harry Potter on Saturday with Tyson, my mom and Jeanne. It was good! I really liked it and can't wait for the next one!

I got to get glammed up this week. I got my haircut on Thursday and have bangs again for the first time in 5 years. I went to a Girls Night Out hosted by my cousin Amber and had my make up done. The make up artist drew eye brows on me and I think I looked like a cartoon character but everyone else had good things to say! I'll post pictures someday. I got a lip gloss, a new Scentsy scent, Big Sexy Hair samples, Mary Kay samples and Scentsy samples! It was awesome! I also won the grand prize in the drawing which was some super good conditioner. I am finally ready for pictures on Sunday. I've gotten my hair cut and dyed and finally have clothes!

We did lots of shopping this week. We got Christmas presents for Tirza, clothes for all of us for pictures and some much needed grocery shopping. I also hung out with Nicole at the mall which was really fun and got some pretty jewelry from American Eagle.

I got my second Bountiful Basket! It was awesome! I got 8 bananas, lettuce, celery, 15 clementines, a honeydew melon, 11 radishes, 6 pears, 8 apples, 7 red potatoes, 7 oranges, 6 tomatoes, 3 green peppers and 3 red onions. The best part? It was only $15! It is really fresh and the clementines are amazing!

My family came down last Sunday and that was pretty cool. I always love it when they come visit me! We had stir fry which is one of my favorite foods and Marissa made chocolate cake. It was so soft and yummy! We watched a ton of YouTube videos and watched Brandon and Wesley played Lego Batman. That game is so cool and its one that is enjoyable to watch.

Next week my post will actually be put on Sunday providing I don't feel as awful as I did this last Sunday!

Hello again! It has been a good week with some days just hanging out on the couch and others hanging out with friends. The most exciting news is that I can finally walk down the stairs! This may not sound interesting to most of you but since I had knee surgery on September 1st I have been walking down stairs one at a time. Since I live on the third floor it takes a long time to get anywhere! Thankfully I am almost back to 100% if only my knee would stop popping!

Tyson and I have a new camera. We did not mean to get a new camera and we did not plan on getting one for a while but now we have one. Tyson and his brother Brandon bought their mom a camera for her birthday in September. When we arrived to her house for the birthday party she was playing with her new camera- from her husband Troy. Oops! She was going to take the camera back and forgot about it until it was too late and Wal-Mart wouldn't let us return it. So now we have a new camera! Hopefully we will take more pictures. Tyson and I have hardly any pictures of us!

I got spammed this week. It was very sad. My sister got spammed and then I did and it sent emails to everyone in my contacts. I knew I should have cleaned those out! It sent spam to old professors, classmates and friends that I hadn't talked to in years. Then I had to email them and tell them to delete it and change their password. I was very embarrassed! When I finally cleaned out my contacts I went from 45 to 17! Hopefully it will not happen again!

We went to Brandie's every day this week except for Thursday and Saturday. We had a lot of fun! We were there Sunday for Kayden's birthday and on Wednesday when we had Tirza. We went and played games on Friday and Tyson got second place in Liar's Dice! I was the second person to lose out of almost 10 people :)

We were very lucky and got to see a lot of family this week. My brother in law Logan is visiting from Ohio and I got to see him on Thursday and we talked about the class that he is here for that teaches him how to do implants. We talked a lot about dentistry and I find it so interesting! I've heard a lot of dentistry terms but since I've never needed anything but fillings I didn't know much about common procedures. Tyson and I went down on Saturday night and it was so much fun! We had dinner as a family and just talked for a few hours. I loved it! Logan is leaving Sunday and we are all sad to see him go! We got to have lunch on Saturday with Tyson's mom and brother Brandon. It was fun to see them and Tyson got to play video games with Brandon til the wee hours of the morning on Friday and Saturday night.

Sadly Tyson and I do not have much to report in the movie section. The only thing we have watched together this week are 2 episodes of Bones. We have been too busy to watch anything else! We love Bones and if we had had any time at all we would already be done with the 4 episode disc. Hopefully we can watch some this week!

The preparation still continues for pictures next week and I am getting closer! I got my hair dyed which I was pretty excited about. My hair was 2 different colors because my roots were 5 inches long. Its been a long time since I colored my hair! Marissa was kind enough to do it for me and it turned out awesome! Its a warm brown so it brings out all the red in my hair. I also bought new nail polish. I have not gotten nail polish in 5 years and all the stuff I have isn't good anymore. I love new girly stuff! I got a light pink, a medium purple with pink shimmer, lime green and magenta. I am so happy about it :) Next week we will go shopping for clothes and hopefully find something for me and Tyson. I found some super cute dresses at Kohl's for Tirza. I hope we find something that works!

I hope everyone has a great week!

So I have finally started a blog. Its nothing fancy especially since I don't know how to work it but hopefully it'll make it easier for everyone to keep track of what I'm doing since I don't get to see everyone as often as I want.

Tyson and I love movies. There are SO many movies that I haven't seen so every week we watch a few new ones thanks to Netflix. Last week we watched Layer Cake which according to Tyson's friend was the 'best gangster movie ever'. I don't think we agreed with him. It was an okay movie and had a decent plot but at the end it felt like not much happened and there wasn't any particular part that was exciting like you would expect from a gangster movie. We also got Bones Season 5 Disc 3 and we watched all 4 episodes in one night! It was so much fun. Tyson and I love that series and it is probably our favorite TV show besides Pushing Daisies. The most exciting thing for me this week was that we bought Toy Story 3! I love Disney movies and we watched it on Wednesday with our awesome next door neighbors. On Sunday we watched the new Alice in Wonderland which was entertaining and an interesting take on the classic but I don't think Tyson or I would ever watch it again.

Tirza has told us that she doesn't have many friends and I've become good friends with a lady at work named Nicole who just happens to have 2 daughters around Tirza's age. On Saturday we invited them over and had ramen for lunch and everyone watched Toy Story 3 because most of Nicole's kids haven't seen it. They loved it and I of course didn't mind watching it again! The kids played and everyone had a lot of fun! Nicole and I got to chat and I loved playing with her 7 month old daughter Savannah. We've been trying to plan a movie night forever and I was so glad that it finally happened and turned out so well!

This weekend we spent a lot of time with Brandie and Josh Page and their kids since it is our weekend with Tirza. Tirza and their daughter McKenzie love to play and have sleepovers and do girl stuff together so we spend a lot of time with them on weekends we have Tirza. This weekend was special because we were celebrating Kayden's birthday! He is turning 5 next weekend but Josh works so they celebrated it Sunday. He got a lot of Transformers which are his favorite thing and the kids got sugar which is their favorite thing! We saw Megamind and it was really good! The kids loved it and got to overload on more sugar so they were happy :)

In other news we got Tirza some bows and a tutu (which are apparently all the rage) for Christmas and I can't wait to give them to her! We had the bows custom made by one of Brandie's friends and they turned out amazing! They are so detailed and one of them even has a little bottle cap charm that has a T on it. We got the original Tinker Bell movie when we joined the Disney movie club and will probably add Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue to her secret stash of presents soon.

Tyson is adapting well to his company being bought and the new managers are already noticing him. His manager Fred told him that in one of the manager meetings his name was brought up without Fred prompting it! Tyson is a very dedicated employee and puts 110% into his job so I am not surprised! The center that Tyson is at does things differently than the company that bought them so they are trying to decide if they will change it to their way of doing things or leave it the way it is. Either way, Tyson is ready for it!

We have been shopping lately for clothes for our pictures that we are getting done for Christmas cards. We are doing a red and black theme and I have found some really cute dresses for Tirza and have yet to find a red sweater for me. Pictures are the 21st so hopefully we find something by then! I am going to try to post every Sunday so you'll hear from me next week!