Sunday, January 23, 2011

This has been a very fun week! The most exciting thing that happened is we found out we were all going to Mexico! My mom is taking everyone in June to Nuevo Vallarta and I am so excited! I'm going to be in Mexico on the beach on my birthday! We will be down there for a whole week and its going to be our whole family minus Rachel's kids. We will miss them for sure. It will be all the siblings and their significant others so Tyson and I finally get to take a vacation together! I cannot wait!! Now all I have to do is get my passport.

Since Tyson wasn't feeling good on Sunday and couldn't make it to Sandy to visit my family we went on Monday. I took the train and he picked me up near his work and we drove down together. We hung out and chatted and had pizza. It was so nice to not have to do anything while we were down there and we could just relax and catch up. It was awesome to not have to drive two cars home too!

So we are boring and have not watched very much this week. We finished season 2 of Big Bang Theory and are a little bit into the third season. We got a netflix movie a few weeks ago and haven't watched it yet!

On Wednesday we picked up Tirza and after we had dinner we played some video games. We played Bomberman and Castle Crashers. It was a lot of fun and very relaxing. On Thursday we went to Hannah and Taylor's who live next door. They have the cutest daughter named Madelyn and we played games while she walked around and ate pretzels. We played Nintendo Monopoly and Tyson totally kicked our trash! After we cleaned it up we talked for a while and had a good time. They are such awesome people! I'm so glad they live next door to us!

On Saturday I went to my cousin Melissa's wedding (we are born 18 days apart- I'm older :)) I hung out with my family, saw some family I haven't seen in a while and took some cool pictures in an old fashioned photo booth. I will post them later since I don't have them and can't scan them! Marissa and Wesley got in my car and we drove to Layton. They stayed the night and we had so much fun! When we got home I made some salsa and we snacked on it while we played Munchkins. Marissa and Wesley brought it and we'd never played it before. It was very interesting! The cards were really funny and I want to buy it! After we played that we introduced them to Last Night on Earth. So far Rachel and Logan are the only ones who have played it out of my family. We picked a scenario that we thought would be easy for beginners and we've never played it before because its one of the new ones from the expansions. Apparently it was really hard and we ended up beating Marissa and Wesley because they ran out of time. Hopefully the next one will be easier! We told them it would only take an hour or so but it took a half hour just to explain the rules. The game ended up taking 3 hours! We were playing until 2 in the morning and it was the longest game we've ever played! We talked for a bit after that and crashed around 3:30. We got up and made a really tasty breakfast. Marissa and Wesley made French toast and Tyson made his yummy fluffy scrambled eggs. We lit the candles in the table decoration and had a candle lit breakfast :) We relaxed most of the day and played another game of Munchkins, some Rock Band and Bomberman. My mom and Brandon came up around 5:30 and the guys played Castle Crashers and the girls talked at the table. It was nice to just sit and chat with my mom and Marissa. We were going to make spaghetti and salad but we were so tired and no one felt like cooking so we ordered pizza! It was really nice to not have to worry about cooking and cleaning. We ate while we played Last Night on Earth and showed Brandon and my mom how to play. We did a scenario that we knew was easy and soon they killed 15 of our zombies and won. They all really liked it which made me and Tyson happy. I had a really good weekend and loved hanging out with my family!

I hope everyone has a great week!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Hiding in the princess castle :)
A Sharpie so that you can see how teeny they are!
The setup
Hanging by the filter!
The water level isn't all the way to the top because the frogs breathe air every once in a while. They live mostly underwater and can't be handled because they dry out too fast!
Tirza at Chuck E. Cheese

New Pets and New Phones!

Some pretty exciting things happened this week! Tirza got a new pet :) On Saturday we went to lunch with Tyson's mom and then headed to PetsMart without telling Tirza where we were going. Lisa bought Tirza frogs! She got a light one that she named Sticky and a dark one named Explorer. Tirza was so excited! We got a little aquarium and some cute stuff to put in it. We all worked together to get the tank ready and Tirza put one of the frogs in it. She did a better job than I did! The rest of the weekend she would randomly wander over to their tank and watch them and then go back to whatever she was doing. We are all very excited to have them!

Another exciting thing this week is that Tyson and I got new phones! I switched to T-Mobile and we got a killer deal on our phones. It was buy one get one free, plus they gave Tyson cheaper pricing on our plan since he's been with them for so long. We also got a referral credit since I moved from Verizon and I get 10% off through my work! So instead of paying $80 for my plan and going over every month we are now paying less than $130 for unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and a data plan on our phones. I never have to worry about going over my minutes again! I am so happy about that! Tyson and I have been with different carriers for 2 years and its been very frustrating. Now we both have the MyTouch 4g which is the coolest phone ever, and we never have to worry about going over minutes! I am very very happy about this. Tyson did a ton of research before we bought our phones and the MyTouch 4g is pretty much the best phone out there. It outperformed the iPhone and has a ton of cool features. We can do video chats, project pictures and videos onto TV screens, and you can customize everything! It is a way cool phone. I loved my Dare but after using this phone for 10 minutes I knew I could never go back. There is a ton of cool stuff for it and since Tyson is techno savvy he can show me everything and fix the phone when I screw it up!

Tirza is in Girl Scouts and has started selling girl scout cookies. She has set a lofty goal of 500 boxes and after just this weekend of talking to family and friends we have sold almost 100! I really hope that we can help her reach her goal. It helps that the girl scout cookies are so good!

I mentioned in my last post that I had gotten Troy's amazing salsa recipe. I have been working on perfecting it and then getting rid of the evidence so that I can try it again! Since I made the first batch 3 weeks ago I have probably made 5 batches since then! I have been sharing it with family, friends and neighbors and getting everyone's opinion to make sure it is as good as I think it is :) I have been wanting to make this salsa for a long time and am very glad that I get to make it and share it!

Tyson and I have not watched very much this last week. We have watched at least half a dozen episodes of season 2 of Big Bang Theory but besides that we only watched Karate Kid with Tirza, which we've both seen. We've had a Netflix movie for about 3 weeks so this week we will try to watch that so that we can get another one!

We took Tirza to Chuck E. Cheese on Sunday and she had a lot of fun. We went with Brandie and her kids since Page is out of town. The kids had a blast! I am proud to say that I won 25 tickets for Tirza. She got almost 200 tickets by the end and got a necklace, a T-Rex coin and 2 packets of Pop Rocks which are probably one of her favorite candies. She loves all candy and will devour it as long as it has massive amounts of sugar so it is hard to tell which is her favorite! I was glad she had fun because Chuck E. Cheese is definitely not my version of fun. Its too noisy, crowded and was woefully understaffed for how busy it was. At least she had a good time! She loved playing the games and Tyson and I cheered her on.

On Sunday I braved the pouring rain and drove to Sandy to see my family. I hadn't been down there on a Sunday in a long time and was determined to make it! I brought some fresh salsa and we hung out and talked. It was so nice! I really enjoy just hanging out and chatting with my family. I like to know what is going on with them. I couldn't stay as long as I wanted and had to head home to make sure Tyson was okay. He wasn't feeling good and couldn't make the drive. Luckily he rested and was feeling better when I got home!

I hope everyone has a great week!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Get ready for pictures!

The best way to start a blog- with a smile!


yay us!

Train! Some poor person got roped into taking this picture!


Pretend like we're not freezing!



Tirza helping with salsa
Eating some of the cotton candy I got from Classic Skating :)
Fairy tea party time!

Evelyn catching some air

Whee!
Ooh what's that?
Whoosh!



Evelyn approaching warp speed

Marissa and Jackson
Marissa and Wesley. It is still weird to say he's her husband!
Brandon and Adalie
Brandon's shadowbox
Rachel's shadowbox
Marissa's shadowbox
My shadowbox. My mom found the black and white picture in his wallet. I have the other 3.
Us in all our aproned glory!
Adalie and Jackson
Evelyn in her glass slippers
New blankie!
Hugs from Grandma!
The twins investigating.
Nap time
Gangster Eva eating candy while no one is looking!
She saw me on the couch and she came and snuggled under the blanket!
The best kind of chaos :)
Marissa, Wesley and my mom made all of them! Evelyn didn't want to take Tirza's off!
Me and Tirz in our matching aprons!

Oh yeah. She knows what that's for!
My awesome runner!