Thanksgiving

Things I am thankful for:

(in no particular order)

Chapstick
if anyone knows me, they know I cannot exist without some sort of lip treatment. I usually have 3 on me and if I don't, the first thing I do is go to the store. I NEED it.

The relationship i have with my parents
I was lucky and was born with the personality of being a daddy's girl AND a momma's girl. To this day, they are the best friends I could ever ask for. I tell them almost everything.


My sisters

My sisters are me. They are a part of who I am, my best and eternal friends. When one of us hurts, we all hurt just like when one is happy, we are all happy. Love you chicas.

Good friends
good times and memories are made with these people. I'm lucky to have good, fun, adventurous friends.

The Piano
Nothing affects me like music. When I was a teenager and when I had a piano easily accessible, I would play for hours...

Laura
Laura is my best friend. She is one that I always can count on. I honestly can't say how much I love this girl and how glad we are still so close even when we have opposite lives!
The Gospel
this sounds cliché, but the gospel really holds the answer to everything. I love it!!! And am so grateful for my testimony!

Cute shoes
Need I say any explanation for this? I mean, c'mom, a cute new pair of shoes does miracles.
I'm thankful for my love of animals
I've always had an extreme love for animals. I somehow connect with them, sometimes better than I do with humans!


Tylenol PM
this is just good stuff. And its NON-addictive. So no lectures please. :)

This week...

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CHICAGO!

Hmmmm....Beware.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=4699330

Halloween.

Here are some pics from Halloween and the parties I went to. I didn't go to bed til 4am. I am getting too old to stay up that late! It was fun though!

I was gothic? a punk? I really don't know.
My cute friend Ash was a witch.
I had fake nose rings and magnetic lip rings.
The lip rings hurt like crazy - I thought they were going to bore a hole with the magnetic energy that I was experiencing!!

Ree was a Kitty. Amigos
The 3 Amigas.
( Ree, Erica, and Moi)This is my friend Kyle.
He was definately the creepiestThese guys marched in thinking they were so clever dressing up as Michael Phelps. They were flexing like this for over an hour. I wanted to gag. Gross. Like anyone wants to see that. Then I pointed out, in front of everyone, to the kid on the right of the photo, that his sock was sticking out the top of his swimsuit. I don't think he likes me anymore. :)

Sidenote - NO I did not take a picture of them. I snagged this one from my friend.

New Goal for '09

This. I'm doing it. Yay!

The last race I ran - I lost 3 toenails... but have since learned that you should buy your shoes at LEAST 1/2 size larger than normal. Some runners even get up to 2 sizes larger. Knowing me, and my lack of coordination, I think I'll just stick to the 1/2 larger (which have been excellente) - I trip easily.

My lack of coordination is present in manyactivities. Once at work, I was standing perfectly still straight up, not moving while talking to my boss when suddenly I just collapsed. Fell. ALL the way to the ground. He just stood above me with abewildered look on his face, not knowing what to do. The fall could have been caused by the 4.5 inch heels I was wearing. Embarrassing, but nevertheless, funny.

Boo.

What should I be for Halloween?? I have a few ideas up my sleeve but still not sure. Here are a few of the ideas:

* Get 2 other girl friends and 1 guys friend and dress up as polygamists

* Wonderwoman - one that wears g's of course....

* Hannah Montana (just because I think it'd be funny as an adult)

*Ugly Betty

*80's aerobics instructor

*what else???

To get some ideas I've been to the many costume stores that pop up around this time of year and realized once again that Halloween time is an excuse for girls to dress slutty!! Sheesh!!

Leave me some ideas of good costume ideas. Non-slutty ones porfa.

OH ya - Michelle is in the hospital getting ready to have her baby....YAY!

Oh my....

Man Accuses Maryland Doctor of Stapling Buttocks Shut
Friday, September 26, 2008
Foxnews.com

Arguments began Monday in a federal lawsuit alleging that a Maryland doctor stapled a man's rectum shut during an operation, rendering him unable to move his bowels for 17 days, the Baltimore Examiner reported.
Ronald Watkins, 64, of West Virginia, has accused Dr. Manuel Casiano, a doctor in Frederick County, Maryland for botching a September 2004 surgery that left him with permanent bowel problems, according to the report.
But an attorney representing Casiano told jurors the doctor did not staple Watkins' buttocks shut.
Attorney Conrad Varner said Watkins’ bowels became “swollen shut” because of medical problems — not because of stapling and that his two-pack-a-day smoking habit added to his bowel problems, the Examiner reported.
Watkins' attorney, Julia Lodowski argued that the medical error was in fact caused by Casiano and has led Watkins to experience continual “rectal discharge," which requires him to wipe himself between 12 and 15 times a day.
Lodowski said Watkins also needed four “unnecessary surgeries” because of the alleged mistake.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427943,00.html

Natural Woman

Last week I went down to Tooele to go shoot some guns with some friends. I asked my dad if I could borrow one of his shotguns and he agreed. I am pretty sure he was happily pleased that his daughter was going to play with guns.

Here are some pics. It got dark by the time we got out there, so we basically just shot into obscurity. (It was safe though)

This one makes me laugh - Chris looks a little frightened by Anne-Marie's shooting skills.

I'm picky.

Hi peeps.

Will you do me a favor and if you have my blog link on your blog - don't put my last name with my first? I don't want my full name out and about.

Thanks :)

I'm basically a bird.

This morning, I jumped out of a perfectly good plane.

Dove through the sky with my eyes wide open and arms outstreched.

I was flying. Like a bird. And I loved it.

I can now check that off my list!

I'll post a video of my freefall and crash-landing as soon as I get it in the mail.

Let me just say...

I am 27.

I am single and love it!

I will only give up being single for the RIGHT person.

I love to be independant.

I love to have no one to answer to.

I love that I am happy.

Help me understand.....

Can someone explain HOW this article of clothing is supposed to be comfortable??? My old roommate thought they were the best creation ever. I, on the otherhand, just don't get it.

Por Fin (Finally)

The Subway at Zion's National Park

Ok - So almost a month ago my awesome best friend Laura and her husband invited me to go with them and the scouts on an awesome hike in Zions.

Its called The Subway and is one of the most treachorous in Zions. And one of the most beautiful. Most of the hike is walking through water. There were parts we had to repel down rocks:

and another time....

parts that we had to swim because we couldn't touch the bottom, and parts we were up to our chests in dark water.

There was one part I was ready to panic - we had to repel down into a narrow slot canyon and we repelled into water that we couldn't touch the bottom. We had to swim through this narrow slot canyon and I was sure I was going to drown because my back pack was too wide to go through the walls. But obviously I survived. It was awesome. 2 kids sprained their ankle, a bunch got blisters - one on their thighs, and I hurt my hand pretty badly. But I loved it. It took 10 hours for us to get through. It was probably one of the coolest things I've ever done.

Towards the end we came upon this waterfall type thing that had really smooth rock, so my friend Laura decided to just slide down it like a waterslide....after some coaxing I did it as well, but it freaking killed my finger.

Before....scared to come down.

During - Laura got an action shot. I love it! haha- look at my braids. Hilarious.

More pics:

People - you should hike this hike. It was awesome. Here is a cool website about it.

http://www.citrusmilo.com/zionguide/subway.cfm