Our Trip to Missouri

So I'm finally taking the time to update our blog! Yeah!!! Not a whole lot has been going on with us... maybe that's why I haven't been writing, but not to long ago, Todd and I took a trip over to Missouri. We went there for 2 reasons really. #1. Because I have some family out there and I've always wanted to take Todd there to visit. And #2. Because Missouri State University has a really good Doctorate Program in Physical Therapy where 2 of my Uncles work... So Todd really wanted to check that out. Todd liked the school a lot and says he could really see himself going there, the only problem is, I don't know if I'm entirely sold on it. I would love to live closer to my other family out there, but its just the little things that I don't know if i could handle. I'll list a few examples. Like the weather there- a lot of rain and TORNADO SEASON!!! (Scary!!!) Also, the rolling hills out there made me so nauseated! -I don't know if I could handle that for 4 years. There are tons of bugs which i hate, and above all, I don't want to have to deal with allergies again!!! For the first time in my life I got allergies when Todd and I moved out to Ohio and lived there for 4 months! It was Awful! I don't know how people who have it all the time can handle it. I was so sick and so stressed out about it, and it took a long time for them to go away when i moved back to Utah. So yeah... Those are my thoughts on it. We are also considering other schools as well. We've looked into Idaho State, U of U, UNLV, Arizona, and Army Baylor in TX. But we still have a while until Todd applies so I guess we're stuck here for now. ;)






Anyways, now that I went off on a tangent about that, i'd like to talk a little bit about our trip. It really was a lot fo fun. Because of the weather we were confined to do some of the things we wanted to do, but on the best day we decided to go to Branson. We ate lunch at Cracker Barrel, did some shopping, went to the "believe it or not" Museum, and then went to a dinner and show at the Dolly Parton arena. We were going to go to the Titanic museum, but tickets were like 18$ a person!!! But I really liked how the museum looked, So instead i just stood outside it and got a picture taken. :)



The Believe it or not museum was really cool. We saw things like shrunken heads, worlds tallest man, worlds biggest ball of yarn, replica of cathedrals made out of toothpicks and teeth, a Chinese guy with a horn on the back of his head, Brain teasers and more!!! Lol! We really enjoyed ourselves. We were hoping to make it over to the celebrity wax museum, but we ran out of time. :(







They also had this wall full of different colors of butterfly's at the museum. It was sooooo pretty, but sad to think that they were all dead. :( I hope they weren't killed just to be put in this! I would very much be against that.

Here's a wax model of the tallest man in the world. He was almost 9 ft! and only lived to be 22 years old. It was fun to put Todd and Chan next to him because Todd towers over our family while chantel is the smallest standing at 4 ft. 7in. (Go Chan!)



Then last but not least, we went to the Dolly Parton Show where they fed us dinner and we got to be involved in a Rodeo competition. Todd will never admit it, but he loved it! After words we got to see some of the horses. Look how big this one was!!! Crazy huh.

After that we mostly just relaxed and hung out with the family. We stayed at my Aunt Karla and Uncle Scott's house which was sooooo gorgeous!!! That's where we had a little bonn fire and I took tons of pictures of my little nephew Ashton. I have a couple video's i'd like to put on here... as soon as i figure out how to do it... Anyways, it was a lot of fun even though it was very easy going. But i'm like my mother in that way. A vacation should be stress free and relaxing, but to my dad, you don't go on a vacation unless your entire day is planned out of things to do. Lol. I think i got a pretty good balance between the two. :)

Here are just a few pics I put together of my nephew Ashton.

He is soooo cute!!!

His bib said "Kiss Me, I'm Irish!" Oh yeah, what a cool kid!

Him on the John Deer

He pulls such cute faces!!! I love this little guy!

So yeah, that was our little trip. We had a lot of fun and we will miss everyone there! :)

SEE YA!!!

Excuses Excuses!

I know, I know. I haven't posted anything in a long time, but I've been super busy! But now that my hours at work have been cut in half (which isn't the best thing, but sure leaves a lot of time to do nothing!) I'll be posting things again real soon! So stay in tune. ;)

Midnight Showing...

Last night, Todd and I went with my little brothers to the midnight showing of "17 Again." Call me a nerd, but I LOVED it!!!!

Happy Birthday Dexter!!!

Yesterday we celebrated Dexter's 1st birthday! I know, I know, who celebrates their dogs birthday??? Well, I DO!!! Lol. It was actually my first time ever doing something like this for one of my animals, but it was kind of fun!! I made a little Dogie Cake out of hot dogs, scrambled eggs, and dog food- topped with a treat! I was pretty proud of it. Then I just made dexter's birthday hat out of paper and string, and wrapped his little present in tissue paper. Lol. I know, i went all out. I even got most of my family to come out and sing happy birthday to him!!! We all had a pretty big laugh singing Happy Birthday to a dog, but Dexter could tell something big was going on. He was soooo excited!! And when I put him on the floor to eat his "cake," He devoured it!!! Then we gave him his present and he wasn't all sure about it, but warmed up to it later that night. So yeah! Pretty fun and interesting day for us. I know, I'm a nerd. :) But oh well. Here are just a few pictures of that night.

The Master Piece

(I think Ro would be proud of my dogi art food!) ;)

Getting ready to sing to him!

Yumm Yumm! I make good Cake!

Not sure about his new toy...

Awe, what a cute little family!!! Dexter is such a good puppy and we had a great time celebrating his birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEX! (Now its time to get your 1 year shots!) :S

WE LIVE!!!

Okay, so I know its been an eternity since I last posted, but I'm sure no one has really cared but me. Lol. But if you do care, then FINALLY, here's an update. Ready? Here we go. First thing first. Valentines Day. It was a great day and Todd and I had a lot of fun. First we opened gifts from one another. I got him a candy letter poster with a little crafty card I made, while he got me beautiful flowers and Dark chocolate! Man, he knows me well!!! Then we went to Macaroni Grill where i got to eat tons of their bread that i love so much! IT WAS SOOOO GOOD! Then we ended the night by going to the movie "He's just not that into you." We thought it was pretty good, except for the affair part kind of ruined it, but with out it, it was pretty good. Anyways, so that was that. And now here are some pictures:

Oh yeah, and we killed some time before the movie taking some funny pictures. :)

Next thing that went down was the Celin Dion Concert we got to go to! Okay, for those of you who know me well, can only imagine how excited I was to go to this. I know this is kind of geeky to admit but I've LOVED Celin Dion FOREVER! Seriously, i sang to her songs when I was little and had a Karaoke Machine! (Oh yeah!) Anywho... the concert was phenomenal. When she came up from the stage to sing for the first time, my eyes filled up with tears! That's how pathetic i am! Ha ha. But I loved it. Todd was surprised by the amount of songs he knew, and didn't realize she sang them. I bet he enjoyed it more than he says he did. ;) She was a little different than i thought personality wise... but her voice was amazing!!! She is definitely better live! I thought maybe cause she was getting older and how recording studios can help your voice sound better that it wouldn't be quite as good. But boy was i wrong! If anything, she has only gotten better with age!!! The only sad thing about that evening was that my sisters weren't there to enjoy it with me. But here are a few pics from that night:



These last couple of pictures are just random ones of Dexter. I just think he is the cutest dog on the entire planet. I love it when he gets all tired and snuggles up to me. And the last one of him hiding under the bed just kills me! Lol.

So yeah... that's basically all the really big updates. Now every ones life can go on in peace. ;)
See ya!

Happy Birthday to Todd!!!

Finally, I'm getting to my posts! Last weekend was Todd's birthday and I decided to throw him a surprise one! I did it the night before his birthday so I could catch him off guard. And it worked!! He was so surprised and it ended up being a great turn out. Thanks to our friends Paige and Donivan, they kept him away while all his friends gathered. Then we all waited in the kitchen and jumped out when he walked in. It was pretty funny. Then we just swam, hung out, played some games, and watched a movie. It was a lot of fun and I was so happy that a lot of his close friends got to come (Thanks to all who traveled far). So here are just some pictures of that night. I hope everyone had fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE! :)

Ice Skating

Not to long ago, Todd and I went ice skating. Here are some pictures of our attempt to do so, Lol. (Well, at least me).

What a fun and crazy night!