The Most Ghetto Car I've Ever Seen

I (Jared) saw the most ghetto car I’ve ever seen the other night.

I was enjoying Christmas dinner when I was told I needed to move my car. They said I was blocking the driveway. But I knew that wasn’t possible, since VoNique and I were some of the first guests to arrive.

In fact, the car that needed to “get by me” was parked behind me.

So, I moved my car anyway. Turns out…the car behind me was broken and didn’t drive in reverse. Ghetto, huh?

Got your own ghetto car experiences? We'd love to hear 'em.

Our Birthdays...Why isn't it spelled 'birthdaies"?

12/18/07 Jared's real birthday is Dec 21st and mine's Dec 27th. Both suck because even if we're actually in town, none of our friends are! So we celebrated early! We rented out a tumbling gym. It was a lot of fun! They had a huge foam pit that you could rope-swing into, or jump from a trampoline. And they had this huge gerbil-ball-like-thing. You climb into it and people roll you around. It was outstanding! Then we went back to our place for some cakes and ice cream. Good times.




12/21/07 On Jared's real birthday we had our friends Tyler and Carly come over, and we used our new "Top Secret Recipes" cookbook to make P.F Chang's lettuce wraps. They were so incredibly good! (The wraps, not Tyler and Carly. Although they were well behaved.) Then we watched The Bourne Ultimatum. I love that series.

12/27/07 On my real birthday I took the day off work. I slept in, went to the gym, and then went and got my hair trimmed! They just took off an inch or so and added a few layers and some short stuff around my face. I like it! I'll add pictures later. Then we went with the McGrews to Tucano's for dinner. It was fun. I love that place. They have an all you can eat salad bar, and they bring all different kinds of meat around to your table. I love meat...and Jared.

Christmas Time 2007

12/05/07 BYU Christmas Party: We went up to a huge mansion up the Springville Canyon that BYU owns for Jared's work Christmas party. They house is really cool. There's a tree house in the middle of it. Up in the tree house is a game area with a couple pool tables etc. There's also an indoor gym! They had several food stations set up, complete with a chocolate fountain! (Nicole--you'd be disappointed. It apparently wasn't completely level, and the chocolate was running a little crooked.) I ate so much food! They had a variety of center pieces that we could chose from to order. It was fun.

12/14/07 We went to Rocky Mountain Composites' Christmas party. They also had really yummy food. (Prime rib...mmm.) They hired a hypnotist for the entertainment. Whether they were all hypnotized or not doesn't really matter...seeing the quiet guy from Quality stand on his chair and yell like Tarzan is funny stuff.



12/16/07 So I played my flute in church during our ward's Christmas presentation. I haven't been in band for almost 9 years! Now I remember why I don't usually volunteer for that kinda thing; boy do I get nervous! I think it went pretty well though. My shaking just sounded like vibrato. At least that's what I've been telling myself!

12/22/07 We went to Lindsay (my niece) and Michael's apartment to watch the BYU bowl and make gingerbread houses. We used one of those kits but we added stuff. It was so fun! After you assemble your house, the instructions say to let it sit for 15 minutes before you decorate it. They aren't kidding. After a few minutes we started putting almond slice shingles on the roof and it kept sliding off! I ended up super gluing it when we got home = ) Lindsay said her snow man looked more like a snow frog = )

12/24/07 We were on our way to a Christmas Eve party at my brother's house in Ogden when it started to snow like crazy! We were going to go there and then stay the night at my sister's in Bountiful, but we ended up going straight to JaNel's. I felt really bad about missing the party = ( We just chilled there while they were at the party. I did my nails while Jared shoveled their driveway = ) When they got back we watched The Grinch and played some games. VeNicia and my Dad came too. We were up until about 2:00. It was a lot of fun.


12/25/07 Merry Christmas!

We got up about 8:00. They kids had a scavenger hunt to find some of their presents. It was really cute. We exchanged gifts. I made scarfs for VeNicia and JaNel. They looked really cute on them! We got lots of nice gifts.

The coolest gift of all was one that all of my brothers and sisters went in on for my Dad. We got him a digital picture frame! It has sections for pictures of each of the kids and their families, a section of misc family shots, and a big section of pictures of my Mom. He really seemed to like it. We cried as he the pictures of my Mom came on. We all miss her so much. It's our first Christmas with out her.

I trimmed VeNicia's hair. No, I've never been to beauty school. I'm not sure why she lets me, but it's kinda fun! Then we went to my brother Barry's house in Sandy. It was like Thanksgiving all over again. The food was outstanding! I better get my butt back to the gym. I've been slacking ever since a got sick a couple weeks ago. I love spending so much time with family!

Thanksgiving Time 2007

I actually have some time on my hands today, so I think I'll get caught up on my blog! Sorry I've been slacking. I've probably lost all of my fans now. I did have fans...right? = ) Anywho...

So first of all my Dad's been in town since the beginning of November! He was scheduled to go back to Washington Dec 28th, but we just tricked him to staying until January 5th! Muhahahaha!

11/22/07 We had Thanksgiving at my brother Barry's house. He and his wife Rita always make so much good food! My Dad, VeNicia, and some of Rita's family were there. My brother Brett and his family were up from Vegas and were there too! It's always nice to spend time with family.


11/23/07 Barry took a bunch of us to the Jazz vs. Hornets game! New Orleans got their butts handed to 'em!


11/24/07 We had a huge family day at the church by my sister's house in Bountiful. My Dad was there, 2 of my brothers, 2 of my sisters, and their families (spouses and about 14 of my nieces and nephews) were all there! We had pizza and used the gym there to play a bunch of games. It was a lot of fun! Good times.



11/30/07 So at my work we have quite the collection of rednecks, hillbillies, and other such country folk. So on one of my co-worker's last days, a bunch of us went shooting! I'd never shot any sort of a gun before, and don't have plans to in the near future, so I thought I'd go. It was a lot of fun. We went to lunch and then went and shot clay pigeons out in the yucky weather. I couldn't tell you if I used a riffle or a shot gun; all I know is I hit one! Yeah!

Haunted Hay Ride

We went up to Hee Haw Farms and went on their Haunted Hay Ride. It was actually a little scary. They had other activities too. I actually roped a cow!*

*Disclaimer: I was standing 2 feet away, it took me 5 tries, and the cow was fake.

Pumpkins 10/29/07

Some friends and us carved the coolest pumpkins ever! Check 'em out. Mine's the witch, yeah, I know.

Craft Day! 10/27/07

A couple weeks ago (yes I'm behind on blogging, just get used to it) some friends and I had a craft day. It was lots of fun. I think I'll do it again sometime, so just let me know if you're interested. We decorated letters and Mod-Podged them. I did "Fall".

CLAS Ropes Course 10/22/07

Our friend Jake Jensen works at CLAS Ropes course. A group of us went last night to use the equipment. They have a ton of stuff to do there. 1st we did the climbing wall. All of us made it to the very top. It was really tall, and there were a couple hard spots. There was one part where I had to jump to reach the next grip! Then we did the zip-line. That was probably my favorite part. You climb to the top of this tower connect to the zip-line and then jump! Jumping was the scariest part. The line went forever! It was way cool. Then the last activity we did was the giant swing. You sit in this swing and they pull you way up high and then you let go of this cord and you just go swinging backwards. It was dark when I went to, so that made it even more intense. You can flip while you swing if you want to....I'm kind of a weenie, but Jared did flips. It was impressive = )

Gold's Gym Guy

So I go to Gold's Gym to work out in the morning before work. I see a lot of the same people everyday. Anywho, I like to get in and get out. It's early I don't have any makeup on, so I hardly even talk to the people that I see that I know....let alone strangers. With that said:

This one guy (shorter, mid-forties I'd say, Trump-like hair) started coming a couple months ago--at least that's when I first noticed him (I'm kinda in a zone and don't really pay too much attention to everyone else). Every time I've noticed him he's looking at me. I've started avoiding him, but he's still found ways to come talk to me. He asked my name, where I work, etc. Anywho, I found ways to throw in stuff about my husband. When I mentioned what Jared does for work he said "Oh, I need to call him some time. I have some questions about pruning my pyrocantha" or something like that. Whatever. I didn't think too much about it until he mentioned calling Jared on two other occasions. I'd just blow it off and think "I'm not going to give you the number!" So Jared calls me up the other day and said that some guy from the gym called him on his cell about pruning!!! No, I didn't give him the number!

How weird is that? I'm starting a poll (see upper left-hand side of my main blog page) so you can tell me if I'm just getting weirded out for no good reason. He does talk to some other people there. Maybe he's just a talker. But that's still weird that he remembered enough of Jared's information to actually find his number on his own and then call with out asking if it was OK. Talker or Stalker....you decide.

New Job

So a week ago today I moved from doing Accounts Payable (from the reception desk) to the Purchasing Department! I'm really excited. I'm in an office now (I share it, but it's still an office!) I've worked here for over 2 years now. It's a great company to work for.

I got a new car!

So after years of passively searching, I got a new car! It's a silver Nissan Altima. I love it. If you know anyone that wants to buy an old beat up Cadillac, send them my way! = )

NBAA September 2007

I went back to Atlanta Georgia for the NBAA trade show. I worked the booth and answered questions on the two planes my company will be building. The planes are made almost entirely out of composites, so they're extremely light and fuel efficient. It was a lot of fun, minus the being away from Jared for 4 days.

Niagara Falls

Also while in PA we took a "day" trip up to Niagara Falls. We left @ 5:00 am and didn't get back until about 2:30 am the next day! It was worth it though. It really was spectacular. We went on a fairy that takes you up right next to the falls. They give you ponchos because you get soaked! It's like you're in the middle of a huge storm. The falls are divided into two; the American Falls, and Horseshoe Falls. You need to either take the fairy or go to the Canadian side to really get a good view of Horseshoe Falls. I recommend walking to Canada, it took over 3 hours for us to drive across and back over the boarder!

Beth and Cardell's Wedding

We went to Jared's sister's wedding in Pennsylvania. All of his family was able to make it. The ceremony and reception were both really nice. I met a lot of Jared's extended family for the first time. We usually aren't able to make it back east too often, it was good to see everyone.

Hershey Park

We recently took a trip to Pennsylvania, for Jared's sister's wedding, but we did a lot of other fun stuff, too. Hershey Park is a huge amusement park with the scariest roller coasters I've ever been on. There's this one that cork-screws while taking you in a couple loops, then takes you backwards through the whole thing! There's also a ride that takes you through a mock factory and shows you how all of the candy is made. Jared's whole family made it to the park. We had a lot of fun!

Not my fault

Allie and Nicole made me do this. Sorry if it sucks for a while, I've been pretty busy lately.

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