Happy Thanksgiving!

Isn't he so cute?!? And he LOVES that costume (NOT!)
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you get to spend it with those that you love!

P.S. Happy Anniversary Shawn! I LOVE you tons! I would have posted cute pics from our wedding day but the scanner was being uncooperative..and I already have a million pictures of just us...so there you have it! You get a picture of my dog dressed up like a Hot Dog instead!
P.S.S. Happy 25th anniversay to my parents (yesterday)! I love you both!

Did I already mention...

The whole reason why we were driving in the first place?? The dog ate my retainer and I had to go get a new one....yeah...haha...just my luck. Dog ate my retainer. Now how many people can say that?!?!?

If it's not broken...

So I guess I couldn't wake up after October ends after all....it just had to go out with a bang...literally. Shawn and I were in a car accident Wednesday. Luckily it wasn't really bad...but bad enough for our car to get totalled!! I am so sad. Long story short this stupid guy wearing a stupid coach hat "thought" a guy driving a disabled van had cut him off. He gets around the disabled van stops his car (in the middle of the road) gets out of his car and starts yelling at this guy. Shawn and I are driving by thinking "Honestly, who does that?" So we drive by and Shawn tells the guy to just get back in his car and basically stop being an idiot. Well the guy got mad at Shawn speeds up behind us pulls over right in front of us in our lane causing us to slam into the back of him. Lucky for us, our car is totalled. Lucky for him, he walks away with hardly a scratch. Isn't Karma funny?!?! Yeah i'm not laughing. But good thing was the CHP came and got all of our statements. We had 3 witnesses and the disabled bus driver guy stayed the WHOLE time and was a really great witness. We're still waiting to hear what the insurance says about who they find guilty and what not...but they were nice enough to go out and Friday and tell us that our car was indeed totalled.

I LOVE our 4runner. It's perfect for our family and Hurley absolutely loves riding in the back with the window rolled down his little ears blowing in the wind. We are really going to miss it and can hopefully find something to fill the hole in our hearts (haha...it really isn't that bad!) But again luckily the car was fully covered so we do get money for a new car from the insurance. Hopefully this weekend we can find something that we both agree on.

I was thinking back I guess this year just hasn't been a good car year for us. One car dies, the other one gets totalled. Here's to 2010 being a GREAT car year!!

Wake me up when October Ends...

I guess I have been a little lazy when it comes to keeping up my blog! So what have when been up to? Well I have been off partying at work and Shawn has been working like crazy!! The month of October at work gets a little wild...it's when we have our huge Giant Pumpkin Festival and this year was probably one of my favorites! The theme was really cute and the weather was awesome!
So here is a list of just some of the things we (I) have been up to:

Cut some corn with coworkers
Worked the Giant Pumpkin Festival
Weekend away with my mom for some mom and daughter bonding
Went to the Weezer and Blink 182 Concert
Spent some time with my best friend who was in DC for 2 years
Went to an awesome Halloween Party

This is the ONLY good picture that I got at the concert. So sad. It was so much fun to go to a concert in my hometown of Wheatland! Love it! And I might not be a fan of all of the tatts but Travis Barker is an amazing drummer. Honestly.

Coworkers after cutting corn (It was hard work!)

Giant Pumpkins that float and then race!

Me and Peter Pumpkin (the "official" mascot of the festival)
I could post a million more pictures of the festival but I don't want to bore you all to tears!


And yes, this is your present for waiting all month for me to blog. And like so many people have asked I didn't bribe/ pay or do anything to convince my husband to wear this outfit. Promise. Check in your mailboxes around December...you might be lucky enough to get a Christmas Card with this picture in it. We may also have one with our dog. You have to wait another month to find out what he was!

And while i'm thinking about it, where did October go? Where did this year go? Next week November?? Yikes!! Well until next time, Happy Halloween!!!

SERIOUSLY?!?!

I know that a lot of people have asked about Shawn's job and what he does exactly so I thought I would take a quick moment to give everyone a little glimpse into this crazy world that we call firefighting. Shawn just got a letter from San Fran FD inviting him to test with their department that went something like this...administration of the written test is scheduled to begin the week of September 21, 2009 and will conclude in mid-November 2009. The test will be administered on weekdays, and approximately 320 candidates will be scheduled each day of testing.
EACH DAY!! Are you kidding me?!?! 320 people EACH DAY?? Yeah I'm pretty sure that no job I have EVER applied for or will EVER apply for has had 320 people TOTAL...let alone within a day.
So a HUGE shout out to my hubby Shawn for his determination and perseverance. I know you'll make it!

And you thought yesterday was bad...

What is wrong with me?!?!

Remember that one time...

Today at work my friend and I have been listening to these artists...



Don't judge. Its been a great day.

Bombs away...

So i've been "redecorating" our master bedroom...just a little bit and was looking for some cute little quote wall decals to put up...well in the process of that search I found these little gems...


Seriously disturbing but honestly I would laugh pretty much everytime I went to the bathroom if I saw that...yeah just thought I would share. Happy Thursday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Shawn! Thank you for everything that you do for me...I hope you have a great day!!!
Since I met Shawn my birthdays have been somewhat interesting. Not only because I now spend them with Shawn but because our birthdays are so close together. Shawn's birthday is on July 29th, mine is on August 1st and to add to that his best friend Billy's is on July 27th. So pretty much every birthday since I met Shawn we have about a week full of birthday celebrations. It's so much fun and I LOVE having birthdays that are so close together...it's like having an anniversary twice in a year! This year we're going pretty low key since our "ages" this year really aren't that exciting! We went out to dinner on Monday and we're going again tonight and on Thursday and then Shawn and I are going away for the day on Saturday to celebrate both of our birthdays.

Shawn and I at the restaurant

Billy being Billy

The boys playing their "game"...I swear it never ends...XBOX...cell phones..they're everywhere!

Last weekend my cousin Peter came into town with his girlfriend Giselle. We had an awesome time and it was so nice to meet Giselle and see my cousin Pete!

Me, my mom and Giselle

Pete and Giselle

Me and Peter

Utah

After Burley we headed down to Utah to visit some friends (you may remember them from a post a couple of months ago). The Bonds were gracious enough to let us stay at their house and entertain us for a couple of days! We had so much fun and were so sad to come back to reality! :(

Shawn on our way home! Sorry these are reversed! But i'm pretty proud of myself...I drove quite a bit...which is usually totally not like me..usually i'm the one passed out the whole time!

The Salt Lake!!

The Temple...Shawn called me a tourist because I was totally taking a picture while we were driving home! So what?!?!

I was sooo happy that while we were there we got to see some of my cousins...I haven't seen most of them since I was 16!! Yeah..it had been quite a while! It was so nice of them to come and hang out with us! We definitely need to get together more often! I hadn't seen any of their kids so it was awesome to spend sometime with all of them! Love you guys!


One thing I really don't like about living in the valley is that there are no mountains around. I mean there are but you have to drive to see them. First thing we noticed about Amy and Brian's house is that there are mountains ALL OVER! We went on a walk the last day we were there and that's honestly something I wish we had here! We got to explore some mountains while we were there and even saw a baby moose. Man they are huge!



Thanks everyone for an awesome time! We will have to make this a yearly thing!

Idaho

Shawn and I had an awesome time on our mini-vacation. First we headed to Burley, Idaho to see my 2 of my cousins! It was so much fun to see them and hang out at their beautiful house on the river. Half way into our visit there was a rain/lightning storm and the electricity went out. Luckily, they were planning on having Boy Scout foil dinners anyways...it was awesome! We missed Ryan and Andrea (my other cousin) because we had to head out for Utah and Andrea was racing in a half marathon! But we got a chance to see their adorable kids! It was such a good time and I wish we could have stayed longer! Thank you Julie and John for letting us come and invade your house! It was so great to see everyone!


Jaeli having fun on the scooter

Jace, Jakeb, Julie, Kristi Dawn, Bailey and Logan

Joey and Jaeli

Jaeli always the life of the party!

Joey is such a champ! He rides a bike and a scooter and he's only 2 years old! He is such a fun little guy!

Ellie (Ryan and Andrea's little girl) she is so cute and so much fun!

The rest of the gang!

Jaeli had me laughing the whole time we were there. She is such a girly girl...emotions and all! :) We just love her!

LAME-O

WOW my blog has been lame lately! Sorry!! Not that cyberspace missed me or anything..but life has just been kind of crazy lately.
I just got done with class and Shawn has been studying like crazy. But...we are both very excited to get "the heck out of dodge" TOMORROW and go on a fun little mini-vacation to...

and then to...

So in case you can't tell the first picture is Idaho and the second one is Utah. I know most of you are thinking well that's not a very fun vacation...well think again!! Relaxing and hanging out with friends and family..doesn't get much better then that...and ROAD TRIP!! Who doesn't love spending 10 hours in a car with me?!?! HAHA...well ask Shawn when we get back!!
Then after our mini-vacation...

Yep...Summer School. And not only is it summer school...it's STATISTICS. I'm pretty sure i've gone insane. So if you don't see me for a while it's because i'm working and taking a 6 week Statistics class...haha...good times! So I plan on taking a TON of pictures but don't plan on seeing those until sometime after July 30th...when schools out! Update on Shawn...he has something like 6 more classes and he's done!! Well not quite...then he gets to start his internship with a hospital...(not sure where yet) and then onto ambulance internship. Woohoo!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!! He could...if all of those books would just get out of the way!!

Dog vs Water

Hurley is at such a fun stage right now. He is so curious and loves to get into everything! We were washing cars the other day and had the hose out and he started attacking the water. We got a video of it but I feel so bad because he actually gets so close to the water that he sometime starts choking..but we don't let it get that bad don't call the SPCA on us! Shawn had some time off on Tuesday and took him over to his aunt Theresa's house with his cousin Kirk and their dog Stat. Shawn said he couldn't wait to get out of the pool! Oh well...with this hundred degree weather we're having...i'm sure he'll get over it eventually!





We love our little dog so much! I watched Marley and Me the other day and it was so cute! Really made me think about our little dog and how he isn't just a dog to us...he really is part of the family. ( I know, so sad!)

This Weekend

So this weekend was pretty much FABULOUS!!

Started out with this dying...

And then doing this...

And now we're going to be driving this...

Because we sold this 2 weeks ago.


And we don't want to buy one of these...

Because we don't want one of these...

While Shawn is in this...

And to make it all better I spent Mother's Day with my Mom here...

Because she thought she had this..

I love you Mom. You make me laugh. I love spending time with you...even if it is in the ER watching a crazy guy take his shirt off and belching so loud that everyone can hear it. Thank you for letting us drive the Van...even if it does make us look like we have a million kids. And i'm glad that you don't have hog flu.