2014

It's time for the year in review!

January: We bought a freezer!  How on earth did I not mention that we got a freezer in our Christmas card?  Haha.  But seriously we are thrilled to have a freezer in the garage.  We have a lot more things in it now.

February: We added a tropical plant to the great room decor on Valentine's Day.  And we continued to not really use these couches...but aren't they classy? :)

March: Scott built our first planter box and we planned out our first garden.

April: We found out we have a pretty lovely tree out back.

May: We went backpacking!!!  Ok that was a joke in case you missed it.  Never will I "backpack" anywhere.  But for reals, we (and by we, I mean Scott) got more into emergency preparedness and now we are prepared to escape to the mountains.  Or whatever.

June: We celebrated our three-year anniversary.  Scott was so excited he was waving his arms around like a crazy person.

July: We traveled to Nauvoo!

August: We partied with the Foleys in Jackson Hole.

September: Not all of our garden items failed (although many did).

October: We explored a lot of new places around here.  Davis County is beautiful in the Fall.

November: This month was mainly spent studying tax law but we also ate delicious foods and blogged stuff.  I think I'm up to about 150 recipes over there!

December:  No one is spoiled in this household, why do you ask?  ...I probably shouldn't mention that not pictured here is also a new laptop and a DSLR camera, among many other things.  I don't know how things got so out of control.  I blame Grandma.

Ode to My Old Laptop

I don't know why I feel the need to write a blog post every time I get rid of some expensive item I own.

...the old house

...the speed queen (Ok I guess this only costed like twenty-five bucks)

...and now my laptop.

I got this little HP right before the Junior Core where he and I worked way too hard and probably lost years off our battery lives in those short months.  But the laptop lived on and I loved it.

Four years later things started to head downhill.  The internet would occasionally pretend it didn't work.  And the hinges on the screen forced me to keep my laptop open at all times (this is far more irritating than you can even imagine!).  And eventually the poor laptop couldn't even open Firefox or any other program for that matter.

So this is goodbye.  I don't think I'll find another computer with fingerprint identification (in the price range I have chosen), which is really the biggest tragedy of all.  Who types in a password these days!?  Another tragedy is I will have to adapt to Windows 8.  I have yet to get a smart phone, so this whole "app" concept is particularly distributing.  And for the first time I think I might sound like my dad.  Haha. (Love you Dad).

Anyway, Scott and I spent some time at Best Buy looking for a replacement and if you ever want to feel like you're out of touch with society, just talk to a Best Buy employee.  I was trying to explain that I need to watch my Insanity DVDs every day so I'd like a disc drive and they acted like I was looking for a laptop with an 8-track player.  In other embarrassing Best Buy moments, we wanted to test out the laptop speakers so we decided to pull up a Youtube video "or something" and the only video we could think of was "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift.  Am I too old to like Taylor Swift?  Too young?  Either way, that felt like a really embarrassing thing to do at a Best Buy.

The new laptop is great and sings T-Swift like a champ in case you are wondering.

Around Here - Holiday Style

That Time We Went to a Jazz Game

I can't really tell you the last time I thought much about the Jazz...but I'm guessing it was around 1998.  Those were the days, and even my eight-year-old self knew it.  But anyway, Scott and I have been talking about going to a Jazz game for a while now (because we live in Salt Lake! And we have no parental responsibilities! And we shouldn't be spending every evening reading books in bed!). So we waited and waited until someone offered us great tickets for free and then we went.  

There is so much potential for fun at a Jazz game.  The Jazz just might upset the other team against all odds!  The blimp might drop prizes on us!  The kiss cam could allow us to kiss in public! 

Unfortunately for everyone involved, the Jazz lost, the blimp was floating around with no prizes attached, and the kiss cam didn't happen until we were walking up the steps to leave the arena.  This was a really fun night anyway though.

And now, some photos of the event...

Scott and I, being the exercise junkies we are, were really excited to see what kind of hamstring stretches these guys do.  Also, I was happy to see that I caught an almost fist-bump in this photo as well.  Photography doesn't get much better than this, folks.

Here we are, just waiting for that kiss cam.

You haven't lived til you've heard Afterglow sing the Canadian national anthem.  I know my mom is suuuper jealous right now.  Hah.  Long story, everybody.

At first I was disappointed that my picture was caught between filming transitions, but looking at it now, I'm thinking this couldn't have gone better. Afterglow AND the Canadian flag...superimposed on each other?!  Perfect timing, my friends.