So much to write so little time

I guess I'll start with today. Today while eating my snack I discovered that I may be getting more protein then I had originally anticipated. I reached in my box of Triscuts and pulled out a little cracker I put my string cheese on it and took a bite. It was after the bite that I realized that I had eaten a small little bug. I don't remember the name but they are those sick little bugs that you find in old boxes of dried foods. Like rice, or cereal. Yuck. I didn't finish the cracker or any of the others in the box. They along with the other bugs are now living in the trash.

Lets back track to Saturday/Sunday. I guess I have been known to pull a prank or two. All right in all honesty I LOVE IT. I love being sneaky, I love the anticipation of someone finding a little something that I have left for them. I love the surprise, I love the shock. Let me set the scene. My two sweet little sisters were home for a visit. Rocky and I are packing up our stuff and finding many forgotten treasures. One being my hair from getting extensions. I had the extra they didn't use and the stuff I had taken out. The used stuff was in a nice braid. Don't ask why I kept it. Yes, I know its gross. Ok, moving along. Rocky was grossed out and insisted that I throw it away, yes I know its gross that I considered keeping it. So on our way out to the garbage. Rocky went with me to make sure I threw it away or something like that, I noticed my sisters car and in true prank form I was inspired. We quickly put some hair on the windshield wipers and slammed the braid in the back door in hopes that they would drive around but not see it.
I thought it was so funny. Then we waited. The perfect moment came when my sister came down an announced that she was going to get some gas and wanted some company. I quickly volunteered myself and so did another sister. We got in the car and pulled out of the driveway. In the most perfect prank moment she turned on the windshield wipers WITH fluid! The hair went all over the windshield, we all screamed (me for effect), then we all laughed, especially the sisters. I denied that I was the one who could come up with such a good idea. They blamed it on Rocky and Dad. They were at the Priesthood Session and could not defend themselves. Finally I gave in. SO FUN!

Friday night, Rocky attended his first and probably last baby shower. Hopefully he will tell it in his own words and add pictures. Thanks Fanua for letting him come.

Okay last thing. I was released from my calling in the Young Women's last Sunday. It was so sad. I am going to miss the girls so much. They are awesome. Is it just me or are the youth getting better and better. Anyway they wrote me sweet cards and one every brought me flowers. Thanks girls. Love ya!

Oh PS. Moving is hard. How did we get so much stuff? Well here is the beginning of our box corner. Unfortunately it will grow.

Hare Krishnas throw one CRAZY party!

So while Joni was being inspired at the Young Women's Conference I decided to get together with Jason and Donnie for a good time. It turns out Jason's idea to go to this Hare Krishna party was more of an adventure than I ever expected. First we take some wild detour around the traffic and back into the woods to get to this place. Out of no where this building shows up:

I was kinda confused by the whole place but the good news was I wasnt alone. There were a whole bunch of people that showed up to this thing. Probably just as confused as me.

So this picture above is the before, please notice how clean everyone looks. Peacefully wandering around this beautiful building. Donnie and I even found a rare photo op. without anyone else blocking the shot. Just us and the elephant:

Again, please take note of how beautifully clean our clothes are.
We decided to go up to the second floor to look down on the masses when all of a sudden a roar from the crowd erupted and a cloud of powdered chalk rose like a bomb had gone off:


Its about this time that the adrenaline gets pumping and Jason turns into a party animal:


So naturally Donnie and I follow him into the cloud of colored dust and receive the expected reward for our bravery...color all over us!:


Yeah, in case you were wondering we had colored powder everywhere by the time we left this place! Everywhere! I am still scooping it out of my ears and nose!

I dont really understand the whole celebration but I know it has some significance to some people. I tried to just enjoy the really weird party and throwing colored powder everywhere. It really was a good time. I just wish Joni could have been there to play in the craziness with me and a few of my color throwing buddies:

Yep, all ten thousand of my closest color throwing friends!!
Dang, the Hare Krishnas know how to throw a party!

It's Official...We are going to be Buckeyes!

So we have decided that Ohio State is place for us. It took about 3 rejections from the University of Utah to help us make the decision. We are so excited to move onto this next chapter of life. I hope and pray that the weather in Ohio will calm down a little. I think I would be fine with at least 4 mild winters. Is that possible there? Anyway we would love any Ohio/Medical school or just plain old life advice if any of our blog readers have any for us.

We are planning on moving around the first part of August. If anyone is interested in taking a trip to Ohio at that time we would love help moving in. :)

Jiffy Lube or should I say.... IFFY LUBE

This is one of the many reasons why I will NEVER get my car serviced at Jiffy Lube and a huge reason why you shouldn't either. Click on the link below.

The Jiffy Lube Crooks

If you need more than just this reason please don't hesitate to ask. I'll be happy to tell all.

Orange trees and the frozen lake.

The past two..well actually three weeks have been absolutely out of control. I feel like I have had an event everyday the past two weeks for work, including weekends. If I wasn't at an event I was prepping for one. Two weeks ago we had the Utah County business show. We scooped ice cream for two days. I'm surprised at how picky people are when they are getting FREE ice cream. I can understand paid for ice cream...but come on, free, just be happy to get it. We also had three Jazz games, a Rascal Flatts concert, a trip to Phoenix and family pictures to boot. This past week I had what we call a "Summit" at work. For me is basically went from Monday-Thursday night. I screamed for joy when I got in my car to head home Thursday night. I have never loved my bed, shower, and little apartment so much.

The Orange Tree-
While in Phoenix we attended a Utah Jazz vs. Phoenix Suns game. We gotta love the Jazz they pulled off a win and played a great game. It was so much fun. We also got to see "old man Shaq" play. I'm not saying this to be rude but you can tell that the guy is getting old. I think he is awesome, great personality, was an excellent basketball player and now is an old basketball player. Don't hate me Shaq.
We stayed at the Arizona Biltmore, which looks a lot like a church or a museum when you first pull up. But it turned out to be so beautiful and I hope we will get to stay there again. Especially in March, it was perfect. The Biltmore is where I saw my first Orange Tree. Rocky found this odd. But he grew up in California so an orange tree in California is like an apple tree in Utah. I love the orange tree. Green and orange are great colors for a tree.



The Frozen Lake-
We fly back to Utah March 9th and drove fast...okay super fast to make it home for our family pictures at Utah Lake. After being in Phoenix for two days my body had quickly adjusted to the warm weather and loved it. I wasn't prepared for the ice on the lake. There is nothing like a cold breeze to welcome you back to Utah. The pictures turned out awesome. Although I hope that purple lips are the new "in" thing.



This weekend we had our relief society basketball tournament. It was great. Our team lost our first game but won our second two and were so excited to be back in the winning bracket. We were determined to take the championship. Right before our last game they informed us that we would NOT return to the winning bracket even though it was a double elimination tournament. Whoever won the game would be the Winner of the Losers. So after being confused and wondering why we were even playing we decided that the winners of the losers would be a great title. So we played, played hard and won. In secret I am glad that we didn't end up moving back into the winning bracket. I can't imagine the pain I would be in now. Three games was enough to put my body into very old person status. I can barely walk, stand up or sit down. Basically any movement including breathing is painful. I guess my definition of "in-shape" was not the same as my body's.

For your Listening Enjoyment

While visiting others blogs I have started to notice a common theme...music and I like it. After visiting some blogs with music and others without I decided that a music is a must on our page. That being said I know that there are some of you out there, maybe those who don't appreciate my music taste. I hope it won't keep you from reading this blog. I've made it very simple and specially had a pause button added on for you. Just my small little attempt to please EVERYONE.

A New Discovery

Yesterday Rocky and I were shopping in Salt Lake, it started out just being very windy, glad you aren't wearing a skirt windy, and then turned into pure madness...rain and then lots of snow. We thought it would be fun to document our little outing...we got as far as pictures in the car and then, well, forgot. That is our problem with pictures. I constantly have my camera with me and constantly forget that I do. We have a goal to be better. Now to the discovery part...I have a freaky neck, that's all there is to it. Rocky and I took over 20 pictures trying to get a "cute" one. My neck was all over the place just messing things up. We tried and tried but the neck wasn't going to give. So this is what we got. Oh well, we had a great time.



Our great time included spending at least 2 hours in one store picking out a new cell phone for me. We found one that I loved. So we got it. So far so good. It's working in the "bat cave" (the place we call home) and that pretty much makes me a happy camper. I was going to take pictures of it and post them but decided that was a little over board.

By special request - My celebrity look alikes

My father-in-law, Daddy Dick, requested a celebrity look-a-like on our blog. He is convinced that I look like Geena Davis. I guess according to this little match up thing I don't...but don't worry Daddy Dick, I get Geena Davis a lot.

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Here is Rocky's

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Here is who we have been told that we look like...
Joni:
Geena Davis
Rachel McAdams

Rocky:
James Marsden (gets told this all the time)
Christopher Reeve

Haircut

I've been meaning to share a picture of my new haircut for a while but just haven't gotten around to it. Well finally here it is. I have loved it. It's so much easier to take care of daily, but it is growing like a mutant weed and needs a cut at least every two weeks. I'm not sure if I can handle the maintenance and may grow it out again. I guess only time and the budget will tell.

Exercise...what NOT to do

So if you read my earlier post you know that I am working on my "total health and fitness." It is going awesome. I feel great and like mentioned before I can fit back into clothes that had somehow shrunk...well now I have too. Anyway so I'm learning all these new exercises. I'm working my body in ways I didn't know it worked in. I have also learned moves that I shouldn't do. I'm posting a link to this video so you to can see what NOT to do.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBER1qa67E

Little Updates

So the Rock and I were just doing a little updating to our blog. We quickly discovered after seeing many other friends blogs that we are quite boring. Or at least it seems. We were laughing at the websites we like to visit. Although ESPN is NOT one of mine I decided to make this more of an official "we" blog and I added it in to be nice.

Anyway as for news on us...we just finished our week and a half parenting adventure. We baby sat my bosses kids while she went on a cruise. There were 4 of them. All in all they were absolutely wonderful but we are glad that hopefully kiddy's will only come one at a time for us. We also learned more about the language of a 5 year old. It consists of a lot of 'ehs, umh'...which translates to "I want my parents and I hate you." We have that one down. The picture below is one we took of Rocky while he was on kid duty. The kids took the picture and managed to do other mischievous things while he "watched them."



So another exciting little thing was listening to Rocky's dad laugh as he opened up his first funny video by email attachment. It was like the excitement of a small child on Christmas day. Oh the Joy!

Total Health and Fitness Rocks

Ok so I got introduced to an awesome company last year. They are called Total Health and Fitness.
The help you build a roadmap to your health and ultimately become the best you. A co-worker of mine decided to do it and when she started seeing some great results I thought to myself why not give it a try. So I did and am. Today I had my 7 week appointment. It rocked. I went down 1.8% body fat in just one week and I'm only 2.3% away from my goal. YIPPEEEEE. It makes me so happy. All in all I didn't have too much to loose. I was in fairly decent shape, my clothes were just having a harder time slipping on. In fact it was more like a yank and tug. I like the slip on more. So now I'm thinning down and things are starting to slip on once again. So Very exciting. I totally recommend the program and the company. I'll post some pictures when I'm done. Thanks LITTLE MAN (my personal trainer at total health & fitness).

Happy 2008

I can't believe that it is all ready a new year. I can't believe that I am going to be 28 this year. That seems so old. Well this year started out great all ready. Rocky and I have both been sick. We have both done sick duty at the beginning of the year so we should be set for the rest of the year. I wish it worked out that way.

We had a great Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family and then Christmas afternoon and evening with Rocky's family. I've decided that split Christmas is hard. We don't get to spend enough time with either family. It stinks.

We spend new years eve with my family and the Sorenson's. It was fun. We went to uncle Bob and aunt Heidi's house. We ate lots of yummy food and played games, all sorts. We really got into the boxing and tennis on the Wii. I am so incredibly sore from that.

Rocky and I will celebrate 2 years of marriage on the 12th. It seems like we have been married a lot longer than that. Its been great. Rocky is so amazing. I don't know how I got so lucky. I don't know why he stuck around as long as he did when I was being such a bum...but I'm so very glad he did.

okay well that's enough for now.

If Rocky were an Elf

This is classic. Love you Rock!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1176028346
(Copy and paste the link above into your web browser)

Ohio State!

We got our first acceptance to Medical School. We couldn't be happier. It is a huge blessing. Rocky got accepted to Ohio State this past week. He loved his interview out there and the atmosphere of Columbus. We aren't sure if this is where we will end up but if we do we will be glad to be there. WoooooHOOOOO. We are still waiting on a few other schools. Medical school is surprisingly a painful process. It seems a little odd to say that because medicine is supposed to help with the pain or remove it completely. I think that if applying weren't so expensive and so unsure it would be a lot better. It turns out for us that the 3rd time is a CHARM. Yiippppee.