So what I'm still a rock star!!

So... I love going to the zoo! Scott and I have a few things we do every year, and those are going to Lagoon, and going to the zoo!! I have gone to the zoo every year of my life, no lie even while I was a missionary. I'm all about zoo education, and protecting endangered animals, and all that jazz, the zoo is just such a wonderful place for people of all ages. Scott loves the zoo as much as I do, he acts like a little kid, which makes me excited for the day that we bring our own kids to the zoo. After the zoo we went up the canyon for lunch a Ruth's diner, then out for ice cream and some lite shopping. I hope that every child big and small has a chance to go to the zoo. And that will be in my speech when I win my academy award, or Mrs. America :)

I really enjoyed these bronzed statues that were all over the zoo, they were new from last year, and way cool, I took pictures with almost all of them, my camera died, but they were way fun.

Scott misses his mom, what can I say.

This is why I love him, he will do honestly anything I ask, including embarrassing himself at the famous compare yourself to to the apes wall :)

I have pictures of me doing this almost every year of my life, this year was no exception, I do however refuse to actually use this drinking fountain because of germs, but it make a great photo

This is just the cutest picture, my new hair looks great, and we both look so pretty, I'm glad we went to the zoo, and we had so much fun too!!

On another note, we just found out today that our landlord will be raising our rent starting in October, and the apartment just isn't worth what they are raising it to. So we will be out of our apartment November 1st, which is plenty of time to find a place and pack and move, but I just hate moving, ugh. But the hope here is that we can find a nicer place, with more closet space, and maybe an extra room, so we could maybe start a family. I know people have kids that are worse off than we are, and in less room than we have and with less money, and less time, but I want our kids to know we're there, and to be able to run around and see mommy and daddy close by, and also... well there are just lots of things, and I'm sure at some point I just need to buckle down and say OK, maybe now we can start a family. We have been very blessed in this economy that we both still have jobs, and have even improved at our jobs, my only hope is that we can continue to improve so that when the economy (maybe) evens out we can come out on top. Life decisions suck! I wonder if we can live at the zoo?

To cut!!!

So, the answer was to cut. I was debating about this issue for a few weeks, and I was talking with my best friend Shaelynn, she said "It sounds like you've already made up you mind to cut it, just go do it." And she was right, so Tuesday August 25 I walked into the salon, got a great cut and color!! I love it so much, and I actually look thinner and more mature, my clothes look better, and my get ready time has gone down so much. I'm still getting used to everyone one I know telling me how good it looks, if you ever want attention cut 14 inches off! No lie, everyone I know is ewwing and ahhing over my hair, which was fun at first, but now is a little over kill. It does look nice, and telling me that does make me feel good. My manager at work seriously couldn't get over it, she made everyone stop and look at my hair, at one point I had 4 people touching my hair, which has always bothered me no matter what length my hair is.
I've been going through a sort of self improvement makeover for the lase few months, I changed my make-up, got rid of a bunch of clothes (which was so sad and hard to do), re-arranged the kitchen and bedroom, cut my hair, and now the biggest most notable change has been my attempts to act like lady. When I was younger I always had dreams of being like Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly, these ladies knew how to act in every situation, knew what to say, what to wear, and how to work any crowd of people. I have always wanted to obtain that. I have been read books about this and I myself have been doing a few social experiments with this over the last few months. I'm not going to post those now, but my findings have been remarkable, and I have noticed a huge change in myself. I think this haircut was the final step in my make over process. I hope you enjoy these pictures from this big step in my life.

The cute girl who cute my hair, she was so great!

The first cut!

This pony tail is currently in my kitchen, it was used to tell my mom I cut my hair

Back/profile

Front, all in all I cut off a total of 14 inches and I love it, I've very happy!!

To cut or not to cut?

Alright, so decided to grow my hair out when I was 19. It was to my chin and I wanted to look like Lana Lang on Smallville or Alanis Morrisette. I stopped straightening my hair, and began taking pre-natal and other magic hair grow pills and within a year I had long hair. It was fun, and I kept growing it out through out my mission and for the last 3 years. So basically I've had the same hair style for the LAST 5 YEARS!! I've changed the color, added and grown out bangs, but for the last few months I have really thought about cutting it. I love my long hair though, but I feel that it is taken over who I am, I hide behind it, and it defines who I am more than my personality does. But at the same time, I feel like I've gained too much weight to get away with short hair, and it seems that every girl I've known has cut her hair off after getting married, and I really didn't want to be one of them, and it seems I might be. So before I make any rash decisions I've decided to take it to the people and get your opinions, please answer my poll question and we will see what I do :)

Tomorrow is a brand new day and it don't know white from black!

So as some of you may know I'm terrified of water. Just to prove my love for Scott I have been trying to over come this feat, because Scott loves water, swimming and all that sorta stuff. Well, Scott grandma instead of having a party for every grandchild she throws one big party where she rents out the Spanish fork pool. It was super fun to see everyone and we were grateful for the love that Scott's family has for us. Now all week it had been warm and I kept thinking "It's fine I'm going to the pool on Saturday, I'll just deal with the heat until then." Well, it just happened to unseasonally cold that day. I asked Scott what would happen if it rained on the day of the pool party, Scott informed me that it never happened so he didn't know. Well it didn't rain, but it was incredibly cold. We all dove in and it was actually warmer in the water than it was outside the water. We had a great time and were so tired when we got home. It's sad to think that summer is coming to an end.
My cute honey in the pool, I did go in and splash and play, but knowing that it was going to be hard to get out when the party ended I got out a bit early to dry off so I wouldn't be a baby about it later, I'm so proud of myself.

Here is Scott going to jump off the diving board!

Look at that form!

I went down this slide too!! But pictures of Scott are more fun for me!

We had a lot of fun this day, we also went to the farmers market that morning, and the county fair before the party, Scott and I don't really get many days together, or time to do things like this and it was so much fun. I'm glad that I'm learning to get over my fears, and that I have such a wonderful support in Scott to do so.

Just a Small town Girl... Living in a (not so) Lonely World

Well I'm wrapping up July with a quick post about the rest of the month, as I mentioned before, I have had such a great summer, and here are just a few highlights from the last couple of weeks, now my pictures load backwards, I don't know if other people have this problem, but I will explain the pictures so it really isn't a big deal I guess.

The last weekend was really, really, busy for us. On Friday July 24th was the great Utah hoilday celebrating the Pioneers getting to Utah. I love this hoilday!! It always involves food, and family, and fireworks, so much fun.

I love living in Salt Lake! This is the second year in a row that we have woken up and watched the runners in the 10k (?) and we set up our spot for the parade. Now the days of '47 parade is the third largest in the country after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and the Rose bowl parade, which just gives me more reason to make a fool of myself and those around me. Me and Shae are the loudest girls every year. I can't actually prove this... but I just know it's true :)

after the parade we usually have a wedding of some sort, yes I said a wedding. Last year it was Scott's sister and this year it was Scott's cousin. Michael and Laura had a fun BBQ Luncheon, with lots of yummy food. Well let me rephrase that, we have a family wedding on July 25th, but it's not uncommon to see the family the day before. We also watch the fireworks from Liberty park every year, and this year they weren't so great, and sadly I forgot my camera :( I also forgot the camera for Michael wedding/reception, which was also a blast. After the reception we went over to Scott parents house and palyed games with his siblings and ordered pizza, what a great way to end a busy weekend!!

On Sunday July 26th my side of the family had a Pirate party! We all dressed up and played games, and my husband broke out the accordian (sp?). He and my Aunt Debi sand Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirates life for me until the early evening until we were all ready for bed. I love weekends like this, fun and relaxed getting to enjoy our time with such wonderful people, only sad part was I had to get up and work Monday morning. I'm so happy being married to Scott and I just love him so much, he is such a good sport and puts up with my complete randomness and my complete lack of self care. It's sad to think that summer is almost over.



Aunti Debi trying her skills at the accordian... Success, I think yes!

My super hot pirate! Ow Ow!

My sweet Nephew Riley with his uncle Scott

We are super sexy Pirate! I love Scott ear ring!

Showing off our awesome umberella hats we bought to get the sun off our faces during the parade, we are so cool, I love us, if I wasn't us I'd be friends with us!!

Shae spent the night on our pull out, look how cozy, we're good hosts. The best part was she never saw this picture until it was posted on Facebook, I'm such a good friend;)

July was such a great month! I'm glad that I have these great tradtions, and wonderful people to celebrate them with, and I look forward to who ever gets married next year so these tradtions can continue :)

Beer for my horses

This has been one of the best summers of my life!! I got to go to Oregon, camping, to Lagoon, and Horse back riding, and it's not even the middle of July yet! Here are just a few Pics from this last weekend, which really was a blast.
Scott and Shae fighing over the boy horse, it was sweet. Scott had a real gift with the horses

No lie he was the horse whisperer, the horses were fighing over him by the time we left, this one kept nuzzling into him and following him, it was so cute.

That's me in the lead, Scott's horse kept stopping to eat the purple flowers, it was really funny

The horse wrangler didn't want to adjust the stur ups so my feet just dangled, but luckily the horse was "broken" enough that it didn't matter he just walked and let me take time, it was great.

So Shaelynn was not a horse whisperer, but she did like the horses, and So did Max, we had a great time.

On top of the Ferris wheel at Lagooon at sunset, it was really pretty and romantic, I was happy.

Me and Max on the "wild Horses" at lagoon, we were so scared!!

I still don't know how this was allowed, but Scott wanted to ride the swan. I thought he meant the the old people one that just sits there, but he wanted the little rocking one for one year olds, and he bounced and rocked the whole time. I'm sure this has to be against some sort of safety rule, but no one stopped him, and he looks so cute in the picture. I'm excited for the rest of summer and the other adventures we're going to have!!

Snails see the good in things!

So for our Fourth of July weekend we went up to Scott's family cabin, just East of Fairview. We were unable to go up until Saturday because of work, but we had so much fun playing games with Scotts cousins before they left, and then playing with Scott's parents and brothers. We had some great food, and lots of fun, which is all I ever need :). Here are just a few pictures from our trip.

This is the veiw from the cabin deck, so so pretty, and you can sometimes see deer in that little valley there.

Nathan plays the accordian... is that how you spell it? Anyway, I enjoyed it, as did Nathan, I think Kyle got a little bugged, but whatever.

Scott getting ready for the bow hunt this year, only he and Leiann, Scott's cousin, were able to hit the target. I think they're going to win. Then I'm going to have to deal with a deer head on my wall, oh joy.

We couldn't do fireworks, but the Lord provided. This was the Awesome sunset, and then we had an incredible thunder storm. I like it when things work out like that. I love going up to the Family cabin, we rode 4-wheelers, had a yummy bbq, and even got to have Lunch on Sunday with Scott great grandma Alta, who is no lie the funniest lady ever. We went to church in Fairview, and while there Nathan locked his keeys in the car. So while the men folk tried to figure out how to open the truck, I wandered around. Don't be jealous, but I found the national shrine of Love and Devotion. Who knew it was just right there in Fairview. I had a very happy fourth of July, and I'm looking forward to Lagoon this week, and then Pioneer day and Michael and Lauras wedding. I Love Summer, and this has been such a great one!