Valentine Book

I love you so deeply,

I love you so much.

I love the sound of your voice

and the way that we touch. 

I love your warm smile

and your kind, thoughtful way,

the joy that you bring

to my life every day.  

and I’ll love you forever

with all of my heart.

I love you today

as I have from the start. 

(the paper is a list of the 100 reasons why I love him)  

This was our 5th Valentine's Day together and I wanted to do something special for him. Cara made a book like this for Hayden's birthday but Caleb didn't get to see it so he thought I made this up all on my own. He should have known better. =)

Old School Scrapbook Pages

Hollie and I saw this guy at Sears signing autographs so we got one. =)

We loved our foreign exchange students! I wouldn't recommend swimming in Company's Pond.

What a bunch of geeks. I don't even remember taking these pictures.

Mika was one of our foreign exchange students. I'm sure she thought we were crazy.

FHE at Nickelcade, always a classic.

Speaking of Classic.... Classic Skating was so much fun with Yayoi.

It was fun playing on the same softball team as Hollie.

Tugi is a friend of the familiy, my sisters and I put all of my moms jewlery on him.

My Grandma Smith is going blind. She bought a bunch of cards so she could just sign them and this is the one my mom got last week for her birthday! Special Pastor?!? (must mean favorite daughter)

Christmas Card

My neice was writting a Christmas Card to her friend Ethan and my sister Hollie found this:

She asked Brooke what it said and she replied, "Merry Christmas Ethan" Hahahaha, where does she come up with these things. They told her what she wrote and she laughed her little head off. So cute!

New Years Resolution

Always replace the gase nozzle

before driving away from the pump.

I will always "check for paper" when leaving the restroom.

 I will no longer park in front of fire hydrants.

I will try to drive closer to the speed limit.

I will keep an extra safe distance when driving behind police cars.

I will avoid taking a bath whenever possible to conserve more water.

I will do less laundry by using more deodorant.

I will think of a password other than "password"

I will spend less than one hour on the internet a day. (This of course, will be hard to estimate since I am not a clock watcher)

I will cut my hair.

I will take up a new habit, like spend more time at work. =)

I will work on catching up on all of the TV shows I missed in 2009.

Happy New Year!!!

Awesome Gift Giving Ideas

Here are some awesome gift giving ideas I found:

{This is perfect gift for those geeky friends/brother-in-law that are hard to shop for}

{Salt & pepper shakers for those special NRA hicks in your life}

{Because sometimes a wolf tank top just isn't enough}

{I know it's always hard to buy for your furry friend, so here you go, the ever-so-classy mustache ball.}

{Brandon and Caleb are going to be fighting over this one!}

 {You can never be too sure of your co-workers. (Michelle you should ask Justin about this.)}

{Could someone tell Dr. Earl that I am going to need one of these?}

Last Christmas

This was last Christmas when time was much less complicated. Can't we just go back to that time?


The whole family stayed in an amazing condo in Southern Utah it was beautiful. We had such a great time with the family, swimming, and playing games. It was here that Eric gave Derek his nickname D-stain! hahaha

I was trying to remember where Caleb and I slept and remembered we stayed with Adam and Cara. I lost my phone at their neighbors house. Pretty lame but not as frustrating as losing my wedding ring the next day. I think it was at the St. G-eorge Rec. Center, the good 'ole rec center. We had some good memories there. I think everyone lost in raquetball to Big Mike that day.

Caleb's little sister had these 3D glasses that made the Christmas lights looks like snowmen. We were showing her how cool they were. =)

Creepy Co-worker

My Co-worker hides her ugly little doll in my office and it always scares me when I find it. I told her that her doll was creepy from the beginning and I think that's where her silly idea to freak me out with it came from.

Finally after MANY different times of gasping when I found "it" I decided it was time to finish her off. I tied our wonderful Weber State ribbon around her neck and hung her from the ceiling over my co-worker's desk.
It was pretty funny until she left it up there for everyone to see, now I'm sure most of the office is afraid of me. =)

So that's why I LOVE my job!!! It's pretty much the coolest place ever.

Mario and Luigi

We won for best costumes at our Ward Party woot woot!! I admit our costumes were the coolest, but I have to give credit to Amber and Andy who we stole the idea from. Thanks guys =) Everyone had to try on our mustache. Here's Hayden the Great.

Miss Ind-i-licous

Saint Gabby

Michael looks so ridiculous! But the mustache wouldn't stay on with his facial hair. =)

Brookie was a princess.

I love her crazy grin!

and Ashy was a chunky pumpkin. We went to Hollie's ward Halloween party with them to help with the kids and Tayson.

Stitches & Contact Dermatitis? Lame!

**Warning** this is a little graphic. If you have a light stomach probably just skip to the next post. =)

Last week I went to the doctor to get my keloids shot. (Sounds fun right?) Anyway, I showed the doctor this bump on my arm that I had had for a while and he said it is a granuloma and that he should remove it. I've had a mole removed before so I wasn't too worried. But this one was different. It honestly didn't hurt (besides the little numbing shot) then he took an instrument that looked an orange peeler with a metal circle on the end and put it right over the granuloma. He pushed down a tiny bit and pulled it up and the skin/granuloma came with it, except a tiny string of skin/tissues (I'm not sure what it was). I was pretty okay with everything that was going on up until this point.

Then he pulled out the stitches and started stitching the hole up. That is when I lost it. It still didn't hurt but I could feel it tugging a bit on my skin while he was stitching it up but it was too interesting not to look. I started getting tunnel vision and I could tell all the blood had rushed out of my head. The doctor had me lay down for a while. Awkward! Luckily, the only thing that hurt was my pride.

Now that you know the story behind the stitches... The doctor had put Band-Aids over the keloid shots as well as over the stitches. Later that day at work, I was in so much pain, but it was from where the Band-Aids were. I have always noticed that my skin gets agitated beneath Band-Aids but I thought everybody did.

Well I developed these nasty rashes and blisters everywhere that the Band-Aids were. It was so sensitive and hurt. One of the doctors I work with explained what it was "contact dermatitis" I am allergic to the adhesive in Band-Aids. Who is allergic to Band-Aids? Honestly?