Italian Backdrops

Mom had to make some wall hangings for a Ward Activity she was in charge off.   We went down to Erica’s house, hung a sheet on the wall and painted all day.  It was so much fun to paint and be creative. The theme of the activity was Italian so we did two Italian wall hangings- one of Vienna and one of an Italian wall.  I mostly did background stuff (Mom and Erica are great at details) but they turned out great!!

Mom's Graduation

My Mom just graduated from Nursing School. We all went to her graduation and then had a party in her honor.  I am so proud of my Mom for her accomplishment.  She has worked many countless hours studying and in her clinicals. She is such a great example and inspiration to me.   I love you Mom!

Girls Night at the Rio

One of my good friends, Jamie, returned from London so we decided to have a Girls Night Out.  We all went to the Rio, a delicious Mexican restaurant in Boulder. It was fun to be with all the girls and we had a great night!

Tribute to our Taurus

So we got a new car about a month ago…but we never got rid of the Taurus. It just sat sad and dejected in the corner of the drive way. Ben finally decided to take action and call a tow truck to pick up the car and take it to a junk yard. I actually ‘wept’ because I did not want my wonderful car to be a junk car.  So this is a tribute to our first car as a married couple.

Movie Quotes

Today during a slower moment at work I found a list of famous, most quoted and 'favorite' movie quotes. So I started to think of some of MY favorites, my quoted, and what I consider to be famous. (Some of these I had to look up the movie and character. These are stared.) These are in no particular order!

What would YOU add to the list?
“Po-ta-toes!! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew…Even you couldn’t say no to that.”- Sam  “Oh yes we could. Ssspoiling nice fish! Give it to ussss raw and wwwriggling. You keep nasty chips!.”- Gollum (Smeagol)/ The Lord of The Rings

“Luke, I’m your Father”- Vader   “NOOOOOOOO!”- Luke/ Star Wars

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." – Inigo Montoya/ The Princess Bride

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick BUTT. And I'm all out of bubble gum."- NADA/ They Live*

"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."-LLOYD DOBLER/ Say Anything

“Peeing your pants is the coolest.”- Billy/ Billy Madison

"What we've got here...is failure to communicate."- Captain/ Cool Hand Luke

"It's not a tumor!"-Arnold/ Kindergarten Cop

"There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't." - Bob Wiley/ What About Bob?

"You can't handle the truth!"-Colonel Jessup/A Few Good Men*

"There's no crying in baseball!" - Jimmy Dugan/ A League of Their Own*

"Inconceivable!"  "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."- Inigo Montoya/ The Princess Bride

"...Bond. James Bond."- Bond/ Bond 1-100

“I read it once…in a book.”- White Goodman/Dodgeball

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." – Rick Blaine/ Casablanca

"I'll be back."- Arnold/ The Terminator

"My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'"- Forest/ Forest Gump

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”-Clark Gable/ Gone with the Wind

“You talkin’ to me?” – Travis Bickle/Taxi Driver*

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."- Dorothy/ Wizard of Oz

"Here's looking at you, kid."- Rick Blaine/ Casablanca*

"Go ahead, make my day."- Dirty harry/ Sudden Impact

"May the Force be with you."- Star Wars

"There's no place like home." - Dorothy/ Wizard of Oz

“STELLA!!”- Stanley/Streetcar Named Desire

“Buehler…Buehler…”- Principal Rooney/ Ferris Buehler’s Day Of

“Rocky Road?”- Sloth/Goonies

WARNING: MAN COLD

Ben has a cold! Watch this video...Man Cold Video

Enough Said!

But in all reality I do feel bad and he is really sick. But he is slowly getting better and feeling a little better the more he drinks...

LEADVILLE!

Ben and I went up to Leadville to visit Mat and Andi. It was so much fun to see the kids and hang out with Mat and Andi.  We got to tour around Leadville (a very small but cute mountain town), go hang out at Copper Mountain (an awesome ski town), play in the snow with the kids, and played games (Ticket to Ride and Settlers all night long).  We hope to be able to go up there again in the summer time (to go camping)!!

Playing Ticket to Ride- Europe

This is what happens when you give Mylie the camera + about 500 more pictures!

Copper Mountain Ski Resourt

Look who we saw skiing at Copper Mountain!



This is the spring snow!



The start of SPRING...

POPCORN!

The other night Ben was craving popcorn but alas we did not have any instant microwave popcorn, so Ben decided to make stove top popcorn. The first attempt Ben boiled an entire stick of butter with 1/2 cup of popcorn. It...did not really work!

We googled it (google is amazing) and found out that was a little to much butter. We tried it again and...wala stovetop popcorn. The wonderful things we learn every day!!

Ben's Business Trip to NC

Ben went to North Carolina on a business trip for Crocs for a Online Retailer Conference called Catalist put on by Cannel Advisor.  He went with Zach, a friend and co-worker from work. Zach was speaching as a pannelist at the conference- so Ben (because he went with Zach) was upgraded to a suite.  He thought the room was pretty fancy (his favorite part was the golf course right outside the window)!

It was pretty much three of pannels, key note addresses and speaches. At the closing party they saw Kool Mo Dee (a big time hip hop 'thug' rapper from 1986) perform and said it was "AWESOME"!! He actually said it was a lot better than he expected and they were dancing and singing along.

On the way home to the airport they stopped to have some authentic southern barbeque- delicious.

Ben Golfing!

Ben loves playing golf. He has a group of friends that he goes out with often.  He has gotten really good and really enjoys it!!

Hair Cut

I got a hair cut. I cut off about 4 inches and cut bangs.  I am excited for the change. Here are some pictures!

BEFORE

AFTER

Plowed Over By Annie

Saturday, we gave Annie a bath (When Annie get’s a bath she gets very hyper and excited. She runs around very fast with checks flapping) and so Ben took her in the backyard and was playing soccer with her. He kicked the ball; she would attack it (at full speed) and bring it back.  In the back yard area there is a small hill by a back fence, so I was standing up by the fence watching as Ben and the dog played.  Annie was running full speed past me when Ben kicked the ball and it hit the fence and rebounded forward.  Annie tried to change directions to get the ball, but in her hyper full speed, turned right into me and PLOW!! She took my legs right out from under me (hit by a 60 lb dog running full speed).  I flew until to the air and landed in a shocked heap on the ground. (Don’t worry Annie got the ball!) I just laid there on the ground trying to figure out if I was broken for a couple minutes while Ben roared with laughter.  (He is so sad he didn’t have a camera.) I was fine but as the day went on I kept finding bruises and sore spots from getting wrestled by a dog.   I still have not determined what lesson I should have learnt from this…incident.  Watch where you’re standing during soccer games?

New Car

For the past couple of months we have been looking for a new car to replace our Tarus. We bought the Ford Tarus right before we got married from Ben’s grandmother it had almost no miles but was almost as old as I was (19 years old). It has been a wonderful car lasting us through three blissful years of marriage but there have been some bumps along the way- fuel pumps, ect. Last year it started leaking oil and as a result- smoking. This smoke filled the car if ever the heat or ac was on- so the climate control was a problem. We finally decided this was an engine block problem and couldn’t be fixed; Hence us looking for another car.

After months of looking, we finally got another car!! There were some people in our ward who were selling a Toyota Avalon. It is older (’99) and is very FANCY (heat warmers and a sunroof). It is so nice and we feel so special having it!!

Ward Conference

Today was our Ward Conference. I was there early, practicing for the choir number and Ben was there early for meetings and to make sure the sacrament and Young Men were in order. About 15 minutes to the hour, as people were trying to sit reverently, a few were mingling in the back and families were arriving and finding seats a dull and ancient sounding chirp filled the halls of the church (but not the chapel- it only streamed in through the open doors). A few people took no notice, some looked around curiously, some went into the hallway to inquire at the awkwardly loud sound- yes, this was the fire alarm. Still, after this realization, no one took for the door or even started to leave- it was probably the act of a Primary child (the only look of panic is the mother taking toll of her children, making sure they are all accounted for and not the alarm pulling fiend). After a couple minutes of the sirens a member of the Stake Presidency entered the room and asked that we do indeed evacuate the building. While leaving, with the ward before us, we all utter silent prayers of thanks that the weather is warm, sunny and dry!

While waiting outside Jacob, my 5 year old nephew, looks at me with utter horror and says, “I left my scriptures inside, are they gonna burn?” I quickly told him it was just a practice fire drill, like at school, and his scriptures would be fine. We were let in about 5 minutes later, although our numbers had doubled as most of the rest of our ward had arrived for church.

Needless to say Sacrament started late (they could not get everyone to calm down or take their seats very quickly) and so started our Ward Conference…