Pretty birds, pretty birds

Saturday Paul, Karri and I went to a starving artists art sale at the Sheraton downtown. They have tons of paintings in several sizes. All the same size paintings are the same price and prices range from $18.95 to $119.00. I found a painting of a bird couple. I instantly fell in love and had to take them home with me so they could keep my other parrot painting company. I'm not really sure what kind of birds they are... if you know please leave a comment telling me. Also I think I should name them. The orange and green one is named Cantú after the artist that painted it. I brought that one back from my mission. You can leave name suggestions in my comments also. I will announce which names I have chosen when the time comes.
I know the picture is kinda crooked. I'll work on taking straight pictures but that will be kinda hard considering I'm not straight.

Follow-up...

A few weeks ago I posted about a picture I had ordered online to hang above our couch in the living room. I had mentioned that some other pictures would join it. Well I finally got around to putting it all together last night. I think the camera was crooked and not all the pictures... I'd better make sure when I get home. Feed back is welcome as long as its nice. :)

Small FYI this is 100th post!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

New Years Eve for us was quite an adventure. We had to stop and see both of Paul's parents and hit up 2 parties. We got to his mom's a little after 7:oo, had dinner visited for a little bit and then left about 8:45. We headed straight over to his dad's and played video games with some kids that are friends of the family. It was fun even though I wasn't very good. We ended over to a party that Paul's friends from work were having. We got there about 10:30. We just stood in the kitchen and visited for about an hour then we were off again. We were on our way over to Paul's best friends parents house and Paul was calling Paige to let her know we were on our way and that we were hoping to make it there by mid-night. When Paige didn't answer her phone Paul called her parents house and talked to her mom. She said we were more than welcome to come over. Before we got there Paige called back and said she had received a last minute invitation to hang out with her boyfriends family in West Jordan (where we were coming from). So we still went to her parents house. We got there, parked, walked inside, put on the silly hats you see below and started shouting HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We just made it. Then Paige's dad started lighting off the fireworks he picked up in Wyoming. It was a really great show. It was fun to see all the other illegal fireworks that were being shot off just a couple od streets over. We headed home a little before 1. Paul wasn't ready for bed yet so we stayed up playing Settlers of Catan and dominos until I finally convined him it was time for bed. All in all we had a great new years celebration. Here's to 2009!!

Post Christmas/Pre New Years Update

I hope everyone out there had an awesome Christmas. I am planning on taking pictures of the stuff I got and posting it on here but I still haven't done it. I should start off by saying that Paul is the BEST and he totally got me the phone I wanted!! I am now the proud owner of the Motorola Motozine!! I really love it. I haven't even had it a whole week yet and I've already been taking pictures and sending them to people. I posted pictures on Kylie's blog that I took with my phone. Check it out if you want.

Now that we are starting a new year I guess I should set some goals that I probably won't keep. My friend at work, Larry and I joked about walking on all of our lunch breaks over to the Olive Garden. I don't think that's the same as the Subway diet. Although, the Olive Garden is further away than Subway is. My biggest goal for this year is to get out of debt. We have been doing a pretty good job. I would also like to buy a house. We'll see how that goes. I hope everyone had a great year and I wish all of you the best for the year to come!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Crazy 8's (thanks a lot Kimi)

CrAzY EiGhTs

8 Shows we Watch:
-Heroes
-Big Bang Theory
-How I Met Your Mother
-Fringe
-Americas Next Top Model
-Survivor
-Rita Rocks
-Eli Stone

8 Places I like to Eat
-Cafe Rio
-Enjoy Chinese Cuisine
-Chipotle
-Noodles and Company
-Iggy's
-La Costa
-Taco Bell
-My parents house

8 Things on my Wishlist
-No Debt
-A House
-A puppy
-A Kitty
-Same job, more money
-The Motorola Motozine
-Acceptance of Paul by everyone in my life
-A fancy car (not that I need one but it's a wishlist right)

8 Tags: (I'll be checking!)
-Karri
-Amber
-Holli
-Meagan
-Brenda
-Michelle
-Micah
-Kathy

You know its Christmas...

when the crazy lady on the train wears her antlers...

Ski Biz Expo

Last week on Wednesday my department hosted the Ski Biz Expo at Club Elevate in downtown Salt Lake. It is a big event where ski related vendors set up booths and talk about their products. We spent months planning the event and it was a huge success. Below is a picture of the Tourism Team and the "Utah Snowflakes."

WEGE (pronounced wedgie)

Every year the "Bureau" holds a White Elephant Gift Exchange or WEGE. Anyone who wants to participate draws a name and buys that person a gift. Most people write a little poem or something explaining why the gift was given. Most of the time it is something funny. I bought a stuffed dog for the girl that let me follow her around like a lost puppy my first day. My boss Kaitlin drew my name and bought me a Baby Potato Head and turned it into the Tourism Edition. I like that she took the time to dress him up and make him a little sign. I work with the coolest people.

It's only taken a year

So Paul and I have officially lived together for over a year. We moved into our apartment the weekend after Thanksgiving last year. (But Paul actually moved into my apartment in Orem 2 weeks before that) We never hung anything on the main wall of our living room over the couch. Once we saw a collection of art at Target that I really loved but we couldn't afford at the time and then when we could they were sold out. A short time ago I found the art below at Target.com. I wanted to order it right away but again I didn't have the money. But we finally decided to order it and it just arrived at my office today. I am so excited!! I plan on hanging 3 brown 5x7" frames on either side with pictures from our year together. I'm very excited to finally be hanging art on the wall.

Thanksgiving

So I survived Thanksgiving '08. That doesn't really sound all that impressive until you hear the list of events of the day. The morning was relaxed after I made french toast for breakfast. Then Paul and I headed over to my parents house about 2:00 for the big event. The dinner was the traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, yams, corn and cranberry sauce. Needles to say I was STUFFED!! My mom is getting very good at coming up with ways to tweek things so that Paul and my cousin Heidi can eat traditional food and still be vegetarians. My mom tweeked her stuffing recipe and made a small portion that Heidi and Paul shared. Below is Heidi showing off her control of the roll basket. Kylie wasn't there to monitor how many rolls she ate so she helped herself. After dinner at my parents we headed over to Paul's mom's house. There was a very long table set up in her living room and as soon as we walked in we were instructed to sit and plates were placed in front of us. Paul's mom makes turkey, rice and potato salad El Salvador style. It is really tasty and very different from American style. After eating at Paul's mom's it was time to head over to Paul's brother's to celebrate with his dad.

Luckily everything was running behind, as usual and we didn't eat for a few hours. Actually it was about 9:30 by the time we sat down to eat. After dinner we took Paul's tipsy sister home and then returned just long enough to cut out 3/4 of a pan of brownies and leave behind. We got home about 11:00 and went straight to bed. Paul had to work the next morning so we didn't get to do crazy early morning shopping.