Mary Kay Makeover

I was bored last night....well, bored and ill. Apparently, my belly did not like the fact I chugged a half quart of chocolate milk from the carton. Anyway, so I used this Mary Kay makeover tool thing(click here to link.....for some reason my links never show up as a link on my blog although they totally are) Hilary had posted in her blog to give myself a new look or two or three or four. Any thoughts, feedback, comments, constructive criticism, etc? Oh, and the picture I used is from the Museum of Natural History, and I squatting in front of a tepee. However, it was the only picture I could find that I was facing mostly forward, my hair was back, and I looked semi-decent.

Itty bitty freezer

Help! My freezer is overflowing! I went grocery shopping and seriously, had to play a mini-game of tetris to get all the new and old stuff to fit in there in harmony. This is the first fridge I have had with the side by side freezer and fridge, and I swear it does not fit as much as a top and bottom freezer/fridge combo. Does anyone know? Does anyone have any helpful organizational tips?

Here is a picture of the monstrosity...

P.S. When I went to take said picture, things fell out and had to be shoved back in.

Piper's baby tendacies come out again

Last night, Piper decided to give us a small taste of what it will be like to have a baby. She woke up at 2:00 am, just because. She ran up and down the stairs, and when I went to see what she needed she decided she was cool, and went back to bed. She then woke me up at 4:00 am, and had to go to the bathroom. I took her out, and then she decided she did not want to go back to bed, so I scooped her up and made her come back upstairs with me. She, of course, stayed asleep when Dalan got up at 6:15 am (poor guy) to go to work, but then woke me up again 8:00 am. I made her stay in bed until 9:30 am (I was tired), then we got up. She, of course, is now asleep again on the couch!

I know babies are much more demanding in the middle of the night, but it was a small taste. Grrrr! Lack of continuous sleep is what makes me most nervous about having a baby.

Don't you know who I am?

Once upon a time, a creeper viewed my blog and then tried to sell me her book about kidney stones. It made me a little uncomfortable that someone was soliciting me for their own gains through my blog, but since it was not a huge invasion of privacy, I set my blog to be unsearchable and went on my merry way.

Then I eventually added Stat Counter to my blog, just out of curiosity of how many people were viewing my blog. Stat Counter can also tell me what keywords people enter that lead to my blog, however, since my blog is suppose to be unsearchable this section is usually blank. However, recently it told me that someone in San Francisco was searching "Rawley Valverde" and came across my blog on Channel One.

I am pretty sure Rawley Valverde read my blog! I mean who else would bother to search for someone who did a news report for junior high and high school students over 15 years ago! This is how I imagined it all went down. Rawley was watching his former Channel One news anchor Anderson Cooper on CNN, and started feeling really bad that Anderson had made it to the big show despite going prematurely gray at such a young age, and Rawley had not done much since his days in the hacienda, despite being so darn good looking. So, Rawley flipped over to VH1 for some mindless entertainment, and saw that his former news anchor, Craig Jackson, was hosting that horrible show, For the Love of Money. Sure the show is the worst of the worst when it comes to reality t.v., but at least Craig has a job.

In order to feel better about himself, he googled himself expecting at least a few articles, pictures, etc about himself, but instead all he found was my blog. At least I did call him the hispanic hottie, but other than being really good looking in 1994, and making me want to sit next to him in the haciendo, poor Rawley Valverde has not achieved the fame that Anderson Cooper, Craig Jackson, or Lisa Ling have found. Maybe he took comfort that I remembered enough about the show/ Pepsi Clear, and Michael Jordan ads to give them a shout out over almost two decades later.

Any which way, I feel pretty awesome that Rawley Valverde (or someone else who knows who Rawley Valverde is) read my blog.

Introducing Roxie and Thundercat

Dalan got a bike for his birthday, and I was super jealous, so two weeks ago we went out and got me a bike too! Hooray for new bikes. I haved put off blogginb about them, until I could get some pictures. Dalan's is a grayish mountain bike, and mine is pink old school Schwinn. My bike already had the name of Roxie, which is very cute, so I stuck with it. Dalan's bike came with a lame name, so he renamed it Thundercat.

We went on a pretty long bike ride together on Saturday, while to weather was so beautiful. It was a little windy, but the sun was shining and it was warm. Can you believe just two days ago I was riding my bike in a t-shirt, and now I am sitting on the couch in a turtleneck sweater, avoiding the snow! I wanted to get a bunch of pictures of each of us on our bikes, but during our photo shoot, the nice neighbor offered to take our picture together, however her dog made our dog go nuts, so after she took the "together" picture we took off on our bikes.

Museum of Natural History

McKay and Ali invited us to go to the Museum of Natural History with them to see the new frog and toad exhibit they have up there. We had such a fun time. We saw all the exotic and strange frogs, and then went an explored the rest of the museum. I had not been up there in at least ten years, and it was interesting to see all the displays, especially now that I teach Utah history and science. I think it would be worth your time to go up for an afternoon. We finished our day with lunch at The Pie. The four us had such a good time we are planning to explore other parts of our great state every weekend together. The dinosaur museum in Ogden and Kennecott are on the short list. I ended up taking a ton of pictures, because we were having so much fun!

Mr. Frog

The witches from Macbeth, aka Dalan, Ali, and McKay

Ali as a frog

Dalan as a frog

McKay as a frog

Ali and the dinosaur

Making earthquakes

Digging for dinosaur bones.

In a teepee.

Ali and the brine shrimp.

At The Pie

Pictures for my people!

Here are the pictures of the new couches...plus what I found under the old couches. Gag me! I even had swept under them quite often. Having wood floors and seeing how much hair, dust, and other stuff accumulate so quickly on them, has made me quite nervous of what could be lurking in our carpet. Yuck! Anyway, our new couches are awesome. I came home today to find Dalan reclining and enjoying a basketball game.


I came home to today to find the dog stained! Everyday I hold Piper like a baby, so I see her chest on a regular basis, so I know the stain was not there yesterday. Dalan swears up and down he has no idea how the stain got there, but it was there! So, it was bath time for Piper. She used to love her baths, and now she tries to flee the situation. I love how wild she get right after when she is still wet. It is like she is a puppy all over again.

The stain

Escape

Drying off

A clean, but wet dog

A crazy wet dog