BFF's...

This weekend my friend Brittany came and visited us! She got here Saturday afternoon and left Sunday evening, but it was still fun to see her!

Brittany and I lived together for only 2 semesters but have been friends since 2005. When we get together it is pretty crazy! The best part is Marc puts up with it! Saturday night we went to Craigo's! It is a fun little pizza place in town, well, it was better before they moved it away from the school and made it family friendly, but it is still yummy!

Brittany has some boots that she says were too expensive just to wear, so she documents the places they go! Sunday afternoon we went all over town to see where the boots could go! It was fun to be around town, it is so empty on sundays! We took said boots, later dubbed "Lucy Boots" some fun places...




We also went to the stadium to take some pictures. Since Brittany is basically a professional photographer, I let her take the pictures and I ran them to the field. I took advantage of the ENTIRE stadium being empty and laid down at center field for a photo op. I also felt very "Sound of Music" without the beautiful rolling green hills and snowy mountains, but I did my best!




After we were done running around we went and visited one of our old roommates Ali. When we got to Ali's apartment she was sleeping. Anyone that knows Ali, knows that she takes the phrase, "Sunday is a day of rest" literally. She was sound asleep when we got there, this girl is impossible to wake up! Brittany laid down in bed by her, after a minute or two she woke up and screamed, I don't think her roommate liked that too much! It was fun to have the 3 of us together again. Marc didn't want to interfere with our girl time, so the two of us went together. Since Rexburg is a ghost town on sunday, we used timers on our cameras to take pictures. We got a few good ones!




After that Brittany left! Britti, you are welcome to our floor anytime! We miss you!
I came home and our friends Clint and Shaylen came over to roast hot dogs and smores on the grill. It was raining so we all huddled around their little grill! I forgot to take pictures earlier, but this is what I got! Shaylen and Clint moved, so the picture turned out a little blurry!



Overall we had a pretty great weekend!

We WON...

$5! General Mills has a promotion going on. They have gift cards for $5, $10, and $25 in their cereals. We like cereal and lately it has been on sale. So we buy theirs to try and win money. Today we did just that! Marc always tries to trick me and say he found one, but today we really did! I opened it and was a little disappointed to find that it was only $5, but it helped with the cost of my new sunglasses! I lost mine a year ago and wanted new ones before we go to Yellowstone on Monday! So, if you want to try and win some cash there is a 1 in 10 chance, it only took us 7 boxes...

Vinyl Lettering!

Vinyl Lettering is really trendy right now! Not to mention cute! My friend Shaylen started a blog, for Uppercase Living go check it out! She is having a giveaway, take a look! I ordered some things a few months ago, here is what I did with them.

Mother's Day and a LONG Distance Phone Call

Last year before Mother's Day I starting hinting to Marc things I would like. When he didn't do anything I asked him why. His only reason, "We don't have kids yet"! Not an excuse in my book. I will be the mother to his future kids, isn't that worth honoring. I lovingly teased him about it for a whole year. I expected the same for this year, but he surprised me. I had mentioned that I needed some new clothes since summer is coming quick, and neither of us has lived in Arizona for a summer in almost 5 years and since we are moving in during the summer I figured it was a valid excuse! He kept hinting to something on Friday about "When we go out tomorrow", so I knew he was planning something, I just didn't know what. We woke up on Saturday and I had a pretty good idea we were going to go to Idaho Falls and go shopping. I was right! We stopped in at Target first just to look around and I found tons of cute stuff! We didn't even need to go to the mall because I found exactly what I wanted. We walked around the mall just to use up time, we went into Bath and Body Works, which Marc claimed was a planned stop. I picked out a few hand soaps, theirs are my favorite! Then he told me I had to decide where we were going for lunch. Ever since the Red Robin opened I have had a hard time passing it up. It was packed, but then again, not many people go out on Sundays in Idaho! We shared a Whisky River BBQ Wrap and Mozzarella sticks and were super full. We got in the car to come home and I almost fell asleep! We got home and rested while watching T.V. Later that night we were feeling pretty lazy so we invited some friends over. They have been wanting to teach us a game, so they brought over Killer Bunnies, silly name, really fun game! We played two games and they left around 11:30. We had such a fun day!

Sunday Marc really wanted to make me breakfast, but we have 9 o'clock church and didn't have much time to eat. When we got home we watched a movie, rested, and ate roast and potatoes. That is about when I started getting antsy! My brother is serving a mission for our church in Madagascar. Every Mother's Day and Christmas he gets to call and talk to us.

Thanks to modern technology, we were all able to be on our cell phones through Skype. My dad had us all ready to go and tried calling my brother, once, call failed, twice, call failed, third times a charm right, call failed. My dad ended up calling his last area and getting the right number from the missionaries there. It worked. It was 10:30 pm in Idaho, 9:30 pm in Arizona, and 7 am Monday in Madagascar. It is also winter there! We had so much fun talking to him. We called my grandma in Arizona and my Grandpa in Colorado and had 8 people all on at once without any problems! Once we had all asked our questions Elder Livingston's mini companion (he is preparing to serve his mission, so he serves a 3 month mini mission to help him prepare), wanted to talk. He is from Madagascar and has learned English from my brother. He was excited to try speaking to Americans. I think that the 6 other people and the delay scared him because he said hello, then again in Malagasy, then gave the phone back! It was so fun to talk to him. We talked for about 2 hours at christmas and it cost less than $1! I love my family so much! We realized that next Mother's day will be a great one, my first home in 5 years, Caleb will be home from his mission, Marc and I will be living there, and my youngest brother will be getting ready to graduate high school, and my sister will be finishing middle school! It will be so nice to have our family all together again! We can't wait!

Police Ride Along!

I was reminded of this today, it gave me a good laugh and I thought I would share. During Winter Semester 2007, I took an Intro to Journalism class. I got elective credit for it and thought I would refine my writing skills, hoping to one day write a book, what about, I don't know. One of the assignments for my class was to do a police ride along. We wrote down when we were available, and our contact information. A few days later we were given our assignments and told to contact the officer if we were not contacted. I called the department, and spoke with the officer I was assigned to ride with. I was really excited, I had always wanted to do this, but as the day came closer, I got scared. It just so happened that my roommates seemed to watch a lot more cop shows, and the day of the ride we talked about some pretty crazy photojournalism stories, all involving cops. Needless to say, as the hours quickly came and went I became scared. In my defense, I grew up in Phoenix, AZ, it is a pretty big city, and there is a pretty high crime rate. What I thought was going to happen in little Rexburg, Idaho, I don't know, but I was scared.

When I got to the station the temp said it was -2 degrees, pretty cold! The officer walked me around the station introduced me to the captain, then we got in the car. He checked in with his radio and told the operator that he had a ride along. We drove around Rexburg for awhile, he would call in plate numbers to check the status, but who steals a car here?! Time went by, nothing. He said for a Tuesday night, the streets were empty even for Rexburg, that was when I realized it was the season premiere of American Idol! No wonder the streets were almost completely empty in a college town!

Finally something! We were driving and saw a car pulled over. The cop immediately recognized the car as a someone he had dealt with from time to time. He talked to them, nothing, so we kept driving. It is a small town and in 30 minutes we had driven the whole town with another hour and a half left! Finally a call came in about an abandon car in town. We got to the scene, there were 3 other cop cars there and the K-9 unit! There are only ever 4 cars on duty at the most in town, they take their abandon cars seriously! After awhile the cop got in the car, we were parked facing away from the show, so until he got in I had no idea what was going on. A teen was driving his parents car, it broke down, he walked to the gas station to call them, when he got back there were 5 cops and a dog searching the car! My immediate reaction, "what a lame town I live in!" As it was drawing closer for the trip to be over the cop said I needed a ride in the car with the sirens on. We pulled into a parking lot at an intersection with a 4 way stop sign, by Little Caesars for those of you here as a warning! We were waiting for someone to roll through. The car was hidden, so people weren't driving as cautiously. Finally after about 5 minutes someone rolled thorough. The cop turned on the lights and sirens and pulled them over quick. He called in the plate number then went and talked to the person. I quickly realized this car looked a lot like the car of a guy I dated a few years before. Unfortunately, it wasn't, that would have been good revenge! I just felt bad for the poor kid, even though he only got a warning, he only got pulled over because I was in the car! The cop then dropped me off at my apartment, that got me a lot of looks!

Here is where I laughed today. We were driving home from the store and saw a car leaving a cop after being pulled over, as we passed I noticed a rider in the car, definitely a journalism student. I laughed so hard, I knew that cop just wanted to pull someone over because he had a rider. The poor person that got pulled over would have been fine if the cop wasn't trying to give someone "the siren" experience! So, if you are in Rexburg and get pulled over, look in your mirror, it might just be because they have a rider!

Friday Night

Friday night we went and saw the new X-Men movie! It was so good! Sometimes I get bored during "guy movies" so Marc goes with friends, or waits until they come out. I had seen the other 3 X-Men movies a few years ago and remembered liking them, so we went and saw the new one and both loved it! It was a fun date night! We got our tickets a few days before and were glad we did. When we got to the theater for the 4 pm show, there was a sign on the door saying all fridays shows were sold out! I highly recommend it! We had pretty low expectations, maybe that's why it was so good?!

Marc as a Puppet

Sunday after dinner with our friends, Belle really wanted Marc to play with her. We were all chatting, so Marc went and sat on the couch with her. She gave him this duck puppet and kept feeding it toys. After a little while I asked him how he was doing and he said "I can only eat stuff as a puppet for so long". We all started laughing really hard. Then Marc pretended he was sleeping and Belle kept snorting in his face! He is really going to miss playing with her! She gave us both huge hugs before she left to go live at "the beach". We are glad we can live close to them again in a few months, now Marc needs something else to keep him entertained!