WARNING!!!!! DO NOT EAT THE MEAT AT ARCTIC CIRCLE!

You have heard the expression "Don't drink the water in Mexico", well I am here to tell you do NOT eat the meat at arctic circle. Just for a brief history, when I was in middle school, I had a hamburger at Arctic Circle. My meat was not cooked and I got sick. I have not had a hamburger or anything with their hamburger meat ever since then. I am however, addicted to their Butterfinger shakes. So, yesterday, I was craving a shake. So I get to Arctic Circle and I told myself, "Self, a shake is not a good thing to have for lunch. You must have something else." Well some of the girls in the office had ordered some tacos or something from some Mexican restaraunt and it smelled really good. So, I ordered a taco wrap as well. In the back of my mind I just KNEW it was a bad idea...so, I go back to work with my food and I start eating. To my suprise the taco wrap is decent (just for the record, Taco Bell is much better). Anyway, I am pretty busy at work taking a bite of my taco here and there not really paying attention. I was just about done with my taco and it's hard to eat and do paperwork at the same time so I decide to just hurry and finish my taco so I can focus better. So, I pick up my taco, and for the first time I look at it.....PINK MEAT!!!!!!! Yeah, I just about threw up!!!! So I emptied my full mouth into the sack and threw it away! And here I am, a day later with a very upset stomach! So, I for one am never going to eat meat from arctic circle again. I gave it a chance a long time ago and apparently, they didn't deserve the second chance!!! And I have learned my lesson!

Home Sweet Home

So we have been slackers at taking pics of our new place so people could see it. I figured this would be a good way to do it so everyone can see. Just keep in mind, since we have the house, I have no money to decorate the house...funny how that works. So all the bare walls will one day have something on them...


First on the "virtual tour" is our porch...

This is the entry way. The door on the left if our half bath...




From the entry way, it leads to our living room... It's a little small but it's cozy. Especially with our new couches. In our last apartment all we had was a love sac! So couches are very well appreciated in our house!




The dining room is right off the living room. In between is a sliding glass door that leads to our little back porch.


Next is the kitchen. This is one thing I miss about our last apartment. I had a nice kitchen with lots of counter space. There is little counter space here but I only complain when I cook. And if you know me well, you know how often that is...

This is our laundry room/dog pen. We put a baby gate up during the day so Koda doesn't roam all over.


These are our stairs...I know, interesting huh...

This is the first room upstairs, it's "Jeremy's room". He even decorated it by himself. Can ya tell?


This is our hall way bathroom. Suprisingly, this bathtub is Koda's favorite place. He loves to get in there except for when he is getting a bath. Go figure!



This is our Office/scrapbook room. It is so nice to finally have a room for all my crap! And yet, I still have no room for it all!!!
Next is our bedroom...


Around the corner is a little hallway with our closet...



And our master bath at the end (the highlight being the garden tub. Hey, I work at a plumbing place. What can I say?)


And last but not least, our balcony off of our bedroom...

This isn't a good picture but we have a very pretty view from our balcony. It's great on the 4th of July to watch fireworks!



So that is our humble abode!!!


Now, while I was wandering around my house preparing these pictures to bore you all to death...my little dog had his own fun. This is what he did. He got into my sewing bag and grabbed a ball of string and strung it around my house. It starts upstairs in the closet and is all the way down the stairs, wrapped around the island in the kitchen and ends in a tangled knot. Koda got fixed last weekend but as you can see, he is feeling much much better.

But how can you be mad at this poofy little face???

Weekend Fun!

This weekend we went to a wedding dinner at Tanner Flats in Cottonwood Canyon. The whole fam was there and the food was great! It was a little chilly so we were all cuddled around the campfire. Then, from out of no where a cheerleader appeared!!! (aka Jeremy's mom). This cheer was for the bride and groom (Jer's cousin and his Fiance). This is a video of her cheering for those of you who were not present to witness the entertainment...

Lets just say that our family get togethers are always exciting one way or another...

Last weekend, we decided to go to Antelope Island. It has been years and years since any of us had been out there. So Chris, Sarah, Dawson, Me, Jer and of course Heather all piled into the van. So we are driving along and we spot a bison. So we pull over to take a pic with Jeremy and the buffalo. Well, to get a good picture, He had to get out of the car. Right as I am about to take a picture Sarah freaks out because there were HUGE spiders all over in the bushes right where Jeremy was standing. Now, spiders in general are completely disgusting. These ones were so BIG and it didn't help matters that we had watched Arachnaphobia the night before...so Jeremy jumps in the van and off we went. But now we were all too paranoid about the spiders to even get out of the car. So if you go to the island BEWARE OF THE BUSHES!!

So we headed down the "Utah Beach". It was hot hot hot and I do not remember the LONG walk from the parking lot to the water but it felt like forever. So as we are walking and trying not to complain too much, our favorite little sister says, "Man, they sure put a lot of sand out here." We couldn't help but laugh! We love having her with us. So I took a pic of her and all that sand!!!

On top of being hot and smelly, as you get closer to the lake there are tons and tons of little tiny flies. Needless to say, with all of the big spiders and the hot sun the bugs were not what we wanted. Jeremy was walking toward the water and there were so many bugs that it looked like the ground was moving! It was quite gross. As you can tell by the looks on our faces...we won't be returning to Antelope Island any time soon...

The Great Outdoors

So for Labor Day we went camping. On Friday night we went up to the ward campout in Wallsburg. We had alot of fun. There were big black cows that roamed the campground all night which pretty much kept me awake because I thought it was a bear. It must have loved our tent because it walked around it a few times during the night and at times decided it tasted good too because it was licking it. And there was also a very loud cricket chirping right by my head outside the tent and it didn't move ALL night!! That was quite annoying. Other than trying to sleep, it was pretty fun. And I just realized we didn't take any pictures of anything...

We went from one campsite straight to another on Saturday morning. Jers family has property in Indian Canyon and they were all up there for the long weekend. It was nice to just have a lazy, relaxing weekend. We just hung out and played card games and rode 4 wheelers. We took our dog, Koda, with us. He LOVED the 4 wheeler ride.

King of the 4 Wheeler...Sorry Jer, it looks like you have been dethroned...

This is us on the 4 wheeler...obviously. The weather was great on Saturday, which made for some long drives on the wheeler and a nice drive at midnight to go look at the stars from the top of the mountain, which is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I know we could out run a bear on the 4 wheeler but being out in the middle of the night, on the top of the mountain, in the pitch black...was a little nerve racking just because I always fear the worst!! But, I am glad to say we are alive and in one piece!! (Yes, I know, I am a little paranoid!!)

Happy Happy Birthday!

I turned 24 last Friday! My birthday was great! I took the day off work so I could have a 3 day weekend. Me and Sarah went to a scrapbook store because they were having a sale. Then we met up with Chris, Dawson and Jer to go to lunch. After that, me and Jer just spent the day together. We went to the mall and spent more money than we probably should have but it was my birthday so it's ok right? Well, I'll just keep telling myself that anyway! Jer got me a few presents. I didn't ask for a lot or for anything special. But got me what I had asked for which was great!

To celebrate, we went out on Saturday with the fam. We went to Hard Rock Cafe. That was Chris and Sarah's suggestion. I'd never been there before and I love music and electrical guitars and stuff so they thought I would like it. It was pretty cool.

Mine and Jer's parents were there, along with Chris, Sarah and Dawson and of course my little sister, Heather! As you can see we are quite the goofy bunch!

My little nephew Dawson, who was pretty much the coolest person there...

Me and Jer...I'm not really sure exactly what he was doing in this picture...

Since it was my birthday, they had me stand on a chair in the middle of the restaraunt and everyone yelled happy birthday to me. A little embarrassing yes, but they did give me chocolate ice cream so it wasn't all that bad!

A little about us

Me and Jeremy just celebrated our 2nd year anniversary on August 4th. I can't believe how time flies! It has been the best two years too!

We just moved into a townhome in West Jordan last month and it is so much better than an apartment! Its nothing brand new or way exciting but we've made it our home and that's what matters! Plus, we are basically down the street from Chris and Sarah and Dawson. Which is great because it's convenient to do stuff with them all the time! (Plus, Sarah is really good at feeding us dinner when I don't cook! (: ).

We bought ourselves a little puppy a couple of months ago. His name is Koda who is 4 months old. We aren't quite ready for kids yet so we figured a puppy would be a good compromise! I do, however, have a hard time remembering to keep my flip flops and clothes and stuff out of his reach because he thinks everything is a toy. My glasses were his latest victim. I still don't really know how he got them but he manages to do stuff like that.

Well, that's pretty much our life in a nut shell.