MOTIVATION

Blah Blah Blah! I pretty much have had no motivation to go running. Ask me how my half marathon training is...better yet don't ask! Pretend you did ask and also pretend I said it's going fantastic!
We went to Cali last week and I will post more about that later.
Monday our lives went back to normal, only it kinda didn't. I got rear ended on the freeway and now my arm is messed up. I am hoping it heals but dang it hurts. I am driving this ghetto rental car that has stained seats and is yucky. I don't even want to think about having to get in it shortly.
I haven't started on our Halloween costumes because I am BUSY! Story of my life...hopefully I will attempt to work on them and finish them this weekend.
Pretty much we are boring for now so that's all you get until I post about Cali!

Costumes...

So, I have been contemplating our Halloween costumes pretty much since last year. Since last year's costumes were so stressful I thought I should go easy on myself. Here are all the ideas and the order in which they popped in my head...

The Riddler~Poison Ivy (This costume will happen one day when I am as skinny as a rail)

Mr & Mrs Incredible (We need a Jack-Jack)

Peter Pan~Wendy (Daniel did not want to wear tights or anything like them)
Eric~Ariel (I just am never sure about this one)

Woody~Jesse (This was the final decision until Daniel mentioned something else)

~Jack Skellington and Sally~ This is the winning costume. It shouldn't be that difficult. I know I could totally go out and buy these but I just don't think that will seem very "Jessica like" since I like my home made costumes. So, wish me luck because I am going to need it. We leave to go to California on Saturday and then when we get back we have to plan my Grandma's 90th surprise birthday party. So I have a total of zero time. Last year I had zero time also and I survived with a fantastic Halloween costume to show off. I just LOVE Halloween :)

Crazy Weekend :)

So we didn't have to work this past weekend at Wingers. Yay for us right? Well sorta Yay. Ha ha even though we didn't work we had a weekend full of events. Thursday I had my friend Kara's Wedding. She got married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 23. We attended her ceremony, luncheon and reception so that was a full day of fun!
On Friday, September 24 Daniel's sister Nicole got married. It was so lovely and fun. They got sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Then they had a luncheon in there honor at there ward house. There reception was at Daniel and Nicole's Aunt Jan's house. It was done up really cute. We were really excited to spend that special day with them and be able to see Daniel's family.

Daniel asked Nicole for a special dance that they shared together

This is Daniel and his sister Maddie, they are twins!

Daniel's sister Ciara she is so cute and fun

The bride and groom with us before they left on their honeymoon

Then Saturday after the wedding my cousin Gage got baptized. My cousin Chauntay had a party for turning 3. Another cousin Drake, turned 18. Then, my sister turned 21?!?! We went to dinner and a movie for her birthday and it was such a fun day.

Halloween Decoration

So, Halloween is right around the corner and this past weekend I went to Swiss Days and saw some adorable Halloween decor. The main thing that stuck out in my head was a $50 chair. I totally would have forked over the money if it didn't seem so easy to make. I also figured I could make it cuter and I could probably make a little something to match it and that is just what I did. I made a Halloween chair with a cuter chair frame and cuter fabric and I made a wall hanging to go with it. I took the pictures with my phone so they aren't high quality but you get the just of it. These were really fun to make and I love them more since I made them.

MOM'S

So, I came across this age break down of how we think of our mothers. I have seen similar things before but this is almost exactly how I thought at each age so I found it comical and decided to post it.

At age 4: Mom knows everything!

At age 8: Mom knows a lot.

At age 12: Mom doesn’t really know everything.

At age 14: Mom doesn’t know anything because I know everything!

At age 16: Mom doesn’t exist because she is embarrassing and lame.

At age 18: Mom is controlling.

At age 21: Mom probably knows something about this.

At age 28: Mom knows a lot. I need to call her.

At age 35: Before we decide, let’s ask Mom.

At age 45: I wonder what Mom thinks about this?

At age 75: I wish I could ask my Mom about this.

I found this funny because the younger I was the more I looked up to my mom and then through my teenage years well, I didn't think my mom was cool. At all. Now I need her for everything. There are times that we disagree with certain subjects but overall her advice is great. There are a lot of moms that need to be taking notes on how to be a good mom and I could name a few of them. I got lucky enough to know a few of the great moms in the world. I am glad to have my Mom, Aunt's and Grandma's in my life! :)

Gotta Love It

I really hate cops. I will tell you I have been pulled over and ticketed in my life more times then I have fingers. Recently it seems my luck has improved and Daniel's has rapidly plunged into the ground. He has been pulled over and ticketed twice within the past six days. He got pulled over on the way home from work for going 16 over and his ticket just happened to be for 16 over. The brainless cop couldn't even find it in his heart to reduce the ticket speed. Daniel didn't even realize he was going so fast considering he just turned a corner and he is still unsure since he never saw his speedometer reach 46 mph. The cop also so kindly gave him a warning for not having the proper address on his ID. Seriously? Does the cop not have internet access? Daniel changed it online since it would be useless to pay for a new license. He hasn't lived at his parents house since he was 18 and he has changed his address 3 times online since then. Did the cop not get the memo in his computer? Then today he gets pulled over for speeding and Daniel said the cop was nice and lowered it to 5 over from whatever speed he was going. I don't think that is a nice cop, a nice cop would have given a warning and let him get to school since that is where he was headed. Two tickets in six days, gotta love it.

In my personal opinion I think cops are retarded. If they actually did their job and protected the community from crime then I would not have a problem with them but they insist on ticketing the hard working citizens instead. Blah!

Anyway, this is the first week of many where Daniel and I will see less of each other. School started, Daniel's new job started and my schedule changed at Wingers. Daniel is taking 5 classes this semester most of them are Anthropology which is his Major. He is enjoying all his classes so far and he is also enrolled in a research group which will help him when it comes time to apply to med school. Daniel has been getting up extremely early to be at work and extremely early is defined by 5AM. Then he goes to school from 12:30 PM-5PM most days and then Mon-Sat he works at Wingers 5:30PM-Close. He is a very busy person right now. Since he doesn't work everyday at his CNA job he is working at Wingers still. Once he goes full time at Sunbrook he will only work probably 1-2 shifts at Wingers. I only work with him 4 shifts this week out of each of our 6 shifts which is sad and in a few weeks it will go down to 1-2 shifts. Sad. Its alright though we will have Tuesday from 5 until night then Saturday and Sundays from Noon to night with each other.

New York!

New York City was absolutely lovely. I would move there tomorrow if I had the chance. I loved everything in, about and around the great city. I wish I could say the same for Daniel but he just didn't enjoy it as much as I did. I am sure it had something to do with the fact that he went with 3 girls and we shopped all the time...it is one of my guilty pleasures.

We left for New York Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:00 PM Utah time and arrived in New York around 11 PM New York time. They are 2 hours later than us so it only felt like 9PM. So we took the subway and went and checked into our hotel. Then we went outside and walked around times square. No one was sleeping and no one looked tired it was crazy. Once we were finished browsing around times square we went to our hotel and crashed. When we woke up the next morning there were still a ton of people outside. Times square is always busy.Then we took the subway to go shopping and to Central Park!We then went to 5th Avenue for Central Park and shopping. We saw this globe thing outside of the subway and I still am not sure what it is. Everyone else probably does but I don't because I didn't pay any attention to what it was.Then we went to Central Park and it was so huge. We walked around for a couple hours and we barely walked any of the park. They had bicycle people who would give you rides and I am pretty sure we should have done that to see more of the park but we didn't.
Then we got hungry and everyone got a hot dog and I ate this nasty cheese filled pretzel. I was going to take a picture of Daniel's hot dog but he ate it in less than a second because he was so hungry.
Then we finally went shopping :) See the gorgeous store below. This is just one of the many gorgeous stores we walked into. They had everything it was like heaven on earth. From Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Christian Louboutin to Chanel. They had EVERYTHING!
We saw a lot of Cathedrals in NY and they were all so beautiful. We shopped until we dropped on day one and it pretty much was the time of my life. Daniel and I are across the street as we are heading home from our long day. Sabrina and I lost our minds a little while Shelly was in the shower and we made Daniel be our photographer. We were jumping on the bed and being crazy for probably 20 minutes and these are only two of the bundle of photos Daniel took of us ha ha. On day 2 we had a lot of sites to see and aside from times square our second site of everyday was a subway. We went to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and Lady Liberty is much smaller in person then I would have ever expected. It was neat and Daniel really liked it because he likes history and stuff like that. We obviously thought the subway was pretty neat. Then we arrived at Ground Zero and got to learn more about the monument that they are building here. They are building Freedom Towers in remembrance of 9-11.

Then we experienced our one and only, expensive, 5 minute Taxi ride! YAYAYAYAY!
China Town
Little Italy. It had some yummy food there.Then onto day 3. We started our by going to Madison Square Garden, which was a hot and sweaty tour because the air in the building was not working properly.
Then we went to the Empire State Building and Top of The Rock at the Rockefeller Center. They were pretty much the same exact thing but it was cool to see the city from up so high.



Then We went to the Library which was a dud. Someone said it was cool and it wasn't. We are thinking we went to the wrong one...Radio City was neat to see and from here we just finished up the day with more shopping.
The final day we woke up later in the day and went on a Circle Line Sight Seeing Cruise. We took a 3 hour cruise around Manhattan and it was pretty neat seeing all the bridges and the city from the water.

This is Daniel sleeping. We went on like 6 boat rides when we were in NY and he took a nap on every single one of them.
Our last night we saw Wicked. Daniel absolutely loved every moment of the show. I also liked it which is surprising considering my outlook on musicals. I am glad we were able to end the trip with something that Daniel absolutely enjoyed.


Then we headed to the airport at like 2:30 AM NY time and arrived in Utah, Wednesday, August 11 at 11 AM. We slept all day Wednesday when we arrived at our house. The trip was such a blast and totally wore us out :)
Thursday I went with Maddie to the Zoo for her 22nd birthday and we also visited Aunt Connie for her 42nd birthday! Yay! They both got some pretty cute purses from NY lucky them and lucky us to have them in our lives! :) That is the end of our vacation.