The good and the bad

While I love my new office in historic down town Provo, there are a few things not to love. Well wait, I'll tell you what I love first, and then what I don't. I love the character of the building. It was built in the early 1900's so it has very cool wood detailing everywhere. It has really beautiful tall ceilings, and windows. I love the vibe in down town Provo. There are always people out an about. We are very close to some of the best restaurants in Provo, so that is fun too. And I love all the big old trees that are around. Also, we have found that having a dumpster situated right below our office window can provide a fun, slightly more challenging, way to take the trash out. We have only missed once or twice.

Now on to my complaints. Not so in love with all the weirdos around here. We never had this problem at our old office, but around here there are several mentally unstable people. Whether they are homeless or not is debatable, but they are definitely weird. I can honestly say that I have been more creeped out walking to my car here than I ever was walking to or from work in New York City. So I carry a little bottle of pink pepper spray. Over kill? Probably, but you can never be too safe.

This little guy is my only other complaint: Luckily my business partner isn't terrified of mice like I am. He was the heroic captor in this situation. The ironic thing is I have a cute little pink stuffed mouse sitting next to me on my desk. It's cute, the live one isn't. We have since sealed up several holes in the closet in hopes of keeping our furry little friends out.

On a side note I did try singing like Giselle on Enchanted to see if I could get the friendly little vermin to come clean my office, but it didn't work. So I decided if they were going to eat our food and not work for it, they had to go!

I want this

I LOVE glitter. Like, really love glitter. Anything with glitter on it is better. I have even thanked God in my prayers before for glitter because it makes me happy. Maybe if I pray for this glitter set it will show up on my door step? Maybe.

Blog Barf

I did it. I sat down yesterday and did some serious blog barfing. So keep scrolling down to see all the posts I did. Wouldn't want you to miss out on anything. And, just because I did all my posts at once, doesn't mean you don't have to leave me reaffirming comments to make me feel good about putting all the crap I do up for the world to see.

Thanks!

25!

On October 9 I turned 25, and this is how I feel about it:

(Love the double chin. That one is for you Lindsey.)

I thought I might be more freaked out about turning 25, but I was so sick for the whole week leading up to my birthday, that I didn't really have time to think about it. By the time the day came, I was just so excited to feel good.

I got thoroughly spoiled for my big day. Adam gave me his present early because it came in handy for a very sick girl. He got me a Blue-ray Player. He led me on a scavenger hunt to find it. I felt like crap as we paraded around the house to find the present, but he was so excited about it that I toughed it out. When I first opened it I was like, "Wow, is this for me or you?" Cause really, I don't care about Blue-ray. The cool part about it is it instantly streams Netflix movies and Pandora radio. Very cool! I have watched many movies in the last 2 weeks as I sat on my butt feeling like crap. Thanks Adam!

On Thursday, the day before my birthday, my friend and business partner Bert made sure I was very spoiled. He got me a beautiful purse from my favorite store Nordstrom using our Dell discount. Gotta love the computer hook up! He got me cake and balloons too! We had a nice lunch to top the celebrating off!

My sweet brother Zach got me flowers and my favorite store bought cookies: Mint Milanos. Mmmmm!

When my actual birthday came, I had pretty much already received all of my gifts. I opened a nice card with $$ (that's always nice,) from Dad and Grandma and Grandpa. But what were we to do with my birthday day off? Good question. Two years ago for my birthday my mom gave me a kayak. Cool huh? Well we decided that for its 2 year birthday we would take it on it's maiden voyage! First we had to blow it up.
Look! We fit!




Then we headed out to our private neighborhood boat launch. Another perk of where we live! We strapped on our too small life jackets, (I swear they weren't that small in the store. Haha!) and headed out into the wild!


We didn't even dunk the boat! Good thing too, cause it wasn't very warm out. It was so beautiful. What a fun way to spend birthday morning!

Thank you all for making it a special day! I know I am loved. Thank you for all of the gifts. I didn't list everything I got, but that doesn't mean the things I didn't list are any less important. I was just afraid if I kept listing the cool things I got people would get jealous. :)

Boy Date!

We love to take our nieces and nephews out on little dates. It's harder to come up with fun boy dates than it is girl dates. So when my friend Bert had an extra ticket to the BYU vs. Utah State football game, we figured it would be the perfect boy date! Willy loved it! It was so fun to watch how excited he got.


I was also amazed at how much that boy could eat! We went to Noodles for dinner before the game and he ate a whole plate of Mac 'n Cheese with meatballs. He ate the meatballs whole. I figured that was a lot. He ate more than me, but when we got to the game he ate his apple, 2 granola bars, bag of carrots, and fruit roll up. Holy! He is a growing boy!

Busy Booties

My sweet and extremely talented friend Lindsey decided to have a backyard boutique to sell arts and crafts in her neighborhood in California. She was sweet enough to think I had something to add to her collection of inventory. So between yard work, re-carpeting our house, family parties, visits from my mom, sister, dad, Adam's brother and mom and dad, (all of which came at separate times,) me going to Minnesota for a wedding, and normal work commitments, I found time to make these:




And apparently I forgot to take any close up pictures of the top of the girl shoes. But here are the bottoms!



Sorry the pictures aren't that great. I was very pleased with how they came out! We listed them for $15/pair. If you are interested in buying some, let me know! I am out of the fabric that you see here, but I could come up with something else cute! Email me at busybooty@gmail.com.

Zach Zach the Lego Maniac

Anyone remember that? Here is a link to refresh your memory!
When this commercial came out my brothers and sister and I thought it was so cool! My brother is named Zach, and he was a Lego maniac! We used to play Lego's for hours as kids. Zach was always the most creative with his Lego's. We would build houses out of our Lego's and we would drive our Micro Machines around our "town" to each others houses. Zach always had the coolest house. We knew that someday he was going to be rich, successful, and have a real cool house. He is still working on the rich part and the cool house at this point, but he is definitely successful!

Just over four years ago Zach decided he was ready for some changes in his life, so he packed one big bag and came to Utah. When he got here, he swore he was only going to stay for a month, maybe two. Well, he quickly decided Utah wasn't so bad, so he stayed. After living here for a year, he got a job at Noodles & Company. He has worked hard and become very successful with them, quickly moving his way up. Sad part for us is that sometimes moving up, means moving away. :( Two weeks ago Zach moved to the Midwest to be the training manager of the managers at Noodles in the Midwest. (Does that make sense?)

I have so loved the last four years that I have had to grow so close to my brother. We have made so many fun memories. Now I just cant wait until he gets to move back to Utah again. Maybe someday.

Here are some pictures from some fun things we did this summer. We went camping at Mt. Nebo back in July. It was such a fun night. We ate like royalty! Our camp site had a neat little creek running behind it. It was so hot out so we decided we wanted to go swimming. Only problem was I didn't bring a swim suit. So I stole Adam's speedo bottoms and wore my tank top. Nothing like roughing it! The water was SOOO unbelievably cold, but we all managed to dunk our heads under.






Check out the cool tent that builds off the back of Adam's truck. Having a truck makes camping SO much easier!








And here is a picture of Zach in one of the outfits he got for his manager meetings in Colorado at the Ritz Carlton. Isn't he handsome? It just so happens that at said manager meetings, Zach was awarded Manager of the Year for all of Noodles & Company. See! I told you he is successful!!
(He wasn't happy about me snapping this picture. He was a good sport about it though!)

And this is just for fun. You can see that he has learned to be a tolerant big brother. :)




He asked me to trim his hair for him. I didn't have a cape to keep the hair off of him, so I made him wear a trash bag. Haha, it was mostly for my entertainment, but it worked.

Miss you and love you Zach! So proud of all your accomplishments and how far you have come! I know it is only going to get better for you from here.