Full Moon

Last night Mike and I took his telescope outside to look at the moon. I guess last night was the brightest the moon was going to be for all of 2010. I hadn't had the chance to experience the joys of a telescope so Mike agreed to set it up. We also tried to see Mars but it was hard to see it. I think the light of the moon was making it more difficult to see it. It was neat though. I have never seen the moon thru the telescope but it was incredible!

Mike was able to get some pictures with his camera thru the telescope. Here are some of the best ones...

My Dad and I went downtown today. It was a lot of fun. He first drove past an old house he lives in on 9th East near Liberty Park. He told me all kinds of stories of the trouble he use to get into living there. He even talked about how he would throw all his sisters dolls off the balcony and break them. I told him it is probably a good thing he didn't have any sons because they could have turned out to be just as much trouble as he was as a kid.

Then we went to the State Capitol building. I have seen it but never been inside. It was incredible! I wish I would have had my camera to take some pictures. We also ended up walking around the Front Runner station for a few minutes. Then we got lunch and headed home. It was a lot of fun. It was neat hearing all his stories and memories. I wish I would have had a camcorder so I could have recorded the house and the stories he was telling. It was really neat!

The only kind of cat I am not allergic to...

I did another rock. Sometimes I get ambitious about painting again. It is always very random and the mood doesn't last long. I actually got a new "Painting on Rocks" book which has new ideas. So I decided to try a black cat. I decided that when painting a black animal... its very hard to get the fur and detail without making it look like a gray cat. So anyways this cat was frustrating and there are a lot of things I don't like about it. I also realized after the fact that I painted it on an angle... so when I have it standing up... it leans weird. I haven't yet figured out how to display it so it looks good.

So it was hard to get a good picture... but here it is....

Two Scary Nights in a Row...

So I should start out with Friday Night. My dog rarely makes it thru the night without waking me up to let her out. It's not that she can't hold it... I think she just gets bored in the middle of the night so she decides going outside is better then being couped up in our room all night. So she woke me up at 4 AM Saturday morning to let her out. I got to open the back door and realize it was unlocked. That made me a bit nervous that we somehow forgot to lock it.

Anyways I crawl back into bed after letting her out and casually mention to Mike he forgot to lock the door. He replied that I must have forgotten to lock it when I took Molly out at 1 AM. I told him I didn't take her out at 1. He swears he woke up to me crawling out of bed to let her out and me crawling back in. So I have NO recollection of letting her out at 1 AM. Apparently I did it in my sleep! Which makes me wonder how many times a night the dog takes advantage of my sleep walking and gets me to let her out.

I have crazy sleeping habits. I have been a sleep walker since I was a kid. I talk in my sleep... I do everything in my sleep. It really makes me nervous that I could walk to the door to let the dog out and walk back into bed without waking up once. It scares me that one of these nights I am going to wake up standing in the middle of the road or something! So now I am extra nervous about the sleep walking deal especially now that I know I can unlock the door and open it in my sleep.

On to the scariness last night. So I had just drifted off to sleep and heard someone knocking on our window. I think I have blogged about this before. We will occasionally hear someone knock on our window or on the wall that separates our room from the exercise room. Mike will peek outside but won't be able to see anyone. It is always unnerving. Anyways last night Mike looked outside and couldn't see anything. I was debating waking up my dad to see if he had heard it or to warn him that creepy things were happening. Then Mike came to a realization...

When Molly relocates to her bed (which happens to be right up against the closest doors)... She sometimes bumps against the closet doors which in turns makes them bang against each other. When they bang against each other it really sounds like someone knocking on the window. That also explains why every time we would hear knocking... Molly didn't ever bark. She barks at EVERYTHING. So now we know that the knocking is from her and she doesn't bark because she knows she made the sound.

Mike did point out that that doesn't explain the knocking we hear on the wall between the two rooms. Sometimes Molly does bark at that sound..... and the knocking has gone on while she was laying on the floor by me and nowhere near the closets. So who knows whats going on there... but at least the window knocking is solved!!

Hair + Exercise = New Me :-)

So I am a bit behind on my blogging. First off I wanted to post a picture of Our exercise room per Jenny's request. It's really nothing too exciting. I have been going in every other night and doing a minimum of 2 miles on the treadmill (running/walking... I am not good enough to run that distance without stopping). It totally kicks my butt! I also will do a workout on the Wii Fit. I usually feel all nice and sweaty and proud of myself after I am done with a workout. Anyways here is the picture of our boring exercise room. Its nice having the stair stepper and treadmill. We also have a stereo system in there we can hook our IPods up to. Now all we need is a TV in there and cable.

Last Saturday I woke up and decided I wanted to cut my hair. I was tired of long hair. So I drove to Ephraim and Tiffini cut my hair for me. I had to cut at least 10 inches so I could donate it to Locks of Love. I was a bit freaked out at first because it felt like so much hair was being cut off. I LOVE my hair though. I have gotten tons of compliments on how its the perfect haircut for me. I also got some red and carmel streaks put in. They are very subtle...which is good. I am happy with it. Thanks Tiffini for doing my hair... you are awesome! Oh Tiffini even gave me her cute hat my aunt Beverlee made for her. It is way cute. I have never been much of a hat person but these are very cute hats. I get lots of compliments when I wear it.
Sunday, Mike and I went shopping. I bought a blow dryer so I could style my hair and I also bought a new coat. I felt so cute will all my new stuff. It was a good weekend!

Kristy's Birthday Party

Today, Kristy turned the big 3-0. Jenny decided to throw her a birthday party at her house in Tremonton. So Mike and I headed up there this morning. Jenny had totally decked out the place. It was fun. Kristy and her kids came. we got to do lots of talking and we had cake and ice cream.

The kids had a blast watching her open presents. They also had tons of fun with all the balloons. It's cute when Jenny and Kristy's kids get together. I was watching Kendra and Brinley play house. They had a doll in a highchair and were in the little play kitchen making dinner for their baby. Kendra was the dad and Brinley was the mom. It was cute. I miss those days of playing make believe.

Anyways... I also made sure I got video footage of Kristy blowing out candles since Video is so much better than pictures!

On a sadder note... today was the two month anniversary of my moms death. I miss her tons. To make things even worse... I got word that my Grandma Mathison (my moms mom) is in the hospital with pneumonia. I am praying she gets better. I honestly don't feel like I can handle losing anyone else. So everyone pray that she will make it thru this!

Now... I can't end this post on a negative note because that's just not fun to read. Mike and I turned our game room into an exercise room. Mikes boss gave him a stair climber for free so its in there. Today we added a treadmill that Jenny gave us. I am excited to run on it. Oh we also went to Kirkams and used our gift card and I was able to buy some inserts for my running shoes. They are the type that you put in the oven and then put them in your shoe and it molds it to your foot. So now I should hopefully be able to run in these shoes without anymore problems. I also bought some good running socks. I am excited to put it all to use but Mike is in there running 5 miles on the treadmill right now so I have to wait. I am slightly nervous he will be too much for the treadmill and will kill the motor before I get a chance on it... so keep your fingers crossed that it will make it thru his grueling run so I can use it.

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today would have been my moms 60th Birthday. We couldn't let the day pass without doing something for her. So a bunch of us (Kari, Linda, Shelley, Kristy, my Dad, and I) got together and went over to the place that sells headstones. My Dad had gone there about a month ago and looked at a design he liked. He had brought home a paper with the design and we all liked it. So the plan was to go order it today. Well interestingly enough we all walked in and were drawn to a different headstone they had on display. It is a mountain scene with trees and a river running thru it. We all decided it was the one we wanted. So we ordered it and put a down payment on it. We also are going to have them add a couple deer into the scene. It will be pretty when it is done. They said they can have it done by the end of February. It will be nice to finally get a headstone for her grave.

We were then going to go to the cemetery but we ran out of time before people had to start picking up kids from school. So Kari and Kristy went their separate ways. After Linda got her kids picked up those of us remaining headed to Zurchers and bought some birthday balloons. We then went to the cemetery and sent them to mom. It was nice doing that. I am glad we did something nice for her. I got some pictures while we were there also, so here it goes...

Happy Birthday Molly!!

Molly turned 6 yrs old today. We threw her a little birthday party. I made a cake for the humans as well as one for the dogs. The cake I made for the dogs smelled horrible! It had chicken baby food as well as chunks of chicken in it. I then used Yogurt mixed with Peanut Butter as icing... and sprinkled crumbled Beggin Strips on top. The dogs seemed to like it.

Human Cake (nothing exciting... just a quickly made cake)

I made some cupcakes and then put the rest of the batter and cooked as a cake. Each of the dogs started with a cupcake and then they all shared the cake.

Molly got lots of presents. She ended up with like three different types of dog treats, dog bones, and a toy. She was really funny opening the presents.

It was a lot of fun. Linda even made my favorite meal for dinner. I also spent some time playing Mario Bros on the Wii with my nieces and nephews. It was a blast! I love that you can have four players at once.. Its chaotic but oh so fun! That is now a game I would like to get.

Last night Mike and I were up till the wee hours of the morning cleaning and arranging our game room. We decided we are now going to turn it into an exercise room. Mikes boss gave him a stair climbing machine which is now in there. Jenny also said I can have her treadmill... so it will be nice once we have everything all hooked up and going. Now I just have to drag myself in there to exercise a few times a week. It will be interesting to see how that all works out.

Snow Tubing

Yesterday Linda called me up and asked if I wanted to go snow tubing with them. It turned out to be a ton of fun. It was Linda, Dave and their kids, Shelley and her kids, Jenny and her kids. It was so much fun. Sadly I didn't take my camera so I didn't get many pictures. I was kinda sore after tubing though. Part of it was also from doing a long work out earlier that morning on Wii Fit Plus. After tubing we went to Chilis. Mike and I split an appetizer. We were on a bit of a budget.

Today we managed to get all of the Christmas stuff taken down. It is nice to have the house back to normal and to have the vents in the living room open again so it wont be so cold in there. After that I called around to a few places looking for snow tubes or sleds. Nobody seemed to have any.

We met up with the family and did some more tubing. This time I thought to bring some garbage bags. We found that the normal sized ones don't work so well...but the big black industrial bags we were using to bag leaves work great! It was actually a lot faster going down on the bag then it was to go on the tubes. It was a bit more painful though. It was a blast!

I brought my camera and got a few pictures but I was more focused on tubing than taking pictures. There were some funny moments like when Kristin ran into Parker. Parker ended up riding on Kristin's back the rest of the way down the hill. Mike tried to go on the garbage bag standing up. He ended up on his side. There was also a moment that Mike snuck up behind me with a tube. He pulled me down on the tube and pushed me down the hill. I was probably halfway down the hill before I knew what was happening. it was fun.

We also had some not so good things. Jenny and Ben collided and Ben hit his head pretty hard. Alex ended up with a big scratch on the back of his neck from Hannah's tube. There was even the time Jenny and I were racing each other down the hill and trying to push each other over. It was a blast! Next time we will bring more industrial garbage bags. Who would have thought they could be so fun! Now for the pictures....