Catch Up!

Wow. It's been a while. Busy! Busy! This is just a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to blog about but haven't had the time. Totally random but here we go...

The Olympics
They are over now and I just don't know what else to watch on TV. BUT I can catch up on the sleep I lost from watching live sporting events! Sheesh! I was surprised by some of sports that I've never heard of before, or didn't realized it was an Olympic sport:

Equestrian. I guess there are different events within the sport but what I saw was basically horses dancing to music, it's call dressage. I happened upon it and was mesmerized by what was going on with man, horse and music. Crazy.

And the other sport that I didn't realized was an Olympic event was speed walking! I had NO clue that it was a sport. And that you can be booted from the competition if you don't have the right techniques because you could almost be running. I kid you not, I ended up watching the race for about an hour. I was just in awe! I had no idea.

The Gym
I realized the other day in the middle of my run on the elliptical machine that I didn't match what so ever. The worst part. I didn't even care. I'm at the gym! I'm sweaty and red in the face (most likely). If you are impressed by any of that, I'm sure you won't notice my lack of gym fashion sense.

Technology and such...
If you are like me, your bookmarks are out of control and not organized in any sort of way, and even though your list is a mile long, you know the websites you check out most are on that long ol' list...or you finally put them on your tool bar. Well, one day I just randomly decided to be proactive and organize my bookmarks. It lasted about oooh...7 minutes and I gave up. And then wish that I hadn't messed with them at all because now I have to get use to the new way I have it. Until I get the gumption to try and organize it again.

My iTunes/iPod needed to be updated badly. I had purchased new music and the only way to listen to it was to listen the cds in my car only because it wasn't on my iPod. I had about 5 to-go-lists that I had to sync and combine, move around and delete because I was so behind. I have finally updated, and all it right in the world again with my music.

My iPhone is another story...I haven't synced it in ages and well, it's been syncing for over an hour now. So my advice is to sync now and sync often.


I'm a bad i[blank] owner, basically it was it comes down to.


For about a week my wireless mouse was acting up. I was getting pretty frustrated. I changed the batteries. I would turn it off when I was not using it as recommended and such. Well my rolly ball scroller was NOT working. It would go up, but it would not go down. You don't realize how much you use things, until you can't use them anymore. Well my friend Kates (as I call her) to the rescue. On her advice, I took the batteries out, turned it upside down, and rolled the scroller up, down, left and right, all over a white piece of paper and blaaDOW! The gunk was out and it's working again.




More posts to follow...sorry, I've just been so busy and have had a LOT going on!

I LOVE the Olympics!!

I have truly LOVED the Olympics so far. And the above fella is one of the reasons why! It has been really amazing to watch and feel just deep desire to support these athletes!

I have also really loved watching the Redeem Team basketball players and the Men's indoor volleyball team. With swimming almost over, my attention will be more focused on basketball and volleyball.

Photo by Brennan Linsley

Oh man, and the track and field is going to start! Good stuff! Anyone else loving the Olympics too?

Rhonda & Joel...and Trista and Eva :)

Just some pictures from a last minute booking for the reception for Rhonda and Joel and their cute little girls, Trista and Eva. The girls stole my heart, they were adorable. I kept myself from posting a ton of pictures of them! :)

And Rhonda and Joel are a gorgeous couple. My goodness!

The cake/cupcakes are from The Little Pastry Chef (I can't find a website for them). What is funny is that the interior design firm I work for did their interiors! :)

Jon & Lindsay

Here are some more pictures of Jon and Lindsay's wedding.

And did I not tell ya...you thought the bride and groom was gorgeous! Look at their wedding party! All very easy to wink at! And SO much fun...if you want to know what I mean by fun...check out the picture at the end!


(I was having blog troubles and the next two pictures would not come up bigger, sorry!)

(someone is gorgeous!)



(how cute is one of Lindsay's nieces. She kept coming up in front of my camera, mid shot sometimes (if I was down at her level) and flash me that SUPER cute smile!)

See! They were a BLAST! My favorite is of Jon, sitting up on that bar. It just cracked me up!

Thanks guys for all the fun! It was an amazing time!

Picture of the Week

This was my attempt to be creative with a picture of my dog Mandy.









She is a ball of energy and FUR! haha! She has red hair. That's all I'm saying. I had her shaved at the beginning of the summer...she looks like a completely different dog...



Here is what she usually looks like. That's her tiredly smiling at me.

Breaking...my rules!

So I broke a few of my own rules and one of them was giving in to the hype! Not the hype of the goodness that is the Twilight series...no. Giving in to a friend that convinced me to go to a midnight release of the 4th (and my understanding last) book in the series.



The book release party was not what I expected, not in a good or bad way, but in a, I probably could have gone at 10am the next morning and been just as satisfied sort of way, since I lost a good amount of sleep and was up just about 20 hours straight that day. But I am deep into the book and really enjoying it. I love when I read something that interests me so much that I want to finish it as quickly as possible. And on the same note be bummed when it is finished.

Hope you are all enjoying it too. Or did enjoy it. I'm sure if you are reading my blog, most of you are done with it by now! hahaha! ;)

(oh and the 215...that was my wrist band for my place in line at the release party, whoa! haha)

Picture of the Week

This was taken in my parent's front yard. My mom has an amazing green thumb. That is one thing that I won't forget about the front yard of my parent's house...it is always full of flowers, herbs and full green bushes. Even in the winter, my mom knows what flowers grown.