Tomorrow..

I will finally be seeing this!

I am beyond excited!! I can't wait until 6:00 tomorrow to go see this with all of my family (a HUGE thanks to Grandma who always scores the best tickets)! Let's hope it lives up to everything I've imagined it will be :) Anyone else dying to see this??

If you have not read the books.. I recommend you do. It's the only book series I've ever, ever gotten Cody to read. Yeah, it's that good.

TiMe??

I have been considering taking this blog private for awhile now. I'm still not sure if I want to yet but just in case I decide to do it.. if you would like an invite please leave me your email so I can make sure to add you. Thanks! :)

I would like any family/friends who still want to view it to be able to without worrying about all the creeps out there ;)

Pretty sure only about 5 people even read it based on the comments we get!

Basketball and races!!

We had quite the eventful weekend! It started out Friday night at SLCC watching Hailee play. Unfortunately, they lost by only 4 points. It was such a CLOSE game all the way down to the very end. Bummer! Saturday was a big day.. Hailee played down at Snow college and instead of driving down to see her play she requested that the family go back to SLCC to watch the Syracuse lady titans play in their 3rd Championship game in a row. Of course this year they got the W! We'll be Titan fans for life :) I didn't get to go to the game with my mom and grandma because it was also the BIG horse racing weekend at Golden Spike. Last year and this year Cody has been helping a lot with his dads chariot team and he just LOVES it. It's been so fun getting to watch them race every weekend but this past weekend was the State races so it was a bit more intense than just the usual races. Their team has done so well this year and ended up in the first division (the first place/best teams). Cody had literally been pacing around the house all week long getting ready for it. All their hard work paid off and they totally deserved to win.. and win they did :)

Codys dad Greg (who drives the team) on his way to being the STATE CHAMPIONS!

After the race, we all headed out onto the track for our picture!


Cody with the horse blankets they won.

After the race, getting the horses all cleaned up and ready to take over to the test barn where they have to take a mandatory drug test on the winning horses. Notice their awesome trophy :)

Afterwards we went up to Codys dads to "celebrate" and get the horses all cleaned up and fed.

Aren't they sooo cute?? (Cody is Gregs little mini me!) I'm SO happy he's been able to help his dad so much, I know they have both loved getting to spend so much time together. It's really been so fun!!

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I honestly never thought Cody would be as much into this horse racing as he's been but he has totally fallen in love with it and I couldn't be happier for him! My cute cowboy.. who would've thought? :)

lOvE dAy!!

Or weekend.. I should say. A few months back I had planned on getting Cody tickets to the Jazz-Oklahoma City Thunder game for Valentines Day. We hadn't been to a Jazz game yet this year so of course we wanted to go watch them play the best team in the NBA (mostly Codys man crush Kevin Durant, haha). Lucky for me the game actually fell on the 10th the Friday before V-day. A few weeks ago I was talking to my good friend Sara while coloring her hair one night and she told me not to buy tickets because she could get them for us and VIP! Win-win :)

We met them down at ESA around 7 (even though it was a late game) to have dinner in the VIP room before the game started. I loved it.. all the free food, snacks and desserts you can imagine! (I had several helpings!) On the way to our seats we got to walk around the tunnel and see where all the cool/rich people hang out ;) we also got to see where the locker rooms are, where ESPN and the camera crews were set up and the cute Jazz dancers. We ended up with row 14 seats and they were awesome! On our way up to our seats from the floor we just so happened to run into the Jazz bear who grabbed my face and gave me a BIG ol' smooch! Ha ha, totally made my night. Thanks again friend for the night, we had a BLAST with you and Colt. Can't wait for our next get-together!

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Every year we've gone out for the night somewhere but this year has been so busy for both of us with work.. etc. so since it fell on a Tuesday anyway we just planned to have a fun night together.

Monday night Cody helped me make some super yummy homemade oreo cookies. We made them heart shaped and with pink frosting to be festive! Cody's not much of a sweets fan so I got to pretty much enjoy the whole plate :)

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Valentines Day we both had to work so once we were off we met at home to change and give each other our gifts. This holiday falls right in between Christmas and our birthdays so we usually keep the gifts small and personal.

I know, I know we're the crazy dog people but I had to get my little Valentine something so Duke man got this cute new blanket. He loves blankets! Such a poser, ha ha!

My cute boy with his Valentines treats!


And me with mine. Cody had those beautiful flowers, that HUGE card and the balloons delivered to me at work. I was totally surprised and I loved it. He's such a sweetheart.

We finished the night by having dinner at Iggy's and afterwards we headed over to the Megaplex to see "The Vow." It was sooo cute and even Cody didn't mind it too much :) We had a perfect night together and I hope you all got to enjoy it with your loved ones! ♥

SORRY...

... for my lack of blogging these days!

(No.. that sexy truck is NOT ours... ha ha!)

We've been having too much fun for me to even think about blogging lately.

Hope you're all enjoying the new snow we've gotten recently.. we sure have been!!

FAR too long!!

January of 2004 was the month I met one of my greatest friends. I still remember it like it was yesterday... my first day of beauty school at Staceys Hands of Champions beauty college. There were only a few of us who started on the same day... we were all a bit nervous and didn't really know anybody. I sat next to this girl from Layton, Jannae. When it came time for lunch we decided to head across the parking lot to the Newgate Mall for some Chick-fil-A together. We made small talk and had plenty of those "awkward" silences, ha ha! At that time I had no idea what great friends we would become!! Pretty much from the first day on we were inseperable. We've had sooo many fun and crazy adventures the past 7 years, both while in beauty school and out. I love her and her family like they are my own! She married just a couple weeks before Cody and I and moved to Cali a few years ago where her family business is. She's had two little boys, Linken and Cooper since she's been gone and they are the CUTEST! I wish we got to spend more time together but almost everytime she's in town we try to meet up for lunch or dinner. Today I was so happy to be able to have lunch with her at the Olive Garden (yum) before her cute family heads back to Cali on Sunday. One of these days I WILL make it out there to visit her! I'm so thankful for our friendship and for the fact that it doesn't matter how long we go without talking or seeing each other, we always pick right back up where we left off.

She brought little Cooper with her today and it was the first time I got to see him in person :( but he sure is a cute, happy baby! Thanks for lunch, I love you fluzy!!!

(Fluzy is both our nicknames that we use for each other.. it started somewhere back in beauty school and who knows where we came up with it?? Funny thing is.. at the time neither one of us knew what it meant! Now that we do though we still use it :) Oh... those were the days!)

Don't mind my scrubs, ha ha. They sure make a girl feel SO fashionable :)

OuR hOliDaY fUn!!

Our long holiday weekend started on Friday the 23rd. I spent the whole day baking sugar cookies with my mom and Hailee. It's a tradition we've done for as long as I can remember! As usual, we had a blast together!

my mother made us wear these childrens aprons... don't we look great?!

frosting our cookies. Please don't mind my no makeup look!

Hailee had to make a "Winnie the Pooh" cookie. We laughed for awhile over that one!

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Christmas Eve was spent at my moms this year where we decided to do a soup potluck. It was fun to see what everyone came up with (Cody and I made a tortilla soup that was to DIE for) and besides soup we also had Great Harvest bread bowls, plenty of appetizers and munchies, and very delicious peppermint brownies my mom made for dessert. In the past my siblings and I have always drawn out names (since there are 7 of us) but last year and this year we changed things up a bit. We've started doing gift cards and playing the game where you can steal them. It's quite the fun change! Cody ended up with a visa gift card and I with a movie gift card.. definitely ones we will be using!! It's always fun to have everyone together. Since we were all there (besides Chase and Amber who came up the day after Christmas from St. George) we decided to give my mom her present that we had all gone in on together. We got her the "O Jerusalem" picture from Deseret Book and it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! It looks so pretty hanging in her family room and she loves it! She also gave us our gifts that night. Funny lady gave Cody and I BYU and UTAH lawn chairs that we love and also a BYU hoodie for Cody and awesome new workout clothes for me. Loved it mom, thank you!! After we leave her house every year we head over to Codys moms to hang out and finish the night chilling with her and Brett before we go home to bed.

My gorgeous sisters and I on Christmas Eve... I am so lucky to call these two my best friends! Sisters are the absolute BEST!! Never a dull moment with us :)

My cute Cody and I

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Christmas morning usually starts around 4am at the Gift house but after begging Cody to sleep in we got to wake up at 6 instead. I can handle that! We were so very blessed this year. Cody is really the sweetest.. he knows JUST what I love and picks up on all my little hints all year long :) For someone who hates shopping so much, he sure does a GREAT job!

Some of my presents: Utah bag, a new phone that I LOVE, all my fav perfumes and lotions, new running shoes that might just be my FAV gift of all, a cute robe and slippers, VS yoga pants (I have a bit of an addiction) and the cutest VS sweats, a new pair of Rock Revivals (my favorite jeans), scarfs and lot's of gift cards to my favorite places and other random things.

Some of Codys presents: He got lot's of clothes this year cause he ALWAYS needs them, a few pairs of his favorite sweats with new slippers, cologne, some new Hurley shoes, beanies and a belt, Call of Duty for his Playstation 3, new snowboarding goggles and lot's of random little things. But the BEST present of all this year was his new fishing boat! Since I obviously couldn't wrap that I wrapped a picture of it and had it parked in his moms garage for when we went over there. He seriously about DIED when he opened that picture. All he talks about now is taking his boat out to fish.. (he's got a few months to wait, haha)!

Showing off his picture!

Of course we had to spoil Duke. How cute are my boys? Love them.

He got spoiled with a new blanket, TONS of treats and toys, a new collar and leash and even more toys and treats from his Grandmas!

Gotta love stocking candy and treats :)

HAPPY BOY!

After we opened gifts, Cody couldn't wait any longer to go see his new toy so we went over to his moms for breakfast and to open more presents. We were spoiled again with snowboarding season passes but where is the dang SNOW?! Also new dishes, money and other things. Throughout the day we also ended up with more money from my dad, his dad and our Grandmas. Cody got a Sportsmans Warehouse gift card that he can't wait to use for new fishing/boat stuff, a very cute Affliction shirt and I got a beautiful new purple pea coat and a black christian audigier purse. Thank you everyone for everything! We are so blessed.

Cody with his boat. Its an older one found on KSL but his uncle Cortney fixed it up with new carpet, a fish finder and much, much more. He is in heaven.

Christmas morning at my moms. Hailee and I ended up with the same sweats totally not planned, ha!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and remembered the true meaning of the holiday. We are so thankful for our loved ones and the best part of the day was giving out our gifts to our families. We love you all!!!

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The week after was spent relaxing and having fun. We went and saw "Warhorse" one day (has anyone seen it)?? I LOVED it but bawled pretty much the whole movie. Thursday my mom and I got to spend the night in Price in Hailees dorm room to watch her play Thursday night and Friday afternoon. I do not know how anyone can live in a dorm! The walls are so thin, we were up until about 2 in the morning listening to people running up and down the halls laughing and screaming. Hailee says you get used to it eventually but oh man, definitely not the best nights sleep ha ha! I still had so much fun though... it was quite the experience! I love being with my sister and mom!!

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Friday when I got home Cody and I went to Wendover just the two of us and had a BLAST! (Cody wanted to "celebrate" with his fantasy football winnings! He came in first with easily the best record. I can't tell you how much fun it was cheering on all his players every week. Proud of my babe for kicking butt!!) I lost all my money but Cody was the BIG winner of the night. We came home with more than we took and that's always a plus!

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We spent New Years with Austin and Devre and her cute parents at their house. It was a blast, we enjoyed crab legs, spinach dip and all kinds of fondue! I made homemade oreo cookies for dessert and surprisingly we made it to midnight! We played the Wii and watched the ball drop with Ryan Seacrest. After more visiting and lots of laughs we ended the night. It was SUCH a FUN night!! Thank you two for everything, we always have SO much fun with you! Love you guys!!

2o11 was great and we're looking forward to what 2o12 is going to bring us!!