Shiver Me Timbers!

A Pirate walks into a bar...

Bartender: "Excuse me sir, but is that a steering wheel down your pants?"
Pirate: "Arrrrrr, it's driving me nuts!

Happy 23rd Birthday Andrew... I mean, matey.

Driftwood Manor Reunion

First, a little self indulgent explanation: "Driftwood" is a house in down town Logan, and basically a group of people who are very important to myself and John as a couple for the reasons I will outline. As our friend Dallon (tan beanie below) points out frequently and in jest, 'he's the reason John and I are married'. And while it's sort of a joke, it IS also actually a factor. (Good thing he doesn't read blogs, I don't want it going to his head. - Dallon was the person who first decided their should be a Driftwood, and compiled and harrassed a random group of his friends, some from good ole BEHS, some from the mish, etc, to come live with him in the sweet mess of a house.)

A few of you know how I met John - the short story is 'through friends'... these friend. The just slightly longer version is that I ended up hanging out with some girls from work, who took me to a party, at a house where I found out I actually also worked with a bunch of the guys who lived there and were throwing it. About 3 toilet paperings later we somehow started hanging out with these same guys regularly... (T.P., the true way to guys hearts). Well if you think you've figured it out, no, John didn't live there at the time. He lived in Cedar City. In fact, by the first time I met John I'd been hanging around "Driftwood" for probably 6+ months. I met John at Driftwood at a New Year's Eve party, but I really don't think we spoke, and the next day we all went snowboarding, and we only very briefly spoke then. By March of the next year Tree (blonde, blue coat below) and I were considered 'honorary residents' because we hung out so much.

That's why we got invited on spring break trip '04 with
3 of the guys who currently lived at Driftwood, and
1 friend
2 of them had from High School they were picking up, living in Cedar City... John.
Sparks flew...yada yada :) ...

John moved to "Driftwood" for a summer
1 1/2 months later and we started dating,
5 years later we've been married
4 and had
1 child.

Sadly the last remnants of the people we knew from Driftwood have moved out, many have moved away, but a couple of the guys have planned holiday-ish parties/reunions the last few years. A few of these people we still see regularly, some not so much anymore, and some moved in after John and I moved away - but the party was a lot of fun. Thanks for hosting Reed!

The people who aren't losers, and could make it.

We played a game called 'Dirty Minds' - some good reactions.

Reed's white elephant loot.

BFF's.

Torturing Dallon... a Driftwood classic.

Cutest Thing Ever

...And I'm not even that big on dogs.

Snow Adventures

This is our video of today's snow fun day! It was a BLAST!




P.S. If you're wondering why we're in jeans, it's because we have no snow clothes, everything we're wearing we scrounged up in the parents closets. Ha.

Keeping Busy

This being unemployed is hard work. Ha. At any rate, I've been figuring out how to keep myself busy. For the last few years I've made plates of treats for Christmas presents for friends, and this year with more time on my hands than usual I got a little more extravagant with different types of cookies... once you start...


John and I also did pictures for a family and I'm sure I'll be posting those pics soon, it started out as quite the adventure... going out into the worst storm we've seen all year. I was pessimistic, due to the weather conditions and if we could get any good shots, and of course John was nothing but optimistic - as usual, he was right. (Hate that.)

I actually got called for a second interview at a job I'd be interested in, however, I'm not getting my hopes up. I've had second interviews before...

Today we're dodging our responsibilities and cuddling up in the house. It's too cold out there!

The Cougars are Officially Pansies

Especially that chicken-shiz of a "coach" Rose...so mad
...but look how cute ScratchU is in a sombrero!

The Kind of Day That Makes You Proud To Be An AGGIE!

So John's friend from High School, and my friend from college (one of the reasons I know John at all) works for the athletic department at Utah State. He's like the guy that cues the music and stuff like that - supposedly. We think he just sits there with his headset on in order to better flirt with the cheerleaders. But we're big supporters of his little job, because he pretty much gets us into all the games for free! Well, as an Aggie alum myself, it's fun to go, but I wouldn't (especially not to football, sorry, but I AM a fair weather friend, and they struggle) if we had to pay. But last Saturday we had tickets for the New Mexico State football game, so we were like, 'eh, what the heck!' And then guess what?!? The Aggies CREAMED the other team... what the?! Yes you heard me right, the game ended at 47 to 2. Go Aggies! My negativity was rewarded.



Well on the way home from that game John texted Reed to say thanks for the tickets and he asked if we wanted to go to Basketball that night. We had nothing else going on, so we did. Now, basketball is usually much more satisfying that football....in that they have a good team most years. But this game was just ridiculous. Cal Poly went down.... hard.


Yes, you're seeing that correctly and it's the final score of the game. 97-57 for the Aggies. It definitely was the kind of day where I was proud to say I am an Aggie Grad - And it was a lot of fun!