My Journal

Ok, so I decided to copy my cousin Melanie and start posting excerpts from my journal. I've never been much of a journal writer, but the stuff I did write was pretty funny sometimes. Here is one of my first journal entries.
Sept. 6, 1997
Today was a BYU football game. We played against Washington and lost by 22 points. I wasn't happy, but I definitely think we can do better next time if we pass instead of run.
It has been pretty interesting to go back and read my earlier entries. I didn't write about boys much at all until high school. I did find one where I kind of wrote about some boys, but I didn't go into much detail. It didn't sound like I had a crush on anybody at all. Here's an example of one of those entries.
Oct. 28, 1997
I went to my first dance yesterday. I danced with 5 people. Jared Bevan, Curtis Bevan, my uncle Rick, my cousin Brett, and my dad. I know its pretty pathetic that three out of five I was related to. Oh well.
Here's a pretty interesting entry. It's pretty embarrassing, but oh well, that's what makes it funny.
Nov. 7, 1998
Mom and Janelle are such jerks! I wish I could hate them, but as Will Smith says in one of his songs, "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Hahaha. It cracks me up that I used Will Smith's words for inspiration. and my mom and Janelle didn't really do anything. Janelle was just being the mean older sister that she always was and my mom was taking her side.
Well, that's enough for today. I'll post some more later.

So lately I've been having fun putting photos together in a montage. Here is one of my sister Jamie and my sister Jessica. What do you think? For those of you who know them, doesn't it show their personalities pretty well?

I've Been Tagged By Bonnie

Here are the rules:

1. Post the rules on your blog

2Answer the six "8" items.

3. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

8 Favorite TV Shows:

(I don't even have TV, but I'll tell you what shows I would watch if I did.)

1. America's Next Top Model

2. The Office

3. Law & Order SVU

4. CSI

5. CSI Miami

6. Law & Order

7. ABC News

8. What I Like About You

8 Things I Did Yesterday:

1. ate breakfast (that my husband made for me)

2. went to work

3. read part of "The Host"

4. ate leftovers for lunch

5. called Devan during my break

6. wore my "I love my soldier" shirt cause it was Veteran's Day

7. Checked my bank account

8. went to the annual Veteran's Day Concert at the U

8 Things I Look Forward To:

1. staying at Anniversary Inn on Thursday night

2. Thanksgiving

3. my brother-in-law coming home from his military training

4. a pedicure that my supervisor is paying for

5. taking Friday off of work

6. getting a haircut

7. lunch

8. sleeping

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. La Parrilla Latina

2. P.F. Chang's

3. Cafe Rio

4. Pier 49 (downtown location)

5. Carl's Jr.

6. Sizzler

7. Leatherby's

8. Spaghetti Mama's

8 Things On My Wish List:

1. a baby

2. Karaoke Revolution

3. a house

4. the movie "Newsies"

5. a car for Devan

6. a good president (too bad that one won't come true)

7. new clothes

8. to not have Celiac Disease

8 People I Tag:

1. Janelle

2. Emily

3. Melanie

4. Stephanie

5. Christine

6. Chante

7. Melinda

8. Genna

My Cute Brother-in-Law

This is my adorable, almost 6-year old brother-in-law. He is a weird little kid, but he's so cute and very entertaining. Every time he hears some upbeat music, he starts to do a little jig. Fortunately I was able to capture his dance with the camera. Isn't he cute?

So what do you think? Should I photoshop out the shade from the tree?

Football!

So, a while ago at work we had a tailgate party. They served us hotdogs and hamburgers and anybody who wanted to could sign up for 3-on-3 flag football. I, of course, jumped at the chance. I would have enjoyed it more if it was tackle, but you take what you can get. My team was with Bonnie and Arni-elei. We took the championship!!! I was amazing the first game that we played. The score was tied and my supervisor said that the next score would win. The opposing team had the ball and they were about 15 yards from the goal. Guess what happened next? I caught an interception! and then Arni-elei threw a pass to me and I caught it and ran about 40 yards for the winning touchdown! It was awesome. The championship game, I didn't play quite so well, but Bonnie and Arni-elei did and that made up for it. As most of you know, I like to brag, so for the rest of the day I was bugging my supervisor (who was on one of the other teams) and made him send out an email to the entire office announcing that we were the winners. Here's some of the pictures. I posted them at work so I couldn't crop them like I wanted so you can't see them very well, but it will have to do.

Halloween

On the 25th we had a Halloween activity at the church for primary. Here are some pictures of the kids in our sunbeam class. Aren't they cute?

The first picture is of Ethan with his brother and sister. Ethan is in the middle. He is quite the handful, but he is very smart and cute. He just doesn't like to sit still as you can probably tell from the picture. The next one is Aubree. She is very sweet and almost always reverent. She knows our names and listens when we talk. The third picture is Rylee. She is super smart and can be very reverent, but can also be a handful at times. She knows a lot and likes to let her teachers know that. She thinks Devan is really weird and is always giving him a look that says, "What are you?". It's pretty funny. Here's a picture of her look. You can see it better when its zoomed in but I'm at work right now so I can't really edit my pictures.

Later that night we hung out with Bonnie and Marc (some friends from work) at Marc's house. We helped Marc make some delicious pumpkin stew and we played on his Wii and watched a movie. It was loads of fun. Here are some pictures of Devan and Marc cooking. Don't they make great chefs?

I got a new shift at work!

So yesterday I started a new shift at work. Before I was working 11:30 to 8:00, which was ok, but I was getting home so late and then I had to cook dinner and we weren't eating til like 9:30. Not to mention the fact that I missed so many wedding receptions and bridal showers because of my late work schedule. As of yesterday I work 9:30 to 6:00. I think I'll like it a lot better, but there are some things that I need to get used to. For instance, I am bored to death at work right now. I used to be able to stop at the library before work and get a few books to get me through the week. But the library doesn't open til 10 so I can't do that anymore. I have to remember to stop after work. and now I can't go to my favorite store (Against the Grain) on any day except for Saturday cause its only open 10-6. But that's ok. These are just things that I have to get used to. I am very grateful to have a dayshift now because I can make dinner at a decent hour and I can go to enrichment night and I can go to wedding receptions and I can spend more time with Devan. On the whole, its a very good change for me. :)

There goes our car!

The National Kidney Foundation had somebody come tow our car away on Saturday. I was sad to see it go. But, we got a really nice car on Friday. It is laser blue metallic and it has remote start. We can start it from inside our apartment so its warm by the time we have to leave. It has a sunroof, heated seats, etc... It is a 2006 Chevy Malibu Maxx and we love it! I will have to take some pictures of the new car and post it.