i don't even know

i thought i'd start the new year off right with a blog post. and not really so much about new year's resolutions.. at all. so a couple of days after christmas, we (my mom, stephani and i) found THE WEIRDEST thing any of us have EVER seen on etsy.. and not the weirdest thing on etsy, but the weirdest thing we've ever seen and it happened to be on etsy... while looking for a babydoll for little brei. Unfortunately we ran into this thing... the creator calls it 'mother child chicken egg'.
I mostly just want to know why. ***WARNING*** you probably really don't want kids to see this. it's that weird. just keep scrolling...
What is that??!! it just came out of that other thing and it does not look right.. at all.
And now there is granny two face, in with the family of weirdness.
here is the link so i don't get into trouble for using the pictures. mother child chicken egg

Are we the only ones who got completely FREAKED OUT by this weirdo's 'doll'? who gives children things like this and who pays $40 for them? don't worry though, the seller hand sculpted them, so your child will be the only one who has this weird...ness. And what is with the fur around the chicken and granny's area?? how come no other part of the doll is even remotely close to anatomically correct? Why doesn't the chicken even look like a chicken? and that is no egg that came out of that 'chicken' This person is a freak!!

All i have to say is there are far too many weirdos walking around out there. FAR too many.

I do apologize if you feel at all violated for having looked at this post. but i had to share the weirdness. I'm pretty sure we laughed for a half an hour after we got over the shock of what we were seeing. Happy New Year!! I promise not to post weird stuff like this ever again... sorry, maybe that will be my new year's resolution to the blogging world.

maybe its my pregnant brain

but how do you look at friends blogs from your own blog page? i think i should know this.

also when you can't remember what you were doing when what you were doing is sitting right in front of your face that is a problem. a big one. am i the only crazy pregnant person out here? i don't remember being this way before becoming pregnant, so it must be pregnancy, or maybe its the pregnancy that has gotten me confused and i was this way before but it all feels new because i'm pregnant. i think its bed time.

oh! cory finally got over his crib commitment issues and we bought one! yay a place for baby to sleep! i'll post a pic as soon as i get it all done up with blankets and bedding!

news!

hello hello! i am a terrible blogger and have not blogged in months, but now i have something new to blog about... our BABY thats on his/her way! we are going to have a baby! we both just graduated from school, and so i suppose it is timely, but still unexpected! we are very excited, I am 13 weeks along and feeling great, not much sickness at all, and i'm getting less tired as the weeks go by. i can't wait to be a mom and do mom things, like make lunch and take kids to the pool and go on pic nics and play games, life is sweet and i already love my little kiddo. AND now i can put one of those posters on my blog that say 'i'm so crafty i make people' i think that is so funny. the picture is when i'm only a few weeks along, there are no arms or legs yet, just little nubs, the bottom is his/her head. We got to hear the heart beat and see our kiddo moving, cory just kept laughing, it was really cute, i can't wait for our little guy/girly to get here! as far as baby bumbs go, mine is still non-existant, and i'm still in my regular clothes. we are due on jan 15!

and

i over ate and now feel sick and can't find a stinking template that i like. i should refrain from blogging while grumpy.

i just don't want to go to bed

but i really should because i have class early tomorrow, 9am early, but still. that 3 day weekend tampered with my internal clock. Can i just say how sad i am that i didn't win that letterpress from my cousin Mac's wife's blog blackeiffel? her blog is so pretty and everything that mine is not, and that was the second thing i tried to win, but she is kind of famous or something and there were near 1,000 people who entered to win, and i'm just not the winning type. cory got a new guitar and it is beautiful and he has been playing non-stop, mid-terms are next week and we are giving talks on sunday, we were asked just this evening.. i want to be proactive and get this week accomplished but i'm just not even feeling motivated or stressed. its my own fault really, i made it a goal this semester not to get stressed out about stuff and i have been very successful. though i've found that with no stress comes no progress. you can't have it all. but you can have some of it. so pick the good stuff.

to our friends

well i think i've ignored my blog for long enough. it's true, all the things you guys were thinking about me, i died, luckily i was revived, but then i still continued to ignore my blog because.. well it is just too darn depressing to think that while i love rexburg and all of it's wonderful inhabitants, I MISS MY FRIENDS. and that is exactly what this blog reminds me of. now that i know what its like to be left in rexburg friendlessly i know just how cruel it is. and i'm sure that those friends whom i speak of whom, they know who they are, are enjoying life to the fullest i just want them to know that although i have been an awful horrible person for not keeping up with them, i think about you guys a lot and hope that you are having wonderful adventures in michigan and china respectively. a blog without a pic is a sad blog, but this is kind of a sad blog anyway.. maybe i should find a pic real quick so it is less sad..
we ran a triathlon this last fall, that's me running! almost there!

man-cakes

tonight we (todd(my father in law), Cory, and Myself) were watching the food channel which had throw down with bobby flay on. they were making blueberry pancakes. and that sounded good.. we couldn't make our own pancakes considering the paces are remodeling their kitchen and do not have one at the moment. so we went to the valley hotel aka the v-ho for some pancakes at roughly 9 o'clock tonight. upon ordering our pancakes cory thought it necessary to ask the server, a young woman, how big the pancakes are. she told him that they were pretty normal size, but size varies by cook and the morning cooks made bigger ones. then cory asked if he could have big pancakes.. like man sized pancakes.. you see, he was pretty hungry. the server was a pretty sweet girl and said she would ask for some BIG ol' pancakes... and this is what came from the kitchen minutes later...

do notice that the pancake cory is eating is only about half the original size, there are two, the second one is behind his head..and roughly the size of his head. we dubbed these man-cakes, as you can see, no regular boy could consume this monstrous meal.

our coy little waitress came back to check on our progress and cory told her that these were definately man size pancakes (and it was obvious that he would not be finishing them anytime tonight) and in her innocent little voice she said 'are you going to man up?' she was so cute! ha, she made my night, deflated cory's ego, and made the dog happy all in one dish.

i'm alive!

I am not dead like MJ. Just working like a maniac! this is one of the only days off I've had in weeks. I was so exhausted that I took a nap yesterday for 6 hours, got up at 8, ate some dinner, went to the lake for about an hour, got on facebook, and then I hit the sack around 1am and got up today at 9.. I feel like a new woman! It's time to go do something fun.. only problem.. cory stayed up way late last night, probably around 5 playing video games= I'll be by myself on this computer till about noon or 1 before he gets up to go play.. maybe I'll take Zoomie for a walk.

An update on what cory and I are actually doing up here in AK. We are tour directors. We get folks off of Royal Carribean and Celebrity cruise ships and take them up through the interior of AK. We either go by coach or by train depending on what tour pattern we are on. We have groups up of up to 54 poeple.. which is HUGE. I prefer when we get a smaller group around 35 or 40. We make good money, but it is the most tiring job I've ever had.

On my three little days off I plan on sleeping a lot, painting my toe nails, plucking my eyebows, restocking on my toiletries which seem to be ever deminishing. Fishing, camping, hiking, canoing, and I really want to go shopping, I was having dreams about these shoes last night and now I need to design them and sell them and become rich. I really wish it wasn't a dream, I WANT those shoes.

Anyway, sorry I have no pics for this blog. Maybe I'll also post some pics of Costa Rica on my days off.. that was so long ago!

i've just discovered my third eye

i went to my very first yoga class today. it was pretty fun, the instructor was very in touch with her spiritual side. it was kinda funny, we had to picture someone we loved and focus on them and send them good vibes, and then dedicated our practice to the earth. then when we actually started doing the poses it was intense! its called 'power yoga' for a reason! i don't have a lot of muscle strength apparently, it was good though, it felt good to stretch and relax a little. at the end of the hard stuff we did cool down kind of poses and we focused our energy on our third eye. and all this time i thought i only had two. i'm not sure how having three would benefit you at all, unless it could look in a different direction of your original two. i'll look into it. anyway i'm going again tomorrow, as silly as some of it was, i really liked doing the actual poses. and happy earth day!

do you tweet or twitter?

i've been hearing a lot about twitter lately.. i had no idea what it was and so i looked it up. my basic understanding of it is that you just write what you are doing.. at random.. and people follow it, and they're short entries.. and kinda funny. i went through a couple of twitter pages, and its interesting the things people say. i think i might start twittering. not that i really need another internet craze fix right now. i was watching TMZ and they said that if you write something on twitter its called a tweet, but i'm not really sure the correct way to use either twitter or tweet.. anyone know? anything more i should know about twitter before i tweet?

take me out to the ball game!

Yesterday Cory and I went and saw our first Yankee ball game! And it was in their brand new Yankee Stadium, which was very nice! They lost horribly, 4-24, and in the second inning the Indians scored 14 runs... terrible! Most of the crowd left before the 5th inning was over because things were going so bad, but considering it was our first ball game and we were having so much fun just being there that we decided to stay and watch the whole game play out.. it was a pretty fab day.We took SO many pictures! It was sunny and beautiful, almost 80 degrees! Cory and i both got a little sunburned.. a good start for the tan i'm planning on getting in costa rica baby!

play time!!

Cory has been getting home SO early!! On Friday he got home at 2:30!!! PM!!! So we went to Brooklyn and had some pretty gosh darn good pizza and took a walk over the Brooklyn bridge. Here are some pictures of our day...The only bummer thing about going places with just the two of us is that we have to ask someone we don't know to take a picture of us together, and not everyone is a photographer.. (not that I am but..) they kinda missed the top of the bridge, and they caught a guy in a yellow jacket right behind cory. it's better than no picture at all though!

running out of time!

we only have two weeks left in new york!! i'm so excited and kind of sad too! all of a sudden i feel like i need to go everywhere and find more things to experience and take pictures of. today i started my quest to knock off the last couple of items on my list of things to do/see in new york, it was cut short on account that it started raining but here is my day in pictures..
macy's is having a spring flower celebration and the whole bottom floor is covered in beautiful flower arangements.i walked so far to find this building! i don't even know what it's called, i've just seen in before and wanted to see it, and i knew it was on broadway, and it was below times square (because i saw it from the empire state building), so i walked down broadway until i found it. it felt like it took forever, but on the way back i realized it wasn't that far, i think i thought it was really far because i didn't know where i was going. isn't that weird how that works?i'm not really sure what is wrong with people in this city, but there is certainly something wrong. who does this? i laughed out loud when i saw this, it is so wrong on so many levels, i think its just animals, as if that excuses anything.. i don't even know!I thought this was really pretty, i don't know what they're for, it was outside of a church. And i didn't want to end my blog with that last picture!

I slept till 2pm today

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
-Ernest Hemingway

a walk in the park

In between conference sessions today cory and i went to central park and had a picnic. It was such a beautiful day!
I know, matching your spouse is gross, but we are in New York, and we decided to represent.
I thought this was pretty cool. That's the first real person statue i've ever seen! there were SO many people in the park! It was such a beautiful day and it was really fun. I'm posting more pic on facebook!

an adventure day with my cory!

Cory didn't have to work today! That hasn't happened since we've been in New York! So we celebrated by going to the Empire State Building! Let me just say, LOVE love loved it! Here are some pics of our day...

Before you get the view, they squish you. We could not move we were all packed into the elevator so tight!!
It was a little bit windy on the North side, before we left they had to close it. And this is me being a creeper. That is Steve Wazniak.. one of the Apple cofounders, he got voted off of Dancing with the Stars last week, and we happened to bump into him.. and then we ended up in the same elevator leaving the Empire state, and he and his wife stopped for a beef frank once out on the street.. and I'm pretty sure he was just trying to get us to stop following him, which we really weren't following him, we were just going the same way.. I swear its true.
And to end the day we had lunch/dinner at A Salt and Battery fish and chips place in Greenwich Village. Totally British, owned and operated. It was pretty fabulous. Bobby Flay challenged them to a Throwdown, and lost, it's not hard to see why!
Yes Cory, it was a good day!

Don't you just love New York in the spring?

Today was SO beautiful!! It was WARM outside, I didn't even need a jacket!! Yay for spring! I went for a walk to take some spring pictures and do some spring shopping. Here are some of my reasons for loving spring in New York...
1) When it gets warm most of the little restaurants around the city literally open up the front of their store. The giant windows push to the side leaving the store completely open to the warm air. P.s. that says "thai french".. ?
2)Psychic Reena can now do her palm readings outside!
3) Even though most of New York is cement there are quite a beautiful flowers in bloom!

4) More street performers are out making every day and even different streets unique, these guys in this picture were way rad. The sound was sweet! I should have bought a CD, hopefully they'll be performing again soon.. and somewhere where I can bump into them again!


5)New York is probably just the most diverse place I've ever been, and when the seasons change, so does the city. So far I'm a total fair weather fan of New York and I'm excited to get out more in the beautiful SUNSHINE!!

Hopeful

I have been stressing over school and whether or not I'll graduate for a year now. I just went over the courses I have taken, tallied the numbers and it is a possibility for me to graduate next April!! It makes me want to quote that arthritis commercial, the one where they show someone tying their shoes and ask 'can you do this' .. buttoning a shirt.. 'or this?' .. graduate from college?? "OH YES I CAN!!" Both semesters are going to be PACKED like 20 credits-ish AND an internship with who knows where, but I CAN do it and I WILL do it. I feel like I'm starting fresh at school, we've had such a long break. I feel like its a new day and that I can do this. I want to do it. It's like when you wake up really early on Saturday morning and it's quiet and peaceful outside, the sun just coming up and making the horizon turn a strange yellow that fades into a blue, just before it bursts into brilliance. you have so much you want to accomplish and you just know it's going to be a perfect day.. and it will be. I'm so full of hope!

i don't love it

Everyone has straight across bangs right now, and I've been noticing it a lot more since moving to New York. I think it is an adorable style. Kristal had them for a while and she totally rocked them. I thought that I couldn't pull them off because I have pretty long hair and I mostly saw them on people with shortish hair. The other night on TV one of the judges from dancing with the stars had them, AND had long hair. I decided to try them and after chopping away at my hair this was the result... I don't love it, and I'm starting the grow out stages as I type this. Darn it for all those cute girls who can get away with it! I look like I'm 12!






And I get to wear my hair like an athletic chick who feels she needs to wear her hair as if she is at an athletic even.. ALL the time. GREAT!
So it's not that bad, but I did wear a head band two days in a row, but the serious problem here.. I need a tan! Look at that pasty face!

pinkberry for me, pinkbeeeeerry!

On my way home from returning our videos I decided it was warm enough for ice cream! So I stopped at Pinkberry where I have just wet my appetite for an addiction to this wonderful frozen yogurt. The original flavor is just yogurt flavor, sounds kinda gross, but OH MY, it sure is delish. They have a new pomegranate flavor and that was pretty fabulous too, so I got the original and the pomegranate swirled together with some fresh and ever so tasty raspberries. It wasn't super sweet, but certainly didn't leave you wishing for more sugar, and because it is a frozen yogurt and not cream it isn't heavy and doesn't leave a milky sludge in your throat. IN-credible. Edible. and DE-lectable. Oh and there is a downside to this wonderful treat.. it was $5.50 for the small, which was about, well, small. Not more than 8 or 10 oz. But it is SO worth it! They call the swirl at the top 'pouty' and I don't really get what is pouty about it, but its cute to say!