Starting at the beginning...

This is a picture of Cole the very first day we met...

hahaha

Cole and I met at a munch and mingle in our ward. My roommates and I had this great calling. After feeding everyone I sat down at a table with my roommate and another new guy in our ward. All of a sudden "this guy" sits down and the first thing he says is

"If my nose disgusts you let me know and I'll go sit at another table."

Funny from the start...

Cole had just moved into our complex. The day before he went fourwheeling with some friends and some how crashed and hit his face on the steering wheel.

Wasn't quite love at first sight but he totally made an impression.

This is Cole a few weeks after we became more serious...

He had a bad accident and broke his neck, flipped a bone in his wrist and broke his foot.

I think he may have taken too much pain medication in this picture. He managed to get himself stuck and fell over trying to get out!

I may have to wrap him in bubble wrap!

Or my kids if they are anything like him.

Love you Coley Woley!!!

Hot Tub Fact...

Here is a little interesting (well, more gross) fact that I learned in class yesterday...

A person will release 1 pint of sweat when sitting in a hot tub (104 degrees) every 20 mintues.

So...

If you have 8 people sitting in a hot tub for 20 mintues there is 1 gallon of sweat!!!

YUCK!!!

Oh and have you ever seen white foam that is in a hot tub sometimes? Well that's frothy amino acids... ewww!! It makes me gag thinking of little kids putting that on their faces!!

HAPPY HOT TUBBING!!

Lamborghini Estoque

I think I've decided that when my car has finally given up on me that I will get this car.

I think Cole will totally go for it!

What do you think?

Oh my... mm, mmm, mmmmm!

Happy Birthday To Me!

This past week has been a pretty good week!!
Wednesday was my birthday so I was able to take half a day off of work which is always nice. I went and got my hair did then that night Cole and I went to Cafe Rio and the Jazz game. I can't believe it is basketball season already. Our friends Tom and Amanda are huge Jazz fans so we usually end up watching majority of the games with them. It was way fun to actually go to the game even though we are totally in the nose bleed section!

Maybe next game we will sit closer!! :-)

My sweetheart of a husband got me this...

for my birthday!!! I was so excited! Ipod's have been out for how long now?!?! I figured it was about time that I get one. Cole has been really sweet setting it up for me and adding music all the time!

Friday at work Cole called and asked if I wanted to head to Las Vegas that night... what the heck right?! His brother and sister-in-law had a room for the weekend so we went and played with them. We had a good time!!

My favorite line of the weekend... Cole sees a Ferrari and says "That's not a Ferrari... that's a rent-a-fari!" He's too funny!!!!!

Halloween 2008

This Halloween was great! We had a ton of fun buying our outfits!

We went to a Halloween party at our friends house who live in our neighborhood. We had a great time.

This is who Cole is suppose to be. Pumkin off of Flavor of Love.

"I'll spit on you." haha...

This is who I am suppose to be... Flavor Flav.

"Yeah boyyyyyy!!"

Aren't we such a cute couple?!?!


Cole couldn't stand wearing the wig anymore. These 2 pictures weird me out because of Cole's makeup. Oh geez....

He is such a good sports. I'm glad a married a spontaneous, crazy guy!!

Here are some of the other people who came to the party.

70's girl and Austin Powers / Lindsey and Brady

50's girl and ??Goofy/nerd kid with a broken leg??

Captain Jack and Fairy / Matt and Brittany

Batman and Pretty Lady / Jenny and Brent

D-Will and Asain Lady / Tom and Amanda

Ryan dressed as a pervert.

Scarry Skeleton and Bug / Ryan and Shanell (soon to be mommy)

I hope you all had a good Halloween too!!

California Post #1

FYI... This will be a long post and detailed for my memories.

My parents were sweet enough to take our whole family to Disneyland and SeaWorld at the beginning of October. All 21 of us!!! Quite the crowd.

Breakdown of the trip:

Saturday - Drive to Las Vegas to spend the night.

Sunday - Drive to Anaheim. We stopped in Primm to ride the roller coaster and we hit a killer sale at the outlets.

Monday - First day at Disneyland. It was so fun to be there and see everything decorated for Halloween. One of my favorite rides was the Haunted House because they changed the whole thing to The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Tuesday - Another day at Disneyland.

Wednesday - Drive to San Diego. Went to Tijuana. Went to the beach. Went to a Mexican restuarant with the whole family. It had a great atmosphere.

Thursday - Went to SeaWorld.

Friday - Drive to Mesquite to spend the night.

Saturday - On our way home!

I wish we would have stayed 2 more days in California. I think most of us weren't ready to head home quite yet.

Cole and I are slackers when it comes to taking pictures so these are the few that we took with our camera. I'll be posting more when I get the pictures from everyone else.

Day 2 at Disneyland

Second day at Disneyland. Teacups!

Our goofy pics on the teacups.

Huge Candy Corn.

On the new Toy Story ride. It broke down while our whole family was riding it so we all got a few passes to skip the huge line to ride it again. It was way fun!

I kicked everyones trash the last time we went on the ride and got a score of 160,000!!!

Chris and me

Alisa and me. She really doesn't have crazy eyes!

Cole pretending to be a bug while waiting for the Bug's Life show.

TIJUANA....

Day 3

Hmm... What can I say about this place.

While we were in San Diego we had a free day so we decided to go to Tijuana since Cole had never been there before and I went once when I was really little with my family.

There were drugstores on every corner and I guess if you wear a white coat you are considered a pharmacist.

Honestly this was my least favorite part of our trip. I don't like being pressured by people to look at their selection or try on sunglasses.

Word we heard all day:

"Give me one Mexican minute."

"Honeymooners."

"Pretty lady."

We had to walk over this to get to Tijuana. It smelt like a toilet.


Day 4 SeaWorld

Waiting for the park to open.

First thing we did when we got to SeaWorld was feed and pet the dolphins. It was a really cool experience. Maybe we can swim with dolphins when we go on our cruise.

Cole petting and feeding the dolphin. The stupid bird in this picture stole our last fish from the dolphin. Those buggers are fast!!

First show that we went to.

Stupid us.... the first 8 or so rows don't have any signs on it about being a splash zone. But the rows above us do so we decide to stay where we were at. BAD, BAD idea!!!! We were soaked and it was just the beginning of the day. Most of us girls were upset at first but it kept us cool for the rest of the day.

Picture after the first round of being soaked.

Shamo!

That's all the pictures we have. It was a great time and so fun to spend a whole week with my family. I really enjoy their company.

Thanks Mom and Dad... the trip was a success!!!

Pumpkins

On Saturday our nice neighbors invited us over to carve pumpkins. It was a really fun night!
Cole carved a scary face and I carved an eyeball.

All of us with our pumpkins. (Peter, Lisa, Aimee, Kelly, Me and Cole)

Fun!!

Thanks you guys. We had a good time!

My very first tag...

9 T.V. Shows I watch:
1- Lipstick Jungle
2- The Office
3- 24
4- The Hills
5- The Bachelor/Bachelorette
6- Big Brother
7- Dr. 90210
8- The Girls Next Door
9- Seinfeld

Favorite Restaurants:
1- Wingers
2- Asian Star
3- Cafe Rio
4- Cracker Barrell
5- Spencers
6- CPK
7- Happy Sumo
8- Mom's house
9- Chilis

9 Things that happened yesterday:
1-Went to work
2- Bought a couple of things for my halloween costume
3- Went to wingers for dinner
4- Visited Zoe and Steve
5- Cuddles with my doggies
6- Watched Fringe with Cole
7- Went to Macey's
8- Didn't clean
9- Went to bed

9 things that I am looking forward too:
1- My Birthday in 2 weeks
2- Christmas Season
3- The halloween party
4- The haunted house this weekend
5- Having grass
6- My Christmas party
7- Cruise in January
8- Painting my bedroom and bathroom
9- Thanksgiving

9 things on my wish list:
1-Have grass before winter
2- Get into shape
3- Train my dogs better
4- Go to Hawaii with Cole
5- Have kids
6- Be successful
7- Be rich!!
8- Maybe start my own business
9- Be amazing in general!

9 People to Tag:
1-Everyone

100 Skills Every Man Should Know...

As I was reading through the news on KSL I saw this article from Popular Mechanics and their listing of 100 things a man should know. I thought it was kind of interesting.
Enjoy!
How "manly" is your man?!?!

100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008's Ultimate DIY List Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff. After months of debate among PM’s expert editors, here’s our lineup of essential skills, broken down in 10 categories for the competent man—plus 20 tools you need to own. Did we leave anything out—or included a skill you don’t think is worthy? Sound off in our chat, then take PM’s interactive DIY quiz to see how you measure up—and pick up the new issue of Popular Mechanics for the instructions! By The Editors Published on: September 8, 2008

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout

2. Drive in snow

3. Check trouble codes

4. Replace fan belt

5. Wax a car

6. Conquer an off-road obstacle

7. Use a stick welder

8. Hitch up a trailer

9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich

11. Reverse hypothermia

12. Perform hands-only CPR

13. Escape a sinking car

Home
14. Carve a turkey

15. Use a sewing machine

16. Put out a fire

17. Home brew beer

18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

19. Move heavy stuff

20. Grow food

21. Read an electric meter

22. Shovel the right way

23. Solder wire

24. Tape drywall

25. Split firewood

26. Replace a faucet washer

27. Mix concrete

28. Paint a straight line

29. Use a French knife

30. Prune bushes and small trees

31. Iron a shirt

32. Fix a toilet tank flapper

33. Change a single-pole switch

34. Fell a tree

35. Replace a broken windowpane

36. Set up a ladder, safely

37. Fix a faucet cartridge

38. Sweat copper tubing

39. Change a diaper

40. Grill with charcoal

41. Sew a button on a shirt

42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite

44. Treat a burn

45. Help a seizure victim

46. Treat a snakebite

47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes

49. Make a drum-tight bed

50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe

52. Hang food in the wild

53. Skipper a boat

54. Shoot straight

55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike

56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness

58. Build a shelter

59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods

61. Tornados

62. Cold

63. Heat

64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line

66. Lend a hand

67. Change a tire

68. Throw a spiral

69. Fly a stunt kite

70. Drive a stick shift

71. Parallel park

72. Tie a bowline

73. Tie a necktie

74. Whittle

75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card

77. Take the perfect portrait

78. Calibrate HDTV settings

79. Shoot a home movie

80. Ditch your hard drive

Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver

82. Grease gun

83. Coolant hydrometer

84. Socket wrench

85. Test light

86. Brick trowel

87. Framing hammer

88. Wood chisel

89. Spade bit

90. Circular saw

91. Sledge hammer

92. Hacksaw

93. Torque wrench

94. Air wrench

95. Infrared thermometer

96. Sand blaster

97. Crosscut saw

98. Hand plane

99. Multimeter

100. Feeler gauges

St. George

Yeah for girls weekend!!

Every year the girls in Cole's family gets together around Christmas time for a girls night. This year they decided to bag Christmas and go spend the weekend down in St. George and go to Tuacahn. I love Tuacahn and I've been a few times with my parents.

This weekend we saw Big River and Les Miserables. I liked Big River a lot more than I would have thought and Les Miserables was hard to follow sometimes but was really good. I need to go see it again! And sometime I would like to see Thriller.

The weekend was full of food, shopping and a good time. Thanks Jeannie for everything. And next year we really need to hit up Chippendales or The Thunder Down Under!!! :-)

And of course I never take pictures so I have nothing to show for the weekend. I really need to get into a better habit! If only Cole would share the camera!! haha :-)

Pig Abuse

I like sausage and bacon and all that good stuff but I think I'm turning to an animal activist! I keep hearing about all the abuse that is going on with the pigs used for Hormel and it's disguisting. I won't go into detail because it makes me sick. Ever since we've had dogs I've found this soft spot in my heart for animals. Every time I look on KSL and there's a story on animal abuse I get so sad and upset.

And for a softer place in my heart... I can only imagine how I will be once I have kids of my own. From our discussion at lunch today at work (another discussion that I won't go into details)... if anyone ever touched my kids.......There'll be hell to pay and you better hope that there isn't a weapon within my reach!

If for some reason Cole and I never had kids (which we will in time... don't worry) it will because this is such a horrible place to bring a child into. There is so much evil, all the time. We'll do what we can to provide a home that is safe and has a good environment. And I won't let our kids leave our side when we are on vacation, too many horror stories!

Sorry for such a downer of a post.

Creepy...

Last night around 4 am Elli starts whining which most of the time means she wants to go see and feed her puppies. So I nudge Cole and ask him if he would take her down stairs. As he is doing that I hear this noise coming from behind our house. (First off there are no houses behind ours, just a trail, a bunch of trees and then the river. Can be creepy sometimes.) At first I thought it was some kind of duck that was stuck or something. Then the noise was happening every 30 seconds or so. Cole finally comes back up to bed and I ask him if he heard that noise and of course he says "What noise?" Then it starts back up again. Over and over again. It now sounds really fake, almost like a squeaky dog toy. Then that noise stops and now it sounds like an owl, over and over again!!!

Lisa did you guys hear anything last night?

Any who... so Cole and I being the dorks we are, slowly slide off our bed and crawl to the open windows and lift our heads barely high enough to stare into the trees to see if we can see anything. We don't want whoever is out there to see us!! ha ha. Finally it stops after like 5 or 10 minutes.

Then as I leave for work this morning it seemed like there were a bunch of cops patrolling the neighborhood.

What kind of creep is out in a field of trees at 4 in the morning making bird noises?!?!?!

For you Mom...

I guess she checks the blog everyday looking for new pictures of the puppies so here they are!

They will be 5 weeks this Sunday. We have 6 sold already out of the 9, 3 more to go, yeah! They are super cute right now. They are really starting to get personalities and pooping a lot.

Just chillaxin'

She is so cute. She puts her head back and howls like a wolf if she isn't getting enough attention.

I've gotcha!

Well we have them for 2 more weeks if anyone wants to see them!