Boo Snow

Even though I was born and raised in Utah, I must not be a true Utahn because I (dun dun dun) HATE snow and cold weather! Sure, I chose the "Ski Utah" license plate over the canyon one, but that is because I thought the white matched my silver car better. The worst part about snow is driving in it.

After crashing in the snow twice in two consecutive years, I made a vow to Heavenly Father that I would never drive in a bad snowstorm again. Once in a while I make a few small exceptions, but I try not to go anywhere if it's snowing outside.

In suffering through this frigid weather, I try to cheer myself up by checking the forecast for Phoenix, AZ and thinking of those smart people who know how to live. As of the last few weeks Phoenix has been in the early 70s. Can you think of more perfect weather?! I submit that you CANNOT! Meanwhile I justified not wearing tights to work yesterday because the high for the day was 38 F.

Yes skiing is fun and having snow on Christmas is fun but you know what is even more fun? Swimming! Tanning! Barbeques! Eating dinner on your deck! Sleeping on the trampoline! KNOWING YOU WILL LIVE AS YOU ARE TRAVELING HOME FROM VISITING YOUR GRANDMOTHER! (this is what I was doing when I crashed the first time)

Only six more months until summer in Utah.............

No, I Have the Cutest Nephews

I think this says it all.

I Do NOT look like Jenna Malone

I was born with an unique gift. I can look at a person and say which celeb they most look like. However, I find it extremely difficult to analyze myself. Luckily, this website click here will do this for you. From that website as well as several comments by friends, family, and random strangers (yes people stop me on the street to tell me I look just like...) I guess my face can be associated with the following:

Christina Ricci (I can see it, round face, pale skin, dark hair)
Maggie Gyllenhall (I have been told especially in Stranger Than Fiction, go figure, must be the tatts)
Nicole Kidman (Sweet b/c she is married to Keith Urban)
Kimberly Williams (Father of the Bride IS one of my favorite shows)
Jenna Malone (Please for the love of all that is holy NOOO!)

If you would like to know which celeb I most associate you with, just ask. :)

Snow Plow

A good laugh in only 14 seconds:

Go Millennials!!

A few days ago I received an email from my six year old niece, Eliza. After talking to my sister, I found out that all my sister does has to do is log on to Gmail for Eliza and she is able to "compose" a message and send it all by herself. Again, she is only six years old. This is only one example of a characteristic of a Millennial (someone born after the year 1980). The Millennial generation is also known as Gen Y, iMillennial, and the Google Generation.

I was asked by my employer, BYU, to do a training on generational differences in the workplace. I had so much fun researching this topic and learned so much about my own generation! After having the opportunity to deliver this training for BYU Staff, we were asked by BYU Radio to talk a little about it on the show "Thinking Aloud." I was extremely nervous (as you can tell by listening to the podcast) but it was an experience I will never forget. If you are interested, here is a link to our show:

http://byubmp3.byu.edu/fmarchive/thinkingaloud/ta080813.mp3

Freebie List

Being a huge fan of "FRIENDS" I also made my freebie list (five celebrities you can have a fling with and your significant other can't get upset). I find this a great topic of conversation. It has taken me years to make this list and they are as follows :

1. Jimmy Fallon

2. Jason Wade

3. James Lafferty

4. Chris O'Donnell

5. OPEN

Yes that's right. The fifth spot is TBA. Some lucky celeb will someday have their name there. I have a few candidates: Michael Vartan, Tom Brady, Matthew Fox, Orlando Bloom, Hugh Jackman, Paul Walker, Dominic Monaghan, but I can't seem to make a final decision.

I think this is a list that every man and woman ought to have. If you have your list, please feel free to leave them in your comment!

Oh and if you are interested, here is a link to that Friend's episode.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnU2Q0c68s).

I Can Hear the Bells

A good colleague of mine asked me to decorate and cater her wedding. For some strange reason, she had full confidence in me even though I had never done anything like that before. Her reception was in a beautiful green house during the summer time so it was beautiful weather and scenery. I think it turned out great.

Mother Nature is Calling

If your excuse for not recycling is because you don't know how to do it, get started, what to recycle, where to bring it, etc. I found a great website where most of your recycling questions can be answered:

http://www.recyclenow.com

The information is simply laid out and the website is easy to navigate. It has some great topics such as:

What can I do today
Can it be recycled
How to recycle at home/work/school
Recycling plants closest to my home



If you know of any other good recycling websites or tips, please let me know!

Sun Valley

Because my family and I have never spent a Christmas away from Sun Valley, ID, it is obviously the greatest place on earth. These words bring so many memories to me....

jacK aNd SheILa BaIleY
TraIL CreeK cABin
bALDy
GreTCHen'S hoT ChoColAtE
SnoW aND iCE scUlPtUrES
"It hApPened In SUn vaLley"
inN/LodGe
cHocoLAtE FouNDrY
GoLD mINe
GiACoBBi sQuarE
CaRoLERs
sUN rOoM
tHE pLacE
PeTe LanEs
GiFT sHoP
tUrN DoWn SeRvICe
bAlD MounTaiN PizZa
KonDiTeorI
LoDGE DinInG RooM
CeLeBriTieS
SnOW
skIinG
icE skAtInG
sHopPinG
MisSing JesUs in natIviTy ScenE
Red BarN
ChrIstMAs LiGHts
suN VAlley Sun
pLAyIng CardS at the LobbY
cHristmAS Eve FirEWorks
TorCh Light PARade
ChriStMas Eve ShoW on icE
winDY stAirs
monStroUs hot Tub
giFts
fiRePlace
SleIGh ride

Graham Barlow

If you know who Graham Barlow is then you will find the following hilarious:

Debra mumbled under her breath, “Power hungry freakin’ crazed psychopath nazi”
Stay away from Erin when she has the remote

Debra: How are you Pierce?
Pierce: Good thanks, you?
Debra: Good.
Pierce: See you later.
Debra: I love you too!
Pierce: …what?!

“He’s the qui shiet type.”
Kedra

Debra: Those student-teacher relationships.
Kedra: He’s a student teacher?

“Look! I can be a capo too.”
Jenna

“My fat friends were always fat and will always be fat.”
Kedra

Jenna: I have like ten miles of black on my back tooth!
Erin: Can you imagine how much plaque that would be?!

“Remember when wearing thongs on the outside of your pants was cool?”
Debra

Walks into the bathroom…
Debra: It smells like man in here!
Jenna: Erin just showered.
Debra: Oh yeah…

“You’re Cory Mormon, you’re Brandon Mormon, you’re Jack Mormon.”
Debra

Debra: I had a real dinner tonight!
Erin: Really? Who made it for you?

Debra: Haha…look my thighs shake.
Meg: Wow. That’s bizarre! Why do they do that?

“I would rather make out with a bee than kill a spider.”
Jenna

“I bought a new bag of chicken. It costed like ten chicken bucks!”
Debra

“This is so good! It tastes like holiday cheer!”
Jenna

“Sooo… We’re on our way”
Kedra

“No matter how much you paid me, I would not go on a date with *”
Lena

“I am such a perfect person! Why does this happen to me?”
Jenna

“Choke me from behind.”
Erin

“Cory has a womb?”
Meg

Jenna: Meg, look at Cory’s Facebook pic.”
Meg: I’m glad it’s not that ugly ninja girl.
Jenna: Oh, uh, it is.

“Move it tubs.”
Meg

Teacher: Jenna, can you tell me about Saul/Paul?
Jenna: Um, Meg, didn’t we talk about that last night? Um, no I don’t really know. You better not ask me.

“My feet are so hot in these cats!”
Meg

Erin: I had a dream…
Jenna: Ha ha, I had a dream.
Erin: Wait, it’s not Memorial Day yet.

“My lotion need some feet.”
Jenna

“I always think rapists are hot.”
Meg

“I want to look at some Asian midget women.”
Debra

“Anyone want slut muffins?”
Meg

“What are you worried that if he tries to kiss you, you will get sweaty?”
Lena to Debra

“Here Debra, have some more pot.”
Kedra

Jenna: How do you spell midget?
Kedra: M-I-dizzle

“Hey Debra!! They are breaking up. Move in, now’s your chance!”
Meg

“Do you have any botox?”
Jenna

“Wow Erin… you’re so lucky! You have a possessed tape recorder.”
Kedra

“Do you like to dance?” “Not in the arms of him!”
Meg

“We drove to Disney World from Ohio. We stopped in South Africa on the way. Oh wait… South Carolina!”
Erin

“Okay guys, this isn’t gossip, it’s just news passed between people.”
Meg

Erin: Hey guys, will I look like I’m 13 if I wear my hair in braids?
Meg: Ahahahahaha!!
Erin: Okay, I guess that’s a yes.

“Guys… I hate my haircut! I said Nicole Richie not Chia pet.”
Meg

“Debra, do we have nucleuses?”
Meg

“Debra, you can be our faux cher.”
Kedra

“If you could choose one person to disappear from Foxwood who would it be?”
Debra

“You spilled music all over the floor!”
Jenna

Jenna: Have you guys ever seen a brain explode?
Kedra: That’s a movie?
-During finals week! That explains a lot.

“AHHHH…Sambas”
Debra (of course!)

“I stopped at Taco Bell to get a mexi-melt to hold me over until I got to McDonalds.”
Meg

“Did you know I saw a girl with no lips once? It was weird, like she had no lips.”
Debra

“He was jumping his box.”
Jenna about her and Debra’s OJ lovers

“I’m not going to feel like a winner because I was once a sperm and I won a race.”
Serena

“I wanna jump your bones.”
Jenna singing to the Wedding Singer song

“Choking’s the worst!”
Meg

“I look like a white Indian.”
Erin

“This body is going to make a man happy someday.”
Debra

“They’re not burned. They’re just cooked a lot.”
Serena

“Remember: Candy is dandy but fruit helps you poop.”
Dr. Possible on Disney’s Kim Possible and the Proud Family

Erin: It smells like cadavers.
Jenna: I like it!

“Is it? Is it?”
Kedra and Jenna

“During Joseph Smith’s 2nd vision…”
Kedra

Debra: Ya know what’s the ugliest name in the entire world? Donna
Meg: Oh, that’s my mom’s name.

“Sometimes Kedra can be a real WITCH.”
Lena

“Quit tapping that.”
Debra

“Like she needed that interpreted. Hee hee.”
Meg

Erin: You should drive, it’s dark outside.
Debra: Eh… I kinda want to get raped.
Erin: You just want to have a baby don’t you.

“Okay guys, I have a serious question for you. If you had HIV…”
Kedra

“Debra- every time we do something you close something.”
Erin

“If you don’t take this, I’ll have to tackle you and shove it down your throat!”
Kedra

Three words… Dish Latino Joe!

Listen with your heart.
Dove wrapper

“Make sure nobody comes back here cause I’m showering with my clothes off this time.”
Jenna

Trust your heart not your head.
Dove wrapper