Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I'm getting sucked in....

I'm officially starting to get sucked into this whole "couponing" thing... it is addicting! Ha, its like a rush when you get an awesome deal! The biggest word of caution is to not just get things because you have a really good coupon or deal. Stick with your normal products... Swagbucks is one of my new favorite things. You earn points and can get really good gift cards, and prizes just by using their search engine! SO COOL!


Search & Win


I look forward to learning all the tricks because I think it will be an awesome tool for me when I do get married and have to take care of a family, and budget on a limited income. You know how things are when you first start out, its usually a struggle! So I'm going to get myself going now! Haha... hopefully this will take the negative conotation off of coupons in general, as it really is getting much more popular. Good luck!!!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Dr. Suess Quote

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you." -Dr. Seuss

I found this quote on a random blog I was looking at and loved it. That Dr. Suess was a pretty smart guy :)

Monday, July 6, 2009

Just makes me laugh!

This is Jayce enjoying some lemon... This picture is HILARIOUS! Man what a cute kid!


Monday, June 15, 2009

Cool Video

I received this email and thought it was pretty sweet. Read before watching the video!

If you thought that the people who set up a room full of dominos to have them knocked over later was amazing, you haven't seen anything yet.

There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in these images. Everything that you see happened in real time exactly as you see it.

The recording required 606 takes and in the first 605 takes there always was something, usually of minor importance, that didn't work. It was necessary for the recording team to install the set-up time after time and it took several weeks working day and night to achieve this effect.

The recording cost 6 million dollars and it took 3 months to finish, including the engineering design of the sequence.

The duration of the video is only 2 minutes, but every time that Honda shows the commercial on British television, they make enough money to support any of us for the rest of our lives. However, this commercial has turned out to be the most displayed in the history of the Internet.

Honda execs think that it will pay for itself simply because of the free showings. When Honda senior execs viewed it, they immediately approved it without hesitation -- including costs.


Everything you see in the sequence (besides the walls, floor, ramp and untouched Honda Accord) is part of two automobiles. The voice is that of Garrison Keiller. The commercial was so well received by Honda execs when they saw it, that their first comment was how amazing the computer graphics were. They almost fell out of their chairs when told that the recording was real without any graphics manipulation...

By the way, about the wind shield wipers in the new Honda Accords, they are sensitive to water and designed to start working as soon as they get wet.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Getting out of the stone ages...

This post is namely for my brother-in-law Todd... He for as long as I can remember has given me crap for having Facebook... Well one day, I was going about my business, and as I logged into my Facebook, I have a friend request... FROM TODD!! HA! I guess one of his college prof's said that he needs to get caught up with the direction the world is moving, and that includes Facebook. So... this was all so I could just say "HA!!!! Sucker!" :D Next thing I know he'll be blogging, then I'll know the world has come to an end.

Annnd... this picture just makes me laugh...

Thursday, June 4, 2009

WHAT A DAY!!!

Okay, what a day! WHEW! So I'm a little overdue for a post, since I said I would do it weekly, buuut oh well :!! Well today was interesting to say the least. Here I was minding my own business, driving 205 Southbound, just about 5 seconds to my exit, and CRUNCH! I hear something rip into my tire... Aww $#*% is all I can think. So I quicky get on the off ramp, and immediatly hear this whooshing sound. Great... just great. And start feeling, thump, thump, thump. By the time I was to the top of the ramp my back drivers side tire was completely flat. I then slowly make my way to the 76 station right off the freeway and call my pops. He shows up about 20 minutes later, and we proceed to get the spare on until I can get it to Les Schwab (who by the way gave me 1/2 price since I just got these tires put on in December :D ) As you'll be able to tell from the pictures, the tire was completely unsalvageable. I'm pretty sure it was a license plate that I hit, and you can see it sliced right through my tire. PAIN IN THE ARSE is all I can say. I HATE car stuff. I swear I always have SOMETHING I have to do to this stinking truck. Anyways... here' are some pictures...


Here's my awesome dad (in his sweet hat :P ) to the rescue!



Flat as a pancake!!



The Giant tear/gash in the side( its easy to tell now why I literally heard the air rushing out of the tire while still driving)



Its a good thing I have an awesome dad who will drop whatever it is that he is doing to come help when I need him. Any of you who know my dad know what a stud he is :D He's always been the kind of man that anybody can call on, in any situation, and he'll be right there, to help however he can. What a great guy! Thanks pop, and I love you!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Gross...

So my Uncle sent me this video clip... Chris Angel is weird!!! I'd like to know the tricks behind him, because they're pretty trippy to watch!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Lazy Sundays

Sunday just might be one of my favorite days of the week, for the simple fact that all my whole family comes over and we spend the day hanging out and enjoying each others company. I love hanging our little ones hanging out and being funny. I look forward to starting this tradition with my own family one day. Having the hour bursting with people is sometimes how I like it best, especially when they're people I love. Here are a couple cute pictures and a video of Jayce pushing AvyLu around in the toy stroller...



Ryder thought my camera was a pretty cool thing...




And he tried and tried and TRIED to get his hands on it...



And oh boy he wasn't happy that he couldn't have it! I LOVE this face!! :D



Jayce rockin' a mowhawk...



Sunday, May 10, 2009

Old....

I was just cleaning up my old email inbox, and found a couple funny stories, jokes etc... thought I'd share a few


Montana Cowboy

A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
pasture When suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.

The driver, a young man in a Bryony suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses and YSL tie, Leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If
I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd,
Will you give me a calf?"

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, Then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,
Connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, And surfs to a NASA
page on the Internet, Where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation
system To get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to
another NASA satellite That scans the area in an ultra-high-resoluti on
photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop And
exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot That the image
has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet With e-mail on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
Miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and
says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the
cowboy.

He watches the young man select one of the animals And looks on amused
as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
not?"

You're a Congressman for the U.S.Government, " says the cowboy.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required," answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, To a question I never asked.

You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; And you don't
know a thing about cows, this is a herd of sheep.

"Now give me back my dog."




Science

Students in an advanced biology class were taking a mid term exam.

The last question was: "Name seven advantages of mothers milk. The correct answer will be worth 70 points or none at all." One student who had partied a little too hard the night before, was hard put to think of seven advantages. He finally wrote:

1. It is a perfect formula for the child.
2. It provides immunity against several diseases.
3. It is always available as needed.
4. It is always at the right temperature.
5. It is inexpensive.
6. It bonds the child to the mother, and vice versa.

And then, the student was stuck. Finally, just before the bell indicating the end of the test rang, he wrote...

7. It comes in such cute containers.
***********************
He got an "A."



Should Children Witness Childbirth


Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The
house
was very, very dark, so the paramedic asked Katelyn, a 3-year-old girl,
to
hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he helped
deliver the baby. Very diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked. Heidi
pushed and pushed,and after a little while Connor was born. The
paramedic
lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom. Connor
began to
cry. The paramedic then thanked Katelyn for her help and asked the
wide-eyed
3-year old what she thought about what she had just witnessed. Katelyn
quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first
place,
spank his ass again!"



Why we love children


1) NUDITY
Driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when
a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was
stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old
shout from the back seat, "Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"

2) OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child
are not necessarily those of his parents."

3) KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer
the phone. "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now.
She's hitting the bottle."

4) MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with
ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in
amazement and then asked, "What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a
little boy before?"

5) POLICE # 1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, "Are you a cop?" Yes," I answered and continued writing the report." My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?" "Yes, that's right," I told her. "Well,
then," she said as she extended her foot toward me, "would you please
tie my shoe?"

6) POLICE # 2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking,
and I saw a little boy staring in at me. "Is that a dog you got back
there?" he asked. "It sure is," I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van.
Finally he said, "What'd he do?"

7) ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age,
particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and
whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

8) DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that
suit."
And why not, darling?"
"You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning."

9) DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-yea r-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father
always said: "Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into
the hole he goooes." (I want this line used at my funeral!)

10) SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write,
and they won't let me talk!" 11) BIBLE A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
"Mama, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!"

Okay thats it for now, Wendy is bugging me for the computer... :D

Saturday, May 9, 2009

This makes me laugh!

Okay... I'm kind of annoyed right now, because blogger isn't letting me post this as a video, SOOOOO I'm just posting a link to it. In light of Mother's Day, I think its appropriate :D Enjoy!....

P.S. "I smiled last time!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcA4Ry65FU

.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Crackin' me up!!!

Okay, I've decided I'm going to commit to updating a post every week! Ha... we'll see how that goes! So yesterday, Casey, Wendy, My mom and I (Jayce, Hallie and Avery too!) went for a girls day, did a little shopping and then did lunch at Olive Garden... So we are sitting at lunch, and Hallie stands up in her chair with a fork, pointed at my mom's (gramma) head.... My mom starts protesting, "Hal! Hallie stop, what're you doing!?" Haha... and hallie says, "NO! GRAMMA!! I have to brush your hair with the DINGLEHOPPER!!!" what an imagination this kid has! We were crackin' up. She is SOOOO insistant! Anyways, here are a couple of pictures! Enjoy!

And here is Jayce and Avery... Avy suckin' on the side of the table, funny little girl!!

Me and my mom... I look nothing like her :D

Friday, April 17, 2009

An afternoon in the Gorge


Oneonta
behind the falls


So yesterday, (or lasterday, as Hallie would say...) my friend Jeff and I took a little cruise into the Gorge for some hiking. It was a lot of fun, and was SO nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine. As I'm not working at the moment (changing SOON! YAY!) And Jeff is in the same boat, we decided to do a little exploring. Driving along the old highway is a favorite of mine. I could seriously road trip to ANYWHERE and half of the time enjoy the drive more then I do the destination :D Anyways, we went up to Horsetail falls, which isn't much of a hike, but the payoff is cool. You get to hike up behind the waterfall, and looking out is cool, if you look far, you can see the freeway, and the river (and can I say, I know this is lame, but I totally thought, 'Last of the Mohicans' being behind the water fall :P ). Pretty dang cool. We always took a little bit to look at the new tunnel going in, and the trailhead of Oneonta. It was awesome. Reminded me so much of going down to Abernathy with Justine, Cassie, Karlie and Kayla. Those are some SWEET memories, and there's nothing like freakin' freezing creek water to swim in during November :P So here's to having a fun day, warm sunshine ( FINALLY, warmth can quite takin' its sweet time to get here!) one of my favorite girl talk buddies, and God's wondrous works! Enjoy everyone!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Shootin' guns and ladies nights!














What an eventful Saturday! I went shooting with John and Amber, and an old friend Patrick, Josie and Jonas came along too. It was a TON of fun! It took a bit to finally find a good place, it wasn't until after John almost took us flyin' down the mountain side that we finally found a good place. The only downside is that it was FREAKIN' FREEZING!! BRRRRRRRR. I think my toes are STILL cold! The AR was fun, and I'm happy to say I at least hit the target :P We called him Ol' Blue lips ;) And can I just say, my hand is STILL a little sore from the handguns... owie. After getting home, Charlotte, Traci and I decided on a much needed ladies night, full of popcorn, Back to the future, man bashing, and chocolate chip mint icecream. Amazing! What more could I ask for? And also, I'd just like to say a quick thanks to my Traci girl for taking pity on my sore booty and haulling up and down those stairs for me! What a good friend!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

New years!


This year a ton of us when the the YSA dance(okay... lame I know, but being as I don't drink, and don't party haha, this is what we get) that was actually pretty sweet. We had it at the old OC High School, and there were a TON of people there. Ha, the only mishaps of the night was when I had a hissy fit in front of my closet not being able to fine something to wear, as they asked that we do semi-formal. Gay. And might I also add, whats even MORE gay is that there were a frickin' ton of people there in pants. Ugh! Anyways! It was fun all in all, and it made me thankful for the good friends I have found this year. I think my new years resolution isn't just one thing. Its more, a resolution to get somewhere this year that I haven't been before, weather its a goal, a trip, a relationship, a new friend... anything, just something new. I am happy to say I've found a friend that is more then just a friend, she's more of a sister. So here is to the new year, lets make it a good one!

Friday, December 5, 2008

Its begining to feel a lot like Christmas!!







As Christmas traditions go, today was the day my family and I loaded into the truck and headed out past Redland to get our Christmas tree! This is one of my favorite parts of the Christmas season. Haha, so, the one and only request Todd had, (being the one who had to carry the tree back) was that we don't pick one all the way out on the "North 40"(my mom's slang for really far away, dont' even ASK where that saying came from) and that it wasn't too heavy to load. So we spend about 15 minutes looking for the perfect tree, when out of the corner of my eye, I see the most beautiful tree in the WORLD! The only problem was... it DID happen to be out on the "North 40" and it was HUGE!!! We're talking about 11ft tall and big and fat and perfect as far as Nobles go. It only took me a little coercion on my part I finally got mom to agree on this tree (she's the official tree Nazi... we've NEVER had a tree mom wasn't happy with) Haha.. it only took Todd 20 minutes to saw through this fatty of a tree trunk, and then While he went and got the truck, Wendy and I drug it about 50ft, and MAN THAT SUCKER WAS HEAVY! HOLY KATZ!!! Hope you enjoy the pictures, and are enjoying this Christmas season!!