Here are the rules...

1. Link to the person who has tagged you:

(I don't promote blog stalking)

2. Post the rules on your blog

3. Write six random things about yourself

4. Tag 5 people. Let each person know they have

been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

1. Let's start with the blog stalking thing. I hate it. Sure if you've got nothing else to do it's fun. But really, if you don't know me why do you care what is going on in my life? I do realize I'm putting my information out there for all to see but I just cannot understand the urge to stare into the life of someone I/you have never, and probably will never meet!

2. I'm a germ-a-phobe. Not unusual but lately my husbands been noticing it and so that must mean I'm getting worse with it. The other day at Chili's (after I freaked about some unknown substance on the menu and the table) he said, "Are you a germ-a-phobe? YOU ARE!? Where did that come from?" Ha, I usually try to get over it but I guess things have been grossing me out more than normal as of late.

3. I have a blanket that goes where ever I go. In fact it is in my lap right now. Shay is jealous of it (he wouldn't admit it) but I know he is, I cuddle with it more often than with him... How could he not be!?

4. I prefer silence.

5. Even though Shays' obsession with COMIC BOOK stuff drives me nuts it's a quirk of his that I also kinda like. It's who he is. I still think it's silly and a waste of money that he collects figurines and cards but I can understand where he's coming from and it's certainly nothing to lose sleep over. YET!

6. If I'm alone I often find myself counting. My steps, my breaths, the tick tock of the clock, how many foils I'm ripping at work, or pulling out of the hair... I just count. And it bothers me a little when I get interrupted. LOL! But I let it slide cuz it's a stupid thing to be bothered with.

I tag: Elise, Rylee, Kelli L, Kelly D, Mindy

Just call me Sicky McSick Sick.

So I have not been sick for over two years now! In March I had some rotten allergies while I was in Vegas but that's not sick... (kinda but it's not contagious) So here I sit with a cold. I've drugging myself with Nyquil and sleeping my weekend away. My hope is to have let my body rest enough to be able to work this week. I'm buying a face mask to wear while I'm there so I don't spread my disease around! LOL! That's gonna look awesome. Bet you wish I was YOUR hair stylist!!!! (Wait, I can claim some of you as clients!) ;) Anyhow, other than that things are great. Loving the new house... I guess our loan is getting audited. Who knows what that means!? Not quite sure it even really affects us as much as the mortgage company. Anyone know? Should I be scared? I kinda am... Anyhow, here's to the rest of the week and loves to you all.

A lot of you have been commenting on my need to post. I apologize for not posting, I've been so busy... If you stood on your feet trying to make people feel better about themselves 45 hours in one week you'd need some down time too. =)

So, I've been putting off this announcement cuz I just haven't felt like sharing it, and to be honest, I still don't but I keep getting bothered about it so... We bought a house. We moved into it a couple weeks ago and I've been very busy getting it together, arguing with Shay about decorating it and working my ass off. That is why I haven't posted on my blog for a while. And no I don't have pictures yet... I will put them up when I get them. Anyhow, it's a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, brand new townhouse in west Lehi. I love it and it's perfect. The commute is about 30 min. each way, I'm afraid of the roads in the winter but it's not like I didn't learn to drive in the snow in MONTANA!!!! LOL! So hopefully I'll be able to handle it, it's the other drivers I worry about, man people in Utah CANNOT DRIVE! =) Anyhow, Now I've made the announcement, cut me some slack about the pictures and be patient. Unless you want to come take them for me! HEEHEE!

Tiggz wants his Timothy Hay

Ok, This is not the worlds greatest video, I'm aware of that. You will be starting at nothing but our carpet for a second. Get over it! LOL! This is a video of what Tiggz does to the bars on his cage when he wants Timothy Hay. He's like a heroin addict when it comes to this stuff!

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

HERE! YOU HAPPY NOW!?

OK, here are some pictures for you all to drool over. They are the only pictures we've taken since Vegas. I guess we aren't very picture happy! LOL! The first two are of Tiggz messing around in a box and eating all the yummy lettuce he can! :) The next one is of Shay and I going to a friends wedding on July 3, 2008. LOVE YOU!

Forced to blog

So my sister in law threatened to kill me if I didn't update my blog. I'm not being sarcastic either, she literally said "I'm going to kill you if you don't update your blog soon!" so... for my safety I'm updating. K, so, I got nothing... my batteries for my camera are dead so the few pictures I have on there that you haven't seen yet are stuck there till I charge the batteries and we haven't been doing anything that amazing lately so no fun stories. So, there you have it. You now are up to date with my life... NADA! LOVE YA! =)

Happy Father's Day to all you dad's out there!

OH MY GOSH!

I don't know if I would get in "trouble" for posting this but I will take the risk. Here is a sneak peak at the first chapter of Breaking Dawn! (I found it on EW.com)


Hi, EW.com readers,
I'm so excited about the August 2 release of Breaking Dawn — I can't wait to finally be able to discuss everything that happens! No more secrets! To help whet your appetite, Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive sneak peak of the first chapter of Breaking Dawn. The entire first chapter is available in the Eclipse Special Edition, out tomorrow, which will also reveal the cover of Breaking Dawn and have Team Edward and Team Jacob iron-on decals. Here it is, I hope you enjoy!
Stephenie Meyer

1. ENGAGED
NO ONE IS STARING AT YOU, I promised myself. No one is staring at you. No one is staring at you.
But, because I couldn't lie convincingly even to myself, I had to check.
As I sat waiting for one of the three traffic lights in town to turn green, I peeked to the right — in her minivan, Mrs. Weber had turned her whole torso in my direction. Her eyes bored into mine, and I flinched back, wondering why she didn't drop her gaze or look ashamed. It was still considered rude to stare at people, wasn't it? Didn't that apply to me anymore?
Then I remembered that these windows were so darkly tinted that she probably had no idea if it was even me in here, let alone that I'd caught her looking. I tried to take some comfort in the fact that she wasn't really staring at me, just the car.
My car. Sigh.
I glanced to the left and groaned. Two pedestrians were frozen on the sidewalk, missing their chance to cross as they stared. Behind them, Mr. Marshall was gawking through the plate glass window of his little souvenir shop. At least he didn't have his nose pressed up against the glass. Yet.
The light turned green and, in my hurry to escape, I stomped on the gas pedal without thinking — the normal way I would have punched it to get my ancient Chevy truck moving.
Engine snarling like a hunting panther, the car jolted forward so fast that my body slammed into the black leather seat and my stomach flattened against my spine.
''Arg!'' I gasped as I fumbled for the brake. Keeping my head, I merely tapped the pedal. The car lurched to an absolute standstill anyway.
I couldn't bear to look around at the reaction. If there had been any doubt as to who was driving this car before, it was gone now. With the toe of my shoe, I gently nudged the gas pedal down one half millimeter, and the car shot forward again.
I managed to reach my goal, the gas station. If I hadn't been running on vapors, I wouldn't have come into town at all. I was going without a lot of things these days, like Pop-Tarts and shoelaces, to avoid spending time in public.
Moving as if I were in a race, I got the hatch open, the cap off, the card scanned, and the nozzle in the tank within seconds. Of course, there was nothing I could do to make the numbers on the gauge pick up the pace. They ticked by sluggishly, almost as if they were doing it just to annoy me.
It wasn't bright out — a typically drizzly day in Forks, Washington — but I still felt like a spotlight was trained on me, drawing attention to the delicate ring on my left hand. At times like this, sensing the eyes on my back, it felt as if the ring were pulsing like a neon sign: Look at me, look at me.
It was stupid to be so self-conscious, and I knew that. Besides my dad and mom, did it really matter what people were saying about my engagement? About my new car? About my mysterious acceptance into an Ivy League college? About the shiny black credit card that felt red-hot in my back pocket right now?
''Yeah, who cares what they think,'' I muttered under my breath.

(c) 2008 by Stephenie Meyer, reprinted with permission from the Eclipse Special Edition published by Little, Brown and Company.

A scene from a movie....

Ok, so last night was CRAZY! Surreal even. I still can't believe it really happened! Are you wondering what I'm talking about?! I'll tell you... I'll tell you it from my point of view so the story can unravel before your eyes like it did me.

It's 12:40 am and I'm asleep... Shay suddenly BURSTS into the room and looks out our bedroom window (it looks down to a busy road) and says, "Oh my gosh, our neighbor just got ran over!" I jump out of bed and look out the window and sure enough there she is laying face down in the street all sprawled out. Her shoes we scattered in the street!!! It was awful. So Shay says, "They have been fighting for awhile now and I was watching them on the balcony through our peephole and I heard her yelling about how he better not leave, and then he took off running down the stairs (we are on the third floor) and then she was yelling at him and ran after him. Then I heard tires squeal and a thud and then someone screaming at the top of their lungs so I ran in here." CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! So I'm thinking "Oh my gosh, this is so awful, this is so sad. She's chasing after him and gets hit by a car. I can't believe this is happening!" So a couple minutes later the police and ambulance pull up and start doing their job. The police were questioning the boyfriend and the EMT crew were getting ready to stabilize her and then the guy came back over to the girl and she's not moving, not at all. I'm sure she's dying, I'm just horrified at the thought of it but I'm thinking there's no way she's ok. Anyhow, it took 5 policemen to rip him away from his girlfriend and they took him further away. Then we see the EMT's cutting off her pants and they are turnicating her leg and putting a temporary cast on. 30 minutes later they are putting her on the stretcher and in the ambulance and then they leave. During all of this I see a police officer giving the sobriety test to the guy and I'm thinking "What, why are they doing that!?" Then they give him a Breathalyzer and I'm standing there so confused, and then he takes them to the van that hit the girl and grabs something out of it and then he walks over to the sidewalk again and they ARREST HIM for DUI! Now the pieces are coming together, HE WAS DRIVING THE VAN!!!!! Holy hell! So he's gone now and it's only 5 of the 10 police cars left and they are doing their investigation. It was really cool to watch them measure everything and try to figure out how fast he was going and how she got in front of the van... They spray painted where her head, leg, and a shoe was, then where all the tires were when the van stopped. It was like watching CSI (thanks Brett for that comparison). Anyhow, so, I look out the door and their door is wide open, candles are burning, the window is open... So I closed everything up and came home. It was 3:30 before I was able to fall asleep. I was so wound up and freaked out! Most of you know that I internalize other peoples problems and emotions... So you can imagine I was sick to my stomach imagining how they must feel. Even this evening I feel so awful. It's so sad. And they are so young. He's only 20! Man, what happens to your relationship after that? So sad. This morning I could still see the blood on the street where she was laying! I just cannot believe that happened right outside our window to our neighbors. It's insane. Oh and as far as I know she's not dead. I think her leg(s) may be broken though.

So, there is my story. If I find anything out that is noteworthy I'll update you all. WOW! Crazy.