DVR

I just read Emily's blog and she posted the shows she watches each day. I had just mentioned to Lincoln the shows that I record on our DVR so I will share those with you :)

MONDAY & TUESDAY

Dancing with the Stars

I really like Maksim, Anna, and Derek....I'm not really into any of the stars this year but it should be fun to watch the pros.

TUESDAY

I use to like watching the Biggest Loser and excercising during the commercials :)

but now we have DVR which means no more exercising ha ha. (my bad) :)
WEDNESDAY
Oh I have always loved watching Next Top Model! It is just fabulous! if only I was tall...

THURSDAY

Project Runway is awesome! If you love shopping and fashion then you would also love this show. I'm so impressed with what people come up with. I wish I had the skills to make my clothes instead of searching the stores forever to find exactly what I want. Watch this one!

Mondo is one of the designers and I love, love, love this outfit he made on episode 8!

Oh I wish I was wearing this right now :)

Hope y'all enjoyed.

p.s. I'm slowly working through all the homework and quizzes and exams. Thanks to those that posted comments and encouragement for me. It really helped out a lot! With all this stress I noticed I'm a lot more emotional and, yes, I got a little teary-eyed noticing how much people have my back :) Thanks Guys--love you all!

What a Mess

I had a complete come apart today...complete mess! Wow my schedule is packed...school, work, life, etc... I just couldn't take all the stress today and so I just cried to my honey! (literally for like an hour) UGH!
So I decided to update (em told me to on her blog) This is my life in a list for the next week:

• Accounting Homework
• other Accounting class homework
• a marketing paper
• an Accounting Exam
• a Power Point on the geography and culture of Switzerland
• a geography Exam
• reading of all the chapters for the exams
• a wedding reception
• an Assembly
• the circus on Sept 24th! (this is a de-stressor)
• work
• cleaning
• eating
• sleeping
• etc....

I decided that time is very valuable! and life is very stressful! When in highschool and living at home, I was able to do everything! and I mean everything! I now live in a stress bubble that I can't seem to tear out of....I set the bar high for myself in my highschool days, so it tears me apart to not be able to have everything perfect now! For those of you who are close to me, you know how I am about having everything done perfect and on time...grrr If only I was a more free-spirited person...

If anyone has ideas on how to de-stress, let me know :) :( or people who want to do some homework :)

{deep breath}

and

{another deep breath}

Wow, school started..

already! Yesterday was my first day. I have been stressed about this semester; I have five classes, which means five books, which added up to $776.00!....Yeah that is what I thought!
After a little plastic money I have been able to try and put that behind me. My classes are:
Survey of World Geography
Operations Management
Cost Accounting
Intermediate Accounting
Principles of Marketing
It should be an exciting semester. After yesterday I realized that a lot of my assignments and homework will be group/team projects. I will update later on how I feel about that. Right now, I'm a little if-fy...
I'm keeping a positive attitude and looking forward to getting another semester finished.

Lagoon

Kati, Jordan, and Ethan came to visit us for a couple of days and we decided to take a Lagoon trip! It was a lot of fun...we rode Wicked, the Spider, the train, the swings, the Samurai and others. I really liked the Samurai!
Lincoln really wanted us to get our pictures done at Pioneer Village. His parents have a picture of them around our age when they went so we thought it would be a fun keepsake to get ours done. These are the two pics we got. They turned out really cute and it was a lot of fun to dress-up! Love my sexy cowboy :)
The flash in the middle is because I took a picture of the picture :)

We didn't take a whole lot of pictures and I was really sad to notice that this is the only pic with Kati in it (sorry girl)...and it's only half her head!

Lincoln took this pic of Jordan and I before we got onto Wicked. I was super nervous to get on this ride but after doing it, I would definitely ride it again!

Oh you all should have seen Lincoln with Ethan! They were two pees in a pod...super cute to watch Lincoln play with the little guy. Lincoln would put Ethan on his shoulders as we walked around the park and they kept giving each other high-fives :)

let's glue this together...

...tuesday, my day off, I decided to go visit my mom. She came up with the idea to sew my cousin's block quilt together. [A bunch of us cousins one "cousin's sleepover" decided to put together a quilt which included a block created from each individual cousin.] This was a very fun idea and two years later (i believe that's when we did it), I'm finally putting the blocks together and making the quilt! Since everyone has different tastes when it came to fabric, I had many shades of colors and many different designs. I layed out the quilt and knew it was suppose to be random but I wanted to bring some order to the wide variety. so....my quilt is organized with the bright colors on one end and fades into the duller, lighter colors :) I thought I was very creative with this pattern, that when I get to tieing it I want to start with a bright color on one end and a duller color for the other end. My quilt is definitely going to have some personality! I can't wait to see Aunt L's face when she sees my crazy idea :)
...after laying out my quilt, I tell my mom, "let's glue this together and then put the border on..." We had a good laugh with that one. Apparently I don't sew very often and thought we could glue it ;) Also, I had some troubles with keeping an eye on the four corner blocks. When I was in Oak City a little while back...I remember Aunt L saying, "where is your fourth block?" On that day I remember looking through the bag I kept the quilt in and finally found it. So the morning before leaving my house to travel to my mom's, I counted them to make sure I had all four. I did. but as we proceeded to put the border together, I could not find that fourth block! I know that it had travelled with me so it had to be here somewhere...after some good laughs and jokes about that block not wanting to be sewn, I found it in the laundry room...I can only guess that it must have stuck to me on my way to do laundry :) and it only gets funnier....as we are sewing the border together [since everyone sews different and measures different] we ended up not really needing that block anyways because of the way it lined up. My mom thought we should cut one of the edges and make the block line up like it is suppose to but after all the trouble we went through with this block, I decided to leave it so that I will always have the funny memory.
You could think of this quilt as a symbol of all of us cousins. We all have different personalities, reflect different colors, live our lives in different patterns, and when we attempt to mesh together, some of us contrast each other while others clash. But all-in-all we are able to "make a beautiful and whole quilt" of our lives even if we don't come together perfectly...

Trip to Oak City

My mom and I decided to tie our cousins quilt...so we drove up to Aunt L's to do so. We made sure to have tuna sandwiches for lunch (thanks to G-ma's traditional tieing afternoons). It was a really fun day and I'm glad we get together every once-in-awhile to continue the quilt tradition. My g-ma had some really great skills at piecing quilts together...not sure if I would ever be able to do the same :) but I'm not really practicing either....yet...
Oh cute Kaylin! She was spending time with grammy that weekend because Bobbie just had her babies! So we got to play with her that day. She was a good little helper.
Lincoln and I spent that evening up Fillmore canyon. It was really nice to just relax around the camp fire. My version of camping is spend the day, maybe hike, roast hotdogs and mellows, then go home :) ha ha Not really into getting dirty and sleeping in a tent. Oh but smores are so so so good! We made them the easy way.... Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

The Moral of the Story...

Don't attempt to cake decorate during PMS week :)