Look what I did!

Coby has been growing out a full-on beard and mustache this past week (against my wishes), and today after spending what seemed like an eternity in the bathroom, look who emerged! It is my own gross cowboy rapist of a husband! I told him to shave it off right then, but apparently this will be an all day event, because he then informed me that next he plans on shaving it to just a mustache and then a skinny mustache after that, before finally (hopefully) shaving it off! (He even took this pic of himself and then set it as my desktop backtrop to insure that I won't get this picture out of my head!) He is very proud of his accomplishment and made me promise to blog about this...BUT don't worry all you Ogden-ites, he WILL be shaving before we head out there! What a nerd my little hubby is, good thing I love him!

Mae's 1st First Christmas

This past Friday and Saturday we celebrated Christmas here with Coby's family, since we will be Ogden this year on Christmas--and let me tell you, Mae had a GREAT 1st first Christmas. The Coonradt's do Christmas in a BIG way- heck that's part of the reason I joined this family!!!

Kenna and Mae reading their books they won in BINGO!

Another BINGO prize for Mae...I think she likes it, don't you?

I know it should be against blogging rules to post a pic this bad of me (hey, it was EARLY, okay?) but just look how cute Mae looks!

We wondered how Mae would do with presents and figured she probably wouldn't care too much, but she was a trooper and went to town on those presents!

At the end of the day this was all Mae had to show for it...SHE MADE A KILLING!!! All of this (minus about three little things from us) were from her Nana and Papa Coonradt (AKA Santa)! Thanks so much for such a WONDERFUL Christmas for our own little Christmas Angel!

Christmas is a rough gig...She crashed, and she crashed hard, after all the extreme present opening!

And since I didn't get Christmas cards out this year (again)... You can just consider this your Christmas card, you lucky readers out there (so just pretend we are dressed and ready, and that Mae is looking at the camera). We hope you have as AWESOME a Christmas we did & we LOVE you all!

JodiAnn is gettin' HITCHED!!!

So last Friday all us girls got together to celebrate our dear friend Jodi's upcoming wedding and give her lots of presents!

Jodi is gets really excited about dishes! Yay!

All those in attendance, minus the little ones chasing Tikers around!

The sexy bride and the Ho!

Aren't my friends so cute?!!!

Ditto...

Ditto, ditto....

So apparently the newest fad happens to be tu-tu's for little girls and my dear friend Jme being the crafty little thing she is brought the supplies for all of us to make our own little tu-tu's for our girls. Lindsay captured my very FIRST piece of the tu-tu. I look pretty pleased with my talent, huh? By the way, I took the plunge, cute & dyed my hair--what do you think ? At first I truly felt a little on the gothic side, but now that I'm getting more used to it, I think it is growing on me! Plus the haircut has been a big success, Mae has not pulled one little hair out of my head...I may not end up bald after all! Good thing, cuz I have a very funny shaped head!

Me modeling the finished masterpiece...I was being a lion and the tu-tu was my mane, don't make fun of me!

The blushing bride sporting our makeshift wedding attire!
Friends!

I LOVE MY FRIENDS! We are the coolest people I know!

Crazy 8's!!!

K so JME tagged yours truly and I thought I participate just because I like her! Here goes...
8 Favorite Shows: K so we have truly become couch potatoes thanks to DVR... Probably my favorite show right now would have to BONES, or "boner" as naughty Coby calls it)-- I look forward to Wednesdays now just for that reason (sad, but true), Dirty Sexy Money (that's right I said "sexy"), The Office, Chuck, Fringe (never been really into sci-fi things, but this has peaked my interest), King of Queens (Kevin James is always funny), all the JAZZ games, oh and I can always enjoy a little AMERICA'S FUNNIEST VIDEOS!!! Thank goodness for DVR-- without it I would have to do something productive!!!
8 Favorite Movies: #1 would HAVE to be TWILIGHT...ha, ha j/k! Not really... Seriously though, Frequency would have to be right up towards the top (Coby makes fun of me for that...I'm not really sure why), Runaway Bride (It better be one of my favorites after paying TWICE to see that because the first time, we blew off going to the movie so we could cruise the 'vard instead...nice plan!), 50 First Dates, The Burbs, Money Pit (Tom Hanks is so gifted!), The Upside of Anger (I truly LOVE Kevin Costner), Pride and Prejudice-the Original (thanks to Wendee for introducing me to this!) and the Ewok Adventure from my childhood (and contrary to what you may think, that is not me in the movie, I used to think I looked just like that little girl...that's probably why I LOVED it sooo much! I even had the boardgame...I was sooo cool!)
8 Favorite Restaurants: Royal Dragon in Roy (sad, I can't eat there anymore), McGRATH's (mmmm....), Taco Bell (seriously), Javier's, Maple Gardens (can't eat there anymore either...dang it!), Panda Express (not there either), Greek Garden and Olive Garden (no more breadsticks for me though:( I have a very "HEALTHY" appetite!
8 Things that happened yesterday: Let's see if I can remember... Bathed and did not wash my hair--even though it was begging for it, bought shampoo so I could wash my hair and not gross Coby out anymore, spilled Mae's peas baby food on the couch (yay for me), cleaned up Mae's peas baby food, went to the gym (bonus points for me), watched Coby's basketball game and tried to make a friend there with another player's wife (not sure if that friendship will stick).
8 Things I'm looking forward to: Christmas with Mae, Club at Maddox with my friends(!), Mae learning to crawl, Mae learning to say Momma and really mean it, family pictures (maybe with Lindsay?!!!), New Year's (I've always LOVED New Years, even though I never really do anything) going on our cruise in February AND finishing the 4th and final book of the Twilight series (I really can't wait for this phenomenon to be finished...I'm spent),
8 Things on your wish list: A new house at some point with more room for all of our USELESS crap that we can't seem to get rid of, wishing it was closer to CRUISING time, wishing my friends would all move to Vernal (hint, hint), wishing I didn't have this big zit on my chin, wishing I had a lot of money to blow on stuff I don't need (but still want), wishing I could eat Chinese food after all that talk about it, wishing Mae's baby legs from her grandma were here so I could take some pictures and wishing I was done with this tag that is taking me FOREVER!!!
8 Things I love about winter: I don't love winter, don't even really like it.... but I do like staying home when its cold outside all bundled up in blankets, like watching the Jazz play and they play during winter, like having snow for Christmas (and Christmas only), like winter clothes, like how quiet it feels sometimes after it snows, like how good a bubble bath feels after you've been outside in the FRIGID COLD here in Vernal, like sledding (but haven't done it in awhile) especially when we pack bike ramps with snow, double up on one sled and come crashing down (remember J?) and I LOVE when winter leaves and the first day of SUN comes out!
8 People I tag: Jack, Jen, Debs, Kellie, Erin, Ash, Marissa and little Miss soon-to-be Momma, Wendee!

Thanks to all for taking the time to read what has taken me HOURS to do (k not really hours, but it felt like it)!!!

Thanksgiving 2008

I know this is a little late, but I decided to finally post a pic of Mae Mae's first Thanksgiving. This year we went to Coby's Grandma Angie's beautiful new house and had such a good time!!! She is soooo sweet and even made me gluten-free stuffing...it was SOOOOO good! It was so fun to have Mae here for Thanksgiving!

TWILIGHT-update!

For all those waiting with baited breath, I just thought I'd update you on the whole TWILIGHT phenomenon... I finished the second book...and it SUCKED!!! The first one was okay and if not for that one, I would end the reading now, but I figure I'm in this too far deep now to stop...Here's hoping the third revives some kind of interest for me...