It's been a month since Brody and I went to Orlando and I've finally gotten around to blogging about it...sounds about right. It was a spur-of-the-moment vacation and it was wonderful. My favorite part, of course, was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I want to live there. It was magical.
Here are just a few pictures - check out my facebook album for the rest of them :)
Hogwarts Castle
Butterbeer! Sooooo good
Hogsmeade
Blue Man GroupNot sure if anyone has noticed my running list of books I read this year - I totally stole this idea from a friend's blog (hollah Brittney!) But I have realized that the year is now over and so I should probably start this list over...but it hurts me a little to just delete it, so here it is, preserved forever in a blog post:
Brody and I were lucky enough to spend Thanksgiving week in Cozumel, Mexico with my family. It was a wonderful, warm, and relaxing vacation.
XPLOR - cave swimming, ATVing, and ZIP LINES
SNORKELING
Having a little Marilyn Monroe skirt moment...
Our resort had FLAMINGOS!
and IGUANAS (didn't know they climbed trees...)
It was such a fun week! And it is SOOOO cold in Logan!So my job only has one perk...discounts on fitness equipment. And I finally caved and bought some stuff!
And this Brody walking at a 29% incline - it goes up to 40%!! 
And here's my shiny spinner bike! I'm so excited to not have to drive to the gym in the cold snowiness this winter!Chandler: What’s wrong with you?
Joey: Nothing! Well, I-I got this blinding pain in my stomach when I was lifting weights before, then I uh passed out and uh, haven’t been able to stand up since. But um, I don’t think it’s anything serious.
Chandler: This sounds like a hernia. You have to—you-you go to the doctor!
Joey: No way! ‘Kay look, if I have to go to the doctor for anything it’s gonna be for this thing sticking out of my stomach! (Rolls over and shows Chandler.)
Chandler: That’s a hernia.
Joey: Why did I have to start working out again? (Looks at the weights he was using.) Dang you 15s!
Here are pictures from the latest craft project:
My sister-in-law found this tutorial on this blog and we each started making our own set about a YEAR ago (not really, but it was many, many months). Brody, my wonderful, wonderful husband, cut out all the shapes - which took quite some time - did I mention that he's wonderful? He also helped me staple the fabric to the back and hang them on the wall. As we stood back to admire our work, Brody asked me "So which part of this project did YOU actually do?" He has a solid point. He is a large part of my crafty skills :)
Friends Quote:
Monica: Hey, how did it go with Mike, is he gonna let you keep the painting?
Phoebe: No, he really hates it. But he's gonna let me keep my box of human hair! So you got to pick your battles. But the good news is, Gladys is yours!
Monica: Wow, what's the bad news!
Rachel: Who's Gladys?
Phoebe: Oh, she's that work of art I made, you know, with the woman coming out of the frame.
Rachel: (sarcastic) Oh, and Monica gets to keep her? In her house? I am so jealous!
So I was watching Ellen today and she was discussing how it is not yet Autumn, but not quite Summer either...so she invented Autter! And since everything Ellen says is completely legit, I also think it is Autter. She also thinks "Autter" sounds like a small cute season you could cuddle with. Somehow the Summer seems to have flown by and Autter has taken me by surprise. And of course I didn't post about anything we did this summer (I'm not a good blogger), so here we go: Summer 2010.
4th of July BBQ w/ Brody's Family
It was HOT! I'm pretty sure you can see the sweat on my face in this picture...
We always play a really INTENSE game of volleyball. Brody's fam is pretty competitive, but then again so am I (thanks to my brother), so the hair came up and the shoes came off. And since I don't think anyone who played the game reads this blog, I played AMAZING, scored all the points, and obviously my team won.
This is the only picture I have from our weekend in Brianhead because I don't take pictures (my daddy took this one) - aren't the red-rocks and the red-head so pretty??
AND this is the only picture I have from Bear Lake. Many grueling volleyball games also took place during this weekend. And again, my team always won.
My family is WAY into hiking and convinced Brody and I to go with them to the top of Mt. Naomi (up Logan Canyon by Tony Grove). I do not love hiking, but my mom and I kept talking about how many calories we were burning and that helped :) And when we got to the top it was pretty awesome - I felt super accomplished looking at how far up we had climbed! And I had a few blisters to show for it too (note to self - do not wear hiking shoes that have not been worn in 5+ years without properly re-breaking them in).
