mandi

February

2009-02-15T21:46:00.000-08:00

Yes, I've reverted to titling my posts by the month. Life has been so busy I think this will be the only post for me this month. Lots has been going on lately. We're about 4 weeks into a new semester and I'm finally starting to adapt to my new schedule. I got a promotion about a month ago but haven't change positions yet (which I'm grateful for). My position has finally been filled. My replacement started Monday. We have a week to go with her training then I'll start mine for the next three weeks or so. I'm really excited and glad it took so long to get going. I don't know what I would have done if I had to adapt to a new school schedule and a new job all at once.

Whitney had a birthday. I was WAY too excited to wait until her actual birthday so we got her a day early. Kacey ambushed her at the door and made her sit down while Lacie and I lit the candles in the other room. She was so confused, note the picture below. I hate waiting to give people their birthday presents. I don't know what I'm going to do when I have kids!

Speaking of kids. Coytt, Broolyn, Dalon, and I had a slumber party Friday night so their parents could go out for Valentines Day. We had so much fun. Coytt found my camera and insisted that I take pictures and then let him and Brooklyn look through them. From the second they got there I think the only thing they ate was candy and marshmallows. I'm surprised I ever got them to sleep. Brooklyn knows exactly where we keep the candy at our house and that's always the first place she goes.

I swear he really does like me! He insisted that we take this picture and this is what we got...little punk.

Yes, we had cake batter with (not for) breakfast.

I told Brooklyn that he hair was crazy and she laughed like ha Mandi come on and said "my hair is always crazy."

...and cupcakes with our lunch.

We spent Saturday at the park with Whitney and her two nieces Jayla and Jocelyn and her nephew Jamir. For some reason Jamir couldn't remember my name and reverted to calling me GRANNY! What?! I have no idea why Mandi turned into granny. He would ask me my name and call me Mandi once or twice and then I was right back to being granny.

I promise Dalon was there too, he was camera shy. ;) I honestly don't know how I ended up with no pictures of him.

Karaoke Night

2009-01-17T23:55:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday night we had friends over for dinner. We were supposed to have roast but due to a dry, slightly black roast, we ended up with bacon, elk sausage, and pancakes. The black roast was definitely not my fault...just had to throw that out there. It was a mixture or a new (too big for the roast) pan and too little water. We ended up playing "Boogie" on Whitney's Wii. All the girls sang "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and if you ask me we sounded pretty dang good.....the game didn't agree. The first three pictures are Whitney demonstrating all the different things we had going on at once. The rest of the pictures speak for themselves. Jathen and Ryan obviously had more fun than the rest of us.

Roomie Party!!!!

2008-12-18T20:59:00.000-08:00

It's a Christmas miracle. I'm actually posting more than once a month. Tonight we had our roommate Christmas party. We started off by going to the temple lights and driving around looking at Christmas lights. I forgot my camera so all we got was a poor quality phone picture. . .

Then we opened presents. . .

Kacey loves her Lambie. . .
Buckle gift card, which I am extremely excited to use. Thanks Lacie!

I got Kacey the world's cutest shirt.

. . .and Kacey got Lacie the world's second cutest shirt

Kacey also got a much needed wallet. Her old one was embarrassing.

I heart new panties. . .Kacey also got me a new undershirt, which I was in dire need of. I've been wearing nasty worn out ones. Undershirts are just no fun to buy. Thanks Kacey!

. . .and from me, Lacie got the world's other cutest shirt.

As you can see we all scored some pretty sweet loot. We also watched my all time favorite Christmas movie ELF!!! It's not Christmas until I've seen it at least five times. For anyone who hasn't experienced calling me during the month of December, do it, you are missing out.

. . ."and to finish we'll snuggle" if you don't understand, see ELF. On second thought just see ELF!

*Whitney couldn't make it. I forgive her, only because we're going to do it all again. Nothing is more exciting than having Christmas after Christmas.

'Tis the Season!

2008-12-15T21:05:00.000-08:00

Friday night was our ward Christmas party. The theme was tacky Christmas sweaters.

I obviously can't pull the Ben Steeler face So I gave up :)
We didn't do a real Christmas tree this year. We don't really have anywhere to put it. So we just bought a few decorations and improvised with ones we had left over from last year. Half our house is super classy.

....and the other half a little trashy.

Meet Lewis

2008-10-02T14:52:00.000-07:00

The other night I was sitting doing my homework and I hear Kacey scream from her room. I figured it was just another cricket. She has a real problem. :) Anyway low and behold no cricket but a gecko in her bed. This picture was right before Lacie and I caught him. He had ran down inbetween the matrice to hide. We took some other pictures of him once we got him in the jar but I lost my camera cord so this is all I can provide. We kept him in the jar with a cricket for awhile, he really hated the cricket. They were really funny to watch. Anyway I did let him back outside with his millions of other friends that like to hang out around our house. I see at least three to five a day, but Lewis was the first to be brave enough to come inside.

Much needed decorating

2008-08-17T19:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lacie Brittany and I went shopping. We stopped by the Deseret Book store in Chandler because a lady I work with told me they have an amazing bakery. Which they do. Anyway I found this really cute tile so I decided it was time to fill the empty spaces in our entertainment system. We found our cute candles at Kohls. I wish I would have taken some before pictures so you could see how bad it really was to look at. :) I know Connor Jackson kind of throws off the groove, but we love him.

PF Changs and Water Safety

2008-04-20T09:35:00.001-07:00

Friday after work Kacey, Ashley and I went to PF Changs. I had mongolion beef let me just say it was wonderful. On the other hand their dessert was not that wonderful. In fact it wasn't very good at all. I had the trisunami, Kacey had a chocolate raspberry cake, and Askley had some lemon pie stuff. Neither of them wanted to finish and as nasty as those little things were I couldn't let them go to waste so I finished them off. That's about as exciting as my Friday night got. We watched Alvin and the Chipmunks...awesome movie...then I went to bed on account that I had to be up at 5:30 to go to Wickenburg. I don't even remember the last time I got up at 5:30 I hated it! Anyway, I made it to Wickenburg around 8:30 it should have taken me an hour and a half but due to my being directionally challeneged, I got turned around a "few" times. I taught two basic water safety courses to the staff memebers of Remunda Ranch in Wickenburg. It's an anorexia and bulimia recovery facility. When I first get there I go to use the restroom and the lady is like the doors don't lock just a warning. So I was like great this is awkward. When I walk out this guy laughs at me and says they do too lock you just can't open them from the outside. They have to keep them locked from the outside so that the girls can't go running in to throw up. I couldn't get over how pretty the area was, the only thing I wasn't fond of was the amount of criters running around. I have never seen so many lizards in my life. I think I saw a Gila Monster for the first time in my but it scurried so fast I couldn't get a good look. It was a big black lizard with orange strips sounds like a Gila Monster, right? Now the lizards didn't bother me that bad it was the spiders that got me. I was demonstrating how to use the ring bouy just before I threw it I looked down and there was the biggest spider ever! I screamed of course and dropped the bouy. It was no trianchula but the thing was the size of a silver dollar! So gross. I had never taught a water safety class so I was really nervous about it, but they both went really well and now I'm all practiced up to go back next week. This time it won't be taking me two hours to get there.

I'm Back!

2008-04-09T11:06:00.000-07:00

Well I finally decided to rejoin the blogging world. Me and my last one got in a bit of a disagreement. My link list disappeared and my HTML was all messed up. I finally got fed up and erased it. Me and my forgiving ways decided we would give blogger one more chance. For all of you with private blogs my e-mail is mandi.1188@gmail.com. I don't check this one regularly if you're going to e-mail me stick with my hotmail account.