Tagged!

4 Things

4 Random things I adore about my husband
1. He loves movies just as much, if not more than I do.
2. He cooks for me.
3. He loves adidas!
4. He is great with his nephews!!


4 movies I have watched more than once
I see almost every movie twice, if not more, because I usually fall asleep.
1. The Testaments
2. The Princess Bride
3. Meet Joe Black
4. Batman: The Dark Knight

4 TV shows I watch
1. Lost
2. The Office
3. House
4. ANTM

4 Places I have been
1. Paris, France
2. South Africa
3. London, England
4. Montana

4 People I E-mail regularly
I don't really email people regularly... I guess I could pretend it says text instead of email.
1. Jason
2. Janna
3. Kate
4. Tanner

4 Places I would like to visit
1. Jerusalem
2. New York
3. Ireland
4. Norway

4 Things I look forward to in the coming year
1. Vacations...
2. Mini-projects
3. Holiday's
4. More school I guess...

4 People that I Tag
Anyone who wants to do this.

Internet...

A couple of months ago Jason and I decided we wanted to upgrade our internet service. We have internet through our apartment, who gets the internet through a company called HotSite Networks. HotSite Network is wireless, no cables to plug into your computer. We were only able to have one computer on the internet at a time, which we didn't like, so we decided to upgrade to the premiere service. The premiere service is supposed to be a lot faster, and you are allowed to have two computers on the internet at the same time.
A few days ago Jason was logging into the internet here, and noticed a very small yellow link on the screen.
Here is what it said,
"Due to an error by HotSite Networks, the Premier Service at The Branbury was incorrectly advertised as having the ability to have a second computer logged in simultaneously by using the same username and password on two different computers. The policy at The Branbury is that users are able to only use one computer at any given time per account, including Premier Service accounts.
Beginning September 8, 2008 Premier Service accounts will be converted to allow only one computer at a time on the Internet. If you have a need to have two computers online at the same time, a second account will need to be registered. Please see the office to get a second account.

Gaming consoles and other wireless devices can still be registered for free. Usernames and passwords are not computer-specific and can be used on any computer. When logging on to another computer, the first computer will be logged off and a message will be received indicating this action.

We apologize for the error and any inconvenience this may cause."

Umm... Ya, I'm pretty upset. That's the whole reason we upgraded. I'm pretty upset, and since they put it in a place where barely anyone is going to notice, and they announced it after the beginning of the month, we have to pay for the entire month because we weren't able to cancel before the first. Now, if we want to have two computers on the internet at the same time, we will have to pay twice as much, and I am just not willing to pay 40 dollars a month for that slow of internet, especially when they pull stuff like this. So we are looking for better, faster internet.

This is the end of my rant. If anyone knows of any fast internet for not too expensive please let me know!

Brilliance in a small package.

This morning Jason and I had breakfast with two families from our ward. We had so much fun! It was great getting to know these families better. My favorite part was getting to play with the host family's two year old daughter.  

She is brilliant! Her name is Ruby. She told me how they went to see Wall-e in the "the-a-ter" and that she thought it was scary, but she did like it. She correctly identified her "bath friends," which are a "pelican, crabbie, dolphin, turtle, and octopus." She even told me what color each of them were!!! I was shocked and amazed at how smart she was! She has a mind of her own and you can certainly tell. She likes to line up her "bath friends" and have them facing all in the same direction. 

She knows when something is not right. If her mom brings her the "wrong" clothes to wear, she will tell her mom, "Those aren't right." So when her dad showed us her blanket trick we were dumbfounded.

She has a pink blanket and has a favorite corner. On one corner there is white embroidery and the corner straight through the blanket is her favorite corner. She can identify the "right" corner without having to see the white embroidery. If you turn the blanket around it is all pink, you show Ruby the corners and she can tell you which one is the "right" corner. 

Jason played this game with her for quite a while and tried to figure out how she could correctly pick her corner every single time. He would crumble the blanket up and only show her the edges, he would fold the blanket up and show her different corners at a time. He showed her two of the corners and asked her which one was the "right" corner and she said it wasn't either one of them. He had tried to trick her and didn't succeed. He looked closely at the corners and there were only tiny tiny little details that were different. The color was the same, it wasn't wet, Jason said there was tiny stitching differences and that Ruby must pay extremely close attention to detail and that's probably how she knows which corner is hers. 

Even Jason was fascinated by her and it's kind of hard to get Jason super interested in something. Anyways... I just thought it was so neat that she is so smart, and able to express herself to adults at two years old. 

Random pictures

I was looking at some of the pictures on my phone and on my computer the other day and decided I would post a few... 

This was my first attempt at making fondant and I think it turned out quite well. 

This is my father-in-law getting pick-pocketed by a squirrel. (This is not a photography trick, the squirrel was really touching his pocket)

Jason and I did not like these shoes, but my little sisters did. 

We were at a pawn shop in Montana and I saw this! $9,500.00 for a pawned Rolex! Yikes, I'm glad I don't ever want one of these!

We found these shoes at Nordstroms and thought they were hideous as well. When we showed the picture to Janna she freaked out and said she loved all of them.

A day after our one year anniversary I was waiting for Jason at the duck pond and saw this little mommy duck and her babies.

On our way to the 4th of July parade in Provo, we saw this sign and I realized I had to take a picture. 

On my way to pick Jason up from Kaplan two days before our anniversary and the sunset was so pretty I had to take a picture. It was with my phone and through the windshield.

This picture was taken up in Montana. They have such neat weird things up there. 

This was also taken in Montana at a pawn shop. We saw it and thought it was awesome, it is completely beaded. The little eagle is holding the dream catcher by its feet. We thought it was very impressive!

Yay! Another wedding survey!

1. What month and year were you married?
June 2007!

2. How did he ask you?
I knew it was going to be that night. Jason's roommate came into the Brick Oven and told me he went with Jason to get the ring and it had to happen that night because I was to meet his parents the next morning and I didn't want to meet them as just the "girlfriend." He officially proposed right after I got off work from the Brick Oven (so I smelled like ranch dressing, and garlic bread) in a secret location. He got down on one knee (which was pretty impressive for where we were) told me he loved me and stuck the ring on my finger. So cheesy romantical, but perfect!

3. Where did you honeymoon?
We went to the Zermatt for our wedding night and the next day we flew on the most annoying flight ever to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to go on our cruise... Our airline lost our luggage. Jason's suitcase showed up later that night on our cruise, but mine didn't show up until the next night!!! It was horrible!!!! The rest of the cruise was amazing though, and I did end up getting a new outfit on the cruise because I didn't have any clothes.

4. Can you still fit your dress?
Yeah, I just tried tonight! It is a bit snug, but I've been meaning to lose a little bit of weight anyways!

5. What was the worst gift you got?
Some really ugly weird wooden dolls with yarn for hair.

6. What flavor was your wedding cake?
Chocolate for the Utah cake and white cake for the Montana reception.

7. Were you a bridezilla?
Not until we got the luncheon and everyone kept asking what took us so long and in all reality we were taking pictures and then had gotten stuck in stupid traffic! After that I was fine again. Of course there were a few shockers that gave me a bit of an edge, but I didn't freak out on anyone.

8. What's one thing you would change about your wedding?
Not as many pictures of Preston... Another reason why I want to take more wedding pictures.

9. Do you still look at your wedding pictures?
I have them all over my apartment and my computer, it would be hard NOT to look at them.

10. What colors did you use?
Red, orange, and yellow.

11. Where did you tie the knot?
The Salt Lake Temple!

12. What's one funny thing that happened that day?
After looking at our wedding reception pictures we realized my little sisters' good friend Preston, was in more pictures at our reception than we were! (Probably due to the fact we were stuck in the line from 7:00-9:30) We did thankfully get some first dance pictures.

13. How many showers did you have?
A brick oven shower, a family shower, and a friend shower. All were great! I did not get one dirty thing from any of the parties! Haha, thank heavens!

15. Did you give any wedding favors away?
No, we had great refreshments though! Chocolate fountain all the way!

16. Who caught the flowers and garter?
Didn't throw them, we didn't have time. Haha.

17. Who was your officiant or minister?
We had a temple sealer.

18. How much was your wedding dress, undergarments and all?
I can't really remember... I payed for the dress myself I think it was about 800 and I didn't need a slip, I didn't do a veil either, there wasn't one that I fell in love with so I decided I didn't care that much anyways.

19. Was there dancing?
Ya of course, not a ton, but there was dancing. We even had a wedding singer, well, actually two. Jason's aunt and her husband sing at weddings all the time and they were AMAZING!!!! They even learned our two songs to play and sing for us!

20. Where was the reception?
Up at Mt. Timpanogos Park, it was beautiful!!!!! My cousin did all of the decorating and the weather was perfect!

21. Would you go back and do it over again?
Anyday! I would love to marry Jason again, best day of my life. The smartest thing I've ever done!

22. How long did you have to plan your wedding?
About 3 months... We actually kept contemplating eloping to the Vegas temple, but decided it would be much much better for us to have the entire family and all of our friends involved.

23. What kind of car were you in when you drove away?
Our beautiful Acura TL.

24. How many in your wedding party?
We didn't really do anything super traditional. I did have Janna, Kate, Penny, Caidy, and Metta dressed in Orange. The mother's and father's, my grandparents and my brother.

25. Did you do anything different in your wedding or reception?
A lot! We didn't have the traditional garter fling or the bouquet toss. No father daughter or mother son dance.

26. Did you save the top layer of your cake for your 1 year anniversary?
We certainly did! We kept the top of our Montana cake and brought it back with us and it was delicious!! (Check our 1 year anniversary post for pictures)

27. If you saved your cake, did you eat it?
Of course!

28. What was the grand total spent your wedding?
I have no idea. I don't think anyone does, there was money coming from all over the place to pay for that thing it was incredible! Thank you everyone!

Realization...

For the past couple of months I have been wanting to take more pictures in my wedding dress. We didn't have a ton taken and though the ones we have are good, I want more. I also didn't want to take bridals before we were married. Call me old fashioned but I was not letting Jason see me in my wedding dress before the wedding, and we didn't have time to do a lot immediately after (on the day and even weeks later). We got married had a luncheon, got ready for the reception, had the reception, the next day we left for our honeymoon, a week later we got back and then went up to montana for that reception and then my mom took the dress back to Utah while we stayed in Montana for a few months.
Call me greedy, but I just don't think I got enough pictures while in that dress. It is a phenomenal dress! I loved every single thing about it and I still do. It is simple and elegant, and perfect for me.
Tonight while at my moms I decided I would try it on again. It took a tiny bit of finesse to get it zipped up all the way and thanks to my little sister penny zipping it for me it worked. I realized I have probably gained at least 10 lbs since I've been married! GAH! It's a good think Jason and I have started to eat Lean Cuisine's! It's proportioned a lot better for me so I don't end up eating my weight in dinner. Haha.
(Or maybe I could just blame it on my birth control like everyone else does! Haha.)
My goal; lose 15 lbs so I can wear my dress again and get more pictures taken.
Also, get my dress cleaned because it's filthy!

Shannon A-Z

I took this idea from my friend Talyn's blog! I love filling these things out, I don't really know why, but I do. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed doing it.

A-Attached or Single: Seriously attached!
B-Best Friend: Jason & Caidy... (Family is a given as well)
C-Cake or Pie: Cake!
D-Day: Saturday (No school, just date night!!)
E-Essential Item: My husband ;) (my phone... It has everything!
F-Favorite Color: Red
G-Gummy Bears or Worms: Worms, you can make little mud treats with gummy worms!
H-Hometown: Orem, UT
I-Indulgences: Chocolate and bread.
J-January or July? July (no icy roads!)
K-Kids: Not yet.
L-Life is incomplete without: Jason, Church, and my entire family.
M-Marriage Date: June 26, 2007
N-Number of Siblings: Four, one brother, and three sisters.
O-Obsession: It varies on the month. (I get little hobbies and they change frequently.)
P-Phobias or Fears: Being alone
Q-Quote: "Just knock on the door, he'll come out," said by a native american woman about a bee inside of a soda can.
R-Reason to Smile: Jason making funny faces.
S-Season: Summer/fall. Right in between, where it's not super super hot, but it's not cold enough you need a jacket yet. I can never seem to keep warm during the fall and winter.
T-Tag Three:Anyone who wants to do this.
U-Unknown fact about me: I beat the devil in Guitar hero 3!
V-Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I would say I am not a vegetarian, but I am not an oppressor of animals either. I am a happy medium.
W-Worst Habit: Leaving my clothes on the floor.
X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds! Much more fun!
Y-Your favorite food: So hard, enchiladas, mashed potatoes, taco's, sandwiches, anything with bread...
Z-Zodiac Sign: Libra