Juuuuuuuuuuly

Ryan and I have tried to get a little healthier in the last couple of months so we've been hiking up Mueller Park Canyon a couple of times. This is a picture from yesterdays hike with the dogs. They actually do pretty well and can make it the whole 7 mile hike, which is exciting because they they just come home and sleep all day... 

Wendi and Gale moved to Grand Junction Colorado, but before they went we had a going away party for Wendi. Melina (sp??) ate ice cream and apparently it was so good she went cross eyed.
Ryans friend, Shonn, got married and at the reception Ryan decided to play a fun game of "where's the pick" with plastic cups.  *side note, I LOVE that shirt on him*
And for the third time in my life I painted my toes.... Pink even.... it was weird. At those little bite marks are from Joan chewing my shoes. And for some reason she only likes to chew mine, not Ryans (little brat)

Stolen from Kate Benson....

I look at my wedding photographers page every once in a while because I love her pictures, well she had this little "personality quiz" on her blog that you answer by taking pictures that describe yourself. For each question, look up the answer in a Google Image search. Then choose your favorite image from the first page of results only.

Here's mine:

Best Friends Nickname

Past Love

*but is it really a past love??*
Past Pet
Place I was born
College Degree

My First Name

*seriously, people always say thier dog is named Lacee*

Screen Name
Place I most want to visit
Middle Name
Grandmas Name

Favorite thing to do

Favorite object

*was there any doubt?*

My first Job

Where I live now

My last Name

Bad Habit

What am I doing right now?

Favorite Color

Favorite Animal

Favorite Food

My Age

Come on... take it... you know you want to

Well Hello! "meughhhhhhhh"

Updates, updates... What have I been up to?

Well I finished one semester of school and actually passed my classes which was actually quite treat for me. I started another semester at school, my second to last to be exact, and I'm pretty darn excited about graduating in December. A couple of my classes this semester are about marriage and families and children in middle childhood, I think the U is trying to tell me something.

Karl and Joan are still alive, and Karl just got his manhood taken away. Ryan is pretty sad about it because he had high dreams of the dogs breading together so we'd get some misfit puppies, but of course I had to destroy his dreams and get Karl clipped.

A couple of girls and work and I decided that we needed to really get disiplined and stop eating cakes and candies and everything bad for us. I knew that the only thing that could keep me away was making a bet for a large sum of money and it started on June 2nd. I've done really well and it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would. I thought I would crave Coke every day but there has been only a couple of days that I've been miserable. We get a break on the 4th of July which I'm pretty darn excited about. I'll probably gain 10 lbs. on that day alone. Oh well, it will be completely worth it.

So Ryan and I are doing well, still working, still going to school. We are going to Arizona to my families cabin for the 4th of July. My dad will be there and three of my sisters with thier kids. It's been over 4 years since I've been to the cabin and it will be Ryan's first time. Perhaps I'll take some pictures and post them when we get back, but I'm not going to promise anything.

AND for those of you that understand that title... you are welcome

Because I can?

Ryan somehow convinced me that we needed another dog because Karl needed someone to play with during the day... Joan is the result.... She is REALLY cute and cuddly, but we'll see how long that lasts... 

Advise... I need it!

So Ryan has given me the go ahead to start buying furniture to decorate our new (5 month old) house. The problem now is that I don't know where to start. I'm going to start with buying new night stands for our bedroom because I literally have been using a Home Depot box since we moved in and its a cheap and easy first step...

So I have some choices to make. One I could go the really simple route and order one of these choices from Ikea, 

Two, I could get unfinished furniture and stain it how I want:

This is an example from store around here, I'm not loving the feet or height of this one...

Or C I could take some initiative and find some antique or vintage store around Salt Lake to find something that I love. But who knows how costly that will be... The mind reels...

Lazy Sunday

Ryan has had the Flu since last night and so he's been out of commission all day. 

I'm scared to death that I'm going to get it too, which will be REALLY bad for school and work. I don't have sick days at work and for one person to miss a day is a BIG deal because there is no one to cover. I also have not thrown up for 7 years. I really can remember the last time that I did, which I'm probably totally jinxing myself now for mentioning it. But the last time was when I had my wisdom teeth out in 2001. The dentist (my brother-in-law) gave me some Percocet for the pain and my mom bought me chocolate pudding. It didn't take me long to figure out that the mixture of Percocet and chocolate was making me sick so I OBVIOUSLY stopped taking the drugs... (we're still talking about my wisdom teeth if you are confulsed).

Anyway, this semester of school is ending on Tuesday and I'll only have 2 semesters left before I actually have my dang degree... I should be writing my paper right now but I've had a really hard time motivating myself. So instead I've been taking some really great pictures around the house and of my dog.

 

Originally uploaded by lackycb

Lazy Sunday

Photoge

For my latest photography class we learned about street photography and taking candid pictures of people without them knowing. I walked around Bountiful Main street all morning trying to get a good shot and this girl just jumped out out at me This girl just seems so out of place that I loved the picture. Her big white heels and the post office bin are out of control. 

And who sees pay phones anymore?? Fantastic...

This third picture is an old wall on Main street in 

Bountiful. The old brick building had been covered

 by stucko and was now peeling off. I think it used

 to be a welding shop but now it's just boarded up and not being used. 

This last picture I just really like because of how the flash came out and how you can barely see my outline in the mirror.