The November month of Gratitude

So I found this on a friends' blog and thought it was a great idea, so I'm gonna copy it, cause thats what I do. I'm hoping to do it everyday but it might be every other day, we'll see. I think during these times is so easy to forget all the good in our lives so if you feel like doing it as well, here are the instructions, straight from her blog...

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: each day during the month of November I will be blogging (some prefer to send out mass emails to their friends) about three "things" for which i am grateful. the term "things" is used to encompass a myriad of stuff including, but not limited to: a certain set of circumstances, an event, an inanimate object distinguished from a living being, possessions or effects, a deed or act, a product of work or activity, an idea or notion, a piece of news or information, a person, a memory, anything that makes you smile. !!the challenge is to come up with three ORIGINAL "things" each day. try not to repeat entries!!

The blogs should be posted by midnight each night. if you miss a day or two, no biggie, but you have to make it up, no skipping! yes, this may mean accessing your email or blog accounts on a much more regular basis for some of you.

WARNING OF POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS! please note that challenge participation may result in any or all of the following:
- you will be surprised at all the Lord has done for you
- you will feel help and comfort
- you may find yourself singing as the days go by
- your doubts will fly

And to start off here are my three things:

1. I am so grateful for this awesome house we have to live in right now. My aunt and uncle built a spec house and are trying to sell it so we are living in it til it sells, to take care of it and keep it clean. Seriously, this opportunity could not have come at a better time. A week after we moved in, Brennon decided to quit his job, and start a business with some friends. So there is no way we could have done this if it wasn't for being able to live in this house.

2. The fact that my teachers have taken pity on us and not given any major homework assignments this week. I have been feeling a bit overloaded lately so its nice to have a little break.

3. A husband who keeps me from going crazy. If I'm ever stressed out or upset, he always has something positive to say. I'll admit, it annoys me at the time because I just want him to be mad with me, but really it is such a big blessing in my life. He always has a sunny outlook on life and I'm hoping It'll rub off on me someday.

So get on it everyone! I'm already feeling happy! :)

Halloweens gone by..

So I have been looking through some old pictures and in the Spirit of Halloween, and for your enjoyment, here are some of the gems I discovered.

My revealing Bam-Bam costume. I remember my parents giving me a plastic club as a prop. I also remember me misusing it.

Wow. Well, I think our family did the Wizard of Oz theme this particular year and I obviously drew the short straw, quite literally.

My 6th grade year as an Egyptian/Greek person. I remember thinking I looked so pretty that year.

I believe this was Freshman year. Katie, correct me if I'm wrong, as you are the cute fairy in this photo standing next to some scary goth freak. Celeste, what were you?

And this was 2 years ago when Brennon and I were dating. We got to my parents house and threw some costumes together. As you can see, Brennon was a pimp and I was his army ho.

And last but not least, our first Halloween as a married couple. Brennon was gladly a nerd and I am a biker chick. And when we got to our ward trunk or treat, none of the adults were dressed so we felt pretty cool.

I wish I had some of Brennon's old Halloween pics so Kathy, if you have any, let me know. Especially if they are embarrassing.

This years costumes coming soon...

Happy Halloween everyone!

I like us.

I kinda love this.

This was when we were dating so it makes me happy everytime I see it.

We got a scanner so I'm pretty excited about that. I know I keep promising posts, but as soon as this crazy weekend is over, you are gonna get some fabulous old and embarrasing pictures that must be shared. Until then, ta ta.

Scentsy Party!

Just a quick little post to invite you all to my Scentsy party next Saturday. I've never really done a party like this before, like Gold Canyon Candles or Mary Kay or anything like that. But I really love this stuff so I thought it would be fun and more of just an excuse to see everyone. And why not while I'm living in a mansion? So, I would love for any of you to come, blog stockers (if I have any?), friends, friends of friends, family, everyone. Just come get some yummy snacks and check out there awesome stuff. Oh and if your thinking, What the crap is Scentsy??, basically they are really cute ceramic warmers that are super safe and last alot longer than regular candles. There wickless and there are like 100 different scents. Anyways, just check out the website cause I'm no good at explaining things... scentsy.com

Party Details:

"My" house (email me for specific directions): Its on Greenfield just south of Ocotillo

in Circle G.

Time: 11AM-1PM, Come and go

Date: Saturday, October 25th

Your welcome to bring a friend or two!

My email is danigurl7@gmail.com if you have any questions or need directions.

Thanks, hope to see ya all there!

(Real posting to come, promise!)

Things I would post about if I had the internet...

• My madres birthday celebrations
• Our temporary house (that I pretty much love)
• New crafting endeavours
• How ecstatic I am for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and most of all, Christmas.
• My cute boys that I nanny and love to pieces
• A billion other things we did this summer that I was too lazy to blog about

But alas, I am without the precious source of online goodness. Hopefully, within the next week it will grace us with its presence. But for now, blogging from work will have to do.

Girls night.

Last week, a bunch of us girls all got together at Paradise to catch up. I just love these girls and the fact that even though we dont see eachother all that much, we can still talk and laugh like the high school days. I have to say that I feel very lucky to have had such great girl friends in high school with little to no "catiness".




This picture is slightly akward because we were using a self timer. And the funny part is, everyone wanted to get one so we had to hold this pose, outside of Paradise for about 10 minutes while all the pictures were getting taken. It was quite the ordeal.



Then a few of us wanted to go see a movie so we decide on Mama Mia, which I had seen and loved. It's definatly a movie that grows on you. In the movie theater we had these girls behind us who were obviously a little drunk, which Im sure made the movie alot better. They were a bit loud which made the whole experience quite interesting.



Sorrry for the revealing nature of this photo, not a good picture. Anyways, such a good time and I hope we can make this a monthly tradition! Oh, and thanks Jenna for the pics!


And on a side note, we just bought tickets for Wicked that comes next summer! I am so excited, although I can't say the same about Brennon. But I have the soundtrack playing around the house so I'm pretty sure he'll be into it by next July. Anyways, just had to share my excitement.

Ohhhh, no.

I just had to post this. So I don't see Brennon in the morning really cause he leaves at the crack of dawn soooo, when he got home from work, I was very surprised to see this...










I said Ohhhh noooo. Bad idea Brennon.

I know it's a really goofy picture but it shows you how he felt about the whole thing. Very proud of himself. He was growing out his scruff for only 3 days. He's my hairy man.

After this picture, I promptly made him shave it off.


And this is just a picture of my first assignment back at ASU. I'm doing my upper division education courses right now and lovin it. Our first assignment in one of my classes was to make a name tag that described ourselves. I love being in classes where it feels like I'm in 2nd grade again.

Ok, ok.

"Blog-lazy" would be a good way to describe me the past month. Not a lack of material or lack of time. Honestly, I think about posting almost daily but I get distracted very easily by the evils of craigslist or sometimes I'm just content to blog stock. But tonight I have got the urge to actually post, soooo, I'm going to try to sum up the past month (or two) in one incredibly long post or possibly a couple posts. So here we go.....




Lets start with the 4th of July/my 21st birthday.



First, a scary picture of me. I call it the 'I'm 21 and really excited about wearing a pointy hat' picture.




We went up north to Jo City/ShowLow, as most of you know. I love this tradition and think of the 4th as my second favorite holiday, right after Christmas of course. I just love all the fun stuff going on, the traditions and of course having my birthday right around there isn't all that bad. I love being able to be with all my family on my birthday. I kinda like my birthday, ok?

Anyway, we spent the day trying to find something to do, which can take all day in Jo town, and then we went to my (used to be) favorite mexican restaurant up north. El Ranchos. The service was sloooow and the food, not as good as normal. But I still got to wear the sombrero so thats all that matters.



After all that fun, we went to the most happin-est place in Holbrook; Alco. This place has cured many bored day with its rack of magazines and interesting customers. Like him-


He and his friend needed some money, but instead my dad offered to buy him some a hamburger and fries at McDonalds. He said "How bout a steak burger?" and after that was met with laughter he said "How bout a number 4?"


Then we went back to Grandmas house, hung out , and ate this-

It was delish.

The next day, we headed up to Show Low to hang with the Fish's. We met them at the Showlow parade which was verrrrry exciting.


I would have been ok with it except for the immense amount of horses in it. I'm not a fan of the horses. Most of you know they sorta scare the crap outta me.



Then we went and took Fish family pictures, which were long overdue. And the turned out very nicely thanks to April (and her assistant).



This one was supposed to be our "Band" shot. Its pretty freakin hilarious.



Then we went to another Mexican food place and ate. Then we came home to....

Mike and Kathy's 30th Wedding Anniversary Surprise 70's themed Party!! (whew!)

That was a mouthful.

We, meaning Evan, Cara, Trevor, Brennon, and I, along with many cooperating aunts, uncles, sister, moms, ect., put together a little party for them. It turned out really well and I wish I had more pictures from it. Sad. But it was really fun and they actually had no idea it was coming! Go us!

I do have this scary picture that looks like I'm pregnant, but I'm not, I assure you. It was just a Savers/70's costume attempt gone terribly wrong.

I'm sorry you had to see that.

I also have this in the moment shot of Mike and Grandpa Fish.



Later, I got another birthday cake which was also delish.


That night, we headed over the the Heber for the best fireworks show EVER! Seriously, I look forward to this every year. The Tenney's house is the perfect spot to watch them and it is always sooo good to see everyone. The fireworks are like right above you and the canyon makes them echo. Really, its the greatest thing ever. Ok, I'll stop obsessing.


This is the only picture i have from this blessed night so thats all ya get. Sorry. Oh, and I'm also looking a bit prego in this picture, but again, I assure you, I am not.


Ok, I was gonna do more but I am sleepy so this will have to do. Mexico is comin up next!

THIS IS DANICAS MOM, ONCE AGAIN, TRYING TO GET HER TO BLOG!

Danica is really not too busy to blog, she just has become "blog-lazy". Sure she has two jobs, is trying to pack up to move and working hard being a good wife and daughter, but really. You cant spare a couple of minutes???

So glad she didnt log out of her blog at my house and left, so I can write freely, the feelings everyone is having about Dani's lack of blogging.

(by the way Dani, that took me approximately 2 minutes:-))

To my fellow bloggers,

Very sorry for my lack of posts. Summer school will be over in a week and I will be back to posting as normal, which translates to about once a week. Thank you for your continuing support.

Yours truly,

The loser author of this blog