SLANY

ever wonder what your name would be if you were

a piece of furniture from Ikea?

wonder no more.....

Swedish Furniture Name Generator

for a good laugh

Catalog Living

it gets me every time

eclipse

Another pic of the food spread- which was so good!

these are the test tubes we had as seen above in the white bowl

each tube was filled with blood (pomegranate juice) and labeled by specimen :)

The gift bag table

we had nail polish, lip gloss and necklaces to wear for the night

Here are the necklaces I put together (thanks to Lisa's help)

they were double sided so people could choose their team

thanks to everyone who helped out to make it such a success!

eclipse party peek

thanks to Brooke I got a few pictures of the party on Friday

more to come soon.....

Busy Weekend

In addition to the party Friday night- I spent Saturday at Lagoon

I hadn't been to Lagoon in years- but we had so much fun!

I went with two friends from work and we spent the WHOLE day there

by the time we left we were walking so slow to the car.

At Lagoon they have the Sky Coaster which is the one they strap you into a harness, then strap you to each other and pull you up really high up a tower and you have to pull a rip cord to release once you get to the top. I had no intention of doing it when we got there, but my friend Kristina really wanted to do it and so finally I gave in.

We had to wait for 30 minutes in line then another 10 minutes after we got suited up. By that time we were both really really nervous (note: I was nervous the ENTIRE time).

Overall I am so glad I did it. It was so much fun. Kristal wasn't into it so she stayed on the ground and ate ice cream and watched us scream our heads off.

Here are a few pics

I especially love this one- We were flying by so fast it was hard to get a good picture

eclipse party

Well I must say- the party turned out to be quite a good success.

I didn't take a lot of pictures on my camera

(and the ones I did get were blurry-

someone please teach me how to use my camera

because I can't ever get good picture!)

but my mom got some good ones

so I need to gather them from her and

I will post some pictures maybe tonight.

Thanks to all who came and I hope you had a good time!

favorites

I love searching the internet for cool new things

Lately I have found some great websites thought I would share-

Land of Nod

Sister store to two of my favorite sites CB2 and Crate and Barrel

Its pretty much a kids store with lots of cool stuff

I really love all the storage containers- but if you have kids check it out!

Save On Crafts

In preparation for my eclipse party I searched the internet

for good deals on decorating and craft supplies

this site is great! I ordered quite a few things from this site within

recent weeks. And when I received an item that was broken- I simply

called them up and I had my replacement (FREE!) within 2 days!

Umbra

I love organization stuff and they have such great funky stuff!

I especially love the grassy organizer- I totally am going to get that!

Halo Heaven

A friend told me about this site last night- must see if you have a little girl!

Seriously incredible deals- makes me ALMOST

(keyword-ALMOST) excited to have a little girl.

(but not that excited to actually pursue it-

all I can say is Steph it better be a girl!)

Real Simple

My all time favorite Magazine- made into a

most wonderful website of anything you need to know! :)

My favorites are the new uses for old things-

its the greatest!

Hostess with the Mostess

If you are looking to plan a party

this is a go-to site!

So may great idea for any occasion!

The Container Store

I love organizing and cleaning

so it pretty much goes without saying

that this site is the greatest!

E.L.F.

Inexpensive, good makeup

Don't really need to say more.....

Check out these sites- and if you have

any favorites please leave them in a comment

I am always looking for new cool sites!

Happy Shopping!

House Hunters

We found a place!

Nothing too fantastic

but it will suit our needs

(and our budget)

at least for the next year.

It's a townhouse in Draper.

I am quite worried

if all of our stuff is going to fit.

Stay tuned for the

Egbert Liquidation Sale

before we move next month.

Air Conditioning

Can I just tell you how grateful I am for air conditioning?

Since day 1 ours has been, well lets say,

not quite as great as it should be for the money that was spent.

It mostly just blows "cool-ish" air around and not very well even at that.

I don't know what happened but I just turned it on

and it is blowing COLD air not just air.

Hallelujah.

We are currently dropping down from the 81 degrees it was when I got home

to a much more comfortable 74

YAY!

Let's all hope this is not just a one time thing......

early

it's 7:00 on a sunday.

I would really like to be sleeping right now- but alas the dilly's needed their potty break.

weekends are always a bit of a challenge since the usual 5 am get up and go turns into 7 or 8 on the weekends. I've been up now for oh, half hour and they have been in and out 3 times already. Nico is currently trying to get to the neighbors new sprinklers (sorry guys!) with no success and so she is getting quite frustrated. Zira is just sitting on the porch waiting for the sun to come so she can lay in the corner and bask in its rays.

i've been looking for a place for us to live with really no success. It is getting quite annoying really. all i really want is a place of our own we can decorate and paint and have a yard. I would even settle for not being able to paint just a yard with a fence for the dilly's. I guess it may be just too much to ask for. it's funny- we live in a house now that we built, we designed, we paid for (most) of the things in here and yet- it feels like someone else's. in the year and a half that we have been here i have on many occasions wanted to paint a room, do something fun, but never felt like i could or should. it's weird. i guess that is a big reason we are so excited to get going to our new adventures. as i continue to look for a house it mostly just makes me more annoyed i am packing with no particular place in mind.

we are looking to go north (not to far, just closer to my work perhaps). we want a place with a yard and a fence, it doesn't need to be anything huge, just enough for the dilly's to stretch their legs. i'd love a basement for storage (of our 50 currently packed boxes i'd say about 1/3 is decorations i cant bare to separate with). 3 bedrooms would do if no basement, the 3rd could be for storage. besides that we aren't too picky, nothing dilapidated or too old, but having handy chris around sometimes works in our favor with landlords. we have the ability to fix things up and have in the past been able to take the expenses out of our rent.

blah blah blah

ready to move.....

carpets and chew sticks

we got our carpets cleaned this morning yay!

I found a coupon in the val-pak for a great deal

and couldn't resist!

it almost didn't happen though-

stupid eagle mountain shut down the road to our house for a parade-

(mind you there isn't really ANY quick way to our house

its just the ONLY convenient way)

poor carpet cleaning guy got stuck

but after a little convincing got a police escort all the way

up to our neighborhood on the parade route

(we laughed about that for a while)

it smells so good- I love clean carpets.

I had to create a dilly barricade so the carpets could dry

they are hating it.

they can't wait to get in there and dilly it up

I tried giving them chew sticks

thought maybe they would forget about the pain

of not being able to run around on the clean carpets

It didnt........

Zira posted up on the rug by the back door

Nico was very upset to find her there already-

She finally made due with the landing

but didn't like it when i left her there alone

so finally i put a blanket down in the kitchen

she ran right over plopped down and ate her chew stick in a few bites

Zira meanwhile is still enjoying hers

As soon as they were both done

they went right back to whining by the barricade

I guess thats what I get.....

packing

month 6

You may think-

"you've been packing for 6 months? shouldn't you be done by now?"

I literally started packing before Christmas last year

and I am still going at it.

it's been quite nice actually going slow and really organizing everything.

for the first move ever (this will be move 5 for us)

I am sure that when we do get where ever we are going-

we will be able to find anything we need.

I am also determined to not pack anything up and bring it with me

that I don't actually want or need.

I can't even count how many boxes I have taken to DI at this point

or the countless items I have given away

that I have been packing up and moving with us for the last 4 years.

for every 2 boxes i pack-

I try to get one box of "give away"

so far it's going really well.

box count:

50

I think I need to go get more boxes.......

can't wait

just got our tickets today

I'm so excited!

funny

ever have those days that everything just seems funny?

I saw a guy running (not jogging or walking but RUNNING)

in basketball shorts, polo shirt and flip flops (what? really?)

I couldn't help but just burst out laughing

after a long day it was just what I needed.

and then there was the guy at the drive up window who was able to throw out

Babe

Beautiful

Darling

Sweetie

and

Sweetheart

in a conversation with me that lasted less than 1 minute.

just because you hand me my food

that doesn't entitle you to talk to me like your girlfriend

weird.... but still made me laugh after I pulled away.