8 Things

8 TV Shows I Love to Watch
1. Extreme Makeover Home Edition-It makes me feel like this world still has good people in it and it's very uplifting, we watch it every sunday and I cry
2. Life-Colton and I's other favorite-we can't ever watch anything faithfully with our schedules and can't plan our lives around a show so we catch up by watching them on the computer in bed
3. Biggest Looser-also super uplifting to me to see people change their life's, haven't got to watch it this season though
4. American Idol-also haven't got to watch last season
5. Any cop/detective show-csi, law n order, but these we watch on the rare occasion we turn on the tv not planning to watch anything specific
6. Any of the holiday classics-claymations, charlie brown, hallmark movies
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8 Things That Happened Yesterday
1. Took a test from the most anal teacher I've ever had or heard of, his reputation preceeds him
2. Went to institute from my favorite institute teacher, I'm taking Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
3. Cleaned/Stressed about the house as usual right before anyone comes over
4. Track Practice-for 5 hours!-jump drills, half jumps, full jumps, 120's, weight maxing, and my normal weights...oy!
5. Cleaned/stressed about the house...again! (actually did this about 4 different times today!)
6. Made worms and dirt (brought me back to kindergarden!!!) for our FHE group every Monday, there's five couples and we rotate houses, it was at our house this week, thus the cleaning/stressing cycle
7. Had FHE with our friends, one of the most rewarding activities of my week, we look forward to it so much
8. Amanda was having serious contractions this time! Hopefully the baby doesn't come this soon but I'm still soooooo excited. Holly and I made her promise to call even in the middle of the night if she went into labor!!

8 Favorite Places to Eat.
1. Texas Roadhouse-"Voted best tasting steak house for the price you pay" by Colton and Shay, probably are #1 favorite we can go to regularly
2. Costa Vida-hands down over Cafe Rio, ranch isn't too spicy and they have the sweet pork instead of just the pork,
3. Rodizio's
4. Famous Dave's-so good just for BBQ type food
5. Applebee's-we love getting an appetizer and a meal and sharing, and then getting the blonde-always the blonde for desert, and they have tv's that actually let colton watch the U football games
6. Melting Pot-romantic significance for us but so stinking expensive
7. Wendy's-really now, does anyone else even compare to their dollar menu? Healthy options with delicious greasy ones too, fav's are the infamous JBC, side caesar salad, chili, brocoli n cheese potato, frosty's...really...about everything! When we want to go out to eat n have no money, we use our trusty change jar and eat for about 4 bucks in quarters, nickles, and dimes.
8. The Pie-for pizza
*Obviously we don't experiment with types of Cuisine much-we stick to steak, bbq, american, etc.

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To
1. Thanksgiving at home (our home)
2. My family coming down for Thanksgiving
3. Amanda and Jed's baby girl!!!
4. Reffing to start...I have my first High School Varsity Games
5. Getting our carpet cleaned, it's so gross from whoever lived here before us
6. Going to the twilight movie, Everyone else has gone already but I'm waiting to go with my mom over Thanksgiving
7. Graduating and starting a new masters and being a Graduate Assistant and having my tuition, books, fees, and housing paid for!
8. Decorating for Christmas-with a real tree of course!
9. Another cruise, maybe we can go with my sister inlaw someday ;)
10. Warm weather, I know... it hasn't even gotten super cold yet!
(yes I cheated, there are ten)

8 Things I am grateful for (I added this list on my own)
1. My friendship with my husband, if he was all I saw over the holidays my heart would still be content
2. Our apartment we are so undeserving of, it blows my mind every day I look around it
3. Reffing-that I have found something I love so much and want to continually grow at
4. My major-for giving me something I'm passionate to learn about
5. My parents-I have learned more from them than anyone else, except Christ of course
6. My husbands family-when I see others who don't have great inlaws, I feel so fortunate!
7. My grandparents-I pray every day God will grant me more time with them, they are so fun to spend time with and I learn tons from them, but that will come to end sooner than I want I fear
8. Christ-duh right!? But he has made something significant out of my life that was so insignificant. It's like this masterpiece that is created from scraps, leftovers, unwanted pieces, broken glass...yet, it's more beautiful than anything i've ever seen! The atonement is the the world's biggest and greatest miracle

THINGS I HAVE DONE-the ones I have done are bolded and capitalized

1. STARTED YOUR OWN BLOG
2. SLEPT UNDER THE STARS
3. PLAYED IN A BAND-FLUTE FOR FIVE YEARS
4. visited Hawaii
5. watched a meteor shower
6. GIVEN MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD TO CHARITY
7. been to Disneyland
8. CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN-ONLY ALL OF THE ONES AROUND RANGELY HUNTIN W/ DAD
9. held a praying mantis-but I shew them away all the time, there's tons of em at our new house 10. sang a solo-never will!!!!
11. Bungee jumped-but want to!!!
12. Visited Paris-call me crazy but don't really want to
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. TAUGHT YOURSELF AN ART FROM SCRATCH-I DO THIS ALL THE TIME WHEN I HAVE THE URGE TO MAKE SOMETHING
15. Adopted a child-I want to whether we have our own children or not
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables-we will this spring if we stay in Cedar for the summer
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France-I think France is over rated
20. slept on an overnight train
21. HAD A PILLOW FIGHT-COUPLE TIMES A YEAR WITH COLTON
23. Hitch hiked
24. TAKEN A SICK DAY WHEN YOU'RE NOT ILL
25. BUILT A SNOW FORT-WE HAVE A BACK YARD TO DO THIS NOW!!!!
26. HELD A LAMB
27. GONE SKINNY DIPPING
27. Ran a marathon-never want to put my body through that kinda torture
28. Ridden a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. WATCHED A SUNRISE OR SUNSET-MY TWO FAVORITE TIMES OF THE DAY 31. hit a home run
32. BEEN ON A CRUISE-MY FAVORITE KIND OF VACATION!!! (HINT, HINT DYE FAMILY! IT'S WARM AND CHEAP!!!)
33. Seen niagra falls in person-we need to go visit my aunt in NY
34. visited the birth place of your ancestors-I'm dying to go to Ireland
35. seen an Amish community-I think seeing this would make me a better person
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied-sad to say but I've never experienced this in my life 38. seen the leaning tower of pisa in person
39. GONE ROCK CLIMBING-A HOBBY I WOULD LOVE TO GET INTO DOWN HERE IN SOUTHERN UTAH!!!
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. SUNG KARAOKE
42. Seen Old Faithful Geyser erupt-maybe next year ;)
43. Bought a stranger a meal-this is something I would do a lot someday when we have money 44. Visited Africa-would beat visiting Europe anyday
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling-I might take the class next year!
52. KISSED IN THE RAIN-AFTER COLTON CHASED ME AND CAUGHT ME
53. PLAYED IN THE MUD-WE CALLED IT WORK
54. GONE TO A DRIVE IN-ONE OF THE ONLY FEW LEFT, SAD TO SEE THEM DISAPPEAR! 5
5. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. STARTED A BUSINESS
58. TAKEN A MARTIAL ARTS CLASS-I'M AN ORANGE BELT LOL
59. Visited Russia
60. SERVED IN A SOUP KITCHEN-VERY REWARDING
61. Sold girl scout cookies-"girl scouts is for girls who live in the city"-my dad
62. Gone whale watching
63. GOT FLOWERS FOR NO REASON-IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS MY FAVORITE FLOWER IS A LILY
64. Donated Blood, platelets, or plasma-always been in a sport, not a good time to donate
65. GONE SKY DIVING-WOULD BE NICE TO GET CERTIFIED
66. visited a nazi concentration camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. SAVED A FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. EATEN CAVIAR-COLTON TRICKED ME
72. pieced a quilt
73. Stood in time square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the changing of the Guards in London
77. BROKEN A BONE
78. BEEN ON A SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in Person -we need to we're less than 3 hours away
80. PUBLISHED A BOOK-JUST WITH LOCAL COMPANY
81. visited the vatican
82. bought a new car
83. walked in Jerusalem
84. HAD YOUR PICTURE IN THE NEWSPAPER
85. read the entire bible
86. visited the white house
87. KILLED AND PREPARED AN ANIMAL FOR EATING
88. HAD CHICKEN POX-AT THE SAME TIME KALEN DID, WE SAT AND ATE A WHOLE BAG OF CHEETOS ON THE COUCH, MOM DIDN'T EVEN CARE ABOUT THE CHEETOS...OR THE COUCH!
89. saves someone's life-but will likely happen sometime in my career
90. sat on a jury
91. MET SOMEONE FAMOUS-STEVEN KELLOG
92. JOINED A BOOK CLUB-THE BOXCAR CHILDREN
93. LOST A LOVED ONE-GREAT GRANDPARENTS AND MY LITTLE BROTHER
94. had a baby
95. seen the alamo in person
96. swam in the Great Salt Lake 97. Been involved in a law suit
98. OWNED A CELL PHONE
99. BEEN STUNG BY A BEE