Who to Trust?

Yesterday, while at work (3-7 pm & 9 pm-2 am), I found a little something while on my break, or to phrase it better, I found something missing.  I got my purse and opened my wallet and noticed $25 was missing!  That's right, there's a thief at my work.  I was super disappointed and hope that person feels terrible for taking my money.  Anyway, I went in and left a note at work today and it said...

Fellow Employees,

I recently found $25 missing from my wallet.  Whoever you are that did this, you're a real gem.

Merry Christmas, One Unhappy Employee, Tahnee

It makes me so mad that I can't even trust the people that I work with and am with so much. Hopefully this person feels terrible for committing this crime.  I know my conscious would be going nuts if I did something like this.   

I'm sick therefore I'm going to blog...

This last week Tyler, Tiersha, Josh, and I went to CA for Thanksgiving. It was so nice to get out of Utah right as it got freezing and be in sunny CA. It was 65 or 70 degrees the whole time we were there, which in Tyler's opinion is the perfect temperature. We went to the beach, Disneyland, had dinner at my Uncle Jim's place (the food was fabulous), did some black Friday shopping (pretty much all day), hosted Melissa's baby shower, went to my Alumni basketball game, and finally ended the week with my dad's great tri-tip. This year was my first time going black Friday shopping and Tiersha and I were up at 4:30 and at the mall by 4:45. We hit the mall, Target and went back to both of those places a couple of times throughout the day. The Alumni game, on Saturday, was quite the game. Lets just say that when you haven't played basketball in 8 months and haven't worked out regularly since the beginning of the semester, playing in a 32 minute basketball can be TOUGH. We started off great and were actually only down by 2 (I think) at the half, but from there it all went downhill. We ended up losing by 20 points, which I felt was a pretty good reflection of how good we actually are. Anyway, the week was great and we drove home Sunday at 5:30 am, hitting the snow storm in Cedar City. We didn't end up getting home until 8:00 pm, making the trip 13 1/2 hours long...well, at least we made it home safely. All in all, it was a fun week, and Tyler and I always enjoy seeing the little ones back home. Lillee and William are at such a fun age, Gracee and Gregory are finally at the age where you can do fun things with them, and Annie's always a hoot being 13 and all. Now back to school and time to finish the mounds of homework I didn't do over the break.

       We switched Lillee and William's outfits to see if my mom would notice...she did :)

We saw Harry Potter at midnight

I know I'm a few days late, but we did it, we saw "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" at midnight, and it was great. I can absolutely not wait until part 2, only 9 more months! :)

Last one, I promise

About a month ago we went shooting with Paul, Tanner, and Ali. It was great weather and we had a ton of fun shooting lots of random things... Here's some pictures from the day

I know, I know, more blogging...

I feel it's been forever since I've blogged, which is why I have so many NEW posts. I promise just 2 more, and this one is quick. Several weeks ago (end of September or beginning of October), Tiersha and I went to an overnight Bachelorette party for a girl who we know from Brentwood, Christina Pasqua. It was so fun to see her and her sister, and their mom, and to catch up with each other. We ate lots of food, had food massages, sat in the hot tub, and talked A LOT. It was a great little trip up to Park City!

Tyler's Brithday Weekend

Opening presents, dessert party, and dinner with family...

The weekend before Tyler's birthday

Tanner's basketball games, Temple Square, shopping, birthday celebrations (Tanner, Tyler, and Tyler's grandma) and food...

Tyler got a Kindle

This past weekend, November 12th to be exact, was Tyler's birthday. We celebrated with his Mom & her husband, along with his brothers and grandparents the week before up in Salt Lake, but him and I celebrated on his actual day. He was SUPER busy, as usual, with school stuff and didn't even get home until 7:30 on Friday (the 12th). We were starving by that point so we ate at Red Lobster (Tyler's choice) and then came back for presents. I got him a few things: jeans, shoes (we ended up returning them), and a couple other small things. Then, he opened the last present, which just happened to be the Kindle. Tyler couldn't stop talking about the Kindle a few months ago and I thought it would be cool to surprise him and get it for him... Well, Kindle's are expensive ($189 to be exact), so I pulled all my old textbooks out to see if Amazon would give me any credit for them. Sure enough, Amazon wanted my books (shocking since they're all the OLDEST edition). I was able to get a lot of Amazon credit and get my wonderful husband a fabulous present. He loved it! He still can't put it down. He's waiting for his case to get here (should get here tomorrow), and then he said he'll take it to school with him... just what he needs :) The next day I had a test (the Praxis) for elementary education, but when I got home we went out and did a little shopping together. Sunday, we had Michelle & Trevor and Tiersha & Josh over for dessert which is always a good time. Then Monday (I know, a lot of celebrations) we went out to dinner with Tyler's dad, Paul and his brother Tanner and his girlfriend Ali. Since it was both Tanner and Tyler's birthday in the past 2 weeks we had the waitresses sing to them. It was a fun weekend and I'm so glad my handsome husband is a quarter of a century (he's so old!). We're glad we were able to see so many family members and spend time with them and friends as well.

Halloween Cruise

Tyler and I are not big Halloween people AT ALL. (I don't even bother taking work off because I don't like celebrating) We don't enjoy dressing up or going to Halloween parties...our kind of fun on Halloween consists of playing games and eating, just like an ordinary game night. However, we heard about this Provo Halloween Cruise ride through "groupon," and we went last night. It was a lot of fun, and really cute. First you meet down by the ropes course off of the Provo river. Then they have men dressed up in Pirates and they entertain you while you ride down the river in a big boat. They have hundreds of carved pumpkins along the river, and Halloween lights, and it's just a really fun thing. It lasted about 20-30 minutes, which was perfect timing. If you get the chance to go you definitely should. We got the tickets half off, but I think they're only $6 or $7 per person anyway. Here's some pictures from our night (we went with Tyler's mom and husband, Shawn, and Michelle and Trevor)

The Group (our nickname was the "Heebie Creepies")





The pirates who entertained us

The scared boys, well... at least Trevor was scared