And the Winner is...

Meeeeeeeee!!! So I am sitting at work today at my desk, focusing hard at being a good employee, when the radio gets ready to announce the winners for the Fisher Home Furnishing anniversary give-away. When all of the sudden I heard MY name. I was so excited. Yeah!!! Patrick says I am acting like the guy from "A Christmas Story" when he gets the famous 'leg lamp.' Here's what I won. For anyone who is interested, they still have 10 items left to give away. You just stop my Fisher's and grab an entry. You can fill out one per day. Good Luck!!

Scientific Experiment

A while back Patrick and I were watching Myth Busters. If you haven't seen it, it's great. They try out things that people email them or that they find on the internet to see if it is really true. It is fun to watch and see what the outcome is. While watching an episode I told Patrick I really wanted to try it. For this myth buster, they used Diet Coke and Mentos. You drop four Mentos into a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke and watch what happens. Here is a little video so you can see how it worked for us.

It didn't last for as long as we would have liked, but it was fun to do. Here the link to the Myth Busters episode on Diet Coke and Mentos. They explain why the reaction happens. It is pretty interesting. http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-diet-coke-and-mentos.html

Spring is Coming....Soon?

The last couple of days have been so nice outside. Patrick and I even played a little frisbee. I have really been enjoying the weather and hope it continues to get warm. You never know what your going to get living in Logan:) A couple of nights ago we went on a walk because it was so nice outside. When we got back, we saw a whole lot of snow on the grass in front of our door. All of our neighbors were asleep, it was a late walk, so we decided we just had to play a small prank on the Staley's.(We knew you could handle it)This last weekend we went down to my parents house and my mom and I made some really cute Easter blocks. Just wanted to share them because they turned out really fun. It makes me excited for Spring.

Happy St Patrick's Day

A while back I saw some really cute cupcakes in a magazine, and saved the page because I really wanted to try to make them. Well....here is the result. They were lots of fun to make and turned out really cute.

Searching

I am looking for a pattern I found for a little girls dress that you make out of her dad's button up shirt. I saw it on someone's blog a long time ago, and had it saved in my favorites, but it got erased. Does anyone remember seeing something like this at all? If so, let me know.

WOW!!!

This is freakin' awesome!

Be Mine!

We had a wonderful Valentines Day. I was so great to just relax and spend some time together. Patrick got me a very cute shirt and made me the cutest card with a collage of pictures from things we have done since last Valentines day. It was so great, I had to show the whole card. He also wrote poem, which was really good and funny. He is such an amazing husband and I love him so much! I also got him a shirt and the movies Eagle Eye and Madagascar, Escape 2 Africa. We decided to stay home and not go out this year, so I made Stir Fry and then we watched the new movie. It was a lot of fun. On Friday night we went to the Stake Valentines dinner/dance. After dinner we found the room for card making. Here are our creations.

Patrick's card-he liked the wire that was a decoration on the table so much,

he used a little of it on his card:)My cardWe hope everyone had a great Valentines Day!

Just in Case You Haven't Seen These

Give-Away

I just wanted to let everyone know that you can enter to win a really cute hat at this website. http://nuxiemade.blogspot.com/

Making Cards

There has really been nothing going on for the last month. We had a great Christmas, just hanging out with our families. Our anniversary was on December 29th, but we ended up not really doing anything...I am sure Patrick would love to elaborate on that in another post. We are still doing great though, just working and going to school. Patrick is getting must closer to finishing up his bachelors degree, and then, we will go from there. A while ago I found a website-on the sidebar under KWerner Design-that really got me motivated to start scrap booking/card making. Well, the motivation left shortly after I realized I don't have a lot of stuff to make the scrap booking process easier. Anyway, I watched a card tonight that was easy and cute, so I decided to post and show off the card I made tonight as well as the other ones I have made. Mind you...this is only my third card, so it isn't quite as fancy or ornate as others, but I like them and enjoyed making them.

The card I made tonightI made this card for a challenge on KWerner Design. Every now and then she will post a color inspiration challenge and you can submit your cards. I liked these colors, so decided to try. This is my first attempt. I must like brown and pink cause both cards are made with those colors.

9 of '09!!!

Living in Logan can sometimes be a little dull. Especially when there is snow because I hate winter. One week and I'm done. I end up hiding in doors all winter trying to gain blubber to keep warm, which I'm doing an amazing job of. I blame that one fact for causing me to turn to movies for a little excitement in my life while I veg and retain girth. So with that little piece of unneeded back ground I give you all my TOP NINE of '09!!! These are the movies that I am most excited for this year and as a warning, blogger didn't like something I've put in here so the format is a little weird. Sorry. I've added why I'm excited after each one. Please let me know your favorites too. Maybe I'll take a poll or something and find out which one is the most anticipated...we'll see...

#9-Monsters vs Aliens (March 27, 2009) http://www.monstersvsaliens.com/ WHY?: Just looks funny...

#8-A Christmas Carol (CGI Animated) (November 6, 2009) No website yet or photos!!! WHY?: Because Jim Carrey is going to the the voices of Scrooge and the three ghosts. He has been studying accents for the last year so he could get it right.

#7-The Princess and the Frog (December 25, 2009) http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog/ WHY?: Because this will be Disney's first attempt in years at doing hand drawn animation. More importantly, they will also be making this as a musical like Lion King and the classics...and this will be the first black princess.

#6-Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (May 22, 2009) http://www.nightatthemuseummovie.com/ WHY?: I loved the first one. Everyone is back for the second. Plus, they have new people like Amy Adams (Enchanted) and Ed Helms (Andy in The Office). What's not to like about that?

#5-X-Men Origins: Wolverine (May 1, 2009) http://www.x-menorigins.com/ WHY?: Because I love X-Men. I love X-Men Movies. I also like the idea of doing their background stories. Also, Gambit is in this one.

#4-G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra (August 7, 2009) http://www.gijoemovie.com/ WHY?: I grew up with G.I. Joe. It was my favorite show and toy. There are going to be changes so they could market this movie around the world but I'm excited anyway.

#3-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (July 17, 2009) http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/harrypotterandthehalf-bloodprince/ WHY?: No explanation needed.

#2-Up (May 29, 2009) http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/up/ WHY?: Pixar and the movie has a fat boy scout in it. Recipe for success!

#1-Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (June 26, 2009) http://www.transformersmovie.com/ WHY?: The first was the best movie of 2007 along with Bourne Ultimatum. Michael Bay has experience now and I can't wait to see the follow-up.

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

I have been listening to Christmas music for a couple months now-I know everyone said it was way too early, but I love Christmas so much. For some reason this year it just hasn't really seemed much like Christmas. I can't believe it is already December 13th. We don't have much of our shopping done...which I planned to get done early, and there was no snow...that is until this morning. I think we have about 4-6 inches. Yeah I love the snow. So...after sitting around all morning relaxing and watching "Home Alone" we decided to go out and make a snowman. It was colder than expected, and the snow didn't pack real well, but that didn't get us down. Here's our tiny snowman.

Mom's are so great!

We spent Thanksgiving with my family this year. My mom had a really cute craft project for us to do. She was planning on coming up today to go to Novemberfest with me. We didn't quite finish the first blocks on Thanksgiving, so we decided to finish them up today. She also found some really cute blocks for Christmas. Here they are. You can't tell from the picture, but the letter stick off the block. I think they are so cute. I love my mom!

~Nicky

Who Had The Audacity?

The ever famous Brian Regan once asked the question, "Who had the audacity?". I now pose the same question. What I am referring to is the picture below that we will call exhibit 1.

Exhibit #1

When I woke up this morning this monstrosity was found upon our door! As many of you know I am and will always be a major BYU football fan. So this truly offended me, especially since the rivalry game is today. Well, nobody messes with me and gets away with it. REVENGE IS MINE!!! Even though it was early this morning when I found that THING on my door, my wife and I went to work quickly in retaliation. Now refer to exhibits 2 and 3.

Exhibit #2

Exhibit #3

There was one problem with getting revenge. Who could have done this? I do know that it must have been one of my neighbors. I know that Jason is a Ute fan and I know that his wife, Niki, and him would certainly love to antagonize me. I also know that Brittany went to the University of Utah and her husband Justin has been waiting to pull a prank on me. So instead on guessing which one, I decided to get them both. Now refer to exhibit 4 and 5.

Exhibit #4

Exhibit #5

Who knew that they were such big BYU fans???

Up!

Anyone who meets me knows that I am BIG into movies. Since I was little I have always enjoyed Disney animation, especially. Nothing has changed today. I'm even as emotionally challenged as I was back then (I still cry in films involving Big Bird and Mufasa). While searching for some items on the internet, or as some folks call it: "the world wide web", I stumbled on to this trailer for the next Pixar film coming out this next summer. Let's just say that I'm giddy!

-Patrick