Seattle Ghost Tour

My dad, Brent, and I went to the Seattle Ghost tour the night before Halloween. I think it could have potentially been very spooky, but the tour guide started out the tour by saying that she didn't believe in ghosts (isn't that kind of like an Amish person working for G.E.?). Anyway the tour was by the Pikes Place Market after it closed for the day so that made it a little spookier.

The tour started at the gum wall. Brent was fascinated and a little grossed out by it.This is the old Seattle morgue. Every business that has been in there since has closed down and some very spooky stuff has gone down there. My dad took this picture. His flash is in the upper left, but what are the white floating orbs?... maybe it is haunted!!
Market sign in the dark.

This is what the market looks like after everyone has cleared out. Creepy!!

The past week

A bunch of stuff has been going on this past week, and it all started with our baby turning 2!

Macie only gets vanilla ice cream on her birthday, so she was REALLY excited about it. About halfway through her little bowl she started growling. She gave herself an ice cream headache but didn't realize what was going on so she kept eating! Goofy dog. The last picture is of her with her new frog. I don't know how to flip images on blogger, so just turn your head :)

- I got a calling on Sunday. My new calling is... drumroll... NURSERY! So my new calling is the same as my calling in our last ward!!! Seriously, when I found out what it was, I wanted to do a fist pump. Don't worry, I restrained myself.

- We also had our Fantasy Basketball draft on Sunday. Lets just say that Sammi's Swishers are going to be AWESOME this year!

- I got a flu shot this week! Most people would NOT be excited about this, but since I am almost done reading The Stand (Steven Kings book about the killer flu virus breaking out) I am pretty pumped. If by some chance the superflu breaks out this year and the flu shot I got at Safeway somehow protects against it, then I'm set! This was also the bravest I've ever been during a shot so I was pretty proud of myself.

- Keane's new cd Perfect Symmetry came out on Tuesday and it is AMAZING! I would even say that it is my favorite Keane cd so far.

- My mom's Mom (Grammi) decided this week that she is going to come to Seattle for Thanksgiving!!

Here's a picture of me and Gram at BYU for my graduation. She is sassy and hilarious and has a mouth on her that would make sailors blush. We're going to have so much fun!!

- Today I went to Albertsons to buy a roast for Sunday and there by the milk, was the thing I have been waiting for since January. EGG NOG! Seriously, it took all my will power to actually take a glass out of the cabinet when I got home and not just guzzle it straight out of the carton. I FREAKING LOVE THAT STUFF. I have to drink ridiculous amounts of the stuff when it's out so I am so sick of it by Christmas that I don't want it until it comes back out the next year. Even when I do that, I start craving it around August.

Picture of the bangs!

Here's the picture I took with my cell phone of my bangs. Since I feel like a little kid I tried to do one of those smiles that little kids do when they're going through the awkward smiling phase, but it just looked like I was constipated. I'll post another picture in a couple weeks when they look more normal, too.

Blasted bangs!

I got my bangs trimmed for the first time since the middle of June today. 4 months is a pretty long time to go without a hair cut, let alone a bang trim. I can't even call what I had bangs. They were pretty much just hair that I tried to sweep to the side and make them resemble bangs. So now I have bangs again, but my bangs forgot how to be bangs because they haven't had to do that for 2 1/2 months. So now my bangs make me look like I'm 12 years old. The real kicker was that it was only 5 bucks, so why did I wait so long to do it? Who knows... hopefully I will have learned my lesson, but I doubt it :) Maybe I will put up a picture when they are out of their awkward phase.

Freak out!

My mom and I went to lunch yesterday and during the conversation we talked about some things that scare us/freak us out. I started thinking about it more and realized there are some strange things that are on my list. Here are some:

Birds- I'm fine if it's someones cute pet bird that's walking around or sitting in it's cage. I'm even ok if birds are near me when I'm outside. But as soon as there is a bird flying above my head I freak out. I am sooooo scared that the stupid thing is going to poop on me that I have actually ran to avoid being under it just in case it decides to relieve itself. I am also petrified of the bird flu.

Homeless people- Usually homeless people are ok and keep to themselves. I do have a heart and I feel bad for them, but lately I've heard some crazy stories! And the ones in Seattle are aggressive! Brent had one come into his work about a month ago and started stealing all the cookies that are there for clients. When Brent's co-worker asked him to stop he started screaming about all this stuff that has been going on for "Millions and billions of years!!!!" and yelling the f-word. One also walked up to my little sister in downtown Seattle, looked her square in the eye and said, "I'm going to slap you in your f'ing face b-----". So I try to steer clear of homeless people now.

Relief Society- I know, I know, it's CHURCH. Still, there is just something about going to Relief Society where I don't know anyone and sitting for 45 minutes without Brent there with me that makes me soooo anxious! For the first two hours in church I'm fine but when it's time to go to Relief Society I start sweating and my mouth gets dry and I go from a happy girl to a mute. I try to sit in the very back behind someone that's tall and countdown the minutes until I'm outta there!

Breast feeding- I've had lots of people tell me, "Oh when you're a mom it will be DIFFERENT." and "It's natural!". No, no, no and NO! It freaks me out to no end. Seriously, I love babies but I cannot think about where they are getting their food source without my knees getting shaky and my stomach churning. It might be not be natural, but I don't care. My babies are getting the bottle.

Toxoplasmosis- I read in my 'What to Expect when you are Expecting' (no I am not pregnant, I just have the book so I know what I'm in for once I do get knocked up) that you can get this disease from cleaning up kitty litter. I'm sure that since I've been around cats all my life that if I was going to get it, I have by now. Still, that doesn't stop me from holding my breath for as long as I can when I clean the litter box. I've gotten it down to where I breathe three times MAX when I clean it out. And I am sooo looking forward to getting out of litter box duty for 9 months when I'm preggers.

Mole People- Chances are these people don't exist. Still, that doesn't mean that when I go to New York for my sisters graduation in May that I won't be peeking down grates in the sidewalk looking.

Volcanoes- When I was younger I was scared of Mount Rainier (I don't know why, the way it looked freaked me out for some reason). I've gotten over that, but recently I had a dream that I was up at Mount Baker and it erupted and a giant piece of flaming lava rock fell on our Honda. So now when I see that mountain in real life I'm a little wary and I'm pretty sure we won't be taking any Sunday drives up there any time soon.

Deep Water- I'm fine when I'm in a lake and I can't see the bottom, but I hate deep ends of swimming pools. I have dreams all the time that I'm at a pool and the deep end suddenly becomes 35 feet deep. Realistically I know that even Shamu's tank at Sea World isn't that deep, but it still freaaaaaaaaaks me out.

That's all I can think of right now. Lets just hope when I go to my sisters graduation some homeless man doesn't chase a pigeon over my head while I'm walking across a grate in the sidewalk as some lady is sitting on a bench getting ready to shove her mammory gland in her baby's face.

Yes, I am THAT excited

So today I was reading one of my celebrity gossip sites (guilty pleasure!) and saw that one of my very favorite bands (The Killers) were coming out with a new cd in November!! So I listened to the new song called Human and I LOVE it. So I was reading comments about the song from other people and one person mentioned that Keane (another one of my very favorite bands) is coming out with a cd!! So on Youtube I found their new single called Spiralling and LOVE that! Their cd comes out on October 13. This all happened within a 5 minute time frame. So then I was thinking, I wonder what my other favorite favorite FAVORITE band is up to... and found out that Snow Patrol is coming out with a cd at the END OF OCTOBER!!! I found their single on Youtube and listened to that and it's amazing, too! So now my computer has three windows that I'm going to keep open until the cd's come out so I can keep listening to the songs. In other words, Brent is going to be sick of listening to the songs before I even get the cd, but at least he will get to take my other Killers and Snow Patrol cd's out of the cd player in the car!

Fun with friends at the Puyallup Fair!

Brent and I went to the Puyallup Fair this year with our friends Dan, Brianne, and their adorable baby Lana. We had such a fun time!
Here we are watching Mutton Bustin'. This is always my favorite part at rodeos and it was hilarious to watch the poor kids ride the sheep. The last kid fell into a pile of sheep poop. Good thing he was the winner! I wouldn't want to walk around the fair like that for the rest of the day.

Next we ate funnel cake! I love funnel cake and it was amazing! I hate it when it's crunchy and the roof of your mouth hurts after eating it, but this was cooked just right. We also played skee ball for a while and Brent, Brianne and I won little stuffed dogs. Basically it's two more toys that Macie has to play with now and she loves them even if they are half the size of her.

Lana during skee ball

After that we went and watched a cooking presentation for waterless cookware. It was AWESOME and the food tasted really good. I am such a sucker for things like that (just ask my Kirby vacuum) and Brent told me maybe next year we can get some (I think he's just hoping I forget :)). Anyway the lady doing the presentation made some jokes about cooking Lana in one of the pots (creepy!) and Brianne won the door prize (nice kitchen scissors).

After that we came back to our house and watched the BYU game (BYU beat UCLA 59-0!!) which made the boys in VERY good moods and then we played Wii until the Wii (see what I did there?) hours of the morning. We had an awesome time and I'm so glad we have friends up here that we can do fun stuff with!

I've been tagged!

My good friend from high school Kathryn tagged me! So here ya go!

First one:Post these rules on your blog.List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.

3 Joys:
1. Brent (even though he is complaining about me hogging the computer at this very moment)
2. Macie and the kitties
3. Seattle weather!

3 fears:
1. Something happening to Brent
2. Snakes
3. Bad guys getting me

3 goals:
1. Try to use our elliptical machine more
2. Have a good attitude more often
3. Try to learn SOME patience since I have none

3 obsessions/collections:
1. Hand washing! I seriously wash my hands at least 35 times a day.
2. Trying to save money. Lately I've been getting into coupon clipping
3. Kashi GoLean cereal. I eat at least 2 bowls a day

Facts about me:
1. I have to tell Brent how to drive. If I don't I start vibrating and turn red and feel like I'm going to explode.
2. I have the three cutest pets on the planet and for now they really are my kids.
3. There is no invention in the world that I hate more than skate shoes.

Second one:Rules:Each player answers the questions themselves.At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names.

Ten years ago:
1. I was on my school's varsity badminton team.
2. I went to the 'N Sync concert for my birthday
3. I had my first boyfriend

5 things to do on today's "to do" list:
1. Take a nap (I love Sunday!)
2. Make stir fry for dinner
3. Help Brent get ready for New York
4. Give Mace her medicine
5. Watch the MTV VMA's.

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. PEANUT BUTTER M&M's!!!
2. Gala apples
3. Kashi cereal with walnuts!
4. Fiber One bars
5. Garbanzo beans

5 things I would do if I was a millionaire:
1. Pay off my house!
2. Travel
3. Go on a shopping spree at Sephora
4. Get the NBA channel so Brent can watch all the Jazz games
5. Save

Five place I have lived:
1. Herminie, Pennsylvania
2. Sammamish, WA
3. Provo, UT
4. Layton, UT
5. Everett, WA

Done! I am tagging Taffee, Brianne, Sharee and Adam/Becka (whoever feels like it :) )

A Night in the Puppy-ER

Yesterday when I woke up from a nap this is what I saw laying next to me: Since this is what I normally see:I knew something was wrong. I watched her throughout the afternoon and around six she threw up and then started throwing up from the other end. She seemed ok after she threw up so I thought she just needed to get something out of her system, but around 9:30 she seemed worse so we made a trip to the Emergency Vet. After getting her termperature taken (sorry Mace!), getting weighed (7.7 lbs!) and the nurse getting a stool sample (sorry Mace!) we thought we were ok. The nurse came back in and had to get another stool sample because they didn't get enough the first time (sorry Mace!!) and then we waited for an hour while they tested it. The highlights of the wait were me seeing a weight chart on the wall that reaffirmed the fact that Maggie is obese and seeing a spider crawl across the floor that was the size of my palm. Seriously, I thought I was going to open the door to the room for that thing to get out.

After waiting patiently for a couple hours we found out that Macie has some bad bacteria in her that made her sick. She is now on puppy amoxicilian and some supplement for her food. She is also taking pro-biotics to help her get good bacteria back in her system. She had a rough night last night after we got back (and I had a rough morning cleaning up after the rough night) but now she seems like she is doing a little better. The doctor said that it should take about five days for her to be all better. Seriously, I can't believe how stressed and worried I was for our puppy, I don't want to know what it's like when we have a baby!!

Macie and a stressed out Dad waiting and waiting and waiting

The look on Macie's face when the Dr. gave her the diagnosis

FPC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After Brent got back from New York for training he found out that he got promoted at work! So now he is a financial planning consultant! I am so proud of him for all the hard work that he has been doing since he's started in Seattle. He also passed his insurance test so now he is licensed to sell insurance stuff (I'm know there's more to it than that, but I always zone out when he starts telling me about work). So if there is anyone that needs financial advisement, Brent is your man! Great job love!!!!!!!