Mao's Halloween Costume

Since we don't have kids yet... we have to dress someone up for halloween, and that is what Mao is for. So here is Mao in his cute little halloween bandana that Josh bought for him even though he told me he refused to dress Mao up cause he is a dog. It glows in the dark but as you can tell by the look on Mao's face he dosen't really like to wear it so we were lucky to get this picture of him wearing his cute little costume.

Happy Birthday Kristy!

We celebrated Kristy's 23rd birthday yesterday, we ate her favorite meal (Olive Garden salad), went to a couple of stores she wanted to visit, and then went to the movie "Paranormal Activity"

During our travels yesterday we drove by a real life DeLorean in American Fork! Craziest thing about the scene was that he was being followed by some suspicous looking Libyan guys in a VW bus.

Happy Birthday Kristy, I love you!

Mao's Surgery

Mao had minor surgery today to remove what has become a pretty rotten looking tumor on the back of his neck. Fortunately it was not cancerous so the cut didn't have to be too deep.
He passed out immediately after I got him home so I covered him up to keep warm.

His eyes have been glazed over all night and his walking has been a little shaky but he is doing jut fine. He is such a good little dog, we can't wait until we can scratch his neck again!

Our Fun-Filled Crazy Life

Sorry that I don't blog very often, we just don't have a very exciting life. But finally we got out of the house and we have done things over that past two weekends so here is a two-for-one special and you better enjoy it! First we were able to go to conference. It is always such a great experience to be there with all the wonderful leaders of the church, and to be able to listen to them speak. It was a little rainy and this is us out side the conference center with our xango umbrella (of course) about to go in.

Now I did almost get us kicked out twice while we were there (not actually kicked out, but in trouble). First I took my keys and completely forgot that I have a small thing of mace on my key chain, and while security was going through my purse they found the mace and they had to call the main security guy over to talk to us and tell us that we are not allowed to take my keys out of my purse at all for any reason while we were in the conference center. And I felt really bad cause I just forgot that I had that on my keys.

Then I decided to take this picture of us in the conference center, before it started of course, and I did turn the flash off but the usher guy still came down and told us that we were not allowed to take pictures even though all around us people were taking pictures with their super bright flashes blinding everyone. Luckily we didn't get kicked out and we were able to have a great experience at conference. Then yesterday we decided to go up to the aquarium in Salt Lake. Now I am used to the huge aquarium that we visit every time we are in Tennessee so I was a little disappointed because we got through this one in about thirty minutes walking as slowly as possible, but it was pretty good and we still had fun. So this is Josh outside just super excited to go in!

This is me on a giant frog because you have to have at least one picture of yourself on a giant frog! It was kind of awkward to sit on that is why it looks a little weird, and it also looks a little weird cause I am sitting on a giant frog.

This is Josh petting a sting ray it is a little blurry and I tried to get another one but Josh refused to put his hand in and pet another one, so sorry!

These are just spotted little sting rays that I thought looked cool.

And these are Pirannahs and I thought they were cool cause I have never seen them before and they are supposed to be able to eat like a whole person but they just look like normal fish.

So that is what we have been doing. I know you are all so jealous cause we have such a fun-filled crazy life ,but we are just lucky like that!

New Phone

Yesterday I went into the Verizon store to buy a new phone, and when the salesman walked up I told him that I wanted a new phone because my blackberry was too expensive. I got it so I could be on my moms family plan and only pay the $10 per month, but because it was a blackberry I had to have the data plan and that cost $30 extra dollars per month. I never used any of the things like e-mails and other things. I just wanted a cheaper phone every month. Right after I got done telling the salesman how I wanted a different phone he said "Well I just got a new blackberry and it is a great phone it lets me get e-mails and I can download my pictures right from my phone to my facebook, it is such a great phone and I love my blackberry" he was trying to sell me a blackberry even though I told him I already have one and I came in to get a DIFFERENT phone. So it was a frustrating day at the Verizon store:) Sorry I didn't get a picture of the salesman so there are no pictures for this post:)

Ok so this is going to be a longer story than normal, but trust me you will want to read it cause it is pretty good. So we used to live in Provo, and we had some very white trash neighbors. You know the kind that park their abnormally large truck on the front lawn, leave their mattress on the back lawn, and get mad when our dog poops on the grass, but are totally fine throwing their cigarette butts all over. (seriously they did all of that) And we used to have this super cheap vacuum that did the opposite of vacuuming, it actually spit dirt and things back out on the carpet instead of sucking it up. So we decided to throw the vacuum away cause it was doing more harm than good. We just put it in our garbage can to be picked up with the rest of our trash. Well the next day we noticed it was not in the garbae can anymore, but the trash had not been picked up yet. We figured someone had taken it, and said jokingly that we would probably see it in someone elses trash in a couple days when they figured out it didnt work. Well a couple nights later I was coming home from work and I saw the handle sticking out from the neighbors trash. So they had gone in our trash pulled out the vacuum, used it, saw it didnt work and threw it away in their trash can which was always right next to ours. I don't know if they thought we wouldn't notice but the handle was sticking all the way out, and it is on the end of our driveway where we always drive by. So lesson learned if you don't want your trash stolen, don't live by white trash people who have no shame!!!

That is the handle sticking out of their trash, and that is our trash right next to it.

A visit to the post office

Kristy & I came across this van while visiting the post office and we were a little shocked. We assume he was probably picking up some discreetly labeled material from his PO Box.