What's going on here!?!

So what now that I hit 25 my body doesn't know what direction to go? Am I old? Am I young? SERIOUSLY who finds WHITE (not Gray) hairs on their head and has a MASSIVE breakout (we're talkin' goiters here) all in one day? I am so frustrated! I am way beyond the age of dealing with Acne and at 25, I would hope that I was way before the age of white hair! Come on!

Weekend Fun

On Saturday Brian and I went to the Open House of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple with my family. It was such a neat experience. The temple was beautiful and peaceful. Even with all of the people walking around, it was very reverent. It just amazes me how everything in the temple is so gorgeous to the last detail. I loved it.This is Ryan and his girlfriend, Holly. Such a cute couple!
Mamma and Grizzly Adams-I mean Pappa- Payne. I have to give him a hard time about the beard.
After we finished the Open House, Brian and I headed to Lagoon with our friends, Rob and Christy. We went to Lagoon cause, well, "its where fun is!" We had such a good time, but we quickly realized that our bodies aren't as spry as they used to be. I have never been so nauseous and sore after just going on a couple of rides. I now understand why my parents were never that into amusement parks growing up. Even with the nausea and body aches, we had a fantastic time. They had an awesome deal going on at Lagoon. If you go after 5pm you and your date can get in for the price of one regular ticket. I think it was like 40 bucks. Not a bad deal if you ask me. Plus, Lagoon is a ton better once the sun starts to go down and most the people have left so the lines are short. We had a good time. We got our pictures taken "old western" style. I have always wanted to do this! It was pretty nasty and hot in the photo shop, but the pictures turned out pretty cute!Here are some pictures of Brian and I enjoying Rattle Snake Rapids. We got drenched. It felt so good in the 100 degree weather.Oh smoochy smooch. I had to throw this one in there cause I know ya'll like to see some PDA.

Longest Post Ever

Well the past few weeks have been full of fun and hard work. First of all we shall start with the nation's celebration of me, Kellie Lee Anderson. 25 years ago on July 4th 1984, the country decided that it was such a wonderful occasion of my birth that they would let off fireworks in my honor. At least this is what I believed up until I was about 7...ok maybe 17 :) Brian gave me the most wonderful gift. Plane tickets to go see my friend Diana. Diana and I have been best friends since we were four and I moved in to the house next door to her. We have had a difficult time keeping in touch over the years, but with flights so cheap right now, we couldn't pass it up. We flew to Denver for the 4th of July weekend. While we were there we saw Blue's Traveler in concert. You may remember them from the 90s. I know I did when I heard that harmonica! It was such a fun, long, wet concert. It was ok that it rained the entire time and everyone was smoking pot around us because the company was great! I love you Diana and Sean. Thanks for a great Birthday Weekend.

After we got home from Denver we were given some great news! Zoiee, Sergeant's girlfriend, had her puppies! She had NINE beautiful babies. 6 boys and 3 girls! They are so adorable and everytime I go over there I want to secretly put on in my purse. Zoiee would never know right? Just kidding, but they are so tempting! If anyone is interested in a puppy they will be ready to go the first of September. I will be sure to post more pictures of them as they get more and more adorable!Zoiee looking hammered right after delivering nine pups. You'd be tired too!

Some of the pups. I couldn't post pictures of all of them, but most of them are the same color as Sergeant and have all dark faces. These are two of the cute ones that look like their mamma!
Another exciting thing that has happened is that we finally finished "fixing" my little house fire incident. The flooring was put in last week and I couldn't be more thrilled. It turned out so gorgeous! Poor Sergeant though, he can't run very fast across the floor because he slides everywhere. I absolutely love the floor. It was a royal pain getting all the tile ripped up, but hard work returns great results!Brian doing all of the Dirty Work!
Finished Results!

Finally, this last weekend Brian and I met up with some of our friends, Rob, Christy, Amber, and Bryce at Cherry Hill. The weather was not super sunny but it was still warm. I think we drifted around in the Lazy River for hours. That was definitely my favorite part. I could have done without all of the screaming children, but we had a blast anyway.

A Hoy! The Girls all in Black Suits. Ya we totally planned it.All the Hot Boys. Sorry Ladies, the one in the Black Trunks is taken!
Bri Bri being silly in the river. Can you believe how flexible this man is? Its amazing. He makes me look bad!Being cheesey in the lazy river. Trying to get a pic of everyone which is kind of hard to do. Oh well managed to get one of me at least.

Well to finish off this super long post, here is a picture of my friend Julie and I. We hiked up a trail in Alpine and came across this beautiful waterfall. Sergeant was a trooper and made us work hard to keep up with him. Thanks Julie for the great hike. It was so good to catch up!

Well I think that about does it for this "catch up" post. Now you know why I haven't posted in a while. I have been a busy girl!

I finally have a moment!

The past couple of weeks with work have been a little bit time consuming. I was on call last week and with all the call and overtime, I put in about 70 hours of work in one week! Needless to say, I did not even want to LOOK at a computer for awhile. Now that things have calmed down, I just wanted to post about a couple of things. First of all, HAPPY BELATED FATHER'S DAY! We were able to spend Saturday with my Dad and Sunday with Brian's dad. It was so nice to spend time with the family. I wasn't feeling very picture happy-so sorry, no pictures. However, I would like to mention that Bob and I beat Brian and his brother THREE times at horse shoes! I won the third game with a ringer, and I would also like to mention, the bets were on! I have been "laundry free" for the past two days and it has been fabulous. Thanks honey, for holding up your end of the bet!

Now going backwards in time-the previous weekend, Brian and I spent the entire time working on our little remodeling project. WHAT. A. JOB. It has been a lot of work, and there is still a lot of work to be done! Brian spent an entire day installing this:I am so proud of him! When we took the range that was above the stove down we unfortunately found out that our home builders were corner cutters-in other words...LAZY! The power source to the range did not have an outlet. It was wired directly into the wall! It was the weirdest looking thing. Brian did some heavy duty, impressive electrical work and installed an outlet in the cupboard above the new microwave. I don't know how he even knew what to do, but I was very impressed. I love our new microwave. It makes such a difference!

While Brian was doing the microwave I worked on painting the ceilings. Let me tell you, I have a lot of respect for people that do that every day! It was so exhausting! We finally got it done and installed the light fixtures. I think it turned out pretty good, don't you?
The flooring is coming next. We decided to go with a "berkshire cherry" wood flooring. We decided to have it labored out. I don't think my back can handle another project. I will post pictures when it is finished. I don't think we will do the cupboards for now, but we will just have to see how they look with the flooring.

With all the remodeling going on in the house, you know I had to spend some time outdoors as well. I finally got to go rock climbing for the first time in two years! It was a blast. I went with my long lost friend, Sarah. It was so good to see her, and so good to get out and climb again (even though I was a little bit of a scardy cat).This was a really pretty waterfall up Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was so gorgeous up there. There is one good thing to say about all this rain, the Canyon is beautiful this year. Speaking of rain, for some strange reason we decided to go riding in it. Your welcome Ryan. My brother really wanted to go riding and it just so happened that it was very stormy that day. I don't know what it is about puddles and mud, but it does make it a fun ride even though we froze our hineys off. Here is a picture at the top of Butterfield Canyon. We don't look cold at all huh?
Well that is a brief update for now. I hope everyones' summer is going as good as ours! Hopefully I will have a new floor by the next time I post!

Little Sahara Trip

This past weekend Brian and I finally got to get away. It was such a blast to head south and spend a couple days at the Dunes. The weather was supposed to be bad, but it was absolutely perfect. Not too hot, but not cold either. We convinced Brian's Aunt Debbie and Uncle Chuck, and his cousin, James, his wife, Bree, and their two girls to go with us. It was so fun to spend some time with them. Here the boys are racing up Sand Mountain.
This is such a big dune! You probably can't tell, but those two dots at the top are Brian and James. Brian let me ride his quad this year and I rode all the way to the top of this by myself! I was so proud.
Here I am on my quad. I look pretty awesome, I have to admit.
This is Brian doing a wheelie up one of the dunes.
And this is Brian shortly after...
Don't worry, the sand made a soft landing and he was ok. He just got a good scolding from me, "Safety First!"
Speaking of "Safety First", I wouldn't recommend this at the Dunes, but hey at least it wasn't my husband. James was so CRAZY! He rode up the entire dune backwards! What a nut. It was pretty cool to see though.
Here we are on the side of the highway gathering firewood. We were on our way to Eureka to buy more firewood, when we noticed the vast amounts of dead trees on the side of the road. We did our part cleaning up the highway. Look how strong I am, I uprooted an entire tree!

Man I love weekends!

Lesson Learned

So here is a riddle for you all. What do you get when you mix a sleep deprived woman-that has worked way too many hours, a nice Sunday morning thought to cook her sleeping husband breakfast, and a pan of hot cooking grease?A NEW KITCHEN!

Ha ha, who would have thought that my stupidity would lead to some remodeling? I guess I have to tell the story, now...Its good to laugh at your mistakes right? Well anyway, Sunday morning I was on call and my first call woke me up at 6 am. Every time that I tried to go to sleep after that, I would get another call... Finally I gave up and decided to go to the store and get some stuff to make breakfast. Brian was still fast asleep so I was going to beckon him awake with my cooking. Little did I know how ironic that statement was at the time. I wanted to go outside the box of my normal waffle and eggs breakfast. I decided to make scones and a quiche. One problem...I had never made scones before... I had seen my mom do it a million times growing up.

Couldn't be that hard right?

Oh how naive I was! I called my mom to ask for a direction with cooking the oil. I had never cooked with it before and I was a little nervous. Well my dad answered the phone and told me just to put some in the pan and heat it up. Now here comes the stupidity. I was expecting the oil to boil so that I would know it was hot enough.

Um, HELLO! Oil does not Boil you Nim Wit!

Anyway, we will let that slide because I had never cooked with oil before... All of the sudden I noticed the house was getting really smokey. I opened the back door to air it out a little bit and I ran over to the stove. I noticed that the oil was rather smokey and most likely the perpetrator of all the smoke in the house. I went to turn the burner off, but it was too late. The entire Pan Burst into flames. I held my cool at first. I grabbed the box of Baking Soda and tossed it on the pan. "Mom would be so proud," I thought. Well darn-now I have to start all over with the grease cooking. I put the pot in the sink and decided that it would be a BRILLIANT idea to spray out the pan. Just as I did this The grease EXPLODED into flames up to the ceiling and grease EXPLODED all over me and the floor-not to mention catching the floor on fire! I started screaming because of the pain but also because MY FREAKING KITCHEN WAS ON FIRE! Soon enough the smoke alarm went off and Brian (my knight in shining undies) ran downstairs. He found me holding the flaming pot with the oven mit on fire. I think I was in shock because I didn't realize I was just standing there. He yelled at me to put the pot in the sink and by some miracle he got the fire out. I was hysterical to say the least. All I could think of was that my house was ruined and I was going to need plastic surgery. (I was being a little dramatic, the burns aren't that bad) After several sobbing minutes, I finally calmed down enough to inspect the damage. There was grease EVERYWHERE! It was on the walls, the fridge, the ceiling- I am still finding the grime that we missed. I don't know how I didn't burn the house down, but it wasn't without effort. The damage isn't too bad, but we will need to replace the floor and paint the ceiling. The light fixtures are going to have to be replaced also. I think if we go through the effort, we might as well do the entire kitchen to make it look nice right? We are needing some ideas though. We have light light brown cabinets and we are thinking of sanding them and antiquing them. We also want to do tile and maybe some new appliances. Any thoughts?

Think Positively

So it has been a couple of weeks since I have posted, but I really didn't want to rain negativity in the air. I will be brief, but I do want to mention my last two glorious weeks of work.

We got an upgraded PACS system recently at the hospital...
It has not had a single problem...
It has been just a minor adjustment for everyone...Ok so maybe the biggest thing to happen to us all year!
Computers are my best friend right now...

Well in case you couldn't catch the sarcasm in my tone, I will just enlighten you. The past couple of weeks have been absolutely maddenning crazy! I don't think I fully appreciated the people that did my job that I have now back when I was a Xray tech. There is so much that goes into getting a new PACS System. What is a PACS system you say? Well it is a fabulous system that allows all the diagnostic images of patients in a healthcare setting to be archived and viewed. If you are looking for more information-cause I know you are dying to know- just follow the link above. Anyway, it has been such a crazy ride. Imagine having a physician ask you why something on the computer that should normally work, and up until this point has worked, all the sudden does not work. Plus I need to fix it immediately because it is urgent. Whew talk about pressure! I have learned so much about my job and I feel like I have gained 10 years of experience in just a couple of short- um did I just say short? I meant LLLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG- weeks. Thankfully I have a supportive husband, who hasn't minded the 20 hours a week of overtime, and wonderful coworkers. Everyone has been so patient with me and kind. I feel lucky to work with such great people. It makes this otherwise stressful experience bearable. Anyway, that it what I have been up to lately. Hopefully, my next post will include lots of pictures of fourwheeling. I am dying to get out there and ride!