satan vs Jesus

On friday Miley and Alex were playing with this ruler that was broken. Okay... they were slightly fighting over it so My Mom took it away from them. Somehow they got it back so I took it away. Miley comes up to me with her big cute puppy dog eyes and is telling me how she wants to play with it. I wouldn't give it to her so she slams her hands on her hips, tilts her head, opens her eyes REAL wide and looks at me for a second then goes "Tahnee... when you be mean you're letting satan win. When you be nice you let Jesus win. You letting satan win right now cause you being mean!" LOL! How do you argue with that? I seriously just laughed. She just kept standing like that, looking at me like that. She was not amused. She was trying to teach me a lesson and i was just laughing at her. LOL.

Best Grandparents Award

So, my parents came up today. We went out to Tooele to visit Grandma and Grandpa's graves and put flowers on them. It was a lot of fun. On the way back we drove up to Ophir so Dave could show us all his house he lived in before living in Stockton. I seriously loved Ophir. It's a mining town. I'm pretty sure it is listed as a Ghost town. It was so cute though. I should have taken pictures. Sorry. Anyway... when my parents decided to come up to spend the day/night with all of us they came fully equipped with a tent. They decided they wanted to camp out with the kids. How sweet is that. Because it is winter in almost June and raining, they set up camp in the garage. We brought down all the mattresses because cement is not in the same category as grass or dirt.

My Dad said to me just before this picture, "Are you sleeping out here too?" I thought about my nice warm cozy bed just down the stairs and easily said "Nope, it's all you!" He laughed, then said "Well, this is the years first camping trip." LOL.

Next, to finalize the indoor camping adventure Dave made indoor smores. If you are curious how one makes indoor smores (Dave style), you take a cookie sheet, line it with wax paper, put your mallows on it and bake it until golden brown. Take them out and mash them between two chocolate covered grahams. Like so...

BTW... Dave and Nic bought this table in March but the chairs have been on back order (NEVER order anything from Ashley Furniture- unless you want a nightmare) so... they have their regular chairs set up to the table. Only in the Rubow house do you hear the phrase... "Go stand at the table and I'll bring you one." LOL. As opposed to, "Go SIT at the table and I'll bring you one."And two little bums washing up before bed.

It was a great day and the adventure is still going on. We'll see how the camp out goes tonight (wink, wink). I have to say that I have the best parents in the world. They are always trying to do things that will make the kids happy. They love the grand-kids. They seriously win the Best Grandparents Award, hands down!

I'll be sawing logs, thanks!

Okay, I am not making fun here, but his made me laugh. So Ihave this page of leathers that I need a temple engineer to locate in a temple for me. I was told he was coming to the COB today so I was going to give it to him to take back and then I wouldn't have to mail it. I just got this email:

Brother ________ & Sister Nielsen,
I will be arriving into SLC tonight at 10 PM.
I have to be at the SLC airport by 800
AM tomorrow Friday the 27th. If you please bring
me the items that I am to take with
me to The Temple I will be staying
at the following hotel:

Fairfield Inn
230 Admiral Byrd Road
SLC801-
355-3331

So basically I have between 10pm and 8am to get them to his hotel. UH... pretty sure I'll be in bed. In Santaquin. LOL. He's a super nice man, but it made me laugh when I read this. I just politely let him know I would mail them to him.

Birthdays and Benched

First of all... Yay for Scotty!
Second of all... kind of funny little story. I went during lunch to do initiatories cause I feel like I've been an ornery cuss at work lately and I knew that would help. BTW... it did, it does :). Anywho... I was on my last name and I notice the very last time I said the sister's name that her birthday is on Sept 13th. How sweet is that? (For those of you who don't know- it's my bday), it made me smile inside, so when the sweet temple worker finished I said to her:
"hey, she and I have the same birthday" (enter big smile)
She smiles, looks intently at the paper "Oh really.... you were born in 1809?" (enter big smile)
"No...(laugh, laugh, laugh-in temple voice of course) but September 13th."
She just smiled and winked at me. It was sweet and funny. Ididn't even think of the year. Can I just say how much I love being in the Temple. I'm one lucky girl cause not only do I get to go whenever I want to and as often as I want to, I get to work on them as well. I just feel humbled and priveleged and loved by my Savior. It's like the best lunch break to go over there, with watching TV downstairs on 3L with my boys a close second (wink wink).

Oh... speaking of my boys, here is a funny little conversation I had the other day. They came to my desk to say Hi and one of them is gathering people for his one day softball tournament in Blanding. He says to me...

"Oh.. and I decided, whoever bats the worst is SITTIN' THE BENCH NEXT GAME!" (capitalization for emphasis) He laughs cause he thinks he's funny, I laugh cause I think he's funny too.
"Yep, so glad I'm not on your team. You were that kid in school everyone hated weren't you?"
His jaw drops, AS IF he is shocked by my question. "WHAT!?!? No, everyone loved me, and I was good."
"Yeah, well in elementary school when the teacher makes you all line up to pick teams, you were the first one picked weren't you. You were never the last one picked."
"No, I was the captain." LOL!!! (wasn't expecting that)
"Jerk!" Enter horrific childhood memories for Tahnee.
SOOOO... he wants to play softball on this team that I have connections to, so I tell them yesterday... "If he comes to play, make everyone line up and pick teams and pick him last. Better yet, flip a coin for who has to have him at the end. Wait... even better, bench his butt on the second game and tell him he batted the worst." LOL!!!

He's really not full of himself, and such a sweet guy, but it was a funny conversation.

CUTE!!!

Tonight we were outside while the kids rode their bikes up and down the street. Miley's shoes kept falling off so I took her in to get her "running shoes" on. When we walked back out she turns around and says (keep in mind she is 3)
"know why I like you Tahn?"
"Why?"
"Cause you so cute." Then she smiles this big smile and runs off.

Talk about warming the heart!!!!

Turbo-legs

Today... I walked with Wes and Rahspody to the second bus stop. We had almost five minutes. I clued them in on this and of course this made them want to walk faster. Being that they are both taller than me... here is your mental image for the night...

Rahpsody (tall), Me (short), Wes (Tall-er than me). Rahpsody (legs moving semi fast), Me (legs moving twice as fast as semi fast- we're talking two steps to her one LONG FAST step), Wes (fast moving legs). Both of them totally oblivious to the fact that this was WORK for me to keep up with them and that my pride was sky high as I wanted to stop and yell "HEY! Freakishly tall people!!!! Little short person here totally out of breath ready to puke!" But of course.. pride won... AGAIN!

Slurp...Slurp...Slurp

This is a little story of Boy and Girl and Superiority...

Our story starts at about 9:30 am when Boy meets Girl to move plants to 3L. Blah blah blah...
Boy (teasing girl about long commute): Santaquin is by Panguitch.
Girl (with an 'are you kidding me' look on her face): Um, no.. that would be by Cedar City.
Boy: No it's not, I ran a race there, it's right by Santaquin.
Girl: Um, SERIOUSLY?! No, it's down by Cedar, just over the mountain from it.
Boy: Nuh-uh! I swear it's by Santaquin.
Girl: Whatever, it's by Cedar, just over the mountain on the east side. You're from Monticello, shouldn't you know this?
Boy continues to argue his ridiculous point, while girl mocks and laughs.
Girl: I"m right on this one, Google it.
Boy: I'm going to. (pulls out his phone).
Girl (in all her infamous brain power): WAIT! Let's bet on it. (hmmm... will boy take the bait.. I hope so cause I"M SOOOO WINNING THIS!)
Boy: OK!
Girl: What should we bet.
Boy: A drink. And by the way (enter attitude here. The "I'm so winning this" attitude- even though he's not) I want a Mt.Dew!
GIrl: Okay, but I should probably decide what I want, since I'm totally winning this bet. I'll have a slurpee.
Boy: There isn't a 7-Eleven around here. At least you can get a Mt. Dew anywhere.
Girl: Hmmm... sounds like a personal problem.
Boy: (laughing out loud)

Tap, tap, tap... Boy googles it.

Drum roll please........It's totally by Cedar, just over the mountain on the east side.


I try and I try to tell people not to mess with me.... but... they never learn. What's a girl to do?

Seriously!!!

It took me 2 hours and 15 minutes to get home on the bus tonight. 2 HOURS AND 15 MINUTES!!!!
The end.

Why has the Lord brought me here today?

I just finished listening to this podcast by Sheri Dew (whom I adore) and she said that several times during the day we should ask ourselves this question. I thought... how awesome is that? That is like giving yourself the opportunity to have a moment of reflection/reality check/ make better decisions. The talk I listened to is called "Awake, Arise, and Come Unto to Christ. AMAZING!!! I have really come to love Sheri Dew the past few months of my life. She also talks in here about choosing Holiness. Above all- choose holiness. Walk away from the world and choose to be holy. If you have itunes, I recommend downloading this podcast. It's free.
I'll tell you, I'm definitely a work in progress, and I know I have made some horrifically poor choices in my life, but I'm just a simple daughter of God trying to get back to my Father in Heaven, and I'm a work in progress. Heavenly Father isn't finished with me yet. See... this I hve come to hold onto- this idea that he isn't finished with me. While others may be, he isn't. One thing I know for sure, it is harder to forgive oneself than to forgive others. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but... you know how you go through something with someone else, and you get hurt- in a way you never realized possible, and then when you see that person you not only feel hateful feelings for them, but even worse than that, you feel hateful feelings for yourself? I believe this is a tragedy- in more than one way- I also believe that in these moments we show our true character. I hope to always live up to the character that I hope to one day have because that is all you can do... and I think this is part of what Sheri means when she says to stop and ask yourself "Why has the Lord brought me here today?" This simple question gives you power to come out of your natural man and be the person that the Lord knows you can be, the person you hope to one day become. A person of influence for good and not bad. I'm not good at this, but again, I'm also a work in progress. I want to be a person that builds others up, not tear them down. Like Jesse is always telling and I truly believe- Life is about each others self esteem. It's true. If you are building others up, you are building the kingdom of God. If you are tearing others down, you are tearing down the kingdom of God. One thing I know for sure, I have loved the Lord for a very, very, LONG time- and he has loved me even more- even when I haven't deserved it. And I want to be a builder, not a tearer downer.

Anyway... those are my thoughts tonight.

R.I.P.P.E.D.

Seriously... best workout EVER! I decided not to renew my Golds Membership and to instead take some of the community classes here because they have enough to keep me busy and they are close. I went to spinning, but I don't know if that is really my thing. Maybe if my butt would stop protesting I might like it more. I LOVE ZUMBA, but I already know that. Payson high has the outdoor track and an indoor track for free. Also, this morning I tried this class here in Santaquin called R.I.P.P.E.D. It's a total body workout. I was majorly curious. OH.MY.HECK. I'm in love. The sad thing is that they only offer it once a week. WHAT THE HECK! I looked it up online and you can become an instructor. I think I will seriously consider this. They do an 8 hour training and then you get your certificate and everything you need to be an instructor. I think that would be fun to do. Of course I'd have to get better at it, but I can. I can do anything I put my mind to. There aren't any trainings here in Utah, but there is one in Vegas in June. Hmmm... something to consider I guess. I do love to work out and I'm not kidding this class was amazing!

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What a Day

I've been wanting to post about his but I keep forgetting to take a picture of the note so oh well. The other day I had an appointment I had to go to in the morning so I was late to work. When I got to my desk there was a donut with a note that said "Yeah, we're pretty much the coolest people on the planet." LOL... seriously... it made my day. I really did chuckle and smile. I just thought it was sweet and a nice thing to come to work to. I was going to put a picture of the note but I keep forgetting to scan it. Sorry, you'll just have to imagine it. It's not hard, most guys write the same, just imagine the sentence in small clumsy boy handwriting- though it was on a purple post-it. LOL- that's what you get when you dig through a girls desk for something to write on.

OK...

Triumphs for today:

1. I read the whole Book of Mormon today. (ha ha... okay, it was just the book "Mormon" in the B.O.M, but I just couldn't stop reading and I read the whole book and it was awesome)
2. We (the interior designers) have a storage room on 3L. Today, Myself and two of the interns cleaned it out. It has desperately needed it since I started and with all the Ogden stuff, it FOR SURE couldn't wait any longer. Talk about dust. Holy Smokes. And I climbed up on the top shelf and was crawling around... enter triumph #3...
3. No SPIDERS in the storage room! NOT EVEN 1!. Not even a dead dried up one. NONE!!!! Woo Hoo! (I was a teeny bit worried about that as I was crawling around handing boxes down to he ladies.
4. I made it through the whole day without getting dirt on my face- well, at least not big noticeable spots. (okay... this is where I tell you about a not-so-triumph moment... I walked out of the storage room, through the shop up the stairs to 2L, passing people with the two interns- look in the mirror and there is a big round spot on my right breast. DUST. But seriously... I had on a darker brown shirt and dust is white and I might as well have had a sign on me in neon lights that said "LOOK AT MY BREAST!" We laughed so hard. Oh the men I passed. So Sorry. LOL.

We worked our buts off in that room. We didn't finish all of it, but we will. For lunch we went outside on the beautiful grounds and at lunch and laid on the grass. What a beautiful day!