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A Day to Play

Today Mindy, Nic, Dave and I took the kids to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. It's was a blast. Here are some pictures, a slideshow and the funniest video ever of Davey dancing to the Chicken Dance. Tetherball... see, now this is a good blast from the past. Leggings... not so much. Mo Mo and the other kids playin' in the corn box
Keili and I ridin' "Gracie Ann"

Abbers and I playin' on the kid slides, I couldn't stop the butterflies on these slides...

A Day At Cornbelly's

You got dancin' from your dad...

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. At Cornbelly's today we let the kids watch these singing chickens. It was so stupid, but the kids enjoyed it. Then they started singing some blues music, and THIS is what happened to Davey...

I've been Tagged!

I am: kind of a bratty person, I will admit it, but I truly do love people. I just like to be sarcastic and funny.

I have: about zero tolerance for rudeness, and people who degrade others. Why can't everyone just learn to love?

I Think: that someone should drop a dance partner off on my door step so I can take Ballroom dance classes. He should also come fully equiped with the ability to country dance (two-step, waltz, westcoast swing,and the night club), and only dance with me.

I Know: that I judge whether or not someone likes me by whether or not they think I'm funny.

I Want: to find an amazing man that I can annoy for the rest of my life, and who will love every minute of it.

I Dislike: lettuce- it's a weed, and whoever the first person was that decided to eat it and say it was good- was also on crack!

I Miss: being social, country dancing, and being in a ward where I am one of the rocks instead of someone who fell through the cracks.

I Fear: the day my parents pass away.

I Feel: easily forgotten

I Smell: splendid... all the time! THANK YOU bath and body works!

I Crave: times when my family is all together playing games and having fun.

I Cry: when sad/hard things happen to my family, or when they are sad or going through hard times.

I Usually: can make people laugh, or shake their head in sheer disbelief at my ridiculousness.
I Search: for ways to make my appearance look better.

I Wonder: what it would be like to be at my ideal weight.

I Regret: ever buying anything on time.

I Love: being an aunt, and being able to do things with/for my wonderful neices and nephews, and know that they love me. I also love to see them smile or light up because of something I do for them.

I Care: about the way other people feel about themselves- I wish I could help other people to see themselves the way Heavenly Father sees them.

I Always: crack jokes during awkward moments, and lock my bedroom door at night so I can sleep knowing no one can come in.

I Worry: about my family not having enough food storage in case of an emergency.

I Am Not: being used to my full potential- I should be rented out for special occasions/ events, or even just as a date (uh...I think that I may have just called myself a call girl-oops)

I Remember: conversations and all of my dreams (some of them I wish were real).

I Believe: that the second coming is nigh at hand and that the government and economy are only going to get worse.

I Dance: in my bedroom, listening to my ipod- and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I Sing: like there's no tomorrow! I like to have the radio up loud, but down enough that I am the lead singer and the real artist is the back-up singer-usually in the privacy of my own car.

I Don't Always: fold my laundry after taking it out of the dryer, sometimes is sits in my laundry basket for days- I hate laundry!

I Argue: ...Others can agree with me, or they can be wrong... there is no need for argument.

I Write: bantering emails to co-workers and sometimes family- it's tons of fun! I love to also write my thoughts about spiritual things in emails and letters because thoughts just start coming and I pretty much can't stop (sorry to those who have had to endure these letters/emails).

I Win: the crasiest dream contest (if there was a contest), especially when I medicate myself to fall asleep. I could write a book about near death experiences just from all the dreams I have that I die in.

I Lose: all self control at concerts like Chris Ledoux when he rode the mechanical bull, and at Jazz games.

I Wish: that I could play ultimate frisbee everyday, and that my brothers and sisters could play those kinds of games with me.

I Listen: when people I care about tell me things they like or want and then I try to get that thing for them, or make that thing happen. I listen closely so I can give the perfect gift, something they usually don't expect.

I Don't Understand: that vampires aren't real and that I really can't have Edward Cullen as my very own personal protection of my heart, mind, and body.

I Can Usually Be Found: doing/saying something ridiculous, silly, or totally out of control.

I Need: someone to keep me under control, and a man who will shake his head at me. laugh, and then put me in my place (while my jaw drops).

I Forget: to wake up on time just about every morning.

I Am Passionate About: painting and gospel learning/teaching

I tag: Sarah and Misty (Mmwah-haha)

I hate spiders and wish death upon every blasted one!!!

So... my roommates purchased two of these blasted spiders! The first one, I couldn't even touch, I had to pick the sucker up with a pair of tongs and cram it in a plastic bag. Well, now this one, that is even bigger, has housed itself on our fireplace with the help of my dang roommate (who I have contemplated plotting against). I can't even sit in the chair by it. When I come home at night, EVERY NIGHT the thing makes me jump, regardless of the fact that I know it's there. If I am sitting alone in the living room I periodically have to look at it, just to make sure that it hasn't grown a heartbeat and made some attempt to come over and suck the life out of me. One night, I came home and my roommates (who I think may be part of the 1/3 of the hosts of heaven) had this in the microwave when i went to open it to cook my delectible dinner...

I jumped, my heart about beat out of my chest, and..I'm not ashamed to admit...

I full on wet myself!

Okay... that's a lie, but I'm pretty sure that this monster ate me in my dream that night!!!

And... I'm pretty sure that Satan himself overtook the body of whomever the idiot in the warehouse was that decided to create this thing, as a personal attempt to drag me down to the fiery depths of hell!

Happy Friggin' Halloween!!!

"I'm Gonna Pay Lucy A Visit"

Okay, so at work this pretty amazing guy named Jesse has this drawer (below) in his office. One day he came to me and said: "Tahnee, if you ever need something really good, something to maybe make the day just a little bit better, go and take a look in this drawer and you can have anything you want in there." I decided to name this drawer "Lucy", because when I opened "Lucy" up...

This is what I found...

(GASP!!!)

(Two pitchers, one full of fun sized candy bars, and the other full of kiss shaped mints, and those cups in the back have swedish fish and hot tamales in them)

And THIS... is what happened...

So NOW... whenever I go into Jesse's office I say,

"Hey Kathy, I'm going to pay Lucy a visit!"

And she laughs at me like I'm an idiot.

Hey Rocky... BRING IT!!!

Okay... so one day at lunch Kim and I went to The Gateway. On the way we back we walked past the Energy Solutions arena. There was this calling out to me, and it was so loud... It said, "Hey... Tahnee... you big wimp... there's no way you can run up these stairs like Rocky!". It was like Rocky was mocking me... my pride said "Self... Rocky sucks, and you Rock! You should be named Rocky, because you Rock so much!" After this inner pep talk, I was ready to take on the challenge. Kim, not so much. It took me a while to talk her into it, but as usual... I got my way.

This is NOT us... This is Rocky

(I wanted to prove how much I look like Rocky)

This is Me...

(imagine Eye of the Tiger roaring loudly)

what I like to call "The Rocky Victory Dance" at the top of the stairs...

Kim...

(unlike me, she would only do it on the short stairs... chicken!)

And... I'm sure we looked like Idiots!

A Card for Ned

I found the coolest thing ever... Postcards that you can watercolor paint on. I bought them and this is my first one. It is a postcard I made for my friend Annette who is currently serving a mission in Tuscon Arizona. I'm pretty much in love with these little things.

"I have the best Secretary ever!"

Okay... so, Leland, the guy I work for is like one of the funnest people I have even worked for. He laughs at me, even when I am sarcastic and bratty, he still always says "I have the best secretary ever!" I'm so lucky...

Well... funny thing about that...

Leland isn't so lucky... you see... I like to go in his office and look out over the General Authority Offices, I can see them in their offices and for some dumb reason it intrigues me. One day was in there talking to him. He was working on his computer and I was standing there spinning this beautiful (pricey) globe. When all of a sudden the globe jumped off the stand and bounced on the floor. My eyes popped out of my head, and Leland's head... well it just jerked out and then he yelled "What did you do?!?" My jaw dropped and no words formed. NONE. He then scooted over on his chair to look at the damage. I then quietly said "uh... I think i may have broke your globe. OH MY GOSH!!! I broke your globe!" Then I laughed, and tried to pick it up. Leland also laughed and said "Get away from it! DOn't touch it! Give it to me!" LOL! I was laughing. I apologized and he laughed and said "It's okay. It was already cracked." I handed it to him and he goes "okay... get away, don't touch anything!" It was really quite funny, and embarrasing. He was able to put the globe back on the stand. I said "hey... now it's a 3-D globe. The ocean is sticking out."

See... I think I just created a new fault line. Maybe this is what happened to the city of Atlantis.
I have no idea why Leland loves me so much. Here is another "poor Leland" moment. See this plant?

See those yellow leaves... YEP... I'M TOTALLY KILLING HIS PLANT!!! Leland is on vacation this week, but today... I took this plant to the plant care people on the 1st lower level. I picked the yellow leaves off first, and now... it looks like it's balding- DANG IT! He comes back Monday (in two days) and I still haven't gotten the plant back. I plan to pretend as though there was never a plant there and it was all just a figment of his imagination. Maybe he won't notice the hole there. One can only hope...

A Blast from the Past

Okay... so these are a couple of old roommates, and a couple of friends (well they are all friends, but I really only hang out with 2 them lately (Kim and Julie). So.. from L-R they are: Julie, Allie (old roommie) Angela (old roommie) Tiffany (in front), Kim (my friend I helped get a job at the church) and then ME!!!

We all met up last wednesday to go to dinner. Allie just moved back to Utah with her husband and Tiffany is about to get engaged. It was one of those "catch-up" dinners, ya know. Tiffany and Angela still live in Branbury. We all met while living in Branbury.
This is Al, Tiff, and Jue (hahaha...I'm not religiously prejudice, but I think it's funny kim and I nicknamed Julie, Jue (jew) We even have this joke where when Julie does something silly, Kim and I look at each other and say... "that's so Jue-ish!" It probably shouldn't be funny, but we think it is). I'm pretty sure we had been at Los Hermanos about 2.5 hours at this point. I think they may have been cursing our names there.
They wanted me to lay across them like this, BUT... I refused, and having seen this picture... I'm gonna have to admit, I'm glad I did. If I wanted someone to touch my rear this like... it wouldn't be them... and to be quite honest... they wouldn't be female (did I just say that?). And... I wouldn't want my rear being the focus of the picture... but it's funny that Kim did it! Go Kim!
This was funny... we all really didn't fit on this bench. It was kind of hard to squeeze all of us on it. We look cozy... but really... it's a cover. Our butts are so crammed together on this bench that the waiter had to pry us off. Okay, that's a lie... but we really were pretty tight on it.
AHHHHHH!!!!!

YOU'RE GONNA WANNA READ THIS....

Okay... so, the other night (wednesday to be exact) I met up with some of my old friends at Los Hermanos in Lindon. While I waited for my not so punctual friends in the parking lot I thought to myself: Self... you are probably going to have to give Kim a ride home (Kim is a friend of mine that I helped get a job at the church, and we are kind of attached at the hip these days- it's fun). I bent down to pick my umberella up off the passenger side floor and put it on the back seat. As I bent down I saw this...

"HOLY SMOKES!!!"

And then my face did this....

I totally sat there and stared at it for a second in shock before I picked it up. Was it a figment of my imagination? Where did this come from? I don't remember misplacing a 20 dollar bill. Who is that stupid? Surely not me! Then I thought... "THANK YOU HEAVENLY FATHER!!!" And then... I'm pretty sure my stomach growled louder than ever and spoke out loud "Mmmmm...Mmm, Mmmm... we're gonna be eatin good tonight!" And then I went in to join my friends! I'm pretty sure it happened just like that!

PAINTING

The Atonement

A night by the lake (this is one we had to do in the class I took with Mindy)

A country road...

Fall Leaves

A Sandy Beach Scene

Jump On It

Tonight Nicole and I took her kids to Jump On It in Lindon. It was SO much fun. Being that Nic is pregnant I took turns with the kids. It was funny, they were all scared to death at first. Miley took to it the fastest. She was bounced all over the place. I held Daveys hands until he warmed up to it, then he was all over the place. I also held Keili and bounced with her, and jumped holding her hands, once she warmed up she was also bouncing from tramp to tramp. Miley... she had no fear. She face planted so much. Nic and I were laughing so hard. She didn't even care, she'd just get up and go again.

This is where Davey accidently jumped too close to Keili- I think she was more scared than hurt. Check out Davey in the background... he was a jumpin maniac after a while.