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Ed McMahon 86

Ed passed away earlier this wk on June 23. He was suffering multiple health problems. I can still hear his voice, so cheerful!
Farrah Fawcett 62
Farrah passed away today, June 25th. Fawcett passed away due to cancer. She fought a good fight. I watched a show on her and her fight, not too long ago, she was so positive!! Ryan O'Neil and Farrah were planning on getting married after the many yrs of being together, unfortunately they did not get the chance to before her passing.

Michael Jackson 50
The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, passed away as well today due to cardiac arrest. Despite all that happened, Michael is an icon! His music will always be popular. I grew up listening to his music, granted I hated Thriller, and to this day can't listen to it by myself, at night, without having to change it. It is one song that to this day freaks me out, even though I know every word. Ha ha

Just remember that you never know what may happen and who it may happen to. Tell loved ones you love them. You never know what you take for granted until it's gone.

Rumor

So it is rumored that the iPhone is going to be coming to Verizon next yr. In my earlier post I have said that I want to Blackberry Storm, but I may have to hold out and see if the iPhone comes to Verizon. Verizon was suppose to of gotten the rights when Apple first came out with it, but Verizon turned them down!! Why would they of done that, when all the rage was to have anything Apple. iPods have been all the rage for yrs now. I mean come on, a phone and an iPod all in one....who wouldn't want that? Even if you already had an iPod. You could use your iPod for just your music and the phone for all kinds of great stuff. A few of my co-workers have one and they love it. The only thing that they don't like about it is that AT&T is expensive. I had the oppertunity to play with one of my co-workers today and may I say that I loved it! I just really hope that Verizon and Apple can work out a deal so that they may be selling it next yr.

NO DOUBT.....

On Memorial Day, DeAnna and I saw No Doubt in concert!!!! It was quite possibly the best concert that I have been to. DeAnna, Josh and the Girls came down for the wkend. I really wish I would of known about Boondocks while they were here, I really think they would of enjoyed to go there. Sorry D and Josh that it was so boring!!! I had a good time just being able to see you guys!!

Here is a slide show of the concert

I must say that it was a excellent concert!! I can't wait till they come out with a new album so that DeAnna and I can go again!!

Cruisin'

So I am thinking about getting myself a Cruiser for the summer. Scotty's Cruisers has some pretty sweet looking ones. scottyscruisers.blogspot.com I've been wanting to get one since I went and visited my sister last yr in July. DeAnna and Josh have some sweet bikes and they have hook ups for the girls so they can go on family rides. Well it's like a big thing in Provo as well to have a bike. Plus I am thinking it would be pretty great exercise! I am thinking about getting this one. Tell what ya'll think.

Butch Kellie

This weekend my good pal Kellie tied the knot. I attended their reception yesterday evening. It was a festive and gay time. By gay, I mean happy, sillys. It was a mini reunion as well. Us girls all went to school together back in good ol' P-town. It was a night of reminiscing. Tori, in red, and I are single and ready to mingle. Kellie, of course in white, newly wed bliss. And Emily has been happily married to her hubby, Robert, for a year. We danced the night away to classics like The Love Shack, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and The Macarena. Butch and Kellie were sealed in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. Kellie, I wish you and Butch to have an eternity of happiness!! Congrats!

22

About two weeks ago was my Golden Birthday. I turned twenty two on the 22nd. It was a great birthday! I met my parents at the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, "Why did they decide to name them the Coral Pink Sand Dunes? They aren't even pink." Quote from Mr. Jack Grimm. Joe and Sherry were also there. I would like to thank them again for my birthday dinner, it was soooooo good! Also thank my parents for making the most delicious birthday cake! We were there from the 22 to the 26. Let me just say that riding a quad for that amount of time is quite the work out! Despite it being windy and cold weather I think it was quite a fun trip! At the end of the trip I was just wishing that I were going back to good ol' AZ with them and not back to Utah. Thank you mom, dad, Joe and Sherry for a wonderful birthday week, I wouldn't of rather done anything else.

Here are some picks from the trip......

My Ride

Mi Madre and I

Dad grillin'Happy Birthday to me

It was a great birthday!! Thanks to Mark and Melody for the card. Thanks DeAnna for calling, miss you, Josh and the Girls!! Thanks Mom, Dad, Joe and Sherry for a great trip, loved the laughs that we shared.

a war a brewing?

So there may be a war a brewing....

Not to long ago my friend Kourtney and her friend Steven decided that they would play a little prank on me. Well it was more Steven's idea then Kourtney's but she laughed along with him. Steven decided that he would start a chat with me on Facebook and hit on me. At the time Kourtney had a thing for him and I had no clue what to say. He started casual conversation. Then he started asking questions only a person that may like you would ask. I freaked and of course called Kourtney, little did I know she was in on it. It went on for a bit, while I was still on the phone with Kourt. Steven I guess figured he freaked me out enough and told Kourt to tell me it was all a big joke. Oh I got a good laugh out of it!!

Well the other night Kourtney and I were on the phone and she was heading to meet Steven to go see a movie. She was waiting for him to show, when I got an idea! I should get Steven back! I asked her if she would give me his number so I could play a little prank of my own on him. She thought it would be so funny, so she gave me the number. I waited a little bit to send the first text. "Hey baby, what are you up to tonight?" I thought that I I had written the number down wrong cuz I didn't get anything back for a few minutes. When he finally responded he gave the reaction that I was looking for. He didn't know who it was and wanted to know. "Oh you know who I am." I'm sure that freaked him out something good. I had him convinced that I was someone in the ward and that I thought he was so hot! His last text was something like, "Do you even know who this is?" I didn't text him back after that. I wanted him to think about it the whole movie. He text back like a half hr after they had gotten out of the movie. Kourtney had warned me that he might call to figure out who it was. Steven, "So are you going to tell me who you are?" My response, "No, but to answer your earlier question, yes I know who you are, Steven." Haha I thought it was a creepy response myself. He asked if I was in his ward then what ward would that be. "Prescott YSA." "What's my calling." I was stumped by this one, good thing I was still texting Kourtney too!! She told me he is the Ward Mission Leader. So I answered his question. And while this was all going on he had brought someone else into the mix. He had one of his friends text me saying that he had received a blank text from my number and was wondering who it was. I text this person back that I didn't believe that he had and that if I had that I would have his number in my phone. He text something else back saying he was Michael Sylvester and asked if I knew who he was. I almost decided to play a prank on him as well, asking him if he was Daniel Vester's bro-in-law, but Steven finally decided to call my phone. I was on the phone with Kourtney at the time and had to get off so I could answer the phone and hang up real quick. I would of answered the phone, but I would of just started laughing. He called twice and I hung up on him twice. He asked me why I hadn't answered my phone. I told him it was to fun him not knowing who I was. He said, "You may be having fun. Could you at least give me a hint?" I had no idea what to do then, so I decided that I was going to give him the only hint that I could. "Well our first conversation was on facebook and you and Kourtney decided to play a little trick on me." Steven, "I hate you. Tricia." Oh man I couldn't stop laughing for about a half hr!! It is the best prank that I have ever played on someone.

Kourtney posted a blog about this too and she said that Steven said that I had no idea what I had gotten myself into. Haha little does he know, who I know. I know the greatest pranksters in Prescott. So bring it on Mr. Shepherd! Plus I live in Utah and he is there in good ol' Prescott. So I feel this war will have to take some thought. Good luck to all those involved! Kourtney, you may be hit....so look out. Haha

genius

So it is April and guess what....it snowed!! I know that I live in Utah, but I hate snow! It's been raining for the past couple of days, rain I love!! But today that rain turned into snow. I would say that we got a good 2-3 inches. Ok this post has a point and here it is....So back in November I bought a brush and scrapper, as anyone should have to help with getting snow/ice off the car. I thought I had bought a pretty good one, the brush was bigger than most and it had a scrapper on the other end. One morning I was brushing the snow off the car and to get the snow that collects on the brush off, I hit it softly against my rims. Well on this particular morning the brush broke off. SUCK! I went to got get a new one. They didn't have the same one that had broke, they had the <-- small dinky ones, and brushing off 5-10 inches of snow off a car with them is not ideal!! So I decided to buy a car washing brush. As you can see by the pictures, I am a GENIUS!! haha It only takes me a couple of minutes to brush off my car rather than ten mins. I even had co-workers today that asked if they could use my brush. They were so amazed at how little time it took to get all the snow off the car. If you are sick of taking forever to brush off your car and you live were there is tons of snow during the winter, I would highly recommend that you upgrade!! You will love brushing the snow off your car!

What the Flagnog!!

So this past wkend I went on a movie binge.

Monsters vs. Aliens

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Seven Pounds

I surprisingly enjoyed each of these movies.
I give all of them two thumbs up.

Movie Review

I watched the winner of People's Choice Award, winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Slumdog Millionaire. I now know why it won. This movie is intense, heart breaking and a love story for the ages. I give this movie two thumbs up!

Type.....

So tonight I found out that I totally have a type!! I pretty much watch TV every night, I know I'm a LOSER! Well watching American Idol tonight and David Cook performed and oh man am I hooked. He is freaking hot!! On Monday nights I watch Gossip Girl and Ed Westwick is also freaking hot!! Looking at pictures of them I realized I totally have a type. I think that you will see that for yourself by looking at their photos. I never thought in my life that I had a type. I have proven myself wrong. Till next time, PEACE.

Twilight

Oh so guess what. Twilight is coming out on dvd on March 21st. I don't know what I am going to do! I'm over whelmed with excitement. NOT! To tell you the truth that was the worst movie I have ever seen in my life! The only reason I even went to see it in theaters was becuz it was free. I didn't even want to see the movie! The craze about the whole Twilight series is ridiculous! I mean the books weren't even that good! The only one that was even decent was the first book. The movie was a disgrace to the book! I mean the acting sucked! The way they portrayed Edwards skin in the sunlight was horrible! They really must not of had much money for this production. Oh and the guy that they choose to play Edward, NO, that is not the guy that I imagined in my mind. Also the actor that played Carlisle, I really did not imagine him as this man at all! Everything about this movie was just horrible! Also the beginning scene, where Bella is getting ready to leave Arizona, I'm sorry but when I left Arizona I did not go find a cacti to take with me. There is not that much cactus in Arizona and we don't love it! At least I don't love it. The only thing that was good about the movie was the actress that played Bella. It's not her fault that the script was written horribly! She was pretty and had potential. I don't know how ppl actually liked that movie! The whole craze of this movie and movies to come is just craziness and I'm living in the middle of it!! Utards just eat it up. Just a heads up for anyone who has not seen it, don't!! That would be the worst waist of time ever!!

Peace.

Random Stuff

So today I went to the mall to get that protective film put on my camera. While they were putting it on I decided to go into the Verizon store to check out the new Blackberry Storm. Let me tell ya, if it weren't so expensive I would of bought it right then and there! It sucks cuz w/o the new 2yr contract, the phone is like 500 bucks. But this phone is pretty sweet! You know how they say it clicks, like there is a button, that's cuz the screen actually moves when you push on it. It's nifty. I ask one of the sales girls about it. She helped me update my plan as well while I was there. As of the 27th I will have that friends and family thing. The one where you can choose five people that you have unlimited calls and txt to. I only really care the txting, I have a few friends that don't have Verizon, so that will be nice. And she said if I decided to upgrade to the Blackberry Storm, that it would only be ten dollars extra, that's not bad! I'm thinking I might upgrade in December. That's when I get an upgrade. So I'm thinking that just might have to be my Christmas present to myself. So when I go to this certain mall I always go into the same entrance every time I go, cuz there is a Cold Stone and I love the smell. So some idiot decided to put a nail salon next to it. Let me tell you, you put the smell of Cold Stone and the nail salon together.......DISGUSTING!! I honestly was thinking about getting some ice cream, but becuz of the smell I would of rather puked! Like I said, who ever thought that was a good idea is a flipping idiot!!

Till next time PEACE.

Finally got a Camera!!!!

This is my new camera!! I got a great deal on it at Target!! I decided it was time for me to just buy one, becuz I wasn't going to get it another way. This is also just an early birthday present to myself! The camera, camera case, memory card and a 3 yr warranty was less than 200 bucks!! Total being 192.31. I'm pretty stoked on the fact that I have a camera! At the time I got it I didn't know that it was red, that made me even more happy when I found that out!! So now I have a camera and I don't have to depend on the ppl to get pictures for my facebook, myspace and blogspot!! So hopefully this will help me to keep up on updating this thing a little better. Haha It has 10.3mp, 2.7" screen and 3X optical zoom. I'm going to get a screen protective film put on. I'm just so excited about this!! My electronic life is pretty much complete. Except I don't have a laptop, but I can live without that at this point in my life. Haha So that is my news for now. Please stay posted, as I will be updating this more often now!! Till then... PEACE.

It's been a long time!!

Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long since I've updated this thing. I am really bad at keeping up w things!! Well I'm still up in Utah, oh joy. There isn't really much up here to do. I have only sorta dated one guy since I've been up here.
Funny story actually....When i moved up here I was looking for a dental assistant job. It was so hard. I went a whole month w/o being able to get a job. I went into two different dental offices and had two interviews. One was just a regular interview where you sit down and talk. The second interview is what is called an in office interview, that's where I got to actually work w the doctor and the other ppl in the office. It was lame cuz they both told me that I would hear back from them in the next couple days, never heard back from either!! I was so distraught. I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to find a job. After that I started applying for just about anything!! The whole time I was praying and studying my scriptures like crazy. Well one day I decided to sleep in and go job hunting in the afternoon. Well this guy, David, he was my home teacher for like a week. haha He called me and I didn't recognize the number so I didn't answer. He left a message, these were his exact message, "Tricia, you bum. This is David. If you are still looking for a job, we're hiring and it would be freaking awesome if you worked here. Let me know, we are interviewing today. the sooner you get a hold of me the better, that is if you want the best ever. Give me a call back." Yes I saved the message cuz it made me laugh!! So I got directly up and got ready and called him back. I went in at noon. In the words of my boss, "She rocked her interview." I didn't take the job right away, cuz I was still waiting for a call back from one of the dental offices I interviewed with. I walked out of the building and something in me, the Spirit, told me to go back. I got in my car and the same feeling came to me. I drove down the road and it just kept telling me to go back. So I turned around and when I got there Dave, the boss, had gone to lunch. I just hung out til he got back. As soon as he did I told him I would take the job. Thank goodness I did, I never heard back from the dental office!! In all reality David was the answer to my prayers!! I've been at my job for almost four months, on the 17th of this month. I have moved areas and I'm still trying to learn what I'm doing in this area. Basically what our company does it we build real estate investor websites and e-commerce websites. What I did before I moved areas was deal with the angry ppl and billing. Oh that was the best. Ppl yelling at you for stealing their money, it was great!! No joke, there was a different reason to laugh every day. Now what I do is actually help out w websites. I'm tec-support now. It's a bit more advanced then what I was doing. But I got a raise and I'm learning quick. I was so blessed to have David help me out!! We started to hang out after I got the job. It was a blast too! I got to know him and his roommates, who I kind of knew before, but I got to know them each a lot better. We hung out every day for a month or so. I was just so happy to have ppl to hang out w and do stuff w! Well David, confused the crap outta me, as guys typically do. He was the one initiating everything and would call me after he got out of school. Of course I didn't mind it, but I just didn't know what to think. So after about a few weeks of not hanging out w him as much I asked him what was up. He said he just wasn't looking to be in a relationship. I was relieved cuz I really didn't want to be in one either. I was just going w the flow. Like I said he got me my job and I will always be thankful to him for that!! We still hang out every now and again, but not at all like we use to. I actually work in the same room as him now, haha, it's interesting every day. Oh and I acquired a new nick name, hopefully it only stays in Utah, cuz i hate it!! Everyone at work calls me Pat. Sick!! The worse thing is that i answer to it. So if anyone from AZ ever calls me that I will hit you!!
I was also blessed to be able to go home for Thanksgiving and go up to Idaho for Christmas!! Both trips were so much fun!!
Thanksgiving: My dad got me a plane ticket so that I wouldn't have to drive the 13 hrs that it would of taken to get to Mark and Melody's. I took the 26th through the 1st off from work. I only really took two days off, cuz we got Thanksgiving and Friday off anyway. So I flew home on the 26th. I was blessed that Aaron lives in Salt Lake! He went and got my car for me so that I wouldn't have to pay for parking at the airport when I got back. He also picked me up that Monday. I would like to thank you again Aaron for doing that!! I really appreciated it!! Any who, Thanksgiving was so freaking good! My sister-in-law, Melody, cooked dinner. I would have to say that she is the best cook that I know!! I'm going to take cooking lessons from her!! On Friday, one of my very good friends, Kathryn, was able to come up from Tucson to visit me. Her little family is about to have a new addition!! Truman is due in 11 weeks!! It was so great to be able to see her, David and Cadence!! Cadence is growing up so fast!! She is just the cutest little girl! So glad that we were able to see one another!! I can't wait to see them again!! Other than that, I hung out with my fam. We had a good time, saw a movie, went to Cabellas and ate like champs!! Thanks again Mark and Melody!! I had a blast!! On Sunday I was able to go home to P-town for the night!! I was so happy to be home!! Kourtney, my best friend!!, put on a shindig for me. I was able to see quite a few ppl! Brittney included! I missed her like crazy!! I also went and saw my friend Gary Noal Peterson!! I had to see him! He's just a blast to hang out with! It was quite an eventful night, full of rock band and food and good friends!! Thanks again Kourt!! I miss you tons!! On Monday before I headed back to the airport I was able to go to my old office and see everyone there. It was so good to see Dr. Dalton and everyone in the office!! I really truly miss working in that office!! Then my parents and I headed to the airport, ate there and I almost missed my flight. Haha I waited a little to long to go through check point! But I made it and cried as we took off. All together it was a great short trip!! I miss everyone and can't wait to make a trip back!!
Christmas and New Yrs: For Christmas I was able to get Christmas eve through New Yrs day off!! I was so happy!! I've been looking forward to seeing my sister and her little family ever since I moved up to Utah. They are only about five hrs away. Just didn't get the chance to get up there before now. I had to go into work for a few hrs on Christmas Eve, I got paid time and a half for the two hrs that I was there. I left at 11am. The drive really wasn't that bad. I was trying to beat a storm that was suppose to hit. I must of missed it or it just didn't happen. I got to Idaho about 4:30pm. As soon as I got there we went to the store to get food for Christmas dinner. It was a lot of fun actually!! My nieces are the most adorable girls in the entire world!! Lexi is one now and she imitates just about anything you do! She can do the McDonald's, kintucky fried chicken and a pizza hut dance. It's the cutest thing!! I loved it! She can say momma, da:which is dad, ssss:which is for sissy, bu:which is for her bunny and more. She understands so much! She is just so smart!! I can't believe it!! Oh and she is walking. Last I saw her she was just learning how to pull herself up to stand. Hailey, will be 4 months on the 10th, all she does it smile! She only fusses if she is hungry. Otherwise she is the happiest baby, as Lexi was when she was her age. These girls are the most loved and happiest kids I've ever seen!! Ans spoiled, but who could help not spoiling them!! Christmas day my parents flew in. They flew into Boise around one in the afternoon. My parents got me diamond earrings!! Diamond is my birth stone. Oh my goodness I haven't taken them out of my ears since I put them in!! I love them!! We had Christmas dinner, Josh's grandparents came over also. They are the nicest folks I've met! Just so willing to help out! We opened presents through out the day. Lexi was so over whelmed by the end of the day. When she opened a present, she would rip and hand what she ripped to either DeAnna or josh, it was so cute!! I think the whole time we were there we were entertained by her then anything else. Hopefully DeAnna puts up all the videos that she took. On Friday, we just hung out at the house and then that night we went to a Hockey game!! Oh goodness my, I loved it!! I haven't seen a hockey game since the last game of the the Sundogs last yr. The Idaho Stealheads played Utah, haha, no matter what I couldn't get away form Utah. I don't remember who won, I'm pretty sure it was the Stealheads. I was just enjoying being w my fam and watching hockey!! We were luck enough to sit next to Josh's Uncle and two cousins. Joe, Josh's uncle, loved holding the girls!! Saturday Josh and my dad worked all day!! Literally!! They didn't get home til 1:30am. My sister, the girls, my mom and I went shopping. Boise has a nice mall! We werre at the mall fo 5 hrs!! I know crazy right. It was fun tho. Lexi was exaused when we got home, she fell asleep so fast! Sunday was a lazy day!! We sat at home and watched movies all day. It was nice. monday we got up and we went on a train ride. It was about a two hr ride, up and back. We started at Horseshoe Bend and went to Banks and back. It was nice. Beautiful scenery! It followed the Payette River. The river was frozen in a lot on areas and there was snow all around. They had a open car, it was freezing, but so cool to see the landscape!! Then we went out to dinner at Goodwood. It's a bbq place. Very nice and good food!! I ate a ton! I think Tuesday was just another relaxed day. At like 4 I went with DeAnna and Josh to help decorate for a party that their ward was putting on for New Yrs. It turned out looking really good! Then we went home and the guys went to work and us girls went out for just a little bit. We went to the outlet mall. When we got there it was like 15 mins before everything closed, so my mom and DeAnna picked a store and went in while i sat in the car w Lexi and Hailey, cuz they were both sleeping. My sister said that that was probably the fastest she ever shopped. Haha Wednesday was a busy and long day!! We all got up and ready to head up to McCall for Josh's dad's wedding. We left at 1:30pm and it took us two hrs to drive up. It was sorta windy and I think everyone in the car got a little car sick in their own way. We were all really happy to get out of the car by the time we got there. We had an hr before the wedding, which was nice to just relax and wait. The wedding was so nice! It snowed outside during the ceremony. It was beautiful. I think just about everyone almost cried. I know I teared up. Oh I got mistaken for Josh's wife or Lexi's mom more than once. I was like no, I'm just the sister-in-law or aunt!! Haha After the wedding we had dinner, it was not that great. Then we did cake and changed for the drive back to Boise. It seemed like a shorter drive back! We headed straight to the ward party. My parents were dead tired, so my sister took them and Lexi home. Josh, Hailey and I hung out there. They had a dancing, face painting and a movie room. I went to the movie room and watched the rest of Wall-E. The movie got over 15 mins before midnight. I rung in the new yr with my niece in my arms and watching ppl clean up. It gave me a chance to txt ppl "Happy New Yr!". It was nice. Although I did miss everyone back home!! New Yrs day was the day that I drove back and my parents flew back. We woke up, got ready, packed and went to get breakfast at almost noon, haha. We alll said our goodbyes and I cried again as I drove off. I followed them to the airport trun off, to fill up my car and then I dove back to Provo. It was such a great trip!! I really can't wait to go up again!! Thanks again DeAnna and Josh!! I had a great time!!
All together I had wonderful Holidays!! I'm looking forward to a trip back to AZ hopefully in March!! I miss everyone there like crazy and I hope everyone is doing really well! Oh and sorry I haven't updated this in forever!! My life just really isn't that exciting up here. I will try to post exciting things as they happen!! I left a bunch out of this post, so I will be posting another one here in a couple of days. Oh and sorry there are no pics, I don't have a camera, so I have to get them from Melody and DeAnna. Most of the time I try to post pics on my facebook. So check that out for pics. Ok until another time. Peace!