Bored?

Judi's post with her random facts link gave me the idea to put up some of my favorite links. I hope you enjoy!

Have you ever wondered what you would look like in a police sketch artist drawing? I made an attempt but I'm not that artistic.
http://flashface.ctapt.de/

Do you remember the Nintendo game Lemmings? I found a version on the internet!
http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

While we are on the topic of games, Ill throw this out there. The title speaks for itself but my favorite are the "Bloons" games:
http://www.addictinggames.com/

I play with this once in a while, Jer might like it, or anyone who likes making music:
http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

This is just a website that shows you what happens when you microwave certain things. My favorite are the Cd's:
http://microwavecam.com/microwavecam/index.htm

Click this to clean your computer screen, it will make you smile:
http://www.linein.org/media/screen_clean.swf

Ever curious how much the mayor makes? What about if someone you know got arrested? (yes there is a Jonathan R Jackson arrested for DUI, and no it was not me)
http://www.utahsright.com/

And last but not least, this website (created by an atheist) depicts the bible stories in lego form:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/

Getting To Know Us, Getting To Know All About Us...

Well we got an email telling us to fill this out and pass it on to everyone so I thought a better idea would be to fill it out and put it on here, Ali's answer is first because she had already filled out the email to everyone, so I just copied it and put it in here =)
1. What time did you get up this morning? 6:45 / 6:45
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds / Diamonds (BLING)
3. Last movie you saw in the theater? Juno / Juno (sorry that a lot of these will be the same)
4. What is your favorite TV show? right now: American Idol. When it's on: Grey's Anatomy / Right now: The Family Guys, All Time: Seinfeld
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? A breakfast drink from Costco / Same
6. What is your middle name? Elta / Ray
7. What food do you dislike? Seafood / Same
8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Flight of the Conchords / Jack's Mannequin
9. What kind of car do you drive? Toyota Camry, but I don't drive- Jon does / Ali's Camry
10. Favorite sandwich? Grilled ham and swiss from Skool Lunch (without the pickles)/ Chicken Cashew from Skool Lunch
11. What characteristics do you despise? being a 'know it all' / Restless Leg Syndrome
12. Favorite item of clothing? My long sleeved pink striped shirt that only cost $8 :) / My sweaters from Costco
13. If you could go anywhere in the world for a vacation, where would you go? Maine and New York / Rome
14. What color is your bathroom? Ugly white / Pale
15. Favorite brand of clothing? Anything from Kohls / Fossil (does a watch count?)
16. Where would you retire? SLC, but it depends on where my future children live / Murray/Holladay
17. Most memorable birthday? Probably my 16th / 21st birthday watching the fireworks over Pearl Harbor (I taught a discussion right before)
18. Favorite sport to watch? Football / Duh
19. Furthest place you are sending this? Logan / Around the world!!!
20. Who do you expect to send this back to you? maybe Jon / ?
21. Person you expect to send it back first? I don't know... / ?
22. Favorite saying? I don't really have one I guess./ You don't have to want to (also my least favorite)
23. When is your birthday? Feb 27! / July 4th
24. Are you a morning or a night person? I love love love the mornings. Except the going to work part. / I'm like Lionel Richie baby - "all night long"...
25. What is your shoe size? 7 / 9
27. What did you want to be when you were little? A ballerina / A football player and a lawyer (like Steve Young)
28. What are you today? Today I am an HBS and a COB reviewer / Bored
29. What is your favorite candy? Jr mints or reeses pieces / Jr mints and 3 Musketeers
30 Your favorite flower? Anything red / Gerber Daisy
31. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Next monday- no work / Same
32. What are you listening to right now? Other people taking calls / X96 radio from hell show
33. What was the last thing you ate? peanut butter sandwich / Last night we had Pizza Benders from Italian Village
34. Do you wish on stars? Not really, I'm never up that late / Nope
35. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Red, of course. Probably a sparkly red. / Hot Pink
36. What is your pet peeve? When the sour cream separates and it looks all watery. Wrinkles in the sheets when I'm making the bed. The film that gets on the inside of my windshield. All of the stuff under my bed (see question 49) :) / No football on TV, dumb people
37. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My mom / SLCC advisor
38. Do you like the person/people you are sending this to? Yes, I wouldn't send it to people I don't like / I don't really like people in general
39. Favorite soft drink? Grape Fanta / Cherry Pepsi, Mountain Dew (pretty much anything thats not diet)
40. Favorite restaurant? Macaroni Grill / Molca Salsa
41. Hair Color? Brown / Brown
42. Favorite day of the year? Christmas morning / NFL Draft day
43. What was your favorite toy as a child? Cement mix to feed to my sisters and Drywall putty and tape to make fake casts. / Micro-machines and Ninja Turtles
44. Summer or winter? Winter / Summer
45. Hugs or kisses? Hugs / Hugs
46. Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate / Chocolate
47. You want your friends to e-mail you back? If they want to / Don't care
48. When was the last time you cried? a couple weeks ago / I never have (I'm not crying it's just raining, on my face...)
49. What is under your bed? Boxes for moving, a remote control car, Monopoly, all the cords and controller for our heated mattress pad, a drill battery, and a heating pad. As you can tell, we're short on storage space! / Everything she said but the drill batter was moved =)
50. Who is the friend you've had the longest? Phylicia / Mike Poulson
51. What did you do last night? worked out and fell asleep watching deal or no deal. On our way to work Jon tells me how the shows ended that I fell asleep watching =)/ Ate my pizza bender watched American Idol and the end of the dog show
52. Favorite smell? I can't really smell anything / The smell after it rains and the smell right when the swamp cooler is turned on.
53. What are you afraid of? Spiders and things in the water and not being a good mom / Heights and failure in general.
54. How many keys on your key ring? 3 but there should be 4. I'll have to get the spare back... / 5
55. How many years at your current job? 1 / 1.6
56. Favorite day of the week? Saturday / Saturday
57. How many states have you lived in? 2 / Utah & Hawaii
58. Do you make friends easily? Yeah / I think so
59. How many folks will you send this to? 6 / Depends on how many people read my blog

I WANNA ROCK!

So for Jer's birthday we decided that we should all get together and play some Rock Band. and let me tell you, it was a ton of fun. Wyatt started off the night with his very own drum solo. Luckily the song played the exact two notes that Wyatt was banging away at and he actually did a pretty dang good job. I'm pretty sure that any boy given the opportunity would love to bang on a pair of drums. I remember when I was younger I got caught several times pounding away on several different pieces of furniture with a pair of bread knives.

Anyway, as the night went on I got to participate on the drums, bass, guitar, and yes lead singer. I've always wanted to be a lead singer in a rock band and I was very happy to sing some Weezer. Unfortunately my skills on the drums were pretty pathetic.

So I think that it was a lot of fun having the whole family there playing together. Ryan dominated singing Radiohead and Jer surprised everyone with his skills on the drums.

<---I liked this picture because it looks like Elle has a mohawk, which would have been perfect for the occasion.

I wish I would have got more pictures of everyone playing together, but I did get a short 8 second clip of Wyatt busting out his drum solo. I hope you enjoy =)

Anniversary

Can you believe that we have been married for 1 year now? We hear that the first year is the hardest year; I’m not exactly sure what that means. Does that mean that marriage gets miraculously easy after you hit the one year mark? Does it mean that I can now make rude comments without fear of repercussion? Does it mean that marriage is supposed to be some hard arduous task to perform and if you pass the first year you know what to expect? After all Seinfeld did say "I don't know marriage is like a 3 year commitment", we of course plan on a whole lot more than that ;)

Well all I know is that we have had a very fun and exciting year of marriage. Our lives are constantly changing and evolving, but I think if I could go back 5 years and tell myself where I would be 5 years later, I would be pretty happy with how things are going. I have a great wife, a cute apartment, a job that I really enjoy, and everything I need. The only extra thing I have that I wish I didn’t was this belly that has somehow grown from my stomach. Well I guess it’s a good thing we have gym memberships now.

So for our first anniversary we decided to get away for a couple days and we went to the Anniversary Inn in Logan. We chose the Hollywood Theater room, for the main reason that it had a soda dispenser in the room, and a very large TV (yeah what more could you want? I know). We had a great time watching the Bourne movies on the big TV, and watching The Price is Right in the morning from our tub, it was totally sweet. In fact we think this is how we want to set up our own master bedroom when we have a house of our own and aren't poor anymore (soda fountain included of course). All in all it has been a great year, and I look forward to many, many more!

Christmas '07

Well another Christmas is in the books and a new year fast approaches. So what have we learned this year? Who the heck knows, we have tried to be more tolerant and considerate, we are pretty sure that Jon is lactose intolerant though (I'll explain later). We know that it isn't easy to juggle 3 families wanting you around, yes it is nice to be wanted but it is not a simple task to give everyone their fair share of you.

Christmas Eve started out well but did not end to well for me. I have to get it through my head that even though I love cheese, it will still make me sick every time I eat it. Earlier in the day we had gone to Chili's and I ordered Fajita Quesadillas and while they were delicious, I paid for it later. I spent my parents Christmas Eve party either in the bathroom, or throwing up behind their boat parked outside. Instead of spending the night at Ali's dad's house we got our stuff and slept at our apartment. One of these days I will learn, but cheese is just so good.

So what was the best part of Christmas? Well it was family, plain and simple, just family. We got to spend time with each of our wonderful families on Christmas day. My personal favorite was watching Wyatt jump up and down and screaming in sheer joy at the sight of his "Lightning McQueen bedspread", I really wish we had that on film. Ali and I also reflected later on the joy of giving, we are not quite "dirt" poor, but make no mistake about it, we are poor. But we still loved giving what we could to each other. I received a cordless drill set and watch box (with watch) and I was able to get Ali a sewing machine along with a sewing kit. After we arrived to our apartment with all of the stuff we had received we realized how truly blessed we were, we may be poor but we are spoiled by loving family.

Funniest present would probably have to go to my father, who cleverly thought of the idea to buy me a bagel slicer, and another one, and another one, and yet another one. Yeah, I get the joke.

All in all we had a wonderful Christmas and we would can't thank our great families enough for making that happen. We look forward to years upon years of more Christmas joy with all of you.

and may the force be with you....

No kids; no problem

Well it is no secret that we love our nieces and nephews and when we get the chance we love to watch them. It is also not a secret that we use them (yes very shameful). We know that it will be several years until we have our own so we love spending time with them to remind us that we are not ready yet. It also gives Ali her “fix” for wanting a baby. We love kids, but we also love not having kids, so we use our nieces and nephews :)

Well along the road there has been a lot of fun watching those kids. With Laine it has just been a matter of trying to keep up with her. Whether it has been trying to get her to quit coming in and out of the dog door at Ali’s parents house or literally trying to keep up with her at the zoo when she starts sprinting with her little legs towards the monkey habitat.

With Romney we will never forget the time that we dressed him up with Laines’ goldilocks wig, or hearing him say his first words like “thank you!”. (see below)



Wyatt has always been my buddy; I totally dig playing cars and throwing a ball with him. We had a blast when we went and fed the ducks and ran around on Judi and Ryan’s half pipe. And of course we can't forget the time that we taught him the moves to "Grease Lightning". (See below, he started to get real theatrical at the very end) : )


Ali’s favorite has always been the niece or nephew who is currently the youngest. At first all she new was Laine, I think that is half the reason that Ali even dated me was so she could see Laine. Then Romney came along and Ali loved to watch him and hold him. But now the current youngest is Elizabeth. The only thing she has really done is spit up on her a whole lot, but she loves to smile whenever Ali is holding her.



All in all I would say that we are pretty lucky. Who needs kids when you can just watch someone else’s for a few hours? FYI This is not a endorsement for “Let us watch your kids!” but rather a “We would love to watch your kids if we are not busy”.

Who needs a Dr?

So I don't want to make this a blog about my hand (as interesting as that would be) but to be honest we are just boring. So why do boring people have a blog? I dunno to make you bored as well?

Well anyways we decided to take my stitches out ourselves, since we are so poor and cant afford another bill from the hospital. So we busted out our homemade "Suture removal kit". The kit included a cheap flashlight, tweezers, nail clippers, and a pair of manicure scissors. The process was slow and slightly painful, but at last the stitches are out and my hand is feeling good.

On another note, I tried my ring on yesterday and well, it went on my finger, but I had a heck of a time getting it off. I think I will have to wait a few more days until I can start wearing my ring again.