Molly likes olives

Count down (these aren't "tack sharp" but still cute)

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Congrats Brian!

Brian opened his mission call on Friday night. It was so fun to be a part of the excitement.
He's going to.... (drumroll)

... TEMPE, ARIZONA!!! (of course, everyone who checks this blog already knows that. I just thought you might want to see some pictures.) I'm so excited for you, Brian.

...and still more Snowboarding

Are you getting sick of this yet? I'm not. A couple weeks ago I ran into Lynn Adams. Lynn and I became friends about eight years ago. In the last couple years we've fallen out of touch even though he only lives in Salt Lake. Anyway, Lynn invited me on a snowboarding weekend up at Bear Lake. Why not? It could be a great way to meet new people and if nothing else, I love snowboarding. It turned out to be Lynn, a guy I had gone on a blind date with last year and six very cool, but very intimidating girls. The snowboarding was a little icy and I was grateful for my new helmet after I landed on my head going off a jump. Wearing a helment just makes you try crazier things. It was fun though and the cabin we stayed in was really cool. After a long day of snowboarding, playing games and watching movies in a cabin is just perfect! Add a little beer and we'd have been living the life of a professional snowboarder.

Now in RED!

I've never tried red before, so I thought why not? I'm a readhead now. Well, I'm not as red as it looks. I didn't photoshop these photos (except cropping), but the natural light coming in through the window makes my hair look a lot lighter than it is. Most people notice that my hair is dark now rather than red (Scott and Elisha can vouche for it). You can't see it very well in these photos, but I also had Elisa take about five inches off the back into an A-line cut. I love it! Thank you Elisa! I hope you wrote down that wacky concoction because I'm going to want this color again.

More Snowboarding

It's about once a week now. I need my powder fix. Last week at Brighton just after we got off the chairlift, the power went out. We were night boarding so no lights makes getting down the mountain a little tricky. That was my first braille snowboarding experience. Tuesday night I did my first table top (kind of like a rail slide, but the surface is about 8 inches wide so it's way easier.) I made it all the way to the end, though. I also jumped my highest that day. Eight feet high (Bryan claims). It was high enough to make me panic and throw my board sideways in the air. I definitely did not land that one. Frankly I'm glad the ground hog saw his shadow. That's two more months of snowboarding.

CHA Winter 2009

Every day we walked by and saw the happiest place on earth on the other side of a massive wall. I couldn't see their faces, but I know everyone in there was having a party. We had to go to work though. We did get to see Paris Hilton and Jane Seymore (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) promoting their new craft lines. Yes, Paris Hilton has a scrapbook line now... and why not?

This is me, workin' really hard at the tradeshow.

2nd Christmas!

Just when you think Christmas is over, a bonus package of presents arrives. Yeah! Second Christmas! The first present I opened was this custom flirty apron, hand made by my mother out of the very fabric I would have picked if I had known she was making me an apron. We went looking for fabric for everyone else's aprons, but I had no idea I was getting one too. I LOVE it!
I also got a 4 GB thumb drive that I already use all the time, a purple blouse (perfect fit), an ipod to car hook up thing (used it today so I could belt out Wicked songs in the car), and a cook book (so I would know what to do in my new apron). Thank you so much, Mom and Dad!