Ouch!

Yesterday after school I got to watch my little nephew, Garrett, for a few hours until his piano lesson at 6:00. He was thrilled to get to come to my house! We had a blast playing Super Mario Bros. on my wii, coloring, playing the board game Sorry, and he even shared his Kit Kat and Froot Loop snacks with me.

As I was cleaning up the game and putting it back on the shelf in the closet with all the other games, I knocked a bunch of the board games over.....including a dominoes set. It's in one of those metal, heavy, boxes and of course was completely full of those porcelain looking dominoes. It smacked me in the face, above my eyebrow and dumped dominoes all over the floor and down the stairs. Can I say pain?! Cute Garrett was very sympathetic and had to feel the large bump on my head and helped me pick up all the dominoes. Needless to say I had a splitting headache the rest of the night! Luckily, today it's not throbbing anymore, though it's definitely tender. It's not as red as it was last night so it's not as obvious to everyone else I hope, and I'm really hoping it doesn't bruise or something stupid like that.

Bearpaw Boots

I've been wanting some boots like these ever since I saw the Uggs version. Knowing that I could never, nor would I want to ever, spend that kind of money. It seems everyone has a pair of some brand or another. I've been searching lately for my very own pair and ran across these babies. I'm a fan of Zappos.com since they have free shipping and free returns. That way if the shoes don't fit, or I don't end up liking them after all, it's easy enough to get a full refund. Yes, I did order up a pair of these today and my rationalization is......I can always return them. So what do you think? Does anyone else have boots like these? And in case you were wondering, yes, I was a good girl this year, and I do deserve a new pair of boots! :)

Pioneer Woman

I've recently ran across this fun blog. I love that the recipes make me want to try them out. I love that she shows pictures with each step so you can actually see what it's going to look like. I love that she adds some fun humor along the way. She also has a cookbook out called The Pioneer Woman Cooks that I'm considering looking into. Has anyone else heard of her? Or her cookbook?

Lost Season 6

I'm a HUGE Lost fan! I bought myself Lost Season 5 after Christmas and have been refreshing my memory since it was last on TV. I've also got my parents hooked on it. :) For those of you that don't know yet, the new, and final season starts February 2nd. Hooray! I'm mighty curious how they're going to wrap all the loose ends up. I'll be so sad when it's all over, what will I be addicted to then?

Christmas Recap

I never did blog about my Christmas, so here goes. Christmas Eve I spent at my parents house, sleeping over through Christmas. We watched some of my favorite fabulous Christmas movies such as Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story. I was spoiled this year and received lots of great gifts from my family. I got a bunch of shirts, a gift card to Game Stop (to some day buy the New Super Mario Bros. whenever it comes back in stock), a necklace, dvds, and a Cocoa-Latte hot chocolate maker (YUM).

Christmas day was spent relaxing, visiting my sister and her family and having our traditional family Christmas dinner. Mike and Natalee and baby Lexi surprised us with a visit Christmas night. We had previously thought they were not coming for Christmas, but they decided Christmas Eve to come after all. They left Idaho Christmas morning and spent some time with Natalee's family and then our family later that day. It was so great to finally see my adorable new niece! They were able to stay until Sunday morning.

Sunday afternoon I left with my parents for a trip to St George. We stayed until New Years Eve and enjoyed a lot of shopping, relaxing, eating out and movie watching (New Moon, and Blind Side). It wasn't too warm being only in the 30's, but it was at least a bit warmer than Salt Lake. It's fun to just get away. :) I had a great off track and Christmas vacation, even though it does seem to go by way too fast!

New Year, New Start

I haven't really fallen off the face of the earth....well, maybe just a few times. I kept thinking about blogging while I was off track, but couldn't seem to start. I've had many things to blog about, good and bad, but never took the time to do it. So, here I am, it's a new year, and I figured I'd start it out with a new post.

I found a great quote in a book I've been reading, The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans. "There are times, it seems, that God throws a cosmic switch that moves the track beneath us, hurling our lives headlong in a new and uncertain direction. Of these times just two things are certain: It's best we don't know what's ahead. We can never go back." How true that is!

Some days as I look in the mirror I wonder who that person is staring back at me. I've seen it through the good and bad times. I seem to fight the emotion I see on that face, as tears fall uncontrollably. I've been through self destruction, thinking "screw the world", not seeming to care much about anything. Been in denial, not wanting to deal with what I've been dealt. It's so much easier to lessen the pain, if only temporarily. Life is still moving, whether I want it to or not, I can't move it back, no matter how hard I try. I don't feel like the same person I was 5 years ago......so much has happened since then. I've had my share of trials and tribulations, not always enjoying the scenery along the way. I fight change, and sometimes want to crawl into a little hole and wait it out. How much easier it would be....

It'd be such a great world if things would just go my way. If I could be who I wanted to be. If I could do the things I wanted to do. If I could have the things that I most desired. But then, life wouldn't be life, would it? I wouldn't grow as much as I do every day. I wouldn't be the person that I am today if I hadn't fought my way to be where I am. It might be a long and tiresome journey, but I'm amazed at what I can do and who I can become. Who knows what this year has in store for me. Dare I say....Bring it on!