Some Christmas festivities

Since leaving Salt Lake I needed to go somewhere that had lights on trees. Granted there was no temple or international nativity scenes but the Botanical Gardens had a pretty good showing. I went with Kristen a friend from work and Jorge a friend from church. It was a good time! More Christmas festivities to be posted soon. Sorry for the delay but deal with it :)

Tour de Fat

I believe I have mentioned the bike parade Katie and I participated in this last summer. After writing that post I felt some regret as it didn't really convey the true experience. Well as I was looking up fun things to do in Boise, I found a link to some pictures taken during the bike parade. So here is the think so I can remedy the situation and help you all to realize the awesomeness of this event. Also, so you realize that it is imperative that you all come join the fun next year! Katie and I planning on being Jem and the Holograms...so keep it in mind we need more holograms! So check out the site and click on photos.

http://www.followyourfolly.com/folly_tour_de_fat.html

Mice-scapades

For your viewing pleasure. The artist has expressed a desire that you remain respectful when viewing photos as those photographed are deceased... and cold.

The Following are mice number 1 and number 3. Soon after their photographs were taken they were then enjoyed as a delicious meal by Baby the corn snake. May they digest in peace.

Thanksgiving fun

So I know this is a little late but hey at least I am getting it up here so no complaints. I also thought it was quite a nice juxtaposition with the last post... I am grateful for frozen mice. Well for Thanksgiving I went back home to Reno. It was a blast. I was the only one that came home considering Kyla is in China and Bri is workin' hard for the money. So I got some quality time with the padres. I got in Wednesday and baked my little heart out. I make a pretty wicked pumpkin pie if I do say so myself. I also tried a recipe for a sweet potato cake, which turned out to be quite tasty. It ended up just being the my parents, myself and a girl that is living with my parents Alycia. So it a a small but mighty group. It was kind of refreshing to have a nice quite Thanksgiving but we did miss the bloody battle that is the nerts game that follows the dinner. We ended up just cleaning and hanging out and watched "Hairspray." Love it! Then on Friday we slept in a did a little shopping later on is the day when all the crazies were home recovering from their earlier insanity. Saturday then consisted of go to Sacramento to check out the new temple, hit up the outlet malls then off to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. My mom affectionately referred to this as " some concert on Saturday we should check in to." It was phenomenal! I would highly recommend this to anyone! Well there is the update for Thanksgiving. Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season. Katie and I sure are. We just took Christmas photos. Why you ask... why not?

"Mouse...like ice cube"

I have had many inquisitions about the mouse photo. Well here it is. I have decided to try my hand in the art of photography. Along with this goes the fact that Katie my roommate has a corn snake that needs to be fed mice about every week or two. So clearly I would join the two and photograph the thawing mouse. This was suggested to me when I was in Utah this last time and telling of the joy of the thawing mice on my counter and their often contorted positions. So for your viewing pleasure here are the first two mice of the series by Stephanie Rock entitled "Mouse...like ice cube. "

Ode to the Halsey's

So I am sad to inform/discuss the recent moving on of some very close friends. No they did not die...they moved to Maryland. So last weekend I packed up my duffle bag and headed on my way down to the good ol' land of salt and mormons. I made a detour at Elizabeth's house in Logan. Where of course we stayed up late talking, catching up and the like. Her sister Megan was in town which was a joy to catch up with her as well. The next morning we got up and to breakfast for high quality sustenance at the Village Inn. Along with good food was good company as E-beth's friends and fellow GI's (that is graduate instructor not gastrointestinal) accompanied us and were really the reason for the excursion. It was quite enjoyable. Lets just say "vagina" was said within the first 2 minutes. Those are some funny cats. Well I then continued on my way down to SLC where I picked up Mellie and her potato pearls. Continuing on to Thanksgiving Point, we met my brother for lunch. He told us all about his dating life etc... it was quite fun. We spent quite a long time chatting. Then it was back to SLC for the main event... Geri and Seth's Bon Voyage Party. It was such a good time. The extremely large dog, mint oreo goodness, chimney sweeps... and much much more.

Well I must say I am sad to see Geri and Seth go but very excited to hear about their new adventures and what Seth has seen blow up if he can disclose such information.


To the Halseys: You guys are just really freakin' awesome. Thanks for all the good times. The runs (not diarrhea), the nudey pictures (sorry Seth [adn Danny] nothing like the David :). You guys will be greatly missed but no worries you know about my travel bug, so I will definitely be out to visit and play! LOVE YOU!!

3 year old mocking

So as some of you know in my new job I have quite a few spanish speaking kiddos. And as many of you also know I don't speak spanish... quite the conundrum. Well, I guess I should clarify. I have taken spanish in middle school, 3 years of high school and I year of college. It sounds like I should have some basic spanish skill but alas any ofyou that have taken foreign language classes know the truth. Well yesterday I was working with one of my spanish speaking little girls by myself (she works better without the translator). We usually do alright. My toddler level spanish and her being a toddler is usually ok. Well yesterday I told her to do something and she started laughing, I asked her what she was laughing about and she proceded to correct me becuase I had said "passita" and it was "passito." Then i was telling her to do something else and she began laughing a second time and corrected me again and then promptly shook her head and replied "Stephanie, Stephanie." Sweet! I am officially humbled in my spanish speaking skills. So there you go I have officially been regulated by a 3 year old! Life is good.