Good 'ol Tooele!

I think most of our friends and family know that back in June I decided that I needed a change and transferred out to Tooele to try out the office there. I just love the office and love the people that I work with. It really makes a difference in your work when you are somewhere where you feel important and supported. Anyway, I am finding that Tooele is quite an interesting place. While it is growing, there is still very much a small town feel and a small town mindset, which is a whole new world to me! One of my coworkers has lived in Tooele her entire life and it's just interesting to leave the office with her since she knows EVERYONE any time we go anywhere within the city limits. One of the funny things about Tooele is that every Wednesday at 4 pm, there is an test of their emergency notification system. A voice comes on from a very large speaker somewhere saying that this is a test of the emergency notification system and then there is a siren that goes off for a while. It's really quite entertaining, although I was a bit freaked out the first time I heard it! As I type, I'm listening to the wonderful siren sound! You gotta love Tooele!

Random Moment Sample

I saw this on Cara's blog and of course had to do it! I'm quite excited with my results since Alice has to be my absolute favorite!


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Random Moment Sample

At work we get these things called random moment samples. We were all talking about it this week and I got to thinking, while I was getting ready the other morning (I tend to do most of my random thinking while I'm doing my makeup and hair in the morning), that it might be fun to have a little ongoing post and call it "Random Moment Sample." I often have very random thoughts and have random little things that happen to me that never really seem blog worthy, but I think they are kind of funny and out-there. So hopefully it will be fun and a way for me to get out some of these things!

Oh and my prior post really should have been a random moment sample!

Enough Said...

I am so over forking over all sorts of crazy amounts of money to get poked and prodded by the doctor. That's it, enough said!

Kittie Kids

Well as I peek through everyone's blogs, I started realizing that I'm totally out of the loop. I don't have kids and fun little anecdotes or lessons to share with the world that my kids have taught me. So this blog is dedicated to those who don't have kids, can't have kids, or just plain don't want kids. If you can blog about how your kid learned a great new trick like blowing spit bubbles, then I figured it would be okay for me to blog about the stupid little things that my fur babies do.


These are my kids, Rilee and Gracy. This is what they do best- sleep!

Gracy is our oldest. We got her shortly after we bought our townhouse. We were just so excited to own our home so that we could finally have a pet! When we went to the Humane Society to get a kitty, we found Gracy and pulled her out of the cage to pet and play with her. We decided that we wanted to take her home and so I tried to put her back in the cage so that we could get someone to help us out. Well Gracy refused to let us put her back and jumped out of my arms and across the room so she didn't have to go back in. Gracy was really needy for a long time. She would be waiting right by the door crying any time she heard the garage. It was really sad! We decided that we should probably get her a friend so that she wasn't so lonely all the time.





Rilee is our gray striped kitty. She really is the weirdest cat I have ever met. The first six months of her life were spent as a boy. We ended up saving her from a family that had a baby that ended up being allergic to cats. They were planning on sending Rilee back to the pound and I just couldn't have that. They told us that Rilee was a boy and so that's what we went on thinking. When I finally took a trip to get shots done, I was nicely informed that he was really a she! I was horribly embarrassed, but they told me that it happened a lot with cats and that at least she wasn't named something like Princess and then ended up being a boy.


I know her eyes are all weird and glowy, but I love this picture. She sits like this all the time. One of her favorite things is to lean up against the wall while she sits like this. Rilee's new favorite toy is the sandstone tile that Auntie Melissa brought her! Rilee loves to run outside at any chance she gets so that she can rub her face on the concrete steps. Since she's not allowed outside, Melissa came up with the great idea to bring home this tile. The cats love it, especially Ms. Rilee! Rilee also likes to get herself locked in rooms. One time she got locked in the pantry and ended up slicing open a package of Splenda and covering herself in it. I wish I had pictures because she was completely white! It was hilarious!



This was Rilee watching Chad play Skate. She loves to chase stuff on the tv and the computer.

It Makes Me Weak in the Knees

I know that Chad is going to make fun of me for posting this, but I can't help it! I'm sure as all my fellow women know (and some men who have realized that it really is a good story and is packed full of action), Twilight the movie comes out on November 21st! It seems so close yet so far! So for now, we just drool over the brand new trailer that was just released!

CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!!

OMG Update!!!

So I was messin' around online again and happened to stumble across Stephenie Meyer's website where she is posting a series of "making of the video" for "The Resolution."

Check 'em out!





And there's more episodes to come! And by the way, if you haven't gone out and gotten the new album, what are you waiting for!? It's amazing!

OMG!!!!!!

Well kids, it's finally here! The new Jack's Mannequin video for "The Resolution." It's been long awaited ever since we heard that our dear Stephanie Meyer (author of the Twilight books for those who don't know!) would be directing it. I've always had my little crush on Andrew McMahon since the Something Corporate days, but every time I see him play or see a new video my crush gets bigger! He's my age and it's amazing to see all the things that he's accomplished including overcoming cancer. Check out his BIO while you're at it!

• Jack's Mannequin
• New Music