More mood swings than a pregnant woman...

This is Taylor. I just wanted to get out some feelings I have had on my mind since Thursday's events... First of all the BYU game... Wow, what a painful couple of hours. We had some friends over, and Stacy made a smorgasbord of delicious treats. It seemed like it was going to be a joyous event. Not so much. By half time I was just wanting everyone to get out of my house. It is absolutely nothing agianst them obviously; I just did not want them to see me cry.
I had to give up hope of any kind of comeback with about two and a half minutes left in the game. I know I held out FAR to long, but I just love my Cougs so much I was having a hard time accepting the fact that the BCS was not in the cards this year. So when I did give up on the comeback, I swiched to TBS to see how my Red Sox were doing. Down 3 games to 1 in the best of 7 ALCS - American League Championship Series. Quickly to clarify, the Braves are my number one team.

But as Jeremy Redd taught me, you have to have a team from both the NL and the AL. Plus I need to have a team to cheer for in the postseason, and my Braves have been letting me down in that category the last few years. And I fell in love with Big Pappi and the Sox in '04 when they came back and beat the Yankees. I HATE the Yanks! Well, the Sox were down 7-0 in the 7th inning. Not looking good! But after some clutch 2 out 2 strike hitting from Dustin Pedroia, the Sox were on the board. And then Pappi being Pappi, took it to 7-4. Then they were able to tie it up in the 8th, which included a 2 run homer from J.D. Drew. This entire time, my emotions are all over the place. Excited about one of the better postseason comebacks in recent memory, to depressed once again in the pain my Cougars had put me through. Then in the 9th... an error, and another clutch hit from Drew, and I was on cloud nine!!! 'Til I thought of the Cougars again...
Clearly I take sports much too seriously, but it's just who I am.

Fun Day Friday, Pumpkins, Odds & Ends

This post will be kind of a hodge podge of information just to get caught up in the blogging world. Every Friday at my work we have "Fun Day Friday". Over about a six month period each team is assigned to be in charge of one Friday competition of some sort for the whole office. The winning team is allowed to wear jeans to work the next Friday. My team has never won; in the last competition we took second place by a VERY narrow margin and it was so heartbreaking. We decided we'd rather take last place than second. It just hurt too much to be so close to the jeans and then to have them ripped away from us. Yesterday's competition was a pumpkin carving contest. The below pumpkin was my team's entry. Another girl on my team and I concocted up the idea, made our own template and carved the whole thing. If I had my way we would have just done something Cougariffic but more than half of my team cheers for the wrong team so we had to compromise and include both schools. We were pretty pleased with how it turned out, but we did not win.

without the light

The winning pumpkin - Napoleon
I have to admit, he looks pretty cool. The winning team got their template online...not as original as ours but whatever. Notice the pocket with the tots, the chapstick and the "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt. The team sits right next to us so when next Friday rolls around and we have to see them in their jeans all day it's going to hurt especially bad.

Some of the other pumpkins. The one on the far right is the CEO of our company. In real life it looked better than in this picture. It was very easy to tell who it was supposed to be.

Binge-drinking - never a good idea!

Maybe I should try to transfer to the team that carved this pumpkin - they obviously have their priorities straight!

Continuing with the hodge podge, this is just a picture of Taylor and I at Lagoon this summer. We went with Kacey and Joe (and the rest of Kacey's office, which used to be my office). It was really fun.



For Valentine's Day this year Taylor drew me a picture of a coffee table that he planned to make for me, which I was very excited about of course. Since we were in NY at the time he wasn't able to start right away. When we got back he got started on it and worked during his breaks and sometimes he would stay late to work on it. Well he finished it on my Birthday and I absolutely love how it turned out! He designed it and made it from start to finish; I was incredibly impressed!

While my sister Marilyn and her husband have been on a cruise their five kids have been making the rounds staying with different aunts and uncles. This weekend has been mine and Taylor's turn with them. We've stayed with them at their house. Five kids is so much more than a handful! We wanted to do pumpkins with them but we decided that actually carving them might be a little more than what we could handle so we got these peel off pumpkin tattoo face things and did them instead. Best of both worlds, the kids got to make cute fun pumpkins to put on their porch but we didn't have to deal with the mess and hassle of carving them.

Awww - how cute are they?

Uncle Tay helping the kids :) We couldn't get Kolton to do pumpkins with us - party pooper!

Uncle Tay being such a fun uncle, playing Legos with Oakley.

The above video is what Addi and Oakley did for a large part of the weekend. They fell more times than I can count, they ran into each other and doors but never once did I see one of them cry because of it...hey, whatever keeps them happy and busy!

Colorado cabin - Labor Day

I'm trying to get caught up on my blogs so that I'm not always a month or two behind but for a little while longer I'll still be reporting old news.
My family has made it a tradition to go to the Colorado cabin over Labor Day weekend. This year every single one of us was there, which meant there were 15 adults, 11 1/2 kids and eight dogs; it was a serious zoo! But we had so much fun.

We went 4-wheeling

We rode horses

We ate food

We played games

Some read books and some watched 'Rella on iPod

We watched anxiously for bears (and saw none)

And we ate more food. We had so much fun :) This is a tradition I look forward to every year!

Kacey's 6

Kacey does not have her own blog so I have tagged her and graciously offered to post her insignificant six on our blog. Here they are:

1. I neglect my feet. I probably wear flip flops 9 months out of the year (I hate shoes) and I never put lotion on them, or file them, nothing. I might paint my toenails, but the paint will undoubtedly either chip off, or grow out because I won’t ever touch it up.

2. I LOVE hot dogs. I could eat one at least every other day, if not every day. I love them prepared any way; boiled, fried, grilled, heated in the microwave, I can even eat them raw. It’s all just so delicious to me. My favorite is a camp fire dog with just miracle whip on the bun.

3. I wish I could rap. I don’t want to make a career out of it or anything, but I wish I had the skills like that boy on “Drill Bit Taylor” does.

4. take full advantage of being the baby (and favorite) of the family. We all know there are certain perks that come along with being the baby, and I do not hesitate to partake in the blessings that are given. J

5. I play dirty in sports, especially against boys. As soon as I know I’m not better than the person I’m playing I will take as many little cheap shots as I can. I try to act like I’m just being aggressive but secretly I know I’m being out-played and I want to try to even things up a bit.

6. I talk to my fish like he’s a person. When I come downstairs in the morning I always go to his bowl and talk about my day, and then when I get home at night I go to his bowl (unless I’m rushing to pee, which happens a lot) and say hello. So maybe he can’t hear me, but he at least knows I love him.

Insignificantly

1: I am doing this just because Stacy said that I wouldn't do it.

2: I was on the newspaper staff my senior year at West Jordan High. This is insignificant because we did not publish a single issue all year. In fact, I would show up 20 minutes late to class, stay for a half hour, and then leave to go "get quotes" for the paper.

3: After my mission, I basically took two months off... to play xbox. I got very into NCAA football. I created my own school with my friends as the players. And if they did not perform well in the game, I took it out on them in "real life". Yes... I am like an 11 year old boy.

4: When I WAS an 11 year old boy I would give play by play to basketball, football, baseball games... that I was playing in. (Honestly, I think this had stopped by the time I was 11. Not sure though.)

5: I hate cheese. HATE HATE HATE it. And it does hate me back a lot too.

6: I am about 75% deaf in my right ear. This is due to a syndrome called minears (spelling?) syndrome. Which is a kind of complicated thing to explain. But real quick, I have too much fluid in the inner ear on the right side, which causes ALL sorts of problems... namely, dizziness, nausea, passing out. It also forced me to make some drastic changes in my diet, mostly dropping my sodium intake to 1000-1500 mgs a day. My G-pa, who has a pacemaker can have 2000 a day!!! And the big one? No caffeine. Thats right! No more DEW!

I tag.... whoever.

Insignificant Six

Six insignificant things about me:

1. I am obsessed with keeping my fingernails clean. I am constantly checking them and washing my hands intensely with a lot of soap under the nails to make sure they’re clean. I hate hate hate grungy, dirty nails on myself and others. I cut my nails really often, probably because they feel cleaner when they’re super short.

2. I cannot set foot in a bathroom with bare feet. I wear flip flops into the bathroom at all times. It completely grosses me out to step into a bathroom with bare feet, ESPECIALLY if there’s even a drop of water on the floor. Even if it’s my own bathroom and I just cleaned it thoroughly I will not go in without flip flops. On a related note I can shower in tub showers with bare feet, but if it’s just a shower without the tub for some reason I have to shower with flip flops on.

3. I LOVE to cook! If I had all the time and money in the world I would cook three meals a day, plus desserts. I love to try new recipes and even more than that I love to make up my own recipes and see how they turn out.

4. I can fall asleep any time anywhere. This is a Lyman trait that I think we’re all a bit proud of and we loathe at the same time; we’re very tired people. I fall asleep during 90% of the movies that I watch. That includes in the theatre, at home, at someone else’s house, middle of the day, evening, sitting up, laying down etc.

5. Up until last month I had zero desire to read the Twilight series. For some reason, one day in August, I decided out of nowhere that I would read the first book just to see what all the fuss was about. I immediately got hooked of course and I read all four books really quickly to catch up to the rest of the world. I loved them of course!

6. I am always cold. I spend probably 90% of my life with goose bumps. I wear long-sleeved shirts and sweaters to work in July and August. At home I’m almost always wrapped up in a blanket. I’m only comfortable when normal people are much too warm.


I tag Taylor (even though he probably won’t do it) Noelle, Kristi, Heather, Marilyn, Erin, Mom, Dad, Dawn, Bryan, Kera, Paris and Kace (she doesn't have a blog but she can post her 6 on mine)

Bear Lake

OK, so this is long overdue, but our Bear Lake weekend in July was too fun to not blog about. This year we had our first annual friend get-together (I'm not going to write the official name of the reunion because it sounds naughty, even though it's not) at Tyrel's in-laws' awesome cabin! We are hoping to make this an annual occurrence and we are hoping that even more of our friends will be able to come in future years.

First of all get a look at this awesome cabin! The cabin is nicer and bigger than most houses and it is right on the golf course, which was heaven for Taylor. He managed to get in two rounds of golf. This is the same golf course that he plays every year during his family's Bear Lake getaway, but this year he was not very happy with his scores. Since I played the course with him last year I can verify that he really is much better than his 2008 scores indicated.We spent time at the beach/lake. We rented a jet ski and had tons of fun with it! Surprisingly there were no injuries (besides a couple of people getting their breath knocked out of them from some intense spills)…no casualties. We buried each other in the sand, collected sea shells, played frisbee in the water and ate a lot of food.

We relaxed at the cabin just the right amount. Tyrel was the cutest mom ever and brought crafts for all of the little kids! I think some of us adults had the most fun with the crafts, but the kids definitely enjoyed them too! I absolutely love my friends! I know I know, I'm turning all www.seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com on ya, but I really believe that I have the best friends a girl could ever ask for. We can go months or even years without seeing each other and as soon as we get together it's like we've been hanging out every day since preschool (which is when our friendship began).












This weekend was the start of what better be a very long tradition for us. All of you who didn't come this year need to mark your calendars for next year. I think we decided that we will always try to do it the third weekend in July so now you definitely have enough time to plan to come…no excuses!



I've got a kinda sad, kinda happy side note I thought you should all know about... I sold my hamsters. That's right, hamsters plural. I think I only blogged about Eleanor but the week after we got Eleanor we got her a little friend named Mary Todd. Eleanor and Mary Todd hated each other and they engaged regularly in boxing and biting matches. Eleanor stole MT's food every day and she piled up the bedding under MT's wheel so that she couldn't run in it. Eleanor was the literal definition of a bully, but we loved her just the same. We sold them because I just didn't give them the attention they deserved. I cleaned their cages regularly but I HATED to do it, so after the last gagarrific cleaning I decided it was time to ksl.com the rats. I had interested buyers calling immediately and Miss Eleanor Rose Harrison and Mary Todd Harrison now officially reside in Riverton. At times I miss them, but I never miss them at 2 a.m. Now I can now sleep through the night without hearing them running and running and running in their wheels. I am having technical difficulties trying to get my pictures to upload from my camera so when/if I get that fixed I will add a picture of tiny Mary Todd.