Family Time

This post is coming from the middle of nowhere, which is also the center of the universe...Blanding.  Taylor and I decided to come down for the weekend for a little bit of Lyman time.  We talked Noelle, Maxon and Scout into coming down with us so we've been having a lot of fun.   Below are my feet, Noelle's, my mom's and Camryn's.  We glitter painted our toes blue for the big game tomorrow.  Don't mind that it's more of a periwinkle blue than cougar blue, it's the closest we could get.  Kristi's out to dinner with Jeremy tonight but I'm sure we'll get her toes glittery before tomorrow afternoon.  We love Blanding!

And yes, we realize we have creepy huge gaps between the big toe and the second toe...don't judge us for it.

Glitterin it up

Our favorite part about coming to Blanding is playing with the kids.  Taylor and Logan are good buddies.

It's very hard to get a smiling picture of Camryn, but look how pretty she is when you can somehow trick her into smiling in front of a camera.

Taylor and Josh looking very excited.  Josh is getting all ready for his mission to France; he leaves in January.

How awesome are these little dudes?

This was a couple of nights ago.  We got free tickets to the Jazz game - we never turn down free anything.  This was the second game we've gone to this season, we love Jazz games.

Go Jazz!

At a family dinner at Jeremy and Heather's last month.  I just think this picture is so cute - Kolton reading to Maxon with Jensen looking on.

How cute is Scout?!?!

And how cute is Maycie the ladybug?!?!

The annual Harrison family Halloween party.  Grandma Harrison reading one of my favorite books to all the kids in their cute costumes; the book is called The Halloweiner.  I was laughing harder than the kids through the whole book.

My cute sister-in-law Meg, holding my cute nephew Easton who's holding his cute cousin (and my cute niece) Maycie.

8 Fun Things

I was tagged by Cami...enjoy!

8 tv shows I love to watch
1. The Office
2. The Hills
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Friends reruns...til the day I die
5. Private Practice
6. Desperate Housewives
7. Ace of Cakes
8. Big Bang Theory

sadly I could add a few more but I'll leave it at 8

Favorite 8 restaurants
1. Old Spaghetti Factory
2. P.F. Chang's
3. Texas Roadhouse Grill
4. The Cheesecake Factory
5. Red Robin
6. Crown Burger
7. The Olive Garden
8. Wingers

8 things that happened yesterday
1. Taylor and I went to the BYU game...GO COUGS!
2. We went to the mall and did a little shopping :)
3. I cleaned my house
4. I introduced Taylor to Ernie's Sports Deli in Orem...I hadn't eaten there in years and I LOVE their sandwiches
5. I went to the gym
6. I watched multiple college football games while Taylor rubbed my feet...good husband!
7. Paid bills
8. Watched Friends reruns

8 things I'm looking forward to
1. The next two months...I love the holidays!
2. Having a kid...hopefully soon-ish
3. Moving to Blanding some day
4. Having long hair again some day
5. The BYU-Utah football game
6. Deron Williams finally being able to play
7. Taylor finishing school some day
8. Going snowmobiling with my cute husband

8 things on my wish list
1. Like Cami, I wish for new bedding
2. I wish Taylor would never pass out again
3. I wish for a lot of new clothes
4. I wish I got a huge raise at the end of the year
5. I wish Taylor got a huge raise at the end of the year too
6. I wish that this winter would be half as long as last winter
7. I wish that gas would keep getting lower and lower, or at least stay where it's at right now
8. I wish that Taylor liked cheese

8 people I tag
1. Mom
2. Marilyn
3. Kristi
4. Heather
5. Noelle
6. Kera
7. Matt (I don't think he'll do it but I'm out of people to tag)
8. Jeremy J or Jeremy R (ditto)

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.