Reesh and Meesh

Some Summer

2011-08-16T15:44:00.000-07:00

A while ago when I was blogging somewhat regularly, it was because I had gotten a new job at the U of U hospital and only working 30 hours a week. It was wonderful! The position I had was working the night shift in the morgue. It was weird and scary so when they offered me a better 40 hour a week position I jumped on it. :) I now work a more regular schedule and will probably stop blogging again. I don't know how some people do it.

Here's a glimpse of some of our highlights of the summer.

Real game. More like gameS, we have season tickets and have been having a great time.

Lagoon with the Barnards.

We went to Lagoon a few weeks ago and got drenched on Rattlesnake Rapids, and it wasn't because of the ride. As soon as we stepped on to the ride it started down pouring. We were the second to last boat to go on the ride before they closed it down. It was so fun, we laughed and laughed. Great memories with them at Lagoon.

Rodeo

Cute cowboys with Robby

My grandma and grandpa Cooper celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary.

Love em.

Red Butte concert....

Layton Park concert with the Noels. Howard and Mary took the ladies to Indigo Girls it was so fun!

I still have more posts I need to do... Like a million. We'll see........

Kelly Fam Reunion 2011

2011-07-17T13:38:00.000-07:00

Kelly Family Reunion

Brighton Resort 2011

My cute mom put together an awesome reunion, she worked on it for a year and we all looked forward to it for that entire year. I have a lot of pictures (mostly from the first night of karaoke) and I still don't even have pictures of everyone that was there. All 8 kids, 7 in laws, and 24 grandkids, (cooper and connor couldn't make it, and we missed them)

I couldn't resist putting up this picture. Kamie and Brooke just needed to hand over the mic to Nicole cause she apparently knows the words.... very well. I love this and it's hilarious.

Just have to mention that this is my oldest niece Erika. I can't believe how grown up and beautiful she is.

Cannon was cracking me up, he was loving watching his dad sing. It was so cute.

You can't really tell but there are a bunch of my nieces and nephews at the top of this rock. It was totally stressing me out but they kept saying it was safe. Thank goodness no one got hurt.

These little nuggets were too tired to walk.

Cashe was tired too...

.. and he needed a back tickle. He's hilarious, he'd just come up to me, lift up his shirt and lay on my lap, he'd stay there as long as I'd tickle him. Nothing could get him to move haha.

Playing the sack game...

Whitney was the champion. Here she is with the sac on her head.

Roy and Robb leg wrestling. This was pretty good, I have some video that I should try and figure out how to put on here .

We had a really great time. Good food, beautiful scenery, and great company. It's hard for us all to get together so we only get to do this every few years. Occasionally we're all together around the holidays but it's always so hectic with everyone trying to see both sides of the family, so this was fun to have everyone to ourselves for a few days.

birthday bashing

2011-07-15T14:17:00.000-07:00

Here's what my 28th birthday looked like.....

Real game.

New hat from Kira which I love.

Nique open your eyes!

Moab

Rich cooked us some steak over the fire with asparagus

Then we made ice cream

And it was delicious. Bad picture but seriously I think that's what Rich was seeing :)

Sheryl Crow concert with Niq, she got me tickets and we waited in line all day.

(she got there so early, she's the best)

And believe me....

It was so worth it!

Rich also got me tickets for Saturday's Voyeur, we made a day of it last Sunday

Lunch

Dinner

Saturday's Voyeur

We ended up at Bar x for some cocktails and smooth jazz.

It was such a fun day, Rich is the best person in the world, we had a really great time.

I had a great time celebrating with my loved ones and friends. I was given two plants this year both of which were so thoughtful. My mom gave me a plant that she planted for me and I love it, my friend Kristen gave me a plant that she also put together from Cactus and Tropicals. It may sound lame but I've really enjoyed taking care of my plants lately. I like having indoor plants, they make me happy.

St George Marathon 2010

2011-07-10T11:22:00.000-07:00

Jumping back to October 2010.

Somehow my brothers and sisters and I manage to convince each other that running a marathon is a good idea. Last year Kamie, Ashley and I ran the Ogden marathon in May and then Kamie, Jason, Brooke, Justin and I we're lucky enough to draw out for the St George marathon the following October. I was really excited to run the St George because, well, it's the St George marathon and that's awesome.

My Ogden marathon was fun but I had my worst time ever... by a long shot. So I decided that I was really going to work on my speed for the St George. My training started out really well and I was improving my time quite a bit. Without going into too many details, what happened was I was getting over trained and eventually injured my hip. I had to take a month off right before the marathon, I honestly wouldn't have done the race had it not been the St George, and I especially still wanted to do it because I love running with my family, and there was 5 of us and that's awesome too.

Here's Lyza at the pool, this is where we all stayed for the race.

Brooklyn, Abbie, Brynlee, Lexie, Dawson and Noah

Lyza and me madre

Here's Kam Bam and me the morning of

Me, Brooke, and Kamie waiting in line for the bathroom.

Here we are the evening of the race. We all finished and we all agreed that it was the hardest race we've ever done. It was SO hot (I think I read that it was a record high for the St George marathon) Rich said he's never seen so many people need assistance crossing the finish line. It was by far my worst time and by far my hardest race. To put how hot it was into perspective for you, my time was something like 5:40.

Yes that's right 5 hours and 40 minutes of running.

(well sorta like running, more like jog/walking at this point)

In that time not only was I drinking at every aide station but I had my water that I carried with me as well and I had to refill it several times throughout the race. I was eating at every aide station along with taking about 7 GU that I had brought with me. Seriously, I was eating and drinking so much because I was terrified of getting dehydrated. With all that drinking and eating I didn't use a bathroom once in that whole 5:40. I was sweating it all out, it was weird. I'm sorry I probably didn't need to say all that, but I'm just trying to give you an idea of what it was like.

This is pretty much how we all looked the rest of the weekend. Sweet little Brynlee.

Throughout that whole race, I was cursing pretty much everything and everyone. I was pissed at life, swearing I'd never ever do another marathon. I'm sure you know where I'm headed with this... Ashley, Nique and I are currently training for the Top of Utah marathon for this September. We'll see how it goes....

I find this interesting

2011-06-29T10:33:00.000-07:00

This article was published this week in the Tribune. Just goes into more detail about the liquor licenses in Utah and what it's means for not only bars but restaurants too.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52047329-78/bar-bartenders-club-dojo.html.csp

Most new restaurants are seeking after a restaurant liquor license, AND a club license (bars and clubs have the same liquor licenses just FYI) they want both so they don't have to abide by the new law of hiding your bar tender while he/she mixes a drink. All existing restaurants are grandfathered in.

I guess that my mom will be happy to know that it urges Rich and me to have children... you know, so we can meet the population requirements and get more liquor licenses in Utah. :)

Bar X Part 4: Liquor License

2011-06-28T11:14:00.000-07:00

I wasn't planning on there being this many posts on Bar X, I thought I'd wrap it all up in part 4, but the day we were able to get in line for a liquor license deserves it's own post.

I'll just start out with this, it's not easy to get a license, and we learned a lot.

Things you should know (you know, just in case you want to open a bar :))

- There is a long line to get a license (especially right now)

- The state only awards licenses once a month

- They usually only give out 1 - 3 a month and sometimes none at all

- In order to even GET IN LINE, you have to pass all inspections and be ready to open which means dump a lot of money into your new business and HOPE that you get a liquor license.

** A lot of people put a lot of hard work and money into a bar and can't afford to sit around waiting for a license. It's sad and so stupid because they end up never opening the bar they just put all that work into. Seriously we got so freaking lucky.

In November 2010 we were rushing to get everything done so we could be on the list that month. On the very last day that we could turn everything in inspectors came and went all day, telling us things that still needed to be done in order to pass. In all honesty we did the bare minimum, we NEEDED to get in line. And we did. We turned everything in literally the very last minute. I can't really explain to you how crazy it was that we got it all done and that we passed. The crew worked SO hard and did such an awesome job. It was funny because in weeks to come, everyone was redoing the crappy job we did just to pass inspections. We wanted everything to look perfect, and that's exactly what happened.

Celebrating everyones hard work.

Some of the crew there that day

These guys were also there everyday and working so hard.

(Yeah that's what the bar still looked like)

It was a good day :)

We were so happy. We went to the meeting and plead our case. (Really, you get up and tell the board why you deserve a liquor license) We didn't get a license that month, which we were ok with because we had some serious cosmetics to take care of. The next month there were more then 10 people in line for a liquor license, (again, we were so happy not to be at the end of that list. Just confirming how awesome it was that we worked so hard the previous month) for most of the month of December there wasn't even one available. Towards the end of the month another bar gave up their liquor license, unfortunately it was because they had gone out of business. But we were awarded the license and opened Bar X on January 6, 2011.

Sunday Evening June 19, 2011

2011-06-21T11:21:00.000-07:00

FYI i'm not sure how I'm going to do all the catching up i've got to do. so there will be some recent post and some really old posts, i'm just going to keep going back and forth.

On Saturday we spent the day with the Noels and celebrated Fathers day with Howard.

Sunday night Rich and I made dinner and ate with Carlos. Carlos and I gave Rich

the cutest card for fathers day.

We save all our wine corks, and on special occasions we write what we did

and the year and so forth. This cork says "fathers day 2011".

ps- the first time i ever saved a cork was when rich and I were in paris 2007. it's the oldest cork we have and i kept it in my make up bag for the longest time. so now it's cute and sparkly.

I hope you all had a wonderful fathers day. Rich and I are sure lucky to have such a great example through his dad. We love him and all that he does for us and his whole family.
Happiest couple i know :)

Bar X Part 3: still under construction....

2011-06-19T17:26:00.000-07:00

I have a million pictures of the bar from July 10th until now, this will be the last of the unfinished bar x pictures. I just had to get a few more on here.

The top of the bar was redone but otherwise the exact same as before.

Our good friend Raph did most of the bar.

Lighting behind the bar

We can make it any color we want, it's pretty cool, they usually keep it the same

unless it's a holiday or something

Stain glass all lit up, and a closer look at one of the wagon wheel light fixtures.

Corner seating, one of my favorite places to sit.

All of the bench seating was added.

I'm almost done with Bar X posts, I just have so many things I want to document. Hopefully only two more posts or so....

Bar X Part 2: Cocktails

2011-06-14T09:23:00.000-07:00

There's a lot to learn and do when preparing to open a bar.

Rich and Duncan would work on the bar all day (whether it was construction or getting the administrative side of things in order) and then make cocktails at night.

These guys went to Seattle to train at a cocktail lounge called the Rob Roy. They learned so much about cocktails, had a wonderful time, and new exactly what they wanted to serve at the new bar x.

This is Rich and Dune at our place mixing cocktails and trying to get the recipes down to an exact Utah approved recipe. At the Rob Roy you can "free pour" your cocktails, but here in Utah you can only have your base liquor consist of 1.5 ounces, and then with the other "flavoring" liquors it can only be 2.5 total ounces of liquor. Most cocktails have more liquor then that so it took some time to get the cocktail tasting exactly how it should.

So they practiced each and every drink until it was perfect, and I drank each and every drink to make sure it was perfect :)

The guy who is sitting down with his head turned away from the camera is Philip Trickey. He's a bar tender (ironically from SLC) who works at Rob Roy, Bar X flew Philip down to SLC to continue their training here. Philip came down one more time after this for the grand opening as a guest bar tender. It was awesome and he makes great cocktails... obviously. Actually one of his cocktails that he came up with was featured in the Salt Lake Tribune a few weeks ago. It's called Punch up at a Wedding

and it's delicious.

Here they are at Jeff's house making cocktails.

This is the Boston Sour

Mojito

Mint Julep

I have other pictures of cocktails but I was having a hard time loading them... I'll have to try again later.

I love those three cocktails but they aren't even some of my favorites. If you make it to bar x you should try the Corpse Reviver # 2, or the Whiskey Smash, or the Greyhound, or the Pimms Cup, Moscow Mule... I could go on.

All the drinks at Bar X are made with freshly squeezed juices: orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit and they also squeeze ginger root daily. It's part of the love that goes into these drinks.

Rich and Duncan worked so hard on the menu among pretty much everything else at Bar X They have really become cocktail nerds and I love it.

Bar X Part One: Before

2011-06-09T21:19:00.000-07:00

July 10th 2010 one of the oldest bars in the slc was handed over to some new owners, 3 of those owners are in the picture below, all of which are looking in different directions. Super sexy if you ask me.

Bar X is one hell of a gem, however, I'm not sure we knew exactly what we were getting ourselves into.

it. was. dirty.

I don't have pictures, but imagine a 77 year old bar where most of those years (a good 74?) it was filled with smoke. cigarette smoke. There was tar caked onto all the walls, and the actual bar itself, we wore masks, gloves and eyewear. It was bad, and we found some pretty crazy stuff behind that 77 year old bar.

A few weeks into fixing up the bar some wise guy thought it'd be super cool to steal the "X" off the front of the bar. Luckily we were able to get an exact replica.

This is the back (north) end of the bar which is where the rear entrance is located, unfortunately it's locked during business hours. You can park in the back, you'll just have to walk around :)

The ladies bathroom is on the left side right by the exit, it has some great wallpaper that Richard's cousin designed, I'll have to take some pictures.

This wall is on the east side of the bar, and is easily one of my favorite parts of the whole place. We couldn't believe that the previous owners covered them completely up with Bud Light posters. We had to scrape tar out of the grooves and shine it up, we were amazed at how great it looked

Below is you looking at the north end of the bar, with the actual bar on the right side.

There are a lot of tools and stuff in this picture, the electrical and plumbing all had to be redone so it added some extra time we weren't planning on, but it was totally worth it and couldn't have gone better.

The lights below were kept the same as well, they're old wagon wheels and look awesome. We tried as much as possible to keep things the same.

Jeff is standing (but not looking towards) the mens bathroom, the door in the corner used be where the HVAC was, now it's a large walk in fridge.

This picture was used in the SL tribune.

Here's a picture of the bar and back bar. They're were mirrors along the back that were taken down (those Camel posters were behind the mirrors). The bar itself is still there, along with that stain glass you can see on the very left. The stain glass is another favorite of mine, the previous owners never used them, they have lights that were never turned on.

Richard is below by the way, and this picture was also used in the trib.

Below is another picture that the trib used (i'm just explaining why they look so much better then the other pictures :) ) You can see that the back bar is starting to take shape as well as the top of the bar.

If you ask Richard he'll run, jump, and slide down one side of the bar to the other and give you a drink while he's at it.

Don't ask me how he does it.

I'm kidding by the way, but that'd be awesome.

"I declare.....

2011-06-07T20:20:00.000-07:00

... lesbians love each other too!"

That saying came from a long emotional New Years Eve night of me talking with Elisa and Amber about their upcoming wedding....

Instead of writing all the details I'll just let you know that the night ended with me declaring the fact that "lesbians love each other too" to the city of salt lake, over and over...

...and over.

and I meant, slash mean it dammit.

I don't have many pictures which makes me sad, so these will have to do, again, thanks to Richard's phone.

Elisa and Amber got married in Vancouver last year (almost to the date).

They fled to Canada because, if you didn't know, you can't marry someone of the same sex here in Utah. I know what you're thinking, "really? two people who are in love can't marry each other?" Yep, you nailed it....

Richard and I warned them that as soon as we crossed back over to the states we were going to citizens arrest them. They didn't care, they're so cute.

Here's Elisa and Kristine.

This was the view from E and A's hotel, it was beautiful, I couldn't believe how much I loved Vancouver. We had a wonderful time.

This was a good night.

Yummy dinner with yummy wine and the best company.

Elisa and Amber got married on the beach on a Sunday afternoon and it. was. so beautiful. If this doesn't look like love I don't know what does.

I wish I had more pictures of their weekend and the party they had back in Utah. Trust me when i say it was beautiful and a really good time.

Spring 2010

2011-06-07T19:42:00.000-07:00

So we broke our camera....

this is what we've got from our phones in 2010, I guess it'll have to do...

it's as if Christmas 2009 never even happened :(

St Patrick's day 2010 at Elisa and Amber's house

Carlos and me working at the JMR Chalk Garden.

Carlos after he lost his balls, if this face doesn't say "how could you do this to me

mom?" I don't know what does. Breaks my heart.

I can't believe it's been a good year and a half since I've posted on this blog, I have a lot of catching up to do.

Happenings

2009-11-14T10:04:00.000-08:00

Richard watching some kind of game I'm sure. Don't worry, we don't have a pink couch. I do however have a pink sheet that I drape over the couch while watching Elisa's cute little pug. I need to post pictures of her, she and Carlos play all day. I'm a little worried we may have to get Carlos a friend when she leaves (we'll have her for a total of 2 months while she's in Hawaii). I think he's going to be depressed.

We went up to my grandma and grandpa Coopers house to help them with their leaves. They live up on the mountain in Ogden and get SO many leaves.

Nicole is such a sass.

Nicole and Katy bug.

Nicole and gramps. He was so sweet, after we had raked all the leaves he instisted on getting us hamburgers. When I was little he and my grandma would always take me to get a happy meal at Mcdonalds. He's a sweety. I didn't get a picture of my grandma which is a bummer. But I'm sure she would have put up a fuss just like my mom did when I tried to take her picture. Like mother like daughter.

Taylor (my oldest nephew, I can't believe he's 15!) Nicole, Matt (he came all the way from Vegas to help rake, can you believe it? kidding) and Rhead. My mom, aunt Kathy, uncle Craig, Nicole's fam, and Rhead's fam were all there to help too.

One of the football games Utah vs New Mexico. It was freezing. The weather is crazy, on the way to the game it will be hot so all I'll take is a sweatshirt, then when the sun goes down it's SO cold. This has happened to me on more than one occasion, now that there's only 1 more home game left, maybe I'll be prepared.

Ashley is going to cosmatology school and I offered to be her first haircut. I know I'm brave. But she did an excellent job and I know she'll be so successful as a hair stylist. I'm really proud of that girl.

On October 12, my grandma Kelly turned 84. My aunt Louise had a birthday party for her and we got to go. Isn't she lovely. My grandpa Kelly passed away in March of 2008, it's so strange to not see them side by side. But I've been lucky to have both grandparents for as long as I did. While we were there she gave us a painting that my grandpa had done. It's beautiful and Richard hung it up today. I'll have to take a picture of it and post it.

Here's my aunt Judy, uncle Joe, cousin Kristen (my uncle Scott's daughter) her little girl (I don't know her name... ) uncle Howard, grandma, and my aunt Louise. Joe and Judy came from Texas to wish my grandma a happy birthday, I thought that was so sweet of them. I rarely see this side of the family and it was really good to catch up. I need make a serious effort and go see my grandma more often. Or I know I'm going to regret it. Thanks to my aunt Louise for putting the birthday party together, and for taking such good care of her mom.

All Hollows Eve....

2009-11-05T16:49:00.000-08:00

We went to a Halloween party at our friend Seths house on Friday. Richard dressed up as a "McPoil" (not sure if that's spelled correctly, but it's a character from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Seth is Magnum P.I.

Below is Cowboy Colle shooting Nique the clown.... like you couldn't tell right?

Richard and me, I was cat woman, please notice my nails. They were long and difficult. I put them on with nail glue which was a mistake.

McKell, Michelle, Nique and part of Kira.

I think that's someone giving the camera the bird in the background, sorry. This is the only decent picture of Rich and me.

I spray painted Carlos as a skunk, it was hilarious except he was mad at me the rest of Halloween night.

On Halloween night we went to the Utah football game. On our way over we stopped to see Max, we almost didn't catch him. He was a cute little pirate.

Here we are at the Utah game. I haven't posted any pictures of us at the games yet this year but this was on Halloween night. It's been another fun year and we're glad we renewed our season tickets!

Twenty Eight!!!!

2009-11-03T18:53:00.000-08:00

Here's Rich on the morning of his birthday. It doesn't look like it in this picture but he was so excited for his big day that he got up at 6 am and couldn't go back to sleep. We opened presents super early, had a yummy breakfast then went to work.

Below here he looks super tired but so excited at the same time.

That night he and I went to dinner then we headed to his surprise birthday party at our friend Seth's house. He was so surprised! It was fun.

Love you Reeshy!

Things we've been up to

2009-10-29T18:08:00.000-07:00

This is a brief update on what we've been doing, it's bassackwords but I dont' want to change it. In the picture above that's Justin and Lexi at the St George Marathon earlier this month. Justin killed it and qualified for the Boston marathon. (I'll post more pictures later)

Below is a sideways picture of the crap closet in our old apartment. Yeah that's mold and the culprit of my recently diagnosed asthma, although my asthma is better since we've moved, it's still there.... boo

Happy Birthday MOM!!!! Isn't she beautiful!
(who's head is that by the table...? Kimball?)

Here we are at the Barnard's (my brother in law/boss) cabin up in Montana (same place Richard proposed to me last summer awe.....) This is our family picture.

Close up of Richards good looking mustache.

Camping in Oneida.

Kira, Nique and me. (Not in that order of course)

This is the 4th of July we watched fireworks from the Capital area.

4th of July

So there you have it, our summer in a nutshell. I'll post more of our anniversary and Richards recently celebrated birthday and such later.

Hawaii 2009

2009-06-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

Here we are on our way!!! This was such a fun trip, and I've seriously posted so many pictures. You may just feel like you were there with us!
I'll probably even post more later when I develope the under water camera!

Our first stop was Maui, we only spent a day there but it was beautiful. And so So much fun.

We arrived a few days before Howard and Mary, this is after we picked them up from the airport. I think they enjoyed themselves...

Sharing a delicious coconut, I was just drink what Richard couldn't get in his mouth.

Spouting Horn in Kauai

Poipu Beach

Here's Elisa's school, it's located in the mountains and it was beautiful. Richard and I got a couples massage by Elisa and Amber here, it was the best. Doors and windows open with a small breeze with all the lush trees and music.... couldn't have asked for more.

Hawaiian Luau!!!!
This was so fun! Howard and Mary bought me a ticket to the Luau for my birthday. I was SO excited! You can't go to Hawaii without going to a Luau!

We stopped and took a picture here, I'm not sure where we are. But there was a sweet rainbow you can kinda see in the bottom right cornerish.

Ke'e Beach. We snorkeled here a bunch, there were so many fish. I'll have to post the pictures when I develope the under water camera. We also saw turtles, dolphin and monk seals!

Amber helping Mary snorkel, Mary looked so cute.

Hiking back from Queens Bath

Poipu Beach again. There are 2 monk seals here that are roped off because they're endangered. You may notice the hat there on the left, that's Mary's hat. It blew off and landed right there. It was pretty funny.

I think the seal had an itch, I was trying to get him rubbing his face. SO CUTE!

Hawaii time is crazy! I would fall asleep at 10 and wake up at 6, that's not what you do on vacation!!! Richard was really tired this night too, what a cutie. Doesn't he look so sweet and innocent?!

The light house, so pretty.

One of our last nights Richard and I decided to take a night and go out a lone. It was fun even though my face may not portray so...

We saw these lizards in a trash can, it was so weird. There were like eating each others face... I had to take and picture.

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!

2009-06-21T12:09:00.000-07:00

Yummy cake thanks to Nique..... Seriously this really is the best cake, she got it for me last year too. We had some with her, then ate the rest of it at 4 am.

We had a get together with some friends the Saturday before my day (which is June 1st).....

Hung out.....

Hung out some more......

Made funny faces but most likely not on purpose....

Went downtown.......

Laughed a bit.....

Then on my actual day we went and ate at Takashi, it was delicious. Richard doesn't like sushi that much so I love when my birthday comes around cause then I don't have to drag him to eat, he just comes!

I got the TNT roll and convinced Richard to try it, he reached over to dip the sushi in my soy sauce and dropped it. Soy sauce all over me, this picture doesn't do it justice because it was all over my sleeves as well. Luckily I got it out. It was pretty funny.

Here I am modeling some birthday stuff! That swimsuit and snorkel gear came in mighty handy while we were in HAWAII!!!!! Look at Carlos looking at me, he was wondering what was on my feet.
I CAN'T WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Memorial Day

2009-06-21T11:57:00.000-07:00

We went up to the Noels for a BBQ for Memorial Day and whenever we go to their place we always end up playing soccer too. Richard's, well I guess my nieces now too, always ask us to play. They're really good and I'm always so tired after, they seriously kick my butt. They're so cute. But above is Max and Scotty playing in the flowers, they're so funny when they get together. We also played "Red rover, red rover" I didn't play because I was taking pictures, at least that's what I told them. I really wasn't playing because I was so tired from the 3 soccer games we played right before. Like Red Rover is hard, right? Whatev.

Here are the girls Rachel and Sara, or the other way around.

Very sexy Reesh.

Here's Carole playing Red Rover too!

I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my bike!

2009-06-21T11:43:00.000-07:00

I have lots to post, I've been out of it for several weeks......

If you can't tell that's Carlos in my pink bag above. He likes to go on bike rides with me and he'll just sit in that little bag and be as happy as a clam. We went kinda late which is why I'm wearing my head lamp. SAFETY FIRST!!

On the way home, the hill up to our house is way too big, so we walk our bikes and let Carlos down, he loves it.

This is before we left... a bit out of order, but whatever.

Cute boys, I'm not sure what they're looking at.

Carlos giving me kisses!

At least I finished.....

2009-05-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

Ok so I ran/walked the Ogden 1/2 marathon... it was brutal especially since I didn't train. Well that's not true, for 1 week before the race I woke up and ran 3 miles everyday. That's training enough right? I made myself do it because I keep signing up for these expensive races and don't train for them and always bump down to the easier race. (I was initially signed up for the full marathon but whatever.) I'm glad that I at least finished and I had a really good time running the race. I love being at the starting line and the energy that's just bouncing off each other. I did not however like the 2 obnoxious girls wearing a shirt that said "I have rheumatoid arthristis and you're still behind me" First of all I think that's rude. That's not what races are about, I think it's wonderful that you're conquering that battle and running a 1/2 marathon. But it seriously made me feel bad.... I guess I'm a baby, and I'm sure it was just for fun or whatever, but it rubbed me the wrong way.... maybe bacause they beat me?

Mothers Day

2009-05-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

Here we are driving to Layton for Mother's Day. Just look at that face of Carlos' I know he appreciates me as a mother.

Does is get any cuter than this? Grandma and Grandpa Cooper making out!

Mom and the Coops. What great mothers I have!

Whitney and Katie, they wanted some face time on my blog. Here you go! Love you!

Ladies, Ladies, Ladies

2009-05-15T06:14:00.000-07:00

Well I'm finally posting about the weekend I spent with my mom, sisters and sister in laws....
It was super fun, I just want to say that I feel very lucky to have a great mom, 4 crazy sisters, and 3 fun, fun sister in laws. I had such a great time with all of them, and I hope they all know how much I love and care about them!

I had to start with 2 of my favorite ladies....
Here are Brynlee and Lyza, they just turned 1 on May 5, I can't believe how healthy and strong they are. It's been so fun to watch them grow.

This is me waxing Nicole, she was such a baby! But I tell you she's still loving it today!

I got waxed 2 at a time... it's how the pro's do it. I also waxed Kamie's legs and armpits, and Samantha's legs too. I don't know why there aren't any pictures.

Lindsay, Brooke K and Kamie, CHOWING down Samantha's D-lish guac dip. Oh and Oreo's and Peanut Butter M&M's. Would you believe me if I told you we totally took it down a notch from last year on the treats? Well we did!

Brooke W and Kam bam, you can't tell but clentched in Brookes hand is: 4 Oreos, 10 M&M's, and 1 whole granola bar......

Matt and Samantha's sweet pool...

This is Friday night witch means Erika got to join us! She's my oldest niece 15 this year! We stayed up all night playing games. There were some serious wars over spoons, I have video if I could just figure out how to post the dang thing.

This is Samantha and her... night baby? She kept calling her stomach something after she felt like she'd eaten a lot and I can't remember, but it was hilarious.

I don't know why but I seriously love this picture. Ash and Sam

Kam Bam, so pretty.

Again.... so pretty

We went outside and played this game where you hold a broom stick in the air and stare at the bristles while spinning in a circle 20 times. What you're trying to do is after 20 spins you're suppose to be able to throw the broom down and jump over it. Not very many people can do it and it's freaking hilarious. I have video that's kinda dark but I'm going to try and post it later. Seriously I laughed SO HARD. I think Samantha wins with the funnest video! (I've watched it SEVERAL times... and so have my friends!) Here we are outside, everyone but Lindsay and Brooke K they went to bed and we totally missed them!

Saturday I went to Ellie and Abbies soccer game. They're so cute and they're on the same team that Jason coaches. Here's Ab

Ellie

And both of them....

Smash and Me....

Shopping....

Shopping...

Kam and Mom

Michelle, Smash, Kam, Brookie

I drove home with my mom and this is what I came home to. That Rainbow seemed like it was directly over my apartment.... how lucky right?

13.1 and 3.1

2009-05-13T18:05:00.000-07:00

Here we are morning of our races.... Ash doing the 1/2 marathon, (yes I was suppose to do it and I didn't, whatever) and Rich and I did the 5k. It was fun, can't you just see how excited Richard is! We woke up at 5:30 am to go to the starting line with Ash. She on the other hand looks so excited!

I was a bit tired myself. (who puts a picture of them self looking like this on their blog, right?)

This is us dropping her off......

This is us wishing we could back to sleep.

Here we are at the starting line. We're looking a bit more awake.

Here's a better shot at Richard's shirt. He made this in Yellowstone last year, it's awesome.

Below is my sister in law Hilary Noel, she did a great job on her half marathon. She runs a lot including the Boston Marathon. YOU GO GIRL!

Here comes Smash, it's not the greatest picture, but she looked really good at the finish line.

And there she goes. I was really proud of her, she kept a steady pace the entire time and finished exactly when she thought she would. Ten minute mile the whole time!

She's still excited even after the race.

Don't we look fab! Especially Richard's awesome "bed head"

My cute mom came down to support.

I look like a ghost next to Ash.... ONE DAY IT WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU!!! (kidding, I love you!)

And here's Reesh.... he was pooped.... (in our defence we were working until midnight the night before....)

In a NuTsHeLl

2009-04-16T18:13:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the love, support, and advise! Seriously I was glad to hear everyone's opion.
Here are some of the SNACKING and other great ideas in a nutshell.

Eat SuGaR free gum - I really like this one and I've used it several times, it really does curve my craving when I'm craving Flaming Hot Cheetos, donuts, Pepsi, Jolly Rancher Jelly Beans, Chocolate.... etc... I have problems.
Don't waste calories on "empty calories" See AbOvE!!!
Meghan loves this work out (I'm assuming video) P90X I'm going to have to look into it, I've actually heard people talking about this.
South Beach diet, I was actually at the store last night waiting at the Pharmacy and I saw some of the different health bars they offer and they look good. I need to try them, I bet they'd help when I'm craving a snickers.
Celery with low fat cream cheese. I think this is going to be one of my favorites, I LoVe cream cheese and I'll put it on anything. Celery really? That's gotta have ZeRo calories so more cream cheese for me!
String cheese, do it all the time, but on a multi grain cracker? Now we're talking!
Fruit, obviously LoVe it.
Sugar free candy.... um.... really...? Sugar free Icecream....? I DO NOT THINK SO!!! Sometimes when I see it I think "well for crying out loud if I'm going to eat candy I'm going to eat the REAL stuff". BUT, I've promised myself I'm going to try it. I'll let you know.
Ok this one's my FaVoRiTe. The HCG shot, McCall said this one's expensive but I want to try it. I'll just have to go from using 2 forms of birth control to 3. (Half kidding, all in good time mom, all in good time)
Portion sizes. Ok this is HuGe and I totally agree with you Samantha. I don't know if you've ever heard my mom say this but she always said that grandma Cooper cut her portions in half and it always helped her stay small. One problem I have with this is that I start feeling bad for wasting food. Solution.... LEFTOVERS! Save it for lunch the next day or get a doggy bag.
Another great one from Samantha: Stop eating when you're full, easy enough right? Well it's not easy, and I don't know why..... I don't even have anything else to add to that.
Snack on peanuts and chocolate chips. Love this one! Trail mix right? But then I quickly need to refer to number 11.....
I like this one from Brooke too. Eat well 80% of the time and eat what you want 20% of the time. I agree, sometimes I get in the mode of NEVER eating anything I consider "bad" for me like such as... carbs, candy, junk food, fast food, basically nothing good.. but then I get just get FeD uP! And I totally BaCkLaSh and I just go crazy and start eating everything in sight. I could be full as ever but I'll still just shove everything in my face. I think if I really took eating well 80% of the time and treating myself to other things 20% of the seriously I would see a difference. Everything in moderation...... everything in moderation.

So there I have it... everything I need to be healthy and feel good. Now putting it all into good use, we shall see!

Calories Calories CALORIES!

2009-04-13T20:28:00.000-07:00

So, as I've hit my old age come to find out I can't just loose 5 pounds in a week just whenever I decide I want to.... Unfortunatly those 5 pounds have now turned into.... like 15ish.... plus like maybe 5...
(Ok that was really hard for me to say)

I've found myself counting calories along with every little thing I eat and I'm driving myself CRAZY!

I workout maybe 4 times a week (which includes walking Carlos so not really much of a workout but I'm trying to make myself feel better.) And even though I'm putting some kind of effort with the working out we all know that it's really all about what you eat. I mean there are all these "helpful hints"; you're suppose to burn 1000 more calories a day than you consume (hello that's hard!) what you eat is 90% of losing weight or is it 80%... or is it 70%? eat protein, don't eat after 7 eat a good breakfast (that's the only thing I do well) blah blah BLAH!

Really all I want is to eat healthy, workout and be happy with my weight. I have the personality to go a little overboard, I'm either extremely concerned about what I eat and how much I workout and so forth or I really just couldn't give a darn.

SOOOOOOOO.......

Help me! Tell me your secrets. I want to know what you snack on when you're craving something sweet or something salty or another one of the "untouchables". I've been doing all the veggies and stuff but I'm over it, and I'm sorry but I'm a snacker.

Another thing I struggle with is making a healthy dinner. I mean the grilled chicken, cottage cheese and green beans is getting old! I really just need to go through the cook book and find things that sound de-lish, but I'd really like to know what other people fix for dinner and what you snack on. And really I couldn't be more sick of salads... they just don't fill me up.

I realize that there should be moderation in everything blah blah blah just help me.

So there you have it. This is my struggle!

Please help

Awesome

2009-04-02T20:59:00.000-07:00

This is so funny to Rich and me, Carlos sleeps on his back a lot of the time. I freaking love it. At night he usually starts by sleeping in between either of our legs but he always makes it up to the top of the our bed with his head on my pillow and his body under the blankets.

This is him on the couch in his infamous pose.

I always like to post his "crazy face" pictures. This is near after his haircut, they buzzed him and I couldn't stop laughing after I saw him.

Seriously look at this face!

Got me a bike!

2009-04-02T20:43:00.000-07:00

Got myself a new bike a few weeks ago and I've only been able to ride it maybe 4-5 times. I've been missing it so much since this gloomy weather I thought I'd blog about it since I can't ride it.

My two men putting my bike together. So so nice.

I thought this picture was the "finishing touch" but it's missing the awesome brown leather looking seat. But doesn't it look great! It's a seven speed and I figured it would have enough gears for the hills where I live.... I've ridden it to work a couple of times and holy crap the way home is HARD!!

My thanks to Rich for putting it together!

Slumdog Millionaire

2009-04-01T22:07:00.000-07:00

Rented it, watched it, cried through it, loved it....
totally buying it.
Seriously I may be a little late about watching it,
and I thought all the hype would ruin it for me. But it hands down deserved Best Picture. I recommend this movie to anyone.
(Because I know how you all value my opinion)

Allergies?! Cold?!

2009-03-30T01:16:00.000-07:00

What ever the hell it is I've got it and it HURTS! Honestly every time I swallow, or therefore try to swallow it's like I'm forcing knives down my throat. And it came on so suddenly! Seriously like within hours. So after some Tylenol Cold pm and ZERO sleep later I'm on the couch watching Sex and the City with tissue up my nostrils. And also feeling very "Carrie Bradshaw" by writing this post.
PS Kamie.... can you please change my blog from a St. Patricks theme to a darling Easter/Spring Time theme? Thanks I'd just love it.

Oh this husband of mine....

2009-03-04T22:04:00.001-08:00

After Richard was one of the big winners and spent an "Evening with Kyle Korver" along with his friend Colle, they got a great picture taken with Kyle. Colle then sent the picture in to a contest to win Jazz tickets for tonights game. We've gotten several calls today that the picture is being found on the internet. Check out this webiste and how people in Houston are talking trash about my man and his crazy friend. Look quick because I doubt it will be up for long.
thedreamshake.com
Pretty funny, and I'm sure you know Richard is just eating it all up. Love him.

Bath Time

2009-02-25T19:46:00.000-08:00

Carlos loves to cuddle with Richard up on his neck, it's really funny. Tonight after his bath he just crawled up and fell asleep on him.

Look how hilarious he looks all wet, I couldn't have gotten a better timed picture of him with his tongue out.

He's so tiny, we took him to the vet and he only weighs 2 pounds 2 ounces. We're trying to fatten him up.

I took this picture because I wanted you to be able to see his face better. We took him to get a hair cut and now he can see.

This is his "mean" face. I know it's scary

Backgrounds

2009-02-19T22:18:00.000-08:00

Hey is anyone else having problems chaning their background? For the life of me it's not working and it's driving me crazy. Let me know if you have any tips.

Found it

2009-02-16T18:26:00.000-08:00

Found my phone.

LOST

2009-02-15T22:00:00.000-08:00

My phone is lost.... I'll let you know when I find it.

Introducing....

2009-02-12T18:35:00.001-08:00

CARLOS!

Rich and I got a puppy last night yes his name is Carlos and so far he's the best dog ever! He's doing really well potty training, and hardly barks. (he only cries when we leave the room, just like everyone we know) He's a mix between a Yorkie and a Shit Zoo (ha ha). He's so well tempered and loves to sleep in my shirt while I work, yes we do take him to work with us. It's hard to see his face because he grows so much Bad "A" facial hair, I'll post more pictures when we get him groomed. (I tried cutting his hair last night but it took too long)

This is Carlos sitting in his work chair bringing home the bacon.

My favorite bros

POW MOW

2009-02-09T21:05:00.001-08:00

Last weekend Rich and I rented a condo up at Powder Mountain and a bunch of our friends came up and we had a good time.
(seriously why is this all underlined? IT WON'T STOP)

Here's Seth and Facer obviously enjoying themselves.

Check this out, this is my one piece snowsuit. If it covered my boots I'd wear it all the time, it's awesome cause no snow gets down my back.

It makes my rear look great.

Here's Kira Nique and me, we had a really good time.

Brian J Bullough

Rich and Brian

Niq and I decided to go sledding late one night. The end of the hill landed us right into the back porch. It was perfect, except for when we bonked heads.

Colle and I had an oreo eating contest needless to say I totally won. You ask what we were playing for.... WELL. Richard won "An Evening with Kyle Korver" yeah you know the contest where you text in the name "Kyle" to a number and the lucky person wins an evening with him. You'd think it'd be a given that I'd get to go with Rich right? Wrong. Richard and Colle both sent in a text at the same time and said "if I win you can come with me and if you win I get to go with you." Well I didn't put up a fight because there's no way I thought Rich would win. So when Rich got the call I knew I had to play for it. And I'm sorry but I am not posting the picture of me winning. (I dunked and ate 9 oreos at once, awesome I know)

This is Rich getting excited for the day of snowboarding.

Relaxing after a hard day of snowboarding.

Here's Niq and me on the lift. It was a beautiful day and it snowed the night we got there. I've never snowboarded in so much powder.

Tizzagged.....

2009-01-28T19:37:00.001-08:00

I've been Tagged...Here are the rules:

1) Post rules on blog
2) Answer the six 8 items
3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment

8 Favorite TV Shows (not really in any particular order)
1. 30 Rock (if you don't, you've got to start.... hilarious, hello? Tina Fey? Awesome)
2. The Office
3. It's always Sunny in Philadelphia (just started it and I love it)
4. Planet Earth
5. Flight of the Conchords (yes that's how it's spelled)
6. Seinfield
7. True Beauty (it's in its first and only season I'm sure, but I still love it)
8. The Biggest Loser

8 Things I did Yesterday
1. Worked (This it what I did most of the day, so I'll have to really think of stuff for the next 7 answers)
2. Ate at Toasters
3. Went Running
4. Watched the Jazz game
5. Watched Utah kill BYU in over time (awesome)
6. Watched The Biggest Loser (don't worry these were all recorded, I didn't watch 7 hours of tv)
7. Fixed dinner
8. and..... fell asleep? I'm BORING!

8 Things I Look Forward To:
1. Staying at a condo up at Powder Mountain next weekend! 3 days of snowboarding, hot tubing, swimming and doing whatever I want!!!
2. Salt Lakes half marathon
3. St Valentines Day
4. My Birthday (June 1st, don't forget)
5. Running outside (got that one from Brooke)
6. Mother daughter/daughter in-law weekend
7. Lounging with Reesh
8. The weekend (got that from Brooke too)

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Takashi (some of the best sushi in Utah baby!)
2. Sawadee
3. Toasters
4. Big City Soup
5. Cannelas (I'm pretty sure that's how you spell it, but it's YUMMY Italian)
6. Michaelangelo's (spelling? Even better Italian)
7. Himmaylan Kitchen
8. Sqautters

8 Things I Wish For
1. A WAY bigger apartment but with the same rent
2. Unlimited traveling funds for me and Reesh
3. To be back in running shape with a snap of my fingers
4. Peace in the Middle East
5. For my mom to finally settle down with 1 man! Anybody know of anyone descent?
6. Seriously to eat what I want and not get a big ol' butt, I mean these are wishes! Go big or go home.
7. To have healthy, nice, smart, loving, children
8. For both Rich and me, I wish for jobs that we love. It's very important to love what you do for a living. Oh and while I'm at it, I only want to work for 5 hours a day with the same salary, great benefits, and tons of paid vacation. And I also wish for 8 more wishes.

8 People I Tagg
Everyone on my blog!!!! Suckers!

Waiting and waiting.....

2009-01-21T19:40:00.000-08:00

I've been waiting and wanting to post about this for a few weeks, but I only wanting to post about it if I had one of those count down things. For some freaking reason when I try to add that gadget it keeps saying it's broken. It's really starting to bug me. Anyway.....
One of my most recent goals is to get back into running, I've started training again and Richard and I both are going to run the Salt Lake half marathon on April 18th. I'm really excited about it because this particular race is my favorite. I ran it in '07 and it is one of the best organized races I've done. The aide stations are great, you run through out the city (which I usually don't enjoy that much) and then the finish line is AWESOME, you end at the Gateway Mall and there are SO many people there you feel like a freaking Rock Star! I really encourage anyone and everyone to come and run it, it's so fun and feels so good when you cross the finish line. It really is such a rewarding feeling. Well, it's rewarding if you've been training and working hard to get there, if you're one of those natural runners or whatever then I don't really care for you or how you feel when you cross the finish line... Or I'm just jealous.
There you have it, that's what's been going on in my life, and as soon as that freaking gadget gets working I'll make a count down to race day. And my birthday of course. (Did my font just change? I didn't do that on purpose... weird)

Utah game at Nicoles

2009-01-08T19:47:00.001-08:00

Brooklyn is such a sass. I posted a lot of pictures here, I just couldn't pick of few there were too many of my cute nieces and nephews.

Andee, Whit and Lex singing and dancing

Here's Brooklyn and Katy Bug

Here's Kimball I can't believe how big he's getting

Cashe loves to be naked, it's hilarious, Rhead and Lindsay are always trying to explain to him that he needs to keep his clothes on, it cracks me up.

Here's Brooke and Dawson (above)

Taylor, Roy and Drew

Justin, Davis and Me, they were talking trash to me the whole game, they were just jealous because Utah had a way better season than Boise.

Here's Katy bug in her dance outfit

This picture is funny because I told Brooke I wanted to take a picture of her in her Boise shirt, she was fooled.

This picture is a little blurry but I wanted to show Brooke in her Boise Bronco outfit, she was really out of place but we still let her sit by us.

Above is my niece Brooklyn they were all playing dress up.

Here's Davis in his awesome new football sweatshirt given to him by Grandma Joan

Lindsay and me above

Brooke is really happy in this picture, if you're wondering why it's because she's stirring caramel, we Kelly's can't get enough of our goodies! (Notice the bottom right corner, that's the last picture we have of our George Forman before it was stolen.... so sad)

If you're wondering why Richard isn't in any of these pictures it's because I told him that I couldn't watch the game with him, it stresses me out too much. Had I know Utah was going to kill Alabama I would have been ok to watch it together. Don't worry we met up later and celebrated, it was fun.

Bassackwards

2009-01-05T18:57:00.000-08:00

So all these posts are backwards, start from the bottom if you want. I started with trying to post some preview wedding pictures, I initially wanted those at the top... what can you do huh?

Honeymoon continued.....

2009-01-05T18:48:00.000-08:00

Here are just some random pictures of us. Our sad faces are because we were leaving.

More of Costa Rica

2009-01-05T18:35:00.000-08:00

Here are some random pictures of us, and monkeys and this crazy crab we saw in the rain forest. We were on the Pacific side which is a tad different than the Caribbean side which we went to last February. The food on the Pacific side was a little bit better, and the showers were a lot better, but the ocean and the beaches were prettier on the Caribbean side the Caribbean side was also less touristy. Being that this was our honeymoon, that also made the Pacific side all the better.

The Suite

2009-01-05T18:22:00.000-08:00

I don't think I can say enough about the place we stayed, it was called the Issimo Suites and sweet it was! Each picture I've posted of our view was either from our awesome bed that was up in a loft (honestly the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in) or downstairs. The one picture looks like we took it from outside, but that was really taken from our window. The window was HUGE, it took up the entire wall, I really could go on and on. We'd come home at night after dinner and there would be candles lit all around the jacuzzi and the bath would be drawn with flowers pettles in it, the shower was awesome as well. I'm sorry but Rich and I are used to staying in crappy hostels so this was real treat.

Honeymooners

2009-01-05T17:40:00.001-08:00

Rich and I started the honeymoon by staying at Hotel Monaco in downtown Salt Lake, that's where we got those SWEET robes. We then flew to Costa Rica where we stayed one night in San Jose. The next morning we took a taxi (the van you see us in) over to Manuel Antonio. He made a stop on this bridge where crocodiles lived underneath. It was a little freaky but very cool we got to see them. We counted 19 of them, I don't know what they're waiting for down there... someone to fall in...??

More....

2009-01-05T17:33:00.000-08:00

Richard and I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day to get married. The weather was amazing and the trees along with everything else was just about perfect. Here's a cute picture of my mom and Ash, my cute little grandma and Rich, my sisters and my flower girls. I had 11 flower girls and they all looked so pretty in their dresses.

Wedding preview

2009-01-05T17:28:00.001-08:00

I'm sorry but I really liked my hair on my wedding day. Here are some pictures of me getting ready. Nique did my makeup and the girl that did my hair honestly did it in about 45 minutes. She was crazy good. Ash also slept at my house the night before and got ready with me in the morning. That was really fun.

!!!SERIOUSLY!!!

2009-01-03T10:01:00.000-08:00

My car got broken into again last night! For those of you who don't know a few days before our wedding my car window was broken and my ipod was stolen. Well last night I actually heard a car alarm go off and then my neighbor runnig outside. Come to find out his car was broken into as well as mine. I was so mad because I forgot to lock my freaking car (who knows, maybe had I locked it I would be paying for a broken window again) and the worst part is that I had left my George Forman that we got for our wedding in the car. Yesterday I went shopping with my sisters and had to take in a bunch of stuff, so my hands were full and I forgot my G.F. in the car. Well some A** HOLE (sorry mom) will have delicious dinners from now on. Oh and I forgot, that same A** HOLE will also have a nice place to sleep because he stole my mom's blow up mattress that I had in my car (again, sorry mom). SERIOUSLY what is wrong with these people! Rich and I are going to see about breaking our lease and moving. It totally sucks when you don't feel like you're safe. SERIOUSLY!!!!

Wedding Pictures!

2009-01-01T16:59:00.001-08:00

I got my wedding pictures! I'm trying to figure out how I want to post them so sit tight, they're coming. I'd like to just post a slide show but I'm still new to blogging and I can't figure it out.

Kelly family after Christmas get together

2008-12-28T19:35:00.000-08:00

None of my out of state brothers and sisters were able to make it to Christmas this year, but that didn't stop us from having our Christmas get together. I was glad we still did it since Rich and I didn't make the Christmas Eve party until it was over. We went to Robb and Brookes house ate pizza and watched the Jazz game, we also had a little "yanky swap" Sorry Nicole, you'll never get that spatula back!! We had a good time but we missed the other half of our family.
Here's my mom making cute little bibs for the twins. And I love the picture of Andee, she's such a sass.
Check it out Brooke, Conner is on the left and Cooper is on the right! Right?

Ash = No more Wisdom

2008-12-28T19:30:00.000-08:00

Ashley got her wisdom teeth out over her Christmas break, doesn't she look so cute! Nicole thought she'd try to make her face look large so Ash didn't feel so bad. PS can you believe how big Kaiden is?

Our first Christmas!

2008-12-26T09:36:00.001-08:00

We went to my Grandma and Grandpa's on Christmas day, here's Rich fully enjoying himself.

My cute Grandpa and Grandma with my cute mom

This is me trying cuddle with Penny, she doesn't really like anyone, she probably likes me the most though.

Here's Rich and his awesome new UTE PJ's, he actually opened these on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve at Grandma Joans

2008-12-26T09:26:00.001-08:00

Richard and me with Kate and Whitney, after the Noels we went over to my mom's house to say hi, because both our families do their main Christmas thing on Christmas Eve Rich and I are going to trade off every other year.

I'm sure you've all done this before, you know where you take a picture while you're.... whatever it's called with your lips.... Well this is Rhead/Mr Ed, I think he and Nique are the winners for best face while doing whatever it is with your lips. I'll have to post one of Nique doing it and you can be the judge.

Robb and Brooke with Nicole and Roy

Drew, Kaid, Taylor and..... Cooper or Conner. I suck I really suck, I have the hardest time telling them apart. But I think this is Cooper.

Here's my mom with Whitney and Kate, my mom gave them their cute new sweaters.

Christmas Eve with the Noels

2008-12-26T09:15:00.000-08:00

We did the manger scene if you can't tell, although instead of cows, lambs, and donkeys we had monkeys and elephants played by Max and Scott. Richard was Joseph, Elisa was a shepard, Amber was a wise woman, and then Richards cute twin nieces were Mary, and the beautiful Angel, and of course Papa Noel was the narrator.

Rachel and Sara sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in Spanish, it was really cool.

This is Richards nephew Ian, he LOVES Richard, it's so cute, he just follows him around and wants to do everything with him, until he gets distracted with his awesome new presents.

TCU vs Boise State

2008-12-26T08:47:00.000-08:00

Richard's sister Kris and her boyfriend Duncan are in town for the holidays, so Elisa and Amber invited us all to their place to watch the Boise TCU game. (Sucks for you Brooke and Justin, Boise CHOKED!) They made us yummy tacos and we just hung out and played with their cute Pugs.

Holiday cookies

2008-12-26T08:40:00.000-08:00

Nice hair Ash

My nephews Taylor and Drew, I can't believe how big they both are.

Katie and Nicole

Whitney, me, and Kate!

I'm making a lot of posts today, I just haven't been able to keep up with all that's going on. My mom, Ashley, Nicole, Whitney, Katie and I got together and made sugar cookies and peanut brittle this week. It was really fun and more importantly REALLY good. I ate so many cookies and my nieces ate about half the dough, it was really funny.

Dum Dum Dum Dum

2008-12-26T08:24:00.000-08:00

Charity and Jimmy got married last Saturday and it was so beautiful, they look so happy, and it was so fun to see old friends.

Charity looked so beautiful, her hair and dress were awesome.

Long lost friend Bridgette Beyer, and Charity's sister Tiffany

This is Charity's niece Tuesday, she is SO dang cute

This was Charity getting ready.

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2008-12-16T22:25:00.000-08:00

I have three new posts, and it took me forever, and they're not in the order I wanted them in, and I'm not changing it. So if you want to know, we went to temple square on Friday, A Christmas Carole on Saturday and the JMR/Lolabella party was on Sunday.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Can it be Christmas without a little Temple Square? I don't think so!

2008-12-16T22:15:00.000-08:00

On Friday Rich and I went to temple square to enjoy the lights and we invited Jeff and Max to come with us. We had a good time and Max loved seeing all the lights. The picture of the moon didn't turn out and I can't freaking figure out how to take it off so... for what it's worth we took the picture because it was the brightest moon since forever or something as I'm sure you all know. Max loves Richard so much, they get to hang out every Friday so they're really close, and every Friday they both get home feeling exhausted.

A Christmas Carole

2008-12-16T22:08:00.000-08:00

For Christmas Rich and I decided to take my mom to A Christmas Carole at Hale center theater, it was really good and really fun. We went and ate downtown first and then went to the theater, it was so fun because it was what seemed like the first snow fall. These are pictures of us after the show by my Christmas tree. Don't you love Richards sweater, I think he looks just great.

JMR/Lolabella Christmas PARTAY!

2008-12-16T21:56:00.000-08:00

This is my boss slash brother and sister in law Jeff and Carole above

This is my other boss Richard and his wife Laura above

We had a really great time at my work Christmas party, it was at The Paris restaurant it was both mine and Richards first time eating there, I highly recommend it.

Christmas ornaments

2008-12-07T17:52:00.000-08:00

Now that I'm a Noel I have a lot to live up to during Christmas time. If any of you have seen Richards parents house during Christmas you know what I mean..... Richard and I started a tradition last year of painting ornaments, listening to music and drinking eggnog. It was so much fun this year to decorate the tree and remember the ornaments we had painted. Here are some pictures of us this year!
Nique did these ones above, she left before I got a picture of her with them. She's so creative, mine and Richards suck compared to hers.
Here's Rich and his cute ornaments
You can't tell but the one on the right says "Noel" I worked really hard on that one cause you know it's a noel ornament.

Nique and me above.

Thanksgiving in Las Vegas Baby!

2008-12-03T21:57:00.000-08:00

Here's Lyza and Brynlee

Erika and Ellie
Cashe baby
Rich and me

Noah and his cute bum

Kam bam and me
The Barrus family, Noah Abbie Brynlee Jason Kamie Lyza and Ellie
Kelly Fam, Harrison Erika Michelle (yes she's named after me) Jackson Matthew Samantha

Rich and me
The other Kelly family Kaiden Robb Cannon Cooper (I'm almost positive) Brooke and Conner
Abbie
Richard feeding Lyza (I think, way too many twins) Rich was completely freaked out by Kamies breast milk, it was awesome.
Cannon rocking out on guitar hero, he is so good he can play with both hands and he doesn't even switch it on the game. All you guitar hero gurus know what I mean.
The turkey made us all very tired.
Smash and me
My assignment was to make green beans, it was alot harder than it sounds. (Samantha helped me)
Matthew cutting the turkey.
My mom and me doesn't she look smashing!
Playing guitar hero again, Andee Abbie Ellie and Kaiden
Matthew showing a little skin, very sexy.

Awe Richard and me....

Oh Christmas Tree

2008-12-02T17:01:00.000-08:00

Here's Rich and me putting up our Christmas decorations. We put them up before we left to Vegas for Thanksgiving. It was awesome to come home with everything up.

Down on the field

2008-11-23T20:11:00.000-08:00

This is Brent Casteel, one of Utah's #1 wide recievers, and Brian Johnson (quarterback) having a moment after the game. If you look closely you can see Richard trying to get in on the celebration, all you can see is Rich's nose, one eye and some of his mouth. This picture cracks me up, I don't know if I've ever seen Rich this happy, it was seriously hilarious.

University of Utah football game!!!!

2008-11-23T19:58:00.000-08:00

2008-11-23T11:41:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to figure out how to blog so this may take me a minute before it looks somewhat nice. Everybody's blog always look so great it's a tad intimidating.... so hang with me while I learn.

Reesh and Meesh

2008-11-23T11:35:00.000-08:00

Here we are Richard and Michelle Noel!