Too soon?

Not if your hard core!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiyHTnvae-s

Okay there might be some of you out there who don't know that I have a addiction.

It is a sytycd addiction.
('So You Think You Can Dance' for those people who don't know)

It might be at a problem level because when we moved here to Maricopa the
Dish installer guy was like
'hey do you want me to up grade your receiver, it won't cost you anything?'
I replied 'uh...Will I be able to still watch the things I have DVR'd?'
Dish guy says 'uh...no'
I said 'no way I am losing season 3 and season 4 of So you think you can dance, sorry no upgrade for me'
Dish guy kind of looks at me weird and points out that I will have like twice as many recording hours if I upgrade. I try to not have blood shoot out of my eyesockets...
Erase so you think you can dance ?!?
banish Neal to nothingness?
Delete adorable Chelsea Hightower?
Never to witness the grace and beauty of Danny's amazing spins again?!?

It was hard for me to not throw the man out of my house.
When SYTYCD becomes available on DVD for purchase (legally)
I will delete my episodes and maybe even upgrade.



That is of course after I figure out a way to make a hard copy of

"Pirates of Penzance"

If you know this movie I totally think you are cool

if you like this movie and can join me in singing "Poor wandering one"

I automatically adore you and want you to be my new best friend.

Who knew I could bowl?!?

110 seriously awesome! Okay I am it wasn't real. We had the BUMPERS on! They were on because the first round, while we (Jen, Cheryl and me) were eating at Ikea (who knew that Lindon berries were so good?) Kari was there with her kids and hubby so they had them up for Zane.
But it felt good to do good anyway (in a lame sort of way)

So here is the story.
I am so sorry for NO PICTURES. It would have been a bunch of horrible butt action shots anyway and does anyone really want to see that? I mean have you seen how big my butt is? We decided that it was my giant butt that made me win something about counter balancing the ball.

So I got a GNO for bowling invite
on the busiest day of my life.

Parent teacher conference
dentist drop off boys ( I have never dropped a kid off at the dentist before and left but we couldn't miss Cheer try outs!! and its not like the boys (13 and 15) needed me to sit in the waiting room while they got their teeth clean)
cheer tryouts (Emma is so good I am pretty sure she made it. she is so cute!)
pick up boys from dentist
Violin lessons drop off (these we wound up ditching because Adam had missed half of it because of the dentist appt.)
Violin lessons pick up
mutual drop off (Thanks to Bro. Dennison who when asking to borrow the wii probably got more than he bargained for- I asked him to pick up and drop off the boys + Hannah who was meeting with the Bee hives last night because she will be in Mutual later-this concept makes my head fall off...when did my baby girl grow up?! but that is another blog)
mutual pick up


All of the above after 2 pm.
Just a little crazy!!!

Anyhow so needless to say when I got the evite from Kari Reed I did not think I would be attending. (side note in my lameness I did not respond 'no' to the evite and for this I accept the title of lame but since I went anyway please do not TP my house)
But then I ran into Jen Mix in all that craziness and she was like
"What no bowling!?!"

Now here is the story.

I really like bowling I think it is hilarious. Mainly because of my most awesome bestest friend Amber Rose who made the rule you must cheer no matter what you get.
Gutter ball.. only one pin..must cheer.
Just to keep it fun, cuz everybody sucks at bowling (unless you've got the bumpers on!)

Well we used that approach last night but mixed it up a bit with you must dance after your first 'roll' so that your second one will be good. It was awesome.

What is funner than doing

the running man in bowling shoes?!?

I got the idea from Jen when she was trying to 'work on' her technique and did a 'run run leap' approach and did awesome! It totally worked!

It's all in the dance.

Another sidenote
Speaking of dance...So we keep talking that we all want to go dancing
but where can we go that isn't totally trampy but still fun?

ideas anyone?

Anyone want to join us?

It's gonna be super super silly!
(and yes I will do the running man on request.)

(no silly not at church only when we are dancing---or bowling)

(and yes I acknowledge their is a big time over usage of parenthesis in this post)

(and ps I heart spell checking)

Ugly update!

My mom let me borrow her camera cable to down load my pictures! Thanks mom! So here are some of my shots.

The hunt for the ugly dress begins.

Actually this was the third store that I had been to!

Who knew it would be so hard to find an ugly dress!

I think the blue one with the thigh ruffles is pretty bad! I wish now that I would have gotten that one then Jen and I would have had semi-matching dresses!! That red one hanging on the door was the thickest polyester ever made to bad it was too small. I actually had a ton of fun the Monday before shopping with Jen Mix and my sil Emily. We laughed A LOT. People just looked at us. We explained our party to a few people that were looking at us funny as we wailed

"that one is hideous you must buy it!" I loved the dress Jen got. I really wanted something that bordered on clown-like. I decided the yellow polka-dot dress actually was actually TO clown like (can't you just see me with a bad wig and a red spongy nose?)

But alas anything that was exactly what I wanted would not fit over my giant butt.

Bummer (literally!)

So I went for the 'flashy' category with the all sequence top (which my mom and sister both loved and my sister wants now that the party is over so she can wear it. Where would you wear an all sequence top?!?) Seriously shiny and a little bit scratchy too. My favorite part of preparing for the party after dress shopping was making the bouquet. I bought some flowers when we dress shopping only to remember when I got home I already owned some! That made for lots of lovely peach, yellow and orange floral arrangements. The funny thing is I patterned it after my own 1993 bouquet with the giant flower "tail". All that was lacking was the spiral curled ribbons hanging off of it. Playing toss the bouquet was too funny and some people are apparently pro's at it. Diana won the night by catching it twice while being mega prego!

Here is the fanTASTical Wedding cake that Chelsea Jenkins made. I think she did a lovely job. We spent quite some time getting that frosting the perfect shade of peach. Perfection!

I just love the paper towel 'napkins', just the right touch. In case you missed it in my previous blog the theme was Bad wedding (circa 1984). Some of the girls did not come wearing a truly ugly dress, but that is okay we love them anyway. We made Yovanie put on the wedding dress I got for $10 at a 2nd hand store. It kind of smell like old storage unit sorry Yovanie! You are such a good sport.

I think over all it was a super fun night and that everyone had fun. Thirteen girls came (my sil and Jeanette Masters came late and missed being in the group shot) so that was a pretty great turn out. It was fantastic to get to know some more of the girls in the ward and to just make new friends. Thanks to everyone that came and supported my slightly insane side.

A very special thanks to my super friend Jen Mix for being willing to do whatever my twisted mind came up with. She is seriously awesome! (this shade of blue almost matches her lovely gown!)

Yay for tacky fun!

Silly Fun

Sometimes ya just got to be silly.

I have determined this to be very important

hence the Ugly Dress Party. It is a party which you are required to where a horrible dress, you know the kind that you might be forced to wear at a wedding as a bridesmaid, the idea is based of the movie "27 dresses".

It was way fun and just too silly.

I am ultra sad that I can not locate my cable for my camera or get my sd card reader on my computer to work so that I may show you the evidence of the silliness that was had by all

but here is a link from a super fun gal that was there that night.

http://jolenegeorge.blogspot.com/2009/02/ugly-dress-party.html


I will still work on figuring out a way to get my pictures up.

It started on Monday when we began the search for the ugliest dresses at second hand stores (the stories there could be a blog unto themselves!!) My cool friend Jen Mix and I hosted the party and plotted the wacky fun. Chelsea Jenkins made a fanTABulous ugly wedding cake to go with the theme of Ugly Wedding. We had plenty of peach and orange fake flowers and some hideous gold bows to top it off. We even gave horrible tacky "wedding gifts" as prizes. We did have a fashion show and voting for the worst dresses. It was hilarious! It was so hard to pick the "winners"!

The game I think everyone enjoyed the most was the "toss the hideous bouquet". Lots of laughing. I think the best part of the night though, was just laughing and chatting with awesome women. Jen offered up her house for the awful display of ugliness because she had a projector so we could watch the movie in style. It was so much fun there was a total of 13 gals including me and Jen. It was a great turn out and just too much fun. It is so nice to just get to know people and hang out.

I love how no matter how different your life might be

women are so much the same

we all need friends

and a good laugh.

Yay for new friendships!

So sad for the people who couldn't make it :(
And if for some reason you did not get an evite just leave a post and we will make sure you are on the list next time.

Oh yes there will be more silly fun in the near future.

Whatever

Just a quick note this am.

So my last post I was a little strung out I have decided to be less worried about it all. God has been awesome to me and has always had things work out for the better in the end so how ever it goes it l be good.

I also want to tell you all about a cool thought I had the other day during my bath/scripture study. I was reading in the D&C in section 27 and it talked about taking on the armor of God. I heard it before even had several lessons about what all the peices of armor are for, ect. But what really stood out to me this time was what is said right at the start before it gets into the armor peices.
"Lift up your heart and rejoice!!!"
I need joy in my life.
I have been fighting a battle for many years but that doesn't mean that there can't be joy!
I have seen my heart being pulled this way. JOY! For so long it was easy to become discouraged or depressed. Why waste time there? Discouragement is one of Satans greatest tools. I need joy!!! My heart needs a lift.

I am just gonna do it... just gonna be happy.
Life is good. Life is as good as you let it be.

Party then kick some evil butt!

Yahoo!


15 Wherefore, lift up your hearts and rejoice, and gird up your loins, and take upon you my whole armor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day, having done all, that ye may be able to stand.

16 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, which I have sent mine angels to commit unto you;

17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked;

18 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of my Spirit, which I will pour out upon you, and my word which I reveal unto you, and be agreed as touching all things whatsoever ye ask of me, and be faithful until I come, and ye shall be caught up, that where I am ye shall be also. Amen.

My head is going to fall off of my body

So suddenly life has become

SUPER ULTRA MEGA STRESSFUL.

But is some strange way it might be blessing (maybe sort of).

So some of you know I am not a very good housekeeper. I just don't do it well. I grew up in a home that was not very organized or well kept and just never got the hang of it. For years I had the excuse of small children keeping me from my clean house goal but now with Abby in all day Kindergarten, I should be super housewife right?!
Well I was not so super-
(I was gonna start next week really I was.)

Well apparently God decided to help me find the motivation to get and
KEEP my house super clean.

Let me explain.

So Tuesday night my Rental Property Manager calls to let me know the owner of this house has decided to Short Sale the house.
AND that realtors will be contacting me to take photos of my home to list it
AND I will need to keep it ready to "show" at all times for an indefinet time period.
AND my reward for making the house look great will be I will probably have to move.

Isn't that fantastic?

There is a chance that a investor will buy the house and will let us keep renting it. And the way the housing market is going who knows how long the house will be on the market. There is a bank owned home two doors down from me that is my exact floor plan that has been on the market for awhile. We will see. So needless to say we are mega kicking ourselves for not minding our credit score better so that we could qualify and buy this house ourselves, but I am pretty sure the banks would laugh at us pretty hard if we tried especially the way the economy is now.

Here is the weird thing though, when I am not freaking out about having to keep the house Ultra clean Always, I feel kind of peaceful about the whole thing. Like it is going to be okay. I have no idea what the plan could possibly be but I feel like it is God's plan and He knows what is good for my family. I imagine that if we do have to move I would want to find another place in Maricopa. I LOVE IT HERE!!! I really love the people here. I feel like I making awesome friends and having so much fun. (I am still sorry Cheryl!) That life is just good. I have entertained the concept that if we did move in town that I could look into finding better schools for my kids. The elementary schools are good here but the Jr High and High school seriously scare me. (and my sweet Hannah is going to Jr High next year!!!) I guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it. So I honestly have no idea how this is all going to go. My property Manager says she gives us about a 90% chance of getting to finish our lease which we have until August.

HOLY COW LIFE IS STRESSFUL!!!!

Whhhaaa! I don't want to leave Maricopa!
I just started to make friends, know the schools and have some fun!!!

It is okay.
It will work out the best.
It will go the way it is suppose to.
Maybe an investor will buy the house. Maybe he will get the house at such a great deal that he won't feel good about charging us so much for rent and will want to lower it!!! And then he will say why don't we put in some lovely wood laminate flooring and of course you can paint the walls that awesome tan color.
Who knows.
Only One.
It will be okay.

Valentines mush

This is for you Karisa!

For all you married people out there! Tag your married friends that you want to know about!

1. When is your "engagement" anniversary: May 1992 It wasn't an offical thing. I was like hey my mom says I spend so much time with you I should just marry you and he was like "Okay" Then he asked me to marry him like 7 times a day for the next 9 months.
2. When is your "marriage" anniversary: Jan 22 1993
3. How long have you known your spouse: 17 years and three months and two weeks!!!
4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged: friends in group dates mostly first then engaged for 9 months = about 1 year 3 months.
5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time: At a LDS dance at Golfland
6. What is your spouse's full name: Matthew Edward Poland
7. Do you have any children yet: Yes
8. How many:Five
9. Do you have any house pets: don't kids count-- five monkeys.
10. Do you own a house or rent: Rent (ever more!)
11. Do you live in the country or town/city: Maricopa is a weird mix of Dairy farm rural (read stinky!) and Endless housing developments.
12. What is one of your favorite activities together: Swing dance! See movies, Hang out and chat and eat food, day dream of what we are gonna do when we are old and retired.
13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot: We just love to travel anywhere.
14. How many siblings (including in-laws): Me 6 +Matt 5= 11
15. What church do you attend: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Matt is Christian non denom/Baptist and currently between chruches.
16. Is this the church you were married in: We were sealed in Mesa Temple.
17. What town is your current address: Maricopa
18. Do you work or stay at home: I am a stay at home Mom. yay!
19. Where did you honeymoon: A little cabin is Strawberry.
20: Leave a piece of marriage advice: Laugh Laugh Laugh + NEVER go to bed angry + go on a date every Friday = bliss.
I tag...
Anyone who reads my blog.