Halloween 2008!

Conner was a pizza:

Robbie was Link from Zelda:

And Alex and I were Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana!

Since I came up with my costume by myself I am fairly proud of it and now I am going to montage the details:

Notice the ultra hip boots mailed to me by my true cowgirl aunt!

You can't really see here, but I had SUPER sparkly eye shadow going! It was quite possibly my favorite part! And don't forget my microphone!

My gold bangles and hoops! I really don't like gold jewelery, so these pretty much bugged me the entire night!

My super sweet belt that I made myself! I found this "material" at a fabric store and decided to turn it into a belt!

I kinda ran out of time to do my hair so I just tied some funky knots in it and called it good!

My true inner rocker definitely started to come out!

Halloween was a blast! Everyone could tell who I was - even most of the elderly knew! And I had one little girl convinced I really was Hannah Montana! She was so shocked that Hannah Montana knew her name! She was so cute! I had so much fun!

And for those of you who were wondering how my scar is looking: I think it's healing quite well actually! Hopefully it won't even be too noticeable soon!

Mega Post!

So I haven't posted in FOREVER! But now all of the sick kids are back at school, I am not substitute teaching, I am not on any trips, and I am not at the doctors, so I can finally post!

I went to New York on a girls trip and I learned that I never want to do that again. ever. It was the first time I had ever gone a single day without Jake since the day we met, and it was pretty much torture from beginning to end. Although the torture did pause while I was at Wicked and Mary Poppins!

Those are 2 of the 3 cousins on my side - Jackie and Laura.

I got a new calling as the YW Secretary and I have greatly enjoyed it thus far! We have had a mystery dinner night: (I was just the photographer so there weren't any of me, but I thought these guys looked great!)

We have gone ice blocking: (it was my first time and as you can tell I thoroughly enjoyed it!)

We went to the corn maze (on a very cold night) where I was the first to find my way out! This is my groups victory pose: My mom and I also took my brother Rob and my niece Echo to the park:

The above picture is Robbie being a stinker face because he didn't get his way.

Also, Jake and I are moving into our apartment soon! Soon meaning hopefully by this time NEXT WEEK!!! Hooray!

And I am being Hannah Montana for Halloween and Alex is being Miley Cyrus! Check back for pictures of how amazing we are sure to look!

I also discovered that my eye is REALLY blue! (and that I really need to shape my brows...)

My New Addiction

I am officially addicted... to digital scrapbooking! My friend Bobbi introduced me to this software and now I am hooked! I do it constantly! I have never been a scrapbooker because it took too much time and money and creative talent. But, I can handle something on the computer, especially since it's fast, cheap, and I can get ideas from awesome pages and make my own spin on it! And best of all - it's easy! I have seriously been doing it every spare moment! The past two days have been torture because Jake has taken the computer with him and I have sat at home imagining the pages I could be making! Okay, so it's not that bad, but it is bad enough for me to scrapbook during the most recent BYU game and hardly even pay attention, which for me is huge! I have been using Scrapbook Factory Deluxe and I absolutely love it! It is user friendly and has tons of pre-made pages where you just drop your picture in or you can make your own custom pages. Here is a page I made in less than 10 minutes for Wilson's Quilt: Usually what happens when I scrapbook is that I get great ideas and then ruin it as I put too much on and there is no way to fix it. With this, I just delete it and I'm good! I am in love!

Welcome Hallie!!

I have a new niece! Hallie Peterson was born on Friday night and I have been able to babysit her the last few days while her mom gets some well deserved rest. She is adorable! She likes to stick her tongue out (as seen in the photo below) and she always seems to have the hiccups!

Death of a Black Widow - If you are sympathetic to spiders, please don't read on...

Last night my sister Alex found a MASSIVE black widow right outside our door:

There is Jake's shoe for scale, but seriously - the camera doesn't even come close to capturing the size of this thing! Since it is right outside our door and it is extremely venomous (I read on wikipedia that although it's unlikely to cause death, it's venom would be awful to endure) and since I am scared to death of spiders we decided that this spider couldn't be saved. Now those of you who really know me will know that even seeing this spider will give me nightmares, and unless we really make sure it is dead, I will have nightmares about it coming back to get me. So we made sure it was dead dead.

If you look really close in the picture above you can see the red hourglass. Freaky.

And then, like I said, we had to make sure that this spider was dead dead.
This was for my peace of mind. Those of you with arachnophobia will understand. My parent's sure didn't. They got mad at us for torturing this poor spider. But let me assure you - the spider was dead long before we torched it. This was just for my sanity.

Waterford Weekend - Day 2

After checking out of the hotel we went to the Salomon Center in Ogden and first played mini-golf

and then went bowling where Robbie almost won - Jake beat him after the last frame and Jake was the only one of us who bowled without bumpers!

After that we went and played on these bumper cars twice! We were the ONLY ones in the whole place because everyone else was in school so it was fun and we didn't have to worry about being too loud!

The last thing we did was go to this place called iFLY where you fly in this vertical wind tunnel and it simulates sky diving but without all the risks! It was crazy fun, but also really odd to have a ton of air flying up your nose! I'm going to try to get out movie of us skydiving on here, but who knows if I'm technically savy enough to do that.

All in all, we had a great Waterford Weekend!

Waterford Weekend - Day 1

Last week Jake and I took my little brothers Conner and Robbie on a fun filled two days before they start school. It's kind of a tradition in our family since they start school way after most people for them to get a weekend of fun while everyone else is in school. Since my dad is out of town, I was put in charge of it this year so we went to Salt Lake and had a blast! First we went to the Discovery Children's Museum at the Gateway:
















Then we went to the zoo




















Then we went to the hotel and swam, ate, and fell fast asleep - after some talking and giggling between the boys after lights out of course!

My Unique Name

I saw this on my friend's post and thought it would be fun, especially since I have always thought that I had such a unique name. So here was a chance to prove it! I put in Mari Cuthbert and...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. http://howmanyofme.com">How many have your name?

So then I tried Mari Doggett (my maiden name) and...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. http://howmanyofme.com">How many have your name?

Yes!! I am unique! I don't know how they get these statistics, but I like them! However, to be fair, I also put in my real name and found out that there are 5 people out there with the name Martha Cuthbert and 12 poor people out there named Martha Doggett. Who would have thought!?! I also learned that Cuthbert is much more rare of a last name than Doggett. Oh the things you can learn on the internet!

Mini Vacation!

Jake rarely ever has a day off from both school and work, and when he does he usually has homework that he has to do. However, every so often, he will have a day off where he has absolutely no homework to do. Such a day came last Wednesday, so my mom, being the generous one that she is, sent us up to Salt Lake on Tuesday night for an overnight mini vacation! We stayed in the Marriott in the Executive King room! The bed was so soft it was like sleeping on a cloud! Here was the view from our room: We ordered room service and ate dinner in bed and then had breakfast in bed the next morning! We then went to the Gateway and played around there - my favorite was playing at the children's museum! It was fun, even though we didn't have any kids with us! Here I am pretending I'm a TV anchor and here is Jake playing with the wind tunnels. Then we went and walked around temple square - having the most fun wandering around the basement of the visitor's center - and then we headed off to home. It was a great day to just do whatever we wanted!