Home for the Holidays

We're going home for the holidays! And when I mean home, we're hitting just about every city I've ever lived in on the way. We'll make a quick dinner stop in St. George (where my parents currently reside), and drive the rest of the way to LA to Matt's family. We'll spend Thanksgiving day there with his family, and then on Friday we'll head up to Sacramento for the rest of the weekend. My brother and his wife are sealing and blessing thier daughter in the temple of up there. We'll be able to see the rest of my family, as well as most of my Dad's extended family which some of whom have never even seen Alexis, crazy huh? So it will be an insane amount of driving, and we'll probably be more tired by the time we get back then when we departed on this so-called vacation, but I'm excited to do it!

So HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all, and jump start on your shopping, cause there are only 31 days until Christmas :)

4th Folder, 4th Picture

I've been seeing this tag on several blogs now (post your 4th picture in your 4th folder), and I've been waiting with bated breath for my turn...well maybe I've been breathing normal but I was hoping my turn would come around sooner or later, thanks Alisa. So here it is! This is my good friend Gina, and this was taken at a baby shower for my other good friend Jana. In some fun news, Jana of course had the baby we were expecting at that time, and Gina (cute gal in the pic) gave birth to twins a month ago! She had just announced at that party. Time sure flies!

Reaching For The Stars

Matt Here.

Great blogging topics have once again been coming to me in day visions and other eureka moments, not unlike how Dr. House miraculously realizes a life saving diagnosis in a moment of clarity and genius. There is probably a direct correlation between the Laker's winning streak (now 11-1, woohoo!) and my general good mood and clever wit. I've decided that if the Lakers win it all this year, I'll go out and buy myself a new team jersey. Actually, here in Utah, Lakers fans are tolerated about as much as the Plague and polygamy jokes, so I'll most likely have to buy that memorabilia online. That really puts a wet blanket on my wild and crazy plans, since anything I buy with a credit card must pass under the all seeing eye of she who must be appeased. Now I'm rambling.

In totally unrelated news, our candy apply business has started to pick up again now that people are starting to recover from the Halloween crash and the candy high and are once again on the search for sugar and clever gifts. Our business has reached a new level of status in the community; we received an order today from none other than Merrill Osmond. Yes, that Merrill Osmond. Our business now caters to an exclusive group of celebrities, wealthy businessmen and social elite (and anyone else who can do a simple Google search and place an order on our site; please feel free!).

That's all I got. certainly more later.

When I Was Your Age!

Matt Here.

I must be getting way old. I like to listen to the radio when I drive and listen to some online music sites at work. As many of you know, I am a secret thug and usually listen to gangster gangsta rap. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that rap is not as good as it once was. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Lil' Wayne, but what out there is as good as some of the classic albums like Dre's The Chronic & Aftermath 2001, Tupac's Greatest Hits, B.I.G.'s Life After Death, or Diddy's No Way Out? Those are timeless.

Anyways, I have recently tempered my choice of music and thought I'd share some of my favorite non-rap songs with you. Some of these are mainstream, others not. If I were way trendy (normal?), I would have an ipod and these would all be on it:

DCFC, I Will Follow You. This got a little play some time ago, then disappeared. It has now reappeared.

PINK, Sober. Just making its way onto the radio here. I always turn the sound up and rock it.

Jeff Buckely, Hallelujah. You may recognize it from Shrek, this isn't the original, but it's way better than all the other covers out there. Sad to say, Jeff drowned in a river shortley after recording this.

Beyonce, If I Were A Boy. What's the deal? This is totally sappy and girly, but I dig it!

Marvin Gaye, National Anthem. I've been known to listen to some of the Gayester, so when I heard this was the theme song for Team USA Basketball 2008, I had to hear it, so do you. It was controversial when he first sang it, now it's a classic.

Also important to note, the Lakers continue to roll, posting the best record in the NBA, while the Jazz complain about injuries while the lose to the equally injured Spurs, as well as the Wizards, Bobcats, Knicks, and any other organization that can find 5 guys off the street to wear a uniform. Life is good.

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Apples and More

Matt Here.

So Alexis and I made a trip to get some candy apple supplies this evening. As usual, we were rocking out to some Rhianna on My 99.5 FM. It is a really cool radio station that you can call in and record a simple message that will be played on the air shortly after. All of a sudden I saw this really cute looking Chihuahua looking dog running down the middle of the road staring into my headlights. I saw it again just a second later in my rear view mirror as it was flipping around in the air. I thought to myself that it was a little late for dogs to be out by themselves, so I turned around, but when I caught up to the dog it was taking a nap on the side of the road. Silly dog.

I wanted to tell the owner what the dog was up to, so I called the radio station and left the following message, which I heard on the drive home after buying the apples:

"This is Matt from Taylorsville, if you are looking for you really cute dog, it is taking a nap on 6200 South. You better go get your dog, it looks really tired. Thanks My 99.5!"

True Story.

Happy Birthday Jacob!

A good friend in our ward had a birthday party on Friday. It was lots and lots of fun!! We had pizza, kicked balls around, and each kid had a hand in the pinata. Unfortunatly our kids weren't strong enough to do any damage, so Marci rocked that thing! Thank you Marci for a great party, and to Jacob for being born!

It's Autumn Time!!

If you'd been in town last weekend, you would have thought we skipped Fall...but luckily the snow melted and we were able to enjoy the leaves this weekend. Matt worked really hard to rake them all up, and Lexi worked equally as hard to spread them around again :)







She has also taken to dolls, Elmo's, and other smaller toys as of late. She drags them around the house, gives them drinks of juice, puts them in the highchair for breakfast, and puts them down with a blanket for a nap. She also put Elmo on the other side of the swing while she was playing outside...does this kid need a sibling or what?

New President...What's New?

Matt here.

I'm not sure if you've heard, but I guess we have a new president. Christa went out with the girls on Tuesday, so I got to hang out at home and watch the happenings unfold. I'm not a big fan of Obama, but after reading the news today, I'm glad Sarah Palin isn't making any important decisions; apparantly she's not too up to date on world issues, like who the members of NAFTA are, and that Africa is, in fact, a continent. I think she is somewhere in this video.

A bunch of people are freaking out because they think the country is going to self destruct and sink into the ocean on it's way down to hell. Really, are you serious? To tell you the truth, I don't think he's all that bad.

A great story in newsweek talks about his devout Christian beliefs, he is against gay marriage and will let the states decide, he plans on lowering our taxes (with the exception of all my close friends, associates, business partners, aides, advisors, personal gurus, and mentors who make more that $250k), and he supports a higher education tax credit available to all. I think he is a good, moral man and I hope he can make this country a better place.

The truth is, what can a president really do that affects me? Someone was ranting about how we will have to pay more for gas. Really? Gas was $1.25 when Bush came into office. Are the current prices his fault? I guess maybe if that war he is running in the Middle East has anything to do with it, but then again, we were all gung ho for that 5 years ago, and people should stop driving SUVs.

I guess I can support him for many of the same reasons I support Ron Paul; we need a change from all those cheats and liars (Democrat and Republican) running our county, and I think he is that.

Hey, and how about those Lakers!!

Pumpking Carving

Our good friends the Wilde's invited us over to carve pumpkins on Halloween Eve. I was impressed with all the skills that were shown. Even Ian got into the fun. Zack seemed to have more fun playing on the counter than with the pumpkins.

Singing Time

Alexis LOVES to sing! She is getting really good at some of the words, however she is easily distracted! Here is Baa Baa Black Sheep for you.