Exciting!

- Luke said something very exciting to me today

-The suspense of who's getting kicked off SYTYCD tonight is killing me. I hope it's Evan.

-I'm excited to have company this weekend... more excited that they're GIRLS (I miss having girl friends).... and even MORE excited that they are some of my favorite girls ever!

-I'm starting my "project" today. I've been thinking of crafts that I can do to fill my time while I'm at work. I decided that I want to make headbands:

We'll see how this goes... And how long it'll take until I get bored of this project too. (I've tried scrapbooking, reading, compiling a recipe book, etc but I find that after a short period of time I get bored and end up spending all my time playing Tetris or my newest favorite Facebook game, PathWords.) I am just a lame case.

- Me, Luke, Nate, and Roy finished our last night on our Summer Bowling League last night. Although I spent the majority of the nights being frustrated because of all the effort I would put in to bowling straight while the ball would immediately turn for the gutter, I will miss having a Wednesday night ritual that includes my hubby, friends, pizza, rootbeer, and entertainment watching some of the other bowlers' interesting techniques. We had a lot of fun doing it!

Lately..

Welp.. We've been pretty busy people lately. Lots has been going on. Here's the latest:

-My fam came into town a few weeks ago. I LOVED seeing them all. The younger siblings stayed the night at our apartment and spent the next day with us. We took them bowling, swimming, played volleyball, and took them to the mall. Busy day! That night the whole family met up and went to the Pageant of the Masters at Laguna Beach. This year's wasn't quite as good as the one a few years ago, but it was great just being with the whole fam!

-We made a trip to Vegas over the 4th of July. Unfortunately, we had to work most of the weekend, but we got off early enough on the 4th to enjoy the afternoon and went swimming. We watched fireworks that night at some casino. Pretty cool. Bad news: The AC in our car blew out on the way home :(

-We made another trip to Vegas last weekend to spend some time with Luke's family. We drove there in 115 degree weather with NO ac. blahhh. Luckily Luke and his dad are car geniuses and were able to work on it and get it to work better. Our car must have brought them a curse though, because the day we got to Vegas, the AC in his family's house broke. We're bad luck.

-Hen came to spend an evening with me this weekend. We enjoyed dinner, walked around Tai Pan, the outlet mall, and ate some Cinnabon. It was great catching up and hanging out with her.

-Yesterday Luke and I visited his friends Matt and Kendra in the San Diego area. They are a cute couple with adorable kids. We had a lot of fun with them.

- Cockroaches are back. Meh :( I JUST got comfortable going back into that bathroom after the exterminator got rid of them the first time. Now I'm back to having to flick the light on with the tip of my finger super fast so they won't jump on my hand... just in case they've escaped the tub and are on the wall. I also check under BOTH toilet lids to make sure they aren't hiding under one of them. And I examine my make up bag every morning before digging through it to start getting ready for the day. It honestly has gotten me to a state of paranoia. :(

The last little while I've been looking through the pictures that Luke and I have together. We've done some pretty fun stuff. Some of these pics just make me laugh...

stuffing me with a pillow to look preg-o.

This was the sketch Luke made of the afro man we carved in our pumpkin.


I made him a Chinese dinner and we both dressed up Chinese to eat it. haha.

Haha. Luke knew that I had always thought it would be cool to put on as many pairs of clothes as possible and sumo wrestle. He made that dream of mine come true.


Oh! and lastly I thought it would be appropriate to make a shout out to Jason Glover, the guy who got kicked off of "So You Think You Can Dance" last week (sadly). I just found out today during my SYTYCD research time that he is from FRESNO, CA and graduated from Bullard High. REPRESENT!

(Hopefully he'll prove to be someone to be more proud of than Fresno's other "claim to fame", Mr. Kevin Federline, Britney Spears' ex- husband, who graduated from CW. I think he will. Kevin's not too hard to beat.)

PS: Go Kayla and Jeanine!


PSS:
SYTYCD Season 5 tour.
West Valley City, UT.
Nov 7.
Girlfriend needed for accompaniment.

my baby boy

today's entry is dedicated to my one and only.
i just figured i'd just take a second and explain why i'm the luckiest girl in the world.

1) the first thing luke said to me yesterday morning as we laid in bed: "do you want to go clothes shopping today?" he knows that i've been having issues with my boring and plain clothes lately and he patiently trailed behind me for an hour and a half while i shopped around. although we left a little bummed that we'd spent all that time without finding anything modest/appealing, he didn't complain. instead he said that we'll just have to try again another time.

2) he works SO hard. i make money by facebooking, blogging, occasionally taking a few phone calls here and there, but basically i have the easiest job in the world. he makes money by knocking door to door in the blazing hot sun *all day every day. today he sold TWO alarms! i couldn't be more proud. he's amazing.

3) i came home from a run this morning and he had made the bed all neatly.

4) he makes me feel like a million bucks

5) he looks like this:






and I absolutely love him.

the list could continue for days and days, however i'm getting off work in just a few minutes and must get ready for tonight. we're in a prettttty legit BOWLING LEAGUE and we compete every wednesday. watch out.


*= baby i got your money

Our First Bug Encounter

Welp... this morning I was getting ready for the day in the bathroom... putting on my makeup and beginning to straighten my hair... the usual. I was just looking around the room aimlessly when I happened upon these 2 black strands coming out of the bathtub drain. First I thought it had to have been a piece of hair that got wound around the drain plug. That thought lasted for about 1 second when I saw both strands moving. It was definitely alive. It was definitely a huge bug's antennas. So I did what any normal person would do. I grabbed my phone and got a safe distance away from the drain to where I could easily take a picture of the antennas but could also easily run away screaming without it jumping on me if it decided to come out of the drain. Since my hubby was currently not at home at the time, I had to have proof of the hugeness of this bug so he would understand my reasoning behind my screaming and running around the apt like a crazy lady when I told him the story later if the bug wasn't there when he got home.

My next step was simple. Close the bathroom door, hope it doesn't come out, and wait for Luke to come home to get rid of it. A few minutes later, curiosity got to me, and for some reason I just wanted to know if it was still there. Although I was completely disturbed, grossed out, and disgusted, I was somehow also intrigued by it. When I opened the door, it was still in the tub but this time wandering around it instead of confined in the drain like it was the first time I saw it. It looked like this:

Huge and nasty.

Next, I got a piece of tupperware, held it right above the bug (but about 4 feet higher), dropped it, and ran away screaming. Needless to say... I missed, and our little visitor began running around the tub frantically.

My next conclusion was this: close the door again, but this time stuff towels and placemats at the bottom of the door so there's absolutely no way he could get out. And this was exactly what Luke came home to.

Our story has a happy ending. Luke captured the bug with the tupperware piece that I had conveniently left in the tub after my previous attempt, and threw it outside. However, being as paranoid as I am, I periodically feel like I have bugs crawling all over me. I hate that feeling.

Anyways: exciting/ new news going on in our little Stephenson household:we're making a little visit to Vegas tomorrow. Here we come!