My Birthday!!!

So yesterday was my 22nd B'day! The night before we had stayed up late (past midnight) doing homework and stuff...so after midnight Craig said, "Check your email" He sent me a funny E-Card of a guy rapping. Then he came out with a piece of paper that said that we were going to see Spamalot on Friday (it is a Broadway musical that is on a USA tour and is here in Salt Lake for a few weeks). I was super excited of course b/c I love musicals and I hear this is hilarious.

During the actually DAY of my b'day we both had school but after I got out of class Craig took me to Ruby River Steakhouse. It was delicious! Afterward, we came home and I was expecting a bunch of people to be there but we just came in and so I thought that that was it but we then went bowling Brent and Amy came with us (Brent is Craig bro who was visiting his girlfriend for a few days and staying with us). Then when we got to the bowling ally our friend Ben was there and his friend Alisha. What was really cool is that we were the only ones there! So I said jokingly, " you rented the entire bowling ally for my Birthday!?!" It was fun to have the whole place to ourselves. We even asked them to turn on the black lights (like cosmic bowling) and they did that for us so it was super fun!!!

When we got home after bowling Craig had bought me an Ice Cream cake from Baskin Robins. It was beautiful and super yummy! I had said a long time ago that I wanted and Ice Cream cake and he remembered. Good Job Craig!!! Anyway, It was a super fun b'day and I still get to go to Spamalot so it's not over yet!

Here is us at the restaurant.
Here are some fun pics of Craig...hoping that he gets a strike
Gettin' excited and doing a hand stand
Look at those skills.
Wow, Craig is Strong!!! We are just being silly. Wanted a fun picture of the two of us. Most of you know our famous "balls" bowling picture we didn't want to do that again but we made Brent and Amy do it... it's really cute but I didn't want to post it without their permission.
Here is Amy, Brent, Ben, the B'day Girl, and Craig at the Bowling ally!!!
Here is us attempting to play DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) We aren't very good but it was fun and hard work. We were sweating by the end.

Temple Cleaning

On Friday, Sep. 7th Craig and I went to the Salt Lake Temple at 9:15pm to help clean the temple. We were excited to see some of the ins and outs of the temple. We got to go into a basement room and saw some interesting things. There were some blueprints to the temple laying out on a table, old furniture, a chandelier, etc. It was cool to see. And it was fun walking through different paths in the temple to get to different places...it was kind of confusing. What we ended up doing was cleaning the crystal chandeliers in the Celestial Rooms. It was so interesting dusting these beautiful chandeliers and seeing that they are NOT that dusty so it was interesting to think that they clean them often. You don't really think about that kind of stuff until you do it. They literally clean the temple DAILY! There are some things like vacuuming that they do EVERY DAY and other things they rotate throughout the week. It was fun. I'm going to put Chandelier Cleaning Skills on my resume now! (wink wink)

Here is a photo from when Craig and I were dating at the SLC Temple at conference time Oct. 2005. (so you have a picture to look at)

Cat for a DAY

Tonight Sharon and Rob stopped by and spent the night (on there way down to Dallas). When they got here and we were helping them get their luggage out of the car there was the cutes little Kitty in our front yard. I was playing with her and petting her and she followed us up to our door. Craig said, "let her in" so we did. She was so cute (I wish I got a picture of her cute face but I couldn't get it). She had a fun time exploring our apartment...spelling everything.

She was crawling around exploring all sorts of places.
Craig got her some lunch meat to snack on in the house and then when we thought she should leave we put it on our porch.
When I tried to let her out she just sat down right outside the door and looked outside for a little while and then wanted back in. So, she came in and out a few times...but we didn't want to keep her too long because we didn't want any bathroom accidents.
Craig and I really enjoyed having her for a few hours. We both love cats and want one someday. We hope that she comes back to visit us.

Extra Extra

On Thursday, Sep. 6 I was an extra in a training video. My friend called me the night before and asked me if I wanted to be in a "commercial" (he was miss informed). So, I said yes...since I don't have a job yet and only have night classes. It was really fun. It was my first time being an extra in a movie. It was fun to see all the behind the scenes stuff. I want to do some more extra work. It's fun and you get paid. I'll I did in the movie was walk across the scene. It was still fun though. I really want to be an extra in High School Musical 3.

Stormy Weather

Last night around 6:30 pm a storm came BLOWING through down town Salt Lake. I was in class when in first started. It was zooming through the buildings (there are 3 buildings on campus)...it was so loud. It was screaming like a ban chi. When I was walking to my car the rain was blowing 1/2 way into the parking garage. As I was driving home (which isn't far at all) there were tons of large tree branches along the road and on the side of the road. It was an intense storm, thunder, lightning, high winds, rain, etc. When I got home from school at 7:15pm the power was out there. I guess he saw the nearby transformer blow up. SCARY!

Craig's friend Kiel was driving through town on his way back to school so he stopped by and we all went out to eat at the Olive Garden (since the power was out). We thought that the power would be back on when we got back but it wasn't. One of our neighbors told us that 52,000 people in Salt Lake were out of power. It was fixed some time during the night, while we were sleeping. Here is a little video that I took out our front door...doesn't really show the really intensity of the storm but still fun. (the talking is Craig directing Kiel into our apartment)

This morning the storm raged up a little again. It was raining heavily, with a little hail included, and CRAZY LOUD thunder! It was fun watching the storm from inside with the windows open and what not.

New Apartment

Ok all...here is our new apartment in Salt Lake. It's a 2 bedroom which is so nice! We are enjoying it. Here is our kitchen, looking from the front door. Like most apartments there is always something a little weird like our washer and dryer in the kitchen! Weird, but at least we don't have to go to the nasty laundry mat any more.

This is the other side of the kitchen with the sink oh and the washer!
Here is the living Room view from the front door again (you can choose when you walk it to go left into the LR or right inot the Kitchen). And there is my sweet boy taking a nap after a long day at school.
Oh and notice that he is laying on our new couches!!!!! Hooray! We own our own brand new couches!

Here is our little entertainment wall...notice the millions of CD/DVD's, our ghetto "bunny ears", our stereo (which we hooked up to our DVD player...close to surround sound), and of course our Wii!!!! Look who's on TV...OPRAH!
This is our office/catch all room. It is still not fully organized as you can see, but it works.

We also had to put our dresser in the office because it wouldn't really fit into the bedroom.Here is the bedroom..."Where the magic happens" (like they say on every episode of Cribs on MTV...silly famous people)
And finally every girls dream...his and hers closets (not very big but they work).

Labor Day Golf

On our day off from school Craig and I took the time to sleep in, get some things done around the house and then in the afternoon we went golfing up at the U of U golf course. (it is a smaller course, great for beginners). It was the perfect time to go...we went right at dusk so the weather had cooled down. We actually didn't get to finish all 9 holes because it was too dark by the time we got to the 8th hole, but we had a fun time and it was a beautiful view of the city at sunset. It was especially fun because we have our own clubs now, thanks to Craig's brother Rob!!! It was nice not having to rent clubs. Neither of us is very good at golf, but we enjoy going golfing and we are getting better. Our new phrase is "don't try to kill the ball...be it's friend" because we always try to hit the ball super hard "kill it" and we just need to learn to be it's friend and treat it right. :0)