CHRISTmas favorites

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper for sure.
2. Real tree or artificial tree? I would love a real tree but it just seems that fake ones are so much easier these days.
3. When do you put up your tree? Usually Thanksgiving weekend
4. When do you take the tree down? Usually the first week of January
5. Do you like eggnog? Most of the time...
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Probably my barbies
7. Hardest person to buy for? in laws
8. Do you have a nativity scene? Not yet
9. Mail or e-mail Christmas cards? Mail of course. It’s so fun to get stuff in the mail!
10. Favorite Christmas movie? A Christmas Story will always be my favorite.
11. When do you start shopping for Christmas? When I start figuring what to get people
12. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? nope
13. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? veggie tray
14. Lights on the tree? Yes you have to have lights on a tree.
15. Favorite Christmas song? I LOVE Christmas music!!! Josh Groban and of course the classics, Bing, Burl and I love Harry Conick Jr
16. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Well I have to travel anywhere we go, last year was Texas, this year its Riverton
17. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Yes.
18. Angel on the tree top or a star? We had a star growing up
19. Do you open Presents Christmas Eve or Christmas day? We save all of them for Christmas Day
20. The most annoying thing about this time of year? How people are so rude when they are at the stores, conme on its Christmas
21. Favorite ornament theme and color? We love our Christmas Story ornaments
22. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Turkey and Ham
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? For no drama in my family
24. Favorite Christmas tradition? watching A Christmas Story with my hubby and looking at lights.

Tag: EVERYONE!!!

Fall Harvest Ball

Garet and I went to the ROTC fall ball last night. We had so much fun. Garet does color guard but I couldnt get pictures of that obvioulsy, next time he does color guard I will get pictures, but here is one picture of Garet and I.

Halloween

Now you stay classy San Diego!!

Halloween we were at my sisters house. I was Marilyn Monroe and Garet was Ron Burgandy from Anchorman. Garet likes to call me his latina Marilyn.

Pumpkin Carving

Garet and I decided to carve pumpkins this year for Halloween. We did it 2 days after Garet got his wisdom teeth out so he is a bit swollen in soem of these and it was also pretty late. Hope you enjoy these.

Air show

So Garet and I try and hit an air show once a year. Last year was Reno and this year we went to Idaho to the Mountain Home Air Force Base. We had so much fun. Garet had governors day for army that day in the morning and than we came home and grabbed our bags and left for Idaho. I love taking road trips when its just me and Garet. We listen to talks on cd or books or dont listen to anything at all, just talk and enjoy each others company. One of the really cool things while we were in Idaho was that Garet and I started to talk to one of the pilots of the F-22 Raptor, CPT Patrick Williams is the youngest pilot to fly the F-22. The thunderbirds were there to do their demonstration and that is always amazing to watch. Also the Idago Guard was there and had the Apache Helicopter do there demonstration too. That was cool but it would have been better if it were Garets apache's doing it but maybe we can try and get one next year at Hill Air Force.

Porters Place

So Garet and I decided to take our friend Nels to Porters Place in Lehi. Nels ordered the Destroying Angel burger which is one pound burger. He ate the whole thing, even the fries and beans and than finished his drink which is kind of a smoothie and finished my pecan pie. Garet got the half pound which was still huge but not as big as Nels burger.

Brilliant Weblog Award

Brilliant Weblog Award
My friend Jen awarded me the "Brilliant Weblog Award" Below are questions I have to answer and post onto my blog. Then I have to choose 7 fellow Brilliant Bloggers and pass this award along!
A. Attached or single? Attached
B. Best friend? Garet
C. Cake or pie? cake
D. Day of choice? Saturday
E. Essential item? chapstick
F. Favorite color? Red
G. Gummy bears or worms? Worms
H. Hometown? Riverton, UT
I. Indulgence? Shoes
J. January or July? July
K. Kids? currently none
L. Life isn’t complete without? Chocolate
M. Marriage date? December 28, 2006
N. Number of brothers & sisters? 3 brothers, 3 sisters
O. Oranges or apples? oranges
P. Phobias? spiders
Q. Quotes?"A Man stands tallest while on his knees"
R. Reasons to smile? Husband
S. Season of choice? Summer
T. Tag seven peeps! (see below)
U. Unknown fact about me? I have never broken a bone.
V. Vegetable? banana peppers
W. Worst habits? Biting my nails
X X-ray or ultrasound? never had an ultrasound but it sounds better than an x ray
Y. Your favorite food? pork tostada from Cafe Rio
Z. Zodiac sign? Aries
Brilliant Bloggers I am passing this along to:*
Julia*
Norda*
Melissa*
Layla*
Marissa*
Kim*
Jess*

Pioneer Day

So Garet and I went to Ft Douglas for Pioneer Day and also to This is the Place Heritage Park since have never been there. It was pretty fun. W got some sweet deals at Ft Douglas and saw some pretty amazing things at the Heritage Park. We took some pics but they are not the best but oh well. Enjoy!

Us havin fun

4th of July

Well for July 3rd we went to Centerville to watch Garets friend Robs band play. They were pretty awesome and than after they played a new band got up, I am not sure how many people have seen Sons of Provo but the guy who plays Danny was the next band up after Prospect Mali, it was pretty crazy to see Danny playing in Centerville Utah. Anyway after that we went to Robs parents to watch fireworks but than we couldnt see them so we went to a church say on blankets and than they were over, we were pretty bummed but oh well. Than on the 4th we went to Clearfield parade for the morning than drove up to Logan. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Swensons than went to the car show at the fairgrounds where it was extremely hot. After we had enough we went to Bear Lake and had lunch at the Motor Lodge than drove back to Logan. We got a call from Garets cousin saying they had there baby so we went up to the hospital and saw the baby for a minute. After the hospital we went and met my friend Quintin at the Willow Park Zoo than went back in to the fairgrounds where we went and saw the band Styx play. It was freakin AWESOME!! The only stupid thing was that they didnt even play Mr Roboto... How dumb is that but other than that it was an great show. Than we got to drive home so Garet could do homework on Saturday. All I can say is it was a long day.

Black hawk ride

So May 3rd I got to ride in a black hawk helicopter.. WOW Amazing. I dont think Lagoon will ever do justice even for the new ride. They flew us over to where the apaches have gunnery so they blow stuff up. After we watched the apaches for a few minutes (well thats what it seemed like) we got to go watch the Col. get graded on his flying, than we got back in the Black Hawk and flew over Kennecott Mine and than landed. What an experience, I hope I get to do it again someday!!

Finals week for Garet

Well Garet took his last final today and he is done for a few more weeks til he starts summer school. I am so proud of him, he has A's in all his classes except for his OB class where he has a B which is really good. We are pretty excited for him to be done with his first year of nursing school and he will have his LPN. YAY!! Also, he got a scholorship to pay for half of his summer school so we are very blessed and grateful.

St. George

Well I was in St George Thursday April 24 and just got back on Sunday the 27th from helping my sister who has twins Ethan and Alphonse who are almost a year old and Gabe who is almost 5, my sister had some surgery done where they went in and Catarized some of her endometriosis and she is trying to recover from that. WOW what a lot of work trying to take care of those little guys, I applaud all you moms out there. I knew it was a lot of work taking care of kids and being a stay at home mom but for real it is a lot of work. I think I wouldn't have mind it so much too if I had Garet there to help me, but he had school and work and wasn't able to come down, and also if I would have been able to ease into it, but the weekend is over and I am so excited to get back to sleeping all through the night and not running all over and worrying about where and what they are into. I have some pictures I took but I have to put them on later.

ABOUT MY HUSBAND


What is his name?
Garet Rocky Cooper

How long have you been together?
Since June 2005. So almost 3 years. Been married a little over a year

How long did you date?
a year and a half

How old is he?
24

Who eats more?
He eats way more by a long shot

Who said I love you first?
He did

Who's Taller?
He is 5'4 to 6'3... yeah I think he wins

Who can sing better?
that would be me not to toot my own horn

Who is smarter?
Um... definatly not me!!! Im dumber than a doorknob, I can spell better than him though.. do I get points for that??

Who does the laundry?
We both do the laundry, well ok.. usually Garet but I do it sometimes, he takes care of me

Who pays the bills?
We both do, He pays car insurance I pay phone bill, and we both pay rent

Who sleeps on the right side?
well, if im laying in bed he sleeps on the right side but if you are looking at the bed I sleep on the right side.

Who mows the lawn?
my brother in law Kevin mows the lawn. :)

Who cooks dinner?
Depends on what we are having

Who drives?
we both do, when he doesnt want to I do

Who is more stubborn?
that would be me, but we arent really bad with anything

Who kissed who first?
He leaned down to kiss me but I had to give me share too.

Who asked who out first?
UM... Neither of us really asked each other out since the way we met but it was for sure mutual.

Who proposed?
He did, November 4th, 2006

Who has more friends?
Probably him from army to work to school... yeah him.

Who is more sensitive?
We both are pretty sensitive, But I think I take this question

Who has more siblings?
That would be me, I have 6 siblings he has 3.

Who wears the pants?
I think it depends on the situation. We share the pants.