Here's my rant of little things

Yey for summer school being over with!
BOOO for it starting again next week! Can't we just catch a break!?

Yey for a healthy mom and baby Kye!
Booo for Jessica standing me up for our lunch date to have baby Kye! =)

Yey for Milo learning this past few months how to sleep on his bed at night!
Booo for him still sneaking up on the bed once and while and having me wake up to a dead leg!

Yey for a very productive Board Meeting this past week which included a General from Mexico, and Security Officials from Bahamas and Canada.
Boo to it going so well that now my dad is in Brasil getting them ready for devices

Yey for a super fun trip at Flaming Gorge for the 24th of July
Booo to getting sunburned and my delicious tan peeling off

Yey to having beautiful bark in our backyard (pictures to come)
Booo to the 9 hours of weeding that came before itYey to having 3 renters in our basement that are never there

Yey to the $$$ they provide
(I have yet to think of a con for this! yey!)


Yey to buying a new washer and dyer off craigslist for $570!! (the dark blue ones)
(we bought a new washer and dryer and Jon installed our old washer and dyer (white) in downstairs so that our renters now offically have their own washer and dyer... spoiled!)
Boo to Jon working on it
BOOO AND BOOO to Jon working everynight at his parents house remolding
Yey to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of it being finished!!
(Milo enjoys going to work with Jon though)


Yey to buying tickets to Seattle for my Birthday!!
Boo that its not my birthday yet!!

It's not what you think

Jon went to the restroom this morning and there was a wad of toilet paper in the toilet already. Odd... but what do you do? So he just tried flushing it down but it would not go down. He goes for the plunger and tries to get this thing down when he noticed this "toilet paper" was hard. Turns out it was part of Milo raw hide bone that he decided to hide in the toilet! Who does that?!

When Milos friend Roxy was living with us he didn't get raw hides that often; so when she left he began to get them again and we noticed he'd hide them all over the place (probably in fear she'd come back and steal them). In my piano books, purses, behind pillows, even my hair! Then he looks at you like you didn't see anything and walks away.

But the toilet Milo?! When Jon came out Milo was sitting outside the bathroom whining and desperately searching all over for his raw hide.

I guess I'm a sucker cause I went and bought him more bones at lunch today.

Aloha!

We just got back from our vacation in paradise and it couldn't have been better! Jon was like a little kid in a candy shop. We could not get that boy to stop for the whole 11 days on that trip.







Day 1: we went to Pearl Harbor where we attended the Arizona Memorial and toured the USS Missouri battle ship which was really neat. I'm not high maintenance but I have alot of respect for those guys that sleep in those tiny spaces!



day 2: We went to the PCC and LDS Hawaii Temple. It was fun at the PCC that the same coconut climbing man that we fell in love with 10 years ago when we were there still worked there doing the same show so we got to see him again. It is so neat that PCC to just go around and see all the different cultures all of these islands have. It got Chris (my brother) thinking that if we were to say what our culture's games and songs and traditions were... what would we say?? We came up with duck duck goose, ring around the rosies, and nursery rhymes. Anyways, in tahti i believe my dad was selected to go on stage... if anyone wants to see that video I have it!






Day 3: Last day in Oahu we decided we wanted to surf on Waikiki Beach..... this is my attempt. (I'm laying down with the blue shirt, Jon is in the white shirt) its alot harder than I thought!!
Day 4: We arrive in Kauai! We visited the Wiamea Canyon (the grand canyon of Hawaii)



Day 5: Boat dive off south shore. This has been my favorite dive so far. Maybe becuase it was my first dive with Jon. Either way we had a blast!

Day 6: We toured the Napali Coast on a boat tour (inaccessible by car) We started the trip with the skipper turning on some music...

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour. "

The funny thing was that Gilligans island was filmed on Kauai; and we too were on a 3 hour boat tour! =) Anyways it was alot of fun as we saw many sites that were used for movies including King Kong, 6 days 7 Nights, Jurassic Park etc.

Day 7: We did a lot of waterfall site seeing

on this day. We hiked down to an "80 ft" which is really 173 ft (not sure how they can be that far off!) and swam around at the bottom which was definitely a highlight. We also went to "Queens Bath"

Day 8: Today was another Scuba Day. This time it was a Shore Dive on the North Shore. I have decided I'm a boat dive kind of girl. Non of this having to walk out with all of your gear on:

Tank - 80 cubic foot aluminum, 45 lbs filled.
Regulator - 2 lbs
BC - 5 lbs
Wetsuit - 2 lbs
Weights - 14 lbs

Thats about 60 lbs to walk out on a sandy beach into the ocean and have to swim like a mile on the surface (which scuba fins are no help at all on the surface) to get to your dive spot. My dad and I have always been the 2 with the most air ending the dives; and on this shore dive I was reading an E when everyone else had at least 700!! YIKES! I'll stick to boat dives thank you! =)


Day 9: This was our last full day on Kauai and we decided to take a Kayaking trip up the waialua river to the fern grotto and "secret falls." This was such a blast! I have learned though I'm not much of a kayaker, I can't get the left and right going so I just paddled like a canoe. Hey it works!

Jon and I are the little people in the Secret Falls

Mischievous Milo

A couple weeks ago we went to dinner with my cousins Dan and Ashley. Milo was with us so we left him downstairs in an empty room. We came home to milo greeting us at the door. MILO!? we went downstairs to find this scene...

HOW DID HE DO THAT??? AND HOW DID HE FIT THROUGH THAT???

Company trip to NYC

This past week I have been in NYC for a Tradeshow for work. The trip started off fantastic when right before we got on the flight I was feeling really sick and ended up throwing up on the plane... twice! Now I can officially check that off my list. 10 extra points for me for not getting it over anyone or myself!!

We were pretty much working the whole time so we didn't get to do a lot of site seeing but our hotel was right next to times square so we would walk down there at night and play for awhile. We didn't see the naked singing cowboy, however we did see Spiderman directing traffic and "protecting the citizens" and "spiderwebbing" cars as he tried climbing up light poles. overall I say a successful trip!!

2 year anniversary

2 weeks ago Jon and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary! Man does the time fly! Feels like just yesterday we met, but yet I can't think of my life without him. We went to my favorite piano player, Jon Schmidts' concert at the Deseret Star Dinner Theater. It couldn't have been better! I love both the Jon's!! Jon Schmidt is such an amazing performer and definitly makes it entertaining for the husbands as well.

I am so thankful for Jon and everything he does for me. He is my best friend and more than I could even dream of!

Love you Jon!!!

Apparently Milo does not want anything that lives in dirt to survive....

The pictures speaks for itself....