New Decorations!

I Love Christmas! It is my favortie holiday, I start to get excited for it in August. All of the stores up here have their Christmas Decorations out now, and I Love to go look at them. I could spend hours every day looking and love every minute. Last Saturday I hit a pretty good sell at Rod Works, and today my mom and I went to Tai Pan trading. I got some pretty cute stuff.

Ben Picked out the Santa Clause. I think He did a very good job. This is my Christmas Swag. It looks so pretty!

And of Course It ALL sparkles. If you know me well, then you know that if it Sparkles, I'll probably Love it. The Picture of the Snowflake Garland just doesn't do it justice.

Jazz Opening Night

G'day everyone!!!

Well, Last night (thanks to Danielle Meacham) we got to attend the very fist home game for the Utah Jazz of the 2008-09 season! I have bugged Merridee for quite a while now to post the pictures on her blog but she is wrapped in her book Twilight...she has been in the first chapter for ages now so it can't be that great! So I thought I would give this whole blogging thingy a go.

When I was a kid and living in Melbourne, occasionally we would go to a footy match at the MCG, and we would always ride the train, so last night we decided to do the same thing which I felt added to the excitement of going. Also, yesterday morning Merridee went and bought a brand new camera for herself and so she was obviously trigger-happy with it. For example, here is silly picture of me on the train:

The Game it's self was pretty entertaining, they played the Denver Nuggets and won a close game. I was pretty neutral but found myself cheering more for Denver because I have always like Allen Iverson. Our Seats were amazing! We sat right behind where the visiting team runs out and could clearly see the expressions on the players' faces.

The most exciting part of the night was probably the players introductions, but before they did that about 20 US Military came out holding the biggest American flag I have ever seen and then expanded it as Country star Colin Ray sang the Star Spangled Banner.

It was the first night the Jazz had ever had lights out for the player intro's ands they had put in a brand new sound system too but the screaming of the near sold out Energy Solutions Arena overshadowed that!

Deron Williams and Matt Harpring were not playing due to injury and Carmello Anthony was not able to play for the Nuggets, but it was still a good close game!

So, I guess this will just about do it for the one and ONLY installment of a post done by me! Just wanted to say thanks again to Danielle, we had soo much fun!

Trains, Delta and Autumn Leaves

For my Grandma Meacham's 87th brithday, a whole bunch of my family got together over the weekend to go on the Heber Creeper. It was cold and rainy, but overall was beautiful. The leaves were gorgeous, and we had a good time.

Then After the train ride on Saturday, we went to a Deta Goodrem Concert at Keys on Main. I had never really heard of her even though she has a song that plays on the radio all of the time. It is called "In this Life" She was good and we had fun. You will all have to watch for her. She was big in Australia for a while and is now trying to make it in America.

Here are Ben and his brother Josh with her after the concert.



On Monday we went up to Monorvian Park and had Matea take some pictures of us in the autumn leaves before they all fall off. Unfortunately it wasn't a very photogenic day for either of us. But the Leaves were really pretty.
We had a very full weekend, and enjoyed it very much!

Pride and Prejudice

I talked Ben into watching Pride and Prejudice with me today. While he tried real hard to act like he didn't like it at all, I think he secretly enjoyed it just as much as I did.
It was so nice to finally have a day I didn't have to go to work or do homework. I slept in, then got to spend the whole day with Ben. I wish we could have more days just like it.

I've been Tagged

20 YEARS AGO...
1. I was two and almost 4 months old.
2. Was the youngest child in my family with Miranda on the way.
3. Had been walking for only 1 year, 9 months
4. I loved singing "Cinderelli, Cinderelli, Cinderelli"

10 YEARS AGO...
1. I was twelve, and had just started 7th grade.
2. Was in Kirt Nilsson's art calss, and he made us make these yarn things. I think I made a tiger design. I hated that class.
3. I had just started Young Women's.

5 YEARS AGO...
1. I was 17, and just starting my senior year at South Sevier High School.
2. Ben's family moved into our family's ward, and lived just down the street.
3. I was driving the citation, with a pink fuzzy steering wheel.

3 YEARS AGO...
1. Ben had been out on his mission a little over one year.
2. I started school at SUU in Cedar City.
3. Went to a play at the Shakespearean (soorey eff speeling iz rong, I've only slept 2 hours in 36 hours)Festival with my roommates Jodi and Kelci. It was A Mid-summer's Night Dream.

1 YEAR AGO...1.
1. I had just started the Weber State extension RN program at Snow College.
2. Ben was working at Wal-Mart in the Dairy section, and also was a security gaurd at Sevier Valley Medical Center.
3. We had just moved into our apartment (which I miss- especially the rent price) in Richfield

THIS YEAR...
1. I graduated from Nursing school, and took a job at Primary Children's hospital.
2. We moved to Midvale.
3. Ben started school to become a High School Health/PE teacher.

YESTERDAY...
1. I got home from work at 8 am, and wasn't tired, so I watched Dancing with wolves. That was dumb, but I just couldn't stop watching it.
2. I needed a Textbook for some homework, and couldn't get it anywhere but at Weber state bookstore. So we drove to Ogden and bought "Nursing, the finest Art."
3. We met up with one of Ben's mission companions and his wife, John and Erin Near in Tai Pan.

TODAY...
1. Well since I'm only into this day one hour, I haven't done much. It was pretty much spent on typing this.
2. Later we will drive to provo so I can do a class project with some other people.

TOMORROW...
1. We'll probably go to Church.
2. Homework- since mine is due by tomorrow at midnight. I should probably start.
3. Then we'll probably sit there and watch a movie since there isn't anyone real close to visit.

NEXT YEAR...
1. I will hopefully own my own house. I'm very sick of this apartment lifestyle, not to mention the 3 flights of stairs to get into our home.
2. We would like to go to Australia, but we'll see how much money we have, since that's pretty costly.
3. Maybe we'll decide to have a baby. But maybe not too.

Back to School

My sisters keep telling me I need to apdate my blog, but I feel like I have absolutely nothing to say. We hardly do anything fun. Ben and I just started school again. He has decided he wants to be a teacher, and I need my bachelors. I could be done, but decided to go back while I had some ambition. Even if its only a little. If I quit I'll never go back. Ben is in an immigration experience class, and it's his favorite. I guess there are people in there from 14 different countries, and someone from every continent. His teacher is very french. I'm glad that he loves school, because I don't. Although I'm very thankful for my education. Lots of people don't have the luxury so I'm very lucky.

I have a new Desk

Since we moved into our new apt, we haven't had a desk. The sceen sat on a chair, and when I'd use it, I had to sit on the floor. Tonight in Wal-mart, I found a 20$ desk that is black and silver. We just set it up, and even though it is cheap, It beats sitting on the floor.
Ben Just started his new job at UPS. He'll be an unloader. He's gone every night, but I hope the benefits of the job will be worth it.
Not much new in our lives, so hopefully I'll have something more exciting to blog next time. And maybe some pictures too!