Past the Holidays

Ok so I'm told I haven't updated my blog since Thanksgiving and it was a surprise! I guess I haven't. Here goes...

The Holidays came and went. Too quickly. It was so great to go home for a week and half and hang out with my family (minus Heather, Adam and Hunter). I was really sad to leave, especially to come back to Utah with snow and temps just over -3. Yes I mean -2. It's been cold.

Now I'm just concentrating on Wedding Planning. I'm almost done, just need a photographer I think. I did get my dress! Well I found it, I'm waiting for mom to come to buy it. She's coming in 2 weeks and it's taking so freaking long! January was the longest freaking month. It dragged like no other. I just want to see my parents and February can't come any slower than it has been. It's been very frustrating!

My honeymoon is booked and I'm just planning things to do while we're in South Lake Tahoe. I'm excited. I can't wait to get married. Cody's talking about it all reasonable, like he believes it's actually gonna happen and he'll have to be part of it. It's so refreshing after all the no cooperation I was getting :). I'll post pictures of my wedding dress whenever I get my bridals done. I'm so excited! did I mention that?

Thanksgiving!!

I know its been a loooong time! Sorry! Here we go. I got a new nephew and he's adorable, as seen in previous pictures. I have more. I also have some of vacation to Newport, OR with my fam and Cody. It was sooooo much fun! We didn't do a whole lot, the weather was cold and snowy. We went shopping, the boys went golfing, ate food, played Halo with eachother and strangers live, ate Thanksgiving Dinner!, went shopping more, played football on the beach, frisbee, walking on the beach, laid around. You know, vacation. I love being with my family the few weeks a year that I get to. Oh and I think we have a wedding date! Tentatively June 4. Details to follow. Woohoo! I'm excited much. Here are some pictures for you!



Dad and Hunter


Me and Hunter


Football!


Lunch at Mo's


Heather and Hunter


After Hunter's Blessing

Full October

So it seems like October was so busy and that lots of things happened. I'm sitting here trying to think of everything that did happen. I came up with a few things, way less than I'm sure took place this month. But I'll fill you in.

On October 11, 2010 my nephew Hunter Keith Ivey was born, he was 4 lbs. 10 oz. Heather was in labor for 7.5 hours, easy compared to many people's first babies. He was due on November 11 so he's a month early. I finally got to Skype with him a couple nights ago. That was great! He's sooooo cute!! I can't wait to see him in person. That happens in 3 weeks!



Hunter and Grandma! (my mom)



Chantiel's birthday was this month! I got her Beauty and the Beast. I got the same thing for Heather's birthday. They both got their present really early cause I was afraid that they would buy them before I gave it to them. And that's probably true for both because it's only available for a limited time. You know, then it goes back in "The Disney Vault". Love that movie, so I got me a copy too :)

My (our) dog died this month as well. She was 14 years old. You know, that means that she was our pet for more than half of my life. That's a freakin long time. I bawled a couple times this month thinking about her. I'm still sad. I miss her. She was a really good dog. Really good. I loved her.

Anyway, enough with the sad. It was Halloween today! I didn't do anything to celebrate. I gotta say, I'm pretty boring. I wanna have a Halloween party next year when I have my own place. And since most of my friends have kids, I'm not sure how that'll work. I've got a while to think about it. That also means that it's my Birthday in 3 days. I'll be a quarter of a century old. :) presents! Ok, I'm not so selfish that I think everyone should give me gifts. Seriously, I don't expect anyone to do that. But I'm not gonna lie, I love getting presents! Even little ones, it's just fun.

I'm gonna get to bed, lots to do this week and it's late. Need to sleep.

Holy Calves

So we had a girls night tonight that was just amazing as usual! I really do appreciate my time with a few close friends to chat and give each other advice and be goofy. It's really great time spent. We decided to go to Olive garden and left in a rush to get there because it was closing in 20 min. I'm sure they just loved us. We could tell how much our waitress hated us for being there, but who cares about grumpy people. It's your job. Don't like it? Get a new job. We had a blast and ate wonderful food, and this amazing triple chocolate mousse cake thingy.

After we left there, we went to Chan's house and hung out for a couple hours. I realized that I have the biggest, hardest calf muscles I have ever had in my life. Ballet is amazingly calf friendly. I have a rock hard knot of muscle in both legs! I literally said wow when I touched them tonight. Happy Day! I'm seeing a difference in my body after 4 weeks... It's the coolest. Now if I could only get the graceful down, that'd be awesome! Mostly I wanted to let you all know about my legs cause I was so excited about it when I realized. I got nothing else...

SNL videos

So if you haven't seen the SNL skit I mentioned, I have it here. Along with the original music video so you have an idea of what it's supposed to be like.

Here's her actual video...




And whoever posted the SNL one, wouldn't let me Embed it. So copy and paste to your browser...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC7pilGoPc

We're the Dancers...

The title is from that Saturday Night Live episode with Justin Timberlake as one of Beyonce's back up dancers in Single Ladies. I loved that, and thought it was hilarious. Every time I hear the word dancers, that's what I think of. Anyway, I'm taking a ballet class. It's great! I've only gone twice but I'm having fun and I really enjoy it. I got myself some actual Demi-pointe ballet shoes even. That means I'm serious :) So last week it was just Becky and I in class. She is the most beautiful dancer I've seen up close and personal, and I am a brand new beginner. So... two opposites, but I feel like I'm improving since the first class. I'm not as uncoordinated as I've been led to believe. I think I've told myself that I'm uncoordinated since I could walk :) Tomorrow will be class 3 and I'm excited to go!

I'm mostly happy to be out of bed. I've spent the last 3.5 days in bed. I've been pretty frickin' miserable. Looooong weekend. On Wednesday I felt like my tonsils were getting sore AGAIN. So Thursday I went to work, then home at noon and crawled in bed miserable and had some antibiotics called in AGAIN. 3 weeks this round, makes sense, it's my 3rd round. So I'm feeling better today. I went to work this morning then got to get my groceries that I didn't get out of bed to grab over the weekend. I can eat solid food again!!! Woohoo! So if you're accustomed to hearing from me over the weekend, I apologize, but I didn't do anything but sleep, take drugs, and try really hard to eat mushy liquid food without crying cause it hurt so bad. (no sympathy please, one day I'll get the darn things out, tonsils, and then I would like your sympathy since I won't get to eat solid food for maybe 2 weeks) I can't tell you how tired I am of eating yogurt, applesauce, cottage cheese and canned pears. I'm ready for something good! And poor Cody, he came on Saturday (I hadn't even seen him since sunday, it must be a record) to take me to get more drugs and apparently I got him sick too. But he got over it in 2 days. And me? it's taken me 4 days of drugs to eat solid food again. Lame! But I'm feeling much better and my tonsils are almost back down to regular huge size and not sick ginormous size. Seriously, you haven't seen tonsils as big as mine, unless you've seen one of my siblings...

ok ok

So for the 3 of you who follow my blog... Nothing has happened to me since I last posted... except that a got sick again... Sad story. So I took my antibiotics for my Strep and got better. Then I got a massage 2 days after I finished my drugs and I got sick again. APPARENTLEY it wasn't all out of my system yet and the massage just kinda spread it all out and made it worse and I woke up with tonsils the size of golf balls for the 2nd week in a row. (run on sentence?) I should've figured that I was sick the night before when I had to keep from crying when Cody took me to a BBQ place when I wanted a burger; ridiculous, but then I woke up so sick and crying the next day that I realize now, that maybe it wasn't just an over reaction... (run on sentence?) So! I'm on my second round of antibiotics for 2 weeks this time and maybe it'll go away completely.

We had girls night for work tonight. It was fun. Meet at Olive Garden after work and sit there for 4.5 hours chatting. I'm sure the staff loved how long we sat... oh well. Well I guess some of us sat there that long. You know, there aren't many people you can talk to about anything, but I think Lin and Chan are my official go-to people. Cause they don't judge me and they get it :) I had someone tell me once, that they would think of me differently if they knew that I had _________ (fill in the blank). I would never think of someone differently if they did something that I didn't approve of. Mistake or no, I just don't judge people like that. Maybe I'm less judgemental than some, but I guess I just decided that I like the open minded/unjudgemental type that are my people. But I like all the other people too... and I would never think badly of you if you judge me. And I don't care what you think of me anyway. Girls night turned into something else there, that was a random tangent... my thoughts for the universe.

I don't care what you think of me. There may be some people that think I'm ridiculous (we talked about this at work girls night) for getting a boob job when I finish having kids. I get weird looks when I mentioned this, because "Hayley your boobs are fine". Well I know that, I think they're great. But when I'm done having kids and they're all shrunkin up and saggy, I might want to put them back how they were. I wouldn't do it for my husband or for the approval of others. I would do it cause it would make me feel good to look good. I would only do that for me. AND I WILL!!! MUAHAHAHA. Anyway, when I feel sexy... I feel sexy. I didn't know how to finish that. Cause you don't necessarily look sexy when you feel it... So as the saying goes, I'll get a boob job if I damn well please. Or maybe that's not a saying. :)