Just For Fun!!

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot...anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. :)

Blogs, Blogs, Everywhere

So on Friday night, Chris went up to scout camp for the night leaving me all alone. So rather than being bored at home, I called up my wonderful sister, Theresa, and went to her house to crash her girls night with Christi. After I got there, Theresa told Christi that she needed to check out my new blog. Well one thing led to another and before they knew what was coming for them, I talked them into starting blogs themselves. I mostly felt like I needed to help my friend list grow, I don't have enough on here yet. So rather than going swimming like they had planned, we spent the whole night blogging. We had a fabulous night hangin' out and laughing. Thanks so much girls for fun night and keeping me from being lonely...(don't tell Chris that I ended up not really missing him too much. And Chris if you are reading this, I'm totally just kidding.) Sorry, no pics of that night. I need to get used to being a blogger and taking more pictures when I go out. I guess you will just have to check out their blogs to see the fruits of our labor.

So then today, as I was driving home, I convinced my mom that she too needed to join the wonderful world of blogging. And once again, another one bites the dust. I figure that I was able to resist for such a long time that now, if I'm going down, I'm taking everyone of you with me. Because she is still living in the stone age with dial up Internet, I had to do most of the work for her. But she is now up and running. I hope to see her putting all of my hard work to use and actually doing something with it. I know she went to see Mamma Mia tonight, how about you blog about it, Mom!

After that, my friend Katie brought over her baby so she could go to the stake dance. No Katie is not a teen mom, she just can't resist going to those dances. Its kind of an addiction actually, she should really get some help. Ok, the real reason is that her husband is in the bishopric, so they somehow get suckered into a lot of these kinds of things. Which is fine by me, then I get to hang out with the cutest girl ever!! It really is a win-win situation; Katie gets a break and I get my Bella fix. Chris and I had so much fun with Bella. I wasn't sure how she would do at my house because she is such a home body, but she was so good. She was in such a good mood all night, especially since she was up past her bedtime. I thought she was going to fall asleep at one point, but all of a sudden she got her second wind and was wide awake. I love watching Chris with her. This is one baby that he truly loves and enjoys. They were chillin' watching a movie together. She was even rubbing his belly for him...one of his favorite ways to be pampered. When I see him with Bella, I know he will be such a great dad one day.

So some of these pictures are actually of Chris, which goes against everything that The Dog Blog supports, but I just couldn't resist. They were just too cute not to share with all of you. Plus, Rogue is on my *hit list today. I walked into my room to look for something when all of a sudden I heard a strange noise. When I turned around, I found Rogue pooping on my bedroom floor. What the heck is that all about?!?!? She is a year and a half old already. Shouldn't all of that be out of her system by now? I just don't understand what I did wrong. I really can't complain too much. This is a very rare occurrence with her. Kona on the other hand...you know. I could go on more but I'll save the rest of this rant for another day.

Here is Chris and Bella chatting. And of course we can't forget Bella's baby elephant. This thing will keep her happy for hours. Maybe that's why she was so happy all night.

This is Chris trying to get Bella to smile for the camera. She was all smiles and laughing till the camera came out

Finally a smile!!

Here they are enjoying the movie. No wonder why they get along so well.

They are finally starting to wind down. They were both ready for bed.

World Ventures

A few months ago, my friend Heather Scott started telling me about a travel thing that she had just started and that I needed to check it out. I kept ignoring her for a while and figured that she'd just stop bugging me about it. Finally, she invited me to a travel party at her house. So I decided that I just needed to go to her party and smile and say no thanks just to get her off my back. The whole time leading up to the party, Chris and I kept saying to each other that there was no way that we would be signing up for this. We have started with a few network marketing companies in the past and were left with a bad feeling about them. The time of the party finally came and as we listened to the presentation both Chris and I started getting excited about it. After the presentation was over, we looked to each other and I could tell Chris wanted to sign up but we were both too afraid to admit it. After a few minutes of talking about it, we both decided that we wanted to be World Venture-ers! Even my dad, who I would have never though would sign up for something like this, signed up. We even won a free cruise...well actually my dad won but was very kind to give it to us to enjoy. The more we go to the meetings, the more excited we get. Here is our website...

http://www.christophermcrae.worldventures.biz/

Please check it out and click on the 1, 2 and 3. Or feel free to call or email us and we'll take you to a party or answer any questions that you may have. They raffle off cruises or vacation packages at all of the meetings as an incentive. We would love to have someone come with us on our cruise. I promise there will be no pressure to sign up...Chris and I are so excited about it and just want to share it with others. What better way is there to make money than to make money while you are traveling?!?! Just last week, Chris and I hosted a travel party of our own. Here are a few pictures from it.

Us waiting for people to come in and get "lei-ed"

This is us watching the presentation

This is Chris after everyone left. He was so pooped from all the excitement!!

Rockband!!

Ever since we got out wii, Chris and I have been waiting for Rockband to come out for it. Well it finally did so we saved up our pennies and we got it this past weekend. It is totally awesome and I feel like thats all we really did this weekend. Our friends Angee and Robby came over to break it in with us and we were ROCKING all night long. It is so fun to watch Chris because he gets so into it. We had a great time playing but I'm sure our neighbors will be happy when we get tired of it.

Here is Chris on the drums...

...and here is Val on guitar

We would be more than happy to have whoever wants to come over and play with us. We need all the practice we can get.

Other events this weekend...On Friday night we went with Laurie, Jen and TJ to see Mamma Mia. It was tons of fun and I loved every minute of it. We saw the play last year with my family and I've been dying to go see it again since then. So I was super excited when I found out they were making a movie. For the past 2 weeks or so, all I've listened to is the soundtrack (thanks to my fabulous mom for buying it for me) and I plan on listening to it for at least a few more days. I highly recommend going to see it!

Thanks Katie!!!!

I just wanted to give a BIG thank you to my friend Katie for helping me start my blog. I couldn't have done it without you.

my first post

This is my first blog, its just a test...so bear with me. My sister in law Jen keeps insisting on me starting a blog so she can blog-stalk me. This is me and my husband Chris. We have been married for 3 years now and are living in Maricopa. I do hair and Chris works for a masonry company. When we aren't busy or working, we mostly like to hang out at home snuggling.

Ready...Set...BLOG!!!