Trying to leave on a jet plane

Our adventure, trying to get home from Virgina

So all of us had airplane issues at some point on the trip. My dad's plane got delayed 7 hours in Houston on the way to Norfolk, got to his hotel around 5am. Sucky! My brother Eric's plane got cancelled and couldn't get re booked till the next night so he had to miss the graduation.

Ours was quite the adventure.

We get on the plane to go from Norfolk to Atlanta, it had already been delayed a half hour and our layover was just under an hour. We were worried about missing our connecting flight, especially cause the Atlanta airport is huge! While sitting on the plane in Norfolk waiting to take off, the pilot says there is a ground stop in Atlanta because of bad weather, we couldn't even take off till it was lifted. half hour later the ground stop was lifted and we left for Atlanta. We missed our connecting flight by a good 20 minutes. to get re booked you just scan your ticket and a machine gives you your new ticket. We were now Scheduled to go to San Diego then to Salt Lake make it to SLC at 1 AM. We were only going to have about an hour layover again. Take a shuttle to our gate. Wait around, then hear that the flight to San Diego got delayed and we weren't going to make our connecting flight. Time to get re booked again. This time we talked to an actual person who said there was a "better" direct flight we could get on that would get us there at around 9 PM instead. Great! So we get on a shuttle again to go wait at that gate. After waiting for a couple hours, the flight got delayed an hour, immediately followed by being cancelled. Time to wait in line to be re booked again, we are now struggling to be patient. We get to the front and a guy comes to the side and asks the lady at the desk if he can go first. She says he has to ask us. We didn't want to let him go. I ask "are you trying to get re booked on the Salt Lake flight?" "Yes" "Well then I don't think so, we don't want to loose a spot" He proceeds to tell us how has a deadly disease in his jaw that is worse than flesh eating. He needed to get to the U of U hospital for an emergency surgery. He had been booked on that flight because he was told it was the most sure one not to be cancelled or delayed. He paid $1,200 for a first class ticket so he would be sure to have a seat. Bad luck. A closer look at him and we notice that is jaw is about twice the size it should have been and he had little tubes coming out of his neck. "Wow okay, by all means go ahead"

We all ended up on a flight that they had just made just for those of us who were having trouble getting to Utah. Another shuttle ride later, and we are at a very colorfully decorated gate. Strange. An hour of waiting, and our gate gets changed. Hop back on the shuttle and we are at a gate right next to our first one. What a day. We boarded that flight an hour after the scheduled time. Glad to just finally be on a plane. Once we are all settled in our seats, the pilot comes on the speakers and says we are just waiting for the catering to show up and then we can leave. Heaven forbid we leave with out our peanuts! I was just planning on sleeping the whole way home, not snacking. It took and hour and a half for the snacks to get there. Finally we take off. It was actually really pretty with all the lights outside. We slept on and off most of the way. We make it to Salt Lake City at 2:30 AM, home 4:30. We had to be back in Logan at 7 AM for a food co-op. We only got two hours of sleep, picked up our produce, went back home and slept till 1 PM. Longest day ever. I've never been so happy to get to lay down in my own bed. I never want to see the Atlanta airport again. That's for sure. 12 hours of waiting there were more than enough. Oi

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Loves!

Finally VIRGINIA/DC huzzah!

Dr. Kevin---Mermaids are a symbol of Norfolk and are all over

The beach after the graduation and dinner on the pier

Petting sting rays at the aquarium---Corn hole! Great local game!

Battleship. Sign pointing wrong way----Trapped in Williamsburg

Fishing in the Ocean------------------Aaron caught a freakin Shark!

Teddy--------------------------------Utah baby!! The WWII memorial

Lincoln and Lincoln------------------------------Hello Abe!

The white house----------------------------Snipers on the roof!

Reflection-----------We are the dot at the bottom. It's sooo tall

Nats VS. Mets!---------------Buzz Aldrin's uniform at a Smithsonian

Well, that pretty much sums up our vacation. I Finally figured why it wouldn't let me edit or organize the pictures so I could get this blog posted already. So, a little late, but here you go.

We had a lot of fun! It was so great to see my brother graduate! Such an accomplishment. He's such a smarty. I wish I had some of that in me.

While in Virginia we went to Williamsburg, the beach, fishing, an awesome old dinner and movie theater, and the aquarium. Fishing was my favorite! I didn't catch any thing, but it was cool to see what everyone else caught. Aaron caught a shark, a guy next to us caught a sting ray, my dad caught a pig fish that snorts. We forgot sunscreen, so we all got burned, but I got fried. I've never been burned so bad in my life. I don't know what it is with me and getting horribly burned with giant blisters lately, but I seem to be really, very good at it. I'm still peeling and pink some places. I'm so glad it doesn't hurt or itch any more though.

The aquarium was awesome too. We got to pet horse shoe crabs, some other kind of crab, starfish, and friggin sting rays! I love petting the sting ray's cause they are killer animals!They killed one of the greatest outdoors guys ever, and we can just stick our hands in the tank and pet them? Crazy!

In DC we did the typical touristy stuff. Took the Metro into town, saw the monuments, a few of the Smithsonian's, went to a National's game (they won!), and the National Archives, which was so cool to see! At the Nats game, apparently something historic happened involving a triple play and a home run by the same person... or something like that... I don't know. I'm not a huge baseball fan. It's hasn't happened since like 1950 something though. But it's really cool that I was there to sort of witness that :) I loved the game though. It was great! DC is always so much fun!

Great vacation! Time to start planning the next one! :)

The end!

Loves!

GO NATS!

Cinco de Mayo! Ole!

Today is the fifth of May.

Honestly,

I don't know why it's celebrated.

But it is. So I decided to join in on the celebrating this year. So HERE is how I chose to celebrate:

That's attractive.

It's a chicken nacho cheese chalupa from Taco Bell, which is almost Mexican food. It also happens to be my second favorite fast food joint. Mmmmm I also had some cinnamon twists which I love cause they are cheap, tasty, and almost no calories. Three of my favorite adjectives. Okay, so only two of those are adjectives, but you get what I mean.

The festivities of the day will continue later on tonight when we go to El Sol for dinner. El Sol is Aaron's Favorite Mexican eatery. Will be a good night.

This last part is only for the girls. LOOK AWAY BOYS! LOOK AWAY.

Okay so here's a good deal for you. If you girls go to Walmart, be sure to check out the feminine products isle. If you buy specially marked Always ultra thin pads or Tampax pearl tampons (which are probably the best tampons on the market, I must say) you get a free movie ticket with purchase. If you get the paper, in the Sunday paper there was a coupon for both in the P&G add. So get something you already need, at a discounted price, with a side of free movie tickets. Why not? It doesn't expire till November. So something I learned the hard way with this, don't go online to redeem the ticket till you are ready to use it. Once redeemed you must use it within 30 days.

Well, that's all for now.

Loves.

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Blog spam

I sure do wish I would stop getting spam comments from some random Asian people all the time! It's quite annoying. Any one else get these? If you see them in my comments, don't click on their links.



P.S. Happy May! Summer is soooo close! Then it will finally be Bear Lake season! I'm soo excited! :)


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I love most of you! ;)

Just thought you should know...

Most days....

We are nerds. But that's okay, because we love nerds.

This is the aftermath of Fundip. Remember that? We sure do!

Maybe we should grow up... but probably not. Life would be soo boring as a mature person.

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Spaghetti pie

Oh hello there!

Remember that time I burned my hand? Yeah, that time. I know I keep bring it up. But this will probably be the last time... hopefully.

Any way... when I burned my hand I was making Spaghetti Pie, a recipe my mom would make and we all loved.

So I made Spaghetti pie for the first time since the burn this last week. I was proud that I made it without burning myself this time. I'm pretty sure Aaron was surprised I got through it too. Of course I had to document such a feat.

Also I don't know if ya'll have heard of Spaghetti Pie before so I thought I should educate you in what it is. It's basically just what it sounds like. Pictures describe it better than I could though so here ya go:

Before cooking

After! Yumm-o. It has eggs and Parmesan cheese

in the noodle "crust" to hold it together. Sooo tasty.

Playing a little game of catch up.

I guess I should finally put the pictures from Easter on here. First I'll tell you what we did. Saturday we were going to dye eggs together but after conference, shopping, eating out with Aaron's family, and making frog eye salad to take for dinner the next day, we ran out of time. So the plan was to do it Sunday. Sunday morning turned out to be a lot busier than planned. After making breakfast, finishing the frog eye salad, and the morning session of conference, it was time to get on the road. We decided to go to my dad's house for Easter since my family still makes a pretty big deal out of Easter. It was a fun time. We ate dinner, then had an Easter egg hunt. I am the youngest of my three brothers, then there are my step siblings, which there are five of. There are two that are younger than me, one by just a few months, and one that is 18. So we are all adults, Maybe a little to old for Easter egg hunts.... but we all had a good time. All of us, even my cute little grandma Lucy were running around the house like children getting our eggs. There were really only two kids in on the hunt, and only one of them was old enough to walk or really even care about it. So it was a house full of adults enjoying being kids again. We got 5 eggs of candy and 1 with different amounts of money in it from 2 to 5 dollars. Aaron won big with a fiver and I lost with only two. It was a good time. I really loved seeing my nephews. Carter is going up so fast and is adorable. Too bad he still cries every time I hold him. Max is way too old and needs to stop growing up. He's a little smarty pants.

We were having a good time and didn't end up getting home till it was too late to dye the eggs. So we didn't get our eggs dyed till the day after Easter. haha but it was still fun! I am still a kid at heart, so I love doing things like that. Aaron calls me "youthful" which is a nice way of telling me I'm immature. :)

Here are pictures of our egg dying:

Umm how cute is he? Aw! And look, No beard!

These are our eggs. Aaron got creative and drew all over his.

They look pretty nifty too. Mine are the plain boring ones :)

That is all.

Loves!

One month

One month from today we will be on an air plane headed to Virginia! My brother is graduating from medical school there. We will also drive up to DC and see all the sights there. We'll be there for one week. The last time I went to Virginia was for my senior trip. It was a ton of fun! That is the only other time I've been on an air plane. I'm so excited! Real vacations are a pretty big deal for me since my family didn't really have any. This is sure to be a great trip! My brother and sister-in-law are very entertaining, and it'll be the first real trip with my lovely husband. I don't get to see my brother very often since he lives so far away. He'll be doing his residency in Alaska, so not really much closer, but a great vacation spot none the less :) We only get to see them about 2 times a year normally. I got to see them quite a bit last year since we all decided to get married with in 4 months of each other. What a crazy year!
Well, I just wanted to tell ya'll how excited I am.
That's all.
Loves!

Can I brag for a minute?

Sooooo I just got home from a shopping trip a good old K-mart. (Fifth one this week, yes I have gone shopping with double coupons everyday this week.) Let me just tell you, I am very proud of myself for this one. Here is what I bought:

Dove Ultimate deodorant

Air Wick Aqua Mist air freshener

Hunt's Snack Pack 4 pack

Wheat Thins

Pepperidge Farm soft chocolate chip cookies

and a box of Kashi granola bars

for just 25 CENTS! And I won a free Axe Shower Gel with their rewards card.

Umm yeah.... How cool am I? haha

Don't be jealous, just make your way over to K-mart and get your own awesome double deals. It ends tomorrow though, so don't wait!

Just has to brag real fast. Thanks for letting me! :)

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Loves!

Double Coupons? Yes please!

Hi!

Here's another good deal for ya'll to partake in.

As if coupons weren't the best thing ever invented by themselves, this week is double coupon week at K-mart!!!

Meaning, you take in your regular old coupon and the price of it gets doubled $1 off = $2 yada yada. They will do this for any MANUFACTURER coupon up to and including $2 in value. So $4 off one item max. However you can only use it for five things a day. Also, it can't be the same thing twice in a day. You do have to sign up for there savings card to get it to work, but that's free and only takes 2 minutes. If you already have the savings card, then you just have to take it with you. This will not work for K-mart's coupons they send out. Only Manufactured ones.

Want a huge amount of coupons so you have some to take to K-mart everyday this week? Use these websites for free printable manufacturer coupons:

Coupons.com

Smartsource.com

Redplum.com

with some of these coupons you can use them to get things for free when doubled. Have I mentioned I love free? :)

Here is a website to go to to get a $2 women's dove deodorant that if you take in to K-mart this will make it FREE! :)

http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?bt=vi&tqnm=qe1hbff838908&o=56460&c=DV&p=p1fhUijM

How cool is that?

This goes till Saturday!

Now, go to K-mart and save a bundle!

Have fun!

Love love love love love!

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