Last Friday, on the way to my sisters, I saw a poor dog get hit by 3 cars. Not one of the idiots stopped! I pulled over, frantically trying to tell the dog to sit & stay so he wouldn’t keep trying to get up. I called 911 and they called animal control. The poor thing was still alive and I felt utterly helpless. I couldn’t try to pick it up, give it a treat or anything! I just stayed by it trying to keep it from getting up again. Finally when the cops got there, blood started coming out its mouth and ears. I couldn’t watch. I called Clayton and started bawling. He thought someone was seriously hurt, “No, I am just a wuss. Sorry to scare you, but I just saw a dog get hit”. Then when I got to my sisters—I had tried to calm myself so I didn’t cry over there—I walked in, “Sorry I am late…” then the old tears started flowing. My niece and nephew’s eyes bulged, “What is wrong?!”, once again, “Sorry, guys, I just saw a poor dog get hit and there was nothing I could do.” Hailey, says “Oh no, was it Chloe?” “No, thank goodness, but it was someone else’s dog. Hopefully Animal Control can help it.” There was to wishful thinking I guess. I am pretty sure after 3 stupid drivers hit it, it probably didn’t make it. That night I cried myself to sleep thinking about the poor thing. Sheish! It was the most awful feeling I have had—feeling like there was nothing I could do, while it looked at me—waiting for comfort. I am going to be a mess when something happens to my little furry friends!
Last night we had to take our pup to the Emergency pet care. Izzy started shivering. I put a blanket around her and a warm rice pack on her, but after 3 hours we decided to take her to emergency care. The vet said she was just sore up by her shoulders/neck. She is on “bed rest” for a week and gave her some medicine. The minute we left, she acted totally fine and this morning too. CRAZY dog! She always jumps (off the top stair, from couch to couch, off our 3 ft high bed, etc) so I don’t know how we are going to restrict her movement. She has had shoulder problems before (I guess smaller dogs usually have joint problems from all of their jumping), so I hope it clears itself up. After getting our bill, I told Clayton he needs to change his major and go into Veterinarian School. It was $91 for a visit and 10 day supply of dog asprin. Chloe is doing great. We have been trying to get a video of them playing, because it is so funny, but i can't get it to upload on here...
I went looking for Chloe the other night as we were brushing our teeth for bed. She usually waits for me to bring her upstairs to go to sleep, so I was calling her name around the house looking for her. Where did I find her sound asleep?
She is so funny, she always has to be touching something when she is sleeping, cuddled right up next to us usually. Izzy’s new sleeping spot is right up next to my shoulder….she is so sneaky too, she comes right up there as I am dozing off and periodically through the night I wake up to her sneaking a lick on my cheek. She does it half unconscious, her eyes not even open. Either that, or she is very tricky! She also likes to sleep on the back of the couch (pic above).
Clayton is done with finals today! 3 weeks of having my best friend back! I have been quite lonely without him the past few months. It seems silly to feel lonely. It is not like I don’t see him, but without him sitting right next to me watching our favorite shows, or cooking dinner with me, or walking the pups with me, I miss him. I can’t wait to go home from work and have time to do whatever we want without homework!! I am so proud of him for working full time and taking 15 credit hours. What a champ! I wish I had his memory; once he learns something it is burned into his brain or something. Me, after I use it, I lose it. We both want him to go on a game show to win us some fast, quick cash. He would be great!
Registration—I am sure you remember me trying to register my Honda with the tint on the back window right? Well, just about a week ago we got Claytons car FINALLY registered. It was due in September (so every two weeks I have been going to the DMV to get an additional temp registration), but we had to replace the catalytic converter….what a process. We ordered one. Waited for it. Put it on, then tried to find the tightening sequence for the bolts (didn’t know there was one until now)—but Mitsubishi doesn’t put their info out there for you to get. Even when you call a dealer they say, “Humm, bring it in, I don’t know”. Ya right, you just want our money. We even ordered a manual online (twice!) and it didn’t list it either. His car sat up on my sister’s driveway in Perry, torn apart for over a week. Once we finally got the part on with the right sequence, it leaked. The part we ordered had a bow in it, so we had to pay for a machine shop to resurface it. Now that it is back on and straight, the gasket didn’t seal right so it still leaks exhaust. It passed for registration but Clayton has had to drive with no or minimal heat because the leak is at the engine and it blows exhaust through the heater. Hopefully this weekend we can get it fixed, over $1,300 later. This weather hasn’t helped his cold commute!
Have I mentioned that I hate driving in the snow. It took me over 90 minutes to get to work on Tuesday. My commute is nothing compared to those who drive to Salt Lake, so I shouldn’t complain but when it usually takes me 15 minutes…..90 minutes is ridiculous. Traffic was bumper to bumper the whole way. At least that is better than taking your life in your hands on the freeway with other drivers. I don’t know why I am such a chicken, but I do not like driving in it. It is a white knuckle ride for me. People are crazy for driving 60 on the freeway when there is 2 inches of slush. Why aren’t they scared? I wouldn’t mind being a little less afraid. Not to the point of carelessness but just so my heart wasn’t racing while driving in it. Plus this 0 degree weather isn’t fun since our living room and kitchen is 4 ft below ground level. IT IS CHILLY! We turn up our heat to 75 and it kicks on but it certainly doesn’t feel like 75 in our house. We have leaky windows and doors.
I have jumped ship. I don’t want to say I am a fair-weather fan, but honestly it is much easier to enjoy Jazz games when they are winning. 
But don’t worry Memo, my favorite chipmunk star, I still love ya without your buzzer beating 3 pointers. And Matthews—you are a fearless champ! Way to take it to the super stars (like Kobe last night) and just go right for them even though you are a rookie. And strange, Boozer now has 25+ points a game, where the heck have you been? Oh right, that is because now you have something to prove since last season you weren’t sure if you wanted to stay with Utah. What about this 3rd quarter crap? We get a 20 point lead and the team falls apart and loses to teams like THE TIMBERWOLVES. Really folks, cause you can run with the best of them if you would keep it together and FOCUS! And hey Jerry, CALL A TIME OUT when the other team is on fire. Don’t let them go on a 20-0 run before you decide to stand up and cuss at the refs! Basketball has timeouts for a reason, use them. For now, I will just “say” I am a Suns fan for the moment (without Raja L and certainly without Shaq J). Speaking of the big oaf, he has killed another team I enjoy watching, the Calvs. Thank goodness I like LeBron so much so I can still try to enjoy it. I do love going to a Jazz game though, come rain or shine, it is fun to watch and enjoy with Clay. The last few weeks I have had to remind him we have neighbors, “Oh come on ref!” “That’s a foul!!!” yelling at the TV at 11pm.
Tiger—what a loser. I hate all of the publicity this CHEATING loser is getting. I had respect for his game until I found out he was cheating on his beautiful wife while she was 8 month pregnant. I hope his endorsements go down the drain. But why do I care, really? Cause I see it on TV and it is interesting I guess. I shouldn’t care, but I do. Society has such a fascination with stars, and we pay for TV, magazines, etc that support the paparazzi getting into their business—but I shouldn’t care what he does. How about the AMA’s??? Did you see Adam Lambert on there? HOLY MOLEY, I was sick about it. Is that seriously going to be tolerated on TV? There is a reason we have stations blocked on our cable, I wouldn’t have thought to block ABC on Sunday night after Extreme Makeover- Home Edition. Good for them though for canceling his morning appearance on Good Morning America due to complaints. Unfortunately, attention whether good or bad will still land him a show, like CBS morning talk show (not saying I don’t like CBS, I do). And another celeb—Taylor Swift—is it her year or what? At least I wouldn’t mind if a girl said, “I love Taylor”, so far she has kept up her morals.
I have been making a few Christmas crafts (can’t post them or it would give it away). I really enjoy it. I get it from my cute Mom; we have always done crafts, sewing and baking. I am glad I have some of her talents in that area. I wish there was some serious income in it so I wouldn’t have to work. I would love just being at home making or baking something every day. Until I figure that out, I guess I will just do them for gifts and fun. I really want to learn to cake decorate. I have been meaning to get into one of those Michael’s classes. I would love that.
Work is going well for both Clayton and I. He loves his job and the people he works with. They are doing a biggest loser competition so he joined in. I am doing it with him but we didn’t want to pay the registration fee for both of us, so he is the only one to officially will weigh in. It feels good to go to the gym. I have missed it (clearly since I have put on 30 pounds in 9 years). I really want to stick with it this time and drop some weight; I obviously don’t think I can get down to what I graduated at, but boy that would sure be nice. I have to cut back on the Coke, but water has been tasting good lately.
As for my work, I love that I work for such a nice guy. It is a good change. Just the other day he left me a voicemail on my work phone, “Hey Emily, I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your hard work and how much you have helped me out the past few months”. Sheish. Thanks. No prob boss man that is what I am getting paid for — work. It makes it so much easier to come to work and be able to joke, chat and enjoy your day while you are getting your work done without some jerk hounding you and following you around micromanaging. We have made several jokes about Tiger, the Jazz, Obama, or anything else we see on TV. He doesn’t watch much TV or movies, so anytime I try and say, “that reminds me of this part in the movie…”, I then realize midsentence, he hasn’t seen it.
I wouldn’t mind a little more work to do though, I often get bored and feel bad that I have spare time, but every time I ask for something it is like he has to find something and figure out the process first. I can do it, just let me figure it out. We are a somewhat new department so there is tons of stuff we can be doing…we just have to get the processes in place. I wish I could just design them and get them done instead of waiting on someone to give me the go-ahead. I have had fun in my own nerdery building some automated spreadsheets that have sped things up quite a bit. I am certainly not as good as my friends Chris, Travis or Casey from AWB, but I have emailed them a few questions and they are always so nice to help. Hooray for Excel! What a complete nerd, I know.
Babies on the way! Clayts sis, Lydia, is pregnant and having a Boy in March. My sis, Sheryl is pregnant with a girl that is due in May, and my brother Brandon, is expecting a baby only a week apart from Sheryl. They aren’t sure what it is yet, hopefully it will be a little girl (cause he already has boys). Our families are growing like weeds! Family parties are often hectic with so many people, but we are lucky to have 90% of our families so close. I love seeing them all so often! I sure miss my Mom though. It was hard not seeing her for Thanksgiving. She is doing well in Cali and loving the ocean view weather. She has a calling for enrichment or something which is great—she can show off her crafty talents.
Yes, yes, I have seen New Moon and LOVED IT. Clayton and I got tickets for Sheryl for her birthday. We went Saturday morning on opening weekend.
There was not many males as we were standing in line waiting for them to let us into the theater, but Clay didn’t mind too much. Luckily for me, he isn’t too cool to go! He said he liked it much better than the first and can see why so many women are sucked in. I have been re-reading the book. I thought this movie did a better job of following the story line and it did not look as cheesy as the first one, like the mountain climber on the Price is Right (when they were running up the mountain in Twilight). Poor Jacob in this one. I just have to remember the other books….it is all for a reason. I laughed when all of the females in the theater screamed as the 20 year old Jacob ripped off his shirt. Come on ladies—try not to look pathetic!
I really want to go see Sherlock Holmes. I love Jude and I love Rachel. I might even want to go on opening day, Christmas. I love a good movie!
Anyways…that is about it for now.
Finished Product:
I repainted and decorated our spare room; along with painting all of our ceilings upstairs.
Planted seed which is actually sprouting out back! The pups might finally have some grass!
I got to spend lots of time with my two fav friends....they got walked multiple times a day. This is them resting while I was painting.
I planted tomatoes and a few pots of flowers (the first pic). And I re-painted our deck (the pic with Chloe is before it was painted).
(Come on beautiful tomatoes!)
And yes, my car finally passed inspection--after paying $58 dollars and having a window tinter remove the stupid tint from my brake light. 
Clayt's sweet deal from KSL. A great college kid in Logan looking for some quick cash....PERFECT, we want a nice deal and a cheap price. And then there is my beautiful boys bike from Target (my question is...do they make a cheap bike that is not hot pink or purple for girls....the answer is NO, so boys bike it is). I am sure the burning question is, why not get a womens in some cranberry color..well, I am just too darn short. Thanks for asking. 
AFTER
And lastly, our wonderful new stove! We sold our other one after we found this beaut on KSL. Yes, we have been searching KSL a lot lately....but doesn't it open up our kitchen with the right kind of stove there (remember the old one with the back on it that stood up in the middle of the island)??? We can actually use our bar!
