i {heart} SF

I spent this weekend in San Francisco with a few of my girlfriends, and it was a blast! We did lots of walking, shopping, eating, and being touristy! We rode a cable car, took a boat ride around the bay, and biked across the Golden Gate Bridge – which my mom and I did last time we were there and it was great!

{our yummy cupcakes that we ate for breakfast!}

{riding bikes across the Bridge}

Sunday night, we headed about 30 minutes south of the city to Alviso where our sales office is located. One of the projects that I am doing for work is finding and tagging all of the company computer equipment. So I spend Monday and Tuesday tagging computers. It was nice to finally see the other office, and to put faces with the people that I talk to there on a regular basis!

Oh, and I checked in using my phone, when then sends the boarding pass to my phone. At security and then to get onto the plane, you just give them your phone, and it scans the barcode from the text that Delta sent. Genius!!

This weekend is moving weekend. I’m moving across the street – into a cute little townhouse with a friend. The place is awesome – we have a 2-car garage (which will be so nice for when it starts snowing!), a fireplace, granite countertops, new carpet, a washer/dryer, AND…. My very own scrapbook room!!

Today is back to work, getting caught up, and then packing up my bedroom tonight and tomorrow night so that I will be ready to move on Saturday!!

it's back!!!

....I'm so excited! I can hardly wait!

(If you call me between the hours of 7 and 8 tonight, don't expect me to answer!)

PS - I am already off to a bad start with my once-a-week blog posts. I'll try to be better. This weekend, I'm going to San Fransciso, and then working at our California office for the beginning of next week. Then it's back home to pack up everything to move into my new, super cute townhouse!!

Hopefully more posts to come soon!

Milestones:

I realize that this is a really bad picture…..


But my car has now been driven 100,000 miles!!

And even though I’ve never really liked my car, we have just been through a lot together! College at Utah State, countless trips from Logan and Alpine. We survived the long drive to Portland, and all our adventures while we were there. And now back to Utah again!

I’ve only been pulled over 3 times in this car – and only 2 tickets! For anyone who has had the privilege of driving with me, this is pretty impressive!


Also – on a totally unrelated note….. I have a new goal of doing a blog post each week until my birthday. We’ll see how well that goes!!

my new toy!

impulse shopping at its finest!!

it's fate - i've been wanting to ride a tandem bike, and my favorite color is red. so why not buy a red tandem bike!!

i went to dessert social tonight, and on our way home, my friend rode by on this beauty. he asked if i wanted to take a ride on it, which of course i did!! during our ride, he said that he was trying to sell it. i said i wanted it, and so back to my house we rode and I wrote him a check!!

can't wait to get home from work tomorrow and take her for a ride! but she (or maybe he??) needs a name.... any ideas?!!

i love this boy

I have the best brother in the whole wide world!!

(july 1987)

(october 1991)

(september 2009)

In December 2005, Dave was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). That winter/spring, he went through some intensive chemotherapy. He went back to school at USU in the Fall of 2006 while on maintenance, and was "cancer free" in April of 2009.

During a checkup a few weeks ago, they found that the cancer has relapsed.

So far, he seems to be doing pretty good. He has all his treatments done at Primary Children's Medical Hospital in SLC, and will be staying in Alpine with my parents.

This kid is amazing! Not only is he a genius, he is hilarious! I have never heard him complain about the chemo treatments. He has the best attitude about life, and is always so optimistic.

In case you care to follow, or just are interested, here's a link to a blog that he has started. The 'Journal' link is where he's going to try to post updates.

https://sites.google.com/site/davidwillisall

I brought him back a ukulele from Hawaii, which I'm hoping will keep him entertained, and he can also be used to serenade all his visitors when he feels up for it!

Love you Davie!

Proof that I'm not the only one......

So.... last night, I was at my local Wal-Mart, getting groceries and such. There were only a few things on my list, but the thing that I needed most was fruit snacks!

After wondering up and down the aisles where I figured they might be, I was getting concerned that Wal-Mart no longer sold fruit smiles.... until I finally found them!! In the Breakfast Asile! That's right..... directly across from the cereal, right next to granola bars and the oatmeal.

I about jumped for joy - realizing that I was not the only person who eats fruit snacks for breakfast! There are others too! No one can give me a hard time about eating fruit snacks for breakfast - they are in the breakfast foods isle!! Oh, happy day!!

Happy Friday! I hope your all enjoying some yummy fruit snacks for breakfast :)

my bedroom

Finally.... some pictures of my bedroom! There are still a few things/projects that I have to work on, but it's pretty much done for now. I'm still getting use to living without Matt, but I guess that will just take time. My roommates - Alysia and Andrea are great. Andrea and I share the upstairs. We each have our own bedroom, and share the bathroom. And then Alysia's bedroom, kitchen, living room, and dining room are all downstairs. I'll post pictures of the rest of the place some other time - although it's nothing really too exciting!

MY BEDROOM!!:

This picture is taken from the doorway into my bedroom

My favorite red chair!

The closet! I just barley switched out all my winter clothes for summer clothes! Yay for warmer weather! I love this closet - it's just what I like.... one big long rod!

My scrapbooking area! You can see my bed frame on the far right of this pictures - there's 2 bookcase that sorta 'divide' my room in half. In the first picture of the post, you can see the back of them, which I covered with teal fabric. The plants that are on top are from our wedding dinner.

Love these cute old-fashion suitcases!

i love lamp

this hangs above the computer - I made it with paper, and lots of modge podge. There are also small, coordinating ones above my bed.

So there you go! I still need to do something with the wall that's to the left of my bed - probably just hang a picture or something, but atleast it feels a bit more 'homey' now, and not just a large room with big plain white walls!

xoxo

-eb-