Dance Review

My dance studio had there dance recital last week! Woo Hoo! I was so excited to have it and so excited when it was over at the the same time. It was a lot of work! The actual day I was so nervous for all the girls and thinking I would forget something and mess it up for them. When I had gotten there I was able to relax a little and help some of the girls get ready and that was a lot of fun!!

All my dance girls keep me so entertained with all there stories! I love to hear them and interact with them! I think that is my biggest down fall in being there teacher is being there friend not there teacher and being strict enough on occasions. Even if they think I'm mean.

I would say the recital over all was a huge hit! From the little girls loving it to the few crying for there moms the whole time they were on stage. Our older girls did quite well. You can tell the newer dances and the girls that had missed practices. But for all those little things they still looked great!! It just gives us something to work on and look forward to for the spring recital! Big Thanks to my Mom and Robb for coming and taping it for me!

Bribing

So my biggest pet peeve for the day (yes I said the biggest that means I get quite a few during the day ha). But Just because you say I'm skinny or tiny doesn't mean I'm going to A. let you shop lift from my store you cracked out whore or B. Give you a job. Goodness people are so annoying. When your a size 00 because you are meth or cause your 15 and haven't grown into those hips yet and try to tell me your as tiny as me to try to bribe me into what they want I'm not buying it! Yes people are that stupid out there!!

Dance Recital

Tonight is my studio's dance recital. Wish me luck! I am very nervous! I have spent the last 6 months preparing my girls for this day! This year has been very stressful for me to teach! With opening the store I have not had the time to dedicate like I thought I was going to when I signed onto all my classes. I am now running to dance from the store everyday and not being able to prepare but I have in my opinion came up with much better dances this year!! I also have dealt with a very bad knee injury my girls can tell you about that has limited my teaching. Thanks to a few of my girls and my little sister I have been able to pull it off! I have a lot of pressure laying on these performances tonight because we lost a lot of students this past year do to many reasons. But the better the dances are and the way we perform the better the studio looks to keep existing students. It is also our first year for our competition teams and we have a lot of people criticizing on how we will do so it is a lot of pressure there as well. So now you can see why I am so much more than just nervous than just normal for our 100 students. They will do good and I have a lot of confidence in them. Thank you for all that support me in my dance job because for you that know me, know how much this job means to me and my girls! Wish us luck!

Salt Lake with Jaron's family

So I am trying to get all caught up on my blogging. Here is a fun little clip when we went up to Salt Lake and opened presents with Jaron's family. We didn't get to go up and see the lights with them like usual because our plane didn't get in from Dominican Republic until 1:00am and we didn't get home until 2:30. But we were able to go meet them for breakfast and go swimming after. It was a blast. I wasn't quite myself because of the lack of sleep but still had fun! I was bummed because me and Jaron were so busy when we were home we were unable to see Temple Square lights because we usually go one or two times and didn't make it once. Hopefully next year right! Check out this of video clip of Daniel and Jaron playing in the pool with Alyssa and Addison in the pool!

Domincan Republic

So we left to the Dominican Republic over Christmas as I already told you. We left on Monday night December 22 and took the red eye. We left the snow. It was very nice to say good bye to it! After driving in it all day and it had snowed for a week straight and it snowed every day we were gone. The plane ride there was ok thanks to my cute pink neck roll pillow! We got to Atlanta that morning and got to DR that afternoon 3:30 there time. On the plane ride there we sat next to a giant black guy from San Fransisco. He was very nice. But I'm pretty sure he was a drug dealer because he went there quite often and never went to the beach, never went shopping, the casinos aren't that great there's just nothing to go back for that many times. So the things he said made me think he might be one cause I'm so good at knowing these things by all my TV watching ha. Well lets say when you get off the plane you have to pay before you even try to get through customs and then once you are in and you get your bags you go to get a tax and these girls in spandex are handing you drinks. It's like um... weird. So we got our taxi driving to our hotel which was a half our away and cost us $50.00 I've never rode in Taxi's before but I hear that's still a lot. Well I'm looking out the window and it looks like this special I just watched on South Africa. I'm like where the hell are we. I'm defiantly out of my bubble of Utah county I know that for sure now. The drivers are crazy. They beep there horns to get around they don't use the lines on the road blinkers traffic lights or anything just "beep beep" and they are getting in. They drive super fast too. But we're driving down the road seeing the ghetto and this guy is just walking around with a huge shot gun. And I'm like WHAT THE HELL! The taxi driver is like yeah that's normal. Well when we get to the city it's better and pretty. I see old town and it calms me down a little. When we check into our hotel we found out we weren't right on the beach like we thought and we were totally bummed. Even the ocean is right there and we can see it from our room we can get in it. So me and Jaron just don't even know what to do at this point. We were defiantly shell shocked even him. And that's a lot seeing as he has been everywhere in Korea and Singapore. So we get ready and walk around the hotel and talk to the staff about the beaches and find out its a fortune to go to the beach Jaron wanted to go to and see the whales which is only 2 hours a way but it would cost almost $300 there and back which is just a joke. And we go to dinner and try to figure out if we should go to the all inclusive resort we almost booked but it was 2 hours away from the airport and that taxi would be just as much but we would be on the beach the whole time. Jaron even thought about going to Florida cause he was worried about my safety. Well obviously we decided to stay. Luckily to our wonderful hotel staff they made our stay wonderful and very safe. They taught us the do's and don't's and helped us get cheaper and safe taxi's. The first night after dinner our waiter told us never go walking day or night with a purse or valuables such as rings or watches. He showed us a market not to far from our hotel so we could get food so we didn't have to eat at the restaurant every time and told us about the culture there. The next day we went down to old town and wow I was surprised at the gift stores. I was thinking Tijuana well it was nothing like there. Everything was expensive! They have 26% tax on everything and they have jewelry rocks that they sale that is expensive nothing like Hawaii ABC stores! So we didn't get much sorry family I didn't get me anything I wanted either. We had a tour guide that insisted on showing us around the city a little bit and telling us about the buildings. They all do "nice" things helping the tourist out but want a huge tip. Then we just had a relaxing day after that and went to a early dinner at a restaurant right behind our hotel and ate outside. Guess who we saw there our drug dealer friend from the plane. It was a little awkward sense he was trying to get us to get a ride with him from the airport. Then it was Christmas eve so we just walked across the street of our hotel watched the sunset by the ocean and then watched Christmas shows and ordered up desert.

On Christmas day most things were closed so we laid out at our pool and then took a buggy ride back down to old town. Our driver showed us so much more this time. We were able to see the first church after Columbus landed, and the castle and all these beautiful buildings. The only thing I wish I could've gotten a picture of was Columbus's house. It was beautiful!! Also this statue of the first church leader. It is of black man with dreads yelling out into the ocean. Then we just went out to dinner again and relaxed and watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It was the most relaxing Christmas I have ever had. It was hard being away from family though! The next day we went to Boca Chica beach. We had a someone from the hotel get us our taxi so it was safe sense it was a longer driver (30 min) because taxi drivers there mug you and assault you and leave you where ever so you have to be careful. It was beautiful there! Defiantly different than any beach than I eve had been too. They blocked it off so no waves could come up and the water was so clear and calm and you could see straight down. It rained a little and then cleared right back up. We had to pay to use lawn chairs and then the guy took care of us the rest of the day when it rained he came and got us under the umbrella and recruited us to his family's restaurant. That's how they make there money. While your laying out you have people coming around trying to sale you stuff like crazy. It's so annoying. Until finally you buy something for so cheap you piss them off and they tell everyone and they stop bugging you. That's how we did it. We also met two other drug dealers at the beach. They were from New York. We were going to share a taxi ride back with them and split it but they were meeting someone and had to pick something up and didn't make it back in time. And they were staying in the same hotel as the other guy. You know me little detective I know they were. But again very nice. Jaron went snorkeling and let the local kids use them and they had never seen them. They thought they were so cool. That was our last night there and we dressed up and went to the other restaurant at our hotel and after we went out for a walk where these kids showed us how they were having fish fight and they were trying to get Jaron to give them money and pick his pockets. he had to hold onto his wallet. It was funny. We aren't as dumb as we look even if I was the only blond on the island. The next morning before we left we got our breakfast and went straight to the pool to soak up the last little part of the warmth before returning to the snow. It was hard to leave the crazy and beautiful island!! It really opened my eyes!! I loved every minute of it! It was so nice to get away and not worry about the real world just realize how lucky I am!

December 21st was a fun day for Jaron and I! Because we were gone on Christmas day we had to open our Christmas presents before we left because we couldn't wait until after we got home ha. So we picked Sunday because it was our day off and Monday we had Jaron's work party and left that night. So we woke up and Jaron saw his stuff under the tree and was like yeah whatever nothing to exciting he could tell so he wasn't wanting to get up. But I kept saying lets get up so we can open presents! We made it down and separated presents and started tearing in. Like I said nothing to exciting for him because we were going on vaca, that was our present... right. He got the traditional stocking stuff, and nerf gun that he must have. Then he also got some Cd's wii stuff a ton of Billabong clothes, thanks to our wonderful discounts and special ordering we could do that! And just random stuff like that. I knew mostly what was under the tree for me. Jaron got red heels he helped picked out (he said no to the hookerish ones lol), pink pants that I picked out months earlier, a salad bowl, clothes from our store, and then he surprised me with Hard Rock Cafe' shirt, pj's that my shirt says "I kissed a Vampire and I liked it" I also got a pink BB gun, and drum roll my big gift that I didn't know about was a drill and bits to go with it. Yes you heard me right and yes I did ask for this. Most people look at me so weird when I tell them this. But they are very useful things to have and I'm always needing one so I was way excited.

After opening presents I still had one more to give the main gift for Jaron. It was at his parents and I had been trying to figure out a way to get him over there with out making it obvious. My biggest plan fell through so I just gave up with the scheming and just said "So lets blind fold you and lets get your other present." His face lit up and I was like Oh no what did I do because I knew he thought I got him a 4 wheeler to replace his old one. So I had to hurry and tell him that it wasn't one just so he wouldn't get his hopes up to much more. He didn't go for the blind fold act so we finally just went to his parents and he was just sure I got him a couch to go in our room that we've been wanting. So I just played with that idea. Then Gary and Daniel are carrying up the gift and Daniel's like here's your couch... and surprise it was a 50" TV that he'd been wanting. He was almost as excited about it as he would've been a 4 wheeler. But he just kept starring at it and finally I was like are you going to take it home and take it out of the box. So he had to hold it in the back of the truck to make sure it didn't fall over while I drove. He was frozen! I haven't gotten a picture with him and it yet but it is his new love. Every second is devoted to watching some stupid show he loves on it or playing X-Box on it. What was I thinking....

Back

Well surprise we went on vacation. We decided to do this a week and a half before Christmas! Last year we were suppose to go to Mexico and things didn't work out and we didn't. Then this year we were going to go to Hawaii with the in laws but because of things going on during life and the timing of it we decided not to go. With opening the store and teaching dance still I have been extremely busy and stressed! No one ever said owning a business was easy! So Jaron has seen me unraveling and forced me into this vacation. Yes I said forced. I fought him on it for weeks until he just said we were going and booked it. You can ask my mom or my friend Sydni I was determined not to go and save money and stay home with my store. So this is why the trip was spring of the moment and not planned forever. Jaron picked the Dominican Republic for us to go to. This is why there were no Christmas cards sent out or phone calls or text on Christmas. I am sorry I do apologize! I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! Mine was defiantly a adventure! I will be updating it a ton this week all my pictures from the trip and from the Christmas presents opened before we left!

Christmas Tree

I am finally posting my Christmas Tree. I am not proud of it. This is why it has taken me a while to put up pictures of it. I bought this tree at Walmart the first Christmas I was married and didn't spend it living with family. But that year we were living in Mo's basement apartment where our front room was small and we didn't have much room for a tree and it didn't feel like Christmas because Jaron was had been gone for 2 months to New Orleans. But I had to have a tree so I bought a cheap small prelit one. Well the last two years I have been quite spoiled!! In our apartment we had our vaulted ceilings and we didn't take them for granted. Jaron always made up for being gone that first Christmas and bought me a 16 foot real Christmas tree that I absolutely loved!! They were beautiful!! Well to get back to why I haven't posted pictures of my tree this year. I am in my house that I am so happy to have but we don't have vaulted ceilings so that means I traded in 16 foot trees for Blow up Santa's and Penguins outside with ice cylce lights, and I'm stuck using my ugly fako tree this year. Sniff sniff But I don't have the time to take care of real one with being so busy with Landslide right now so we're sticking with the ugly fako. I decorated it to death because I have so many decorations from the huge tree and so you couldn't see the middle. I still had quite a few left over too. Well once Jaron is home long enough to finish putting up the lights outside I will post our outside lights too it's only half done.

Melissa's Visit

My sister, Melissa, and her family stopped by to see me on her way back home to Idaho. It was a fun visit. My niece and nephew were able to play with Roxy and Harley. Roxy loved it!! Harley well lets just say he's getting old and grumpy around children. He's not going to know what to do when we have one he will be so jealous. Gage just loved to pick him up. Where Caleb on the other hand was terrified of him and screamed. He wanted to jump on the tramp most of the time to stay away from them. Over all I had a lot of fun spending time with my nieces and nephews because the are growing up so fast and I never see them!!

Thanksgiving!!

Our Thanksgiving weekend was a little crazy than our average year. Because we had Thanksgiving at my in laws 2 years in a row we had to make up for it and do 2 this year at both my parents. So on Wednesday we had one with my mom. It was a lot of fun! We didn't have all of the traditional food sense we would be having that the next day. We did pasta tortellini salad, my fav, funeral potato's, and etc. I did make the best cheesecake I have ever made! I made everyone try it because it was also the hardest I have ever made and took me 3 hours to make, but was worth every calorie I ate! After dinner we played my favorite game CURSES! My step brother Josh and his wife Carrie were able to come up which I love talking to Carrie she always makes me laugh and there cute little dog Tux! He is a little black Chiawau that is so well mannered! Then my sister Melissa and her family came down from Idaho and I was thrilled because I haven't seen them forever and especially my new niece for a second at her baby blessing. But anyways it was so good to see them and all the kids! I couldn't believe how much Hannah had grown and Caleb. Gage is hilarious. Jaron thought he was funny to play with because he's a trouble maker.

So as for Thanksgiving Day got up watched the parade like I do every year. Jaron watched it with me for the first time ever. We did his paperwork for work while we watched it. Then we went to my Dad's for dinner. We had awesome food! My step mom, Polly had worked all day on all the traditional Thanksgiving food. Carrie, my sis, had mad our traditional homemade rolls that we always have to have. After dinner we visited while we cleaned up. The kids went and played guitar hero with uncle Jaron supervising. (I know scary thought) Gage loves guitar hero. For a 22 month old he's hilarious to watch whenever he sees guitars. After dinner I ran to Walmart with my sister to get some things before the crowds on black Friday. Then I got to go to work. Yeah! A great way to end the day! I went to work for 4 to 5 hours to get Landslide ready for the sales on Friday. We had to finish putting a shipment in and move everything around that's why it took so long for all that are wondering. But over all it was quite a day!

Cat in the Tree

So a few weeks ago I was at my dads house for dinner and the neighbors huge dog got out and went after my little sisters cat. Well her cat ran up the tree end of the story... You would think. No, Sam, my little sister, was worried her cat would get hurt and had to climb up after her. Every time she would try to grab at her the cat would climb higher or the cat would hold on to the branch for dear life. Well this went on for a good half hour or longer. Sam finally gave up and got out of the flimsy tree and 5 minutes later here comes her cat Callie by the door meowing for food. What were those fireman thinking in the 50's?

Kayne West so annoying

Kayne West is so annoying!! Like he thinks he's the coolest person in the world. Well news flash!! He's so not. He's a chubby guy that isn't. Last year he said he was bigger than Justin Timberlake... So not! Everyone knows that who ever Justin Timberlake collaborates with the song is a hit. Then come on these sunglasses are so not cool! Why would he try and make everyone believe that they are so great! Dumb! You can't see anything out of the stupid things! The only credit I give him is because yes I am a music junky and love it so I like his but HATE him! With his last release Love Lockdown he released it and it didn't go over like he thought, shocker he's not as good as he thought! So he went back in and rerecorded it so that is why it turned out to be a good song. It was a good reality check for him I think!

The Pond

This summer Jaron and I went on a walk to the pond across the street so Jaron could go fishing. What a great way to relax on Sunday afternoon! Roxy and Harley came with us. Jaron didn't get much fishing in because there isn't to many fish in the pond. But he was looking forward to it so much. He was using some of his Poppies fishing stuff and had bought new stuff so there was some disappointment there. But we ended played fetch with the dogs. Which is Roxy's favorite thing in the whole wide world. Jaron made her get brave and threw it in the water and swim after it. Harley wasn't about to go after the stick for a while and he would wait for her to get out of the water and still it from her. He finally grew up and got in the water. At this time we weren't sure if she was pregnant either because we never saw the dead officially hook and happen. Anyways so I thought she was and Jaron didn't. On the way back she was dead tired and if you know her she doesn't get tired so I knew there was something wrong and Jaron was giving her a bath and he's like feel her belly it's getting big. And we both started jumping up and down because we knew she was going to have puppies and she was already 4 weeks along.

My Puppies Have Left Me

All of my puppies have left me now. 2 weeks ago my runt, Tinkerbell, left me to a sweet old couple that call and give me updates on how her vet appointment went and training is going. Which I could never thank them enough for that because this process was much harder on me than I thought it would be. Then Daisy left Sunday, November 1, to my mother in laws which she is doing well and growing very fast! She is doing great on potting training and loving her new brother Scotty and Addison and Alyssa where her out all the time by playing with her. It is nice by being able to see her still. Then I we had Whiner and Fatso for a extra week with us. It was nice to have only 2 puppies around instead of 4. They were also the less feisty ones so they were easier to take care of. I did get quite attached to my little Fatso. She even knew her name as Fatso. She was a female version of Harley. We thought for half a second about keeping her even Jaron, but 3 dogs and training a dog right now was out of the question. I am at the store to much. But she would be the perfect to take to the store and just chill with me. But that wouldn't be fair to Harley or Roxy. So we had to give her up. We had only one call on them during the week. So Saturday Jaron went to puppy island and sat there all day with the rest of the people trying to sale there dogs until they were sold. Puppy island is a by Walmart in Lehi and there is around about to get into the shopping complex and every saturday you go there and there is someone trying to sale dogs. Fatso was sold early because who could resist her darling face! When Jaron called and told me I was working at the store and I just started crying. I knew I couldn't have her but still I wanted her. It was very very hard to let her go because she was my ideal dog. Not that I don't love my two dogs but she is a mixture of my two dogs how could she not be ideal to me. Then we sold Whiner and we had to wait for them to come get her so I had a few hours left with her and so I got to hold her and love on her and get my last few pictures of her. I loved her but she is exactly like Roxy and I already have my Roxy so I was cool to giving her to this great family that bought her. And that is the end of my puppy postings!!

First Snow of the Season

Jaron and I woke up to snow the other morning... BOO I am not a person who is love snow that much! My car is also not ready for the winter. I need to get winter tires put on because it is rear wheel drive and I have never owned a rear wheel drive car in the winter. I'm guessing I will be driving the truck a lot this winter. Which if you have ever seen me try to park that well that's a whole other story. (Like ask me how I got it stuck in my guarge and my neighbor had to come get it out one week when Jaron was gone!)

Anyways the snow was pretty when we opened our window from our bedroom and the trees across the street with the snow and the pond. I keep joking with Jaron I'm going to go ice skating on Utah Lake this winter because I know it will freeze solid ha ha. Even if it did technically it's across the street I would have to go through a lot of that weed stuff whatever its called cat tails or whatever. Because there is quite a few of those in between the lake and us and they are taller than me, which isn't very hard. But back to the snow it wasn't a ton at our house as you can tell by the picture and some had melted already. Which I was kneeling down by the snow trying to show how much there was but it really didn't work. Our dogs aren't the biggest fan of it all the time. We'll through them out in the middle of it and they'll freak and come running back it's great.

Now Opened

Landslide Clothing opened last Friday for all who didn't hear!! And if you didn't hear that it is probably because I have been very busy with the opening of it and getting it ready to open! Yeah though we did it!! Thank you to all that helped us get it there! Now we just have to make it successful. For our first week I think we have done pretty well. The traffic flow has been great! Everyone wants to know whats in our store and whats going on here. So come check it out and be one of those people and see my hard work! We are pretty kick ass!!

The Dog Man

Jaron was in charge of all 4 puppies the other night while I got their room ready for them. It remined me of a old woman with a lot of cats all over her. But we are kind of like crazy cat people right now with 6 dogs!

Roxy's puppies are freaking huge now! They are 7 weeks old and I am very ready for them to go home now! I will miss them very much but it is time! 4 pooping puppies! It's to much! My runt, my one that I fed and took extra care of, is the first to leave me which is the saddest because she is my favorite. She leaves me Saturday morning. A cute old couple bought her after there 15 year old yorkie had passed away. They named her Tinkerbell. They really have there work cut out for them. She is so feisty and play full and into everything!! Daisy leaves me Monday! I'm not sad about having her leave as much because she is going to my mother in law and will get to see her all the time and babysit her. It is making it so much easier on me knowing that I will always get to see one of the puppies forever and that is how I have been able to let go. She would have gotten the runt but Jaron wanted her to have one of the miracle babies. Which little Daisy is a miracle she was on the side walk that morning when we found them and now she was the fasted developing in everything. She is the smartest of all the puppies. She gets them all to naughty things and picks on them all. She'll have her work cut out for her when she goes to her new home with Scotty and Bozano and she's the littlest. Then our little fatso which Daisy has beat her at that and Whiner do not have homes to go to yet. We have almost sold Whiner 3 times and Fatso twice then the people just don't call back. It's very frustrating because we don't put them on KSL for a few days when that happens. Also being so busy with the shop and now the time has come for them to leave and now one is buying them. So after this weekend it will go down to at least 4 dogs instead of 6. That sounds a little bit better. They are also the calmer too so that is nicer. If anyone knows anyone that wants a yorkie send them my way!!