Island Getaway...

Yesterday Jaron and I wanted to get out of the house and do something out of the normal. So we took a drive and Jaron took me to Antelope Island. I wrote a essay on it in one my English classes for college so every sense then I've always said we should go there. Well 3 years later we ended up there. It was pretty cool. We weren't able to go into the visitors center because it was closing so I didn't get to read and learn anything new about buffalo so this drive wasn't really educational. lol But we were able to see the buffalo run through the fields. The Antelope just blended right into the brush and weeds it was hard to see them. Off to the side of the road we were able to see some buffalo though and they were fighting or playing. I said it was like Roxy and Harley just a giant version! It was pretty cool though. I nice little island getaway!

My New Car

So I got a new car this weekend! What Do you think? Pretty hot right! Tell me what you think!! It's a Bentley Continental GT

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Ok so not really but one can dream right! This is my mid life crisis car that I will be getting when I turn 40! lol Jaron doesn't have much pressure right it's only a $180,00 to $210,000 car! That's not to bad right! I'm worth it! lol

Kangroo Zoo

On Saturday Jaron and I were able to watch his little sisters. They are growing up so fast! It is hard! Me and Jaron feel out of the loop as we look old to them and uncool almost... We took them to Kangaroo Zoo which a is a place with inflatable slides and stuff like that. It was fun and then Jaron started making us all race around the place and time us. While Jaron went to work I took them to my dance studio and had them help me with some stuff. Alyssa is on a competition team this year and is doing awesome and I made her show me her dance. Addison helped me with some dances by me putting on music making up her own dance. The rest of the night was filled with watching Annie, Pizza, Hot Tubing, and Nails!

Mom's 50th Party

My mom turned 50 this past week!! My sisters and I through a surprise party for her at the Brick Oven. Melissa was only in town one day so our day options were limited on having the party and that day ended up being Valentines day. We tried having it early enough so people could come before there night plans could come but our outcome was small because of the choice of day and did I mention it was snowing like crazy in Provo. So sorry Mom it wasn't as huge as we hoped but we all love ya and that means less people saw you in your hat that you were embarrassed to wear! lol

Tires

We finally got new tires on our car!! Lets just say they were so bad the guy asked Jaron how he drove down there on them. The wire wasn't just showing through on them they were all the way through. I haven't been able to drive it in the snow or if rained excessively the last few months so I did know they were bad but not that bad. But you all know how that goes, who wants to drop money on tires?! We kept buying fun things like
couches and hot tubs. Oops guess we forgot about the necessities. I wanted to die when we were looking at prices for them... Lets just say they were a lot more than my Volkswagen Beetle, imagine that! I am just happy now that I have them I can defiantly tell the difference!! I thought while driving on the freeway I was becoming a crappy driver well it helps when your tires have traction on them!

Private

I have had to make set my blog to private because I have wrote about Landslide on here and when you google Landslide Clothing my blog is popping up before our website. Not that I don't love the attention, but when someone comes in and tells me they read my blog when they were searching for the sight and knows all about it's a little creepy to think what people could be looking at. All my vendors could be looking at it as well and knowing when I complain about the store to that would be bad! lol I love the store but it is a job and a trial like everything! So because of this I had to re invite you all to my blog and hopefully I did it right and didn't invite you 500 times to it. If this is your first time you were invited feel very privileged because I am super cool and post such important things! ha Can't you tell by all my feedback... I will also be making a Landslide blog sense I know people are looking at the Blogs that look at our website. So look for that soon!

I relaxing weekend!

I had a great weekend! I was able to not work all day Saturday which hasn't happened sense the opening of Landslide with the 1 exceptions of me being away on vacation. So I was very excited to be able to have a day off! I wasn't sure what to do at first and me and Jaron just watched TV for a few hours. Well that's relaxing but boring so we wanted to go out and do something. So we went up to the Clark Planetarium and watched a show in the Dome and attempted to get my iPhone fixed. (Because I blew my speaker on it watching You Tube, oops!) Well I had heard the Apple store is crazy but didn't realize how crazy! It was 3:30 and we had to make a appointment and they were all taken until 9 already. Crazy! So we said screw it and went walking around too. It was a ton of fun! I hadn't been to the planetarium for a few years and we watched a movie on Saturn. It was just different and fun. Then we went home and relaxed.

On Sunday we went to my sister in laws 22nd Birthday dinner at my mother in law and visited with the family. Then we were suppose to go back to the Apple store at the Gateway to get my phone fixed because there wasn't a wait that day. Well it started to rain/snow and we were just to lazy and just hung out. Later went and saw the movie Coraline. It was crazy! I wouldn't suggest it for young children! But I can now say. me and Jaron are now updated on Hero's and Big Love. I know you were all worried!

I was a little spoiled this year and got my Valentines present this year early. Yeah for me! Me and Jaron decided to get each other a Hot Tub. I saved up some of my choreography money so I really did help with it and of course he paid for the rest of it. We found a way awesome deal on KSL and got it from a guy that works at Bullfrog and it was one that was just traded in when the people were upgrading there hot tub. The guy that we bought it from had bought it and made sure everything was all in order on it and then sold it. It came with the cover, steps, delivery and chemicals for our kick ass price which we were stoked about. It was kind of a pain to get installed seeing as I had no clue how much work it actually took. I thought you could just plug it into a normal outlet and say here we go. lol No much more work than that! But once it was hooked up and the water in it I was ready to jump in! It is suppose to only fit 6 people in it. Well after the Superbowl we fit 9 so that was cool. I am in love with it! I am in it all everyday! I freakin love it! Last night we set up Jaron's work screen and projector and watched "John Tucker Must Die" in it. I'm sure our neighbors loved us for it!! Well yeah come check it out and sit in it cause I'm sure I'll be in there!!

Fog Mog

I am so glad our fog is gone!! I am hoping it stays this way! Before the last two rain systems came in it was so foggy at my house every morning and night! It reminded me of being in the Harry Potter movies because we have those street lamps like they do in the first movie when it is all foggy and the turn it out. Yeah I know I'm retarded but I'm just not use to the fog. Driving home from dance some nights were really scary because I couldn't see anything it was so thick. It has been my first time experience fog like real fog. Not just a little but when you actually can't see in front of you it has been real.

Jaron's Birthday

Jaron turned the big 25 on January 10th!! (I know I'm a little slow at posting it.) He was of course gone for it. We were so sad because he is never home for his birthday because it is the week that he goes back to work after his Christmas break. But Jaron's family celebrated the week before and his mom made him dinner and we had cake and it was also his little brother's birthday that week as well so we did a combined thing as well. On his actual Birthday Jaron was working with his older brother that week and one of his friends and after they were done with there presentation they got him a cupcake or something and came in and sang Happy Birthday to him. Then when Jaron got home the day after his birthday I gave him his Birthday presents and made him dinner and had some friends over. So he was lucky and got two celebrations even if the actual day wasn't super exciting. Yay I'm such a exciting wife! lol

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!