The Dearing Family

2010-11-15T13:04:00.002-07:00

This is a post about nothing. I wanted to post more regularly, but sadly I don't get out much with school and working full time. My mom came into town last week and we had fun traipsing around logan for a couple days. One of which involved crepes from The Crepery and man were they delicious. They are located inside Citrus and Sage and everyone should go check it out.

In case you didn't know, I've become kinda obsessed with the Colbert Report on comedy central. First of all...it hilarious. and second of all they occasionally have really good entertainers. Thats were I first heard the song on my playlist by Cee-Lo Green. Sorry for the language, but boy is it catchy. He did a duet with Elvis Costello..i think it was last week. and it was really neat so I'm posting a link.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/364519/november-04-2010/exclusive---elvis-costello---all-i-have-to-do-is-dream?xrs=share_copy

Another funny internet phenomenon is the kid from the rape news story. I first watched this a couple months ago but he was on the George Lopez show the other day and it was just as funny as the first time I saw it. holy crap its funny so if you haven't watched it yet..DO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54yESyq6Io

well thats all of the ramblings I have to share today. I'm sorry my life revolves around what i see on television..but it can't be helped.

Labor Day Camping Trip

2010-10-21T10:31:00.006-06:00

During Labor Day, (I know, I know, I'm late.) we went up to Bear Lake to camp with Josh's family. It was fun...but also FREEZING!! At night I slept with my head under all our blankets since my nose would freeze if I left it out haha. We went fishing and to that expanse of beach where dogs don't have to be on leashes. I have never seen happier dogs. Faye loves swimming...and Josh loves seeing how far out she'll go. Shes such a trooper...shes a lot shorter than Keisha and Marley, but she would stick it out even when she couldn't touch and they could...for awhile anyway. I think she didn't quite understand how to breathe because she would puff air out of her nose and it looked kinda sad...so of course I made her come back in :).

The last day we were there Josh, Kamye and I took out the fishing boat and we actually caught a fish! well I fell asleep for while and when I woke up we had landing in a school of a ton of fish. I'm not gonna lie, he tasted pretty good. or she...its hard to tell with fish.

p.s. can you tell which is Keisha and which is Marley? I got them mixed up a couple times!!

Last week my dad was in town so we went down to Layton to have dinner with him, Kim and Brett, and my grandparents. It was so nice to see everyone since I haven't seen them since June. I'm sorry...I'm a bad sister. I don't have pictures but we went to famous daves so you can imagine all of our grins.

Iowa

2010-08-05T18:38:00.003-06:00

For those of you who don't know...Josh and I have been living in Muscatine Iowa for the summer. The summer is almost over, and we have had a lot of fun days...but mostly boring ones for me. Muscatine isn't nearly as thrilling as it sounds. For one, there is this VERY pungent smell that comes from what people claim to be a timber mill, but I really don't think such a horrible smell can come from that haha. anywhoo.. besides the "Muscatine Musk" there isn't really much more to say about it. My friend Ashley and I have taken trips up to Iowa City or Davenport to have something to do and we got memberships to the YMCA out here. Its actually pretty cool because they have a lot of classes you can take. I recently just started a ZOOMBA class...its aerobic latin dance class. The only day Josh gets off is Sunday so we usually try to find something fun to do on those days. Last week we went to the Amana Colonies. They are part of this society that was founded in the 1700s where the town owned everything and the villagers were assigned living and eating houses. The colonies lasted all the way until the 1930s and now they are a pretty awesome tourist trap. They have these old bakeries and candy, toy, antique and clock shops. It was so quaint and peaceful there. We got some salt water taffy and flavored honey sticks and an AWESOME salt lamp. In case you haven't heard of them, they are blocks of salt that have a light inside. Not only are they really neat looking, but they send out positive ions that react with the negative ions in the air. They are supposed to decrease dust and help with asthma and other health problems. Josh has been wanting one and they are kinda hard to find.

We stopped into a winery too and looked at the process (they had windows into the winery room) and they had models of what the wining process used to be. It was pretty neat. plus we got to sample a crap load of cheese!! I'm not sure if Chipotle cheddar is the classiest cheese, but oh my it was delicious.

yes...those ARE the blues brothers in the winery!! we were excited.

In other news I planted a very very modest garden...in some pots. haha I have a couple herbs that died after 3 weeks and a serrano pepper plant. I did plant tomatoes and it got really big but I'm sure it wont give any tomatoes until after we leave so I'm pretty bummed about that. It was only a dollar plant at the farmers market though, so I'm not completely crushed. Here is my first pepper! I was so excited.

We've been doing other fun things to...we went to the casino which was fun...but I lost all the money I played with. I'll leave black jack to josh.

longg time coming!

2010-08-05T17:38:00.003-06:00

Since I haven't updated my blog in over 6 months, I thought I'd give a little overview of what we have been up to since then. We went to Josh's parents house for Christmas and we decided to go sledding so I have some cute pictures.

I have some random pictures of the dogs too. we had a little bit of spring fever...as does everyone who lives in Utah I'm guessing, so we took the dogs up the canyon a few times and tried to have a picnic even though it was still pretty cold.

This is of Keisha in heat. I didn't want to get her spayed...I mean just look at that face!!! But jokes on me now because we were going to wait until we got to Iowa to have her surgery, but its 300 dollars here!! what a joke!!! Now we have to wait to get back to Logan anyway. anywhoooo...the diapers were a pain in the butt but she looked so funny in them I had to take a couple pictures.

well thats all for now..I have to do laundry but I'm hopefully I will get to updating about Iowa soon.

Josh's Birthday

2009-12-08T14:43:00.006-07:00

This monday was Josh's birthday. Tammie and I decided it would be fun to surprise him, so they drove up on sunday and I had Josh take the dogs to the park so they could be waiting for him when he got back. We had such a fun time playing the games Josh got for his birthday, and we ate some yummy pizza, chicken wings and, of course, cake. Happy 25th Joshy!!

On Josh's actual birthday we didn't do too much since we had celebrated the night before. We had eggnog french toast and bacon for breakfast. When the family left Josh and I took the dogs for a hike up green canyon. We had wanted to shoot his 22, but target shooting wasn't allowed so we settled for a hike and laughing at the puppies being silly in the snow. (note keisha's frozen beard below) We found a cave so of course we had to climb up into it.

I won!!!

2009-10-06T15:50:00.004-06:00

this afternoon something amazing happened. I was just getting home from class and eating a snack when the ups guy dropped off a package for me. I hadn't ordered anything so I was really confused. I opened it and it was Jillian Michaels' (the mean trainer from biggest loser) book and little exercise cards. I remember looking at them online because I had seen her commercial and went to check out her website, but I KNOW that I didn't enter any of my information. So I was panicking that someone had stolen my card and then out of guilt they sent me a gift? I checked my account...nothing. Finally Josh thought of opening the front cover of the book voila! there was a little note that said "congrats on being a self magazine sweepstakes winner!" This was my face when I found out.

Even though it wasn't the best prize, I couldn't believe I actually won something. It was great. After I read the card I remembered entering last June when I started the self challenge...that I never completed. It was a sweepstakes where you could win a ton of different prizes and you pick your top five that you would like to win. My strategy was to pick ones that I thought I actually had a chance at winning (not like the second honeymoon to Greece). Jokes on you sweepstakes losers! My strategy paid off!! I know I know..its only a book. haha

I forgot to put up pictures of camping a couple weeks ago. So here they are!

Concert!

2009-09-14T16:46:00.003-06:00

The day after we got home from the cruise Josh and I drove down to orem to go the the Blink 182 concert. It was great. The lights the used were really neat, and it was so fun to sing along to all there songs from when I was younger. Taking back sunday played before them and they were really good too. We got some pretty cool pictures. At the end of the show travis Barker did this drum solo and they lifted him on this suspended platform and it actually rotated when him parallel to the ground. It was awesome. We ate at dennys with Josh's brothers after the show. and then we got to drive two hours home.

Cruise to Mexico!

2009-09-14T16:19:00.005-06:00

Josh and I went on a cruise last week and we had so much fun. We had to reverse our itinerary so we could go around a category 4 hurricane, but we were able to stop at the ports so it worked out well. It was fun to go back to Puerto Vallarta where we spent our honeymoon. We got chips and salsa at a restaurant on the boardwalk and we were able to watch the sun go down over the ocean. It was so beautiful. In Mazatlan we rented 4 wheelers and drove them around the city and then down to the beach. It was such a blast. I even drove a little on the beach even though I was little nervous since I had just seen two people roll there’s. Luckily no one got seriously hurt because some of those guys were a little crazy. We also went to a really neat resort that had this little cliff you could jump off of into the pool. We got really sunburned that day so we tried to avoid being out in the sun for the rest of the cruise.

Like the tattoo I got? It was so cheap I couldn't resist.

Just kidding. Its henna and it has already faded haha. I have to admit I liked how it looked but I could never get a real one.

Josh and I had fun at the casino. Mostly Josh did since I lost all the money I played. Josh did pretty well in Black Jack and by the end he was up pretty big so we treated ourselves to some new watches. The boat had a good deal on them. It’s nice to be home with our doggies but I miss the sun already.

2009-07-14T18:25:00.005-06:00

I turned the big 2-0 last monday. It was the first time I have ever gone to school on my birthday. It wasn't as fun as I thought..probably since I don't have a locker for someone to decorate. haha. Josh had to work, but when he got home we went out to dinner to my favorite place, happy sushi. We may have over did it...we got two large rolls, two pieces of yellow tail nagiri, veggie tempura, and gyoza. It was so yummy. We had a good laugh at the people sitting next to us too. They had never eaten sushi before and were making a big show about how cool they felt eating the raw fish in a california roll. For those of you who don't know a california roll has no fish in it. Its crab, cucumber and avocado. I thought it was funny anyway. We had our waitress take a picture of us, and then we took one of the yummy rolls.

After dinner we took the dogs to the park. We were going to see a movie and we didn't want Keisha barking in her kennel all night while we were gone. Shes already getting so much bigger. When we go for walks she can actually walk instead of running to keep up with Faye and I. She sleeps through the night now too so I don't have to get up every few hours to let her have a potty break. I was getting so many mosquito bites it was a little ridiculous. This is Keisha and Faye playing. Josh thinks Keisha looks like a bear.

Birthday Present!

2009-07-03T10:40:00.005-06:00

For my birthday I got an adorable little golden retriever. At first we weren't sure if it would work out with the town house, but she has been surprisingly very well behaved and she even calms down faye. We decided (more like I did:] ) to name her Keisha. Get it? Kemo + Miesha = Keisha. They love to play under this big tree right outside our back door. Its so cute. Faye will only play with her laying down. Shes usually surprisingly gentle, but some times she has to show the boss is and she just kind of walks on top of her. Anyway..last sunday we went up to Bear Lake and we let the dogs run around. They both had a blast (especially faye who got a kick out of chasing the seagulls.) It was so fun to finally be able to enjoy some sunshine. Here they are!

Keisha looooved to roll around in the sand. I don't know if she just wanted to make it hard to give her a bath or what..but it was cute. Faye on the other hand ran around and around for a half hour trying to catch these birds. She got soaking wet. It was so funny. Her ears look hilarious all wet because they're so long. haha

Keisha loved playing in the water too!

Faye got so mad when we had to put her on a leash since she kept running by this couple who didn't look very happy with having a wet dog running back and forth in front of them. I can't understand why. She wouldn't even look at us when we called her name. Keisha got so exhausted. she fell asleep after 10 minutes. Of course we didn't leave without getting a couple raspberry shakes.

Funny Faye

2009-03-28T15:14:00.003-06:00

Well Josh went up to pocatello for work so i had yesterday and today to hang out with faye and work on my sewing projects. They are coming along great...i'm finally getting the hang out my machine and I bet my dress will be done in a couple days or so. maybe...if I'm not to embarrassed of it I will post a picture. :)

Faye has been so weird since she got spayed. She only sleeps on her back with her legs up in the air. Maybe because it hurts to lay on her tummy? Whatever the reason..it cracks me up when I look at her. She is so cuddly now too. Its cute but I'll have my laptop on my lap and she will just climb on in..or she goes around the couch to sneak up behind me to lay her head on my chest.

Thats her...sleeping. you can even see her baldness. haha She snores pretty loud when she sleeps like that.

2009-03-22T21:18:00.002-06:00

Well not much has happend over the past few days. Except that Faye got spayed on friday. It was so sad and when I went to go pick her up she seemed to be so mad at me and then when we got home she just went into her bedroom and layed down (she usually HAS to be in the same room as whoever is home,) but then like 15 min later she came out and looked at me and then went back to her room. It was kind of funny and I realized she was just tierd..but it made me so sad to see HER so sad. Shes doing great now..you can hardly tell she got surgery except for the nice bald patch on her stomach. I think josh was more upset about her hair getting shaved than her being all sluggish. Just kidding babe!!

The move in date is set for April 8th and we decided on paint colors today so that we can paint the weekend before so that all of fayes hair wont get stuck to the wet walls.

2009-03-05T18:45:00.005-07:00

Josh and I found a new apartment (well, townhome)!! We are moving in April to Devonshire. I'm pretty excited, especially since they are located right behind walmart so if I'm feeling like ice cream at 3 in the morning it won't really be an inconvenience to go get some.

Nothing else is really new with the Dearing Family. My sister Kim came up to logan for the first time since Josh and I have been married to hang out and see the apartment. We went to happy sushi which always always makes me happy with its sushi... also I'm still reading the times and I came across an article that made agree with it out loud like 5 times when I was reading it. If anyone agrees that the spirit of the American market is about to be destroyed you should read it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/opinion/05Cohen.html?em The title of the article is "ONE FRANCE IS ENOUGH" Could the message be a little clearer??? :) I didn't agree with the whole thing, but you know what they say, if two people agree on everything thene there is no need for one of them. Anyway, this is my favorite part:

"Churn is the American way. Companies are born, rise, fall and die. Others come along to replace them. The country’s remarkable capacity for innovation, for reinvention, is tied to its acceptance of failure. Or always has been. Without failure, the culture of risk fades. Without risk, creativity withers. Save the zombies and you sabotage the vital."

While I'm venting...you know what else really really bothers me. People who are from different states or countries who bash where you live or talk up where they're from when they DON"T LIVE THERE ANYMORE!! I just keep thinking if your 'home land' is so fantastical then why are you living here? It just doesn't make sense and it annoys me to no end. I wish more people would only open their mouths when they had something interesting or productive to say. I don't care about what actor is from Canada (who currently resides in L.A.) or that the south is amazing because so many good basketball players grew up there. Give it a rest already. I have also been wondering whatever happened to the philosophy that one should pray in private. Unless someone asks you should assume no one wants to hear about your mission preparations or the fact that watching sports on a sunday is breaking the Sabbath. please. If you have to advertise your celestial status I'm pretty sure that in all actuality its not worth nearly as much as you think.

I guess thats enough moaning for one day. I think I'm just in a whiny mood since I'm hungry at work and the stupid vending machine ate my quarters when I wanted doritos. I get pretty cranky when I'm hungry and the fact that I'm out 60 cents didn't exactly lift my spirits. oh well.

Dream House

2009-02-24T17:51:00.004-07:00

My mom is visiting in Salt Lake because her and my dad want to find a house up here! It would be exciting except that I'm pretty sure that it won't happen for a long time since they have been looking at houses in arizona for the past 4 months. Well I went house hunting with her on friday, and I found the house that I have been dreaming of!! Its amazing..but I think you can tell more from the pictures I conveniently found online.

yea..I LOVE that house. I just want to move our clothes into the closet and call it a day. Did I mention that it also has an amazing theatre room AND craft room. :)

ANYWHOOO...I'm at work and I'm supposed to be making calls but it has been such a slow day that I decided to take a break and do a little Internet surfing and I realized how ironic it is that even though we have so much information available at the tip of our fingers, Americans are becoming progressively more and more stupid. Ha. I like to make myself feel smarter by reading the good ol' ny times when I'm making phone calls at work and listening to talk radio when I drive around town. Did you know that every saturday morning they have some plant genius answer any questions you have on the things you want to plant in your backyard. In case you were thinking a raspberry bush would be a good addition to your yard, you should know that the plant guy thinks they grow wonderfully in all areas of utah.

Married life!

2009-01-17T16:35:00.005-07:00

Josh and I got married a couple weeks ago!! The wedding and reception was amazing. We haven't gotten the pictures back yet, but I'm so excited to see them. Landon, the photographer was taking pictures for more than a few hours straight. Luckily we got him to sit down for a few minutes so he could enjoy some food. I looooovved the hot chocolate bar we had. It was probably my most favorite thing of the night haha. I wish I would have had a few more free minutes, so I could have had another cup. :)

After the wedding Josh and I drove to the hotel. There was a disgusting smell from under the seat where we found a can of open sardines. yuck. Josh's brothers weren't very nice...

The honeymoon was soooo sooo amazing. We went to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was so beautiful. We had fun horseback riding on the beach, and snorkeling in las caletas where we got to take pictures with a monkey and parrots. It was amazing!! It was great to ring in the new year while watching fireworks on the beach.

Now we are having fun fixing up the apartment and transforming it into a home instead of a bachelor pad. Sorry Josh, but the plastic plates had to go. haha!

the week before

2008-12-20T18:32:00.004-07:00

Josh and I are getting married in one day shy of ONE week. How crazy is that??? I'm getting excited, though, and I feel like most everything is taken care of and so the wedding will turn out pretty dang good! yayy.

We got our pictures taken a while ago, and they look great! Landon Smith, my sister Kim's friend took them, and I think he was amazing. Thankfully he will be back to take some on our wedding day. This picture is one of my favorites. SO cute! Love you josh!!