Carpenters

Pat's Run!

2010-04-22T15:43:00.000-07:00

This picture above isn't even a smiggin of how many people there were running in Pat's Run! It was such an awesome experience being apart of it. There were over 28,000 people running in it alone. It was bright and early Saturday morning, April 17! It was 4.2 miles.

This is me right after the run. I'm in the shade otherwise you would see my bright red face. Amber and I planned to meet right around the finish line but couldn't find eachother for a good hour or so.

We got to finally take our picture together!

Girls Night Out!

2010-04-22T10:45:00.000-07:00

This was a MUCH NEEDED girls night out! It was the most fun I have had in so long, I think everyone could agree. We were laughing none stop. Everything was funny to us that night. It was Jasmine, Kristina, Hilary and myself. We started the night out by eating at Olive Garden. Our waiter was hilarious. The best part, I think was laughing that we spotted a look a like of Gary, from 16 and Pregnant, if anyone watches that show, Season 1. After dinner we headed over to Skateland. BTW they have a new one on Ray and Dobson! I dont remember the last time being at Skateland so I knew this would be fun. We all had a fair share of laughing at each other falling.

This guy was so fun too! He was the guy out helping everyone who fell. Had to snapp a picture with him.

Ashley's Wedding

2010-04-22T10:26:00.000-07:00

Ashley's Wedding! Ashley got married back in October of 09! She looked so beautiful and I am so happy for her! It was fun to see her and catch up a bit since we dont get to see eachother at all. It was fun to see Sha and Shelbie too!

Susan's Run

2010-04-22T10:19:00.000-07:00

My sister and I, Amber ran in a 5k back in March called, Susan's Run. It was a neat experience to be a part of, knowing that the money went towards a foundation to help others. This is a picture of us after the run.

Can't Wait!

2009-11-24T10:26:00.000-08:00

For those who know me I am pretty much obsessed with Channing Tatum. Who isn't? My friend mentioned that she saw a preview for a new movie coming out with him in it, so I had to google for the trailer and it looks so cute. I'm really excited. It comes out February 5th!

Our New Place!

2009-06-18T20:45:00.000-07:00

Okay so first off...I dont know how to flip pictures and second off I haven't figured out how to get my pictures in order from when i choose them and how they end up on the blog so they are a bit scattered third we just moved so I am def. NOT unpacked that is why you will see some boxes and a sorta messy place. We just moved the end of May into this place and are loving it. Its a really cute neighborhood and best of all no more crazy neighbors!!!!!!!
Our place is three levels. The first floor is the master bedroom, bathroom, laundry room and garage. The second floor is the kitchen, a place for your table, an open area, a bathroom, and two bedrooms and then we have a loft. We are loving all the extra space. This first picture is a view looking down from the loft.

This picture below is the actual loft.

This is the outside of the house!Our messy kitchen

This picture is a view coming up to the second level.

Love they Neighbor as they self...

2009-05-28T12:11:00.001-07:00

Well not sure how much I really agree with this statement! Living in apartments I will never recommend and will hopefully never have to do again. What a nightmare this past year has been with our crazy neighbors upstairs and down. As much as we are supposed to abide by this love they neightbor rule, Not sure that we did to well after walking to my car the other morning and finding it tilted to one side! The SOB upstairs had slashed my two passenger side tires, after threatening me previousely he would do so. After all "walking to loudly" really got to him and it is apartment living of course. I was soooooooo furious. I called the cops, which I knew wouldn't do much help but at least it was reported. I also reported to the office, no help.
I am 100% positive it was my neighbor upstairs who moved out two days before. Little did he know I was way overdue for some new tires anyways so who's laughing now.
Luckily we are out as of there as of this weekend!

Girls Trip to Sedona

2009-03-31T11:07:00.000-07:00

We did a lot in Sedona! My sisters/mom and I love to do crafts. We all came up with an idea and brought one for everyone to make. So we left with 5 new crafts. We did aprons, a flip book full of quotes, an egg wreath, a BE decoration, and a block of wood we painted and put a cute quote on. The last two didn't really have names, I had to improvise. The last night we pampered ourselves, after the hike, with face masks and cucumbers along with pedicures. We had a really fun time.

Sedona - Hike

2009-03-31T10:42:00.001-07:00

The last day we were in Sedona we went for a hike on I forget the name but its really popular and so pretty. It was about a 3 mile hike. I've never been to Sedona, the colors of the mountains are so different from any other area in Arizona I've seen. We had to keep crossing the creek along the path, in the begining we were all avoiding getting our feet wet but when it became un-avoidable on the way back it really didn't matter. Some of those little branch/tree/rock bridges were pretty tricky I thought. Here's some pictures from our hike.

The road that takes you to the parking area to begin the hike was pretty (wine-dee), so on the way home around a corner was a huge sign that read -DAIRY QUEEN-. Cammie goes, Amber DAIRY QUEEN, my mom instantly slammed on her breaks and pulled over. So it went from a gravel road to a bunch of rocks, with dust flying up and that noise where tires hit rocks and slide. Pretty funny. So as we are eating our treats outside, about every 5 minutes was another car pulling off the road. We're like they saw DAIRY QUEEN!

1920's Murder Mystery Party

2009-03-10T11:34:00.000-07:00

Last Friday we all celebrated Stevens sister Crystals' Birthday! They came up with a really fun idea called a 1920's Murder Mystery Party! We all had a blast dressing up everyone looked so good and interacting while being in character was hard to keep a straight face. To be honest I was lost the entire time, I didn't know who was killing who but it was fun trying to figure it all out. Part of my character was to have a black eye, but covered with makeup, some people would sorta pull me aside or double look at my eye, and thought it was real. It was fun to trick some people like it really was though. All and all I know everyone had a really fun time and it was something different, Peter and Crystal your idea rocked. Here are some pictures from our night.

Ashley, Heather and Kelli

Steven with his stuffed square pillow belly

Crystal and Peter

Kelli, LaDawn, David and Ashley

Everyone

Happy Birthday Steve

2009-02-12T10:09:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was Steven's 25th birthday. I wanted to do something a little different than giving him all his presents at once. So in the morning I gave him his first present, a sweater. Later in the day I called him and told him to look in this basket on top of our DVDs, and it was another gift, he was so excited that I got him something else and loved the idea I hide it. So each gift he is thinking thats the last one. I got home from work and surprised him with some colone (ka-lone). I took him out for Dinner at Texas Road House, Tyson came to and I told our waitress it was Steve's Birthday, I wanted him to sit on the saddle and take a picture with my camera, and embarass him of course.

The waitress was lame she totally forgot and brought us our check and played the dumb card, "oh i'm so sorry i totally forgot" and made this annoying laugh. IDIOT.

I know i'm being harsh for a picture.

Then later that night I surpised him again! He is easy just buy him cloths and he's good.

Happy Birthday Steve.

Christmas Morning

2009-01-14T14:54:00.000-08:00

Christmas morning was freezing of course. Steve and I stayed at my sisters house and stayed on the most uncomfortable bed ever, we couldn't wait to wake up early. I found Steve out on the couch in the morning (love you amber, thanks for letting us stay)! We all drove over to my moms and started opening our stockings. We let the kids go first because with our family we do one at a time and the kids have no patience, of course its CHRISTMAS. Our parents did our presents really different this year, they played a game basically like the white elephant exchange. We picked numbers and #1 got to pick first, and so forth, well if you wanted you could keep your gift hopeing no one would steal it, if they did you opened another one. It had a bunch of rules but all in all it was fun and Steven and I were happy with what we got. We all had a lot of fun opening our presents and being all together.

Good morning no make up and very close picture.

Driving to Christmas

2009-01-14T14:46:00.001-08:00

Tyson, Steve, and I drove up to Taylor for Christmas, Christmas Eve. Once we got to Payson was when we started to see so much snow, so pretty i love seeing the snow on the huge tall pine trees.

Our Vegas Trip

2009-01-12T18:03:00.000-08:00

Steven and I got to go to Vegas with the company I work for early December. It was so much fun getting away and spending time with him. We stayed at the Flamingo for our four day vacation. We of course did a lot of walking and went into all the different hotels and took a bunch of pictures. One of the days we walked from our Hotel to the Stratasphere, very far, everyone said we were crazy if we walked but we really wanted to ride the rides up top. About an hour and and half later we make it and the rides are all closed, due to wind and weather.
This is me and Whoopi, she was very funny.

These are the flamingos that were at our hotel in a habitat area that you were able to walk around and look at and the huge fish. It was really overcast the first day we got there and so cold.

"ELF". We stayed on the 16th floor and everytime we got in the elevator it was so crowded. Finally one night we got in an elevator just to our selvs and Steve starts pressing all the buttons/levels and says "its like a Christmas tree" , you had to be there but it was really funny and next thing we know it stops on 15 and in comes an older lady, i was like she is not going to like this, to make a long story short she had seen the movie and thought it was pretty funny.

No longer MIA

2008-12-09T08:13:00.000-08:00

So my camera charger was MIA and my battery has been completely dead. So i found my charger and now i'm back in business. Well after i have something exciting to post.

To catch up. Thanksgiving was such a blast. In the morning we went to Gilbert High, the plans were to play football, the field was already taken so we played catch on the side which was still fun. Then we went home and got ready for Thanksgiving dinner over at Steven's parents. The food was so good. Afterwards we played games all day, up until about 11:00 at night.
All and all it was a lot of fun.

I'm a Whoopi Cushion, I'm a Whoopi Cushion

2008-11-03T10:57:00.001-08:00

We were WHOOPI CUSHIONs! So much fun. It was a pretty nice night but still pretty hot to be wearing a felt costum. We looked at walmart one night at their costums, I wanted to be a cop and Steven wanted to be dressed in stripes. So Steve picks out a Whoopi Cushion and said lets be this, totally kidding around, and I looked at what he was holding up and i'm like YES we have to be that. His face was like "REALLY". We got some pretty good laughs out of people. It was such a fun night.

Tagged by Jilliann and Becca

2008-10-30T12:39:00.000-07:00

8 things i'm passionate about:
1. Reflexology
2. Photography
3. Dark Room
4. Channing Tatum's dancing
5. Prayer
6. Friendship
7. Laughter
8. Family

8 words or phrases i use all the time:
1. do you love it
2. get out of my way you stupid idiot driver
3. heck yes
4. really?
5. i know right
6. you dont know
7. learn how to drive
8. I love you so much

8 things i want to do before i die:
1. Get sealed in the temple
2. Have children
3. Dream job - work Behind the scenes (movies)
4. Make a difference
5. Meet Adam Sandler
6. Be on Saturday Night Live
7. Master The Secret
8. Ride Worlds biggest Rollercoasters

8 things i want or need:
1. Be stable with money
2. Buy a house
3. Boob job
4. A healthy family
5. Worlds larges mini display in my home
6. An endless closet filled w/ cloths-shoes-purses etc.
7. Vacation's
8. Pizza/Chocolate

8 places i would like to visit:
1. England - red telephone booth
2. New York
3. Hawaii - all the islands
4. Mexico - the pretty places of it
5. Germany - tour the concentration camps
6. Cruise around - does this count
7. 7 wonders of the world
8. Canada

8 shows I like to watch:
1. Friends
2. The Hills
3. Lost
4. Intervention
5. The Office
6. Seinfeld
7. Reality Shows / MTV
8. The Biggest Loser

8 restaurants i love:
1. Serranos
2. Eva's
3. Subway
4. Texas Road House
5. Cheese cake Factory
6. Mesa Frozen Yogurt
7. Jack in the Box
8. Denny's

8 people i tag:
1. Amber
2. Cammie
3. Joanna
4. Alexis
5. Heather
6. LaDawn
7. Erica
8. Peggy

Pretzels-Chocolate-Messy-Sprinkles-Candy

2008-10-30T11:22:00.000-07:00

We'll start with this story first i guess. So my sister-in-law, Kelli, Steven's lil sister came over the other night to make Chocolate covered pretzels for a pot luck we are having Halloween night. So i saw on a website these really fun and pretty looking chocolate covered pretzels that i've been wanting to make. So we gather up all the stuff and I start melting the chocolate in the microwave. Kelli was making the carmel. I started with the white chocolate. The directions say put in for one minute at a time then stir and continue till it looks done, thats what i did and Steve and Kelli kept saying do it longer its not melty enought, so i did. After a little bit a brown bubbely color caught my attention, I open the microwave and its BURNT. Well the picture below is what i got after listening to them BURNT and FRIED. So we tried again, and this time i was only going to do it for a short amount of time, Kelli then takes the second batch and puts it in, she said if it burns again it will be her fault i said okay. It Burned again, not as bad but def. not useful. Her batch is the picture above.
Here are some pictures of our very creative night.

Lets say we got better and better as the late night went on, we dipped some in carmel let them sit then redipped them in chocolate, then sprinkles then another fun design with chocolate, i know sounds good right, they were so good.

These two trays are our final projects. They turned out so cute. It was so fun. We kept saying over and over, we should open a candy shop. Steve kept turning to T.V. on louder and louder while we cooked and made noise in the kitchen.

Wow - good thing this was pointed out sooner than later.

2008-10-21T15:46:00.000-07:00

Whoops! Good job everyone for pointing it out that i was not at a Diamondbacks game i was at a SUNS game. Who does that? Who gets that mixed up. Where did i graduate again........Wow shows i was paying attention. Thanks haha. I'll leave it up since i would look dumb changing it right.

Diamondbacks Vs. someteam that didn't win

2008-10-21T10:13:00.000-07:00

My cousin Peg called me yesterday and said Hey, i have an extra ticket to the Diamondback game want to go..heck yes i do. So we met up at the stadium. We had so much fun, at first they were winning by 10 or 12 points so we were talking and catching up. The second half we sat on the lower level with her two friends and thats when the game got so head to head exciting. Jumping up in our seats and yelling and the bad calls, booing, cheering, singing, It was really fun. From where we were i zoomed in on my camera to see if i could see nash, he was injured said some guy behind us but i was able to see huge ol' Shaq i couldn't miss him. So at the end we went into over time, with 5 minutes to go then into another overtime with 5 minutes and we WON! Thanks for inviting me Peg.

Puppy Love

2008-10-01T10:32:00.000-07:00

This is our new puppy Paisley! She is sooooooo cute. I love her. We just got her this past Saturday so September 27. She is 7 weeks old and is a cane corso aka an italian massive. I never thought i would ever like to have a dog, until now. Steve has been wanting one for a while but he was mostly wanting a Yorkie and they are way to much. So my friends dog had puppies and gave us one, how perfect! She picked us out the sweetest one. The dog had 10 puppies and ours is number 8 so hopefully she wont grow up to be so big, hopefully she will stay a bit smaller. Paisley is so fun. She is staring to chew on everything! She will drag my kitchen rug all over the house, chew on the couch, try to bit our feet, but since she's a puppy it doesn't do anything to the couch. We got her some toys so she will stay away from our furniture. The first night we got her, we didn't have a kennel at the time so we put her in the bathroom and she whined for about an hour, which i couldn't handle. And im like getting a puppy was the biggest mistake, i told steve. I dont have a kid but its teaching us, you have to make sure your shoes aren't left out, or cords, blankets, everything has to be out of reach.
I thought this was so cute. In the mornings she always passes out somewhere, this picture was in our pile of cloths on the ground, which were clean, while i get ready in the mornings and i looked over and saw her tougne sticking out i had to take a picture.

These are all her brothers and sisters! They are about 6 weeks old here. I thought this picture was so adorable they were all looking over the edge of the tub trying to get out. Paisley is the third from the left.

Shout out to the LoVe of my life...

2008-09-17T11:06:00.000-07:00

I thought since Steve never looks at my blog i could put whatever I wanted. jk. I wanted to create a section for him telling him how much i love and appriciate him. Here it goes. I took these pictures two nights ago because i dont have that many pictures of him on here.

16 Random Reasons why I love my husband...
1 - he lets me bite him
2 - he is just as weird as i am, he just doesn't show it as much as me
3 - the only thing i hear him complaining about is that we have no food in the house. never complains about helping me do this or that he is always willing to help out.
4 - never admits he has dimpels, which ALWAYS makes me laugh because clearly he does.
5 - always supports me
6 - no matter how many calls in the morning it takes to wake me up for work, he calls that many times.
7 - he is funny
8 - he lets me pluck his eye brows
9 - he never cares if i go out and buy a little something for myself
10- i love how good he is with both our neices and nephews, he is going to be such a good dad one day.
11 - when we are board he lets me put eye shadows on and mascara that was a big one and he lets me paint his toe nails, only if i take it off that night though.
12 - will leave the house so i can exercise , i dont like anyone near me when i'm excercising.
13- i love when he texts me just to say he loves me
14 - he lets me pick out his clothes and hats
15 - cleans the house and is surprisingly really good at it
16 - is willing to watch chick flicks

I love you Steven Lane.

Express It Vinyl Lettering

2008-09-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

I have been doing custom vinyl lettering for over a year now called, ExpressIt. I got my very own vinyl machine for christmas last year. I love creating and coming up with new ideas to put in my own house. I pretty much became addicted . And I know Steve loves when i turn our living room into a huge "vinyl in the making " area, with all my supplies left out everywhere! He even helps me once in a while. Especially this time of the year it starts getting really busy going to boutiques and shows. You can check out my website at www.expressit.etsy.com.

When Nature Calls

2008-09-15T10:57:00.000-07:00

This past weekend my mom and sister amber and i drove up to payson to go on a hike. The hike was only supposed to take 31/2 hours total. It took us 5 1/2 hours. And yes it was a hard hike. Really pretty though. We lost the trail at the very end because amber was leading, but we ended up finding our car, thats all that matters. Again love ya amber.

Here is my mom and Amber. Nerd alerts. Amber is sporting her backpack which really she made me carry cuz it was heavier than my fanny pack. So i willingly gave her my fanny pack and carried the backpack. Love ya ambies.

Here i am before trading with amber in the fanny pack. Heck yes i look good.

Castles'n'Coasters

2008-09-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

Last weekend my parents took a bunch of us to Castles'n'Coasters. A lot of us had not been there for over 8 years. We had so much fun. Sicely and I rode about every ride together, she did not care if we were in front or back all she wanted was the ride to go faster and faster as her head is being swung around back and forth she was laughing and screaming. I was laughing cause her head is being swung every where and she's wanting the ride to go faster. (Above) is Steve crambed into a tiny driving space area where his knees are forced into his chest. We all laughed when we saw him. Thanks mom and dad we had so much fun. (oh amber i stole these pictures from your blog, love ya).

CRAZY STORM

2008-08-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

So this was a crazy lightning storm last night. I am testing to see if i can do videos or not. And for some reason the video is not centered....maybe it will when i hit publish anyways besides the point. So i'm driving home around 7 oclock and see all this lightning and i get home it gets a little darker and then i opened my door shades and out of now where you hear THE biggest thunder crack. To bad i didn't get that on here, then it starts DOWNPOURING, i loved it i love the rain and monsoon season. So i grab my camera and turn it to video and this is what i got. Oh and theres a little muiscal tune for you at the end as i'm watching Newsies, for the first time in sooooooo long.

Best Friends Reunite

2008-08-25T16:42:00.001-07:00

I probably could have started out with the nicer looking picture first but oh well. This is Ashley and I at BJ's hanging out. We have not seen eachother for two years!!!!!! We couldn't believe it has been that long. Ashley and I have been best friends since, oh great, i think 7th grade is when we really started hanging out. She has always been the greatest friend through out our school years and after school to. We have always had no problem making eachother laugh over the stupidest things we would do or say. We love talking about how we made baked goods at my house in Taylor, earning money to go to Hawaii we ended up going to Vegas, we sold them at the end of my street, for those of you who dont know, it was out in the middle of no where practically while wearing Huge sumberro hates, and making up songs. Which the second i see her, this past weekend, she positions to re-enact the song, so funny. "Down by the school where we have no money and the lockers are ugly and the gym is scummy. The teachers are gay and they never get paid we love Cheryl Bar " Lets just say its an inside joke. Some of the fun memories we have are , We flew to California together and hung out at the freezing cold beach, ate breakfast in Beverly Hills. Went to Viva Las Vegas with the money we earned from the bake sale. That was a lot of fun, Ashley's First rollercoast was New York New York, i couldn't believe she has never been on one. Tons of memories we have and to come. Oh and here is the ugliest but most famous "dinosaur face". She made me.
Here is a nicer picture of us. A lot better. Love ya Ashley.

Friends

2008-08-25T16:36:00.000-07:00

Here we all are again at Emily's Wedding Reception. Shelbie - Ashely - Jessica - Tiffany - Sha- and Melanie. Friends from High School.
Emily and Me. Congradulations!

Catching Up With Friends

2008-08-25T16:16:00.001-07:00

This past Friday a bunch of us girls got to get together to celebrate Emily's Wedding! We ate at BJ's Resturant. It was soo much fun, i have not seen a bunch of those girls in over two years. Afterwards we went back to Tiffany's house and hung out there. Talking about our lives now and our jobs and kids and all the stuff girls like to talk about. We all were laughing so hard at our stories from high school and stupid things we did to entertain ourselves. We stayed up until 2 in the morning! Here are some pictures of us at BJ's. Emily, Bret, Ashley, Sha, Shelbie, Jessica, Tiffany and Laurie.
Jessica with thumbs up and Shelbie.
Ashley aka Selena Quintanias and Me
Sha and Ashley

Wedding Day April 6, 2006 (Rewind)

2008-08-13T14:02:00.000-07:00

This picture turned out to be a lot smaller than i hoped it would be. I need to learn how to do the slide shoes and put all my wedding pictures up. Since thats the most exciting thing lately with us and a lot of pictures. Anyways a brief catch up/rewind on how we met and how we fell in love. We met in the year 2005 a week before my birthday so around April 19th. My car was in the shop so my friend Megan was driving me around and picked me up from work one night, she always brought someone when picking me up so one night she brough Steve Carpenter. I though he was pretty dang hott so we all hung out that night at my brothers house with a whole bunch of friends. Then later in the week he called and asked me out on a date, well with one of his friends so i dont know if thats a date date. Anyways i met him at the movies and afterwards we are walking back to the car and he grabbed my hand. AWWW. We hit it off from there. We dated for about a year and got married April 6, 2006 at the Stone Bridge Manor in Mesa, AZ.

Best Laugh in SOOOO Long

2008-08-11T13:34:00.001-07:00

This is Brigham. We were all at Chick-Fil-A and the kids were all playing in the play area and everyone's having a good ole time. Well all of a sudden out of no where Brighams comes running up to me crying in distress. Just found out earlier that day i had given Jeremiah, his older brother, a pack of orbit gum. We are like whats wrong and he starts telling me about how Jer has a whole pack of gum and he doesn't. We are laughing hysterically right now. All of us. So i had my camera and i start taking pictures of him crying so sad i know but the pictures are so funny.
SO SAD
Best Picture of them all, hands through the hair so stressed out. HAHAHHAHA

Just found out i will buy him a pack of gum. And the crying stopped. Good Times.

Good Times at Chick-Fil-A

2008-08-11T13:10:00.000-07:00

Sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cammie came to visit! We all had so much fun. Here we all are at Chick-fil-A. Grabbing some ice cream and letting the kids run around. Amber-Joey-Cammie-Landon.

Love Love Love

2008-08-11T13:05:00.000-07:00

Still keeping it real.

Sicely Pretty Princess

2008-05-24T14:46:00.000-07:00

this is sicely at christmas 07 dressing up as a silly princess.