Smiling A Lot Lately :)

Life is FAN-TAB-U-LOUS!!

I just wanted to share that.

Yours Truly, Brian, Dave & Courtney

Celebrating at Benihana's for Dave's birthday

Little plug; Benihana's gives you $30 gift card to use during your birthday month!

Holla! I can't wait for January, so sign up.

Speaking of Dave's birthday,

I wanted to give my best friend the best birthday gift.

He and I share a love for the TV show "Friends"

We quote it to each other ALL the time.

So I made a collage of the best quotes,

took a picture of the six cast members

and my dear friend Holly photoshopped our heads into the picture.

I loved it!

He loved it!

It was pure awesomeness!!

Remember me sharing my little joy of creepy crawling things?

We had this cute little guest at work.

I named him "Cheeto" for the time being.

I couldn't get enough of him.

Gratitude Rocks!!!

-Boys making me 2 meals in one day, singing, teaching people how to play a simple card game that they just couldn't grasp (so funny btw), chatting with madre about our weekends.

As Frank Sinatra would sing

"Start spreading the news"

I'm not leaving today however I am..

HAPPY!

That's right, I am so happy right now with how everything is, it's great!

It took me a long time to get to this point and I am thrilled to be in this place.

Just thought you would guys would like to know.

Feel free to share the news, Frank Sinatra style.

Gratitude Rocks! - Faith in Heavenly Father, a good laugh, supportive friends and family. Thank you to all!!!

I am done...

with this HEAT!!!

It is bloody October! It should be at least in the 90s but NO. I still have to endure the triple digits. I love the summers here but I can always tell when I am sick of it. I want to open my windows at night. I want to turn off my A/C and save some money. I want to lay in my backyard and enjoy the cooler weather. Hopefully soon. Real soon before I go more insane. In the hopes of cooler weather here is a weekend I had this summer to escape the heat. I went to Eagar, AZ. A town that I thought I would never love, but at that moment I loved every minute of it. My friend Lindsay has a friend that lives there and he invited her to come play and she invited me and of course I jumped at the opportunity. A chance to wear a sweater, hell ya! Here are pictures from that weekend in July.

We went to the water tower and had to get there by climbing a fence.

I don't do that since the last time I climbed a fence I sliced my hand.

Luckily there was a huge gap between the ground and the fence.

Lindz and I That's right shooting was part of the plan. I hate guns with a passion but every time I shoot one I always hit the target. Impressive? 'Ello Beautiful Country! Crawdads that the family caught. I love holding creeping and crawling things. It's a little twisted joy that I get. Andy, Yours Truly, Lindz

Scary huh?

I think so. But first shot and I slaughtered that glass bottle. Boo Ya!

The Hat!

The only hat that I have ever found that looks somewhat decent on me.

Granted, my hair has to look a certain way, but I love it!

I miss that cool weekend. I want to experience that nice weather on my face here at home. Please come our way soon. Thank you oh so much Weatherman.

Gratitude Rocks!!

-Discovering a French Toast that I actually enjoy eating.

- Finished birthday projects

- Rubbing Nicole's belly

- Conference weekend

- My "a-ha" moment

Consequences for having fun

Saturday I went to Sedona's Slide Rock Park to have some fun with friends.

If anyone has ever been there I am sorry to say that it was just OK.

Super crowded and not what I was expecting.

Oh well, it didn't matter,

I was with one of my favorite people.

Things were going great, sliding down the slides of mossy rock.

Next on the list was cliff jumping.

Not a big deal.

I heart jumping from high heights.

The only thing that was preventing me from taking that plunge

was the hike back up. I had decided that I was too lazy to do that little detail.

But Dave was encouraging me to do it from below.

I made the choice to do it. Especially since I already threw my shoes down to him.

I needed to retrieve those suckers.

I jumped from 33 feet.

FYI: I have jumped higher than that.

Come up out of the water and I can't see a thing.

I lost one contact while the other is lost in my eye.

I screamed "Damn It!"

I am blind!

Luckily we left 20 min after that happened.

Get back to Glendale and we decide to go to dinner.

Fabulous!

I am gross from the water,

I am disabled.

Where is my seeing eyed dog?!

Dave comes up with the brilliant idea to put in my one contact and wear an eye patch.

Like a pirate?

AYE!

I went to dinner looking like a Pirate.

It was pretty funny.

Luckily I don't get embarrassed easily and everyone was good sports.

The picture was taken with my camera so it isn't the best quality of that great mess.

I had to drive home this way too.

Don't worry,

I didn't hit anyone and my hands were at ten and two the entire time.

It was fun, but I hope to never have that happen again.

Yours Truly home safe that night.

Gratitude Rocks!!

- Sight!, compassion, popcorn, newborns, paper shredder, a smile to brighten my day

Not much...

is going on. Already keeping up this thing is hard when you have absolutely nothing happening. I came home from institute last night, it was almost 10 o'clock. Do you think I went to bed since there was nothing to do and no one to hang out with? Nope. I dished myself a nice helping of cookies n' cream ice cream, went through my DVR to see what will keep me entertained. Ah, Project Runway, NICE! And I found myself in complete contentment. Don't get me wrong, I heart people! I get my energy and happiness by being around anyone that is willing to be around me. But every once in awhile, putting my hair up in a disgusting pony tail, wearing pj's that have paint stains on them, and indulging in something that I probably shouldn't put down my gullet that late at night is pure joy.

Friday is here and that will not happen tonight. I plan on having someone to keep me company. Someone that is willing to put up with my crazy ways of nonsense. Someone that loves me to the eternities. My Madre! She is oh so lucky. I plan on beating her playing Skip-bo tonight. Bring it!!

I was going through my pictures and found this one of yours truly with her most favorite person that roams this planet with her. Old photo, taken the weekend that Nicole started dating Brady. Happy times, love you Buckley!

Gratitude Rocks!! -Prayers, lessons learned, Chino Banditos!, Sunday movie night, families

2 Adult Kids in Cali

About a month ago, I had a dear friend bite the dust.

She got married.

I am super happy for her.

She had a reception in California and I thought why not.

I have nothing else to do.

Plus it gets me to The Happiest Place On Earth.

So I asked my friend Dave to drive with me.

He would be the perfect companion for the drive as well as Disneyland.

Happy Times!!!

Time for the reception;

Great Food.

Dancing.

Cute little girls snapping pictures with my camera.

Then....

Broken camera.

The cute little girls dropped my camera.

A little ticked but oh well, it's done.

Here are a couple of the snap shots taken.

Payton looking sad. She wanted to take some pics. Kylie, the little culprit that broke the camera. Love her!

Ruston and Doug Lansan Dave Yours Truly Now onto Disneyland. Dave and I only attended said park. We did all but 7 rides. We did all the shows; Parade, Firework Show, Fantasmic. The weather was perfect, never did it reach above 80! Since my camera was broken, Dave was a trooper and snapped photos and one lovely video. He just cracks me up. I had the time of my life. The tram on the way to Happiness! Jungle Cruise Being attacked by fake men. Captain EO had returned! It wouldn't be a true Dave photo without a pose.

The classic pose in front of the castle.

Beginning of parade.

They stopped in front of us for about 10 minutes

and sang, danced and even a conga line.

We were having the time of our lives

singing and dancing on the bench.

We were seriously 2 kids.

We may have looked like "special people."

Neither one of us had ridden Dumbo in a long time

so why not.

So at the beginning of the day,

Dave had a challenge that whoever saw someone they knew

the other person had to buy the winner a churro.

Now Dave is an army brat.

He has lived in a lot of places,

hails from Utah.

Surely he would win.

Nope.

I Win!

I see Mr. Wilson, my teacher from JR high.

"Hello, free churro. You are one of the best parts about this place."

On the tram coming back to the car.

Again, not a photo without Dave posing.

We were so tired.

Feet and shins are in pain. However, we had so much fun!

Nice little getaway.

Here is the video that Dave took while riding Autopia.

He makes me smile.

Gratitude Rocks!!

-letters, books, a hat that finally looks good on me, bruises that remind you how much fun you had.

New Source of Entertainment

Anyone that truly knows me, knows that I hate to read. I get really bored with it and it takes a lot to have a book grab me and suck me into its world. When asked what my favorite book is I actually do have an answer for them.

It is "The Giver."

I was flying to Salt Lake City one summer and had asked Nicole to recommend a book for me to read. She lent me that one and it was read in 2 days! Now anyone who has either read or seen that book, probably did or could read it in a day. But 2 days, that is a feat for me and I must say I am proud of myself.

Well, the reason for this post, while I was in the car driving to Cali (post about that later when I get pics from Dave) Dave and I were talking about what it would be like to live in a day when there was a horse and buggy to get you places,

where you had to grow your food,

hard labor was always a must sometime during your day,

entertainment was not relied on video games and television.

Well that got me thinking about my source of entertainment.

I love TV and movies.

I get so drawn into characters on the tube and just fall in love.

I even watch TV and movies at work.

Don't roll your eyes! I do work people, it's on the side of my screen, geez.

Thinking and knowing that I rely a lot of entertaining me is by the tube kind of makes me sad.

So....

I am turning off "the box" and reading for a week.

I want to fall in love with different characters.

I will have 3 books going.

CRAZY!! especially for a girl who hates the novel.

I will have one at work,

one at home

and one that I will read just before bed.

I am going to go in with a positive attitude and hope that by the end of the week, I will be a lover of books. Mom will so proud.

Gratitude Rocks!!

-Popsicles, hugs, Disneyland, flowers, a slow dance, blessings