Isn't it ironic?

...that my last post was all about how much I love the SUN and HEAT? Well, let me tell you a little story. Last Friday night and all day Saturday it SNOWED. I got up early and went running with my friend Pam IN THE SNOW. It was actually quite fun! Well, the day went on and later that day Gary and I went up to Salt Lake to attend a BYU basketball game where they played play Michigan State and play in the Delta Center (or whatever it's called now). It was fun and the drive wasn't too bad considering all the snow we got. On the way home Gary and I talked about going sledding. He was SO excited, I was sort of like, YEAH, if it wasn't already 8:30pm! With (I hate to admit) some fake enthusiasm that I don't think Gary picked up on.

After we got home Gary decided he was going to "shovel the walks" - That's a real term right? I went inside and did some laundry, the dishes and then made some hot chocolate for Gary.

A good 30 minutes later, I remembered I had a husband who was STILL shoveling the walks!! So, I put on some shoes and prepared to brave the snow as I left our little apartment...only to find, the driveway completely cleared...and NO Gary. WHAT?!? So, I looked up and down the street to see if he was playing with some of the kids that were out and then I realized that his car was gone too!

Of course I did what any of you would have done and went back inside and called Gary. He answers the phone singing Jingle Bells and proceeds to tell me that he decided to go to Wal-Mart to buy a sled! And then tells me to get my stuff ready because he's coming home and we're going sledding TONIGHT!

We get ready and hop in the car...at 10:30PM...all our snow stuff is actually at my parent's house and I didn't want to go all the way to their house and then find a hill, so we did the best that we could with what we had. We ended up being plenty warm and had tons of fun!

We decided to go to Rock Canyon park in Provo. First of all there was NO WHERE to park! We get there and there are kids EVERYWHERE...sledding down whatever piece of hill they can find on both sides! There had to be at LEAST 500 kids there...I think that number might even be a low number too!

Gary and I hop on this little sled of ours and start making our way down the hill. We did this quite a few times until we decided to make the LAST one before we left. We picked a different part of the hill and started down the hill. Well, three fourths of the way down, we hit a jump. A big jump. A jump that neither of us saw or noticed until we were way up in the air! Fun? Yeah, not really. You see, when we landed, I landed on my tail bone and couldn't move. It hurt SO SO bad! So bad that I couldn't stop the tears from coming! We also hit heads pretty hard when we landed and Gary thought that was why I was crying and even though immediately got a really bad head ache, nothing compared to my poor little bottom!

All I can think about at this point is getting home to take some pain killers and what does my sweet hubbie say to me? "Tara, you stay down here cause your bumb hurts and I'm going to go take a few more runs down the hill and then we'll go home." You heard it folks! My husband wanted to sled rather than take care of his wife who was in an enormous amount of pain! :) it was kind of funny actually. That was Gary's first time sledding (or so he says) and he was loving it too much to think about anything else!

ALL day the next day, I couldn't sit...at all. I had to lay on my stomach...and two weeks later (yeah, I started this blog a week ago) I'm still sitting kind of funny. I can't sit for long periods of time and if i sit a certain way, it really hurts. I don't think I broke it but I'm pretty sure that I bruised it pretty bad. Have any of you done this? Any advice? Does the pain go away? Please make me feel better!

It's 1:15 am and Gary and I leave for Kentucky in less than 10 hours and I'm blogging and haven't even packed! I think I'm hoping that it will just get done by itself while I'm on the computer. We're really excited for this trip but I'm really tired so I better go so I can finish packing and get some sleep!!!

Tropical-ness

Put me in the sun, sand, and water...and I could stay forever! It's 175% true!...well, I might need a few bottles of sunscreen and my fabulous NuSkin Lotion/Aloe mixture! I think I would have to say that I'm a fish of some sort. I LOVE water...can't get enough of it. When we go swimming, I'm the one begging Gary to just leave me there and come pick me up after dinner! :)I love the sun...when we go to Arizona to visit Gary's brother and sister, NO complaining here about that 115 degree weather. Honest! Ask Gary, he'll vouch for me! I can't figuure how how I can be so much of a fish but yet dispise them so much at the same time. I do not like Fish...I don't eat them, I don't 'fish' them, I don't touch them, and if I happen to be somewhere like Lake Powell, where there ARE (so I've been told) fish, I don't like to see them so that I can tell myself that if I don't see them, they don't exist. Kind of strange, I know. If I don't see them, then they are NOT there! :) I think this love for water came long ago when I was born to a family with the name of Salmon...

Anyhow, I came across this web site that has some SWEET looking pools. As I drive around in cold snow for the next few months during this winter season, I need to have something really good to think about...it will be these!

I'm pretty sure I'll be printing this one out and putting it on my dash board! And yes, I'll also be pretending that Gary and I are the ones in the picture! :)

Please, TAKE ME HERE!

Does it get any better than this?!? Lake, Pool, AND Hot Tub?

...pretty cool looking, except that it's not OUTSIDE. Remember that thing about water, sun AND sand? well, I can go without the sand...occasionally. But never the water or sun together.

We love BYU!

It's been an awesome week filled with BYU sports. We saw the mens basketball team stomp on #6 ranked Louisville and then play an AWESOME game against #1 ranked North Carolina where they were neck and neck the whole game until the last two minutes where they got behind and just couldn't pull it out. We also watched a great women's volleyball game against UNLV.

I have to say that the BEST game we saw this week was the BYU vs. Utah Football Game. As many of you know, this is a very serious rivalry that goes way back to ancient days! Every meeting of these two teams is a BIG BIG deal!


Earlier this year Gary went and stood in line for about three hours to get our season tickets...assuming that the earlier you get there, the better seats you get. Well, we figured out that this was not neccessarily true (yes, Gary still wants his three hours of wasted life back) BUT we did randomly score tickets for this blessed event located on the THIRD row! While there were still not the best, seats in the house (they were in the south end zone) they turned out to be AWESOME for the last minute of the game when they scored the winning touchdown right in front of us!!!! Some guys on the front row even jumped down out of stands to run celebrate with the players, but that ended quick when the FIVE police officers standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM told them to jump back up in the stands. Of course BYU won and even though there were many security, police, and staff...they could not stop the MANY students from rushing the field after the game! Gary and I ran around getting pictures with players...

Here is Gary with Austin Collie

Gary with Chris Bolden

Gary with Harvey Unga, a MPV of the game and MWC Player of the week. It really was an awesome game! We even watched the game all over again on TV last night!

Now, let me give you an update on Thanksigiving! It was really fun to actually do a dinner and even though I think I can do better next year...it actually turned out pretty good. I think I need a little help on the gravy part...wasn't too thrilled on that one. I'm still working on perfecting my buns (both kinds actually) but other than those few things...it was a fabulous, delicious meal! Thanks for coming Aaron, Stacey, Dahl, Ty, Jessica, Ryan, Mady, and Dallin! I'm glad you let me try this out on ya! The menu? Turkey, Mashed Potatoes (recipe given to me by Heather...they were FABULOUS!), Dressing (thanks to Colleen for this one), Corn, Sweet Potatoes (brought by Stacey and were delicious!), Jell-O and a yummy slush drink. I'll have to start looking for some new fun recipes for next year. Now that I think I can handle the basics.

Alrighty...

I've been tagged again...but this time it's about my husband.

What is his name? Gary Spencer Fears, Garbo, Gara, Tary, or any other combination of our names you can come up with.
How long have you been married? Fifteen Months
How long did you date? We dated five months before we got engaged and then got married seven weeks after our engagement.
How old is he? 27
Who eats more? Gary probably does but I eat WAY faster than he does...so it probably LOOKS like I eat more.
Who said I love you first? He did...do you think he'd be mad at me if I added that he CRIED?!? Yes, I cried too and it was all mushy cute!
Who sings better? Pretty sure HE does.
Who is smarter? Hmmm, I would have to say that we're about even on this one. I think we're smarter about different things, which evens us out.
Whose temper is worse? Him?
Who does the laundry? I do the laundry but he's so great about helping me fold it. My LEAST favorite part about laundry.
Who does the dishes? We're about even on this one. Gary is always helping me do whatever I'm doing.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I'm on the right.
Who pays the bills? I do, but I'm no good at it.
Who mows the lawn? No lawn! But I'm pretty sure that if we did...Gary wouldn't let me touch the lawn mower!
Who cooks dinner? I do
Who drives when you are together? Usually he does.
Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Probably Gary. Pretty sure Gary would say I can be pretty stubborn.
Whose parents do you see the most? Mine. Gary's parents live in Kentucky! We WISH we saw them more!
Who proposed? Gary
Who has more friends? All of Gary's friends don't live around here, so I'd say I do...But I'm pretty sure he's got a whole bunch of friends that he's sort of lost close contact with because he's so far away from them.
Who has more siblings? Gary comes from a famly of TEN kids and I come from a family of EIGHT.
Who wears the pants in the family? Gary saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "The key to a good marriage is that NOBODY wears the pants" I'm pretty sure that's what he'd want me to say for this one. :)

I tag: Shannon, Andrea, Jamie, Ciara