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Last night I had a dream where I was in my underwear the entire time. I hear that dreams like that mean you are feeling self-conscious about your image. I'm sure I am, but who isn't these days that pays any attention to the media, more specifically advertisements! This subvertising ad makes me feel a little better though...







The only thing I don't like is that most of the editing tools are covering up Christina's face and I've read that she is more naturally beautiful than the other two and needs less "touch ups". Brittany on the other hand makes for some hard work ;)

So, for those of you having dreams you are in the nude or your undies...don't worry, you're as beautiful as anyone else!

Lets Get Physical...Physical!

I'm going to let you all in on how pathetic my life has begun to be. OK maybe I'm being a little harsh. It's more like how pathetic my workout life as begun to be. Here is a typical day for me:

Wake up at 8:15am. Get to work by 9ish. Sit at a desk in front of a computer all day. Come home between 5:30 and 6:30pm. Eat dinner. Hang out with Tyler, (this includes varying activities.) Go to bed around 11pm.

Here is a typical day in my high school days:

Wake up between 5:30 and 6:30am (depending on if I had early morning seminary that year). My high school started at 7:30am, which I have learned is much earlier than most high schools. Had 7 hours of classes, one of which was advanced weight training. School was out at 2:40pm. Then went to practice for either volleyball, gymnastics, or track, depending on the season. Conditioned usually at the beginning and end of every 2.5 hour practice. In between conditioning were workouts, drills, games, races, and tumbling. Caught the bus home from practice around 5:30pm. Arrived home around 6pm. Ate dinner. Iced muscles. Did homework. Went to bed around 10pm.

How did I ever do that?! I even kept it up my freshman year of college. I didn't know how else to live. I played on a competitive league volleyball team, took volleyball and tennis classes, and worked out 6 days a week for at least 2 hours on my own time.

Like I said, I'm so pathetic now. At only 25 I never thought my body would be like this. I get tired so fast and easily now. I NEED to get into shape. I hate that my muscles are withering away and I'm doing hardly anything to stop it. Tyler bought me a gym membership the beginning of September and I can count on both hands how many times I've used it since then. Well, it's a new year folks and I'm not going to let that gym membership get wasted any longer!

Christmas Come and Gone

It was a sad day when we had to leave Spokane and all it's festivities to return to our normal life in Rexburg. We only stayed a week because my boss said it was soo pertinent that I return to work to do ALL these things before he left for a few months. Of course, there has been few things to do since I returned and his leaving date has been postponed. But, enough with my griping. We really had a blast and here are some pictures to prove it...(We should have taken a lot more, but we forget!)

Opening presents on Christmas day!





Being lazy...



My 4 year old niece snagged our camera and took a bunch of pics. This is one of them:



The shocking difference in personalities between these little siblings (my niece and nephew):



ALL my siblings/husbands went snowboarding/skiing the day after Christmas. There were a couple first timers, but it was a lot of fun having everyone there! These really are the only pics we took of the trip. I wish we would have gotten one of everyone all decked out in their gear...maybe next year ;)





This one isn't actually from our trip to the mountain, it's on the jump we built by our house. Whitney did pretty good for never going off any sort of jump before!



In summary, we played a ton in the snow, ate a lot of good food, played a lot of games, ate some more, and really enjoyed each others company!

Get Out of the Way!

As many of you I'm sure already know, Spokane was dumped on the week before and the week of Christmas. There were record amounts of snow, literally. My dad mentioned one of the first days we were there he saw some kids sledding on the perfect hill close to our house. Tyler and I went to go check it out and indeed it was perfect. A couple days later, Tyler, my lil sis Whitney, my brother-in-law Cory, and I went down with our snowboards and built a nice little jump. Here are a few of the results.


Whitters


Hard Cor Harker


Lil' Kim


T-Wizzle



I would like the mention that Tyler stuck almost all of his attempts, but we didn't get them on video so I posted the one that looked the coolest. Play it in reverse...it's quite entertaining.

Those were all from the first day we built the jump. When we came back the next day with more siblings and some sleds we found the hill packed with little children. Half of them were trying to take their sleds off our precious jump and did some damage to it. We tried to go off it a few more times, but we kept having to tell the kids that were hanging out right below it to get out of the way. None of us could stick it due to some indentation and its power to shoot you straight up into the air and land you on your butt.

We all had a really good time taking a tube down the hill. Wendy and I made the record of going the furthest, nearly running into someone's house a ways after the hill ended,(you can see the house in Tyler's video.) Allie and Kristin were a close second. I wish we had them on video. Wendy does have a video of my mom going down after we had to talk her into for 20 minutes! It's a pretty sweet video...Wendy, please post it! And whoever has the other videos of people going down, post them too.

Well, I will post pictures of our trip another time. I hope you enjoyed these videos in the meantime.

Oh How I Wish

We had HBO :( I guess I will just have to buy it when it come out on DVD!

Check it out.

Short and Chubby...

Is the new long and slim!


















So, don't make fun of my new phone. It's the bomb. And I know what you're thinking, "Who says 'the bomb' anymore?" Well, I do.

Anyway, you may feel like this phone is ridiculous. It's short, chubby, and blue. But, what I haven't shown you yet is this:

































It's like a smart phone, but without the $49.99 a month tacked onto it. I just pay $5/mo. to text. Which is really all I would use a smart phone for anyway. I'm in front of a computer ALL day. I don't need a mini one in my pocket, too. Not that those huge things would fit in my tiny pockets anyway.

I usually pick phones out by brand and looks. I'm an advocate of Samsung and I almost got the Sway, but I ventured out and tried this baby. Don't worry I read a bunch of reviews first. Honestly, I love it! I think it's adorable. It's taking some getting used to with the microscopic buttons, but I have small fingers. I charged the battery when I got it last Wednesday and haven't charged it since...it still has two of the four bars left! Granted, I don't talk on the phone a ton, but still. My last phone would die by the end of the second day, which I thought was pretty good.

Well, enough about my phone. We are heading to Spokompton on Saturday and I'm pretty excited. My boss said I could only stay a week and he wants me to bring my computer along in case I need to do stuff for them. I'm really trying to finish all my work before I leave though.

I probably won't post until we get back. I'm sure it will be filled with pictures though so get excited...

Continuing Education

When I got my old job back at Hatch Marketing I was put back on the assignment of marketing for mobile marketing. When I came back the first day I was surprised to find out I was getting my own office, which used to be the production managers office. Apparently, Chad, the production manager got a job somewhere else and no longer worked for Hatch. A few days later a graphic designer for the REX moved into my office, but she is only here twice a week. I LOVE having my own office!

OK, onto what this post really is about. Instead of hiring a new production manager to make all the theater screen advertisements, they decided to use me. ME! I did not go to school to produce motion ads, cut and edit audio, or really anything in the process of making a screen ad. Well, time to learn, they say! So, we downloaded Final Cut Pro, quadrupled the ram on my computer and a week later here is what you have:



Don't be too critical. It is my first time making an ad that had any motion graphics. I made the entire thing from start to finish and I'm a little proud of myself. I hope that doesn't sound cocky, but I never thought that I would be doing anything like this for work. Now all I need is a raise...