The Harwoods

Friday, April 24, 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Cooking, Tired, Busy, Trouble

COOKING

So lately I have been trying to cook new things. I got a cook book from my mom when I got married. It is a collection from the Taste of Home magazine. It is one of those books that tells the how to and gives you ideas for substitutes and measurements, just stuff like that. I really like it because it is all divided up by ingredient. So if I had chicken, all I have to do is look up chicken and POW I have multiple good recipes. Yeah!!! I have decided that I am going to be better at cooking for Mike. Man I don't know how he survived with a wife that only made the same 3 things over and over.

TIRED

I am so tired of my job. I don't know what it is about doing the same thing over and over day after day. I just gets boring. It is sad when you are excited to pick out a new color of post it pad because your other one ran out.

BUSY

It is amazing how training a new puppy makes your life so much busier. Now on top of all the chores, laundry, young womens activities, lessons, etc. I get to take a puppy on walks, play with her, watch her so she doesn't destroy anything. It is crazy how I feel busier. A side note, and I know that no one would believe me if I said this, but I actually like to clean my house. Probably because it is MINE.!! Yeah for your own things.

TROUBLE

I have decided to participate in the red riding hood bike tour to help breast cancer research, etc. It is one of the tours where you can ride as miles as you want from 15 to 100. My friend Tia and I are going to shoot for the 60 something mile one. I have got to start training but the stupid snow is making me not want to go outside and ride my bike. I am way excited to participate in this though. My mom and aunt are also participating. I am excited and really scared that I am going to drop over and die on the side of the road.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Five Things Tag

Five Things I was Doing Ten Years Ago:
1. I was in Junior High in the 8th grade
2. I tried out for Encore the singing group at Olympus Jr.
3. I was grounded for 4 Months because I wouldn't get good grades. So I decided to read books instead of do my homework and get ungrounded (you know it wasn't like the homework was that hard!)
4. Everyday after school Courtney Tye and I would come back to my house and made cinnamon pie crust, hot chocolate and watch Arthur (yes the cartoon!)
5. I was 14 and I got 14 stitches on my ankle

Five Snacks I enjoy:
1. Popcorn
2. Salt & Vinegar Chips
3. Ice cream sandwiches
4. Flamin' hot Cheetos
5. Hot Chocolate

Five Places I have lived:
1. Downtown Salt Lake
2. Holladay, Utah
3. Basement apt in West Valley, Utah
4. West Jordan, Utah
5. That's all folks

Five Jobs I have had:
1. Cleaned Shields Orthotic Prosthetic Services after school
2. An assistant and Shields Orthotic Prosthetic Services
3. Receptionist at Shields Orthotic Prosthetic Services
4. As you can tell I have worked at the same place since 2001, I just keep moving up
5.

Five Pet peeves:
1. Chewing loudly
2. Chewing loudly (yes I realize it is on here twice, it just annoys the heck out of me)
3. When people tell you to do the same thing over and over again. I heard you the first time and if I said I would do it then I will!
4. The funny looking shutters on the outside of houses that are obviously too small to actually cover the window. I know they are for decoration but that is just stupid!
5. When my desk is messy at work.

Five Things that bring me joy:
1. Mike
2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
3. Completing a project
4. Reading a good book
5. When I find money in my pocket that I forgot about

Five Places I'd like to travel to:
1. Australia
2. Back to Hawaii
3. Italy
4. Georgia
5. The Caribbean

Five people I tag:
I tag five people who would like to do this

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Puppies in graduation caps

I am the MiaMaid advisor in our new ward. I absolutely love it. It is so fun to be with the cute girls. I feel like I am in Young Women's with them not their advisor. We have a really small group of girls. We only have 7 total, and we have no laurels at all. So we have combined lessons and activities. It is so fun to just goof off and have fun with them.
Alice has been so hard to house train. She still has accidents in the house at least once a day. Man I could strangle her if she wasn't so darn cute! Next Monday is the last day of her puppy class. She has done really well with most of it. I know it is cheesy but I am excited because we are supposed to bring a camera. They are going to take a picture of them in a little graduation cap. I think it is going to be so cute.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Birthday

Well I have found that I am terrible at keeping up with this blogging thing! I always forget to write something, or run out of time or whatever. Mike thinks I am silly for even having a blog. I think it is fun though! I am going to try harder to keep up on it! Well let's see, what has happened since I last wrote. . . My birthday was a week ago. I had the best one ever! Mike spoiled me rotten! Since my birthday was on a monday we had to skip our puppy class. Mike planned a great evening! First we went to FastKart. It was so fun because we were the only ones there so we just got to race eachother. Mike kicked my trash though! Then we went to Cafe Rio and went home and played games. Mike got me the bed frame that I have been wanting. We don't have the right size mattress yet, but I love my new bed. The friday before my birthday Mike went and got me a bunch of cake decorating stuff and we came home and made a cake and decorated it. It was so much fun to do that together. I love hanging out with him. He is the coolest!

Alice is doing okay. She is way smart. The only problem is she is taking a while to get house trained. She still has accidents every other day or so. She picks up on tricks really fast though. So far we have taught her to sit, lay down, shake, and give you a high five. She is so cute!! I love her.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Puppies!!!

For Christmas Mike bought me a puppy. She is so so so cute! He got me a West Hightland Terrier or a Westie. She is 11 weeks old and is so full of energy. She hardly ever barks unless her chew toy makes her mad. The only problem is house training her in the freezing cold. It is so fun getting up 2-3 times a night and taking her out. Luckily she is getting the idea. We have also cured her of her shoe addiction and working on the sock addiction. She loves to kiss you all the time. (a little too much sometimes) She gets so excited when you come home that she pees all over the floor. I have to say no one has ever been so excited to see me that they peed on the floor! Tonight we are taking her to puppy training at the PetSmart by our house. Hopefully she will be good with the other dogs and learn a lot. Anyway she is so cute and we love her! :D

Here she is with her pheasant. She loves this toy.

Mike got her the cutest little sweater, she looks so cute in it and she doesn't seem to mind too much when we put it on her to go outside.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Yellow Jackets in December

I love Christmas. The hot chocolate, the lights, decorations, presents, cookies, gaining ten pounds, the tree! Oh wait we don't have a tree.
After we got married for our first Christmas together we decided to go to Home Depot and buy our first artificial christmas tree (since we had a gift card there) If was only like $70 it was a really pretty tree too! During the move I noticed that the box for the Christmas tree had gotten wet. I was hoping that the damage was not too bad, but when we opened it up, man it smelled. It had gotten moldy on some of the branches. We were deciding whether to just throw it out or try and clean it when we noticed a small yellow jacket. It looked dead but the longer it was in the warmth it started to move and clean itself. That was when we figured out that some lovely yellow jackets had built a nest in the box and were hibernating. Man we got that box outside so fast! STUPID yellow jackets! Now we don't have a tree for Christmas. All of the decent trees we looked at are so expensive! They ranged anywhere from $160-$300. That is a lot of money! So our plan is to go shopping the day after Christmas for one when hopefully they will be like 75% off. (I hope)