Fun stuff

I'll probably get to a real post this weekend, but for now, here's something fun that I saw PJ do on her livejournal.

1) Read the question, think of your answer, than type your answer into Google Image Search.
2) Pick a photo from the FIRST result page and post it.

1. AGE AT MY NEXT BIRTHDAY.







I turn 23 in June.


2. PLACE YOU'D LIKE TO TRAVEL.









I have always wanted to go to Australia.


3. MY FAVORITE PLACE.











I love the east coast. I really haven't traveled much. I almost put Disneyland, but who doesn't love Disneyland?


4.MY FAVORITE OBJECT.











Unfortunately, it's probably my phone. She keeps me company when I'm stuck somewhere with nothing to do.


5. MY FAVORITE FOOD.










Turkey dinner....hands down.


6. FAVORITE ANIMAL


















Elephant


7. FAVORITE COLOR.













Green


8. PLACE YOU WERE BORN










Kaiser Hospital-Walnut Creek, CA


9. PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE


















Bountiful, UT. I love the temple here.


10.NAME OF PAST PET












Blackie, and yes she was a cat.


11. BEST FRIEND'S NICKNAME.
















J. Pretty self explanatory.

12. YOUR FIRST NAME


















Sarah Michelle Gellar, or Sarah Palin? The choice is simple.


13. YOUR MIDDLE NAME














Elizabeth.


15.YOUR LAST NAME














No relation.


16. A BAD HABIT OF YOURS

I spend way too much time on the computer. (Thanks PJ-there's no need to change this)


17. YOUR FIRST JOB












I was a receptionist when I was about 15. 6 hours a week. Go, me!


18. GRANDMOTHERS NAMES

Pearl

Ana Mae

19. COLLEGE MAJOR












Child Development


20. FAVORITE HOLIDAY















Christmas. And it's quite an accomplishment too.

That took something like an hour. I hate how small the workspace is on blogspot. Ugh. And don't ask me why Pearl is underlined.

Going Private

At Jonathan's request, we're going private.

Send me an email at sarahegeddes@gmail.com (or talk to me on facebook) if you want to be added on.

Even if we don't talk all that often, but you still want to see what we're up to, send me an email. I know what it's like to want to blog stalk people you don't really talk to anymore haha.

I'll wait a couple of weeks before I change it.

Updates

I'm trying to introduce some better habits in my life, and I would like to make blogging a habit. It's a good way to journal, and I also want our families to know what we're up to.

Here's just some random facts about our life right now.

1. I work at Bright Horizons in Salt Lake. I am a toddler teacher and my kids are between 1 and 2. They're seriously the cutest things ever. Most of their parents work at the University Hospital.

2. Jonathan is still working on his master's degree at the U in Computer Graphics.

3. Jonathan is looking for a job right now. So far he hasn't had luck, but we're praying and keeping our fingers crossed that something will happen.

4. We love our apartment, but if Jonathan gets a job we'll have to move out because this is low income housing. My job=low income....Jonathan with a job=above the limit. Oh how I wish my job paid more.

5. After some convincing we finally started watching The Office and we love it. We've watched the whole series all the way through and are going through them again. We like to have a show to watch together.

6. My co-teacher Elisa convinced me to join the Institute Choir and we have so much fun going every week. The music this semester hasn't been the best, but we still have fun. We also go to a Book of Mormon class every week while J is in a night class.

7. Everyone asks how the dogs have adjusted to Utah. We kind of think this is a funny question :) They're just dogs. It's not like they won't sleep well in a new place. As long as they're in the bed with us, they're fine :) But really they've had a great time here. We take them on more walks and we have a nice hallway that they like to run back and forth in.

8. There's a Costco about 2 minutes away from our apartment and we love it! We go on a date there at least once a month and buy some stuff, but usually just wander around and look at the fun new things.

9. I have gotten sick so much since I started my job. I know it comes with the territory, but I want to hurry up and build up my immune system so I'm not sick all the time. Knock on wood, but I haven't been sick in a little while now. Back in September I even threw up for the first time in 18 years! It was quite the experience, let me tell you. Jonathan actually gets sick a lot too. I think I carry it to him a lot without actually getting sick myself.

10. I feel like I need 10 things, but I can't really think of anything else, so I'll just say that I cut my hair recently and show a picture. It looks much better in person. I'm really not good at taking pictures of myself.

Back from the dead.

Can you believe I'm blogging? I can hardly believe it myself!

So much has happened the past few months. We finished our winter semester a week and a half ago and yesterday started our last first day at BYU-Idaho! We are so excited! (Although I think I'm more excited than J.) It's such a strange feeling to almost be done. It's bittersweet though. I wasn't one that was completely excited to go to college, but now I'm really starting to enjoy what I'm learning. Maybe that means a Masters is in my future at some point.

Speaking of Masters.....J got accepted to the University of Utah Master's program! He's totally pumped. He's on the computer graphics and scientific visualization track. I think I get the jist of it, but most of the time I still smile and nod when he talks.

Graduation from BYU-I is July 23 and J starts in Salt Lake on August 24th. That means that, in true Sarah fashion, I have been looking for apartments since before he even applied to school there. There are tons of choices, but I have no idea where we'll be. Ideally, we'd have full sized washer and dryer hook ups so that we could take our stuff, a kitchen that opens to the living room and (wishful thinking) a fenced backyard for the doggies. I'm actually finding a lot of good stuff from craigslist, but no one wants to hold their awesome deal until August. But if anyone knows of any good apartments, let me know!

This semester I'm taking a class called Administrative Issues. I was warned that a lot of people hate this class and it's a lot of work, but I'm super excited! We basically pretend we are putting together a preschool, after school program, etc. We have to create a handbook for the center with all kinds of things from a business plan and budget to child abuse prevention. I think it'll be great experience for the real world and will look awesome on a resume.

I feel like I'm missing some important information, but I guess not. It must just be my excitement with graduating. I got a hair cut, but that's nothing too exciting.

Oh, and we did go to California last week to visit. We had a ton of fun just relaxing and hanging out with family. But it was definitely too short.

The Conservatory Overcoat GIVEAWAY!!!!

The Conservatory Overcoat GIVEAWAY!!!!:

I promise real updates soon, but here is an awesome giveaway on an awesome coat that I know some of you would love

Merry Christmas!

Its a little late but I still wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Oh, Idaho

What happens in Idaho when you:

Get a drink of water in the morning
Go to church
Go to the in-laws for dinner
Stay a little bit longer than you should
Go home



You get frozen kitchen pipes!
Don't worry, ours didn't look like that, but they were frozen.

Frozen pipes lead to no water, which also leads to this:

Don't you worry, that's not our sink and we didn't have that many dishes

We called the landlord and she said to put some space heaters on the pipes to get them to thaw out.

So we did. The water came back a little, but still not enough to dishes. I was actually a little relieved I could get out of dish duty for a little while

The water came and went for a few days and then our trusty handman Brett decided he wanted to take a look at it. Here's Brett, and yes girls, he's single :)

According to Brett, car mechanics and plumbers are one in the same. Boy was he right. He fixed our pipes! Well, actually it was a combination of the pipes and also the faucet itself.

I never thought I'd be so excited to do dishes in my life.

Dogs for sale

Is anyone interested in a couple of dogs? They're very cute (except for when they poo on the floor), enjoy hanging out with each other (except for when Milton chases Chloe around the apartment with socks in her face) and are very well behaved (except for when they tear up your bathroom while you're gone and chew up every single one of your makeup brushes).

I swear they're great dogs and will love you forever!

I promise I love my dogs. They just drove me insane when we came home yesterday and found everything on the bathroom counter on the floor instead all chewed up

The final stretch

Let me just start out by saying that I'm getting my Christmas cards ready so if you'd like one, email me your address at sarahegeddes@gmail.com

Now you can stop reading if you want :)

We've reached the final stretch! One more week! But this last week has about 7 tests for me :( Jonathan's semester is wrapping up at about the same pace that the rest of the semester went. My teachers decided to lay it on thick. I had two group projects due last Friday with a paper as well. Now I have 7 tests. Oh well, it'll all be over soon.

Thanksgiving was great. We went down to Utah to see my mom, brother and sister-in-law. Of course we got to see the rest of the step family too which was fun. We exchanged Christmas presents with Daniel and Sarah which was awesome. We wish we could see them a lot more.

I'm so excited to have most of our Christmas shopping done! If we don't have it yet, we at least know what we're getting. Then comes wrapping! I just love everything about giving Christmas presents. Thinking of what they'd like, going out to find it, and coming home and wrapping it up. J and I need to go get a Christmas tree so I can start wrapping his presents and sticking them under them.

I just love Christmas!

Christmas is coming!

It has been a busy couple of weeks. There's a lot that's been going on, so I'm probably going to have to separate this in sections.

School right now:
I've been busy with some papers and things, but nothing compared to Jonathan. He's had this ridiculous group (and by group I mean the entire class) project that's taking up all of his time. On Saturday he was at school from 8-6 working on said project and is actually up on campus working on it right now. Its so frustrating! Probably more for him than for me, but I just want my husband back!

School in the future:
Our plans have changed and it looks like Jonathan and I will both be graduating this coming July. I'll have to do an internship in the fall, but we'll both be free and clear by that point! Jonathan is working on grad school applications right now because he immediately wants to start working on a PhD. The great thing is, PhD students get to go to school for free and get a living stipend on top of that! We're super excited and are crossing our fingers for the University of Utah in Salt Lake. He's going to apply a bunch of places, but UofU just feels right to us.

Family stuff:
About 3 weeks ago, Jonathan's sweet grandma (Grammy) had a stoke. She's been in Washington and Arizona like she always is in the summers and was in Arizona when she had the stroke. She was in and out of the hospital and passed late Friday night. Its such a bittersweet thing. Everyone is going to miss her a ton, but we know that she wanted to go and see her husband again. This is what she wanted and that makes it easier to let her go. There's going to be a graveside service on Saturday in Orem and then a memorial service for her up here on Tuesday. Its hard, but we'll get through it. This year has been so hard on us with death. First Jonathan's grandma, then my grandpa, and now his other grandmother. There have been others as well. The number of people that I've actually known that have passed this year is alarming to me. It just makes me wonder what Heavenly Father is planning up there :)

In other news, Melissa's baby is ready to come any day now! She's not due until November 8th, but I'm thinking she's going to go earlier than that. We're all excited to meet the little guy and see who he looks like.

Also, Jonathan's birthday is Sunday the 2nd. He's not very excited, so I'm being excited for him! Yay for being 24! haha

Church:
I am officially the Relief Socitey assistant secretary. I didn't even know something like that existed. I'm happy that I have something to contribute to the ward though. We're just waiting for J to get a calling. They just merged our ward with another one so everything is getting shifted around.

The Holidays: I said this post would be long haha
We are spending Thanksgiving down in Utah with my mom, Tom and his kids and Daniel, Sarah and Luke! I couldn't be more excited. J has to take his GRE a couple days before Thanksgiving so we'll be doing that right as we get there, but then it will just be great fun getting to see family again!

Christmas will be spent at J's parent's house and I'm looking forward to it a lot. Christmas at his house is way fun, but then also laid back just the right amount (this can be a hard task considering how many people there are!) I want to start my Christmas shopping now, but I know that if I do I'll be disappointed that I won't have anything to do for another 2 months.

So that's life. I really should update this more so that I don't have to type things out forever next time!

Free Handbags?!

I promise I'll post a real entry soon, but for now...

I came across this new website called Handbag Planet that is launching tomorrow. It sells designer inspired handbags for way cheaper. And tomorrow they're giving away one of their handbags every hour! It starts tomorrow, so hurry up and go enter to win!

http://www.handbagplanet.com/

I had a hair appointment today...

This is what I looked like yesterday.


Then today I had a hair appointment. What do I look like now?

Straight after the appointment.....



After I curled it.





What do you think? There's still some red in it, but I'd rather it have some red and be dark than be the color it was yesterday.

I need opinions

Tell me....will I regret this? Every two or three years for the past six years I've done a major chop to my hair.

Part of me thinks it is time once again.

A few months ago I was seriously considering this and now I can't get it off my mind.

Here's my reasoning.
1. My hair is pretty damaged from its previous run in with bleach. If I cut it off it'll grow back healthier so next time its long I'll really love it.
2. I love when I have my hair long and actually done
like this picture...but that doesn't happen very often.
3. Short hair would be so much easier. I could take a shower at night like I do now, let it dry overnight and straighten it in the morning. My 45 minute routine like the picture about could be turned into about 10.
4. I'd do my hair more often and feel more put together.

The thing is, I love my hair when its long. But it just never gets done so it always looks pretty gross.

If you need some help deciding, here's some old pictures of when my hair was shorter.






Oh, and just for reference, I'm getting my hair dyed a darker brown (hopefully without red) this same time.

So....what do you think?

Tag, I'm it!

I was just thinking I needed to update again and Kelli tagged me to do this, so yay!

5 things on my “To Do” list

1.Do some dishes
2.Paint my nails
3.Go turn in my resume and fill out an application at the chiropractic place
4.Wash my hair
5.Study Spanish

5 jobs I've had

1.Receptionist for a real estate place
2.Babysitter
3.Umm...
4.This is embarrassing...
5.Hey I'm working on it!


5 places I've lived

1.Old house in Brentwood
2.New house in Brentwood
3.Single apartment in Rexburg
4.Evil Cougar Court
5.Sugar City-Where I am now


5 things you probably didn't know about me

1.I spit up a TON as a baby, but have only actually thrown up twice in my life. The last time being when I was 4.
2.I hate writing with pencils.
3.I'm horribly impatient with toasters.
4.I hate water sports.
5.I love the smell of chlorine.

5 of my bad habits

1.I'm totally impatient. I'm slowly working on it, but its bad.
2.I get mad at J for not putting something away and then don't put things away myself sometimes justifying it by the fact that eventually, I'm going to do it all anyway :)
3.I gossip and love celeb magazines. (Totally keeping this Kelli, I'm the same way)
4.I leave hair on the walls of the shower. And when you shed like I do, its gross!
5.I'm way blunt.


5 favorite movies

1.Father of the Bride Part 2
2.Just Like Heaven
3.Any of the Harry Potters
4.The Holiday
5.Toy Story? (I've seriously been sitting here for like 5 minutes trying to come up with something)


5 favorite TV shows

1.Friends
2.Grey's Anatomy
3.Project Runway
4.Law & Order
5.24


5 things I can't live without

1.J
2.Chapstick
3.Good books
4.Chocolate
5.The sun (if I lived in a place without sunlight I think I would go literally insane)


5 people I tag

1.Sarah
2.Sammi
3.Denisse
4.Carrie
5.Anne

And behind door number 3...

We live in a three bedroom apartment. Our old apartment was two bedrooms. We have gotten used to two bedrooms. One as a bedroom and the second as an office. That worked for us here too.

The boys stacked almost everything we owned into the extra bedroom when we moved in. That was great. It made it so that all of the clutter was in the one room we didn't even need.

Last week I was sick of wasting space. So I decided to tackle our extra room.

I feel like such a disgusting person looking at this picture. How did I let it get like this?

Another angle.

I started out so motivated! I was pushing through hoping I could get it done in two days. What a joke! My motivation started to wane and I was afraid I'd end up with two messy rooms. The extra room and the living room that had inherited a lot of the junk from clearing out the extra room.

After a couple days of not doing much in the room, I realized its purpose. I'd use it as a better place to make my jewelry and also to set up J's recording equipment so that I could start working on recording and see where it takes me.

We got a new bookshelf for all of my books (I surprisingly have a lot!) and two tables for my new adventures.

The view from the door. That's a puzzle J is working on. But that's an entry all for itself.

My table. It has beading stuff on it.

My bookshelf (in bad lighting). This very well could be my favorite part.

Ok I lied. My favorite part is my new filing cabinet. Its so nice to keep everything from school that will be useful. Also, don't you love my sugar cereal food storage? :) I can't resist when things are $1.

Now I have to go back to cleaning every other room well to make up for the fact that all my energy has been spent on this one room. Hopefully it'll all be done before school starts!

My problems are solved!

I found out almost a year ago that I was lactose intolerant. I would eat some cereal in the morning and then feel the milk in the pit of my stomach all day long. Some other, not so pretty, bodily functions would follow and I finally realized that I just can't tolerate milk.

Luckily mine isn't that bad. The only things I can't eat are milk, sour cream, ice cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc. However, if I wanted those things all I had to do was pop in a magic pill with my first bite. The pill would last 20-40 minutes before I needed a new one. I was amazed. I could finally eat whatever I wanted.

Exhibit A: Magic Pill

A few days ago I was browsing around online and found the real magic pill. The answer to all of my problems. A pill that is taken once a day. All I have to do is take one every morning and can eat whatever I want, all day long! For the longest time I've had to give up little bites of things. Jonathan always has ice cream or something and offers me a bite. I always respond by saying that one bite isn't worth taking a pill. Now I can take all the bites I want! And no more having to cart around 12 pills with me every day because I don't know when I'm going to eat dairy.

Exhibit B: The Real Magic Pill

The best part is that I found a site that will send me an 8 day supply for free! Although I almost want to just go to the store and get some tomorrow! But I should probably wait. (Can you tell I'm way too excited about this?)

Picture time!

I can finally post pictures! The internet at my in-laws is more reliable than at my house so I can use linux and post my pictures!!

Let's see....where to start on the trip...Milton usually has a hard time with these rides so we came prepared with sedatives from the vet. We figured if he started getting anxious we could just give him some to calm him down.

Jonathan also built a little "fence" from the front seat to the back seat so that the dogs couldn't get through. This helped tremendously! Milton didn't freak out the entire time and just stayed put in the back. It was amazing.You can kid of see the "fence" here. Chloe was actually a little worse than Milton on the trip. Funny little thing.
I love Chloe's faces.

Jonathan was glad I drove, even if it wasn't for very long.

Milton liked to pop his head around the seat to try and be comforted.

Jonathan went to probably his 4th and 5th professional baseball games ever on this trip. The first week we went to an A's game with Tom's clients and got to eat all kinds of yummy food. Then, the day before we left we went with Daniel to a Giant's game. Jonathan actually really liked the games. It was fun to just sit around and eat stadium food and enjoy each other's company.

Jonathan wasn't quite into the game at this point. He was more interested in his free burgers and diet pepsi!


The A's game wasn't really as exciting or intense as the Giant's game. The only fun things were that Alex Olson caught two balls and a cat ran into the field.


I really feel bad because I convinced Jonathan that he wouldn't be cold in shorts and flip flops. He was freezing! I learned my lesson for the Giant's game. I don't know what I was thinking!




We were dressed much more appropriately for the Giant's game, but I was still cold!

I have the best brother ever!

Mom and I did plenty of shopping and we hung out with Daniel, Sarah and Luke a ton too. We finally found Mario Kart for the Wii when we were in California and had a blast! Watch out for Sarah, she can kill you if she's got Waluigi!

I already want to go back, but instead, I think its time someone made a trip up here *hint hint*. I'm excited to see what we can do to see everybody around Christmas time.



We love you all!