Free tacos!!!

Well, hello! I know, I know, it’s been a good month since have given any sort of update here. And actually some major changes have taken place. I took a new job working at FORTHGEAR about two weeks ago. I also moved to Layton with my friend Stephanie around that time. It’s a lot of fun living with Steph and what can I say, life in the taco trailer is great! Kidding!! Sorry for the false “free tacos” claim. We don’t live in that amazing trailer. We finally found a cute two bedroom townhouse with washer and dryer. Great rent too! So far we love it! Especially because, living here makes both of our commutes to work only about five or six minutes. Speaking of… I better jet. Here is a photo from one of my recent fieldtrips though. I will post some others soon. Enjoy!

For Rent

Since coming home after Christmas, my friend Stephanie and I have been trying really hard to find a nice place to live. For a while there we were looking in the avenues. Which if you are not familiar with, are the historic homes near temple square that have been restored. We found this beautiful mansion there: all wood floors, three bedrooms with a master that could fit at least three, a spiral wooden staircase in the front, another staircase in the back, huge skylights, beautiful cast doorknobs, window seats, stained glass, fireplace, what lies beneath tub in one bath and a big jet tub in the other, Italian marble, and even a hidden room with lights and seat when you swung the bookcase back – just like in the old scary movies! It was amazing and even semi in our price range if we had three people splitting the rent. Unfortunately they decided they only wanted two and we can not pay that much each. I almost cried over it! We also don’t have any furniture so the old mansion would really have been shamed with our cardboard boxes for chairs.

Yesterday Steph and I once again set out to find the perfect place…only to find these horrors! This one with its three stolen shopping carts and beer bottles decorating the heaps of cast off furniture, we found too terrifying to even venture into.


Then it was on to the ghetto apartments that hosted what Steph termed to be the, “taco trailer.” We are still quite convinced that the grizzly looking tenets must use it at night to rake in a little extra rent money.

So this is my question…does anyone know of a reasonable place to rent in Bountiful or north Salt Lake? Does one such place exist?

Wishing I Had Heat

It is 50 degrees in my apartment right now. No I am not exaggerating! That is the actual temperature. I am well bundled with the oven open and on at 475. This seems to be helping some, but the repair man can’t come until tomorrow afternoon. In the mean time I think I am perfecting the art of typing with gloves.

On a better note, I feel that I should announce that I love Fred and have for a while now. They have the cleverest products. These are some of my favorites:

For Sadie the Baker Extraordinare

I was thinking about you today Sadie, and how much weight I gained at home due to your excessive yet exemplary cookie baking and my lack of control! So I thought I would post some pictures from December. No one eat that last cookie! I mean it!! She will make more!

Beard Cap

I could go for one of these about now! It is SO COLD!!

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Prehistoric Christmas

Every year my sister Emily and I make a non traditional gingerbread house. Our first year it was, "Christmas at the Nile" with baby Moses in a basket, three pyramids decked out in lights and wreathes, along with guards which had mini candy canes crossed in front of their chest. Last year was entitled, "O Christmas Peach" and as you can see, featured James and all of his friends. Notice the fine Christmas sweaters Emily and I are sporting...yes I know you wish you had one. And well, here is this years creation in all it's splendor.

Littlefoot and Ducky in the great valley

Sadie's santa caveman with club/rambo gun and loin cloth

Another Rainy Day

Yesterday My sister and I field tripped to Seattle for her Art 101 class. She was required to visit two small galleries in Pioneer Square. Sadly only one was open. This piece was my personal favorite, "Grasshopper drive #1" by Gaylen Hansen.


With that out of the way we still had a few hours on the meter to kill and decided to wander around. It did not take long before we found something of interest, a shop selling men’s punk rocker style kilts (I think that’s what you could term them as anyway). Finding the manikin in the window pretty funny, I told Anna to pose next to it. Then just as I was about to take the shot, a man sporting the same outfit as the manikin ran out of the store yelling, “halt!” Anna and I both thought for sure that we were in some sort of trouble. Surprisingly he threw his arm around Anna and cheesed it up for the photo before retuning to the store. Highly entertaining!

The rest of the afternoon was spent wandering in and out of shops, eating the best sandwiches ever, getting drenched in the wonderful Seattle rain, and then driving through the flooded street near our house at least five times. It was a good day!