Something to fill in the time

I have been tagged by my friend Katie Carter and if she reads this I hope she will soon learn that my last name is spelled Foley, not Folley :). Anyway, I am supposed to write six random things about myself and since my Mary Kay meeting has not started yet....here goes:

1. I may have mentioned this in one of my earlier posts, from the summer BUT, I have an obsession with making my bed every morning. Maybe it is just more making sure the bed gets made. Before Scott started his first semester at Stetston I was getting up early to get to work and he would sleep in a little. One day I asked him to make the bed when he gets up. He agreed. When I got home, the bed was still un made. For some reason, I got so upset (I promise I am not high maintenance and don't usually get upset over little things like that. Must have been the mood that I was in). I remember telling him I asked him just to do one thing, and he didn't do it (DO i sound like a naggy wife or what). He disappeared for a second, closed the bedroom door, and made the bed. I realized what he was doing, and realized that I had been a total butt to him, and told him to make it. He did it anyway. What a patient husband I have. I love ya Scott!!

2. I can click my tongue really loudly. I don't know if click is the right word. Pop it? Anyway, if I do it too much, then I have a hard time talking.

3. When I sleep, I HAVE to have the blanket up around my face. I like to be burrowed in my blankets. The other night, I had to keep pulling my blanket back because every time Scott rolled, he would roll with the blanket. I realized that morning, that he didn't get under the sheet, just the blanket, hence the trapped feeling I was experiencing, along with my lack of blanket around my face.

4. I think I mentioned this one in an old post from the summer, but I HAVE to check my zipper multiple times after using the restroom. Sometimes I will do it when I haven't even gone to the bathroom. I did have a "whoops" at work, and did realize that I had forgotten to zip. Good thing I checked.

5. I will tell a random person if they have something in their teeth, or nose. In fact, a friend of mine, no names to be named, had a booger in her nose. Someone beat me to telling her, but later I noticed she had something in her hair. So, I went up to her and started picking it out of her hair to realize that somehow the booger had gotten in her hair. When realized, I didn't make a sound or gag, even though I wanted to, I just walked to the sink and washed my hands.

6. OK this one I can't believe I am admitting, but I sweat! Easily. Just in my armpits. If I get nervous or too excited, I will sweat. Mainly nervous. Scott makes fun of how much deodorant I use. I have used special deodorant where it burns like no other, but it does the trick. You have to put it on at night and sometimes it keeps me up cause of the burning feeling. Needless to say, I haven't done that for awhile. So, it's true, dont think less of me, ok? If I am teaching or something, I have to make sure that I wear black. ANd I know a lot of my girlfriends have the same problem. It's not just me!!

I tag anyone who needs to fill in a little extra time!!

Saturday Exploring

When we have a little free time, Scott and I like to go explore areas that we have never been to. So, we open up a map of Florida, check out some cities that sound interesting then google them to see what kind of excitement they have to offer. Tarpon Springs, the sponge capitol of the world, was the winner for last Saturday's excursion. When Scott told me it was the sponge capitol of the world I first thought it was called that because people just soak everything up when they go there, but no, it is LITERALLY the sponge capitol of the world. It it is a little Greek Community and there are shops everywhere to buy sponges from the ocean. I have never seen so many, nor will ever own one. They are expensive little things. Scott and I first hit up a little Greek restaurant called, "Mamma's." After stuffing our faces with Gyros and Baklava, we walked around the little town. Who would have thought that we would even see Santa...four of them. They walked out of a restaurant and I told Scott that those guys were santa and I wanted a picture with them. After hearing, "No" a few times, he finally took my picture. These guys really were Santa's and were having a meeting. One gave me his card that on the back said, "Shhhh...I am the real Santa." Cute

My little Sponge Boat Captain. Aye Aye

A "homemade" gift. Just for you Juls, MEOW!

This was actually another little town we visited called Dunedin. There was an art show/walk and there were exhibits all up and down thier main street. We had to take pictures of the random birds we found hanging out on top of this house.

We were still so full from lunch so we had a very light dinner which consisted of: Cheese and Crackers, Hummus and Fruit.

We ended the night watching the movie, "Juno"

All the Lovell Kids

We also got family pictures (more to come with ALL the family). Here are just the Lovell kids. Steve and I look like we could be dating and Julie...well, who knows what it looks like she is doing to Jeff. Maybe caressing his sternum??

Christmas Time Brings...

Homemade goodies (one's that usually look better than this, but I guess you could say that I am a "good enough" kind of gal. I didn't have any food coloring, or Christmas cookie cutters, so I used white frosting and a cup to make it work).

Christmas Parties AKA White Elephant exchanges. I had the perfect gift for all of my Mona Vie friends...A XANGO shower curtain. What made this even more entertaining and fulfilling for me, is that all of the couples were fighting over my gift (of course when it was still wrapped. No one had a clue what it was.) Don't you love the Mona Vie bottle being held up in front of the curtain. They were good sports.

Pies. My specialty...or at least I like to think so. But remember how I said that I am a "good enough" kind of gal? Well, notice the lattice with the crust. Notice how it's all over the place. The pie still tasted pretty dang good though!

Huge Christmas Eve Dinner with the WHOLE entire family (there were 19 people staying under the roof of my parents house. Mom and Dad, 4 brothers, 2 sisters, 2 sister in laws, 2 brother in laws, 4 nephews and 3 nieces). Yes, at times things got a little on the crazy side for example, when 2 year old niece pushed almost 2 year old nephew, or when 2 year old nephew bit two year old niece, or when 2 year old niece and 2 year old nephew ganged up on the 1 year old nephew.

The Kids Table. Do you remember the days when YOU had to sit at the kids table? Remember how fulfilling it was when you graduated to the adult table?

Excited kids that have way too much sugar swimming in their bloodstream. Can ya blame them though? I mean, donuts for breakfast, a candy cane or two off of the tree, Sees Chocolates, fudge, cookies, etc...

Matching Pajamas. My sister Julie is the coolest. She thought it would be cool to make all the kids matching bottoms. With the help of my sister in law Lisa and my mom, they tackled the task in a few short hours. The kids LOVED them.

BABIES...not ours. Don't worry. Little Maggie is adorable and I loved holding her. Im not gonna lie though, my arms got really tired after two hours. Good practice though eh? She has the cutest laugh. Good job Doug and Jenny!! :)

Christmas programs. This was the "Pre program" if there is such a thing, and shortly after this video, I ran out of memory space. No more pictures after this. You might as well close out of here now cause I know that is why all of you look at my blog!! Kiddin. The program was really special though. My brother-in-law read Luke 2 while my brother played some soft Christmas music in the background (ok, that was my dad's request. Slightly cheesy. Love you Dad). My nieces have beautiful voices like thier mom and they both sang. Little Audrey (5) sang "Where Are You Christmas," and "Part of Your World" (I know, not really Christmas, but Disney. Close enough). It was very touching. And Dana sang a Child's prayer with Jenna her mom. So cute.

While in California (if you have not guessed already, Scott and I spent Christmas in California) Scott's parents were generous enough to let us borrow their car, so we could spend time with both fams. Some highlights in Benicia (since I don't have any pictures..sniff) were playing tennis with Patrick and Andrew (Nephews), holding my adorable neice Maggie, and going to the Warriors VS Raptors game in Oakland. Thanks to both families for making the holidays a very memorable experience for Scott and I. We are truly blessed to come from such good, strong families. I could not ask for anything better!

Hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas.

Happy One Year Anniversary!!

Happy Anniversary Scott...I know that you will enjoy the pictures leading up to this big day (and since I know that you are going to read this, you better comment and say something really cool!).
Our wedding day in the Bountiful Temple...most amazing sealing. The sealer told us very touching things and the spirit was so strong. I was a cry baby...

It was freezing cold, but I had so much excitement going through my body, I did not feel the cold...not until we were almost done with pictures. Then it hit me hard!What's with our weird faces?

My Grandpa Benson's funeral. You had totally taken me by surprise on our "jog" and pretended to have a sore knee, so we turned back. As we were getting close to my apartment, you were pretty much bent over in "pain" until you were kneeling on the ground. That is when you popped the question. You asked me to marry you and instead of an engagement ring (you wanted to pick it out together) you gave me an awesome friendship ring that you had kept from one of our dates at the Nickelcade (blah...we will never go to that place again). That weekend we drove up to Idaho to say goodbye to my grandpa. We had not told very many people yet, but decided that we needed to tell my grandpa about our exciting news. That was the last time that I spoke to my grandpa while he was coherent. His eyes had filled up with tears (along with yours and my grandmas) and they both said how proud of us they were and welcomed you into our family! My grandpa passed away the next night. And even though he could not perform our sealing like I had dreamt of for so many years, the few moments that we shared with him was a tender mercy for me.

I just liked this picture...

Halloween. I convinced you to be my football star 80's boyfriend for Halloween. We ended up not even doing anything that night...but we still had fun.

Your 25th birthday! Remember how weirded out we were when we found out that I was three years older than you AND older than your brother Greg? Gosh...that was almost a deal breaker then and there...good thing we got over that really quickly!! :) Our triathlon that we trained ever so hard for (sike). I especially love how the morning of, we had maple rolls for breakfast. We really did learn the do's and don't of training for a triathlon.

I thought that you looked so dang cute in your wet suit. What was awesome about this picture...is that your wet suit was on backwards. Of course we were running late this morning and you had to rush to get to the starting line! Im glad that you didn't drown in the swim...I was worried for you since we only swam twice during training!

Joe and Lisa's cabin. Thanks Lisa for inviting us! We had a lot of fun shooting bow and arrows (I was awesome), riding the 4 wheeler, relaxing, playing games, etc

Going to Benicia for the first time. You were so excited showing me around. This was the weekend where I started to think that this was headed towards marriage. One of my favorite pictures (Sacramento), mainly because when we got ready that morning, we both put on our checkered shorts and you "freaked out" because we were twinners. We had so much fun that day going to Old Town Sacramento, walkin around downtown, then the drive home. After taking the counsel of your much older and wiser brother Greg to talk about our relationship, I finally brought it up. I asked you if you thought of me as your girlfriend (I know...so cheesy) and you said yes. I felt so happy and giddy...like a school girl.

The night that I grabbed your hand. We had been dating for about a month and a half and you had not kissed me, held my hand, nothing! We were at a Ryan Shuppe and Rubber band concert and on the way back to the car I went for the kill and grabbed your hand. Then I freaked cause I was not sure if you wanted me to. So, I let go in the car. Then it was even more awkward saying goodnight cause you still didn't kiss me! I had no clue what you were thinking at that time! Oh the memories!!Hari Krishna Chapel...The Color Fest. We got so nasty and gross with all of the color chalk that we threw at everyone.

One of our first dates. We went on a double date with my roommate and her friend, and did Iron Chef. I later learned that you DID NOT like what I was wearing. That's ok...I still got you to wear that silly hat for the picture!

Scott, I hope that you enjoyed our little stroll down memory lane. I am excited for our future and thank Heavenly Father everyday for you! Happy Anniversary, I love you!

Yes It Is True

Many of you have not heard about my latest adventure (that is what I am calling it anyway). I have become a Mary Kay consultant. Don't worry, Scott and I are not hurting for money or anything. After talking to my now director about it (I was at a free luncheon for Mary Kay), I thought that I would really enjoy doing it. So far, it has been good! I have a website and a blog and would love anyone who is interested to check it out (or just do it anyway because you love me). I think what excites me the most is the challenge of it all. I have never done anything like this before and I am sure many of you are thinking, "What in the world?" BUT, I am excited about the opportunities. SO, what I would love everyone to do, is check out my new blog: http://lindsayfoleymarykay.blogspot.com/ (please be patient, there is still some work to do) and website: www.marykay.com/lindsayfoley and let me know your thoughts and I would love to hear any marketing ideas that any of you have.

Thanksgiving and More

Thanksgiving Turkey Trot! What better way to start off Thanksgiving then with a 10K run...My friend Tiffany Feger and I decided it was a good idea to pre-burn our calories before the big feast! When the gun went off, we didn't! We were at the very back of the pack and had to work our way up. They had live bands on the side of the road, even a Maryachi Band, I ran over to them and took a picture...with Tiffany's camera.

All of the Turkey trotters on the go!

It's never a wrong time to stop and take a picture (although, I believe I was still somewhat running at this time).

We invited our married friends, Bobbi and Kera Nichols over for the big feast. They brought the turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing. We provided the rolls (homemade) pies (homemade) and corn (which for some reason, no one really touched).

Me and Kera ready to dig into my rolls...even though they were nothin what my mom and sister make, they were still sub-par. After we stuffed our faces, we played some card games and ate some pie. Fun times with the Nichols.

I went to Chicago for 7 days for work. We had a tradeshow there that I coordinated and since it was my first one, and sometimes people make mistakes on their first tradeshows...there were a few unhappy people when my boss and I arrived in the windy city. Three other co-workers (my bosses brother, his wife, and another guy) went early on Thanksgiving Day to set things up and I never realized that the exhibit center was closing early that day. SO to make a VERY long story short...not only did the miss their Thanksgiving dinner, and the only restaurant open in all of the city (or that they could find) was a Greek restaurant that sold stale Gyros, a lot of time and money was waisted going up one day early. There were other so called "dillemas" that happend that I will not bore you with the details. But after being reprimanded by a not so nice Chinese woman (my bosses brother's wife) more than once and even being brought to tears, I decided that Chicago was still pretty cool (and FREEZING).
At this restaurant, I ordered pork flank not knowing that it was going to be so massive. I did a pretty good job cleaning it up, but soon into it, had other forks picking at it. I dont like the crunchy party of the meat (tendons) but my bosses do so they had at it....joyfully!

Here is the carcass...literally, there was nothing left to eat off of that thing. Kinda grossed me out just a touch. OK..Im not gonna lie. I pretended to be REALLY full so I wouldn't have to eat the "crunchy" non-meat parts.

I swear, all I did in Chicago was eat! Once we finished setting up for the show, I didn't want to wait around for everyone, so I ordered in...and it was lovely! I ate my pizza...on my bed mind you, and loved every minute of it...Until

I finished 1/2 of it and realized I felt sick and bloated!

On our way to China town to eat some good eats! We did it limo style...

Xing is the one in the middle...I don't think she was very fond of me by the end of the trip...Oh well!

We need to do something about those white legs!!

ALL of this food is RAW. There was chicken, TOFU (don't like it), calamari, tripe (stomach...which I tried and DID NOT like), oysters (blah), shrimp, and some other stuff. Anyway, the server brings out this pot , sticks it on a little burner, and boils some hot, spicy broth on one side and chicken broth on the other. You throw all the food in (not all at once, just what you want) and cook it in the boiling water. It was quite the experience. I enjoyed myself!

You have to fish your food out with a little scooper thing.

This is my eating area. It was pretty messy.

This is about all of Chicago I got to really see...this was taken from inside. I would have LOVED to go explore, but by the time the show was over each day my feet would be KILLING me and all I wanted was food and rest.

Me, at our booth. Basically, since I don't know much about all of the prodcut (extremely technical), my job was to get people to our booth, then I would pass them onto the bosses. Fun times! I actually had a pretty good time!

The Saturday after I got back, we had some friends over for dinner and Yhatzee. There little girl, Naomi, liked using Scott as a back rest. I just thought that this was a really cute picture!