Day 26

A photo of your favorite weekend...this was difficult - My first NASCAR race or my Honeymoon in Disneyland. I really can't choose.

Day 4

It took me quite some time to remember our last vacation. It was September 2009. We did a lot of things while there but our reason for going was for the truck race.

Thanksgiving #20

I am thankful for sporting events. I know that sounds a bit lame when you aren't into sports like we are, but we have had so many fun experiences because of them. Most people don't know, but I started college with every intention of becoming a sport broadcaster. After spending some time working in baseball I realized it wasn't for me. It hasn't changed how much I love watching sports. We have traveled to Phoenix and Vegas for NASCAR, and Seattle for baseball. Ok baseball wasn't the only reason be went to Seattle but we saw a game while we were there. We have had several seasons of Utah Utes season tickets and this past weekend we even braved enemy territory and went to a BYU game.
Our favorite is soccer! We went to matches while ReAl Salt Lake was still playing at the U and were there when they raised the Championship flag at Rio Tinto.
We spend lots of time watching sports on tv as well but attending in person is much funner. In the future we plan to visit Green Bay and Lambough field and Talledega at some point in time.
I love that we have the ability to attend and share together so many sporting events.

Thankful #7

I was too busy enjoying my #7 to blog about it yesterday. For my day #7 I am thankful for my DVR and On Demand. I think it was one of the greatest tv inventions either, after cable of course. Ok they are really two separate things but they work basically the same way. Without the DVR I wouldn't be able to record my shows and watch them with Mr Flypaper on the weekend. We wouldn't be able to watch all of our sports either. I think only 2-3 times have we watched a NASCAR race in it's entirety this season thanks to the DVR. Then there is On Demand, I have watched an entire Showtime series On Demand recently. It is great to know most of the shows I watch are on there too.
Thank you DVR and On Demand Gods for making my life so fun and easy.

The Lounge

You know the beginning of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when the Dursleys are preparing for Uncle Vernon's boss to visit and Aunt Petunia is practicing welcoming them to the lounge...so yeah, you can picture me doing that as you walk into our home.

Here in Utah this is where you meet with your home and visiting teachers. I don't have enough chairs though so they better not come over. And ESPECIALLY not this Sunday because as we discussed, I have a race to watch this week. (I wonder how many blogs I would have with NASCAR tagged if I actually tagged all my blogs...)

The one and only picture that has been hung. It was easy to know where this one should go.

My knick knack table...I will save the explanations for another blog cause there is some pretty cool stuff on there. Then there is the other side of the wall. That is where the grand piano goes. It is living at my mom's right now. I think if I leave it empty and she visits enough it will bug her that I don't have furniture in there and I can get it before she dies. That is the plan.

The Family Room

We have stupid lights throughout the house. One of the first things the Dood wanted to do was change the family room one. We rarely turn it on but he didn't want to see the stupid mushroom one any more so we have this cool one from Ikea. This is the view from the kitchen.

The striped chair was Rick's mom's. It is SO comfy.

Yes I am watching NASCAR on a Friday night while I am home alone. It can be louder that way. ;) One of the first things I did the day we moved in was get the tv and sound system set up. The first race since moving here was a Saturday night race and we were at the ReAl Match so we didn't watch it live, which means most of it was watched on fast forward. Last week the race was rained out and ran on Monday. Again I missed out. This weekend is Dega. That's right, Tallegada. One of the greatest races of the season and I am hoping even better now that the wing is gone and they are back to a spoiler and bump drafting is allowed...but I am not talking about NASCAR on THIS blog. Ok maybe I am cause in the end it means this Sunday afternoon, if the house is a rockin' you can come knockin but I sure won't hear you over the tv.

The couch gets so lonely while Rick is as work. Sometimes I have to baby sit it and make sure it doesn't float away.

NASCAR 2010

That's right the season is almost here. The first practice of the year is in about 33 minutes. Yes, I can watch it live online at work. Yes I am a big enough dork to do so. I can't wait for Saturday night and the Bud ShootOut. One of the funnest races of the year, even if it isn't for points.
GO 24!!!!

NASCAR 2009

Our main reason for going to Vegas when we did was to attend the NASCAR Camping World Truck Race. It was on Saturday, our last day there. It was SO much fun! It was hotter than hot. On the track it was at least 117 degrees! We had passes for the Neon Garage - the area in the infield. It was cool to walk below the track and be in the middle of everything. We were also able to go down to pit road during qualifying. These trucks are running 160-170 mph and we were right there to feel their power.
Our seats were 1 row from the top so we were able to see the entire 1.5 mile track. There were only 3 wrecks, and they were all in front of us...coming out of turn 4.
I realize that a lot of this talk may not make sense, but that is all good. I shall in indoctrinate all my friends to NASCAR language. Heaven knows I had no intention of ever liking NASCAR and now I like it more than Rick.
We met a great NASCAR official. He actually let us go into an area where other people couldn't go so we could take photos. Rick said, "Man you must be hot." His response was, "You have no idea." Just think of wearing a firesuit in 120ish degree weather and just standing around. We had headsets and a scanner to listen to the different teams' communications and also the NASCAR officials. Before the race started on the official station the guy was saying, make sure you drink lots of water and take care of each other. By then the sun was going down but still, it was nice and hot. It was great race weather.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

The weekend is here in full swing. Yesterday we went for a walk in the morning, I did some grocery shopping and shopping for a baby shower this week and then we went to a movie for date night. We saw Ironman. For some reason I have a thing about crowds right now, I don't want to be in them. I do want to see Prince Caspian and even though the seats are reserved, I wasn't up to dealing with a crowded movie. There were a lot of people at Ironman but not as many.
It was an ok movie. I would give it a 3. I usually LOVE the marvel comic movies but not so much this one. There were parts that were really good and other parts were really slow. I do have to say, Stan Lee is always great in these movies!
Today we had stake conference. We watched the All Star race last night. Unfortunately Casey Queer won. Very disappointing. I would have been happier if Cousin Carl had won. As I was watching the race I thought to myself, man there are a lot of drives I don't like. I don't like him, I don't like him, I really don't like him etc. The good news, Kyle Busch blew his engine and didn't even finish. Now that I can cheer about.
Oh yeah, I also washed our deck yesterday. Not that it is much cleaner but something is better than nothing. The weather is so perfect right now I can't not be outside. I hope it is this good next weekend.
I am thinking of what pretty pictures I have to post today since there aren't any related to my blog...hhmm... I shall go browse. Ok I can't find anything worth posting. By the way, Rissa agrees that Rick would be good in a Volvo. She recommends it due to it's safety performance. When I told this to him, he just shook his head and walked out of the room. He just doesn't understand.