My Trip!

I am alive.
I hiked about 10 miles.
I was almost bitten by a rattle snake.
I peed in an ammo box (named groover) with a toilet seat over it.
Did I shower butt naked behind a rock like the others?
Heck NO! But I did shower behind that rock in clothes lol.
I wore a bright orange handkerchief around my neck in hopes of not getting a sunburn.
I came home with a terrible sun burn on my arms, neck and face.
I traded in my green flip flops for some hideous hiking boots.
I didn't wear makeup for 4 days.
I learned a lot about the desert, climate, animals, and myself.
Am I exhausted? YES!
Do I have many stories to tell from this trip? Of course!
Here's a tiny portion of the pics we came home with.

P.S If you click on the picture of my flip flops you can see how hairy my feet were lol. Clearly I didn't get that portioned waxed. I just wanted the world to know that I do realize how nasty it looks. I get it! It truely shows how adventurous I was out there. Thanks and love ya all!

Ouch!

Today I experienced pain. I will explain the horror of leg waxing.

I got to the salon and a nice lady asked me back to the room. She gave me a form and told me to fill it out and when I was finished she advised me to get on the table and put a towel on my legs....seems easy enough....or so I thought. After she left the room, everything seemed clear to me. This nice lady wanted me to drop my pants. If you know me....if you have even said hello to me, you know how insecure I am with things like this. I instantly shot up and peeked my head out the door. This is the conversation that enfolded...

Linds: Ummmmm Question!!!
Pain Giver: Yes?
Linds: Uh, can I just roll my pants up?
Pain Giver: Well, no we usually don't allow that because we don't want to risk getting wax on your pants.
Linds: ooooo no, its okay, I can just roll them up!!
Pain Giver: Yeah, sorry, we usually don't.
Linds: I DON'T EVEN LIKE THESE PANTS!

After finally convincing her that I wasn't going to drop my pants for her, I got on the bed. What happened the next 30 minutes was brutal. I want everyone to know though that I never once flinched, screamed, kicked or even teared up. I almost wish I would have handled it that way instead of what I really did. I talked, and talked and talked. I told this stranger about so many things. I told her about the whore that visits the inn frequently, I told her marriage things, how much I get paid, my fears of the upcoming Moab trip, and many many many things. I did not shut my mouth for 30 straight minutes. I think if I would have shut up for a second I wouldn't have been able to stand the pain lol. It is all so hilarious to me now. After she finished she got me set up for another appointment in 4 weeks. haha I don't know if I going to follow through with that or not. My legs were tingling for hours and red and sore. Here's a picture of what it looked like. I was going to post the before picture, but they really were nasty! So hairy, I just don't think I could let go of my pride!


OUCH! look how red they were! I took this fantastic picture while Shanna was being tortured.


Waiting to go in....we came from work...hence the work clothes (:



Anyways, I am still not sure if I recommend it or not. Give me a day or two for the shock to wear off. I am 100% sure of one thing though.....no way in heck would I ever do a brazilian!

This is a song.....

This is a song of a Bear, Bear, Bear, who didn't have a thing he could Wear, Wear, Wear. So he Growled ferociously and scowled atrociously and grew himself a coat out of hair, hair, hair.

Me and Kristi had a tape with animal songs and that was one of them. Why am I blogging about that you may ask????

Because I feel like a freakin BEAR! I am counting down the days when I get my nasty hairy legs waxed! I am going on a 5 day camping trip to Moab with the in laws. I decided that I am going to be concerned about living through the event (I am NOT a hiker, and I have heard there are lots of spiders and creepy crawlies!). The last thing I want to be concerned about is my legs being hairy. The weather will be in the 90's and I refuse to take pants just because I won't be able to shave. So.....on Wednesday I will be getting these hairy beastly legs waxed. They have been growing in preparation for about 2 weeks. Anthony is horrified and I just cant take it anymore. The bear picture above is exactly what my legs look like....no lie! I am terrified. If anyone has done this adventurous ordeal, please let me know. Stories and advice would be fantastic!

reality check

Picture this, it is 10:00 at night. I am of course sitting on the computer numbing my brain with facebook and blogger when all of a sudden I hear someone turn the door knob. Then when that certain someone couldn't get the door opened, due to it being locked, the doorbell began to ring. I froze, Anthony jumped up. He looked through the peep hole and it was two men. They were pounding on the door. I begin to wonder what they could want....it's late, we don't know you! I turn the tv off and whisper (mostly begging) Anthony to not open the door. After about a minute we decide that they might be hurt or that they might have hit the car so we open the door. They were mumbling something about us letting them in....."Tell Corinna we are here"........After Anthony explained that they had the wrong door they stood there for a second and then walked off.

I was terrified. I have never ever felt safe in this neighborhood. It frightens me to think that we could have answered the door and it could have ended differently. I know they were drunk. I know I am acting really really dramatic but when Anthony is concerned then I feel like I can be. We finally settled back in and I heard him say "That worries me". I feel the same way. I am thankful that we are safe and that we have each other. I also am thankful that we don't have any lil ones on the west side. I am always super paranoid about EVERYTHING. It is due to many episodes of dateline and 48 hours mysteries, Grandma got me hooked years ago.

Anyways, I feel like I am overreacting and I feel as if I am 12 again. I'm sure once I fall asleep, it won't be such a big deal in the morning.

Happy Birthday KRISTI!!!

HAPPY BIRFDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRFDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRFDAY DEAR KRISTI! HAPPY BIRFDAY TO YOU!

Today is my big sis's BirFday! Last night we went over to her house and made home made pizza and had cake and ice cream. Of course I forgot my camera. I figured someone else would have brought theirs....nope, josh, and my mom and dad both forgot theirs, and Kristi's wasn't charged.....bummer! Its the inlaws turn to have us over for Mother's Day so I gave my mom her present last night too. She got a really cute pair of pj's and a pink fluffy robe. My sister got a cute pair of capris and flip flops from me. Her real present hasn't came in the mail yet, hopefully soon. I made Kristi a cute cake. It was a disaster from the very beginning. I planned on making a big huge bundt cake. I was going to have one layer of red velvet cake, then a layer of brownies, then another layer of cake. It was a really good idea in my head. After it was done cooking I pulled it out and let it cool. I then turned it over and half the cake was still in the pan......it was a very depressing moment. here is how it looks.... (the following pics are from my phone....sorry)

Notice the top has a small amount of red velvet. I was very grumpy. So I made an executive decision. I took a huge knife and cut off the small amount of red velvet and then cut the huge brownie part. I think I made the right decision. It looked much better and I knew we wouldn't be able to eat it all anyways. After decorating, this is how it turned out.


Heres a pic of Kristi blowing out the candles. Jaden wanted to help too.


It was a really fun night! She is a really great sister. She is hilarious and although she's not very good at the Wii (at least she wasn't last night) she has a lot of great attributes. Here's a few things.....

#1 She has curly hair just like me. But unlike me, she knows how to tame it, everyone always gives her compliments about it. It makes me jealous. They just touch mine and say "you have natural curly hair huh?".....in a sad pathetic voice.

#2 She has a very sweet heart. She has a special spot in her heart for animals. If it was allowed she would have tons and tons of pets, but for now she just has fish. She called me the other day and said that Sam (her fish) had died after 3 years. She was devastated! I was so impressed that a fish could live that long! When we have fish their life span is about 3 months.

#3 She has an amazing photogenic brain!!! We will be watching a movie and I will see someone and I will say "what movie is that dude in?". She will have an answer within a minute. It sometimes is so annoying because I am terrible at that. Whenever its just me and Anthony he will always tell me to call Kristi....cuz she ALWAYS knows!

#4 She is hilarious! Whenever we are together we just laugh and laugh. We basically have the same brain.....besides the actors part. We can look at each other and know exactly what we are thinking. When we were little we would sit down for Sunday dinner and just laugh and laugh. We then would get in trouble and our parents would make us go to our rooms to calm down. We never really learned reverence.

#5 She is creative. She probably will say that she isn't, but she really is. She is really good at interior decorating. She doesn't do a lot of crafting, because she says that she can't. But she can! She is a wicked modge podger!

LOVE YOU TONS KRISTI! HOPE YOU HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!

Lindsey & Anthony

Very Seldom do I get to do a post about me and Anthony. But this is entirely about us!!! YAY!! We had a most wonderful weekend together! Since we were not able to do anything for our Anniversary we booked a night at the Castle Creek Inn. I won a free night stay at work at our Christmas party and I've been eagerly waiting to use it. It was such a fun night. When we arrived we walked around the beautiful grounds. I made Anthony take lots of corny pictures. He was really sweet to sit through all of them. He absolutely hates taking pictures. After that we went to our room and played uno and phase ten. To some people that may sound oober boring but it was so nice to sit with him. Its weird to see him without the laptop lol. There was no blaring TV or other distractions. It was heaven. We stayed in the Romeo & Juliet suite. It was adorable. I especially loved the lil balcony. All in all it was a fantastic stay that we both really needed. I told him that we are going to start going there every year. Besides the awkward moment when a past employee served me breakfast, it was perfect. Check our their website http://www.castleutah.com/.

Wendover-Part Deux

I just got back from Wendover....again. This time I went with my parents and sister Kristi. Before I begin with last nights activities I need to journey back to the past. When I was about 12 years old, there was a man. A man that I thought I would marry. His name was Bryan White. He was a country singer, with the most beautiful face I had ever seen. My mom also loved him, so much so that she would take us to his concerts. She also had a pillowcase of his face.....she slept with it for many years. After many years of singing, Brian White started getting anxious on stage, shortly after he was nowhere to be seen. Me, Kristi and my Mom were saddened.

Now flash forward 10 years. HES BACK!!! He had a concert in Wendover last night. It was so weird to see him sing again. He looks exactly the same. We were lucky enough to be on the 3rd
row. After the concert me and about 100 other giddy woman got to meet him. He was really nice. Kristi was really quiet and just stared at him. I was babbling on about who knows what, and my mom was off in her own world talking to him too. After a minute of me going on he finally said "I can tell that she is the sarcastic one of the bunch." It kind of took me off off guard, but it was funny none the less.

3rd row seats!!!! All my concert pics are really blurry....sad













Mom's eyes are almost closed. We had to hurry so we couldn't get another one.


Showing off our autographed tickets

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After we got done with Brian we went back to the hotel room. Me and Kristi had our own room, and Mom and Dad had their own. After we locked ourselves out of our room and the front desk people had to come and get us back in we finally settled in around 12. I had brought some homemade facial scrub for me and kristi. It was pretty gross but it worked really well. Heres some hidious pictures of that ordeal.

First you have to open your pores LOL



Here comes the gross pictures...it was a mixture of honey, crushed almonds and egg whites.











All in all we had a really fun time! I always have a blast with Kristi. We have the same sense of humor and everything is tons funnier with her. Thanks Kristi for being willing to smear gunk on your face with me! Love ya!