Trax.

So a few weeks ago, I blogged about how my sibs were coming over, and yay I was excited..I'm sure there's been a few posts like that. Well they came over and along with them came DELISH brownies and Sloppy joes. yumm. We ate and then ran to the pool. The pool was heated so we jumped in and had a good old time, It was really fun we then hot tubbed til we were dizzy and our blood pressure was to the roof of our mouths...well this is the picture from that day, I never posted it. oopsy boopsy:)

Oh side note, Blogger has updated the way you upload pix, is it just me or my layout or something? Now when I post it, just a bunch of HTML comes up, but if I hit "view blog" the picture is there, since it's just text I can't make it any bigger either, NOT sure what's going on..but Don't like it. Hopefully you can see the pictures. ALSO Sidenote Even though I add new paragraphs or even big spaces between paragraphs it doesn't save and just looks like a big old block post. BLAH! Help?? So Saturday after our play date with the kiddos we decided we wanted to hit the new City Creek Mall, heard it was crazy unique and wonderful, we also wanted to try this new thing they call "Trax" hahaha. Yikes!! So we made it to the train bought our ticket and were literally walking to a door to get on it left.(tickets btw for both of us costed more then gas to get down there)So we waited for the next train to come, and got on..wow those seats were comfy..NOT! The driver then told us it would take about an hour to get to City Creek, I was ready to just turn right back around and drive, but we paid and were waiting. I think by the next stop my head was woozy and bum was hurty! Oh wait this is our picture of us right when we sat down ..as you can see excited:)

. Well we got to City Creek and I was sick, and just didn't feel good the ride was so uncomfortable, and at each stop you didn't know what kind of crazy was going to get on (no offense to trax or bus riders) Anyways we didn't buy anything, I don't think it's that great of a mall, still prefer Fashion or Gateway, don't get me wrong it's unique, and Posh and they have some new store but nahh. So we left with empty hands and an empty stomach- (from throwing up) kidding!, just went well with the empty thing and trax did make me nauseated.) Eli sure had fun on our ride home.

So that was our experience, I think Trax is great for a lot of people and really saves gas if you buy a monthly pass and use it every day or even a few times a week, but it is not for this lady right here, or her man. That was our Trax experience, I'm trying to get you guys up to date on the important facts of my life so there will be more posts soon.

Back in the house hunting days.

A lot of you are aware that a few months ago before we got our apartment Eli and I were looking at getting a house. Well we pretty much found one, we talked about putting an offer in on it, This house was UGLY I mean the layout was alright but it was pink and old looking, the inside was nuts every room had DR Seuss painted on the walls, but guess what there was a pool and the backyard was big! The house itself was $95,000 and then we would have had to put some work into it slowly obviously to make it a dream. Well one day Eli picked me up from work and we went to the house and looked at it, there are a lot of HUGE trees so I then started looking at possibly how much they would cost to be removed. The house was right next to the free way..fifteen minutes from my work, 7 from Eli's this was perfect, it had a two car garage and a pool..are you kidding me? LOVE! Well after talking it over we wanted the house, the VERY NEXT MORNING I got notification of a status change..the house had been taken off the market, literally the day after we decided we wanted it. I guess it's not meant to be...or is it? What's funny about this now is I work with a guy who lives up by this house he said he can literally throw a rock at it. haha. He knew we were looking at it and said it's a crazy deal 95k for a house with a pool, he then told me he's pretty sure the people who bought the house are flipping it, because they instantly went to work on it. The guy I work with called me this morning and said "that house went up for sale this weekend, the guy had an open house, he's selling it for $240,000. YIKES! I quickly went to work and found the home on a website, I knew the address, and we'd seen the house before so BAM here it is. Now I know you're not impressed with the outside of the house, it's not gorgeous but the inside is beautiful!! Walls were knocked down bathrooms were added, I mean it's sooo transformed inside it's nuts. Now this guy if he put $100k into this house and he sells it for what it's listed, he's making a big old profit on this puppy. So now I'm wondering, destiny? Doubt it, but here's the house we almost bought. You guys don't have the before pictures, but it's crazy there was literally paintings from DR Seuss books on pretty much every single wall, upstairs was a playroom, it's now a master Bedroom. Check it out..

Now you got to see more pictures because I know your like "Amber what the?? This house is lame" So check it out.. (p.S) Just click on one picture it will make it big then you can zoom through the pictures easy like it's a slide show.. :)

Meant to be ours?? the answer to that is probably and most likely no, but it's fun for us to see the transformation, and now my mom can look at the house we were thinking about buying before hand, only this is after. Anyways this was on my mind so I blogged about it.

Fun Friday Activity

From the title of my blog you fools all thought I was gonna talk about our Fun Friday activity at work..NOPE ladies and gents..I will be talking about my not so fun Friday activity. I got off of my lame day at work early, On my way home I decided to stop at Rue 21 for a little theraputic shopping. I spent 5 bucks. I then thought I should stop at Platos closet, haven't been there in a while, part of me thought I should just get on the free way and get to my place, well I thought I was getting on the free way, apparantly they built a new road right next to the freeway off of 35th which I then turned onto, WOW so not the freeway but other cars had turned there as well so I kept driving. A second later I was at 4100 and just about Redwood Road, I thought well this must be a sign I should just stop by Platos closet it's like 2 minutes away. HA shoulda listened to my first thought. NOTHING was there. So I was bout to leave the store just checking out the earrings and some girl comes inside and just says "a green Chevy just hit a car, nobody was in it" the Cashier then yells "Does anyone own a green Cavalier? it just rolled into another car. So I'm sighing with relief because a green chevy Cavalier just hit somebodies car and now that person is out there trying to find out who did it, glad it's not me. Whoooeee. The girl at the counter then calls 911 to report the accident. So I leave the store to get in my car and go home when I discover what the lady forgot to yell and ask is "Does anybody own a green chevy or a Mitsubishi Eclipse??" Thats right folks it was my car that got hit. A pizza Hut worker was in his car pulling forward out of the spot right in front of my car as I was walking to my car. nooooooooooo!! he then asks me "Do you know whos car this is?" YEAh it's mine! He proceeds to tell me that his car rolled into mine, and it's not a big deal nothing a paint job won't fix. I told him that paint wont fix it, the car had a 3 inch gash in it, part of the aluminum of the car is rolled back, and theres some other scrapes on it as well. Now obviously my car is not even a big deal and it's running fine still, but I literally just got my plates for this stupid car and now he's telling me it's not a big deal, he's sorry this happened though, but if we get the insurance involved it's not worth it because they have to go through him and his work. Not only is the kid telling me this but he has his boss telling me this as well. Because the incident happened while he was on the clock it's a big deal for him and Pizza hut. Guess what bud?? even though it's not a huge deal to you, it's not no biggie to me with what I've had to go through with this piece of crap car and then this , and just the fact that you're telling me it's not a big deal is making me more irritated. Now we have to wait because the police are coming, we can't just leave, they were called before I even knew it was my car. The fact that the police were coming was lame too because really it's not a big deal the damage isn't huge.. not enough to file a report. I'm just annoyed too and of course I'm acting cool about it, because his car rolled into mine, he didn't purposefully hit my car, but it still happened. The kid and his boss are there and again telling me it's going to be a hassle. Oh another thing wanna know what the guy told me about my front end when I said I want to get it fixed through my insurance because if I want to sell the car that's gonna be less money I get because of this, guess what he says "It's really not even gonna lower the value of your car much" He's really trying to talk me out of calling. ahhhhhh Seriously take responsibility for whatever the reason is, it's my car and I don't want the damage there. OKAY? The police arrived, a good 35 minutes later, so that's cool. The cop asks us how things are. We tell him we don't want to report anything we're working it out through the insurances, cop tells us this is best and is on his way, and so are we. Just before I leave though the kid tells me "Here is my number and call me if you report this to your insurance, if you don't then I guess I won't hear from you again which would be cool because ya know, we have to not only report this to my insurance but through my works as well, It was nice meeting you" Tacky much? I get it, it will be a hassle for you if I report it, but not really a hassle for me, and if I can get my "new" car fixed 100% no cost to me, I should right?? You just did noticeable damage to my front end and I know it wasn't on purpose obviously, but it happened, don't make me feel like I'm the bad guy if I want to get it fixed. I haven't called my insurance yet, I'm actually going to right now, they called and left me a message earlier so I'm gonna figure this thing out. Me and the kid exchanged info so I'm thinking this should be fairly easy. Oh and just a tip, for all you people planning on hitting cars any time in the future when you go to talk to the person you hit, don't pull out a cigarette two feet away from them and start blowing smoke in their face as you are having a conversation. Yeah so that happened. Don't get me wrong, the kid was nice and I understand it's just a bad situation, but it also happened and you have to own up to it and fix it however it needs to get fixed. So I gotta go call the insurance, but real quick update on dummy who took my phone. Last Saturday I woke up early, looked at the time real quick and then planned on going back to bed. When I checked the time on my phone I noticed I had an email notification, opened it up and it was for City Deals, which I do. I then noticed I had an email from 5:30 am that was read, WAIT I wasn't up that early, so I checked it out and it was from a website for dirrtys. The site was a disgusting "hooking up" site with ladies and nasty usernames, Yeah definitely didn't sign up for this, but guess what that wasn't the first email, I went down and found a few more but they were already read, I hadn't even noticed them before, the person had just signed up 2 days prior. LUcky for me at the bottom there was a little place that said 'to unsubscribe click here' so I did, well it's a trick, all it does is opens the Marketplace and goes to the app of the site so I can have it at my fingertips. AHHHHH So I went to all the emails and replied stop to everyone of them. I still get them occasionally, but not as often. SO the person who had my phone had used my email address and their own username. In case your like my mom and don't get it I apologize but gmail was an app I had on my phone and I got emails auto sent me so I could always read them on the spot. I don't get it I mean this person clearly has money for a phone, even a smart phone with a data package, so why not get your own FREE email address and sign up for pervy websites with your own..I don't get it. So My day STANK my manager is being a dumb face, my car got hit had to sit there foreverr minutes for no reason and get guilted into thinking I'm the bad person if I call the insurance, then my phone just turned off by itself in the middle of a phone call, it's been acting up but this is so lame, this is a brand new phone! It was just a dumb day. Eli called me on my way home and we talked for a minute. I went home and was just wallowing in my self pity because that's whatchya do, I was trying to figure things out, when my door bell rang. I opened the door to a ridiculously good looking delivery guy, of course I let him in, and we kissed. "Delivery for a Miss Amber Duckworth" he says, and then pulls out a bag of Chilis to go. MY FAVE!!! mmmm:) I mean my day was still bad but this was definitely the happiest thing that happened. SO this is my day, so far anyway. PS> My big brother graduated from Law School today. I'm so happy for him and his family, Congrats BrO, we love you!!! (sorry this had to be at the bottom of such a negative post, I'll pay you back by letting you buy me dinner when you're making the big bucks.) PSS> Calm down the delivery man I smooched was my Hubba Bubba ELi<3

Mostly about my Phone

Some of you may notice, I've been posting more lately, I mean not a ton more but more...We got a computer screen finally. We've always had a computer but it was hooked up to our second Tv like the old school one, huge. We just traded up and are new owners of a slim 23 inch monitor so it's easier to see what I'm typing. So YAY i can blog whenever the BLEEP i want. haha In previous blogs I've said bleep instead of real words because that's what some of my siblings do and it just makes me laugh. So I jacked their saying..BLEEP. Yeah I'm loving this blog from home thing, before it was either at my parents or from my cool work. Now it's from our office. wooooty woooty wooot!    Some of you may know that about two and a half weeks ago, I left my phone at Golds Gym. Walked to the car got it, realized it was gone and walked back in. I looked everywhere I had worked out, I then went to the front desk and found out no one had turned a phone in. I left feeling sad cuz it was my all time favorite phone. I went back the next day and was again told my phone wasn't in the safe or lost and found. After the third day of trying I gave up and had concluded my phone was taken. The thing that makes me real upset about this, is when I was looking for my phone, next to one of the stations where I had worked out at and remember putting my phone down at was a kid, holding a phone that looked exactly like mine. Basically identicle and the phone I had was a droid pro, not too many people have those, it's like a palm but a bit different. I saw him just sitting at a station holding the phone and looking at somethings. Not texting. nothing. I should have said something to him, should have just asked him a non accusing question about the cool phone he was on, but didn't ... I just left.  All turned out okay though, A few lines on our account were eligible for upgrades so Eli and I went into Verizon and got new phones. One day Eli was watching TV when I noticed he had gotten a text from his friend, he then proceeded to tell me there was some crap stuff on our recently watched list on Netflix and he was making sure his friend wasn't the one watching it, and if he was he just wanted to make it clear to him that he can't be watching that kind of stuff on something of ours. It's so annoying because if you watch a few things similar Netflix as you guys probably know will make a queu for things like this and that and I don't like stuff at all like what had been recently watched and we don't even want to go through and see it on our recently watched. Eli's friend denied it was him, I have to admit I was skeptical because since we got Netflix again nobody else had our password. It's not just annoying because it creates queues for stuff like that, so then you have to see it more, when it could really be making new categories for things I actually like. Moving on about a week forward, I came home from work and just out of curiosity I went to the recently watched list again and there was even more stuff. I'm upset because the picture for almost everything was creepy. Just scary to look at and I didn't like seeing it. I texted Eli telling him there was even more things on there, asking what he thought was up. We were both puzzled, Eli came home from work and all of the sudden said "Amber I was thinking your phone was taken, and you had the Netflix app, even though you deactivate your phone they will still have access to all apps once it's ativated again" I then checked my facebook and there was some recent activity that wasn't from me. I had the FB app as well. We called Netflix and was told we need to deactivate all of the devices this is on, once that's done every device will have to log back in otherwise, if we were to just change our password she said it would keep everyone else in til they log out. We proceeded with deactivation. I asked the lady real quick to tell me what phones Netflix is all active on, she told me. I asked when was the last time the Droid Pro was used she then told me "April 8th" EASTER SUNDAY some creep was using our stuff to watch his gross shows. This just freaked me out, because I always worry about things, and he had access to personal info on my FB and he watches stuff like this? EEK I know the kind of shows you watch doesn't really define you as a person but I was still freaked. There was one more app that was on my phone that I needed to change the password on. (ps. changing the password on facebook will make you re log back in to every device it's on, so we're good with that now.) Back to the app still on my old phone...Twitter. I got on the site to change my password then realized even though I do tweet at times, it's not about raging parties with my address it's this "aahhhh I hate going back to work after the weekend! suck.suck.suck." Mostly that person would just be getting tweets about Biebs, Kim Kardashian, Miley and Taylor Swift haha...this was not too concerning to me. I'll still probably change it, but for some reason I was having a way hard time doing it last time, so I'm gonna wait til Duck Boy can help me, til then I'm not too concerned. I am wondering now, because I was having convos with people texting, and some were interesting so I do wonder what they texted back, and could the person be sending texts to all my friends now? hmm I know they probably have a life of their own. But then again probably not :) That was my way long story about my phone and yadayada. Onto the new phones. We both have this app called 'Tango' it's like Facetime if anyone has an ipod or iphone but not as advanced in technology it's more pixelated, still sweet because you don't have to be connected to wifi to use it like you do face time. Me and ELi have video convos now but it's funny because sometime all I can see is Eli's face and it's blown way up...makes me laugh. The very first night I got it, it showed all of my contacts that had Tango installed, and so I decided to make a face call to somebody ..guess who? My old visiting teaching partner..That's right Brittany. haha she thought I was way weird for calling her, Brit if you're reading this (doubtful) I don't apologize. It was agreat time and I will remember it all my life! hehe. BREAKING NEWS! My door bell just rang, It's too soon for E to be home. OH NO must be my next door neighbors here to tell me something else I'm doing wrong, I was about to get some attitude when I open the door to a cute little girl with a super soft voice asking me if I would like to buy some candy from her, the money goes toward her dance class and would really help her out. Dads smiling behind his baby. Luckily for me, I didn't have any cash on me. That's how they get you, trying to sell me dollar Store candy 2 for 5. I saw what was in the basket and no thanks. I think I'll just run to the dollar store and get $5 for $5 with my credit card. I told the little girl good luck and then SLAMMED my door. No really slammed it, well I didn't the psychotic wind did, but that cute little girl probably thought it was me. My family is coming up tonight. HOLLA the pool is heated this time HOLLA HOLLA man last time that was Crazy jumping into a non heated pool way late at night I thought I was going to die! Little Breanna all cute like "Lets all jump into the pool at the same time" Worst idea ever I will never be peer pressured into something by a 9 year old ever again, I thought my legs were going to fall off. Like a million little needles poking at every pore on my body literally freezing. Holy rolly polly. Anyway we're excited for them to come and party til the cows come home. -I heard that saying the other day- Til the cows come home...I mean really? Well I'm gonna go and put some songs on my iTunes and then wait for my hunny bunny and the crazies to come:D

    My work gets tickets to Jazz games a lot, and in the past week we've gone twice, it's been fun. This job does have a lot of perks, but then at the same time.. eeesh:/  Anyway yesterday we went to the game, the Jazz seemed kinda checked out, but 4th quarter decided to legit get into the game. One minute left and the crowd was on their feet , we were yelling and cheering. Eli looks at me and says "The great thing about this is, I can fart as loud as I want and no one know" hahaha OH MY. Just because nobody can hear you blasting doesn't mean we didn't know what was going on. We may not have known who it was coming from is the thing.
    Oh jeez I just needed to blog and remember this moment for life:)

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter all you readers. Do I have any readers still? If not..oh well moving along:)
    Yesterday we celebrated at Eli's parents we had a BBQ then the kids did a lil egg hunt. Afterward I went to my families and then my mom, Breanna Abbie Christy and I went to a baby shower for my Aunt Jayna. Jayna and my uncle Mike are adopting a baby. SO excited for them. I've always been pro adoption, I think it's beautiful and amazing and sooo selfless. One of my friends had a child and gave him up for adoption for a better life. The person who gives that baby up is so strong and courageous, gets me a bit teary eyed. Anyway that was my rant about that. p.s Now we all just gotta pray that everything works out.
    After the shower Eli and I went home and hung out for a little while until IMPROV. Most of you know Eli and I love Improv and there is a show every Saturday night that we go to, it's just fun and something we look forward to. Since we moved it's been harder to go every Saturday because it's not 7 minutes away anymore that's why we were thrilled when we found out there was a theatre kinda like the one where we use to go every week and it's out here by us. Monday we had to go to a musical for one of Eli's classes, so we looked online and saw some plays and we came across a theater about 15 minutes away, we ended up going to the play. Sidenote... Eli and I want to be in a play. Well Eli doesn't know he does yet, but don't worry he will figure it out, with a little help from wifeyduck:) I was in plays and musicals all through Jr High, mmmhmmm the lead in some might I add;) then in High School I was in drama, until this thing happened and I had to transfer schools. This thing since you're all wondering is Eli and a mother scared her little girl would end up having a baby. Let me tell you why she came to this conclusion, me and Eli skipped one class to hang out in a church stairwell haha. Mom found out and all *bleep* broke loose. Good times mom. Good times. No really I hope no body is upset I shared that little story because it just makes me chuckle. Anyway so I transferred schools and couldn't get into a drama class it was the middle of the year so I didn't. Finally I went back to my old school and I just didn't get back into drama for whatever reason. Eli and I did one play though at Cyprus called Beauty and the Beast...you may have heard of it. So yeah we're gonna be in a play sometime, and you are all invited. I'll give you the details when there are actually some to give.
    Anyway the point to all that was we went to a slightly entertaining show and found out they do improv Saturdays at 10:30 kinda like the one we went to only they started at 10:15. So improv was good, we got lots of popcorn, which made me sick, so on the way home we pulled over once or twice. TMI? We won't be making that mistake again of getting popcorn. My brother and his lady friend went and we had some laughs together. I found out Lisa is putting more blonde back in her hair. When Spencer came back from intermission I told him that. Then I remembered when Dallin, Mom and I went shopping and mom wanted to get Spencer a shirt that said "I dig blondes" I told him this, and he laughed kind of hard and then said.."I wouldn't wear that" hahaha...maybe not as funny when you read it, but it was funny in person.
   After improv we came home cuddled and watched a show and a half, before I fell asleep. We went to bed and then this morning The Easter Bunny had visited.  It's still weird to me that somewhere between Christ being risen, there was a huge gap that no one has been able to explain to me what happened but it ended in Bunnys pooping eggs filled with delish candy. Weird right? And kind of creepy that an oversized bunny comes through my house while I'm sleeping, How did he even know that we moved?  This morning Eli found his hidden goodies. Afterward though I was told that the bunny didn't leave me anything. I was a little sad, I know the meaning of Easter isn't even about treats but why did that oversized creepster bunny care about Eli and not me??

   We went on with our morning, and had wheat blueberry pancakes. Eli asked me to put the dog outside, so I opened the door and there to my surprise was a basket!! awww I was upset for a whole hour and the bunny didn't even forget about me, he was just tricking! YAYY! Our breakfast was yumsters, and now I'm stuffed to the max.  Church starts in a while, so now I will go get ready.          

HAPPY EASTER

                                                               Love, The Duckworths.