Management

Yesterday we got home from work and there was a letter on our door, not just our door--everyones. The letter stated today the apartment managers would be entering into our house on 6/27/2012 checking on the status basically. They wanted us to write down anything that needed to be fixed. The letter told us it was mandatory and they were getting ready for corporate visits next month. Basically the letter said clean your house and patio we're gonna come check it. It feels we were just bombarded uhhhhhghhh:/

I know I said last week I cleaned that one room and folded laundry all day, and I did. What I didn't say was all of the new laundry I did nothing with because by the time I got done hanging up "old" stuff I was wiped out and Eli was home, so this had to be done.Luckily for us though I made my family dinner on Sunday, so in preparation for that we did some cleaning..vaccum, sweep and just basic straightening, if we hadn't done that this would have been a nightmare especially.

We were invited to our friends BBQ yesterday so it's not like we had all night to clean, we went but we did have to leave early unfortunately. Afterward we went home and cleaned, and cleaned. Eli did the bathroom without me asking or even hinting at it..amazing I know? The toilet was spotless, you could eat off of that thing, and we did just to test it out...I went and got my ice cream cake and put it on the toilet seat and just ate it. SIKE!!!! haha you were all grossed out!! That last part definitely didn't happen. Anyway the house didn't turn out emmaculate and our bedroom and second bedroom weren't incredible, it still looked like people lived there but we weren't embarrassed for random people to come over.

On a piece of paper we now had to write anything that needed to be worked on. one set of our blinds were not working. ELi got the paper on the counter and started writing at the top I labeled it 'Things that need to be fixed' and he wrote the rest...yes I know

Cool right?! I was laughing so hard when I read that. Some of you may know who we're talking about-- :) SO dramatic!

So this morning I brought my pup pup to mommas so he wouldn't have a barking fit when some strangers came into our house and just stayed for however long they stay. I was also worried if they got too annoyed they might be rude to him and I couldn't have that happen to my lil babay. Dallin thanks for taking care of him btw.

OH one more thing Shout out to my lil Boookey Brea --she started a dog sitting business, she has a business card and everything so it's legit. I'm so proud of my little entrepreneur.

I'm baaaack!

MY OLD layout is back. WORRY NO MORE those of you who were concerned about not being on the right blog. hehehe. I figured our blog has had the same background and look and feel to it, since I first started , and then I went up and changed it. If it's not broken why fix it? Especially if you're not making it better, so it's baaaack.

wooot wooot. I'm oddly overly excited about this.

Thursday Good day II

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So, This picture is right after Sam's ceremony. Obviously Eli has some issues with letting him go, and then Royce in the background is a bit jealous maybe?

ELi looked so good yesterday I just loved it.
OH NO WORk is over, I will have to continue on later about more Thursday Good Day!



I'm back and it's been a whole weekend, so you may have already seen the above but all this below is brand new and also not that interesting. :) Just two pics from the wedding

This one I like, it just makes me laugh because my jaw line looks intense, for those of you who know me, my jaw line is pretty much non existent, it's weak sauce, and in this picture Eli has no chin--at all the only reason you know where his neck ends and face starts is because of that handsome chin strap.





After the wedding Eli wanted to celebrate with Chuck-a-Rama. Well this is really not a celebration to me, it's all you can eat but I only get two plates and ones full of salad okay maybe three two salad plates and one with maybe disgusting potatoes. Eli though he takes advantage and eats it ALL! So basically I'm sitting at the table waiting and watching him eat, then being a loser and looking around while he goes up and get's more food. I mean I guess I sip my drink, so I may have complained. It's not just that I don't really eat a ton, it's also about the skirt I was wearing with the 4 inch heels. It didn't sound so fun to me to get up and down and UP and down and walk around hunting and gathering for my own food in that ensemble. Eli understood then surprised me and took us to The Cheesecake Factory. OH YUCK! I would have rather gone to Chuck-A-Rama. I think they call people like me ingrates or something. We've been a few times, we've gone a few times because Eli really enjoys it (ENJOYED) and evertime I go the food is less then yummy. ESPECIALLY for what your paying. bleck! (My opinion obviously) Anyway we went there and it was a bad experience, bad bread bad service gross food. Okay the food I got wasn't disgusting, but I told the guy what I was thinking about getting, then just to make sure I asked "theres no cheese in that right?" NO MA'M NO CHEESE. "Is it suuper spicy?" NO MA'M IT'S NOT BAD AT ALL. "Okay great I want that." Now it's Eli's turn "Can I get the blahh blahh blahh and Please no mushrooms" OKAY PERFECT.. now we wait, while we were waiting though we got salads and an appetizer basically avacado tacos or something. The salad was eww the ranch was nasty. Usually I ask if I can taste the ranch before I order but I actually have never gotten a salad there before and I forgot to ask, right after we asked for the salad the guy was gone.

So Server brings out our food and well there is cheese in mine, not just like sprinkled in it, but the sauce is basically made of cheese and had melted cheese you could see the melted strings from noodle to noodle. I looked grossed out, but I thought I'd give it a try. Really though? So i took a bite and the food was soo dang spicy it burned my tonsils and throat. I guess you can't blame the waiter a ton for that because his tolerance for spice may be a lot higher then mine, but yeah the food definitely had a BIG kick to it. Eli started eating his food and BAM mushroom, the waiter comes by and Eli tells him that he just found a mushroom>> the waiter replies "oh I'm sorry man" he then walks away. >>>I'm like okay? WHy does he think we told him that, just because?? hahaa UHHHH?? Anyway Eli picks it out and takes another bite, and BAM mushroom again. I start looking at his food and BAM mushroom. They're good sized chunks too but small enough to have a lot mixed in there. Eli is deathly allergic to mushrooms. And when I say deathly allergic I mean deathly grossed out and disgusted by them. I don't mind this though, because I don't think they're the tastiest thing in the world, so I don't need to cook with them, or cream of mushroom. So then I'm like WHAT?? we're not gonna pay for this food that you're not going to eat, so the waiter comes back around and Eli tells him "excuse me , there's mushrooms in this and I'm scared to eat anymore or it" haha that made me laugh but then the waiter goes "I'm sorry man, do you need us to make you a new one?" HELLO!!!!! We requested it in the first place, if it wasn't a big deal we wouldn't even be telling you about it. I know this rant may be annoying but I was way bugged. Secretly and well not so secretly I was happy that this happened because this meant no more going to The Gross Cheesecake Factory anymore. Okay I really am sounding like a spoiled brat so I'm done.

Oh wait I'm not done! Eli brought his food home with him and ate it for lunch the next day, and MR mushroom was there, haha he said he only found one or two though.

Okay Now I'm done. almost. You have to endure one more picture. It's E yawning, he looks like scream huh?! haha

Thursday good day

Reasons Thursday June 21st were celebratory worthy..

I had no work (because I was sick, but that's beside the point)
I hung up and washed loads and loads..and LOADS of laundry )
I ate some ice cream cake that Eli bought for me. wooooo
Me and that one guy went on a date
I'm caught up on Teen Mom 2 (finished the finale yesterday)

Let me start from umm Wednesday, I felt like crap! Went into work looking and feeling like a piece of turd..is that how you spell turd? I walked in and the girl next to me asks "oh is it come into work day in your PJ's?" I then shot her the look of --ooooh you did NOT just say that-- She then quickly responded "ohh no, what's wrong?" I gave her a little insight on my morning and how I was basically the walking dead today. I then quickly finished emails and told her I was taking an early lunch and was going to be gone for about two hours, she was perfectly okay with that. I then went to my moms and slept, awww this felt great. Unfortunately my alarm went off and it was time to go back to work. I really could have slept until the cows came home. I've actually never understood that saying, and really I'm not sure if I used it correctly. POINT being, I was really tired. I went back to work thankful for my nap, irritated at how short it was. My boss came over to me a bit later asking if I needed to go home, YES pleeeease! I took the following day off, which was a day of Celebration.

Thursday morning I woke up too early for not feeling super great, but as the day moved on I felt better. At 11Am I started my first load of laundry. I separated the laundry into piles. It was time for the first load, I stuffed as many clothes as I could into that poor washer, it was time for my next task. Walk into the second bedroom, it's filled with clothes! I really think only my mom and siblings who have seen it can tell you there was a lot! Clothes from before that got washed but never hung up, clothes we've tried on all over the floor, along with the clothes from the baskets of clean that are scattered all over from us trying to find what we wanted to wear certain mornings. We sound disgusting, but all of the clothes were clean, so that's good right? I can't even understand 7 loads of laundry a room filled with clothes all over the floor and in baskets, plus 7 loads of laundry (6 of which were apparal. This is nuts, too. many. clothes!!! Anyway I sat down and wathed my guilty pleasure (which I actually have a lot of) Keeping up with the Kardashians and folded laundry, yeah I was folding laundry and hanging up clothes for literally 4 1/2 hours, I obviously took breaks in between like to put in more laundry and take Titan out. But really:( I was exhausted but the room looks great. Eli's still missing some socks, not as many as before. Eli is to socks, as I am with bobby pins. Ya feel me ladies? Where do they always go?? Oh I also took a break to eat some Ice Cream cake.

Yeah that's another thing, I've been craving ice cream cake from Baskin Robins, and I got some . Yikes. the cake was more money then it's really worth but what are you gonna do, cravings. Anyway so I did take a break to eat that.

So I'm watching Kardashians, and putting away laundry when Eli get's home. Eli's BFF was getting married, so he's the best man, he comes home and get's his tux out to put it on, and then out of nowhere he says "Hello I'm Eli Dutchworm" I started laughing so hard, random? Nope this was the name on the tux Eli picked up. hahaha first laughing matter.

We then went to the ceremony which was beautiful- I know ceremonies in the Temple are always beautiful but the spirit was so strong, and I loved it...


Here is Sam and Deb on their amazing day:) they obviously weren't aware I was taking their picture..



>>POST GETTING LONG..TO BE CONTINUED...<< :)

I called my parents house today and Jayden answered.
ME: Hi would you ask your mom a question for me?
JAYDEN: Yes
ME: Okay will you ask her how many sq feet the apartment is? Wait is she home?
Jayden: No
ME: Then why did you say you would ask her something for me?
Jayden: Because I am willing to.

hahahahaha this made me laugh, I thought it was so cute, and he just said it so -matter of fact- "because I'm willing to". I love my 11 year old brother, such a stud! This may mean not much for the readers but it's something I want to remember :)

I love mi familia!

June 10

Another Sunday, another Fun day! No really...we enjoy Sundays because we always go visit if not one both of our families. We got ready and headed off to church, and...sat in the back. Aw jeez! It's soo hard to hear back there, which makes it really hard to pay attention. I also don't enjoy it because of the chairs, your thinking well who does? They're uncomfortable. I dislike them for another reason though, Somehow little kids always sit behind me, and play on the ground, and somehow then their hands, and little heads will start touching me...yesterday the little kid behind me kept pushing his head against my back...side and just kept pushing, then his hands would touch me, and I didn't want to turn around and just smile at him, like some people do when you're kids are pulling their hair in church, because it always makes the parents feel bad, they apologize, then they can't focus on the meeting because they have to make sure their child isn't disturbing you. So I just ignored it.

Oh I didn't mention the little kid who kept hitting me> his dad was ...DOPPELGANGER. That's right 15 minutes into the meeting, and the door next to us in the cultural hall, opened and a head peeked through it was..him, Mr Look alike. yay and for some unknown reason awkward. Doppelganger has a little boy (the one as mentioned before) Well this little boy was crying, I was trying to ignore the situation. Eli leans over to me and says "Amber, that boy behind us was crying, but then I looked at him and he stopped, it's because he thought he saw daddy" Seriously though I don't know why the boy stopped crying but he did. Eli is what I like to refer to as "The baby whisperer" We're at church, and the little kids in front of us will just look at Eli, especially the little girls, and they smile. Eli's so good at making children happy, they're just drawn to him. I can only think of one kid in existence that Eli's powers don't work on--an adorable little girl who happens to be my niece named abbie for the most part I would say she's not an Eli fan. I would say she's definitely the exception to the rule. I'm so grateful Eli has this ..I would call it a gift? just he's naturally good with children. It's definitely going to come in handy when we start a family of our own. Now i'm done with this topic because it's giving my family ideas;)

Oh and just an update on that Ice cream craving, last week I got one later that day,and then the next and basically I would say every day except one I bought an ice cream cone, or ice cream of some sort which is really no bueno actually, but it's my cryptonite. mmm ice cream.


hmm...anything really interesting happen yesterday though? I mean a lot of things that made me laugh but that I specifically want to post about? nahh I guess that was it. I know this post wasn't anything amazing, but just something that I'd like to read back on one day and smile.

cute note.

I just thought this was sooo heart warming. I know I work in a sports industry so some of you are thinking "duhh of course she likes this" Not true! I work here and I don't have a team, I don't follow baseball or football, I do "follow" basketball but basically only because my work gives me tickets to the games during the season, and we enjoy going. I was browsing yahoo this morning when I came across this article, it may not be too interesting but brought a little comfort to my soul and warmed my heart.

--'You're 6 years old, and you love football. Specifically, you love the New York Giants and their big, bruising running back Brandon Jacobs.
One day, you hear that Brandon Jacobs isn't playing for the Giants anymore; he's playing for some other team that wears different colors in some other place way far away. You ask your mother to explain, and she tells you that the Giants just don't have enough money to keep Brandon Jacobs.
So you think to yourself, "Oh? Is that it? Money? All that we need to fix this is money? I have money! I'll send it to Brandon Jacobs and everything will be fine! Here! Here's money! All better!"
And this arrived in Brandon Jacobs' mailbox:' (click the image if you can't read it)




The football player tweeted this picture a few days ago, and I'm so glad he did. I guess in this crazy world we live in it's good to know little kids are still little kids and so innocent and just good = I love that!

randomness 2

>I am so Excited for today! I wanted an ice cream cone SO bad yesterday..it was weird actually, it had to be soft serve and vanilla. I would not have settled for a gallon of Vanilla. Well actually I would have settled, if that's what I had to work with then that's what I would have eaten. Since it was Sunday and we don't usually shop on Sundays unless it's absolutely necessary, I didn't get one. I think this could have almost been classified as an emergency but not quite. So, I settled for BBQ chips, not even close to satisfying my cravings but they held me over until this GLORIOUS Monday when I can go buy me an ice cream cone. Woohoo. To update you, to update you? hmmm... I guess I'll give you a bit of information you didn't know.

Eli has a doppelanger, for those of you not aware of this term, we learned it from 'How I met your Mother' it is somebody who looks so much like you it's uncanny (did I use that word right) this person is your twin, but not by birth just because some ma and pa out there made a child that is identicle to you. Some of you may not have met your doppelganger yet, they may even be half way across the world. Lucky for us Eli's is right in our own town. >We were sitting in church one day and I leaned over and looked to my left I literally did a double take, my husband was sitting right next to me, so how could he be on the other side of the room with a different family? I just chuckled "Eli that guy looks just like you, seriously" Eli leans and looks and says "What the..?" he agreed. Eli then told me I could take him to a family party and all people would say was -WOW eli you've lost a lot of weight, and I like your brown contacts- haha they look the same people, it's crazy. Eli told me he went to class and this guy was there he is new to the ward. We actually passed him in the hall yesterda, although it was a really slow pass because both of us were stuck behind people and it was AWKWARD no really awkward. I really don't know why, and then I wonder is this feeling mutual, can he feel the awkwardness, does he look at Eli and hope that his wife doesn't get them mixed up? Hehe. So funny!

On Thursday (May 31st) my brother Dallin graduated. ConGRADuations Dallin, I'm so proud of you. Serious Dallin works constantly and sometimes after school he would go straight to work and be there until really late, still his grades didn't reflect his stressful work schedule. To me it just seems tiring and stressful, but he handles it really well. After graduation everyone went to my parents, Brandons family, Spencers family and the Duckworth fam. All the kids were there of course and we ate Pizza. Dominos has thee best bacon pizza..so good! We played Mafia for like two hours really. Well we did play for a while and it was so fun! The whole next day Eli wanted to play Mafia with me or go to my families but everyone wouldn't be there and it wouldn't be the same.

Saturday (June 2nd) We slept in, and it was great! After waking up I got a phone call from my brother "Mom wanted me to tell you there are new Drop Dead Divas" AHHHH I was so excited. Drop Dead Diva is such a good show, it's on Netflix and when I first came across it a few years ago, I wasn't so sure about it, but finally I was bored one day and decided to give it a try. I LOVED it. Got my mom into it as well. The only thing is the seasons are like 13 episodes long and it takes like a year to have them put up the next season on Netflix. Literally the night before I was reading a tweet from my good friend Kim K. (hahaha) I'm lame I know. She was talking about Diva and how she's a part of season 4. I then started to remembering the good old days, and wondered when it would be back on.
>So while Eli got ready for the day I watched the first episode of season 3, YAY. After that episode Eli suggested us doing something, I wanted to go to Seven Peaks, he didn't so after like 5 minutes I suggested we make up a dance. Eli and I use to country dance and we were in show choir together (that's right before it was cool to be in choir thanks to Glee) and I know for a fact my man can dance. After being opposed for about 1 miinute we just went into our kitchen, I turned on my iPod and we danced, free style for a minute, after we were warmed up it was time to choreograph. We danced to Taylor Swift 'Eyes Open' Eli had a lot of ideas and it was soo fun and such a work out. We went to my moms later and performed it a few times. I can't actually see what the dance looked like, but being in it was fun, maybe I'll try having somebody record it and I can blog it. I'm not saying it's excellent but I would go as far as entertaining.

And here is Eli rolled up in my moms rug, I'm not sure why this happened, alls I know is we looked over and he was on the ground rolling himself up like a taco.





Cute abbie after Dallins graduation.






And now I am off to go get ready, and then go get some ice cream before going to a dance performance, I wonder if the people will ask for any audience members to come perform. hmmm :) GOOD DAY!