It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

My friend Sarah at work tagged me with this fun Christmas edition of getting to know your freinds. All the gals at work passed it around and it was fun to see how differnt all of our answers were.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? For Christmas I would have to say WRAPPING PAPPER. Save the bags for last minute birthday gifts.

2. Real tree or Artificial? Seeing how I'm a total fire freak, I'm sticking with ARTIFICAL (flame retardant).

3. When do you put up the tree? After Thanksgiving

4. When do you take the tree down? In the first part of January.

5. Do you like eggnog? Yes, I do!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? My FIRST "BIG GIRL" BRA.

7. Hardest person to buy for? My Uncle Rob, he always gives such original gifts and I think that he has everything that he could ever want.

8. Easiest person to buy for? Joey, he is always giving me a list of things that he wants.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I send most my Christmas cards by mail, I think I passed some out at work. I never email them, what fun is thatL

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? When I was about 15 I received a stuffed Barney, yes I am talking about the purple dinosaur.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? I love the Christmas Story. Classic!

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Black Friday!

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not that I can think of, maybe for a white elephant.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? I think that the question is what DON'T I like to eat at Christmas time.

16. Lights on the tree? Definitely, the more the better!

17. Favorite Christmas song? Here comes Santa Clause. Oh, and Christmas Shoes.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We are all over the place.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Dasher, Dance, Prance, Vixen, Comet ,Cupid, Donner, Blitzen…am I forgetting one? Oh yes…Rudolf.

20. Angel on the tree-top or a star? Neither, I have a white dove with open wings.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Always one gift on the Eve of Christmas, it's no surprise that it's always PJ's and slippers.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Checkout lines.

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I go with an outdoors look.

24. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? Honey Baked Ham

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Ya know…I haven't even thought about it, let's see…I have my two front teeth..........:-)

Twilight!!!

Yes, I'm finally going to join the movement and read TWILIGHT!

I have been avoiding reading this book for so long even despite all the pressure from family and friends, however a friend got me a ticket to a private screening for the movie and so now I'm having a change of heart. You know that I can't be the only girl in the theater that knows nothing about....what's his name...Edward!?!

Why DID the chicken cross the road?

With all that is going on right now, everything is so intense. We need a good laugh and this worked for me. Enjoy!!!

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change! The chicken needed change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road...

SARAH PALIN: BECAUSE, PRAISE JESUS, I WAS GONNA SHOOT HIS SORRY LIBERAL ASS OFF FOR BLOCKING MY VIEW!

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of crossing?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

A great game for even a greater cause!

Yesterday, along with some friends, Joey and I attended the second game in the three-game series between our Utah Grizzlies VS. Ontario Reign. In addition to this exciting game the E-Center was also hosting its third-annual “Pink in the Rink” game for breast cancer awareness. One of my favorite people in the world lost his mom in a battle with breast cancer and we were really excited to see all the support for such a great cause.

As I was watching the game I was thinking how cool it was to see our toughest guys sporting pretty pink jerseys and playing on a bright pink sheet of ice. It wasn’t long before I was looking into the stands at all the pink shirts and realizing how many of our friends and nabors have been effected by breast cancer. I think that it was great to have that opportunity to participate in such a great cause. They ended the exciting game with a post-game jersey auction and was able to raise over 18,000 dollars for the Susan G. Koman Cancer Foundation. I was so proud to see everyone so actively participating in the fund raiser and those just attending the game while showing support to all the survivors of breast cancer. Between periods they showed a tear jerking film of all the breast cancer survivors and their families and even gave a little shout out to all the people that “had the heart strength to survive breast cancer”. Next year I would like to see them also give recognition to the families with loved ones that lost the battle to cancer. My dear friends mom did lose her fight with cancer and I don’t think that it had anything to do with the strength of her heart.

After witnessing the intense game on Wednesday we were really excited to see how the second game was going to go, needless to say it didn’t disappoint. While I think that the Utah Grizzlies are awesome, the Ontario team has an amazing goalie and we need to play almost perfectly to get anything passed him. The grizzlies struggled for the first part of the game, trailing 2-0 until the third period. Just when I thought that the game was going to end in a shut-out, we went into our seventh power-play of the night and Murray was able to put it in with only 2 minutes to go. Murray’s goal was able to set a fire under the butts of the rest of the team and during the next power-play we were able to sink yet another goal past the Ontario goalie with only 19 seconds left in the game, this forced us into a four on four overtime battle. It was a great overtime, with us having five shots on goal we just couldn’t get it passed the machine they call their goalie. You know what comes next….SHOoT OuT! Ontario went five times shooting one-on-one with our goalie, Mike Mole but nothing sunk. We ended the game victorious after Sixsmith scored! M…O….L…..E, Mike Mole the grizzlies number one GOALIE! Goooo Grizzlies!

An Early Christmas

With the first major snow fall of the year came a realization that we are already into NOVEMBER, I’m not really sure what happened to all the other months of 2008! I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by and we are already into the holiday season. Working for Modern Display Christmas usually starts around the end of September with elaborate trees, garland and even fresh wassill at the door.

Thanks to my friend Kimberly we got this great picture of an elf head…random.

This year in addition to all the Christmas lovers eye candy, our show room has a great player piano that has been playing us Christmas carols. Even though I don’t work in the retail store the music follows throughout the entire office. Others around Modern are ripping out their hair, me I’m just soaking it all in!

This Santa tree is a fine line between cool and just downright freaky.

These pictures don’t do the tree’s justice, some really are elaborate!

Utah Grizzlies VS. Ontario Reign

Last night we were invited to go to the Grizzlies game with our hockey friends Matt and Cassie. I guess we had never been to a game on a week night because I was shocked out how bad the attendance was. Look at all those empty seats!!!

I think that the poor turnout at these games has resulted in a rise in the already high prices for food and beer. Let’s help the diehard fans and support our Utah Grizz!

It was a close game but the Grizzlies pulled it out!

This Friday is Pink in the Rink, let’s help fight breast cancer with the Utah Grizzlies! We have gone to this before and it was a lot of fun, the Grizzlies and again the Ontario Reign will face off on a bright pink ice rink. This really is for a good cause, raising money and bringing awareness for “THE CURE” breast cancer foundation. After the game the players will auction off the PINK signed jerseys to help raise money.

If you are looking for something to do this Friday it should be a good game! Let's hope the turn out is better on a Friday night!

High Score!

We are all trying to find ways to spend quality time with Blake seeing how he will be heading back to basic training in only a few weeks. Last Tuesday we got together with Grandpa Bob for a night of bowling at Fat Cats Bowling Center. While we did have a blast bowling and filling our faces with pizza and those famous breadsticks, the highlight of the night was definitely the DRAGON PUNCH arcade game (basically a punching bag that records how hard you hit it). I think that we easily spent twenty dollars in quarters trying to get the high score…and then beating that score….and again beating the high score.

Joey and Blake took turns toping each other’s score, finally Joey was victorious in leaving with the high score and I think it had something to do with him having the last punch.

9061 the final High Score!

Meet the Bowers Bundle!

Let's make babies!!!

(A face only a mom could love)

Of corse every young couple wonders what their babies will look like.....I just decided to fast forward and see for myself, the results were frightning to say the least. I guess I can't really see the resemblance and I’m a little put off by the hippie...love child look. I guess we will have to wait and see if our kids look anything like this, but somehow I really doubt it.

I found this very amusing! Give it a try at makemebabies.com.

Welcome home Blake!

Last week the family flew down to San Diego to attend my little brother’s graduation (not so little anymore) ceremony and to celebrate his completion of basic training with the USMC. We are all so proud of Blake and his determination to do something great with his life.

Blake had quite a group supporting him… Heidi (Mom), Tyson, Jake, Grandma Julie, Doug, Steve(Dad), Jessica, Chantel, Grandma Berdene, Josh (best friend), Nick (friend), Jack, Robin, Joey and myself all attend the ceremony.

Blake was the squad leader so he was upfront at every event! Way to go Blake!!!!

Over 500 graduates that week!

We all went to Sea World the next day to celebrate with Blake.

Sea World had Halloween themed shows going all day!

Joey got some really great pictures of the marine life!

We had such a blast!!!