Mooooooonster Truuuuucks!!

Last weekend we went to a Monster Truck Rally to enjoy the crushing rush of cars getting smashed :) Except this was more of a timed competition instead of freestyle. Like I know....I've only been to one before :) They are a riot though. I was hoping for a white trash crowd like before, but was extremely disappointed. We only spotted about 3 mullets.... The crowd consisted mostly of screaming gleefull kids excited to see a school bus get crushed. It was education night. Thus.....Elise & I got to stand up and be recognized. Sweetness. No better way to spend the weekend.


Check out the guy with the mullet on the back left - yep, a true monster truck fan!

So last time we went to a monster truck jam, my roommates and I came up with monster truck names for ourselves. They couldn't be ones that already existed so you had to be creative. My monster truck name is PIT SMASHER!!! What would yours be??

3 Kings Day

In Spain they celebrate the 3 Kings Day, or Reyes Magos, on January 6th. So we had a little Spanish get together to celebrate. Ok.....um.....mostly we just wanted an excuse to eat Spanish food :) Delicious food includes: gambas, ensaladilla rusa, paella, and other tapas. And don't forget the churros y chocolate (not pictured due to extreme consumerism & popularity...!!)

No Sugar No Sweets

This is to show you just how integral of a part sugar is to my diet.
A friend of mine and I decided we'd have a little competition....see who could go the longest without eating sweets or candy. Sounds easy, right? Well, not for me! I love anything with sugar in it. I like "to stick to the 4 main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup." If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you don't know what my favorite movie is :)

So we started on December 23. Perfect timing for all of the holiday treats. So I went 2 full days without sweets or candy and I was doing pretty good......until Christmas Eve and Christmas Day that is. Basically, let's just say that I had no personality. I had nothing to say and I wasn't being my typically self. My sisters kept saying that we needed to get some sugar in me and so finally I folded. I mean, who wants to be personality-less? Haha! It was quite funny.

Anyway, so I didn't tell my friend that I had decided to wait to begin the offical competition until the new year rolled around. Meanwhile, he's continuing to not eat any sugar. Haha, oh man. Then I finally confessed when I came back to Provo. He was shocked, but that just means he's a week ahead of me, right?! I have a small punishment for postponing the inevitable - run a few laps around the BYU track, 25 to be exact.

We had established from the beginning the consequence for eating sugar: 50 laps around the BYU track, all at the same time. Also, if you want to stop to walk, fine, but that won't contribute to the 50 laps. Harsh! But good (Elise came up with this idea).

So I officially started on December 31 and have gone 3 full days. Yeah! Oh boy, that's nothing.....my friend is already at 11 days. I'm NOT going to lose though! The longest I've gone without sugar before was 6 weeks. Maybe I'll beat it this time. How long do you think I can go? That's the real question. [So far, my personality does not seem to be suffering from adverse effects :)]

Holiday Hooligans

Yes, I like alliteration. That's the best I could do..... If you have something better, you're the winner! :) It was a fun holiday down in AZ. Surprisingly it was a white Christmas. Yes, you heard me right..... A white Christmas in Arizona?! What the...? This picture tells the story. There were nothing but clouds the whole time except for a few days (like 2. argh) blissfully sunny days. I'll take what I can I guess.

The holiday hooligans consist of: myself (of course!), Elise & Erik, Sonya & Tyler, Mom & Dad. Ryan & Maranda spent it with her family this year. Side note: they prefer not to be called by their nicknames anymore :( But that's less confusing for you!

It was a week of bike riding, mesa hiking, basketball playing,

guitar learning, gun shooting,

goodie eating,

game playing,

mexican eating,

tumbleweed carrying (see story below),

present opening,

walk taking,

pin bowling,

friend seeing FUN!

Sorry some of those didn't make too much sense...haha!

Fortunately I got to strap my bike to the top of Erik's car and enjoy the white weather :) I also attempted to learn to play the guitar. I learned all the chords for Wild World by Cat Stevens but struggled putting them all together smoothly. If anyone knows this chord, you get a prize (I'll dedicate a whole blog post to you. haha)!! I forgot what it is......

I also went to a few Thatcher High games at the EAC Holiday Tournament and even got be an "assistant coach" by association for one of the games. Wanted to learn from the best - Coach Henson! Now I know how to better equip my own team for the winning! Season games start next week. Yikes.....Bring it on!

Tumbleweed Story - not a must read, but very enjoyable none the less :)
So one day I was down at my Dad's office at the college working on semester grades when all of a sudden there's a knock at the door. What the heck? Who in the world is that?! I open the door and I can't even see out cause there's this GIANT tumbleweed blocking the whole door frame. So I just closed it and went back to work. A few minutes later, there's another knock. Well I just ignore it. By this point though, I'm afraid to admit, I was actually starting to get scared, like for real. Haha! So I called my dad just to tell him what was going on and then there's another few knocks with door knob jiggling. Aaaaaaah! I finally opened it getting ready to yell at whoever it was. I open it and there is Elise & Erik laughing heartily.....of course. Oh man, they had me good. I know they are dying laughing reading this right now, as they should be. Good one guys! You're too funny!