Thursday, August 21, 2008

4-wheelin' in the USA



last weekend these two {my brother curtis and nephew mitchell} took steve and me 4-wheeling in the backcountry of mona, utah


here's steve all ready to go. curtis took us up some rocky terrain. {physically and emotionally}.
it was hard but i did it. that's me at the top!


good thing i have a migikai-sized head so the toddler helmet fit me just right, but steve has a normal-sized head so he had to ride unprotected. instead he ate my dust. quite literally, as you can see in this pic he got rill dirty. i think he looks totally manly and hot. :)

it's so beautiful up there. but as steve and i were discussing, it's an uncommon beauty. like an "ugly beautiful"...nothing but rocks and dirt for miles, scattered with dead trees and only hints of life...still there's something so peaceful and nice about it.
i think the mountains in the distance help too.
{sigh} i love utah.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

the noni-ettes

here are some pictures of the performance...




and guess what?! we won! by 400 votes. boo-yeah!

i appreciate all of your love and support while i achieve my dreams.

{a special thanks to cassie who rigged the competition by checking our name on an entire stack of ballots. that's what friends are for.}

Friday, August 15, 2008

i'll be rollin'

the past few weeks a few of us girls from work have been practicing these sweet moves...

we are performing {basically this exact routine} at our company party for "Noni Idol" on saturday night. winner gets $1000. so wish me luck!

ps. i will be one of the back-up dancers, not making an attempt to sing beyonce style. i know my limitations.

best date story. ever.

my friend emily d. just shared this beautiful story with me and i feel it is my duty to pass it along to all of you good people...okay. brace yourself. the events of this story are all true. i'm not exaggerating any of it. promise.

so last weekend emily's friend {a 28 year old male} was set up on a blind date. with a girl. he plans to pick her up, grab a quick bite to eat and then take her on the heber creeper. it's a train that people ride for fun here in utah.

everything's going according to plan until...driving from the food place to the train station he starts to feel ill. inside himself. his stomach is not right and it's getting worse as the drive continues. he thinks to himself "okay as soon as we get to the train station i can use the restroom and i'll be fine."

get to the train station. buy the tickets. realizes the bathroom is closed for some reason. he decides that if he can just quietly {excuse the descriptive term} fart, he'll feel much better. well that turns out to be a bad decision. rill bad. cause yep, you guessed it, now he's pooped his pants. literally, like he needs an outfit change.

suddenly in a panick {and sweating bullets} he sees there's a gift shop. so he takes the girl in there, buys her a little gift and grabs a pair of shorts for himself using the excuse "it's really hot. so i think i'm going to buy these and change into them on the train."

now they are on the train. he excuses himself to go use the mini-airplane-size lavatory. he gets in there, immediately takes off his poopy pants and underwear then anxiously tries to shove them in the trash. which of course in that size bathroom there's no way that a pair of men's jeans and underwear are going to fit in there. so he decides to throw them out the window. after this he grabs the bag from the gift shop to pull out his new shorts only to discover that he had accidently bought a little girl's sized sweater!!

he doesn't know what the heck he's gonna do. he just threw his pants and underwear out the friggin' window! then he starts crying. for real. and hard. trying to figure out what the heck he's going to do...

the only solution he can think of is to jump out the window himself. of a moving train! which he does. and then he runs a mile back to his car. past all the people buying tickets at the station. naked. {he decided to take off his shirt too. no sense in running with just a t-shirt on right?}.

he gets in his car and drives home. leaving his date on the heber creeper. the end.

i knew you'd like it. :)