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A- Attached or single: Very Attached
B- Best Friend: Jeffrey and my sister Kathryn
C-Cake or Pie: Ice cream cake!
D- Day of Choice: Thursday night. Work is over for the week and the WEEKEND is a head.
E- Essential Item (s): Contacts, chapstick, and lotion. (I have nightmares all the time that I left the house without my contacts or glasses)
F- Favorite Color: lately... Brown
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy watermelon slices
H- Hometown: West Point, Utah but I also grew up in Indiana, Germany and Texas.
I- Indulgence(s): Ice cream from Cold Stone (but only if we have a coupon)
J- January or July: JULY!!!
K-Kids: 1 boy, Jeffrey:)
M- Marriage Date: October 20, 2004
N- Number of Siblings: 3 older brothers and 1 older sister
O- Oranges or Apples: Clementines
P- Phobias or Fears: Being the center of attention and speaking in church... only because I know I will cry and I HATE THAT!!!!
Q- Quote(s): "Take a deep breath" what I say to Jeff every day when he needs to CALM down! Oh, and "SSSSHHHHHHHH" he can also be kinda LOUD:) (I love you honey!)
R- Reason To Smile: My Jeffrey! He can be funny too! and At the realization of the many blessings I have!
S- Season: Spring
T- Tag Six: Darcie, Emily L., Emily P., Sivi, Amber, Jen B.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I have NO self control when it comes to diet and excercise! And I LOVE to get rid of stuff!
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I eat meat!
W- Worst Habit: Laying in bed while I say my prayers... I am currently trying to break this one! Please don't judge me! Oh yes, and I burp really loud in front of my husband and family!
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I would like to have an ultrasound someday but currently I take probably 40+ x-rays every day!
Y- Your Favorite Food: Mexican and anything sweet!
Z: Zodiac: Scorpio

Random Recipes

Ice Cream Cake

I made this for my mom's birthday. I kinda just made it up but it turned out pretty good. It went something like this...

• I used 2 spring form pans (highly recommend).


• Crush up some Oreos and mix with a little melted butter kinda press into the bottom (I didn't use very much butter and my Oreos were kinda chunky they were actually just kinda spread across the bottom and not really pressed in).


• Layer on a carton of SOFTENED ice cream (I used cookies and cream in one of the spring form pans and chocolate chip cookie dough in the other. You can use what ever kinds you want!) Spread the ice cream out to fill the pan and try to make it mostly flat on top.


• Cover with plastic wrap and freeze (put your plastic wrap right on the ice cream).


• I made it the night before but I think about 5 hours would be good too.


• To put it all together: take apart one of your pans and put the 'cake' on your platter (Oreos down) spread a thick layer of Herseys Hot Fudge Topping (or some other brand of thick chocolate topping. Do not warm it up! Do not use chocolate syrup!) on the top of the ice cream and then take out the second 'cake' and put it on top of the chocolate topping (Oreos down) .


• Frost with Cool Whip and sprinkle with broken Oreos.


• Don't be scared by my crazy recipe, it really is SO SO easy to make! --and YUMMY!

Spinach Smoothie
(I got this recipe from a fellow blogger and thought it was pretty good)

1 1/2 frozen bananas

Several spoonfuls of frozen orange juice concentrate

A handful of fresh spinach leaves

Put in the blender and then EnJoY!

Utah Dental Convention

Last weekend was the annual dental convention, filled with lots of classes, friends, free samples and FOOD! A few of us that were available went to the Macaroni Grill on Friday for lunch, YUM! It was so great to run into some of the old class mates and catch up on life after school, and of course the faculty at WSU and hear how much they miss our perfect class;)

Ashley, Lindsey, and I got a hotel room right by the Salt Palace and partied it up (Jen and Ryker joined us for the party too) all night on Thursday. Well, by party I me we got pizza delivered and we sat and visited and played with Ryker and then went to bed at about 10. We are party ANImAlS!!

It was another succsesful year at the UDA Convention. I look forward to spending many more of them with my dear friends! Next year we want all the girls at the hotel with us!

Happy Birthday MOM

Where do I even begin to express my feelings for my dear sweet mother? It is her 60th Birthday today:) I am so blessed to have such a wonderful mother that I have always considered my friend! She has been an amazing example to me through out my life and she continues to be today. She is the most talented person I know! She has a contagious laugh! She would give you the shirt off her back! She is selfless and humble! She never shouts or puts you down! She always has great advise! She wants the very best for you! She never gossips! She is very knowledgable about the gospel and has a strong testimony! She is a GreaT cook! She loves her children and grandchildren unconditionally! She is a wonderful mother-in-law (so my husband says:))! She is sweet and kind and loving and lovable and generous and thoughtful and handy and creative and happy and and and and....

THANKS FOR BEING THE BEST MOM A GIRL COULD EVER ASK FOR!!! I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW!!!

Friend-Filled Weekend

Friday night we meet up with Danny and Darcie and then headed over and meet Jake, Amber and their cute kidos for dinner at Rumbi Grill!! After which we hung out at the Ericksons house and mostly just... chilled. FUN TIMES!

Jayma and Jake

Danny and Jayma

Amber, Darcie, and Me

Jayma and Jeff

My Jeffrey

Saturday after CRafT DaY with the girls, the BOYS came over for a night of fondue(cheese AND chocolate:)), games and a spiritual message from the world wide church training meeting!

Jeff, Chantel, Kip, Preston, and Ashley

Ashley and Preston

Kip and Chantel

Jeff and I (oh, and Preston)

the LOVE BIRDS

Our game gang:)

WE LOVE LOVE LOVE ALL OF OUR FRIENDS!!!!

We love our weekends and we love them even more when we get to share them with our friends! It was a GrEaT weekend!

Superbowl Sunday

Since our first Superbowl together, we have been hosting the party! Jeff looks forward to it every year! This year we had Jeff's parents, older brother and his wife and their 3 children and his younger sister.

Andy and Kristin

Mike, Lesley, Caitlin and Jeff

William, Adam and Zach (doing what they do best)

Andy looking at the poster Jeff made for the party. At the end of each quarter depending on the score we had the chance of winning a gift card.

And the winners were... 1st quarter: Me, 2nd and 3rd quarter: Zach,

Grand Prize Winner: Adam

Jeff's party's are always a hit!! He did a great job!

Changing it UP!

Okay, lets be honest here, I am not sure about the new template. I generally have a strict rule with these kind of things... you have to LOVE it! This goes for home decorating, blogging templates and other such ventures:) You know what I mean right? When you see something and you just LOVE it!! Well I don't LOVE this yet, which could mean that it I will find LOVE in my heart for my new blog template soon (not usually something that I even would give a chance, but it is late and need to go to bed) or you will be seeing some changes soon. Only time will tell. LOL

Congrats to Matt and Kirsten!

Jeff has had a great group of 7 guy friend since Jr High and prior. They loved to play basketball together and infact still do every chance they get. Yesterday Matt (one of the friends) married Kirsten and none of us could be any happier for them! They are truly the perfect couple, an example to us all! (In the photo, they are on the far right)

Nick and Brittney flew up from Arizona for the special occasion! It was SO great to see them and their adorable kids!

Danny and Darcie

Us:)

After the luncheon the 6 of us went to Target and got all kinds of treats and stuff to make Matt and Kirsten a honeymoon basket. I must say Darcie and I did a good job of puting it all together, we were pretty proud of ourselves:)

After the reception that night we enjoyed a little dinner and shopping with Dan and Darc. There is always a good time when we are with friends!

CONGRATS MATT AND KIRSTEN!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!

Dog Sitting

Is that not the cutest little boxer face you have ever seen?

This is my dog Annabelle that lives at my mom and dads house;)
She has come for an extented visit while they are gone to St. George.
J/K dad! I know she is yours! (I don't want backyard clean-up duty, besides what I am already going to have after her stay with us, that is!!)

She really is the BEST dog!!
For those of you who don't know Jeff at all, he is NOT an animal lover and for as long as we have been together it has been a 'discussion' about when we will/will not have a dog. --Sore subject, we are currently not discussing it because I KNOW that one day we will have a dog so why should we fight about it:)

I think my dad was feeling bad for Jeff and maybe alittle worried about leaving his baby here because he knows how Jeff feels about dogs. Well, I believe we have had a break through since she has been with us... All I have been hearing the whole time is "She really is SUCH a GOOD dog!", "I love that she just does what ever you tell her to do!", and my personal favorite "She is like a person, a MUTE.".
I think he also touched her for the first time EVER, since she has been staying with us.

We ARE making progress! He also said tonight about her leaving tomorrow... "We are going to miss you Annabelle" (of course it was in his cute little dog voice:))


Annabelle's thinking: 'Could you guys have more stairs in this house?'

Poor Annabelle is getting old and she is a little nervous and stays close by! She doesn't get up and down the stairs like she used to and gets winded easily!


And she like to sleep A LOT!!

If you can look past her Cataracts, Gray Beard, Gingival Hyperplasia, and Female Pattern Baldness you can't help but just love her and think that she is just the cutest BIG dog you have ever seen:)
Thanks for visiting ANNABELLE!

Life is Busy!

This is me blogging from work (on my lunch hour of course:)). It is pretty much where I live these days Mon. - Thur. I just recently picked up the other hygienist I work withs days since she had a baby. So I am up at 5:45am, at work by 6:45am, leave around 5:30pm and in bed again at as close to 9:00pm as I can possibly manage so I can start again bright and early. Needless to say there is not a lot of time for blogging (or anything else for that matter)! I come home and crash, try to get Jeff to give me a back massage and try to find something in our house to call dinner. It's the life!

No really though, I can't complain!! I have Fridays off and I sleep in and rest the whole day and it is my favorite day of the week:) I am truly grateful to have a good job and for all the thing our Heavenly Father has given us!! We really are so so blessed!!

Friends

There is almost nothing we love more than getting together with all of our dear friends! We probably drive them all crazy planning different get togethers (we have to do it or no one else will;))! This last Monday there was just such an occasion that gave us an excuse to put together a PaRTy! Some sort of football game I think it was:)

Jake, Amber, Jayma, and Hallie (1 1/2 wks old ahhhh)

Matt and Kirsten (Wedding in 3 1/2 wks ohhhh)

Danny and Darcie (our Park City friends:))

Saturday we got together with a different group of friends for my cousins 27th birthday!!! We had a delicious dinner at Tucci's and then games at their apartment.

Starting in the back with me and going clockwise: Me and Jeff, Ashley and Preston, Kip and Chantel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHANTEL! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

We are so blessed to have so many wonderful close friends! We love them all and can't imagine how boring our lives would be with out them!

**now for some random pictures**

After only 20 years of playing basketball on a fairly regular basis, Jeff had a first... He FINALLY refereed a game. Ya Gotta Love CHuRch BaLl!!

He did a great job, was an easy going ref and said it gave him some appreciation for all the ref's out there! He probably should have had this experience along time ago, I think it might have same a lot of ref's out there a lot of grief;)

Jeff and I the night of the football game! Aren't we cute;)

Kentucky

I have been slow to update my blog since I got home from my trip to Kentucky. Life has been busy but this afternoon I was making the Amish friendship bread Kathryn sent me home with and I was thinking great toughts of my wonderful family in Kentucky and I much I love them! GOOD TIMES!

Gratitude

It is very late and I have much I need to blog about but I will get to all of that soon.
I returned Wednesday from my sister and brother-in-laws in Kentucky and I can't help but feel truly blessed to know them and have them in my family. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't want to be just like my big sister (well maybe there were a few years there, around Jr. high age;)). Bless her heart she handled all the tagging along and missing clothes and then found clothes with stains on them and tagging along and just plain annoyances by me very well!

I guess some things never change though because I still look up to her and hope to some day be just like her! I couldn't have a more kind, loving, thoughtful, more Christ-like sister in all the world! I always leave them wanting to be and knowing I can be a better person. Kathryn and Trevor try so hard to do what is right and I think they do a good job of it, to good in fact, they make it look so completely easy! They have always been and continue to be shining examples to me of how to live righteously and how to reach my potential.

I love you guys more than you will ever know! Thank you for too many things to mention or to ever be able to pay you back for! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!

101 Reasons Why I Love my Wife

On Christmas afternoon I took my wife to the airport. She flew to Kentucky to see her sister's family for the holiday's. I have been missing her a lot and can't wait to see her in 3 more days. I have been thinking about her the whole time and how much means to me. Here are just a few reasons why I love her.

1. She is Beautiful
2. She gives me massages
3. She is patient with me
4. She's a go-getter
5. She comes to my basketball games
5. Steak...
6. ...and homeade fries
7. There is always Coke in the fridge
8. She watches movies with me
9. She is concerned about my deteriorating hips
10. She is Friendly
11. She's a bargain shopper
12. She smells good
13. She does the grocery shopping
14. She listens about my golf rounds, shot...
15. ...by shot...
16. ...by shot
17. We go out to eat together
18. She gives me warm hugs
19. She lets me have a room in the house for all my sports memorabilia
20. She is a dental hygeinist
21. She is organized
22. She said "Yes"
23. She helps me with the computer
24. She's a hard worker
25. She cleans my teeth
26. She lets me golf...
27. ...whenever I want
28. She is a good sister
29. She keeps our house immaculate
30. She's very crafty
31. She has never made me clean the toilet
32. We watch The Office together
33. She likes to cuddle
34. She makes the absolute best Orange Julius
35. She got me everything I wanted for Christmas
36. She's thoughtful
37. She does the big slides at Raging Waters
38. She is active in the church
39. She comes to my softball games
40. She is a caring aunt
41. She got me a big screen T.V. for my birthday
42. She makes the bed
43. She got me a big screen for my birthday (it deserves 2 spots)
44. She listens to books on tape
45. She makes my Dr. appointments
46. We never fight about money
47. She prays with me
48. Every morning I open my drawer and there are clean clothes
49. She decorates our house
50. We watch American Idol together
51. She gave me a pedicure once
52. She dresses nice...
53. ...and modest
54. Sunday morning breakfast
55. She plans anniversary get-aways
56. Loves me despite my thinning hair
57. Our cupboards our always filled with snacks
58. She is a thoughtful daughter...
59. ...and daughter-in-law
60. She has a strong testimony
61. She loves my family
62. She keeps our yard looking nice
63. My friends have become her friends
64. She gets along great with my friends wives
65. She serves others
66. She plays board games with me
67. She likes to go on vacations together
68. She supports my goals
69. She lets me play in golf tournaments
70. She helps out at the deli when we need her
71. She lets me control the remote (most of the time)
72. She goes to Jazz games with me
73. Tells me when my clothes match...
74. ...and when they don't
75. She always makes my birthday a special day (did I mention what she got me)
76. She pays the bills
77. She lets me beat her at Sequence, every once in a while
78. Robintinos
79. She gets up 3 hours before me, but doesn't wake me up
80. We go to the Temple together
81. She keeps the vinegar bottle full
82. She's my best friend
83. She listens to my stories about the Fab 8
84. She wants to be a Mom...
85. ...and our kids will be lucky to have her
86. She lets me buy another tie
87. Great Kisser
88. She irons my shirts
89. She has a purse for every outfit...
90. ...she has lots of outfits
91. Supports me in my Church callings
92. Keeps our blog updated
93. She likes to get Jamba Juices with me
94. She talks to me about my day
95. Faithful visiting teacher
96. She straightened my teeth
97. She holds my hand
98. Because I have so many reasons...
99. ...because I know there will be many more reasons
100. She loves Me
101. She loves The Lord

Inspirational Blog

I ran into this blog and it made me want to be a better person! I think all the time, how I need to be better in so many aspects of my life and yet I am not actively taking the steps I need to be taking! I think this blog is full of great thoughts and ideas of things I can be doing everyday to be the person I want to be and that I know that I can be.

http://www.100daysoflove.blogspot.com/

If you have the time, start at the beginning. Oh and make sure to watch the clip on Day 9 it is FUNNY!

Leger Christmas Party

It's hard to believe that we just finished with another year of the Leger family Christmas party! Mike and Lesley have been hosing this party for 22 years now and it is always lots of fun and a time to see how talented the family is!

After dinner and talents, Santa comes bearing gifts. Santa even brought Jeff a present, he must have been a good boy this year.

Mason (Jeremy and Emilys little boy) made his first appearance to the Christmas party and he was a big hit! You can see why, is he not a little DOLL! He is such a happy baby!

We ended the night with the usual games, the whistle game and musical chairs. I was wishing I had a video camera during musical chairs! Jeff keeps everyone laughing as he dances his way around the circle... he is a hoot!!

It was a fun night and went by way to fast! Thanks Mike and Lesley!

Lunch with the girls

How could I possibly forget to post the DH girls luncheon? Thanks for the reminder Joelle! We met in Park City this time and after a delicious lunch at Ruby Tuesdays we hit the outlets for some serious SHOPPING!

Ryker is getting so big and so cute and we all just dote over him the whole time! It was so fun to catch up with all the girls and laugh at all the old stories!

Just like old times, Ashley and I can't help but dress up in some crazy outfits at the stores if we get half a chance!!

SUpEr fUN DAy GIrLS, THANKS!!!