bff's

on sunday and monday we were graced by the presence of cosmo's really good friend james.

he was in town for a work conference and paid us a little visit in his downtime.

cosmo and james showing me how tough they are.
they were trying to regain their manhood after that last picture.

it was good to see him and catch up a little bit.
i asked cosmo if there was anything he wanted me to put in this post and he said:
"james is a nice boy and i love him. .... ..... .... dont make it sound gay"
too late.

i dont want to talk about it

this past weekend was the big ufc fight couture vs lesner.

lesner is a big dumb ox and won and thats all i'll say.

i've wasted enough words on him already.

we had a bunch of people over to my parents house to watch the fight.

my dad has a projector so we set up a big white sheet across the wall and the picture was huge.

brodie wasnt really sure what to think of everything going on. this is him hiding under the counter. i wanted to hide down there with him and cry after the fight was over

just me and cosmo. this was clearly taken BEFORE the main event took place.

here are some of our friends that came over:
shane and josie

cosmo, greg, derek, erika, brooke, and morgan

sorry to the people i dont have pictures of. there were quite a few more people there, but i got too caught up in the fights, and then after it was over, i didnt want to talk to anyone.

minus the outcome, we all had a great grand ol' time.
we'll do it again next month when my boy forrest griffin is fighting!
december 27th save the date if you want to come!!
(and yes, i know thats your birthday shasta...... sacrafice for the cause)

my sister, the artist (but say it with a thick snotty french accent so it sounds cool)

my lovely talented mother is the stake music chair lady person.

once a year she puts on a thing called "a night of classics".

it gives people from the stake an opportunity to share their talents.

the program starts out in the chapel where people play instruments and sing classical pieces.

then you move into the gym where people can display their art - painting, sculptures, stained glass, quilting, photography, scrapbooking, and the list continues.

so back to the title of the post-

this year, my little sister erika got to display her art.

erika never ceases to amaze me with her creativity. the ideas she comes up with and the way she executes those ideas has me in awe. she has such a fresh new awesome way to look at things. i'm guilty of stealing a lot of her artwork. i'm one of her biggest fans.

all the whimpey girls by erika's table

erika the artist, jenn, angela, alisha, and julia

(all the girls but mom! i think you can see the top of her head directly behind angela's head)

my awesome little brother michael and me

gotta love those dimples!

i went back to my parent's house afterwards and was greeted by this cute face ready to pose for a picture. i couldnt resist. brodie is starting to be a little chatter box, and will say your name a billion times until you pay attention to him.

my husband's new hobby

between school and work and trying to keep me happy (which he does a fantastic job at, by the way..) my husband decided to start a blog of his own. not about the journeys of everyday life, but about his 2nd love (me being the 1st of course) root beer.
go here to read his blog: http://cosmosrootbeerreviews.blogspot.com/
its actually been alot of fun finding new rootbeers and trying them with him! if you know of a good root beer you want him to review, send it our way!

a series of unfortunate events

no pictures with this post but this story was too good not to share.

tonight we took a little outing to frys.

it was a normal night, nothing too exciting or different from any other regular ordinary trip to the grocery store. we were standing in the self checkout line minding our own business, swiping the last of our purchases over the machine,

and thats when it happened.

out of no where this high school (maybe jr high? i can never tell anymore??) girl runs and jumps onto cosmo's back and wraps her legs completely around his body and her arms tightly around his neck. she might have thrown in a few kisses on his neck, but it happened to fast to really be sure of this.

cosmo turned around and faced me with a bit of confusion in his eyes.

i look at the girls face expecting to see someone i know, but nope. dont know her.

i say outloud to cosmo, who is still confused, "i have no idea who that is."

the girl sees me and hops off cosmo's back and turns him around to look at him.

COMPLETE HORROR comes over her face.

she had no idea who cosmo was.

faster then i could even think of something clever to say to make the moment even more awkward, she ran off to meet her friend on the other side of the checkout without saying a word.

cosmo stood there in complete shock and still a little confused about what had just taken place.

i was laughing so hard i couldnt even see straight or stand up. tears rolled out of my eyes. the poor girl walked away from our view in pure embarrassment grasping tightly to her friend with her head buried in her shoulder.

even now as i'm typing this i'm laughing just thinking about the looks on that girl and cosmo's faces.

pure entertainment at frys.

flight of the krummenachers

we were getting a little stir crazy and had some plane tickets that we needed to use, we missed our friends richard and erica, so we decided to fly out to buffalo ny to see them! i was excited to get out of the heat and get to wear my winter clothes!

on the plane ride over therethis is for my dad!

playing on the playground with ella and ruby. i loved that it wasnt 100degrees outside.

timbits (donut holes) from tim hortons. a popular donut place out there

riding richards little scooter. i was scared

this is what fall looks like for all of you arizonians.

on the plane ride home.

thank you dick and erica for letting us come visit and eat your food and drive your car! we heart you guys and cant wait to see you in december!

keep reading the next couple posts for more of our adventures from the trip!

oh canada...

cosmo served his mission in canada, which is right up the street from buffalo, so while we were there, we had to make a trip up there to stop at a few favorite places..

this is poutine.

its french fries, gravy and curds of cheese.

soo bad for you, but oh soo good!

this is the best place to get poutine! a little shack in the middle of a parking lot.

oh fall. how i miss you.


michael baxter and cosmo.
cosmo is good friends with him from his mission, so we met up and had lunch together at licks


according to cosmo, this is the hands down, very best place you can get a hamburger. this is my second time eating there, and he'll divorce me for saying this, but i've had better...... dont get me wrong, they are good, but a little too 'onion-y' for my taste....

at the border coming back into the USofA, the security guy laid into cosmo pretty thick with questions. i laughed a little bit watching cosmo get flustered.. maybe its his terrorist beard that they were suspicious of....