Memorable Day!!

(Here are the 3 hopefulls!! A cheerleader, a goddess, and the tooth fairy!!)

( Look - we got contestant numbers, we interviewed, and are headed to the studio!! - They confiscated my camera after this shot!!)

( Stuffed, exhausted and still have to drive home to Mesquite!! (I had got up at 5:30am for Spin, Zumba, Water Aerobics then left Mesquite promptly at 11am for the days events, I wasnt feeling to guilty about eating Alfredo Sauce!!)

SO WHATS THE STORY??? You know how some days are really good days and some just average, and some not so great? Well, today was one of those way freaking cool awesome exceptional days, which I totally needed by the way due to last weeks events, but thats not what I'm posting about.

The game show "Let's Make a Deal" w/ Wayne Brady has been filming in Vegas and this is the last weekend so a couple girlfriend's and I decided on a whim that we would take off and try to get in. We got sitters, packed lunches, dawned some basic costumes and went for it! It was a tedious task to stand in line with the finest losers of Vegas but Alas - we got on!! And to make a long story short, I got picked!! Oh and - shhhhh - I won!!!

But dont tell, you have to watch the show when it airs March 25th on Cbs!!! I cant say anything or I have to forfeit my prize. Also - I dont even get my prize until 3 months after the show airs (that makes it June, ARG!) AND if the show doesnt air - I dont get my prize at all - so its not really a reality at this point, but wow - I was on a Game Show!! - absolutly an experience everyone should do.

Today..... I'm exhausted, have no voice, and really need to go for a run after that celebration dinner at Olive Garden with my girl friends. But hey - I got to Hug Wayne Brady, and really wished I had dressed up as a Sister Missionary and handed him a Book of Mormon, but that was an afterthought. Hey, Wait, the last day of Tapeing is today - Maybe I'll take Keven and go again today and hope he gets on !! Na - I got carpets to shampoo (the dog left us a surprise last night) ..... Well, the clock has struck twelve and its off to clean the castle!!

March 25th - Cbs - be there!!! - You DONT want to miss it!! (and watch every second because I'm only on for 2 seconds!!, dont even blink - and I'm totally lame by the way!!!)

Christmas Came and Went!

Well we did it! We got Christmas over with. Not that I was totally dreading it but Keven and I had gone over the "budget" early in Dec. and knew that his payday on Dec 25th would be the one to use for Christmas because we wanted to pay our tithing first and not late. So we knew that we would be shopping for things on Christmas Eve and writing checks so as to work the system and not bounce any checks. Well, here is the cruel truth..... A lot of places dont take checks anymore and when you pay your tithing it clears faster than you think. So the truth hurts and when tithing cleared we went into overdraft a coupld hundred bucks and all of Christmas went on our proudly EMPTY American Express..... Granpa Eyring would be ashamed. But by admitting it right here on my own blog, I am vowing to pay it off immediately so talk to me at the end of Jan. and make sure I did!

All I can say is , the kids were happy and I got to sit and read a book and I got a mixer and have made rolls or bread every day since, so pretty much, it was worth it!! And besides the reason we didnt have any extra money until that last payday was because we spent all our Christmas money on gas and stuff to go to San Diego for Thanksgiving and then to Mesa for Brandon and Matthew and that was worth any amount of interest I have to pay, and I would do it again tomorrow if I had to.

Hope yours was Merry and Bright and your debts arent' out of sight! Enjoy the picts.....

Christmas Eve Special

Okay if i can get this video to load, I want you all to join our family for our Christmas Eve Show that Talia created. She made each of us play a part and she made props for her and Tara during this duet. Kate joined in without Talia's consent but they allowed her to do it anyway (after I gave her "the look" she let perfection fly out the window and accepted it).

So, Merry Christmas Eve everyone! May none of you get strep throat.

We did it!!

Well we did it! I was aiming for the Mesquite Marathon and Keven was aiming for the Mesquite 1/2 Marathon about August and September but after the Ragnar Las Vegas in October we both seriously had to re-evaluate our training and how much time we had to get the training in that would be necessary to do what we wanted..... Keven wasnt getting much running in at all so the 1/2 marathon would be way way hard, but do able. Tiff has major issues with doing a race and not being able to beat her last time so doing the full marathon because out of reach because she couldnt get the mileage in while traingin for the triathalon. Sooo..... Tiff did the 1/2 marathong and beat her last Personal Best with a new PR of 1:59:30 and Keven did his first ever 10K with a time of 1:15 - We were glad we had shaved our ego's enough to sign up for the less mileage, we are both more sore today than we have ever been.

What's next?? I'm taking a month off of training and just going to exercise. Keven doesnt want to ever run again. What a brat huh? I told him, he just isnt competetive enough. And he said I am competetive enough for the both of us.... what do you think?

You Don't Wanna Know!

Kate and Owen dug in the sand box, pretty deep too. They found a bowl full of treasures!!! All I know is hand washing was not good enough, when they were done I even made them change their clothes! The cat box in the house has been clean for weeks, I wonder where the cat has been going to the bathroom at?

I dont wanna know!!

I know it may seem boring and half the time you wont know what your looking at but we have a video of our family rocket launch. Taner got this rocket for Christmas LAST YEAR and it has taken until now to get the launch pad and launcher built but here we are - Nov and we got 'er dun!!

Did Halloween really come and go? Oh goodie, it's over! Talia used an old Wonder Woman costume and Kate got a lady bug costume on clearance the day of Halloween and off we went. To the neighbors and around the block and thats all she wrote! We attempted some car driving to see other people but no one was ever home. No Trunk or Treat or anything and we still got bags full of candy! yikes! Kately fully grasped the concept this year - "Trick or Treat!" and "Thank You!" - best of all - it all strangely disappeared the next day......