Christmas Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper but, I prefer using tin foil.
   
2. Real tree or fake tree? We don't have a tree this year because we are losers but if we did, I would want a real tree.
3. When do you put up your tree? I think the day after Thanksgiving is the best time to put up a Christmas Tree.
   
4. When do you take it down? New Year's Day
5. Do you like eggnog? Nope! It's better if you add some milk to tone down the taste.
   
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Once I got a Barbie Grocery Store, and that was pretty cool! I played with it all the time, it had all these little food packages and a cash register that talked.
   
7. Easiest person to buy for? My little brother Colton, one CD and he's set!
   
8. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes I do, it is currently the only Christmas decoration in our apartment but my cute Grandma gave it to me and it's way cool!!
9. Mail or Email Christmas cards? Mail.
10. Worst gift you have ever received? One year my Aunt sent us gifts and she gave me a math book. I'm still convinced that I was supposed to get the butterfly stamps that she gave to my brother Bryson, but he wouldn't switch with me.
11. Favorite Christmas movie? Well, "The Christmas Story" is definitely at the top of the list but i would have to say "Elf" I laugh my head off every time I watch it.
    
12. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I'm not a good shopper, I get mall sick so I don't go to the store unless I know what I'm getting. So, I didn't start till last week...
13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas gift? Nope, and I'm proud of it!!
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Wassel (I'm not sure if that's how you spell it) and my grandma's raspberry jello!
15. Lights on tree? Of course!
    
16. Can you name Santa's reindeer? You bet!! I would have to sing the song but, I can still name them!
    
17. Favorite Christmas song? Little St. Nick by The Beach Boys
18. Travel or stay home? Stay home, this year we are going to Philadelphia to be with Cameron's family so it will be a little different but, I'm still excited!
    
19. Angel or star tree topper? Neither
    
20. Open presents Christmas eve or Christmas day? Christmas Eve we always open Pajama pants, everything else is to be opened Christmas Day!
21. Favorite Christmas tradition? We have chinese food on Christmas Eve. Cameron's favorite is going to McDonald's for breakfast on Christmas Eve morning.
22. Favorite ornament, theme or color? I have way too many favorite ornaments to name, my Grandma has given me an ornament every year for my whole life and they all represent something special. So they're all favorites.
    
23. Favorite Christmas dinner? Turkey, Rolls, mashed potatoes at my grandma's house
24. What do you want for Christmas? I really want Grey's Anatomy scrubs... I know it's kinda boring but really they are way cute!
    
25. Best Christmas present you have ever given? The first year Cameron and I were dating I made hima blanket and that was pretty neat. I

I shall tag Madelyn, Jentrie, and Lexi

Stuff That Really Grinds My Gears

So, Cameron being the good husband that he is decided to take me to see the movie Twilight tonight. I was super excited because I am a fan of all the books. Anyways, so we get to the theater like ten minutes early and we were the only ones in the theater. Like any normal human being we sat in the second row of the higher seats so we could put our feet on the bar. Well, this lady comes in and was searching the theater as if it was a full house and then she tells us she and her 2 friends are going to sit in front of the bar. So, we put our feet down as to now bother her. Well, about 2 minutes later I guess she changed her mind about where to sit so she moves (now, remember it's just Cameron, her, and I in the theater). She decides to sit right next to me and Cameron... What the heck? Hasn't she heard of personal space? HAHA Mostly it was funny, and I just felt like I would share that random story with you all. But seriously, if there are only two other people in the theater don't sit right next to them. :)

Black Friday

So, I have never really been a big fan of shopping. After about thirty minutes of shopping I get a disease, I call it "Mall-Sick". This is a real problem for me and when I am shopping it hits me unexpectedly. Yet there are people who are crazy enough to wake up at 4:00AM just to deal with way more people than necessary, crazy huge lines, and just shopping in general. Yep, you guessed it I am talking about the crazy "Day-after-Thanksgiving" shopping craze! I have never been apart of this loony-ness. But, last Friday when sitting with my family I was convinced that if I went to the outlets at Park City on Thursday night at midnight there really wouldn't be that many people. They were wrong. I never been in a shopping center that was so full of people! Every parking spot was filled and every line was at least 20 minutes long! I personally stood in line at the j. crew store of 45 minutes, by the time my mom and I checked out I had a new little group of friends. It was definatly a good experience and I did gets some sweet stuff for the Christmas season but I doubt I will go shopping on Black Friday for a very long time!!

Here are some photos of the crazy traffic before we even got into the parking lot. It was backed up in every direction you could see! It took us longer to get from the freeway exit to the outlets than to get from Sundance to Park City.

Soccer

So, soccer has never been one of my favorite sports. If any of you read my mom's blog about my dad then you know that he broke his leg twice, both times while playing soccer. Therefore my brother, Colton and I were never exposed to the lovely game. Well, it turns out that my little Cameron loves soccer so over the past two years I have been to watch Cameron play in numerous soccer games. At first it was really boring and I honestly hated going but, I knew I needed to support him and his soccer-ness.
Well, since moving to St. George Cameron has found a new group of soccer buddies, most of them/all of them being from mexico and only speaking spanish has been a dream come true for Cameron. Now he gets to play soccer as well as speak spanish. It has been and continues to be really fun for me to go and watch Cameron play. Now, it is much easier for me to pick out which player he is, since he's the only tall, white guy out there. I have even learned to like soccer, sometimes it even gets intense!

Here are some photos from his last game! Cameron's team scored four goals in the first fifteen minutes of the game, two of those goals were Cameron's. Before the half ended the other team had scored one goal. With only fifteen minutes left in the game Cameron's team scored two or three more goals then the other team gave up. It was a slaughter!! HAHA

RANDOM 7

Well, i was tagged to write seven random things about myself so here is goes!

1- I love comfy clothes, pajamas, sweats, etc. Sometimes, I like them just a little too much. At one point and time I had 76 pairs of pajama pants but, don't worry I only have like 7 now.

2- Most of my friends are older than 75. I work at a nursing home and I love it! Old people are the best! Especially, the ones that are a tad confused. Just the other day I was helping a lady get in the shower and she said, "I only want a paleontologist to take care of me." I couldn't help but laugh.

3- Around 10:30/11 PM I get this strange want to talk about everything i can possibly think of. Cameron will agree that after he's been asleep for about 15 minutes I wake him up with my useless chatter.

4- I scare extremely easy and I'm super jumpy. Cameron scares me everyday just by walking into the room I was in or lots of times when he comes through the front door and i'm sitting on our couch I jump because will it was unexpected. Just the other day I was at the mall and walked into a store that was darker tan normal and the music was really loud and walked into another section and a worker was folding clothes and well he scared me. HAHA but it does always make out for a good laugh!

5- I have a strong testimony of the Gospel My heavenly father leads in me in everything I do, I am so grateful for all the blessings He has given unto me.

6- I struggle with making simple everyday decisions, such as what should we have for dinner, or what movie should we rent. Yesterday Cameron and I celebrated that I chose what to make for dinner and what to do after dinner, it was an accomplishment.

7- I don't like my food to touch. Buffets are really hard for me because I don't want my food to touch on my plate so I end getting for 4 plates and people probably think I'm a fatty-fat kid eating all the food but really I just don't want my food to touch so I can' fit as much on my plate.

There ya go, 7 random things about me!

I shall tag, Mom, Melanie, and Jame!

Cabin Fun

On Halloween night we were able to go with some friends up to a cabin. It was a fun-filled night with gun shooting, dutch oven, birthday suprizes, and a scary movie! Dan brought "Sweetness" up and we all had a chance to shoot some old drink cups, a can of peaches, a clock, a box of sardines, and basically anything we could find that was shootable. It was Dan's birthday the next day so we celebrated with cobbler and ice cream. Then we watched The Skeleton Key. Some said that this movie wasn't scary enough but, I think the movie was plenty scary just not jumpy scary like most movies, it was more of an intense one. All in all we had lots of fun and we finally feel like we have friends!

Halloween Pumpkins

My family has this tradition that for Halloween rather than carving pumpkins we make vegetable pumpkins! It's different, kinda wacky, but definitely less messy! This was the first year Cameron has made a vegetable pumpkin but I felt he did a wonderful job.


Cameron's is on the left and mine is on the right!

Thriller

Last night Cameron and I went to see Thriller! It was so much fun! I was even lucky enough to see Matt Dorame from So You Think You Can Dance so, that was pretty cool! The dances were all really good and it made me miss dancing but, it was still loads of fun!!!



Also, Hafoka sent Cameron this photo from the mission... I have the wackiest husband!

My 50 things

I am following in the footsteps of my cousin here. His list was 100 things, but im younger so ill see if i can fill 50.

1. I am a realist.
2. Cassidy is an optimist, which I think makes us the perfect compliment to each other.
3. When I was in elementary school, without provocation, I got beat up by a special ed kid. In my defense, it was a blind attack, but it still hurt my street cred.
4. I cry every time I hear Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". I can't help it.
5. I love Shasta creme soda.
6. We were so poor growing up that we would steal toys from our Mexican neighbors, until they put a cactus by the hole in the fence to keep us out.
7. If I were a girl my name would have been Kamela.
8. I love being a male.
9. The driving age should be raised to 18.
10. After you're 65, you should have to retest every year to keep your license.
11. I drink tons of water, I always have a big nalgene bottle with me.
12. I learned recently that excessive thirst may indicate diabetes, more on this as the story develops
13. I'm part Samoan, though I try to not bring it up because it always leads to, "no way, but you're so white".
14. Because of my grandparents, I didn't like Tongans. Until my mission where I served with a lot of Tongans. Now I like them more than Samoans!
15. On the last day of high school, I recited the lyrics to "If you don't know me by now" over the PA system.
16. I love america's funniest home videos
17. When I was in 2nd grade, I won the San Francisco fleet week poetry contest. I got $200.
18. I still write poems sometimes but only for my wife
19. My parents left the Bay because they thought me and my brothers were going to join gangs. I never told them the bloods were hecka recruiting me in '93 haha
20. Elvis is overrated
21. My theme song throughout high school was "Enjoy the Silence" by depeche mode.
22. My motto throughout high school and to this day is "who cares what people think, screw em'"
23. Tipping is the worst idea ever. It's ok if you earn it but it shouldn't be expected
24. I have basically the same wardrobe that i had since I was 15.
25. My official stance on politics is, "Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss".
26. Life was better before cell phones.
27. I love babies, I was the kid in the ward everyone had babysit for them.
28. I feel like I was born in the wrong country and 60 years too late.
29. I haven't puked since I was 7.
30. If the wind and the waves are right, I could live on a beach forever.
31. People think because I'm tall I play basketball. But I play soccer, and basketball is my least favorite sport.
32. I'd rather ride a bike or walk than go by car.
33. Once in Nicaragua, I saw an old man riding a schwinn around town, sweating and exhausted, but happy. I remember thinking "this guy should be in a cadillac". I decided then that I needed to rethink what it meant to be happy and successful.
34. There are no moral dilemmas
35. I love 80's movies
36. I don't like money, earning or spending it.
37. I own multiple Michael Bolton and Neil Diamond shirts. Cassidy hates them
38. For senior prom, my friend TJ and I singlehandedly got the whole school to vote for Peter Gabriel's "in your eyes" for the last song.
39. I'm afraid of the dark
40. I've never owned a good pair of jeans.
41. I'm 95% sure that I will die in a drowning accident.
42. When I was in boy scouts I thought that all boy scouts were LDS. It led to some awkward conversations
43. During the mission i'd take notes everyday of new words I didn't know or random thoughts. I still do it to this day
44. I think reality tv needs to die a horrible death
45. I don't know any of my family member's birthdays, just Braeden, june 19th.
46. Once at a party, somebody was DJing with their ipod and I put mmmbop on repeat. It was an hour before anyone even noticed.
47. Professional athletes should have a salary cap of $15 dollars an hour. No pay for time-outs.
48. I eat lots of weird foods, due to my Samoan-ness. Cassidy tries to pretend she doesn't mind.
49. When hiking in Havasu Pi, an Indian confronted me alone in the woods. He was convinced I was Andrew McCarthy and wanted my autograph. And that was the closest i've ever been to being raped.
50. I could live in shorts and jandals. The first 13 years straight of my life were in jandals

So, since gas is so expensive Cameron and I have decided to ride our bikes anywhere and everywhere that we can. About a week ago I was riding my bike to my class and I had to cross a parking lot exit. There was a car waiting to turn right. A truck was coming so the car had to wait to turn. I assumed that the car saw me so I started to cross the street when all at once the car started to pull forward and next thing I know, BAM! the car's front bumper hit my leg and luckily I managed to use my crazy skills to stand up so the bike fell and I was just standing in the middle of the road shocked that I had just gotten hit. The man driving the car kept asking, "Are you ok? Are you ok?" I said yes and quickly got out of the road. Long story short I was 20 minutes late to my class because I had to walk and the back tire of my bike is now bent. Don't worry I'm ok I just thought it was a funny story.

OK so we are determined to figure this whole blog thing out!! HAHA

We felt like we should post some pictures and fun from our honeymoon. Since I have the greatest parents, we were able to go to this freakin sweet resort in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. We had kind of a crazy experience and we were a little nervous when we saw the billboards advertising the resort. They said things like, "I want to make her blush." and "It's time to heat things up." When we finally pulled up this is what we saw...

Good times! HAHA so yes, this resort was somewhat of a "Sex Village" but, it turned out to be way nice and we had a ton of fun!! We were able to go hot tubbing, canoeing, swimming, play pool and lots of other things! It was great!!

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