Maggie and Liz's Day of Fun!!!!

On Saturday, me and Liz both didn't have plans, so we decided to hang out in Salt Lake. So I drove up there and we went to lunch at Olive Garden with a couple of her roommates. It was really good, and for whatever reason, we ended up staying there for like 3 hours. And I'm pretty sure I made our waiter mad and her probably spit in all of our food. But it was really good and really fun and I could eat their breadsticks everyday.

After Olive Garden, Me and Liz went to Gateway Mall in Salt Lake. Her sunglasses had broken so we both got new sunglasses at this place that had them on sale and then we looked like models in our new sunglasses. We also got ice cream at the Ben & Jerry's store. I decided I wanted Chunky Monkey in a waffle cone cause I love that flavor, and Liz just had to copy me cause it looked so good. They made the waffle cone while we were there so it was super fresh, but it melted our ice cream SUPER fast. Before you could get to the bottom, all of the ice cream had melted and made a jumbo-sized mess all over us. But it was so good!!!

Here's us with our new sunglasses and huge ice cream cones.

Later that night, after some more shopping and hanging out, I remembered this thing that Christine made for me once where you put pie filling inside giant won-ton wrappers and then fry them and make these little empanada desserts. They are so delicious. So we made them late that night before I went home. Liz had an apple one and I had a cherry one and they were just so delicious!!! Unfortunately, I ate so much junk that day that I am pretty sure I made myself sick. I'm not sure if it was worth it or not.

It was a long day and we packed a lot of stuff in it, but it was so much fun and I'm so glad that I went up to Salt Lake to change with Liz cause it was a blast!

Weekend Recap

This past Labor Day weekend was really fun. It was so nice to have a long weekend where I didn't have any trips or any big plans, but could just enjoy it and have fun. SO...

Saturday was busy... In the morning, I did some shopping for Matt's birthday package that Megan and I are sending him. Found him some good stuff I think. His card is really funny and goes as follows..

HAPPINESS IS LIKE PEEING IN YOUR PANTS,

EVERYONE CAN SEE IT,

BUT ONLY YOU CAN FEEL ITS WARMTH!!

IT'S YOUR BIRHTDAY,

LET YOUR HAPPINESS SHOW!

I thought it was really funny and perfect for Matt, so I was excited. Plus, the card is BRIGHT PINK and I know that Matthew loves pink.. so I thought it would fit him just right.

Then, Megan and I both got haircuts... mine got cut a little shorter than I would have liked, but its nice to have all the dead ends cut off so that my hair feels healthy again. That night, we went to Salt Lake and had dinner with Megan's friend Allison at TGI Friday's. After dinner, we went to Gateway mall and walked around for a while in the shops before seeing All About Steve. It wasn't at all what I was expecting from that movie, but it was super random and super funny.

On Labor Day Monday, we had a ward activity. It was real fun. We had a barbeque and then after played water kickball. It's just regular kickball, but all of the bases are kiddie pools and then you have to slide into home on a slip-n-slide. We didn't play, but we watched and cheered and it was super funny. All these 20-something year old guys just throwing themselves onto a slip-n-slide to avoid getting out. Really it was hilarious. I told Megan, I wished that our family reunion coming up was going to be during the summer because it would be really fun to play that with our family, but I guess we'll have to wait for the next one.

All in all, it was a really fun weekend, and it was SOOOO nice to have an extra day off of work. But alas, I had to come back and resume bringing home the bacon.

PS... for those of you who have heard me complain about the girl at my work.. Well Thursday turned out being her last day. My boss told me that she only was on the payroll for 11 days, she was gone for 4 of those and only on time twice. So they let her go last week and my boss was going to interview people yesterday and hopefully have someone start today. Hopefully whoever this new girl is will be better than the previous chick. Wish me luck while I'm training today, I don't love doing that!!!

Visit from Alisa

So my friend Alisa that I lived with my freshman year just moved to West Jordan with her husband Jason. We have been trying to get together for a while now and were finally able to see each other last night. It was so fun.

She came down to Provo and we just talked and chatted for a while and went to Cafe Rio for dinner. It was so nice to just catch up with her and chat and laugh. I haven't seen in her in about 2 years or so, so it was so good to see her. After dinner we went back to my apartment and played Racko for a while before she had to head home. It was just a short little visit, but so fun!!

XPRESS PRINTING

So today I started my new job at X Press Printing. This really nice girl named Megan trained me on all of the things that I'll do like you know.. answering the phones and all those important things. All the people were nice to me on my first day and then I got busy to work checking my e-mail and posting on my blog! I feel like I could be happy here. But honestly, I'm just excited to be working more hours... which equals more money... which equals more fun!!!!

Moving Day

Today Megan and I are moving downstairs to the show apartment. It'll be super nice once we are in there because the apartment is decorated so that people can come and see it.

Well today, we woke up early so that we could finish packing and cleaning and be ready to move at 8. However, things didn't work out that way. We ended up just sitting in our living room, staring at each other, surrounded by all of our material belongings for a couple of hours. Talk about fun!

We took everything out of our rooms and put it in the living room so that it would be faster to move when we finally get into our new apartment. Hopefully that works out the way we planned!!

Living it up in the ghetto!!!

Elizabeth moved into her new apartment over the weekend. She is living in Midvale, UT for the next few months while shes does her student teaching in West Valley City. Her apartment is super nice and I wish I had a pad like that!!!

On Saturday, Me LIz and mom went to Chase bank to set up an account for her. While we were there, Mom started asking the banker about the area. He goes well... there are nicer places. And then he started getting into it. He said "Our branch is the only one in the area with bullet-proof glass!! We used to be the number-one robbed chase bank, but since we got the bullet-proof class, we haven't been robbed. But you can still see the fresh paint from our last shooting!" I was dying laughing. I thought mom was going to have a coronary and die next to me. The more he talked the funnier it got to me.

After the bank, we took mom to the airport so that she could go back home to Texas and be reunited with her one true love. After the airport, me and Liz went shopping to get her set-up. This was the best part. We went to a Wal-Mart in West Valley (Where Liz will be teaching) and the area is just super ghetto. Everything the banker was saying was true and you could see it. We finally found the Wal-mart and there was a big cement wall surrounding it. I had never seen such a thing. Cracked us both up. Needless to say, once we saw that, We chose to drive a little farther to a nicer town where we could shop. We were able to get her at least part of the way set-up and in her new place.

I hope she ends up liking her new set-up, and I'm so glad to have more family close-by! This is going to be fun!!!

Megan is a Big Girl Now

This past Thursday, Megan walked at her graduation from BYU. I'm so happy that all of my peeps are finishing up school so that they can be lazy non-students just like me!!! Anyways, all of the Settles were in town for the event, and my mom and Liz made an appearance as well.

Her graduation was on Thursday and Friday, and then we went to dinner both nights with the family. So FUN!!!! We also all stayed at a hotel in Lehi with the fam, which was a blast. We swam and ate lots of junk food.. and one night Me, Megan, Liz, Christine and Mom all went shopping late at night, which I thought was a blast. It was so fun to have family in town for a few days and to celebrate Meg's graduation.