Sick Joke.

If you know me, you know I  love  Texas Roadhouse. I know, I know, "But Sharon, you're a vegetarian. How could you love a steak house?" In which I reply, hello, have you heard of appetizers? TRH has the best appetizers. I usually get the caesar salad, which is the best around- I would know I eat a lot of salads. I also always get the loaded mashed potatoes which are so fatty and so delicious (minus the bacon). But the best part of TRH are their warm. soft, always perfect sweet rolls with their cinnamon-butter spread. They are to die for. The first day we moved here I looked online to see where the nearest TRH was... and where was it... IDAHO. FML. I am so disappointed in this state. 


Somehow this topic was brought up in church and a lady told me, and I quote, " We have something even better than that here, it's called Jimmy Mac's Roadhouse." I was so happy and Kor and I decided to go last night. When we walked in it looked pretty close to TRH; peanuts on the ground, loud crappy music playing, employees with black shirts tucked into way too tight of jeans. so far so good. We were seated and they brought the rolls to our table. I should have known it was going to be a disaster when I went to spread the butter on the roll and it was hard. Hard butter is the worst. It all fell apart from there. The rolls were gross. No mashed potatoes. Caesar salad tasted fishy. It was a let down. Never again. 

FILTH.

In closing, I leave you with happy memories from TRH

Kor + Halo = Love.

I do not like video games... Kor loves them. So we have had to meet in the middle on this one. But it hasn't been too hard since we are both pretty busy. Kory and his man friends (Yes McKay, I am acknowledging you as a man) decided to play Halo on Thursday nights. So when Thursday does roll around Kor magically becomes husband of the year :)


Example 1: I pick him up from work and he is especially chipper. Even suggests going grocery shopping while I go home and shower. Of course I am thrilled, though it was a premature thrill, because when he got home from the store he purchased FOUR boxes of cereal for me (I am obsessed with cereal) along with two gallons of ice cream. Apparently they were on sale. 


Example 2: I was in bed watching television and Kor comes in with the carton of ice cream and a spoon AND tells me he will put it back in the freezer when I am done. How lazy am I?


Example 3: Sharon, " Don't you think I deserve to buy a new cardigan from Forever 21 tomorrow?"   Kory, " Yes!" 

Maybe Halo Night isn't so bad after all.

  Now if you'll excuse me I am going to fall asleep to the soothing sounds of gun shot blasts.

J-J-J-Janet!

I met Janet when I was 18 years old while working at Lindon Care and Training Center. I worked there over three years and  fell in love with her. She is the sweetest lady in the world. She would never say anything mean about anyone... UNLESS you were mean to her first :) I was devastated when Janet's family moved her from  LCTC to Washington. I stayed in contact with Janet over the phone. We moved to Washington and it took me two months to realize that Janet lived here too. Washington is a large state but I just had to see if she by chance she lived close to us. I called her up and sure enough she lives about 30 miles away. This past Saturday Kor and I went and picked her up and took her to eat. She was dead set on eating at either Chuck-E-Cheese or RoundTable. Apparently she had seen commercials on TV and "has never even eaten at those places really aslo at all" It was so fun to be with her again. Personality wise, she has not changed a bit. But boy has she lost a ton of weight. She looks great!

And yes, she had REGULAR soda.. Not diet soda.

Vacuuming is sexy.

Seriously. I love to vacuum. A lot. So not having a vacuum since we've moved here has sucked. Not the good kind of suck, like you'd get from a vacuum. So all day today I have been anxiously waiting for Kory to get home so we can go buy a new vacuum!  As much as I would like to get a nice, expensive vacuum... we just cannot afford it. Drab. But I just hope that the day we can, they will come out with an even better vacuum. Until now I will continue to dream and google sexy pictures of vacuums like the one below :)

Dream Vacuum $600

Newest addition to our home... $100

Peanut Butter!

We eat A LOT of PB&J's around here. Kingsley looooooves peanut butter, as most dogs do, unless your name is Xander. He can't be bothered by the sticky stuff. He has much classier taste in food.

I will cut you!

Kor let me cut his hair. Can you tell?

Actually, he wanted the mo-hawk. He looks pretty rough and tough.. but we all know he is a big teddy bear.  Buying clippers was a good decision, we've saved some money not going to get hair-cuts.  

S+S

So as you all know moving was VERY hard for me and I wasn't sure if I could do it. I miss my family and friends a lot....BUT I am sooo glad that I met Summer! We've only known each other a short while now, but it feels like we've been friends for ages. She is good people. Summer and Chris and their adorable kids have made this transition so much easier for us. 

Thanks guys :)

On a less sappy note, Summer and I mod-podged the crap out of our light switch covers! They turned out great. 

  

Summer made some adorable covers for Lila's room. Mine are the boring ones.
(Sorry, I forgot to photograph Kai's) 

These are now residing in my kitchen. The bottom, tree one was once our wedding invitation!

Summer, bless her heart, will one day maybe get me to cook. 

Kory holding the beautiful Lila. This may be the second child he's ever held.

I don't deserve this cookie dough...

Preface: About three days after moving into our little home a little boy came to my door asking if I wanted to buy cookie dough " to make his school more better ". You all know what a sucker I am so I told him I would BUT I didn't have any cash. He said he would come back the next day, and sure enough he did. I ordered some cookies and distinctly remember him says it would be here October 5th. October 5th came and went. I complained to Kory on more than one occasion that the punk little kid took my money and probably bought himself some Burger King. Or something.  

This Morning: My friend Summer and I were at the Costco and she was saying she has always wanted to buy the big box of cookie dough and it reminded me of the mean little kid who came to my house selling me cookie dough " to make his school more better " and how upset I was that he stole my money blah blah blah...

Today at 5:03pm: I got a knock at the door and sure enough the not.so.mean.actually.really.adorable.little.kid was standing at my door with my cookie dough in hand. To make it worse, he proceeded to give me helpful cooking hints with using the frozen dough. 

Although he didn't know I cursed him several times, I felt really guilty. I have not lost all faith in youth these days. I already ate several spoon fulls of the dough. It is scrumptious. 

What a humbling day. 

Ruff Week.

Dear Xander and Kingsley,

You are so.very.lucky. that mom and dad love you so much to have spent over $600 this week alone on you boys. But we did, and it's because we love everything about you boys. You bring so much joy to our lives and we would do anything for you. Obviously. 

Besos,

Mom and Dad. 

Dia de los Muertos.

Lauren, Brandon, Macky, Stef, and I carved/Mod-podged pumpkins. It was a lot of fun!

Stef = Left                  Shar = Right

The only way my hair fit in a car.

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Andrea, Me, Dianne

Holden boy was the cutest monkey. This was my pretend costume to office-trick-or-treat.

Saturday evening. Lots' of rump shaking to be had!

My awesome brother-in-law. Cohen, a "scary" dinosaur.

At Novell. So.much.candy. Thanks Dad!

Kory the Viking!

I don't know what possessed me to be a treasure troll... but when I commit, I commit 100%! It took three people and 1.5 hours to get my hair to stick straight up. I also decided a nude-suit equals endless possibilities when it comes to costumes. I had a lot of fun in Utah and went to many, many festivities... The best part is I flew home Sunday, Halloween day, and got to celebrate again with Kory and the amazing Welch family! 

I.love.Halloween.

I already have a few ideas for next years costume. Get excited.