Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Fingers crossed?

I found this on my sister's blog and I wanted something from her, so I guess I have, I mean get to, do this as well.

Here's the deal:
1. The winners will be the first three people to comment on this post.
2. You will win something made by me. Something good.
3. Now it's your turn to serve someone else. You are supposed to do the same giveaway on your blog.

And no, I don't know what you'll get. And hopefully it will be good. Cross your fingers!

Black, Please!

I had the opportunity to go to Utah a couple of weeks ago to go to my sister's wedding (Pictures to come later!) While I was there, I was blessed to babysit Savy, Amber and Sam's adorable little girl. I got to spend all day Monday with her and part of Wednesday. I don't get to see her very often (she was born after Carl and I moved), so I loved watching her while Amber was at work.

On Monday, we wandered upstairs to do her hair. While in one bathroom, she found fingernail polish. I convinced her to put it down while we went into the other bathroom to do her hair. Once she looking good, she remembered where the nail polish was and insisted I put some on her. She was funny...she held still pretty well and insisted that I put on a top coat of clear fingernail polish! Unfortunately, the color she choose was black...


Here she is showing me her nails all done up.She loved my camera and cheesed everytime she saw it!
She was also quite entertained by my phone. She would sit and play with it forever!
Don't know exactly what she's doing here...maybe showing me the phone?
That wasn't the only time that week she got her nails done. It was hilarious when she asked my dad to paint her nails and he went through 3 different nail polishes until he found one that he liked. He would put on one, not like it, take it off, pick another color, and repeat the entire process. I don't remember he doing that for me!

I'm a litte behind-Christmas!

So, I was finally downloading pictures from my camera and found these pictures from Christmas! How embarrassing... I've decided to post them months late for your entertainment and enjoyment.


This was the big present of the year. Especially if you know my parents. First video game console EVER. It took a lot of sweet talking apparently. As you can tell my little sisters are just thrilled to get it. (It was a surprise for both of them, amazingly enough!) The older sister, not so much. I do have to point out that the Wii Fit was bought on Christmas Eve. I think between my mom, dad, and me we hit up every store in Utah County looking for one.


Here's the amazing Stroman fam rocking out. As Sam told Amber later "I thought you were a bad singer, but then I heard your sisters!" Thanks Sam. We know we are not blessed.
This is Taran, Mal, and Carl. Carl became the most requested singer. Probably because he was the only who could remotely carry a tune and have it sound good. I think my mom requested him to sing so she didn't have to hear the rest of sing wailing...




Thursday, March 5, 2009

You have pools in Utah?

I find it funny what people think of Utah. Or don't know about Utah. Until recently, my favorite had been about arches. When I first moved out here, somebody was explaining to me what Natural Bridge is. It turns out it's an arch in Southern Kentucky and there's a state park associated with it. The person explaining this to me asked "Do you have anything like that in Utah?" "Arches?" "Yeah. Arches. Like Natural Bridge." All I could do was smile and say "Umm...yes." She apparently hadn't heard of Arches National Park or didn't realize it was in Utah. This was my favorite until Tuesday.

On Tuesday, I went out to lunch with my clinical group. We do this at the end of every clinical and it's quite fun. We started talking about tanning and I mentioned I worked at a pool for a long time, until I got married. My instructor looked at me and said "You have pools in Utah?" Honestly, is Utah seen as that backward? It turns out, she thought that Utah would be too cold for a pool.

I guess it's not all about Utah. Carl's grandma was worried that Kentucky wouldn't have newspapers or freeways when his parents moved out here...