and the months go on...

I am going to go over the last couple of months, but first here are some random pics that I took. This first one is of our shopping cart at Wal-Mart. We went in for Jell-O, fruit punch mix and a few other things. I thought that the cart just looked so funny with what was in it.I went to 7-11 to get a yummy pina-colada slurpee and on one of the isles there was the BIGGEST Rice Krispies Treats that I have ever seen. RANDOM.
We bought these good chips at COSTCO. They are sooooo yummy!!!!! They really are chips that taste GOOD!! You should go and get them now!!
So I am picking up where I left off. November was fun! Tiff and I went to Las Vegas for her friend Lindsay's wedding. I was such a beautiful day! Tiff and I stayed on the Las Vegas strip at Planet Hollywood Towers hotel. It was sooooo nice.The plants on the temple grounds were fantastic!! They had lettuce!!!
This was our hotel room. HOLLYWOOD!!!!
The bed was so comfortable!!! Wish I had it at home.
Love this picture of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean!We had a BLACK toilet!!!
View of the pool from our room!! AWESOME!!!After the wedding and reception, Tiff and I walked down the strip. I had not been on the strip in so long. We were looking for the Coco-Cola store and Hard Rock and we could not find it. The stores were the other direction which was close to our hotel. We found them the next morning and went shopping and had fun!1 We tried Coco-Cola from Peru...it is sooo good!!Love the water show at the Bellagio!!!
Thanksgiving at Grami's!!!! Just 10 of us so we all were able to be at the dining room table!!! Good Food!!
Talynn made an apple pie! it was good!After Christmas we celebrated Grami's 95th Birthday (which is in January). More family members were able to attend since we had it in December. Talynn and I made the cake!! Talynn did most of the work :)
Before Christmas Jessica and I went to Disneyland with Talynn. She had 2 free 3 day park hopper passes. We had a BLAST!!!!AWESOME roller-coaster!!
We met SANTA CLAUS!!! He was a one of the best Santa Clauses that I have seen!We had lunch here on this main street in California Adventures!! As we were eating songs (music) from the Newsies came on!! I began to sing along. It was the BEST!!! love NEWSIES!!I was most like Cinderella!!!Muppets show in 3D!! FUN!Love Tower of Terror (or what ever it is called. I think it has another name)After the day in California Adventures we went over the Disneyland!We ended the night on the tea cups!! one of my favorite rides!


Day 2 at Disneyland! We went on It's A Small World. I had not been on that ride in probably 15 years!! It is a long ride. OH MY GOODNESS!!SPLASH MOUNTAIN!!!!We got sooo WET!!! Jessica got SOAKED!!!
went on the Winnie the Pooh ride and we got STUCK IN POOH!! we were almost out of the ride (it is a short kiddie ride) and it stopped. the man in front of us with his kids said "We are stuck in Pooh!" It was sooo funny!!! We started laughing!!! it was great!
Us getting out of the Honey tubs.
Took at picture with JACK and SALLY!SPACE MOUNTAIN!!! i am pretty sure that this is my FAVORITE ride!!!! Talynn told us to put our arms off the side, so we did and the force of the ride I couldn't move my arm and it covered my face. HAHA!!so pretty to see It's A Small World all lit up for Christmas!!We sat in front of the tram train, so fun!!!
DISNEYLAND in January with Tiff, Tianna, Talynn, and me!!!BUG'S LIFE show in 3D!!!We decided to get our faces painted!!! I didn't want to take it off!!I couldn't believe it we went on It's A Small World!!! I had just been on the ride literally 1 month before!Talynn had to chase after Peter Pan to take a picture!!! it was funny!!! he was just like a kid. Yep he didn't grow up.Tea Cups again!!! love this ride!We ended the night with a picture with MINNIE!!!!
The next day we went and ate at El Ranchito Mexican restaurant!!! GREAT Mexican food!!! You can see some of the beach from where we sat in the restaurant so we decided to walk down after we ate.

Went down to visit Talynn in February and to see HANSON on Jay Leno!!! as I was driving this truck was by me and I took a picture. Thought it was funny!!!
Talynn and I woke up at 4am to stand in line to get stand-by tickets for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. There were other Hanson fans there too. So we got our stand-by tickets at 8am and had til about 2pm to waste.. So we went to get breakfast... had a yummy bagel!! Went on a little adventure to the LA Zoo :) We decided to go to Hollywood and went to The GROVE!!When we came out of the parking garage....There was Mario Lopez taping segments for EXTRA. We were in the audience for awhile, but our taping didn't make it on air. I could reach out and touch him!!! :)We got the BEST seats in the show. We waited around until everyone with a ticket to be seated. With the stand-by tickets, you can only get in if there are seats. Talynn and I were #3 & #4 in the stand-by line. Every time they came out the count, we were just praying to get in. Well we FINALLY DID!!!! YAY!! When they were bringing us in the had to take tape off the the seats, so we were thinking that these seats must have been for some VIP that didn't show. We sat looking straight at JAY!!! it was fantastic!!! Before the show started, the guy that gets the audience excited for the show (he was an amazing guy, so fun!!!) was passing out little things and t-shirts. I had my hands up and the bag of goodies was down from where we were sitting....I caught his eye and he threw me a little penguin!!! It was so fun!! It just added to the amazing experience that we had. Of course, we had to sit through the whole show for HANSON to come on at the end. They played their new single "GIVE A LITTLE" LOVE this song!!! Just makes you want to dance!!!We tweeted Hanson this picture after the show!! :)
Talynn and I went to Hollywood after the show and ate at Umami burger restaurant!! it was good!!!

Dad received the Silver Beaver award from Boy Scouts of America. Congrats DAD!!!!My BIRTHDAY!!!!
Had a YUMMY breakfast on my birthday!!! French Toast is sooooo goood!!!
Tiff got me some purple tulips for me. i LOVE them!!!
My CAKE!!!
My birthday was great!! 26!!! I got some jewelery from Julia's and a new pair of TOMS shoes and a TOMS t-shirt!!! I LOVE TOMS shoes!!
I have got to start blogging more often. My hand hurts from loading all the pics and writing about my experiences. Hopefully I will. Oh yeah...I went back to school for my Masters...More to come!

more...

Here are some more adventures. I went with Talynn and Chris to St. George, UT for Dixie State University Homecoming. My Grami does a song with her brother. It is so fun to see them do their little "diddy" Went to the "DIXIE" with Talynn, Chris, Natalie and her boyfriend, Chris. It was fun to go up there again. My name "TRIS" was carved in the red rock. :)

Pretty view of Dixie.

Talynn and Me

On Halloween us sisters put on brightly colored wigs and delivered cookies to family and friends.

Jessica joined us too after we delievered the cookies.

Since then...

Well, it has been several months since I last posted anything. Today, it has been one year since I quit my job and also one year since Talynn saw Hanson in concert without me for the first time. June came. Hanson came out with a new album Shout It Out on June 8th. It is an GREAT album. Love it!! At the end of June, I went up to Salt Lake to pack up everything from our condo. We sold it. It was bittersweet. I enjoyed living there for over 2 years while I went to school. I had not been back to Salt Lake since I graduated. It was fun to be back up there, even though it was for only a few days. July came and celebrated our country's independence on July 4th!!! August celebrated my Daddy's birthday!!!! September I saw HANSON in CONCERT!!!!! with Talynn. September 16th was a FANTASTIC day!! I have loved Hanson since I was 11. This was my first Hanson concert. They are amazing!!! We went on a one mile walk without shoes before the show with Hanson. It was very cool! An amazing experience to put yourself in someone elses shoes (so to say, without shoes). So many people around the world walk miles without shoes and we take it for granted. I got big blood blisters on the bottom of both my feet from walking the mile. My eyes were definitely more opened that day. It was a great experience. Who else gets the chance to walk with musicians that you have loved for half your life. I don't hear of anything other musicians or celebrities doing such a thing. Hanson donated $1 for everyone that walked. Talynn and my $1 went to help children around the world have shoes. Talynn and I got a picture with Isaac.

We should have tried to get a picture with Taylor and Zac, but we didn't. I wish we did, but next time. I have become a little obsessed with them. My family would say lots obsessed, but I love their music and it brings me some happiness into my life. Talynn loves them too, but doesn't show it like I do. I guess I don't have a life (which is true right now). So what!! :)

October came and went. Had fun on Halloween. Went to the YSA dance. Dressed up like a hippie. It was fun!! On Halloween Talynn, Tiffany, and I put on some wigs and delivered cookies to friends and family. We has some friends come over and watched a movie and play games. I watched Hanson online. They had aLive stream of a members only concert in Tulsa, OK which Talynn and I could have gone to if we would have bought some plane tickets, but they were too expensive, So I watched it online. It was a great concert. Now Novemeber is here. I voted!! California has a new governer. Republicans took majority of the House of Representatives. Hopefully the country will move in a more positive direction. It is now 2 weeks til Thanksgiving. It is going to be a small group of the family again (which I enjoy). I have decided to go back to school and get my MBA degree. (Master of Business Administration). I have signed up to start taking some pre-requisite classes this spring semester. I will see how they go. If I do well and like it, I will then apply to Fresno State and to the Business School. I also have to pass the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) exam. We will see how that goes. So I haven't been accepted yet, just taking the first steps toward the graduate degree. We shall see what the rest of the year brings.

I can't believe it is MAY!

So I can't believe that my first post in 2010 is in May!!!! Anyway....not much going on here. New Years was fun!!! (even though the dance was not so) January, February came and went. March came and I turned 25!!! I am a quarter of a century old!! Haha! Didn't do much, just dinner with my parents. Talynn came to town after my birthday for Easter and we had a blast being the only two home for over a week!! Easter was nice and small. Just my aunt and uncle, cousin, my sister and me. We played monopoly and of course Talynn won. It was quite a long game, but what game of monopoly isn't :) Went to visit Talynn and Chris for a weekend with Tiffany. It was nice to get away. And now here we are....MAY!!! We will see how the rest of the month goes. Til then...

i'm back

So it has been several months since I have blogged. I guess not much is going on, but there has been.

Well, I will take you through the months since my last post. June and July were not exciting months, just was working and going to meetings for the state-wide YSA Conference in August. August came and the YSA Conference was fun. So many people came. The dances were a BLAST. Wish all dances were like that. August ended and September came and went. October came and Halloween was fun! I dressed up as a Flapper. I love that era, 20s, 30s & 40s. The clothes were unique. I love it! Then November came. I quit my job. Just shy of six months I QUIT. I did not like working at the front desk and many things happened and kept happening that I did not think were professional, so I gave my notice and left a week and a half later. I am glad that I quit, but now I don't have a job and am looking for one. It is crazy what a college degree can get you or not.

I saw NEW MOON!! It was great! Can't wait for Eclipse and Breaking Dawn to come out!!!!Thanksgiving was nice.It was small like last year. I have liked the smaller family gatherings lately. We are a big family now and I love it, but the kids can be crazy. I love them though.

Now December is here (and almost over). I love this time of year. The Christmas songs start to play on the radio and everyone seems to be a little nicer. We decorate the house and get out the hot chocolate. My brother and sister came home from Utah and my sister and brother-in-law came up from SoCal. It was fun the have them all here. Including Odin. It seemed like a non-stop week full of family activities. It was fun. As a family, on my parent's anniversary we went to the Poverello House and wrapped presents. I have never been down there. It was an experience. We went to lunch and then saw AVATAR!!! I absolutely LOVED that movie!! It was just... (I'm speechless). I want to be an Avatar!

I went to dinner and to Color Me Mine with my sisters that next day. I was fun to have sister time. After years of asking my dad to take all of us to the rifle range, he finally did. We went shooting!! I love going shooting, even though it was only my second time going. It is fun!! We had Christmas Eve dinner at my Grami's house like always. Christmas Day was nice. Had breakfast and opened presents and spent the day just lounging. Great day!!! The next couple of days the brothers and sisters left and it was back to my parents and me at home. Its nice. :)

Now here we are NEW YEAR'S EVE!!!!!! the last day of the year and the last day of the decade. I can't believe that it is 2010 and a start of a new decade. 2010, how will you be. Will you be a great year or one that is not so great? I don't know, but I guess that it is up to us to decide. Right now it feels like it is going to be a great year. So 2010, I welcome you!! Let's PARTY!!!