Marketing at its finest.

Went to Target tonight, and took this picture:

It's kind of hard to read, but in the back, the middle brown poster says, "Get your year into gear."  The set up was quite inviting I do have to say, so I took a quick glance.  Underneath the sign it had water bottles, exercise equipment, etc.  But the best part of it all? In the immediate front of it all, it had chips, Oreos, soda, etc.  HA!  So what I read was, "Get in gear!! Buuuut buy all this bad crap for yourself first and binge. YOLO!"

Thought it was kinda funny so I had to share.

Best of...

Tonight, Wolfgang and I watched "Best of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," aaaand it was totally worth it, we laughed. a lot.

In the show Jimmy mentioned how he (paraphrasing) "can't keep it together when he acts with Will Ferrell," which reminded me of what?

The "more cowbell!" skit!  And it just so happens to be, I have the SNL "The best of Will Ferrell" dvd, which I haven't watched in years. So after watching Jimmy being a genius, we watched the cowbell skit, and also the spartans skit.

And Wolfgang laughed.

I knew I married the right guy.


By the way, tonight has inspired me to write a blog post of "things I love about Jimmy Fallon."

To be continued...

I haven't been this cold since living in Idaho, 7 (seven?!) years ago. What is happening, Maryland?!

Goodnight.

My happy place

So it's been a while since I've blogged, huh?  I've realized that but haven't done much about it, until there was something I was really wanting to share with my friends.

This blog post is geared really towards my friends in Phoenix.  I miss you all dearly and hope you are doing well.  This time of year I sometimes wish I was back in Phoenix during its "winter." :)

So there is something really great about to happen in Gilbert, AZ.  A temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a the Mormon Church a.k.a the church I attend) will be open to the public before it is dedicated! The reason I am telling you this, is because I would love for each and every one of you, who live close or will be visiting the Gilbert area in the next month or so, to please go and visit the temple. I promise you that it would be such a cool experience, and a Mormon temple might just be one of the most beautiful and sacred buildings that you will ever see in your life.  Believe me when I say that I wish I was there to take each and every one of you, because this is how important this is to me. The temple is something so sacred to me; it is my "happy" place and one of the VERY few places where I feel totally at peace, and I want to share this with my friends.

To attend the open house of the temple, you need to get a ticket online.They are free and really the only reason you need a ticket is for crowd control.  Someone will guide you through the temple and tell you about it, and answer any questions you have.

Please, I beg you to go to it, I promise it will not be a waste of your time. There are no strings attached, you can ask as little or as many questions as you want about the temple, and about the church.  If anything, just go to view such a beautiful place.

Will you please tell me if you go?  I would love to know.  Please contact me if you have questions, want someone to go with, etc.  I will be impatiently patiently waiting to hear from you.  :)

The website for more information is found here. But for reservations go here. Please note that reservations for tickets opens tomorrow, so for today, there isn't a lot of information, if you are reading this today, the 29th.

When you get to the "sealing room," just know that this is where Wolfgang and I got married and sealed the deal!  It was in a room exactly like the one you will see.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Again let me know if you have any questions!

Our Halloween

Halloween is a weird holiday for me.  Every year I go through the same thing- {battle in my head}

Should I buy decorations and decorate my house?
No. You don't care about it that much, and therefore it would be a waste of money.  

Ok, but should I dress up in a costume and come up with something clever?  
Nah, that also isn't worth the money, and you're not creative enough with your wardrobe to come up with something.

But wouldn't it be cute if husband and I dressed up as a cute couple costume?
No.

Ok, fine.

So this year it was, yet again, pretty low key.  However, I did make "arrangements" (I guess you could call it) to get a group together, and thankfully a few committed to go with us, and we went to Markoff's Haunted Forest. As much of a pansy I am for horror movies, I DO love a good scare at a haunted house (or forest.)  It was a lot of fun!  And I screamed.  A lot. And the chainsaw guys feasted on my terror like wild beasts. There really should have been footage of that.

photo taken from crouching tigress in green

 Anyway, the day after the "holiday," at work we had a pumpkin carving and "Iron Chef" contest.  Can you guess which pumpkin was from my team?

sorry, bad lighting

Ok yep, ours was the one in the last two pictures.  Vulgar?  You mean funny.  And the err, "waste" coming from the pumpkin was our food for the contest!  "Pumpkin fluff" and pumpkin soup.  We didn't win either categories.  Lame!

Here are some other pumpkins Wolfgang and I carved with some friends a few weeks prior to Halloween also. {Their pumpkins included}

We again didn't get one single trick-or-treater, we didn't even bother buying candy this year.  How was your Halloween?

Austria Part 2: What we did

I'm going to say this again, it is realllly hard to go through hundreds of pictures.  Isn't it crazy how technology allows us to easily take so many pictures?  Yet so many bad quality pictures too sometimes, haha.

Here's a continuation in pictures, of some things we did while we were in Austria.

We met "Soccer," my Brother-in-law's wife's (pregnant!) horse.  I'm a sucker for horses

Weirdo.

 One of Soccer's stable buddies

Stayed at The Ritz-Carlton Vienna to celebrate our wedding anniversary (while I still had RC benefits)

Too bad they didn't read our "guest notes" that we don't drink alcohol: minus 2 pts.

RC has the BEST fluffy beds.

Went to the Globe Museum!  I LOVE all things globes and maps! Very impressive collection.

Old ones!

Normal ones!

ITTY BITTY CUTIE PATUTIE ONES!!

How much for the globe clock, kind sir?

Even in dim lighting you can see my, "I LOVE GLOBES!!!" face.

Went on a really tall building to see Vienna from above

Up next: places we saw, to be continued.

Catching up- Austria: Part 1

Oh my. It has been a while since I last blogged, hasn't it?  A lot has happened since the last time I blogged so let's get right to it, shall we?

In August we went to Austria!  It was just under a week, so it was a short trip, especially for overseas. The reason for our trip was because Wolfgang's sister got married!  I will apologize in advance that we didn't take very good pictures {my mom even called me out on it, thanks mom.}

So in my first series of pictures/post of this trip, here are some pictures from the wedding.

The wedding was a traditional Austrian wedding, which was fun.  Everyone wore Lederhosen and Dirndls (google it, or look below!) including us!  I wasn't excited when I first heard I had to wear a dirndl, but it wasn't so bad after all, and especially since everyone else was wearing one too.  I was definitely channeling Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music"  {short hair and all} but I didn't even get to take a, "The hills are alive!" picture like I so desperately wanted to!  I'll blame my husband.

The newlyweds

some fun and traditional games during the reception

 The moment some of you been waiting for: seeing Wolfgang in the lederhosen, and me in a dirndl! Pic with my brother-in-law and his wife, who got hitched last year

 Adorable?!  Husband and nephew, son of the new married couple

Yours truly.

Wolfgang did his hair. Can you tell?

Now this concludes Part 1; it's bedtime!  This is such a big deal that I'm finally doing this, I should reward myself with a brownie.  that I made tonight.

To be continued.