Mandiloo's Adventures

CabO TAke Dos WiTh SoMe OthEr RanDom ThouGhts

2011-01-15T09:19:00.001-08:00

Well...So I am a slacker...This entry will be a lot of picture overload....YIKES for all y'all! I wanted to finish my Cabo Post sooner, but well life got in the way. I've been soooooooo incredibly busy...So...in the light of finishing what I started here was the rest of my cruise.....

So Kim thought it would be HI-Larious to tell our waiters it was my birthday...which it wasn't...it was April...not August...so they brought me a slick of cake and Sang to me...awesome I KNOW! And...it WAS totally AWESOME!!!!!

Leavin Cabo...me and Laura...........................Me and Kimmy

It's scary to look at, but I actually went parasailing...as you can see from the left I thought it was even a scary thought...

Senior Frogs...been to alot of those :)

Boys...BoYs...bOyS....This is the guy that sells drinks for an Irish Pub..He was dressed in a Kilt...which was hilarious because we were in Mexico...and well he was mexican...and right as we snapped the picture...welll...you get the drift

Ha ha ha...Eric hung out with us...Me, Dilya and Cori...

We Got AlL drEsSed uP anD Had a PlAcE To gO

This is me.....Playing Catch-Me-Up Take 1

2010-09-30T23:13:00.000-07:00

Wow...so it has been like FORever since I wrote anything. I'd like to say I was doing mostly responsible, productive things, but those of you who truly know me...well let's just leave it at the fairytale. I've been busy though, school, work and Y.W. So tonight instead of sleeping, I'm catching up on my blogging. SOOOOO since I'm like 5 mos behind, here's some picts from my Cabo trip in April. Please note, I didn't upload my blog in chronological order, so they start at the bottom and go up....sorry, it's like 1 A.m!

This cave is soooo cool, it has the shape of a boy hitchhiking on the right side of the cave...I guess according to our boat man Alejandro, that he is a ghost trying to catch a ride home after being murdered in the cave...morbid story..yes...cool cave...uh huh!

See he was lonely out there on that rock sunning himself all alone...wait why am I feeling for an animal laying in the sun...that should be me!!!

This is my sleepy little friend...we'll call him Gus!

The Arch....my sister Jackie and her husband were in Cabo and Feb...she has pictures standing under the Arch on the sandy beach. It doesn't see land in April, not even during the low tide!

Scooby scooby doo...where are you...Yup that's the Scooby Doo rock in the middle

This was the boat tour we took....I promise more picts to come

Ahhh Cabo...where have you been all my life....

Awwwe...me and Kimmy!

Yum! Drinks on me...Virgin of course...is there any other way ?!?

This is me and Maddie-Lishous...some peeps think we're long lost sisters...esp now that I'm not blonde anymore!

Me Dilya and Kim...the OCM'ers (Kim and I were comps in the Great Ohio and Dilya was there too!!!)...such cute navy girls!

Finally off to sea!

My travelin group leaving SLC, then the layover in Denver...our flight got delayed, instead of diligently doing homework....well....

So I guess I'm retarded at blogger, so hopefully you are reading this from bottom to top. Here we are in San Deigo getting ready to go, the pic on the left is our crazy cab ride Laura, Maddie, Dilya and Me (l-R) then we got ready to leave the hotel, Dilya, Kim (Back) Maddie and me.

Well kids that's all for tonight. I'm really glad to have this trip documented, of course you have to come back when I upload take dos, it's the second day in Cabo, some fun things we did and San Deigo...More to come!

Mandiloo!

New posts coming....I SWEAR!!!

2010-07-01T15:00:00.000-07:00

Okay, my few lil followers, Mandiloo has a new adventure to tell you about. I've decided with all of my traveling I'm doing that I'm going to make a lil travel blog, I can post pictures from my travelin adventures. From my cruises, to my coin-flip road trips with my Bonnie lies over the ocean!
Quick update. CABO was AWESOME, I highly recomend it. Crusing is the way to go, everything paid for, no hotels, food no mess, no fuss and you are treated like royalty! School is back in session, I found out I calcuated how many credits I need and I'll be going an extra semester so graduation was pushed from December to May of next year. Which I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty bummed at first, but now I'm submitting my elective classes and I'm WAY excited for a couple of them.
Young Women's is awesome, I love the girls, but it's a drain on my time, which is very little as of late. I have MAJOR guilt issues with that!
Went to my first Playoff Jazz games, both were exciteing and the loss to the Lakers by one point was...like the worst thing that ever happened to me...ha ha ha...just kiddin! but Me and Sam I am got to see a lot of retarded Laker fans tossed from the game...All the wierdos must have been in our section. My Fav Jazz playa is a free agent this year, here hopin they bring him back...
More to come...
Mandiloo!

I'm back

2010-02-22T10:43:00.000-08:00

Well Hello my little followers!
I just wanted to say HI! for one thing, it's been ages since I wrote, like my last post was about my Halloween adventures. Rather than doing a catch-up about the past I'm writing a list of things I'm looking forward to. So here's my top ten things that are coming up.

10 - the Jazz season, oh wait, that's going on right now, but I'm ALWAYS excited to watch their games, so it counts, okay!

9- In reference to #10, Jerry Sloan's ties, Kids he has some really REALLY good ones, and Really REALLLY Bad ones, I'll post what I can from this year in a later post!

8- Loosing more weight...down like 75lbs, can't wait to keep it coming off!

7- Trips to the ranch, spring spring PLEASE Get HERE, I'm tired of being COLD!

6- A small break from school, I don't know when it is, but I'm hoping it's at LEAST 2 weeks before summer session begins!

5- Moving out of Vernon, sorry mom, Jed and Britt, But I gotta get out of there!

4-Spending some tax return mooola! Heck yes, Famous Footwear hear I come!

3-Halo3-enough said

2-Cabo San Lucas, me and a ship full of hot boys hopefully! oh and a bunch of my friend...yay for layin on the beach, sitting in a hot tub, pedi's and new shoes!

1-Hot boys, see #2 por favor!

So I think I'm the most excited about the cruise in April to Mexico. I would lie and say I don't really care if there are hot boys there but dang near everyone that reads this knows me better than that...lol. I need a vaca so very VERY Badly! I'll post some new stuff later on, pictures from Christmas. Oh yeah we had this AWESOME activity that I was in charge of that I need to blog about, it was so cool, and I have a few from that as well as Christmas and New Years! Well kids, it's been real!
More to come,
Mandiloo!

Halloween 2009

2009-11-11T10:16:00.000-08:00

Hello Kids,
I know it's like a few weeks late, but better late than never. This year halloween was pretty fun for me. It's been a while since I got to dress up and go out, mostly because I didn't have anyone to go with. So here are some picts of me and my friends dancin the night away.

Bryan Monica Nephi and Me the roarin 20's group

Us girls, Jayson and some random guy dressed up as Bert

Monica Me, the boy dressed as a girl Dilya and Kimmy

Monica Me Dilya and Kim

Bunch of us, I love Kim the angle in the back ground

Monica Nephi Mandi and Dilya

Me and Nephi...we are so pimp!

So yeah, I had a blast. I was a flapper, obviously. I'll post some of my neices and nephew pix next week. Life's good, busy but good. I don't know if I blogged about it, but I started school a about 2 months ago. I'm attending Argosy university, it's kinda like the University of Pheonix, but it has a better psychology program. I've got just over a year left so I'm way excited for my progress towards my degree. Well, More to come including this year's dedication to the Jerry Sloan Tie Club, This season may produce some of the GRRReatest ties ever!

Love
Mandiloo

Stories from the Ranch 2009

2009-10-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I got to spend some time with the family. I stayed at Chet and Annie's to watch their kids while they went Elk hunting. I got up with them, and got them ready and took the THREE of them out to the ranch, all by myself. Yes kids, I'm proud I was nervous, I'm not gonna lie, but we had a great time. Here are the top moments/quotes from the ranch.

These are just some really fun shots, Top:l-r - Lacey and Larrissa, and Jaylee in her cute hat

Bottom: l-r Jaylee being so stinkin CUTE!!

Okay funny Kid Quote, this is Colster, and I put him in the sandbox with Kylee and Ellie and told Kylee to watch him. This is how the conversation went:

Mandi: Kylee, watch your brother and PEASE don't let him eat dirt

Kylee: Ok

(see picture on the left-Colt innocently playing in the sand)

So then I go to the trailer to get a Diet Dr Pepper I turned around and went back to the sandbox

Kylee: Uh Mandi I think he ate dirt

(see picture on the right -yep, he infact ate the dirt)

Ellie had some fun on the way out, she sat in the back seat with Colt, and was taking really good care of him and I said to her "Ellie, how did you become such a good sister?. Is it because Kylee was such a good sister to you" and this was her reply:

Ellie:"Nope, it's just in my heart"

Then went over some pretty good hills we call them the "Whopptee Doos'" and Ellie laughed and said the following:
Ellie: "Do that again Aunt Mandi, it tickle's my WHOLE Body"

Kylee was crackin me up as well, she kept telling me she wanted us to go sit in "the beast" (my Xterra) and Talk when I asked her what she wanted to talk about she said...

Kylee: "Duh Boys' Mandi, and maybe we could talk about me"

We had such a good time. I love some of the pictures I took of Kylee, esp the one on the bottom left where she was jumping, it looked pretty cool. More to come...

Loves,
Mandiloo

Ranchin fun!!!

2009-10-09T10:45:00.000-07:00

So my latest adventure last weekend was with the family. We had some fun at the ranch over the weekend. I've been breakin in my new camera I got for my birthday. Here's some of my better shots.

Here are some that I took just messing around. The top two are picts from the place. The shed on the right is one of the old blds on the property. The two on the bottom are from the ridge east looking west to our property. There's the barn and where we have the camping area.

I think these are some pretty good portraits, on the right is my Aunt's daughter Sophie, she has the most fantastic smile, and then on the right is my sister in law Britt and baby Jaylee. I love these two pictures the best. So hopefully I can get better at photography.

BUNKO!!!!!....TRAVEL.....and Bradley Cooper???

2009-09-15T11:30:00.000-07:00

Okay kids, so here's the DL, last weeked was a blast. Which has thus inspired my blog for this edition of Mandiloo's adventures. So, back up, last year (2008), I decided that i was in greatd need of some social inspiration...So I thought to myself, "Mandiloo, you need a social life, it is time to get out"...SO I mad an early New Year's Res to do so, but had no idea where to start. So I prayed about it, YES, I Prayed about finding a social life, I too was thinking that I was out of my mind, that Heavenly Father would have many other imporant things to worry about, ie..starving children in Africa, Spreading the Gospel, World Peace, not the social life of lil Mandiloo. I am here to say that He does care, even about the little things...SO in Feb I was home from work, which is rare, and I started chattin with my girl Kim from my mish, who invited me to go dancing, and to make a long story short, and not to ruin a future blog about my girl, thus began the Social life of Mandiloo...which has rocketed the number of my Facebook friends from like 20 to 200...lol

Soooo, besides finding my Kimmy-loo, who is one of the most FABulous peeps on the planet, I ran into another fellow OCM-er Dilya Peterson...and Dilya introed me to Madeline...aka Maddie, who is like my long lost twin, and together we are the M&M's: Maddie is tres bueno, but I call her a few of the following:

Maddie-Lou

Maddie - Dawn

Maddie-Ann

Maddie - Lynn

Maddi-Lishous (you can just about add Lishous to any name...seriously do I need to explain, it make everyone D-lishious!)

Well Maddie invited Dilya and I to play BUNKO, which is the most awesomestest (yes it IS A WORD) game in the friggin world, to play you break into groups of four peeps, 2 teams of 2, and you roll three dice. You start with 1's so you try to roll as many 1's in a row as you can, you continue to roll until you don't roll a 1. If you roll 1's with all three dice, it's called a BUNKO...and you yelll "BUNKO!!!!!" at the top of your lungs. The first person to roll 21 1's or a BUNKO wins that round. then you do the same thing with 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Any time you roll three 2's its called a TRAVEL, which means you get to hold some stuffed animal. It's super fun, and you end up getting REAL excited...I rolled like 1's five times in a row...AWESOME!!!! So after the BUNKO game, we decided to take some pictures...we couldn't get my camera, and when I say we, I mean me, I coudn't figure out the timer, so I'll have to post some of our other ones when I get them from Maddie nd Dilya

Here's my girl Maddie takin some Picts, we laughed alot

And here's Dilya and then the three of us...we are so ghetto fabulous!

So after our picture taking, we decided to go see "All About Steve", which is HILARIOUS, and I Highly recommend it! There are three things about this film that were absolutly FANtastic.

Numero UNO, it is very funny, I think my favorite line was "And You, stop tanning, you look like an Orange with Lips!". It also has a very sweet story about being yourself no matter what! I like comedies, where you learn something.

Numero DOS: The Red Boots, seriously, check them out, AWESOME! Kids, Mandiloo NEEDS these boots, I will find them I WILL

Numero Tres: And finally the best part of the movie, is Bradley Cooper...He is so pretty! To make things funnier, I dreamt about him that night, but turned him down.
I told him "Sorry Bradley Cooper, you are no K.K."

(Oh and ps K.K. is code, for those of you who read this who REALLY know me ~wink~)

Why on earth I felt the need to turn him down is BEYOND me...anyone who knows me, know I'd of melted like Butta, LIKE BUTTA!!!

Well, with that my friends I must close...MORE ADVENTURES TO COME!
Loves,

Mandiloo

Girls Camp 2009

2009-08-28T11:18:00.001-07:00

So these pix are from girls camp. We had such a blast, our skit was about Cars 2, the kids of cars, we also got rained on and for the first time since I can remember we got first place in the compass, which was SAWEET!!! Here are some of the picts I talked about in my last blogger-roo.

Here's the Bishop driving our car...AWESOME!!!!

This one is fun, it's the Mandy (i)'s. Angie, our pres calls us Holly and the Mandy's.

On the Left if Mandy w/a 'y' and on the right is me, Mandi w/an 'i'

This is our whole group with our Accounta-beetle. It's awesome what Can I say!

Jess and Skye driving in the car race, they had this huge obstacle course that you had to do whilst driving the car, the best was a chineese fire drill in the sand, sorry to say we crashed and burned, so funny, wish I had that on video

SO you can see we had a blast. More to come!

Later Gaters,
Mandiloo

Mandiloo's in SCHOOL??????

2009-08-25T10:07:00.000-07:00

Howdy Pard's
Well, I've done it, I'm finally back in school. I must admit, I've been on a three year hiatus, after being up at Utah State which totally has me freiking out! It's good though, I'm just wondering how I'm going to handle, that, my full time (+overtime) job, YW, and my social life...it will be interesting folks, and any advice...would FOR sure be welcome.
SPEAKING of YW, we had girls camp this summer, back in June and I have to admit, it was such a blast. I didn't realize how much work/effort goes into it on the leader's end, so I have to give a shout out to my FANtastic YW leaders that I had growing up. I really appreciate all that they did for me, our theme was "Roadway to Glory", and our Value was Choice and Accountablity, so we dubbed our camp the "Choice and Accounta-beetles" we made this AWESOME bug car out of a huge appliance box, painted it orange. Which was fun, we took pictures of out Bishop as the driver of said car, the skit, which I wrote was HI larious!, then we had this awesome testimony night. The Bishop talked about how our Testimonies are a light, and he light a candle and shared his testimony, then he lit his wife who was our camp director, and she shared her testimony, then she lit someone else. But the point was that when you share your testimony, you light up other people. There was such a sweet spirit there, and I just love all of our FANTASITC Young Women, they are amazing girls. I'm excited for my next year, I can't believe I've been in there for almost a year now. I'll post some of our camp pictures on here as soon as I can get them off facebook. Hope you all are well, and this finds you happy and full of JOY! More to come
Loves,
Mandiloo

These are a few of my FAVORITE things.....

2009-07-22T15:52:00.000-07:00

Hello kids!...So I've been thinking about something to do/say/write about and I came up with a few of my favorite things...So this blog will be dedicated to a few...just a smidgen of my favorite things...people...activites as it were. So, in no particular order we start with

Numero uno... Random sayings in Espanish!
Random sayings in Spanish...so you may ask me "Mandi, do you speak Spanish" and I will promplty tell you no, but I do have on hand for few occasions a handful of Spanish phrases...For example. "No Bueno" which my friends means not good, I use this one quite frequently...like when a toothless tongan man stalks me at the singles dances, one of my friends will say "Mandi how do you feel about that?" to which I reply..."No Bueno" or "Mandi how was work this week" again the reply "No Bueno". You see it comes in VERY handy..

Numero Doux... Shoes
Are you kidding me...Shoes should probably be one of the first things I can't live with out,
Here are a few of my favorite looks right now to add to my collection of fabulous footwear:

I'm totally loving the converse right now, and these red Madden pumps are adorable, but I have 3 red pairs already, and forget about it, the brown Carlos are adorable as well. anyway...moving on

Numero Tres
Brandi-ism...so this one needs a little background work. So I have this fantastic work friend named Brittani, You know Brittani #1 from an early post. Well the boys at work call us Brandi...the Br for Brittani and the Andi for Mandi. Brandisims merely refer to the collection of crazy quotes that frequent our office...here are a few of my personal favorites:

Mandi: "So I named the Xterra"
Britt #1: "Oh yeah, what?"
Mandi: "The Beast"
Britt: "oh, so it's a boy"
Mandi: "Yeah, but I'm going to make it girly, ya know, putting flower stickers on it and stuff"
Britt: "Oh, so it'll be hetero-sexual?"
Mandi: "you mean Metro-sexual, it's not GAY!"

Mandi: "You gotta hope that kid has a beard, cause when you hear Moses, you think guy with long white beard, and some tablets.."
Britt: "And an arc"

Jim (to Cheri): I'm using your name in vain alot
Britt: "So like 'oh my Cheri' or "What the Cheri?'..."

Numero four:
My neices and nephews...they are freiken sweet! take a look and see if you could live without them...I highly doubt it:

The Kidletts: L-R Kylee (7), Colt (ster 10mos), Ryann (4) Jaylee (bug 3mos), Ellie (4) and Kodee (lishous 2)
AND Finally Number 5: solitaire
Yep I said it, solitare. I can't live without it. One of the first things I do in the morning is play a game, draw three Vegas style...ahhhhhh...if I can win one Vegas style all of my wildest dreams will come ...well lets just say it makes it a little easier to make it through the day. I was up one night and started playing a game back to back to back, and won like 6 in a row, had I truely been gambling I'd have one like a thousand bucks...seriously it was amazing, next time I will post pictures, but I doubt I have a game in me that amazing...but we'll see.

Well, I'm out of things to say...More to come!!!
Later,
Mandiloo

Deer Hunting with my favorite older/younger brother

2009-07-07T20:09:00.001-07:00

So my family loves to hunt, and well sometimes, I pick up the hunting bug. But I thought I'd dedicate today's blog to my very first sucessful deer hunt. I was hunting the Central unit with my brother Chet. Me and Chet have the BESTEST luck together when we are hunting...

So Chet was with my baby sister Sam I am when she got her first buck...and well the tradition carried on with me...

Let me paintcha a little picture...it was the LAST day I could hunt, for I had to teach my mother's lesson so she could hunt the next day, and I had to be in Logan later on Sunday for the calling which I had...so we got up early and hit the 4-wheeler...well...Chet spotted2 deer, like a million miles away...seriously...I couldn't see them...and so we watched them come across the flat...then swung around to cut them off and maybe get a shot...after running up the steepest hill faster than I've ever run...we had a shot...it was my first time evening seeing an animal within shooting range...so I aimed for the bigger bodied and animal and.....PPOOOWWWW....I hit him...well wounded him...we tracked him all day and eventually got him....and well here it is..

L to R...Me, Chet and My dad

Turns out I shot the biggest "first" buck in the family...everyone else shot spikes or two points...He's 24 inch tall and 23 inches wide...4 point...The funny thing about it was the next day Sam shot this 29ish inch buck the very next day...talk about stealing my thunder..lol...

L-R My mom, Dad, Sam I am and her buck, Me my buck and the best guide ever Chet..

So as you can see, my buck looks puny compared to Sam's but I have to say it was the GREATEST hunt of my entire life...I loved every minute of it.

Now a word about Chet...he uh REALLy should've been born first, he has the personality for it, strait arrow, always did everything well...and me I was kinda the rebel slacker...so when he came to my family shortly after me...(like just over a year or so...18ish months maybe)...we there were fireworks...and it wasn't pretty...but 2 missions later...and lost of bonding through letters, and Chet well he's one of my best friends...and he's such a good example for me...he's got a fabulous wife Annie, who the next year shot the biggest buck in the family...and 3 of the most amazing kids on the planet. He's a great dad, and even better big brother...He's my favorite older younger brother...Love ya Chet!!!

So that's my post for the week...More adventure to come...I think I'll blog about solitare the next go around...it's my addiction...lol...and well I'm back on nights...so I don't know when then next installment will be...Later friends...
Mandiloo :)

Burnin the Midnight Oil

2009-05-26T10:35:00.000-07:00

Oh my Heck kids. I finally, after like what like months...I finally remembered the song...the random one that was stuck in my head...it's Burnin the Midnight Oil....I don't know why I remembered it...but I did and well I cared to share....I know right...that is the craziest song. In fact I think the only part I remember is the part of the chorus that is like "Burning the Midnight Oil"...I honestly don't think I've ever heard the song in its entirety. So...I'll be updating you from time to time when I have these moments of craziness when weird random songs get stuck in my head.

So I thought I'd post some of my more FAVORITE moments from the lives of my neices...and a nephew. Every year we go out to our ranch at some point for some camping adventures. This year pretty much the whole crew was out for the deer hunt, both me and my dad had Vernon tags...which took like 10 years to draw...yikes...So, my sister Sam...who has a pretty good eye for picture taking took some pretty awesome shots...here are a few of my favorite of the girls...

Check out those poses...can you say...MODEL..seriously...it makes a photographer's job look easy when you get some major posing like that... (L-R Ellie (4), Ryann (4) and Kylee (6))

This is Ellie...so this is what she's thinkin in this picture..."hi...I'm gonna do it.." and I'm thinking..."No your not"...and she's like..."Watch me.."

Ellie: "See...I've got my foot...here it is...it's coming..." Me: "Really..."
Ok...so at this point...really I don't need to say anything...

Ellie: "I think I've made my point"... I don't know what she was really trying to do, but when Sam showed me these picture of here. I about died...she is HI-larious...

This one is probably my favorite...it's of Sam...and all the girls.. Kodee is on her lap...then from L-R, Ellie, Kylee (sisters) and Ryann (Kode's sister).

All in all I have the most fabulous neices in the world...They are so much fun. We had Ryann and Kodee this weekend come and stay with us...and my mom kept trying to get Kodee to come tell me some big secret...here's how that all went down..

Me: Kode...tell me your secret

Kode: No

Me: Come on Lish (we call her Kodee-lishous)...tell Aunt Mandi

Kode: No!

Me: I'll tell you a secret, if you tell me one

Kode: Otay...

Me: I whisper some jibberish in her ear and she laughs

Kode: (whispering) I'n AWEsome!

It's true They are all awesome! Well that's about it for me...Hope you are all doing well, and life is treating you good...I'm out...More adventures to come!

Mandiloo

So, I'm changin my blog.....layout and stuff...maybe

2009-05-20T15:20:00.000-07:00

Howdy Y'all...
So it's been a while since my last post...sorry kido's but work came a-callin! I was on nights, now permit me to vent for a minute about my job...it sucks working nights...not only was I working nights, I was generally getting between 12-16ish hours a day...now subtract 90mins driving time...so we're looking at being awake for like 18ish hours in 24...leaving WHAT???for sleeping...I was not a happy camper...and my body STILL thinks it's on nights!!!...Kids, it was NOT pretty!!! So I've devised the top 10 reason's working nights sucks....

#10...If your going to be up all night...you should be doing something fun...not working...that way at least you are enjoying being sleep deprived...
#9...You're sleep deprived
#8...You're immune system gets shot to h....heck!(See #9)
#7...You have a tough time switching back to real life...
#6...You fall asleep waiting for your family to come from Grantsville on Mother's day when you even got up and showered, made yourself cute, then went to read, because they were going to be out in like 30 mins, well whilest reading you fall asleep (bear in mind kids it was like noon) and sleep till 10 o-clock that evening...missing the entire family and the cutest kids on the planet...0h oh ANNNNDDDDD you miss really good dinner!!!!(for reason see #9)
#5...You miss all the good shows season finales...yep, and the DVR only recorded a few seconds of LOST....AHHHHH...and it left off half the end of The Hills...stupid technology!!
#4...ummm uhhh I forgot what #4 was (again see #9 for reasons)
#3...You are mean to people...Darren would say that is just normal for me...but I'm really a nice person...I AM!!~!!!
#2...Your family thinks that when the talk to you after like two weeks, that you've come back from the dead....
and the number one reason that working nights suck is.....
Hey...I don't know...It just really REALLY SUCKS!!! and the goverment steals all your overtime...

So, I think it's time that I changed my blog layout, but I have NO idea what I want to do...oh and I need to figure out a way to change my playlist to play all my rockin songs in random mode...it's getting old hearing the same ole thing...so if you have any ideas, or cute websites...pleas feel free to comment or find me on facebook and write on my wall or something!
Thanks, More to come,

Mandiloo

Weird and Random Songs that get stuck in my Head!

2009-04-28T15:49:00.000-07:00

Well kids, time for another entry, it's been a couple weeks, and although I have a list of my fabulous blog topics, none of them interested me this week, so I said to myself, "Mandi, if it's boring to you, it will be boring to your readers...what very, VERY, little there are..." So today's topic, is rather facinating, it's the songs that get stuck in my head, and USUALLY friends, it's not the whole song, and sometimes it's a song I don't even know, or haven't ever listened to, but I keep singing them over, and over, and OVER!!!!

I can see after reading this, I sound kinda insane...you know crazy girl, getting songs she doesn't "really know" stuck in her head, or the fact that I've never heard them... Reading this one might ask themselves..."soooo are these songs 'real'..." Well stop judging!!!THEY ARE!!! I even sing them to my co-workers...okay mostly Britt #1, and she's pretty quick to reassure me that they ARE in fact real songs, and I'm not going crazy...

So, I had the craziest song stuck in my head yesterday, it was one that I've never heard all the way through before...I only had this one line from the chorus, and right now I can't even remember what that dang song was, I even wrote it down, but i can't find that peice of paper I wrote it down on, but I'm tellin ya, it was CRAZY! I asked my girl, Britt #1 (see Jerry Sloan Tie Club entry for which Britt I speak of), and she couldn't remember either. So she started coming up with possible names. She was like "Um-Uh...Brave heart, or Heart...Something...Breaking hearts, or something like that", and I'm like "NO!!!"...We've had a good laugh about it this afternoon...oh and laughing reminds me, we also laughed about a ruler today...lol...Wink Wink!!

So here I sit, trying to rack my brain about a stupid song, from an era of music I don't even like!...Sad really... So that got me thinking...again...(twice in one day...who knew?)...that Maybe...just maybe I ought to keep a record or log book of these songs, because I think it could be psychologically linked to my stress level...

Well enough of my random rant. Sooooo I'm way sad that the Jazz lost to the Lakers in the playoff's...because not they are all on summer vacations, and I'm going to have a hard time not seeing.....Jerry Sloans ties anymore...seriously that was like a wicked-awesome part of my week...So, after May the JSToftheMC (Jerry Sloan Tie of the Month Club) will be going on summer vacation too (mostly because this summer I'm WAY busy)...

So Yeah, well...I guess I'd better close, next week after my sister Sam I am returns from school, I'm going to get some pictures of our annual family trip to the ranch for easter, and post all about it...yeah totally late..I know right!?!

Well friends, this has been a good week...so far! More to come!

Mandiloo

My Favorite lil buddy!

2009-04-09T10:18:00.000-07:00

Hey Kids! So I've been thinkin' about what I could blog upon, since so many of my previous posts have been SOOOOO popular...Here's a quick little list of what's to come :)

1). Flip a coin road trips...Yeah I know y'all are DYING for that one.

2). Playing solitaire at work...I'm AWESOME

3). I should Definantly dress the Jazz players...there's a picture of Paul Milsap in a Particularly Heinous red suit...if I can find it...it's SOOOO on here!

4). Lost, Chuck and some of my other Favorite Shows!

5). Weight watchers...I LOVE IT!

6). Being Everyone's Favorite companion on my mission...and some more memorable times

7). My nieces/nephew.

So kids, in the light of number 7, the topic of my blog today is my ...such a studd...nephew Colt.

He's missin' in my family picture, because well that pic was taken before he was born.

This is Colt Robert Thomas He's Chet and Annie's third kid, yep I said third...they have THREE kids...he was born in Sept of 08. I call him "the Colt-ster" or "The Colt-meister". Colt is my first and only Nephew. He's such a good kid, and I am SO his favorite Aunt...I'm pretty much all my Niece's and Nephew's favorite Aunt...well maybe accept for Kodee-lishous...she keeps calling me Sam... Colt spent his first 10 days or so in NICU, with pneumonia...he had a rough start to life, but he is doing GREAT now.

Man that kid is a TANK!...so in honor of the CUTEST BOY on the PLANET...Here is my top 10 things I love about COLT

Number 10: He softest cry in the world...seriously...it's a good thing I'm not his mom, I'd NEVER hear him cry at night.

Number 09: His little chubby cheekys see for your self

Number 08: He comes to me from his mom...on the rarest of rare occasions...but he'll come to me before a lot of my family.

Number 07: He was born at the best time of the year: Fall...everything good happens in the fall, it's not blazing hot anymore, it's pretty in the mountains and HELLO...the Hunts

Number 06: He has eyelashes I would kill for...or pay to have installed :)...seriously you'll have to take my word for it!

Number 05: He has an army crawl that would rival any service man...that kid can SCOOT!

Number 04: He has the BEST laugh...it's HI-Larious!

Number 03: He's got gorgeous blue eyes..

Number 02: He got two of the best parents on the planet!

And the Number one Reason I LOVE "The Colt-ster" is:

Number 01: He is the closest thing to heaven on earth, and he's my favorite lil buddy.

So that's it, that is my "The Colt-ster"....the one and only "Colt-meister". I love that little guy. He is so much fun, and so laid back...we always have the BEST time!.

Well kids, thanks for tunin in! TTFN...Ta ta for now!

More to come...Have a B-E-A-Utiful day, and a great tomorrow!

Mandiloo

My Sad, Sad Little NCAA Bracket...Stupid teams That Screwed me over!

2009-03-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

Ok, so last week, the muddy week, andI blog about HOW excited I was that my teams made the NCAA tourny...well shock of all shockers....they let me down... Both Utah, who was a 5-seed...HELLO lost to Arizona and Utah State, my Aggies lost to Marquette by 1...1 stinkin point...the Utes loss killed me for a time, but other key losses kept me in the running at least until Pitt lost...I had them winning it all...stupid Pitt!!!...ahh another year WASTED!

So, now that I've depressed myself again with another year of failure to pick teams that will win, I'll get on to a brighter note. So, I've recently become a fan of watching the Jazz play, we don't have time to really dwell on why I watch the Jazz play, but one thing that I do is check out the hurt players and how they dress...usually a fashionista like myself can catch the injured players on the the side line...and critique what they are wearing...sure, sure, I'll miss D-Will dropping a "killer crossover" for a auick bucket, usually taking a less than adaquit defender down with him, (a phrase that a recent KSL Commentor said needed to go), but wait!...Boozer's on the side line in a killer Armini suit...well friends, when we got healthy...there was nobody to play dressup, other than the hotties in uniform...so I started to check out Jerry Sloan's ties...man that dude has one heck of a tie collection...so I would point out the tie to my madre. Soon my MOM started to check out the ties, it became one of the first thing we looked for...we'd be like..."oh..that tie is Awesome...or now it needs to go" So I told my girl Brittani (from work, there are several Britt's in my life, we'll call her Britt #1) and she started checking out his ties, so she tells her husband Nick...AVID JAZZ FAN>>>SEASON TICKET HOLDER>>>HOLLA!..and HEEEE starts checking out Sloan's ties...so I said to myself "Mandi. you're on to something here" that is when the JSTotMC...or the Jerry Sloan Tie of the Month Club... was born. It's basically me, my mom, Britt #1, and my sis-law Britt...we'll call her Britt #2, and I pretty much find the rockin-est ties that Sloan wears and send that pic once a month to my member..we comment and have a good laugh. Here are a few of my VERY Favorite ties :)

I'm a big fan of stripes and the orange and brown...might I add are simply divine!

I don't usually like patterns, but this one is nice and OLD SCHOOL, in the fashion world friends, we call it vintage.

Anyhoo. Jed and Britt (#2) were up this weekend with the baby...she is so cute...and Not to brag or anything...but I am definantly her favorite...On a serious note, after all of my earlier babbling. My life is pretty darn good! I'm healthy, as is my fabulous family. I really feel blessed. Hope you are all well..and thanks for tuning in...oh and if you happen to see a fab tie of Jerry Sloan..you know where to email it! More to come!

Have a B-E-A-Utiful day, and a great tomorrow!

Lates,

Mandiloo

YAY for New Babies...She's here!!!

2009-03-17T07:47:00.000-07:00

Okay, So I'm a day late and a dollar short, but Jed and Brittany had a baby girl yesterday!!!!

Jaylee Della Thomas

was born on March 16th, 2009

at noon in Southern, UT

So I am SOOOOO excited, and she is so cute..you'll see I'll be postin' some awesome pix!!! Jed called me at work yesterday and said "I'm a daddy"..can I tell you how weird it is to have your baby brother tell you he is a daddy?...but I'm happy for them, and soooo glad that Jaylee is here!

More to come :)

Mandiloo

Mud......it SUCKS!!!, and sticks to "The Beast"!

2009-03-14T21:49:00.000-07:00

Today, I'm going to blog about my Xterra...I know...it's just a car, but it's my "just a car". I've name him "The Beast"...because I can't call it a truck, and S-U-V, takes to long to say and it always got confused because I'd call my civic "the civ" and the Xterra "the suv"...it was mess, besides I name all my vehicles and well "The Beast" fit, it mean, bad and totally rad...there is a drawback to the XTERRA, it loves the mud, can't get enough..it ESPECIALLY loves to drive through mud puddles at EXTREMELY high rates of speed, I try to slow him down, but there is no stopping "The Beast". But, can I just tell you I'm so SICK of the MUD!!! I've washed "The Beast" like 2 times a week this last month. I live on a dirt road, and it snows, melts, gets muddy, "the beast" wants to go out and play and I can't stop him...what's a girl like me to do? Oh well enough of my rant about muddy dirt roads!

On a brighter note! BOTH of my favorite teams are in the NCAA tournament, yep kids, I love college basketball and the Utes and the Aggies both won thier tournament today...it was AWESOME..oh yeah and BYU will probably go to...I guess that is okay...Oh and I heard the funniest thing whilst I was watchin the Aggie game, Big Blue..our mascot totally ripped the moustashe of "Pistol Pete" the cowboy's off and was suspended for the game. I'm going to figure out how to post a video of it from You Tube..It was SPECTCULAR, and it was done because and Aggie fan bet him 100 dollars!..you gotta love March Madness..

Well have a great day and a B-E-A utiful tomorrow!

Mandiloo

Post numba dos..it almost ryhmes!

2009-03-07T10:16:00.000-08:00

My Family

So, this is my family...minus a few. So, I guess I should introduce y'all to my homies, starting on the left, back row is my bro in law Judd, and my sister Jackie, then Me, My Dad Burt, My brother Chet and my brother Jed. In the front is my Sister Sam...I call her Sam I am..yes like Green Eggs and Ham. Then my Fab mom Cheryl, Annie (Chet's wife and Judd's sister, yep my bro and sis married a bro and sis) She's holding Kylee...This picture was taken at our home in Vernon about 4..ish years ago...here's a funny story about this picture, we decided that we'd all wear Navy and white...notice that I am the only on in white with navy...I guess I just have to be different. So my family is pretty much the AWESOME-EST family ever...plus, and this is a plus everyone in my family has married someone TOTALLY cool...We've grown a lot since then. Chet and Annie have 3 adorable kids now. Kylee(7-in Apr), Ellie (4) and Colt (6mos). Jackie and Judd have 2 darling girls, Ryann (4) and Kodee (2). Jed married a Delta girl...Brittany Johnson in May of 07 and they are expecting a little girl any day now.

So I think I've been pretty blessed. Both my sister in law's are amazing women, and are the best example's to me, I have a hard time calling them in-laws because they are more like real sister's to me. And my brother in law is pretty awesome as well. He's a good man, and totally cracks me up! Plus, I have the cutest kids on the planet for nieces and nephews!

Right to left
Judd, Ryann, Jackie, Kodee
Me, Sam, Jed Brittany
My Mom, Dad, Kylee, Ellie
Annie and Chet.

Well, I guess I'll close. Hopefully I can post on Fridays from now on, at least that's the plan. Hope y'all have a wonderful week!
Oh and my new poll will be how I should end these posts of mine...I need a catchy ending remark...something flashy!!! Any idea's?...let me know...
Later,
Mandi-loo

New blogger alert..this is probably gonna be lame!

2009-03-03T11:57:00.000-08:00

Hey Ya'll
So like the title says this is Mandil00, and yes I'm here to admit, I'm a new blogger. Luckily I have an awesome work-partner in crime to show me how to work this thing, or it'd be REALLY Lame! ha ha
Well, for those of you who are new to my blog, welcome. I thought rather than having a lot of the same conversation with peeps on Facebook about what I'm doing...I'd send em to my blog, then I only have to type this once, and we can truly get down to business.
So right now I'm living at home, it's kinda nice, I'm getting all the student loans paid off and junk, savin up some cash-o-la to spend on something?-Don't really know where that is going but hey that's life and it's full of surprises!
My life is pretty busy right now! I work full time -plus at a job that well, I'm not going to lie, I don't LOVE my job, but it pays the bills...really REALLY well. I'm in the Young Women's in my ward, it's probably the BEST calling ever, it's really brought me as close to the Lord as I've been since I was on my mission, and our girls are AWESOME...Holla Vernon Ward Girls!-love y'all.
When I'm not working or hangin' with the YW, I'm with my fabulous family. They are the best, and I'll be devoting an ENTIRE entry to how they are doing...and probably one to each of my 4 and half (one to be here in a couple weeks) nieces...and my studly nephew.
AAAAND when I'm not with my fam, I spend most Sat nights dancing with my friends...tryin to meet a hottie-J/K.
Well, until I find an rockin way to sign out...this is it y'all.
Mandil00