HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMIE

Today was also Jamies Birthday! He is 26 today! For his gift I got him "The Office season 4" He was very excited and we have spent the night eating California Pizza Kitchen and watching the Office! Plus he got four free foot massages from me! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!!

It's Ours!!

Jamie and I officially own our car! It is very exciting to own my own car! And plus there is one less payment each month! Holla!!!

Weekened Fun!

Well, This weekend was a fun one! I will start with Friday.

Friday Jamie and I had a date night. I was looking through our starving student card to see if I can find any fun things to do for cheap, when I found the buy one get one free admission to the local skating rink. Now mind you I haven't been skating in YEARS! And Jamie has only skated a couple times in his whole life, but I thought it would be fun anyway, besides I thought, it is probably like riding a bike!..... Guess again. I can not tell you how hard it was to Rollerblade around this tiny rink ( is it just me or did those things look gigantic in Elementary school?) The whole night I never felt "comfortable". And poor Jamie was scooting around inch by inch. However he did a great job and I am proud to announce we both didn't fall once. I tell you though, I completely forgot how much Rollerblades hurt your feet! Plus the majority of the people on the rink were under the age of 11 so I was more concerned with killing one of the "little people" that were zipping all over the place! To all my Chico peeps, if you thought Cal Skate was ghetto, you have seen nothing until you been to the Orem Skating rink! All in all I really enjoyed it plus it was good exercise!

Saturday Jamie and I always sleep in (it the only night we get more than 5 hour's of sleep) so I was glad to wake up at about 10:30! Now since my B-day landed on a Sunday this year (thanks to the stupid Leap year!) Jamie was giving me most of my Presents on Saturday. Saturday was my spa day! I went and had a pedicure and a message, got some waxing done, and then finished the afternoon off buying a new pair of jeans that I desperately needed! THANK YOU BABE! Meanwhile Jamie was off with my little Bro Spencer at the BYU against UCLA Football game... that's right BYU SPANKED UCLA by winning 59-0 yes you did read that right, that is a ZERO!! The rest of that day was spent relaxing and watching some movies

Sunday was my 22 Birthday. Jamie and I have early morning church so we were up early and in church by 9:00 am. The night before I had made brownies for the 14-15 year old's that we teach Sunday school to in honor of my Birthday. After church we came home and took a nap. About 3:30 that afternoon Jamie and I had planned to go up to the Canyons to the look out point and then come home to make my Birthday dinner of BBQ Hamburgers, French Fries, and Corn ( really don't ask why this is my Birthday dinner, its not my favorite food, but it is what I have had since I can remember and tradition is tradition! At least thats what they say on fiddler on the roof :) Any way, the canyon was Beautiful and it was a nice drive. When I arrived home I was pleasantly surprised by a decorated house a people there to wish me a happy Birthday! That is right Jamie through me a surprise party! It was a lot of fun and we finished the night off with great Ice cream cake YUM!!! Thanks to all that made my birthday a great success and a lot of fun!

STOP SMOKING PLEASE!!

OK, so we all know that smoking is bad for your health, we have heard about this since our elementary school days when the D.A.R.E guy or the one man with the giant cigarette would come to school and teach us about the harmful effects of smoking. However all this knowledge doesn't seem to really register with people or they really don't care. I know I have friends and family who smoke! Many of you know that I am in the process of switching majors into public health, I am currently an exercise science major, and many of my classes cross over, however I have decided to make a change. In one of my classes on Chronic Disease prevention we are going into deep research on smoking. And I wanted to share some of the new data that has come out recently and somethings maybe you haven't thought of before.

First off we all know that smoking causes cancer, and in the past it has been documented that smoking puts you at greater risk of heart disease, however research is getting closer and closer to proving that smoking doesn't just increase your risk but could actually CAUSE heart disease. (did I mention that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the country, not to mention its one of the leading PREVENTABLE causes of death).

One excuse I often hear from smokers is "well, we all have to die sometime who cares if I die." OK maybe that is somewhat of a good point, but have you ever thought that maybe you wont actually die, more and more technology as developed to prevent people from dying of lets say a stroke, so have you ever thought that smoking may cause you to live out the rest our your 30- 40 years of your life in extreme pain, unable to move, or take away all previous joy in your life? So maybe you wont just die that is become more and more likely these days. Now you are more likely to live you life with a viable brain but with a body that wont respond anymore, I think that is more miserable then just cutting the 20 years from your life from smoking (yes smoking can cut up to 20 years off your life)

So another excuse is that I could quit at anytime, if I start seeing ill effects then I will stop! Did you know that after a person stops smoking that it takes 10-14 years before their RISK of heart disease even BEGINS TO LOWER! That's right you could stop right now and you are still at the same risk you were when smoking for about 10-14 years, so don't just think I could stop at anytime and then I will be perfectly healthy, I DON'T THINK SO!!

Next, "Its OK I only smoke maybe once or twice a day, its not like I'm some heavy smoker!" Yes I have heard this excuse before but did you know that even smoking just one cigarette per day TRIPLES!!!! Your RISK of heart disease! That's right not just hurts or even doubles your risk, but TRIPLES your risk from one lousy cigarette per day!

So I could go on with more, but I have written a lot! Please people really think before you start to smoke or if you currently are I am BEGGING you to stop now get some help whatever you have to do, just like uncle SAM "I want YOU to put out that cigarette"!

SHIRL.. AKA Shirley Askey.

So this weekend Shirl my best friend from Chico came down from her college in Idaho to visit! I haven't seen her since my wedding so it was a visit greatly overdue. Usually we get together during the summer for a time but Shirl spent her summer working and Disney world! The pictures posted above are from before my wedding, my camera died so I didn't get any pictures this time, needless to say it was a great visit full of laughs and tons of pictures from her adventures at the happiest place on earth! We even got to stop by the mall for a pretzel maker pretzel, an old past time of ours! Oh in case you were wondering the mask is a power ranger mask from the Disney store in the mall! Any way I already miss her and wished that we got together more often. I read a quote the other day that basically sums up how I feel about our relationship currently and gave me great peace.... "The most beautiful discover that true friends can make, is that they can grow separately without growing apart."