BACKSTREET BOYS!!!!

We were honored enough to have won tickets (on the radio) to see Backstreet boys last Friday and it was amazing!! We got a special wristband that allowed us to go the third story of a bungalow shared with 4 other people and we could see the whole concert from there! Let me go back and explain, the concert was at Manadalay Bay Beach. This "beach" has a stage in the middle of a pool that has varying depths. There was abt 40 feet of water in front of the stage and so in order to get close you have to get in! But only to knee height water. Then there is about 250ish feet of sand you can stand and watch from, then there is where we got to sit. It rocked! We had our own pool, bathroom, and couches to chill out on during the concert (even though we spent most of the time in the water). I was loving it and singing the whole time, rocking out to the oldies but favorites of Backstreet Boys, and poor Clay, he put up with it and stood strong as one of the few straight men there. It was awesome!! Oh and of course the concert opened up with the song "Backstreet's back" and not to much of a surprise, I was grossed out by them singing love songs to 16 year old girls because they are well over the age they used to be. Their ages ranged from 30-36... seriously guys? Sing the song to someone else besides the ones that are illegal. But we enjoyed it and Clay will never go to a boyband concert again. It was a great Friday night!

Friends!

We have been very blessed to have friends come and visit us in Vegas!

First: Charley Hinckley Nelson and Jared! We went to Kilroys- its bomb!! Then we went to Fremont Street and Jared and Clay met their new favorite Saxophonist- this guy is ridiculous, he seduces 70 year old women with his sax.


Second: We have Clays best mission buddy friend and his no longer girlfriend... she was really nice. But we went to the New Orleans buffet. It was pretty dang good but there were too many of these little guys around.


Lastly in this fun post of friends were Clay's and now my cousins Jake and Bailey they are awesome! I would put pictures, but I dont have any... bummer. I thought I did. Well it is awesome when people come and visit and we absolutely love it! And I thoroughly encourage visitors anytime!!

Cousins!

I promised Autumn that I would blog about them coming, so here it is Autumn, Dan, and Audrey came to visit!!

We, being Clay and I, met them at Port of Subs which is an amazing sandwich place, and we got to bond over lunch. It made me realize how much I miss family and especially my amazing cousins! But I am so glad Vegas is a stopping point between American Fork and Arizona! We love you guys!I love the Christmas list- Juanita, Marcos, and Rigo... guess what part of town we were in.. :)

REBELS!

So to add to my page for once in a long time I am going to say how fun it is to go to a school that actually has a football team! Go Rebels! Last week was against Hawaii and we barely scraped by (yes we, like I'm part of the team). We had these hawaiians sitting by us who were an everso friendly semi-drunk group but they were hilarious and super friendly.

The whole time they were chearing Hawaii on and holding signs like this. They were even pretty positive when Hawaii was winning. At one point UNLV was ahead and then Hawaii scored putting them ontop. This one large Hawaiian man pointed at everyone around us saying "sad face" while pointing and laughing, which almost sounds rude but the way he said it and once he did it, the UNLV fans did it too whenever they came out ontop over Hawaii. Needless to say Clay and I will be going to many more because this stuff is fun! Go UNLV! It was said today by my coworker that UNLV is one of the best schools to root for because no one expects them to win, so when they do its a huge victory and when they lose its no big deal. But no need to worry, they wont be losing with Clay and I as fans :)


hopefully...

The Bug Bite

I was at Clay's parents house Sunday a few weeks ago and i look down on my leg to see this huge while spot. I figured it was a mosquito bite so I ignored it. Later it became red, the size of my palm and super raised, without my scratching it. Still no idea what it was. Next day it looked similar to the picture, but a bit more raised because I kept pressure on it and cold stuff. Benadryll didnt help, the medicine the doctor gave me did nothing, and it would not go down and it throbbed constantly! Little did I know that this mystery bug's bite would only go down with this Native American recipie for salve that my mother-in-laws mother makes. After two days it decreased it in size in half. Waited 3 days for it to go down by itsself, didnt happen. I put it on again and 4 days later it was gone. Strange but way cool.

(Its the large red spot)

2 weeks later, we're taking family pictures at the sand dunes, we get home, I see this huge red bump but now on my calf. Thank goodness for this salve.

The brown hair

So I've always wanted to dye my hair brown and one day I decided to be super tricky and do it right before a family reunion. And it was dark. Kristin did not like it. Many did but her lack of loving it still persisted. She would not wear it down because the dye looked weird and always looked not straight. It frustrated her. So next Wednesday in a pretty much hopeless attempt to make my hair look better I'm going to get highlights all over to try and "lighten" it because to turn it all back one color is A) really bad for your hair B) can make it fall out -says 4 hair places- and c) would be more money. SO goodluck to me for Wednesday, and the moral of the story is, when you get curious about hair colors, 1)make sure you get it done somewhere not with a box mix 2)be careful how light/dark you want to go 3) stop being curious and just dont do it. Its not work the pain of the new haircolor and the oney to fix it.

The Proposal

I have no idea how to do anything remotely fancy like my sister Camille with this blog but this movie The Proposal is such a funny movie! I was impressed with it and of course I loved the cheesy ending that was quite necessary. Luckily I was watching the movie at home and I could avoid Oscar from The Office http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/ giving Sandra Bullock her "special bridal shower" dance. But seriously, very cute movie, original (as far as a chick flick goes with the deportation thing) and as long as you have a fast forward button it rocks :)

Wind...

Today in Rexburg, it has been the most windy I have felt it in a long time- within the past week I felt like our roof was going to blow off of our house, or that it might tip Clay's bike over, or our house for that matter. All this is normal for Rexburg and I was going to let it go until today. Today I saw a girl literally tip over because of the wind. I was walking out of class when a huge gust came, it knocked me to the side along with about 20 other people that were in my view but I saw this poor girl in heels tip over... yes I was laughing in my head but it was a sad sight. I dont know if you can read this it says 44mph wind, but we all know that weather.com lies occasionally. I think its at 78mph and getting worse- okay maybe not that bad, but that poor girl... I just wish I had Camilles talent with bringing a camera everywhere or a cool phone so I could have photographed that incident.

COMPUTER!

So I am fortunate enough to have a husband who realizes when there is a need and we have been looking at computers the last few weeks with nothing serious in mind... But here it is! I'm on my brand new HP something and it is great!

That my cool story, that I have a rockin computer and an amazing husband! = )

Life

So here is the skinny on life- Clay and I spent the last 4 months down in Las Vegas for my internship. We got back to Rexburg last Saturday. We will be here till the end of July which is when I finally get my degree in Accounting. Then back down to Las Vegas where I start as an associate at PBTK http://www.pbtk.com And currently I am outside on wireless internet at my in-laws house chillin with my new little sister getting a tan at 62 degrees. Score for winter pretty much being over!

Lions and Tigers and Bears... well really only lions for now...

For those of you who have not had the amazing opportunity to go to the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel, this is what you're missing out on! A $9 million exhibit built for our enjoyment This is the girl lion on top of me, did you know lions have spots so they blend into the jungle?

The boy lion and clays hand

The next unsuspecting victim...

The next unsuspecting victim...

So what these cool lion tamer people do is they have this huge ball of ground up horse (and for those of you saying thats gross, its not, it looks like hamburger) and they rip a chunk off and throw it on the window right infront of your face so you can see the lions up close. It is SO COOL!

So what is next on the Yardley journey you ask? We hear there are tigers, dolphins, and sharks! Score!

LV BABY!

Ha oh my heck so I am way behind in this blog thing and I appologise to the three people who read it. Clay and I are in Las Vegas now, and after week #1 of work, I totally think I could be an auditor! But I would need to understand the processes and terminology and well pretty much everything still to be successful. We have our new car and we love it! Got it yesterday = )

Like this one but pimper! go us. What else, there is no snow. It is beautiful here and we live in an area where at 9 at night Clay and I can go for walks and see no one else on the street! Score 1 point for us, 0 for muggings! Oh and we just got internet today so after making a "blog" for one of my classes I remembered this beautiful thing.

Oh one interesting point to touch on... when we moved into our apartment we had tons of these everywhere...

Gross I know. But thankgoodness for my mini dust buster they are all in cricket heaven now (half already were)

Oh but back to the job, its great I work with 10 other people in the room, I believe all of them have been working there for a year or less but they are fountains of knowledge! Can't wait to have that 1 year under my belt! Also they are mainly LDS which is way cool and I love the working environment. That is my story for now, after I take pictures of my perks and when I get new years pictures off the camera they will so end up here.

P.S. new years we spent on the strip, so not worth it. fyi. but the casinos were beautiful.

I love SF

My amazing sister Camille, our super great photographer, my husband and I all took a trip to SF the day before the wedding. Cam did a great job of driving around taking rockin' pictures and being a great sister! Nate did a great job of picture taking. Clay and I did fantastically at smiling and kissing as much as they told us to. It was fun.

Who would have thought...

So for a bit of extra income I decided to clean apartments at the end of the semester for Nauvoo House (a college co-ed apt complex). Now for those of you who are not up to date with whats hot in Rexburg, Nauvoo is known by the less fortunate as a upper class place to live, by the higher class a decent place second to The Ridge. Pretty much what I am trying to get at is they leave there junk everywhere and fail to clean up their apartments like they were supposed to before leaving for break or perminately.

Example 1

Now this may look like a normal washcloth to you. But this picture does not do
it justice.... This is after 3 washes and its original color was white. Now it is a faded
bluewith dark stains from who knows what that I found and had to clean out of a fridge
for 45 min, no joke. It was gross.

Example 2

This is an example of a meaning only 1 kind of microwave I encountered. Sick is the word I use to describe it. For those of you thinking that its not that bad please keep in mind this is taken with a poor camera phone so the true level of discustingness is not there.

I know all of you feel for me right now so I would like to announce that after 4 days of torture I am done, 21 fridges and microwaves cleaned, 378 cupboards cleaned, 651 shelves, and 13 splits and cuts in my hand (due to extreme dryness from chemicals) later.

Thank goodness

A troublesome decision...

The first blog... its a big deal, and very stressful might I add! But here it is... it was a hard choice between two things... so I made up my mind and you get both you blog happy people you.

The muffins

I had this great desire to make muffins the other day and wanting to be all housewifey I decided to take a shot at it and make almond poppy seed muffins. Score right? But not when they looked like mine did... I had no cupcake tins and for those of you who do not know, you need a muffin pan, there is a point to it. So I used a 9x13 instead! Genius? Not really... my 12 muffins turned into a muffin brick on the top barely separated by the actual paper cups. not cool muffins, not cool.


The cats

You can see the small object darting out of the cage in front
of it... that's the cat

I really hope this does not soundunpleasant because its not that bad... we found out that we had cats living under our trailer and with the help of a cat trap our neighbor lent us we have been slowly taking care of them. Not in the killing way but in the relocation sense. As of yesterday we were at cat 7. There is still 1 at large... we'll get it soon. cant wait!