Flash Back Friday: Dance Partners

I like this picture. It kind of sums up who is cooler in our relationship.

Him: beautiful deep brown(er) from the summer sun
Me: just sunburned
Him: using his years of dance lessons to whisk me around
Me: just holding on and trying not to step on his feet
Him: letting the suave, sexy Latino loose and getting his hips into it
Me: awkwardly giggling at his sexy hips
Us: a good combination


(picture from my sister Rebecca's wedding, June 2010)

Flash Back Friday: Winco

We were grocery shopping buddies in college. Seemed like a smart thing to do considering we ate at each other's apartments 90% of the time anyways. So then when we were out shopping and he reached for the creamy peanut butter to put in his cart I could shake my head and say, "oh no, you don't want that. I like crunchy". Food at my house I liked, food at his house I liked....it worked out quite nicely.

Someone back me up on how amazing WinCo is. I miss it. 

(And yes, these are supremely bad phone pictures. Get over it if you were under or on it.)

Flash Back Friday: Dinner al dente

Oh the memories this picture brings back. We were dating. Job planned and prepared a nice romantic dinner for us. He made a big deal out of everything, picked me up from school, brought be back to his apartment, got me a gift, this was all a surprise to me, etc..
He whisked me into the oasis of love and good food......BUT the food was not cooked all the way.
We got hungry.
We went out for Mexican food.
We had a lunch date with {fully cooked} pot roast the next day instead.
We still laugh about the uncooked dinner.
It is times like that when you get to know a person, and I'm am glad neither Job nor I freaked out over plans that didn't pan out. Sometimes you've just gotta roll with the punches. It was still a romantic date in my eyes, mostly because Job was and still is suuuper adorable.
Plus I got an extra
lunch date out of it so, score.

Flash Back Friday: Dinner Conversation

My Dad loved doing surgery. And he was good at it. He was a podiatrist/podiatric surgeon, and all his patients loved him. I was his patient several times and I sure did.
He would bring up surgery at the dinner table while we were growing up, which  brought interested comments from mum (she is a very good wife :) and "ewwww!"s from us kids.
Once I got out of the "ew" stage I found it fascinating. He would help me with my Anat and phys homework in high school. He would let me borrow his preserved bones to study/make a cool Halloween costume. He was so proud that I became a nurse. And once, my sister and I got to observe while he performed a day of surgeries. It was a blessing we did it when we did. Those were the last surgeries he performed.
But more than what we talked about, I remember just having dinner together as a family each night. It made a big impact in my life and I am so grateful for wonderful parents who made that a priority.

It's a.... (not mine)

Well, as you can see I was wrong in my guess. But I couldn't be more excited for their little baby girl to come :)

Congrats Jess and McKay!
(I am totally counting this as Flash Back Friday. It happened, like, two weeks ago. Way back when.... ;)

We be rocking the 90's in those sweat suits

"There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover"

This was one of our favorite castles in England. As such we visited it...a lot. After several visits us kids would start to whine a little when our parents announced we were taking guests to Dover Castle. We went so many times it became a joke in our family, and to this day just mention the word "Dover" in my parent's home and you will hear a mixture of laughs, groans, and outbursts of the song "White Cliffs of Dover".

What a hard life we had as kids huh?

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming...

East Coast has been popular with the natural disasters lately eh? I was somewhat disappointed that I didn't even feel a shimmy or shake during the earthquake (nada.) but I am thinking Irene will up the excitement level. I hope not too exciting though. I want it to rain just enough for me to tell everyone "sorry guys, can't go out today-just look at that rain". That's all. Cuddling and watching movies with Job all weekend sounds A-O.K. to me.

On the To Do list for today:
Buy flashlight and batteries
Buy {more} candles
Charge up everything
Buy an extra case of something for our food storage
Fill up car with gas
Bake some bread (just because it sounds good :)

Let the cuddling commence!

Oh and since it is Friday and all:

Sometimes I miss these teeny tiny girls. Now they are old, dating, going to high school and even *gasp* college!
But no matter how old they get they will always be "The Little Girls" in our family.

My brain cells are going...

Flash Back Friday was completely forgotten yesterday. Oops. Please accept this photo as a peace offering, dear bloggy of mine.
It was taken during a sisters trip to an art museum in Salt Lake. I am thinking 2007 or so.

Can't bring myself to take away the red eye. I feel it only adds to the photo in this case.

Gone Fishin'

Going way back today. 

That's my dad standing up on the left, his two siblings, and their father.

I just love the perfect vintage-ness of this photo. The black and white, the fishing, the dock, it is all so cute. I love how photos can capture little moments like this that can then be shared with future family members. 

I'd better get crackin' and take more cute pictures of Job and I. Because we surely don't have enough yet (*cough, cough)

;)

I am thinking new Nike ad, yes?

Because Iceblocking is an extreme sport.

This picture just captures a fun evening in Utah a few years ago so I decided to use it for today's flash back Friday. Because flashing back to a happy time is fun :)

Job and I were dating, my sisters loved Job more than me, we got totally beat up iceblocking...

Good stuff.

Yes that shirt does say homeschool :) I was homeschooled, not a homeschooler. Check out the difference here <----------funny :)

Besties

A pic from olden days. We weren't really dating yet here, just great pals. He was the best college pal ever. And then was the best boyfriend ever. And now is the best husband ever. Yes, I just said it. Feel free to disagree and think your pal/boyfriend/husband is actually the best. This is a good time to agree to disagree ;)

Yum, S'mores.

Flash Back...er, Saturday?

To be fair I did start to get this post ready on Thursday but ran into computer problems. But still. I have basically failed my planned post idea after one week. Awesome.

ANYway, without further ado....

We came upon this cute little scene on a family trip to Ireland several years back. It was one of my most favorite trips ever so I am sure you will see more of it on Fridays :)

There was something about coming upon a herd of perfectly spotted black and white cows led by a cute old Irish man, with an old bug car waiting its turn to cross the street that made me feel like we just stepped back in time. I had that feeling frequently as we visited Ireland, and I loved it every time.

When we weren't touring the beautiful Emerald Island we did stuff like this back at our cottage:

Young girls rule.

Flash Back Friday

You know how lots of blogs have cute scheduled posts that they do every week on a certain day? 

Well I never thought I would do one since this is a family blog, but as I was looking through some pictures that my sister sent me (she knows how sad I was to lose all ours) I wanted to put some old ones on here, just for fun to remember some good times that have come before.
And that could mean 10 years ago or last week :)

So Flash Back Friday is born.

Don't be jealous of my seriously creative name. It is a gift I posses (I joke, I joke. I'm just too tired to think of anything better right now ;)

I might not do it every Friday, and we'll see how long this actually lasts, but it should be fun (for me, if no one else).

So let's start off with these little randoms, shall we? Because they brought back some fun memories :)

Las Vegas, NV, March 2010

When Job and I lived in Las Vegas my sister Rebecca came and visited us for a few days. She is a ton of fun and I loved having her there. These pictures are from a little sisters hike we took in the hills near our apartment.