but i still took a sassy pic in front w/ lips puckered

we went to the Holocaust museum today.

:(

ugh.

genocide is SUCH a bummer.

funnest pionneer day ever

oh my gosh you guys!

Being in UT for Pioneer Day was sooo fun! It was busy busy busy, taking pics of me and NuggetBunzers drawing hearts and stars with sparklers with our best CFFs {thanx Kara & Danny, Jenn & Ty, Britt & Jared, Mel & Paul, Court & Jordan for such a BLAST!}! We all went to Rio and got froyos and just catched up w/ everyone since I haven't been home in two weeks and it fills like forever.

Know what's weird? WE ALL HAVE BABIES AND LINED THEM UP TO TAKE PICS!!! It was fun seeing as how Tridger's fohawk was best and Alivyiah's vintage-inspired dress the most cute. Plus now that we're from DC I think we {and our babies} come acrosst as way more east coast.

p.w. you know whichever pionneer story you heard in church yesterday? that was MY descendant! cool right? seriously i'm related to all of 'em. Well, the good ones.

So greatful for pionneers.

my dc calling

Ok ok so since the sad news about Ruth everyone wants to know about church here in DC and weather I got a new calling.


ugh.


Seriously I have been sooooooo dilegent here.

I told the bish that w/ the twinsies {who are signing and crawling sooo good} and w/ our internship I was way busy so only had time for big slash visible callings like YW prez or maybe, if they were in a real pinch, RS prez. Just wanted him to know we were willing to serve. So helpful right? Ya, I fly back to Zion alot and NYC trips and stuff, but both times I've been to our ward in DC I've been super service oriented for example reminding them to make handouts cuter so ppl will read them {personally I never read anything in boring font}, showing off my ponder-pout to help them see what it looks like to be thoughtful, teasing the beehives about there VL, etcs.

Know how they say the church is the same everywhere? It's not. They don't even have the good news minute here. Good thing I just get up and share mine any way.

Being a cute example is the best.

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Weirdest new's ever, gotta vent bc that's what the internets for.

Just talked to Queenie {that's what Alivyiah & Tridger call JJWT's mom} on the phone and we are in so total shock. Sit down in your darling vintage chair and get a load a this!

Ruth {my hubby's bro's wifey} just got called to be in young womens in there ward.

she's gonna be the freaking PREZ.

Gross.

Seriously, I mean this nice, so don't get me wrong, but theres a whole rising generation of adorably valiant girls who's cute-potential is about to get squashed. What's she going to do, say missions and subarus and professional programs are hip for GIRLS?

You GUYS, she keeps the SAME wreath up all year round.

Will they have ANY twilight-themed activities? Seriously, what kind of guys are gonna be on their dating panel, some dude middle school teacher or social worker? DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE THAT WILL SEND??
None of these girls will marry Pal people!

Sad.

Ya know, I just don't get it. Ruth is nice enough but YWs? She will prolly be oober uptight about no bikini's at the annual carwash, blahblah. Ugh.

It's like having a perpetual bummer in charge of the funnest part of church.

Honestly, I want to cry for these {formerly} darling girls.

here're the winnerz

did you win!? tho really we should all fill like winners since I'm flying back to UT for Pionneer Day!!!!! Have rilly missed it! The winners of this months's giveaway are.....

drummmmmrolllll....

• The Getaway to Homestead Resort in Midway worth $300 courtesy of American Fork Hospital goes to foxyj! The free Girls Night Out at American Fork Hospital on Thurs July 30 will have guest speakers, free screenings, pampering and etcetras so put it on your iphone.
• The spa day from Prestige Salon & Spa in Spanish Fork goes to Ruthanne who said "Oh please TAMN, I've been studying for the bar (ask JJWT) all summer, and there are only 14 days left and I'm FREAKING the H out!" and three lucky winners who get free haircuts & styles are Beth who said "Oh TAMN! I've been your ebff since the beginning! I hope I win this time!", Renny who said "TAMN, I really need to win. Especially that spa in Spanish Fork, I totally want to smooch a guy with a hot truck." and Marisa who said "I'll take any of it! Kthxbai!"
• The free shoes from Studio 32 Shoes winner is K. Marie Criddle who said "Yes please yay! Work we must, but the GCs are free!"
• The darling hippie books from Progressive Pioneer go to madamemama who said "I would love the books or shoes! I'd probably need them mailed because I live here in DC like you!!"
• The BBQ seasoning set from Shirley J (All Purpose Seasoning, Pizza & Pasta Seasoning, BBQ Seasoning, Beef Slow Cooker/Dutch Oven Seasoning AND Buttermilk Biscuit Mix) is for GladysIcanbee who said "Being a winner would make my Pieoneer day so much better than my 4th of July!"
• Sophie the Giraffe from Tender Cargo goes to Nathanial and Dorothy who said "Maybe I should just get a job and buy the crap I want. Nahh, I'll just keep entering giveaways and employ my mad positive thinking skills."
• The haircut & color, Amara Signature Facial & glitter pedi from Ashlee Alex, Master Esthetician at Amara Day Spa goes to Christie Gardiner who said "Will comment for free stuff. ;)"
• The copy of Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home AND $50 GC to Amazon thanks to Liahona Realtors goes to husby who said "Mailables please!"
  
• Annnnd, the Antiquated dress from Shabby Apple goes to hosander who said "Holy smokes TAMN, since you and I are tight like unto a dish, you could totally throw that AF girls night at me, or the dress, but only if they make positive number sizes, I'm still like a bajillion elbees away from negative."

Congrats winners! YAY!!! Email me at seriouslysoblessed at yahoo dot com with your contact info and plz include what you won in the subject line. Everyone else, quit complaining, SYTYCD is on tomorrow!

Love you.

have TONS to tell you

our trip was INSANE!!!!

poor JJWT barly survived w/o me...Glamma tries {thanx, love you!} but doesn't always remember to cut the crust off and stuff so its hard for him. gotta go tend to him and the twinsies, but with regarding to tonite though, I just have to say in advance:

Kiptyn needs Botox stat and Ed looks slash talks like a congested Furby.

the ginormous apple!!

A couple reasons I'm sooo exited for time with some of my besties at this weekend's NYC girls trip Summer 2009!

• time to MYSELF for ONCE!
  
• Were gonna have tons of cupcakes and pictures of us eating said CUPCAKES!
• can't wait to primp my brains out every day for the photo ops and stay up sooo late giggling about HS, cute brands of strollers, Zac Efron, strech marks {not mine} and blogs.
  
• sooo pumped to have some nummy frozen hot chocolate w/ tons of pics of us sipping it!!
• want to do TONS of ZANY things like ask people to take pics of us making SILLY FACES or something totally off the wall goofball...like if me and another girl on the trip accidently wear the exact-same outfit! Can you imagine?
  
• We're gonna see Wicked and like a ton of other plays that will be incredible and amazing.
• if there's time I want some pics of us standing in front of the darling temple making sassy faces at the camera.
  
• also I plan to get soooo grossed out by all the dirties and go through buckets of the Bath & Body Works hand sanitizer in yummy flavors.

so greatful for Glamma whose flying in since don't get me wrong but theirs no way Alivyiah & Tridgers's daddy could ever take care of his own children.

FUN! Sorry your weekend will be such a bummer in comparison. Want me to post thirty pics of me in front of various stores to remind you how much your missing?

gran-ew-la

so i bought some cloth diapers to be green and hardcore, but now i'm to grossed out to actually use them.

sulk

do you think i'm fat?


BE HONEST!


{do not be honest.}

gIvEawAy, i'm not ju-lying!

Guess who lost 5 ell-bees and is now a size negative!? i will be SOOOO READY for my next 10K. to celebrate, it's time for a whole nother giveaway thanx to you, my eBFFs, and the advertisers that want your eyeballs to see there stuff so make it possible for me to fly to Zion for pIoNeEr dAy without manipulating my dad into paying for it w/ a tantrum!

Here's what you can win this time:

• American Fork Hospital is having a kick-A Girls Night Out partay on Thursday July 30th from 5:30 - 8:30 PM w/ tons of free screenings and awesomeness. They are giving away a $300 GC for a weekend getaway to the Homestead in Midway {Utah}. Yay!

• Prestige Salon & Spa in Spanish Fork is ready to help de-frump you! One lucky winner gets a free $99 Day at the Spa and THREE lucky winners get a free haircut & style. Hubba hubba. I smooched a guy from Spanish Fork once. His truck was amazing.
  

• Know what I love? Hottie shoes. Seriously I have three hundred pair. Studio 32 Shoes is offering one lucky winner a pair of shoes of their choice from their darling collection. Since nothing's over $32, I buy like six for what I'd of normally boughten one for.

• Do you know Amy at Progressive Pioneer?? She's SUCH a darling hippie. Anyways, she's giving away TWO books that kind of freak me out: The No Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley AND The Diaper-Free Baby: The Natural Toilet Training Alternative by Christine Gross-Loh. I don't know if it's true but I heard cloth diapers are the new babywise!!!! I heard Lynzii's still using disposable. Sad.
  

• Another lucky eBFF will win all the nummy Shirley J stuff you need for a BBQ! We're talking Shirley J All-Purpose Seasoning, Pizza & Pasta Seasoning, BBQ Seasoning, Beef Slow Cooker/Dutch Oven Seasoning AND Buttermilk Biscuit Mix. I am seriously drooling.

• Sophie the Giraffe from Tender Cargo! She is chewable and squeakable and wuvable. I don't let Tridger play with it bc we're rillllly uptight about what's manly and girly, but Alivyiah lurves hers!

• Amara Day Spa is moving locations and there grand opening is in Orem this Thursday. You can book free services for that day {but you gotta call ahead which you can do starting TODAY so hurry before its full} and a ton of discounts and drawings and treats and such. Besides the big partay, one lucky winner will get an Amara Signature Facial and glitter pedi from Ashlee Alex, Master Esthetician AND a cut and color. I love estheticians.
  

• Liahona Realtors is a nationwide realtor referral service and they are giving away Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home AND a $50 GC to Amazon.com! If you end up using Liahona Realtors' services in the next 30 days and say TAMN sent ya, they'll give you $250 when you close! Ugh, real estate stuff makes me confused but JJWT is like a genious about it.

• And finally, you can win an Antiquated dress from Shabby Apple! Sooo hot. I wear this swanky thing to all of the sidekick events I hit up and not to be rude but I intimidate the trash out of everyone.

Holy crud! To enter, just leave a comment {one per person plz} on this post before Friday at midnight mountain time saying what you want to win. OR should I say eastern time cuz I'm so east coast now? Whatever. There's a bunch of location specific stuff this time so plz indicate in your comment if you need stuff in the mail or if you're elligeble for everything. Winners'll be chosen at random and announced Mondee. Love you! Gotta go jog.

if you are interested in advertising slash being in a future gIvEawAy, fill free to email me at seriouslysoblessed at yahoo dot com or contact me here.

happy anniversary wife

Hey everybody. It's me, JJWT.

TAMN & I got married two years ago today. It was awesome. Great day and she looked smokin' hot. Minus a couple meltdowns the day rocked. The reception was nuts. I was ready to hit the road. And the sack. Hahahaha. Our honeymoon was freakin' sweet. Happy anniversary, babe.


She said this year I could plan whatever I wanted. So I did. Booked a tee time. She was ticked. So I told her to plan whatever and we'd just say it was my idea. The plan was to fly to SLC for PF Changs and Anniversary Inn tonight, Pal tomorrow, cruise to the Bahamas after my internship. Sweet right?


Too bad she started the Master Cleanse this week. Sick. She's just hurling and shizzing. So gross. What the resched. My tee time's back on. Booyah.

Happy 2, babe.

brains storm!

Hi guys! Sorry I haven't blogged in FOREVER! I've bin thinking it's time to start a new shop or STUFF-BLOG or etsy shop or design blog or something HIP, and that it needs a seriously catchy but edgy hip vintage name for uniqueness.

Let's use the formula! A chosen-at-random color or other adjective {really anything at all} then an arbitrary noun totally unrelated to my shop or theme, prefribly a fruit or flower.

Cute right??

Here are some idizz so far:

The Vintage Daffodil

The Sassy Hobo

The Soulful Polkadot

The Gifted Plum

The Flirty Owl

The Turquoise Pomegranite

The Hip Iris

The Pensive Pauper

The Cupcake Fedora

The Jealous Polaroid

The Delicious Lovely

The Dancing Strawberry

The Crafty Rockstar

The Vested Bestie

Hrmmm. Those are darling but somethings' missing. Maybe I should add "boutique" or "couture" on the end to show I'm legit.

best. weekend. ever.

SUCH a fun 4rth!


Not only did AngelNugget have the day off YAY and Alivyiah and Tridger both looked darlingly patriotical, but my big bro Derek came down for the weekend from NYC! SOOOO nice to see fam since we're sooo far away and going it alone out here as we GROW AS A COUPLE. Haven't seen him since our WEDDING.


Guys, serious, Derek is so cute and so fun and so hilarious and so darling. We went to a ton of fireworks and took pics of us eating at the Cheesecake Factory and everything. MEMORY MAKERS!!


He's 31 {yikes, right Der? ;)} and SINGLE! He just finished culinary school up there wayyyy smart, valavictorian of his chef class, and is the sassiest dude dresser I know. I wish JJWT would wear pants that snug and metro but he won't. Ugh. SOOOO FUN to have him here trying to teach Alivzee and the Tridgster some spicey dance moves. It was extra fun bc he'd broughten his buff, hairless friend Cory who is ALSO darling and ALSO a sassy dancer, but he does hair instead of culinaries school. I tried to make 'em hit up Duck Beach a while back {Yvette went but suprise suprise got zero action bc she refused to where a bikini--prude cough prude} but they both just chuckled and said "No thanx, sweetie," while patting my adorable head. Those poor boys!


They both have great bodies and hair so I don't get why there still single. Sad!


Love you Derek! Thanx for a great week! Everyone eltse come visit soon I love and miss you!

happy forth

okay, there are like fifty awesome BBQs going on this weekend so gotta make this quick. Does it suprise you that:

i'll probably see Brock this weekend?

my ginorm house is SO COVERED in patriotic wreeths and wood blocks and lots of country/vintage stars?

JJWT got adorably ticked when I stenciled some funky stars on his briefcase but got happy again win he saw I made star cupcakes for the whole office? i am so officially obsessed w/ slash addicted to cupcakes.

my main goal this weekend is to dress Tridg & Alivy up in R W & B and snap a billion photos?

i heart blasting Toby?!?

i miss being IN parades sooooo much its hard for me to go to them.

when opportunity rocks

you guys!

it's time for a major life decision and there is no one I trust more than my eBFFs. Gotta make sure we're where we belong at.

Our {well, JJWT's, but whatever} law/biz/med/dental internship ROCKS and will bring like 40 new professional opportunities due to sinergistic networking. We feel so good about it.

THEEEENNNNNN...

oh my curveball.

His old summer sells job selling pest control slash security systems {where he worked to save up for my ring setting} just called and wants him to be a MANAGER!!! Here in DC! What should we do!??!?! I mean, on one hand, law/biz/med/dental school rocks, but in the shore term of the other hand, summer sells is seriously lucritive and he could make sixty thousand plus this summer! But, on another hand, I'm over the sells wife thing, BUT flip the coin over and Alivyiah and Tridger need $ to go to college and UVU slash Bon Losee tuition is going up like every day. However, contrastly, the economy is a bummer, and with law/biz/med/dental school he has the rest of his life to sue/consult/surgify/numb gums/abuse prescription drugs, so maybe this IS our right thing now. And it's not like the internship gives out plasma TVs or xbox's.

Sells is hard, but no one said it would be easy, they only said it would be worth it. Is that scripture talking about summer sells? I can't remember.

I think this is a test.