Oh goodness...

I don't know how or why, but Jon is always getting on the news, radio, etc... Here is one example....and just in case you weren't sure our political views....now you know. Haha.

Click here (There should be a link to the video to the left)

And there's a new post just below this one as well....

It's been so long.

Wow. This week has been soo busy and yet I look back and think...what were we so busy doing? Well here is what I remember...


1. Trigger celebrated his birthday with a big rawhide (from Costco) .

2. We have been to Costco 3 times and it hasn't even been open a week yet.

3. I babysat a very cute, very good little baby! (Which, I must say, may have helped make me a little more baby hungry. Some day people, some day.)


4. We had the missionaries over.


5. We (but mostly me) set up our food rotation system. (Holy poop, I wanted to die afterwards. Has anyone else ever set one of these babies up before? It was involved! & yes I know there is a big gap down there in the bottom, but I don't even have enough food to fill it up yet & my fingers were too tired so i stopped)

6.And then I watched Jon clean out the freezer so we could turn it back on and fill it up with Costco goodies!

Happy Birthday Trigger!

Well, instead of boring you with a MILLION pictures of my baby puppy I felt like being informative and boring you that way instead (+ a couple pics). I have had lots of people ask me lately about dog ownership/owning a Great Dane and so here is my 2cents:

(ignore the pink collar, it was just for marking purposes)

1. Research different Dog Breeds. Believe it or not I did actually look into a lot of different breeds. Jon wanted a Great Dane and I didn't...I wanted a fun house dog that wasn't too high maintenance, but could be lovey. Well believe it or not, that's a Great Dane.



2. Visit LOTS of Breeders. This was really hard for me when we first started looking at pups. The first breeder we went and saw I was ready to pick a puppy, but Jon forced me to do some more looking...I'm SOO glad we did. After looking around I realized that I wanted a breeder invested in the welfare of the puppies, not their wallet! (The first breeder we met was so anxious to get the pups sold...almost like there was something wrong with them or something?...)

3. Take your PUPPY to Obedience Classes. This really, for me, is the most important. I learned the hard way about this. This will give your dog a HUGE advantage! Really! They will learn all kinds of basic commands and tricks as well as getting the socialization with other dogs and humans! This can also be a good bonding experience for owner and K9. Your dog needs to learn that you are in control (especially with a great dane who may become bigger than you someday) and that your are Alpha! Trust me, this is SOO important! When I took my dogs it only cost 60$ for an 8 week class that included training supplies--WELL worth it! Before you get a dog check out a couple of places around town...make sure they are certified trainers as well! If you have kids, most places do kid doggie obedience too, which would be a great idea too!

Well those are just a few starters. I really do Love my dogs. They are good practice children. Haha. And even though I complain about them sometimes, I really do love them a ton and we have so much fun with them!

Happy 2nd Birthday TrigFace.

P.S. Trigger is seriously the best dog! Our vet even said that Trigger is her doggie boyfriend!

How could you not LOVE that face?

Photography

I love art.

Any kind of art-drawings, paintings, crafts, graphics, photography, etc... The list really could go on and on. Anything artsy-craftsy I am a fan. I have always kind of considered myself an artist. For a long time I wanted to be a fashion designer...I drew all kinds of things in high school that I wanted to design. So I decided that I wanted to do something artsy and so I went to college to pursue that.

You should know I used to be a Art Major in college. Used-to-be because it started getting not fun. Not fun because it started feeling forced. Forced because it was what my professors and teachers thought I should do or how I should channel my creativity. I didn't feel like I had a say in what or how I got to do things. That was not how I wanted to do art, it just wasn't natural anymore. So I quit being an Art Major. I decided I could still be an artist, I just wanted to do things my own way. I wanted to create my own assignments and my own projects. So I changed majors and decided I would always just do art on my own time.

I still kind of kick myself about that one...why you ask? Because in the last semester of my not-artprogram in college I was required to take some classes that reignited my artistic creativity and made me miss my days as an art major. In one of my classes I became a (and this is self-proclaimed) Photoshop Master. Haha. And that has had me hooked on photography ever since. Only one problem, and quite a large one as well...I don't have a grown-up camera. I'm dying for one. I already know most the editing tricks, now I just need the camera! I just have to figure out which one to get...

Any suggestions?

And just so there is a picture-here are 2 paintings I did as a jr. in High School. I can't find my other stuff that I like better, but...oh well. Obviously I was going through some sort of "tropical" theme phase...

Vacuum

Over at SITS they are doing a vacuum giveaway. Now I just happen to need one of those with these two mammoths wandering around here.

What is even cooler is that it's a Healthy Home Vac so it purifies and protects against bacterial growth.


Anyways, if you want to enter, better get over there quick!

Voted

Yesterday I:

Went to Costco Grand Opening (I know I said I wasnt going to go, but...I couldn't stand the suspense)

Voted for a President (Early Absentee Voting)

Got some flower starts from Gandma.

Hung out with Jon.

Got a Pumpkin Pie Shake from Jack in the Box.

Funnies

So I'm sure that you have all heard of yearbookyourself.com by now. To be honest, I was kind of annoyed with all the pictures people had up of their yearbooked selfs and then one day I got bored enough to test it out. All I can say is:

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh man. I was laughing SO hard I was tearing up a little. You know why? Because I didn't yearbook myself, I yearbooked the Hubby. I was soo excited for him to get home so I could show him my creations!

First I tried to find the most ridiculous picture of him....

That will work fine.

Then this happened:

And then this:

And this number:

One more:

Oh goodness. I was laughing soo hard. Jon even thought it was pretty funny.

I promise he is a normal person and I love him to death (I didn't do this because I was mad or anything, it was just funnier on him than me). Haha.

Everyone should do this to their husband too & post their pictures!

P.S. Did I mention I'm going to the Costco VIP opening tonight?! Tomorrow is the grand opening, and although I don't know that i really want to brave the crowds tommorrow, I think I will make it there again before the weekend is up!

For Your Viewing Pleasure...

How to get the big spotted (crazy) dog to spaz out (and how to watch mallorie look stupid):

Haha. Do you enjoy it as much as we do?

Even though he could easily jump over the gate he won't...he's too scared.

Couple things...

So, you know how a day or two ago they had that handbag giveaway? Well, guess what? My sister-in-law won one of the bags!! I know, I'm jealous too. And guess how she found out about it? Yep, my blog...so now I think that since she won one, I should get one too! Haha.

Then, Jon's parents are in Iowa visiting family. Jon's dad, Steve, just got back from Iraq about a month or so ago and he hadn't seen his family yet since he'd been home so they went back to visit. The news station did a little story on it...click here.

New Name

Well I wanted to change my name from "Mal & Jon" because even though this blog has parts of Jon in it...I'm the only one that writes, so now it's kinda Randumb Thoughts...because it is random...and, quite honestly, I blog about a lot of dumb things, but some of you keep reading it and I keep writing it and...Anyways, I like it. About a week ago I changed my header...I think it is cuter. And, yeah...

So, Krista gave me this award:



And I know that it is in a different language so here is the translation:
“This blog invests and believes, in ‘proximity’ [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' - being close through proxy]"

Thanks, Krista!

Addictive Cookies

Really, honestly, I am not a sweet person for the most part. I don't really eat candy, and I can't eat straight chocolate, and I really usually do not like cookies.

And then I had one of these:



And it was soo good. It's not like you can eat just one. You eat one and then it doesn't even really settle in that it was REALLY GOOD until your done with it...so then you eat another...and another...and another until you have eaten 8 of the 10 cookies.



I don't know what it is...it's like they're laced with some sort of addictive drug or something. I literally can not get ENOUGH! I think it must be like what Chocolate is to some Women.

Please tell me I am not the only one.

Twilight

I have nothing too exciting to blog about today so here you go:

The newest trailer for Twilight...I'm so excited I can hardly stand myself!
Twilight HD Exclusive Trailer

Merry Halloween To Me!

Wow. I am so excited today. After I did my chores I decided to go out and just "look" and see if I could find something cool I couldn't live without. And geuss what? I DID!

First I went in this Halloween Bootique. I thought it was going to have all kinds of cute Halloween decorations and maybe some costumes, etc...Nope-skanky Halloween outfits. Well, no thank you--I don't think that's going to work out for the ward trunk-or-treat. So I go next door and there IT is. A quite large Apothecary Jar...it gets better...for $12 bucks!!! WHAT? Okay, MUST HAVE. Well then I start feeling guilty because then i'm going to have to buy some sort of thing to put in it and that's going to cost, but then I had a cheap idea and voila-here she is:

It's okay you can hate me.

I'm already imagining all the things that I can put in there. She will be a seasonal decoration...

So then I was feeling so good about myself I ate the last 2 cookies:

I feel accomplished.

Oh, and I wanted to show you my updated door mistreatment. It looks 10 times better if I do say so myslef.

It's A Soup Day!

Today was looking cold and dark out there. A girl at work told me it's supposed to snow Friday and so when I got hungry I decided to make a big pot of soup (plus the house was freezing and I didn't want to turn the heat on yet!). Now, you should know that soup is the only thing I actually enjoy making. I will cook, but usually it is only because I have to.

Chicken Tortila Soup. Yummy!

So I must admit, I actually am slightly excited for fall & winter...just so I can enjoy cooking again!

P.S. There were a couple of you who asked for the recipe...Laura let me contribute to her recipe blog and I put it up there: Pass the Salt

Utah, School Project, Dogs, Costco

So this last weekend we took a little trip down to Utah to see Jon's dad (he just got back from Iraq). While we were there, Jon's sister, Holly, had to do a class project and she enlisted our help. The project was to do something out of the ordinary in a public place. It was for her sociology class and so whatever you do is supposed to elicit some sort of response from other people--it has to be interesting. --Sidenote: I never had any school projects like this! What's up with that?-- Anyways, her idea was to go to a parking lot and yell: "look, a UFO!"
Well then Stephanie has the idea that we should make tin foil hats like in the movie Signs. And to save you from a long drawn out story, it was a good time. I have a hard time keeping a straight face so I was laughing the entire time, but it was still good.

While we were there Jon and his dad gave the dogs a bath which was long overdue. They're already filthy again, but oh well, what are you going to do? They're dogs.

P.S. Yesterday at work they had some reps from COSTCO come and get us signed up for memberships...I AM SO EXCITED FOR COSTCO!! Let the countdown begin!

Handbag Planet

Who doesn't love a new purse?

Go to Handbag Planet and check out their contest. They are giving away 24 purses in 24 hours. I say that sounds good to me! Check it out!

PICK ME!!

Jon, Mal, Trig & Thor

A few of my favorites from our photoshoot.