You reap what you sew

Check out this game, it is hilarious.

Click on the link and then click the play now button.
http://www.break.com/games/tiger-woods-wife-outrun.html

I heart 64

I am in love....Where have you been for the last 2 years.
Oh that's right, you were getting a face lift.
Who is 64? 64 is the highway that runs right through the STL. I didn't realize how much I loved 64 until it was taken away. It reopened today and will give me 30 mins of my life back, each business day.
I HEART you 64!
Join me in welcoming back 64!

PS. Sorry radio, that means I will be spending less time with you. Don't worry it's not you, it's me.

New title - BENLON

Since Ben and I are now thespians, I thought we could use a new name. A name the tabloids could start calling us by. But don't worry we won't let it go to our heads.
Ben does not have a escalade and we do not live close to a fire hydrant.
But, we will always wear our sunglasses and pretend we don't like the paparazzi following us.

Temporarily out of Service.....No ETA.

It's been a long time

So I have not typed on this blog in a long time. My excuse is LIFE. Life has been really busy lately.
I just noticed that I have never finished typing about our Roadcation. So here it is. Day 3 we went to Omaha, Nebraska to see Winter Quarters. We were looking at the graves where a lot of later day saints were buried, when we started to hear a weird noise coming from the ground. The ground next to us looked like something was coming out of it. Then all of a sudden the sprinklers came on. We went running.
We then did the whole sight see thing and drove home.

I hope it does not take me another month to post something again.

Roadcation Part 2

Iowa
Council Bluffs
The 2nd day we drove to see the Kanesville Tabernacle.
This is a replica of the original Tabernacle.

This one is for all you American Idol Fans.

"Apparently" while we were listing to all the stories about the Tabernacle we were sitting right behind David Archuleta. I had no idea. He looked really young. I would have never of known except when we were all leaving this missionary goes up to him and says "my wife would really love to get a picture with you". Later, we asked the missionary who that guy was and he told us. And then 5 mins later I had to ask Ben what that guys name was again. I am not an big American Idol fan.

Roadcation Part 1

3 states in 3 days......

Missouri
Independence
Temple Lot, when you stand on this lot you are higher than anything else around you.

This is the RLDS (community of Christ) Temple. We got to take a tour but it seemed more like an art museum than a temple inside.
Liberty

Liberty Jail, the only thing original about this jail is the floor and some of the stones on the side.

FarWest
When we arrived, there was a car in the parking lot and on the back of that car it said in big bold letters, the book of Mormon is total fiction.
When we walked onto the temple grounds I started looking around trying to match that car to the owner. It wasn't that hard. This very patient missionary was being antagonized by this man. And of course, if you know Ben he could not just mind his own business. Ben stood by one of the stones pretending to look at it while listening to what this guy was saying. When we got back to the car the first thing Ben says is "I want to give him a Book of Mormon". I immediately told him "no, he is going to punch you in the face". I could totally picture it in my head. Ben hands him a book and boom, a fight on temple grounds. They would probably have to rededicate it.
I gave in and let Ben bring the guy a BofM. My anxiety was through the roof as I sat in the car watching Ben. And thank goodness Ben did not get punched. Ben spent a good half hour talking to this guy and all this guy wanted to do is blah, blah, blah people's ear's off.
Adam-ondi-Ahman
Ben on Temple Hill. Remains of the Nephite's tower was found here.

Hauns Mill

This place is located in the middle of corn fields and tress. The only thing left is the creek.
When we pulled up to the site these big bugs started attacking our car. They looked like BIG bees. These bug flew full force into our car. We had to sit in the car for at least 5 mins before we could even get out.

We did all of this in one day, just me and my hubby. It was very amazing and spiritual to think of all the things that have happened at these sites.

If I didn't have a Dog......

I could walk around the yard barefoot in safety.
My house could be carpeted instead of wood.
All flat surfaces, clothing, furniture, blankets and cars would be
free of hair.
When the doorbell rings, it wouldn't sound like a kennel and I could get to the door without wading through a fuzzy body who beats me there.
I could sit on the couch and bed the way I wanted, without taking into consideration how much space a fury body needs to get comfortable.
I would have money and no guilt to go on a real vacation.
I would not be on a first-name basis with a veterinarian, as I put their yet unborn kids through college.
The most used words in my vocabulary would not be: out, sit, down, come, no, stay, stop it and leave it.
I would not talk baby talk. ' Was your breakfast good '. 'How's my baby girl' ..
My house would not look like a day care center, toys everywhere.
My pockets would not contain things like poop bags and treats .
I would no longer have to spell out the words B-A-L-L, W-A-L-K, T-R-E-A-T, C-A-R R-I-D-E
I would not have as much dirt inside my house as outside.
I would not look strangely at people who think having ONE
dog ties them down too much.
I'd look forward to spring and the rainy season instead of dreading it .
I would not have to answer the question 'Why do you have a dog?' from people who will never have the joy in their lives of knowing they are loved unconditionally by someone as close to an angel as they will ever get in this life.
How EMPTY my life would be!!!


Happy 7th Birthday Sandy!!

What a mess

I have been wanting to paint my living room ever since I painted it a year ago. The problem I have is finding the right color. I have it right here in my head and it is so frustrating. This is what my wall of color looks like right now. Tomorrow it could have more stripes on it.

All Star

Everybody knows that the Baseball All Star game is happening on Tuesday. Well if you didn't, you do now. Since the game is happening in the STL there is a lot of activity's going on to celebrate. One of those is the FanFest and I went with my parents. That's us in front of the world's largest baseball.They had a lot memorabilia to buy and activities to do. My favorite thing was the brand new Camaro that I got to sit in. I took a picture of the car and sent it to Ben who was at work. He was totally jealous and I got cool points.

They also had baseball Hall of Famers signing autographs. My dad stood in line for an hour and a half to get Rally Fingers autograph.

And also this person, but I can't remember who it was.

I also got to meet all the Cards players.

Dream Vacation

It's finally going to happened. I am so excited. Ben has given the green light and we are going to Sicily in 2 years!! Why 2 years? Because it is stinken expensive and we need to save money. So that also means no major vacations until then. I need my Italian speaken Uncle to go, so my family better start saving also.
I have wanted to go ever since I started getting into my genealogy about 6 years ago. Not much is known about my moms genealogy. All we really know is that my great grandparents came over from Sicily. Great grandfather Angelo came over with his brother Rosario in the early 1900's and Angelo's wife Maria come over a couple years later. After Rosario's son died he left the US and went back to Sicily. I know Angelo and Maria parents name but that is about it. So I can't wait until we go to Sicily. I am going to look up every Pulvirenti living in Sicily to see if they are related to me. And Ben thinks this trip is going to be relaxing.

It finally happened

I broke down and went to the eye dr. I got glasses about 5 years ago and never really wore them, they gave me headaches. I have started getting double vision. Ben and I went to see the Tabernacle Choir sing in the ScottTrade center and the inside is shaped like an oval. The choir was at one end of the oval and we were at the other. It was kind of dark inside and I was looking at the stage. I could see that the guys on the stage were standing up but I could not tell that the girls were. They were all wearing the same color dress and it looked like one big mass. To me they had no heads. One of our friends aunts was singing and she was 4 rows up and 4 over. But I did not get to see here because I can't see!

Happy Birthday BEN

This is what LOVE looks like.
Love you Bennie!!

1 more day

Till my Husband Rocks day!

2 more days

Countdown to Bennie's Birthday.
My husband ROCKS!

Our Life

Both of our Birthdays are in a couple a days so I wanted to reflect on our 6 years of marriage before we get to old and forget. : )
We have done a lot. We went to Vegas for our honeymoon. Rode my first scooter and almost crashed. Got sealed in the STL Temple. Saw 3 brother-N-Laws go on missions. Ben got his wisdom teeth pulled. Moved into our first apartment. I got my first and second defibrillator. Ben stopped working nights. Lost my 14 old dachshund to old age. Seen all my friends have kids. I got a bachelor in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Ben got a Associate in Arts. Our car got broken into and they stole our scriptures. I went from working at the bank to working for a investment firm. Ben still works at Wal-Mart. We have gone on many vacations (Utah, Alabama, North Carolina, Mexico, California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Missouri). Made some new friends and have lost touch with some old ones. Seen good friends move away (hopefully they will move back). Rode my first wave runner and four wheeler. Sandy moved in with us. Ben has had 2 motorcycles. We bought a new car. Moved into my parents basement then Ben's parents basement. We bought our first house. Ben bought a Firebird (fixer upper). Swam with Sandy in the lake. Donated my hair to locks of love 2 times. Lost our baby. Ben started his Radiology program. Rode my second scooter. Saw 2 Brother-N-Laws get married. Have seen a lot of people we love get cancer and we have lost some to cancer.
We have had my laughs and some cries but I couldn't imagine doing it with anybody else.

Proof

Men do not listen to women. I woke up in the middle of the night and told Ben "I had a bad dream". Ben then gets up out of bed without saying a word and goes into the kitchen and comes back with a drink. I asked him "what are you doing?" He says "you said you needed a drink".

Tornado

We had at least one confirmed tornado during a bad storm the other day. I was lucky enough not to be home during the storm. I was driving home from work and I could see a bad storm ahead of me with a ton of cool lighting. I got to my exit and I could tell that I just missed it. The town was littered with down trees and power outages. When I finally got home after having to take detour after detour, I pulled in my driveway and the telephone pull in our back yard was broken into 3 and power lines all over the yard and our house.

I thought at first that lighting struck it. I freaked out a little and called 911. Ya, they never came. They probably had more important things to worry about. It turns out that a neighbors huge tree got struck by lighting and half of it fell on the power lines. So with all its weight it ripped our telephone pole into 3. We lost power and cable for a day. As for that tornado it was about 2 miles away from our house.

Lately

We took Brandon to the Cards Vs Cubs baseball game for his birthday. Ben was able to get some awesome seats for us. Cards won sorry cousins. This time we made sure that Ben didn't get on the metro without me.

We went to Nauvoo with the family. We watch the sun set on the Mississippi and saw the sights. It was a much needed break.

Ben and I drove around town in his car while he wore his motorcycle helmet to see how many people would look at us. It was great times. One lady almost gave herself whiplash looking at Ben.

OKC

We went to Oklahoma (home of tornadoes) to see Nate and Brooke the other weekend. It was tons of fun. A much needed vacation for the both of us. We drove there and as soon as we crossed the border into Oklahoma it rained and I don't mean just a little rain. It rained so hard (we could not see the front of our car) and it lasted for a good hour.

We went to the Wrestling Hall of Fame Museum. Ben LOVED it. Me on the other hand, I am usually pretty tolerable to Ben and his wrestling passion/obsession. But the hall of fame was a little much for me. I had made it half way through the museum and Ben was still on the first exhibit reading every little thing.
I did learn an interesting fact about wrestling that Ben didn't know. Cael Sanderson (the man we are naming our first born son after) will not be coaching at Iowa State next year, he is going to Penn State (who even new that they had a wrestling program). Ben was a little disappointed about that news.
We also went the Oklahoma City bombing memorial. It was completely intense/touching, no words could describe it. The chairs in the picture represent all the people killed in the bombing.

While we where on our mini vacation something had attacked by bird house. I think it was our fat hungry birds.

Retaliation

How to retaliate when your son comes over and parks in your driveway.
1. open the garage door
2. start the car
3. rev the engine
4. press on the gas
5. wait for impact
6. take off and go get ice cream
7. come home and look at the big ginormous scratches you put on his car
8. make sure your son is in a good mood
9. give the puppy eyes while trying not to laugh
10. when all else fails do nothing


Here is a picture of those ginormous scratches

Oops can't really see them in that picture

Let me zoom in

Just kiding guys......I had to give you a hard time.

Go Cards

A friend gave us tickets to the Cards game the other day. it was lots of fun except the drunk lady sitting a couple of row behind us cursing up a storm. On the way home we rode the metro link. Not together...Ben decided to take a different train then me but not on purpose. We were running down the ramp to catch the train, as soon as we were about to get on it somebody over the loud speaker said "going straight to fairview heights" so I didn't get on. I thought if we got on that train it would not stop at our stop and go straight to fairview heights. Ben on the other hand got on the train just as the doors where closing. So here I am standing there as the train leaves with Ben on it. You might think no big deal, but I was downtown at night after a baseball game with drunk people. Not to mention I had no money and no cell phone. That was a little scary. I got on the next train and as soon as I got to my stop Ben was standing there waiting for me. That was such a relief.

How you know your family is getting old

You know your getting old when you spend Easter around the blood pressure machine instead of looking for Easter eggs.
We where in the kitchen when somehow we got on the topic about blood pressure and what meds people take for high blood pressure. My Uncle brought up that fact that he has his own blood pressure machine. So he got it out and each one of us got our blood pressure taken to see who had the highest.
We need to get some little kids in this family so we can talk about how many Easter eggs they got instead of what your blood pressure was.

Easter Bunny Rap

I hope everybody has a Happy Easter.
Turn your volume up and click on the link http://i.flowgo.com/greetings/rapeasterbunny/rapeasterbunny.swf

April

It is snowing in April....Need I have to say more?

Viv's Birthday

Happy Pre Birthday to Viv. We celebrated it on Sunday and had a special Sunday birthday dinner! All month long I have been secretly working on a breast cancer quilt for her. It is made out of mostly breast cancer fabric. I was really afraid she wouldn't like it because she really does not like pink. But o well she got the wrong cancer for that. So I gave it to her and she really liked it. She could not believe that I did it all on my own (I secretly know how to sew a little). I am just glad she liked it and now she has a feel good blanket to wrap up in on her bad days. Happy Birthday Viv!

What is he thinking

At my work we have a pond and every year a bunch of geese flock to it. And every year we always have one that lays her eggs either in or next to the parking garage. This year a goose laid her eggs on the outside of the parking garage next to the road. Every day her man is either standing or sitting in the middle of the road. So when a car tries to drive by, the goose who is trying to protect his women goes after the cars. He will run up to moving cars snapping his mouth at the car tiers. It does not matter how big the car is. This all happens right outside of my window at work. One day everybody in my department stood at the window and watched this goose atack every car that went by. We all had a great laugh until our Bose came out of her office giving us the worst look :(

3 Days of wrestling

It is that time a year again. The time of year that I do not see my husband for 3 days. Why? It is the NCAA Wrestling Championships. Now don't get 2 excited.
This year I decided that I wanted to go watch the wrestling. I did not go to all 3days I just went to one night. Ben thought it was so cool that I went with him. One of the main reason why I went is because I wanted to get a picture of the guy that we will be naming our first born son after. I never got close enough to meet him.
Cael Sanderson

Ben is already planning on going to next years Championships in Nebraska.
I would list every weight class with the winners but I am worried about copyright issues and plus I don't think you guys really care.

March 12, 2009

Ben's aunt Eileen passed away due to cancer. The suffering is finally over. We all knew it was coming but it is still hard when it happens. She will surely be missed. Eileen was such a wonderful person, she always opened her house up to us when we visited Utah. Her family is in our prayers.

Sandy's first play date

Sandy had her first (kind of) play date with a dog named Marley. This is a big step for Sandy. Sandy does not like other dogs, she thinks she is a human (I can't say this to loud but she really is a d o g). She does not know how to interact with other dogs. I think the play date went well. Ben introduced the dogs Cesar Millan style (calm assertive). They worked on building a pack while on a walk. By the time the walk was over Sandy was walking right next to Marley. You may not think that is such a big deal but if you really knew my dog, it is a big step in making her more sociable. It is still a work in progress. My goal is for Sandy and Marley to be able to play together without Sandy trying to eat him.

Snowy Weekend

We went to southern Missouri this weekend. A friend of ours was having a mid life crises so he decided to wrestle in a open tournament and Ben was coaching him. The day of the tournament we woke up to snow. We must of had 2 inches by the time we left the hotel. It had stopped snowing and started to melt by the time the tournament was over. So we decided to go to the Bass Pro Shop, the very first one ever built. This place was ginormous and packed with people. You walk into a 2 story entrance filled completely with dear heads. This is not the place someone wants to go into that doesn't like hunting.
On our way home we got caught on the highway in a horrible snow storm. We sat and sat in the car with no where to go. The longer we sat on the roads the worse they got. After sitting still for hours we decided maybe we should get a hotel room and stay the night. We called Every hotel in the nearest town and Every hotel was completely booked. The next town after that was 23 miles away so, we started to call those hotels and finally we were able to get 2 rooms. By the time we got to our hotel we had only driven 80 miles and it took us 8 hours. When we woke up and started home the next day, we saw car after car in the ditch.
It was actually a fun weekend. And our friend did a awesome job at wrestling.

New Room

Last mother's day Ben painted our spare bedroom pink and blue. He wanted to let me know how serious he was about starting a family. It was a sweet gesture but it was to much pink and to much blue. We named it the pink and blue room. We finally painted it the other day a more neutral color. Ben thinks it a boring color.

I am thinking about taking up quilting as a hobby and make the spare bedroom a quilt room. But I really do not have the time to quilt. Or I was thinking about making it Sandy's room. Some place she can keep all of her toys.
I haven't decided what to do with it. It will probably end up as a catch all room.

Next room to paint is our living room. Ben thinks it looks like a green olive. It is painted a mustard yellow color with a green accent wall. I have to admit that the mustered color was not what I was going for. I really wanted a light tan color. It was such a pain painting the room the first time that I can't get myself to repaint it.

VDay

I hope everybody had a awesome Valentines Day. I sure did! Ben took me to see Shopaholic. I am sure it was a great sacrifice for him but, he did it for love. He's my hero, most guys wouldn't go see a chick flick. Now to the funny part of the evening. After I got done changing for our date I noticed that my shirt wasn't fitting right. I looked in the mirror, nothing looked odd. Oh well, I thought and off to the movie we went. I sat down at the movie theater and I touched the front of my collar on my shirt and to my surprise there was my tag. I had my shirt on backwards! How embarrassing you think but, I had on a shirt that looked the same on the front and back, nobody even noticed. I went and switched my shirt around and tada it feels better.

Weekend

We went to LA for Ry's wedding. It was really nice even though it rained off and on. I am glad Ry was able to find someone that makes him happy. 3 down only 2 more to go.


LA is a very interesting place and I can't wait to go back and do the real touristy things. We went to Vince Beach and I had to touch the Pacific Ocean. Ben and I wanted our picture taken by the water but we ended up standing to close to it and a big wave came in and I got soaked. I about lost my feet to frost bite. That ocean is sooooo cold.

We also went to Disneyland and California Adventure. I was a little worried about riding all the rides, with me just having surgery. But everything turned out just fine. I got the highest score on the buz light year ride! Which is a big deal because I beat all the brothers.

Snow Day

The snow brings back so many memories...like being in grade school and every time it snowed you wished and wished that they would call of school. You would watch the TV hoping to see that your schools name appeared at the bottom of the screen. I still get that itch, to run to the TV and look at the school closings. Oh to be a kid again. To run and jump in the snow without anybody staring at you wondering what you are doing.
We had about 6-7 inches of snow!!