sugar cookies

Yesterday Tyler and I decided that we needed something sweet so We decided to make sugar cookies. He helped me mix up all the ingredients....and he even blended them together with our little electric mixer. We had one cookie cutter that was a heart with an arrow through it...which was all we had so I decided to try and use that cookie cutter on the last batch. At first they were way to sticky and then after we floured them down the heart turned out but after they were cooked the arrow didn't turn up at all. But they still tasted pretty good. Tyler was telling me that whenever his mom made sugar cookies she always cuts them out with a cookie cutter... so i thought i'd try it. We have these little black shelves on our wall and there use to be Christmas decorations on them. We took the Christmas stuff down and Tyler thought that his Mafia man should go there instead. He has a gun and whenever anyone walks by it he raises his gun and it makes shooting noises. Well I completely forgot about this so when I went to wash off the counter the Mafia man started making shooting noises....scared me really bad. I convinced Tyler to turn him off so I don't have anymore heart attacks.

Cephalopods

this is a picture of one of the cephalopods it was in a rock that was too big to take home. But we did find some others that weren't too bad. They are shells that have left an imprint in the rocks.

Tyler is really into looking for fossils. So we decided to go...to a secret location which i cannot say to look for them. We found some pretty good ones. But they were on bigger rocks that there was no way we could get them home. We did however find a few rocks that you could see the imprints of little shells pretty well. My leg was hurting pretty bad so I had to sit down while Tyler looked around for cephalopods. After we went to a place called "the Chilean deli" I was kind of missing good old Chilean food since I served my mission there about 2 years ago. We got empanadas. Tyler got a cheese one and I got the traditional empanada which has hamburger onions and eggs in it. And for dessert we had alfajores....which were sooooo good. And another treat which im not sure what it is called. But its in a pastery that lookes like an icecream cone with manar and coconut on top. Which was also especially delicious.

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When bobs attack

So tyler and I have recently purchased fish. We use to have just 2 Powdered Blue Guorami named Toby and Bart ( from the simpsons and the office) but Toby passed away and we had to have a toilet flushing ceremony.

We had to go to bird world and buy some new replacement fish. Which if your looking for fish bird world is a thousand times better than petsmart or petco they know what they are talking about. So we have Bart the blue fish. "the bob's" the otto cats which are algae eater and just suck on the window and plants. Patty which is the bigger red fish with darker fins and loki the little red fish. Bart has the tendency to pick on the other fish. He will sit still in the tank and start to look over at his prey and then dart at them as fast as he can. He doesnt actually bite them he just enjoys chasing them. His favorite fish to chase by far is Patty. We sometimes put algae wafers in the tank for the fish to eat. They are just little round pieces of algae that sit at the bottom of the tank. Bart likes to sit on top of them and guard them so no one else can eat them. Usually the bob's have never taken any interest in the algae wafers. But since we've gotten two they are alot more active and like eating the wafers.

One day when we had put a wafer in the water bart went to guard it as usually but eventually got bored of it. So one of the bob's started to eat it. That made bart mad so he charged him. The bob 1 saw bart attacked bob 2 and got on top of bart and started attacking him. Even patty is starting to stand up to bart. Which is good because if she didnt she probably wouldnt eat. Even though bart is a bully there are still fish who will stand up to him.

The Beginning

I meet my husband on Lds Mingle. We were both not so sure about the idea of online dating. I know for sure that it definitely made me nervous. Usually when dating online I talk to them for several months and then later meet them in a public place somewhere for dinner or something. But I only talked for Tyler for 2 weeks and he came to pick me up at my house . Which I don't usually do but he seemed like a good guy. Actually Tyler didn't have an account on Lds mingle. He guessed my email address. Because a lot of the time people just use the first part of there email addresses as there screen name. He emailed me and said " hey whats up? just seeing if this is the same Annie from lds mingle. " which it was. He asked if I wanted to come down and watch movies sometime...because at the time he was in Utah and I was going to Byu Idaho. My family lives in Lehi and I often went to Utah to visit them. I told him I was coming down the next week and would love to watch a movie and hang out. Which he later told him was really surprising that I said yes. So I go down to Utah and its the night of our first date.....and we gave him directions to get to our house....well we forgot about a new stop light that they had put in and he ended up getting lost. My mom and sister had to go pick him up. After finding our house finally we went to Texas roadhouse and watched a movie at my house. After that I came home almost every weekend. We dated about 6 months got engaged July 4th and Married October 10th in the Timpanogos Temple. He is so wonderful...I couldnt ask for a more wonderful man. We have been married for 6 months now!!!!!