Busy Busy Busy!

Don't worry, I didn't run off with Tiger Woods, I'm just horrible at remembering to update my blog...whoops!I think more has happened in the past month than I have room to write about, but for kicks and giggles we'll see how much I can fit in. I'm about a month behind schedule so don't mind if some of this is out of order.

~*~ BEAR LAKE~*~
Last month Me, Ben, Brian,Krystal,Carmen and Kassandra all took off for the weekend to my Grandma's cabin in Bear Lake for a little get away and had a pretty stinkin good time. We all got up there late Friday night but ended up just playing games,eating dinner and watching movies.

Saturday we got up and attempted to head up to the Paris Ice Caves. Attempted being the keyword. We got about halfway up the canyon, but due to the fact that mother nature dumped a load the night before we ended up getting Ben's explorer stuck and just ended up turning back around.-Don't let this picture fool you... I was totally helping push-

On the way back to the cabin, the girls wanted to stop and try out the lottery, and seeming how we had nothing else to do...We all decided to take a chance and try
and win big. Yet again.... Try being the key word.

-products of our EPIC fail-

Sadly Carmen and Kassandra had to head home Saturday afternoon so it ended up just being Brian and Krystal and me and Ben but we still made it fun. We played Imagine If, which got interesting to say the least. Found out WhipCream kisses rock. Made dinner, and then Krystal made deliciousness in a pan, and basically just relaxed, but it was way fun to say the least. I don't think anyone really wanted to go home or the weekend to end.

-whip cream kisses-

-playing imagine if-

-last picture picture before heading home-

~*~ BEST FRIEND BIRTHDAY DINNER ~*~
Every year me and Dani celebrate our birthdays together by usually going to dinner or getting people together. This year we decided to check out Pirate Island Pizza in Orem with a bunch of our friends and it was so fun! Granted there was a pretty good sized group of us so we didn't get to visit with everyone very well, but after pizza and some arcade games..... we had fun!

-Best Friends.Est 2004 (ps dani I stole your pic)-

-Dani and Alex totally took home the loot of tickets-

-Lea and Hayley bug at dinner...thanks for coming girls!-

-Me and Ben once he finally got there-

~*~ IN THE NEWS~*~
My little sister. Yes. I said little sister announced a few weeks ago that she is getting married this coming January to Austin Soderquist. They meet over the summer, and started dating the end of summer beginning of fall and are perfect for each other!

-congrats kids we love you-

BYU won the "Holy War" this year against University of Utah in overtime. It was EPIC!

-the field after BYU won...woo hoo!-

Last night me and Ben went to the Kbull 93 Low Dough Christmas Show and it was SO much fun! Tickets where only $10 bucks and we figured for Phil Vassar, Bucky Covington and Bomshell that wasn't to bad! Origionally they had us seated in the Wheelchair section but there was a bunch of empty seats down lower so they let us move. All of the artists did awesome, sadly my camera sucks at zooming in so the pictures sucked...boo.

-Phil was AMAZING live... I was way impressed!-

-just waiting for the show to start-

So anyways..... that's my life as of lately. Busy Busy Busy!! Have a fabulous holdiay season and don't forget to test out the mistletoe! :)
♥ love ya kids!

Pet Peeves.

Okay so I've had it brought to my knowledge lately that I have some of the oddest pet peeves.
There are the littlest things that don't phase other people but drive me completely bonkers.

BIGGEST Pet Peeve.
Plastic water/soda lids that you have to twist, and crack apart from the small plastic piece to open. That little piece that breaks off, oh my lanta. Drives me INSANE!!
Texting Peeves.
1- I hate stupid forwards. I'm pretty sure if I forward this text to 10 people an angel isn't going to appear magically and grant me three wishes
2- If you are older than 12 and texing me, don't text me "wat up yo?" or anything even close to being spelled like you're just learning how to spell. You're a grown adult. Use your big kid words and spell correctly! Seriously. text me like a retarded. I'm not replying.
Driving Peeves:
1-Drunk Driver. I don't frankly care if you drink. But if you do, don't drive. Stay the night, call a cab, I don't care. But when you start putting other peoples lives in jeopardy... yeah don't get me started.
2-Slow drivers. Seriously.....Green means GO!!

Random Peeves:

When people continually don't follow through with plans. Yes. I understand if something occasionally comes up, or something comes up last minute. But if every time something is planned, you bail... you're officially on my list.

When at a restaurant and somebody feels the need to be on their cell phone and talk at the top of their lungs so everyone can hear their conversation. Seriously.... go outside and take the call. We don't care about how annoying your mother in law is or how crappy work was. Leave it at the door buddy.


So there's a few random peeves of mine. Just a little vent session.

Halloween 2009... BOO!!!

I think I celebrated Halloween this year more than any other year.
I'm not usually a huge Halloween buff but for some reason this year I had more to do with it.
The Halloween season started off with a couple haunted houses towards the beginning of the month. I'm a complete wimp when it comes to anything scary but when a cute boy invites you to go to something you naturally say yes and go. And man am I glad I did say yes!! Mine and Ben's first date was The Haunted Forest in American Fork and it was SO much fun!! We kept getting lost and back in the places you're not supposed to be, but it made the night interesting! Ben is a huge "Haunted House buff" so he was all over the chance to go out to Tooele to the Haunted Hospital a few days later. So again naturally when he asked if I wanted to go... I said yes! Both Haunted Forest and Hospital were way good and scary!! I'm not going to lie though I kind of just held on to Ben and let him lead the way... I hid behind him the whole time... bhahaha :)

Okay so this picture wasn't taken at either of the haunted houses but I just really like it for some reason. Trust me to screw up a picture!


Ever since my mom married Dick, "Fred" has been a part of our Halloween Holidays. Fred is a lifesize dummy that sits in front of our house sometimes year-round but usually just around the month of October. Dick will move him every few days, and it's always fun to watch people look for him as they drive by. Sometimes he's on the porch, front lawn, tractor or randomly on the roof. When Luke and Marie got married Luke carried on the tradition for his house. In my opinion Lukes "Fred" is a little more realistic and creepier... I LOVE ♥ it!!

First thing I think of when I hear Halloween is homemade Spudnuts at Grandma Tami's house. Pretty sure I go into a complete sugar coma after leaving her house cause i completely fill up on them! Okay..... so I know alot of you are asking "What the heck is a spudnut?" It's hands down the best doughnut you've ever had. Better than Krispy Kreme! And yes... Spud= potatoes.
I went over and somewhat helped on saturday make them and they where a dream come true.
Some how I didnt end up with one stinkin picture though...ugh!!

I was really lame this year when it came to a costume. I'm not one of those girls that use's Halloween as an excuse to dress like a slut and prance around showing what their mama gave them. I was a little bit more conservative with my costume. My BYU jersey, two black lines on my face and blue sparkly fake eye lashes and called it good.
I went to a couple different random parties with friends and it actually was all pretty fun, plus people had some pretty rockin costumes!!
Mikela and Spencer rockin the witch and vampire style.
Baiey and Chris off the Hillbilly Hook!
I love my lil hillbilly Juanita!
Devin kept freaking everyone out with his mask.... it was epic.
Abby from NCIS and the Firefighter

Pinocchio What do you know... he is a real boy!!!
apparently zombies dont appreciate kisses????

So anyways.
That was Halloween 2009. Nothing to exciting but hey. It made for an update!!!
♥ love you kids!!!!

Q:"Why couldnt the boy ghost get the girl ghost pregnant?"
A: " Because he had a "HALLOW-WEENIE"

bahahaha... that came from my mother of all people!!

♫♥Framing Hanley Concert♥♫

Tuesday night was yet again another concert night in my books,shocking I know.
Dani introduced me to the group Framing Hanley a little over a year ago, and I fell in love with their music. They're a five piece punk rock group and luckily for us, not very well known yet. We went to their show back in March and had a blast! The venue was packed, and we ended up grabbing front row, chatting with The Veer Union (opening act) after and grabbing pictures with them and a few of the guys from Framing Hanley. So needless to say when we heard that both Framing Hanley and The Veer Union where coming back to Utah and for $10 a ticket, we where stoked!!
I ended up going up to Murray Theater around 4 to wait in line so we could make sure to get front row and was like the second person in line so we where good there. Okay so basically we could have shown up 20 minutes before the show and still have got front row if not really close. There was literally less than 100 people at this show.... depressing!! Needless to say though we had an AWESOME TIME!! I dragged Ben along, later to find out that was his first non country concert. And Dani and Alex, and Rylie and his date Amber came so we had a pretty good group.


Waiting for the show to start!!
The first opening act was called Transmit Now and actually weren't to bad.


The second group, JANUS? JONUS? We're not really sure what their name was but none the less I dont think ANYONE was impressed with their stuff.


Entertaing outselves between sets!


Third act, The Veer Union. I actually dont mind a few of their songs, and honestly they are some of the nicest guys I have ever meet! Looks can be decieving, so don't judge a book by its cover! :)

BEST FRIENDS! Honestly, I think I've lost count on how many concert's we have gone to together!!

I just really liked this picture for some reason!

Nixon from Framing Hanley.
Kind of a cool action shot!
Nixon right above us. Yeah dont mind the fact that he was all sweaty and it dripped on my face...yuck!!!!

Overall it was a really fun night and great show!! Hopefully they'll come back soon!! :)

♥ love you kids!!!

♫..packin my bags...making a runaway..♫

Lately life has been so crazy and I've felt like I just need to kind of "runaway" for the weekend and take a break from everything and just relax. This past weekend ended up being the perfect time to "runaway" for Bear Lake for a day or two.
Last weekend Ben (the guy I've been dating lately) asked if I was free for the following weekend, and we had planned to go up to Idaho for his family shin dig, but a day or two after planning that trip plans fell through, but we still wanted to go do something so we decided to just go to Bear Lake with my family for the weekend. My family was going up to build a roof over the stairs up to the cabin over UEA weekend. So after we both got off work Friday we headed up, by the time Ben and I got up there Friday night it was kinda late so we just ate dinner, talked with the fam and watched a movie. Now this weekend was kind of interesting cause it was Bens first time meeting my parents, and at least part of my crazy family, but it went GREAT, and the weekend was SO fun!!

We headed down to the Lake and crazy boy decided to go into the water... it was freezing!!
I think he finally defrosted later that day.

Beach Bums!! :)

♪....toes in the water ass in the sand....♪ I love ♥ this place!!!

Thumbs up for his first Bear Lake Raspberry Shake!!!

Up at Paris Springs, so pretty!!


Ice Caves with McMarvin!
(side note: he LOVES the UofU) He was a little too excited when he saw this. haha :)

Bear Wheeling at 4 Lake... oh man. good times :)
The 4 wheeler wouldnt work Saturday, but with Ben's mad skills he got it working Sunday in no time, so we had to take it out to make sure it would work okay!

Up Fish Haven Canyon, it was so pretty!!


And the whole reason for the trip, the new roof over the stairs, it still needs to be painted but it looks good! :)

Needless to say this weekend was just what at least I needed!!
♥ love you kids!!!

Livin for the minute and loving every second of it!

Loving life? Check yes please!
Can I just say that lately I have been LOVING my life!!
Since I last updated which was forever ago... but lets be honest.
Does anybody actually read this thing? Probably not but I do it randomly for kicks and giggles.
The summer is over. Fall is here. Which means its FOOTBALL season.. GO cougs!

As of lately. Here's my life:

We had the annual Pugmire Family Reunion in August and it was a BLAST!!
I love going to this reunion, its always so much fun!!



Me and Coop playing around with the camera. such a cute lil kid!

June Bug rockin the glasses. Teresa your kids make for some cute lil stinkers.

I hit up a few more concerts, which where all AMAZING!

Toby Keith, Trace Adkins and Trailer Choir put on one heck of a show!!

We where SO excited to finally see him again! Keith show #5!!
After 2 long years my all time favorite KEITH URBAN returned to Utah. Little Big Town came with him this tour and I was actually really impressed with them!! :)
One word for this show : EPIC. It was by far the best I have ever seen him!


Lastly Me, Krystal,Brian and Michelle hit up the Brad Paisley,Jimmy Wayne and Dierks Bentley show a few weeks ago. Between the drunken fights behind us, the show and a mix of good friends it was a really fun and eventful night!

Sister Emily Marvin headed off to serve a 18 month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints serving the Richmond Virgina Mission. We got a call early last Wednesday morning from the airport saying she was on her way.Im not going to lie, i miss her like crazy but she'll be such an amazing missionary!

.... Rise and shout the cougars are out..... Thats right! Its officially football season!!!!
I cant get over how happy I am that it's that time of the year again. Honestly, I wish it was college football season year round. It would pretty much make my life complete! So far my boys have been playing really good, hopefully they can keep it up!


It helps when your best friend marries a football nut, it means she comes to games and likes football too! The boys making their grand entrance!!

Lastly, Miss Bailey face one of my best friends started getting hand cramps in her left hand due to the fact she is now carrying a rock on the ring finger. She will offically become Mrs. Gibbs December 19 2009. I'm so happy for her and Chris!


welp! That's my life for now. Now that I'm on the computer 40 hours a week for work with lots of time to blow, I may actually get around to updating this thing more than once every 3 months!

♥ love you kids!

♥ manda

My life as of lately:

This summer has been SO crazy and SO busy for me lately.
Between work, weddings, concerts, friends, vacations and trying to get some rest and not melt away in the heat... I have totally spaced my blog. Surprise I know!!
Well so far this summer... here's whats's happened.

For starters:
Josh Gracin/Darryl Worley Concert with the girls for Dani's Bachelorette party.. such a blast!
dont mind the fact we pulled front row and buddied up with Josh's guitarist Brad the whole night!

Secondly:
My sister Emily recieved her mission call, she will be serving in the Richmond Virgina Mission and leaves this september, i'll miss her, but she'll do amazing!!! :)
Third:
My bestest friend Dani married Alex and now is officially Mrs. Long. I'm so happy for her! :)

Fourth:
I hit up another Josh Gracin concert with a couple girls I work with Maygen and Sarah.. We had CRAAPPPY seats but hey.. we meet Josh so it was okay!

fifth... hmm whats next?
oh yes. 4th of July. Kind of different this year. not the usual "party with the Dixons". I went and hit up the Sandy City events to see Carolina Rain in concert. I was probably 1/20 people out of the 5000 that where that that actually knew who they where and the music. really relaxed and fun show. Went and talked to Rhean after the show.. such a good guy, no boob signage this time though!! ;)
Sixth... George Strait/Blake Shelton concert!!
Not going to lie. one of the best shows i've been to. I know I go to ALOT and say that ALOT but this was just classic goodness!! Nothing gets better than George Strait!! Plus my mom was as giddy as a school girl! Between Krystal, Me, My mom, Grandma Tami, Renee, Sonja, Roger,Johnny and 2 of krystals friends.. we had a good crowd and good time! Traffic.. was another story!




seventh: Bear Lake 2009 Singles Ward style!!
our singles ward headed up to Bear Lake for a little R&R. 83 people ended up coming.. it was insane!! I was only there about 50% cause I came down for the concert but it was still a blast... minus the ticket I got on the way back... whoopps!!



well theres an update for now. I may update sooner than later... bhahaha.. who am i kidding. It'll be a few months before I'm back on here! :)
love you kids!
♥manda