I haven't posted since, what, June? Ridiculous! It's about time I update the blog.

JULY: Busy month, but I went to Boston to finally meet some of my best internet friends- Shada and Esmat (from Dubai) and Nikki (from NYC). Everyone thought it would be dangerous for me to go alone, but I defied all warning and had a BLAST! Although, I did feel so sick the entire time I wished I were dead. We look like a bad joke don't we? Two Arabs, a black girl, and a Mormon walk into a bar...



After Boston, we went to Colorado for Pioneer Days and my birthday. I don't want to talk about it.

AUGUST: Josh and I took our annual family vacation to Oregon. Joe and Mary Jane met us there and little Emily is ADORABLE! She sure loves her Aunt Sara and Uncle Joshy!It pretty much solidified my goal to one day live on the Oregon coast. We went to the Tillamook cheese factory and bought enough cheese to last a lifetime. We also went to an air museum that was pretty amazing. We played at the beach, hiked to see waterfalls, shopped our tails off, toured a lighthouse, and I saw my first WHALE from our condo balcony!!! They came up to shore around 5:00 every evening that we were there. All in all, a great trip!

View from our condo:


And us with Em:



School also started in August, and even though I only had 3 classes, I had more on my plate than I was ready to handle this semester.

SEPTEMBER: no news...

OCTOBER: Our 1 year anniversary was great! We wanted to take a trip but didn't have the money, so we stayed at Hotel Monoco downtown and pretended to be tourists. :) We ate great food and saw "Forever Dead" at the off-broadway theater. Of course I also have to write about Halloween because it is our favorite holiday! We decorated our apartment like an apothecary shop again, with all the old bottles and candles and test tubes we could find. After seeing that play on our anniversary, Josh decided that we should be Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.

After countless hours of wig hunting, I finally found this little gem!


We had a Halloween party, and I'm happy to say that it was probably our most successful party ever! Our apartment was packed, almost everyone came in costume, and our food was AWESOME! Great night!

NOVEMBER: The only exciting thing about November was Thanksgiving, which really wasn't very exciting. We had two meals, which was a bit overwhelming. But what's our favorite thing about Thanksgiving? SALES!!! The morning after, Josh and I hit the stores. We didn't have any big items to buy, so we spent nearly all of our budgeted $100 on movies. Harry Potter on blu-ray for $10? It doesn't get any better than that. :)

DECEMBER: The end of the semester!!! Josh's teachers thought it would be a great idea to have about 50 pages worth of papers due this week, so he has been busy busy busy! The best part of my semester was finishing Chinese and I GOT A B-!!! Normally I would be pretty upset with that grade, but I actually left Chinese crying a few times because it was so hard. I'm ecstatic about a B-!!! Josh is hoping to boost his GPA this semester and I hope all his hard work pays off! We'll know his grades in a couple of weeks.

After working both of my jobs and going to school, I'm REALLY excited for the next two weeks because I don't have to teach piano. I can actually go home while the sun is still up!

That pretty much sums up our year. Lots of traveling and school work! I'll try to be more organized and post our family Christmas pictures soon. Until that time, here's a little sneak peek of the pup:


Yeah... she really hates the hat! But we bribed her with treats to keep it on for pictures.

Why can't all nightly news broadcasts be like this? I for one would be SO much more interested!

The Amazon.com craze that is the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt is probably the greatest thing since the beginning of time. Everyday I login to read the reviews, and while some are just absolutely ridiculous and the author has no business attempting to be funny and should never again subject the entire world to their not-so-funny-ness, others are HILARIOUS!



The Three Wolf Moon T-shirt is the #1 selling item in Amazon apparrel right now and it's all because of the snarky comments. Feel free to check it out here. (If you don't look at the Customer Images, your experience is nowhere near awesome).



"Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather."



"Just the thought of not one, not two, but three vicious canines embossed upon my barrel chest gave me the confidence to ask-out Francise, the lead checker at AutoZone. "



"The second that these 3 Wolves touched my chest I benchpressed 5 meth labs and wrote an essay about moonlight. When I wear this shirt as pants I can run to Canada in only 42 days"



"Much like Duran Duran,I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found And I'm hungry like the wolf- and it's so gratifying to finally have a garment, nay a mythic tunic, that exemplifies that."



But wait, there's more! Todaysbigthing.com recently published a Pocahontas/Three Wolf Moon T-shirt parody, which is quite possibly the best thing since the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt itself. See it here.

This is the most pathetic story I've ever heard. Lori Drew of Missouri, who is a mother of a 13 year old girl, pretended to be a 16-year old boy on MySpace in order to bully her daughter's old friend. She started an online relationship with the 13 year old girl, and then dumped her harshly, telling her the world would be a better place without her. The girl responded "you're the type of boy a girl would die over" and then hung herself in the closet. And the worst that can happen to Lori Drew is a sentence of 3 years in prison... Ummm, why don't we have laws against cyber-bullying? And why isn't she being judged more harshly? Our legal system baffles me...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8VjD1bEqw_oqHiLz379ftjcFh6QD989121O0

I want a haircut desperately bad. Right now I'm deciding between two- Josh wants my hair longer, but I want a more unique style. I could go back to my old style,




















or get something that we will both enjoy.

















Opinions on what would look best?

I watch so many movies it's ridiculous. So I've decided to start posting a trailer and review for any amazing movie I see. And I'll start now.

Josh and I wanted a quiet night at home alone on Saturday because we've been running around like crazy and never have time to ourselves. Sooo, we made a huge bed in the living room of all the pillows and blankets in our house and rented a movie. We usually spend hours arguing over which movie to watch but because Josh didn't care, naturally I chose a vampire movie.

Let the Right One In is a Swedish movie about a boy, Oskar, who is bullied at school and spends his nights outside dreaming about ways to stand up for himself. He soon discovers a new girl in the neighborhood, Eli, who of course is a vampire. Long story short, Oskar discovers she is a vampire, she teaches Oskar how to stand up for himself, and Oskar helps her keep her secret. Although this is not your every-day vampire flick, I LOVED it. It was original, horrific, and still somehow innocent. This movie IS Rated R for violence, so let it be known that there is blood.

My recommendation: don't watch the movie with dubbed English. It's tacky and you'll laugh more than anything. Watch it in Swedish and read the subtitles. The trailer is at the bottom of this page.

Every two weeks.... riiiiight. I should have known better than to promise that. Maybe I should give up music and go into politics.

Speaking of sports, I am also proud to announce that I am #1 in the Weston Family NCAA Bracket. Everything is riding on tonight's game between Kansas and Michigan. Go Jayhawks!