Zumba or bust

It was love at first step.

Dear Zumba,

Where have you been all my life?!  I never thought I would love going to the gym so much, or that I would literally plan my day around when we can be together. Everything about you makes everything about me smile. The sweet combination of latin music with dance moves is hardly a workout. Its more like pure joy. The fact that I'm also burning off all those addicting cupcakes (thanks Marion) is just a bonus.
For me, Latin music its like injecting caffeine into my cells. I hear it and all I want to do is dance and dance and dance some more. Is there Cuban blood flowing through these veins?! I think yes. Gracias madre mia por los raizes que me hacen sentir vivo por medio de la musica latina. !Besos!

Reflecting

Miss this view.

You know who I'm talking about

The Dead Sea people at the mall. They call out "Excuse me my friend, can I show you something?"  You know who I'm talking about. We all do the same things; look the other way and pretend not to hear them, pull your cell phone out and pretend you are busy, or if they catch your eye you splurt out "Ah, No thank you, not interested", or "I'm in a huge hurry, I really can't."

They caught me at a weak moment. I had just dropped off my ring for a cleaning, only to realize that upon its glorious return there was a diamond missing!! It was discovered in the basket they used to polish it, and they promised to restore it.
So while I was distracted looking at my lonely band (and a little peeved that they didn't check it before giving it back to me) I was stopped by Fabrizto from Italy who "wanted to show me something."

He caught me off gaurd. I said I wasn't interested. He grabs my hand and begins to put cream on it explaining to me that I am going to "lub" this product and it will only take a minute. Darn. Again I said I wasn't interested.
He continued to rub cream on my hand, wipe it with cotton and water and yes, I had to agree that it felt smoother than my other parched hand. My lotion does the same thing. I still wasn't interested. 

Fabrizto: "Jew har berry bewtiful. Jew hab a boyfriend?"
Me: "I'm married."
Fabrizto: "No, today eez not my lucky dai, jew har too yung to be married"
Me: "Well, I am 27, I'm not as young as I look."
This goes on for some time.
I see that my only way out is to buy some facial moisturizer (which I needed).
1st price:  $90.00  (excuse me? um NO.)
2nd price:  $60.00 (because I was his friend)
3rd price:  $35.00  (after I promised not to tell any of my friends)
Fine.
Now this part is crazy. As I'm checking out, he runs and grabs the body butter, tosses it in the bag and says, "I give you dis for only $15 dawlars!"  Is he serious? Not only did he initally tell me it was 50 dollars, but did he just put it in my bag without asking? He swipes my card, what the?!..
Okay so AS I AM LEAVING he says, "One more ting, we haf a new product, I show it to jew and jew bring jour mom for next time."

I thought that sounded safe, so I sit in the chair and tells me my eyes look puffy (thanks a lot) and this product is just like botox. He says it excerises the muscles around the eye, (sure it does..)
Its a 3-step process. Each thing is $500.00.
Me:  "Wow, for $1,500.00 you could buy a car. Thats rediculous."
Fabrizto: "Madonna travels to the Red Sea ebery jear for dis cream."
Me: "Well thats great, Madonna is rich."
Fabrizto: "True, she eez a reech beech."  (he really said that)

He then tries to sell it to me! AFTER I already bought something. Two somethings!  He grabs his cell and pretends to call his "manager." This is the stupidist trick. The guys at Golds Gym do it all the time. He fakes a converstation begging in my behalf for the cheaper price.  The best part is while he is in the middle of this converstation, his PHONE STARTS RINGING!! True story.  BUSTED! He tries to recover. The price goes from 1500.00 to 250.00 for all 3. 

I say no, completely amused by this circus. I can take my puffy eyes to the gym with some good sleep thank you very much.
I leave. He calls me back while I have one foot on the escalator. I almost trip and turn around. Did I leave my credit card with this crazy person?  Nope, he asks me for my number. How do you say CREEPER in Italian? 

Lesson learned. Stay away!!!

Adios 2009

Here is to a wonderful year! A little of what happened...

We got married!!!

went on the best honeymoon in the history of honeymoons...

fixed up the ol' house...

saw the worlds greatest concert...

said goodbye to teaching speech in preschool...

got a puppy, almost named her Michael Jackson

Jumped the wake and landed it for the first time!

took a bite out of the big apple...

salsa'd in the Domincan Republic with lots of cubans...

Hung out with David Bowie and Sarah form Labryth..

Had our first christmas as a married couple.

Thanks for the memories.

Can't wait to see what 2010 brings...

Dear Cleaning Fairy,

After being away for the Holidays, the piles of Christmas leftovers await you.

Here is your to-do list in no particular order:

1- refill the refrigerator & cupboards with food
2- clean the bathrooms and kitchen
3- organize closets and drawers
4- go through the pile of mail and pay the neglected bills
5- 7 loads laundry (please be sure to fold and store)
6- take down christmas decor
7- dust, vacuum, organize
8-sort through the christmas stuff and find a place for each item
9-shovel the driveway and melt the ice
10- pick up the puppy's droppings

You really are too kind. If you need me, I'll be out getting a pedicure and massage. I'll be back later to watch movies and eat chocolate

Your friend,

Jenny

Temple Square at Christmas

As a little girl, nothing was more magical than the lights around temple square at Christmas. It seems every year they get more and more beautiful. We decided to get together with the family before going our seperate ways for Christmas this year. Dinner at the Roof, a walk around the Temple, some lights, some trees, some misltetoe...

My wonderful family

My lovely Mothers

Hungry little fella?

Let it Snow

Ah...nothing like waking up with the surprise of SNOW! Lots and lots of SNOW, glorious snow. The puppies went crazy, they didn't know what to do first- sniff it, dig at it, or eat it.

As you can see, Roscoe skipped the sniffing and digging part...he went straight for the eating.

Sleeping beauty and the gardian beast

Our tree. And yes, after watching a bow-making tutorial on youtube, I made those bows all by myself

This was too cute to pass up. She is smiling her snaggle tooth at us

These two LOVE the snow. Its so fun watching them play

Unclipping the netting on the tree, good thing Andrew is 7'9"

Look at my man carrying our first tree and placing it in its stand

Here they sit, day after day, watching the snow fall and barking at the BYU joggers