Happy Birthday Sister!

Mi Casa

Top Ten Stats:

10 rooms

9 days since the deed was put in our names

8 wall paper borders to remove

7 mature trees

6 shelves in the pantry (Yeah, a pantry!)

5 front windows for cute Christmas wreaths

4 bedrooms

3 parking spaces

2 bathrooms

1 AWESOME MOVIE ROOM

Now the 4th white house with dark shutters on the Mister's side of the family... A lovely Koi pond with no Koi - it died. You can barely see it, but that red deck in the middle is A-MAZING!! We love it. It has already become the natural gathering place because of the built in benches. There are trees surrounding all sides so the backyard feels very private.
A very kitchy kitchen, but it looks much better with our stuff in it now. The previous owner had a bazillion knick knacks all over the house. The Mister has already pulled out over 50 nails and he's not done yet.
As always, we love you all and you are welcome anytime. Well, not anytime. Maybe not in the middle of the night (or early in the morning for that matter) or during Boston Legal, but any other time.

My Missing Days

Friday
Finally close on our first house after waiting two months.

Saturday
Started packing and wondered how we ended up with all of this stuff.

Sunday
Final walk through of said house (with Seller there). And second-to-last time we have to hear how she sold her house to us for "dirt cheap". Which she didn't.

Monday
Work.

Tuesday
More Work.

Wednesday
First day in new house - Clean, Clean, Clean. Thanks Mom!

Thursday
New carpet in house. Set up kitchen.

Friday
Move in closets, yada, yada, yada.

Saturday
The BIG move. In the RAIN. Thanks everyone!!!

Sunday
Sleep.

Premiere Deja Vu

We've done this before, but we're doing it again. This time for reals though. Tonight we (the Mister and I ) are attending the premiere of Forever Strong. It's a GREAT movie. And this time it is opening in selected cities around the country. As Letterman would say, "Just pray that your city has been selected."

Oh yeah, and did I mention that the Mister worked on this fine piece of cinematic genious? Well, he did. So go see it.

Reason Why

This (California beach side bungalow stage set) is the reason why I am leaving work at 10:30pm tonight... Wish me luck in the pitch!

P.S. Wouldn't you want to live in one of these bungalows by the sea?

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On My Way to the LPGA...

Bookending the Sun Valley trip were two (count them, 2) glorious days of golfing. I seriously love to golf. I have never taken to any sport or hobby as much as golf. (Mister, I will keep trying with the gorgeous red guitar you so lovingly bought me when I thought that the guitar was "it" for me). If I didn't have one of those J-O-B things I would spend every day practicing my short game. Which wasn't too bad the last time out, actually. I scored a few long puts for my team.

FRIDAY'S GAME

Here's me in the driver seat....

And here's the good sport/golfing buddy that has been nearly-dumped out of the cart too many times to mention...

Here's our view for the 4+ hour game... The leaves are also starting to change, making the views from the course spectacular.


TUESDAY'S TOURNAMENT

We did not plan the matching outfits...

The girlies from work...

No - we didn't win the tournament, but I did score a lot of free stuff. Besides the usual hats, golf balls, tees and towels we each got our own "sneak-your-own-beer-in coolers" that coincidently are the same size as the shoe pocket in your golf bag. I did win a chipping game and picked up a 1 Gig flash drive. Hands off, Mister! This one is not for your music!!

Hooray for Hollywood! er, Sun Valley!

I loves me a break from work, even if it is for work. Although being in Sun Valley for the weekend doesn't feel like hard labor we (the Mister came too) did put together a little shin dig for the Wells Fargo crew. Here's just a little flavor of the little party...

The highlights of the trip were the fab restaurants...

If you ever get to Sun Valley you have got to try the KMT Salad at Desperado's. We salivated for the entire 4 hour drive in anticipation of this salad. The owner couldn't believe that we didn't have anything like this in our town. And no, the cafe rio salad is not a contender.

KB's (I think it stands for Ketchum Burrito's?) Another quality choice.

Ciro - Yum, yum and yum!

My fav activity though was swimming in this gigantic heated circular pool at night with the Mister. We stayed until we were prunes talking about what the future holds for us (new house!) and just goofed around (but no skinny-dipping). Made me fall even more in love with him.

Up in smoke

Albeit belated, but Happy Birffday!

Notice the corner of the cake that is missing? Well, that's our E! He loves chocolate in a big way and couldn't resist. See him eyeing the cake? Well, that's our E too! Did I tell you that he LOVES chocolate?

Yellow Jackets and Other Things Buggy

Okay, so mister-fancy-pants Lance Armstrong (above) is coming out of retirement. I love a good bike race just as much as the next guy (especially through France - ooh, la la), but it bothers me to some crazy high degree that athletes go through all of the rhetoric to retire and then decide that they need more moolah to fund this....

Seriously?

This is what happens to a bowl of chocolate cream sandwich cookies when a 5-year-old attacks them. But seriously - the chocolate cream, but not the cookies? We love you J - even if we don't understand you.

Jacket Weather

I am excited - are you?

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I know the Mister and his one-million-strong

jacket collection are just dying to be let out of the

air conditioned indoors out into the crisp fall air.

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P.S. There is only a hint of red in the trees. I am sure we will still have plenty of hot-hot-hot days to go. The upside is that the glitter flip flops can hang out with me for a little while longer.

NEW BLOG ALERT!!!

So now I seem totally boring because Rafael has started a new blog and actually has some talent for writing and has interesting stuff to say. To check it out - GO HERE.

Charge it to the Underhills...

Happy Labor Day! For the holiday we got together with the fam and decided to avoid anything that would necessitate labor so we ate junk food and watched the cinema classic "Fletch" - you know, from back in the day when Chevy was funny?

Shortly after Alan Stanwyk asks Fletch if he owns rubber gloves (to which Fletch replies that he has a lease with an option to buy) my nephew E ran out of the room and came backs with these...

I guess E does indeed own rubber gloves!

And we thought that most of the movie was going over this three-year-old's head!

Nate's Dream World

Nate, Here's one more option in your quest to never mow a lawn again...

Sorry about the shaky cam. It's hard to have steady hands at a red light when you are laughing hysterically.

Joy Riding In The Thing

The best part of yesterday - The Mister took me out for a ride in this '73 VW Thing last night. He drove the Thing in High School and it was recently shipped out to us. We get to have a little fun with it until it finds it's way to it's new home in Idaho.

The best part of today - Lunch with the Mister. He met me downtown for a much needed break from installing my event that spans the entire Convention Center and neighboring Arena.

Our Lucky Day

Yesterday was our lucky day, indeed! We had a home inspection on our soon-to-be first home. The inspector had only nice things to say, which is wayyyyyy better than the last time we went through this process. We are so excited and feel so lucky to be moving here....

Dang... I was going to include a picture, but I guess since we are buying the house it isn't listed on the MLS any more. If you are really curious you can check out this link...

http://www.spotlighthometours.com/tours/tour.cfm?mls=822347&referer=wfrmls

After the home inspection we went up to Snowbird for a company party and I won this...

Yes, Trevor - it IS a 50" Plasma television. Aren't you soooooo jealous? I won by donating food to the Utah Food Bank. And The Mister didn't want to stop at the store the night before so that I could buy the TV-qualifying food. He said that I wasn't going to win "the stupid TV." Bet you don't think it's stupid now!

Niece Elise

HaPpy OnE MonNTh BiRthDAy

to our new niece, Elise Matalena Magalogo.

Home Sweet Home

In our never ending quest for our DREAM HOME we have decided against houses with huge buffalo heads in the living room.

Luckily though...

Our luck continued and we "chased fall" to NYC. It was a great honeymoon. We saw three shows, shopped and ate yummy food all week. We joked about how lucky we were to have had our wedding on the last day of fall. As we were leaving NYC to come home we noticed snow flurries. Pretty funny.

And now...Snow!

This is what our picture taking area at Sundance looked like the day of our wedding...


And this is what our picture taking area looked like the next day. Can you believe it? We are so lucky that we got our fall wedding. The resort had to cancel all of the events that day because of the snow.

At Last

Okay, so I lied back in December when I said to check back soon for pics of our wedding - but I am making an honest woman of myself and posting a few of my favs. Mister's friend/ex-coworker Helen took these shots.


My absolute favorite!


This is the picture that Mister had as the background on his phone until he went the Kennedy Space Center - or "Space Camp" as he calls it - and got a picture to replace it. Sad, I know.


This is a funny picture because I remember how much the Mister and I didn't want to leave the party. It was such a great day. The Mister did sneak back to get more of our Whitney-made wedding cake. We still crave this cake!! Hint, Hint.

McKenna Love

I L-O-V-E this pic of McKenna from her baby shower on Saturday. I think that it perfectly shows what this day was about. Whitney (aka Whit Dogg) gifted this cute book along with many other fun baby books.

We Got Married!!

November 29th, 2007 we FINALLY got married!!! Check back for pixs!