Sunday, November 7, 2010

arizona treasures

have you seen the blog iheartmesa.blogspot.com?
i just found this blog and i love it! makes be want to live there again so bad!
(i wish there was some really good provo blog like this!)

also, if anyone knows the kuzdas family from mesa and/or their duaghter Heather Sutton,
she could really use a lot of people's love and support right now.
she was just diagnosed with a severe bone marrow disease (MDS).
i was so sad to see that this cute young mom whom i've always admired is now facing this.
read her story and learn how to help here

i just found these pics from our last visit to mesa
they made me so happy :)
we love bahamabucks (we also love that annalee [my niece] is content with just having her own little taste tester)


also remember kirky, mi hermano?

 well a year ago last sunday (oct 31) he got home from his mission!
that weekend was so much fun! :)
 the 6 of us all flew to AZ together for that quick little trip, so fun :)
in that short year we have officially added 4 more to the family:
casey, abby, phoebe, and tristan at the end of theis month :)
and a short year later he has turned into this:
cute, huh?

Friday, November 5, 2010

lately

i put up christmas lights on the trees around campus
i got to celebrate this cute girl's birthday with 1000 of her closest friends. pizza pie buffet cafe rocks

i played flag football again with these girls and had a flippin blast (we won our first tournament game too!). our team name is hot mommas :)

casey and i learned a lot about each other and ourselves yesterday

and i have finally gotten the hang of foxtrot in smooth! it's like the epitome of jazz dancing which is the best! i love it!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

twas a halloween weekend

and a fun one at that!
at first we didn't know what we were going to do,
ideas came up, we heard of things going on, plans fell through, but at the last minute we were still able to conjure up a mad weekend!
although it was a stormy night to begin, one of the activities we did was this provo text-or-treat halloween hunt,
we received clues via texting and went around to different well known spots around provo for candy, coupons, and goodies.
it was so random but so fun to do together!
and in the end there was a money balloon they popped and we got 6 bucks. awww yeah :)
we also popped in at a costume party from someone in our ward, it was a riot. we loved every second of it.
and for our costumes this year we went to savers and found some fun random goodies to go back in time to the 70's!

points of interest:
casey's awesome/creeper wig (he played with it all night twirling it in his fungers and flipping it out of his face- he loved it)
casey's eye-liner-chest-hair = hilarious. (no, not as legit as tim the wolve's but still awesome in itslef)
kimber's sweet/nasty "new" suit that can be used for 70's, 80's, and 90's
kimber's awesomely big hair pictures do not begin to show its awesome bigness
kimber's legit bell-bottom pants. sewn together with love minutes before our departure for the night (bad part- my zipper would literally not stay up for more than 5 minutes at a time...no not annoying at all)
kimber's sweet platform shoes 
oh, and yes, we carved pumpkins bc if you don't you're not cool :) jk
our pumpkin carving fest was awesome which means it was super fast...almost too fast actually.
carving pumokins as adults with the jam lid is the cleanest and easiest thing in the world

Friday, October 29, 2010

Happy Halloween from the Cutlers!

So this is Casey posting again since it has been such a long time I thought I would give a shoutout for Halloween!!! Happy Halloween and be safe! Kimber's characters ROCK!!!



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Thursday, October 28, 2010

SOUTHWEST DEALS!!!

go check out the southwest deals right now!
they've got some sweet deals
$30, $60, $90 flights through february!
(phoenix to/from salt lake is $60!
idiana/iowa to/from salt lake is $90! come visit me friends!!!!!)
this offer ends today so go get some tickets and have fiun/surprise family!!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

pretty fall colors with...snow?

yesterday i played intramural flag football and had a blast.
and half way through we were accompanied by SNOW!
SNOW!?
yeah, SNOW!
i thought and yelled "it's Oct 26, it should not be snowing!!
ha, snow is pretty, i just want fall to last a wee bit longer!!!

i curse the following 2 things on it snowing :
a) one morning a week or two ago i woke up and thought "it'll be so fun to see freshly falling/en snow outside my window in the morning!"
b) miss jenna masters said how she was enjoying beautiful weather in london while provo was enjoying snow and i thought to myself "whatever! we don't have snow"...that night it snowed
luckily it all melted away rather quickly

but here are some of my fall pictures of taken lately.
i love fall so much and am trying remember it very distictly bc arizona doesn't get this kind of beautiful



Sunday, October 24, 2010

a list of things on my mind

-casey and i saw the cutest couple in the temple the other day! imagine 2 super old, frail, wrinkley, hunched over, smiling people walking hand in hand, one with a cane, dressed beautifully in white. it was the most precious thing i've ever seen! as casey and i passed them i wanted to instantly be them so badly! all those years of experience, love, life behind them, time to go to the temple and not be rushed, and they still cherished each other- still best friends. i want to be them. i told casey probably 10 times during our little walk how i wanted us to be that couple someday! he smiled at me bc i think he secretly wants to too inside :)

-i've started playing flag football with some women in my ward this week! SO. MUCH. FREAKING. FUN. i'm no sports diva at all, but it's just so fun to get out there with other women in the ward to play sports, have fun, get a little bruised and just be together laughing! plus we've got some awesomely beastly girls on our team (which is a compliment) which makes us better and have more fun. i love love love love it. you can bet your bottom dollar i'll be doing this again. ps- another reason it's more fun to play sports like this than it was in young women's bc a) everyone wants to be out there playing together, not being forced b) people are better than they were when they were 12 and 14 :)

-i think i like the band never shout never so much bc sometimes they sound like my beloved format that no longer exists. listening to the format brings me back to jr high, which for me, actually had so many great memories. i love the format so much.

-i still love my carpet to be vacuumed like everyday, it's so nice to have our own vacuum again. i think that's what it'll feel like when

-casey, i'm sorry my feet are stinky :( it's not me. it's my dane shoes mixed with being very sweaty mixed with those one shoes i always wear lately bc they make my arches feel better, i sorry

-talking about shoes. In the past 4-5 months i bought my 1st 2 pairs of black flat shoes (i'm a brown shoe kind of girl but have most black jackets and no brown ones! it hasn't been working so well). i bought the 1st pair for my job. they're ugly-ugly old woman work style shoes to be exact, but they're incredibly comfortable and i love putting them on my feet. oh, and there was no breaking them in- they were miraculous from the beginning. the 2nd pair i recently bough were normal wear- closed toed black shoes to match my black jackets when it's cold. they sure are cute- but they sure do hurt! no arch support, super stiff, there's other problems with them too, i just can't think of them :) moral of the story: i prefer my ugly old work style shoes over my cute ones very much so. why can't they make oober cute comfortable shoes!?

-i love free samples. this week and last, i've gotten free samples in the mail everyday almost everyday! glad bags, kashi bars, laundry detergents, breathe right strips, ear plugs, granola bars, lotions, shampoos, pringles, chocolate, etc :) also, the free samples come with coupons which makes me happy :) you should sign up for them if you have the time bc getting free samples in the mail makes you feel so good!
-lately i've been craving fries! i've always loved fries but always stayed away from them because i know how bad they are for you (i'd rater eat unhealthy sweets than salts). for instance, i forgot to mention that when we picked up those ice cream cones at mcdonald's after nickel city last weekend, i asked for fries too...at that moment, they were so good!!!! they seriously tasted better than the ice cream!

-the color combos [red, white, blue], [green and red], [purple and gold] make me very very happy

-i miss my nieces and nephews so bad! thanksgiving and christmas couldn't come sooner! we are so lucky to have at least 1 of them here in utah with us who i still wish i got to see more often! (soon to be a 2nd!). 

-everyday i love trees, grass, shrubs, flowers, sprinkler systems, and fertilizers more and more everyday!

-i want to watch hocus soon

-isn't it so annoying when you have a version of one phone and then they come out with a 2nd version of that phone and change around a few very important keys (like space bars etc) and you can never text right on that phone?

-we bought our harry potter tickets yesterday. yes,  a month early. we are so happy with our decision :)

-fall is the best. seriously. seriously! the trees are beautiful: red,orange, gold, and even the green as the backdrop. the air is cool and crisp just right for playing outside and dressing warmly. i think one of the prettiest scenes is all the fallen leaves on green grass. it's my absolute favorite. i wish byu grounds didn't clean up the leaves so fast, i want to play in them!

-i still want a pet. i would either love to have a cute cuddly kitty- i love cuddly kitties, or a fun dog- casey would love a dog. it would just be so fun! (no worries landlord, we won't)

-not to self- never let the dishes get that far behind again.

-it rained for so long today- from 10 am til 5 pm. it was so nice

-we've decided we really love this stage in our lives. us. school. work. us. no set schedule, just us running to a bunch of things we want to do  (which is way too much) and laughing (most the time) as we go. we thoroughly enjoy playing with other people's kids and pets right now, but for the time being it's better to just be us. we love it.

QUESTIONS
- has anyone come across the problem with macs not uploading pictures very quickly (or at all) to blogger?
-has anyone come across the problem with arriving at the maximum amount of pictures allowed on your gmail photo account for when you upload photos to your blog? wondering what i should do bc i'm getting real close... (nicole i know you had this problem awhile ago...)

Friday, October 22, 2010

pumpkin carving

QUICK TIP!
i promise you'll  love me for sharing this with you

what's the worst part of carving pumpkins?
having to get out all the guts and seeds and yuckiness inside right?
i just want to break my spoon in half bc it barely does me any good!
it takes an eternity!

TIP:
this year,
you know how a canning jar has 2 parts, the flat pancake part and the doughnut part?
use the flat pancake part to carve out the inside of the pumpkin.

do it,
you'll love me for this tip.
heck, i love me for this tip every time have to carve pumpkins!

good luck, let me know if you try it!