Ok, I've done it, I've started a new blog! I never meant to be one of those confusing bloggers that has so many blogs you don't know where to check. But out of my selflessness of bringing Dave into my life (ha) I've decided that Amber's Alerts are no longer just "Amber's" so I have began a new blog for the two of us.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Dave and Amber Rowe-to-be!
Ok, I've done it, I've started a new blog! I never meant to be one of those confusing bloggers that has so many blogs you don't know where to check. But out of my selflessness of bringing Dave into my life (ha) I've decided that Amber's Alerts are no longer just "Amber's" so I have began a new blog for the two of us.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Splendid Summer
We were so lucky to have our WHOLE family together in Utah this summer over the 4th of July, which, I have to say, is probably one of my favorite holidays. I LOVE summer, and since this holiday happens to fall smack-dab in the middle of summer, it makes it quite enjoyable. We went swimming, and camping, and BBQ'ing, and more swimming, and more BBQ'ing, and family, and friends, and baseball games, and fireworks, and game nights, and sleepovers, and sleep outs, and everything inbetween :)
Sadly I hardly saw any friends or family besides just my immediates, but it was fun to be back for a week, and hope to come back soon and see more people.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
1/4 of 100 random things
1.I had an Imaginary friend named Kimball (which I used from the name on our Piano) when I was little and sometimes I believed he was so real, I would feel bad when I would ignored him because I was playing with other friends!
2. I used to hate baths and think they were disgusting! I don't think I took a single bath all of my high school or college years. But now I find it very relaxing and a good way to warm up. It also helps that I know I'm the only one using my tub!
3. I always wished I had bigger feet. In middle school all my friends and sisters could share shoes but my feet were too little! I would even buy bigger shoes in hopes that one day I would grow into them. I still have shoes I can't fit into, but now I'm glad they are a whopping size 5.
4.I have to smell the dishwasher soap every time I load it. I love it. Sometimes I run half loads just to smell it!
5. I can't stand fingernails! Mine, when they get longer than my skin. And others when they scratch them across there clothes or the sound when they itch their skin, or file them behind you in class, or church, or the bus, or anywhere!
6. I am terrified of Bees. In 3rd grade I tried running away from a bee and ended up falling off a slide. I had to wear a cast on my arm most of that summer. And don't regret it at all! I still flee from the sight of them!
7. I had to have metal tongue reminders on the back of my 2 front teeth growing up because I would swallow using my tongue to push against those teeth causing MAJOR buck teeth. I still cringe at old pictures with my buck tooth smile.
8. I am too cheap for my own good! Every time I go out to eat and can get away with it, I stow away extra napkins so I won't have to buy any at home!
9. I have HoRrIbLe handwriting!! I cannot stand the sight of my own, and will ask anyone and everyone to write things for me. in fact every time I see cute writing I try tracing it and practicing it so I can write like that. But no luck—I am stuck with chicken scratch. In fact when I was young, teachers used to send notes home to have me slow down and work on my writing.
10. have to do everything at super fast speed! It's actually quite unintentional. I walk fast, talk fast, write fast (which is probably the reason of my poor handwriting!) In elementary I would become obsessed of being the first one done with my assignments and turning them in before anyone else.
11.I can't say no to anything or anyone! I'm pretty sure that makes me a flaky person! I have to say yes to everyone and everything, that I can't possibly fit it all in and end up letting people down at the last minute.
12. I have to have my bed made the minute I wake up. I can't even leave my room until it is. But I only sleep on a corner of my bed because I'm so weird about not wanting to mess it up, that I don't move around much and leave the pillows on the other 2/3rds of it.
13.I have to have a plug-in in my closet. I don't like when my clothes go stale.
14.I am addicted to chapstick—my phone and chap stick are the 2 things I take everywhere!
15. I'm also addicted to lotion. I can't even get my hands wet without having to immediately apply lotion. In fact I get anxious if I know I have to wash my hands for some reason and I don't have any lotion to put on after. I would almost rather not wash them.
16 .I do not like to be seen without mascara. I can go out with wet hair, pajamas, whatever, as long as I have mascara on. I don't like that they are blonde and make my eyes disappear without anything on them. I then use a safety pin to separate each eyelash after I have it on. I can't stand when they clump together.
17. I don't like to drink straight water. I don't like the taste of it. Even if it's bottled, filtered or whatever. As a result I love the crystal light packets. It's a good way to drink my water without having to taste it!
18. I wanted glasses so bad when I was little, that I tried crossing my eyes for ten minutes every night because I once heard that that would make your eyes bad. It never worked…I still have 20/20 vision but now I won't complain!
19. I feel bad when other people think (or know) that they woke me up when they call if I had been sleeping. So if that happens to be the case, I overcompensate by being super perky when I answer so they won't know I had been asleep.
20.I fell down not once, or twice, but three times running the hurdles my first race running track in high school.
21. I always take the 3rd item back on a shelf because my theory is: the first item was picked up and put down by someone who changed their mind, the second one was brought back by the store clerk when the person decided to leave it at the last minute, so the 3rd is the first untouched perfect one.
22. I slept outside on the trampoline every night for an entire summer.
23. In elementary school I couldn't say my r's making my name to sound like "Ambah" and I had to go to speech therapy to correct it.
24. I used to make my dad check my bed for spiders every night before I would climb in, because I was told that spiders like cold dark places and I consider my bed to be that I guess! I wouldn't even sleep next to the wall because I was convinced spiders lived between my bed and the wall!
25. I have such arched feet, that if I were to make a foot print the only thing that would show up would be the ball of my foot, the heal and my big toe. My other toes all stick up enough that they never touch the ground.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
A Holiday Recap
I did go to Utah for Christmas which was way fun--but not nearly long enough! I can't believe how many people I didn't get to see, but was very happy to see the ones I did. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side, and you always want to be where your not. If that makes any sense.
Before heading to Utah though, We had Christmas in Missouri. I flew there Christmas eve, and My mom, dad, Uncle Bruce, Kim's family and Emily's family were already there. It was bitterly cold but fun there. We got lots of rounds of dominos in, some present exchanges, and yummy goodies. The day after Christmas Emily and her Family left and Ryans family came for a couple of days. So I was pretty lucky and actaully got to spend the holidays with every family member at some time. Then from Missouri I drove back to Utah with my parents to ring in the new year.
Dave and I pretty much spent everynight at Nate and Kristy's playing some sort of game. I've forgotten that there is life after dark!! I'm so used to my boring night of in bed by 10:30, it's good to know I've still got it in me to play past midnight! :) We got to play lots of Mario kart--though I think between Dave, Michael and Christian there was no way to win! They were too good.
So in no order at all, here are some pictures of the holidays. I don't really know how to add the pictures in a way that they come up in the order I anticipated. It always ends up in some funky order. But hey, it's better than nothing I guess!
Christmas Morning!
Alex shared his rock band with us. And we sure did rock! :)
Visiting Grandpa's grave.
Saying bye to the boys on my last night there :(
Kristy picked up some yummy cheesecake from Taggarts for my birthday!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
October fest
Return to Sender
Well, it's not quite as clever as some of Jim's office ideas, but hey, it killed a couple of minutes in the day for us! ;)
Here we are before and after...
On another note, Also at work, sometimes the asians like to have what they call a tea party where they order their famous boboli tea. I'm not a big fan normaly, but since it is the season, they actaully have pumpkin spice and is very good! The little boboli's are big black pearls that taste just like tapioca. So we took ours out to the little pond on our lunch break and drank away! This is a rare but fun occasion as it also takes away from the monotany of work. Also notice those ducks. They are the most unscared ducks I have ever seen! They beg worse than dogs! Every time someone is outside trying to eat their lunch, these ducks come right up under them trying to get a little somthin! It's a little frightening sometimes! They follow us like everyday and we've never even fed them! Crazy ducks! Maybe it's cuz we tease them and throw accorns trying to get them away....
Friday, October 3, 2008
short and sweet
So in no particular order--because really, I can't recall. And remember, I AM on a time frame against the wireless here, so I dont' have time to think that far back!
This first one is of Roxy's favorite place to sit when we're anywhere in the kitchen / living room area. I'm not sure if it is because it is the most cool spot, being as though it's not carpet, and I'm a little cheap and don't run my air conditioning much!! haha, but hey, I do like to be hot, so it works! She, on the other hand, probably doens't enjoy it as much and spends her time panting!
The next one is her favorite place to sleep at night....right next to my head on my extra pillows! But don't worry, if anyone comes to visit, I'll be sure to give 'em a good washing so you can have something to sleep on! And no, I'm not saying she's not already clean...but as an incentive to get some visitors. I have finally moved up off the air mattress now--6 months of that, and anything feels nice!
For Seth's bithday, we went to Gatti-town where we ate and played to out little hearts content! For some reason the kids really loved the bumper cars! hmm, maybe it's because they enjoyed me running into them so much! :)
Emily and I took Seth and Alex to see an SMU / TCU football game where Alex got to stand on the sidelines with all the other allen kids sporting there teams jersey's while the big guys warmed up. It was no BYU game...but it was fun none the less. I have forgotten how much I love watching actaully football in person!! Well, Besides the Nasty hard-as-a-rock but supposedly soft pretzel we had, and the sticky pop spillen floor, and a section full of hyper ADD Allen junior football kids banging there noise makers the entire time...it was quite enjoyable! I even managed to sneak in some redvines! And to top off the night---we got to take public transportation!! A first for me! Who woulda thought the Dart would bring in such a wide varity of people. But if you just hovered over the seat, and balanced yourself without touching the handrails, I think one can survive without getting some kind of sickness from the ride! But then again, I never think of those things until AFTER I had already touched something with my hands that was going into my mouth. OH well, we survived! And we saved money! I love getting deals--no parking payment for us!
So I've thought alot about going back to school, more for something to do than anything...but the place that enticed me most was SMU (Southern Methadist University) Maybe it's that whole "church school" thing ;) but also, because It's right in Dallas, and I could still live at home and commute. Well, that was my idea until I learned just how much private schools are!! Wow--I'll never be able to afford that! I got lucky at a BYU--I thought it was actaully cheaper to go to a church private school. Boy do I live in a bubble! But it's fun to think about being a campus kid again!
So here we are with the horse...or um, stallion, or...I forgot what they were!!
As always, we have our sunday dinners together as us 3 family's. Well, I guess you could call Roxy and me a family now. We used to have Geoffs brother and sister-in-law making actaully 3 families, but they have moved to switzerland, so we are down in numbers again. But anyway, these are from a sunday at Ryan and Shelley's where we went outside for some fresh air after and this was the result. The little boys playing football, the girls making up cheers and dances, little erin wanting to only wear panties, and Roxy trying to get Oscar to play with her.
So Erins a bit Sassy here...there was a cute one--but for modesty purposes we'll keep it a head shot. haha
But we got one with her clothed too...phew!
So I guess this post wasn't so short or sweet, but hey....it's a start!