APX Alarm Ribbon Cutting

It's an exciting time to be working at APX Alarm. On Thursday we had the ribbon cutting ceremony for our new corporate headquarters. Mitt Romney came and spoke. I'm a huge fan of him, so I was super excited!



Tons of news stations were at the ceremony. Here's KSL's take on the event.

After the ceremony they fed us lunch and we got to see the finished building. The design is very unique. They wanted to be like google, so there are a lot of crazy chairs and stuff. My favorite thing about the new building is the cafeteria. For every 8 hours we work, we get a free meal! No more packing lunch for me! Oh and the chef is the chef from the Chef's Table (a very fancy restaurant in Provo), so the food is good, really good. Anyway, check out these chairs!

They gave us this candy bar as a momento from the event.

Yesterday we packed up our office. And on Monday we will start working in the new building. Yoohoo!

BYU vs. Utah

As far as I'm concerned, the only game that really matters out of the whole football season is the BYU vs. Utah game. Sure it's nice if we win our other games, but if we don't beat Utah, the season is a bust. And even if we were to lose every single other game, but beat Utah, the season would be a success! I know that sounds dramatic, but I'm serious - I really feel that way!

This year it was particularly important that we beat that team up North. It was Roger's last home game as a BYU student, our last game living in P town, and our last chance to storm the field (We'd never done it before... Odd, I know).

Before the game we had our traditional tailgate party with my grandparents. I've been attending them for the last 6 seasons! We also got a cougar tail donut during the game - mmmmmm!

We got a pretty good lead in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, but the U came back in the 4th quarter. At the end of the 4th quarter it was 20-20 and I was NERVOUS! Luckily we were able to get the win in overtime. Final score: 26-23! And you better believe we stormed the field! It was awesome!

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

I'm very late posting about this, but here goes.

Wednesday: Drove to SLC after work. Headed to the Bountiful temple to do a session, but it turns out all the temples close at like 10:30 on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Who knew?

Thursday: Got up and made rolls. Lots and lots of rolls. 48 to be exact. We didn't need that many, but Rog convinced me it wouldn't be a bad thing to have leftovers.

Headed over to my uncle's house for our Thanksgiving feast. Ate, watched some football. Planned our Black Friday shopping.

Friday: Woke up at 3:30 am and got in the line at Target a little before 4:00. Entered the store at 5:00, grabbed everything we wanted. Discovered a stack of 30 or 40 of the 32-inch flatscreens we wanted, but never dreamed we would get! (They were one of the top 3 best deals of Black Friday!) Got home by 5:30 and went right back to sleep.

Went with my old roommate Stacey (who just got back from her mission) to the Bountiful Temple (they were open this time). Played games with my family the rest of the night.

It was a wonderful Thanksgiving full of food, family, and fun!

New Rockers in Town

Last night we played some Rockband. We left out all the stuff and when we woke up this morning this is what we found.



Looks like we've got some competition.

Yes, we are nerds. Rog will probably kill me for posting this. Oh well.

Countdown to Christmas Blocks

Our Relief Society has a blog, so I am posting the directions for our craft nights over there now. For November we made Countdown to Christmas Blocks. If you would like to see the tutorial click here.

Thankful

Last night for FHE we made thankful turkies and a Phillips Family Top 10 Thankful List. We have so much to be thankful for - our marriage, the gospel, our wonderful family and friends, our little apartment that has truly become our home for the 2 1/2 years we have been married, and so much more.

This morning I woke up and remembered this picture from quite a few Thanksgivings ago. I think it is from 2002, but it could be 2003.

Today I am thankful for my little sister. We have our disagreements like most sisters do, but I'm so glad that she is my little sister. I can't believe she won't be here to fall asleep on after Thanksgiving dinner this year! I'll miss you Smelly!

Football and New Moon

Yesterday we played Air Force and I did something that is very uncharacteristic of a Chief. I left at halftime. I know, gasp!



I left to go with Emily and all the girls in her family to see New Moon. I didn't have any plans to see New Moon, so when Emily asked if I wanted to go, I jumped at the chance. I figured it would save my cute Rog the agony of having to go with me to see it and I wasn't too worried about the outcome of the game (we beat them 38-21 and that was with 2 of our touchdowns being called back - BOO). Of course if it would have been the Utah game next week, it would have been a completely different story! - I could never miss the Utah game for ANYTHING!

I liked New Moon a lot better than Twilight. The quality was obviously better due to a much larger budget. New Moon was my favorite book because of how the writing made me completely feel Bella's pain. Although the movie tried, it just didn't bring me to tears like the book did. And it bugged me a lot that the werewolves were MUCH better looking than the vampires. I mean, come on. The vampires are supposed to be drop dead gorgeous, right?! So yeah, that's all I'm going to say about that. I didn't LOVE it, but I did like it.

After the movie we went to Sweet Tomatoes. Mmm, so good! Emily's dad and brother-in-law joined us with Emily's niece, Molly. Cutest little girl EVER! And if you met her, I'm sure you would agree.

It was fun to have a girl's night out! Thanks for letting me tag along Galbraiths!

Public Display of Christmas

I have always been a firm believer that you shouldn't decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. I'm not a scrooge, I just think that Thanksgiving deserves its turn too. I am totally fine with other people decorating whenever they feel like it as long as they keep it inside where I don't have to see it.

Two things bug me more than anything else.

1. Houses with Christmas lights on outside before Thanksgiving.

2. Radio stations playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving.

The other day I was driving home from work a different way than I normally do and I saw a house with its Christmas lights on. For a moment I had a small urge to go unscrew one of their lights, so that the whole string would turn off. I know, I'm pure evil.

Of the six radio presets in my car I really only listen to four of them most of the time. The other two are country which I used to like a lot, but not so much now. Two of my presets are 100.3 and 106.5. Call me a grandma, but they really do play good music sometimes. Well right now these two particular stations are proudly playing Christmas music ALL THE TIME which of course leaves me with only two stations to listen to. I wouldn't mind if they played an occasional Christmas song, but all the time, really?

In one week I will be ready for Christmas, but until then I will turn into a scrooge every time I see a public display of Christmas!

Disclaimer: Please don't hate me. I really do like Christmas, I promise! And I promise I don't hate people who decorate earlier than I think is appropriate. This is just my opinion on the matter.

My brother, the Eagle Scout

So I guess I've kind of been in a blogging funk lately, but I think I figured out why... I have been going swimming for my exercise lately (the cold deters me from running). You may wonder, how are running and blogging related? Well, I will tell you my friends. When I run I think of things I could blog about, but when I swim I don't. I figured this out this morning while I was running for the first time in a week and the whole time I was thinking about what I should blog about. Weird.

Anyway, on to the reason for this post... my cute little monkey brother Jared! (I guess he's really not that little anymore seeing as how he is now taller than Rog, but he'll always be my little brother.) This last weekend Jared became an Eagle Scout!! He's been done with most of his stuff for awhile now, but he finally finished up his paperwork and met with whoever you have to meet with and this last Friday he had his Eagle Scout Court of Honor. We couldn't go down for it because Roger's family was here in Provo planning his sister's wedding, but I am sooooooooooo proud of him!

Camping and all that scouting stuff really isn't his thing. He's more into computers. So in my mind that makes this achievement even more impressive. Way to go Monkey!

Here are some pictures my mom sent me from the Court of Honor.

Congratulations Jared! I love you!