Girls Camp

Last week I had the opportunity to go to Girls Camp, and it was a blast! The girls had a wonderful time. Our theme was "How the Murray West was One" so everything was very western. Our color was green and we were the "Cactus Corral". And a big THANK YOU to my woderful friend Erin who wrote me an email containing the lyrics to all the best girls camp songs!

Our Girls:

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Cute little Lizzy.



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A Few Things That Make Me Laugh

To go along with my LOL moments I thought of a few things that make me laugh...

Brad - Brad can always make me laugh, he is spontaneous and witty and some how always can think of something on the spot.

Top Gear - This is a British car review show, and anyone who knows me knows I know squat about cars but this show is hilarious. Unfortunately, the last show of the season was tonight.

Guitar Hero - This game rocks and makes for some hilarious moments. This has become a hobby for Brad and I.

Comics - I love the Sunday Funnies. This was a comic I found and found it pretty funny because it reminded me of BYU.

Will Ferrell- The man cracks me up.

The Office - My cheeks are usually aching by the end of a show from the laughter.

Sydney - She always makes me laugh especially when I do stupid things to her, such as this picture. Her intelligence always astounds me.

Dixie - Her spastic behavior can always put a smile on my face.

And this picture- Always sends me to the floor in fits of laughter.

LOL (Laughed Out Loud) Moments

Have you ever walked down the street or was in a public place where you thought of a funny experience or story and you started to laugh out loud? Well, I had one of those moments last week.
This was my car before my jeep. By the way, I loved this car.

This is Brad's jeep, that up until a year ago we would have to drive for work and errands.


These pictures are very important for my LOL moment. You see about two years ago I swapped cars for the afternoon with... let's call this person Amdrea (The name has been changed for this person's embarassment sake). Well, the day we swapped cars I had driven Brad's jeep, you know the huge jeep in the above picture. The cars were being swapped in an office building parking lot, the jeep was parked so that when you walked out of the office door (which Amdrea had to do) the jeep was right there smack square in front of you, you could not miss it, and right beside the jeep was this car:

Not even a honda, but if you were not paying attention it could look like my car.

So here is the funny part. Amdrea walked out of the door stood infront of the jeep, and used the keyless entry remote to try and unlock this car. She was even pressing the lock button causing the jeep to beep at her, but continued to try and unlock the Hyundai. I was laughing so hard I could not even tell Amdrea all I could do was point my finger at the jeep with my face going blue for laughing in hysterics.

It has been found!

So two weeks ago yesterday my wallet was stolen while I was at work. I first realized my wallet was gone when I walked to the train to go home. See here is the story from the beginning... At 10:00 (Friday two weeks ago) I read an email from our HR department that advised us to put our annual train passes into our wallets instead of wearing them with our badges, because we are less likely to lose our wallet than our badge. So I took the advice, I removed my train pass and put it in my wallet. At that very second I thought to myself, "Just watch something happen to my wallet now". So as I was about to board the train I wanted to make sure I had my pass and thus my wallet, but I couldn't find it. I went back to my office, and with some wonderful co-workers (who stayed late on Friday!) we searched the whole place. It was no where, that is when I realized someone had to have taken my wallet because I never left that day. Needless, to say it was quite stressful because I had very very personal information in there. All the cards were cancelled, a security fraud alert went out to all the credit agencies, and we set up credit monitoring; very very aggravating.
That Monday I returned to work, we looked through the security camera (which is above my desk) to see any suspucious characters in my desk area. Well, we found one. The guy stuck out like a sore thumb, he was wearing a baseball uniform, and had a big gulp in his hand. He grabbed my wallet and ran out towards the stairwell. So we have a picture of the guy but no one knows who this guy is. After two weeks I finally gave up on finding my wallet. I figured two things: Obviously by the looks of the guy he was only out for cash, which I did not have so he tossed the wallet, and it is now in a landfill, or 2 he kept my information for later use.
So yesterday at work I get a call from my dad, "Julie they found your wallet", I thought to myself, "dad your in PA how do you know they found my wallet". He said the guy that found my wallet called him asking him if he was the dad of Julie Jacobsen, of course he said yes and gave him my phone number. See, in my wallet I keep a little phone directory of people's phone numbers so if I lose my cell phone I can still call someone. On my directory for my dad's number, I have "Dad", so he called him.
I met up with the guy who found my wallet. He was one of the building managers and he was walking down the stairwell when he saw a big gulp cup (remember from the video), he said he picked it up to throw it away but saw that is was unusually heavy, open the cup and there is my wallet. Nothing was taken out, not even by train pass or gift cards. Let's just say I was quite ecstatic! Especially now that I don't need to get a new license!

Promotion Promotion!

So after our stay at Bear Lake, Brad and I had time to see the long anticipated movie...

"Dark Knight"

We were not disappointed, we loved it! Now, it is a dark movie, but that is how the Batman comics are, Batman is the anti-hero. And I must say Heath Ledger was amazing to watch as the joker. He was like the Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates. And Christian Bale, reprised the role of Batman wonderfully. Also, love love Michael Cane, how can you not like him?!? Gary Oldman, again was great. What can I say I loved the whole movie, everyone was great!

Bear Lake "The Caribbean of the Rockies"

So after one very stressful week (my wallet was stolen, girls camp is next week, work, and blah, blah, blah) Brad and I decided to head to the "Caribbean of the Rockies", Bear Lake for a weekend of relaxation. So we headed up after work on Friday. Now, when we have gone up to Bear Lake before we have never had a problem finding a camping spot even on holidays. So we thought this unholiday weekend would not be a challenge, therefore, no reservations were made. We were wrong. By 10:30 that night after looking through every campground, we found an ATV trail, pulled off the trail and set up our camp.

Some pictures from the morning after our stay in the 4-Star Jeep Grand Cherokee.


Sydney loved frolicking through the fields.
And Dixie loved just hangin' out.

We took a little walk and we stumbled upon this...
And a closer look... Bees!
Next we headed to the lake, here is Dixie soaking up the rays.

A man and his dog...

And something I will never understand:

My New Do

So I went to my usual hair appointment on Thursday, to get the usual highlights but also decided to cut my hair here are some pictures. Brad left for CO, so I had to takethe pictures my self.

Home

Well, we had a wonderful time visiting hoe. It ended up being a pretty short trip but we still had a fabulous time. We enjoyed the company of family and friends, fireflies, greenery, and of course a Rita's water ice.

We saw these miniature horses in a farm by my parents house, aren't they just adorable!?!

A cute little street in downtown Philadelphia.

The Benjamin Franklin bridge. In Philadelphia they have the battleship the U.S.S New Jersey opened for tour, so my dad took Brad with him to see it, unfortunately the camera battery died right at the start so we don't have any pictures except for the ones I could google.

Now, before you go any further if you hate snakes as much as I do and even pictures of them freak you out look no further!!!!

My brother Tim has a pet snake (lovely huh?), well he needed to clean his cage so Brad volunteered to hold the snake. When Tim came down with the snake for someone to hold him I freaked! I hate snakes, the very thought of seeing one makes me hyperventilate. So you can imagine the courage it took me to 1. step in the same room of the snake; 2. Actually take a picture of the snake; and 3. And actually post the pictures of the snake. It did however take me quite a long time to get to the point to do it. So here are some pictures of Brad with the snake.

I hate this picture the snake is freaking me out!

AND THE MONUMENTAL OCCASION OF THE TRIP!!! (Drum roll please)

I actually touched the snake!!! Mind you, I was practically vomiting when I did because I was so scared. In fact my dad had to stand behind me, but I knew if I didn't touch the snake I would never have touched it. I'm very proud of myself.

Well, that concludes our trip. To my family it was so nice to see you I miss you and I love you xoxo!