California!!

These pictures are not in order whatsoever!!!

Laguna Beach! Gorgeous!

What is Disneyland without the Dumbo ride?

Handy Manny!!

Monsters Inc. Kitty!!

Best Gelato I have ever tasted!

Peyton being violated in the sand.

Surfing!

Everything is better in 3D

Mary Poppins and Burt?

DeeEll wedged his way in the picture

"F" for Freakin' Fifield's!

Dinner at Cheesecake Factory

All the boys at the pool

The boys playing pool games

Ducks in the pool!!!

Gary's Birthday!

Gary turned 25 yesterday! And to celebrate, I threw him a party themed around one of his favorite movies...Wall-E! Felicia was so nice to make Wall-E cupcakes for the party!

It took lots of time to wrap these boxes in newspaper and stack them to look like the garbage buildings that Wall-E spends all day making. I even cut out little pictures of cockroaches and had them all over the wall to represent Wall-E's little bug friend.

Wall-E's little treasure chest!

There were no stores that sold Wall-E plates and cups so I kind of had to make my own...

Gary was so surprised and LOVED his party theme!

Both of us were THRILLED that all his friends and family showed up!

Gary got presents too!! A Nerf Gun from Hali, a car window cleaner from Jeff, and "Rubin and Ed" from Mikey!

And his mom gave him money and attached it to a toy lawnmower...to go towards the purchase of a real lawnmower! So cute!

Thanks to everyone who came, and to my neice Hailey and my mom for helping me with the boxes and the balloons!

Happy Birthday to the cutest husband ever!! Nobody knows what I would do without such a sweet little stinker face!

Alone

This last Saturday I had a most interesting experience. Warning: This post will be long and possibly disturbing.

A friend of a friend of a friend does a lot of "ghost hunting" and such, and he has a radio show about all sorts of paranormal activity. Well, he teamed up with another fellow of similar interests and together they are starting a series called "Alone." The pilot of the series was shot on Saturday night at a downtown Ogden building, and Felicia and I were their first participants. Initially they wanted us to complete the different "tasks" in the building alone (hence the title) but Felicia and I were barely comfortable enough to do it just the two of us.

We got there around 5pm and met everyone, but it wasn't until 9pm when it got completely dark that we could start our tasks. They didn't give us much information about the building until it was time to start the tasks. The first task they gave us was to carry a porceline doll upstairs to a room, sit on the couch in the room and place the doll between us. Keep in mind that while we did each task, Felicia carried the video camera, I carried the voice recorder, and we each had a lantern or a flash light. Everything else was dark. Each room we went in had camcorders all around and dim lights. As a side note, before we started the first task and all the lights in the building were turned off, a light upstairs mysteriously flipped on.

Back to the first task. We were left alone in the house with our gear and the doll. I was trying so hard to keep a level head and not psych myself out, and I wanted to be professional for the guys that really want this series to take off. As we made our way through the house and up the stairs, I started shaking from head to toe. I have never been so nervous or frightened in my life. Finally we found the room we needed to take the doll to, sat on the couch with it between us, introduced ourselve to whomever may be listening, and started asking questions as though someone was in the room with us and able to answer. To be honest, I can't recall the questions we asked, but after a couple minutes, Felicia and I both heard a little girl laughing, then singing or humming, and a piano playing. It wasn't so clear that it seemed like it was right in the room, but it was far off and distant. It was incredible. I couldn't believe that I was actually hearing "something."

Between each task we would do little interviews for the Denver and Brian (the creators) about what we had witnessed, they would set up the next room and then give us more information about the next task. To explain each task in detail would take so long, but let me just say that what Felicia and I experienced was unbelievable. I wouldn't believe what had happened to us if I wasn't there. When the first episode is completely put together I'll post a link to it and you all can see everything we did, and even the part where I was in a room by myself.

I will say that there were really cool things that happened, and really exciting, but I have to admit that it was so far out of my comfort zone that there were most definately times where I was pushing a line I didn't want to cross. Luckily I had prayed and prayed and prayed for days before that I would know when to back away, and that I would be warned not to cross any lines, and that I would be able to remain level headed when I went home and went to bed. There were a couple of times that night that Felicia and I couldn't finish a task and we rushed out of the house to where everyone else was. I so badly wanted to help these guys out but I had to know my limits too. I'm sure a lot of people think I'm crazy for doing something like this, but I'm glad I did it. Will I do it again? Not without major prayers or Xanax. I'm so excited to see it as a complete project.

Spring Means....

Spring means that it's my birthday, and for my birthday, I GOT A PIANO!!!These tulips are the first documented flowers that we have grown at our new house.

And I made some Spring crafts. First, my wreath!

Next are my Spring letters. I think they turned out cute!

A little closer for detail.

Sad story time. The brick path/fire pit that Gary worked so hard on last year faced some Winter hardships, and not all the bricks made it out in one peice. Thus, we are doing lots of damage control this yer.

An upclose look at the disintegrated bricks. They literally turned to sand. So sad!

Oh Justin

Things I Love!

The Temple Stewie Griffin

Squirrels!

Playing Super Mario Bros. Old school Nintendo.

Peanut M&M's

Jim Morrison. RIP

The Fugitive/Harrison Ford

Gerber Daisies!

And Diet Coke

Happy Spring!

I had such a fabulous Easter and Conference weekend! I actually stayed awake and listened to every session of General Conference. Of course I had to stay busy and color pictures and put together a puzzle so as to stay entertained. I must be growing up because I'm at the point where I enjoy the talks rather than dreading 8 hours of preaching.

Also I was able to participate in a Good Friday mass at St. Thomas Moore Catholic Church with my good friend Letty. I was her support during Lent and the mass was something she wanted to share with me. I love learning about other religions than my own and it was a really neat experience! And Lent is a great diet too if you're like me and you give up all treats and diet coke!

Easter was pretty low key for Gary and I this year. We each just picked out a treat we wanted and called it good. Too busy for much else! And his mom gave us kites on Easter Day. I have never seen anyone take kite flying so seriously as Gary! Too cute! I need to start carrying around my camera and taking pictures of all this stuff but I'm getting blog lazy. I'll try and be better!

Rick Is Back In Action!

Gary's brother Rick just returned from his mission in Peru! We were all really excited to see him come down the escalator in his Peruvian garb! The Fifield family DOES NOT make traditional "Welcome Home" signs. Gary and Hali's signs are both movie quotes from comedies that Rick loves.

His friends came to surprise him at the airport, and wanted to blend in the crowd of other welcome home groups, hence the "Welcome Home Todd!"

Gary has been so excited to see Rick and has missed his brother so much! He even had Rick's picture set as his cell phone wallpaper. Not me.

He is so excited to get one of his best friends back and share the snuggie with someone else other than me!

We love you Ricky stinker face! Welcome home!