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Hurry, quick...leave.......get off my blog...close your browser, alt-F4, type "google.com" in the address bar...anything!!! Just don't stay here...there isn't anything here!

HURRY!!!

NOBODY reads this mumble jumble......so I've stopped....

Warm Fuzzy

What is a warm fuzzy?

warm fuzzies -the warm, pleasant sensations one feels in the stomach and heart area when emotionally moved by an act of goodwill or love.

warm fuzzies - warming messages of friendliness or love to someone expressing a kind message to show gratitude toward one person or a whole group of people.

The opposite of warm fuzzy is a cold prickly.

Last night we had our first dress rehearsal for Ghost Tours, it’s definitely coming along!! Yay!! My dear sweet mother requested a cd with “ghostly voices” and being the great daughter that I am, I quickly logged onto the computer to see what I could find. Before my fingers could even make a move, my heart danced!!! My sweet Tyler left a couple of “warm fuzzies” on the computer desk. He drew a picture of the two of us playing football and another picture of what I’m guessing could be me, but I never knew I had such short hair. :) At the top of each picture were the words – “I love Kristi” awwww……*eyes watering* It’s so amazing to see little kids minds at work and to see what they take from life - the moments they remember and treasure. I know that the times I spend with him are very impressionable and I know I love every memory that I make with him. I’m sooo touched that he feels the same way. OH, and if you don’t know by now, I’m a softy……total softy! I still cry every time I watch Hope Floats. I know, don’t make fun! So yes, that cute little “warm fuzzy” caused my eyes to well up. I love that little guy…and I love that he loves me!!!


What a sweet reminder -- share those warm fuzzies!!!!

Let the scares begin!

It's that time of year, When the world falls in love, Ev'ry song you hear seems to say "Merry Christm……." Ohhhh...wrong holiday!! (although ---I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Carpenters Christmas album)

Ok focus... last night we had Ghost Tours 2009 Orientation......and it was CRAZY!!!! I can't believe how many volunteers showed up. (95% of the volunteers come from Wyo Tech) Seriously, when I arrived at the Territorial Prison, I pulled in the parking lot and it was FULL! FULL!! My mouth literally dropped open in awe. AND when I walked into the horsebarn, it was so packed, it was standing room only, Janine and I ended up hanging out the door trying to listen to my mom give her "Welcome" speech. *side note* It was FREEZING cold last night!

BUT never you fear, eventually the crowd shifted and we were able to make it in the warmth of the building...ahhhh... :)

After we broke into the 3 groups - Horsebarn crew, Downtown crew, and Prison crew - I explained the Horsebarn portion and the parts we needed and Janine took down names. Still crazy- we had soo many volunteers that we started running out of positions! OH and I have to add - this group last night was so awesome!! They all were so eager and excited and just a good bunch of guys! (Rumor has it, they counted 151 volunteers!! WOW!!!)

Once again, Ghost Tours of Laramie City, will be a huge hit!

The tour starts at the Horsebarn and moves down to a Hayride through Frontier town and the streets of Downtown Laramie, and back to the Park for a candle light tour of the Prison. It's a fun and frightful time, with factual ghost stories and re-enactments. Warning: Haunts and scares lurk behind every corner!!

AS always - Reservations are always encouraged and HIGHLY recommended, as it SELLS out EVERY year. We end up turning away so many people...CALL early if you want to come!

Opening night is October 16! (The 17th is blacked out ......for my birthday, but don't tell anyone..shhhhhh!!!!) October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, and of course the 31st! The first tour is at 7:00 p.m. and the last one is at 9:30 pm. Tours leave the park every half hour.

Let the SCARES begin............ (if you are brave enough)

It's Fall, I'm in love!

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

I truly truly love Summer and nothing beats the beautiful Summers we have here in Wyoming, but give me a Fall day filled with football and some pumpkin bread and I’m smitten!!!

So with the Fall season surrounding me, here are the top 10 reasons...... I’m smitten.

1) Pumpkin infused everything and anything!

2) Orange leaves, yellow leaves, bright red leaves - Oh the colors of Fall!

3) Football games & tailgating

4) Halloween – the spooky and the cutesy!!

5) Carving pumpkins

6) Squash of any type – I love spaghetti squash!

7) Wearing sweatshirts, sweaters, cute boots, scarves, etc.

8) Curling up by the fireplace…mmm nothing beats it!

9) perfect mix of sun and clouds

10) my birthday - *hint hint*

It's Electric!!!!!!!

~Feel the power, you see the energy....Comin up.....Coming on strong~

Remember that song? I sure do......brings back fond memories of throwing in my Debbie Gibson cassette tape, slapping on my coolest jean jacket, and dancing around the living room.....all while pretending I was a famous pop star...performing on recess for my peers.....and YES...recess at Slade Elementary!!!

Enough of my awesome and creative imagination -

Electric Fires - electric feeds (electrical appliances) are used more and more in our daily lives. Like other fires, the root cause of an electric fire is the introduction of heat, oxygen, and fuel. In electrical fires, the heat is released as electricity is dissipated through a resistive element, while the fuel may come from the surroundings or from the material that makes up the appliance.

And you thought I wasn't smart.............shame on you!

This morning as I'm drying my hair with my trusty conair hair dryer... *POP* *KABANG* *SNAP*, a huge flame (honestly the size of a football) flashes in front of me..well....right in front of my bare legs and bare feet...YEEE-OUCH! I screamed and jumped back, fearing my life was over and the house was gonna blow. haha. That quick my near death experience was over as I realize my hair dryer is off...I look down to see the cord is innocently dangling, no longer plugged in...well plugged into the wall! EXPLANATION: my hair dryer was plugged into an extension cord and the extension cord was plugged into the outlet. Apparently the extension cord was purchased when the house was built ...in the 70's because that dear brown cord that saw me through many many hair days - both bad and good....committed suicide this morning. By "committed suicide", I mean it literally fried to death...and then ...quickly decapitated itself before my very eyes.

So, I lived and my trust hair dryer lived. I simply removed the middle man (the extension cord) and went back to drying my hair. I even made it to work on time.

My advice: If you ever feel like your extension cord is "wow fairly hot" somedays.....don't just ignore it.....REPLACE IT!!!! It's trying to tell you, "I want to go to extension cord heaven and if I don't get to go soon, I'm gonna blow your house up....or scare you to death."

Bring on the Football!!!!

If you know me...or if you want know me.. here are the basics:

1. I love ME
2. I love football
3. I love basketball
4. I love my little Tyler
5. and I'm funny, dangit!

There now you know me. :)

So...since I love myself and thats....24/7 ...365 days a year....
Let's move on to #2

Bring on the dang football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After a couple years on the downward football slope...Laramie and well the entire state have erupted with a new found excitement for....Wyoming Cowboy Football!!! I can't say we will go on to reign freely over the BCS ratings..no, but by golly...Wyoming wants to play and play we will! I'm ready to fill my eyes with both a sea of brown and gold Wyoming Cowboy fans and my Wyoming Cowboy football team, I'm ready to fill my ears with the sound of anything "high fa-lootin" and "rootin' tootin", and most of all, I'm just ready for some dang football!

Ya gotta love it!

It's a new day, a new coach, a new game...A WHOLE NEW RODEO….. SO LET’S PLAY SOME WYOMING FOOTBALL!!

Wyoming vs. Weber State - September 5, 2009 @ 1pm. I'm there!!!!

Just because...

I was so dang cute!!! (and still am!) :)

99 red balloons...or maybe 1...and maybe a blue too

This past weekend was just like any other -way too short, but LOTS of fun!

Tyler came over (surprise huh?) We played air guitar while rocking to Journey, we played GI Joe, blew up balloons (which we used as weapons as well), used the air mattress as a slide, went to the playground, and got caught in a huge hail and rain storm.

Usually Tyler is the one that cracks me up with his witty 6 year old mind....but this weekend...everytime I looked at that guy...he was holding his stomach while belting out his infectiously cute laugh.

So my conclusion....either...
a) I'm getting funnier (woohoo!)
b) he's getting so big, he's understanding my sarcastic cracks. (yay!)
c) someone is coaching him on the courtesy laugh so as not to hurt my feelings. (hahaha yeah right!)


No, we aren't doing aerobics, this is some of our "GI Joe moves" (Snake Eyes specifically)

A Double Dose of Bad!!

The other night, I’m helping my parents move the contents of the refrigerator out in order to lighten the load AND because… tipping the fridge (we were moving it out of the kitchen to make way for fancy new tiles) and causing the pickles and yogurt to mix…not a good plan. For the record, I don’t like remodeling. It’s messy and sooo inconvenient!!

Ok, so after everything is out of the kitchen and we’ve got the refrigerator plugged in, I’m putting things back in and the door bell rings. My dad with his arms full asked me if I’d check to see who was at the door. Slightly annoyed because I’m POSITIVE they are there to see either my mom or dad, I head to the door to see a girl in sweats and a t-shirt, possibly around my age or younger (Younger?? What? How is that possible..I’m like soooo young!!) standing there with honestly…a somewhat dumb look on her face. I open the door and greet her.

ME: Hi.
GIRL IN SWEATS: Hhhhii (imagine a semi boy-ish and slow voice)

I’m looking at her…waiting…..because she came to my door…uhh hello?? What do you want lady?

ME: Uh…can I help you?
GIRL IN SWEATS: Hhhiii……umm…………

Again, I’m just staring at her…waiting for WHATEVER she could possibly want/say to eventually make it’s way out of her mouth.

GIRL IN SWEATS: Ummm……I hit your car…

WHAT THE @#$@!?!?!?!?!?! Why are my cars NOT safe casually parked in front of a house??

ME: Ok, what car? (I start walking out the door to see the damage, dreading inside the process of getting an estimate, the long term damage, being without your car, and the waiting…… UGH!)
GIRL IN SWEATS: The white car…and the funny part……my car …is in…..park...

HUH? That’s not funny!!

ME: Ok, so where is the damage?
GIRL IN SWEATS: It’s not much…it’s little..I just barely hit it….
ME: Ok, so where is the damage?
GIRL IN SWEATS: Ohhhhh no darlin’……it’s THAT car (she points across the street at the neighbor’s rusty old Honda Accord
ME: (as the sigh of relief hits me so hard, I almost fall over) Ohh, that’s not my car, that’s their car (I point to the neighbor’s house)

GIRL IN SWEATS: Ohhhh…..well…….@#$&!! I just thought……it was the …right thing…….to do…………
ME: Yeah..it is, but that’s not my car, it’s their car, so you would have to talk to them.
GIRL IN SWEATS: Ohhhhh……………it’s just a little bump
ME: Well you would have to talk to them, it’s their car.

Yeah, she had to be drunk or lacking a lot of brains, she was so dumb!
I get back in the house and I’m still feeling the relief pour out of my every pore….whew!!!

I’m bad though, while I’m watching her and still feeling a little bit of fear that she’ll pull away from the curb and swerve to the other side of the road and REALLY hit my car or pull U-turn and hit my car, I kept thinking, “I should call the police, I bet she doesn’t go to the neighbor”. BUT I just continued watching….fearing….fearing…thinking…fearing…thinking…fearing…and she pulled away and no crash sounds!

DANG!!! I never called the police and I never got her license or her name or nothing!

So, my car is okay (yay), but I’m a bad citizen!!

It's so true....2 wrongs...don't make a right!

Recipe for silly craziness

What do you get when you mix up the following ingredients?

3 super cute boys
3 ice cream cones
1 outdoor pool
2 awesome aunts
AND 1 car ride

If you guessed, an instructional video for a relaxing yoga session - TRY AGAIN!

BUT if you guessed an evening of hilarious fun!!! - DING DING!! You win!

NOTE TO SELF: Didn't someone say to you...."Kristi, wherever you go... a party follows!" Hmm.....it must be true! :)

We took Marcus, Nicolas, and Tyler to the rec center last night, followed by ice cream cones for the drive home AND if I do say so myself, the boys had a GREAT time!


Below is a sample of some of the funny things I heard from the backseat:

"Dude...look what I did!"

"Boys go to Jupiter and Girls get stupider"

"Boys rule, girls drool"

"Pinch, poke, you owe me a coke"

"Boys get camaros and girls get old dump trucks"

"I love this song 'ohhhhh ohhh'"

Jokingly one of them called me a "crazy old woman" and of course I made my "pouty" face and sweet Marcus made it all better by telling me I'm a "young lady"

OH boys...ya gotta love em!


Making mad faces

Making sad faces

Making cool faces

Making crazy faces

Mr. Vitamin C to the rescue...

Monday evening, I had the totally awesome privilege of moving my dusty tv from it's stand in an attempt to retrieve my expensive ring which had rolled across the top of the entertainment center and *boink* landed right where I couldn't reach it. Ok, I'm kidding...it was no privilege at all!!

After standing on a chair - FAIL
After cursing backwards and forwards--- hahaha - FAIL
After moving several dvds to reach back on the side - FAIL

AND FINALLY having to move the entire tv from it's resting place - SUCCESS!!! I got the ring!!

Ok, so the tv is back and the dvds are back, everything is clean and pretty and I've got my ring, but I realize I've kinda got a scratchy throat. Hmm...did I breathe in too much dust? OUCH! Who knows? Long story short, this girl caught a wretched cold!!! What the crap? I lasted over a year surrounded by people with nasty colds and now...now...right when my summer is winding down...I catch a dang cold!?!?!?!

BUT never you fear, Mr. Vitamin C is here to rescue me.....hopefully! (hurry cross your fingers, mine are!)

Beach Cruiser....errr...Street Cruiser

AND when I'm not in California or Camping.......I'm riding my cute new pink bike!!! Her name is Clara.

Ahhhh...I never knew I could feel as young as I do when I'm out cruising the streets of Laramie in "pink" style. :) Now all I need is a cute basket in front!

Anyone wanna go for a ride?

AND then...the summer happened...

So apparently, I'm not a good blogger in the summer. WELL DUH!! I'm having too much fun playing!

I went to CA...yet again! This time, the adventure was San Diego based.



I ate at some *delicious* restaurants



I even found a way to make it NORTH to Disneyland!!!! VIA AMTRAK!!!





Took in some Coronado Ferry Landing, strolled through Balboa Park and Body Worlds (ewww and cool at the same time), AND OF COURSE...played on the beach





I attended the first annual Polka Dots camping trip at Battle Mountain.
What a fun time!





And of course we had a little TOO MUCH fun drinking our Apple Beer (non alcoholic, FYI)





WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now check back in a couple months for my next update, hahaha!

Stupid little bloodsucker!

If my blood is going to be taken from me......

PLEASE let it be by Edward Cullen...

UGH!!! WHY?? WHY is it always some blasted @#$*&@#$@ *^@%#&$*!@ ^#$&*@#$ *@&#%@ mosquito ruthlessly doing the stealing?!?!?!?

I've got some on my ankles...AND of course right on my ankle bone..the most impossible place to scratch.

BUT WHY here???? (yes I circled it) Is this some sort of torture to make it look like I've got a wart growing or some infectious disease growing on my hand???

FOR THE LOVE..bite my ankle again!

I've been diagnosed...

As it turns out, I've got a horrible case of the "can't I just go back to bed for crap sakes?"

Kristi = asleep, beat, broken-down, burned out, collapsing, dead on one’s feet, dog-tired, done for, done in, drained, drooping, droopy, drowsy, empty, exasperated, faint, fed-up, finished, narcoleptic, overtaxed, overworked, petered out, played out, pooped, run-down, sick of, sleepy, spent, tuckered out, worn out..

In the good ol' summertime...

It's summer!!!
Time for swimming, grilling, camping, fun in the sun, and sidwalk chalk?

YES!!!!

I loved sidwalk chalk as a child and .......I love it still today!!
Nowadays, they have 3D sidwalk chalk!!

Here are some of the reviews:

Kristi Nelson said, "This is SO cool, it totally takes me back to my childhood -how does this 3D stuff even work?"

Tyler Nelson said, "I drew a killer whale, a monkey, a fish, my name, my name again, and my last name, some flames, my dad's name, a star, and some footballs. I hardly let Kristi have any room to draw, I basically hogged the whole area!"

Haha, I loved it though! It's so fun to see his little mind in action.

Stinkin' Rain!

So, it’s been raining a lot here in Wyoming, because apparently if you only have only 3 months of warm weather…… why not spoil it with rain…EVERY DAY!!! Seriously, please stop already! Don’t get me wrong, I love the green everywhere and the flowers…it’s beautiful…for that 5 minutes when it doesn’t rain! For those of you that didn’t know…that “sunny moment”..yeah..that’s usually when I’m sitting at my desk..looking out the window. Blah..so unfair!!

BUT as always when the weather man calls for rain, I’m prepared. I don’t leave my house without my cute polka dot umbrella, BUT I rarely use it as the process of getting out an umbrella - trying to open it while you are half in your car and half out, hoping that small moment of “non coverage”, you don’t end up as wet as a drowned rat! OH then it’s not all peaches and cream from there, then you have to maneuver it in whatever door you are entering AND THEN…try to close it without splattering the 8 buckets of water that collected in that 3 second walk. So seriously…sometimes I just brave it and fight the rain! OH and by that I mean…I take off in a mad dash to my destination. AND that sucks too because hey I’m not some track star…NO! I’m sure I don’t look as stupid as I feel, but I totally feel like a bright flashing neon sign turns on announcing “hey look at the stupid girl running!”

Stinkin’ rain!

So anyway…luck was actually on my side the other day.


WHILE EATING LUNCH………… no end in sight!!!! In fact I think it’s gonna flood!



AFTER I FINISH LUNCH…………(5 minutes later) ahhh….the wet pavement and sunny skies! No struggling with the umbrella or running! Yay!!