Happy 24th Birthday Aubrey

Nothing says you're a grown up like having to work on your birthday. Luckily for me, this year my birthday was on a Friday so I got to drag it out all weekend long! Friday when I came home from work and Garrett had a present waiting on the counter for me. He got me a new camera (perfect timing to take it on the cruise!) We went and at lunch at the Olive Garden, he took me to see a super intense movie called Taken and then we hung out just the two of us. On Sunday, Grandma Kendall had a birthday party for me too. Grandma always makes us the dinner of our choice and then dessert too. It was a great birthday.

Taking a poll

To all my fellow home makers of the blogging world....

This year I am trying to be as organized as possible. And since I work - A LOT - I was trying to decide on which way of cleaning my house and doing house chores would be more effective. Since I work so much, when I am home, I want to spend my time with Garrett or doing other things. So, I'm trying to see which works best and thought I would ask my girls which you find to work best for you.

A. Create a chore list and do one thing a day i.e. Monday - Laundry day etc. (This way it's only a short time each day and I don't feel like it's a huge task ahead of me)

B. Only clean once a week (This way it's only one day and I could spend the morning doing it and get it out of the way)

What do ya think???? Does that even make sense????

Update

It's pretty sad that when life is so busy and you have to make a check list every day so that nothing gets missed and on that list it says" MAKE NEW POST ON BLOG." It's been a while and I've had ideas of posting my new years resolutions, which, by the way is one of mine - keep blog updated so I can print for scrapbook. haha. Oximoron isn't it? Anyway, here's the update on life for those who care what the Frei's have been up to.
We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. We were able to spend lots of time with family, which is always great. We rocked out to rock band at my parents house for a lot of the time, I must say I am quite the drummer. We also started the New Year out right with a super clean house! We spend an entire day cleaning and de-junking. Awesome!
Anyone else watch Oprah's Best Life Week? I took a clip board and wrote down things I found helpful and from there I made my goal list for the year and my "new years resolutions." I'll have to post that one later because my time allowal for this post is up! haha.

Just one last thing, we just booked a cruise! I've never been on one before so I am SUPER EXCITED! Garrett's been on cruises before, so he's just excited to go on a vacation. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas for the cruise experience?

Christmas Spirit

It has become a tradition to go to the Forgotten Carols every year with Garrett's family. Every year the crowd that goes with us grows larger and larger. It started with Garrett's immediate family and now we have a group that takes up pretty much two entire rows.
Our Christmas spirit just isn't quite as strong until we go see the Forgotten Carols. We went on Thursday night and had a wonderful time. The spirit is so strong in there, and when you leave, you have a smile on your face and your heart is filled.
We hope to carry on this tradition for many years to come.
Some of our other Christmas traditions include, making gingerbread houses at Garrett's dad's house, the Christmas Eve Program in Santa Clara, Christmas Eve dinner at my parents house, and we always open one present on Christmas Eve (my dad usually talks us into opening a few!)

Tag....I'm It! (Twice)

When you only post like once a month, these tags kinda add up! I think I've been tagged a few times, but this is all my brain can remember right now. This one was from Lainee. It was go to the fourth folder in your pictures, select the fourth picture and post it. No cheating. Well my pics are by alphabet and "B" was the fourth folder, just so happened to be the BYU Game.

The next tag was from my cousin Erica. I've seen this one before, looks like lots of fun, so here goes.....

5 things I was doing 10 years ago...
*In the 8th grade
*Getting my braces removed
*Reading lots of Mary Higgins Clark books
*Writing notes to friends
*Having "crushes" on boys

5 things on my do list today...
*Bowling for Dr. Olsen's birthday
*Clean house
*Grocery shop
*Make Relief Society Program
*Work on my quilt

5 favorite snacks...
*Reece's Mini Peanut Butter Cups
*Pretzel's
*Doritoz
*String Cheese
*Nuts (Almonds,Cashews,Postashios)

5 things I would do if I was a millionaire...
*Take Garrett to Chuuk (gotta do that first) ;)
*Save $$$ for our future children
*Buy a house
*Give $$$ to our family
*Invest

5 places I've lived...
*Orem, Utah
*Mapleton, Utah
*Santa Clara, Utah
*St. George, Utah
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5 Jobs I've had...
*Red Mountain Spa (summer job)
*The Buckle (summer job)
*Outback Steakhouse
*Red Cliffs Dental (4 years and counting!!!)
*American Eagle (clock in, work, clock out, SHOP)

TAG...YOU'RE IT!!!

Catching Up...

Wow, what's this? A post from Aubrey! GEEZ, it's been a while! So here is a little bit of what we have been up to for the last oh month. I know, I've been terrible and haven't posted -but we aren't up to a whole lot. This is all I've managed to muster up to share with you all.

So we went to a BYU game - Go Cougars!!! My boss has season tickets and he was kind enough to give us tickets to go see them play. It was so beautiful. It was right as the leaves were changing colors, not too cold. It was a little rainy that day but it was so much fun. We bought shirts to match everyone else. If not we would have stuck out like sore thumbs.
My little sister isn't so little anymore. She is exactly one year from the ripe dating age. EEEEK! This makes Garrett and me both very nervous. Garrett didn't have a little sister growing up, so it's funny to see how protective he has become over my little sisters. One year and counting and she's on the dating market. Unless we can build a safe to lock her in....
"Who's your Caddy????" For Halloween, we didn't dress up and go to any parties. No, we were on the golf course! Such is the luxury of living in sunny St. George - Almost November and it was warm outside. I have to say that I make quite the caddy. I drive, keep score, and hand Garrett the right clubs (most the time. Sometimes it's a guess, but he's teaching me) and I also pull the flag thing out so he can putt. It's a lot of fun. I have to say, I just might be the next caddy for Tiger Woods!

Called To Serve..In Relief Society

Well there you have it, the reason why I have not had two seconds to think of blogging. I have been called to be in the relief society!!! No more primary, no no, just good times with the sweet ladies of my ward. yeehaw! I am so excited I can hardly contain myself. (I really really am!) I have spent many nights awake in bed thinking oh please let me be everything the president wants me to be.
So here is the quick post to let you know what we have been doing. Alivia told me I needed to do a new post because it's been a while. I know.
I posted that huge post for our anniversary, and then tried to change my page and it didn't work so I logged off and I have been avoiding sitting in front of the computer in fear of ending up in front of it redoing a page and blog surfing for hours!
Anyway, summer is over, the fall is here. Even though it still feels like summer in the air. October 1 runs around and all the sudden everyone is talking about Christmas. I can't believe it's already here. We have been keeping busy with work and trying to get ready for winter. I bottled fruit, froze fruit, froze corn, and going to try to do a couple more things. And, thoughts or should I say temptations of another triathlon are rolling around too. We will see if I have the nerve to sign up. :)
That's it for now. Just keeping busy and praying for ten minutes to sit down and breathe.
Hope to post more soon.