Christmas Day at Grandma H's

Of course there were Swedish Pancakes galore, and lots of toys and presents to open. Here are some pictures from the day!

Opening the stocking presents - Pokemon cards!!!

Tony Hawk skateboard! He barely put this down all day - only long enough to play with his remote contolled Bumble Bee (Transformers) Camaro! Too bad the weather was bad or he'd have been outside all day skating.

More Magnetix with a carrying case - playing with Grandpa H!

Future Ute!!!

Grandpa H checking Paul for earwax with his new Christmas present (what the????) :-D

"Do you have any Cool Sharks?"

"Go Fish!"

"Do you have any Hammerhead sharks?"

"Go fish!"

Merry Christmas!!!! (Droooooooooool) - Jaxon Bear

christmas eve 2007

Griffin bug with his Christmas Eve Lincoln Logs and some new Camo Jammies!

This is just a top ten list of my favorite and least favorite reality shows of all time (that I actually watched) I'll expand on the reasoning if I get really bored some day. I had to update this post because of some newish shows I've caught over the last few days :-D

Best:

1) Fear Factor (still my all-time favorite - I'll watch the re-runs every time they're on!)
2) The original Survivor (for maybe the first 3-4 seasons)
3) Amazing Race (super interesting, always teams you love to hate, quality TV!)
4) The Surreal Life (funny and scary every time!)
5) The Ultimate Fighter (current favorite)
6) The Contender (cool to see these guys actually make it in pro boxing)
7) Last Comic Standing (SO funny)
8) American Idol (you can't help but pick favorites, no matter how bad the judges are)
9) The Apprentice (The Donald and Ivanka are awesomely bad!!!!)
10) Road Rules vs Real World Challenge (Derek kicks butt!!!! LOL)

Worst:

1) America's Top Model (Tyra Banks - nuff said)
2) Temptation Island (any reality show based on hooking people up is 2 thumbs down)
3) Love Ship (see $2)
4) Wife Swap (just uncomfortable - only funny when Dave Chappelle makes fun of it)
5) Shot at Love (unbelievably gross - like a trainwreck)
6) Bachelor (Bachelorette)
7) I love New York (setting new levels of skankitude)
8) Flavor of Love (more like Flavor of penicillin)
9) Hogan knows Best (just stupid - not enough vitamins and prayers for the Hulkster I guess) 10) Beauty and the Geek (just DUMB!!!!)

Honorable mention:

Good:

NEW: Snoop Dogg's Father Hood (very staged but pretty funny! Snoop-a-loop is hysterical, especially hanging out with David Beckham!)
Average Joe (Good ending)
Newlyweds (I always felt bad for Nick, but I watched every episode)
Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (ruined the image of the god of thunder, but really funny!)
There was one reality show that was actually a FAKE reality show called Joe Schmo, on Spike, that was SO funny.
Dog the Bounty Hunter (before his racism caught light!)
Run's House (THE most spoiled kids I've ever seen - worse than "My sweet 16")
Keeping up with the Kardashians (Bruce Jenner is hilarious!!!)

Bad:
Sunset Tan (Yet, somehow I watched nearly the whole marathon! I've never seen dumber, more narcissistic people in my life! But I had no idea there was so much money in tanning!!!)
The Britney and K-Fed one (watched one episode)
The Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro one (one episode)
The country music American Idol (one episode)
Dog eat Dog (Brooke Burns was hot but couldn't save the show's premise)
Age of Love - Mark Phillipousis???
My sweet 16 (the episode with the boy was the worst thing I've ever seen on TV)

Shows I need to check out:

Rob & Big (Sean and Stacy rave about it)

christmas shirt from Gwen

Bad pic, but the shirt is really cool - thanks Gwen!!!

Check the movie reviews!

Yep, it's even better the 2nd and 3rd time! LOLOLOLOL

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Thanks to Andrea's genius idea, the Movie and Restaurant reviews are now in the links so you don't have to search for them in old posts! Thanks Andrea!!! You're a Genius! :-D

Utes beat Navy!

Well the Utes won another whopper of a bowl game, the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl! Whoo-Hoo!!! I had tickets to this game, and I wanted to go, but I did a real poor job planning and didn't realize I couldn't go! DUH! So, I lost $70, cuz I also didn't get the tickets on Craig's List in time to sell them, not that it was a sell-out anyway, and $35 a piece was for the good seats! (As opposed to the Hundreds of dollars to get good seats at the Fiesta Bowl (Utah's last REAL bowl game)).

So the Utes started really slow and fell behind at one point 17-7 and it wasn't looking good, but then they woke up and rattled off 21 straight points to go up 28-17. Navy made it interesting at 28-25 but then Utah stopped them on 4th and 2 on their own 7 yard line and then punched it in from there to go up 35-25 with less than 2 minutes to go - game over right? Yeah, not with a Kyle Whittingham coached team (I hate you so much Kyle!) The Utes gave up a big play and inside of a minute Navy had the score to 35-32! Then the unthinkable, Navy recovered their on-side kick with 57 seconds to go, or so. Are you KIDDING ME??? Could the Utes be any more poorly coached? THEY KNEW IT WAS COMING and still couldn't stop it. Anyway, Navy's kicker is no good so they had to get quite a few yards and tried to do so through the air. The Navy QB has a WEAK arm and threw an easy pick - game over finally, Utah prevail 35-32. The Utes now are tied for the longest bowl winning streak at 7 with BC's 7 in a row! BC still have to play this year, let's hope they lose! :-D

Anyway, I'm happy the Utes won, I still think they should fire Kyle Whittingham, I have since day 1. And 2 losses to the Cougs does not make for a happy Crimson Club! Bring in some new blood and let's get the team looking like it did under Urban Meyer again!

GO UTES!!!!

Top 10 best 80's Hair bands

Chime in on your favorites, these are mine according to when I actually listened to them :-D

1) Def Leppard
2) Guns N' Roses
3) Scorpions
4) Tesla
5) Cinderella
6) Motley Crue
7) Van Halen (with David Lee Roth)
8) Whitesnake
9) Ratt
10) Skid Row

Not making the list

1) Poison (a friend actually thought they were chicks from their first album cover)
2) Winger (living on the edge of Wuss cliff!)
3) White Lion (?????)
4) Enuff Z'Nuff (hippie hair band????)
5) Slaughter (Who?)
6) Firehouse (Who??)
7) Brintey Fox (huh???)
8) Lita Ford (Kiss me deadly LOL)
9) Dokken (Rockin with Dokken!)
10) Warrant (Cherry Pie????)

Not hair bands?

AC/DC
KISS (Hard to say???)
Van Halen with Sammy Hagar
Billy Squire