Cake Wrecks!

This weekend I ran across this blog and it has seriously occupied me for long periods of time ever since.

If you don't laugh at some of these and what this chick has written beneath the pictures, something is wrong with you.

Cake Wrecks

Hello Plano

Alas!

This weekend Matt and I finally found a new place to hang our hats (and Tucker a new place to hide his toys).

November 1st, we will have a new home, new furniture, and a new ward to attend!

Amen Brother Ben!

October Is A Comin'

October is almost here!!!

Today we prepared by practicing our cooking making skills!

Meanwhile, Tucker waited for us to drop crumbs on the floor.

The List Maker

I love making lists.

I make Shopping Lists.

To Do Lists.

Wish Lists.

Work To Do Lists.

Work Wish Lists.

Places to Go Lists.

Pictures to Take Lists.

Goals to Achieve Lists.

Things to See Lists.

Movies to Watch Lists.

Hobbies to Take Up Lists.

Meals to Cook Lists.

People to Call Lists.

I don't know where this all started, but I have been doing it my entire life. I constantly find little folded pieces of papers in drawers, blue jean pockets, in my purse, etc of really old lists I've made and get so excited if I get to cross something off. It doesn't matter what the task is; "buy grandma a birthday card" or "save up and get the convertible you always wanted"; I was equally excited about scratching off both of those things when I finally completed them. And the sense of accomplishment I feel upon completion of an entire list....is practically priceless.

Maybe I'm Weird, I don't know. But I love making lists. I think I'll go make one right now.

Oktoberfest Time!

One thing that I'd love to do before I die is visit Oktoberfest in Munich. The Chipmunks made it seem like so much fun in "The Chipmunk Adventure"!

Since we've already been to Munich this year and it wasn't at Oktoberfest time, we definitely missed out. BUT, we tried to make it up by visiting Addison's Oktoberfest today!However, since it was blazing hot outside and I found myself sweating in places I didn't know I could....it hardly felt like Munich or October. The Addison Oktoberfest has an annual dachshund parade each year, but it is always on Sunday while we're at church and we never can attend and bring out our little schnitzel Tucker. :o(

This makes tucker especially sad because I know he has always wanted me to dress him up like this:

Poor fella was just heartbroken...

Instead though, this year we took pictures with this guy as we entered the park!

It totally made up for us not having tucker with us! It looks just like him....x100 in size of course! Matt loves dachshunds.

As we entered the Bier Garten, there wasn't much for 2 Mormons to enjoy except some fine yodeling and lovely oompa music. I only wish we had the money to buy me a derndl (I really wanted one of these when we went on vacation, but they were like 300 euro!) and Matt an alpine hat. We would have looked smashing if I do say so myself.

For our German dining pleasure, I ate a pretzel (which was nothing close to a true German bretzn, but once you've had the real thing, it's hard to have substitutes) and Matt had sausage, potatoes, kraut, and a kaiser roll. And for dessert? Strudel of course!

Good times!

Yearbook Yourself

This is the exact kind of thing that Matt and I get caught up doing until 1 and 2 in the morning instead of sleeping. And we wonder why we're always so tired...

Yearbook Yourself

1966
Personally, I think this might be a good look for Matt! Now if we only had a yaught....
Ah perms! Why did they ever go out of style?
AC Slater had nothin' on my man!
God knew what he was doing when he made me a blonde.
The gold chain says it all.
I've never felt so ugly as when I looked at myself like this.1994...a great year.

I needed a little more hairspray in this one.

How Shady!

A few weeks ago Matt and I saw a guy driving down I30 with his window shades (that would normally only be open and used if the car was parked) not in his windows, but open and laying across his arms and steering wheel as he drove.

Puzzled, we never figured out what the reasoning for this could have been and deemed him a freak.

This past Saturday while driving into the sun towards Dallas, the heat and power of the sun was so much I couldn't stand it. Not even the air conditioner could calm the fire that the sun was inflicting upon my body! So, I broke out the window shades and laid them across my lap as a last result and desperate attempt to get cool. When Matt turned his head and saw how cool I looked with the Hawaiian window shades, he got in on the action too.

We hadn't been cooled off 5 minutes before we realized that the guy we had seen doing something similar to this a few weeks earlier, wasn't so weird after all....he was a genius!

These are my legs.

Getting to Know All About You

I was tagged!

1.)What is your full name? Tiffany Linn Parker, although I wish my last name was hyphenated to Hoyt-Parker because I just can't get use to writing Parker and to be quite honest, I liked my maiden name better. I miss it.

2.) What do you like to do in your spare time? I like to go to the zoo, figure skate, feed pigeons, travel the world, and sleep. However, I seldom get to do any of those things. In my spare time I'm normally on the Internet looking up really random things like: conjoined twins, the tree man, or cranberry farming...

3.) Name two of your biggest vices: 1: Making jokes, having thoughts, and laughing at things that I shouldn't be laughing about and dragging others into it too. 2: Kitchen gadgets. I can't stop buying kitchen utensils, small appliances, and juice glasses. I'm obsessed.

4.) Name two of your biggest virtues: 1: I'm a really good listener and a vault of people's problems. People confide in me all the time because they know the information isn't going anywhere and I'm not going to judge them. 2: I am very self disciplined.

5.) What is your biggest regret, up to this point?: Dropping out of college. I'm so stupid!

6.) List 5 of your deepest, darkest desires (keeping it G-rated, of course): 1: To write a book that really helps people and makes them laugh at the same time and then becoming really famous from it and going on Ellen to talk about it! 2: To be on an episode of Saturday Night Live. 3: To retire by getting on an airplane and going from place to place to place, living all over the world until I die. 4: Living in a place where I can walk everywhere that I need to go and never have to drive a car again. 5: To be healthy and not have arthritis everywhere or a breakout every time any type of dairy enters my body.

7. What do you consider a perfect day?: Waking up late... in Europe, sharing breakfast with some birds, a trip to a zoo, shopping for a new pair of pajamas, and into bed by 6!

8. Name 3 songs that you know EVERY word to: 1: "I am the Walrus"- The Beatles 2: "Shoop" -Salt N Pepa 3: "Nasty Little Thoughts" -Stroke 9

9. What fictional character do you secretly envy and wish you could become? Elizabeth Bennet. She marries a freaking hottie who also happens to be loaded (£10,000 a year!) and when it came time to defend herself, she knew exactly what to say that would cut right to the bone.

10. What's the first thought that pops into your head when you see yourself in the mirror? "My face looks older"

Holy Cow This is Addicting!

So a friend at work was telling me a story last week about how boring her night was that they got online and played games where they made lists all night. Being a list maker myself, I didn't see this as boring at all! I saw this as an opportunity to for once play a game that I knew I'd excel in playing!
This site http://www.sporcle.com/games/category/ rocks my face off! You can name all the Crayola Crayon colors (I was exceptionally good at that one, but still missed a bunch), all of Tom Hank's movies (I didn't know as many as I thought I did), all the U.S. Presidents (got 'em all!), all the London tube stations (my keyboard was smoking on that one), and the list goes on and on and on!

I love it!

A Boring Labor Day

Our Labor Day Weekend was pretty uneventful, but we tried getting out and doing a few things.

Saturday morning we got up bright and early to go to First Monday in Canton to pick up a few Halloween decorations.

Unfortunately after all of our searching in the hot, hot sun, we only found one decoration worth purchasing. :o( BUT, Matt found a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich which he surely enjoyed.

MMMM!
Monday afternoon we hopped in the car with our kites and Tucker and headed out to the lake to fly our kites.

Tucker was pretty anxious to arrive at our destination.
Matt preparing his kite.
My Penguin kite.Ta-da!
Matt's kite is a little cooler than my penguin.
Tucker decided after 5 minutes of being there that he was tired of being on the ground, tired of the heat, tired of being ignored, and tired of me giving my attention to my kite. Therefore he began jumping on me over and over again until I crashed my kite.As you can see I gave in and spent the rest of our time at the park holding Tucker.This is Tucker after being in the sun for 5 minutes.
We were all happy to get back in the car and use the A/C again.