First Breakfast Club Meeting

So in her infinite brilliance, my friend Trulie decided she wanted to start a "Breakfast Club!" Yummy! Who doesn't love to go out to breakfast? I do! So hopefully about once a month, we're getting a group together to try out local breakfast places. The inaugural Breakfast Club was held at:

Granite Rock Grill, on Pacific Street in Rocklin. So. Freakin'. Delicious! I had been there before and it is soooo yummy! Totally a hole in the wall place. It kind of reminded me of this place in Dallas (ok, Irving) that we used to go to frequently whenever we were in town--Joe's. (My dad went there so often that all the staff knew him by name, and he had is own plate named after him. He would just walk in and wouldn't have to order, they would just start cooking. Seriously. It was almost kind of embarrassing.)

Anyway, back to Granite Rock Grill. I love the relaxed old-school, small town dive feel.

I would definitely recommend the place. The service was quick and friendly and the food delicious. Oh, and the servings are very generously sized--most of us couldn't finish our plates. Check out our food!

I ordered "Hannah's Special" with French Toast and Hash browns. AHHHMAZING. I don't usually get French Toast (I'm a pancake kind of girl) but this was fantastic! And yes, they have homemade jams and jellies on the tables!

Amanda and Drake. Amanda got the same thing as me, and Drake got an omelet that he enjoyed.

Trulie and Katie--they also really liked their breakfasts.

Lexie with her Strawberry stuffed French Toast.

 So our first Breakfast Club was quite successful and amazingly delicious! Props to Granite Rock Grill. I would definitely recommend them.

Pretty Trees

I got some pretty pictures tonight as I was driving past family's property today and I wanted to share them. This is why springtime is my favorite. Its the only time of the year the property is beautiful and green. I love it when the oak trees start growing again!

Doesn't this just make you want to go on a picnic? I do!!

Here is a picture of my boss's oreo cows. I think they are funny.

A Coyote? A Fox? A Wolf? Or Something Else?

The latest raging debate in our office: What is it?

[so we tried taking pictures of the beast, but no one could get their camera phones to get a good pic--so alas there is no picture to back me up. But I promise this is a true story. :) ]

My vote: Coyote. Or wolf. But there wouldn't be an actual wolf in Rocklin. That would be absurd. So most likely it is a coyote. But none of the attorneys believed me. Others in my office said it was a large brown fox. Again, absurd. They don't get that big.

Seriously, we all spent twenty minutes watching the beast eat a rabbit. It was morbidly entertaining. One attorney had binoculars in his office so we used those to watch it. This also helped confirm, at least to me, that it is, in fact, a coyote. To be fair, it did have a bushy tail and strange coloring. And it was out at 10:00 o'clock in the morning. It could have been a wolf...

Our office is so entertaining. :)

Since I didn't have a picture of the coyote (who wants to see one anyway?), here are some other pictures of wildlife around our office.

We have lots of Jack Rabbits around the building.

An Egret chilling in the field. We get lots of birds, including Red Tail Hawks and Blue Herons. Its pretty awesome!

Happy, Happy News!

So I realized that I haven't shared some happy news!

My sister, Caitlin, and her husband Nick, are being sealed on April 23rd!! Cait and Nick were married almost 2 years ago, so this is very exciting. Like, totally.

YEAH!!!

I'm really excited for them. Maybe then they'll start having babies! That would be fun.

Anyway...I was hoping to be able to go through the temple with them, but I haven't gotten the okay (something about me not being old enough...)

And my mom and nana are coming, as well as a bunch of our family is coming in town for it. So it will be fun to see all of them. We should have a luncheon or something...hmmm....

I Don't Like Hospitals

So not to be melodramatic (because I NEVER am), but I thought I was going to die this week. In fact I was pretty sure I was.

Here is what happened.

I got some kind of bug. Nasty, nasty bug. I won't go into the unpleasant details, but I got slammed hard by some freaky virus. It was a cold and stomach flu double whammy.

Sunday night it was so bad that I had my roommate take me to the ER because I was so dehydrated.

The nurses got me right into a room, but then took forever to get an IV going and get me my nausea medicine (I couldn't move without getting severly nauseated).

It took 4 nurses and 5 attempts to get my IV in and going. Okay, technically, the 4th try was the actual IV (it was in my hand), but they tried a 5th time to put in my meds. Failure. They decided to stick it in my IV that was already in. I was so dehydrated that the doctor gave me three liters of fluids.

The funniest part of the night was towards the beginning. There was a man in a room near mine that was groaning and moaning really awkwardly. Both Bekah and I were quite uncomfortable and couldn't stop laughing. We wanted to ask the nurses what his deal was, but we were kind of nervous to hear the answer. So we didn't ask. But it was funny.

I ended up being there for 8 hours. I felt really bad because my roommate took me and had to work the next morning. We got home at 4:30am and she had to wake up an hour later to go to work. Fortunately, I skipped work. My doctor ended up taking me out of work almost all week. I did go back Friday, but only for a few hours. 

Here is what my left arm looked like a few days after my ER visit. They poked that side three times. The bruises were very pretty.

So this is why I haven't blogged or done anything for the past week. It took me week to have an actual meal. I still can't eat too much, but at least I'm hungry again.

This is what part of my desk looked like when I came back. And after I had worked for a couple of hours. It was much worse before.

Fun times. I'm still having a hard time talking. I think my vocal cords are burned from all the coughing and stomach acid. Anyway, so I am going to excuse myself for the last week of not blogging. Nothing exciting happened anyway.

I think I am going to take a little nap now.

Two Truths & a Lie

Yesterday I did a little "Two Truths and a Lie" for April Fool's Day. Here is what I said and the explanations:

1. I sprained my ankle pretty bad in college, all because a boy winked at me. True. My Junior Year we were playing this winking tag game and a super attractive guy winked at me and I ran to him (the point of the game) and I tripped over my own feet. I didn't think my ankle was that bad, but my roommates thought I had broken it, so I ended up in the ER the next day. Turns out it the ligaments along the outside of my foot were torn. Lovely. I was on crutches for the next month and had to move apartments during that time. Luckily, the guy that had winked at me was a good friend and felt really bad about my ankle so he and his cousin moved all my stuff for me, in the rain. :) So kind of them. So I guess it kind of worked out. For me. :)

2. Cellular and Molecular Biology was my favorite class in college. The text book was over 3.5 inches thick. True. I loved, loved, loved that class! One of my favorite things we did was have a overnight "retreat" to do some presentations that we didn't have time for in the lecture. It was so much fun! We drove to a cabin and did our presentations and then hung out the rest of time. I loved that after we were done for the night, everyone got together in their PJ's (totally appropriate) and read our scriptures together with our professor. Where else can you do that? So awesome. Then the next day our Professor started a snowball fight. Also awesome! Oh, and I also loved the subject matter. It was completely fascinating to me. Sometimes I still read the textbook--for fun. I am such a nerd. And I am okay with that. :)

3. I was voted most popular girl in my Ward in my senior year of college. Completely False. Yeah right!! ha ha ha. That would have been a hilarious joke. If we had voted, my roommate Lisa would have been the most popular. Why? Because she was (and still is) fabulous and really nice and super fun--and the most popular girl in our ward. I love Lisa. :) Though, I do have to say that my Freshman year, I was voted most likely to die of pneumonia. Again, lovely. That was because I ended up in the hospital with a bad case of bronchitis. My roommates thought it was so funny. It wasn't really. And just to be clear, those are the only two times I ended up in the ER in college. It wasn't like it happened all the time.

So there you go. :)

April Fool's Day

I'm totally going to copy someone else's idea and do two truths and a lie in honor of April Fool's Day. :)

1. I sprained my ankle pretty bad in college, all because a boy winked at me.

2. Cellular and Molecular Biology was my favorite class in college. The text book is over 3.5 inches thick.

3. I was voted most popular girl in my Ward in my senior year of college.

Apparently this was a college edition. :) So which one is the lie?? I'll answer it tomorrow! ha ha ha!

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Also I wanted to highlight some of my favorite pranks I've done or have been a party to.

** In high school, my best friend and I saran-wrapped a friend's car. But a little twist on the classic was that we put folded up notes (a couple hundred of them) in each of the layers so he had to unwrap each layer individually to see what the notes said. Then a week later we attacked his bedroom and put yellow curling ribbon EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING! Several years later (after his mission), he was still finding ribbons. He says he now hates yellow curling ribbon. ha ha ha. :)

** In college, we got in a prank war with a boys' apartment in our ward. We stole their furniture and mascot. They sealed our door with a garbage bag and dumped leaves in between the door and the bag so all the leaves spilled inside--which was discovered about 3am. Not super fun. Then we put cheesewhiz notes on their windows. They stole their mascot back. We put liquid soap in their dishwasher. Ha ha ha. That one was awesome. Then they won with a classic. They put two truckloads of snow in front of our door. We lived on the second floor. It was impressive. It was below freezing so our door was frozen shut almost all day. We had to get in and out through our livingroom window. The manager was really upset and then made them come clean it up in the afternoon! Sweet Justice! :)

The funniest part about apartment being "snowed in" was that I was walking across campus a couple of days later and I heard people talking about it. That was awesome!