Halloween 2016

I love Halloween. I love dressing up and going out!

Luckily the office I work for gets super into Halloween. Remember last year?!

Last year we didn't win best office...unfortunately. So we were pretty determined to win this year!

This year the options for dressing up were: Star Wars, comic books, and Peter Pan.

Peter Pan tooootally won! (Yay!)

Here's a close(er) shot of my make up that my super talented friend did! (I could never do it that well on my own!)

"Team Take Down" The 3 of u work for Todd Seamons, the best PA I've ever known and one of the greatest people I've ever known! Seriously, you should meet this guy.

Now to start preparing for next Halloween! Any ideas??

Audrey Jo

Harry Potter Marathon

One day my boss had the fantastic idea that we should all get together to have a movie marathon in his basement! He has a big 'ol comfy couch with a big 'ol comfy love sac sitting in front of a big projector screen. So obviously I was way excited for this.

We had a vote at work between Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter to see which we should watch. Naturally....Harry Potter won!

We all signed up for a snack to bring a lot with us and the boss's wife made some delicious burgers!

We met up after work and got started! Everybody was super pumped for the first movie. Then since we started this after work people decided to leave because they were tired or had already planned to do something else with their Friday night. So it was down to like 8 of us for the second movie.  

Then more people left after that... Josh and I were the only ones left with the Dr and their kids! 

During the third movie everybody but me fell asleep! I mean...Josh and my boss were practically cuddling...

It was a pretty awesome night! And we're planning on doing this with more with other movies!

Maybe they'll actually stay awake for those...

Audrey Jo

Go me!

I have always enjoyed working out. It never really mattered what I was doing as long as I was active. Hiking, running, Zumba classes, weights...I love it all! I usually love one thing for a couple months then I move on to the next thing that I love.
I was say into running for a good 7 months. In that time I ran 3 half marathons and was training for a full marathon. The only reason I stopped was because my back completely gave out on me... But I hope to get back into it once I can stand outside for more than 4 minutes without freezing my butt off :)

Lately I have been into this workout program that is slowly killing me. The program is set up for a Monday-Wednesday-Friday workout with cardio for the other days. You think that would be easy, right? Somehow it is so easy to skip one of those 3 days of workout.
It's rough. I'm in at work at 7:45 and get home anytime between 5:30 and 6:30. I get home, I make dinner, then I get lazy and don't want to move for the rest of the night!

The other day at work a couple of us (who are all trying to do the same workout program) decided we should do the workouts together!
We have done this twice this week already and had made an awesome plan for the weeks to come!

I am so excited to not only be working out again, but to be able to do it with my friends!
I am sore, but I am loving it!

This is Ash and I after we survived our first workout together. Can you tell we were exhausted?

Audrey Jo

Sick as a dog

This weekend I have been so down in the dumps with a bug.

It all started Friday when I was super excited for a double date! I had a killer headache but we were going bowling! So I forced my headache to take a back seat to the night. (Bowling was awesome by the way! I beat Josh one of the games!!)

Saturday I had the lovely chance to lay around all day. Expect for our Costco trip. Until we went to a wedding reception. And another headache kicked in.
What made this headache especially bad is that I really wanted to play Monopoly!! And lets be honest here...you can't start monopoly with a headache because the natural headache you get from playing the game would make it completely miserable! Then the body aches kicked in.
Saturday night I think I was awake until 2:30 am.

Sunday morning I woke up on the couch at 9:15. Our ward starts at 9. Poor Josh probably didn't even think it was worth trying to wake me up.
I spent my Sunday alternating between naps and sitting on the couch motionless with Josh.

This morning I had a 7 am meeting at work and I was going to be trained on something new. So I had to go!
Well I made it though the meeting and about an hour and a half after that I found myself driving home and climbing into bed for the day.

So this is my day:

• The comfiest socks I own
• Hot cocoa
• Binge watching New Girl
• My bed

Now back to watching my show:) 

Happy Monday!!

Audrey

The Eve of the New Year

Our plans for this new years eve was kind of up in the air for a bit. We weren't sure what we wanted to do to celebrate or if we were going to do anything to celebrate.

That all changed when my friends at work invited us to go sledding with them after work! They also planned on hot tubbing and playing games all night until the New Year! (We only worked a half day on New Years Eve. How many times have I told you that I work at the best office ever?)
So after work I headed home to dig out our snow clothes then we were off to go sledding!
We went to a friends parents house for the sledding because they had a 4 wheeler to pull the sleds and a ton of land to do it on!
Josh and I have never been sledding so we were SO excited for this! First we tried both of us on the same sled. I think we only made it like 30 feet before we fell off. So the next time around we were on 2 separate sleds and that worked out much better!
We had SO much fun! The snow was so fluffy and there was so much of it! Josh just kept throwing it everywhere because it was so fluffy...

I'm pretty sure it was like 15 degrees by the time we were all done sledding. It was fahreeezing.

After the sledding we all met up at their apartment and went to the hot tub. Have you ever been in a hot tub when it's 15 degrees outside? It. Was. So. Cold.
We played Nertz (which I completely suck at), Spoons, Taboo, and Telestrations.
And when the new year came around we brought it in with confetti poppers, silly string, and new years kisses!

I think it's safe to say that we had an awesome New Years Eve!

Now it's just a matter of keeping our New Years Resolutions!

Audrey Jo

Happy Halloweenie!

So I always love Halloween and always want to get way into dressing up but I never actually do. I'm always the kind of person that gets their homemade costume ready the day before or the day of Halloween.

Not this year folks.

Apparently I chose the perfect office to work at because they go all out on Halloween.

Last year they all dressed up as characters from Harry Potter and the pictures looked awesome!

This year when we were trying to decide what to dress up as there were quite a few ideas thrown out. Some of them were: Lord of the Rings, Super Mario, Peter Pan, and a few others. We eventually decided on Disney Villains. And I was so excited! 

Naturally, in my mind I decided to dress up as Scar, from The Lion King. Because they aren't enough human villains apparently (HA!).But really. I was so excited. I had it all planned out in my head!

Luckily I work with an incredibly talented artist that was willing to paint my face for the day!

I woke up nice and early to do my hair then headed to the office so she could paint my face before patients started to show up! It almost took an hour and it was so worth the time of not moving, not smiling, and not itching my face.

She did such an awesome job! Like...patients didn't even recognize me!

(Keep in mind these pictures we all taken on different camera phones!)

Every year they block out schedules and shut down the office for a few hours for all of us to head to Malawi's Pizza for lunch. They Have a giant tree in the middle of the restaurant. So naturally I take a picture by it in my "natural element."

 This is the amazing artist herself as Ursula. Can you believe she made those tentacles herself?! She for reals is amazing.

So here is the whole gang. You'll find:

The evil step sisters and her mom with Lucifer the Cat, Captain hook, Dr Callighan, Jafar, Cruela De Vil, Yzma, Ursula, Darla, the old hag from Snow White, Mother Gothel, and Gru with his minion. (With a couple pirates in there too.)

And we were totally not all ready for this pic by the way. I mean, how easily can 18 people and a baby all be ready for a picture at the same time?

So basically, this was the best Halloween ever! Well...best day-before Halloween ever!

So what are we going to be next year?!

xoxo

Simply Stephens