Scott and Stefie Shoell

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

We waited around to take our Christmas card pictures until we had a bunch of snow, but there wasn't any in the forecast. There was a little up at Sundance so it still looks "Wintry". Naturally, there is snow in the forecast for this weekend...
Anyway, here's a few of our favorites. Steven and Catherine Monson took them for us and did a really good job!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Christmas Questionnaire

A friend sent me this Christmas questionnaire so I posted my answers here:

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags??
Paper! It's much more fun!

2. Real tree or artificial?
Real trees smell and look good, but I like the artificial because they're not as messy and a lot less expensive.

3. When you put your tree up??
as soon as i can after thanksgiving.

4. When do you take the tree down??
Usually New Year's Day.

5. Do you like eggnog??
Not really. I usually have only a small taste on Christmas Day.

6. Favorite gift received as a child??
One year I got the My Little Pony barn, and then for my birthday I got the castle!

7. Hardest person to buy for??
My Dad.

8. Easiest person to buy for??
My Mom. You can't go wrong with a Cafe Rio gift card, towels, or Fiesta Ware dishes.

9. Do you have a nativity scene??
I now have 2 thanks to Tony :)

10. Mail or e-mail Christmas cards??
I'm a fan of Christmas cards.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received??
I wouldn't say it was the worst, but I was pretty embarrassed when I had a package of underwear in my stocking when I was a kid.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie??
Oh wow there's a few: "Holiday Inn", "Charlie Brown Christmas", the first "Home Alone" movie, "The Grinch" (cartoon)

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas??
Very soon after Thanksgiving.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present??
Ummm...I plead the 5th on that one.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas??
Oh gosh. I love homemade sugar cookies; my mom makes these yummy snacks - a black olive, a little smokey and a cube of cheddar cheese together on a toothpick.

16. Lights on the tree??
Yes - I prefer clear (white) lights on a Christmas tree.

17. Favorite Christmas song??
It's a hymn - "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home??
I've never traveled for Christmas so I don't know; but I imagine I'd rather be at home. I tend to avoid stressful situations and I think traveling at Christmas would be very stressful.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's??
(sings the song in my head) Yup.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star??
A star.

21. Open the presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas mornings??
My mom always let us open one on Christmas Eve which was usually jammies.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year??
No money.

23. What theme or color do you decorate in??
I'd say it's pretty "classic" Christmas.

24. Favorite thing to have for Christmas dinner??
Honey Baked Ham!!! and Christmas potatoes (or funeral potatoes; you know, the ones with the corn flakes on top)

25. What do you want for Christmas this year??
A gift certificate for a couple of massages (hint to my hubby....)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Friday, December 5, 2008

My Masterpiece & High School

The picture is hard to see, but here it is: My masterpiece! It's a cross stitch that took me over 6 months to do. I'm a little proud of it :)
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A few days ago I was going through my CD's and downloading Christmas music to my ipod via itunes. I came across the CD's Breanne (Tolman) made me of our various choir concerts when were in high school. Just for kicks and giggles I put them on and flipped through each track, laughing as I listened to some of the music we were forced to sing (Who could forget "Old McDonald in Latin????) What surprised me was I actually got a little sentimental about choir and my choir friends (WAVES to Annika, Bre, Erin, Courtney & Kristen) It surprised me because I didn't enjoy 90% of high school and couldn't wait to get out. I was miserable most of the time (granted, some of it was self-inflicted, the rest was my lack of serotonin...) But that 10% when I was Ladies, Chamber and A Capella, I loved. Too bad I've let my voice go to pot!!!

On the flip-side of that....

I'm on the Design Team at Capelli and we've gone to a couple of career fairs for high school students. We talk to them about coming to our school, do some hair, and try not to murder them. And then I remembered why I didn't miss high school. I can't even give you specific examples, just picture yourself in front of a group of them and trying to talk. `Nough said. Today at the career fair in Heber this punk jock decided he wanted Trianna to cut him a nice mullet. Yes, a mullet. Business in the front, party in the back. As she was cutting away he said "My mom is going to kill me!" And the thought that came to my mind was: "I really hope she does just that."

Sunday, November 30, 2008

How many boyfriends do you have?!

Before you call me pathetic, I'll admit that truth myself: I am pathetic.

We were at Scott's parent's house and there was a commercial mentioning Gerard Butler and Scott said "Oooh honey it's your boyfriend!" and John (my father-in-law) said "Holy cow how many boyfriends do you have?" So after a fun filled search on google images, here they are :

Of course, Sean Bean.

Gerard (Gerry) Butler

Josh Groban (I mostly have a crush on his voice, but whatever)

And Richard Roxburgh (aka Dr. Townsend, character in my unfinished novel. I based the dear Dr. on Richard :)

And last but certainly not least, dearest Christopher Reeves who was my very first crush at age 7 or 8. The reason he's on my blog page is because Scott and I found out very early on in our relationship that we had "Superman" in common. We'd both grown up watching the films and love them.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Long time no...err..blog

Our lives have been crazy lately! It's amazing how you can live in the same house with a person and hardly see them. I don't like it (pouts)
Anyway, Scott and I made a deal : he would go sit through "Twilight" with me and I will sit through the new "Star Trek" movie coming out next year. So last night we had our tickets for the 8:30pm show, got there are 7:45 and were pretty much in the back of the line that was formed OUTSIDE. We thought we were going to freeze to death before the theater Nazi let us inside.
My Review: I loved "Twilight". I had decided early on that I was just going to sit and enjoy the movie as a movie (and drool a little over Robert Pattinson) and not compare it to the book because we all know the book is better :) So I went with an open mind and no expectations and really enjoyed it. So I don't spoil anything I'll just say - yeah, it was different. Of course it's going to be different, but it was well done. Scott was pretty lost, but he even enjoyed it (as much as can be expected anyway).