Gashlaria

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

We're still hip happening.

We've been silly and haven't really taken pictures of ourselves lately. We have some pictures on Steve's cell, but haven't figured out how and if we can get them up here. If anyone has an insight, please share.

Our anniversary, though it was technically December 23rd, was celebrated throughout the course of many days. We went rock climbing at the Quarry and to the Cheesecake Factory. It was my (Teresa) first experience rock climbing, so I was pretty nervous at first. Soon I got the hang of it and we had a blast. The cheesecake factory was fun too. The cheesecake was amazing! The pictures are on Steve's phone, so they might show up later.

We spent Christmas at the Peavler residence. We were greatly spoiled by both our families. Maybe someone took pictures...

Other than that we've been really trying to get our business rolling with lots of advertising and telemarketing. Not so fun, but very necessary. You can see our website at http://www.gashlermedia.com .

For all you couples out there we are also putting together what we call the Venus-Mars Pageant. This is like Miss America except much more fun and instead of being just for girls, couples compete together. The events thus far are:
1. 1 - 3 minute videos for each couple.
2. Opening dance number (everyone)
3. Individual couple dance numbers
4. Talents
5. The scenario (a hilarious role-played game-show-like situation that will test the couple's ability to cope with stress and work together)
6. Spacesuit contest
7. Question and answers (similar in concept to the dating game or other match-making shows)

This is going to happen March 1st in Provo. If you want to compete or help, or just come and see for a good time, please let us know!

Friday, December 14, 2007

Sledding!

We LOVE snow!!! Here's just 2 pictures of us sledding, but I will add pictures of the snowman we made as soon as I get them from my mom.

Heather and Steve

Heather and I

A tip to all: if you want to go sledding to a popular sledding spot such as Rock Canyon Park, go right when it's snowing. Otherwise the snow will have turned icy due to all the sledders going down. It kinda hurts when it's icy. It was fun though.

Whew. I'm finally almost caught up :)

Chuck E. Cheeses and Downtown Provo

For a date night we decided to go to Chuck E. Cheese's. We had been for birthdays when we were younger, but it had been a while since we last went. Did you know that it's called Chuck E. Cheese's because when said, it makes you smile? Talk about brainwashing! We were pretty excited to go, but unfortunately, things were much brighter and exciting in our eyes as children than they are right now.

The animatronic Chuck E. Cheese. He is much scarier than I remember. I used to think he was cool. Sometimes one of his eyes didn't open all the way.

3 of the other animatronics. The bird girl was probably the scariest because her mouth hardly ever matched when she talked or sang. It just randomly opened and shut.

The chef dude with a really horribly fake Italian accent. His drumsticks never got close to touching those drums. Poor drums. Never to be played.

They showed their music videos back from the 80's. Hardly any updating at all. Woo.

Me eating official Chuck E. Cheese's pizza. Here's something lame. Behind me Chuck in costume is entertaining a birthday girl and her friends. Behind them is the animatronic Chuck. Back in my day, when the Chuck in costume came out, they closed the curtains so there wouldn't be two Chucks. Now they just don't care. What were they thinking? It's like having 2 Mickey's in the same vicinity at Disneyland! What a catastrophe that would be for some little kids. Plus the animatronics didn't sing the happy birthday song they used to sing. Lame!

Here's a traumatizing Chuck E. Cheese experience. Ok, not too traumatizing, but a little weird. When I was 8 and went there, my cousins and I saw Chuck in costume go into the women's restroom. Pretty much ruined the magic. They need to learn from Disney.

Steve enjoying the pizza.

To our dismay, the Teen Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle arcade game no longer exists at the Orem location :( But we still had a lot of fun at the arcade.

Steve is slick at Skee Ball. Later that night we saw some girls walk up the ramp and place the balls in the highest numbers so they could get a ton of tickets. Once again, lame!

Spider squishing game.

Despite the lameness of a lot of it, we still had a lot of fun.

Afterwards, we decided we needed to see downtown Provo. This was Nov. 30, the night before the first big snowstorm here.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Thanksgiving: Part 3

On the way home to Provo from Gilbert, Arizona, good old Cecil (our car) decided to have a mega oil leak and a big hole burned in his engine. We don't know why this happened. We were stranded a couple miles south of Page, where Lake Powell is.

Where we were when Cecil died.

It was very cold.

So we got towed away and had to stay at a Motel 6 for the evening. Since Cecil was pretty much worthless, we decided it was time for him to go to his grave. Eric, Steve's brother, came and rescued us. Together, we gave Cecil a proper farewell.

Cecil O. Samuelson, the car. So beautiful. So peaceful.

Eric giving a drum roll and Steve giving an eloquent speech.

To end the ceremony, we each ran across the top of Cecil. Even though it wouldn't be respectful for us to run atop of our dead, it is much different with cars. It's quite symbolic, really.

Goodbye Cecil. Goodbye.

Thanksgiving: Part 2

For the second half of Thanksgiving week we went to visit Steve's family in Gilbert, Arizona. We were spoiled rotten and had a great time with them. I am super mad at myself for not getting pictures of the whole family, but hopefully I can get some from Steve's parents to add in the future.

On Thanksgiving morning Steve and his brothers, Eric and Brian, played some turkey bowl.