the scoop

I did promise to fill you in on all the fun and fabulous things we've been up to these past few weeks. Read away-

Two weekends ago my parents came to visit! I don't have any pictures to document the occation- mostly because the pictures would consist of us watching a movie (we averaged two per day- most of which were bad acting, good message type films), my mom and I talking to 3 am, eating, or planing out OUR visit to UT. It was wonderful! We did manage to make it to the temple one evening. It was so great to see them- I can't believe it had been a whole year! We took M&D to the airport on Saturday and were back again to pick up our friends Marlo, Kimmie and their ADORABLE little girl London on Monday.

Michael served his mission with Marlo, and it turns out I was at Snow College the same time as both Marlo & Kimmie (I'm sure we SAW one another but didn't know each other at the time). We are so happy they were able to take off a whole week and come play with us!

Mike and I had to work half of the week so we sent them down town, to the zoo and the temple, then Thursday we all headed to Corpus Christi to get our fill of sand and salt water. We had this AWESOME little condo on the beach. We probably spent more time on the balcony than anything. It was GORGEOUS! The only downer was the wind did not stop blowing, so it was a little cold but that didn't stop me from playing in the waves and dragging Michael in the water with me. It was the apitomy of rest and relaxation. I finished my book, broke in my new bathing suit, and spent our fair share of time in the crock pot aka hot tub.

Whilst we were in Corpus we took a tour of the USS Lexington: a battleship used in a number of wars, WWII being one of them. It was pretty interesting - I didn't realize how self sustaining a ship is. I mean Dentist/Dr offices on board and everything. My appreciation for those serving our country in the armed forces was definately increased.

The Blue Angels apparently did air shows often in Eau Claire so we grabbed a pic of Michael with one of the planes that made such an impact on his life.We also went to the Texas State Aquarium. I was impressed with all they had in such little space. I'm also quite partial to "hands on" exhibits- We were able to touch sting ray's, pencil urchins, and hermit crabs. They also have a couple little shows which are always fun.One of my favorite things about the beach are the beach shops. I can be such a tourist but who could resist documenting being eaten alive by a giant fake shark? This is a pic from inside a mexican restaraunt down town SA it has this HUGE 3d mural on the wall that we love, Michael just HAD to have a pic :)

And last but certainly not least the civic turned 200,000 miles! Although its been stolen (and recovered) twice we do love our little Honda.

Consider yourself informed on the happenings of the Texas Allsops.

I {heart} DVR

need I say more?

So AFTER we catch up on our shows I'll fill you all in on our FAB past two weeks :)

Did I mention we LOVE visitors??

Twins, separated at birth?

I think so.

We all know Jack Bauer via 24:
Meet Bryan Mills as seen in Taken:
We saw Taken last night and we came to the conculusion it was very 24ish. Oh, if these "brothers" (as I like to call them) ever got together, the torture stories they could tell. It reminded me alot of season one. You know: daughter being abducted, killing anyone who gets in his way, and a great shot. All in all, good film I'll give it a 7 out of 10. After seeing the movie we debated for about 20 minutes as to which character is better, naturally Jack Bauer one, although Bryan made for tough competition (Jack's kill count is a little low this season).

My new favorite band....Musafar!!!

I have to give props to these guys for doing the best they can with their situation! But I couldn't stop laughing through the whole thing.

Let's Rodeo San Antonio!

Michael suprised me with tickets to the Rodeo on Friday night. There are a few things I found different/interesting or that I found laking/liked about the San Antonio's rodeo:



1. It's indorrs. I mean, how can you go to a rodeo w/o having to walk through horse crap?

2. Because the horse crap hasn't been in the arena for decades it doesn't reak.

2. They don't serve Strawberry's and Cream :(

3. No wild cow milk

4. It's nightly for about 3 weeks!

5. The carnival has a TILT-A-WHIRL!!!

6. ALL carnival rides, all day, on Friday are $1 !!!

7. After the rodeo they bring in a 'rotating' stage and have concerts . . . The performance of the evening was the Goo-Goo Dolls.

8. It's filmed and on the jumbo-tron and you get to see killer instant replays of the cowboys and bull-fighters getting worked over!!

We had a great pre-Valentine's date night! Michael may be convinced we should celebrate on the 13th EVERY year, we didn't even have to wait to be seated at dinner!

As for 'actual' Valentine's day we were chaperones to the youth multi-stake dance. We even acted as a taxi taking all the youth in our ward to and from the dance. Michael (Bro Allsop. . . I have a hard time calling him that in front of the kids) even gave the boys private dance lessons . . then he and another one of our friends went in the middle of a dance circle to show off their 'moves' too bad I'm too short (even with 3 inch heels) to see over the heads of 14 year olds- and I didn't get to see the action myself. . . . maybe we'll volunteer for next months dance for a re-play :) It actually was kinda fun and I got a dance or two out of michael myself.

I've come to a conclusion that I, at times, am more immature than the youth I "lead". Do I have to grow up???

Go Spurs Go

Our friends Adam and Valerie called us this week because they had some tickets to the spurs game and wanted to know if we would like to join them. My response was: you really just need to tell us what time to be ready cuz we're there. No need to ask. I was excited enough that they were acctually lower bowl tickets and even more excited that we were on the 18th row! (Adams parents were on the third!!!)

Don't worry I have not lost my allegience to the Jazz, but in the mean time I'll "half-cheer" for the spurs. :) It really was a good game and we had a great time!

Oh, did I mention Spurs fans are CRAZY!! This lady a couple rows in front of us was HILARIOUS! And the more beers she drank, the crazier she got. classic.

Thanks again Val & Adam, we had a blast!!

Ah the premiers that are January.
American Idol

Heroes

And last but certainly not least. . . . . 24!!!!

FINALLY Jack Bauer is back in my life. . . . . sadly I have to wait another 6 days for more.

2009 is going to be GREAT!!!