Benihana Bandwagon

I have always heard everyone talk about how much they love Benihana. All I knew about this restaurant was that it served seafood, and it was Asian cuisine. And that's all I had to know to keep me away from that place! But still, all the rave reviews kept me curious.
So I heard about this promotion that they do for your birthday. They send you a free meal certificate (value of $30!) that you can use anytime during your birthday month. This was the motivation that I needed to get me in there. So we grabbed Mike and Jen and made reservations. And I am now on the bandwagon! With their reservations there is no waiting. And the "chefs" cook the food right at your table, and they throw in a bunch of cheesey jokes and entertainment. It was really fun!

Its a little pricey but with the free birthday meal and the food and entertainment, its definitely worth it. Click here to get on the birthday list and enjoy a meal on them!
At the end of your meal they come and take a picture of your party and send you home with your own copy in a cute frame. Benihana's turned out to be worth all the hype I have heard about! Konnichiwa!!

Remembering JR

At the beginning of a new year I am reminded of all the blessings that I have been given. I am acutely aware of how precious life is. This past week the world lost a good man, JR Price. At a young age of 23 he lost a battle against Pneumonia and ARDS. While this news is tragic and VERY heartbreaking for everyone that knew him, I know that he was a lot bigger than any of us ever realized. Heavenly Father has called him home. JR is in the presence of our Heavenly Father- where we all strive to make it someday. Heavenly Father loves him so much that JR has fulfilled his earthly mission in just 23 years and is now serving amongst his presence.

The gaping hole that he leaves in so many lives will never be filled. He touched the lives of many with his kind heart and accepting attitude towards all. As the youngest of 5 siblings, his family mourns the loss of their baby brother and son. I cannot imagine what that would feel like to loose a child.

Being a member of this church brings such an overwhelming amount of comfort, especially at this tragic time. Because of the Atonement and the love that Heavenly Father has for us, we know that JR is happy. And he was greated by his grammy and other family members that were patiently waiting for him to come home.

Our thoughts are with the Prices, I hope you can feel our prayers and Love all the way from California. We love you.

Until we meet again JR...

You asked for it folks!

Since we live so far away from so many of you and are unable to invite you over to bore you with our pictures from the summer we decided that we would invite ourselves into YOUR home and make you watch this montage. In case I wasn't clear enough in the video we went to Cancun, New York and Montego Bay Jamaica this summer. This one is pretty small, I uploaded the larger video to my Facebook. Check it out there if you don't have your gl;asses close (mom). Enjoy!

The Price's are Back

Behold, your prayers have been answered! Our triumphant return to the internet has arrived! Both of our fans should be elated. Our 8 month long boycott of AT&T was a moderate success, we held out as long as we could to make our point. Now you can look forward to the fact that Katie and I will again assume that there are people out there that care what we have going on. We went to Mexico and New York and Jamaica recently, it was pretty awesome...

20 Things You Didnt Know About American Idol

Thank you Simone and Dawn for the picture!

As most of you know, JD and I got the chance to go to a taping of American Idol for this week's results show. We were so excited to go because we watch the show every week (along with 33 million other Americans) and it was so interesting to see how everything works. Here are a few secrets:

1. The judges are accompanied by 2 body guards each, even just walking in and out of the room.
2. The judges only actually sit in their chairs for like 4 minute increments. Literally, every commercial break they jump up, leave the room, and come back in like 30 seconds.
3. Simon has his phone in his hand for the ENTIRE show.
4. Paula and Simon are seriously in love. All they do is talk to each other. There was a time that she got out of her chair to sit in his lap. She held his hand, he rubbed her shoulders, and they whispered to each other ALL night.
5. Paula is even crazier than she appears on TV. While coming back from one of the commercial breaks she ripped her nylons and freaked out about it. She tried to stay underneath the desk from then on out. AND we saw her butt every time she took her seat.
6. Ryan's skin is really orange
7. Kanye West was a diva. His performance was actually taped before the show. He did it 3 times before he truly liked it. But when he got it right it was amazing. His vocals were awesome.
8. Kris Allen's family, especially his wife Katy, are some of the sweetest people we have ever met. They are in from Arkansas to support him. His dad makes custom men's clothing (JD talked to him about it for like a half hour- JD would love tons of custom clothing- i.e. south tower) and Anoop's Parents are the sweetest little couple But very shy. when they walked in the waiting room everyone stood up and clapped for them. so cute.
9. EVERYONE is smaller than you think. Kara is like a size 0. Simon is not as buff as those tiny shirts make him look. Kelly Clarkson really is not as fat as she looked on TV, the camera really adds 10 lbs. Allison (the red head) has always kinda looked a little bit bigger, but she's not. Except Lil Rounds Butt- thats huge!
10. The show is ligitemately live. The actual taping is airing live for the east coast. No edits were made at all. And besides Ryan's narrating, nothing is scripted. Everything that the judges say are ad libbed.
11. I know it looked the judges were proud of Kelly Clarkson's performance, they gave her a standing ovation, but as soon as she stepped of the stage they tore her apart. They critiqued everything about her, from her weight to the way she sings the word "suck."
12. Alexis's daughter and family sat right behind us and every time she caught glimpse of her on stage we could her "mommy, mommy!" and she blew kisses all night. The wig on Jazmin's mom is awesome.
13. Runners up, Justin Guarinni from season 1 was there, Chekeze from last season, Kelly Caldwell, and Miranda Doolittle were all in the audience.
14. When it got down to Jorge and Anoop's results, we cut to commercial. Jorge sat but Anoop ran off the stage in a hurry. We cant say for sure what happened but we assume he was so nervous he went to throw up. poor guy.
15. Simon could care less about the actual taping. Throughout the enitre show he was making faces at the audience, sticking his tongue out at people, and spinning in his chair.
16. I have heard the rumors about the animosity towards the "new Judge" Kara but I thought that they were just trying to start drama. But she truly is ostrasized by the others. Maybe its unintentional, but the other three will get up and totally leave her. And when they are supposed to be talking and deliberating together she is the one that is left out.
17. There is alot of waiting around. Doesnt matter who you are, even the families of the contestants were in the holding room with us.
18. After the taping the judges talk to the audience and make their way up to the stage to talk to the contestants. They give them kind of a pep talk. Tell everyone how well they did and hug the ones that got kicked off.
19. All of the producers told us that we have to react to everything they say; to be very EXPRESSIVE. We had to boo, clap, and be engaged in their comments. Thats why they caught us looking very serious, Simon was speaking so profoundly-ha! 20. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Here and Gone Again

So there I was.... sitting at work just working on my Post to Broker report and I get a call from Scion Jim, the Turkish guy who sold Katie and I the xB. I was a bit worried to hear from him because we bought the car like 10 days ago and as far as I was concerned the transaction was done, all he had to do was transfer the title from him to Katie and me. So when I spoke to him he tells me that he needs to talk to me and that I need to come by the dealership. I swing by on my way home from work and he takes me into the back room (where his halfway rabid dog sits there and stares at me with her teeth showing, she isn't growling because if she does Jim smacks her, but she shows her teeth, its freaky) and he hands me a packet of papers. Long story short he tells me that when he went to the DMV to change ownership of Ron to me the DMV tells him that the title is not clean, its a "salvage". He was really trying his best to get me to keep the car and he offered me a 3 year warranty and all that. I was really upset because this is exactly what Katie and I were trying to avoid, we were willing to throw down a little more coin to make sure that we had a car that would be good for us long term. I spoke to Katie and she was just as uncomfortable as I was to keep a salvaged car so we told Jim that we wanted our money back. He was cool about it and he wrote us a check for the full amount that we gave him, and I handed him the keys. It was quite a downer to get something that I love so much taken from me, truly it can be said that I miss Ron. I miss his smell, I miss his musk. So join Katie and I in bidding farwell to Ron, axles to axles, rust to rust.

We are NOT pregnant...

...But, how funny is this website?! I have seen a couple of these before and I was JUST CURIOUS as to what kind of children JD and I might have someday. It is hysterical. The website is http://www.morphthing.com/.

What do ya think?