Letter to Santa

Dear Santa-
As I get older I find fewer things I want for Christmas. This year I can only think of one thing and if I could get it then I won't ask for anything else ever again... well maybe we'll just keep it to one thing a year because lets be honest it's Christmas you always want at least one gift. This year I want to be sick. I want to wake up feeling like I have to throw up but never really do because that would just make me have to throw up more. I want to gain some weight but only in the belly because I don't want to look like an umpa lumpa. I promise i won't name the gift any weird names, like system quatro ( which is really what my dad wanted to name me, true story). And I want you to tell the Mr. this is what I want because I think he listens to you more then he does to me, especially around Christmas time. Let him know I haven't asked for 2 years so he should be grateful and now I am asking. In fact Santa, if you could just have a stork or your reindeer drop it off at the front door and skip the being sick and fat part that would be an even better gift. I just want that gift to hold and kiss and squeeze and when I'm sad and Joe is at work I want that gift to make me happy. I kinda lied in the beginning and I'm sorry for that but I actually want 2 gifts. I know I always said I just wanted 1 but I think having 2 would be amazing. So this is all I want for Christmas so if you could give that to me Santa I'll be good all year long. Thank you so very much!

Sincerely-

Tori Beth Coccimiglio

Oh How I Love California

Yup it's true I do love California.
1. 80 degrees in November
2. No dry skin only soft uncracky skin
3. My Family
4. Jacque Mendenhall and Becky and Casey too if they still lived there
5. Stonefire Grill
6. BJ's Pazookies
7. The smell of the air
8. Sunny days means sun and warmth not just sun
9. Sitting in the hot tub not because it's cold outside but because you can any time
10. wear sandals all year long without getting frost bite

Why I don't love but just like Utah:
because today the news lady said it is going to be a nice sunny day and then said the high is going to be 29 degrees. Really you can't put nice and 29 degrees in the same sentence. Luckily my husband lives here otherwise I would have to move right back home and get soft skin.

What the Cuss

Being home with my family means lots of movies. So far haven't been to impressed with any of the twilights that I have seen but this movie I was way impressed with... Fantastic Mr. Fox saw it, liked it, loved it, I'd watch it again. Many more movies to see with the fam since I well be seeing them next weekend too. So we'll see how next weekend goes.

That's whats up

So I live in Utah and it's cold, and snowy and I get sick more than I ever have, and there are only 2 months ( if lucky) of really nice weather and there isn't a beach but we are the 2nd healthiest state in the US. That's right we're number 2 in being healthy. I feel healthier just knowing that. Some say 2 is the number 1 loser but I say 2 is way more accomplished than 1. Anybody ( besides the South) can get number 1 in healthy states, but to be able to squeeze yourself into the middle of 1 and 3 now that's an accomplishment. Even though times I do miss California for warmth and family and friends I am glad to live in the 2nd healthiest state. Living here I think you get a freebie and you get to say you're healthy so that's always plus. and That's whats up

Skinny Cow equals Fat Girl

What does skinny cow, tollhouse chocolate chip cookie dough, banana cream snack pack and chocolate vanilla snack pack have in common? If you guessed my shopping list I'm impressed. That's right Wednesday night at 9:30 I went to walmart and bought only those 4 items. You have to understand though I was craving a treat like I've never craved before. I haven't eaten candy in a month and I usually eat candy every day or at least some chocolate chips to satisfy my sweet tooth ( curse you Dad for giving me that sweet tooth). So what I really wanted was Courtney's chocolate chip cookies because those complete me for at least a couple of days but I didn't have Courtney's chocolate chip cookies. So I went to the store a lone ( I didn't even have Joe there to blame all the treats on as the cashier just smiled at me) and thought I'll just get a healthier snack, skinny cow ice cream only 2 points on weight watchers, but that didn't seem like it would satisfy me all the way. I then went and got some cookie dough knowing I wasn't going to make the cookies and I was going to just eat 1 little square of dough and the snack packs were for Joe because those are really lames treats if you ask me I wouldn't even call that a treat. When I got home, after a couple of smiles from the grocery store and a good laugh by me, I sat down and ate a skinny cow and 1 cookie square like I planned. Still didn't satisfy me so I ate 2 more cookie squares which totally cancel out the skinny cow. Yes I am a fat girl inside wanting treats all day long, good thing tollhouse has 24 cookie dough squares that could last me at least a week.

Cruise Highlights

Welcome to our cruise. I'm just going to do some highlights of our cruise (mostly for the parentals to see it). Joe and I and Tyler and Jeff were able to go on a 10 day cruise down to the Panama Canal and it was amazing. 10 days of relaxing, eating, playing games, seeing new sites and eating was the perfect vacation. Joe and I got this lovely ice cream you see in Costa Rica. What you can't see is the fresh pineapple, mango and banana underneath all that ice cream, it was amazing. Even though this time we had to pay for the ice cream it was 3 dollars well spent. Our stops on the cruise were Aruba, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica and Jamaica. And here we go...

First to start off with is of course our desserts. You probably can't see how many desserts we have but yes we got about 3-5 desserts a night and loved every bite of them.

On the ship was a shuffle board court and Joe and I spent much of our days at sea playing. I of course won every time. I pretty much smoked Joe in every game we played; board games, running up the stairs, racing to our rooms, chipping competitions and shuffle board. Ok to be honest I only beat Joe once in Shuffle board but it was a really good win, but for reals I beat him in everything else.

First stop Aruba. There wasn't too much to do in Aruba but go to the beach. SO we rented these awesome scooters and scoot scooted us all the way to the Marriott and their nice beach. We all 4 didn't fit on one scooter but I just wanted to show you the awesome license plate... it's cardboard.

Next we stopped in Columbia. Columbia was really cool we some some old fort that protected the city from pirates and some old plaza where all the shops were. But really it's just cool that we can say we've been to Columbia because really who goes to Columbia. This little guy played a song for us and what you can't see on the other side of the camera is a shy pirate. Yup an old man dressed up like a pirate but seriously he was hiding behind a pole.

In Panama we didn't really have a stop to go site see around but we did go into the Panama canal which was really awesome. I took this awesome first picture showing the 3 different levels of the water and Joe took the decent on below. Just Joking I mean I really did take the first picture but Joe disappeared the whole day because he took pictures of the canal for about3 hours.

After the Panama Canal we cruised on over to Costa Rica. This was probably my favorite spot because we did so much. We went on a little jungle cruise and saw this sloth up close and awake. You may think that isn't too amazing but sloths stay up in the tree and only come down once a week to go to the bathroom. We just got lucky and got to see him on his bathroom break.

Here we went to a banana plantation. Though it was really hot for us just walking around it would suck to actually work there. They all work outside, no real machines, the physical pull the banana bunches into the cleaning areas themselves.

We went zip lining in Costa Rica and it was beautiful. I could do this again and again because I couldn't believe how high we were and how green everything is.

Tyler swinging on down

Me

Joe- couldn't do anything normal had to do something every platform we went down.

Jeff

The last stop was in Jamaica. This was my second favorite, he hiked the Dunn's River Fall. It is about a 40 minute hike and there isn't really a trail you just go in the waterfall and start climbing up. We were the first ones on the fall so we got to take our time and take lots of pictures and enjoy it. By the time we started going up the second time everyone was on the cruise ship and it was just too crowded so good thing we got up nice and early for this.

Yup they're really falling off I was just lucky in stand by picture mode at all times.

This is the beginning of the fall and you can't even see the top so we had a long way to go.

Now we may wonder, what the crap why do we have this picture? Well you see on the cruise people are taking pictures at all times and these people for reals got in this pose and took this picture. Jeff and Tyler saw it with their own eyes and is probably the favorite part of our trip. Tyler just had to take a picture of the picture because really, what 40 year olds (or older) climb on each others backs. Just some ideas for next family pictures...

So of course Tyler and I had to take a picture. We thought it was really funny but would have been way cooler if Joe and Jeff were on our backs.

And that my friends was our cruise in a very small nut shell. Can't wait for January for cruise number 2!

Just Because

I was looking through pictures and found these 2 that made me laugh. You'd laugh too if you knew Joe. SO during winnie wars in Lake Powell it was down to Joe and Corb. Joe of course tried talking Corb into doing something, much like he always tries to talk his way out of a pickle...

And then once he got his attention he attacks....

Lesson to be learned: when competing against Joe don't let him talk his way out of losing just plug your ears and attack.