CHRISTMAS!!!

Jay and I are very excited about coming home for Christmas. We have been looking foward to it for a while now and can't wait. We went to the lights at Temple Square the other night with Jay's grandparents! It was a lot of fun!

We had a great time and those lights are so beautiful!

We are alive

These are some fun pictures from Halloween. We were scary Zombies who went and hung out at Wal-Mart then went home and watched a movie!!! Ha some scary Zombies we were. I will change the background later I know it's not Easter anymore!!!

Does anyone

Know where we could get a cheap a super cheap good working car?? or a scooter? Or anything that runs that would work for Jay and I??

OUR NEW CAR!!!

Go ahead, be jealous!!


(OK OK, it's not really, totally rented it for Vegas and had to give it back :-( maybe someday huh)!!!!

I'm still here (The Kid)

So We're still here and alive! Nothing new just a quick update, !! Jay is still working 2 jobs! 1 at Enterprise and the other at the cafe. I'm still at Lashbrook we have big clients coming in tomorrow so everyone is stressed about that! We bought new curtains last week and are very very excited about that. Jay has his mission reunion so we have an old mission companion and wife staying with us this weekend, but I won't be there for half of it. Over all things are good. We love and miss you all very very much!!!

Here we are at Disney on Ice!!! We had great seats and it was a blast!

TAGGED, (BY ME)

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Leeann MacCabe Mercado

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle): Leeizzle!!!

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal): Pink Elephant!!! ha ha

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on/or neighborhood if it's a number): MacCabe 200 North (awwww thats super duper lame!)

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name): MerLee........ ha it's almost MERILEE!!!!

6. YOUR SUPERHERO/CRIMINAL NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink) Yellow slurpee!!!

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your last name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of your dads name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms first name). ERMRYJD. There are no vowels, what the heck!!

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parents middle names):Lorin Lee

9 . YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets): Black Simba

10 . YOUR HOOD NAME:....first 3 of your first name and add -iqua....:Leeiqua

11. What will you repost this as? (1st letter of middle name; last letter of siblings first name, first letter of your last name, and add lockly) MEMLOCKLY

VEGAS!!!!!!!!!

Jay and I went on an exciting adventure to Vegas over Christmas!! And boy was that fun! Here are lots of random pics. I'll write a little just explaining whats going on!!! Enjoy

1 This is the Congo room at the Sarah Hotel, the buffet to eat there was $30 a person! So No we didn't eat there!
Here is Santa in Rite Aid!!!

This was a fun place with video games and pictures and all kinds of fun stuff!!

We waited 30 minutes to see this guy and the show was only 5 minutes long. What a waste.

Santa again. Sorry these are so out of order!

On top of the stratosphere, where we stayed!!

The most gorgeous view ever!!

HA this is just plain funny, look at my lips all sucked in and wierd

I love this man!!

On an escalator!!!!

In the casino at the Stratospere!

I can't remember what hotel this was but they had this awesome walkway that changed colors!!!

This horse looks angry!

GUCCI!!!

LOUIS VUITTON AND VERSACE! They have some

gorgeous stuff in those stores.

The Bellagio and the awesome watershow they have!!!

The water show at the Bellagio!!

ELVISES EVERYWHERE!!!

(DON'T YOU DARE LOOK AT MY DOUBLE CHINS)

But that is the eifle tower hotel in the back(we don't remember what thats called)

Jay doing his impression of Will Ferrel in ELF!!

A Cool store with awesome sun glasses.

IT'S 2009 YAY!

SO THIS IS A FUNNY STORY! This is the MGM Grand. We wandered in thinking we could pass through the hotel and keep warm to keep walking down the strip. WRONGO. In the middle of a heat storm in there we got lost in a flood of Asians! Not kidding some famous singer to them was singing there and we were walking through the second it got out. They were coming right at us. We followed another white couple through the crowd, they were leading the way and pushing asians out of the way so we followed. Well when we got to the end of the Hotel thinking we were in the clear, THERE WAS NO EXIT TO BE FOUND. Thats right we had to force our way through the asian mob once again. the total time in the MGM being lost: 1 hour 30 Minutes. NUTS I KNOW.

Just walking up and down the strip!! It was so cold but so fun!!

The MGM again!!!

THIS MAN..... farted on the bus. Yes thats right farted and then he chuckled like it was no big deal.

THE M&M FACTORY!!

THE COKE FACTORY. We bought 16 little cups of different flavors from around the world. Some were good some were NASTY. But it was fun to try them all!!!

HEY GOLD WOMAN, GET YOUR LIPS OFF MY MAN!!!! Ha both Jay and I thought they were going to kiss us. Wierd!

You see all kinds of wierd stuff in VEGAS!!

So this one.. HMMM we went in and asked because thats just wierd it's just how it looks, F.C.U.K. saying each letter individually. But still come on what were they thinking?

Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville!!!

I just wish it wasn't so cold!

We ate on top of the world. seriously. The resturant on top of the Stratospere. it was so nice and so much fun. It rotates so that you can see all of the city!!!

We had a lot of fun in Vegas. We got a free nights stay because the water was cold one day!!! That is definately the city that never sleeps!!!!

WE'RE ALIVE..

WE ARE WE ARE!!! Just busy. We have a lot to update on. #1 we went to VEGAS for Christmas and that was AWESOME. #2 Our car is broken broken broken. #3 Jay got a job at Enterprise Rent-a-car, so he'll be working long hour days #4 I'm still looking for a part time job, anybody in the Salt Lake Area please keep your eyes open. #5 Mom is doing so much better, and we are all so grateful for that!! #6 We really are alive and will post pics of Vegas and other fun-ness soon!!!!

LET IT SNOW...

YES!! YES!!! We are alive!! And doing well. We have been super busy with all kinds of fun stuff!!! Jay and I are planning to go to Vegas for Christmas which should be....... fun!! We are both busy working and just love the snow!! We can't wait to go snowboarding!! Hope everyone is doing well.. We love and miss you all!!!

What a WEEKEND>>>

This weekend was awesome beyond awesome!!! Friday night Jay and I met Friends Lance and Stephanie and went to Lagoon for Fright Nights!! That was so much fun. Well while there we went and saw a Hypnotist. The man (who's name is still unknown by anyone to this day) picked 20 people between the ages of 18 and 30 to come up to the stage, Jay took off running for the stage. He got on and was in the show, he was hypnotized and did some crazy stuff such as, getting really hot and taking his sweater off, Dancing like the Village People the Y.M.C.A crazy and swinging his "taken off " shirt all over the place. He was scared to look over the side of the stage because the hypnotist said it was a 70 story building. He went from being 4 years old and picking his nose in front of over 200 people to even got to play with Barny and gave hugs to strange people in the audience. He was so cute up there. People were laughing and talking about how funny and cute he was. He really was!!! Then on Saturday night we went to The Haunted Forest In American Fork with Lance and Marissa.!!! That was so creepy. It's seriously in a forest and people and things pop out and you and you walk through old sheds and barns and it's just so creepy!!! It was so much fun though!!! This was such a fun weekend!!!!

Just Plain old me!!!

Last week I was in Wal-Mart getting

some usless things that I really didn't

need. OK OK so I was buying tampons! Anyways this man

and his friend?/girlfriend?/Wife? were following me around

looking at me so strangly. Finally I stopped in the make-up department

to see if I could ditch them, (I really wasn't in the mood). The boy

came over to me and asked the strange question that makes girls

want to run away and never look back... "Have you ever thought of

modeling?" NO WAY. Me I'm just me!! Thats basically what I said.

He was with some talent agency. Well the girl came over

and was giving me the same speech and I could

see that between them I wasn't going to get out of this easily even

with the politest of declines. I gave the girl my number expecting

to A. never hear from them B. Get a few prank calls C. or Something else.

Well days went buy and I forgot all about it. Well on saturday night Jay and I

were babysitting Mikayla and Gwenny when I got the phone call.

I answered and was offered an audition. I looked

up the place online and it was a real, a real place,

that really did movies and modeling and

made people famous... Needless to say I didn't go, and I'm kinda

kicking myself about it!!

Does ANYONE...

Know of a good Dermatologist in the northern

Salt Lake Area..??? This face full of nasties is

just not working out anymore!!!

YAY

So Jay and I totally bought our plane tickets

to go home for Thanksgiving and we are so excited!!! Thats all!!

A JOB A JOB!!!

I got one!! It's called Lashbrook Jewelry design.

It's where they make Jewelry to sell to individual

companies!! I'm just the receptionist but am very excited

to be employed after a long time... of not!!!!

SAVE Darfur

I went to the concerts for Darfur with Merilee these past two nights and Jay came last night. Afterwards Jay and I were driving home and we got to talking. How blessed we are to be driving in a car, warm and out of the weather. How lucky we are to be eating chocolate at our disposal. How wastefull we are as a society. How selfish we are. It just was heartbreaking the video Josh showed about How they are suffering over there. Jay and I realized we take so many things for granted. Being able to call our parents on the phone everyday, to go to a home where we have air conditioning and heaters. How lucky we are to walk into our kitchen to grab a quick bite to eat whenever we want. To be able to live so close to the temple. Jay and I live not even 5 minutes away. We also take for granted our bathroom, the toilet, being able to take a shower, to have sinks to wash our faces and brush our teeth. To be able to walk out of our houses without being scared that something is going to happed to one of us. We are so blessed to live here in the United States. I used to give my spare change to bums here but I realize that they can go get a job, they let themselves get that way, these people in Darfur have no choice. People here ask for 50 cents or dollers, people over there would be happy with a penny! We are all so blessed.