Pictures

I haven't done much updating lately so I thought I would catch up a little bit. Sterling and I went to Gardner Village to take some pictures earlier this month. It was fun and I love having pictures of us.... so here they are.

Christ Died For all to be saved Its Up to us to choose

I love Christmas!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I love wrapping presents and it's more fun watching people open them.
2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial
3. When do you put up the tree?Thanksgiving day
4. When do you take the tree down? a week into January
5. Do you like eggnog? not my favorite. hot chocolate is better
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I loved my homemade barbie house. Mom, Tyson and Dad helped santa build it. It was my favorite. Thanks fam and santa
7. Hardest person to buy for? my brothers.
8. Easiest person to buy for? kids 12 and under and sterling
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes! I got it when I was younger
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail... I love getting mail and I love sending it. I am excited to send a christmas card out this year.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? coal. just kidding um... I don't think I've ever recieved a bad gift. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. I think that if someone is nice enough to take time to get me a gift I appreciate it no matter what.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The ultimate gift, Elf, and Christmas Vacation
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? We started in October this year but mostly in november early december.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? no I've recycled the gift wrap though
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? oranges, nuts and chocolate
16. Lights on the tree? of course!
17. Favorite Christmas song? "Step into christmas" by Elton John and I love "O Holy Night" especially the one by Josh Grobin the words are so good.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home for sure.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolf
20. Angel on the tree-top or a star? A star, it is more classy in my opinion
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One on Christmas eve and the rest on Christmas day.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? People getting stressed about getting all of those gifts and losing sight of the what Christmas is all about. Also Black Friday. Big shopping crowds. Sure it's good to get a great deal but I think some people just go too far. I don't like when people get selfish and greedy either.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love my parents tree. Every year each of us would get a new ornament to put on the tree. So all of them are different. I am excited for the day that my mom will give them up to each of us. :) ha no rush mom I know you love them.
24. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? Honey baked ham and mashed potatoes
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I'm not sure yet.

Things I am thankful for

A. America

B. bed. I love bedtime.

C. The church. I'm thankful for the direction it gives me in my life and for the peace I feel from it every single day. I am also thankful for cars. I am so thankful that me and sterling are able to get to work everyday

D. dogs. Nice ones at least. Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. :)

E. ears so I can hear music. Music is awesome what would life be without it.

F. Family.

G. Grandmas. My grandma Harper is the most amazing happy lady. She is so funny. We love her.

H. health and happiness

I. Internet. It's so convienient when you are looking for something and I love all of the things you can learn and find.

J. Jobs.

K. kids. They crack me up.

L. Learning. I am thankful for the chance to be able to have a clear mind that is able to focus and understand things.

M. Marriage and the Mateer family. I love being a Mateer.

N. new inventions. What an amazing world we live in with new technology and inventions

O. orange dream machine from jamba juice. I'm thankful that sterling learned how to make a shake at home that tastes exactly like it. YUM

P. Pictures. I am a huge fan of them. I love looking at memories and scrapbooking them so we can look at them easily.

Q. Quiet times. Those quiet times are times I learn the most.

R. rain, especially at night and early mornings. I absolutely love it, it makes me sleep like a baby.
S. Sterling...that's a given. I am so happy to have him in my life forever and ever. I couldn't ask for a better husband.

T. Temples. I'm so thankful that we have so many that are so close. I am so happy and excited to be living near the new Draper temple.

U. underpants. i couldn't think of anything but underpants are a pretty good invention.

V. Vaccums. There is nothing like clean carpet under your toes.

W. Weekends and weather I love being home on the weekend when it snows! I love cuddling and being a home body.

X. X-tra time with my hubby. Ok this doesn't really start with an x but I wanted to think of something that I am actually thankful for, instead of a xylaphone or something because I'm not thankful for those. :)

Y. Being YOUNG!

Z. the zoo. Animals are cool and I'm grateful for them because they are cool.:)

These are a few of my favorite things

I haven't posted anything for awhile so here is a random one......are ya ready?.......These are some things that help me survive crappy moments. My life is not really crappy in anyway, but there are times where you just don't feel well which brings me to my first crappy moment zappers.....

This stuff is so great. I've been feeling a bit sick the past few days and this helps make the symptoms less crazy. It helps a lot when you are feeling a cold coming on. This has saved my life so I can go to work. The next thing I love is fuzzy socks. Wearing scrubs and fuzzy socks to work can make working a lot more enjoyable. :)

The next thing I really really like are those microfiber cloths. If you have black furniture that shows dust all the time these are amazing. I actually enjoy dusting with these things! Sterling can't get me to stop dusting!

The next thing that is great is this silk hair product. Ya know those days where your hair just doesn't work. This stuff is amazing. It defrizzes my hair and untangles it and makes it soft and shiny it's great if you have a lot of crazy hair.

The next thing I really like is cheddar beer kettle chips. They are so gooooooooooooooood!

Last but certainly not least.... I absolutely love this guy! He is so incredible! I think I could advertise all those products above but this guy is mine.

I've been tagged

This is the 4th picture in my 4th file on my computer. This is Sterling and his dad playing wii boxing. Sterling always seems to break out in a huge sweat it's great. I remember Melissa almost showed him up.

I'm 21

I am officially 21 as of this last thursday 10-9-08 and I was born on 10-9-87 (kind of fun numbers that count down don't you think). It was a pretty fun birthday. Sterling brought home some very pretty flowers that he picked out himself. It was so cute and so nice! Sterling also took me to the cheesecake factory because I've been wanting to go there for so long. It was reallllly good. We only waited 10 minutes too which is pretty unusual I hear. The next day sterling took me shopping and I got some diffusors from costco. I love making our bedroom smell really good! I also got a clock that matches my decor perfectly! The week before, me and my mom went to girls night out while the boys were at priesthood and we got this clock for $20! I love great deals plus I love this clock! I also got a nice gift certificate from mom and dad mateer to get a pedicure. I've never had one and I am so excited to use it. On saturday we went with mom and dad harper to dinner and then today we got together to eat my favorite soup that sterling makes. The best part of my birthday was spending a lot of time with sterling and seeing family. I have one more very important task for next weekend. I am going to visit my grandpa...the person I share the birthday with Happy Birthday on thursday Grandpa. We talked on the phone which was great but I think it will be good to go visit him since we weren't together on our birthday this year. Anyway... it was a great weekend. I had a good birthday. Here are some pictures of the weekend. Sterling and I at the cheescake factory

The pretty flowers that sterling gave me
The clock and the diffusors
Out to dinner with mom and dad
US

Halloween is ruined!

will it blend?

This is the blender they had at costco awhile ago. It's amazing. It blends everything for example golf balls, marbles, cell phones, wii romotes and even rake handles. I would love to be able to blend all of those things. :)

cakes

Every since I was little I have loved baking. I liked making cookies and things, but I also liked to try new cake recipes. I remember making a triple chocolate torte from scratch when I was 10 years old. I haven't been into it as much as I use to, but here are some of the recent cakes I've made I think they look kind of good. Although sweets are great, I probably should start learning how to cook meals better now that I'm a wifey. Sterling is a better cook than I am.:)


I want to make this cake, I've always wanted to try to do those chocolate curls. plus it kind of looks like a two layer torte....veeeerryy yummy.

Happy birthday dad!

Today was my dad's 59th birthday! We decided to do some dutch oven cooking and it was really good. My dad is such a great guy. Love you dad! Happy Birthday!

Fall hike

On Friday me, sterling and my mom decided to go on a last minute hike before the day was over. It was so fun to go on a hike again. Sterling and I kep saying that we were going to go on a ton of hikes this summer but we never did because we've been so busy doing other things. Well we finally did it. It's kind of pathetic too because we drove like 3 minutes to get to the trail head.We had a lot of fun though and we had a beautiful view of the Draper temple on the way down.

vote for what really matters

My sister sent this to me. If this movie compells you please please repost it or send it to as many people as you know.

The Sterling Factor

Sterling Has made his first post take a look at it
www.sterlingfactor.blogspot.com

The Sterling Factor

Sterling has a blog now. I decided to set up a blog for him to write about something he is passionate about. Politics. So check it out I'm sure he'll be posting something here soon.
www.sterlingfactor.blogspot.com

Weddings, weddings, weddings

It seems like we've been to so many weddings this month. It's been so fun to get some more married friends! Sterling's old mission companion Jayson got married on the 8th, My friend michelle got married on the 14th, and two of my cousins get married this weekend. It's been fun. My cousin Ashley got married tonight and had her reception at the Bungalow. It's so beautiful there. We decided to get some pictures.
Me and my cousin Ashley (She's great at doing hair)

My cute parents My brother Tyson, his wife Lori and baby Gavin
Sweet grandma Harper and her great grandbaby Gavin

Just cause they say its safe doesnt mean that it Is.

Family reunion

We had a lot of fun at the Whiteley family reunion this weekend. We went down to Antimony and stayed in some cabins. We went fishin at Piute resovoir and otter creek. The family reunion was at my great aunt Donna's cabin. It's really nice there. they have a zip line a large grassy area and a large area for everyone to set up tents. The reunion was a lua theme which made it fun. They had polenesians come and do some dances and they roasted a pig in the ground. Me and Sterling set up a treasure hunt for the kids which turned out pretty good. The kids were so funny to watch. We had fun. We all look forward to the Whiteley reunions every year, because aunt May does such a great job. We also love out shirts that say "Nani Ohana" which means beautiful family.

How I miss these faces

I can't believe it was about two years ago that I was over there in Spain on vacation taking care of these sweet girls.

I am a penguin

It all started last monday. I was feeling a bit tender down in that one area between my legs. I didn't think much of it, but by friday it didn't seem quite right. Sterling and I did some research on it and we thought it was a Bartholin gland cyst. We decided I probably should go see a doctor because it seemed to be getting worse. So we started calling gynocologists that would take our insurance. It was ridiculous! Every doctor we called was booked until September and I had a ping pong ball down between my legs. I finally called our insurance and they were able to get me in somewhere. So we go to this place and it turns out the insurance lady had sent me to a nurse practitioner. The nurse checks it out and her words were. "Oh you need to get that fixed." thank you I could have figured that out. She gave me some anibiotics and was out of there. After a bunch of hulabaloo with the insurance company, they finally found me someone that could ACTUALLY help me. So I went in today and It definately was what we thought it was. My Bartholin gland. Doctor England was really great.(He did his residency in Detroit so sterling had a lot to talk to him about since he went on his mission there)So anyway,the doctor explained what the Bartholin gland is and how it got that way. Apparently the cyst is really common in women 20-29 that have never been pregnant. There isn't much you can do to prevent it, it just happens. So the doctor ended up draining it and he put a catheter in. Sterling thought it was awesome to watch. I didn't think it was so awesome to feel. It's over though and now I'm waddling like a penguin.

O.A.R.

visitors

We had some fun little visitors at our house this weekend. Our nieces and nephew came over for awhile. We went to the park for awhile then came home and did some bubble blowin. The girls had to see how many they could pop. Here are the girls waiting for the bubbles to come. Also, my brother just got a new lab puppy. Everyone loved holding her.