Bryan & Brittney Austin

The Latests

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

So, yeah I really suck at keeping this thing up to date. Sorry. It is too hard to keep up with the technology of today sometimes.

Well I guess we will start with the latests. Bryan is still looking for a job but he seems to becoming a little more serious about it lately which is really nice. He is trying SO hard to find one right now. He is applying everywhere he can and keeping the house clean. I really can't complain right now. He even is cooking meals at night which is so nice to come home to a meal. Love it!

We went paint balling this last weekend and had a good time for sure. Let me paint you a very vivid picture. The day was warm with a warm breezy wind. We met at Cassie's house where we bantered one another with smack talk such as "Ready to get owned?" and "Oh it is on like Donkey Kong." We all crawled (literally crawled) into Cassie's car and made our way onto the freeway towards my doom. The car drive was filled with laughter and jokes and happy feelings. We got to the paintball arena where we proceeded to pay the piper and rent some equipment less than standard equipment masks and fearingly failing paint ball guns. This equipment that was supposed to be our only means of defense and protection would be the type of equipment that the first guy to die in war would have. I had the feeling that bubble wrap and a marshmallow shooting gun would have been more protective and given me more comfort. The whistle was blown and we made our way to the war arena. The arena was covered with paint practically and filled with half filled inflatable life size building block. The ground was slippery with the remains of previously shot and fallen paint balls that for sure should have been a sign to me that this was probably a bad idea. We were separated into two groups, Cassie and Bryan on one team and Todd (Cassie's boyfriend) and myself on another. We made our ways through the battlefield to our designated starting points. "The game (game yeah right, more like war) will begin in 5 seconds," yelled the referee. He blew the whistle and we all scattered like coach roaches caught in a sudden shining light. I hid behind what I though was a good BIG mostly inflated building block. I was feeling pretty good about my chances at this point. I watched out of the corner of my eye as my team mate made his way around the inflatable toys and disappeared from my sight. I could see Cassie hiding and started to try and take her out. Now, at this point in time by gun malfunctioned (which no one told the girl that has never done this before to make sure to turn on the air) and as I went to make some adjustments to my failing weapon by looking down at it trying my hardest to hide behind my only means of shelter from the crossfire, the stealth killing machine man, Bryan, jumped up out of nowhere and fired a mass swarm of paint balls in my direction. With my guard being down and the same with my head, one of the many drilled it's way into my skull filling me with agony and pain and many profanities that no matter who you were, even if you were Gandhi you would yell "Shit!!!" I raised my hands in defeat and felt like I should fall to the ground and claim casualty. Bryan feeling the wonders of victory rose his hands in success and got revenge on every time I had asked him to take out the garbage, pick up his undies, and clean the toilet.

I only made it one more round of the game and one more game following before having to be put on the injured list for the day. We had a good time though. I got hit two more times once in the hip by the amazing amazon woman Cassie, and once in the mask again hit by Bryan. That boy watches the military channel way too much. Cassie had her own casualties of getting hit in the knee and butt by Bryan of course. Todd was hit about 5 time by Bryan and a couple times by the little kids that were like midget ninjas that were dominating the field. Bryan was only hit once but still managed to get the most paint on him of course. Messy fun! The only way I will ever go with Bryan again is if a helmet is involved.

We recently signed up for Netflix also and I love it. You can watch the movies and TV shows on the XBOX live. I have loved it because it has given me a chance to watch more movies that I have missed out on and I have even taken it upon myself to watch the top 100 horror movies out there and a few B- flicks as well just because being that I work two jobs I don't get much of an opportunity to watch movies like a used to and I don't really get any time to myself. So the movies on the XBOX have been awesome. We recently watched a pretty gory one called "The Hostel." If you want one that will scare you out of any hotel, European country, and pretty much trusting anyone ever again watch this movie. It is about three friends that are backpacking through Europe and find out about this Hostel in a small town that the girls are pretty and will do anything you want them to. It sounds too good to be true because then soon the friends find that each one is disappearing without a trace. Good movie for a gory movie and would only recommend it to you true horror movie fans.

A few more movies that I have actually got to watch finally has been some not so good ones but some goods ones too. I would recommend watching The Heist, Carlos Mencia: No Stings Attached, Karla, Tell-Tale, The Alphabet Killer, The Proposal, The Ghost and the Darkness, The People Under the Stairs, and the Evil Dead to name a few. They really are a mix of some horror, comedy, romance, and suspense. I would not really recommend but were not so bad as to say never watch them are The Stepfather, Follow the Prophet, Table for Three, Sorority Boys, Fear of the Dark, and Christine. Ones that I would never recommend not even to my worst of enemies are Fright Night, Tales from the Crapper, and the House of the Devil. Not that great. Check them out if you get a chance though if you are ever looking for a new kind of movie.

Well sadly, My aunt Linda passed away on June 10th of the lung cancer. We had a funeral for her on the 18th and it was really beautiful. She was cremated and had a beautiful urn that she was buried next to my Grandmother Ruth in. She will be greatly missed for sure and I already miss her.

We had a pretty non-eventful father's day for sure. We went to my parents house for a bar-b-Que which was some yummy new york steaks with twice baked potatoes, bread, salad, and mushrooms for the steak. So good. We then went to Bryan's parent's house and spent time just talking with his dad and some good family friends. Good times for sure.

The HBO series True Blood is back on and can I just say, WOOHOOWWOOHHOOOO!!!!! :) My mom, my dad, slowly Bryan, and myself LOVE this series. It is so good and you just have to love it. Something I really love about it is that is more to the original of how vampires really are. If you have not had a chance to watch the series, take advantage of it. Great!

We do have a few weddings coming up soon that will be fun to go to. We have my cousin's, Nick's and his fiance's, Andrea from Canada, coming up at the end of next month. Also Bryan's cousin, Jordan and his fiance's wedding is coming up as well. Well that is the latest on our little lives.

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Twin Lakes

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

Well we had a good memorial day weekend this year at Twin Lakes just outside of Preston in Idaho. It was a little chilly most of the time and rained on Saturday which was stinky for camping but on Sunday we had some sun shine and got in a water fight even. The water was still too cold though because Bryan ended up hypothermia. We got him warm though by getting him some hot choco and sitting him in front of the heater in Grandma's trailer. He warmed up good. Bryan and I took the truck tent that this would be the second time using. It is so nice to use especially since that way we don't have to sleep in the ground and we stay warmer. It is such a nice tent that is pretty room, I can almost stand up straight in it. I forgot to get my camera out while we were camping so sadly no pictures this year of our adventures. We took our puppies too and Daisy has a bark that can be heard clear across the lake. LITERALLY!!! At one point Richie, Tanner (Richie's friend he brought), Dayton, and myself went out into the middle of the lake and jumped in. Well Richie got pushed in which he grabbed me before falling in and took me with him. As we were in the water, in the middle of the lake, I could hear Daisy barking. Man, she has a loud bark for sure. All in all a good trip but it really did end too quickly. Now it is back to working hard 12 hour days, occasional holidays, and not having another break until the middle of July.
Bryan is still looking for work. The Census job is done now and he is unemployed, again. This is really getting old and someone just needs to hire him. It is beyond suckie right now as far as that goes.

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All Grown Up

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

It is so funny how fast time flies even when things are miserable. It seems like just yesterday we got Blue outside the Wal-Mart parking lot to complete our little zoo that goes on in our house. He is an australian sheppard/beagle mix. He is such a cutie for sure. We took him to the strut your mutt walk this last Saturday and he loved it. He is such a friendly dog that every dog and person there just loved him. He is a strong one though. I have never had him pull me along like he did for the walk and there were a few times he almost took my arm out of the socket. It was so funny. On the way to pick up my mom and Boston that morning, I kept hearing Blue in the backseat (since Daisy takes up the whole front seat) sniffing and getting into anything he could in my car. After the beating of having to just hold on for dear life walk that we took and we dropped mom and Boston off again, I could hear him again in the backseat. But this time I could hear him getting into plastic sacks. I looked back when I stopped at a light to find him just shredding a plastic sack. I grabbed it from him and placed it under my leg for the rest of the ride home. Well without fail, sure enough, I hear another plastic sack and look back and this time he had shredded the sack even more and little tiny pieces of it were flying through the air in the backseat just coating everything. "NO" I yelled as I went to grab what remained of the destroyed sack but soon stopped just to admire. He had this look on his face like "I did nother wrong, plus you know I'm cute and you love me so I am going to get away with this." He is such a cutie and I am blessed to have such great animals in my life and that I can care for them and make their lives great. I found some old pictures of him from when he was just a puppy and I have to share them because there is nothing more precious than a small puppy playing with the cat's toy while she watches in horror.

That blue thing he is playing with is Gretchen the cat's toy mouse. She watched him like a hawk while he played with it.

Baby Blue all grown up. He is full grown now at 26 pounds but he still has that loving puppy attitude. He loves to snuggle with mommy too. He will jump up on me when ever he gets the chance and wraps his paws around my waist. He then sticks his head into my stomach and looks up at me like "Love me, I need attention."

The whole gang after Strut Your Mutt.

Me and my pups! (Minus Chewy because he does not do too well on the leash, but we still love him all the same)

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Good Weekend

Monday, May 24, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

Well we had a pretty good weekend. We went and saw Iron Man 2 which is a movie that Bryan has wanted to see for a while. It was pretty good other than the ending fight was a little anti-climatic I thought. I kind of wanted a little more battle to go on between Rhodes, Tony, and the Russian guy when they fought in the end. But all in all a good movie for sure.

We also red boxed a couple movies for our Sunday night. We watched The Descent 2 and Legion. The Descent 2 really did ruin the first movie for us. In the first movie they ended it with making you think that all of the 5 girls that went down into an uncharted cave system died. Well apparently in an attempt to make more money, one of the girls survives but has no memories of what had happened and if her friends were alive even. So they make her, a crazy distraught victim, go back down into the cave system to help in finding the missing bodies. She finally remembers what happens and tries to escape out of the system before the blind sound sensing creatures find them. Then it is just a matter of time before everybody starts getting killed off one by one. Also Juno, the character from the first movie that was left for dead, makes an appearance near the end. They left you assuming that everyone dies again and the chances that Juno, the girl that was stabbed in the leg and left for dead in the first movie, actually surviving and not killing Sarah, the girl who left her for dead, is really small. I liked the first movie but the second movie was a major let down. Also the supporting actress to the main character I felt was a little wimpy for her being a police officer. Also I got pretty mad that the two rescue people got it so quickly like they did. I don't know. All in all not one anyone really wants to see.

Legion was a good one. Both Bryan and I really liked it. It is about Paradise Falls, a po dunk out in the middle of nowhere town where a pregnant waitress, a diner owner and his son live. The pregnant girl, Charlie, does not know where the baby daddy is and is about 8 months pregnant. A couple with their young daughter were in the diner due to their car breaking down and a man shortly shows up, lost and looking to use a phone. The movie really starts to get interesting when an old lady shows up and ends up trying to kill everyone by being possessed. Then the plot really comes out when a mysterious man shows up with lots of guns and ammunition. What is happening is that God had lost his faith in mankind and decides to send his angels to possess people and take over the world and exterminate mankind. Gabriel and Michael are his sons that are angels and Michael is given an order to kill the baby of the waitress being that this baby is the only hope that mankind has for peace. Michael escapes heaven to cut off his wings and go to help the unsuspecting diner people is fending off all of the angels that are about to arrive to try to kill everyone. Gabriel is then made in charge of the extermination. It was a good one. We liked the effects of it and the story line. It also had some good actors in it that we liked. We would recommend this one for sure.

Other than watching some movies this weekend, I, Brittney, went and strutted our mutts at the 15th annual strut your mutt this year at veterans memorial park in west jordan. It was a blast. Blue was curious as ever and even almost yanked my arm out of the socket more than once trying to say hi to all the dogs and people. Daisy had a good time too but she slowed down after a while and enjoyed her walk. I will post pictures of all the lastest as soon as I convert all my photos from raw to jpeg on the computer. My mom went with me and brought Boston, our westie and he was struttin'. It was a lot of fun and I loved seeing all the different types of dogs and their owners. It was for a good cause too in making no more homeless pets in Utah. It was great and we got some free t-shirts, a frisbee, and some great information on supplies in Utah for our doggies.

A good weekend for us and we really are looking forward to this next weekend at Twin Lakes in Idaho. We will slowly pack throughout the week and hopefully it will be good weather for us.

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How are things going?

Thursday, May 20, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

Well right now, things are just going for us. We are still scrapping by on faith, love, and hard work. I am still working two jobs as usual and that has been exhausting. I finally finished the semester. A- in Business Law, B+ in Applied Business Calculus, and B+ in Statistics. All in all not a bad semester. I have missed going to school. I know that sounds totally crazy and out of this world but you miss doing hard work and actually seeing the benefits and the sense of accomplishment that follows that hard work with a reward of a good grade.

Bryan is working for the Census Bureau and it is okay for him. He is starting to run into alot of illegal immigrants not wanting to participate and paranoid people that think the government is too evil to know how many people live in their homes. He is not enjoying very much but at least it is bringing home the bacon.

Blue, Daisy and myself will be walking in the Strut your Mutt this year. I will make sure to take lots of pictures and post them later if I ever find the time for sure!

So this last weekend was a fun one for sure! On Saturday, while Bryan got in the rest of his hours for work, my sister, Darcy, and myself went for a hike. We ended up going to the living room which is located above the U of U. We took Blue, Ringo, and Marley. They had a blast. The dogs loved getting to roam around the trail as we made our way up. Blue and Marley are becoming great friends and Blue and Marley just follow each other every where. Blue couldn't quite figure out the drinking out of a camel pack very well but he eventually got it. I have never met a dog that did not know how to drink out of the hose. It was funny though. As we were making our way up the mountain we ran into a couple with their kids. The guy had said he had been up there many times but never found it and knew that there was two ways up. The fast way was a lot steeper than the slow way. Darcy and I took the slow way up and once we got up there we decided to take the fast way down. Well we lost the trail and ended up going all the way along the ridge of mountain climbing over all these rocks and the dogs kept loooking at us as if we were nuts. I looked down below us at one point because we were no longer going down and realized a small trail below us. We made our way down and started following that which eventually led us to the trail we needed. We felt kind of stupid but we made it out alive.

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More Movies

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

Well, since I don't have much that is interesting to report, we will update on some more movies. But first off we have sad news. My aunt Linda, my dad's sister has been diagnosed with lung cancer. This is her third time getting diagnosed with cancer. First it was cervical cancer, then colon cancer, and now lung cancer. She has smoked most of her life. This time though they fear that it has spread to her lymph nodes and she will not last too much longer. She does not want to have chemo or radiation treatments and as she puts it, "She has paid the piper." I don't even know what to think. I am not ready for any of this. I do not do well with death of family members or ones that I am really close to. I can't even imagine this world without her. I love her so much. Da** those stupid cancer sticks. They don't call them that for nothing.

So we have mostly watched movies on the boob tube but we did recently redbox a few movies. We got Men Who Stare at Goats, Planet 51, and Where the Wild Things Are. Planet 51 was a really cute movie. We liked it and enjoyed the humor in it. Men Who Stare At Goats was an okay movie. Nothing really that great but did have some funny parts in it. It was just a little strange to wrap your mind around that the military would ever take a psychic prospective. Where the Wild Things Are I did not get the chance to watch before we needed to return it back to the machine.

Last night I stayed up and watched a weird one for sure. It was called Buddy Boy. It is about a older gent who still lives with his alcoholic mother and her boyfriend but is obsessed with the neighbor girl. He watches her constantly through a peep hole and starts to see weird things happening. She is a vegetarian but while he is watching her she without her knowing she eats meat. It was weird for sure.

Bryan started his Census job this week and so far it has been pretty boring for him with all the training. They gave him a bag with all sorts of goodies for when he is walking around the areas doing the Census. Once this weather clears and it is nice enough they will let him go out for some on the site training and then release him to do the job in mostly his area. He is getting some good hours though and that is what we really like. He has already worked 15 hours this week which is not bad for a part time job.

We also recently have got to see an oldie but goodie lately on the satellite goodness. Donnie Darko has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. It is definately in the ten for sure. It is so strange but crazy good. It is a good one to see for those looking for a movie suggestion for a small suspense and mystery along with one crazy kid. It has Patrick Swayze in it along with Drew Barrymore even.

That's about all we have to report.

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More Movies

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Monkey and Britter Brit

Well, Bryan has finally found a part time job with the Census bureau and starts the beginning of next week. Just in time actually because he was going to run out on his unemployment the week after so saved just in time.
We continue to be movie fans as always and have seen quite a few since our last post. We have seen Alice in Wonderland, Shutter Island, Death Proof, Closure, Sweet November, Day of the Dead, Midnight Movie, and more of course but I really can't remember them all. Some were in the theatres and some were on the television.
Alice in Wonderland was pretty good we thought and it was really closer to the book which was nice. It is always good to see Johnny Depp doing his usual strange character that he does. All in all a good one for sure. Shutter Island was awesome and most definitely did not see that one coming at all. We highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good mystery/suspense movie. The rest of the movies were on tv and of course not the best but some were pretty good. We actually got to watch death proof with friends of our and quite enjoyed it. It is always nice to see the victims start to fight back and win. Closure was interesting. I guess if you have never seen a guy butt raped by a rifle before that would be a new sight for you. It is about this couple that gets beaten and raped in the woods and they go after the individuals that did it to them to get revenge. Sweet November is an older one but I got told that it was a great movie that I had to watch. I personally was not a fan of the ending. I really don't like the kind of sad endings and it really did ruin the movie for me. Day of the Dead was of course the same rating as most zombie movies, a B movie. There were some awesome effects though and it was good to watch. Midnight Movie was definately a slasher film and is good for those nights you want to be grossed out horror type of movies. Again there is more that we watched recently, or moreover I watched while Bryan fell asleep on the couch.

We also finally got to go to the Muse concert that I got tickets for Christmas to go to. We had a blast and the concert was great. Those guys really know how to perform for sure.

MEET MASON!!! The cutest little addition to the family clan of dogs that are out numbering us now. He is a yorkie pomeranian mix and my sister and her husband got him about three to four weeks ago. He is spunky as all can be so cute! He weighs about a pound and he fits in perfectly with all other 7 dogs.