Best and Worst of 2010

As the year has ended, we'd like to send our sentiments with a small tribute to 2010:


Best Movie: The Importance of Being Earnest is the funniest movie we've seen all year.  Nothing else has made us laugh that hard (Tangled is a close second).  


Worst road in the wintertime:  Baird Avenue.  Our car likes to DANCE on it.


Best Bachelorette party: Hands down, Amber Rudolph Call's.  The boys went shooting while the gals had a chocolate fountain fest along with some grrrrreat conversation.  come to think of it, this is the only bachelorette/bachelor party we attended this year.

Best weekend getaway:  Westgate in Park City 

Worst place to visit in July:   Arizona  "because it was hot as Hades and then some"-B


Best vacation:  Snow basin for a WEEK ! (more on this to come)


Worst Recipe tried this year: Simple Paella- in a crockpot.  "a waste of perfectly good shrimp" -B


Best haircut:  when Coleen got bangs


Best game:  we've probably had the most fun with Ticket to Ride.


Worst game:  "Whenever Bjorn beats me too many times in a row" -C


Best Book (read this year): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 


Worst movie: Harry Potter and the Triwizard tournament. "Because it was nothing like the book"-C 


Worst feeling in the world:  not remembering who is teaching your Elders Quorum lesson- during Sunday School


Best ski resort:  Snowbird (for the time being) 


Worst snow storm:  "they've all been good, I like snowstorms" -B


Best shooting range:  the one up Parley's canyon run by cops.  


Worst car crash:  none.  we fooled you :)


Best Bike trail: Pipeline/Copperhead in Millcreek canyon



 Worst Medical experience:  The Dentist.  Tied with.... deciding on new health insurance


Best run in with the law:  When Coleen got pulled over by a policeman on Christmas Day


Best Ski wipe-out:  Tie between the time Bjorn crashed into a bank "skiing backwards with a camera while trying to videotape my wife" and the time he "crashed into powder at full speed and landed on my pole which bent around my rib cage".  


Worst place to get a zit:  armpit


Best method for navigating a corn maze:  kiss at every dead end, back track a lot, laugh a ton, and have no idea where you are headed 61% of the time.


Worst nursing care moment:  "my patient's ostomy leaked all over me while I was holding him" -C


Best concert:  Salute to Youth in Abravenal Hall (8 year olds performing concerto's!)


Worst cooking disaster:  "I was adding flour to the kitchen aid and the attachment wacked the cup out of my hand, it hit the carpeted floor and exploded like a pipe bomb, sending flour EVERYWHERE" -B


Best home decoration purchased:  "the brown basket that took me 1.5 hours wandering up and down the aisles at Michael's to decided upon" -C


Worst way to lose sunglasses:  "I turned around on the sailboat and the lifeline knocked my glasses into the ocean"- B


Best foreign country excursion:  Vancouver to Seattle cruise


Best dessert:  Raspberry cheesecake bars


Best Museum:  the Railroad museum at the Union Station in Ogden


Worst Christmas song (the ones that got on our nerves):  I'm dreaming of a White Christmas, and Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.   


Best ski lodge:  Needles or John Paul (at Snowbasin)








Best 4X4 trail:  Arches National park off road trail  "we went OVER a boulder... I didn't know our car could do that"- C 






Worst yoga pose:  "anything that puts all my weight on my knees.... I'm getting old!" -C


Best pool toy:  inflatable blue crayon from Wendy's kids meal (thanks Ma)





3 comments:



Steiners said...

Snowbird??? honestly. that is not the best ski resort. Harry Potter and the tri-wizard tournament? it's called Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I liked this it was funny. I approve. I like the best ski lodge and the inflatable crayon and getting sunburnt in phoenix, holy cow that was hot!

Lyles said...

Fun list! We also like "The importance of being Earnest."

Carol T. said...

I need to hear the Christmas story!

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