Total Slacker

Ok, so I am a total slacker, I know. I hate getting behind on this because I never want to catch back up because there is so much to do. I don't think I'm going to blog on all of the books I've read since I posted last time because I don't remember what I have read or when I read them. So I'll get back up on that from now on.

Let's see here, what has happened since January?

BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUTS!

First things first: 1/10/10-HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! You turned the big 39, hehe. I love you so much Mom and I am so grateful for all that you do for me!

Next: 1/18/10-HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX AND JEN!!! I miss you guys so much! It was great seeing you at Spring Break! I have so many great memories from you guys throughout high school and I wish we lived closer, oh well.

Next: 3/6/10-HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD AND GRANDMA KENNEDY!!! Dad turned the big 41 and Grandma never gets old, hehehe. I love you Dad for all that you do for me and all the support you have given me since I have left the nest. I love you so much Grandma and I miss seeing you. Hopefully I'll be able to see you at my wedding!

Last: 4/4/10-HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNOR!!! I CANNOT believe that you are 12 years old now! Where has all the time gone? I remember holding you as a baby and changing your diaper. When you broke your arm, you learned real quick what a weapon that cast made. I really wish I could have been there for your birthday, especially your birthday party! You're so lucky that you get to go play laser tag! That is so much fun! I love you so much Connor and I bet you will be taller than me by the time I see you at my wedding.

SPRING BREAK

For Spring Break, my Mom came up to Utah and helped me plan my wedding. Mom thought I had more done than I did and was a little annoyed that it wasn't, but everything turned out fine. We got all of my center pieces together, got my shoes for the wedding day, got my photographer and makeup/hair taken care of and more than I can remember now. We got to go back to Fallon, NV for a day or two for my bridal shower that was being thrown. Unfortunately, Mom killed my car right when we got to Fallon. She ran my car out of gas (Which I have NEVER done before in my life) and it killed my fuel pump. So she spent all day Saturday, the day of my bridal shower (before my party though) trying to get it fixed. She managed to get a guy to come out and fix my car and still make it to my party, so that was great. I had so much fun at my party and it was great seeing so many people from church. I miss everybody so much and it was so great seeing Mom for a week. I definitely can't wait to see you again in July, I love you so much Mom! I do have some pictures from my bridal shower that I will get on here.

Proposal Pictures

I don't have pictures personally from when Spencer proposed to me, but the guy that took the pictures for us has a website that the pictures are on. If you are interested in seeing the pictures, click here. The pictures are copyrighted, which is why I didn't just put them on here.

Anything else?

I can't think of anything else in particular to blog about, I think I am caught up for the most part. All I have been doing lately is go to school, work and finalize on wedding plans. I spend a lot of my spare time, when I actually remember too at least, getting the paper for my invitations cut out. Once I get that finished I can actually start putting them together, which will be nice, they are so cute! All I know is that I can't wait for July! That means that school will be over (Thank Goodness!) and it means all of my wedding planning will be done and I will be happily married!

Oh!

Oh I just remembered, so I do have this crazy story to tell.

Spencer and I are on this waiting list to get into an apartment once we are married. We decided to check in on them and see where we were on the list. We go in there and she asks for our name, so Spencer gives his name first. She types in his last name and it pops up "Eric Hickenlooper", which is his brother. We tell her that's not us and give her my name, which brings up us. We find that we are like #175 for a two-bedroom apartment and number #145 for a one-bedroom apartment. She asks us if Eric was still looking for an apartment, we tell her that he moved to Arizona and so, no, he wasn't. She tells us that Eric is #1 on the waiting list because he signed up in 2008 and that if he called in and asks them to replace our name with his that she could get us an apartment tomorrow! How cool is that? So instead of not knowing when we would be getting an apartment, we now know that when we are ready to move in, we can move in immediately. Totally awesome!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day Mom! I love you so much and I greatly appreciate everything that you have done for me. I would not be the woman that I am today if it wasn't for me. You are my hero and I am so glad that I am growing up to be just like you. I can't wait to see you again at Lake Powell. I am so excited!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARISSA!

You are getting so big Karissa! It is crazy to think that you are 9 now. I definitely wish I could be there for your birthday! Have a wonderful birthday and I will see you at Lake Powell.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNOR!!!

Oh my gosh I can't believe that you are 11 already. That makes me feel so old. It is hard to believe that you are starting to become a young adult. You are 9 years younger than me and yet you are already almost taller than I am. You will definitely be the tallest in the family. There rest of us are all shorties. I really wish I could be there for your birthday, it's depressing to think of how much I have missed since moving to Utah. I really miss all of you guys. I love you so much Connor and I can't wait to see you this summer. Have a fun birthday buddy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Happy Birthday Dad!!! I'm sorry I couldn't be there to wish it to you personally. But I did call you today and wish you a Happy Birthday. I hope that is good enough. I miss you so much and all of the words of wisdom that you impart to me. I know you mean well when you lecture me on the various aspects of life that we talk about. I may not want to listen at the time, but I do take it to heart. It's just that sometimes it is hard to put it into action. I love you so much and I am so glad that you are my father. I would not be the woman that I am today if it wasn't for you and I am so grateful for your influence in my life. I Love You Dad!!!

Went Home For Christmas

So I know that this is kinda late, but I needed to blog this. This is from 12/18/08-1/2/09, that was when I was in Texas.

So I went home for Christmas, and home for me is now in Texas. It is weird thinking of that as home since I never lived there, but that is where my family is and family is what makes a house, or place, home. I was so excited to go home too. In the weeks leading up to it, I just got so excited. I mean, I hadn't seen my family since July so I had good reason to be excited. When I got to Texas, my mom picked me up from the airport. It was so great seeing her! I absolutely love my mom, she is my best friend!!! By the time I got to the house, none of the kids were home yet from school, but my dad was there and so I got to talk with him before the chaos of the kids flying at me.

As soon as Karissa saw me, she ran and almost tackled me into the couch. Connor was a little more subdued and just gave me a big hug. Karissa made me a little booklet that was absolutely adoreable. I'll have to put up a couple of the pictures on here, just to show how cute they were.

So as soon as I got home and put my stuff in Karissa's room, we went out and took family pictures for the Christmas newsletter. I thought that they were cute pictures. You can look at my mom's blog for pictures of those. It was a little chilly, but not as cold as it was here in Logan before I left. The very first picture we took involved us kids climbing a tree. I am not exactly scared of heights, I'm just leery of them. Especially climbing up and down a narrow branch. Plus I was in jogging pants and I didn't want those ruined. My parents should have told me what we were doing so I could change into jeans.

I think one of the first things I did when I got home was play Guitar Hero with Brittney. She wanted to battle me and when we battle, I'm playing medium and she is playing hard. This is the only way that we are actually competition for each other. The funny part is that everytime it gets to sudden death, I always win. I don't know how I do it, but I always do.

So on Christmas Eve, we went to the Gaylord Texas Ice Show. We got to see a bunch of ice sculptors. They were really cool. I was wearing two pairs of pants, a long sleeve shirt, my nice jacket, and the parka that they gave us. I was also wearing a pair of gloves. I was still a little bit cold. They have to keep the rooms like 9 degrees so the sculptors don't melt. You can see more pictures here on my mom's blog.

For Christmas, I got quite a bit of stuff. I got money to get 2 pair of pants and 2 shirts. I got The Summoning by: Kelley Armstrong, cute dishes, silverware, airbake cookie sheet, cookie rack, and an eagle calendar from Mom and Dad. From Brittney, I got a really cute necklace that had three hearts on it. From Grandma Schmelter, I got a pair of fuzzy socks and a $15 iTunes gift card. From Mother Liz, I got a $20 Barnes and Noble gift card. And then, of course, I got myself a bunch of books for Christmas. Mom took me to a bargain bookstore and I felt like a kid in a candy shop. I was almost lost as I tried to find out which books to get and to not spend too much money.

On my flight back to Utah, everyone except Brittney went to the airport with me. Brittney had to work. Mom and Karissa went into the airport with me. Karissa did not want to let me go when it came time for me to go through security. It was so cute and so sad. I definitely miss them a whole bunch! I can't wait to see them again!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

I love my mom so much! I am so grateful to have her as my mother and not some other woman. I don't think I would be the woman that I am today if it wasn't for her. Mom, you are my absolute best friend in the whole world and I don't know what I'm going to do without you once you are gone. Who am I going to talk books and tv with? Not Spencer, he doesn't see eye-to-eye with me on books or tv shows. I miss just being able to talk to you about anything and everything. It was so great being home with you and being able to do that. I definitely wish we lived closer so I could come over and just hang out with you. I Love You Mom!!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Well Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I spent my Thanksgiving at the Barlow house. It was all chaotic and fun. I had to work the night before Thanksgiving and so couldn't go early to the Barlow house. Myself and my friend Stevie went up to Herriman. We drove her car, which was a lot smarter than taking my car because my car is a piece of junk that would have had a hard time getting down there. When we got to the Herriman house, it was crazy and loud and chaotic. Now Stevie comes from Chicago, IL and has never been around a lot of people in one house. So she was a little overwhelmed. There was so much going that even I get a little overwhelmed at times, and I experience the craziness once a year, at least.

I think the headcount for Thanksgving dinner was about 52 people there, give or take a person or two. We actually got to eat in the house this year. In the Riverton house, they always had to eat in the garage. So after eating dinner, we played games. Stevie ended up needing to come back up to Logan to work at 6 am the day after Thanksgiving. So Grandpa Barlow convinced me to stay the night. I stayed the night and had fun talking with my Grandpa and with Mother Ann. The next day, I talked with Mother Ann and Dezirae and Lydia. While we are talking, Grandpa Barlow, Carl (Heather's husband), Ryan (Carl's brother), and a couple of the other uncles are all down in the basement. They were down there because Grandpa needed to take out a wall down there and so they needed to replace one of the wooden support beams holding up the main floor with a steel support beam. So Ann, Dezirae, Lydia and I are all talking when Ryan and Heather come running up the stairs telling us to get off the kitchen floor, so we rush into the sitting room.

Now the whole time we were talking we could feel the floor bouncing up and down with the hits the guys downstairs were making. It was kinda scary. So we get over into the sitting room and finished talking. Ryan and Heather finally come back up and tell us everything was alright. I finally called Stevie to see when she was going to pick me up and she could only meet me halfway. So had James give me a ride down to Ogden and Stevie picked me up and that was my Thanksgiving day.

I will get pictures up as soon as I get them off of Stevie's camera.

GOT TO GO HOME!!!

I finally got to go home to see my family! It was great fun and I'm so glad I have finally got to go. I haven't seen my family since Christmas, and I won't be able to see them again until this Christmas, sadness!!!

So I had an early morning flight, as usual, which sucks for me. And I worked Monday night till 11:30. So i got off work and then packed my car, checked oil and tires and everything like that, and then realized I didn't have directions to my grandma's house. So I called Spencer and he got the directions for me. After all of that, I didn't leave Logan till 12:30 I think. So that didn't put me at my grandma's house until 2. I had a hard time falling asleep, so I don't think I went to sleep until 2:15-2:30. I had to get up at 4:45. I was not happy. I got up, my grandma took me to the airport, and I checked in and everything and was waiting and ate a poptart for breakfast. Now I'm feeling slightly nauseous, which always happens when I fly early early in the morning. So it took awhile to eat.

I took my flights and I ended up sleeping on my second flight, which was great. My mom picked me up at the airport and I was so glad to see her! I love my mom, she is my best friend and I was just filled with absolute happiness at seeing her. I couldn't give her a hug until we went to a store for something because she wasn't able to find a place to park to meet me inside the airport, which was ok.

We did random stuff on Tuesday, lots of pictures and being bombarded by Connor and Karissa, especially Karissa. Oh, and I almost forgot, we went and saw Dark Knight, such a good movie. On Wednesday, we went to Six Flags, which was an absolute blast! Although my feet hurt so bad before the day was halfway done, oh well. On Thursday, I don't remember exactly what we did, I don't think it was a lot. I don't remember. on Friday, we went boating. It would have been a lot of fun except for the fact that the lake was really rough and so skiing wasn't fun and I hurt myself tubing. We left pretty early, but it was still fun being with the family. Oh, and we also did family pictures Friday morning, and we haven't done those in forever.

Mom and I also did a book exchange. I brought I don't know how many books and I took 54 books, and a couple of those were my books that I had left there over Christmas. I miss my family already and I can't wait to see them again!

Happy Birthday to Me and Happy Mothers' Day to Mom!

Mothers' Day was on Sunday as everybody knows. I spent Mothers' Day at my Grandpa Barlow's new house. I had a lot of fun there and I really love Grandpa's new house, it is absolutely beautiful! I got Mom a Willow Tree figurine called "Mother and Daughter", maybe Mom will put a picture of it up on her blog, but I thought it was really cute! Happy Mothers' Day MOM!!!

My birthday was also on Sunday, and I turned 19. I went up Saturday to see my aunt Lydia, who is younger than I am. She took me to Ross and bought me two shirts and that night, we went to this kids house. His name was Hyrum and I guess I'm related to him somehow, but whatever. We had fun playing cards and getting two other kids drunk as heck. They were really funny and way easy to mess with their heads. For my birthday, I got some groceries from Mark and Keely and they gave me money to see Iron Man again. Brad, Kelsy and Kendal all gave me a $30 gift card to Borders'. Grandpa and Ann gave me a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble and they gave me a pair of flip flops and a t-shirt.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARISSA!!!

Today is Karissa's 8th birthday. So this is a Happy Birthday to her! Love you lots Baby Girl!!! These are my favorite pictures of Karissa that I have of her. Isn't she so cute =P

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Here is a very Happy Birthday to Dad today. He is the big 3-9! One more year and he'll be 40, wow, he's old!!! =P Love ya Dad! All I did today was I texted him first, because I didn't know if he was in class, and then when he got back, he called and I told him Happy Birthday again.

And sorry Mom, I forgot to put on here a Happy Birthday for him.

Tax Frustration

So I went to get the application for my residency on Monday. The girl at the counter gave me the paperwork I needed and proceeded to tell me everything that I needed to know, than she said that I could not be claimed on my parents taxes. Now, Dad and I had decided for them to claim me because we thought the FAFSA needed it, but that conflicts with getting my residency. I have already filed my taxes and gotten my return, I got $179 back. Well I talked to my financial aid advisor and she said that for me to get my residency, Mom and Dad can't claim me for 2007, if they do, I have to wait until Spring 2009 to get my residency, which would suck. So today, I went to get my taxes amended. I just went to the VITA on campus, they did my taxes. I get there and tell them I needed my taxes amended and the girl who was going to help me immediately calls over someone else and asks what to do. He tells me at first that they didn't do amendments. He then decides to just help me himself so he takes me over to his computer. He proceeds to tell me that he wasn't sure how long it would take or if it would work, but he wanted to help so I wouldn't have to go to an accountant and pay them to help me. After 30 minutes, he finally finishes and prints it off and tells me that I have to mail it in. I was like, "ok, no problem". The catch was that the IRS might deny my amendment because I can be claimed on my parents taxes. I have to wait until my amendment gets there, and then an indefinite time before they get back to me to tell me if my claim was passed or denied. This sucks! I need to be independent or else I can't get my residency, I think I'm going to go to my advisor tomorrow or Friday and explain to her what is going on and to see if that will affect my getting residency, hopefully everything goes good! Pray for me! Love you all!

Christmas Present Exchange Finally

Well Spencer and I finally exchanged our Christmas presents that we got each other. A little late, I know, but we both ordered them late and so the gift I got Spencer came in on Monday and I think that that is when the gift that Spencer got came in as well. Well I got Spencer two shirts from the Colorado Avalanche, which is Spencer's favorite hockey team. It is a three-in-one shirt because it came with a short sleeve shirt and a long sleeve shirt and then you can layer them and make a different shirt. He looked like he really liked it. What Spencer got me was the first season of "Lost". Now the funny thing about this is that Dad got Mom that for her birthday, although I was the one to buy it for him, so that is how I knew she got it. Now the funny part is that when I bought it, I was telling Spencer about how I was so jealous that she got the first season, and by this time, he had already bought it, so he was just laughing inside. And then when I told Mom last night that I got the first season, she was saying how jealous she was that I got it. So this morning, Mom and I were laughing about it. It was great!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

This is a Happy Birthday blog to my mom! Her birthday is the 10th, I just blogged this kinda late, sorry Mom. I just want to tell Mom that I appreciate everything that she has ever done for me my entire life! I hope you had a great birthday Mom and I'm really sad that I had to miss it, to think that this is the first birthday ever that I have missed! That is really sad and I don't want to think about it anymore... Your present is in the mail and should arrived by next week at the latest. I hope you like it! I love you so much and I want to you to know that whenever I do something, I always think about what you would do if you were here or in my situation. You are my hero Mom and I hope that I grow up to be just like you!

Love you lots!!!

Last Leg (this is a little graphic near the end)

Ok, here goes the last leg, we left Scooter's house at about 10:30-11, none of us was looking forward to the drive ahead of us. The one plus was that we would be on the interstate or the highway or whatever so we could drive faster. We had about a 10 hour drive ahead of us, which really sucked! So we got going and everything was good. I basically listened to my iPod the whole time and sang at the top of my lungs so I wouldn't fall asleep, even though I had No Doze in me constantly. I basically had my iPod on so I wouldn't be bored, I would intersperse my iPod listening with talking to Spencer, although I don't really remember everything we talked about, it was basically stuff to keep me occupied, so really random stuff. We drove for ever and let me tell you, New Mexico and Texas suck to drive through because they are really boring! They are flat and boring. Ok, so as we were nearing the New Mexico/Texas border, we could see fog ahead of us, New Mexico was really clear, but Texas had this fog over it. So we drive through and you know, it is just a basic fog, but than it starts to snow...*Duh Duh Duh* =) We stop in Amarillo for gas for my Uhual and it is just pouring snow, it was kinda bad. Dad says that if we drive through Amarillo and beyond, and get to a town called Childress, we would pass the storm and be ok. So we get to the next town around 7 or 8, I can't remember. The town was called Clarendom or Clarendon or something like that for dinner and gas for the Penske and truck.

Oh wait, I almost forgot, I think it was when we hit Texas, after the snow started, my mom and dad switched vehicles, because the boat kept sliding and swerving on my mom, so my dad took over for her. At Clarendon, we had dinner at Pizza Hut, and I only had half a pizza, Connor, Karissa, and Brittney were all feeling sick as well, so none of us really ate. My dad finally said we would get a hotel for the night because we still had another 5 and half hours to go before we hit Fort Worth. There were no open hotels in Clarendon, and no open hotels in the next town, Memphis. So we called Stan to find a hotel in Childress for us, my dad booked a room for us there and we left. Now Childress was about an hour and a half away at our speeds, because we were only going like 35 at the tops. As we left, my dad was in the lead, I followed, than my mom came last. I went about 25-30 mph to stay up with my dad while giving him distance and my mom was going about 15-20 mph. I was talking to Spencer while I was driving because I was having problems staying focused.

Well I drove onto those bumps on the side of the road and it started to suck me in, so I told Spencer to hold on because I was drifting. Well I started to correct myself and the Uhual started to go sideways on me. Well I immediately went "oh crap, hang on Spencer" and I dropped the phone so I could grip the steering wheel better and I managed to right myself when the Uhual went sideways the other way. So i try to correct myself and I slide off the road. As soon as I stop I immediately put my face in my hands and I burst out crying. Spencer the whole is freaking out and trying to get my attention, I finally hear him and tell him I am ok. Now this whole time, my dad had pulled the truck over and was running down the hill towards me. My mom had finally spotted me and Britt had called her to say I went off the road, but I was ok. Now she hit the same patch of ice that I had and her Penske want sideways, so she manages to straighten it out, but it over corrects itself and she corrects it again. Now behind her was a big semi that had tried to slow down for her, but his trailer jack-knifed and he was slowly inching his way towards my mom. Dad in the mean time saw all this happening and was trying to tell my mom to get off the road and my mom is just freaking out and trying to do that at the same time. Now I didn't know that all this was happening, all I knew was I needed to get back on the road and out of the snow.

By the time Dad got to me, I was unstuck, he told me to just drive on the shoulder of the road, not the actual road. The road had about 2 in. of ice on it, almost like an ice skating rink, it was really bad. My dad went back to the truck and started up the hill, but he had to stop to throw up because he was so nervous. He finally found like a little parking lot at the top of the hill, so we all went up there to stay the night. Now the place we stopped at was called Donley's County Gin, whatever that was and it seemed to be trucker heaven, there were so many truckers stopped there. Mom put Boo and Gracee in my Uhual and I went and stayed in the Penske with her. By this time it was 11:15 pm. Before I was even comfortable, I realized that I needed to throw up, so I got out of the Penske and threw up what little dinner I had. And then every 20-30 minutes after that, I had to get out and throw up. It really sucked. And at one point, I had to go to the bathroom, so i went to the truck and got out the butt wipes, and went to the back of the truck and went pee and took a dump. Sorry for whoever reads this.

At around 5:30 am, we finally left, I thought I was ok, but when we got to Clarendon, I realized I wasn't so we ended up staying there for about a 2 hour nap, for me and dad atleast. When we woke up, I thought I was feeling better, but not even 5 minutes later, I had to pull over to throw up again. It really sucked. We had no more problems other than me throwing up and we got to Fort Worth just fine. It is a beautiful house and I'm happy for my family.

First Leg

I am going to break down our trip from Fallon to Texas into two parts. For most of the trip, the order of who drove what vehicle was I drove the Uhual, Mom drove the truck with the boat attached to it, and Dad drove the Penske. We first drove to Salt Lake City for Christmas, and then we left for Albuquerque, NM for our first pit stop. For Christmas, I got 3 books by Christine Feehan and $100 from my parents, I got a CD from my grandma, and I got some chocolate and a $30 gift card to Borders from my Uncle David.

Now before I go any farther for the trip to New Mexico, I have to tell about my first time driving on the freeway in Salt Lake. We drove into Salt Lake at about 11:30-midnight. Now I had talked to my mom earlier because she was making sure I wasn't falling asleep or anything like that and so I told her I would talk to Spencer until I got to Grandma's. Before I hung up, she asked if I was ready for freeway driving and I said I would be fine. So I was talking to Spencer when all of a sudden all of these little cars came up and around me and in front of me and I started to freak out, but than I was fine, all I knew was I had to stay behind Mom and I would be ok. Then we got to a portion of the freeway that was under construction, and there were barriers on one side of the lane, another lane, and then more barriers. So there was no room for error. Mom was freaking out in her truck because there was this little white car just sitting behind the boat, almost in a blind spot and he wouldn't pass her. So I was driving behind Mom and thinking "Just stay in your lane, but don't get too close to the barrier because I don't want to die" basically over and over again. Then all of a sudden, this little black car came up and started to tailgate the white car. I was thinking "Oh crap, where did this guy come from!" So I backed off a little more, and it was a good thing I did, because Black Car moved in front of me, and there was no signal or nothing, Black Car was not wanting to stay behind White Car, even though White Car was getting off the freeway and as soon as White Car moved, Black Car moved back, again no signal, and passed Mom. When we got to Grandma's, I unbuckled and unlocked the door because I felt like throwing up, it really sucked.

So to go to New Mexico, we went by way of Nephi, UT, I think it was so we could be a snowstorm. Now for the most part, I had had no problem driving the Uhual. The only part that really sucked was the fact that I had Mom and Dad's big tv sitting shot-gun with me the whole trip, so I had problems looking out my right rear-view mirror. When we went through Colorado, we went onto Route 491, which was a really crappy road. We went over this bridge over Eagle Canyon and I guess my Uhual didn't hit it right, so when I went over the bridge, the bump at the beginning of the bridge sent my Uhual up on two wheels on my right side, then on two wheels on my left side, than right again, and then I finally managed to straighten it out, it was really scary. Mom was driving behind me at the time, so she said I almost made her throw up because she was so scared. It was really bad. But we made it to Albuquerque ok and we stayed the night at my dad's friend, Scooter's house.

Thanksgiving

I got to go home for Thanksgiving which was totally cool. I left Tuesday, and my planes went from Salt Lake at 6:15 am to Las Vegas at like 6:35 am (NV time). Than it left Vegas at 8:40 am to Reno at 9:55 am. It was a little retarded because the plane had to totally bipass Reno to get to Vegas, but oh well. I had an absolute blast when I went home. On Tuesday, I went to my old high school to see Mrs. Bice and Mrs. Archey. Mrs. Archey was sick adn so I wasn't able to see her, but I got to see Mrs. Bice, which I was totally happy to do. Then on Wednesday, I took Connor and Karissa to the pool so I could see my old coworkers. We had fun doing that. On Thursday, it was Turkey Day. We had Stan over for dinner, since he has no family in Nevada and didn't feel like spending Turkey Day alone. Also, Mom, Britt, and I worked on a 1000-piece puzzle that we finished that night after dinner.

Than on Friday, I got to see Alex and Jen, they actually came over for dinner, which was totally exciting.
Mom had bought another 1000-piece puzzle that we worked on and finished that night. We all had a blast. Saturday, I left to go back to Utah and did the exact same things that I did Tuesday, although it started at 3:55 pm this time.

Ewan's Birthday

And here is Grandpa with Baby Silvie!






Well, today is Ewan's birthday, he just turned the big 4. He was very excited all day today, as you can imagine. Let's see, he got a flashlight, a new Backyardigan's movie, a computer (one that's for toddlers), cowboy dress-up clothes, farmer dress-up clothes (which look more like almost carpenter clothes than anything else), and he got astronaut clothes, which is what he's been wanting for months. Very cute!































This is Jude with Ewan's cowboy clothes on.

Lydia's Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Manti Barlow.
Lydia's Aunt Sherri did my hair and makeup for $25.
I went to my Aunt Lydia's wedding this weekend, she is 17 and her husband, Manti is a month older than me. I was one of her bridesmaids. The wedding ceremony did not go to plan at all the way Lydia planned. First of all, the zipper on her slip broke, and she wouldn't let us safety pin it, we had to be out there in like 15 min cause the minister had to leave for another wedding and she wasn't even dressed, then there was no music, because the people in charge couldn't figure out how to make it work, we were missing 2 groomsmen from the line for the ceremony, so 2 girls had to walk by themselves. The reception was a lot of fun...I loved dancing with all the family, although I only slow danced with Caleb, I think he's my 2nd cousin, but I don't know, he's the one that gave me a ride on his bullet bike, Dad, just so you know who he is. I didn't actually get back to Lydia's house until like 4-4:30 am. We went driving around and visited some of the wedding guests, but I had fun!!!
The garter toss, I didn't get a pic of the bouquet toss cause I was in it.