Life Through The Lens

Ice Ice Baby!

2012-01-19T13:51:00.000-07:00

I'm sure everyone has heard about the snow storm Washington had! It was a bummer it all came while we were sleeping. I love to watch it snow. Now it's the day after and we're on our way to an ice storm. It has been freezing rain all morning and the snow is so crunchy! Some of the trees right outside our windows are slouching more and more as the day goes on, we are waiting for one to just snap. Mom has been off work this week and so we have just played in the snow and watched movies! But I am starting to get cabin fever and need out! Lol!

Our snowman is complete ice!

I'm an idiot

2012-01-17T13:31:00.000-07:00

Bad News! No posts with pictures from my new camera until I get it fixed. Zeke was here this last weekend and the one day I take it outside, the first day I had taken it outside, I screw up. We went for a walk across the bridge with my mom on Sunday when it snowed and I was careful the ENTIRE time until we got back to the car and I thought the strap was around my neck and I let go of it to open the door and BAM it's dropped on the ground :'( :'( Everything happened so fast. I couldn't move and just stared at it on the ground. My mom picked it up and Zeke ran around the car. All I could do was stand there. We got in the car and I just started to ball and cried for an hour or so. I always manage to break the most valuable things. I hate it, and this is something major and not cheap. I feel HORRIBLE and am such an idiot. We found some places to see if we can fix it. Everything still works on it and its still all together but there is an error message saying press the shutter button again and if not take it in. So, the only thing I can't do is take pictures :/ Ugh!

Here is a picture from the bridge! :) It was so cold but really fun!

Illiana!

2012-01-09T22:18:00.000-07:00

This is Illiana, my sister Tyanas, first baby! She is about 5 months and THEE most adorable baby ever! Too bad they live in UT and never get to see them. Well, since I go to school in Rexburg, ID, I see them more than anyone else in the fam :P! This was taken a few days after Christmas and the first time I had really shot with this new camera. I love this camera and have been reading up on it and learning how to use it properly! :) I am so excited to learn more!

I want to make it back!

2012-01-05T23:17:00.000-07:00

Hi ya'll, or whomever reads this! I want to make it back to blogging! I had an idea and want to run with it and see how far I can get. So for Christmas I got a Nikon D40x DLSR camera...yeah, the nice ones! I've been wanting one for a long time. My friend who is a photographer was selling her first camera she had and it was a great deal, so I hooked my mom and Zeke up with the details and they surprised me on Christmas with it. I couldn't be happier. So, anyways...I'm going to try and turn this blog into a photography blog. I have loved taking pictures for years now but haven't got too much into it. Now that I have this camera, when I go back to school in April I am going to take some classes. In order to take the classes you need your own camera or access to one. I think I want to minor in photography...something fun...I want this blog to help me express my love for photography and help me learn more about it and increase my skill. So, anything I post, I would love feedback, good and bad to help me grow! I think it will be fun and I hope I can get it down and this be a hobby that sticks around! :) :) Stay tuned for more!

I just don't understand people

2011-10-27T23:01:00.000-06:00

I don't know what I ever did to anyone but it's sure rude how they are acting. After graduating high school it was like bye bye friends and never see you again or something. Lately, I have tried and tried to talk to old friends or even just ask them a simple question and I get no reply whatsoever. I have sent a few people messages on FB and have clearly seen them online a billion time since I sent the message and they won't reply. This has happened a few times recently. I have even texted the person and still no response. I don't know what ever happened but it just seems like my "friends" aren't really friends anymore. It's sad to me because we have had some really good times and all of the sudden it changes. Yeah, maybe we all live in different places but that doesn't mean we can't talk anymore, even if it's just here or there or for a second. I think it's pretty rude how some of my friendships have ended and it has really hurt me.

Sorry, I just needed to vent for a sec because if you knew how my friendships have been, you'd feel my pain too. Blah. Goodnight.

Do this, Do that, be a grown up already!

2011-10-26T13:16:00.000-06:00

I've been home from school for about 3 months now. I really haven't done much and it's now getting to me. Yes, a break from school is nice but then again it's not. I should have been on top of this as soon as I knew I couldn't go back to school until April, but as the lazy person I am, I just sat on the couch watching TV. Lately, I have felt completely guilty. I have taken the easy way out of everything, the bare minimum. I say I still act like a high school teenager. I am 21 now, it's time to grow up and stop being ridiculous about everything and stop being afraid or nervous about things. I have a "job" sort of. I babysit 4 days out of the week but it is only for 3-4 hours a day so I don't rake in the money too much. I had to buy a ticket to SLC and back to Seattle for my NY trip in November, that took $199 out of the bank, then I needed to pay $94 for financial aid stuff, and I paid my tithing. I am down to $14 now, woohoo! As much as this sucks it is life of a grown up. Lol!

Anyways, I am going to see if I could take a class at either TCC or Pierce College that will be equivalent to my American Foundations class, that has been holding me back...(the reason I am home). I need to see if the credit will transfer. Not a whole of credits will transfer to BYUI. I am also researching different majors. I still am interested in the nutrition thing but I want to see if there is anything else I would be more interested in. I have been really into photography and I REALLY want to do something with it. The hold back, I need a camera that is worth over $1000 :/ There are some cameras I can borrow at school if I do take classes but I can't keep it all the time and practice. I wouldn't be opposed to anyone contributing money to my camera fund ;) I am asking for one for Christmas but I doubt it will happen. All in all, I just want to be ready when I go back to school in April, so I can stay focused. I am so determined to graduate because only a couple people in my family have and to have a decent job.

With all that, there is only 22 days, 12 hours, 26 minutes and 20 seconds until my NY trip!!! I am beyond excited!!!

Here's to trying to be a grown up! :P

Like anybody reads this...

2011-10-03T00:00:00.000-06:00

I haven't posted since the beginning of July. I just felt like no one reads my blog, so why lose time working on it. Anyways, I just decided I would write some stuff since I am bored and don't want to go to bed yet. In other words, I am savoring the last of my kit kats and need something to help me slow down my eating.

In the past 3 months I pretty much have done nothing. I finished school and visited TyLosI in Logan for a couple days then came home. I was home for the month of August, just hanging out and I think I spent most of it at Kari's house. Haha! September came around and I missed Zeke so we decided I would go visit him for the month since I hadn't found a job yet and really no friends are in town. It was fun spending a whole month with him. Long distance relationships SUCK! A whole month is the longest we have been together together all the time. It was awesome and I'm still not sick of him. We didn't do anything special. He had classes and work pretty much the whole time besides in the evenings. I would just watch TV all day and sometimes he would bring me lunch on a break. In the evenings we went out to eat and did random stuff like feed the geese/ducks at the park, go to the mall or target. Funny story, so we decided we were going to go to the store and buy bread to go feed the duckies, on the way a commercial comes on the radio and it is for Menchies frozen yogurt. (I have heard about this place here in Tacoma but haven't had the chance to try it) So, I freak out and can't believe they have one there. We decided to go try it out. Fro Yo is our favorite thing. We have tried pretty close to all of the place just in Salt Lake! Anyways, so we go try it and it is AMAZING, so good! On our way into we see a Petsmart, Zeke loves that store, I know he's weird. As we were eating our froyo he said he wanted to get a fish. We bought like last year around this time and he didn't stay alive to long. After we ate we headed to petsmart and were looking at the fish and that night we left with two Gourami fish, three plants, an asain hut, a buddah guy, rock, food flakes, filter, air thingy and a thermometer...YEAH it was expensive. We went with an asain theme. Once we got back to campus we set it all up, then we just watched the fish swim around and get use to their new home. One was a blue gourami and the other was red, we named the blue one Powder and couldn't think of another name for the other one after I had joked about calling him Red, today his name is Red! The next day comes and we go get Menchies again, yeah it's that good and because the tank that we had was leaking, so we needed to buy a new one and while we did that we left with three fancy guppy fish and a albino catfish, a new tank and a bridge to add to the decor...Next day we ended back at the same petsmart, we knew the workers by now being the third night in a row. In the end of all of this we ended up with two gouramis, three guppy fish, one albino catfish, some type of sucker fish, 5 plants, bridge, buddah, hut, rock, heater, filter, airpump, thermometer and food..EXPENSIVE but it was awesome and now he has his aquarium he has been wanting for a while. Sorry that story was long but that was the main thing we did while I was there. Everything else was eating and hanging out with his friends. It was fun though and a good pick me up...

That leads me into the next thing. I was not able to go back to school this semester due to my lack of attention.My gpa was not up to par for the school, so I got suspended and can go back in April for Spring semester. I was so frustrated when this all happened and was depressed. Ugh, I am fine now and just trying to get it all together and be a grown up. I know how important this education is and I am so thankful for being able to attend BYU-Idaho. It is a great experience and a good time for my to grow up already.

Once I got back from visitng Zeke, I needed to get a job, so I found a babysitting job starting tomorrow. It is only Monday through Thursday. MW it is from 3-5 in the evening and TTH from 6-9 in the evening. The mom takes classes at the community college here. I am meeting the family tomorrow morning and starting tomorrow evening babysitting. I hope it all goes well. I am nervous just because I don't know the people. I was referred by a lady in my ward at church. Wish me luck!

One last exciting thing...I get to go to NEW YORK in November! Zeke's sister and her family moved there a little while ago and wants Zeke to come visit. So, I get to go with for Thanksgiving week! I am so excited! I have never been over there besides Florida. We are going to visit NY, Virginia, DC, Pennsylvania, mainly HERSHEYS!! OH YEAH! It should be fun, stay posted for more pictures and such about that trip in November!

My kit kats are gone, meaning time for bed. I know this was a long random post but this is what I have done in the past three months! Woot!

Fourth of July Weekend

2011-07-10T18:02:00.000-06:00

For the 4th I went down to Salt Lake. It was a chill weekend. Zeke was on call for all of it besides Monday. During the weekend we just had a couple BBQ's on campus with some of his friends. Then on Monday, we had another BBQ on campus and Keelie, Kynsey and their friend Keri came to the BBQ. They were visiting some friends in Provo and came up to Salt Lake to have lunch with me. It was fun. Then after the BBQ they left and Zeke, Me and Zeke's friend Ryan all went and walked around the Arts Festival they were having down the street, got some frozen yogurt and walked around town. It was fun! Then at 10PM we walked to the park down the street, Sugarhouse Park where they lit off the fireworks. The show was alright but could have been better. It was maybe 20 minutes long. The show in Tacoma is so much better and seems a lot longer. Oh well! It was fun, nonetheless. After the show we were all hungry so we went to Arbys, then back to campus. I'd have to say I miss Tacoma's freedom fair and fireworks show.

I went home on Tuesday. I know this might sound ridiculous but I went back to SLC on Thursday and left Saturday because it is the last time I would see Zeke until I come back for school. So, on Friday we went kayaking in South Jordan. His friend Ryan works at the community center there. When they first built the center there was no lakes or anything around and so they man made one and the members can use it to go kayaking, sailboating and paddle boating. Ryan invited us to go and we got in for free. It was a lot of fun. Afterwards we went to this place called Blue Fish. Ryan wanted sushi. I sucked it up and went. I ate some noodle and steak dish. It was pretty good. The next day Zeke and I went to breakfast at Ihop, had a Target date, then we went to Hogle Zoo and were there for about 3 hours in the 90 degree weather. It was so hot but luckily they had many mist stations throughout the zoo. That night I came back to Rexburg.

This monkey was so cute. I missed the best part though. My camera was too slow to turn on. But when Zeke put his had to the window, the monkey put his hands on his. It was soo cute! We think he wanted to play with the string that was on his bracelet. We tried for another good 5 or 10 minutes to get him to do it again but this was all he did.

In this cave thing, they had these peek holes and so we looked through them at Skunk and some prairie dogs!

So over the span on the 4th weekend, every time we went to a store, Zeke bought me oreos. I love them so much! We got three different kinds; Creamsicle, Berry Burst and Oreo blizzard. They are all SO good! Then the summer edition is just blue cream but taste like regular oreos. There is also mint flavor but I'm not such a fan of the mint, only in DQ blizzards do I like mint flavor! :) Yay for oreos!!

Block Party!!

2011-06-26T22:26:00.000-06:00

The past week or so my roomie and I have been complete bums and haven't done ANYTHING! We always talk about doing things but then never do anything but sit on our butts. So, this weekend, we got out and did stuff. The weather looks like it's actually summer now and staying for a while! I love it! This makes us actually want to do something with our lives besides classes and homework.

On Fridays I don't have classes and so I usually do homework, laundry and just relax but this past Friday, my roomie didn't have her class, so we went to campus for about three hours and did homework because our wireless was out here at my apartment complex because of a storm we had in the morning which caused a power outage, then came back and walked to Twizleberry, a frozen yogurt place and then went to Porters, a crafty store. By the time we walked to these places it was about 80 degrees. A huge difference from the morning where we had hail, thunder and lightening and wind! Rexburg is bipolar! In the evening we went for a run and the relaxed. That was our Friday.

On Saturday, there was a block party at Hemming Village. It is a new complex with a few stores, a restaurant and another froyo place! They blocked of the street and had a concert. The main person was Brooke White. For those of you who don't know her, she was on American Idol and was in the top five! She's pretty good! I like her! There were a couple other bands one named The Brocks, they were good and then Jonathan Jones. He is the lead singer from a popular band called We Shot the Moon. He was really good! It was a fun night! I tried to take pictures but for some reason they were all coming out blurry :/ Here is a couple pictures of Brooke White! There wasn't a lot of people there so, we were pretty close to the stage!

Too much work...not enough sleep

2011-06-14T23:29:00.000-06:00

Exactly what the title says...It's not that it is hard work just a lot of it...busy work I'd say. Classes are going good and after midterms I only have four classes now instead of six which is nice but this just means more work and studying. This week I had three tests I needed to take at the testing center and one in class test. Talk about too much information to remember. All my tests were happening at the same time, which is annoying. Every Tuesdays and Thursdays I have three classes starting at 7:45 until 1. But this week two of my classes are cancelled for both the days, so this means I just have my 7:45 class and then I have the rest of the day to "study" ;) Lol! Today, I went to my D&C class then went straight to the testing center and took two tests. Then I went back to my apartment, ate and found some information for a group project, went and met with my group and then came back and studying for another test that I took about an hour later THEN I was finally done with all my tests, which is such a great feeling! Then I remember I have a 4-5 page paper to write for my child development class due tomorrow. I tried to work on it for over 4 hours and only got to the third page barely. :) My roommate distracted me and it was SUCH a nice day today, so I could not focus. So, I'm planning on waking up tomorrow and finishing my paper, then going to talk to an advisor about my major and then I have class at 3:!5-4:45 and I will turn in my paper! DAY DONE! :)

This is me working on my paper! I look horrible but that is what school has turned me to looking like!

And this is just a random picture I thought I would share, just cause I was bored!

Midterms

2011-06-09T20:15:00.001-06:00

I can't believe that midterms have come and gone already. I am over half way done with Spring semester. I think that BYU-I has thee weirdest track system. Everyone is out of school for the summer except us. I like this track I'm on but also hate it at the same time. I think I'd like having a regular schedule like everyone else and get to enjoy summer. Oh well, it's life. I am enjoying myself here at school this semester though. I have got to know a lot of people. My past couple semesters I was my shy self and wouldn't go out of my comfort zone. That was dumb. It is so much better being out and trying new things and meeting new people. I have also done pretty well in my classes this semester. The first two, I had failed a couple class and never really studied...another dumb thing to do. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I just wasn't too serious about my future, now I am and want to graduate and have a good career I love. For that part, I am still thinking dietitian. I really want to be a dietitian counselor for children. It all starts with when you are young. If you can establish a good routine when you are little, you are most likely to carry that with you throughout your entire life and live happy. And I don't wanna work with adults because they are too stubborn and can't change their minds about anything most of the time.

Anyways, why I posted this was to share my midterm grades. I am, for once, not failing a class and I am pretty satisfied with my grades for the first time in a while.

Doctrine and Covenants - A
Computer Basics - A
Career Explorations - B
Science Foundation - C
Child Development - C
American Foundations - B

The C's I am working to bring up and the grade I am shocked about is my American Foundations class. For some reason it just does not click well in my mind. All in all I am happy right now and am going to work my butt off to get as many A's as I can. The semester ends July 22. Woo!

Birthday Weekend!!

2011-06-07T15:49:00.001-06:00

Let's start off by saying, WATCH OUT WORLD, I am officially a legal adult!! WOO!! And this is going to be a long post. It was such a fun weekend! :)

Friday the 3rd:

Left for Logan around 8AM with a ride I got from the ride board on my school website!
The ride was good! It was just me and the driver. She was hilarious and super nice. That made the ride less uncomfortable.
Got to Logan about 11AM. Tyana picked me up on the Utah State campus.
We headed to do a couple errands and then picked up Carlos from class.
Went ran a couple more errands and then got ready to go fishing. Carlos loves fishing and wanted to try out Mantua lake that is in the canyon on your way to SLC. Got our lunches made, rounded everybody up and away we went. It was Tyana, Carlos, Me, Carlos' two sisters Rakelle and Celeste and then Rakelle's friend. It was pretty windy but sunny and somewhat warm. While Carlos fished the girls ate, layed in the sun and played Monopoly Deal. We were there for a good 3ish hours. Carlos didn't have any luck catching anything but it was fun!
After fishing Tyana, Carlos and I went to buy a few presents for Rakelle, her bday was on the 1st. Then we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner! It was yummy although, I did choke pretty bad. It scared me. Tylos were talking to the waitress and I was eating the delish rolls and all of the sudden I was choking. I couldn't breath and was trying to cough and what not Tylos didn't even realize what was going on. I finally saved myself and have a coughing spell afterwards for about 15 minutes. Lol!
After dinner we got tickets to go see the new Xmen movie. I wasn't too thrilled to see it but they had it planned before I was even going to be going to Logan, so I thought I would just go and have fun! We were sitting waiting for the movie to start and all of the sudden the projector broke. We sat for about 30 mins while they tried to fix it. They couldn't fix it so they gave everyone a free pass to see anymore we want. You can only use it in a few specified theaters, so I either need to go back to Logan, a few places in UT or Montpelier, ID to watch a movie. LAME!
So, we went to go rent a movie from a movie place and went back to the house. We lasted maybe 15 mins and we all fell asleep.
The end of Friday! :)

Saturday the 4th.

Woke up about 8:00AM. It was such a nice day out, Carlos and his dad worked in the yard for a good chunk of the morning and afternoon. Tyana and I played monopoly deal as we ate pancakes for breakfast. Once finished with breakfast, we got ready for the day.
They were planning on having a birthday BBQ for Tyana and Rakelle. So, we helped cut veggies and such and got ready for that. Rakelle had some friends come over. I also was going to SLC this day and so Zeke came to pick me up and got there just in time for the BBQ. We ate and then headed to SLC. We just relaxed the rest of the day and on Sunday.

Skipping to Monday the 6th since we didn't do anything on Sunday.

BIRTHDAY!! Woo!! It just doesn't seem like it's my birthday anymore since I moved away from home and don't really have a bday party. Thats ok, can't stay a kid for your whole life.
We left SLC early to head to Bear Lake. I have been wanting to go to Bear Lake since I found out about it back in 2008. There had been a few times we were going to go but ended up not going. It was so worth it waiting to go with Zeke! We got there about 10AM! Everything was pretty much closed until 11AM. One thing that was open was a bike rental place. So, we rented a tandem bike cart thingy. Lol! It was so much but a lot of work for your legs. After that we just drove around and ended up at the beach. We played there for a little until 11 and then went to go have a famous Raspberry Shake! Let me tell you, AMAZINGLY GOOD! I guess they are made with the raspberries that are grown there in Bear Lake. After that we checked out some little shops, checked out a few beaches and rental shops. We headed to the Marina where we rented a jet ski for an hour. I had never been on one before. I have always wanted to but never had the chance. Now, the time was here and I was super nervous. But I got on the thing and away we went. We just rented one since it was pretty expensive. Zeke drove us out of the marina, onto the lake. We didn't go that fast at first, so we could get use to it and then there we went. I wrapped my arms around him and held on tight. We went 43mph. Ah! It was fast! He wanted me to try and drive. I hesitated for a while then we switched spots . My whole body was tense and I was shaking. I pressed on the gas and I screamed. Haha! I got use to it a little but I wanted him to drive. We switched again and we had some fun making our own waves and wave running. There weren't to many boats out that made good waves. It was fun though and surprisingly not too cold. The hour was up and we had to return the ski.
We then changed our clothes because the ones we were wearing got all wet.
We finished with that and headed to eat some lunch at one of the little stands. It was good and had another raspberry shake! I'm telling you, they were so good!
After lunch we went to the beach again and enjoyed the sun. Shortly after, we headed back to SLC. Bear Lake is small and we had pretty much did everything we could afford. So, we headed back to SLC. Instead of going through Logan to get back to SLC we went the Wyoming way. It was a couple hour drive but fun! When we got back to SLC we bought my Salt Lake Express ticket back to Rexburg. I couldn't find a ride back here. Oh well! We just hungout and went to eat at the Cheesecake Factory. Then I left at 8:30 for Rexburg. It was a late trip. I got back to Rexburg around 1AM. I got about 4ish hours of sleep then got up for classes and now here I am!

It was such an amazing weekend. It was fun! I loved every minute of it! The weather was super nice all weekend, the company was more than awesome! And I turned 21! Now back to life in Rexburg with wind, rain and classes.

Roommate Dinner

2011-05-22T23:53:00.000-06:00

I woke up in a grumpy mood. I had gone to bed at 2AM and woke up at 9AM. Yes, that is 7 hours but for me to feel well rested 8 or 9 hours is good! So, I laid in bed awhile. I really didn't need to be up until 10:30 at the latest. Which my alarm was set for 10:30 but I just randomly woke up. I had a meeting at noon, so I got up and got ready, ate bfast and headed out the door. My meeting was about 25 mins then I had an interview with someone in the bishopric. Each student needs to have an ecclesiastical endorsement to make sure we are on the path of righteousness and doing good in school. I passed, if anyone was wondering! Lol! Then attended the rest of the church meetings and headed back home.

Each Sunday we have a roommate dinner. I was dreading this in the beginning, because if you know me, I don't cook. I'll make bake brownies and thats about it. I have been wanting Southwestern Shepard's Pie for a while. I thought I would try and make it for everyone. I had never made it myself before but it is an extremely easy recipe. So, I whipped it all together, stuck it in the oven and my roomie Kirsti comes home from Choir practice and springs on me that our FHE dad is coming for dinner. Oh, hm, OK. He is a little on the different side, but with my kind and loving heart, I let him come and eat with us. :) He made biscuits and carrots to go along with the main dish. When it was already, we sat down and ate some grub! It was DELISH!

Looks awkward but it was so good! :)

After dinner, Kirstie and out FHE dad did the dishes and Michael and I went outside. It was such a nice day!

The ground was uncomfortable so we took our couch cushions and sat outside for awhile. We played eye-spy and people watched. Haha!

I started to crave brownies and so we went inside and I made some. I had been texting someone from my science study group. He was asking me some questions about this seminar we have to go to. So, I told him I just made brownies, so he came over and had a couple then had to go meet some friends.

I forgot to take a pic when they came out but they were amazing and just how dad likes them. GOOOEEYY!

They were so good! After we ate some brownies one of our FHE brothers came over and played Imaginiff with us. And that was the end of my day. I just had to blog that I made dinner. I know you all are surprised! It was a good day! :)

P.S. I made a quesadilla the other day in the oven. I went to my room and forgot I had it in he oven and this is how it turned out. I thought it was funny! It kind of went down before I took the pic but ya, just a random thin I thought to share!

Joke

2011-05-22T01:55:00.000-06:00

Saturday. Woke up around 9AM. Had a pretty good slumber. After I woke up I stayed in my bed and did some homework that was due before 11PM. I got it all done! Then I got ready for the day around noonish. Just lounged around until about 5 when we had our Saturday grocery day. Didn't buy that much food because I had gone just the Saturday before and really still had a decent amount of food left. Anyways, once we got home from that I turned on the TV and was flipping through the channels because we don't have a guide.

It annoys me to watch people and to do it myself now, to flip through channels. A guide is so much easier.

Anywho, I stopped on Disney Channel, Yes, Disney Channel...btw I NEVER watch that channel, DAVE...lol But High School Musical was on and I have seen that and honestly it's kind of fun. Come to find out it was HSM Sing-a-long day. So, my roomies and I watched all three movies from about 5:30PM to 11PM. Of course while eating oreos, a kitkat bar and a couple reeses cups! Ha ha! Yep, Saturday night at college and we stay in and watch HSM...nothing better! :) Since it was only 11PM we decided to throw on Inception. We have been meaning to watch it for about a week and a half now and just haven't really been in the mood. My roomies wanted to watch it, so they popped it in and...2 1/2 hours later, here I am in bed, tired but not really wanting to go to sleep.

So, what really brought me to blog at 1:45AM is a joke I heard on a preview for a movie, I believe it was. I wasn't really paying attention but once I heard this, full attention...it was a joke! Kind of a joke...it goes...

Knock Knock?

Who's there?

Owls...

Owls who?

Thats right Owls who! :)

HAHAH! K, boredom or something got to me but I laughed at this and thought it was clever! I know what you're thinking, wow really? But Yes, really! Laugh at it, you know you want to!

OK! Maybe it is time for bed. I have a couple meetings in the AM before church. If I didn't mention before I am the 1st Counselor in the Relief Society...

Fro Yo! Yum Yum!

2011-05-17T23:02:00.000-06:00

There has been this Fro Yo place called Twizleberry here for maybe 2 years now. It's pretty good. Then, the built some new complexes and put in a new Fro Yo place. It is called Kiwi Loco! When it was really warm last week, we went and tried it out. My conclusion...AMAZING! I love frozen yogurt! It is seriously so good. I'd say I like it sometimes, maybe most times more than ice cream. It is healthier! I love putting fruit on top of mine and granola. There are also these things called popping goba. They have this thin skin on he outside and liquid inside. Honestly, they look like fish eggs. So that is what we call them now. They are really good and fun to play with.

Flavors here: Kiwi Strawberry, Blackberry and Mango Tango! I put strawberries, kiwi, fish eggs and lime syrup!

This is a popping goba aka fish egg. My cameras battery was dying so that is why it is blurry.

Sunday Activities!

2011-05-17T22:36:00.000-06:00

Saturday we had our roommate grocery day! We usually just go to the grocery store but this past Saturday we also took a Walmart trip. I so wish there was a Target here. Target is so much better than Walmart but I will deal with what I have and be happy about it. Anywho, we all got some random things there and my roomie Michael, yes her name is Michael. It is awesome! Lol! But she's been wanting this little plastic bowling set since last semester. So, we were in line to check out and I handed it to her and she bought it. On Sunday, two of my roomies had some meetings, Michael and I decided to bowl. We moved the table into the living room and set up game in the kitchen. We started out in the living room and the pins were in the kitchen. It was fun! I lost... :( but nonetheless, had fun!

A little bit exaggerated for the pic! :)

This is Michael, one of my roomies!

Also on Sunday it was super nice in the AM but as the day went on it got stormy, with thunder, lightening, hail and wind! We leave our door open a lot lately because it has been pretty warm and we do not have AC in he apartments. We had the door open during the storm also.

This is Michael, Laura one of my other roomies and her fiance, LJ...It was super windy and Laura got crap in her eye.

We were craving brownies, so Michael made some and as I gave her my 13X9 pan, shes pouring and says is this pan too big? Um, it was way to big. So she had to switch pans after she realized she had her own pan. It was funny...They were delish in the end though!

Beauty

2011-05-10T20:55:00.000-06:00

Sales Motivation | The Sales Movie

2011-05-09T11:34:00.000-06:00

I was in my career exploration class this morning and we were talking about Lifes Themes. First we talked about what questions we are asked in an interview for a job. Then our teacher asked us some questions like, Who are the three people you admire and how are you like and dislike one of them?, What do you like to do during your free time (hobbies)?, What do you like to read and what TV shows do you like? and lastly Your favorite quote or saying. In all of this the questions are seeking your values, interests, who you are beyond work and what motivates you to keep going. He then showed us this video. I think it is great. I have recently been in to sayings and quotes and these are some really good ones and I think will help me and you when you are having a bad day and need a good boost! :) Check it out!

Sales Motivation | The Sales Movie

Back to School

2011-04-19T18:44:00.000-06:00

Well, it's back to school for me until December. I do get a 7 week break in July/August. Today was the first day of classes. I originally have three classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays but today one of my classes didn't meet! That was nice. I still had class at 7:45AM though. It wasn't that bad. It did catch up with me after my 1 o'clock class though. So after getting books and such, I took a 2 1/2 hour nap. This might be my routine on Tuesdays and Thursdays! I don't mind it! On another note, my roommates are nice. It should be a fun semester.

I just wanted to update whom ever reads this. I think it is dinner time now. Hmm what to eat..

More posts later! :)

Grease

2010-12-17T07:10:00.000-07:00

Good Morning everyone!

I have almost been awake for 24 hours. My body does not like this. But I am officially done with the semester. I passed all my finals, except for two I am not sure of but I think one of them I did a pretty good job. I finished my finals Thursday afternoon and right after I started to pack and clean. I have been packing and cleaning all night. I haven't gone to sleep. I got everything done except for the last little things that you deal with once you are loading the car up. I hope all my stuff fits int he car. The next 15ish hours will be rough but at the end I am home and am going to sleep for days. So, after I have all my stuff packed and ready to go, we have to clean. It's called white glove. My job was the stove. Everything about the stove I had to clean. It took me a little over 5 hours to finish. My hands are super pruned and they feel extremely weird. I scrubbed as hard as I could and grease is still on it. I lost energy at the end and came to not care anymore. So, I call it done! I am leaving here in about 2ish hours. I am falling asleep once I am in that car. My goodness.

See everyone in Tacoma soon!! :)

WoW! Look at all the colors!

2010-12-14T22:12:00.001-07:00

This past weekend I went to SLC to see Zeke before I went home for break. We didn't do much since we both are pretty stressed with finals. We did go to Temple Square and look at the lights though. It was so pretty but cold. After we looked at the lights we walked to The Gateway and went to a restaurant called Thaifoon. You got it, Asain food. Yes, I went and yes I ate sushi! Don't tell anyone but I love it! It was a great weekend!

Just Dance, it's gonna be OK!

2010-12-14T18:57:00.000-07:00

During Finals week, stressed, sleep deprived, .you'll need a break. What is a better way to take a break than to JUST DANCE! I know, brilliant! Keelie called up her friend and we borrowed the wii console. Brought it to our lounge and payed for a good hour and a half or so. My roommates had never played it before, hilarious to watch. Anyways, here are a couple videos! :) Enjoy!

Here are my roommates Tiffany and Sylvia!

Wax Sculptures

2010-12-07T09:51:00.001-07:00

For FHE on Monday. We made wax sculptures. It was pretty cool!

Mine is the pink one! And the others are my roomies plus one!

Materials needed:

-Bucket of water cold water

-Wax

-Crayons

-Stove

-Tin holder things, as you see in the pic. I forget the name. Lol

Instructions:

Shave the wax so you have shavings of it. Place the shavings in the tin.

Pick what color/s crayon you prefer. Peel off the wrapping around the crayon.

Break the crayons into pieces. You can either put a whole crayon in with the wax or just half of it. How ever much you prefer.

*Side Note* Do not put too many crayon in, it makes it thick and won't work as well.

You can also mix colors if you want.

Place tin with wax and crayon inside, on a burner on the stove.

Melt the wax and crayon until there are no more chunks

Then take tin and start slow an put it into the bucket of water.

Start slow and once the water covers it all, move the tin down fast.

Magic...your wax grows!

Leave it in the water for a couple seconds then bring out carefully.

And WAH-LA a wax sculpture.

It's pretty easy. I encourage everyone to try this. Especially if you had kids. They'll think its awesome!

Afterwards, do what you want with it. Lol!

No Talent

2010-12-05T18:55:00.000-07:00

Last night, we had our last ward social. It was a no talent-talent show and a feast. Usually, these no talent-talent shows are funny. This one wasn't. I felt embarrassed just watching the people. But, Hey, at least they had the guts to get on stage and act stupid. More power to them. And for the feast, well, it was baked potato bar. Love those, but the potatoes were hard. Lol! It was eventful watching the roomies and an FHE brother try eat them. I didn't eat because I'd rather have a potato actually cooked. Put aside my complaints, there were a couple people that actually did a real talent. One that Keelie and I thoroughly enjoyed was when a guy did a poetry slam. He was so good at it. The poem is called Remember How We Forgot by Shane Koyczan. I encourage you to look it up and listen to it. It's very good.

In the midst of watching everyone make fools of themselves, Keelie whipped out her camera and just took some shots. I told her you should never take a picture of someone from this angle. It isn't flattering for anyone.

This is Tiffany, one of my roommates.

This is Liz, my other roommate.

And this is Keelie.

I have to say living with them for the past four months, it sure has been entertaining and interesting.

Thanksgiving!

2010-12-03T23:51:00.000-07:00

For Thanksgiving this year, we had the whole week off from school! Awesome! I headed down to Logan, UT to see Tyana and Carlos for the weekend. We just hungout and watched movies. It was nice to see some family. I miss them. Later on Sunday, Zeke came and picked me up and we headed back to Salt Lake. I stayed there for the week. On Thanksgiving day, Zeke and I headed back to Logan. Real, quick I'm going to be girly and say, Yay for Zeke and I's first Thanksgiving together! Hehe! It was fun! It was great to be with family and enjoy the day. Judith, Carlos' mom, had wrote out the whole meal and everyone was in charge of making something. I wasn't on the list but thought it would be nice to contribute. Since, I am a horrible cook or baker and Zeke is an amazing one, he made a Lemon( but really Lime) bread. I say but really lime because I guess spanish people call limes lemons. I don't know. Haha! But they were limes, not lemons. I thought it would be weird with limes but it was AMAZING! Yum Yum! So, we brought that and we also went to Starbucks and got a gallon of their hot cocoa. I absolutely love their hot cocoa and so did everyone else who was spending Thanksgiving with us. As the day goes on we ate the food. It was so delicious! I had been watching the food channel for 2 weeks before and was craving turkey so bad. It definitely satisfied me. After eating we cleaned up and brought out the goods(dessert). There was tons of pies, cheesecake, fudge, and bread. All good! We played a couple games then some people left to go back to SLC. We relaxed, Tyana, Carlos, Zeke and I skyped the fam in Tacoma. They were all at Karis house for the day. Looked like they had tons of fun. Then we watched a movie and then it was time for bed.

Black Friday! Love it! Last year Kari and I basically did all night from midnight to 7AM. Wow, I never want to do that again. We got up at 4:30AM this year and was out of the house by 5AM. We headed to BK for some breakfast then went to Sports Authority, Best Buy, Kohls, Walmart and Bed, Bath and Beyond. It was a very successful trip for Tyana and Carlos. Haha! It was fun. After that Zeke and I headed back to SLC because he was on call for the weekend and needed to pick up the phone. The rest of the weekend we just hungout on campus because when he is on call he can't leave campus. We had friends over and he made enchiladas, YUM! and played some Just Dance 2. BTW, AWESOME! Then I headed back home Monday morning because the roads were horrible. It snowed for over 24 hours straight. It was crazy.

I am back in Rexburg and trying to finish these last 2 weeks up and then I am headed back to WA until April for Spring semester. The 26th through 1st I will be flying to Florida to spend that week with Zeke and his family. I cannot wait. It should be fun! I hope I can communicate well with his family though, they speak Spanish. I can understand some things but not well. And the weather will be upper 70's! Leaving 19 degrees to 70's. LOVE IT!

Sorry there are no pictures. I don't have a camera. It broke when I went to the sand dunes and got sand in it. :( Sad day.

Christmas time!!!!

2010-12-03T23:29:00.000-07:00

It's Friday night. My roommates and I just felt like relaxing and not doing any school work. We took a quick trip to Walmart to get some groceries and such then we went to go check out a new video place called Crazy Mikes. Its a dollar more than redbox so we left and came back home. Keelie had some cookies that comes with stuff to decorate. We also made snowflakes and hung them on the ceiling. One of my roommates is from Taiwan and she didn't know how to make snowflakes. It is so funny to see how much America is different than other countries. What we drink hot cocoa out of, we call it a mug, they call it a cup. Yes, it technically is a cup but still. She had never heard of mug. It is so much fun living with a few people that are from other countries! Anywhos, here are some pics. Enjoy!

Just a couple random things

2010-11-04T14:25:00.000-06:00

Okay, so first off. Everyone should know by now that I have THE biggest sweet tooth. When I come to college it seems to get worse. I started out with jut a few things but I have gotten a few packages and it just seems to be increasing. The main one that did it was when, Zeke sent me a package just full of junk food! Including two packs of oreos, which I still have but since then another on has been added! I sure loved it! Lol! This picture was taken a while ago so it has gone down. I have shared a lot and put a candy bowl in our living room. :)

Second, this is for you Kari! These are my rain boots! They are heavy duty too! Target didn't have the ones I've been wanting..the pink with white polka dots!

Well, I just had to share these two very random things, mainly for you Kari! Lol! I know how much you appreciate some junk food and you showed me your boots, I had to show you mine! :)

Another post coming later about how life in Rexburg is going!

R Mountain

2010-10-12T16:11:00.000-06:00

For FHE on Monday my "family" was going to go to the Sand Dunes and have a bonfire and smores. For some reason though, it changed very last minute. It was because no one was able to go due to homework...but we changed the plans and suddenly the ones that had homework were finished. Whatever. So, we went to hike R Mountain. Honestly, this is more like a pitchers mound than a mountain...as though I thought from the bottom of it. As we started our climb my roomie, Keelie and I take off and are in front of the pack. We're just chugging along, chattin, while the rest of the pack was way behind. As we got further up it became more steep. OK, not a problem if you have hiking boots or shoes with good traction. FYI: Converse/ Vans are NOT hiking shoes! 5 out of 10 were wearing converse or vans. So needless to say we stopped because it was difficult to climb. As we sat and took a rest and figured out how we would go back down the hill. It got darker and darker and cold. I decided to sit down and scooch down the hill. It worked until you started to slide fast and had no control and rocks cut your hands open and made holes in your jeans. As one by one figure out how to go down, complaining they're going to fall and break something, we made it down. Haha. Two of the guys and a girl went all the way to the top. They had good shoes on.

Anyways, as we hiked, took some pictures. They aren't too good but here is what we looked like!

The view was incredible!

Thats my roomie and I way up there!

The rest of the pack behind!

Some going back down!

Taking a rest, admiring the sunset!

I think at this point we said "Dance Party"

Trying to pose!

Thats us!

Get Fit!

2010-10-05T18:19:00.003-06:00

Everyone knows that the food pyramid looks like this...

WRONG! The times have changed. They have new dietary guidelines. I think it is way more effective now and has more to it. If you go to http://www.mypyramid.gov/ it will show you the new food pyramid plus more. The plus more is awesome. You can get your BMI (body mass index), set up personal dietary plans, track your food intakes, see how healthy or unhealthy you are. There is so much more to it. I reccomend everyone checking it out and becoming more healthy and physically fit. Enjoy!

Morning Hot Cocoa & a piece of toast

2010-10-05T10:55:00.000-06:00

Good Morning everyone! Just thought I'd pop on and write a little something. I'm starting my day off with a nice cup of hot cocoa, in my I heart San Diego cup that Dave gave me, lol, and a piece of toast with peanut butter on it! So delish! I am having a hard time getting out of bed this morning. The weather is looking fallish out today. Makes me want to just snuggle up in my blankets and sleep or watch a movie but I cannot do this today. I've got 2 classes today, hw and a project to work on. I am also going to meet with my bishop tonight for a calling. He emailed everyone who hasn't got a calling yet and is having us all meet at the church tonight so they can extend a calling to us. Yeah, we're the last of the bunch. So we'll see what kind of made up calling I get. Watch it be greeter. O yay. Lol. Anywho, time to go finish breakfast and get ready for the day! Have a good one! :)

Title, title, title..

2010-09-30T09:43:00.003-06:00

I need a blog title. Elyse just isn't cutting it. If any of you have any ideas please help me!!! Clever ideas, something fun!

Thanks!! :)

Oh college..

2010-09-29T21:34:00.001-06:00

It is three weeks into the semester and I am drained already. Here are my classes:

-Science Foundation on Tuesday and Thursday

-Book of Mormon on Wednesday and Friday

-Personal Health and Wellness on Monday and Wednesday

-Essentials of Human Nutrition on Monday, Wednesday and Friday

-Nutrition and Young Children on Tuesday and Thursday

It's a pretty good schedule, I think. I have enough time to do homework before and after classes even in between some days. As you can see, I am interested in nutrition and wellness. Although I have not declared my major. I am thinking of what I want to go into everyday. 3 out of the 7 days a week, I get a new idea for a major. A lot of them have included teaching children about nutrition and wellness. That being nutrition counseling for children, teaching kids in a classroom or something along those lines. I know it will be work for me seeing as I have a hard time focusing on school. I really get excited when it comes to talking about personal health and wellness and then bringing children into it. They are the ones that need the most help right now in the world. Obesity is a major issue with children nowadays. This might sound funny to people that really know me. I might get annoyed by kids fast but I do love them and I really want to help them learn how to be healthy. Once when I was working at the Zoo, I was in the carousel and there was a field trip that day. Kids came running in and there was one boy who could not get up on one of the horses so he just sat in the sleigh. You could tell he was embarresed and upset he could actually ride the carousel. Right then, I thought, that is sad and I want to help kids to know of how to be healthy.

Well, now that I talked all about nutrition..I shall update you on nonschool activities. Lol. For those of you who don't know I do have a boyfriend. His name is Ezequiel, Zeke for short and he lives in Salt Lake. I met him through my best friend Clarissa. They both go to Westminster College. He has his license for flying, yes he is a pilot! Lol! It's so awesome!

Zeke and I

Zeke and I at the Real Salt Lake Soccer Game

My friends Jeff and Carol bought me this "Dr.Pepper Belt" I love Dr. Pepper so much! :)

This is my side of the room! Nice and Bright!

At the RSL game and we were right next to the Mexican Party. They were awesome and let us party with them. Zeke is Argentinean and they had an Argentinean Flag because one of the players is from Argentina. Of course Zeke wanted to wave the flag with pride!

In transformation the new BYUI Center. It will be the conference center, hold classes, meetings, there is a track inside..plus more It's really nice!

Pretty much all I do is go to class, do homework and study like crazy and visit Salt Lake. Although, I have only been to Salt Lake once so far. I am enjoying it here and feel like I have something going for me. Hopefully I can keep it up and stay focused!

I'm Baaaack!

2010-09-09T21:05:00.002-06:00

Hey everyone I am making a comeback! I got kind of sick of blogging with nothing to really write about. I think I will have more to write now. Here is what I have been up to the past few months!

I finished my first semester of college here at BYU-Idaho. It was a good semester but I could have done better. I had the month of August off. So, I went back home and stayed with Kari and just hungout and pretty much just relaxed. As of September 8, I am back at school. Today was the first day of classes. I only have two classes on Thursdays. I have Science Foundation class and a Nutrition in Young Children class. They both seem like they will be fun and pretty easy. I am taking three nutrion classes and then a couple classes that I have to take in order to graduate. I think it will be a fun semester but a lot of work involved. I am ready to keep busy. Keeping busy will help me not get homesick or anything. I am already having a little anxiety. I hope it will get better.

Well, that is about all I have been up to! I'll keep you posted on everything I do and go through! So check back frequently!

:)

Salt Lake City Weekend

2010-05-17T10:22:00.002-06:00

This past weekend my friends roommate was heading to Provo and needed a couple more people to with her. So, Sam and I went and visited Clarissa at Westminster in Salt Lake! It was so nice out the whole weekend! We detoured downtown, went shopping and then on Saturday we went to Park City but that was a bust and ended up going back to SLC. It was great to go there because Reburg is so small and all we've got is a Walmart. Sam had never been to Utah before so we toured her around for the weekend basically! It was a blast and I can't wait to go back!

Comedy Improve Night!

2010-05-08T14:02:00.004-06:00

Last night a few friends and I went to go see the Comedy Improv Night with Kirby Heyborne, Corbin Allred, Lincoln Hoppe and Kelly Lohman! If you have see The Singles Ward, that is where Kirby is from, as well as many other things and so is Lincoln Hoppe. Can you guess who Lincoln Hoppe was in The Singles Ward....Yep, DeVerl! I love him! Yes, the other two are adorable but him, he is amazing! Hah! I'm not much for girl comedians. They seem to try harder than guys do but Kelly was alright. It was a good night! I love laughing until you cry! After the show there was a meet and greet! Of course we had to meet them. Keelie and Sam, who came with me have met them a few times already and Corbin and Kirby actually remember them. The picture of them with their hands on their foreheads and stuff, thats an inside joke with them. Pretty cool! We didn't get to talk to them as long as we wanted to because the building was closing but at least we got to meet them and take pics!

New hair

2010-04-27T10:22:00.002-06:00

I did! I went and colored my hair mahogany brown! I thought I would never come to this. I loved the red hair and tried so many times to get the color I wanted but was never really satisfied with it. So, I decided to go different and I was so nervous before I thought I was going to cry but now I love it and will keep it this way for a while! I love changing my hair! :)

BYU-I #2

2010-04-21T10:59:00.010-06:00

Some pictures taken around campus! More to come later! I haven't really had time to take pictures! Classes started Tuesday. I had psychology, which I am in love with already and can't wait to actually start doing work! Then I had a family history class but the information got all mixed up so we didn't have class. Today, so far, I've had math. Ugh. Math is the death of my no matter how easy it is, my brain doesn't process that way and I feel so stupid. AHH! Anyways, at 2 I have English! I'm excited for this class! English is a fav class of mine. Then later I have American Fundations, we'll have to see how that goes! As for now, I have about 2 1/2 hours to chill or maybe I should do math homework due Friday.

First meal!

So sunny!

In the garden! Only thing missing, a boyfriend!

A view! My dorms are too the right.

Making cookies!

All my groceries in one cabinet!

Kitchen after Sam and I cleaned it!

Messy room while unpacking!

BYU-I #1

2010-04-18T00:04:00.002-06:00

Well, well looky here, I'm at college! I'm just going to give a brief description of my time so far and whats to come! I'll post pics in a couple days! It is very weird. It just feels like I'm a a camp or something. I got here on the 16th and since then we have been in groups led by counselors and we basically do everything together. So, thats why it feels like a camp. Classes start on Tuesday! I can't wait, actually, as much as I dislike school! I think I'll get into it though here! Tuesday I'll be starting with General Pshycology at 8AM-9AM then at 11:30AM-12:30 is my BOM class(Book of Mormon) and that is it for Tuesday and Thursdays! On MWF I have math, english and american history. Well, church is tomorrow, or should I say today and its at 9AM! So, bedtime! :)

ps. I'm doing good without my mommy here! LOL!

Viewer Discretion is Advised

2010-03-26T15:47:00.005-06:00

A few years ago I had injured my toes; bruising, dead nails fell off, grew back. We are positive it is from my shoes. I have weird feet in the first place; very narrow, skinny feet and long toes. It started when I was running. I use to run for fun, not a lot but often and my toes started to bruise. Few times I stopped running but went back to it after they "healed". I quit running so much and also bought new shoes. I had only ran a couple times with the new shoes because my toes started to hurt again. In December they were swollen and bruised and in January the scar tissue or whatever it was, was growing out of the bottom of my nail. It continually got worse. We never went in because I wasn't on any insurance. After registering for classes at BYU-Idaho and a long process, I'm on the insurance. So, I go to the Podiatrist and he said that the root of the nail and actual nail weren't connected, I was wondering why the nails weren't growing. LOL! My left toe was worse than my right. It wasn't connected at all on my left toe and on my right toe the nail was about 50% connected. So, he removed the nails, so a healthier, new nail can grow back. If he hadn't done that, then a thick, yellow, curvy, nasty nail would grow back and have fungus and all. He said it will be about 6 months to a year for the nails to grow back fully. And if this keeps occuring then an option is completely removing my toenail. Oh yay! NOT! I took some pictures for all to see and understand what I am trying to say here! Have a looksie!

BEFORE

AFTER

Peace, Love & Ice Cream!

2010-02-02T11:31:00.005-07:00

Monday, Kari and Dave invited my parents, seth and I to join them for some Ben & Jerry's in Gig Harbor! Let me just tell you that Ben & Jerry's is SO delicious! :D

Enjoying some Strawberry Kiwi sorbet

Audrey "licking" the ice cream on the spoon! Leighton & Nana!
Seth & Dad!

Kari with her HUGE waffle cone!

Myself & Nana!

Happy Holidays

2010-01-03T15:09:00.003-07:00

The whole Bunch

Seth, Dad & I just hanging out

Siblings. Aren't we a good looking family!

Present time, open a present and see whats inside

Zoolights with the fam & Clarissa & Nora

Christmas Morning...MUFFINS!

Zoolights

Caroling with some of the youth. Bishop wanted a picture with some of his college girls!

Christmas Card

Caroling with Fletcher & Clarissa!

Thanksgiving fun && Christmas Tree

2009-12-07T12:21:00.002-07:00

Reliving my childhood

2009-11-03T14:03:00.004-07:00

Last Thursday, I got my haircut! I've been needing/wanting one for a while! My hair was a little longer past my shoulders. Haircuts are always fun because you can do so many different things with it. I was wanting a change so I decided to go short with bangs across! The whole time I was getting my haircut mom keep saying aww little Weezy, as she use to call me when I was little. My hair was short for a while when I was little. I swore up and down that I would never cut my hair that short again but TA DA! So, mom kept saying I needed to look back at some pictures and I did the other day and came across this one. I think this was 3rd or 4th grade!

BYU-Idaho

2009-10-17T18:19:00.002-06:00

Basically everyone knows already because of Facebook. I didn't post it, Kari did. But anyways, I got accepted to BYU-Idaho and I will begin January 5, 2010! I am on the Winter/Spring track! I'm not totally sure what I would like my major to be yet but I will figure it out soon enough! :)

Fall

2009-10-15T17:30:00.002-06:00

Yesterday was a very, very windy && rainy day! I kinda liked it! I had to work 9:45-4:15 and basically no one came to the zoo because it was so stormy out! So, I just sat by the space heater doing some word searches. I think I finished about 6 or 7! The day went by pretty fast for having no one at the zoo! So anyways, after work I was waiting for mi madre. I decided to walk a little and stopped at this hill! I love it! I wish the trees though were the ones that were yellow, green and red! That would have looked awesome!

Just thought I'd share! Hah! I wish I had an editing program though to make this picture look even better!

:)Have a great day!

Feeling Inspired

2009-10-06T13:58:00.001-06:00

Today is my day off! I awoke around seven and lazed around in my room watching the news, travel channel and other miscellaneous things. I love waking up and really having nothing I need to do(because my life is SO busy...) Taking my time getting ready for the day and veggin' out on whatever!

This morning, on Q 13 Fox News, Chase Jarvis was on. He is a from Seattle and a professional photographer. We had recieved a magazine in the mail a couple months ago and he was the main topic for it. Since I've been getting into photography, I've been reading and looking at any type of photography things I can. I read the story about him in the magazine and instantly loved his work. On the news they were talking to him about his newest project; The Best Camera is the One You Have with You. Its his new book of over 1000 pictures he took simply with his Iphone. He was saying how he loved how most of the pictures were out of focus and not perfect. They showed some of them and even though they weren't in focus, they were still really good and very artistic. I love it! He is my favorite photographer. I posted the link to his website to the right of this post! Check it out! I also posted a link to my friend Deborah Hurlburts blog. She is an amazing photographer also!

After I checked out his website I was just browsing through different pictures of mine and of some others. I really think photogrpahy is what I want to go into. I have a long way to go, but I am so ready to learn everything about it, plus more. Now if only I could get a good camera. Right now I just have my simple point and shoot camera. I'm saving my money for a Nikon d90, will take a while but I need to get it! I really can't take any classes without my own camera. They do loan out cameras but have to give it back, whats that! I want my own to where I can take with me everywhere I go and not have to give it back! Hah! Some day!

Institute Class

2009-09-29T23:11:00.002-06:00

So tonight Institute started! I signed up for a class when I lived in Logan and went a total of ONE time. Hah. But I decided to go tonight. I know at least half the class so thats makes it a lot better. The class is on Church Leaders or something er other. I can't remember. Bad I know but I sat next to my friend Trevor and he was distracting. But all in all it was good and felt the spirit of what I did hear. I'm looking forward to more classes and learning and meeting people. Although, there isn't any good looking guys in the class. Maybe they'll show up next week. Fingers are crossed! Hah!

Well, just thought I'd give an update of something new going on in my life. It wasn't much but ya know!

Zoo Update

2009-09-28T18:50:00.002-06:00

So, just an update on the job. It has been a week and 4 days! It has been pretty good. I've only been working the Carousel. The other two things I could be working at are done the end of this month, which is only a couple days. So, sooner or later I will work the front gate but thats probably not for another month. Thats okay with me. Its so intimidating. Zoo Lights start in November, I believe, so it will get pretty busy, which is good because right now during the week it is really slow. I will either read a book, what read a book? Yes, its called The Bean Trees. Or I will clean the windows or water the plants. I will do a lot of this in the month of October because thats the slowest month. I work a total of 7 days from October 1-15. Oh well!

As of work today...

It was really really windy and cold. There are the tables with those umbrella type thingies over them, and the umbrella flew off and almost hit a family. These umbrellas are huge. So, someone from the Cafe saw it happen and walkie talkie the front gate and told them then they walkie talkie me and I had to go and get it and put it back in the table. Lucky, there was a guy outside, who was hilarious. He picked it up and held it like it was a ginormous umbrella. He says, " Well, if it rains today someone has a really big umbrella to use!" I laughed so hard. He was like, Well alright, homie, have a a good day and if it rains make sure you come and get this for cover! Ha ha! Well, I thought it was funny and thought Id share!

Plus, the kids are so funny and cute to watch when they get all excited to ride! Its fun!

80's Dance

2009-09-23T19:32:00.004-06:00

Friday the 18th there was a Singles Ward dance. I usually don't go to the dances because there isn't alot of people that go and they are boring. But this time, the theme was 80's. Whenever there is a chance for me to dress in 80's, I will! I love 80's style! It's so much fun! And I didn't realize how much stuff I had that actually could make up this outfit. I didn't go buy anything! Lol!

When a few of my friends and I got to the dance, no one was dressed up, who were outside. We started to get a little nervous. Of course I got more nervous because I was the only one really dressed up and really bright! Once we got inside there was a lot of people and dressed up too. So, it was all good.

I have been going to Singles Ward lately but just Sacrament meeting because my family has had a few things going on after church that I've wanted to do, so I don't really know a lot of people. This made it kinda weird at the dance but it was good because I met some really cute guys! Thats always a plus! =D

Anyways, heres a couple pictures of my outfit. You can't see it but Casey did my hair. She put a braid across the top of my head and to the side and then a side pony tail! It was so much fun!

First Day on the job!

2009-09-17T16:50:00.002-06:00

So today was my first day working at the Zoo. I was so so so nervous. The whole week I've been in like a bad mood and really quiet because I was so nervous. The only thing that was making me nervous was working the front gate at admissions.

Well, when I got to work today I chatted with Derek, my boss, for about 15 minutes. Just went over rules and what not. Then, I went to the front gate and watched how they worked everything. I was there for about 2 hours. I didn't work anything, I just watched, which made me so relieved. It will for sure take some time getting this down. Its easy but you have to get use to it. Theres so many things you need to remember and to ask them. Lol. It'll be good though. I wont start that for a while though. After I was there, I headed over to the carousel. My friend, Catharine, who helped me get this job, was working the carousel and so I was with her there, the rest of the day. It was good. It was really easy working the carousel. Its free, so people just come and get on, then you have press down on a peddle and press the start button, lol! Yay, so easy! You will have time to kill when you are there because it is winter and kids are in school. So, you might get a kid here and there to ride! Its fun though talking to the kids and to see how excited they are to be at the zoo!

The boss doesn't train anyone. He sends you to a place and you either figure it out for yourself or there will be someone working with you, so you bug them with a bunch of questions. Hah. In a few weeks I think I'll have everything down, besides the front gate! Lol. I just hope those few weeks go by quick!

That is it for now. Just a little update on how the jobs going! I can't wait for my first pay check. Running shoes, here I come!

COME VISIT ME!! :)

Job?! What?! Elyse got a job?!

2009-09-11T12:54:00.003-06:00

Indeed I did, FINALLY!! I hate the process of trying to find a job and then having a interview and then waiting for them to call to

tell you if they are going to hire you or not.

So, story time about this job!

My friend Catharine has been working at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium for a couple years now

and so when she came back from school this past

summer she talked to her boss and told him

about me and what not. So, I filled out an

application and turned it in. A week or so later

Catharine says he tried to call me but I never

got a call from him. We are thinking he called

someone else, which her name kinda sounds like mine.

Okay, whatever, so I call him and set up and interview

. That day he was sick and so I didn't go in.

Long story short new interview this last Tuesday.

I was only in there about 5 minutes and he was

like well I need to look at the hours and see if there is enough.

(He was talking in like a, whatever voice, like lets

get this over or something) Which, he shoulda done

this before the interview but whatever.

He says he'll call me back in a few days.

Wednesday goes by, Thursday goes by.

Thursday night I couldn't sleep because I felt sick so at

like 3 or something in the morning, I was watching TV and

was thinking about this job and also waiting to hear from BYU-I.

Before I went to sleep, I didn't read my scriptures or say my prayer.

I felt guilty at 3AM, lol, so I started reading my scriptures,

said my prayer and kept thinking about

this job and hoping he would call. Fell asleep.

I wake up around 8, eat, blah blah blah, phone rings at 9.

Its Derek, the boss from the zoo. I'm like sweet.

He tells me he has hours and wonders if I would still like the job.

Well, heck, of course I do. I need a job bad.

So, this morning I went in filled out all the stupid paper work

and got on the schedule and start on the 17th!!!

I'll be working the Carousel for the first few weeks.

He said it gets boring in there but whatever, I need a job and willing to take it!!

I'm so stoked because I need money and something to do!!!

Also, I am waiting to here back from BYU-Idaho. They said in the next 6 weeks they would let me know if I got in or not. Its been like 2 weeks. So, I'm getting impatient because I really really hope I get in. If I do get in, I'll be going in January! =0]

Three days of Mariners!

2009-09-03T21:09:00.002-06:00

So, I had the opportunity to go to the Mariners game this past week. Well, I had the opportunity to go three times. I went Monday with some friends and then Tuesday and Wednesday with my parents and my Aunt Zina and Aunt Carol. It was pretty fun! Wednesday was a day game so I could actually take pictures of Seattle! I love Seattle!

Miscellaneous Fun

2009-08-25T13:59:00.006-06:00

Owen Beach
Face in the sky;Sunnyside Beach
Aviators
Remarkable Sunset

Thoughtful Clarissa

Best Friends

Leighton Foot

Saturdays are a special day

2009-08-25T13:34:00.004-06:00

A few weeks ago on a Saturday, Dad decided to pull out the tree stump in our front yard. It was pretty ugly there so, I'm glad he pulled it out. Calvin, Sean and Seth all came over to help out. They used Calvin's truck to help pull it out.

It was pretty entertaining watching them. They also were trying to fix the rototiller. The yard looks horrible. It's not even a yard, its just weeds and might I had that the weeds are very sharp. You basically have to wear steal toe shoes to walk out there ;) Well, they couldn't really get it to work and they all took a turn trying to get it to start. Casey and I had a good time watching them.

Update!

2009-08-25T00:01:00.002-06:00

For the past couple weeks our computer has been really weird and we couldn't get on certain websites, the blog being one of them. It is now fixed, THANKS DAVE, even though you blamed the problem on me. I swear I did nothing...maybe! ;)

Anyways, last week was a sad week. My friends went away to college. My BEST BEST BEST friend, Clarissa went off to Westminster College in Salt Lake City. I can't even stand that she is gone. We've been friends since age 3 and have always done everything together. It's weird how I can't just call her up and say lets hangout and she be here in less than 2 minutes. It's very depressing to me but I will live and maybe this will help me grow up some. My other good friend, Kynsey, went to Washington State University but thats only like 5 hours away and int he same state so it's not so tragic. I still miss her though a lot. Life is so strange now. All the people I grew up with, we're all doing our own thing, going to college, going on missions(the guys mainly), working...all life stuff. I don't like it much because everyone is apart. Growing experiences, I guess.

On the bright side, I might be getting a job at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. My friend works there and so I got the hook up. The boss just needs to call me so we can set up an appointment but he is going to call. I hope I get it so I can start earning money to go to school, to buy a camera and to buy a laptop. Those are the three things I will do with the money, the rest, shopping of course! :] Hah!

I'm also applying for BYU-Idaho. I think I already blogged about this once before but I never finished my application after I moved back to Tacoma. I think I am ready to head to college and do my own thing and grow up! :]

Well, just a bit about whats been going on in my life. I hope I can figure things out because I hate being frustrated and confused all the time. Wish me luck!

Collaboration

2009-07-29T01:46:00.005-06:00

This last weekend, well the past two weekends, I have stayed at Kari and Dave's house. The first time was to babysit and then to help with Audrey's bday parties. Then this last weekend I went up to go to a parade with them. It was Whaling Days in Silverdale, they had a parade and a race and some other things. It was fun! On Sunday, it was hot, so we went out in their backyard and had the hose and their little baby blow up pool and played in the water with their neighbor! I really like going to their house! Hah, they're so much fun and their kids are so cute, at times, lol :]!

Then when I got back from their house on Monday, Mom and I had to pick Casey and Riley up from the aiport. They got back from visiting her family in Reno. After that, I just hungout with Clarissa and went to Titlow beach and took pics of the sunset! Clarissa leaves August 17th to go to Westminster college in Salt Lake. I'm going to miss her so much! We've been best friends since age 3. Oh sad days.

So, today, Tuesday, headed up to the Mariners game with Dad, Seth, Sean, Casey and Dave! It was pretty fun. The game for sure had its slow moments but in the end it turned out good and we won 4-3 against Toronto.

Also, I'd like to add that the weather we're having was great until today. It is so muggy and grossly hot. We are actually breaking records for the highest temp. And its only going to get worse. Ah! It's hard when you don't have A/C in your house.

Here are the pictures from all of these events! They are all scrambled up! Enjoy!

Jefferson Park

2009-07-21T13:51:00.003-06:00

Last week, my friend Clarissa asked if I wanted to go with her and her sister Nora to Jefferson Park. They have these water fountains and such. It was a really nice day, so we went before lunch time because thats when all the parents bring their kids. After playing in them for a bit we layed out on the grass and played some cards and just hungout. The first picture is of a VW Bus. It is beautiful. I saw it parked there and had to take a picture because I want one and this one is the exact color I want! Just beautiful! :]

Narrows Bridge

2009-07-21T13:25:00.004-06:00

On Monday, mom and I had finished our errands and everything. After we ate lunch she randomly said we were going to go for a walk across the Narrows Bridge. It was a little freaky once we actually got on the bridge. Heights sometimes freak me out and on the bridge, it got the best of me. I couldn't go by the rail. Towards the end I did a little but, wow its intense. It was really fun though. Here's some pictures we took! In the last picture, I had got pooped on by a seagull. We were barely on the bridge and I saw this white something fly infront of my face. I thought it was paper because a recycle truck just drove past but I felt some thing wet on my foot and I look down and I have poop on my pants, foot and camera. Hah. It was thoroughly disgusting. Oh and it almost went in my mouth :]

Rainiers Game

2009-07-10T15:45:00.002-06:00

Why me?!

2009-07-10T01:45:00.002-06:00

Okay, so I was going into my room to get ready for bed when I see a nasty spider right above my pillow, basically on it. I freak out and go get my mom or dad to kill it. Just the previous night I did the same thing and my mom killed it. Tonight, nope, they say no and I'm flipping out because its moving and who knows where it'll be by the time we get down there. A few minutes later my mom gets up and sure enough, where is this spider? She couldn't find it. In the meantime, I'm still freaking out. I wasn't going to sleep in my room if she didn't find it. She gets my blanket, pillow and pajamas out of my room and I'm sleeping on the couch upstairs. So, I go make my bed up there and get in and realize I need to switch the laundry for my dad. I pray that I will be able to find it and kill it. So, I go downstairs, change the laundry. Then go to my room and try to find it. I couldn't see it. Then outta no where its there on the wall crawling towards the door. I grab my tennis racket and attempt to try and get it. (Still freaking out) I thought I got it but wasn't sure. So, I shut the door hoping it will kill it. I open the door and I don't see it. Snap, where is it now?! IDK!! I move things and everything and couldn't find it. Then I just sit and watch that general area and then BAM there it is basically on the ceiling. Now, I'm freaking out even more because it's on the ceiling and it could get on me and I'm wondering how I'm going to get it. Finally, it gets to the floor and I throw my tennis racket on it. I think I got it!! NOPE, its still alive. I move my racket a bit and it moves but it can't get out. I'm terrified of them as you can tell, so I call Sean's cell phone and no answer. SNAP! I try to get the courage to kill it but I just can't seem to do it. I try to call him again and hoping he'll answer...HE DID!! I asked him to come kill a spider and said I'm sorry to wake you but he came and got it and made fun of me. THANKS SEAN!! Love ya!! :]

Even though its dead now, I still can't seem to lay in my bed and go to sleep. Every night there has been a spider or more in there. Why just my room?? And my bathroom. Errr. I need to invest in a hand held vaccum so I can just vaccum them up whenever I need to! If I could.

Well, just thought I'd share and give me a few minutes to put in my mind that its dead and I can go in there a sleep :]

July 4th, 2009

2009-07-09T13:49:00.004-06:00

Mom taking a picture of the group hanging out and behind her is The Freedom Fair at the waterfront! We were there all day long!
Everyone just hanging out. I believe the airshow was going on or had jsut ended.

They just took down the tents because the sun was going down and we're getting ready for the fireworks!

Brooklyn and Leighton sportin their cars sunglasses and watching the airshow!

Fireworks!!

Rylee

2009-06-23T16:58:00.002-06:00

Casey had put Rylee in her bouncer while she was doing some things. Rylee usually cries when she wants out or is bored of sitting there. Casey had gone upstairs and I was watching tv. Rylee starts to cry but then stops quickly and then just sat there very still. (I had to check if she was still breathing because she didn't move at all and her eyes were still open) In no time she closed her eyes and fell asleep. It was pretty funny because she has never done that before!

Friends Graduation

2009-06-23T16:44:00.002-06:00

My friends Clarissa and Kynsey gradutaed from Wilson High School on June 10. It's very exciting having all my friends and I graduated. But its really sad that they are going off to college in August. I don't know what I'm going to do without them! I'll miss them!

Clarissa

Best Friends since age 3

Kynsey, Me and Clarissa

They are tall already then add heels. It's all bad.

Kynsey and I

I was trying to be as tall as her

Ocean Shores

2009-06-20T13:55:00.000-06:00

Anyone there?

2009-06-20T12:52:00.003-06:00

It's been awhile since I have been on here. A lot of things have gone on but I just haven't felt like doing the blog. I'm not even sure who reads this anymore but I will update a little about what has gone on the past few months!

Let's see...

My birthday was June 6 but we had a party early because Tyana was getting married on June 6 and we were in Logan, UT. Since I dislike cake a lot I had angel food cake with strawberries and blueberries on top and on the side vanilla bean ice cream! That basically was only the highlight of my birthday! Now, I'm 19.

I love you, Mom!!

2009-05-12T13:50:00.005-06:00

Mothers Day we had a BBQ with everyone and played some games and just hungout! Here are some random photos from it all! Enjoy.

FHE!!

2009-05-04T22:28:00.004-06:00

So, our family hasn't been to good at doing family home evening but we have started and are trying to keep it up! Tonight, Casey and Skylar gave the lesson and it was on families and how we need to love eachother and treat everyone as if they were our family! Then Skylar wanted us all to make us out of paper. Then we stuck them in Casey's hair just for the randomness. After all that and waiting for dad to cut the brownies, we played Simon Says. We are THE weirdest family!

Mariners Game

2009-04-20T22:08:00.004-06:00

Saturday evening we went to the Mariners game. It was fun but cold and we lost 2-0 to the Detriot Tigers. It was also salute to the military night. One of the pictures Zina has her arms in the air and yelling...we were doing the wave! It went around about 10 times and even was going both ways at one point! I think everyone got bored of us losing and it was the last inning, so we all had to be entertained somehow!

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

2009-04-20T21:56:00.002-06:00

One of the main reasons Aunt Zina wanted to come up here was because of this tulip festival. Come to find out the tulips hadn't bloomed because we haven't had much sunshine going on. When we got there, they were just about to bloom. Few days later, we could have seen them all in bloom. It was still pretty to see some of them in bloom. Very bright. We also saw a lot of daffodil fields. After seeing those we went to some restaurant there and there was a tulip on our table and since there wasn't really any in bloom and worth taking a picture with, I suggested we all take a pic with this one! Ha!

Mt. St. Helens!

2009-04-20T21:35:00.003-06:00

Last week we headed up to see Mt. St. Helens. We went to one of the visitors centers and watched a movie about it and looked around. One of the guys working there told us it was snowing all that morning closer by it and we didn't listen and drove up there anyways thinking it wouldn't be that bad. Hah! SIKE! It had snowed a ton and it was so cloudy we couldn't see Mt. St. Helens. But as we were leaving the clouds kinda moved out of the way so we say a little of it but not much!

Many events!!

2009-04-15T15:50:00.007-06:00

So, the past week there has been a few things that have happened.

(One) Skylar being Sealed to Sean and Casey at the Seattle Temple!

(Second) Rylee Belle's blessing

(Third) Easter

It was fun to have The Petersens, The Herrons, The Porters and Aunt Zina here to share these amazing events with us! Love ya family! :)

Mt. Rainier

2009-04-07T15:58:00.002-06:00

I was going with my friend, Clarissa, to The Rialto for a symphony and we were stopped at the light and I thought this was a sweet picture. Mt. Rainier and the buildings of downtown Tacoma!

Sunday Walk in UP

2009-04-07T15:02:00.007-06:00

Rylee slept the entire walk. I wish I had a stroller I could sit in on some walks! Ha.

Just one lonely tree and the sun!

They were all excited to see the train ride by. Like Casey said, no matter how many times you see trains they are always exciting everytime you see one!

Chamber Bay golf course and the most amazing ocean!

I wish I had got a better picture of this walking path. It's pretty intense. Hills galore but its a perfect place for a good workout!

*Quote for going on walks or for a run*

-Always remember you have to go back!-

hah! :)

The past weekend

2009-04-02T14:41:00.002-06:00

So, this past weekend Mom, Dad, and Kari came to Logan to go through the temple with Tyana and to also move me back here to Tacoma! I am glad to be back here and am looking for a job and will be going to Tacoma Community College probably starting in the summer. I still need to take the placement test.

Audrey and I waiting in the airport after we found out that our plane was delayed an hour.

Mom and I at Carlos' surprise birthday party!

Cosmic Bowling is Legit!

2009-03-22T12:45:00.003-06:00

On Saturday night we all decided,as in Tyana, Carlos, Drew, Carlos' friend Jesse and I, to go cosmic bowling at The Gutter in The Fun Park! I'd have to say comsic bowling is probably one of the most fun things there is to do. :) And when you go wear pink like my jacket because it glows/looks better than white does!!

They all said I had good form! LOL! :) And yet I only got ONE strike both games we played. There was always just ONE pin standing up. It would never go down. We think it was weighted down. But all in all I had some pretty good games compared to the last time I went bowling.

Spring Sunshine!

2009-03-21T11:11:00.002-06:00

A little dinner outside at Adam's Park on the most amazing first day of Spring! It was so sunny with blue skies and the temp was about 75 degrees! :)

Adam's Park. BEAUTIFUL!

Einstein Bros Bagels is a really good food joint! You basically can get anything on a bagel and guarantee it will be delish.

Icicles in the fridge

2009-03-13T15:06:00.005-06:00

We have one of those Brita water jug thingies in our fridge and it drips water a lot! But when Kari was here she said something about caffeine free Dr. Pepper. I never heard of that but we found it at the store! I love Dr. Pepper. Thanks family! Ha

HaHa Just some good fun!!

2009-03-12T21:32:00.004-06:00

Hahahaha! OK so I just wanted to see Tyana try and do the worm. It's taken me forever to try and get her to do it. It's really funny to me! I tried to teach her but she just can't get it down! One day though, one day! :)

It's like living in a large snow globe!

2009-03-09T17:29:00.005-06:00

For a while now we have had sunny days with pretty nice temps but all of the sudden we got dumped on last night and its been going all day! I pretty much love it when the trees are covered!

Ping Pong Champ!

2009-03-08T12:32:00.004-06:00

So, I just wanted to do a blog entry and didn't know what to write about. Tyana suggested telling you about my ping pong experience! Ha. It's nothing special but it was fun! I never was really good at ping pong. I usually just hit it back and forth and mess up a lot and not play it properly. But Saturday night we were at Carlos' house and we were just hanging out all day there and later after dinner we were going to watch a movie but his dad asked if I was good at ping pong and I said no but he wanted to play anyways so we did. He taught me how to hold the paddle the correct way and how to serve and everything. I might say I was doing pretty good, but once we started a game I went downhill. Ha. Lost about five times but it was still fun. One day, I will be a pro champion at it!! Maybe it's my new sport!! :)
And the movie we watched was Last of the Mohicans. It was a pretty good movie, I'd never seen it before and they were like oh we have to watch it! Ha.

Well, that is my useless blog entry for the day!! :)
HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!!

Moving

2009-03-03T20:39:00.002-07:00

Since, I can't find a job here and pretty much am doing nothing I am moving back to Tacoma the end of March. In June, I would be moving back there anyways because Tyana is getting married so I'll just go now and find a job there. I am also going to start taking classes at Tacoma Community College and once I'm done there I will transfer to a University.

So, this is what has been going on in my world. Just trying to find where I'm suppose to be and what I'm to accomplish. I'm glad I move here because it was an experience and I have learned new things. I have even been more into reading the scriptures and really trying to live the gospel. I still have my ways of being stubborn or angry but I'm trying. Ha.

Awww feelings

2009-03-03T20:11:00.004-07:00

So, I am watching The Biggest Loser and they had a competition to whom could make a food kit and load them in the truck fastest for the organization Feeding America to send off to those that are less fortunate and need food. They said that 1 in 8 people starved last year. I can't remember the total number but it was a lot. That right there just hits me and makes me sad. One reason, I love watching this show is because they are helping people that are in risk of dieing sooner than later. Helping people become healthy and more energized. This is exactly what I want to do for a career. It just gives me a great feeling knowing that I can help people live longer! I JUST LOVE IT! Ha.

Another thing that had happened on this show was that the winners of that challenge I mentioned above, won groceries for a year. The team that lost, had a girl on it that has five children and aren't that wealthy and with her two first born had gone to food banks and such to get help. One of the teammates on the winning team just felt bad for her and was thinking he didn't need a year of free groceries so, he gave them to her. I thought that was so sweet and I got goosebumps and just was like "aww" and I even teared a little.

All this makes me think I can help people like this through service somehow. I'm going to search for organizations or some type of group that does things like this. Maybe there is something through the hospital or boys and girls club where I can join and help. I want to help children and adults. If anyone knows of anything, please let me know! Mainly in Tacoma because I am moving back there this month! :)

New Neice : Rylee Belle McAnally :)

2009-02-24T22:38:00.003-07:00

Rylee Belle McAnally 7lbs 2oz 19 1/2in
February 24, 2009

The new family minus Brooklyn

Uncle Seth

Grandpa Mac

Audrey already wanting to play with Rylee

Exercise Science vs CNA Course

2009-02-24T10:51:00.003-07:00

For a long time now I have been interested in studying some type of nutrition and fitness in college. And when I started my application for BUY-Idaho I found Exercise Science. Exercise Science is where you learn about how the body reacts to exercise and diet and you also learn about the bones, skin and the tissues. There are many career options you can have also with this study. The body, to me, is so amazing how it works and things. So, I think it would be really fun to go into.

Mom brought this up to me yesterday when I was talking to her. Casey took the CNA course and told me maybe I should take it. It's a one course deal in the summer. So, I'm just thinking about this and maybe going to take the course at Tacoma Community College in the summer.

Anxiety

2009-02-21T20:17:00.000-07:00

That's it. I do not like how I get anxiety when people leave. Kari and her family left today and all day I have just felt like crap. I love Tyana so much but she is occupied with other things and is basically never home. I don't know many people. Hopefully, this will change soon when I get a job. Which that isn't going so well. Even when I went home for Christmas and had to come back I got anxiety. My chest feels like something really heavy is on it and its hard to breath. I have realized I need to be around a lot of people. Even if I don't talk to them or don't know them, at least there is tons more things going on that I can focus on. When sitting at home, nothing goes on and I get thinking and worrying about things and then soon get sad and depressed. It's worse at night because it's just me in my room and I think, think, think about coulda, woulda, shouldas and what might happen if this happened or that happened. At least during the day I can go somewhere and "people watch" or do something else. It will go away in a few days but while it lasts, it sucks.

I just needed to vent a little and here was the place I landed.

Just me!

2009-02-20T21:30:00.000-07:00

Alright, so I decided to start my own blog! Give me a bit to start it up and to make it look good!!