Holy Smokes!~ It's been ForEver!

Another month has come and gone! I can't believe it! Where has all the time gone? I feel like my birthday just happened! lol. So here's recap on the last month.
Memorial weekend was so much fun! First camping trip of the year and I can't wait for the rest of them! It was so much fun seeing family that I haven't seen in forever! And of course it being Idaho and all, it snowed and/or rained everyday we were there. Which was okay with me! lol. Spent a lot of time inside the campers playing games, eating junk food and having dance parties! Can I just say how much I LOVE camping food? Breakfasts are full of french toast and garbage eggs and pancakes and hash browns and fruit.. so good! Lunches are normal. Sandwiches and such.. nothing to brag about there. lol. But dinner! Oh My. YUMMY! Dutch oven potatoes and BBQ chicken. Scones, soups, burgers, hot dogs... I could eat this stuff all the time! But then it wouldn't taste as good so I guess I can wait. Here's a pic of the snow
And here's my sweet baby niece Taytum! Love this baby girl soooo much! :) Makes me want one of my own... Kinda. lol

On the one nice sunshiney day we wanted to ride bikes. My mother apparently has forgotten the art of bike riding and Bean tried to give her a "pump". Do you remember those? ahahahaha. Why do we call them "pumps"? So funny trying to watch her balance on that seat! hahaha

On memorial day I went hiking with two of my girlfriends up to Mesa Falls. It was so much fun! We goofed off way more than we probably should have but that's what we do. lol. On the drive up there I saw an abandoned train tunnel and I talked them into exploring it with me when we were finished with the falls. Sarah is scared of heights so she stayed at the bottom of the tunnel, but Allison and me climbed up the rocks to sit on top of it. It was crazy fun! lol. Of course when we got down we noticed that the beam we had to balance on to cross the tunnel was rotting through so it's a good thing we noticed that After the fact. Otherwise they might have talked some sense into me. Driving home I saw a sign for Cave Falls (I think I was looking for an adventure.) Allison turned around and we started down the road. It said it was only 19 miles.. About 40 minutes later on a muddy dirt road Allison called it quits. Me and Sarah begged for her to keep driving but she didn't think her car would make it up the hill. We looked up the falls when we got home. It would have been awesome!... If we had been traveling on the right road! Guess we missed our turn off somewhere... Who knew you had to drive through a golf course to get there! I bet a man came up with those directions. lol. That next weekend we were still in the mood for caves. So we took a big group up to the civil defense caves. And after three trips down the wrong roads we made it! So much fun! We took glow sticks and played hide and seek! And Maybe we had a dance party... :)


I finally finished up school for the summer! yaya! So excited not to have homework or classes that I feel guilty about skipping (hehe). To celebrate I went to Las Vegas for a week with my madre! We had so much fun! Stayed with my cousin Jessica who rocks for letting us stay at her house and eat her food. I slept in, ate lots of Eggos (been craving those for some odd reason lol)and lounged by the pool. Of course I had to share the pool with her five children and it was fun, but slightly disturbing. The two youngest had this thing about taking their clothes off and swimming naked. Vandi (who's four) wasn't too bad. But Cash (who just turned 3) had to take his diaper off to get in the pool. Made me feel like we should use more chlorine in the pool! lol

We visited my great grandma and my great aunt Kay and her daughter Shannon (who's so funny! Love this lady!). Dinner at REd Lobster is always called for when we get these ladies together. lol. Did a lot of shopping and eating out. Wish we had even 1/4 the number of restaurants they have down there! Me and my mom went country dancing Thursday night. Love line dancing! I can't seem to remember any of the steps at the moment, but when the music comes on it all comes back to me. Crazy how that works. lol. Friday I went dancing (noticing a theme yet? haha) with my friend Rylee. We met some people who turned out to be a lot of fun and we all went out for breakfast! Gotta love IHOP for being open 24 hours. lol. We got home just as the sun came up. :) Of course I started to regret that decision when I got woken up at 11 to go shopping for a wedding dress. I thought it could have waited until after 2 but oh well. It was a lot of fun. Some super pretty dresses and some not so pretty ones. Rylee was ready to buy a dress she found... we talked her out of it since she's currently single. hahaha. That night RY and I drove up to St. George for dinner and a party with the same people we had met the night before. Not as fun as the previous night, but still good to get out and laugh. Rylee and Al had a rap off. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe! A pretty common occurence for me, but still! So funny! We got home around 5 am. And then I woke up two hours later to drive home. Not fun. But the week and all it's crazy events were totally worth it!
I think that's pretty much all that's happened so far. I'll keep you posted on any other exciting happenings of the summer... Think All Girls Camping Trip. It's gonna be gooooooood! hahahaha

One year older and Wiser too?

Yep it that's day of the year again. My birthday. I can't believe that another year has come and gone. It feels like I was just celebrating my 22nd birthday and now I'm at 23. It's already turning into one of the best ones yet and the day is just starting! In our house our birthday celebration is pretty much a week long. Mine and Rachael's birthday, Bean's birthday and Mother's day all usually fall within the same week so we just keep on celebrating. We did a Mother's day dinner/birthday dinner with my grandma in Pocatello on Saturday. Tuesday we did a girls day with shopping and lunch and then a family dinner that night to celebrate. Wednesday my other grandma and aunt came up from Logan and we did dinner, ice cream cake and presents. Thursday I went shopping with my mom for my best friend's birthday... just two days after mine! lol. And then there's today. Dinner with Calaigh! She's coming into town to help me celebrate. Tomorrow we're celebrating her birthday since she won't be here on Sunday. All in all a crazy busy week but so much fun! I think all birthdays should be celebrated for a week at a time.

23 just sounds so old to me. Rach says it sounds young. Maybe a kid makes a difference? lol. I think I'm having a mid-midlife crisis. I keep thinking about all the things I haven't accomplished yet and it makes me feel panicky. But then I have moments of clarity when I realize that I'm not THAT old. I still have a good fifty (hopefully, lol) years left. My life is just starting. I'm trying to be positive. I'm just happy that three of the most important people in my life get to help me celebrate!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Twin, Beaner and Calaigh! Love you guys!

NEw Loves

Went to the midnight premier of Iron Man 2. It was AWESOME! I think I might love it even better than the first. Waiting in line wasn't the most fun I've ever had, and the commercials we had to sit through were pretty torturous. But the movie and company I was with were definitely worth it. I love going to new movies on opening day. There's just a different energy to the audience. You know that every person in that room wants to see it just as badly as you do. I love that people call out things and applaud when something awesome happens. It's great! :)

Lately I've been on a Miley Cyrus kick. Who knew? lol. I watched the Hannah Montana movie last week and it was pretty good. Does anyone else think she has fantastic hair?? lol. Also watched THe Last Song, twice, in theaters. I just love that movie. It's not the typical romance. There's the unexpected twist that added some depth to it. Loved it! Especially this music video. :)

A little bit of everything.. and then some

So much has happened this month and I haven't blogged any of it! I guess I just haven't been in a bloggin mood. But last night I was with my girls reminiscing about happenings these past few weeks and I decided I should probably blog them so I can remember them.
Last night we had our stake opening social for the new semester. It was refreshments and drum roll please............. A dance. What? Yes I said it. A dance. Like the kind where boys put on their good smelling axe bodyspray, girls put on their nicest/skimpiest/still modest shirt that they own and we all try and catch each others eyes without being too obvious about it. It was a complete flashback to stake dances from when you are 14 and it's the coolest thing to do on a saturday night. Unfortunately no one showed up in a prom dress. I was kinda hoping this would happen. Alas, it did not. However I was privy to witness a boy/girl interaction that had me biting my lip so I wouldn't burst out laughing while the guy was still within hearing distance. It happened to my good friend Sarah. Poor, unfortunate Sarah. hahahaha. There's this guy who we shall call Fred. And he has been crushing on Sarah for at least a semester. The moment a slow song came on, he waltzes on over, in a plaid sports jacket no less, and rubs, yes rubs, his shoulder along her back. Like a cat marking it's territory. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! And then he just keeps on walking like now it's her turn to make a move. Did I mention that he's a drama major? HA! I wish we had a camera there so we could have captured mine and Allison's looks when he did this. Or best yet, Sarah's. lol. Sarah I love you, but this is just too funny not to share! hahaha :) I wonder if he actually thought something like that would work?
We lasted at this social event for a solid 15 minutes before we called it quits. We consoled ourselves with some ColdStone. While there we were talking about something.. I can't really remember. Anyways I said something to Jenense about how weird it is that her minor is herbology when her major is dance. I guess Herbology is a Harry Potter term, humans (haha) call it horticulture. We all got a kick out of it and then proceeded to give ourselves a Harry Potter major. I am Care of Magical Creatures since I'm a zoology major, and so forth. I thought it was funny until I look over at the next table and this girl is looking at us like "No wonder these girls aren't married!" I had the girls look at her face and we all cracked up. Looks like I've turned into one of the weird people at this school... CRAP!! hahaha. Love you girls!

Two weeks ago I was down in SLC, no shocker there lol, and hung out with my best friend Calaigh and our group. I love these people. We ended up going to a Skid Row concert.. Never heard of these guys but Calaigh's parents had all access passes so we figured what the heck. They ended up being some heavy metal band full of wannabe rockstars. The lead singer could actually sing, which surprised me. But the guitar player had the longest hair that he just kept flipping all over the place and the drummer was only wearing tight leather (probably pleather) pants, with lots of tattoos covering his upper body. And he wasn't exactly in tip-top shape either. Did i mention that none of these band members are under the age of 35? We were backstage and I ended up requesting ear plugs from the tech dude. haha. He was wearing them too! The people who showed up for this concert where crazy. Mostly old people wanting to pretend they were young by wearing short, tight skirts, lots of leather and lots of tats and piercings. And lots of mullets. Not the best concert I've ever been to. After the concert we went home and youtubed the Cinnamon Challege. Lots of good footage, enough laughter that Calaigh, Courtney and Chris decided they wanted to do it. Ann and myself were the only smart ones and said no thanks. lol. I recorded the whole thing, and I'm laughing the entire time. It's on my facebook page. I don't know how to put it here to share. Sorry.. lol.

It's felt like a crazy month but I can't think of anything else. This post is already a doozy so it's all good!

p.s. Is anyone else LOVING all this rain?! No? Hmm... guess it's just me then! haha :)

April Fools

Hmmm... I'm reading all these blogs about pranks that people played on each other and I have to admit that I'm just not that creative..Or maybe I'm just lazy? No one played a prank on me this year or last year or the one before that.. The one and only prank I can remember ever being played on me was when I was younger. Probably 10 or 11 and my mom sat us down and told us my dad got a job in Chicago and we were moving there at the end of the school year. We were crushed! Okay maybe RAch was more crushed than me... She ran crying from the room. I was suspicious of the whole thing so I wasn't that upset. And then it turned out to be a joke and I laughed really hard because Rach couldn't stop crying! hahahaha. GUess she didn't want to move eh? lol!
Woke up to Deke running around the house with a plastic shopping bag stuck to his head. It was really nosy. I was laughing so hard I couldn't even get it off him. No idea how he got it stuck there! Poor cat. It's making me giggle just thinking about it!hahahahaha
What else?..... We are babysitting Taytum while Rach is off in Park City on a shopping spree. Not sure how it's going to go. Good thing my mom's here to get up with her in the middle of the night... and feed her.. and change her... Okay maybe my job is only to give her snuggles and kisses. lol.
It's Easter this weekend! YAYAY! I love Easter! I think it's all about the candy for me. I was watching Jim Gaffigan last night and his holiday speal came on and I was laughing hysterically.. nothing unusual about that. Everyone should watch it. IT rocks! haha
Hmmm... I think that's about it. HAPPY EASTER!!

Spring is in the AIR!!

SPRING IS HERE!! Okay probably not for long, but for today it's here and I'm loving it! I've been wearing flip flops all week ( I know it's only Tuesday.. lol)and it's been amazing. I just can't bring myself to put on socks and stuffy shoes when the sun is shining, most of the snow has melted and it's in the forties! Haha. Talking with some friends last night and we discussed the weather. I was laughing really hard when one of the them pointed out that if it was 10 degrees cooler it could be snowing and yet everyone was walking around in shorts and sandals just soaking up the sun. Today is no exception. I even saw some girls laying on the sidewalk sunbathing.. The temp was 41 degrees. Gotta love Idaho. Anything over 30 is considered warm. Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine! HAPPY SPRING!!

Poor Deke

My poor baby boy has an eye infection! It is so sad! I had Bean take him into work with her today because it wasn't getting any better. At first I thought his eye was just scratched and that's why it was watering so much. I put in neosporin to help it heal but it just kept getting worse. Finally yesterday it had goobers and he could barely open it. So off to the vet he went. We now have antibiotic ointment for his eye. Poor thing. He hates the vet. He only does good if I'm in the room with him, but the minute they try and take him in the back to do shots or weigh him, he freaks out. I think it's funny, the vet and technicians probably not so much. I think the eye was scratched by another kitty and it got infected. Stupid bullies! My little guy is declawed so he can't even defend himself (all you PETA people who think declawing is bad, don't blame me. My mom made me do it!). He wouldn't fight the other cats even if he could. Brianna says his fight or flight system is broken because he just kind of cowers, but it;s only because he's so sweet (... I sound like the mom who's kid just killed someone and all she can say is he would never hurt a fly!.. Kinda morbid.. sorry... lol) Anyways, hopefully my little man gets better soon! If you hate cats, feel free not to comment... Rach that includes you! :)