All I want for Christams Is....

yay i get to go home tomorrow and all i want for christmas is.....to be home!!!! I told my mom that i want her to find me a man this year for christmas. That hasn't worked out so well, but oh well the single life is good. I'm so excited for next semester to start and can't wait to get it over with so it will be summer and I can spend my days either working for lounging by the pool, but mostly in the pool!!

I really hope the weather is good so i won't have to stop at a motel like my sister...i really want a four wheel drive vehicle...preferable an exterra...with this winter weather it would make me feel a whole lot safer. Maybe if i save up enough money during the summer I'll be able to get one for next winter. I am now accepting donations for a new car!! Maybe that will be my new years resolution.

Sorry its late and I'm lonely so I'm trying to stay up. I freak myself out sometimes when I'm alone and its dark. The last two nights i put a laundry basket full of clothes in front of my door (I don't really know how that would stop anybody from coming into my room, but it makes me feel safer). Tonight I emptied my basket so I don't have anything, maybe a chair. I get to go home tomorrow and sleep in my own bed :) that is if my sister doesn't take it, but I've told my mom and my other sisters to not let her, I love my bed! Anyways I guess I'll read my scriptures, that always makes me feel better, and go to sleep!! And pray for no snow tomorrow!!

DONE!!

I am done with my first semester at UVU and I'm so relieved. Finals was awful though. I had my first final at 9 and it was an in class final so i had to be there at 9. I got to the bus station at 8 so i could have time to study. I got on a new bus that went around all of orem before going to UVU. I was almost going to have a panic attack on the bus. Thankfully I got to my class on time and hopefully did well on my test. The rest of the day went ok and after I treated myself to Artic-Circle for a cheeseburger. Thank goodness its done...now i just get to start again in 2 weeks!

Its SNOWING

Its snowing and i'm so excited. I started last night and its still snowing! I love it! Anyways that's my excitement. I'm still working and going to school. Finals is next week so i've been busy with school. I'm tending and my nephews crying so I'll maybe write somemore tonight when i get to my apartment! Don't worry my life isn't very exciting so your not missing much!

LIFE

It's 10 p.m., I done with work and homework for the day so I finally have time to post something. My sister got mad at me and told me that I could do it at her house when i am tending and watching t.v. I have so many shows that i have to watch that she records for me that i don't have time to do anything else besides hold the baby and watch t.v. However, i am going to start sewing some more purses one of these days. I have two I have to make and some headbands for O!
Anyways all that happens in my life is work, school, homework, and tending. I like school, but I don't really have any friends which sucks. However I don't really mind because I get lots of homework and reading done. If anyone has read the dress books, the luxe books, the new one just came out so I am trying to read them all again so I can get the new one. Anyways, if I am lucky I will see somebody from my town and I get excited, but that doesn't happen often (its a big school, way bigger then snow) I have offically decided to do marketing! I really want to do interior design, but the only school close that offers it is the art institute and its really expensive. So I decided to finish taking all the classes i can and then do an internship. Anyways next semester some of my friends are coming and i am so excited to have people there that i actually know! WAHOO!
Work is going good. I work about everyday with at least one weekday off and sundays off, which is good. The only not good thing is that i see different things that people have made and i want to make them....I have about 2 or 3 different flower ideas to do for hair stuff. I just need more time to do it! I also really want to learn how to decorate cakes. I love the cake shows, so if anyone knows any cake decorating classes let me know. I know roberts has some that I'm going to look into someday when i have time!
Anyways thats my life these days, I don't do much, but i feel like i'm running and losing my mind! The other day I got on the wrong bus and took a nice little scenic drive around riverwoods! Thats how much I'm losing my mind and I don't like it. I need a vacation to have a breather. Hopefully I'll be able to go to Texas for thanksgiving, fingers crossed for that. I'm going to call my boss tomorrow to ask, I'm a little nervous!

Thank you UTA

I am now an offical rider of the UTA Bus system...Today was my first day and it was quite an experience...But it is all worth it. No dishing out 80 dollars for a parking pass which wouldn't be a very good parking either, not having to stress about finding a parking place, not having to pay for gas and not having to walk far. I do have to say it was very exciting. But I found a bus friend that showed me how to use the bus...thanks bus friend! Oh first day of school went well, I saw three richfield people...wahoo! My classes seem like they are going to be fun..hopefully marketing will, I'm still a little worried about that. But I think marketing and interior design go along with each other so that will be good. I think I am going to persue marketing, but we will see once this class gets under way. So wish me luck for this school year and hopefully I can make something out of myself!

First Day of School!

Yup tomorrow is my first day of school. I haven't been in school for a year and tomorrow I'm going. I am even going to ride the bus to school...I think that is what I am most nervous for. I got my bus schedule that I need to be on and today I went and got my student ID and bus pass. I am excited though to meet new people. Hopefully with the 3 hours I have to spare in between my morning class and afternoon classes I'll be able to meet new people and get some homework done so i can relax after school. I am taking intro to marketing, and two interior design classes. I am super excited about the interior design classes and maybe I can find out if they have a major for it. Well wish me luck for my first day of school!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my dad's birthday. I found this picture of them from when they were first married. I think it was their engagement picture, but I think its cute. Anyways I love my dad very much and I am proud of what he has accomplished in his life. I know he is supportive in all I do and that he will always be there for me. I love his sense of humor...I am sitting upstairs and he is having scouts downstairs. While they were doing the scout oath at the end of it they say, a scout is........and at the end they say and is annoying. I am thankful that I can have the parents I have.
Anyways today we just got done with dinner. Before jake, mom and me tried to sing the happy birthday song, but we tried three different times and just got past the happy birthday part. We are not very in tune and don't sing
very well. But its ok hopefully he liked it. I love ya dad and am thankful for what you give me, even though most of the time you don't know what your giving me...ha ha but what can I say I love to shop! Love you tons, and happy birthday :)

August Excitement

I have about 2 min to get this post done before I have to go get ready for work. Only 4 more days that I have to work and I will be officially unemployed! I am moving to Provo on sunday and still haven't found a job. But I have some money save so hopefully that will be enough for my needs for a while. However, I am going to be tending my new NEPHEW. Yes I am finally posting about him. Well I just barely got a decent picture of me with him so I can post. His name is Paxton and he is so cute. I get to see him every monday and friday...well and maybe sunday if they want to fix me sunday dinner. But I'm exicited. My cousin got married this month. I love weddings, because we get to be with a lot of family and we get to have fun. Her wedding was outside in their backyard and It was so cute. I had really fun as kitchen duty with some of my aunts. It was a good time, we gossiped, laughed and ate lots of mini fruite pizza's.

Since I have been home I have done lots of projects. I have redid my bathroom, made quilts, made pursus, and my latest is....I redid a chair. It has been sitting on our front porch forever and I really like the chair. So last week I went with my friend to provo and we stopped at my favorite fabric store Gracie Lous. I found this cute fabric and recovered it. It turned out pretty cute I'll just see if it can withstand my using it as my desk chair.

Anyways thats all thats been going on, my little sister moved to her first year of college this last weekend and I'm moving this weekend. I don't know what my parents are going to do with just jake at home. I bet my mom will go crazy and will be coming up north to "visit" a lot!

Family Vacation

For our family vacation this year we went to MONTANA! Since Jamie was still in town her and her kids came with us. It has been a blast and I love it up here, too bad its so far away. I love being in the mountains without actually camping. It was a long long drive up here and we had to double up on seats. We had 9 people to an 8 peson car, it wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't have car seats. After half way the three of us, Jerika, me, and Jake switched jamie for the back and it was a much better ride from there. We started out and stopped in Ogden to sleepover at Grandma's.
We went to Yellowstone for a day which was pretty exciting. I really wanted to see a bear, but didn't see one. All we saw were buffalo and elk. Pretty boring, but on our way home my sister saw a bear, but I didn't see it.....However today I was walking misi down to see the lake to see how much the paddle boast were. When we were walking back I noticed people stopping, I didn't think anything was going on and started up to our condo. Suddenly a black bear ran about 25 feet in front of me....It was so scary and I didn't know how I was going to defend Misi and me, since I was so exausted from pushing him around. Don't worry the bear didn't come near us, but I did get to see a bear and it was a pretty close encounter with one. Anyways we went to see Old
Faithful. Thankfully we didn't have to sit too long, just long enough for Ami to cry that he didn't want to be 4 anymore, because he wanted to sit in the stroller and to take picutres. This is us doing silly pictures waiting for Old Faithful to explode. This is us again getting a picture of Old Faithful. It was pretty exciting, probably the most exciting thing of the day. It wasn't a very exciting day with driving around all day.
Other things we have done on our trip is we went swimming, went to Bozeman and went shopping (because how can we go somewhere and not go shopping), explored around Big Sky, went to a real hick county fair, and went.....Paddleboating....This is us with our life jackets waiting to get on the paddleboats.

And this is the winning team, we had races with Jerika, Jamie and O and we won every one. Except the last one, but we bumped them along, so we really won. It has been a fun trip and I am glad Jamie and her kids have came, because if they weren't here it would have been pretty boring with only Jerika, Jake and my Parents to keep me company. Hopefully we can all sleep all the drive home tomorrow in the car while my dad drives.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while....i really have been just too lazy to do anything, or maybe too busy playing with my niece and nephews. Well whats been going on in my life... the last week in June my mom and I hopped a plane over to Texas to help drive my sister and her kids back to utah. I was the longest drive, but good thing there was a DVD player in the car and 3 of us that could drive. However, we had to watch the same couple of movies over and over becasue they are the kids favorites...anything to keep them from not crying. Well we made it to Blanding in time for the family reunion. After that we headed home, so happy to be home from the week being away...I love my bed. Next exciting thing is we went to the 4th of july parade...ok it wasn't very exciting, it was hot and for half of the time I had to help the kids get candy. Then we went and walked around the park, which was so crammed full of people we could hardly get by. After that the next week I headed up to Provo to figure out my life. I got an apartment and got registered for school, now I just need to find a job. It feels so good to finally know what I am going to do with my life....now i just have to prepare my self mentally to go back to school. Sorry I don't have any pictures...I was going to get them from Jerikas facebook but the only ones she has in there from the reunion is of her. Next post I'll be sure to put some on.

I NEED HELP!!!!

My sister has been harping me that i need to go back to school. I don't like school that much, but she said that I won't meet any people by not going to school. Anyway I really want to move to Cedar and she says in order to meet people I should go back to school. The only problem is I don't know what to go to school for. My top pick is Interior Design, but I don't know what I would do with that, maybe I can become the next Candice Olson, for the U.S., I would love that! Or my second choice is Business Management, becuase eventually someday I want to own a fabric store, or a scrapbook store, or a craft store, or maybe even a little botique, maybe all rolled into one. However, my other sister said that wouldn't really help me to have a business degree in order to have a store. I am so confused and I don't know what to do. But another problem is that is if I find a Dental Assisting job i won't be able to go to school. I already have a degree for that and I would really like to do that, but it is a slim chance that i'll find a job in that becuase i really haven't actually worked in an office I only job shadowed. The problem with that is if i do go to school i probably need to figure it out soon so I can apply for it. But i don't want to find a job until i am closer to moving, so i can be here for all the stuff thats going on in my house. I am so confused with my life right now and I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I really need some advice. Any Adive?

just a normal day in my life!

Well now that I live at home, I don't do much. I do however hang out with my mom and gracie everyday, and I love it! We usually watch HGTV, go shopping, or sometimes work outside. I love being lazy. I do have a job that is fun too, I work at comfort inn. It is a pretty fun job, I work with fun people, and I get to meet lots of interesting people. Don't worry I'm not going to live at home for the rest of my life...I really want to move down south somewhere, find a job, rent a cute house or apartment and stay there for a long time. Sorry my post isn't that interesting I really haven't done much. Last week I went with my brother and parents to my Grandma's in Ogden. That was pretty fun, because Jaliz, Andy, Janelle, and Allyssa came to hang out with us on Saturday...Of course we went shopping. And the other night I went up to Fountain Green to have a girls night with some of my old roommates. It was really fun, I had a barbeque with Mandy's family, which was really good and thanks for the food Mand, and we went to the movie fighting. Other than that not much has been going on. So sorry for not posting and for no pictures.

Happy Birthday Kenz!

It was my friends birthday the other day...so it was a good excuse to go to Provo to visit! We were going to go camping, but it was cold and it was going to rain that night so we decided against it. Instead we went to a park, with a cool fishing pond and had a fire. Here is our excitement!Kenzie dropped the cake, but we ended up eating what was not touching the ground. It was a fun night, cooking hotdogs, meeting new people and eating cake! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENZ!

Weekend with the Ham's

For easter this year it wasn't very exciting...none of our babies came down (unless we count the almost one), so we had no easter egg hunt, or dying eggs and the easter bunny didn't even come to visit our house!! It was very sad...but, the Ham's came down....Jaliz and Andy..wahoo! They were our excitement for the weekend. We ate, played TTR (ticket to ride), and sat around. But we did make .....SUGAR COOKIES...I really wanted sugar cookies and I had been craving them for a long long time, so i whipped up a batch. I had to wait until Jaliz came down because i really didn't know how to make them, but she didn't know either. So we had to call martha stewart Jamie! That was our excitement for the weekend, even though we didn't do anything easterish we still had fun

We each got to pick a color and mine was blue-green...I think they tasted better then the rest. Thanks to Jerika frosting them all for me!

The prego's of the family!

We only had two cookie cutters, a star and a tiny little flower that didn't even look like a flower. Notice the "sugar cookies" words on the picture, Jerika has to do that to know what they are...Just kidding she got a new camara for her birthday and you can type words on pictures. So, now she does it on about every picture she takes. Sorry I don't have any pictures of us in our easter sunday outfits, but we didn't get any this year...my mom thinks we are too old for those kind of things anymore, but i don't think i am.

Following the Crowd

Well since my sister is going private, i guess i better do what the younger sister does and copy her older sister....ya i'm going private! i'm not really sure how to do it, so any pointers would be great....but ya I guess just send me your email if you want to read my blog....maybe it will get more exciting, but i haven't done any projects for a week. However, I am going camping on monday night up in AF with my friends so i will post picutres about that...stay tuned and send me your email!

My new FAV thing!

So since I live at home and don't have a lot to do I use the computer a lot....My new favorite thing is....Pandora Radio. My friend Mandy introduced us together and I use it everyday. It's like a radio station of course but you can type in an artist's name for example Taylor Swift and it brings up a bunch of other artist's that is in her music category. Its amazing I have a everyday list and I have a Sunday list that I love because I never know what church music I'm going to like so I use this to find songs I love! Go check it out...its Pandora.com!

This is for you Jamie!

Yes since my dad moved out of the closet as his office, my mom is now redoing the closet to have it be his closet. She was all his junk out of her closet so she can have more room for her junk! Well jamie wanted me to post pictures, because since she lives so far away this is the only way for her to see the happenings!

Mom ripped everything out of the closet.....I think she wants to get it done fast so he can move all his stuff!

She painted the two walls that has the shelving on them leftover blue from downstairs and is going to paint the other wall a leftover brown or something.

Jake put together two shelves and got tired of it so mom put together the rest!

Mom and jake put the floor in...she wanted wood so it could clean easier!

Rate My Space!

My sister said I should put pictures on "Rate My Space," which is on HGTV.com, so I decided just to put it on here. My other Texas sister said I had to put pictures of the finished product on here so she could see.....Its not all the way finished, there is a little patch of ceiling above the tub that isn't painted but I will do that later this week. Anyways here is my finished bathroom with the green and the orange....I think it turned out cute, what do you think? I really didn't do anything to the bath tub. We just, My mom mainly, re calked, and clean it....I did get a new shower head which I tried out today and I love....Three different settings!!! I'm living the good life I guess...Jamie you'll have to come home soon so you can use it! This is the orange.....I like it i think it gives it a pop of color so the bathroom isn't too green.

Don't worry about the bottom right corner, I ran out of ribbon and was so sick of doing it last night that I just wanted it to be done. I will just put a big picture there to cover it up...Oh its going to have pictures in it one of these days!

I saw these on a decorating show, but I kindof did them a little different. We just had these leftover tile picture things, so I just turned the tile part over and painted the back then stamped a flower on them. They say Joy and Dream, which were just leftover words that I used, its just a little filler where the flowers aren't......anyways thats my new bathroom!! Hopefully Jeffrey likes it or he is going to be "forced" to redo it! Thats what he wrote this last week when my mom told him I was redoing it!

Day 2

Today....Painting baseboards, beadboard, door, and part of ceiling! I have been painting all day long today and finally I got all the painting mostly finished. All I have to do is to finish ceiling, but since my mom recaulked the bathtub today I can't finish until 36 hours, which is how long it takes to dry. Here is a sneak peak of the orange that's part of the color scheme.Don't worry I finally painted the bathroom door, which hasn't been painted and we have finished the bathroom how long ago...ya a long time ago!

Big New Project!!!

Besides reading, quilting, watching tv, working outside, and going on trips I am REDOING MY BATHROOM...I figure since Jeffrey isn't home for a while I have the only say how my bathroom looks like....however he did write my dad and say to not let my mom or the girls do anything to his bedroom or his bathroom. But whatever he doesn't know won't kill him! So yes this is the first stage in redoing my bathroom, and it is green. It doesn't look this pukey...if you want to see it you'll just have to come over and see for yourself. I really just posted these pictures for Jamie, because she doesn't think my color scheme will look good, green and orange....it will look good, so stay tuned it you want to see it step by step, or I should say day by day.

Springbreak MOAB vacation!!

Mandy, my ex roomie, had this great idea to go to Moab for spring break. Since I don't go to school and don't really have a spring break anymore I thought this would be a great time. So last week we booked a hotel and loaded up the car and drove to Moab. We really didn't know what we were going to do, but go to Arches one day. We stayed at getto Motel 6, it didn't even have an alarm clock or little shampoo bottles. It was still a good time and it had beds, a showere, and a tv so i was good with it.

We left Wednesday in the morningish...when we got there we really didn't know what to do, so we did what girls do....went shopping. None of us had any money besides Jessica, she was the only one who bought anything. We went to all the stores on mainstreet and saw basically the same things in all of them. Whenever I go to Blanding we always drive past these shops and I always wonder whats in them...now I know and I never have to wonder again. We met these nice people who let us take a picture with them....they where very friendly.

Later that night we went hot tubbing....we happened to meet in the hot tub some of Mandy and Jessica's friends from snow. So it was a fun time in the hot tub, as always.

The next day we got up, packed wraps for lunch, got our water bottles, sunscreen, and hiking shoes and headed to arches. This was only my second time going and the first time I don't really remember at all. It was pretty cool, besides all the hiking which i don't do! The only one that we really had to hike hike was to delicate arch which was way worth it, because it was pretty cool once we got there. On the way up I saw all these old people going up so I knew I could make it, besides all the stops we had to take we made it in one piece. All my pictures are in cronilogical order...... We were so excited to finally get there that we had to take a picture in front of the sign. I got a picture by the biggest of the sheep for Jake, because he likes sheep, even though this is a mountain sheep. This is the first of the sight seeing stops in arches...it actually shows the fault line that runs along the road. There is this big rock that we climbed on that is on the edge of the mountain...it was pretty scary, but I climbed it. This is just a picture of me "running" off the mountain. This is our second stop, its balancing rock...thats why we are all balancing on rocks. If you haven't seen balancing rock it really looks like its going to fall off.This is the third and the worst but the best. The hike was 1.5 Miles each way...It doesn't sound like a lot, but hiking up hill and worst of all hiking up hill on slick rock is way hard. It wasn't a way hot day so that helped a lot, but if it was hot then I don't think I would have made it. This is delicate arch, if you haven't been there before it is this huge rock on top of the mountain on the edge of it. It was pretty amazing how this could have possibly been formed and how anybody ever found it. There is a place where you can just stand and look at it or you can go actually up to it. There is slick rock everywhere with no place to really grab on if you slip on fall so you have to be really careful. I made it and stood in the middle of it. It was pretty amazing and I'm glad I did it. This is me after...there is a little arch that you can climb up in....this is how I looked after climbing up to delicate arch and climbing up to that arch....don't worry the way back down probably didn't even take half as long as it did to go up. This is on our way to sand dune arch..there was a little cavern type thing that we went and took our pictures in. This is sand dune arch. I liked the hike a lot better, because it wasn't very far and it was all sand which is a lot easier than slick rock.

This is our crew that went along to spring break. It was really fun and I'm glad I went and have friends that I can take a random trip with and have such a good time that I did. But we have to go back again, because we didn't go to hole in the rock, wilson's arch, or the waterfall. Besides the waterfall, hole in the rock and wilson's arch are more things that I always drive past and never stop to look at, so I think we better take another road trip to check those things out!

Big Suprise in the Brown House

We have had some pretty exciting times these past couple of weeks. My sister and her family (our texas family) suprise us! They came a half an hour before scouts was supposed to start. We got a knock on our door, my mom went and answered it thinking it was a scout coming and who was at the door.....Ofeina and Ami...We were so super excited and I have never been so suprised in my life! And while they where here it was crazy fun. We hung out and had a blast. We had some crazy times so some of these pictures might be a little on the weird side...but thats how we are!

I know this picture isn't really good, but i love all their different poses... it is so like them and their different personalities!

On Saturday their was a big rugby tournament in Saint George...so Jerika and I along with Jamie, Pila, Misi, Pila's niece M.J. and Pila's dad loaded up the car and headed down to meet Pila's family. I was so excited because i love watching rugby and i never get to watch it unless i'm with jamie and pila or with Elsie...but i don't get to spend time with them much anymore so i never get to watch it. It was just a bunch of colleges playing and Pila's cousins were playing on Snows team so we went down and supported them. It was so so hot down there it felt like summer....jamie, jerika and me got sunburned...of course..we always do I loved it. After we went window shopping and ate at Mongolian BBQ...yum...i highly suggest it, its so good. On the way home...it was the craziest for the day...we played dumb car games with pila's niece M.J. the best one was the one I suggested....each making different beats and putting it together...its so dumb but its so fun. We laughed the whole way home, it was so funny, we probably just got too much sun! This is how we looked in Saint George and ....... This is how they looked in Richfield....ha!

Janelle and Allyssa came down on friday, but didn't want to go to the Rugby game so they stayed home and Jaliz and Andy came down that night. It was so fun to have all the family home, but two, I love it when we all get together and have a good time. Whenever all the grandkids.. all 4 of them get together my mother always wants to get a picture of them together...it never works out..these are the only two that cooperated and took a picture, but nice try. On monday Jaliz was able to go in to get an ultra sound to see what her baby is....and....We are so excited, but i think andy is the most excited! I'm so excited for them and i think they are both going to make wonderful parents. Hopefully their son will have red hair so we can have another jake to run around with. It makes me jealous that i'm not having a baby...but that can wait...for a long long time!
Other than that excitement Pila so wonderfully tiled the basement that I was going to have to do. The lines are perfectly straight and it looks so good...way better than my mom and I could have done. It was such a suprise and good time they came...I'm glad they were able to make it since both of Pila's parents and his niece is here from New Zealand.....I'm happy that they were able to spend time with them and with us....they are probably sick of traveling since they traveled back and forth so many times, but it was probably worth it for them. They left on Thursday and the house hasn't been the same since...it never is...its too quiet, but i guess i have to get back to life and find a dang job. Wish me luck! Here are just a few more of our crazy times we had!

That's Pila's Niece in the dark pink..M.J..she is so cute...she has her little accent and we had a fun time with her. She probably thinks we are so weird...but thats ok because we had a fun time on our car ride and while she was at our house.

Ofeina is such a character...she is so cute and funny. She is getting so big and her hair is so long...I am so jealous!

Ha this was my favorite...Ami is so funny and he has the biggest imagination....when they came back one night from visiting Pila's family this is how Ami was dressed. I went to go get him out of his car and Jamie told me not to laugh at his outfit. So I went and got him out of the car, it was so hard to laugh but when i opened the door he said, Jessica I'm a wrestler....he borrowed clothes from his cousin hiked up his pants as far as he could and tucked in his shirt. Ha he is so funny he wore those all night and most of the next day....my sister finally made him change!

Misi is so so cute. He is getting so big and trying so hard to talk...he says some words but other times he just grawls....I am the only one he liked...which i like to rub in Jerika's face. However when Andy came misi would only go play with him and not me! He has the cutest smile and such cute curly hair