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The Mo I know has this on her blog so I stole it and you all have to do it.

TOP 8

8 T.V. SHOWS I LIKE TO WATCH

1. That 70's show

2. The Office

3. Gilmore Girls

4. House

5. Law & Order

6. Heroes

7. How it's made

8. Food Network

8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS

1. Albertos

2. Barbacoa

3. Bombay House

4. Little World

5. Mad Greek

6. The Roof (or ruff as mom would say)

7. CPK

8. China City!

 8 THING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY

1. Work

2. Declared my Major (officially)

3. School

4. Albertos with Mo 

5. Hot cocoa and Ice cream 

6. Fell asleep at my old apartment (awkward JK)

7. Got a call from someone who wanted to come look at the Apartment (HE was totally cool with a shared room!)

8. Finished A wrinkle in time

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO

1. My own house/ yard

2. Graduation

3. 5 Thanksgiving dinners

4. Being with friends and family

5. Road trip!

6. Holidays

7. Organized life

8. A new car

8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST

1. To marry my best friend

2. Own my own house with a garden, a library (with all my favorite books), and pool.

3. To be as happy as I can be (relieved of stress)

4.  Healthier living aka exercise and diet

5. To be wise/well educated

6. Children

7. To visit every place on my list

8. A deeper knowledge of the gospel

ROOMMATES

So this week has been really crazy I'm moving into my new apartment and trying to find roommates for both places. I've had a couple potentials but... I guess we'll see. I'm a little worried about moving for some reason. I guess its just that i've been here for such a long time that I just feel weird about moving to a new place. I'm sure once everything is settled I will feel more comfortable. So its a Friday night and I'm home alone its really really weird. I don't think this has ever happened to me Sarah is on a date, my other roommates went to a really cheesy movie and I am here blogging. Nice. Tomorrow night is our halloween party and I have decided to go as Tinker bell. (a very tall Tinker bell) whatever, my friend made my costume for me, very cute and modest don't worry. I'm reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and it is completely freaking me out, little kids are creepy. That is the real reason I'm blogging; I'm trying to get back to reality so I don't have to turn all my lights on and call a friend over to ward off frightening apparitions. well, that's really all that's on my mind right now. Also, HAppy Birthday yitto Ye-ah!  P.S. Wheat, if you can possibly arrange to have your ipod sent to me I'll see what I can do to get you a new one for el cheapo-er! 

Basically technically

This is to all you cousins who say basically technically(which is all of you). I don't know if many of you know how that saying got started so... Whitney, Miranda and I had a geology class which was very late at night. Our teacher was a VERY dry man and we had to keep ourselves entertained by any means possible. We took to making fun of basically technically everything the poor man said. He was giving a lecture one dull evening and he said this phrase and we all thought it was hilarious of course; you know us. So we have merged it into our favorite sayings. Last week my friend Christa came over to my apartment with a funny story to tell me. She is a student at SLCC and has a History class there. She was talking to the girl sitting next to her and the girl uttered the golden phrase of basically technically. Christa said, "I have a friend who says that all the time." The girl sitting next to her said, "what's her name?" Christa said,"Leslie" And Madison said, "That's my cousin." What a small world we live in. Speaking of small worlds I ran in to Alexis, Tahna, and Seth Bott on saturday at the Gateway. I haven't seen them for it feels like years which it probably has been. And speaking of Seth Bott, Kelsie you SKUNK what were you thinking? Mind you, you better run for cover when next I see you. 

BUSY

So My life has continued being hectic and seems to be getting even more so. This may make some of you think I'm not myself or even unwell but I have joined a punk rock piano band. Yes, unbelievable I know. I am the lead singer and I also do the piano, Jake plays the guitar and sings backup, and Mike is our drummer. We're actually pretty good. Now, contrary to the title of genre we don't play PUNK music we cover bands and write our own but we're more mellow. I don't know how to describe what we play. Kinda, Ben Folds ish. anyway, I've also started teaching piano lessons. I enjoy teaching my students seeing as they are not elementary students. They're a little older and actually care about what I teach them. Also, I've Joined a writing group called writer's collective. We meet every week and read and discuss the pieces that we've written. And, I've decided to become a substitute teacher for those days that I'm not working at the Apple store. 

It's official. I'm moving out sometime  in the next couple of weeks. I've found a roommate and we actually have an apartment upstairs from where I live now. Her name is Ashley and she is in my ward and she's really sweet.

This last week I went and visited Timpanogos Caves. It's so beautiful in the mountains this time of year. The weather was perfect and the hike was slightly strenuous but I didn't feel like I was going to die.  All of these pictures were taken from my phone. pretty cool.

Thank you Whit for the Birthday Letter. It made me cry of course. I miss you waay mucho. Did you get my letter that I sent you like a month ago? Also, When you get home I have someone I want you to meet. He works with me and he is a return missionary from Honduras...he's really nice.

I love you all And hope to see you soon. Love ya

Sunday

This Sunday was regional conference for my ward. so this morning i went to the conference center with my roommate Jewel. We left at 9:30 because we expected a little bit of a crowd (there are a lot of singles wards that are in our region). HOLY COW! so apparently it was the whole salt lake region and not just singles so i had to park at the gateway. there were masses of people it was like general conference. So we finally make our way through the extensive lines and sat down, in really good seats considering, just in time for the meeting to start. we were down in the front plaza in the middle so pretty close to the speakers. President Hinkley, (President Hinkley's son) got up and announced that President Monson would be presiding. Ok. no one in our ward told us anything about this meeting so I was a little stunned that not only were there tons of people at what I was thinking was going to be like a singles stake conference but the prophet was literally  a few hundred feet away from me. It was a really enjoyable meeting. The prophet was the last speaker and he kept cracking jokes. I didn't realize what a funny guy he was. 

Anyway, that was my exciting sunday. 

 

OH yeah

by the way my new number is 1801-448-4218

whoopsi

Okay, I know that this is going to sound like I did it on purpose but that is not so. I went to Lagoon on Saturday and went on wicked. At the very tip of the top low and behold I see my phone floating in front of my face right before it plummeted to the ground. SOOO, i conformed and bought the iphone. It happens to be one of the coolest things I've ever owned. However, I don't have any numbers so if you guys would be so obliging as to get your number to me I would be greatly appreciative. cell and home if applicable. Thanks 

HOLY LABOR DAY!

Let me tell you all about my labor day weekend starting from the very beginning. A group of friends and i decided to go camping/ hiking down in little wild horse canyon this weekend. Little wild horse is a slot canyon right next to goblin valley. We left on Sunday night around five o'clock. It was kathy and pam, who are sisters and Jake and Jared who are brothers and me. we got to our camp spot about 9 pm that night and set up our tent. It was very windy and a little bit rainy but it was still warm. however, because of the horrible wind half of our tent collapsed about 6am so we decided to get up and start our hike early seeing as it was a nine mile hike we thought we would get an early start. after putting up camp we headed out around 7am. It was a beautiful canyon it really was amazing. Sheer cliffs about 30 ft. up on both sides of you you can reach out your hands and touch both walls. Anyway, we were about a mile in and Jared decided to go up to the top of the cliffs and take pictures of us down below. Pam and i were ahead of the group and had turned around to watch jared try and come down. He slipped on some loose rocks and plummeted down the 30 ft. drop. he dissapeared behind a rock so all I heard was his thud and the rocks landing a few seconds later. We all thought that he would be just fine so we made our way to him not really in a rush. His brother was the first one there and as soon as I heard the fear in Jakes voice I knew that it was bad. I ran to them Jake was trying to lift Jared off the ground to carry him out. Jared's head was bleeding and he was completely unconscious his breaths deep and labored.  I screamed at Jake to not move him. we didn't know if his back or neck was broken so we laid him in my lap and Jake ran for help. I have rarely prayed so hard or been so scared. I thought that Jared was going to die in my lap. So we prayed and mid-prayer Jared started to moan. HIs eyes fluttered and he looked up at me. Both his pupils were the same size so and he recognized his own name. I had to keep him awake until the EMTs could arrive. I checked his body asked him if other things hurt and he would grunt at me. then he rolled to the side and puked on his arm and my leg. (I will never drink gatorade again) both his hands were sliced open and I could see the bone of his right pinkie. I grabbed Jakes bandana and wrapped his hand. His head was what I was most concerned with after I realized that his neck, back, legs and arms were okay as far as i could tell. He had a gash on his forehead and was also bleeding from his nose and ear. After about 45 min Jake and the EMTs arrived and we rolled him onto a back board. Me, Jake, and four goblin valley rangers hiked him out over rocks and boulders. It is amazing what you can do when you have adrenaline pumping through you. We got him out it took about two hours and finally we reached were the ATVs could drive up and we loaded all our bags on those and the big ranger switched me out and I drove kathy and the bags on one ATV and another lady drove pam out. while the rest continued on with Jared. WE got him to the ambulance and loaded him in and they drove him to Castleview. WE went to goblin valley to fill out a report and then followed after him. We were at the hospital until 5pm I think we got there aroung 12:30 or 1. they did x-rays and CAT scans and realized that Jared had a fractured skull so they life-flighted him up to provo. ironically enough Jared is a fourth year med student and he is doing a rotation at the same place they life-flighted him. We drove up to provo and Jake and I dropped kathy and Pam off at their house and then we went to the hospital. I was there until 10:30 pm. Fortunately, Jared is fine his face is broken and he has a wicked black eye and his pelvis is fractured and he has too many stitches to count...but his brain is fine he is still really smart he remembers mostly everything. They moved him out of ICU today and they think that he will go home tomorrow. and that was my long weekend adventure which I hope never to repeat.    

Hey all, This week has been very interesting because all 3 of my roommates decided to go to washington so I have had the apartment all to myself for this week. It is quite relaxing to have a bit of time to myself. Also the best thing about not having my roommates around is that my apartment is blissfully clean! Last thursday I received a very exciting package. My new IMAC yay! It is so much fun I play on it all the time. there are so many new applications to play with. Anyway, school starts on monday and here is a list of the classes I've decided I need to sign up for sometime in the near future: The pleasure of chocolate 101, Communications (animal comm. that is), end of life issues, Ghost hunting, and African drumming.Unfortunately, my schedule is full this semester and I was unable to fit these fascinating  courses into it which is slightly depressing i've always wanted to know how to talk to animals. I'm glad that someone in the world has figured out how to speak the language of animals. And I'm sure that i would have taken great pleasure in chocolate this semester however, it is not to be. Speaking of school I found out that apple will reimburse me for my education if I apply for a full time position. sooo... 

 I have been riding my bike to work every day this week I love it. 

Other than that nothing much has been going on this week. I hope that I am still able to go camping this weekend we will see. I'll let you know later this week when I find out more about m

y schedule.  Love ya

p.s. remember this little thing?

Iphone 3G

WOW! it has been one crazy week I don't think I've ever had to work so long in my life. It all started last Thursday (the day before the iPhone release) I had to work a 15 hour shift just to prepare for the phone. All of our visuals in the store had to be changed and everything had to be spic and span. people started lining up at about three that afternoon. The next day IPhone day was one of the craziest ever. I came into work and there were hundreds of people lined up around the gateway. INSANE is how I would have to describe that whole day. 15 hours of giving people water, sunscreen, shaved ice, answering phones and crazy questions and demoing the new phone . It was so hot and I was exhausted by the end of the day (7am-10pm) I went home and fell on my bed and didn't move until the next day when I returned to work and more lines. there has been a line every day since the release of the phone. It has been really fun and can I just tell you that I really coveted the phone that I was given to demo all day long. It is awesome. Anyway, Monday I played mini golf in the institute building which was funny because I am a horrible golfer anyway but putting me inside a building just made it ridiculous. On Wednesday I went to Lagoon/lagoona beach all day long and didn't get a sunburn yay! Yesterday was my roommates birthday and we decided to go float the Provo river. Noah was supposed to come but he called me an hour before from the hospital because he had dropped a piece of glass on his leg and had to get stitches. So we did a little floateroo down the river and it was beautiful and so much fun. but, stupid me I brought my phone along. huh, i wonder what happens to a phone when it gets filled with water. Let me tell you what happens... it dies. Completely! i thought it would be alright because I had it double wrapped in a zip lock bags but NOPE. It will never come back. which makes it even more hard not to covet the iPhone. if only i could get the iPhone on Verizon, but i can't so... Oh well. Madi and I are singing in church tomorrow yay fun. so that is my crazy week in a nut shell. I'll see all you concert goers this weekend. love ya.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Yummy cookies. Nasty bugs eating my mint. Grrrrr. Beautiful hikes in utah.

So the Blog nazi told me that i hadn't been doing the required amount of blogging. Who knew there was a quota? well now that I've been informed... here is a birthday blog for dad. (I've been told that all you want is to know what I'm up to for your birthday, which sounds like a cheesy parent's answer to what do you want for your birthday. "All I want is your love". Well you got it dude!) soooo here go. Sunday 15th: went to churh had a mix and mingle and then went to choir practice. Monday 16th: worked from 10-6 and then went to FHE. Tuesday17th: went swimming then straight to work 'til 9. Wednesday 18th: worked 9-4 then went to lagoon (claude lost it on the swinging ship and I haven't stopped laughing about it since). Thursday 19th: went swimming and then to work. Friday 20th: went swimming. cleaned my fridge inside and out. (it WAS amazing, now 3 days later it looks the same). Saturday 21th: for some reason I have no idea what I did saturday before I went to work until 10:30pm. then I came home and baked cookies until 3am. Sunday 22nd: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! went to church 'til 12 then I went to work 'til 6 (first sunday i've worked in my life and hopefully the last) went to choir and then to ward prayer. I basically was never home on sunday. Monday 23rd: came home from work and found the fridge the way it had been on THURSDAY and decided to move. SO right now I am looking at apartments. I can't take it any more. And that, sir, is a faithful narrative of my doings this week.

Love ya dad I'll see you on Monday the 30th.

So I have been doing some gardening and although I have some nasty little bug eating my herbs I am still getting some great produce. Isn't my pepper cute?

Check out my Slide Show!

Remember this ragamuffin? What a little devil. Isn't she so cute? I love this picture

Iphone

Short blog. The new Iphone comes out in a less than a month. It is going to be a CRAZY day at apple. people are planning on camping out the night before just to be first in line. This is more intense than Harry Potter. Who knew?

So Recently I have been camping almost every weekend. Either that or I go to lagoon which is a blast let me tell ya.

On saturday I went on a camping trip to Heber . We went canoeing. The week before We went to Diamond fork canyon which was so much fun. I think we need to go camping there as a family. There weren't a lot of people it was beautiful and there was an easy hike to the hot springs where you can soak for hours. it is so relaxing. There are natural hot waters coming out of the ground and a freezing cold waterfall that runs into the hot water so it comes to the perfect temp. to sit in.  Also this weekend was the Utah chalk art festival. There were some amazing pictures drawn I don't know how they can do such amazing art on such a difficult medium. Anyway that is really all I have been doing. Oh, and by the way, My pool finally opened. I'm sooo happy. And if anyone wants to come swimming just let me know. love ya and see you all in two weeks.

TAG

Mom, forgot to tag someone so she tagged me in person when she visited this weekend. Haha.
so here are my answers:
1. Who do you love?
My parents, Ben, All of my cousins and aunts and uncles and Grandparents. I love being so close to them all. I know that God knew that we would need such a close relationship with eachother here on earth and that is why we are all in this family. You have to admit that our closeness with eachother is not exactly the norm for cousinly relationships. I love everyone. the people I live with and work with and go to church with. EVERYONE.
2. How long have you been married?
well, it's going on 20 years...how time flies.
3. Who said I love you first?
I'm pretty sure my parents said I love you first seeing as they were able to talk before me;) But I say it most often. (I think I would like my future spouse to say it first though. I'm such a wuss)
4. How long did you date?
I'm still dating. sometimes it seems interminable.
5. Where did he propose?
? I don't care where it is as long as no else is there besides us. I'm too easily embarrased.
6. Who is taller?
Oh heck! he better be taller. awkward!
7.Who is smarter?
I love this question. He can be smarter as long as I'm always right;) hopefully we will be equally smart in different ways.
8. who does the laundry?
ME
9. Who pays the bills?
MOM
10. Who mows the lawn?
Dan the Maintenance man.
11. who cooks dinner?
On days when I work, Barnes and Noble. On Sunday, Me, for about 20 people.
12. who drives?
me. although my car has kind of been giving me grief. I think I need a new one. P.S. I hate driving so my future spouse better like driving.
13. who has the cooler job?
Me! hello I work at the Apple store and it is soooo exciting. If you don't believe me read my blog right below this one.

Ok I'm going to tag...Maren and Leah and Grandpa and Grandpa's second wife Joaney. (that should be interesting to see how long they were dating and how he proposed!)

THIEVES!

How dare they?

So, last night I was at work and it was about fifteen minutes until closing. I was standing by the doors greeting and farewelling people. Part of my job at the Apple store is to greet EVERYONE that comes through the door recognize them and sort of judge their character and just keep an eye on them as they move throught the store. There were a couple of teenagers behind me looking at the Iphones. I wasn't really paying attention to them they hadn't been there that long and they were about five feet right behind me. Suddenly the alarms went off and right as I turned to see what was going on these two boys plowed past, each on either side of me. They ot away with 3 Iphones and so headphones. I am sooooooo angry. I hate that they were able to take advantage of me that way and that I was really not able to do anything about it. Even had I had my wits about me Apple does not allow its employees to chase after thieves. I felt so helpless. It was stressful and ruined my night. My adrenaline was rushing and I couldn't get to sleep. Why do people think that they can take advantage of others like that? Why are they entitled? JERKS.

Relax

YAY! the Semester is over and I can finally relax. However, now I basically live at the Apple store. So if you were ever wondering where I was... just kidding. I love my job it's pretty sweet I get to know all the new stuff that comes out. I get to see it the first day it arrives which is cool. I am so excited to be going to Shakespeare this summer. Can't wait. Other than that I really haven't been doing much. I do however need some helpful tips to get people to come to Choir. NO One comes. What's up with that?

Check list:

School; OVER. YAY!

Work; I live at the apple store.

Church; I live for Sundays (except when people don't come to choir)

Dating; here and there nothing serious.

And that is my life in a nutshell!

P.s. these pictures cracked me up and totally made my day so I decided to share the humor!

I guess its the in thing to have a picture of spring flowers on your title. Well I'm not conforming just yet because I don't have time. I just wanted to say that I've started my new job at the Apple store in the Gateway. It is really fun and it is taking up all of my time. I miss all of you and I feel like I haven't seen any of you forever. Sad. Anyway, if any of you want to come and visit me at the store and do a little mall shopping it would be fun to see you and I could help you pick out a new computer! YAY. jsut kinddin but if you want an ipod or iphone or a new TV we have those too. Well, just thought I'd put in my two cents and see what you all are up to and to say that it is kinda strange you all have flowers as a background to your title. was that planned and I just missed something? Anyway, come see me and I'll try to come visit as soon as the Semester is over in less than two weeks! BLISS.

Sorry I forgot that there was a password to see the pics so here are my favorites until I figure out how to post 88 photos.