Crazy Friends In My Life

My dear Amanda and I



Our flirty faces......... enough said



We were super hungry, we tried to wait and just couldn't.


These boys are my favorite! I love um to pieces! They are always making me laugh :)



My dear friends Rob and Robyn!!

Life is happy and good, my friends are amazing! Today is amazing and has been a great Thanksgiving! i am so grateful for my Family and Friends. School is awesome, Its been a great semester. Happy Thanksgiving :)

NEW CAR!

So this is my new car! Well not mine but a picture of the one that I have and they look just alike! It's a 2000 Chevy Malibu! She is such a good car and very smooth and fairly fuel efficient! She loves long drives and playing music really loud :) She has been named Little Mookie, she has also been nicknamed "The Boo". I love driving her and love that I dont have to fill her up all the time. Little Mookie has 124,000 miles on her which is not too bad at all. She and I are in for a lot of fun new adventures! YAY!

As some of you know I have been working for the past year and half to loose weight and get healthy. I have put this little picture thing together its not the best of pictures to compare but you can still see a difference :) Some of the major differences I have been seeing is, I am in a large shirt instead of a 2XL, I eat much much less and feel full, I sleep much much better, I have so much more energy, I fit on roller coasters, I am more alert, I am happier, I have more confidence, I enjoy physical activities, I can cross my legs, I can run up the stairs and not fill winded. Just to name a few :) I am cont. my journey of weight loss and loving all that I am learning. I will post more pictures as I get them. I dont have a current one right now that shows the real difference, this mid-way picture is from the beginning of summer. Life is great and being healthy is even more great!

Another 5k

I did my 2nd 5k on the 18th and I am happy to say that I beat my time! I am so glad that I have found something that is working for me to get in shape and to get healthy! I used to wear a 2XL shirt and now I am down to a Large :) I am thinking about doing another 5k on the 1st of August, we will see if I can pull out the money, I may do it not competing and see my time. I don't have pictures for this one :( oh well. A funny thing happened with the packets for this 5k. When we signed up for it they said that we would get a t-shirt and we would get a finishing medal. When I picked up the packets the lady stuck a medal in the sacks! I asked if they were the finishing medals and she said yes! We hadn't even done the 5k and we already had the finishing medals!! I thought that it was pretty funny!

Creating Masterpieces

I love editing pictures and making them unique and fun so here are a few :)

Mormon Miracle Pagent

This year I was able to go down to Manti for the Mormon Miracle Pageant. I went with my friend Josh, Amanda and Shawn and then Amanda's twin sister met us down there. I had the opportunity to talk with one of the many protesters and preachers that stood out side with signs and crosses. This man approched me, we started talking and he kept saying how much he loves Jesus he then asked me some scriptural questions I then asked him questions. I asked him if he had read the Book of Mormon, he said yes I then asked if he had prayed about it after, he said no. He followed with there is just something missing, he believed that the book was true but there was just something missing. The man I talked to along with the others he was there with were carrying crosses, I asked the man I was talking to why he was carrying it and if it helped him appreciate more the sacrafice that Christ made for us? He said that while he had been carrying it he was spit on, pointed and yelled at, but with all of it he felt that it helped him understand just a very small amount more of what Christ felt. I found this experience interesting and I am grateful that this man was not yelling, being rude or contensious. I cant really know or take all of what he said to be 100% true, I can however take this experience and use it to better myself and let it teach me how to be a better member misisonary. After talking with that man I walked back into the seating area and found an Elder and asked if I could just shake his hand, it was really amazing to go from one side of the fence talking to protesters in an area of contension, yelling and alot of anger and then walk to the other side of the fence and feel the spirit. The Pagent this year was definatly the best one I have been to yet, I am so glad I went.

I DID IT!!

So I did a 5k on the 27th of June and kicked butt! I set 2 goals and was able to fulfill all of them, the first was to come in under an hour and I did that then the 2nd goal was to not be the last one to finish the race and I did that too. It feels good to be able to say that I have done a 5k. I really enjoyed myself. I am planning on doing the 5k for American Fork Steal Days this month too! I am way excited!

Babysitting and the Flood

After the insane rainstorm Saturday, we (Amanda and I) spent a few hours cleaning up a flood in my Uncle and Aunts basement while I was watching their kids. My Uncle called while I was starting dinner and asked me to go check and see if the black tube that you put on the end of rain gutters was pointing into a window well on the side of their house. I went outside and found that it was pointing into the toy room window well and so I went down to see if it had flooded the toy room, there was a good amount of water covering the floor (lucky for them it is an unfinished room). I got all the kids together and some towels and buckets and started cleaning it up. After about and hour my Uncle had gotten home and pulled out the wet vac and finished things up. Then he took the carpet up right outside the toy room and got rid of the padding and made a clever rig for the carpet to get dry. We had a lot of fun while we cleaned the water we sang songs from Enchanted and some primary songs and got each other wet. All in all it was a lot of fun and we cleaned up about 12.5 gallons of water :)

Good Times at the Carnival

After my institute class I went over to my friend Ashley's apartment and went with her and some of our friends to the Provo Carnival. Lets just say the the Carnival workers are a bit on the interesting side :) Jen and I were the first off of the Ferris Wheel and trying to take pictures of the others as they went past and the Carnie came over asking if I got any good pictures and I said no and then being me I kept explaining why the pictures were not turning out. Then after I was done talking I didn't understand why he stayed around until Jen told me that I kept talking to him....sheesh :p I also went on 2 rides that spin the daylights out of you and laughed so hard the whole time. Let it be forever known that I love any ride that spins!