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There has been so much going on and yet there hasn't at the same time. I have been spending a lot of time looking online for another job. I have even had an interview out of all the resume's that I have sent I get one interview. It went really well but sadly I didn't get the job and that is ok, because I am not going to let it get me down. I will continue to look and hopefully will find one before the summer is done! I am still nannying but for this summer it won't be enough to continue paying my bills that I have. I am going to part-time with the family that I am still with. She wants to have me full-time but she had a contract that she feels obligated to keep even though I am no longer with for the other family. I understand and am somewhat ok with it. But now I need to find something to make up that loss of income...fun times!!! NOT!

Ummm....I have been having some issues with my car with the Check Engine light coming on and off...It happens when the gas cap loosens after a couple of days and when I tighten it some it goes right off... I washed my car yesterday and figured out how to let out the water that stays in the car door when it rains or whatever...long story!!

Tomorrow...because I am not working I am going to be cleaning and getting my place where it needs to be! I have been letting it go and it's been driving me crazy so before I go to FHE I am definately taking care of it all!!

updates can be a pain

In the last month or two things have gone mostly as expected as can be...busy. But there have been a few surprises. About a week or two before I headed down to Utah I was told my Grandma Solomon was getting worse and had a stroke or seisure...not totally sure which one. I was able to get to know some new things about her when I was down there and really and truely am grateful that I went down! She ended up passing away April 23 (which was also the day my best friend got married and my last full day in Utah). If you want to look at it here it is: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-ruth-solomon-collett&pid=142253724

My Grandma Solomon the Monday before she passed

My Grandpa Solomon the same Monday

Melanie, Bryan and me at the Jordan River Temple the day of their wedding

May 1st I went to my nephew's 1 year birthday party. It was fun to see some people and to be able to celebrate it with him!! I still can't believe he is 1!!! My sister in law, Allison, made him two cakes. One for everyone and than an individual one! SHE IS SOOOO TALENTED!!! I love the cakes she made!!! Here are a few pics!!

Topher's 1 year Birthday Cake!

Topher's individual 1 year Birthday Cake!

Topher eating his cake!

CRAZINESS of my life

I really want to be done with school!! I thought that I would graduate in June but my best friend told me that she was getting married smack dab in my quarter...which I wouldn't be able to afford to go down and do school. Well than I was looking at the classes that they offer next quarter and out of the two classes that I have left they only offer one. I thought that was a blessing after thinking about that a little. Than come to find out I don't think that I will be able to afford taking a class even if it is one class cause I don't have the money! But that is ok because going to my best friends wedding is something I have to do or I will regret it for the REST of my life. So I think that I may just hold off on taking a class next quarter and give myself another break! This quarter is REALLY wearing me out! Working about 60 hours, plus school, church, chiropractic appointments, church callings, and than trying to work in socializing, time to myself, cleaning my apartment, laundry, and little odds and ends! I was about to say the last few weekends have been all homework but now thinking about that it's not totally true!

This last weekend I got kidnapped to go to the zoo!! I had a blast and was able to see the Night and Day exhibit (which is the BEST thing there) before they close it this week (I believe!)!!! The hippos were very talkative and playing and moving around a lot this time! Normally when I go they stay under the water or they are asleep or something, but this time they were actually talking and playing!! It was great!! Even the giraffes were running around!! It was also great to spend some time with friends!!

Anyways...back to the first thing I was meaning to talk about. I am going down to Utah in April (cause that is when Melanie is getting married) and would LOVE to see family and friends that are down there if you have time! I will be down there April 17th through, I think the 24th. Well I have to get back to work so I will talk to you later! Love you all and hope life is going great for everyone!!

I think...

I am on a roll!! It has been over a month since I have written on my blog...There has been a lot going on and yet there hasn't. If that makes any sense at all!! LOL~ I finished my class last quarter and have started a new quarter. This time taking 2 classes which will leave me with two more classes to graduate with! So hopefully by this June I can graduate with my AA on Office Managing and find a job in that field! Granted I love the kids and the employers I work with now, but pretty soon they worn't need me, and the fact is when I started nannying I didn't think I would be at it more than a couple of years. Jan 3 of this year marked my 4 years with one of my employers and have been with my other employers for a year and a half now...(I think?!?). I love the kids because no matter how frusterated I had been with them that day I always leave with a smile or something to laugh about that they did that day and all that frusteration is gone. It lasts only for a little bit and is forgotten by the end of the day! I feel bad saying this right now but I am sooooo glad that I am not a mom right now! Don't get me wrong I love the kids that I watch and my niece and nephew! I can't get enough of them but when the weekend comes, boy am I glad I get time to myself. I know that if I was a mom I wouldn't get that time!



So what else...Thanksgiving this year I got mostly what I wanted. To relax and have a day to myself! I really honestly didn't think I would get chewed out that bad...I was wrong! LOL~ That night I ended up going and spending some time with two friends (who are brother and sister) and their family to play Volleyball!! I was REALLY happy to be playing some volleyball!!

Christmas was awesome! I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my Bro., Allison, Toph, Allison's parents and my real father was there too. It was a lot of fun to watch Topher open his gifts...or at least try and open them. It was pretty much an all day thing in taking breaks and than we went and watched (cause on thanksgiving day and christmas day growing up it was always a tradition to watch a movie at the theatres...one that I LOVED!) the new Christmas Carol. It was cute and not what I expected!

New Years I was suppose to go to the dance and got lots of calls and text messages asking me where I was. My back was killing me and I was exhausted. To the point my nose was clogging up...it is a weird thing of mine that I absolutely hate and try to fight it!! LOL~ I ended up going to Chris and Allisons and celebrating the New Year with and playing the new Mario game and than watching the fireworks go off at the Space Needle on TV. I really like the new game, although I think it is hard with more than one player...until I tried playing it with just me that is...I now think it is much easier with more than one! LOL~

Now that it is a NEW year (which is hard to write 2010 on my dates...LOL~) I have had a lot on my mind and goals that I want to see if I can accomplish instead of just saying it. I went out and bought a Wii and the Wii fit plus. I wasn't planning on doing it. I mean I have wanted one but I had gone over to my friend Leilani and Mike's and they had gotten one for christmas and it was soooo much fun and a REALLY good work out! I hadn't even been on it that long and my hips were killing me! I felt it more in the 5 min of being on that than doing it on one or two machines for an hour! I haven't done as much as I would like since I am rarely home but when I am I enjoy the workout I get. Today I spent about 30 min just playing some of the games and than 30 min where I was basically stepping on it and off, and was able to watch what I was doing or watch TV. After about 8 min of doing the steps my hips were dying and I wanted to stop but I didn't because I really do what to get into shape and I think that this is a FUN way in doing it! I think I did a good thing in buying it.

What else is been going on? Ooooo...I started going to a chiropractor. He is someone in my church and have had the opprotunity to get to know him and have come to trust him. I do notice a difference even though I do hurt with the whole realigning and adjustments and when I over do myself. So I am trying to watch my pace...it's hard though cause I like to be on the go and all of this makes it hard cause I'm not just sleepy tired but my whole body losses it's energy pretty quickly when I am always doing something and I have to fight myself to keep going (which is not good...but I can't stand to not be doing something or going somewhere...I have to keep moving or I could go insane...not really but it feels that way!! :-) )

I still have two callings. The same ones...activities and multi stake activities... Hmmmm....I think that is about it... Sorry again that I don't write as often as I probably should!! Hope everone is having a good start to their New Year, and that it will get even better!

I should be fired!

I really have sucked at writing on my blog. It's pretty sad when you haven't been on in a while and you forget your user name and password and have to think about it...It took me about an hour to think about what it was...it might have helped if I wasn't sick so I could concentrate a little better! LOL! What has been happening in the last month or so? Hmmmm....I have been out and about dating some...shocking right?! LOL~ I also helped put together a Multi-stake Turkey Bowl ranging all the way down to Olympia to Bellingham and out from the coast to Bellevue! It was a lot of fun! But definately glad it's over! It took up a lot of time! That with work, school, Church (which that was part of one of my callings) and trying to have some of a social life has made me not want to write a whole lot!!

This quarter is almost done and over with! I am really looking forward to now have to use quickbooks for a while! It has been nice to have my cousin Ester helping me...and trying to convince me to move back down to Utah!! LOL~ Maybe in a year...who knows! I have 4 more classes to take and than I can graduate! YAY!!! I will be taking 2 classes this next quarter as I don't have a HUGE activity to be planning with either the Multistake Committee that I am on or my wards activities committee.

What else can I write?! I didn't do Halloween this year as I didn't have the money, because of all the bills I have and with also adding in two car accidents! I did however finish paying off my mom with my honda civic that I totalled back in september which is one less bill. My back has been slowly but surely getting better...that is when I take it easy!! LOL~

For Thanksgiving I am going to relax and have a great day of doing homework! Fun times! LOL~ I did get invited to my real Father's (Bobby's) but I really don't like the whole Thanksgiving feast and I have lots to do here...I still haven't unpacked all the way....and I was going to go see new moon but I already saw it. I love that movie!!! Well that is about all that I can think of...hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Sometimes...

I really think the Lord is testing my patience and strength and faith! I got in another accident this afternoon. I am ok and my car still runs it just now has a dent in the back bumper. It's a long story but here is the short version. I was backing up and I made sure no one was coming (as I didn't want to ever have to get in another accident again...the first one was traumatic enough) and was almost completely out I hear and feel a loud thud. The car that hit into me doesn't bother backing up and moving slightly to go park he just keeps going and scratches the entire side of his car, and my bumper more! I told him we needed to exchange information and call the cops! We exchanged information and he left. I didn't know what to do and didn't think that I should call the cops now that the guy had left. So I left...well I learned my lesson! ALWAYS CALL THE COPS! Doesn't matter if the other person left or not....JUST DO IT! This is just one more thing that I am trying to get through! I haven't had my car even 2 months and been in my last accident! A REALLY big part of me doesn't want to drive EVER again!! But I have to! I was barely holding it together and now I am trying even harder! I feel soooooo very out of control with my emotions and everything else in my life! And that is very scary for me!

Almost a month

Wow...things seem so crazy and keeps me really busy! I spend most of my time with work, or school or even with friends. My best friend came almost a week ago and I got to spend some time with her in the two days that she was home for. It was good to see Melanie and spend what little time her and I had in our schedules! I have also been going to the temple regularly and loving every second I am there! I wish that I could spend more time there! I love it there and always feel so revived when I leave. Like I can deal with everything (for a couple hours at least after I leave).

I know that this is short but life is the same (mostly) and keeping me pretty busy! I have to leave for work here in a little bit and still have to finish getting ready! Love ya'll and hope life is going well for ya!

back to school again

So I meant to write in my last blog but I was in a bit of a hurry and most of you know by now...I have a new car. I got it on Sept 5th and I LOVE IT! It is a 2005 Dodge Neon. My fav color too!! BLUE!!! I also haven't written about the rest of my time that I spent with Nicole and Daisy while they were here. I don't have pics cause my SD card is retarted so sorry!!

Thursday: I can't totally remember but I think I just went over to Chris and Allisons and hung out there when I got off of work.

Friday: I had to finish packing some stuff and go and do a walk thru to get my keys. I had to stay at my new place to 1ish for comcast to get internet and the boring local stations. The only channel I really watch is 11 and if I am home for a show or two on channel 5....ohhhh how I miss my DVR and cable!!! (but I can't afford them anymore :-(.) After that I went over and Allison, Nicole and I went and got pedicures. We did a girls day!! Thanks Nicole and Allison!! It was REALLY fun!! And thanks Chris for babysitting!!! Ohh and that night I ended up babysitting Daisy so that Nicole could go to her High school reunion.

Saturday: MY BIRTHDAY!! I turned the big 25...I feel old!! LOL~ As my friend Jordan puts it that if I was lucky I could celebrate turning another of a quarter of a century three more times...Who knows if I want to do that though!! LOL~ It was also moving day! I was well prepared and had pretty much every thing packed so that all they needed to do was grab it and load it up to take. My sister and niece loaded up Allison's car and took it over before everyone else got there so that there would be someone there. I stayed behind to clean up a little. By the time I got to my new place there was only my car and my friend Ethnie's (who also had stayed behind to help a bit). It took ABOUT an hour to do ALL of that...It was great! Thanks EVERYONE who helped out with that. We started to unpack some and made it look somewhat nice. Later that night, Nicole, Daisy, Chris, Allison, Topher and I went to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate my birthday! Allison told them that it was my birthday and they came out with two balloons and about 30 tokens. Daisy was entranced with the figures on the stage and also with a couple of the rides/picture things...Topher also was loving the figures up on stage and the tv thing....

Sunday: I went to Stake Conference and than when I got home Nicole Daisy and I went to Mulkiteo Beach and also went on my real father's boat with him and Beth. It was a lot of fun. We then headed to chris and allisons and we all headed up to Marysville to have dinner with Beth (my real dad's girlfriend) and Bobby. After dinner we headed back to C&A's place and went hot tubbin!

Than I went back to work as usual. I was able to spend time with friends throughout the week to celebrate my birthday and ended up having a BIG bash at red robin on the 18th. It was a lot of fun and was actually a bit surprised how many people showed up...I honestly thought that there might only be about 5 to 10 people but there were a lot more! Thanks! It made it really fun!! After red robin I went over to Jordans with a bunch of other people and we ended up watching the Office off of his DVR (the new one from thursday) and than played 4 on a couch. I think we played two rounds of that...the first one lasted 5 min or so and the other one like 45 min to an hour...LOL~ Than started rockband! I love playing that. I lost track of time and next thing I knew julie was telling me she needed to go home to get to bed...SORRY JULIE!! I got home at 1am and than was up at 6. I went to support Julie at the temple as she was getting her endownments out for the first time. CONGRATS!! YAY!! I ended up having to work after that. I took the 3 kids to the Seattle Aquarium! I love going there and I hope to go more often!!!

I have also been doing some more over time this week and next week. It's been nice to have some extra income coming in to pay on some bills! This sat if it is nice and NOT raining I want to take the 3 kids to the zoo...so hopefully it will be SUNNY!!!

I also started my accounting class yesterday. I am still not sure how it's going to go but I hope I will do a great job...

So far

So Nicole and Daisy flew in on Labor Day (monday) and I was able to pick them up from the airport!! After picking them up we went to the Seattle Pacific Science Center! It was a lot of fun!!

"Cheese Auntie"

Nicole and Daisy putting together a bee puzzle

"Look at me!"
Showing love to each other on this BIG chair!

From across the table

I look tiny at the table!

Daisy looks even smaller!
Mother and Daughter!
How Precious!

After that we went to my place for a little bit and than off to Chris and Allison's to see them and Baby Toph! I have pics from my phone but it isn't working at the moment so when I get them I will post them! Hopefully!! LOL~

Annoying

So every night when I go to bed around 10 my nieghbors diagonally from me are outside by my window with their friends talking a little to loudly but they aren't out there for very long and that is fine...but this morning Iwas RUDELY awaken from the same people at 2 am with them fighting and yelling for 15 min!!!! Than finally te one that actually lives there was like lets do this inside (must have finally realized how loud they were being). But about every 20 min their door would open and close and you could hear the shouting match going on as if it were ot by my window just a tad softer...I think that finally ended around 4 am this morning and they came outside and shouted for about 10 more min before heading to their cars and leaving...I was thankful that it was finally done so I could get some sleep...but no....each time of them being outside for that length made me wide awake and took forever to fall asleep...Now it being about 6:30 in the morning I am now WIDE awake and can't get back to sleep on a SATURDAY no less!! Sorry this was a venting blog cause I am really tired but can't sleep...so frusterating....

Faith is sometimes a hard thing to come by

So this last week I have had a lot of turn of events in my life. ALL starting on Tuesday Sept 1. My day started off GREAT but than went down hill from there...I got in my first wreck ever! Now it definately wasn't as bad as my cousin Jess, and I am truely thankful for that. But being my first BIG wreck it terrified me! I ended up totalling my car, which made my plans for getting a new car around Jan (which I would have traded in my car as part of a down payment with some money too) no longer valid. I do however to get a new car sooner than planned...WAY sooner and not knowing if I can really afford it. Here is a pic of my car:I was lucky though...the parts under the hood look like they are still good...I think?!?

So I plan on selling the parts to help pay for a new car. Than I was thinking that I was making more than what I really am...somehow I thought I was making 50 dollars more a week...Don't know where that 50 dollars came from but I need to have faith that I will be able to do what I have planned...and I will get more into this in a min.

You might be asking how did this happen? Well I have learned that you should NEVER look down for a split second when it rains outside and if you do no matter the weather make sure you have a four car space in front of you instead of a two car...When I looked down the car infront of me wasn't on the brakes...but when I looked back up they were. It was a three car collision....me being the last. So by law it was my fault. However...the car in front of me, not sure if they had hit the car in front of them first or not. But the one in front of me was also (I believe) totalled too as it had to be towed cause the front end was smashed (not sure how bad as I hadn't really moved from where I stood which was up a little by my passenger side door) and the back end was just the bumper fallen down. Also when I stepped on my brakes (as it was wet) I slid a little underneath the car infront of me (which explains why it was just the bumper). Somehow though I don't know how I ended up not under the car when all was said and done before moving the cars over to the side...

I am very grateful that I didn't have any of the kids I watch in the car with me. But I was a total wreck. I was also thankful that my brother was able to come and get me. He happened to have been working close by (bothell and I was in Bellevue which was a twenty min drive rather than about 35 to 40 min...in traffic mind you). Another thing I am thankful for is that I only left there with a sore back which has been getting better as the days go by.

Latter that night I had my hometeachers over and they gave me a blessing to not worry about money, that it will be there, and to continue with my plans that I have about my future. For those few days I felt peaceful and all was good and than today I realize as I was looking at an excel sheet that I was dead wrong on the amount I make and somehow came up with a wrong amount...off by 50 a week! I felt sooo stupid and some people may think that isn't much but really for me it is!!! I have school that I am tryin to pay for, living expenses, and now added on top of that a car with extra insurance because of the wreck I got in...I am REALLY REALLY tryin to have the faith that I need!!!

Than also today I was thinking about what kind of car I wanted...I wanted something in a good price range but now I also want something that isn't a gas guzzler!! I was able to fill up my tank of gas in my civic (about $25) that would last me a week from all the driving I do! I am borrowing Chris and Allison's car and have put in 33 dollars in the last few days...I use about 1/4 of the tank each of the days that I have works...That is DEFINATELY not going to help in saving some money!!!! So now I think I want to have my civic back!!! It doesn't have to be that particular one but a civic with 4 doors!! Or some other car that does great with gas that isn't too pricey with payments!

On other news...My sister and niece will be here in two and half days! I am totally excited!! I have such a fun week ahead planned for me (somewhat that is)! Tomorrow, I need to go get a money order for my new place that I will be moving into, go to costco to get some plates and cups for my wards potluck on sunday, hopefully look at some cars, and finish up (or mostly finish) packing. Sunday is church and visiting teaching and potluck. Monday I get to sleep in a little as it is labor day and I don't have to work. I also get to pick up Nicole and Daisy at the airport!!! Totally EXCITED!!! After that I think we are going to the pacific science center. Tues and Wed I work long days...Date night for both nights. Thursday I work during the day and then that night I think I will be with the fam (meaning Nicole, Daisy, Chris, Allison and Toph). Friday I do my walk thru in the morning and than unload some stuff and wait for comcast to show up so that I can have internet for my online class. After that we (Nicole, Allison and I) are going to do a girl's day and maybe (hopefully) get pedicures!! That night I am going to be watching daisy. Than saturday I move ALL of my stuff into my new apartment!! YAY!!! And celebrate my birthday (since it's that day) at chucky cheese with Chris, Allison, Toph, Nicole and daisy!! So hopefully it will be a GREAT week full of distractions so won't have time to worry...I know I need Faith and am really trying to keep!!

Ward Campout

The ward campout was SOOO much fun!! I am so happy that I went. The first day we got there (wednesday) we went to the lake altogether. I think only one person stayed and took a nap but every one else went. There was 5 girls that went swimming and like 13 guys....we all stuck together, which isn't normal and so it was nice. Same thing on Thursday too...It wasn't until that night that everyone started to kind of go into little clicks...which is fine.

Thursday night, though, Rikayla, Annie and I went for a walk and we had been told that there was a cougar and a bear and something else loose somewhere. I had forgotten and I think they had too until one spot where we had sat down to talk we heard a growling sound. It freaked us out and decided to go back to the campsite. My heart thumped soooo hard! I was TOTALLY scared!!!

Friday night we had a Dance lesson and than danced after the fireside! It was alot of fun!!

Surprisingly though I only took a few pics on the first day...

Annie and I rode on Rikayla's car when she got there to where she went to park...thought we would get a pick after she parked!!

Playing around the world Ping-Pong

Wowee!

Life seems to keep going with out me realizing the days! I told myself I would be better at keeping everyone up to date, but I haven't!! LOL~ So where to start?!?!

About a week and a half ago I had the opportunity to watch Toph and spend one on one time with him!! HE is just sooo cute! It was my brothers birthday so Allison and Chris went on a date and while they were out (about 10 min before they got home) some of Chris' friends showed up to surprise him. I was going to stay but I had just had my 2 wisdom teeth taken out (almost three...long story...). Toph and I had gone on a little walk out to my car to get one of the birthday cakes and then back to the apartment. He slept for about 40 min or so and than ate. After he ate I tried to burp him for a couple of min and it didn't come so I started to make noises and faces at him to get him to laugh and smile...it worked and then he finally burped and I wasn't very quick with it so it landed on me...after a while I wanted to see what he would do if I put him on his tummy...Allison and chris had told me he had rolled over the night before and I wanted to see if he would do it for me...HE DID!!! Toph really didn't like being on his tummy but loved being on his back listening to me make noises and faces at him...and he would copy the noises...or at least try too!!! It was TOTALLY cute!!!

(this was taken July 21)

Than that weekend Chris and Allison went out of town and I house sitted for them...it was nice to stay there for a couple of days, but I also realized that I was very self conscience. EVERY noise or sound freaked me out...I would get up and check the doors to see if they were locked and the windows closed...I'm not totally used to being in a place at night all by myself with out my dog or a room mate...and I had neither. It made me wonder about me moving in less than a month! I know after awhile I will get used to it but I am still scared, but really excited about it too!!! LOL~

2 weeks ago (Aug 1st), I went to the Kenny Chesney concert!! I love him!! He is one of my favs, but there were a few other of my favs there too!!! There was Lady Antabellum, Miranda Lambert, Montgomery Gentry, Sugarland and Kenny!! I love all of them!!! I am sooo happy that my friend Kerry asked me to go with her!

Me and Kerry drinkin our fresh squeezed lemonade
Kenny Chesney!!!

Kerry lookin at me wierd!! But I love this pic even though it is taken with my cell phone!

Let's see what else has been going on? The hike and hoe down went well...I was the only YSA that is on the committee that was able to go and almost didn't go cause my jaw was still killin me as it was the same week that they got pulled and my jaw getting yanked back and forth to get the lower one out but alas it is still in mouth as they didn't have enough grab to pull it out...so one left to get out!! Anyways...I went with my friend Aryn (pronounced Erin) and Carrissa up to Cascade park which is owned my the church up by marysville. Aryn and I didn't stay for the dance as she had some other place to be and my jaw was killing me!! Carrissa was able to get a ride home so she stayed. All in all it turned out great!

My wards campout is this week. I don't have to work tomorrow and is why I am up writing this at this late hour. I am getting my room somewhat cleaned and I am getting packed to go camping but also to move too...The only day this week that I work is on Tuesday which will be nice...I am really excited to be going!! I wish that I was able to go camping more often!! I love camping!! I just never have anyone to go with and no time to do it!!

After the campout I still have a busy schedule ahead for me! LOL~ I know I complain sometimes that I have no time to do anything, but I bring it on myself (95% of the time). Because I am on the North Seattle multi-stake I get to help plan things for about 4 wards. It's nice. For Novemebers activity we normally do a Turkey bowl where we invite not just our multi-stake but a few others to participate in (so it turns out to be a BIG turnout) and we do it at the Husky Stadium at the UW. Well this year I am charge of it!! Hopefully it will be a great success. So now that the campout is almost done I will be focusing on that, an online course starting Sept 21 in accounting (not sure how that is going to go...), AND working some overtime the last two weeks in Sept and some in the beginning of Oct. Now I definately know that it is my fault for being that busy as I think I have a problem in saying NO. I like to please people...make them as happy as I can cause that it what makes me happy...(most of the time)....But I am actually loking forward to the challege and the adventure that comes with it!!

Another thing that is going on...My extended family (or some that is) on my mom's side are doing "the biggest loser". I wasn't going to participate in it as I don't have a whole lot of time and no longer have my gym membership as it was getting to be a bit much than I could afford. Well than my sister talked me into it. The new apartment complex that I am moving into has a little gym and I plan on using it, but that won't be till September. So I have decided that even though I won't be able to use that till I move there are other things I can do...like watch what I eat (no going out to eat very often), eat more fruits/veggies, and go walking more often...so that is what I am going to do... I am hoping on not only losing weight but committ myself to getting healthier. I HATE looking the way I do and have been trying to lose it but then get side tracked and will end up doing a roller coaster of my workouts and eating habits...But this time I am going to try harder and committ myself more to it. I am not big on committing myself to things that are longterm normally. There has been one thing that I have committed to and I think that I have done a pretty good job on that one thing so now I think I can add in one more and work on getting myself where I want in health and weight-loss!!

time flies so fast sometimes!

So this last few weeks have been a very big roller coaster! I have been able to spend some time with Chris Allison and Toph!! I love being able to go and spend time with them and to play with Toph!! I get to babysit him on Chris's birthday and am totally excited about it! I have also been looking for a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom and found one!!! I am getting the key and walk through the day before my birthday and moving everything on my Birthday (sept 12)!! I am totaly excited about that! A birthday present to me!! LOL~ Than a week ago on Wed, I took Hershey to her new home!! It was one of the absolutely hardest things I have ever had to do!! I knew I would tear up but wasn't expecting to ball like a baby infront of the person that was taking her...but I did!! It is better off that she is with this family cause they have a yard she can run around in and people who are home to play with her....where I am rarely ever home!

Upcoming things that I am looking forward too....

Sept.
*Me moving to my new place
*Nicole and Daisy coming

Aug
*Babysit Toph
*KENNY CHESNEY CONCERT!!!!
*Halls Lake Ward Campout
*Hike and Hoe Down (multi-stake activity)
*Getting one of my Wisdom Teeth takin out (cause it be hurtin...)

I have things to really look forward to in the next two months! I can't believe it!!! In about a month and a half I will be 25 too...I feel really old with nothing to show for it (or at least that is how I feel but know that it isn't really that true)! Life is going good (for the most part) and am trying to be happy and positive!!

4th of July Week

So this last weekend has been amazing!!! Friday I picked my mom up from the airport at 11:30 at night. Sat I dropped my mom off at my brother and sister-in-laws and went paintballing!! It was alot of fun...probably would have been funner if I hadn't been as tired as I was. After paintballing the eight of us that went went and jumped into the river...5 of them ditched and didn't tell us where they had gone but thouhgt that we knew which we didn't...that part was still really fun!! After that I went home and got ready and let my dog go potty. Then went over to Chris and Allison's and spent time with them and her family that was staying there too (Allison's parents and her two nieces). Chris made me promise to go to the fireworks with them, even though I am not a fan of fireworks anymore...Well mom was getting really tired so I ended up going home (YAY!! sorry!!). Sunday I went to Chirs and Allison's ward for Toph's baby blessing and then spent the afternoon/night hanging out with everyone (including my grandparents, Bob and Beth, Mom, Chris and Allison, Toph, Allison's two nieces: Sammy and Caitlin, and Allison's Parents: Gayle and William).

Monday I went to Bellevue to the Deseret Bookstore with mom and then to Seattle and did a little bit of the tourist thing. Like Pike's place market and then met up with Allison and Chris and her family to go see some of the exhibits at the Pacific Science Center and to watch Transformers...which Toph only being about 10 or 11 weeks now did REALLY awesome and watched most of it with out crying! I was very impressed!! And that night I let Allison's youngest niece (Caitlin), paint my fingernails...

Tuesday I woke up at 2 am and searched frantically for my retainer cause somehow I took it out while I was sleeping...I thought it was kinda funny...but when I tell the story it doesn't sound as funny...LOL~ I couldn't really get back to sleep and had to be up in a few hours to leave to take my mom to the airport anyways...It was nice having my mom here and wish that they lived closer. I was able to go home and lay my head down before I had to get up again and get ready to leave to meet up with my grandparents. My grandma and I went to the temple and than to lunch! It was nice to spend some more time with them! I am soo happy that they were also able to come this last weekend!

So it had been a busy weekend and thought that NOTHING could have spoiled it...well than while I was at Walmart my room-mate calls me and tells me to get home cause Hershey had eaten 7 or 8 IB Profin. My room-mate had left them out on the floor with her back (apparently) zipped up and Hershey had gotten into them and ate all of them!! So I had to take her to the ER for animals and spent 4 hours there while they made her vomit and then had her eat some charcoal and they also gave me some medicine to give her every 8 hours. Luckily my friend Julie is helping me out and staying with me so that Hershey gets her medication on time...I have had to either go to meeting after work or couldn't get off earlier to get there in time to do it myself!

I am trying to give her away now as much I don't want to, but she is lot more work and money than I was planning on and the way life is going right now I don't have the time or money to keep her! If I don't find someone before I go camping than I am going to have to put her down and that is a LAST resort that I DON'T want to do....

Now that the June Conference is over I am trying to get all the Thank you cards out and sent to those that helped and then I will totally be done with it! And now my ward is starting to put together the ward campout!! I am soo excited to be apart of it and help put it together! I wish I had more time to go camping than just to the ward one but I am thankful that I get to at least go once a year with them...

This last week

So I was crazy busy with getting things done. From work to last minute stuff for the Western Washington YSA Conference. Today is actually the last day (but I am not going to it, as I have already travelled down to Tacma 3 times and did not want to do a 4th. Plus I wanted to spend time with Chris, Allison, and Toph). I had to make 400 black and white copies and 14 color copies of workshop schedules and maps for this conference. Didn't realize that my copier would take as long as it did, but I got it all done about an hour and half to two hours before I had to leave to go down to Tacoma. Friday night was such a GREAT night!! I got to meet Kirby Heyborne and Corbin Allred!! I have a pic with Corbin but it isn't the greatest pic because it is with my phone and the pic that I have of kirby is on one of my friends camera. So here I am with my friend Kerry and Corbin Friday night!!!

And then yesterday was amazing as well!! I was running aound helping out and the workshops went better than I could have hoped for!!! I have to get ready for church now so I hope every one has a great day!!

craziness

I don't think that I will ever have a non busy life! LOL~ Cause when I get done with one thing I have to try and find something else to occupy that time lost. Anyways...my summer schedule is crazy!! I have the June conference that I am getting stuff done for...which that will be over with this month! YAY!!! But I am working about 60 hours. 40 in about 4 days (tues-fri for Bernard and Lynda). Mondays is about 8 hours with my other employers (Yong and Julie) and then Thursday nights with Yong and Julie, too. Between 4 to 5 hour date night. Somewhere in that time I will be working on a on-line class, trying to spend some time with friends and my dog.

Hershey, my dog, her poor eye swelled up today after chewing on a bone (not even twentyt min after I took it away from her). I am not sure if she has another absest (spelling is probably wrong on that word) tooth or she might be allergic to the bone?? I haven't given her one in a while cause it swelled up the last time and then went down. Although this time it is a LOT bigger than it was. So I hope and pray that before Sat (cause that is the only day I can take her to the vet) that is goes down and that it was just the bone...but I am pretty sure that it isn't the case...LOL~

I am however greatful for the extra hours that I will be getting. I will be making just a tad bit more so that I can hopefully pay off some bills, save for next quarter, save for a graduation trip to Hawaii, and maybe even get a new car in Novemeber that has ALL wheel drive so that when it does snow I won't be stuck in my apartment or at my employers' houses...We will see about that though...I love my car and it gets me to the places that I need to get to but when it snows it doesn't help me out at all...and I am worried about that. It was nice when I lived with my employers cause I was there and able to work but because I no longer live there it makes it harder and not as convienent (spelling?!? sorry!!) to get to work and then I am out of pay for the time!

I don't remember if I remarked in my last blog or not but I am done with my english 092 class (well not technically but I already have my final grade and don't really have to go to class since I don't have a final test). I am proud of the grade I have and am actually surprised with it!! An 85%!!!! I suck at english...well the grammer mostly so I was very empressed at how well I did!! This next quarter starts up in a couple of weeks and I will be taking a keyboarding class (online) to help build speed...you can always improve on that, right? plus since I don't work at a place where I type all the time my speed typing has gone way down. So hopefully I can build it back up to where it was if not faster than that...we will see..and it is part of my requirements for my AA in office managing!!

Well I have to get to bed...it is another work week starting tomorrow...I feel like I didn't get a weekend...sad days!!! Hope everyone has a GREAT and eventful week planned!!!

Blessed :-)

Since I have gotten my endownments out I have felt so blessed!! The only thing that keeps me sane is knowing that I have made time in my schedule to attend a temple session!! So far I have been able to go once a week and it has been amazing! I love it!! I have also been making time to see my Brother, Sister-in-law and Topher as much as our schedules let us! He is getting so much personality and he is just the cutest little nephew I have!! Here is a pic of him looking at me (it's a close up) from Sunday night!

I am sooo very glad that I only live a few min away from them! It is great that I get to see them more. I should have made more of an effort before Toph was born, but sadly I didn't...Sorry guys! Now we just have to get Mom, Rai, Nicole and Daisy to move here so that I can see them more too!! Daisy is getting to be such a cutie pie too!! I talk to as much as I can and she is getting to that age where when I call she knows when it's me and wants to talk (about 80% of the time). In the next couple of months I have lots to look forward too!! The June YSA Conference will be done and over with by the end of this month and I will be able to stop stressin over it!! Heather's brother Taaron is getting married (sadly I don't have the money or vacation time to take off to go down to Utah for that!! But congrats to Taaron and Charlee!! I am totally excited for them! Toph will be blessed in a month (July) and my Grandma and Grandpa Nelson, and my mom (not sure about Rai, but hopefully he'll be able to come this time) will be coming to that. My ward is having our campout in August which I am looking forward too!! Then in September Nicole and Daisy are coming for a week and they will be here on my birthday which makes it that much better in turning 25!!!

My summer schedule is crazy busy with work and school and some church activities, but I am totally looking forward to it! I am able to save some money with the extra work that I will be doing and hopefully by Novemeber I will be able to afford a new car with All Wheel Drive. The wnters where Bernard and Lynda live is crazy and annoying cause I get trapped in or out of the nieghborhood with the car that I have now. And it's also annoying and frusterating in putting and taking car seats into and out of a two door car...I need four doors!!

For this upcoming school schedule with work I am still not totally sure how that is going to work as both of bernard and lynda's kids are going to be in school and so my hours are going to get cut in half. But I will be watching Julie and Yong's youngest for sure!! So hopefully I will get enough hours and pay to pay bills and live on my own. So we will see. Well I should get goin and get to bed since I have to be up early...Hope ya'll are enjoyin the BEAUTIFUL WARMTH AND WEATHER!! I sure am!!! I am sooooooooo happy that SUMMER is HERE AT LAST!!

Got my endownments!

So I have been extremely excited, nervous, scared, stressed out, but mostly excited. I got my endownments taken out yesterday and am totally happy about it! I look forward to the next time I go to the temple. I totally forgot my camera and thankfully Leilani is a GREAT friend who remembered it and took these pics...Me coming out of the temple

Me looking at Leilani while her snapping the pic!

The group of friend who came to the temple (2 of them waited outside for me)

Chris and Allison at Dairy Queen afterwards...

My mom was there to but we didn't get a picture of her....I am THANKFUL to all those that came to support me in this whether they were there in person or in spirit! I have to go but I will write more later!!

TOPHER JAMES NELSON

My nephew was born last night around 7:30pm. He weighed 7 Lbs 10 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. Here is the cutie pie!!

Isn't he just prescious? I think so!!!

When I left to go home I ended up loosing my license, debit card, my costco card and also my gym card. I was almost home when I realized it! I couldn't believe it! I turned around and called my brother (which made me feel horrible cause he just had his son and I didn't want to bother him). He said he couldn't find it which made me freak out even more! So I when I got back to the hospital I looked at where I had parked (another car was in it's place), and lo and behold it was still on the ground!! I was SOOOO extremely grateful!!