The BIG 1-3

So this is my 50th blog post...I figured it deserved a little something special...or I guess a little something special deserved it! So here is to my favorite red headed brotha!

This month is such a special one,
it's birthday time for you!
I'd really like to celebrate this happy day with you!
SO
Zipp-a-dy A and Heidi-ho
there's something we must to.....
We'll sing a song that we all know.....
Happy Birthday
TO YOU!!!!

Happy 13th Aaron!

(this picture was last summer so it really isn't up to date but I think he is so cute here....not really what a 13 year old boy wants to hear but its ok I don't think he reads blogs anyways! But look at his RED hair and all is freckles...such a cute boy!)

And isn't it ironic...don't you think?!

So about 5 weeks ago now Bri and I went to this BEAUTIFUL lake! It was such a great get away! It was a little blessing sent from above and I tried to truly capture its breath-taking beauty but it was not capturable (at least my my camera). This picture does not do it justice but it was so great and we had a TON of fun in the water!
Now that really isn't that ironic thus far! However the beauty described above has led me to the recent discovery of this...Thats right people, I have giardia. Now for those of you who don't know what this is we're going to have a little lesson. I didn't know what it was until the doctor said that I might have it. So it is a parasite that you get from fresh water that lives in your small intestines. It come from either fish or human poop and is ingested. So apparently I don't swim with my mouth closed and some fishies were pooping in the lake and I swallowed it! GROSS!!!! Just so you get a better picture here is what a giardia looks like and here is what my small intestines look like (ENJOY!)


My stomach hurts like HECK! I wish these stinkin bugs would get out of my gut! I have had most of the symptoms for about 3 weeks now. Tomorrow is my final day of antibiotics which I am so grateful for because they make my mouth have the NASTIEST taste you could dream of. I constantly have some kind of candy in my mouth to get rid of the taste. I can't wait for all of them to be gone!

On a funnier note my mom is SO paranoid about this now. She keeps telling me that she is going to duck tape her mouth when she goes to a lake next and I am not allowed to take even baths anymore and she is afraid to drink out of drinking fountains. It is quite humorous!

I know I haven't blogged in a while and now there is this VERY uplifting post...I hope you all enjoyed it thoroughly! Hope you are all doing well! :)

Pumpkin Pick-up!

My calling this semester is FHE mom and so far it has been pretty fun. It is a little tough because we have ZERO budget...I'm not sure where it went but whatever. So I kinda of have to be creative with my activities and thus far it has been good. This past Monday my group and another group joined together and it was SO GREAT! We decided to get 6 pumpkins to carve and make sugar cookies to decorate. After said events were complete we doorbell ditched them to different people in the ward. Great plan and was very fun!When me and another mom (pictured above) decided to do this I immedately thought of the sugar cookies we make a Christmas time as a family! They are my favorite and I was STOKED to make them! They turned out SOOO BAD! They were disgusting. I mean there were a few people who have apparently never had a good cookie that ate like 20 but in my opinion they were BAD! So my mom is going to teach me how to make them when I go home because clearly I am challenged! I'm really excited!

During the activity I felt like a real mom, I didn't get to really participate in the activity at all because I was running around the whole time. I was running from the basement (where the pumpkins were...outside) to the kitchen (1 floor up) ALL NIGHT! I just ran up and down and up and down and up and....you get the point. I thought I was going to die I was so sweaty. After everyone left I was EXHAUSTED I laid down on the couch in a friend's lap. She was playing with my hair and all the sudden her hand was getting stuck...there was FROSTING IN MY HAIR! I couldn't believe that was the tipping point...I experienced motherhood for 1 hour of my life :) haha! It was actually really funny and I couldn't believe I had frosting in my hair considering I frosted only one cookie AFTER everyone left! lol

Today was a day just like any other

I have been trying to upload a really funny video of my roommate ALL DAY and it won't let me! So I just wanted to let you all know my frustration! Uh!

Anyways! I had a day off today from school and work! It was so nice...I slept in WAY too late and then I did some stuff around the house and now I am going to work on some studying. It has been a very productive and relaxing day! The laundry is done, the kitchen is clean, and I am well rested! Hope you all had a great day as well.

Updated!

I feel its been a while since I have posted and now you are all caught up on the ins and outs of my life! Hope its an enjoyable journey reading it! Love you all! Hope you are having a fabulous life!

"Happiness does not come by chance, it comes by choice"! Don't know if that is really the EXACT quote...something like that though! Words to live by!

Gen Con!

Conference was SO great this weekend I really loved it! I loved a lot of the talks here are some general take away messages I got from it:

• Love those around you and show that love for them through word and deed.
• The Book of Mormon is TRUE (Holland's talk was SO powerful!).
• Be better, always strive to do better, we can always do more than we are doing now.
• SERVICE!!!!
• Repent.

I loved all of the talks and I thought this conference was much more reprimanding and telling us to be better. I have a greater desire to do better in my life, be better, and help those around me to be better as well!

New Phone!

I got a new phone this week and it is really awesome! I haven't had a new phone in years...the last really new phone I got was in 2007...not really that long ago but I was REALLY sick of it! So I got a new one and I am LOVING it! It is really cute, and little, and light, and super fun to find new things out about it!

Hawaii

Ok so here is my official post about Hawaii! It was such a great trip! It was so fun to be around family for an extended period of time because I didn't get to go home at all this summer. I am so grateful for Grammy and Papa for taking me and enabling a WONDERFUL time to be had by all. On top of everything I got to have a little break from school! It was very nice! Any of you can go and read a detailed list of the things that we did on Ashlie's blog so I am going to tell you the top 10 things (in my opinion) that happened on the trip. Also I didn't take as many picture as Ashlie but here are a few of my favoites along with a link to see them all for your viewing pleasure!

TOP 10:

1. I flew there and back by myself so I had a different experience on my planes than the rest of my family. On the way there I sat next to quite possibly the nicest woman I have ever met. It is a big gamble flying by your lonesome and I have done it quite often and never really had a bad experience but this woman was a blessing. No one wants to have a bad experience for 5 and a half hours. This woman was born, raised, and currently still lives in Hawaii (kinda cool!). Anyways she was not overbearing...she slept, I slept, we chatted a bit, we laughed at The Proposal together, she shared some history about Hawaii with me. All in all she was great. She even gave me a list of the places I should go while I was there. We didn't go to any of them BUT it was very kind
2. One day at the beach we looked through the sand and found some of the SWEETEST rocks and shells! They were really cool! We started a mini rock/shell collection!
3. 3 words...Cheeseburger in Paradise. This place was delicious and it was even better because it really was a cheeseburger in paradise.
4. Stairs story: There is no way to fully capture the funniness of this story but seriously take my word for it...it was hilarious. If you don't know what I'm talking about check out Ashlie's Blog!
5. The Hawaiin sunsets...breathtaking!
6. Being with the family: It was so great to spend time with each of them. They are all so crazy! I got to know all of them a little better this week! So many many good times!
7. Being so very very close to the beach. If you know me you know that I LOVE the beach and really any body of water. I would live in the water if I could...but I can't. So it was really great to be able to be so close to the beach and go any time I wanted!
8. Wearing a bathing suit for 80% of the time I was awake during the day. For most of the same reasons stated above. I could go in the water at ANY given moment!
9. The bee story: Really again if you haven't already heard it please read it on Ashlie's blog....so funny! I can't really explain to you the humor and it probably seems really mean but watching her FLAIL around while none of us knew what was going on will be an image I have in my head for a LONG time to come!
10. Last but not least...this went in like descending order...this is really the number one reason. Ms. Abigail Eilmas. It was so fun to be able to spend time with her and meet her little personality. I haven't got to spend much time with her yet and it was so great. She is the cutest little thing. We had a lot of fun...I taught her to relax (put her hand behind her head and just lay there basically! lol). She got pretty good at it though. Toward the end of the trip when we were playing I'd tell her to relax and she'd put her hand up behind her head. She is such a sweet baby. I miss her. I wish I could spend more time with her

All in all it was a FABULOUS trip! Couldn't have asked for better! :)

Hawaii!

So Hawaii was so stinkin fun! I had such a good time. I don't really have time to update you on all of the ins and outs of the trip BUT Ashlie has done a fabulous job of capturing all of the moments very well. I'll update this weekend with pictures and some stories after I finish all of my tests this week. BUT until then! Enjoy the this HILARIOUS post!

Hawaii 2009