The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Read it. It's a good one.

Being Sick: The Story of My Life

Guess what? I'm sick...again. I always get sick and quite frankly, I'm sick of being sick. I take my vitamins, drink my orange juice, I go to the gym (I could do better in this area) yet I'm still sick every few months. If one more person tells me to take a multi-vitamin I might scream because I know that taking vitamins can help prevent it and I do it! I don't understand why my immune system hates me.

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to all!!! This New Year's was so much fun! I have never really been one to get into celebrating the New Year (don't get me wrong, I like to stay up past midnight and have some snacks and perhaps play a game or two but nothing too crazy) and this year was no different. I didn't even care to start thinking about what I was going to do for New Year's until the day before. All I wanted to do was get together with a small group of friends, play games and eat good food, just kind of relax. Well...somehow my wanting to have a quiet evening at home (or at one of my neighbor's houses, just as long as I could wear sweats and didn't have to plan anything) turned into me being in charge of a big New Year's party to be held at my house (I didn't even know half the people who came). Don't get me wrong, it was way fun but my New Year's eve was EXHAUSTING! Here is how my day went:

6:00 a.m. - Arrived at work
12:40 p.m. - Back home
12:45 p.m. - Start making my guacamole
1:30 p.m. - Guacamole done, start cleaning house (and I cleaned EVERYTHING)
4:45 p.m. - Went to Macey's with Danny because I was too tired to drive myself
5:30 p.m. - Start making seven layer dip (it's not New Year's without it)
6:45 p.m. - Finally shower and get dressed for the day
7:45 p.m. - First guests arrive (I'll admit I was perturbed because they were early and I wasn't ready but then I opened the door and to my surprise...it was Tiffany!)
8:00 p.m. - 11:59 p.m. - Perhaps the least intense game of NERTS I've ever played as well as some other games
12:00 a.m. - NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION
1:20 a.m. - Someone decided we needed to watch a movie
3:30 a.m. - Last guest leaves and I can go to bed after being up for 22 hours straight

All in all it was a wonderful New Year's and I would do it again...as long as I have time to sleep the next day.

Families Can Be Together Forever

I am writing a new post. Not because I want to or because I have anything exciting to say but mostly because I was giving Nat/Joe a hard time about not updating their blog and they pointed out to me that I'm the one who needs to be updating my blog.

WARNING: It's sappy.

I feel like for the last few weeks any church meeting/activity I've gone to one of the songs being sung was "Families Can Be Together Forever". This has caused me to think a lot about families and how grateful I am to have such a wonderful family. These last couple of weeks I've spent a lot of time talking to and hanging out with my family both in Colorado and my extended family here in Utah. I don't know how I would have been able to make it through these last couple of weeks without my family. Just the little things like going out to dinner, spending the day hanging out, talking on the phone and knowing I always have somewhere to go when I need to talk have meant so much to me. I've really gotten to know more of my family through all of this and have come to realize how wonderful they all are. I'm so grateful for the family I have been given and the opportunity I have to be with them forever. I love you guys!

(This is the only picture I have of my family all together...and it's not even mine, I stole it off of Joe's Picasa. P.S. I have no idea what Sean is doing.)

School's Out for Summer

I finished up finals last week and I'm SO glad that's over with! The last two weeks of school about killed me, sure it's my fault for being such a procrastinator but I really think I do my best work under pressure. Anyway, now that I'm out of school I have a lot of free time, and boy do I mean a lot. I'm not going home for the summer because I have to stay here and work besides that, I like it here enough to stay. However, I don't think I realized how much free time I was going to have once school got out. It hasn't been too bad thus far but there are times when I'm quite bored. Yesterday I did have the wonderful opportunity to spend the day with my friend Gabriella who is from Sweden. Gabriella has been out here going to school at BYU and since she goes back to Sweden tomorrow we decided we would go do something fun before she heads back home. We were originally going to go to Park City but when I checked the weather it was raining and cold there so we decided against it. Instead we went up to Salt Lake where we ate at The Garden restaurant, walked around Temple Square and went to Gateway Mall. It was so much fun to get to spend the day with Gabriella, I will miss her when she goes back to Sweden. Here are just a few of the pictures I took while we were up there.