Alaska Grown!

What a beautiful day!

2011-12-22T17:15:00.001-08:00

So I went to the temple today. It was beautiful and amazing and I thank everyone who could make it! Loved loved LOVED today!!!

Here's to my year of health!

2011-11-12T09:57:00.001-08:00

I just participated in an 8k in Richmond, VA this morning! Completed it in 1:15.35 and met all of my goals: finish, finish before Elsa and Millie finished their half marathon, and finish before any half marathoners did. Weeee! So there's that.

Family Reunion

2011-10-19T19:45:00.001-07:00

Hey, so here's a blog website to get info about the family reunion!

http://carlsonreunion11.blogspot.com/

I hope to see all of my family there!!!

Wowzahs!

2011-09-20T09:40:00.001-07:00

Times they are a changing! I have been all over lately and it has been oh so fun! Here's a quick run-down of my life as of late in no particular order, although that would be less confusing!

Stopped in Rexburg for a few days and met up with my peeps. Buzz barely made it in time the night before I left, so I got to see him too. He had just driven (by himself) from Alaska!

My dear friend Chelsea

Emmilie got back from her mission to Montana in July, so I haven't seen her for quite some time. Love that girl!

I got to go with Josie to the Idaho Falls airport to take pictures for when her husband came back from Iraq. He has been gone for a year, except for about 2 weeks where he got to come home for the birth of their first baby together! It was a great day!

Got some nasty sunburn that peeled really nicely. Yuck!

Met Carol and Brian Rhees' brand new baby Bailey. She was only about 5 days old here and SOOOO YUMMY!!!

Before Rexburg I went with some fam to Bear Lake! It was a blasty blast!

Uncle Andy brought his sweet boat. Lets see, there was Andy, Staci, Brighton, and Drew, Curtis and his kids, Lisa Mary and her kids, Jake Kumferman, Kamilla and Spencer, and Aaron and Madi. It was so fun!

Oh, and I went on an AWESOME cruise with my besty Gwen. We went, that's right, to the Cayman Islands. It was an overcast/rainy day and there wasn't a whole lot to do there, but we went!

We also went to Jamaica! Definitely my favorite part of the cruise! The people there were so friendly and their accents ROCKED! Totes going back some day!

And now I'm in Fudginia hanging with the kiddos and we babbins! I joined the YMCA...that's fun! And just chilling, trying to get things figured out for going to Kiersty's wedding in December! Woot Woot!

It is what it is.

2011-08-23T23:22:00.000-07:00

So many things have happened or occurred recently that give me thoughts like "It is what it is" or "everything happens for a reason." Sleep should be taking place right now, but so many things are swimming around in my head and I figure maybe writing them down and putting them out there might get me to the position of some sleep.

What a whirlwind the last week or so has been. I finished up with painting for the Borough last Wednesday having been in Seward all week again. Sorry, I forgot to get an after picture of the school before I left. But the Seward City News did put a thing here about it! I painted the stripe! Woot. Woot. Anyway, I was going to work until Thursday, but having been out of town so much I didn't get a chance to pack or get things in order, so I finished Wed. Thursday was incredibly busy with packing, seeing peeps, getting things in order, etc. I was up until about 2:45, then woke up at 3:30 to make it to the Kenai airport in time to leave at 5:05. Left Anchorage around 6:30 or so...long story short, flew there to Seattle-Long Beach-Salt Lake. Getting there was quite a day! I was very relieved to get my bags promptly and got picked up by Gwen. Oh how grateful I am to her! We kicked it around Salt Lake until Sunday, and now I'm back in Vernal. It doesn't seem like it's been 6 months since I was here last!

Now for the thing keeping me awake. Why the hurricane and why now? Miss Irene is brewing over yonder east way and is making things difficult for Gwen and I with our cruise. As of now, it's still a go. But with reports of it hitting Florida Thursday/Friday (we are flying there Friday) it makes things a little scary going into it. Do we go and hope for the best? Do we cancel? (luckily we got trip insurance) Rebook it? Such difficult decisions that make me a little uneasy. I know everything will be ok and work out in the end, but it's the time leading up to it that is the hard part.

Also something random: I know we all have our different trials and challenges in life. I am oddly enough grateful for mine and know that I have them to learn from and make me stronger. I am also grateful when I can share and help build up others with their trials. It helps me be more open-minded (I hope) and learn so many things from them. Things don't always go how I would like, and that's when I say "It is what it is." And hope for the best.

Ramble ramble, blah blah, just the thoughts of me. It's all good, right?!

Oh, and in more exciting news: Kierstin got engaged to Chris Baker and is getting married in December! Yay!!!!

Blogging from my mo-bile!

2011-07-27T12:12:00.001-07:00

Well well looky what I discovered! Blotting from my phone! Miss fancy pants going on here! Hopefully now that I have this I'll keep my adoring public updated more frequently on my life! Woot!
And for the first pic, we have Danny Fanny sporting the masked...cowboy?! I guess I need to figure out which way to take the pics so they aren't sideways when I post them! Peace out!

Surprises

2011-07-02T14:05:00.000-07:00

I guess it's time to put these up.

2011-04-23T12:49:00.000-07:00

Blogger sometimes does this thing where it won't let me upload pictures so it discourages me from posting very often. That being said, here is my life in a nutshell from the last couple months:

First off, Elsa had a baby on June 17th. This makes the fifth for her and Blair! Baby Brynna Jane is oh so cute and I can't wait to meet her! She already loves me I know it!

So way back around April 8th I FINALLY graduated from college!!!! WOOT WOOT WOOT! I have a Bachelor of Science in Communications with clusters (mini minors) in Russian and Sociology. I'm going to communicate to society in Russian! Oh and I graduated Cum Laude! Who knew I was so smart? ;) (that's top 10% of my class...yeah I didn't know what it meant either or that I got it until I saw it in the program!)

Gwen and Anna came up from Vernal to sit through a couple boring hours of talkers to support me. Thank you so so much! MYLC besty!

Me and my peeps. DyaDya Ed and Aunt Bear also came to watch! Thanks to them too! I shall miss living so close to them there in the Burg.

So after gradumacation Buzz and I went to Oklahoma for a few days to see fambly there! Kelsie and Zachary are SOOOOOO cute!

Hollster took us to this eatery called Pop's. We had a lovely dinner with Kierstis and Chris (her beau) and boy did Kelsie and Zach love their sodo!

Celebrating Kierstin's 22nd birthday with yummo cupcakes Hans made! I love my siblings!

Then I made it home and shortly thereafter took off on quite the adventure! Long story short, Aunt Lisa sold her car, found another one in Norman, Oklahoma, we flew down and drove it back. Oh, and did a few things here and there! 11 days and over 8,000 miles later we finally made it back to Kenai! Here was our route:

Flying out of Kenai. Oh it was a beautiful flight!

Ok, best mullet EVER! This was in the Anchorage airport. She was on our flight from there to Salt Lake, then again on to OKC. Mercy it was glorious!

How awesome was it that Norman is RIGHT next to Moore, which is where Hans' family and Kierstin live. So we flew in, bought the car, then stayed the night with them. The next day we drove to Tulsa to see Mike's family and stayed the night. The NEXT day, Holly drove Hans and his kids to Tulsa to meet up with us and we travelled out to Illinois for Uncle James' law school graduation.

It was so fun seeing family, and meeting James' youngest daughter Sarah! We had a wonderful weekend!

Kelsie and Zach were such amazing travelers! Well the built-in DVD player helped with that, but sometimes Zach would just talk to himself! And Hans did such a good job with them, even when Zach gave us a little scare one night with his allergies. Good times!

I got to check something off my bucket list! "Check out the Mississippi River" I also went to 3 new states: Kansa, Missouri and Illinois! (that one goes under "visit all 50 states")

Something else worthy of note is I got to use my new passport that I was forced to get after my last one was stolen. yeah it was only for Canada, and no I haven't gotten a stamp in it yet, but that'll hopefully come with my and Gwen's cruise!

We saw 3 black bears on the drive

And a few of the HUGE wood bison. They were seriously so big. And they poop...a lot! It blew Aunt Lisa away!

After driving about 5,127 miles this was the amazing sunset our last night of the journey. Ah I love alaskan skies!

A couple weeks ago I got to go with the stake, more specifically the Young Single Adults and do baptisms! I haven't done that in far too long, so it was to great to go serve those who have passed on before me. Juanita Millyard, Lacey, Becca Buzz and I all drove up together then hit up Chili's before heading back.

This brings me to my summer job that finally started about a month ago. (actually the week right after I got back from my road trip!) I'm painting with the borough again! This last week I finally made it out of town and will be for quite a few weeks I think. Fa la la la la la la ka-CHING! I'm working on the Seward High School. This is Brian a full-timer pressure washing up on the lift. This is a before pic. I need to get an after washing pic. It looks awful! but then it'll look nice and purdy once we're done!

And that's my life as of late! I know, so deciding! Thing are good, just counting down the days until our cruise! it's 62, just FYI! Then after that I'm off to Virginia to live with Eltza! Weee!

Peace.

Brainstormed compressed

2011-03-29T14:47:00.000-07:00

This is a video we made for my Intro to Broadcasting class! I love it!!!

On this day...

2011-03-22T23:22:00.000-07:00

On this day last year, I had a few classes and tried calling Daniel all day to wish him happy birthday, but could never get a hold of him. I had to resort to leaving a Facebook message.

On this day 6 years ago I was in Salzburg, Austria and called Daniel from the phone in the hotel lobby, singing Happy Birthday with Buzz.

On this day 8 years ago, Anna, Buzz and I were at a pay phone on the streets of Rome. We called the church (for it was Sunday and Daniel was at church) and had him come out of class, where we proceeded to sing Happy Birthday to him.

On this day 16 years ago we had a birthday for my youngest brother who was turning 1. The song went like this: "Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear....babycarlsonbabynumberninealexseth...Happy Birthday to you!"

On this day 17 years ago, I was sitting in our living room when my mom came out with a bag and went to the door. The following conversation ensued:

Me: "Where are you going?"

Mom: "To the hospital."

Me: "Why?"

Mom: "To have the baby."

Me: "Oh, ok."

And she drove herself to the hospital! Skip ahead a few hours, the younger kids who weren't old enough to go to Young Men/Young Women's were being babysat at Grandma and Grandpa McCubbins'. We were watching TV when the phone rang. The following conversation ensued:

Gramps: "Hello? OH!! So I have a grandson!"

Me: "MOM HAD THE BABY, AND IT'S A BOY!" (For mom never found out what she was having, but we all KNEW it was going to be a boy because the pattern had to be complete! Girl-girl-boy, girl-girl-boy, girl-girl-BOY!)

Finally we got to go to the hospital. Someone brought out this new little brother of mine. The very first thing I did was count his fingers and toes. For some reason I was so scared that he would be missing some! We couldn't go see mom for some time because she was having problems. Whopper Jrs. were the new rage, so Aunt Connie took us to Burger King and got a whole bunch of them. When we took them back to the hospital to eat, Uncle Andy found some surgical gloves and dissected the burgers. I made sure and had him remove my nasty tomatoes! And those are all my memories from March 23, 1994! The day little Dan'l Fan'l was born to complete our family of 11! Love ya "little" bro, The Last of the Mohicarlsons! Happy 17th Birthday!

Highlights from Dan'l visiting!

2011-03-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

Daniel came down here for his spring break last week! We had some good times and it was so great having him visit!

Picking him up at the airport in Idaho Falls. His flight actually got there early, but it was all good! We went bowling the first night, but I don't really have any good pics from it.

We went to Extravadance, which wasn't too exciting. Especially for those of us who went last year. About 3/4 of it was the exact same! BOOOORING!

I think this was last Sunday. Poor little lambs were plumb tuckered out and slumbering on my floor!

We had a family dinner with Kyle and the Kumfermans! Good times.

I took some "portraits" of Daniel for my photo class. This is one of my favorites!

After Guitars Unplugged (below) we went to Applebee's happy hour and celebrated Daniel's birthday which is this coming Wednesday. (the 23rd) Unfortunately I barely missed Buzz for this pic!

Went to Guitars Unplugged. This was my last time going, seeing as how I graduate in 19 days!!! It was rather lame for my last one unfortunately.

Just before taking Daniel back to the airport we snapped a couple shots by the sign. I hope Daniel decides to come here! He seemed to really enjoy it! And he's got a bunch of BYU-I gear already!

And lastly our avenue!

Well it was a fun week. Kinda rough balancing classes/homework/playing but it was fun! Thanks for coming Daniel, The Last of the Mohi...Carlsons!

In other news, like I said I graduate in 19 days! That's the 9th of April! School is going well. Just staying busy with all of my projects. I'm possibly driving back to Alaska around May 5th depending on whether or not I find someone to drive with me. If that does happen, I'll hang out a bit in Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia then head on up. If anyone knows of someone wanting to drive up with me, you send them my way!! Peace dudes!

August

2011-02-22T23:19:00.001-08:00

Hey Heidi, what are you doing August 27-September 1?

Gee, I was thinking of going on a cruise to the Western Caribbean with my best friend Gwen!!!

Accepting the terms and agreements!!

These are our "We just bought our cruise tickets" faces!!! So very excited! Hasn't completely sunk in yet, but I have lots of stuff occupying my mind! We'll be leaving out of Miami, and visiting Jamaica and Grand Cayman! Oh mercy I am excited! And it's okay to be jealous of us, we understand.

So, sadly, those are the only pictures from my weekend in Vernal. Lame, I know, but oh well! It was such a relaxing weekend, just what I needed before I plow through until the end of my college life! 49 Days!!! WOOOOOT WOOOOOT!!!!

This evening we (a group from my broadcasting class) went down to Idaho Falls and got to watch the 10 o'clock news live! It was actually pretty cool! My teacher is one of the new anchors down there, so he got us the hook ups!

Well, 12:35 and all's pretty well. Except I gotta scoot to bed. Peace, homies!

Surprise Pay Back time!!!

2011-02-19T09:46:00.000-08:00

So around last October, Gwen did this(click here) to me. Total surprise, got me good! So this three day weekend, I decided to get her back!!! She was planning on coming to pick me up in Provo after work Friday, but I got a car and drove out to Vernal, getting there just after noon. And this is how I surprised her!! HAHAHAHA!!! MYLC!!

New time waster

2011-01-18T12:39:00.000-08:00

Well, the semester is in full swing now and boy is it kicking my butt! 17 credits, 50-hour senior project, blah blah blah. And yet, somehow, I have found time to get somewhat addicted to the game Angry Birds, a very simple game that makes you go "where the deuce did the last two hours go?!" Woops! I have it on my iPod and the drive to and from Idaho Falls for my field trip today was the shortest it's ever seemed on that route! If you have an iPod touch and don't have a lot of free time, I warn you, DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS APP! It just might consume you!

In other news, I biffed it on the ice today whilst walking to school. yeah, not so great. My hand and right side are a bit sore now :( Like mentioned, I went on a field trip to Idaho Falls. We went to Riverbed Communications, which houses like 6 different radio stations. We got to go on a tour and meet the DJ's, have a few Q&A sessions with them. It was pretty sweet. Maybe if I had taken this class a few semesters ago and gone on this tour before I could have done an internship there or something. I think I might have enjoyed that. However, I am not about to further my time in school beyond this semester! No thank you! Let's see, I'm taking some interesting classes. My photojournalism class is pretty sweet, although somewhat of a challenge since I only have a point-and-shoot camera, and it would be so much better with a SLR camera. Some day! Well, that's about it for now! Peace dudes!

Videos

2011-01-06T14:09:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple videos from being out east!

Sorry the first half is sideways. I'm used to my phone where you can do it either way!!! it's still visible, right?!

And the boys were having their party in the hot tub while Kiwi still practiced getting used to walking!!

Enjoy my precious nephews and niece!

Surprise Surprise!

2011-01-04T21:44:00.000-08:00

So yesterday was my last day out in Virginia, and Millie was winging her way out there for nursing school. She wasn't going to get in until sometime tonight, so we were just going to miss each other. After the kids were asleep, Elsa and I went to a couple stores for last minute things, and as we were talking to Blair in the living room, Elsa got this very surprised face and was like "you little stink!" I turn around, and there's Millie in the doorway!! Yeah, she lied. She's a liar. But I love it when people lie to me like that!!!! A happy reunion we had!

I am now back to Rexburg, about to embark on my very last semester of college! Let the countdown begin!!! Oh, and it's freezing and so snowy here! Not looking forward to having to walk around in that tomorrow. ugh. :(

Christmas break mrh.

2011-01-02T18:36:00.001-08:00

So I've ventured out to Elsa's again for Christmas! LOVE spending time with the nephews and niece! And here are some pictures to prove it!

Kiwi's ballerina outfit from Grandma Karzee. yes, she wore it to church, and yes it was super cute!

jake and sean the first night i got in.

Sammy. No he wasn't drunk....I don't think!

We celebrated Kiwi's birthday when I first got there as well. She did a great job with her cake!

And the aftermath!!!

The boys and I made a gingerbread house! It was awesome!

You can almost see Kiwi's snaggle tooth! Oh, and the boys came up with Kiwi as Kiera's nickname!!!

Christmas day playing together!

Kiwi does this crazy eye drunk smile!!! It cracks me up!

As well as this!!!

The family eating Christmas dinner!

The boys on the scooters Santa brought them.

We sent Sean out to check the mail. Not quite sure what he was doing here!!! Oh, and this snow started Christmas night, snowed the entire next day, then stopped. It is now gone just one week later. Craziness! I've decided snow and the east coast do NOT mix!

Me and Seanny

Me and Samson

Me and Jakey

Me and Kiwi!

The boys had a party in the hot tub. And yes that is Sean's head barely visible. He's a little water child! This is after Sean was praying over the food and said "We're thankful we could have a party." Which we didn't actually have at all!

Me and the kiddos after church. Pretch! Yes she is wearing little baby leggings that Elsa found!!! HA HA HA!

And Jacob suddenly went into a cleaning frenzy today. He made my bed, lined up my shoes, folded my clothes, and organized my suitcase (sort of). it was so cute and he was so proud!

So that's that thus far. I head back to the Burg early Tuesday morning. I'm gonna miss my VA family members, but am excited to get back to my LAST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE!!!! WOOT!

WooWee!

2010-12-19T03:58:00.001-08:00

THE SEMESTER IS OVER!!!!! I made it (barely) finishing with just enough energy to clean my apartment and book it on out of there! I am now in the Salt Lake airport waiting to fly out to Virginia!! Yayayay!

A couple weeks ago it was my friend, Alit's, birthday! I know I"m not in this pic, but the one I got in wasn't on my camera!

Alison, my old room mate, and Chelsea, now her room mate, were wrestling...yeah!

Me and Alison!

Me and the birthday boy (who happens to be Alison's boyfriend!)

They had this Michael Jackson Wii dancing game. So funny, and quite fun!

Buzz me and Chelsea!

Me, Chelsea and Jeff!

Then the following Monday was Chelsea's birthday, so we went to breakfast at JB's. Yummo!

Made it to Mona for Lisa Hansen's wedding reception. A couple pics of some Alaskans, trying to do the Alaska sign!

Some of us got it!

Me and the beautiful bride!

With the newlyweds!

Well, time to board my flight. Catch ya on the east coast!!!

The week off

2010-11-29T21:57:00.000-08:00

So I had a week off of school. It was nice to not have to worry about classes, homework, annoying room mates, yadda yadda yadda! But oh so cruel having to come back for 3 more weeks! Blegh! I've realized I didn't take many pictures. Lame-o of me! But here are some I did take. They are not in any particular order:

Me, Gwendy and Buzz after the fireworks celebration of Holly Days. It was soooo cold! But there were beautiful fireworks we got to watch! Take notice of Buzz's teef! They are brace free!!

Our lovely hosts, Hanna and Matt-hew!

On our way back we went to Mona and ended up staying the night at the Nunez's house with Becca and Lacey! I also went and visited John and Lindsey and their cute family, meeting precious Suzi for the first time. Not sure why I didn't take any pics with them! Argh!

Siblings!! yay!

Me and GwendyLynn!

Buzz broke this shelf at Anna's salon. Silly head! They were very nice though and didn't make him pay for it!

This was actually my pre-thanksgiving feast we had in my Russian class with Uncle Ed. Buzz and the kid behind him aren't in the class, but were visiting for the feast. It was oh so delicious! We tend to have a lot of food days, seeing as how we only have 5 students and like to eat!

That is that peeps. It was a nice week off, and now I just need to focus and plow through until the end! I'm going to make a weekly countdown until I graduate. We're on week t-minus 17!!! Ya ya!!

My semester thus far:

2010-11-08T21:14:00.000-08:00

So I finally got a few pictures to upload. Here are some of the happenings of my second to last semester at college!!!

I guess this isn't really my happening, but my mom just sent this to me today. Two bull moose right on the road by our house. And all that snow! Wooftas! It snowed snowed a lot for the first time today. Not so happy or excited about that!

Friday night Jeff and I were really bored, and Jeff needed a cake fix, so we got the stuff and made a cake for Nena's V for Vendetta party. It was pretty good!

Gwendy came up two weekends ago, TOTAL SURPRISE! I haven't gotten a surprise like that in years! It was so fun to have her here. I wish we had taken more pictures. BUT, the significance of this one is that this is my friend Chelsea and Gwen. They are twins. Not only do they look a lot alike, but they act alike, make the same facial expressions, say the same things...yeah, it's totally weird. And it was freaking Gwen out when they were in the same room!

Kierstin stopped by on her drive down from Alaska, so naturally we made chicken enchineenees. We had some friends help us eat them, Kirsten, JR (aka TP, aka Heidi) and Jeff.

For Gwen

Again, we were bored so we headed up to the orchards on campus and picked apples. This flower was also there. It was beautiful, like Jeff's eyes!

Siblings!!

Buzz trying to catch the chips in his mouth

About a month ago the five of us (L to R: jeff, Buzz, Chelsea, me and Alison) went up to Jackson for the day. It was a much-needed break from the school and slightly claustrophobic life of Rexburg.

Happy Birthday to Jeff October 8th. This was the dinner and a movie party!

Buzz with all but one of his room mates. He and Jeff accidentally both wore their argyle sweaters, so to make it less awkward they all joined in. CUTE!! Oh, and Buzz spoke in church this day. It was really good!

Back at the end of September Aunt Bear Bear threw a surprise party for Uncle Ed, and Aaron and Madi showed up for it! So afterwards we all went to Applebee's! Did I already post this on here...?!

A picture from star gazing out in Vernal. Did I mention Buzz and I went to Vernal and surprised Anna and Gwen? Well we did, and it was awesome!

One of my first dinner parties of chicken enchiladas. Good times here!

I'm sure I'm missing quality pictures, but ees okay! School is pretty brutal. I'm taking a whopping 17 credits, but I find solace in the fact that it's already half-way over and I registered for the last time last week!! I am SO graduating in April! I also look forward to Thanksgiving in Vernal where I get to spend time with Anna and Gwen. And then heading back to Virginia come December 19th! Don't worry, I've been listening to Holiday music on Pandora for about 4 days straight now! Alrighty, gonna skeedaddle. Peace out dudes!

Studying

2010-10-18T21:18:00.001-07:00

This semester is kicking my butt! I am currently taking 16 credits and will most likely be adding another for the second block. I've taken to escaping to quiet buildings to get any homework done, especially on Monday nights when FHE is going a bit too long and is held at my house. And no, I'm not in the library. I get way too distracted people-watching there! So today I'm in the lobby of the Ricks. Super quiet. In fact, I feel like I am the only person in the whole building! Niiiice! And yes, I would be reading The Kite Runner for my stupid Humanities class. No it's not backwards, that's just how my web cam takes pictures! Weird. Allrighty, back to reading. Peace homies!

This is called procrastinating my homework...

2010-10-12T20:19:00.001-07:00

Here are a few pictures as of late. These are just from my phone. The pictures from my NEW CAMERA are taking too long to upload.

This is my new computer! I was forced into getting a new one when my old one was stolen. But I rather like this one. I converted to a Mac...it's nice!

This sign was on my old apartment complex. If this is true, I want my money back!

I went and visited Amanda my first weekend back at school for her cousin's mission farewell. She is now on her mission to New Zealand! Miss that girl!

I went to visit Elsa before school started. This is me with her little hoodlums!

Sammy always stands with his hands on his hips. He also doesn't like to wear clothes that often. Add the clifford slippers...makes for a b-e-a-utiful ensemble!

One day Sean and Sammy were running around the kitchen/dining room/living room and bonked heads! Instant bump! Sean had a matching one on the opposite side!

Kiera Mae is SOOOOOO precious!! and smiley!

Again an example of her smiley-ness!

We went to the beach and I got a little sunburn. The lighting makes it a lot worse than it was...I think. It was a real goocher!

The cutey nephews!

So there are some pics. I'm trying to get pics from my camera. Maybe tomorrow on campus where the internet is faster! Peace out home skillets that still might read my blog!

Deebee dobbee doobee

2010-09-21T23:25:00.000-07:00

School. Blagh. And, I just went to take a drink, only to find out I had finished it already. Blagh Blagh! In case you couldn't tell, I'm back at school. I'm taking a whopping credits with the threat of 18 or so next semester, but this must be done so I can GRADUATE in April. Woot! That's what's keeping me going. No more measuring my life in semesters. No more homework. No more scrounging to make my schedule work and find credits. No more moving in to approved housing with a curfew. I am ready for the next phase of my life. Oh what will it be...? Oh, and I got a new camera, but it's late and my internet service isn't so great so I won't post pics tonight. Maybe tomorrow during my Media Research class?! Oh wait, make that today during my class!

Summer time and the livin' is...somewhat easy!

2010-07-05T00:16:00.000-07:00

So, my summer thus far in a nut shell! After my awesome layover and misfortunes posted in my last post, this summer has been pretty good to me! I've stayed busy with lots of painting projects, not just for work at the borough. Buzz, Kierstin and I took a trip to Valdez to visit our friend Jaime from college. SO FUN! And ya know, a little of this, a little of that, and here are some pics!! sorry they're not in order of occurence, blogger is lame like that!

I've been working, painting, for the borough again. I've been fortunate to be out of town every week so far, so I'm racking up the per diem!! Sa weeet! the only down side is that it's been in a little village of MAYBE 150 people called Port Graham. Drive to Homer, fly across the bay for about 15 minutes, land on a dirt run way in the middle of some mountains and you're there! For some reason I didn't get any pictures of the school we're painting to show just how small it is, but here are some other tidbits from Port Graham.

The airport in Port Graham. Not even kidding. It's really strict, safety wise, out there. Security checkpoints, metal detectors, I.D. checkpoints...whew! or we just go to the airport in Homer, say we're here, and go hop on the plane!

A place called Windy Bay that our little crew got to after an 18.5 mile bumpy ride down an old logging road. So worth the trip though, it was soo sooo pretty!

I made this rice bag! Sewed it and all!

A pretty stream on our adventures down the logging road

Me and grams at the cemetary paying tribute to Gramps on Father's Day. He passed away 6 years ago to the day: June 20, 2004

My first flight out to work. My job rocks! We saw one bear right by the run way taking off about 2 weeks ago, and another bear out walking last week. Pretty cool stuff!

Jeremiah, Michelle and Ellah made a surprise trip back from Hawaii a couple weeks ago. Lame me, I didn't get a pic. with Michelle though. Just my cute niece, Ellah!

The lake behind the first school I was at this summer, Moose Pass. Yeah, I kayake on it!! Woot!

on our trip to valdez we got to go our 4-wheeling. I was lucky enough to get this SWEET helmet!!

climbing around on an avalanche

Kierstin, Buzz and me in front of Bridal Veil Falls at the beginning of our hike. (Valdez)

Just a picture I really like that I took with my phone. No, it's not a sepia effect. it's called "the view looked cooler through my sunglasses, so I put them in front of the camera!"

a cute baby moose that was hanging around our house for a couple days with his mama.

Siblings out at Kasilof Beach

After a fun treasure hunt out at Cohoe.

So there are a few pics I chose to display. I hope you're all having a wonderful summer and going on adventures like I am! Peace!

Oh wow!

2010-04-29T01:51:00.000-07:00

Sorry, another post without any pictures. But it should be pretty interesting!
Let's see, where to start? The semester ended!!! Hallelujah! I did well in all of my classes, so being so incredibly busy paid off! I went down to St. George for Mary and B-rad's wedding. That was fantatstic and I got my first semi-noticeable Z-tan! Woot! Then I went back up to Rexburg and did a RAD instructor course. Passed that, so I guess I'm now an official certified instructor! Two woots there! I headed to Hans and Holly's in Oklahoma the 17th and spent a few days with them and their super cute kiddos. I do have some pics from that, just not on the computer yet. Then came the good part:
I was headed home and had a long layover in Seattle. My roommate, Jenna, lives there, so she came and picked me up. We went on over to Pike's Place and walked around for a bit. About 25 minutes later, we came back to her car with the back right door window smashed and my backpack gone. Not only my backpack, but everything I was traveling with, including my laptop, iTouch, passport, and other things. That stinkin thief came away with over $2,000 worth of stuff. And it was no where to be found. So, my life got pretty much turned upside down cause they have access to so many things that they can easily steal my identity. I'm going through all the precautions to try and make sure that doesn't happen, but I have to watch out for it the rest of my life. Major bummer there dude. And, my boarding pass for my last flight was in there, but I luckily had my little pseudo wallet with I.D. and what not, so they just re-printed me one at the airport.
That was a week ago, and things have been pretty interesting since! I made it home, have gotten some stuff done, and am now just waiting to start working somewhere! Really wanting to work cause I'm starting to get really bored. I think having such a busy semester and then suddenly having nothing to do is a hard transition! I'll survive! So that's my life in a nutshell as of late! I'll try and get my pics off my phone from my travels and happenings that I managed to take pics of! Peace!

Leaving on a jet plane!

2010-04-17T10:49:00.000-07:00

I'm just waiting to board the plane to Oklahoma City to visit Hans, Holly, Kelsie and Zach! So decided! I'm still a little sick with a cold, so hopefully my head won't explode with the pressure. I just HATE that! well, here I go! Peace homies!

Deedoo!

2010-03-26T10:46:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a while and I don't have any pictures on my computer to upload, so I guess this is just an informative post. Boring, I am very boring! Life is...going right now. We only have 1.5 weeks of actual classes left this semester, and I am so stoked/stressin about that. So excited to be done with the semester, but it just means I have quite a few huge group projects to do, one media law test, one Multimedia Video Journalism news package, one media law final, and a pretty big Public Relations Final. Oh, and one last article for the school newspaper. EVER! I've decided I don't want to wrtie for the Scroll again. No thank you! Not my favorite! But, things are good otherwise I guess. I'm staying here Easter/Conference weekend, and then going to Salt Lake for my Uncle Aaron's wedding on the 6th, then back here that night to finish up school, then down to St. George for Mary and B-rad's wedding the 10th, then back up here to help my aunt Karen paint her house and do a RAD instructor class, then out to Oklahoma to visit Hans and his family the 17th, then home to Alaska the 21st! Whew! When you put it in one big run-on sentence like that, I seem super busy!
The semester has been good though. One highlight is that I was on a co-ed blacklight bowling team, along with Buzz, Kierstin, Jeff, Jenna and Alison. We were ranked right around 20th (out of 53) the whole season, and somehow made it to the finals Wednesday night. We didn't do so hot the final game, but were pretty proud of ourselves for making it to the top 6! Not too bad! We were team Salmon...fitting, if I do say so myself! I'll try and get a couple pics up here of that. Well, I best get back to writing my 2000-3000 word paper for Persuasion. Oh, did I not mention I have that due too? Yup, I do. Peace peeps!

The BYU-I Do

2010-02-28T23:29:00.001-08:00

The BYU-I Do

2010-02-26T10:52:00.001-08:00

Here's our song for Guitars Unplugged! Sorry it's not the best quality!

Lyrics:
Tuesday’s here,
it’s 2 o’clock (woah woah woah)
President Clark isgiving a talk
She’ll scratch your back if
You take the notes
And you’ll never be lonely anymore

Because you’re
Going to devotional and you’re
Gonna sit together
Goin’ to devotional she could
Stare at you forever
Gee she just met you but you’re
Looking much better
Welcome to the byu I do

Friday night it’s 12:45 (woah, woah woah)
Drop her off quick
And don’t be shy
Awkward door scenes
And a handshake goodbye
Bet you’re hopin’
You’d been a bit more sly

Because you
Had your first real date
And you’re hopin for another
Had your first real date better
Talk to her mother, father
Gee I think she likes you cause she’s
Dumped all the others
Welcome to the byu I do

Spring is here
Everyone’s dressed in white (woah)
What’s going on
Must have, done something right
Today’s the day, one day your’s too
To make a success story of the BYU-I do

Because you’re
Going to the temple and you’re
Gonna get married
Going to the temple and you’re
Gonna get married

Gee I think she loves you
Cause you’re really getting married
All thanks to the BYU-I do
All thanks to the BYU-I do

Visitors Please!

2010-02-24T14:41:00.000-08:00

Hey Family and Friends! So I'm in a Multinedia Video Journalism class (I know, that's a mouthful,) but I have a blog for that class. I guess we're going to be doing some kind of little competition type thing for who gets visitors. I have a couple site trackers on that blog. If you have the chance, would you mind hopping over to the blog and checking it out? Ya know, getting my numbers up! There is a link over thar to the right titled "MVJ Blog." That will take you right there! Thanks friends!

Here is what it looks like:

Trippin' and family

2010-02-14T12:51:00.000-08:00

My cousin, John Larson, passed away last week and Millie, Anna, Buzz and I went down to Phoenix for the funeral. It was a bittersweet trip. Sad to be going under such circumstances, but good to see everyone there!
There is a blog for my cousin John at http://johncarllarson.blogspot.com for those of you who are interested.

Buzz Parquoring (sp?) at a gas station.

The Larsons who have recently had babies

The Larsons

And the Larsons again

Me and my cuz, Linz!

Aunt Laura and John's wife, Lila, holding pics of John

Phil, Alicia and their precious Emmett

The sibs and our aunties

Siblings!

Anna and Kaylyn

COUSINS! And a couple aunts and uncle!

CHEESERS!

Becca, Ben, Grandpa Larson, Millie and Hannah

The Frasures

Tia, Me, Buzz and Jenny

Fambly!

Meeting up with Cody and getting gasolinas before our LOOOOOONG trip!

So, there it is! Hope you enjoyed!

Family Pictures

2010-02-14T12:48:00.001-08:00

Here are our family pictures from Christmas. Finally, all of us in one place!

We take this picture-taking thing seriously!

We can look nice! All 9 of us!

The whole crew! I've decided we're HUGE...in number!

So there we are!

Christmas (finally) with my travels!

2010-02-09T19:16:00.000-08:00

OOOOOkay, so here are some pics from Christmas out at Elsa's. I just took them from my siblings' Facebook since I don't have a camera that works!

A group of us went into NYC. Here we are in Times Square!

Posing as I wait for the Subway

After a long day waiting for the Subway

From a different angle

Riding Subway. I really liked the guy with the pink sweatshirt and green scarf!

Posing outside St. John the Divine Cathedral

WEIRD statue outside same cathedral

Some more photoshop skills in Philly

Me and Samson making...something. Don't remember what..oh yeah, sugar cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa! They were bericious!

Driving to New York. THAT was an adventure in and of itself!

We were bored. And no, Kiersty isn't really asleep! She's just kidding!

Me and precious Kiera Mae (pronounced Kee-eh-ra Ma-yeh)

Me looking sweet if I may say so and the little princess Christmas morning!

Danny Fanny and myself riding the metro

Pose pose pose!

And those are the pics so far!
The semester is going aight. Super super busy, but I"m getting her done!

Bliddy bloddy blooody!

2010-02-09T19:00:00.000-08:00

So here are a few pics from my photoshop skills. They're on my Facebook as well, but I thought I'd put them up here!

Sean with Dandelions (so poetic, right?!)

Santa Kelsie

Let's go fly a kite

Cutesy Kels

Somewhere Over the Golden Arches

San Fran and Redding!

2009-12-01T13:36:00.001-08:00

Just a fair warning, there are a LOT of pictures on this post and they are not in order of how they happened!

I know, great first pic for the post! We went to the Turtle Bay...exploratorium? Museum? They had an exhibit all about poo! They had an amazing one on Legos, but I don't have those pics.

Me and Bai on our way back from Redding at In and Out

This used to be a bathtub...well I guess it still is, but it's for lounging purposes. This is at Bailey's aunt's in Redding. Quite comfy!

Buzz and Bai taking out my corn rows

We did a turkey trot on Thanksgiving up in Redding. It was only a 2-miler, but it was fun! Pre race with our bibs!

It was a tad chilly!

After the race with the race mascot! Lars, me, Merit, Turkey, Mike, Teemaree, Buzz and Bailey

Oh these are SOOO glorious!!!!

Will someone in Alaska please show this to Grandma McCubbins? We successfully made Grandma Durham's delicous pumpkin pie! They were a big hit!!

Said corn rows. Baiely is pretty handy when it comes to hair styles!

The Redding Capeners, Bailey's aunt and cousin. Back: Merete, Thor, Becks, Lars. Front: Annelise, Hans, Nels and Serina. Such an amazing and welcoming family. We had a great time with them!

Me and Buzz on the Sacramento River with the sweet Sundial Bridge behind us. It's quite an amazing feat of engineering!

Just a pretty pic of the bridge

The Concord Capeners and our gracious hosts: Kelen, Teemaree, Mike, Merit Bailey and Anders (pronounced Ahners) So fun staying with them for a week!

Twins with the Golden Gate Bridge. We discovered we have the exact same sweatshirt, but mine just has some Alaska stuff on it (not visible in this picture)

Me, Buzz and Bai with da bridge

Bailey and me on our little walk. I just like my eyes in this pic, they seem to really pop!!!

I think this is called sibling love or something...

View of California we didn't expect to see...really pretty!

We went to the Jelly Belly Factory about 45 minutes away the first day we went there. It was so cool! Unfortunately we couldn't take any pics during the tour which was the coolest part!

Me and my bro outside the factory

We ate at this place called Claim Jumpers. It really was good, so I'm not sure what this face is in regards to!

Our scary ride in the taxi. We took the trolley car across San Fran and were going to meet Bailey's dad there with the car, but we took off with the keys to the car in Teemaree's purse. Thus the insane car ride. Those streets in San Fran are off the hook!

Crossing this off my bucket list!!!! Ride a trolley car in San Francisco with Bailey! CHECK! And it was way fun!

Famous Pier 39

Anders insisted we go to the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, so we did. This was in a tunnel where it felt like we were moving, but weren't...way trippy and ever since I've had vertigo my balance hasn't been as good and my ability to get dizzy fast has increased. SWEET!

The sea lions at the pier. They smelled really really bad!

Eating a....oh I forgot what it was....anyway, went to Fenton's Creamery (it's at the end of UP of you've seen it) and experienced a true Oakland/Concord/San Francisco treat!

This sign is at the entrance to the Oakland Temple and Visitor Center. It seriously says "Speed limit 9 1/2 MPH!"

Me and Buzz outside the Oakland Temple. You can go up on top of one of the levels and see all out across the bay. Unfortunately those pics didn't turn out so well.

Well I guess those are all the pics I decided to upload! It was a very nice week off of school in the warmth of California and so fun! I'm definitely going to have to go back soon and see it all again!!!

Penelope-GOTTA WATCH!

2009-11-16T23:53:00.001-08:00

Video Recaps | Full Episodes | Webisodes

Halloween 09

2009-11-02T00:45:00.001-08:00

Our ward had a halloween party at the livestock center run by the school. Your truly is on the committee, along with Buzz and Jeff. We make cool things happen!

Jeff the bampire, Buzz Lightyear, Pam...the Pam, and Heidi the interrupting cow! (thanks for the idea Anna!)

Story sequence: Bampire Jeff roped me...

Buzz Lightyear fought him off...

And I was greatful for him saving me...

Good triumphed over evil!
So there are a few pics from the day. Not much happened...oh, well I also did hang out with Josie and her parents...should get a couple pics there. And then Buzz, Jeff and I tie dyed t-shirts. I'll have to put those up too! Things are good here though. 18 days til I leave for Thanksgiving and boy am I excited! Which also means only about 46 days until I leave for Philly! WOOT WOOT!

Peace!

Post worthy:

2009-10-15T22:24:00.000-07:00

It was a year ago today that I went to the Emergency Room for the first time and found out I had Bell's Palsy. Remember that? Man, where has the time gone? So I rounded up these pictures to remind myself and everyone who looks at this blog of that odd time. I am grateful that I had that trial and that it was not that bad. It could have been way worse, but wasn't! It was actually funny more than anything else. So here's to overcoming crazy obstacles and moving on!

My hospital wristband! And palsy face!

These are compliments of Anna. I was showing her all the crazy things my face did/didn't do and she snapped these while skyping! Trying to squint my eye. Couldn't do it!

This is just what I looked like when laughing really hard! So hilarious!

I had to tape my eye shut at night so it wouldn't get so dried out.

And this was only about a month later at Anna's for Thanksgiving. See how fast it got better?!
And that was my journey with palsy face. Oh what a crazy time that was!!! I'm hitting up Utah this weekend to spend time with Elsa and her family. SOOO EXCITED!! Peace!

AK Party!

2009-10-11T22:45:00.000-07:00

We had an Alaska party Saturday night. It was rockin'! Good turn out, good food, good times!

Me and Bai at the end of the night. Oh, Bailey flew into Salt Lake Thursday, then she and Amanda drove up Friday to spend the weekend. SOOO fun to spend time with them!

Kammi, Brittany Meyer, Kaylene Forbes and Marquee Lucas (all from back home)

My sideways place igloo cake. Well, much help from Buzz and Jeff. Okay, so it was only my idea and I didn't really help with much except for the white icing!

kaylene, Marquee, Me, kammi, Kendra Parry, Brittany, Skyla CORRIGAN and Buzz. Soldotna Stake Peeps represent!

The sibs that were there with our flag. Woot!
I'm sure one might wonder where Kierstin was, so I'll just tell you she was in Utah with David!

so there are some pics from our party! Hopefully I'll get some more from Amanda's camera...we'll see! Bye Bye!

Snow? Really?

2009-10-05T10:50:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning to horrid snow. It's only the beginning of October, come on people! I"m just glad it held off for the most part while we were driving back from Utah last night. Me, Buzz, Kierstis and Kammi went down for General Conference. It was nice. But yeah, not looking forward to walking all the way to the Taylor in this wetness. ugh!

In other news, Bailey and Amanda are coming up this weekend and I am so extremely excited for that! And then next weekend Elsa and her family will be in Utah and I'll get to see them! I just can't wait for all these visitors! It is joyous unto me! Hope all is well out there!

Oh look at that!

2009-09-20T21:37:00.001-07:00

Oh what do you know? Blogger allowed me to upload my pictures! So this last weekend Buzz, Jeff and I headed over to Jackson, Wyoming and went white water rafting with B-rad. It was so so so fun and I'm so glad B-rad took us! These are the pictures from my camera, but there are still some more from Buzz and B-rad I need to get. But it was so great! And I didn't fall in!

Rockstars!

B-rad got this hammock from Mary Hall in Guatemala and he wrapped and spun Buzz up in it.

Relaxing after the raft trip by the river!

Before heading down the Snake River. I let it see how ssssssnakelike I can be!

So there's a little photo update. I'll try and get those other pics asap and put them up here now that I can upload pictures once again!

Back to the nose grind.

2009-09-15T21:14:00.000-07:00

Well, after much time apart I am reunited with the Burg. The Rexburg that is. Made it back to school last week and am in full swing with classes and friends and a new calling. Well, it hasn't been sustained, just extended. It'll be great, and it doesn't involve me teaching Sunday School! Whew! I still don't think I can upload pictures to my blog. Lame! But yeah, just a little shout out to anyone who might still read my blog! Au revoir!

Did you know?

2009-07-13T20:12:00.000-07:00

Not having a camera and an extra reason to put pictures on here and new posts is killing me and my ratings. I think I've become one of those blogs that people don't even bother looking at anymore cause I never have anything interesting or exciting on here. I am such a slacker. So I've decided to try and put SOMETHING on here at least 4 times a week.
People. People can be not very smart or observant sometimes. For my job I am often working where the public is around. Last summer I was painting a swimming locker room at Skyview H.S. The entire pool was closed, but we were in and out of that area, and the locker room was open. However, we had some tape and paper, along with all our other painting gear like drops, ladders, buckets, rollers and brushes everywhere, including in the shower area. We had just painted a wall, then took a break. When we came back from break we saw that the floor in the shower was wet, as well as some of the paper and the wall. As we were a little quieter, we hear noises coming from the pool area. We looked out there and proceeded to see a guy just swimming laps, all by himself. There was no lifeguard, no one in the office, nothing. How thick can someone get? Lucky for him he didn't totally ruin our paint job!
Then today was another reminder at the sheer stupidity of some people. We were at Sohi power washing around the pool area outside. We had put up cones and caution tape all along the building so that no one would park there. These two ladies and 3 kids parked right by our work truck and while Al (my boss) was standing right there, they lifted up the caution tape and were trying to walk to the door, even though there was bright yellow tape and signs saying to go around! We had to tell like 10 people to not go through the tape today. Why do peeps have to be dumb sometimes? It was just obnoxious! So there is my ranting for the day!
On to happier times, I have decided that on my birthday I'm participating in a 5K. notice I say participating, not running or walking or skipping or anything. There is a run for women on that day of all days, so I'm rounding up troops to do it with me! Fun, eh? We're even gonna make T-shirts! I figured it was a nice little goal for myself! Schveet! Well, I'll try to get some pics on here soon! Hope you enjoyed my stories from my lovely job!
Peace!

2009-06-21T19:09:00.000-07:00

So there has a been a lot going on these past weeks since I posted. Sorry for the delay and what not. I have had things going on, but again I don't have a camera to document most things so I don't post much! Obviously! And I've been working out of town without any internet, so that puts a damper on things as well. But Elsa was here visiting for a couple weeks and I got some pictures from her, so I will put a few of those up! I also went to Megon Coon's wedding this weekend, but don't have pics of that so i won't share much of that. Or rather any of that in picture form! It was across the bay from Homer in a little "town" called Halibut Cove. I hadn't been there since 2nd grade. It was very simple and totally Alaskan and way fun! Good times! So yeah, pictores are not uploading right now so I'll try it later! mrh!

2009-05-17T18:46:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be doing a lot of this:

this summer because I got the paint job for the borough again! Wahoo!! I have orientation on the 28th and I start bright and early at 7 on the 1st. Bring on the paint chips!

Interview!

2009-05-11T00:28:00.000-07:00

So, I haven't posted in quite some time. Not much to report really. I have a job interview with the borough tomorrow for the painter's job. yes I know, had last summer, why do I have to interview for the same job? Beats me! But, I've been keeping myself busy as a pseudo house painter. First I painted for Gina Ellis, who referred me to Dave and Mary Goggia, then the Peles' got word of my mad skills and I'm going over there tomorrow for a couple days, and the Goggia's have word of someone else who want me to paint the outside of their house! Whew! But it's good to keep busy and earn some dollars! And here is the photo shoot Buzz, Kiersty and I did with Penny!

Jitterbug!

We didn't mean to look like creepsters!

Sup?

Lovin Penny!

"We don't care!"

And that's that!

Touring around

2009-04-22T14:36:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pics from our touring around with Gwendy.

On the beach in Homer. We were trying to jump with the timer, but were a little off.

The extent of my "artistic photography" skills!

All of us on the beach.

Overlooking Homer. We happened to go on a super clear, super B-E-A-UTIFUL day!

And huffy Mt. Redoubt. It's been blowing off steam most of the days I've been back, that I can see. Today is overcast so I can't even see it from Grandma's, but it could be!

So home is going well. Just chillin and getting back in the groove of things! Still waiting to hear back from the Borough about the painting job! Peace!

Check it out!

2009-03-31T22:56:00.000-07:00

So there is a video on the bottom of my blog of some peeps that performed at this semester's Guitars Unplugged concert. It's an original by a student that goes here and I just LOVE IT! If you would like to view it, you may! Xopowo! Oh, and I only have 7 days of school left! Yeah yeah!

A little gross but more to come!

2009-03-29T01:13:00.001-07:00

So these pics are a little graphic, but it's my life and my blog! Anyway, our Relief Society and one of our Elder's Quarums (there are two of each) went to Porter Park to play games, go have a bbq, and have fun. Not 5 minutes into playing soccer my dear friend Amanda ACCIDENTALLY smacked me a good one right in the nose. My first time ever getting a bloody nose from something like that! And just like 2 days ago we were talking about how I hadn't gottena bloody nose like that before ever! There's a first time for everything!

This was about 45 seconds after getting hit. Luckily Bailey had her camera. I have decided I'm not that much of a bleeder!

The boxer and the punching bag! It looks a lot worse than it really was I think!

I will get more pics from Bailey from the rest of today (when I wasn't lounging on my couch with ice on my face!) It was a good day!

Kite Flying Fun and picture overload!

2009-03-19T14:02:00.000-07:00

So these are backwards, but oh well! Last Sunday we had some good times with nature. It wasn't too cold, but it WAS windy enough to go fly kites! I love flying kites! And we climbed a tree. That was lovely!

Buzz, Bailey and Kierstin. I took this pic...I must say, it's pretty sweet!

They were having an Edward and Bella moment...with a little Ginny Weasley thrown in there!

The tree and I had it out and this is what it did to me!

Me, Seth (from our ward) Buzz and Kierstin. Great angle, I know!

I told them to look angry but cool. I don't think Bailey got it!
After all our jumping around! Don't you LOVE my hat? It's actually Bailey's, but I borrowed it! Going back to my native roots, man!

Oh these next pics were so fun, even if the process of taking them KILLED my ankle more!
Buzz, Bailey, me, Kiersty and Seth

Me, Kiersty, Buzz and Amanda (our upstairs neighbor who lives with Bailey. They are both in our choir too! Totally awesome chickas!)

Bailey calls this my seal pose...not quite sure what that's supposed to mean!

Kiersty with a kite...texting of course!

Don't know what happened to my arm in this pic, but it's kinda cool!

Amanda flying Jack (our skull kite!) She was so decided!

You'll probably have to click on this one to see me, Buzz, Kierstin and Brian Fellows (our tree frog kite!) Our other kite was named...well I don't think he had a name, but he was posessed and a T-Rex kite! Jack and the T-rex kite are plastic and lame, so I went and got some more kites like Brian Fellows to add to my zoo. I need to fly them to get their names though!

Me and my relaxed pose flying Jack. It's so calming!

Even more relaxed! Workin' the string, aw yeah!

Before going kite flying, waiting for Buzz to get his hair cut. Total rockstar! Unfortunately those glasses decided to break later :(

"I'm not so sure about this...!"

Had to have some tea and hot cocoa after flying kites for a few hours! We also did the Tim Tam slam (Millie!) delish!

Me and Bailey being abstract in the bathroom! And no I wasn't going! It was totally just for the photo op!

This was from a couple weeks ago at our friend, Brittany's, birthday party. So fun!

I have my own personal hair dresser! Bailey loves to do hair, especially mine in corn rows! I'm so tig!

Me and Bailey after she did my rows!

So there are my massive pics! Well, Bailey's but I got them from her! And an update on my ankle: A couple weeks ago I woke up with the arch of my left foot and about 6 inches up my leg hurting really badly. I tried to nurse it back to health my wrapping and icing it, but about a week later decided to go get it checked at the Student Health Center. It wasn't a total waste of time. I found out it wasn't something really really bad, but instead it's some kind of tendonitis. But the doctor was completely lame and not very helpful. I had to ask all the questions in order to get any kind of information out of her. Needless to say, I'm not going back to her! But, the swelling has gone down a bit and it hurts the most in the mornings or if I play on it (like from Sunday.) So, I'm trying to take it real easy!

There's my massive post! Hope you enjoyed and you are more than welcome to comment back! oh yeah, and school is going well. Only like 20 days until I'm done!! WOOT WOOT WOOT!

Countdown!

2009-03-16T10:46:00.000-07:00

I would like anyone who still looks at this to know that there are only 24 days until my semester is over! WAHOO!!!
I do have a few pictures, but can't upload them right now! However, I will post this one that I just took during, what else? Macroeconomics class!

yeah, that would be me eating a delicios Thin Mint, Girl Scout Cookie! I bought them, along with some Samoas! Best purchase of the week by far!
Yesterday was a total blasty blast! A group of us went over to the stadium and flew kites/ climbed trees/ took pictures fora few hours! I'll have to get a few of those pics from my good friend Bailey and post them later! And then we watched Aladdin. That movie is funny! Very funny! And my teacher has been trying to get us to answer a question for about 10 minutes and nobody has any idea! AGH!
Peace out dudes!

Oh, and I still have a bad ankle. All the running, jumping, and climbing I did yesterday made it really sore last night. Today is better though!

Veeseetors, VEEseetors!

2009-03-04T23:55:00.001-08:00

So we had a couple visitors last weekend. We did have other pictures that were a little more normal to society, but this was the only one I have for some reason!

Millie and Anna came through on their way to Alaska, surprising Buzz and Kierstin! It was hilarious! Then they just arrived back home in Kenai today, surprising Dad, Kammi and Daniel! Man, we are so good at surprises! Bah ha ha ha!
In other news, Buzz, Kiersty and I had a concert this evening. It was pretty good...weird singing on risers for an audience in a choir again, but totally fun! I've missed it! And we're singing next Tuesday again for Devotional! Welp, it's past my bed time, but I only have one class tomorrow! Woot Woot! Peace!

Brace Face X2!

2009-02-25T15:27:00.000-08:00

So these are a little up close and personal, but that's what ya gotta do to see the before and after well! Kiersty and Buzz went yesterday and got their braces! Welcome to the club to them! And then shortly after we all sang in Devotional! Wowzers! So here they are! It'll be super sweet to see them in 2 years! Whew!

Her teeth are never gonna look like this again!

And neither are his!
It's kinda funny seeing them have their braces when they are older and when I am older. I had mine 8-10 grade and went through the whole process without someone to bounce complaints or talk about it wif. I also like to give them advice since I am the expert on braces! It's been funny/sad seeing them not be able to eat stuff that seems so easy to eat, then I remember back to the days when I had braces and what I couldn't eat. That's not so fun! Well, congrats to them and their teeth!

My newest neph neph! (almost!)

2009-02-22T16:01:00.000-08:00

So I took these pictures of my upcoming nephew while skyping with Hans, Holly and Kelsie! He's so precious already!

Face

More face face!

Stuff is great, grand, wonderful! Life is going aight. I got some new shorts yesterday that I really like. Perhaps some day I'll model them for you! Peace!

It's happened again...

2009-02-18T11:14:00.001-08:00

Well, the re-occurring phenomenon of us being bored in macroeconomics has happened again. Today we're talking about GDP (Gross Domestic Product, to the lay person!) And our friend Emily has joined in our boredom! Sheesh! Next Monday won't be so boring though, because my and Kierstin's group is presenting. It shall be grand! Peace!

Some stuff

2009-02-10T12:05:00.000-08:00

Here are some randoms from late.

You can sort of see my sweet rockstar streak that Anna put in my hair 2 weeks ago! It's so tig! And blue!

Another bored day in Macroeconomics. ugh!

My Christmas present to myself! Chacos for $38! They usually go for about $95! Woot Woot! Now if only the snow would go away and it would get warmer so I can wear them more often!

I know this is disgusting, but there's a lesson learned: clean your shower drain once in a while, especially if you have a bunch of girls using it! YUCK!!

So this one was from a while ago, like around the 16th of January or something. We went to this comedy improv thing, much like Who's Line Is It Anyway, here on campus. This is Corbin Allred, the guy who starred in Saints and Soldiers. So funny. He was accompanied by Kirby Heyborne, the guy from all the church movies like The R.M., Singles Ward, the Best Two Years, etc. But we didn't get a picture with him. Also was another guy from those movies, but I don't remember his name! It was fun, and this guy liked us! We invited him up to Alaska, but I don't know if he'll come!

And those are the pictures as of late! Not a lot going on here, except there's a blizzard today. Ew! School is good, classes are good, life is good! And my honorary niece and her mother are doing good! Sa-weet! Peace!

She's HERE!!

2009-02-04T19:25:00.000-08:00

I would just like to let those peeps that are still reading this know that my newest honorary niece was born this morning! Ellah Grace Taylor arrived at about 7:54 by way of C-section, weighing in at a whopping 4 lbs 14 oz! Teeny little whipper snapper! Michelle and Ellah are doing fine, aside from the recovering and being doped up on drugs (Michelle, not Ellah!) Congratulations to the Taylors!

Also this weekend we went to Utah and got to spend some lovely time with Anna and Aunt Mary! Good times! Oh, and if you want to go to Spanish Fork Canyon, make sure you get directions!

Anna, Kierty with her va va va voom hair, and me with my new hair which you can't see! I have a blue extension on my right side. I should really just take a picture of it!

This was the night Anna first came at Kay's house. I'm not quite sure why we posed this way...!
Well, things are good here in the Burg. Kiersty, Buzz and I sang in the spirit week showcase with the University Choir. We were pretty good, if I do say so myself! Classes are good, my vertigo is back, and I'm hoping to go see He's Just Not That Into You this weekend! Ha! Cheerio!

B-O-R-E-D in macroeconomics!

2009-01-21T11:04:00.001-08:00

So Kiersty and I are in a macroeconomics class together. I finally brought my laptop today cause it is thee most boring class I have ever been to. Hopefully some important peeps who shouldn't see my blog don't! ha!

Bored

Looking out the window/sleeping

Are we seriously still talking about this?

Stupid blog

2009-01-19T21:48:00.000-08:00

Due to un-pleasant circumstances these are all the pictures I have been able to get uploaded. I have many many more good ones, but, ya know!

We played Quelf and hans had to build a fort and stay in it until his next turn. Quite funny!

Elsa was just sitting like this. She thought it was attractive. JK, it was also for Quelf!

Kelsie showing off her thexy legth!

Buzz and Jake in D.C.

More to come when blogger isn't being stupid!

New York, New York!

2008-12-25T20:22:00.000-08:00

We went into New York Tuesday morning. It was FREEZING beyond belief! oh so cold!

NYC skyline with Lady Liberty!

Miss Liberty! Still gotta get up close and personal with her!

Kelsie loved looking at the water, birds, la berty, and herself!

We took Kelsie on the escalator while Hans and Holly bought their subway tickets.

A cool bridge in Central Park.

Having breakfast at Tiffany's! (Crossing off my bucket list!!! yeah yeah!)

I think this was in one of the Trump Towers. It was SOOOOOO warm in there!!

We had to bundle Kelsie up pretty well cause it was freezing. She was such a trooper though!

In front of the tree at Rockafeller center!

Self explanatory!

Kelsie LOVES sunglasses and it so ready for the new year!

Grand Central Station. So my face was frozen and it looked like I had been skiing all day with goggles on or something. My skin does funny things sometimes!

Times Square. We went to Olive Garden for lunch. It was a much needed break from the cold and delish!

Empire State Building. Didn't go up cause the wait was like 1 1/2 hours! no thank you!

Didn't go up Lady Liberty, but Hans wanted one of these and Kelsie loved donning it! We got it in Chinatown.

Some cool government building. We were being abstract!

Me and Kelsie.

At the memorial for the World Trade Center Towers. It was such a long day and we saw so much stuff! Whew! i was very tired and cold by the end, but it was so cool and fun! Can't wait to go back and see stuff again/more and get more souvenirs!

More Philly Visitors!

2008-12-25T19:54:00.000-08:00

Well here are some pictures from my glorious adventures! Not in order as to how they happened but pictures nonethe less!

Sean, Hans and Kelsie watching Yosi and the Superdads at the Please Touch Museum.

Kelsie sitting on a play house in Alice of Wonderland at the museum.

Seany riding a goose!

hans showing the kids how to milk the cow.

Me and Kelsie at the river thingy.

me and Millie outside the museum. It was an amazing building! And we lost Sean when we first got there. Not so fun!

Us at the room where they signed the Declaration of Independence.

At the Liberty Bell

Federal Reserve Bank. That place was cool, I guess!

Kelsie would not put the pink umbrella down, so Holly came up with the brilliant idea of closing it and making it an umbrelly purse! She liked that!

Kelsie and Sammy taking a bath! Cute nakey babies!

With the Boys!

2008-12-17T12:20:00.000-08:00

Here's the first batch of pictures from Philly! I thought a new memory card for my camera would help, but it doesn't so much. Agh!

Just took this picture like 4 minutes ago. It was a challenge getting all the boys in it with me and keeping Samson from banging on my keyboard and Sean from driving his trucks on it! Oh joy!

Jake, Sean and I made a gingerbread house. It's sweet!

I think Sean drew a picture on Jacob's old homework. And I'm hearing Elsa reprimand Sean right now for drawing on the table! Stinker!

Sammy eating. And smiling. He does this SOOOOO much! oh, so cute!

The boys in their prison!

Well actually it's mainly just a prison for Sam. Elsa and I were in the kitchen making honey sesame chicken (so delicious!) and they have this gate to keep sammy out so he doesn't burn his fingers or get into stuff!

Sammy and Sean

CHEEESE! He says this for every picture!

Another cheeser, pre-gingerbread.

Samwise Longpants. That's the name I gave him because these pants are a little too long on him. They make me laugh though!

So there's my picture update so far in Philly. I think I'll need to take more pictures with Elsa's camera to make sure they are good. Millie, Hans, Holly and Kelsie get here tomorrow, so the real party will begin! Wahoo!!

Come Fly with me...

2008-12-15T05:42:00.000-08:00

Oh wow, what an exciting last few days it's surely been! So last week I didn't get much sleep all week cause it was finals and cleaning and moving and all that stuff. Not really stressful, just tiring! I made it though, don't worry! So Friday I only had to go to Russian Culture and turn in my final paper. No biggie there. But the major thing was getting everything packed up in a storable fashion, then taking it over to Kierstin's to store during the break. After getting everything packed up Kierstin, Skyla and their friend, Mike, and I headed down to Idaho Falls to get some food. Everything in Rexburg was basically closed at this time. The drive down was quite alright. We went to Mike's mom's to switch cars and as we got about half a mile down the road, he realized there was a flat tire. So we turned around, went back, filled it up, then headed into I.F. Long story short, we got a little lost, found Denny's, ate Denny's, it was good, then we headed out. On the way out Kierstin thought for sure you made just a quick turn then it got you on the highway. Well, aout 20 minutes later I look over to the right and see the temple again, and shortly after the sign for Denny's. We had headed out in the wrong direction and circled all the way back south then up again. It was funny, to say the least!

Well, I got back to my place to do some last minute moving and cleaning (hopefully I did it to Pine View Place's standards, or I might forfeit my deposit. Shoot.) Then went and did some last minute visiting of the peeps. At about 2 my friend Amy and Kierstin took me to the Hart to meet the bus I was getting a ride to the airport on. There were like 3 big tour buses, and all of them were packed! Oh, and on the way back from I.F. it started to snow. Pretty badly too! Which meant we went about 45-50 m.p.h. on the bus. It took about 45 minutes to get past I.F. a trip that usually takes about 25 minutes. I was worried about getting to the airport too late. Not too late to catch my flight, but my friends were flying out about an hour before I was and I wanted to see them. But we made it in time and I got all checked in and through security without a hitch and go to see Lisa before she flew out to HAWAII!

My flights were pretty good. We were sitting in the plane at Salt Lake for about 45 minutes for de-icing, but I actually was just sleeping for most of it. I was pretty exhausted. Because we had to wait for so long, it made my layover in Chicago rather short, which I was all for. Then the flight from Chicago to Philly was pretty short as well and I got in like half an hour early! Elsa picked me up, so fun to see her and chat, then I got back to her house and was reunited at last with my pretchus nephews! oh they're so cute! And so excited to see me, if I do say so myself! Oh so funny! It was Elsa's ward Christmas program at church yesterday and the primary sang a few songs. (Elsa is the primary chorister and they did really good!) So after their 3 songs or whatever, people in the congregation started clapping! It was so hilarious!! Talk about a culture shock coming here! And then they did SINGO in primary (like bingo, but singing songs....yeah) and one was child's choice. The girl who chose it said she wanted to sing a Christmas song. Elsa said which one? Feliz Navidad, she says! So they sang feliz navidad! In Primary! It was AWESOME! And jacob introduced me as his new person to the rest of the primary. yes, I went to primary with Elsa and Jacob. It was humurous!

Well, no pictures to upload yet. I actually got a new memory card for my camera, thinking my old one might just be old and saving the pictures fuzzy. I took a few pics of the boys last night and was going to get some of my and Jake's gingerbread house that we're making, but haven't uploaded them yet. Soon, my child! Soon! well, gonna skitter now! More to come later! Sorry for the length and the rambling. If you're reading this, way to keep reading about my boring life!! Woot!

Yadda yadda yadda...

2008-12-07T19:45:00.000-08:00

Time for a quick post I suppose. I've been rather busy, what with this next week being the LAST WEEK OF THE SEMESTER!!! WAAAAAHHHHOOOOOO!! I'm excited! But I have had quite a bit going on. Sorry for the bad picture quality. Again, my camera is still lame and the first few were with my phone. Mrh!

My dear friend Carol is getting married December 20, so we were having a stuffing/addressing envelopes party a couple weeks back. Here's the first section of the group.

And here's the rest of them. I don't know why Carol has such an angry face though!

I got a ride down to Salt Lake Friday before Thanksgiving with Jenna. She dropped me off at Andy and Staci's where a party of Rock Bandsters was going on. Here are Drew and Eli kickin' it on the drums!

Saturday night, a group of us went out to dinner at Iggy's, then to Twilight. Here are us sisters that got to get together outside the theater in front of the beautiful water fountain! Ah!

And here's Gwendy and myself trying to get some Christmas lights in the picture at the holly days festivities in Vernal. Not so good, but oh well.

And now for the good stuff: Thanksgiving morning, Anna and I had some time to kill so we had a little photo shoot with her sweet web cam! Enjoy these!

Sweet eyebrows!!

I'm still not quite sure if Anna was mocking my palsy face here....

So I kinda look like an alien, I'm not gonna lie!

I think we were kinda going for Beowulf, but my nose is really gross. It reminds me of a mummet's nose!

Anna reminds me of the super computer on Tron after Tron throws his disc into the beam of light and it turns the computer's nose and eyes different colors....yeah...

LOVE Anna's lips!!

So there's a little update with pictures! As I said, this next week is the end of the semester. It has absolutely flown by! I'm moving apartments, which means I have to pack everything and movie it. That's gonna stink, but oh well. I'll just be uber busy! And then there's homework and finals and what not Aiy yi yi! Friday is gonna be creazy busy because I have class, then packing my last stuff and moving. I'm still not sure if I'll get a ride down with someone, or just take the shuttle that leaves here at like 2 in the morning in order to make it to the airport by about 6, which I'll probably just do because it's good timing. And then: OFF TO PHILLY! yeah yeah! OKay, gotta go work on my life history. I have to write it for my family history class. whew!

aicha aicha

2008-12-01T17:36:00.001-08:00

Oh Classic!

HAIR! and visit to Anna's

2008-11-26T13:10:00.000-08:00

So it's Thanksgiving week and I have the whole time off from school. Wahoo!! So I came over to Anna's for it! Woot! She did my hair. I wanted something different and didn't care if it was WAY different, which it is! It's brown. Specifically a level 6 ash (or so says Anna! Not that she knows what she's talking about!) And short. And uber cute, or something like that! So here we are, and then here are my model poses after. I'm basically gonna win America's Next Top Model!

Me and "Spacey" Anna

Blue Steel

Sedusa Medusa

hey, you can still kinda notice my palsy face! Well enjoy the pictures of my hair all cutesy cause I am not gonna be able to duplicate it EVER! It's fun while it lasts! Peace dudy-os!

Squirrels!

2008-11-16T10:07:00.000-08:00

So yesterday I went to JB's for breakfast with Josie and Jenna. Good times were had there! We laughed quite a lot! If only our last posse member could have joined us. Oh well! So we were on our way to drop Josie off and we were right by Porter Park when Jenna and I saw a squirrel on the road that the truck in front of us had just hit. It wasn't dead...yet, but rather twitching and writhing on the ground. It was on it's back with it's legs and feet in the air just twitching around. Jenna barely missed hitting it again. If we had hit it, we might have helped the poor little fellow and put it out of its misery. I'm sure another car did that though! So then I got home and took a brief nap then did homework the rest of the day. I spent like 4 hours in the libes! YUCK! But I did feel very productive, which is good cause this next week is gonna be very busy-like. EWWWW! Only 3 more weeks of school though! And thanks to everyone who commented on my last post. That was super cool of you and made me feel lov-ed! Okay, gotta skitter!

Hello my public!

2008-11-08T16:44:00.000-08:00

Life is fine here in the Heidi House, or something! First off: face update.

The eye I am closing is the side that was having problems. I couldn't close it by itself, and there is just a little bit of resistance to having a full smile. And my right eye gets dried out easier, but other than that it's basically back to normal! This month has been pretty intense, with the palsy, then my vertigo, then I was sick all this week! I'm anxious to see what'll happen next!
On better news, we only have 4 weeks of school left, and 5 until the semester is over!!! Which means two weeks of school, then our Thanksgiving week-long break (still not sure on final plans for that week) then two more weeks and I'm off to Philly! WAAAHOOOOO! I was about to change my flight to leave a day later because my friend is in the process of getting officially engaged and was thinking about getting married the 13th in Bountiful, but she just informed me they are getting married the 20th instead. I'm very sad I won't be able to make it to that, but I can't do anything about that now! Perhaps I"ll go see a play on Broadway or visit the White House on that day instead, since it's a Saturday!
I have also been really busy with school and homework. I was better this week on managing my time and doing my homework, so kudos to me! I still have a lot to do though. But it's all good. And that's it for now! Peace!
P.S. If you read my blog, you can totally leave me comments! I really enjoy those!

A few pics

2008-11-02T20:54:00.000-08:00

Although my camera has been giving me vast amounts of problems, I luckily have my cellular device that I almost always have with me and can whip out to snap a picture real quick-like!

Nena the Woopi Cushion with Palin and McCain at the halloween dance!

Emi helping Barker get suited up before last week's simulations in RAD! Funny!

So not a very good picture, but this is Celina (red shirt, blue shorts) and Kierstin (red shirt, maroon shorts) at their only soccer game I was able to attend. The won this game, but unfortunately not the championships. They got beat by a team of Mexicans or something, or that's how Kierstin puts it!

My last online purchase. This is THE BEST honey sesame seed mix you'll ever have, if you're lucky enough to have it. There are quite a few stores that carry this brand, but not this specific package. Broulim's (our local hometown grocery store) was going strong with me and carried it all last year, then I come back this fall, and they've let me down. So I ordered some on Amazon.come. It came in 2 boxes, each with 24 packets! I will use them all because they're SOOO GOOOD!! If I come visit you, and you would like to try some, let me know and I"ll bring a packet to share!

So that's my pictures for now. I would put a picture from Halloween up, but I left my camera at Kierstin's and don't want to walk ALL the way over there to get it. I've been very lazy today cause I have aqcuired a cold and it's not fun a'tall. This month just keeps getting better. Oh, and I've diagnosed myself with vertigo. All this last week I've been dizzy throughout the day, especially when I first wake up. It has not been fun. Sheesh! And I hope you have enjoyed my videos that I've posted on here. I think they're HILARIOUS!

Celina's Birthday!

2008-10-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Celina's birthday, but I only got a few pictures, and wouldn't you guess it? They are fuzzy. AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! I am so eennoyed with my camera!! It's very un-reliable! Well here are the only decent ones.

Blowing out the trick candles, or at least trying to!! ha ha ha!

Me and Celinas. I don't know why she makes those faces!!! Oh yeah, cause she didn't want a birthday party in the first place! Silly!
Face update: I'm doing pretty good. I went of the meds last Thursday and am getting better every day, at least I like to think so. Except the last two days I have been really dizzy. I don't know if that's related in any way to my palsy, but it's been weird and annoying. Okay, gotta do my Russian Culture mid term. Joy.

A lot of thought...

2008-10-23T22:59:00.001-07:00

So I've been giving this a lot of thought, and I'm gonna need feed back on this issue. I'm taking a family history class this semester and one day (while I happened to be listening) my teacher said perhaps a thing you might do is work on current family history...and that lead me to one thing and another and I thought "maybe I should help create family history and plan a Carlson family reunion!" And I just keep thinking that. So while I was in the shower yesterday I got really excited about it and want to start something in motion. I"m thinking that the summer would probably be best, but not this next summer cause that's too soon. I mean, I'm good at planning parties, but something this big needs time! And as cool as it would be to have it in Alaska where Grams and Gramps are, and where our parents grew up, I think it would be a bit too expensive for everyone to get there. So I'm thinking somewhere in the states, like Utah or something. These are just some of my ideas so far, just the beginning, but if other peeps really want to make this work, I was gonna perhaps get a blog going just for that subject that would be like "reunion central." I'm willing to put a lot of effort into this, because I think it's worth it. The last time we were even remotely all together was for Grandma and Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary, adn that was almost 12 years ago! I think a few things have changed! Not to mention there are like 1 or 2 additions to the family that weren't there last time! So what do ya think? Yay, or nay?

Doctor visit.

2008-10-22T21:01:00.000-07:00

So I went to the student health center on campus and had a check-up with Dr. Redd today. Boy did that take forever! I waited in the exam room for like 45 minutes. Luckily I had a couple text books with me, so I read those. And I didn't fall asleep while doing so, as has been the case since I've been taking my drohes. (Drugs in my spanish accent!) So after a 45 minute wait the doc came in and looked at my face, asked me a few questions about my current symptoms, then told me I don't need to refill my prescription and just finish taking the pills I have and perhaps take a B complex vittamin, or something like that. And I could maybe do "exercises" with my face to get the muscles working more.So that's what I'm gonna do. And he was only in there for like 4.3 minutes! My face does feel like it's getting better. I think I can smile a bit more normally and can move my eye brows and nose and mouth better. Let's just say it's an overall improvement! My eye still does get dried out pretty easily, especially if I"m watching a movie or am outside. I just carry my eye drops in my pocket and drop them in frequently. But this post is a little random and not making too much sense cause I"m about to fall asleep, even though I should be reading quite a few pieces of homework right now. yikes! Oh, and my second block class (career explorations) starts tomorrow. Dang, I don't only have 2 classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays anymore. Shoot! Okay, peace.

This is how I sleep.

2008-10-21T19:16:00.000-07:00

So one of the side effects of my eye is that it doesn't quite shut all the way all the time, so it doesn't get lubricated properly. This especially happens at night, so I have to tape my eye shut or I get dry eyes. Yesterday I took a nap and my eye was dried open pretty much when I woke up! It was crazy. I also put eye drops in there all throughout the day. Fun. I also think my face is getting a little better. At least it feels that way. Sometimes I think I can do more with it, so we'll just go with that! I have a check-up with the doctor at the student health center tomorrrow, so we'll see where it goes from there! Peace!

oh, and it looks like my camera is taking better pictures! yay!

Trying my camera again.

2008-10-18T23:13:00.000-07:00

So quite a few months ago I basically stopped using my camera because every picture I took turned fuzzy. But I missed not having it and taking sweet pictures, so I tried a different tactic. I got regular batteries instead of rechargeable ones and took it to Guitars Unplugged tonight. And apparentely they still aren't that good of quality, so I might have to figure something better out before I head over to Philly cause I GOTTA have a good camera for that one! It was a pretty good show I guess. The closing act definitely could have been better, but it's all good. I had a splendid time! And then Carol, Brian, Jessica and I went out to Winger's afterwards for some okay food. It was a great evening!

me (with my palsy face) and Carol with her bf, Brian, looking in the background. Carol and I were in the same Book of Mormon class with Uncle Ed last fall, then we were in the same physical science lab last winter and kept each other sane!

This would be Lisa. We were on the same flag football team last fall (Estelle, I hope you remember her if you're reading this!) She's super fun. I saw her and Carol talking in the library one day last year and they didn't know that I knew both of them...yeah, it was fun! You could say I felt pretty popular at that moment!

Lisa, Jessica me and Carol right after the show. Again, stupid camera has to be fuzzy and have weird spots on it. Grrr! I'm so tempted to buy a new one! we'll see!
So there's my update. I like how you can still sorta see my raccoon eyes from this summer. oo, and i should take a picture of how I tape my eye shut at night! that'd be a goody!

Update on my face.

2008-10-18T10:50:00.000-07:00

This was just now...haha!

Well, an update on my face: I've been taking these drugs for my virus/inflamed nerve and I'm thinking they might be working already. Either that or I'm just hoping they are and imagining that I can move my face a little more. The problem is, it's only really really noticeable when I'm laughing really hard, which I don't do unless I have something to laugh at. But I think I can move the right side more than a couple days ago, which is good! And I think the medication is making me really tired. Yesterday my family history lab was cancelled (mid-terms. I know, the semester is flying by!) so I didn't have class until 2. I managed to sleep in until 11, which is the latest I've gotten to sleep in all semester! And I can usually sleep in way later, but not here. My room mates usually have something to do with that. They're early risers! But, I slept in until 11 and was tired again around 4:30 or so! I woke up this morning at 10:30 and am ready to take a nap, only 1 1/2 hours later! Sheesh! I've been testing different things I can and can't do very well with my face, and one thing that's getting me is holding liquids in my mouth. I haven't had an accident yet, but if I were to drink something and laugh, it would spray everywhere, I just know it! That would be hilarious! Oh and I have to sleep with my eye taped shut. One of the side-effects of this virus thingy is my eye doesn't produce as many tears as it should, so it gets dried out super fast, so I'm constantly putting eye drops in it. I put eye drops in my eye yesterday probably at least 20 times! And it doesn't stay shut very well at night I guess, so I have to tape it shut. I guess one thing if it gets too dried out and gets stuff in it I could get an ulcer on it or something. At least that's what the info on my discharge papers from the hospital said!
So that's me and my face for now. There's best of Guitars Unplugged tonight. I went on Thursday and it was okay, but they sure had a lot of slow songs. But that's usually how it goes. Slower songs on Thursday, more up beat ones on Friday, then the best of the two nights Saturday. I didn't get to help out this semester due to my classes going until 9 on Wednesday when they usually have meetings and working Tuesday/Thursday nights with RAD. I'm bummed, but oh well. Next semester, perhaps. Or maybe Buzz, Kierstin and I can do a performance or something! That would rock! Aight, well I'm gonna go now. I might fall asleep for a little bit cause i"m just in the lounge waiting for my clothes to get done. Woot woot. Oh, and we're going to Ed and Karen's tomorrow for dinner and i"m making honey sesame chicken. SO GOOD! okey, bye!

There's a first time for everything!

2008-10-15T19:55:00.000-07:00

So, I don't know if any of you heard, but I went to the Emergency Room for the first time this evening! Cool, huh? I mean not cool in the fact that it's the E.R. and scary and might cost a lot in the end, but I'd never done that before!
So here's how it goes:
Sunday I woke up and my mouth was feeling a little numb. I thought that it might have been an allergy or something, but couldn't really figure out what it could have been an allergy to. I didn't worry too much about it and thought it would go away in time.
Monday was the same story, just numb and annoying mouth.
Tuesday late afternoon I started noticing I was having trouble smiling and chewing my cheeks (which is just something I do and was annoyed that I couldn't do it!)
So today it was worse. I've been testing things I do just in general with my face to see what I could and couldn't do. And they were all with the right side. I couldn't smile, flare my right nostril, raise my right eyebrow (which I'm really good at and do) and the last was that i couldn't wink just my right eye or squeeze it shut. As I was walking to my film lab I ran into a friend whom I had seen earlier this week and told about the numb mouth to, and she started getting a little scared and freaked out about the progression my face had made, and was telling me I had to get it checked out like now. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but Gwendy also was telling me I really should get it checked out. So I called my mother. After describing my symptoms she said I should get to the E.R. right now. Call 911 and go now. I didn't exactly want to call 911 since the hospital was like 2 minutes away from where I was, but I knew Uncle Ed was supposed to be in the same building at that time. I couldn't get a hold of him, so I called Aunt Karen, briefly told her what was going down, and she was on her way. Luckily Kiersty was in the same building too. And that was about when I got scared cause my mom was saying it could be a stroke or something else that i couldn't understand when she told me it.
CHAPTER 2
Aunt Karen came and picked us up from the Snow Building and we proceeded to the E.R. where I told the check-in guy about my symptoms and did all the...hospital stuff. We got checked in and I went back where the nurse (who, btw, wasn't very personable and I wasn't very fond of) did all my vitals and stuff. Then my mom (aunt Karen, but the check in guy told everyone else she was my mom so she could come back) came in and we chatted, then the doctor came in and asked what was up and did a few little tests with my face and determined that it's most likely Bell's Palsy. You can read more about it here cause I don't want to explain it all. So the doc (his name is Hans Red. I didn't know his first name when talking to him or else we would have had more to talk about besides Alaska and Sarah Palin) told me some people get a CT scan, but he recommended just getting some drugs (namely prednisone and acyclovir) to help it go away. He said if it's not better or if it gets worse to go in, but hopefully it'll eventually just go away! Crazy, eh? And that is my saga! If you have any questions, comments or concerns, leave them on my blog or call me! I love phone calls though!

Anna and I were talking on Skype and she took these snapshots. This is what my face looks like when I'm laughing really hard.

And this is laughing even harder.

Here I'm trying to squeeze my right eye shut.

And I'm trying even harder here. It's all quite humorous when you watch it. Anna and I were having a great laugh!

Here's my little arm thingy for going to the E.R. so memorable! ah! Good times!

So there's my excitement for the day. Now I need to go do a butt-load of an assignment for my Fundamentals of Scripture Study class. yes, I've put off homework till the last minute again. Shame on me! mrh!

New blog layout!

2008-10-11T14:30:00.000-07:00

So I decided I wanted a new blog layout and this is what I came up with. I'm a little weary about the words over the flowers along the left side. Perhaps not all screens will show it like this. Oh well, I think it's pretty spiffy! And if you haven't heard any of my music lately, you should go to the bottom of my page and push play and take a little listen. I think there's a little something for everyone! Enjoy! Oh, and I guess it snowed here today, but I luckily missed it cause I was trying to get my Zune program to work, which I haven't figured out yet even though I was on with customer support for almost 45 minutes about it. Sheesh!

Gross!

2008-10-10T10:55:00.001-07:00

Ya wanna know something gross? Actually 2 somethings gross: It slightly started snowing yesterday and this morning they had rock salt on the sidewalks on sampus. Ugh! Not looking forward to snow, unless I can go skiing!

Weekend trip!

2008-10-08T20:55:00.000-07:00

So last weekend I went down to Utah for "conference" but didn't actually make it there. Jason and Amelia were so kind and let me and Millie stay at their gorgeous home in Farmington. Although I got there and didn't get any homework done all weekend, it was so pleasant to just sit and do nothing but play with the little ones and chat with Amelia till odd hours of the mornin'! So in between sessions I busted out my computer and web cam and entertained Kate and Will for, oh I don't know, half an hour or so!

This was our first photo of the photo shoot. I don't think Kate liked me holding her like that for no reason. She didn't quite get the camera thing yet!

And this is me and Zachary. He was so nice and puked on me like 5 times while I was there. I took it as a sign of love!

Kate showing her tongue and Will just with his huge smile!

We were all showing our tongues here! Obviously!

And this was actually from a couple weeks ago during my first RAD class of the semester. This is one of my partners in crime, Emi Flamm. She's a certified RAD instructor and actually just got certified this summer to do RAD Kids! She's great!

So there's my photo update for now. I know, not too exciting, but that about sums up my life right now! OKay, gotta skitter!
Love ya all,
HEIDI

HE'S HOME!!!!

2008-10-01T22:08:00.000-07:00

So today was a super great day! 15 minutes was all it took! Kiersty and I went to Salt Lake Tuesday night and met up with Millie. Long story short, we stayed the night at Mary and Aaron's house. We woke up this morning at 8, and I showered while Millie made some chicken enchineenees. We left Mary's shortly before 10 and made it to the airport at about 10:25 or so, quickly heading to the security cause Buzz's plane was to land at 10:30. Millie checked the arrival screen thing and it said he flight had landed and on time, but we didn't see him. But we knew that he would have no trouble with security cause there was no one in line to get back through. So finally at about 10:46 we were looking into the secured area and I saw Buzz walk right by looking very confused! Finally he turned around and we yelled at him. He saw us and we waved and told him to come out, but he didn't think he had enough time. We told him he did and to get out right now, so he did. There might have been some tears of joy shed at our reunion! So we got to talk to Buzz for 15 minutes, gave him his food, then sent him back through security and on his way to Alaska, which is where he is now! So this is a great big WELCOME HOME ELDER CARLSON! Congratulations on serving a full mission and being a great brother! you rock! oh, and perhaps he can look at this himself!! tee hee!

okay so here's the picture of us! We're so cute!
p..s. I've had like 4 people tell me today how much alike we look! I haven't really gotten that too much before!

Oh I suppose

2008-09-25T21:41:00.000-07:00

I've been looking at a bunch of other people's blogs, some of which haven't been updated in quite some time, then I thought "meh, I don't update mine that often and I'm not really doing anything right now, even though I should be, I guess I could give an update!" So my update is that school is going much better than the first week. Much much better. I'm getting back into the swing of homework and classes, even though I still feel like it's very un-organized for some reason. I go almost every day thinking that I'm not sure what homework I have and should get done. I guess it just seems like in the past I've usually been on top of things and know what I need to do and by when. I think it stems from my english 316 class. We are given a new assignment almost every day, but there aren't really any specific days for when they're due, so it's awfully confusing. I guess that's what happens when the semester is as short as it is! And dang, I'm almost done with my 3rd week already! That means only like...10 more weeks of actual school! There are 11 until the semester is done, but one week is Thanksgiving and we have that whole week off! Woot woot! But what I'm most excited about right now is next week when we go to Salt Lake to see Buzz! That's just the best! And I've suddenly run out of things to say, so I think I'm going to go read my russian culture book! Cheerio!

JUDY GARLAND

2008-09-23T23:21:00.001-07:00

I think Anna will really enjoy this one. And probably Millie too!

2 weeks!

2008-09-17T09:53:00.000-07:00

I'd just like you all (or the 3 of you that read my blog) to know that Buzz gets home 2 weeks from today! Actually, about exactly 2 weeks from now I should be talking to him, if all goes according to plan! wahoo!! Can you tell I"m excited? Well if you can't, let me tell you, I AM!!! And here are some loverly pictures from my, Anna, Hans, Holly, Kelsie, Millie and Charive's Skype converstaion last night. Oh it was hilarious. We were on a conference call for quite a while. You can have up to 24 peeps on the call, so if anyone wants to join in, they most certainly can!

Here are the kids in Switzerland, yodellodelling! So my camera doesn't take the clearest pictures...

Anna's new web cam can distort her face...

Or make her even more beautiful...

Or turn her into a cry baby pee pee pants!

I think we were going for best smile here!
So I couldn't find a picture that Hans sent. I'll keep looking I think! It was a grand time! And you don't even have to have a web cam for the conference calls, just a microphone and speakers. I'm pretty sure all of us have built in mics too, so perhaps your computer has one also. Well, I gotta skitter!
laters dude!

Blogging from the...

2008-09-14T22:50:00.000-07:00

So I am sending you this post from my latest and biggest purchase of my life...my new laptop! I bought it yesterday then had to go pick it up in Idaho Falls today. And I've been on it pretty much since I got it back! I basically love it, already have skype downloaded on it, and got to talk to Hans, Holly and Kelsie with it today! SOO FUN! But it's almost curfew and I have to get to sleep. I have classes tomorrow. ugh! aight, peace!

Some changes...

2008-09-11T14:27:00.000-07:00

So there have been some interesting happenings in my life the last, oh, week and a few days. So I got to Utah last Wednesday morning after a not so pleasant, sleepless all night flight direct from Anchorage to Salt Lake. Gwendy came and picked me up and it was so great to see her and hang out, even if it was in the sweltering (okay not really, but coming from cold alaska it was) heat! She dropped me off at Andy and Staci's where I took a much needed short nap then Anna and Matt came and we had a late lunch at this soup and salad buffet place. We got to chat for a while, but then they had to go down to Jennifer's house to stay the night. I slept at Andy and Staci's, then Jenna came and picked me up, taking me to her sister's (Laura) house in West Jordan, where we were until we left Saturday. We headed out of Salt Lake, stopping in Ogden to see Estelle! That was fun chatting with her, but unfortunately Scott was at work and didn't get to enjoy my presence. oh well! Then we made our way to Logan, where we got to meet up with our dear friend and fellow posse member, Ali. We had a fun few hours remeniscing (sp?) and just cathing up on old times. And I just realized if I keep giving a play by play like this I"ll be here for like a year and a half, and I have so much to do.
So to keep it short, I found a place to live, but want to switch with this girl who is currently Keirstin's room mate cause she doesn't even want to live there, but I do, but she's not being very cooperative. Still working on that. And after a few months of planning on coming here, talking to my advisor, and switching my major to communications, the day before school starts my advisor FINALLY e-mails me to say he won't be on campus until sometime in October and hopes I can find help somewhere else. nice. so I went to uncle ed, and through many searchings and discoveries I think I'm gonna work on getting my associates right now, have that by the end of next semester, and go from there. So this means since I hadn't signed up for classes yet (at the advice from my absent advisor) I am having a real tough time getting ones that will get me credit towards my miniscule degree, but that sound interesting too and fit my schedule. It's a total mess right now. This has been probably the most stressful week of my college career ever. And I don't get stressed easily. Sheesh! WEll, I'm gonna go talk to Uncle Ed again for some much needed guidance. Wish me luck!
OH, and from today, only 20 days till Buzz gets home!! WOOOOOOOOTTTT!!!! sorry no pictures either!

Mobile updates!

2008-08-29T14:45:00.000-07:00

Just a few more pictures from my mo-bile!

Last week, Millie Kierstis and I went down to Homer and on the way back stopped at this guys art gallery right outside of....Anchor Point I think it was. His name is Norman Lowell and he is AMAZING! This picture was really huge, like 5 feet by 8 feet or so. Absolutely georgous! And I just have a thing for the northern lights!

We went on a little adventure last night and Millie borrowed Kammi's "Cats" wig from when she danced to Cats last spring. She was going to wear it to work today, but it's still sitting on the table! Mrowr!

Have a bathe? (Anna, line?!?!?!)
So those are what I got for now! I fly out early early next wednesday morning, so just getting things settled here and trying to start pack, except I need new suitcases cause mine are falling apart. ugh! Peace!

Bday

2008-08-25T13:29:00.000-07:00

So, I just rememebered I got these pictures from Becca this last week. They are the only ones I have from my birthday. And they are kind of boring, but that's okay! It was an okay day. I had work off, which was awesome, but didn't have anything planned for most of the day so I ended up doing some repair work in the hall at home and then went and mowed the lawn. BUT, the lawn mower was extremely stupid, so I quit that after doing the lawn up around the house. Then I did some more work inside and around 6 or so was told I had to go shower. But the opening ceremonies of the Olympics were on, and that was the one thing for like a month that I wanted to do on my birthday: watch the ceremonies. But I didn't, and I heard they were awesome. So if anyone recorded them and would like to share them with me, they may!

Opening my present from Becca. It was an apron from the Moose is Loose. I love aprons!

With my cakes. I'm still not quite sure why I had two!

And getting ready to blow out the candles. I got them all in one breath. They are all close together. I think if you wanna make it harder to get them all in one breath, spread them out more...ha!

Oh wo is me....

2008-08-19T19:58:00.000-07:00

I...am...a blogger failure! I did have the excuse for quite some time that I wasn't at a computer where I could post, but I haven't been in that position for quite some time and I'm just a slacker! I haven't even posted about my birthday! Eesh! It's mostly because I have no pictures of exciting events, so I'll just put random ones from my phone!!

So someone showed my dad how to watch and listen to stuff on the internet. He often stays up rather late viewing these things. However, this was not late at night, but the middle of the day Sunday! He's asleep!

A while ago Dreamie fixed my hair all pretty so we had a little photo shoot!

An old one from cleaning upstairs. Of course, when we find amazing outfits we must put them on! I think this is Millie in an elegant sweater-dress combo from Aunt Christine during her pageant days! Ab-fab!

Just on the way home from church this last Sunday. Yes, it was sunny and yes these are 2 baby mooses! Pretchus!

The wicked witch of the west decided to nap on our couch Sunday! No really, when we tried to wake her up right after this she just about bit our heads off...don't disturb the slumbering beast!

If only my phone took better pictures...just a sunset at Grams' house Sunday!

And Daniel sporting another b-e-a-utiful outfit from upstairs! And doing the pose from Real Genius...Kent:"popcorn! AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!"

Dreamie being...a...frilled neck lizard? She loves to wear her purple leotardo whenever she can!
So there are some random pictures from the summer. Not much going down. I'm done working for the borough. It was a great run. I made some good money, but I"d like to know where it all went already! Agh! That's my life!

Real quick like

2008-08-07T19:56:00.000-07:00

So I would like to inform any of you who actually come to my blog any more that I made a major purchase the other day! I first bought my ticket to go down to school. And come back for that matter, but not in December. I leave here on September 3, and come back April 14. What, you may ask, am I doing for Christmas? WEll, that was the other purchase I did! I bought a ticket to go out to Philthadelphia and have it out there with some way awesome peeps! I am super duper excited! I go there on December...13th I think, then come back January 5th. I am hoping to do as much of the "east coast" thing while there. I just asked Elsa today if we can go ice skating in Central Park or at Rockafellar center. I think Jakey and Seanky tonk ba donk a donk will be so durn cute in little ice skates! Ah, good times! So if anyone has suggestions for what I need to do while out there, let me know! Oh, and I hopefully will be going to my friend, Amanda's, reception. Well one of the ones she has! She is from New York and gets married on the 19th. I don't think I'll make it to that reception, but one of the 2 others I hope! Okay, gotta skitter! Peace!

Gotta make this quick

2008-07-12T21:11:00.000-07:00

Our internet at our house is not working so I can't get online very well. Mix that with not being able to get on my blog down in Homer and you have a postless summer from Heidi. I am so sorry to all of my loyal fans who look forward to hearing about my insanely awesome life (or the lack thereof!) next week is my last week in Homer, thank goodness, then I'll most likely be doing jobs around Kenai. But yeah, that's about it with my life I think. No new happenings that i can think of. dang Gina, I haven't even posted about my 4th of July! but not now! Okay, there's to a boring post!

Oh the happenings of Homer!

2008-06-19T21:58:00.000-07:00

So Anna said my last post was BORING! I can't say this post will not be boring, but it'll have pictures! They are truly random happenings, but still good. And not all of Homer!

I like to call this one "Oh Homer!" I'm sure there will be many many more to come, seeing as how I'll be there at least 3 more weeks and I see stuff like this all the time. I saw this guy at Safeway going into the store. He has his brown extratuf boots, sweat pants (with stains naturally) and a ragedy t-shirt! Classic. I should have taken a picture of the guy who was just to the right of this one fixing the tire on his boat trailer complete with a plumber's crack! Ah, Homer!

So I REALLY need a new camera or something, but this is on the roof of the school that I'm painting. This picture doesn't even do the view justice. Sometimes I find myself just staring at the water and mountains. SOO PRETTY! (oh, and just so you know, that red is no longer red. It is in the process of becoming totally blue!)

So this is my new hat that I got in Homer and i LOVE it! it's really cool...and cute some might say. And you can sort of see my raccoon eyes tan from wearing my safety sunglasses. it was so incredibly sunny all week (except today) and we were outside the whole time. Now, you'd think I would have been loving it, but not so much because it was extremely windy, and then working up on the roof almost the whole week made it even worse. I think I got some wind burn too.

So this picture is from this last winter in Rexburg. This is Millie's car and the reason I took this picture was because this was in the morning and the car had been completely cleared off the night before! There was a crazy ton of snow this last winter!

This is for Gwendy. I went to a quilt show earlier this summer with Charive, Grandma, Aunt Christing, Estelle and Becca in Homer and this was a quilt that I liked and said I'd get a picture of for her. I think it's a sheep!

Here's another "Oh Homer" for you! This really is a street name down there! Wow!

This was a sign in an office at the school. I just like it! It's true. I can walk and certainly dance and I can talk and sometimes sing! Ah!

And this was from our singles bike ride around the loop a few weekends ago. Becca, Kierstin, Sister Forbes, Brother Forbes and Jared Forbes. It was a good one!
So there are my pictures. This week was cool I guess. It did fly by awfully fast which was excellent! And it's now the weekend for me. I will be heading up to Anchorage to pick Millie up, stay the night, then watch her, Charive and Connie in the marathon on Saturday. Good luck to them! Alright well that's all for now! PEACE

Homerward Bound

2008-06-04T13:38:00.000-07:00

Actually I'm not bound for Homer, I'm in Homer and have been all week. Just a quick post on my lunch break, which is only supposed to be half an hour, but is going on 45 minutes! Things are okay, but working outside in the rain is not so fun. I might get to go prep a pool or locker room or something here next. It's pretty though, and I have a sweet aero bed mattress to sleep on. And besides, I'm so tired at the end of the day that I think if I slept on the floor I would be fine! AND, we've been doing 12 hour days, which means 2 hours of overtime a day, which means mucho lots more money-o! sweet, welp gotta go work! Peace!

Oh the burning midnight sun!

2008-05-27T20:21:00.000-07:00

First off:
HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER BUZZ!! He is now old enough to purchase and legally consume alcohol! woot woot!

One of my favorite pictures of me and Buzz!

Okay, so I have been really really bad I've decided on taking pictures this summer. I went to look at this picture that I just took, and have only taken like 4 since my pictures with Hans, Holly, Kelsie and Kierstin at the airport. That was over a month ago! And a big reason was cause it was making the pics fuzzy, and I didn't want to deal with it! Anyway, here's a picture from the results of my day working today. It's not as bad as it looks...okay, yes it is! It doesn't hurt bad now, but I'm guessing it will! And my face is pretty fried, and my left ear. That's the side the sun was coming from. So it was my first day working for the borough painting. I sat around for like 2 1/2 hours for different reasons, then finally got started working around and on the Soldotna Elementary hockey rink, for about 7 1/2 hours. Thus the burn. It sure was nice outside though! i don't know what I'll be doing tomorrow, but next week I'll be going out of town for sure, either to Ancho Point (I hope not) or to Homer. For 4 days, and total for like a month. Nice per diem here it comes! And i think I'm going to try to put all that extra per diem money towards this next Christmas. yes, we are still getting together (siblings) I've given Millie an ultimatum! I've decided that since everyone is being kinda lame about Christmas and down hearted about it, I figured it would be more of a sure thing if someone were to get married at Christmas, so I dubbed Millie! She has a deadline, and is fully cooperating. I told her the good side of this is she gets to pick the location, so we all have to work around her schedule (a little bit!) Okay then, keep that open!
Oh yeah, and I don't like my work boots. They have to be at least safety toed, so i got some boots, and it was really hard finding guys boots small enough to fit both my feet, cause I have two different sized feet. So my left boot is a bit big and I got blisters. I'm going to try to find some of those safety-toed tennis shoes. much better for me! and not as hot!
okay, I'm outty! Nothin' else to report!
Oh wait, I did get keys today for work. They are keys to all of the schools in the district! look out! just kidding, i can only use them for work related purposes!

Yeah baybay!

2008-05-13T16:35:00.001-07:00

Hey, I thought I'd post some exciting news...I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico! Just kidding, I didn't really! The real news is that I got the painting job with the Borough! It's the position of a painter's helper. Pay is 12-$14/hour, and I do 4-10s, so I'll have Fri-Sun off all summer! A major project we'll be doing is in Homer painting the middle school there, so I'll go down on Monday, stay in the school overnights, then come back Thursday. And the sweet thing is, when we go out of town, we are given $80/day per diem for food or if I wanted to stay in a hotel. I won't be staying in a hotel, and definitely won't use $80/day on food, so I can just pocket that money! It's like making an extra $240/week when we go down there! i am just so excited about this! AND, if I wanted to and could find one, I can take a bike down there on one of the trucks and have that to get around after work, like ride to the spit and stuff. What a great work out! So, that's that just so you all know! I'm pretty stoked! Peace!

24...

2008-05-07T15:03:00.000-07:00

The number of hours in a day.
A cool show on TV starring Kiefer Sutherland.
There are 24 ribs in the human body.
Septillion as 24 zeros.
A hen requires just over 24 hours to produce an egg!
The 24th moon of Jupiter is Pasiphae.
Marco Polo's journey lasted 24 years.
The Earth travels 24,000 miles in 24 hours.
24 is the number of books in the Tanakh. (the Hebrew Bible)
And lastly....
THE AGE MARY HALL IS TURNING TODAY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU GRAND CHAWHEE!

Oh hilarious!

2008-04-29T01:03:00.000-07:00

So, I'm pretty sure my siblings will get a kick out of this...

With mom being gone for a while, it was finally time to go shopping for home. Kierstin, Daniel and I went with Dad to get some food, and let's just say, that took a LONG time! Like, at least an hour! So dad was saying how we couldn't get too much stuff, cause he still needed money for gas. So I said, well how much cash do you have with you, and he said $150. (oh, and this conversation took place right before I took this picture!) So dad was getting worried that we were getting too close to that amount. I looked at the cart, and asked "So how much do you think all this is so far?" And he said, "Oh, at least $100 already." And I was like, no, this is probably around $25 or so. And then Daniel came up and gave the exact same amount that I did, and Dad just kept insisting that it was at least $100 already. And we just laughed super super hard! It was a sure sign of how often Dad does NOT go shopping! He seriously thought that everything in this picture would amount to 100 dollars! And then we went to get shampoo! Anna, I'm sure you'll remember a similar experience with dad and shampoo, and I was seriously having flashbacks to that one! I wish I had taken a picture of what he was doing with that. So, Dad's eyes aren't the best right now, and I think his "glasses" got broken, so he was wearing these saftey glasses that are slightly prescripted, and then he was crawling on the floor so he could read how much they each were per oz. and was doing it for like 5 minutes, at least! I had gone to get something else when he started, and I came back and he was crawling, so I went to find Kierstin and was like "What's dad doing?" And she was like, "Is he still crawling around on the floor?" And I said, "yeah!" we just laughed, some more, really hard, at dad! And then he was trying to buy like the 99 cent VO5 stuff, and Kierstin and I were both saying how it doesn't work that well at all, especially for people with....more hair...than you have....longer hair! And we did go through the whole thing with conditioner and how we use it but he doesn't. Oh mercy was it funny! This experience ranks up there with the watering the carpet and mowing the lawn. For reals! So dad settled on some Suave shampoo and was buying 4 of them, and we were like "woah, don't need so many!" And his logic was that prices are going up and this shampoo will be twice as much the next time we come in here. And Kierstin and I were like, "Yeah, the next time YOU come in here, in like a year!" Oh, it was epic! Finally we got to the checkout line and Dad thought we'd have to un-shop because he thought everything would be around $200, but it was around $80 or so! Oh my goodness what a laugh!

And this is just a pic I took of the sunset the other day with my phone. It's not too bad, eh?!?! Welp, there's my update. Still waiting to hear back from the City and the borough on those jobs and looking for other ones in the mean time. I've been doing a lot of kite flying lately though, it's been cool!
Peace!

Signs you know you're in small town Kenai...

2008-04-21T17:16:00.000-07:00

So I was at the cell phone store last week and overheard this conversation. It's total proof I am back in my small hometown.
Random other customer to his friend: "Hey, how's it going?"
Friend: "Oh good...yadda yadda yadda"
Random: "I just had an interesting thing just happen to me."
Friend: "Oh yeah? What's that?"
Random: "I just saw the guy who robbed my house about 3 years ago. He came in, saw me, and turned right back around and left."
Friend: "Oh wow!"
Random: "Yeah, well it was weird. I did put him in jail for about 2 years...!"

And that's where i kind of stopped listening and thinking about what I had just heard! I thought it was funny!
Things here are...the same. I had an interview with the city today that went okay I guess. I"ll be hearing back from them hopefully before too long. He said it was a plus that I'm here already and can work if they need me! And then I stopped at Charlotte's Restaurant ( oh yum!) But not to eat. I did that last week. No, I just stopped to say hi to Charlotte herself and she asked if I want to do some catering. I'm not doing anything else, so I might do a couple here in a few weeks! One of them is for a Russian wedding! Oooo! I said I might be able to talk to them, cause, uh, Я говорю по русский! (I speak russian!) So yeah, cool! bye

Travels

2008-04-16T01:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics from the last week. There are many more I should have taken, but my camera is being stupid and makes them fuzzy. It's really really really starting to annoy me.

So on our sneaky flights back home we had a layover in Phoenix and Hans, Holly and Kelsie came to see us. SO great!

Here's little Kelsie Belsie with her cute gapiosis!

Kelsie know how to be reverent when saying a prayer!

Our little fambly group at the airport!

This was Wednesday before leaving Rexburg. I went to say goodbye to the Weylands and got a picture with them. Ya'll should read his latest book, "As Always, Dave." It's pretty good! And they are such good people! I gotta go back and visit them when I get back there in like 5 months! Again, stupid fuzzy camera!

The day we drove out, we went to Bajio's with some friends, including Josie and her daughter, (my local niece while in Rexburg) Jordan.

So the night of Kiersty's b-day we made it to Salt Lake and went to a nickel arcade with Becca. This was a "dancing" video game, but you just waved your hand up and down over and under these things. It was really fun!

We met up with Gwendy and her siblings at Olive Garden for lunch on Saturday. It was okay. (the food I mean!)

And her am I with my stinkin' cute niece! Oh she makes me smile!
So there's a quick photo update of me. I am back in Kenai just waiting to hear back from the city about working for them. I hope that does work out for me! Oh, and it snowed ALL DAY today. Grrr!

Done with the travelling already!

2008-04-14T01:46:00.000-07:00

hey, just a quick word to ya'll that I made it home finally. The semester ended on Thursday and we packed up, finally finished on Friday, and headed to Utah about 6 o'clock. That was on Kierstin's birthday! She turned 19! She is now old enough to buy tobacco products in Alaska! woot woot! Then we hung out with Becca at the nickel arcade for Kiersty's b-day, cleaned Millie's car sat. morning then met Gwendy and her siblings for lunch, then picked up becca and went to the airport. WE had a chance to bump our flight and get a straight shot to Alaska, getting in about an hour earlier, but we had a layover in Phoenix and Holly and Hans were gonna come with kelsie to see us, so we passed up a shorter trip and free ticket to see them. It was worth it! Then we got in to Anchorage where we were picked up by Millie, Charive and Steven. However, they only had a camry, and Millie was flying out, so we had 6 suitcases and 5 people. Needless to say, it was a little packed. We drove out to wasilla and stayed the night at Jenae's house, then hung out today and then dropped Millie off at 4:15, barely getting her to her plane! Then we hung out a bit more, stopped at Megon Coon's cause it was her b-day and I wanted to see her, then headed back home. The whole family had no idea we were coming, so Kiersty and I just walked in all non-chalantly, and it was hilarious! All in all, I'm glad to be done travelling! Now for a shower! Peace! Oh, and i"m so excited for Mary Hall to be going to GUATEMALA on her mish mish! woot!

2008-04-09T13:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from Josie's computer of our posse. She has a built in camera and program where you can distort them and stuff. So fun! And I'm on a stupid computer who's keyboard you have to push really hard on the keys for them to work. AGH!

Ali!

Me and Jenna!

Cyclops Jenna

The whole posse! Good times!

And the silly posse!