Well hey guys!!
Guess what day it is?!?? YEP! The day before the wedding!!! Tonight we're having the "bridal shower" at my Aunt Denise's in Centerville, UT, so we'll see how that goes!! Basically it was just thrown together at the last minute since my sister Alyssa, the maid of honor, kinda dropped the ball on it since she just started college on Monday at USU. Lame huh? Haha... oh well. So since i basically have no friends anywhere around here... (Just in Rexburg pretty much!!) there will just be a few family members here and there showing up. It should still be fun though! I'm excited. :) Funny thing is that i pretty much had to put it together... The food part of it anyway. I went out shopping today and bought some snacks. The menu consists of: cheese, ritz crackers (both regular and garden vegetable), mini eclairs, bbq and sweet onion chips, watermelon, grapes, and then some candy--skittles, toffee and almond chocolate nuggets, and starburst jelly beans. :D Sound good?? Hopefully it is! :) I just cut up a whole half-of-a-watermelon not too long ago and arranged the grapes all nicely on a tray. ;) It starts at 8!
I got my bridals taken on Monday, and let me tell you.... I am NOT excited about wearing those shoes all day!!!!! They KILL my little feet!!! :/ So we'll see how long I actually keep them on...
Well, i'll be going now! The next time you hear from me, I'll be a married woman!!! Haha :)
So long!
31 August 2011
26 August 2011
New Backpack!!!
I got a new backpack the other day! I already have a nice one, but I've been wanting a new one for a while with a design that's more my style. So... I finally got one!
Here it is!!
Haha, I know I'm being like a little kid again, all excited for school to start... ;P Well, the truth is.. I'm excited to have a new backpack, but i'm not excited for school part. Noooo way. Not me! I'm scared. My classes are going to be so hard! Here's to hoping I pass all my classes! =S
On a different note, I went to Boise today to get my wedding dress pressed!! Now it's all ready to go! :):):) Only 6 more days til eternity! I'm sooo excited. =)
Childhood #2....
Hey there :) So i figured I'd finish my last post now with these random stories from my childhood in Michigan. I SO wish that i had more pictures to put up of these things, but i don't... I'm sorry :'(Anyways, here goes!
Sledding with Four Wheelers and Riding Go-Carts
Growing up we LOVED to ride the four wheeler and go-cart around our property. We'd ride them over top of the septic mound (old school, right?), around the perimeter of the house, and into the 15 acres of woods behind our house. In the winter, my dad would tie a rope connected to a sled to the back of the four wheeler and pull us around the snow covered property. It was SO much fun. :) It was kind of like tubing behind a boat, except with snow... So when you'd get "flipped" you'd roll in tons of icy cold snow instead of cool-warm lake water. Brrrr!!!
Haha, this reminds me of a time I decided to "sneak out" with my best friend in the middle of the night....
Well, I guess this calls for an explanation! Meet Haley...
We met in 3rd grade (3ish years since we'd moved to Michigan), and were best friends all the way til I moved to Montana 6 1/2 years later-in the middle of my freshman year of high school. We also had another best friend, Autumn Swift, but she is not pictured here and wasn't involved in this escapade.
Haley was spending the night and we decided that we wanted to go out and ride four wheelers...but it was really late and everyone else was asleep. Our solution? We were going to sneak out!! Her family lived just a few miles from me and owned a couple four wheelers, so we had her brother and his friend drive them over to meet us with them. Haley and I hopped on one, and her brother and his friend on the other. And we were off! We rode down the road and through bumpy dirt field at too high of speeds with the wind in our faces without a care in the world...
That is... til we got back to my house. :S We thought we'd just sneak back in, no problem right? WRONG!!! The door had been locked while we were gone! Ohhhh crap.. we thought. We considered just sleeping outside or something, but that wasn't too safe without a tent in that area... So what did we go? The only thing we could do.We rang the doorbell!!! Hahahahaha....... Howww embarrassing.
Turns out that my dad had heard the four wheelers and knew that we snuck out. I just knew we were done for... But MUCH to my surprise, he didn't even care! I guess it pays to be a kid. :)
Toilet Papering
So...as much as I hate to admit it, growing up we had pretty cool parents. Sometimes.
They would let us up and go toilet paper one of our friend's houses if we wanted to, on occasion. :) There is one particular time that I would like to talk about...
As toilet papering goes, there was a little "war" going on among us and our friends. One night we wanted to go toilet paper one of the people's houses on our "enemy" list. The only problem? They lived like 2-3 miles away from us. So what did we do? We had my mom drive us! =P
Growing up, we owned a variety of different cars at different times in our life. During this time, my mom was driving a station wagon with a rear facing seat in the back.
We had my mom drive us (me, my brothers, and some friends) to the house and park 100 yards or so down the road. We snuck around the house and threw toilet paper everywhere, listening carefully--afraid we were going to get caught a couple times. Once we were finished, I think as the result of almost being caught, we sprinted towards the station wagon, waiting with the back door open, and jumped in shouting "GO! GO! GO!" to my mom.
Man... I wish times like those could last forever. I've decided that I want to be a cool mom and do that for my kids too--if they want.
Life will be good. :)
Here is the setting.
Sledding with Four Wheelers and Riding Go-Carts
Growing up we LOVED to ride the four wheeler and go-cart around our property. We'd ride them over top of the septic mound (old school, right?), around the perimeter of the house, and into the 15 acres of woods behind our house. In the winter, my dad would tie a rope connected to a sled to the back of the four wheeler and pull us around the snow covered property. It was SO much fun. :) It was kind of like tubing behind a boat, except with snow... So when you'd get "flipped" you'd roll in tons of icy cold snow instead of cool-warm lake water. Brrrr!!!
Haha, this reminds me of a time I decided to "sneak out" with my best friend in the middle of the night....
Well, I guess this calls for an explanation! Meet Haley...
Haley was spending the night and we decided that we wanted to go out and ride four wheelers...but it was really late and everyone else was asleep. Our solution? We were going to sneak out!! Her family lived just a few miles from me and owned a couple four wheelers, so we had her brother and his friend drive them over to meet us with them. Haley and I hopped on one, and her brother and his friend on the other. And we were off! We rode down the road and through bumpy dirt field at too high of speeds with the wind in our faces without a care in the world...
That is... til we got back to my house. :S We thought we'd just sneak back in, no problem right? WRONG!!! The door had been locked while we were gone! Ohhhh crap.. we thought. We considered just sleeping outside or something, but that wasn't too safe without a tent in that area... So what did we go? The only thing we could do.We rang the doorbell!!! Hahahahaha....... Howww embarrassing.
Turns out that my dad had heard the four wheelers and knew that we snuck out. I just knew we were done for... But MUCH to my surprise, he didn't even care! I guess it pays to be a kid. :)
Toilet Papering
So...as much as I hate to admit it, growing up we had pretty cool parents. Sometimes.
They would let us up and go toilet paper one of our friend's houses if we wanted to, on occasion. :) There is one particular time that I would like to talk about...
As toilet papering goes, there was a little "war" going on among us and our friends. One night we wanted to go toilet paper one of the people's houses on our "enemy" list. The only problem? They lived like 2-3 miles away from us. So what did we do? We had my mom drive us! =P
Growing up, we owned a variety of different cars at different times in our life. During this time, my mom was driving a station wagon with a rear facing seat in the back.
We had my mom drive us (me, my brothers, and some friends) to the house and park 100 yards or so down the road. We snuck around the house and threw toilet paper everywhere, listening carefully--afraid we were going to get caught a couple times. Once we were finished, I think as the result of almost being caught, we sprinted towards the station wagon, waiting with the back door open, and jumped in shouting "GO! GO! GO!" to my mom.
Man... I wish times like those could last forever. I've decided that I want to be a cool mom and do that for my kids too--if they want.
Life will be good. :)
15 August 2011
Childhood Escapades
I was thinking this past week about funny things that have happened to me in my childhood, and I decided that I wanted to share some of them with you so that you could laugh too! :)
Bows & Arrows
For most of my childhood, from about age 5 til age 15, I lived in Michigan. In Michigan we had 20 ares of land--15 of woods and 5 of grass. Our house was planted somewhere in the middle-ish of those 5 acres. In fact, here's a picture for you:
Anyways... As children we would play outside all the time. On this particular day, my 2 brothers--Porter & Loran--and I were outside shooting bows and arrows around in the field. Aiming at random stuff and just having a good old time. Well.... being young, as we were, we weren't really very acquainted with "firearm" stuff and whatnot. That being known, here I am standing in the field just north of the house facing west when my brother--I think it was Porter, but I can't be sure anymore--shoots an arrow in my direction... Now, I don't think he was actually aiming for me, but that's what he hit! Yep! He HIT ME!!! Right smack in the chest too, on the right side. Luckily it didn't go in though. Thank goodness for using dull arrows!!! All that was left was a little round scar where it hit me, which ended up fading over the years. Oh man... what good times we had. Hahaha. :)
Ring of Fire
This is another incident that happened in Michigan. In fact I think everything I'm writing about happened there, so it's good I gave you a picture to be able to mentally see what's going on here! :) This one involved my brothers again... Go figure! Are you seeing a pattern here?
So there I was, standing just to the west of the driveway on the grass right next to the playground... when my brothers thought it would be funny to pour a huge circle of gasoline all around me on the ground and light it on fire!! I wish I could tell you how old I was during these happenings, but I honestly don't remember!! :S Anyways, so there you have me... Standing in the middle of a ring of fire... literally. I didn't know what to do! So i did the only logical thing...! No... I didn't just sit and wait out the flames, I wasn't patient enough for that! I ran and jumped through the flames to get out of the circle, making it out safely but losing a shoe in the process!!
I don't know what my brothers were thinking doing that to me, but it is fun to look back on!! :)
PORTER on Fire
Have you ever held fire in your hands?? If you haven't, it's a lot of fun! You should try it sometime. :) Just.... please be careful. ;)
Holding fire was something we really liked to do when we were younger, heck, I still like to do it occassionally!! ;P Anyways, the trick to holding fire (among others, i'm sure) is to use hand sanitizer. All you need to do is put a glob of it right smack on your palm and light it on fire! Now wait... before you try it, you need to know a couple of things... First, the trick only lasts a second or two.. So don't just sit there and watch it burn, or YOU will burn. Got it? You have to shake it out once you begin to feel the warmth reaching your skin. Second, make sure the sanitizer doesn't spread. Unless you want your whole hand to catch on fire, make sure it stays in a central spot on your palm (or wherever) and doesn't seep out.... THIS is where Porter comes in....
One night when we were playing with fire (I think we may have been little pyros, but i'm not sure...) ;) Porter decided to spread sanitizer up his arm as well... JUST to see what would happen. Oh brother........ Well, you may be able to guess what happened. Trying to shake out a little fire in your palm is one thing (it's easy!), but trying to shake your whole arm out is a completely different story... 8/
Porter's whole arm was up in flames and shaking wasn't doing any good. Just imagine someone with their whole arm on fire trying to shake it out.. Funny, huh? Well it may sound funny, but it was scary too there for a minute! I think what ended up happening is he had to stop, drop, and roll to get it out. We were all able to have a good laugh about that later.... Good times. :)
OKAY, well I still have a few more stories I wanted to tell, but this is getting rather long so I think I'll split it up and try to post the rest next time. :) Hope that's okay with you, cuz i'm doin' it anyway!!! Hahahaha.....
Oh, and to end the post, here's a picture of me from last fall that I retouched a little bit. Just thought I'd share!! :)
Bows & Arrows
For most of my childhood, from about age 5 til age 15, I lived in Michigan. In Michigan we had 20 ares of land--15 of woods and 5 of grass. Our house was planted somewhere in the middle-ish of those 5 acres. In fact, here's a picture for you:
To the west and south are portions of our 15 acre woods, but not all of them. To the immediate west of the house is a volleyball court, and the other plot just lower is a playground. To the east, the driveway extends all the way to the road where you see point "A".
Anyways... As children we would play outside all the time. On this particular day, my 2 brothers--Porter & Loran--and I were outside shooting bows and arrows around in the field. Aiming at random stuff and just having a good old time. Well.... being young, as we were, we weren't really very acquainted with "firearm" stuff and whatnot. That being known, here I am standing in the field just north of the house facing west when my brother--I think it was Porter, but I can't be sure anymore--shoots an arrow in my direction... Now, I don't think he was actually aiming for me, but that's what he hit! Yep! He HIT ME!!! Right smack in the chest too, on the right side. Luckily it didn't go in though. Thank goodness for using dull arrows!!! All that was left was a little round scar where it hit me, which ended up fading over the years. Oh man... what good times we had. Hahaha. :)
Ring of Fire
This is another incident that happened in Michigan. In fact I think everything I'm writing about happened there, so it's good I gave you a picture to be able to mentally see what's going on here! :) This one involved my brothers again... Go figure! Are you seeing a pattern here?
So there I was, standing just to the west of the driveway on the grass right next to the playground... when my brothers thought it would be funny to pour a huge circle of gasoline all around me on the ground and light it on fire!! I wish I could tell you how old I was during these happenings, but I honestly don't remember!! :S Anyways, so there you have me... Standing in the middle of a ring of fire... literally. I didn't know what to do! So i did the only logical thing...! No... I didn't just sit and wait out the flames, I wasn't patient enough for that! I ran and jumped through the flames to get out of the circle, making it out safely but losing a shoe in the process!!
I don't know what my brothers were thinking doing that to me, but it is fun to look back on!! :)
PORTER on Fire
Have you ever held fire in your hands?? If you haven't, it's a lot of fun! You should try it sometime. :) Just.... please be careful. ;)
Holding fire was something we really liked to do when we were younger, heck, I still like to do it occassionally!! ;P Anyways, the trick to holding fire (among others, i'm sure) is to use hand sanitizer. All you need to do is put a glob of it right smack on your palm and light it on fire! Now wait... before you try it, you need to know a couple of things... First, the trick only lasts a second or two.. So don't just sit there and watch it burn, or YOU will burn. Got it? You have to shake it out once you begin to feel the warmth reaching your skin. Second, make sure the sanitizer doesn't spread. Unless you want your whole hand to catch on fire, make sure it stays in a central spot on your palm (or wherever) and doesn't seep out.... THIS is where Porter comes in....
One night when we were playing with fire (I think we may have been little pyros, but i'm not sure...) ;) Porter decided to spread sanitizer up his arm as well... JUST to see what would happen. Oh brother........ Well, you may be able to guess what happened. Trying to shake out a little fire in your palm is one thing (it's easy!), but trying to shake your whole arm out is a completely different story... 8/
Porter's whole arm was up in flames and shaking wasn't doing any good. Just imagine someone with their whole arm on fire trying to shake it out.. Funny, huh? Well it may sound funny, but it was scary too there for a minute! I think what ended up happening is he had to stop, drop, and roll to get it out. We were all able to have a good laugh about that later.... Good times. :)
OKAY, well I still have a few more stories I wanted to tell, but this is getting rather long so I think I'll split it up and try to post the rest next time. :) Hope that's okay with you, cuz i'm doin' it anyway!!! Hahahaha.....
Oh, and to end the post, here's a picture of me from last fall that I retouched a little bit. Just thought I'd share!! :)
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