Kite Flying and Monkeys Screaming

Warning: Very long post below, view when you have time and are bored.

Me and two of my roommates at CLUE, an activity at the Stake Center where we had to dress up and play real live clue. We're all wearing another roommates dresses. It was fun. l-r Shelby, me, Kelsey...these are the girls I actually share a room with.

A day when me and my friend Jon were taking random pictures, my purse and backpack are the same thing during school, don't want to have to keep switching stuff from my purse to my backpack.

The beautiful red leaves that are everywhere up here!

Riley (in background), Dad, Danica, and half of Mom when I went home this past weekend for birthdays/general conference.

Danica's eyes look so cool in this picture. We were taking pictures of us and I was letting her push the button so all the shots are really close and cut both of us off. :)

Hello everyone,
It's been quite some time since my last blog. I would have been doing homework right now but you know, Heavenly Father is a powerful being and he made it so my homework isn't due till tomorrow night. Now, I'm not procrastinating. I made a goal this year to not do homework on Sundays, that way it would truly be a day of rest from all my worldly cares and I could concentrate on my spiritual side and even though I have homework that I could do, I just don't think about it because I can't do it on Sunday anyway. I just cast it out of my mind and all my cares and relax. I figure, if God could make the world in 6 days, which is a major task, that's all of the world's daily projects combined into one, plus some, and he still took the Sabbath day off to rest. I can't be that busy that I can't take a day to rest.

And let me tell you, I was not understanding this microeconomics homework that I was doing last night, not one bit and I was getting so frustrated. It was a long day yesterday. I planned to get a lot of homework and studying done, squeeze in a double date, and just get things accomplished. I got one homework assignment done and the rest of the day was a social event. Sheesh, its so hard for me to say no to things that look fun and yesterday was a day I wasn't able to squeak out that word. So I was staying up trying to do this microeconomics homework, closing my eyes for a little nap every so often cause I was tired...and then I climbed into my friends bed cause I didn't have my car at her house and just gave up, decided to finish it tomorrow, Sunday. I wasn't liking this idea but I wasn't making any progress on this homework I didn't understand at all. I was hoping Heavenly Father would forgive me for not making the wisest choices and hoping he would understand my reasons for doing a 103 point assignment that was due tonight, Sunday.

Well, I get on my computer tonight, do my church calling stuff first so that I can get that out of the way and not procrastinate it, then go onto the website to do my homework and I can't believe my eyes...the teacher changed it to be due tomorrow, on Monday. That's a miracle right there! Someone upstairs sure does love me so I can keep my promise to not do homework on Sunday. I am so glad to have a testimony of this gospel and to live and obey the commandments so I can be blessed from someone who is all powerful and all knowing.

Its been a trialsome time for me lately, with guys I like not working out, truckloads of homework, waking up at 7 AM every morning and not quitting for the day until midnight or later, gaining weight cause I don't have time to exercise, having major huge red mountains all over my face called pimples, just not feeling emotionally well and not being sure of myself. I bore my testimony today about how I was reading in Ether 12, the scripture about you receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. This was comforting and reassuring to read, that I just need to have faith and then once the trial is past, I'll receive the witness I need and the growth that will make me a better person. So I just need to be patient until these trials pass.

Well, let me put some pictures up so that there's more than just words on this post.

Putting the kite together, those wimpy little sweaters we're wearing don't show the magnitude of the coldness. Ammon is wearing Alyce's bucket hat and he looks like an old grandpa in all the pictures.

Hurrah! The kite finally took wind...but...

Run Ammon Run! Mark kept dive bombing it straight at Ammon and he got hit a few times.

And when Mark said I was complaining about all the trees and being a whiner...well, I ripped into him when he got it stuck in the tree like 5 mins after we got it up and going. Boys, they just don't understand why we women nag...its cause we actually think through things.
Alyce and Mark, don't you think they'll be cute together. Poor Alyce didn't bring a very warm jacket, luckily there was a blanket in the car.

My turn with the kite. My knee is actually hurt, been doing some physical therapy, and I didn't realize until after flying the kite that I ran. That made me happy inside cause it didn't hurt too much, I was probably too numb to feel anything.

The potato gun, you have to spray hairspray in the part where the lid goes and somebody screwed the lid on too tight and we couldn't get it off. So we heated it up to try to loosen it. We also tried lighting it on fire...I don't have pictures of that.

We finally got the lid off so here's Mark pushing a potato down into the gun.

Haha, Ammon said I should print this off with the caption, Have trouble dating?...And stick it in the institute...I was actually asking him right here if it would kick when I shot it, he was explaining what would happen.

Twisting the metal thing to spark it and...

KABOOM! This is my reaction after the potato flew...it was fun!!

Haha, Alyce's reaction after her first time shooting the potato gun, she dropped it.

And Ammon smashing a potato into the gun. He was so excited for all of us to try it...he's a character.

Yesterday I went on a double date...it had to be the coldest day this school year, probably not more than 40 degrees, we were all freezing and guess what we decided to do on this cold, windy day...we flew kites, had a picnic and shot a potato gun, all outside. It was fun though. Now, this isn't what you think it is. I was not really asked on a date. I'm trying to hook Alyce, my good friend, up with a guy that's interested in her. She hasn't been asked on any dates I don't think since she moved here in January. So I call this guy up, Mark, he's a cool guy and a good friend, and tell him that I would be willing to offer my services in a double date if he asked Alyce out and found me a date as well. So this date was mostly for them, so they could get to know each other better but not have the awkwardness of a single date. We all had so much fun, laughing the whole time. And the guy I went with, Ammon, called me up, I don't think he knew I suggested this whole date idea, and was acting like Master Ammon's butler in an English/British accent asking if I, Lady Margo, would go on an adventure of flying kites and a flying monkey and shooting potatoes from a potato gun...I can't really describe it to show how funny it was. That's what pictures above are from. The guys did really well with all the rest of the planning. The kite flying was my idea, but they went and bought a kite, bought food for a picnic lunch, they even bought lettuce and tomatoes for the hoagie sandwiches we had. I was impressed actually. Oh and the thing about the flying/screaming monkey, they bought it when they got the kite in Sedona. These guys went to Sedona, 30 mins away to buy a kite cause I couldn't find any kites in Flagstaff. Mark had remembered seeing 2 kite shops when we worked there the night before.

After we had frozen our butts off, we went back to Alyce's house, looked at all the pictures we took of our adventures, and then went to another friend's house to meet so we could all go to dinner to give someone a going away dinner. She's moving to Oklahoma...she's a bit of effort to be friendly and nice to but we all try. We went to Cracker Barrel and there was like 13 of us there, pretty crowded. And Ammon paid for my food, so it was a pretty long date even though I didn't sit by him at dinner. Alyce and Mark did! YAY, that makes me happy.

One last side note. It has been bitterly cold up here, with the highs being in the 40s the past few days. Its October for crying out loud, I don't remember it being this cold this soon last year. I remember at Halloween when we went trick or treating it was 30 degrees but that was the first time it was really cold. Right now the low at night is 20 or below. And it was supposed to snow this weekend and last weekend too. I guess the peaks, the mountains, got a little snow and at like 6 AM on Saturday morning it was hailing and snowing for like 20 mins. I was so out of it I didn't wake up to see it. But yeh, just to let everyone know, Margo is freezing already and its not winter yet. We also checked out the furnace today, I suggested we turn it on and my roommates said we could wait cause we have a little space heater that does the trick for now. Then I said, well lets just turn it on to see if it works, so that way when we really need it, and it doesn't, we won't be trying to get it to work when its snowing outside and even colder than it is now. Good thing cause we had to read the instructions to turn it back on and the pilot still won't light. We'll get it fixed soon, sure thing. I can feel that this winter is going to be a harsh one, even more so than the one last year. Hope you enjoyed reading my life update, take care everyone.

I have been tagged

I was tagged quite some time ago and I'm now getting around to it. My roommates were actually really cool about me taking pictures of them. Here goes, this is an example of a college apartment with 5 girls living in it and we've only been moved in for a month.
#1 Fridge

That's 5 girls worth of food in there

#2 Laundry Room
Hm, well I live in an apartment and we don't have a laundry room. Actually, we have a laundromat facility on our complex but I go to my friend Alyce's to do laundry.

#3 Bathroom
I share a room with 2 other girls and there are 3 of us who share one bathroom, that's why its a little crowded, plus its pretty small.


#4 The Closet
Ha, I don't really have a closet. There's a half room that we store mine and Kelsey's dressers in along with a lot of other stuff we have, and then we both share an open closet space that has two rods. I don't really know where Shelby keeps all her clothes, maybe she doesn't have that many.


My clothes are the top rack, I know, I have a lot of clothes.


#5 Kitchen Sink
I think Cari did dishes today so that was really good, a clean sink.


#6 Self portrait
Oh how lovely, I haven't taken a shower today so I put a bandanna on my head for FHE tonight. My hair didn't look too bad but it still wasn't too hot.


#7 Favorite Room
I would pick the bedroom, its a little quieter and not as many people, only 3 instead of 5. And it has my bed which I love to sleep on. I'm still sleeping in my sleeping bag cause I need to wash my pillowcases before I make my bed. Talk about not being put together. So if I am a little crazy, its cause everything's strewn everywhere while I'm still trying to work and go to school.


#8 What are the kids doing?
Well Mom told me to use my roommates and some were in bed, some doing homework, another with a boyfriend...its about 10-11 at night when I took these pics so we're all tuckered out but still trying to push in the hours while the day's still on.
Kelsey is lookin at her iPod I think. She was on her comp before this pic downstairs.
Shelby is in bed, reading.
Whitney is with her boyfriend Jon watching the show that is always playing in this apartment, The Office. ugh :)
And Cari is doing some Chemistry homework in her room.

#9 Dream vacation
It used to be somewhere where it snows but ha, I live where it snows. I would say Iceland, that would be interesting to learn about and see.



#10 Favorite pair of shoes
Oops, I forgot to take a picture of my shoes. I don't really have a favorite pair, all of them are getting old, wish I could get new ones that also look good but don't have the money. Or I should say I would rather eat or buy gas than get a new pair of shoes. They would be nice but there are more important things.

School time once again

I am pretty much in the full swing of school and work now, started my 3rd week of school today. I am pretty booked Monday thru Thursday. I work on MW from 8-1 and then go to school from 2-5. I have Financial Accounting and Microeconomics on those days. Then TTH I work from 8-11 and go to school from 11:10-3:30. Those days I have Business Math, Humanities--Humanistic Values in a Technological Society, and Anthropology--Peoples of the World. I also got a new calling this past week and am the IWA secretary (IWA is the Institute Women's Association). Flagstaff is the only institute in AZ to still keep this group alive. Its slowly dying away. It was a little scary getting a call from a Stake Presidency Counselor asking if I could meet with him about a calling. This organization is under YSA (Young Single Adult) and IRC (Institute Religion Council) so its a stake calling. I like all my classes and am liking being a math and accounting class again. I am so glad to have taken accounting in high school cause what we are studying in it now is review for me. I know that if I hadn't taken that class, it would be even more confusing than economics.

This will be a busy semester for me and luckily I have 3 day weekends...well besides teaching tennis to one elementary school on Friday to get a little more income and still keep my hand in tennis. I should look into teaching lessons at the Athletic Club, maybe beginner lessons. I'm going to a USTA (United States Tennis Association) coach/teacher training for this tennis I teach at the elementary school so maybe I can find out if I can get certified or something to be a tennis teacher.

I have also moved into a new apartment, the apartment is still in shambles a little and definitely looks like a college apartment. I haven't wanted to take pictures yet from being tagged from Mom but I guess I could now since most of my roommates are home and who cares what this place looks like. We're all in college, we basically just eat, sleep and do homework here. Once I'm done with this blog I'll do it. I should be doing homework now but I can do that tomorrow. Nothing is due tomorrow so I've got time. And since I've moved into a new place, I'm also in 2nd Ward now instead of 3rd Ward. I miss 3rd Ward terribly and I still visit them often. Like today, I went to their FHE and it was a blast. We had pancakes for dinner. So new changes that are different and I have to suck it up and keep on moving.

Went to Lake Powell for a Regional YSA trip and had lots of fun on the lake. I wanted to try wakeboarding but didn't get to the two times I was on a boat to try cause a storm was coming in. Before that I went tubing behind a boat. I battled my friend Alyce, there were 2 tubes tied to the back of a boat and we stayed on for like 10 mins while the pilot?, whoever steers a boat, was making big wakes to try to throw us off. When we first got on I was only on the tube for like 10 seconds. Then Alyce came off next. Then we switched the position we were on the tubes and he couldn't get us off. The lake is so fun, I definitely want to go more!

I dated a guy for about a month, he's a cowboy, ha, just like the last one and he has red hair too. Those red headed cowboys have a soft spot in my heart. I really started to like him but he wants to go to Westpointe, a prestigious military academy that last year only accepted 10% of its applicants and it demands so much of a student's time that they have to be single/not married for all 4 years they attend. So we are just friends as of last week. Another boy to get over. Story of my life but I'm still young so I can take it. I'm fully single again and can go back to my flirting ways and enjoy the single part of my life. Not much else news. I shouldn't make this blog a chapter like my other posts are. I'll put some pictures up to make up for not having pictures lately.

Melissa and I at the mall playing dress up

Melissa and I again

Sunset at home in Pomerene when home in July

Playing tennis and serving while at home

Playing on the courts I played on in high school

Some buds in Flag, we were downtown listening to a band play

John Dirlam and I, we ran about 2 miles to get downtown
instead of driving

Lone Rock Beach, Lake Powell

On the boat at Lake Powell

Girls I worked with during the summer in the financial aid file room

On a double date with Braun, the cowboy

We rode the ski lift/sky ride up to the top of the San Francisco Peaks

Braun, me, Becky, and Robert, also had a little picnic on the rocks on top of the mountain

Life experiences are great!

Let's see, what day is it today? It's almost August and I feel like I just got done with school and it's still May. :) But my summer has been fun and eventful, have learned a lot. On July 3 I went home and stayed until July 20. I was supposed to stay until the 27, today, but I came home a week early because of boy scenarios not working out and needing to get back to Flag and working my tail end and just getting over the situation that made me very frustrated and angry. It was a fun time at home though, I taught Emma how to play tennis, went swimming and got a pretty nice tan which is now peeling. Hung out with a cute boy who was my boyfriend for a week and then we decided, but mostly he decided just cause he uses his head instead of going with emotions like me, that we should be friends because of religious differences. So there you have it, that's why I came home early. Actually, I shouldn't call him a boy, he's turning 23 tomorrow and has his own business and house and went to NAU and got his Bachelor's degree in business in 3 years from there. So he's pretty much all that I want but one of the most important things isn't there, he's not LDS but I'll still be working on him just as friends. He has really high values and morals and we believe a lot of the same things, he just needs to see that what I have and believe in makes life so much more meaningful and full.

Right now I'm sitting in my new apartment which is just off campus, north campus. I haven't really moved anything in yet because when I first came in here last Monday it smelled. I can't explain it other than it smelled like Uncle Jimmy's last apartment/nursing home place. I think it's a combination of the place being closed up for a month or more after the carpets were shampooed and then our neighbors cigarette smoke, who we share a balcony with (how lovely) and that smell permeating in through the walls. So needless to say when I'm here I've had all the windows and doors open, sprinkled a whole box of powder carpet deodorizer all over without vacuuming it up, and been watching candles burn. I hadn't brought my computer over here cause I wasn't sure if I could pick up an internet signal, didn't have any books and had a tv, but don't get signal and I didn't have any of my movies either. So when I said I would watch the candles burn, that's what I would literally do. Haha. But I would take naps or just sit and think. And lighting all the candles is a process too cause I have to go upstairs and all over the apartment. And getting something to light the candles with is another story. That's all my life is made up of, funny little crazy stories cause everything I have to do I have to do it or get to it in a round about way. But that's what I do in my quiet times, just look back and laugh.

Hm, I'm officially 19 now. My birthday was July 18 and I didn't do anything too exciting, just went to a movie at 8 in the morning, ate at Mimi's Cafe for breakfast, came back home in Pomerene and took a nap then hung out with my best friend later that evening and just did random stuff. So when we went to Mimi's Cafe it was so cute, these little details and things in life always make me smile. You know how in movies there will be a man and a woman eating by themselves in a booth and they both can't see each other eating by themselves because there's a little decorative curtain on top of the booths but all the other people eating at the restaurant can see them and want to hook them up. That's how it was when we were eating breakfast there. It was so cute, they were both sitting by themselves just enjoying their food in their lonesome. And of course when you go to a restaurant on a weekday in the morning, who is there? Elderly people. And I just love the older generation of people. So this man and woman were probably in there 60s and I just wanted to go over and hook them up. My birthday was just little things like this that I love to see and appreciate so much when I am able to witness things so rare. Well, I didn't go over there and tell them that they should eat together but I told my friends that I was eating with. Another little thing that happened was me and Brooke, my best friend I hung out with once she got off work, we went and played tennis at like 6 PM. It hadn't rained all day but when we decide to go play tennis, of course it rains. It was just sprinkling at first so we're like, oh this is fine, we'll still keep playing. Oh no, the heavens decided to pour. So we gather up the rackets and balls and head back to my car. It wasn't raining that badly yet but once we were back to my car it started raining harder. We decided to go running and luckily there wasn't close lightning so it was a wonderful run in the rain. Then we went back to my house and Emma, my niece who was having her summer stay with Grandma and Grandpa, wanted to go with me earlier to play with Brooke. It was heart wrenching to tell her no cause I hadn't had any personal time with Brooke in a long time. So she was crying and so sad when I left. I'm driving up the road after leaving the house and I get a call from Mom's phone. Answer and Mom says, hold on...several seconds later Emma gets on the phone and says, Aunt Margo, I never got to say goodbye. Oh little kids are so sweet. So I was tearing up a little bit when I was driving to meet Brooke. Anyway, so after we were done with our run and everything, we went to my house and I had told Emma that I would play with her when I got back . So me, Brooke, and Emma all played some games on Nintendo 64. Especially Mario Kart. All those years of being beat by my brothers ruthlessly paid off. I beat them every time. ha! Then me and Brooke watched this random show about determining who is beautiful and everything. They proved it scientifically and mathematically and it was interesting. So me and Brooke were measuring our faces according to their calculations to see if we were beautiful. And guess what, we both are!

While I was home I went to this boy's church to experience what he learns about and what he believes. I've wanted to do this ever since I moved up to Flagstaff, to go to other churches just so I'm not so ignorant and biased in my beliefs. One Sunday when I was home I was bored before church and so I decided I would just go to one of the churches in town. I looked in the newspaper for the times of when they started and it was already 10 so there were only two that started close to 11. I went to the one that started at 10:45 and I have to admit I was scared. I went by myself, was one of the few ladies in a dress and everyone else was in casual or every day clothes. I brought my bible in with me, it was a Baptist church and it was a good experience. They sang a lot and stood when they sang too. I am just grateful that in my church we can just sit and listen instead of having to stand up all the time and sing so much. I agreed with everything the pastor said and it was just good to learn about their church from the perspective of someone attending. I think once I start going to church at 1 up here in Flagstaff, once school starts on Aug. 25, then I will go to some other religions and learn about them. So since I went to this other church, I've just been interested in what others believe and what other churches believe. It's made my testimony stronger because our church makes so much sense and it makes everyone happy, even those who aren't in it. It would be horrible to be told or believe that everyone who isn't saved goes to hell. At least with us, if you don't get to hear about the gospel, you get your chance once you pass from this life. And I've also been researching some of the things that me and this boy, Caleb have discussed/argued about. I've decided to read the bible this year, well hopefully I can get through the Old Testament before the year is over. I've read the Book of Mormon three times already and haven't even read through the Bible once yet. So I started reading it about a month ago and it's so difficult to understand. I went online and got the Old Testament seminary manual and that's really helped a lot. The Pearl of Great Price just has so much more depth to it than the books in the Bible. I was reading in Genesis and didn't understand a part and it referenced me to Abraham. It was the same story and everything but in Abraham there was so much more detail. No wonder I haven't read through the bible yet. haha.

I've also been into this whole missionary mode because of talking to my co-workers at work and the things I believe and they believe. It's been great and has made me think about what I really know. There's an endless amount of things you can know in this church and no one in this life will ever know everything just because it is endless. God even says that in Moses, the only way you can know everything is if you aren't in the flesh just like it was with Moses. (Moses 1:5) He was transfigured and that's the only way he was allowed to see what God knows. Anyway, so that's what I've been up to lately to ease my boredom but it has made me excited about reading the Bible and having something to help me along so that I can understand what is going on.

I better end this post before it gets any longer. I should put some pictures in here so that it's not all text but I don't have any pictures to go along with what I talked about. Plus I'm just too lazy to do it right now cause I would have to load the pics onto my computer first. Until next time...

Summer summer summer summertime!

Quite a lot has happened since my last blog. I'll make this a short one but hit the highlights and fun times. Three weekends ago I went on a YSA activity after playing softball at 8:30 AM, the activity was canoeing at Lake Mary, about a 2-3 mile long lake ten minutes outside of Flagstaff. I had lots of fun and one time we put 5 people in one canoe cause 3 guys wanted to go to the other side and swim back so my roommate and I hopped in and were going to bring the canoe back. Let's just say we didn't get very far and a speedboat went by and created wakes. We were already sitting low in the water as it was and then we were going to ride the wakes but they decided to come into our canoe and fill it with water. Somehow more water kept coming in and Caleb Blaschke jumped out cause he saw what was coming and then that tipped it and we were all in the water. It was pretty freezing and hard to swim cause we had to hold the canoe half full of water while we're trying to swim to shore. Luckily we all had life jackets on and I was glad for that cause I got tired really fast and just sat still to rest for a little bit. Hopefully I can get some pictures and put them on here.
Then the next weekend I went to Utah, Cedar City with the Relief Society President, Alyce, just for a quick trip. We left at 2 on Sunday after church and then came back to Flag Monday night. I had to work Tuesday morning so we had to get back. On Wednesday and Thursday I went out to Mormon Lake with some people to help a sister in our ward move. Mormon Lake is past Lake Mary and about 40 mins from Flag. Then this past weekend, on Friday after work I took a quick trip down to Mesa/Phoenix cause a friend wanted me to ride with him to St. David for a reception. I had him drop me off in Tucson so I could visit with family for a few hours. Then he came back to Tucson and picked me up and we headed back to Mesa cause he had to work Saturday morning. I know, wasting lots of gas on little trips but it's not my gas, except that I drove down to Mesa, 160 miles from Flag. So we got back to Mesa at like 12 AM and I had arranged to stay at a friend's house in Phoenix cause I didn't want to drive back to Flag that late. I drove another 30 minutes to her house, told her all about a certain boy/ man (he's almost 23) and finally went to bed at 2 AM. The next morning we just relaxed at her house, watched a movie, and went to the mall and played dress up. Also while in the mall we tried on engagement/wedding rings at a jewelry store cause neither of us know what kind we want. I have a better idea now but we totally acted like my "boyfriend" (which I don't have) was going to pop the question soon. It was fun. Oh, and we also got two six inch subs from Subway for $5 cause of the $5 footlongs. Around 4:45 PM I headed back up to Flag and went to Alyce's house and hung out with her for a while. I've just been travelling all over the place. Then Sunday our ward was in charge of all the meetings and we also had a dinner for visiting teaching after church. So I've been pretty busy but I'm glad I am. I'm also enjoying work, the girls I work with are so much fun, our conversations are very interesting. In 2 weeks I'm going home and staying for 3 weeks. I am also housesitting for the people I babysit for and will housesit until I leave to go home. I also need to pack up my stuff and move it into Alyce's garage for storage so I can move it into my new apartment when I come back from home. One nice thing about housesitting is that they have a jacuzzi master bath tub and I took a huge bubble bath tonight. I never had a real fancy one and I sure loved it. Definitely want a big garden tub with jets when I have my own house.
Oh, and I mentioned a guy, well we'll see if it makes it past the two week mark! Things are going well so far though he's 300 miles away...he lives in St. David which is 12 miles from Pomerene, my hometown. I can't wait to go home and see family and him and friends! See you later!!!

10 day trip home!!!

Isabel and Olivia, such cute things!

Caitlyn after playing all day with cousins, getting dirty, and just sitting down to color.

Me at Pomerene's Memorial Day Cemetery Clean up

Me and St. David friends Emily Merrill and Vanessa Jones. They're my good buddies!

Little Danica bein so cute with Grandma's hat on.

Emma and Abbey wheelbarrowing me.

Emma and I washing the chlorine, from swimming, out of our hair in the bath tub.

My friend Jacob helping me tear down an ugly bunk bed that was left in the room I moved into earlier this year.

Ah, so much better, my own bed and being able to see the ceiling.

Emma and Abbey by Emma's birthday cake that Mommy (Nora) made.

Another cute pic of Dani Jo while I was feeding her.

Just goofing around and tried on Nora's wedding dress.

I finished my first year of college and came out of it with a 3.33 cumulative GPA. I even got a letter that said I made the Spring 2008 Dean's List cause I had a 3.54 GPA for the spring semester. Glad to be done with school for the summer. Now I'm just working at the Financial Aid office as a file clerk. I might work up at the front desk if they need me cause my boss can't give me any more hours in our department. Not enough work for the four girls that work back there. I am still babysitting but am done with my tennis job. :( Those little kids were so cute and they were starting to get so attached to me. But maybe I can sub in a few times during the summer. Not too much happening now that school is over. I work M-F from 7:30 AM-11:30 AM so I have to wake up early. I'm constantly a few minutes late to work because I hate waking up early but I am glad to be done before noon. Means I can take a nap, go exercise or swimming, once it warms up enough. It's been getting into the high 70s now so it's getting close. I might even go today if I can get someone to go with me.
I am the Relief Society secretary so that will help keep me busy. I got called like 3 weeks ago and had my first meeting yesterday after church. And two of the counselors live in the same complex as me so I've been hanging out with them lately. It's been fun. For our Friday Night Activity at the institute it will actually be on Saturday...we are going to canoeing in Lake Mary which is about 10 miles out of Flagstaff. I think it should be fun, just hope I don't fall into the yucky water. I've been trying to keep myself busy but I've been pretty bored so it's not that easy. Still single and I did go on a date when I went home with that missionary Mom told me to write. He got home the beginning of May and we had a good time. We went quad riding and it was such a nice day cause it was cold enough to wear light sweaters and it was a beautiful day too to see the whole valley when we would get on top of a hill. Then after that we drove to Tucson, he let me drive his 2005 Chevy truck :), and ate dinner at the delicious Taco Bell and then we went to the Gaslight Theater with my parents and brother and his fiance.
Last week I was home for 10 days...came home, back to Flagstaff, Memorial Day night. It was such a good trip home. Some of my friends were kind of bums but I did get to see old friends I hadn't seen for a year or so. And I went to two graduations where I had a few younger friends graduate. I visited some of my high school teachers on their last day of school. I visited 4 teachers and it took me like two hours. Teachers like to talk. :) I also had a blast with all the family around and all my beautiful and fun nieces. Looks like my goal that I set before Emma was born, to be the cool and fun aunt, has come true. Emma wrote me a short letter the night I left saying I was so beautiful and so cool. Well it took me like a total of three hours the whole time I was down to get her to say that just by playing catch and then even more time playing different games with them. Abbey, Emma, and I played hide and go seek one day and they could never find me. I'm a good hider!! So that's what all the pictures of me roughhousing with Emma and Abbey are. And then I had to get Danica to warm up to me and it took a few twirls to get her to smile at me. Her laugh is so cute. I also took the older girls Emma, Abbey, and Caitlyn swimming. Danica was there too and I brought her into the pool with me a few times. It was a very good time at home and especially the last day, Memorial Day when all the family but Trevor was home and we got to tease each other and play games.
I'll be going back home for 3 weeks in July and Mom thinks I'll come back to Flag earlier than that cause she thinks I'll get too bored and tired of home. We'll have to see, there's lots of things I can do and people to see. And I could go stay at Nora's, Christy's, and my friend Brooke's house to liven things up a bit. Well the story behind me wearing Nora's wedding dress is that before my date and going quad riding with this guy, I wanted to see if I could fit into my prom dresses. I have 3 of them and all of them fit but one was really tight. Felt like I was wearing a corsette cause I couldn't take deep breaths in it. That dress was even a little snug when I bought it too so I wasn't too disappointed. Well, I wanted to just break the ice with this guy even though I've met with him and talked to him before...so I wore one of my prom dresses, the one I wore my junior and sophomore year, when I answered the door and started to walk out and said, ok, I'm ready to go riding. He was a little puzzled but it was fun to mess around a little bit. Don't have too much news other than that. Don't want to make this too long even though it probably already is. Anyone who reads this, don't be afraid to comment or send me an e-mail.

End of Semester and Parental visit!

So I have one week left of school, I have my last final May 8. I'm very pleased with myself and how I did this semester. It was an easy semester though. Only 13 credits and 5 classes but one of them was a lab. My only hard final is my business law, it's cumulative but my instructor went over the exam review for 4 class periods, so glad about that. There's like 145 terms that she put together that are only on the final exam so I'm slowly making my way through those. Probably wrote down about 30 definitions last night. One of my finals is at 8 AM. I'm gonna have a hard time waking up for that one. My earliest class is at 9:35 AM and I had a hard time making it to that class all semester. So if I do as well as I think I will, get Bs on my finals, I will have 3 As and 2 Bs.
I just got a new job yesterday, I won't start until after school is done. Nothing fancy but I'll be working in the Financial Aid office as a file clerk. Any extra money will always help. And I'll keep my other two jobs too just so I can mix it up and make as much money as I can this summer. I'll be staying Flagstaff to work except for a week in May and 3 weeks in July when I'll go home. I'm excited to go home in 2 weeks...will meet a couple new guys. Go on a date too and get to see family and friends. Hooray!!
I'm all signed up for classes in the fall and have an easy schedule, don't know if I'll have easy classes though. Most likely not. I have an accounting class, micro economics, finite math, an anthropology class, and a humanities class. 15 credits but I don't have school on Fridays and Mon & Wed I go from 2 PM- 5:30 PM. Tue & Thur 11:20 AM-3:30 PM. Not too bad.
That's about all that's going on, just got to study a little each night and should be free sailing. I think I've lost a little fat, haven't lost weight cause I weighed the same when I went to the doctor yesterday, 150 lbs. I'm happy that I feel like I've lost weight even though it doesn't show on the scale. Been trying to keep active and exercise 3-4 times a week. I play tennis once a week and then go running another day and then head to the rec center every once in a while.
I need to hurry this up a little bit, I'm in the business building, waiting for my last class to start in 10 mins. I was supposed to be studying but oh well. I can do that later. Don't have much planned after my last class.
Just wanted to put in a little note saying how grateful I am for my parents. They came up here to visit me last weekend and that shows me how much they love and support me. I don't have any grandkids or anything and it's just plain old me but they came up and I really appreciated it. Though I am trying to do my best and am not struggling or anything, they still help me out whenever I need it and it makes me want to do my best to not disappoint them and can go to them whenever I do need help. Them paying my rent really helps me out so much and allows me to save money and hopefully pay them back someday for my car and a few other things. I'm so grateful every day that they pay my rent and make my life a lot easier. I love you Mom and Dad! Hope you two are doing great and enjoying being together, just the two of you! And good job Mom for losing weight and looking so good. You are beautiful and I mean that. And you're tanner than me. And Dad, you're so talented and knowledgeable in so many things. Just look at every time we needed a repair with the house or car or building something...you built half our house and didn't ever work a construction job or anything before. I'm just proud of you both and the way you have raised all of us. Alright...gotta go!