On Tuesday I was able to hangout with a bunch of my friends :) Jackie came and picked me up and we went and got Austin, Logan, and Celeste. The bunch of us decided to go to a movie...Ok wait this is actually pretty hilarious...
So as we were driving to go to the movies in Austin's car I had to get out of the car real fast to get my wallet from Jackie's car. We were just in the parking lot and so I quickly grabbed it and then Austin started to tease me and drive off. So I start running for the car and the door is still open and I told him I wasn't going to get in while it was going (really because we were already squished in the back and I didn't want to hurt Jackie... or myself... well that didn't' work! So Austin took that as, "stop right now." So he slammed on his breaks and I was still sort of running and yep.... I smacked right into the door. Hahaha it kind of hurt, but I didn't care. We couldn't stop laughing. I wish someone was recording at the time because I'm sure it looked like a movie. I just smacked right into that thing. Jackie was laughing because she said she was surprised I didn't fall flat on the ground. This was for sure a "had to be there moment" but it was still hilarious! We laughed even after that for a while. Haha I don't mind being the person that makes people laugh through getting hurt. As long as it's not too bad! ;)
So we got treats, watched John Carter (kind of boring if you ask me, but if you ask Austin and Logan, they loved it), and then went to Austin's and played.... actually I don't even know what it was. Some war game. I sucked. Jackie was pretty good cuz she had played a game like it before and Austin just beat everyone. I think I had one kill over the whole thing, and it was by accident. But it was pretty fun. Then me and Jackie headed home (she drove me of course) and that was it.
But I did make a mistake later that night that I will never make again. You can't just expect people to do things for you. I knew that already. Duh. But I just got worked up over something that was nothing and ended up being a complete jerk to a friend. Just remember to not freak out over little things and to remember who your true friends are :)
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Teaching Relief Society....
So, I've never taught before. Well, I have sort of, but not a bunch of people that are older than me.
So last weekend I was given the opportunity to teach a bunch of relief society teachers about how to keep their kids off drugs. I got this assignment in 2 ways. 1. My mom is in the stake relief society presidency, and 2. my platform as Miss. Saratoga Springs was love life live it drug free or something like that.
So I was able to teach them and I made 10 points on how to do that and things like that. It was fun and I felt like I did a pretty good job. I learned a lot as I studied as well as taught. My mom also co-taught with me and se talked about things she did or is doing as a parent now. I think it really helped the sisters and it was a great opportunity for me. :)
Then we had a key-note speaker when all the classes were done. She was amazing and I would do anything to have her job. She works in hospitals and helps families/moms that have just given birth or are about to give birth to a pre-mature baby. I think... I can't remember exactly what she and her co-worker do, but they provide things for the moms and the babies and they help the family thought the hard time. It was amazing to hear her stories and give us advice about these special moms/families. It was very spiritual and I learned a lot! It just shows us how the spirit can speak to us in so many different ways. :)
So last weekend I was given the opportunity to teach a bunch of relief society teachers about how to keep their kids off drugs. I got this assignment in 2 ways. 1. My mom is in the stake relief society presidency, and 2. my platform as Miss. Saratoga Springs was love life live it drug free or something like that.
So I was able to teach them and I made 10 points on how to do that and things like that. It was fun and I felt like I did a pretty good job. I learned a lot as I studied as well as taught. My mom also co-taught with me and se talked about things she did or is doing as a parent now. I think it really helped the sisters and it was a great opportunity for me. :)
Then we had a key-note speaker when all the classes were done. She was amazing and I would do anything to have her job. She works in hospitals and helps families/moms that have just given birth or are about to give birth to a pre-mature baby. I think... I can't remember exactly what she and her co-worker do, but they provide things for the moms and the babies and they help the family thought the hard time. It was amazing to hear her stories and give us advice about these special moms/families. It was very spiritual and I learned a lot! It just shows us how the spirit can speak to us in so many different ways. :)
Sunday, March 11, 2012
The jokes of the doctor's office ;)
My mom might just be slightly paranoid.
Might, just might be enormously UNDER exaggerating.
2 summers ago we went to Flaming Gorge for our normal family vacation like we do every year. But, this time for some reason all of us lost our brains or something...
We always get sunburned when we go to that amazing place. I know that sounds dumb. But what are you supposed to expect when you are outside from sunrise to sundown in the water or playing 4 square. That's just how it works when you have sensitive skin (for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about because you tan easily. This is coming from a girl who literally goes outside for 5min and gets sunburned).
So we all got burned. From looking at my back, I actually had the worst sunburn. But, when we looked at the legs/thighs, Ash was the worst.
It was pretty painful for her. She couldn't really wear pants other than basketball shorts, and even that was painful. It just seemed to get worse and worse so my mom, being the paranoid mom she is. Took Ash to the doctors.
Surprisingly it was actually a good thing for her to go because she ended up having a 2 degree burn on her thighs. He gave her some creme and she couldn't walk or wear normal pants for a week, but still, isn't that sort of a really embarrassing thing to go to the doctors for.
But the worst part about this story is a month and a half later I come into the doctors office. Being carried. By Ashley. For what reason? Ya, I burned my feet on the black top.
This story needs a little explanation.
I was at school and we had conditioning for basketball. We had to run a mile on the track outside. I didn't bring any tennis shoes, I had completely forgotten, I had just worn flip flops to school that day. It was a pretty hot day, but being me I didn't really think about it. So I just said I would run without shoes. My coach and friends said to run on the grass, but I didn't want to because for some really odd reason that I'm still questioning in my mind I thought that I could step on a rusty nail and then die...
I guess what happened is better... (I think) then stepping on a nail (NOT dying).
I was running and doing fine. My feet kind of hurt and burned, but I thought it was just because it was a little hot and I was running bare foot on the ground. But as I was halfway through my last lap I realized what was going on. I started to feel the bottom of my foot sort of rise up... like a bubble... NOT GOOD!
When I finally finished I went and sat down to look at the damage. They didn't look too bad when I first glanced, but when I touched them... ya owww...
I had two huge blood blisters on the top part of my foot. They were about the size of that top part of your foot if you were to walk on your tippie toes all day. And then I had 2 small ones on my heals. Wow. I felt like an idiot. We went inside to play basketball. There was no way I was going to play now. I could hardly walk (I was just walking on the sides of my feet, good think I don't have bad ankles). The worst part was, the blisters just kept getting bigger and bigger and filling up more. I thought it was slightly awesome, because that's just how I am. But I'm not going to lie, it was pretty painful. My feet just constantly felt like they were on fire. But my friends kept laughing and telling me how dumb I was (which WAS totally true, who does that...?). Oh, and my coach. He already had plenty to make fun of me for, but this was just juicy. Ew, literally.
So, because I couldn't walk (I really hardly could without a lot of pain) I had Ashley give me a piggy back to the doors and then Austin drove his truck to the doors and he then carried me to the truck. I got home and my mom was like great. She then proceeded to ask me the logic of running on a blacktop on a hot day without shoes. As always I couldn't really explain besides the whole I was scared of stepping on a nail thing.
She asked me if I would rather have her pop the now 1/2inch thick blisters or if I'd like to go to the doctors. My mom sometimes isn't too gentle with her own children, I decided to go to the doctor. So Ash gave me a piggy back in the doctors office. All our doctor could say was, "oh no, what now?"
Yep. Another "burn victim" and only on month away. That's embarrassing.
I told him the story, he couldn't help from laughing. I don't blame him.
Then he slit open those guys with a razor and sqoze (ok I don't think that's a real word) all that blood out. Sooooooo painful. Then he wrapped them up (this, and beside the fact he had just slit open those things made it so I really couldn't walk) and we headed out. Ashely and I were planning on going to the movies and dinner with Andrew and Austin, and they still wanted to do that. Even though I couldn't walk....
But we did and Austin just carried me everywhere. Kind of embarrassing, but entertaining because I got the weirdest look... this girl being carried everywhere by her boyfriend.... with these huge bandages on her feet.... I would stare too.
After 3 days of not being able to walk I finally was able to, but only on the sides of my feet. My ankles and the sides of my feet are very strong now.
Ok now here's the other story before we get to the story that happened this week.
Katelyn was at school and her hands were blue.... (I don't know this story very well, so sorry) so the teacher called my mom and she came to pick her up. My mom is freaking out because she thinks (thinks is the key word) that she's losing oxygen because they are well, blue. So she takes her as quick as she can to the doctors office. While in the waiting room, I think, she was just thinking and realized that Katelyn had new pants on and that she had been rubbing her hands on them all day. Hence, making them blue. The doctors office had a good laugh.
So where this whole thing was going, Ash told me a story about how on Friday my mom took her to the doctor because she had this weird bump on her elbow. Ya. A bump. She told my mom and then she said we are going to the doctor. The doctor just gave her some meds and said it was good she came in, but then Ashely said she was reminded of how we are sort of the joke of the office. And, our doctor still hasn't forgotten about these events I just shared with you. We just make his day when he comes in, he knows it'll be something interesting. ;)
That's all! Wow! Lost of words!
Might, just might be enormously UNDER exaggerating.
2 summers ago we went to Flaming Gorge for our normal family vacation like we do every year. But, this time for some reason all of us lost our brains or something...
We always get sunburned when we go to that amazing place. I know that sounds dumb. But what are you supposed to expect when you are outside from sunrise to sundown in the water or playing 4 square. That's just how it works when you have sensitive skin (for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about because you tan easily. This is coming from a girl who literally goes outside for 5min and gets sunburned).
So we all got burned. From looking at my back, I actually had the worst sunburn. But, when we looked at the legs/thighs, Ash was the worst.
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| You can't really tell from this picture, but it was pretty bad... |
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| Ouch. We didn't really wear shirts for a while, just our swimming suits. |
It was pretty painful for her. She couldn't really wear pants other than basketball shorts, and even that was painful. It just seemed to get worse and worse so my mom, being the paranoid mom she is. Took Ash to the doctors.
Surprisingly it was actually a good thing for her to go because she ended up having a 2 degree burn on her thighs. He gave her some creme and she couldn't walk or wear normal pants for a week, but still, isn't that sort of a really embarrassing thing to go to the doctors for.
But the worst part about this story is a month and a half later I come into the doctors office. Being carried. By Ashley. For what reason? Ya, I burned my feet on the black top.
This story needs a little explanation.
I was at school and we had conditioning for basketball. We had to run a mile on the track outside. I didn't bring any tennis shoes, I had completely forgotten, I had just worn flip flops to school that day. It was a pretty hot day, but being me I didn't really think about it. So I just said I would run without shoes. My coach and friends said to run on the grass, but I didn't want to because for some really odd reason that I'm still questioning in my mind I thought that I could step on a rusty nail and then die...
I guess what happened is better... (I think) then stepping on a nail (NOT dying).
I was running and doing fine. My feet kind of hurt and burned, but I thought it was just because it was a little hot and I was running bare foot on the ground. But as I was halfway through my last lap I realized what was going on. I started to feel the bottom of my foot sort of rise up... like a bubble... NOT GOOD!
When I finally finished I went and sat down to look at the damage. They didn't look too bad when I first glanced, but when I touched them... ya owww...
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| This is right after it happened... this doesn't even look bad. But if you looked from the side, it was a lot worse... and it grew after this.... |
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| This was a LONG while after. Actually, on the day that I took all the skin off because it had finally dried. This looks great compared to what it really looked like. Ha, plus, it looks small. |
She asked me if I would rather have her pop the now 1/2inch thick blisters or if I'd like to go to the doctors. My mom sometimes isn't too gentle with her own children, I decided to go to the doctor. So Ash gave me a piggy back in the doctors office. All our doctor could say was, "oh no, what now?"
Yep. Another "burn victim" and only on month away. That's embarrassing.
I told him the story, he couldn't help from laughing. I don't blame him.
Then he slit open those guys with a razor and sqoze (ok I don't think that's a real word) all that blood out. Sooooooo painful. Then he wrapped them up (this, and beside the fact he had just slit open those things made it so I really couldn't walk) and we headed out. Ashely and I were planning on going to the movies and dinner with Andrew and Austin, and they still wanted to do that. Even though I couldn't walk....
But we did and Austin just carried me everywhere. Kind of embarrassing, but entertaining because I got the weirdest look... this girl being carried everywhere by her boyfriend.... with these huge bandages on her feet.... I would stare too.
After 3 days of not being able to walk I finally was able to, but only on the sides of my feet. My ankles and the sides of my feet are very strong now.
Ok now here's the other story before we get to the story that happened this week.
Katelyn was at school and her hands were blue.... (I don't know this story very well, so sorry) so the teacher called my mom and she came to pick her up. My mom is freaking out because she thinks (thinks is the key word) that she's losing oxygen because they are well, blue. So she takes her as quick as she can to the doctors office. While in the waiting room, I think, she was just thinking and realized that Katelyn had new pants on and that she had been rubbing her hands on them all day. Hence, making them blue. The doctors office had a good laugh.
So where this whole thing was going, Ash told me a story about how on Friday my mom took her to the doctor because she had this weird bump on her elbow. Ya. A bump. She told my mom and then she said we are going to the doctor. The doctor just gave her some meds and said it was good she came in, but then Ashely said she was reminded of how we are sort of the joke of the office. And, our doctor still hasn't forgotten about these events I just shared with you. We just make his day when he comes in, he knows it'll be something interesting. ;)
That's all! Wow! Lost of words!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Need some Motivation?
Here are some amazing videos I was shown during a study, I just couldn't keep them to myself!
No Excuses
Come what may and Love it - this statement actually hangs in my house so it's pretty awesome ;)
If you haven't failed, you haven't lived
You will feel so great after watching these :)
No Excuses
Come what may and Love it - this statement actually hangs in my house so it's pretty awesome ;)
If you haven't failed, you haven't lived
You will feel so great after watching these :)
Aren't Grandma's the best?!
I just have to say, and I'm sure all my cousins will agree with me, that I have the best Grandma's EVER! Seriously! Both of them are always there for me. They always come and support me and my sisters in everything! Whether it's basketball, graduation, or my pageant, they have always been there. Also, my Grandpa's were always there too, and I'm sure they still are up there cheering for us with my Dad :)
But anyways, yesterday my Grandma Ruth sat and told stories to me and my family about pioneers. It was fun and exciting because we have a pretty interesting history. I'm so glad that she got to be my grandma :) I don't know what I would do without her :)
Besides that, both of them just care so much about everyone. :) they are both going straight to heaven that's for sure! But hopefully not too soon...
That's all =)
But anyways, yesterday my Grandma Ruth sat and told stories to me and my family about pioneers. It was fun and exciting because we have a pretty interesting history. I'm so glad that she got to be my grandma :) I don't know what I would do without her :)
Besides that, both of them just care so much about everyone. :) they are both going straight to heaven that's for sure! But hopefully not too soon...
That's all =)
These are both not very good pictures of my grandma's, but, they were all I had!
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| My Grandma Ruth at her 75th Birthday party! |
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| My Grandma Calder at Flaming Gorge... hahaha she smiled, but I happened to catch it right after she stopped. Hilarious. |
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Karly's testimony...
My sister Karly is beyond amazing. Me and Ashley were just talking the other day about how we can't figure out one time Karl has ever been rude to us or ever said anything bad. We are pretty sure that she is as close to perfect as it gets. But I know that I look up to her more than she probably knows. She is the person that I wish I was in millions of different ways. I'll explain that later though ;)
So today we went to my cousin Aubrie's baby Carter's blessing. It was fun to hear the beautiful blessing, see family and eat some of Aubrie's delicious food :)
But Karl got up and bore her testimony on attending the temple. Her and her friends have made a goal to go to the temple every week (holy cow! I wish I was that good!) and she told about how they had trials getting this week but that she knows that God will help you along the way and that God will ALAWAY triumph over Satan. That really stuck with me as well as something else she mentioned. She said that the temple is our Heavenly Father's home as well as ours here on earth. We go to the temple to feel the spirit, get away from the world, and receive relation from our Father in Heaven. Then she shared how our house is the same way. We go there to feel the spirit, get away from the world, and to receive advice from our parents. This is totally true and it really hit me when she said it.
She has such a strong influential testimony. She is the sweetest person I have ever met in my life and knows what she wants. She has the strongest testimony and it grows every single day. She is a great example to me, as I'm sure she is to many ;) I love her and am proud to call her my sister :)
So today we went to my cousin Aubrie's baby Carter's blessing. It was fun to hear the beautiful blessing, see family and eat some of Aubrie's delicious food :)
But Karl got up and bore her testimony on attending the temple. Her and her friends have made a goal to go to the temple every week (holy cow! I wish I was that good!) and she told about how they had trials getting this week but that she knows that God will help you along the way and that God will ALAWAY triumph over Satan. That really stuck with me as well as something else she mentioned. She said that the temple is our Heavenly Father's home as well as ours here on earth. We go to the temple to feel the spirit, get away from the world, and receive relation from our Father in Heaven. Then she shared how our house is the same way. We go there to feel the spirit, get away from the world, and to receive advice from our parents. This is totally true and it really hit me when she said it.
She has such a strong influential testimony. She is the sweetest person I have ever met in my life and knows what she wants. She has the strongest testimony and it grows every single day. She is a great example to me, as I'm sure she is to many ;) I love her and am proud to call her my sister :)
How to get to sleep...
The other night I could not get to sleep for some odd reason. I am the kind of person that can fall asleep at anytime anywhere. Plus, I sleep super deep so I don't wake up for anything.
The other night I just couldn't get to sleep. I went to bed around 1:00 and I was just not falling asleep. A couple hours later (literally, I was watching the clock, it was 3:30) I finally realized that I hadn't said my prayers that night. I don't even know why I didn't. I always remember to, and I had even read my scriptures, I guess I just had a lot on my mind. So I kneeled down and said my prayer. I got back up, layer in bed for a couple min and went right to sleep.
I'm so glad that I actually didn't get to sleep because I didn't want to miss that opportunity that I had to talk to my Father in Heaven :) He knows what I need and knows how important prayer is. Plus, I love talking to him and I know that he loves listening ;)
The other night I just couldn't get to sleep. I went to bed around 1:00 and I was just not falling asleep. A couple hours later (literally, I was watching the clock, it was 3:30) I finally realized that I hadn't said my prayers that night. I don't even know why I didn't. I always remember to, and I had even read my scriptures, I guess I just had a lot on my mind. So I kneeled down and said my prayer. I got back up, layer in bed for a couple min and went right to sleep.
I'm so glad that I actually didn't get to sleep because I didn't want to miss that opportunity that I had to talk to my Father in Heaven :) He knows what I need and knows how important prayer is. Plus, I love talking to him and I know that he loves listening ;)
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