Fulfilled Dreams

We went to High School Musical the play downtown at this little theatre in the middle of West Yellowstone. It was the greatest. I never even knew I wanted to see it, but after seeing it, I can't see how I could have lived without having that experience. Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, and the Jonas Brothers all starred in it (well, their songs before and after the play started) and I sang along to each and every one. Dream come true.

Also, we went to the bear and wolf habitat. The kids all got to hide the bears' food (unfortunately while the bears were not there) and then let the bears come in and find it.

Geo Caching

We hiked down this hill. It looked a lot less steep than it actually was. Also, flip flops are not the shoe of choice for this experience.... 

Sometimes you just gotta go swimming whether you have a swim suit or not. 

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This bear comes and sits in front of the fence almost like it knows people want to take its picture

This little guy lives at the house we are staying at. I taught him how to sit. Impressive, I know. He loves to come give me hugs when I come outside and I'm not sure if he knows how large he really is. Almost knocks me over every time. 

Cougar Town

Apparently I attract the guys ages 14 and 70. As I was driving to Montana today, I was on a one lane highway and we were going about 65. There was a truck in front of me with a canoe in the back and 2 boys sitting next to it in the truck bed. Kinda risky I thought. I followed them for quite some time and the boys stared at me the whole time. It was a little awkward. Finally the truck turned, and as it passed I nicely waved to the boys because I felt like we had become friends. The older one, probably 16, hurriedly looked my way and put his hand up to his ear suggesting that I call him. I'll have to stop by his town on my way home.

Also, I finally made it to West Yellowstone!!! Longest drive of my life, but I am here safe and sound. It is so pretty here and probably sometime this week I will bombard this blog with pictures. 

Sketchy is as Sketchy does

I got my passport picture taken today (yay) and the guy at WalMart that took it was completely sketchy. He flirted with me from the second that I walked in until I took the photo and left. It was really weird for me. I would enclose the mini picture but nobody likes their faces in official documents so you don't get that honor. Plus, I look like a raccoon because of the sunglasses tan line that work has so graciously bestowed upon me. It was kind of horrible, but what can you do about it. At least for the next ten years whenever I look at my passport I will remember what a hard worker I was.

On a happier note, I finished Harry Potter 6 today. That makes books 1-6 finished in around 2 months. That is a record for me. I don't care if the people at the library think I can't read with the amount of books on tape that I check out...

Since my mom and sibs are all at Yellowstone without me for another day, I have been spending a lot of time alone at my house. My dad is always working and when he is home, I am working. But I don't say this to invite any creepers into my house while I am home alone, I say this to recount the exciting things that I do while I have nothing else to do. Even though I am 19 years old and haven't asked my parents' permission for a lot of things, I still find pleasure in having ice cream for dinner AND eating it in my room. Two things that my brothers would be very jealous about. There are probably more things, but I am boring myself with this story so I am going to end.

Cousin's Camp

The day has arrived. Cousin's Camp starts tomorrow at Yellowstone. Unfortunately I have to work until Wednesday so I don't get to go till then. Grandpa arrived yesterday and some more of my cousins showed up today so we are prepared for some fun. We had a girls party of nail painting tonight and there were some beautiful results

He really does like me, even if he doesn't like to show it

He had some beautiful fingers and toes going on

My hand is the tannest. 

Random hippo that we found. The toy, not the girl

Don't mind my sunglasses tan line. It's pretty bad

Grandpa!

Cousin!!

Kid History

I don't have anything to blog about today, but Kid History came out with a new video. I can watch these over and over again and laugh every time until I can't breathe. Enjoy.


"Don't punch.....our car"
"I'm gonna steer...steal .. your birthday stuff!"
"Girls are mermaids....some boys are mermaids too"
"Do we have ninja stuff?" -No "Then lets use our pirate stuff, cause I know we have pirate stuff"
"She has short hair like a boy, but she's a girl"
"Oceanology! Oceanography!!"
"Hahahaha noooo Poly's don't talk"

Happiness

The best news!! My mom just said we can get a puppy!!! I am too excited. Here he is.

Well, this isn't exactly the one we are getting but it's the same general idea. I am too excited for this.

So then of course, I had to google and get as many pictures as possible.

Also, not completely related to anything, we had ourselves a 10 hour day today and we picked up a lot of grass!!

The Right Way

There is a correct way to drink chocolate milk. It is like this...

Moving on. You can only complain so much about being tired, a little sunburned, hot all the time, and just generally exhausted. I have used up all of those things and I really don't have anything more to say. I mean I took my car to the gas station and filled up all the tires with air and that was the highlight of this day.

In exactly one week I will be driving to Yellowstone for the Fam Vacation. If anyone reading this would like to accompany me on that road trip, I would much appreciate that. I am sad that I can't take the whole week off of work, but a girl's gotta make some money around here.

Facebook no longer holds any interest for me, so read my blog instead and leave interesting comments that I can laugh and smile about. Because clearly I am no longer interesting. Thats all.

So Many Emotions, So Few Time

Devastating news.... Franchesca fell off the truck sometime between today and yesterday. She was such a great doll and I loved how she just brought smiles and laughter to the truck. But she is gone now.

Less sad news.... I went to the courthouse today and got my passport renewal papers. I can't wait to use them in September or October for Puerto Rico! I don't care if I was invited to this vacation with my dad...I'm going.

Happier news.....Cas works with us now. Its mostly a best friend reunion every day at work now. How many people get to work with 2 of their best friends on an every day basis? That was pretty exciting.

Happiest news... In 8 days I will be going 4 wheeling, slip n' sliding, puppy playing, cousin reuniting, camp firing, Yellowstone exploring, vacationing, family timing, happiness having, taking a break from work, Wyoming arriving!!!

Raw Raw Schiscoomba

I am fading away from exhaustion but I don't want to disappoint my avid blog readers so I will continue on with today's story. Ha, just kidding I won't flatter myself. Mom, Dad, here you go. :)

So I found this doll while mowing out behind some church and I decided that she could be our new mascot. I attached her to the truck and so far she has stayed everywhere we drive. My favorite part is her hair. Her name is Franchesca. 

Also, I had to go to twin today with Cas (see below picture) and Little Blue's windows were so dirty we had to go through the car wash. That window was sparkling by the time we were done there. 

This is the difference between a small and a medium. I thought that was absolutely ridiculous. Oh, and also I got my cute friend to pose with our cups. At Nueve Frijoles y un burrito!! That year of spanish did me some good.

And to sum this lovely day up me and my mom bought some wipes and there were only 5 left and would you believe it they were all different and cute.

Close Calls

You would think I could go a day without almost dying, getting attacked by an animal, or just simply breaking down. Today, I was mowing at a place with a lot of low hanging pine trees and we have to mow under them so you have to duck really low so the branch doesn't hit you in the face. There was a particularly low branch so I flattened myself and went under. As I came up, my sweatshirt strings snagged the branch without me knowing, and as I continued on, my sweatshirt got tighter and tighter around my neck. I couldn't back up because there was a tree in the way so I just had to continue going forward hoping the tree would let go before I lost all air supply, fell off my mower, and got run over by my very own lawn mower blades. But the happy ending is that the tree let go and I was able to finish the lawn without any other snags. No pun intended.

Be Prepared!

I don't get out much, and when I do I like to document. Twin Falls with the mom and the brothers...

I have never wanted something so badly ever before!!

Twin Falls Canyon

Wattta

Behind the water fall. Also, Brrrr! 

Golf Course

Sight where they filmed Twilight. Ha. Joke. Sidenote: We all got into stinging nettle while hiking through this. Holy cow that little bush hurts. My right leg feels like it is going to fall off. 

Brother #2

Brother #1

Sibs

New bed spread I bought today. Yeah, I have a super cute room now. 

The Birds and the Bees

The theme of this month is 'hurt and/or kill as many animals as possible while working.' Today we were working in Acequia and I was just mowing along minding my own business. I was in this little space where there was a wall in front of me and a wall next to me. I was mowing close to the sidewalk when suddenly something caught my attention. I was mostly paying attention to keeping it in a straight line, so when I saw this little brown thing I thought it was just a stick or some wood chips. Turns out it was a bird with a broken wing sitting in the corner of the walls. I hit it with my front tire of the mower and it flew up in the air to try to get away, but since its wing was broken, it only managed to fly straight at my face. It scared me so bad I screamed, and then tried to go forward, saw the wall, then backed up as fast as I could. The bird was trying to get away from me and fly at the same time, and was failing miserably at both. Finally I got backed up enough that it landed, and hobbled through the grass and into a nearby bush. It stayed there for awhile, regained its energy and flew onto the roof where I never saw it again. I, of course, needed some time to recuperate from my bird attack and took a second before I finished the job.

Precious Moments

Sometimes when I'm working I just think about something to write about on my blog. So today, as I was pushing the super duper hard to push hand mower on this huge hill, I saw this little guy sitting in the grass and I was at first grossed out, and then I stopped to take a picture of him.

He was huge! I named him Albert. And then I ran over him with the lawn mower. Ha.

Caution: Construction Area

Today we were informed that as we mow the Ethanol plant, we are required to wear hard hats and safety glasses! Thankfully our sunglasses passed as "safe" but these helmets are ridiculous!!! What is going to happen? I think Chicken Little was right, the sky could be falling. There could be a freak earthquake and we could be underneath the building and it could fall on us probably. We have been mowing there for a month and we NEVER had a problem but suddenly we must protect our heads. It made me a little livid to have to wear it, and the guys that were on a smoke break by the side of the building were watching me mow, and one of them stopped me and told me to smile. Ha! I guess I looked a little angry about having to wear it. Here is our photo shoot that we sneaked in really fast before our boss saw.

don't mind me. I am special... 

Cheri and I REALLY REALLY love our new hats. 

I don't love this. 

Breaking Point

There is only so much Harry Potter a person can handle. I recently reached my point of not being able to sit on a mower for 9 hours and listen to it any more. Today I decided to switch it up and listen to some music. My iPod is full of songs from the 90's and I have like 1 song that was written in 2008 probably. But that is so not the point of what I'm getting at... A song came on that I haven't listened to in a loooong time and I ended up listening to the whole album. It's by The Goodman Family: Fortress of Love, and for some reason I have a love of their family. If you don't know about them, there was a movie made in 2000 about thier family full of singers who have to face a lot of hardship in their life after the dad got in a car crash which killed 2 of his sons and one of his daughters. I don't know what it is about that cd but I listened to each song probably twice today and I got chills every time.

I don't know why this was the only thing I could think of today, but these are my thoughts on the matter.

All You Need is Love

So, I realize probably the majority of the people who read my blog also are my friends on Facebook, so you are just going to have to deal with the fact that these pictures are there also. It's like getting another special dose of my family.

Today I had the opportunity to go to a farewell with a couple of my friends. It was also a homecoming for another guy in their ward so the church was packed. The particular place that we went to didn't have an overflow section for when the church gets really full, so this caused a couple of problems. Well anyway, we walked in and there was not a place in that whole church to sit so we just kind of stood there. Then a guy comes up to us and tells the 3 of us to go sit up on the stage so we do just that. Can I just say... Awkward! Every single person in the church stared up at us as we sat there for the world to see. That was less than fun for me. But it was a really good meeting so I am glad I went.

As I sit here contemplating what to do with the rest of my life, I just have to wonder when life has ever been easy and why I expected anything more from it. I've had to deal with what I believe to be a considerable amount of drama and hard feelings my first year of college, so I have a less than enthusiastic desire to return. I don't know what these next couple of months will bring and I can sit here stressing out about it, or I can enjoy my family and the time I can spend with them when I'm not working, I can enjoy the fact that I have a good job and a stable relationship with the people I work with, I can reflect upon the many enjoyable times that I've spent with my friends here, and I can be happy that I have the things that I do. I don't know if I will ever go back to college and I don't know if I will move out of my parents house (joke), but I do know that I have a huge support system behind me and no matter what I choose to do, I will always have someone to hold my hand and get me through the rough times. To shorten this story my mood is grateful.