A Few GREAT Months

So I bet your shocked to actually see something new up.....yes I know its way over due!!! Well in the last few months ALOT has gone. For starters I changed jobs AGAIN, I recieved my endowments, got a new car, changed roommates, bought new couches, started rollerblading again, got new roller blades, and am possibly getting Lasik surgery.

In February the customer service job I had been working for decided to cut some costs and lay me off (though had offered me to come back in April when funds start back up). Though this was a frustrating time it was almost a blessing and a relief because I had been wanting to quit that place for quite some time. This was on a friday that they had told me and had given me one week to hopefully find a new job. Well of course right after I found out I started talking around to possibly find good connections for a new job. I must say it is quite nice to have my sister pass the word because I immediately got a call from our good family friend Britt Terry. Britt's uncle had a business and was in need of somone for their COBRA department. I was given Dave's (the manager) number that next Monday, when I called him he asked me to come in for an interview
that day. On Tuesday he called me back and offered me the job and to start the next day. I can't explain how grateful I am for friends with connections and especially during times like these. All I can say is that I sure owe Britt some good babysitting jobs for his girls :D

Now that was February.....so in March, that was the GREAT month!!! I wont go into all the details but alot led up to knowing that it was my time to recieve my endowments. On March 14th I recieved my endowments in the Provo Temple. I'm so grateful for the knowledge of the Gospel and knowing that I can be with my family for eternity!!! :D

With my finances being stable in April I went out and bought a new couch and chair from RC Willy. Thankfully I had some tax refund money to help with that as well.

So here we are now in May and I feel like I'm getting back into my active self with the feeling that this is going to be one of those awesome summers. I decided to start up roller blading again but in order to do so I had to get one blades. The ones I had been using are literally from middle school, so I figured it was about time to get some new ones. So today was the day and I got some new ones that I got an awesome deal on and absolutely love them. I also have been picking up my guitar again and have been doing quite well and am loving my caliced fingers and I plan to keep it up (if I couldn't put enough and's in that sentence). I have tried to briefly cover the last few months in a nutshell and just to say that I'm doing great. I have an amazing family, I love the Gospel and I'm getting active again this summer and am absolutely loveing it. Oh I forgot to mention that I may be getting Lasik surgery this month too. I have an eye appointment next Monday to see if I am eligable for it (I'll let you all know how it goes). Next time I will try and post some pictures of my few adventures and my couches. Ta ta for now and thanks for actually finishing this post if you did :)

Does this need a title?

So where to start?? So for those who were wondering my face did scar a little from the accident though not to bad. My friend Brian the one I was with when this happened now calls me scar face lol....though its fine because everyone else now calls him face breaker :D





So plenty has happened and I'm sad to say that I should have been blogging the whole time but I didn't and now I can only put what I remember :( Though I will say another reason I was not blogging was because I had gotten my nails done (which I loved because they were so cute and made me feel girly) but they got in the way of EVERYTHING.....they drove me up a wall :) So I know I shouldn't have done it but I tore them off last night, I couldn't handle anylonger them getting in the way when I type, text, try to pick something up....or even try to pick a zit....HAHA!! So hence the reason I'm finally blogging hehe I can type now!!!!





So I don't get it.....guys that is.....So I started dating this guy, and when I found out he was a carpenter I asked him if he could help me with a project to make a new table top for my table (the one I had was a cheap top that got something on it and warped some of it...it looked absolutely horrible)....he said sure no problem. The next thing I know he brings over the table top....I couldn't believe it....it was beautiful and I couldn't have been more thankful that he did this for me. Though sad to say just after that I wasn't feeling that we were right for eachother and I broke it off....sound familiar? haha ya I know some of you are laughing because I break off every relationship I start....trust me know and sometimes I wonder if I'm going to be like 40 before I find my best friend. Oh well I'm thankful for the friends I have and the support of family!!!! Though there was one other really cool thing while I was dating this guy....he was a divorced daddy and so I would take my niece and nephew out with us to play with his son. One night we all came over and watched Terri's kids while they went out and his son got to play with our kids....and then on Jared's (the guy I was dating) birthday we all went out to Chucky Cheese and celebrated his birthday as well as his son's which was the week before. So of course Terri was loving me dating him because I took her kids out for fun nights....oh and another time I took Silver with me because we went bowling with his son so it was just fun for them to have play mates. Sorry Terri no more play dates :( So maybe this can be a test with other guys that they like it when I take your kids to play with us....how does that sound? ;)

this is the table that he made for me....its beautiful....I love it!!!

So I learned a new lesson about my little nephew Silver....he listens to EVERYTHING!!!!!!! So we are at my nieces 4th birthday party at a place called Kangaroo zoo (they have the big blow up slides and things that will wear out the kids for bed). Well it was getting close for the time for me to leave to go to school...though I decided to skip school so I could help my sister Terri with the rest of the party. So I'm sittin there talkin with Terri and the moms and I say to my sister "hey don't tell mom I'm skipping school to help you"....no problem right? Well I was later talking to my mom and had to confese and she said she knew....didn't think much of it right? Well I'm in the car the other night with my nephew and he goes "hey juju when you were at the party I told grandma you skipped school" wow I just about died so I called my sister just laughing and thinking what a little tattle tale.... So I'm talkin to Terri and she was just dying laughing and was like "oh my gosh I know, so we were just standing there with mom and silver turns around and goes Grandma juju skipped school for the party".....so word to the wise if you don't want it repeated.....DON'T let my sweet little silver listen in on your conversations....you little smart turkey!! :)

ACCIDENT PRONE!!!!

Here it goes AGAIN!!!! Now the second year in a row where I end up in the ER from SLEDING. Last year I was sledding and my saucer turned around on me and I went through the bushes and hit my back on the corning of the building, missing my spine about by an inch. THIS year my face decided to smack a TREE!!! So my family has this small problem with me, they say I have no fear.....well you see my friend Brian's parents have this huge backyard thats a hill with lots of trees and bushes. So before it snows they dig out trails between the trees so when it snows you have an awesome sledding trail. Well I like to copy guys on what they do and in the mean time I have no fear hehe..... So my friend Brian took off, ran and jumped and sledded on down....so I do the same....EXCEPT for when I did I got a big puff of snow in my face at the same time I didn't drag my feet around that corner that was coming up. So instead of my sled turning the corner I went straight, there was a drop off right there as well as 2 trees. Well I went straight through AFTER I hit my face on the tree, each of my arms wrapped around each tree which made me go face down in the snow. So here I am hanging upside down in the snow with a SCRATCHED up FACE!!!! So of course all my friends were like OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! and Brian runs over with his cell phone to use the light on my face to see that I totally scratched it up. We find my WHITE beanie and I sled the rest of the way down. I thought I would be fine until it started to REALLY sting, so I decided to go up and see what I could do to clean it up. I decided that I could not inflict the PAIN upon myself while cleaning it so of course I ran over to my MOM's. I got over there laughing at the fact that right before I went I was talking to her and she goes "just make sure you are careful" HA!!!! This happened on a friday night and I had to work the next day and then babysit 7 kids that saturday night as well. So saturday morning I went to my my work meeting at 7:30 AM and work at 10, I was lucky and got off early and was able to go to the ER before I went babysitting. I had a catscan done to make sure I didn't crush anything on my face from smacking it so hard. Everything was fine though it was very tender. So this whole time I have been taking pictures and sending them to my sisters so they know whats going on, and of course Terri goes COME OVER I want to take a picture. I was like Terri don't worry I will blog them and she goes, well not all my friends look at YOUR blog....haha just thought that was funny!! Sunday was the bad day!!!!! I think my body finally decided to say "oh you were tramatized and you are sick". I was nausiated so much and ended up throwing up AT church and was sick the rest of the day. So here are the lovely pictures of my accident prone self!!! It starts off from that night and then goes on, the swelling got so bad I was seeing the puffyness and it hurt so bad to smile, hence the half smile lol..... So after the puffyness went away the RAINBOW colors came and I had my FIRST shiner!!!

I must say that I really do love Christmas time, and every year I feel as though my knowledge of the true meaning of christmas becomes more real. I am so thankful for Christ's birth and the knowledge that we will be able to return home to him. I had an awesome christmas this year with my family....even with being thrown and smothered in the snow (thanks Silver)....

Ok so this is for all you STRATFORDS out there!!!!!! You must know that I have always envied your outdoors lifestyle and have wanted to be just like you guys. Hearing all your skiing stories always made me want to be a skiier just like you guys.....AND I FINALLY LEARNED!!!!!!!!! I have been snowboarding for about 3 years now and absolutely LOVE it, but never got the opportunity to learn how to ski. So on new years day I got the opportunity to learn, my friend Jeff took me up to Sundance and taught me how. I will have to say that for my first time I was VERY proud of myself hehe :) I may have snow plowed it the WHOLE time....BUT I got pretty good at that. So of course I made Jeff video me skiing just for you guys....(yes I know I'm lame) but I couldn't resist. So don't laugh but here it is!!! Oh also......MY LEGS KILL!!!!!!!!!!! I walk like an old person my calves hurt so bad the next day.....BUT it was well worth it!!! oh and no offence but I think I will stick to snowboarding ;)

So my New Years Eve was absolutely AWESOME!!!!! Last year I hosted a new years eve party and it turned out awesome so I decided to do one again. I love it when you invite a bunch of people and only a certain amout come....Well this year I expected only so many to show and had about double show up. My house was so full that I had both couches filled, people on all the chairs, love sac and my floor was covered. I had about 26 people over at one time and just know that my little house doesn't hold ALOT of people lol. But anywho we had a blast and I was grateful that I was able to spend it knowing that I really did have a great 2008!!

TIME TO GET A TRIM!!!!!! So you think your hair doesn't grow very fast until you have short hair. Well I have not had the time to go get a trim nor the money, so I decided to give myself my own hair cut. All my roommates gave me the look of "you are RETARDED" but anyone who knows me knows that I will do what I want....so I did it :D Take a look and see what you think....I personally think I did GREAT!!!!

So here has been my little life for the past few weeks....OH and I got my grades for my TWO classes that I took last semester lol....and I got an "A" and an "A-", I was very proud because school is just one of those things that is not to easy for me. School starts up again on Wednesday so wish me luck, I will be taking Biology 1010 and Intro to Music.

So here I am....and hope you made it to the end :D