25 Things About Me

So it is definantly time for a new post, I feel like I've been slacking a little bit. So I thought I would tell a few facts about me.

1.I really enjoy driving, I find it relaxing. All types of driving, short rides, long rides. One spring Robyn and I drove to Utah, and I drove the entire way down, and she did some driving while we were there, and then I drove the entire way back up, Edmonton to Utah, and back!

2.I have never been to a large concert for someone famous. I've been to choir concerts and all that, but never a really big one, like at the shaw or rexal.

3.My favorite fruit is Honey Dew Melon! It always has been, I love fruit in general, but that is definantly top of the list!

4. I never attended my own grad, I was doing grad 12 through correspondense and I really didn't know many people at my school, and I had been to Robyn's and I really didn't think it was worth it. I have never regreted it.

5. There is no proof that I was at Colter and Karmyns wedding, I don't ever remeber getting my picture taken, or have ever seen one. At first I was somewhat disipointed by it, but now I just think it's funny.

6. I love cranberry sauce with turkey, and think that's the only real way to eat it.

7. When I was younger I used to "hand dance" while we were travelling. It's hard to explain, but when your sitting there in a van, the only thing you can really move alot is your arms/hands. So I used to kinda wave them around all funny, and then get other people (mostly Robyn) to do what I was doing, and then tell them they couldn't do it like I was, and that I was the only one who knew how to "hand dance" right.

8. I often crave brussle sprouts and asparagus.

9. My favorite game growing up was sardines in the dark. One time while playing for FHE activity, Robyn was the one hiding, and she ended up hiding in the tub that was full with old, cold water, with her clothes on. And everyone who found her got in there somehow, and I was the last one to find them, so of course I didn't think I'd have to get in there, nobody else agreed, and I ended up getting very wet.

10. There are only 2 times I can remeber laughing so hard I cried, both with Robyn.

11. I love popcorn and icecream, not together of course.

12. Before I can fall asleep I have to have to blankets wrapped under my feet.

13. I convinced Jared to marry me because of my pie making skills, and I was convinced when he gave me a ride on his motorbike.

14. Plum sauce is the only way to properly consume chicken strips.

15. I played Barbies till I was 14, that was a secret for a very long time, but whatever.

16. I really like looking at wedding pictures even if I don't know the people in them.

17. I love the feeling of after a good workout, or snowboarding, when your muscles just can't take anymore.

18. My favorite kind of desserts are apple. Apple pie, crisp, crumble, if it's an option, that's what i'll have.

19. I have been skydiving 3 times, all of them solo jumps. And I would deffinantly do it again without hesitation if the opportunity came up. I also think everyone should experiance it!

20. I don't think I am able to hold a grudge for more than a couple hours, if that even. I have tried, and it's just not possible.

21. I am phobic of needles, although I am getting better.

22. When that big meningitis scare broke out and the health care system was giving immunizations for free, my mom made us go get them at the health care center, and we had to wait in line for hours, and when I got to be like 5th person in line I started to get pretty upset and by the time it was my turn my mom was holding me down, and I was making kids who had already gotten their shot get upset. Ya it's that bad. But kinda funny, I don't think I am that bad anymore.

23. I have bunions, or "MOOF's" (monsterous outgrowth on foot) as some people I know refer to them as. They are so bad I have been able to convince kids I've babysat that they are my sixth toe, which I get quite a kick out of. I am also having surgery for them this year, and they will no longer cause problems.

24. I would say I keep a very clean house. And the thing that makes me somewhat hesitant about having kids one day, is I might not be able to keep up the cleanliness.

25. I am a people pleaser, especially when it comes to family, it can be somewhat stressing at times. And I am for sure a daddy's girl.

Hope this gave you some laughs, and some insite to who I am.

Valintine's Day

So this morning Valintines morning I get to babysit 2 kids I love so much. They are so much fun, and so happy this morning. So I thought I would give you some pictures of them. Hesston is 3, 4 in June. And he can talk so well, he is so smart, he always has questions, It's hard to explain how smart he is unless you spend some time with him. And Payton is just learning to talk, it's a slow process, but I swear she's atleast attempted to say my name at least once in the last month. She is always so happy, and so funny. I think one of my favorite things about her is how much she loves pizza for breakfast. Here are some picture. Enjoy! To hear the vidoe just go to the bottom of the blog and stop the music.It's not summmer time at all, but Karmyn got her this cute new bathign suit, so of course she had to try it on with her new shoes! So Cute.

Tent Adventures!

So I missed a few blogs I had wanted to write, like one for my 1 year anniversary back on January 17, which is also my brother Riley's birthday. My Dad's birthday on the 19th, and Jared's on the 5th of this month. But oh well here's one for one of my favorite advintures we've had since moving to Lethbridge.

For Jared's birthday we bought this awsome tent from Cosco with the money he got from his parents. We decided to set it up in our living room (it's not a very big living room).



So it's a 3 man tent with 2 vestibules, and it only cost us $50, which we both thought was an awsome deal!




So if you look on the other side of the tent you can see that we had to move the couch so that if you wanted to get anywhere in the apartment other than the kitchen or living room, you had to climb over the couch! It was so fun. Needless to say our house seemed so messy during this adventure, but it was so worth it!



We got the tent just right (unintentionally) so that we could watch a movie. We didn't have a air mattress and we didn't feel like hauling ours off our bed down into the tent, so we just stacked up the blankets, our bodies were still rather sore in the morning.

We had such a good night, one of the best parts about it, was when we took it down it only took about 30 minutes to get it back in the bag nicely, and get our house back and organized!

I would definantly camp out in my house again. SO FUN!

MOM!

SO today is my moms birthday! So I thought I would do a blog for her. I was sad to find that these were some of the only pictures of her I owned, but I guess it's not my fault she is the hardest person to photograph, usually you get a hand instead of the face, but I do love these two pictures.

This first one is from a trip just my Mom, Emily and I took in 2007, we got to visit my Aunt Fay in Utah. It was a very fun trip This day we went into SLC just the three of us. We walked around temple square and what not. It was fantastic.



This picture is with my Aunt Fay that same summer, we went up to this lake in the mountains for a picnic with some of my cousins (as you can see Spencer in the backround, so fun). Aunt Fay is my Moms oldest sister/ sibling, she is awsome, she has so much love in her for anyone she meets, and especially my mom! (And Fays kids are pretty awsome too!)



My Mom is an awsome cook, if there is one thing I am trying to learn from her, especially after getting married, it's to learn to cook as well as she does! She is super strong, and is strong willed. She also has this amazingly huge pain tolerance, I remember this one time we went camping, and there was this natural water slide that my mom had slipped on, she landed right on her wrist and it looked bad! I swear she had broke it, but she refused to go see a doctor of anything, and we kept camping and she still did everything she would have normally done, and I don't remeber her complaining about it once! Just this fall she was helping my Dad and Granparens cut up a moose and she ended up needing stitches, and when Colter and I heard about it, our first comment was " She must have cut it REALLY DEEP!" there was no other way she would have gone in, she would have just bandaged it up!

Some of my most favorite things she says is, she call us girls- The Amazon Women of the North. I love that. I remember when I got to start wear a "over the shoulder boulder holder" yup she taught me that. There are also some dutch sayings which I have no idea how to spell out.

All an' all I love my Mom ALOT! She is such a strong women, in so many ways, spiritually, physically, mentally. She is inspired, and I appriciate all of the talks we've had, and all of our laughs. I am so gratefull for an awsome Mom and I hope she has an Awsome day!

The End and Begining of Years

Alright, So Jared and I took this big trip to Utah from December 18 to 23, and I am sad to say that I have very few pictures for it. We aren't very good at rememebring to take pictures. But I am glad to say that despite the weather and Road conditions we made it there and back safely, usually just missing the worst of it!

We went down for a wedding of a mission companion that Jared had trained, we got to go to the sealing, which was very special since their mission president was the sealer. It was a beautiful wedding.



This is Jared and one of his mission companions, Brian Mealander. This was the big tree in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.



These two were takin just beside Assmbly Hall, just with diffent settings, in real life it was more like the bottom picture. Temple Square really was beautiful!



I felt very lucky to be able to go down, we were able to do a session at the Salt Lake City Temple, which was a very nice experiance, and we got to see temple square all light up for christmas! It was absolutly stunning, I'm sad I don't have more pictures. But I will add a couple on here. We got to see my Aunt Lori and Uncle Bryan. Also many of Jareds mission companions, and we got to spend some time with Larry.

Larry is a pretty awsome guy, He was one of Jared's favorite companions, and I got to meet him when he came up for our wedding last year. He was our best man at out wedding. He is so spiritual, and has an awsome sense of humor, and has some awsome stories. But we love spending time with him, especially since we live far apart, it is good times when we get to see him.

So once we got back from Utah we spent one night in our own bed then headed up to Claresholm on Christmas eve, and we stayed there until the 28th. Christmas was really good. This was my first Christmas from home, and wasn't all that bad, diffrent traditions and what not, but definantly not bad. There wasn't alot of the family there until boxing day, and then they didn't seem to leave. But it was fun, Jared's mom got a cute little puppy, which seemed to be the highlight.

After Christmas I headed up to Edmonton with Rob (Jared's brother), and Jared went back to Lethbridge to work for a few days, but he came up to Edmonton on the 31st to spend New Years with me and my family. It was so fun Robyn was home from Toronto and so the three girls and my mom went shopping, and cooked up a storm for New Years, we had lots of fun together, definantly a New Years not forgotten.

While up in Edmonton I got to go to Desiree (Woodruff) Kastendeick (sorry if the spelling is wrong, I'll work on it) sealing. Which was also spectacular! She married an awsome guy and we are very happy for them!

So that sums up the end of 08' and begining of 09' for us. I am very happy to be in my own bed now after three weeks of foriegn beds, and a lot of time spent in the car! We are back to reality and school. Which Jared starts his first official day on Thursday! We are excited for all the adventures that lie ahead of us in 2009!

Dansk Jul (Danish Christmas)

This was the tree that came down very shortly after our Danish Christmas.

Jared made delicouse Brunkager, which are danish cookies!

Once Heidi and Elizabeth came they put some proper Danish decorations on the tree

We watched "Polar Express" in 3D which didn't actually work out that good on our T.V.



mmmmm.... so this is Danish food, I still dream of eating it again one day.



Look how happy he is, serously, who knew Danish food was all you needed!?


He ate ALOT of Danish food.
So we played a version of white elephant, this was one of the many gifts recieved. It was awsome!




Then to end off the night is "Ris alamand" which is a rice pudding with almonds in it. The person who finds the whole almond gets a prize, and you keep eating till someone finds it. Karmyn found it, fairly quickly.

So just to explain for those of you who may not know, Jared went to Denmark on his mission. We have a friend (Heidi) who lives in Edmonton who came over to Canada I think about 2 years ago. Heidi and her daughter Elizabeth came down to Lethbridge and we made Danish food, and watched Danish movies, played Danish games, and made Danish crafts, it was so fun.

Karmyn and her kids came and had celebrated with us for a bit. We were sad that a couple of Jareds mission companions could not make it, but we hope they can come next year, as we hope to make this an anual celebration!

My Favorite Pair.

So I don't know how many people have "favorites" when it comes to clothes, but I definantly do, and pretty sure I always have. I had this one pair of jeans that I got back well I guess about three years ago. I got them from American Eagle, which I had never bought jeans from there before, but was recomended by a friend to go check it out. I did, and I fell in love.

Well, as you can excpect, I wore them all the time and they soon replaced my "old" favorite pair of jeans. But just a couple weeks ago, Jared and I were getting things set up for our Danish Christmas party (which is the next blog to come) and my jeans ripped! I didn't tear them or catch them on any thing, they just decided it was time. I had known it was coming for some time, I could see it in the knees, but I just wanted them to last till after christmas.

I know I could continue to wear the jeans, or patch them, ect. But it's just not the same, I went a bought a new pair that will do for now. I just think it's so hard to find a good pair of jeans. So I just wanted to dedicate this blog to good jeans.