Moving!

It really has been a long time since I posted... I've been so busy with life and work and everything but I thought I'd give you a little update on me. I am moving on Monday! I wanted to get my own place but everything in Delta is really out of my price range. So my sister Jennie and her husband JD have made a room in their basement for me to live until I can find something that I can afford and I will be saving money as well (hopefully) to buy a car and pay my parents back for paying for a lot of things in the past 4 years. I will still be close to work that I can walk or ride my bike (but I haven't ridden it since the summer, hmm..) So yay for family! This will be a good thing! I'm really excited! :D

I am really loving my job! It has been really stressful with the holidays but it's kinda starting to slow down but it's really awesome to see how many people actually do shop there on a daily/weekly basis. Some customers even ask me if I live at the store, I always reply with "Yep, it's good to see you again!" I don't mind working 40 hours a week at all. I feel so blessed to have the job that I have. I thought moving back to Delta was going to be a total "drag" but it's really not. I do miss a few things that we don't have down here... Panda Express, Wal Mart, The Mall (doesn't matter which one) my friends I made up there and my cousin Sarah, but most of all I miss the Murphy's. I always loved going to their house and just hanging out with them and playing with the kids and doing laundry. I don't see them enough... Bobbie I think it's been since CHRISTMAS! That's a super long time! Anyways, I get to see them tomorrow for Kaylin's birthday party! YAY! But back to work, it's really awesome. Some days I feel like I'm last on the totem pole and I get belittled by the other supervisors and I'm like... What did I do to you? But then I usually get over it because I'm still new and still learning! But it's good to work as much as I do and work with the people that I do. The customers seem to love me too! :)

Oh yeah, and I'm not supposed to buy food for a very long time okay? I packed up some things on Tuesday.... I have 5 boxes of food! FIVE! and these aren't small boxes either!!! But that's what I get for working at a grocery store and seeing all the good deals. :)

Jenny, I mean... Sister Ostler... comes home in JULY!!!  YAY! I know the time will just fly! I've missed her so much and I am so excited to hear about her mission stories!

Anyways... I'll try to update and maybe take more pictures.... I got a new phone and lost about 700 pictures off of my phone... yeah I didn't back them up either. I'm awesome like that! But I'll take some of the room and me and yeah! K BAIIIII!!!!!!

What the...???

Who is viewing my blog from Bejing??? Do I have Chinese readers??? Sweet! YAY me!

I still love my job!

I haven't posted in a while but I wanted you all to know that I LOVE my job! I love that I get 40 hours a week and I love the people that I work with! It's super awesome! I love being a supervisor! It's a lot of fun!

ALSO.... I bought this bad boy (errr... girl, since it's pink) last Monday! 

I am so in love with this bike! I've ridden it to work every day since I bought it! It's super awesome! I also bought a little license plate for it, that says 'Emily' with Utah plates. BAHA! I know, I'm silly but it's super awesome!

YAY for new things!!!! 

GREAT NEWS PEOPLE!!!!!

Just after I wrote that post I went to work and was asked if I wanted to be trained to be a supervisor at work!!! I gladly accepted and have started some training and I feel like I am catching on quickly!!! It's awesome!! I will be one of the closing supervisors and will be working mostly 130-1030 shifts. Which is all fine and good BUT... I don't like how late it is. But it is what it is and I'm super happy! Also, there will be a pay increase which is super awesome!!! There's more responsibility but I KNOW I can handle it! It doesn't look TOO hard. I love the management and the other supervisors that I'll be working with. The cashiers and the baggers are fun too!!! This will be a good thing for me! I'm really happy but still nervous that I'll mess up on things, but that's all a part of learning right??? YAY for changes! 

A Much Needed Update....

Sorry people, I've been super busy with LIFE happening that blogging has really just gone to the back burner! I'll do better.... promise! 


A lot has happened since I last blogged. I started working as a checker at Jubilee (local grocery store) and I am loving it! I absolutely LOVE the people that I work with and the management is AWESOME! It's fun to see customers that I actually know and have grown up with all of my life. I even saw one of my friends that I hadn't seen since graduation (5 years ago) so that was fun too! I picked up really quickly on it, which I think is because of my 4 years of cashiering at Babies and Michaels. I'd probably be so lost if I didn't have those 4 years. It is a wonderful job and I truly love going to work every single day! 


Chris and I broke up the first part of June. It was really hard for all of us, but with time the wounds will heal and we will be alright. I've been really sad about the whole ordeal as I'm sure he has but we're both adults and things happen that we may not expect (or that we may expect) but at the end of the day, it's about finding happiness and being truly happy with a person right? Right! Someday, we'll both be happy with someone else, but it just takes time. 


I moved to Delta 3 weeks ago and I am loving it! I live with my best friend Jo Ann Jones at her sisters day care center. Yeah, I know... I tell people I live at day care and I get some pretty weird looks but it's nice. The kids are downstairs most of the time. They are upstairs for breakfast, lunch, and snack and then outside. I usually work 11-8 most days so, I will sometimes see the kids in the morning, if not hear them wake me up and then sometimes when I come home on my lunch break, and then they are all gone by 6pm. So it really works out that I live here. Also, it is 3 blocks away from the store, so it is so nice to be able to walk to work every day! It takes me about 7 minutes to walk to work, which is excellent! I don't have the car but Jennie and JD live close enough (1/2 block away from me) that I can just ask if I can use their car to go to the bank, grocery shopping, or run other errands. It's nice to have family close and willing to help you out. (Thanks so much Jennie!!) 


I'm still attending the singles branch and I am still loving it! There's a TON of people that come to it this summer, which is really good!! I'm still the Family Home Evening Coordinator but I don't have a partner! (Uggghhh!!!) I've asked for one, because I usually work till 8 and FHE starts at 7, so I'm always late, which I hate! I hope that tomorrow they call me someone, cause I get stressed out every time! 


I love you all and thank you for reading my blog... I WILL do better at updating! I will!!! 

Studio 5!!!

Again I am late at posting, but do I care??? NO! :) 

May 13th, 2011 I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the first live studio audience taping of Studio 5! My sister Bobbie donated some baby food jars for a project featured on the show and she could bring as many friends as she wanted, so I tagged along. It was a lot of fun to be around other women who are crazy about crafting like me, which if you don't know that is a portion of the things they do on Studio 5! Bobbie didn't get to sit by us, she got to sit in the "celeb chairs". While we had to sit in the slums, ha, only kidding. I sat with Bobbie's friend Amy who tagged along, on the second row, right behind the stars in the first segment of the show! I had a lot of fun and it was great to see so many people who supported the show. 

 Me & Brooke (Co-Host) Her teeth are really big and really white! She is SOOOO beautiful!!! 

Me & Darin (Co-Host) He was a joy to be around, also had amazingly white teeth! 

Thanks again Bobbie for letting me tag along with you on this day that we will both never forget! :) 

EASTER 2011!

YES... I am behind, but this is my blog, so my posts can be a month or two late! :) 

We had our traditional Easter Egg Hunt at my parents house! I think the kids really seemed to enjoy it! We had 4 new people at the egg hunt (well, technically 5 if you count Aunt Alice!) But we had Evan, Ashlyn, Kyli (Matt's honey) and Gracie their baby! It was a lot of fun! Chris and I are the only ones without kids, so we were the only ones to hide the eggs. A few weeks before we filled the eggs with candies. We had over 100 eggs to hide for 9 kids! :) 

 Here is Caleb (in the orange) and Hiett (in the black and red) Hiett was showing Caleb where the eggs were. 

 My favorite hiding spot that Gracie found! 

 All the bystanders, Alice, Mom, Jennie, and JD! 

 Poppy (my dad) helping Kaylin find some eggs! 

 Evan didn't get to get any eggs but he was fine just to be outside! Next year, he will go out and do TONS better! :) 

 Dad, Kyli, Matt, and Gracie on the hunt! 

 I have an identical picture to this one last year! Me taking a picture while he does a video! :) 

 Madelyn had a "special" egg hunting dress! 

 Abandoned Easter basket! (Caleb's)

 Hiett found a LOT of eggs! 

 Who needs egg hunting when you can play in the sandbox??? 

 A) We did not plan to match B) Ignore the weird smile on my face, it was kinda windy! 

 Sandbox fun! 

 CHEESE!

 Kaylin swinging all by herself! 

 These next ones are fun! Chris is going to be a great uncle someday to these kids! They just adore him! 

 See what I mean... check out Chris' dorky but OH SO CUTE face! :) 

 Again... awesomeness! 

 "Just trust me! I'll catch you!"

 "Teeter totter, bread and water. Wash your face in dirty water!" 

See, I told you the swing set was a HUGE hit!  

 Swinging girls! 

We had fun this year! Everyone stayed for a good part of the day and the kids just played around with each other! I love the time we get to spend with one another and when we are all together! It's just the best time!

My life has changed because...

My parents got a new swing set! 

Let me give you a background on MY swing set. When I was about 2 years old, I would walk two blocks to the city park and play on the swings there, BEFORE we had this swing set. THEN... my parents got the NEW swing set so I could play on that and NOT go to the park. I loved this swing set. I played on it a lot. You can't tell but it was pretty cool. It had one swing, trapeze, monkey bars, and a slide. I would play on the swing and the trapeze and do lots of tricks. I got many slivers on the slide, which made it so my parents threw the slide out. 

Because the swing set has been here for over 20 years, it left these big divots in the ground.

So this is the NEW and IMPROVED swing set. Basically this thing is a bajillion times better than mine. The slide is PLASTIC so no more slivers. More swings, so more kids can play on it! Which is good because we have 9 little people that can play on it. It has the little glider thing, which is AWESOME! It does have trapeze too, but none of the kids are big enough to use them and we have more babies, so we put the baby swing on. The coolest thing about this swing set is obviously the see saw. Jennie's kids played on it Wednesday and they loved the see saw the most. It's really cool because it has good grass underneath and it is close by the sandbox too. 

But.... I am still sad that my swing set that I grew up with is now our firewood for the fire pit. I loved that swing set. My parents bought it for ME and me only, maybe that's why I loved it so much. It will take some getting used to, to the new one but I'm sure I will be okay. This new swing set will be the one that MY kids will enjoy someday! Wow, that's weird to think about. Me? Kids!? Ha... someday... :)

Winner Winner, Turkey Dinner!

What did I win, you ask? 

A FREE PURSE! More particularly, this one! 

This is what I did today...

I MET JUSTIN BIEBER!!!! 

Okay, just kidding! I didn't really meet Justin Bieber. This was part of my April Fools joke to my friends on Facebook! Chris photoshopped a picture of me onto Selena Gomez's body! I really appreciate him doing that for me, cause heck, I know I couldn't!!! The second part to my April Fools joke to my friends on Facebook was changing my birthday to today so that people would wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, when it really wasn't. Some caught on to the gag but others, still posted Happy Birthday to me. It was pretty fun to see some of the responses. I'll post some: 

Happy Birthday..........in December!!!!!!!!!

Um Em your birthday is in March. You goober. :) (yeah my bday is NOT in March, sorry Jennie W)

So.. I just realized that it's only your fake birthday and I'm taking back what I previously said. You deserve no wishes today. Happy April Fool's Day though! :P

Ummm, I doubt you are taller than JB, but you sure look good together!!!

I heard your birthday was today, but I think its a joke, and you just want to have lots of birthdays.. just in case its not an april fools day joke.. Happy Birthday!

Happy 50th birthday!!
Hope you and Justin partay it up.
Poor lil Chrissypoo...

You little liar...it is so not your birthday.

and by far my favorite!!! Oh Emily, I love you dear :D This took a lot of effort. I'm so glad you got to meet Justin Beiber on your birthday! How cool is that?!? Haha ;) Happy birthday to my brother, Ralph and happy April Fool's Day to you!!!

Let me just tell you I have some pretty awesome friends! Even if it wasn't my birthday my friends TOTALLY made my day!!! :) I love you all! 

PS! Watch this video! It's pretty awesome!!! Make sure your speakers are turned up! :) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ