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

Color Fest 2011 (Long post, you are now warned)

Last night my sister Jennie and I were talking about The Festival of Colors and how she wanted to take Madelyn to it because she thought Madelyn would enjoy it, I told her I had some pictures of when Chris, my friend Jo, and I went last weekend and asked if she had seen them. Remembering I had only posted them on Facebook and forgetting that she doesn't have Facebook, she would probably never be able to see them. So I decided to post them and blog about my time there for her and some of my other friends who don't have the opportunity to view them via Facebook. (I'll probably be doing that with all of my other pictures as well just because of that sole reason) 

I read online that they had free parking at the fairgrounds in Spanish Fork and a shuttle for $2 to take us straight to the temple because they didn't want people parking on the side of the road because traffic was going to be bad that day anyways, so we parked at the fairgrounds. Basically we parked WAY in the very back of the fairgrounds in a little parking lot thing. As we were walking down to get on the shuttle we noticed a SUPER long line of about 50+ people waiting for the shuttle. We thought about it and said that it wasn't THAT far to walk there, so we set out on foot. 2 miles later.... we arrived. Upon arriving the people from the color throwing before had saved some of their color and threw it on us as we were in our last steps up to the temple. So basically we didn't need to throw the color because we had already got some color on us, HA not! 

 This is what Chris looked like as soon as we got to the Kirshna Temple grounds. 

 Chris and I together

 People just attacked Chris with this powdery, chalky stuff. Literally attacked him, it was pretty funny. 

 My good friend Jo came with us! YAY! 

 Jo and I! 

 (Ignore the creepers in the background) After we got our bags of color (87,000 bags were sold the day we went) we went closer down to the stage and waited for them to tell us when to all throw our bags at the same time. It's really awesome when so many people at the same time with so many different colors of chalk throw them at the same time. It was pretty awesome to see. 

 Face pretty well covered now, but we're not going to leave!!! 

 Chris by far had the coolest face out of all of us. All the orange and then little specks of all the other colors. It looked really awesome, right?

 Jo and her messy face! 

 Uh, yeah... Glasses protect your eyes from getting chalk in them yes, BUT the chalk builds up and you basically can't see ANYTHING! It was still a good time! 

 I think this was AFTER we threw all the colors. Also, you can see how crammed everyone is in such a small space. Still, it was a lot of fun! Little kids kept throwing chalk at us and we'd throw it back! It was a good time. 

 You can't really tell but this is us in front of the Krishna temple. Not as many people back here but still a lot. 

 Walking the 2 miles BACK to the car! 

 SAY CHEESE CHRIS!!!! 

 Wow, did I really look THAT bad?

 Back in the car, FINALLY! 

 Chris' sweet hair! 

 My sister Bobbie was nice enough to let us use her showers since she lives in Spanish Fork. One thing we really didn't think over too well, was we all showered at the same time in separate showers, of course , so the hot water didn't last very long! Luckily Jo and I had washed our faces first and just said we would try to get the rest of the color out of our hair back home. (By the way, my roots STILL have a little pink in them, I've taken four showers since Saturday.) Chris on the other hand, comes out with chalk still on his face and mad as ever because all the hot water was gone. We went to Barry's Drive In in Spanish Fork and ate dinner then went back to Bobbie's so Chris could finish getting it off his face. 

 Posing in the bathroom... 

Showing you how caked on it really is... eww. 

 My colorful hair! 

 Full body-ish shot. Which bathroom am I in??? (LOL, the master bath!)

All in all, it was a fun time. My legs were super sore after walking 4 miles in one day. I was really happy with the time that we went, because afterwards it started to rain and can you imagine WET chalk? Not fun! It was a fun time and I will probably keep going all my years living in Utah. It's a fun tradition and I am happy I was able to participate in it. 

So, Jennie... do you want to take Madelyn now? :)