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As of right now I think I am going to go play a computer game. I have done a lot today so far, even though I have felt pretty tired. I peeled and shredded some of my zuchini, weeded a little bit in my garden, did some laundry, and did the dishes. That seems to be accomplishing something today, unlike the last three days.

long time

Hello,

I know it has been a long time since I last posted. I spent a week in Yellowstone, got our house put up for sale, and also signed a lease on an apartment. So currently I am paying rent and a house payment. I sure hope this house sells soon. I have really loved living in this house and this neighborhood.

I wrote almost everyday in Yellowstone about what I did, so the following is going to be a recap.

Aug 6, 2011

It was a very eventfull day today. I have been up since 5:45 am. Daline and Ashley had been preparing for their 5k at the wheat and beat days, and RB decided to join them. Although RB had decided to do the 10k instead. It was fun because a lot of other family members decided to join in on the fun. Uncle David, Uncle Aaron, Josh and Lyssa all joined in to run the 5k. They all finished!! I am so proud of them all for setting a goal and accomplishing it. We all ate breakfast afterwords. It was yummy, all the runners got a breakfast for running, I took RB's breakfast since he had already ate earlier.

RB and I ventured home to pack up for a week long vacation in Yellowstone. It was a long day of driving and we are finally here. I will be spending my birthday in Yellowstone. I have been here once before on my birthday and it was pretty fun.

August 7, 2011

Bike rentals in Yellowstone are too expensive for my taste!! 35 bucks a day! Doesn't look like I will be getting much bike riding in this week. Also, last year you could use the wifi for free, but now they charge you by the hour or daily. RB and I were both sad about this too. We wandered back to our cabins. We decided to go get some yogurt and to wander around geyser hill. The yummy yogurt cheered me up! We sat on giantess for a bit, not expecting it to erupt. I just needed someplace to rest. We continued around geyser hill and sat on Plume until it erupted. Everyone else was also there waiting for it to erupt ( Dave, Wendy, Jacen, Cindy, Jeff, and Bruce). We all sat there for about twenty minutes before it erupted. It usually goes off about every hour. I was tired and a bit grumpy so RB and I started our ways back to the cabins. Jeff joined us and we decided to walk through the new visitors center that had just opened up last summer. It is pretty spiffy, they have a miniature geyser that goes off about every 6-10 minutes. We talked to a ranger for a bit in the kids center.

I started reading my book RB had gotten me for my bday. We all went to sacrament meeting and came back and had carrot cake to celebrate my birthday.

August 8 2011

I didn't wake up until 11 am!! RB was at grand geyser, I was going to head over there until I was informed that it had just started erupting.....bummer. I ate lunch/breakfast at geyser grill. RB and I then went and parked at midway geyser basin, and walked to Artemesia geyser. It is a super pretty pool of water, I have never seen it erupt, hopefully I will someday. We watched a fan and mortor event cycle, but nothing happened. Tried to see daisy, but it had already erupted. We then went and hiked back our car. I walked a lot and will probably be sore tomorrow.

Jacens new game is throwing away garbage and we all clap for him. He loves it and it is so cute!

August 9 2011

We all sat on Grand until it erupted! It rained on us for a bit, but it was just fine since I had an umbrella. It erupted about 1 pm. I just love hearing Mary Beth come on the radio and say "There are waves on grand!". That is one of the indicators that grand will be going off in the next couple of minutes. It was also cool because we saw a second burst. I had only seen that once before. Although RB has seen it do that plenty of times.

I came back to the cabin and took a nap. I didn't do much the rest of the day because I was pretty worn out from sitting in the hot sun for three hours. I ate dinner at geyser grill played some games and went to bed.

August 10 2011

We went around the grand loop today. We stopped at uncle toms trail and everyone went down it except for me ( stupid chronic mono). I was looking through Wendy's pictures and they got some awesome ones! While everyone went down the "Steep scary trail, with lots of stairs" I listened in on a guided ranger walk and followed them until I got tired and went back to the car and waited until everyone got back.

We continued our drive up to twin falls and then we quickly stopped at my new favorite waterfall for the day called Undine Falls. It is a tiered water fall and super pretty.

Our next stop was Mammoth. Bruce and I dropped everyone off at that top and we drove the cars down and met them at the bottom. I liked to the drive around the 3 mile loop, there are some very interesting geological features to see. They all reached the bottom and we took a family pic by Liberty Cap and we were off back to our cabins by old Faithful. It was a very long drive today!

August 11-12 2011

On Thursday RB, Jeff, and I went on a hike to Mystic falls. It is only about 1 mile to the falls. I had never been before and was excited. It wore me out big time, but it was so worth it! I love waterfalls and this one became my favorite waterfall next to undine falls. It is also tiered, but a lot more so.

After the hike we met up at nez peirce creek and had a fun picnic.

I didn't document what we did on Friday and I don't remember much. I am pretty sure that we ate at the lower Hamilton store, they have some yummy hamburgers.

August 13 2011

Today was the day we drove home. We went through the Tetons and got some awesome jumping pictures. I have decided I would like to go take a canoe on string lake. It is a very peaceful lake. We stopped at the cheese factory and got hamburgers for lunch/ dinner. RB and I got back to Logan and were pretty worn out and just went to sleep.

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So this last week was fun and interesting. RB had to go back down and do some paper work for his new job on friday. We ended up spending Friday and Saturday night at his dads house!
It was fun. RB and I got to babysit five little kids on saturday. My sisters kids and my brothers kid. It was fun. This is a really cute picture of Douglas I got of him! He is a cutie, but he was a bit grumpy. He was recovering from being sick. RB helped the older four build a fort, they loved it! They kept accidently and purposely knocking it down. Mosty Dayana and Emmet were purposely knocking it down and the Emma and Jayden would get upset. Ha ha ha, what do you expect from two year olds. Later they all did a lemonade stand. They had a blast, basically their only customers were RB and me. On Friday, so the day before (yes, I am going backwards). I got to watch this little guy. This is my other nephew. He is a cutie. I got a video of him doing his happy dance, which is way cute!! Hopefully I can get it uploaded! His parents left when he was sleeping and he woke up to me and wasn't very happy for about five minutes. He kept pointing to where he thought his parents were. I finally convinced him that I was cool and he could play with me :)
Backwards still, a couple days previous I got to go over to my friends house Rob and Heidi. They just welcomed in this cute little bundle of joy to their life. It was fun to hold him.

Here is Jacen doing his happy dance. He does it towards the end of the video, when he walks out of the room and then back in. It is cute!

summer

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Spent the weekend down with rbs family. It was fun to see everyone. I was able to also visit my sister and babysit her kids along with my nephew emmet. It was fun, but also hard. Five kids under seven. RB was there to help me and I was really glad he was!
Wendy, Dave, and Jacen have moved back from Hawaii! It was so fun to see them! I also got to babysit Jacen, we had a fun time. I will have to show you his happy dance video! Its so cute!
We looked at a couple apartments. We aren't done looking. We did find a couple that we liked.

A fish oil pill seems to be stuck in my throat right now. I found smaller ones, that are easier to swallow then the previous ones I have been taking, but they still don't just slide down my throat to easy.

Another random thing, I just killed a bug! It was climbing up me towards my neck, just scared the living day lights out of me. Ok, maybe it didn't scare me that much. Another random story, back in high school, I was asleep on the couch. I felt something crawling on me, I was so tired I squished it and fell back asleep. When I woke up in the morning, I looked down at the shirt where I had squished the spider and it made me jump out of my skin. It was a pretty big spider! It was dead and I had barely remembered killing it.

Life has been weird lately. I love my house, and there is a big possiblility that we will be moving. I am really sad because this house is just so darn cute!! We don't know if we would rent or sell. We got the eight thousand dollar grant for buying this house, and since we won't be the primary residence of the house we will most likely have to pay it back......sad day.

I am in a typing mood, ever get in those moods? sometimes I get in moods where I just want to hand write everything.

Below is a picture of the delicious stir fry I made, you put it on top of rice and it is pretty good. Easy to make too!

This picture is of RB giving Douglas a horsy back ride, then Dayana's turn was next! It was funny because she was convinced that douglas had pooped on RB's back becaus Emma had got chocolate on his shirt. She wouldn't get on and just kept pointing and saying "poop!"
RB and I had graduated a while ago, but got to walk. They got rid of Fall commencement. It was a fun day! This is a picture of us afterwards.

We will try again tomorrow

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So today I had a lot of things I wanted to do, but none of them happened. Yet again another tired day! I didn't get up until noon!! I didn't feel like doing anything because I was still so tired.
I then took another two hour nap around five. So I basically didn't do anything today.

Yesterday was a fun day though, We had our friend Rob and Heidi come over and we had a BBQ! I think it was quite yummy and I had fun eating all the left overs today. At night it was very cool to see all the areil fireworks all over the neighborhood. Since they aren't illegal, it was awesome to have a huge firework show from my bedroom!!

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Ashley and I visited my grandpas grave stone! That is Ashley in the picture not me:)



I have to say that I was able to get up and I don't feel like I need to go lay back down and take a nap! Yay, Maybe this phase of 'getting up at noon only to stay up for two hours then go back to bed and take a couple hour nap' is coming to an end! It has been happening since like last Tuesday or Wednesday. I still feel worn out today, but at least I don't feel like I need to be in bed!

Last night I could not fall asleep, It was crazy!!! I just kept staring at the ceiling! I got bored of that so I watched some TV. I think I finally fell asleep at around 4 am. Maybe my body had decided it had enough sleep the last week. I really do like sleeping at night though, so my body shouldn't do that to me. I slept in until noon!

This summer/spring has been an interesting one. I have been trying to get all of my unfinished projects done. Like, this jean quilt I have literally been working on for a year or two? Just been doing it really slowly. I finally got it back out and the only thing that needs to be done is tie it. One problem, I don't have those quilting things, hmmmm what are they called? I cant think of the name, but you have to have them to tie a quilt.
Next thing I have been working on is redoing my dressers. I am not done. I have painted the small one and the long one, but have not even started on the tall one! I will have to put pictures so you know what I am talking about.
I have tried to sew a couple of shirts, neither of them worked out. I bought material that was supposed to be good for t-shirts, well it wasn't! I am not exactly sure what I am going to do about that one. The other shirt, just needs to be unpicked, regathered and the sewn again. There is a part of the shirt that is gathered, well for some reason I sewed all the gathering part to one spot and now I have a big poof where it is not supposed to be.

I revamped a shirt, that turned out quite cute! In fact RB even came home and said "Cute Shirt" And I said "Thanks, I made it" And he was like "really", he was impressed!

I also made a curtain for my window in my computer room! Yay! It worked out!

RB has been running a lot lately and has done a 5k, and a 10k. Now he is training for a half marathon! Then He is going to be doing Ragnar!
The above picture is of him coming up to finish his 10k. .This picture is of him almost to the finish line!