It's a new me

I just need change sometimes...


i just wanted to see what it would look like to be blonde... now i'm strawberry blonde. As of right now i hate it. I always do at first... We'll see if it changes. I'm staying blonde for awhile even if no one likes it. It was expensive and i wanna keep it this way til i figure out the best color for me =] i just love dying my hair... oooh and this time the eye brows got dyed too. they had to be lighten up so i didn't look so funny... there will be more pictures to come... this is just the first snap shot =]

In memory of granma

My granma's funeral was on friday. I came up to prescott to be there with my family. This death was a huge shock to everyone. She did almost the same thing as i did... went on the highway, flipped several times. Only the differences with this one was she wasn't wearing her seat belt and was ejected and died at the scene.

Out of everyone in my family i think i handle death the best. I love my granma and i'll miss her tons! I know i'll see her again someday and i know she is very happy and teaching up in the spirit world. Her death made me realize that my husband will never know her, or my grandfather who died less than a year ago. My husband and my family will never know what my family traditions are and get to experience them the way i spent my whole life doing. That kind of sucks since both of my sister's husband and kids got to meet them and see what we do for hoildays. That's one of the worldly things i'll miss the most. I'll miss my granma but i know she is very happy so i can let the worldly things pass. We'll have plenty of time to make more traditions when we are all together again.

The funeral went really well. My granma was cremated so there was no coffin. My mother did an amazing job of her life story... just as she did at my granfathers funeral. The food was yummy! Hanging out at papa's house all day was a lot of fun. I met family i never knew i had. My granma's sisters came and brought their family. We all had fun telling stories and remembering our favorite memories.

I also got a really cute dress to meet everyone in =]

THE ROOMMATE CHALLENGE 2008

This semster i joined wellness, which is the schools gym. I was working out one day when i saw that they were having a "biggest loser" competition. I thought it would be a good modivator so i joined up for it. They also had a 3:10 to yuma.. People are racing to run/stair master/ elipical/ bike to get to "yuma" first. Another one they had was four courners. People are biking around the state of az. I was talking to my roommates about it and we all thought it would be fun if we did a 3:10 to yuma ourselves!!

So said that the goal was 300 miles. We haven't found somewhere that is 300 miles from thatcher yet.... We are also doing a point system. For every mile you run you get 4 points. For stairmaster if you go a mile you get 3 points. IF you do a mile on the elipical you get 2 points. And if you bike or walk a mile you get 1 point. All other workout stuff like a sport, dancing, abs, weight, you get a point.

The idea is that the goal is to get 300 miles first. HOWEVER with the points i could come in 2nd but still win if i did harder and better work outs. WE are recording our mileage on our wall. We cut out ppl from magazines and we move them every time we get mileage. WE also have to record what we do each day. at the end we will figure out points to see who is the Winner!!

Sarah said she isn't going to do it but we are making her. she prolly wont get much mileage but she can get points for stuff. We are alll way excited and it makes us work out and be healthy!! It's a win win. Plus it will help me with the biggest loser for wellness =]

Kali's birthday!

Kali had her birhthday on the 17th so we throw a party!!! We got a choclate fountain and bought a bunch of stuff for it. People came over and had fun. We ended up playing mafia for like 3 hours that night!! our house is the cool house!! For sarah and my birhtday we are going to have a pirate party!!!! WE CAN"T WAIT!!!!

the 1st pix is my new roommate jessica! I love this girl sooo much!! have such an amazing apartment. We all get along well. AND jess helps me to clean!!!

the other is morgan and kali. Morgan is like our 5th roommate this semester. Joel was last semester becuase he was over alllll the time. NOW morgan is at our apartment every night. Jessica and morgan are into each other so it makes sense. Joel was a little upset he got puched to 6th roommate. he says he has more hours logged in so until morgan beats him 5th roommate is his title. =] what can we say... we are just come cool girls =]

SNOW!!

We were sad to come home from the snow! One night we were hanging out and i wanted to go on an adventure and not just sit and watch a movie. It was about 10 at night and i said that we should go up mount gram and play in the snow. Our friend morgan has a truck so sarah, jessica, and i went the mountain. there wasn't much unless you went to the very top and i get REALLY sick on the drive so we thought we would put some in the back of the truck and make a snow man on our front pourch. SO we did!! When we got home i was SICK and the snow was way to soft to make a snow man. So we built a wall so no one could get into our apartment. We finished it about 1 in the morning!!! other then getting sick we all had fun on our adventure!!!!

SNOWBOARDING!!!!!!!!!!!

LAst weekend Sarah and I went on our 1st ever snowboarding trip. Brian and Lisa coleman, friends of the family since we've moved back to Az (lisa is one of kim's best freinds and brian is on of kerri and my good friends). We rented 4 mini vans, the plan was 2 15 passenger vans but they didn't have any more of those. We drove up to ceder city and stayed at one of the girls parents house. They feed us REALL REALLY REALLY well!!! We went to brian head resort and rented snow boarding stuff. I had never been but was sooo excited to try it out. While we were waiting for the 1st lift i listened to the little kids getting lessons and learned a few tips, like how to stand up and how to walk with the board attached to your foot. It came in handly let me tell ya!!!

WE went up to first mountain which wasn't very big and when we got to the top the boys said ok lets go.. I was so exicted that i just went for it. I did ok but i fell down and was going to wait for everyone since no one else was following me. Then on the guys came up and said to follow him so i did. I went WAY WAY WAY tooo fast and bit it hard. i hit my head on the snow hard and my sun glasses and binnie went flying. I had to crawl up the mountain to get my stuff. Then this kid tanner helped me to get to the next lift. The lift was really really long. It took 15 mins to get to the top!!! I was like ohhh great what i'm i doing. We got to the top and tanner told me some tips which i had no clue what he was saying. HE eneded up leaving me at the top all by myself. I spent the next hour falling down the mountain on my own trying out different things to make it work. I COULD not get steering down. and when i got going to fast i always fell. I was sooo tired and sore and wasn't even half way down the mountain!!! Then i sat and watched this girl and she was going really slow. So i watched to see how she did it. Then i tried it out. I ended up understanding how she was doing it.

I finally made it to the bottom and found sarah sitting at bottom watching ppl. I made her come with me up the mountain. I figured it was a good idea for me so she should do it.... I should have remembered that it was sarah =/ We got to the top and took of just fine. I knew what to do and was fine. I stoopped and waited for sarah. It took her 10 mins to get like 10 yeards to me. So i just asked her if she wanted to meet at the bottom. She said sure!! So i took off!! i was soooooo excited that i was acutally snowboarding. I could go like 100 yards and not fall!!! I fell one or twice but that was it. When i got to the bottom i knew sarah would take awhile so i got back on the lift to go meet her. I got to the top and saw that she was only about 5 yards from where i left her. I chuckeld and called out to her. I made my way to her and found out that she had face planted.. flipped... face planted again.. flipped again.. and during all that her glasses broke. I felt bad but i couldn't stop laughing!!! The ski patrol came and took her down. I snowboarded all the way down the mountain only falling once!!!!!

I'm a pro at it now!!! i can't wait to move to utah and buy my own stuff!!! i'm going to have a season pass and go allllll the time!!! We ended up hanging out for the rest of the time. I eneded on a good run and didn't want to leave sarah!!!

SCHOOL STARTED!!

YUP that's right school has started once again! I'm going to just do one big post to explain how everything is and once my life settles into a routine i'll pick back up to little fun blogs.

~ My blog prolly wont be as fun this semester since the screen on my camera broke and i can't see what i'm taking a picture of... so it will be a guess to see if i got a good picture or not. So pictures will be limited...

~ ALso i might not post once a week as i had done in the past because my laptop got sick and is away at the doctors right now. i have no clue when i will get it back so that means the school computers are all i'm using..

~ This semester i'm taking Anatomy 201. I'm very excited for this class. I love the human body and am good at remembering bones and muscles!! This is going to be a hard class and will take a lot of time and effort... something i'm not use to doing for classes

~ I'm also taking pharmacology.. it seems like a fun class but it will be very very hard.

~ I'm taking a nutrition class again. I love nutrition and remember it well so it shouldn't be that hard of a class.

~ I'm also taking a fun class.... WELDING!!! yup i dropped my nursing class ( i had school on sat and it took up a lot of time) and my abnormal psy class ( it was soooo boring) so i thought i'd take a fun free class. I've always been fascinated by welding so i'm going to learn how to do it. There are 2 girls in the class.. the other is older.. and a bunch of hick old guys.. I'M excited tho!!

~ I'm taking a Book Of Mormon institute class which is always interesting as well as devotional and seminar. I'm way excited and love love love my institute classes!!

~ I"m also taking wellness which is the gym here. Free gym why not!!!

~ MY ROOMMATES ROCK!! Jessica Bryce in our new roommate and i love her to death. We all became friends very fast and we do things together all the time! this is going to be an amazing semester! AND she helps me clean soo i'm way excited!!!

~ The first week back has been full of fun and adventure! I've made soo many new friends. I've gone to many events already. THATCHER is going to be rocking city this semester!

~ Sadly i got sick last week.. The left side of my throat swelled up soo big that i could eat or drink anything. There was a day that i didn't get up until 4.. watched 6 movies then went to sleep. Another day i just cried all day from the pain. I ate soup and that was it for about 4 days. Mom told me to gargle with warm salt water and i tried it but it i just cried for an hour or 2 afterwards so i refused to do it again. Then my roommates dad who is an EMT said to keep doing it and the pain meant it was getting better. So all day Sunday each hour i had to gargle warm salt water... cry for the hour then do it again. The pain got to be soo bad that i finally just went to sleep. I woke up an hour later to gargle and the swelling was almost GONE!! I was sooooo happy! the pain had mostly left. I ate beef stew which made me happy. The next day i was able to open my mouth at least an inch and a HALF and eat real solid food. My mouth has no pain only when i forget and try to open it all the way up. I'm almost back to having my big mouth again. I can eat real food too!! I can't eat a lot because it gets raw after awhile but at least now i can get some what full. I"m most happy about the pain being gone and being able to talk!!!

~ This weekend is a three day weekend and sarah is dragging me to go with Brain coleman and lisa coleman and a bunch of other kids on a trip to utah to go snowboarding. I'm excited to learn and i'm sure it will be fun!!!!

~NO i haven't gone on any dates yet... School just started and i'm still scoping things out... there aren't many guys that seem to catch my eye so we'll see what happens. This kid morgan is Friends with all of us girls and comes over to play a lot. We have a running competition at who is better at playing guitar hero. I we played surrender by cheap trick to see who can get the best score. We went back and forth for at least 5 days. Right now he was the record at 23300. IDK if i'll beat it anytime soon but i thought i'd be nice and let him have one song since i have beaten him at all the other 34 songs on the game =]

~ With my new sewing machine that i got for Christmas i made sundance a dash mat with stars on it. IT is very cute.. I"ll get a picture on here soon. PLus i made myself a little bag to keep my pens in for school since i'm using the purse my sister kim bought me for Christmas because i lost my backpack at my parents house over break. I"m always thinking of something new to make with my sewing machine! i love it!! I"m going to attempt to my my niece, Kaci, her Easter dress... WE'll see what happens =] mom might have to bail me out!!! but i'm going to try!!!

~ I think that's all the highlights. I'm still working at the elementary school which i love! YUP that's it!! LOVE YA!!