Lookin' FINE in 09!

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2009-12-04T21:38:00.001-08:00

Go to www.kickinwitheballs.blogspot.com for lots of fun posts and updates with more to come!!!

Flowers for a Great Day!

2009-11-12T17:37:00.000-08:00

Bruce was stressing a bit with his two jobs and school. He wakes up early and works then goes right to the next job and works then on thursday he goes right from that job to school. thursday are poop days! He's gone from 6 am to 10 pm and then he's ready for bed. Wed we had fun since neither of us had to work but by the end of the night he realized what the next day was and started to stress. Of course i was already in bed at this time and that just makes him even more sad. As i woke up and started getting ready for work i get a text saying to come outside. There was my fiance with a bouquet of flowers for me! He said he couldn't go 24 hours without seeing me and wanted me to enjoy my flowers!

HOW I LOVE MY MAN!!!

in the midest of all that he has to do and all that is he doing, he takes time to go to the store by ME flowers and bring them to me! Man i'm the luckiet girl alive!!!!!!

I'm Pregnant!!!

2009-11-12T17:26:00.000-08:00

What do you think?? I think i look pretty cute 9 months prego! However it was NOT fun! i only had the belly on for like an hour and i was sweating and my belly got in the way of everything! The "elbow and knees" hurt like crazy! slaying down was not comfy! Man oh man!!

We make the kids wear these before they can take the fake babies home. The last 2 weeks all i have heard is "Miss this hurts! Can i take it off yet!!! Miss i'm never having kids!" i had to see what all the fuss was about. I do have to admit they were being a tad on the dramatic side but it does take a lot out of you. I had fun wearing it! a year or two for now maybe bruce and i will think of having a kid of our own. we are more then ok then waiting at least 18 months from now to even think about it!!!

Biggest Loser

2009-11-05T20:31:00.000-08:00

At work we are doing the Biggest Loser. I'm super excited about it! I found some 45 year old reading teacher to be my partner. We did our weigh in on wed and were given a pedometer. You are suppose to log your food, exercise, and stress levels every day.

I'm soooo into this pedometer! You're supposed to walk 10,000 steps a day.

Do you know how hard that is?!?!

Especially when you work and sit lots a day then come home and sit and go to institute and sit and sit and sit. The first day i didn't come close to my 10,000 steps. I was at about 6,000. Today I made sure I walked my entire lunch break. Then when I got home I walked 3 miles. Its not time for bed yet but i'm at12,339! I was sooo excited to see that! It really makes you think about how active you are when you are wearing one.

We got super cool pedometers! The picture looks just like mine. It records steps, distance, kcal, mets! It also records 7 days worth of steps. Its super sweet! I think everyone should have one and everyone should wear it! It got me up and moving! I'm sure it would get everyone up and moving.... or maybe i just like gadets and like to make my qutoas ?

I'm sorry MOM!!!

2009-11-05T20:15:00.000-08:00

I used to make so much fun of my mom when i was younger. She would go to work, come home, take a nap, get up make dinner, then go to bed by 10, 11 at the latest!

Guess what?!

I DO THE SAME EXACT THING AND I'M ONLY 21 AND HAVE NO KIDS!!!!

Mom, i personally say sorry to you! Thankfully bruce now gets off work at 5:15 everyday so he is home by 6. We are now home each night at our own residence by 10 and by the latest asleep by 11. Before he didnt get home until 9:30 and then i stayed up til 12 to hang out and didn't get into bed til 1 most nights. So when I took naps i knew i was just catching up on sleep since i was only get 5-6 hours a night. Now..... ummm i'm just tired.

Today I got up for work at 6:30. Went to work and got home at 4. Fell asleep and got up around 6. Made dinner, ate, then went for a WALK! Bruce doesn't get home from school til 10 so tonight will be a late night. I wont get home til 12. So that was my reason for the nap today... but the naps other days? Tuesday i fell asleep and meant to get up by 5:15 so i could have dinner ready for bruce by 6. Bruce woke me up at 6 and we had soup and rice for dinner instead of the pasta dish i had planned on making.

So once again sorry mom! You sooooo needed that nap each day!! I don't even fully get it and i think i do. I'm sure 20 years from now i will be posting yet another post saying SORRY you were right, you need that nap!! I love you!!!

Halloween dance

2009-10-30T20:54:00.000-07:00

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2009-10-27T20:45:00.000-07:00

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Week 1 of our engagement!

2009-10-27T19:44:00.000-07:00

So pretty much I LOVE having a ring on my finger. Bruce chuckles every time he catches me inspecting it. I love it! We went to the fair on Saturday and some lady cleaned it for me and it was even MORE shinny then it already was! CRAZY!

It seems like each day this week something has hit me that i didn't realize. I'm getting married, which means bruce will be the boy who i live with for the rest of forever! Bruce and I are the ones who have to make choices about living arrangements and schooling and kids. There is SO much that goes along with marriage, which i knew about, i just didn't really think much about it. Being engaged has opened my eyes to a whole new world and i LOVE IT!

Yesterday my radiator got a crack in it. Of course I called upon my MR. fix anything fiance and he walked me through what to do.

That day my power also went out in my apartment. I was a tad stressed and sad(i was suppose to coach soccer this season but with the car being dead i couldn't make it to my coachs meeting) so by the time we went to get my car when Bruce got of work i was already in tears.

My oh so amazing bruce says to me while we are driving to kick up my car, with me complaining and whining about my day, (big smile on his face) "hey honey, guess what?! This is our 1st car problem as an ENGAGED couple!!" (Even bigger smile) I just looked at him and thought, really?!!?!?! and said "yeah the first of many!" I was in a bad mood but i LOVED that he was excited about it. Its not like he hasn't fixed my car before but we are now ENGAGED so it makes it that much better that he's fixing my car! I LOVE HIM!!! He is so cute!

He has grabbed my hand and showed everyone my ring! I gladly show it off but i love that he is just as excited about it.

We've looked at the calender and as of this week we are looking at June 26, 2010 as our wedding date. FYI this could change a 1000000 times before we set it in stone. We prolly wont pick for sure for sure til next spring but just so everyone can keep their calenders open. Yes, we want to go to San Diego to get married but we also don't want to spend lots of money either. so we are just looking and figuring things out. We have plenty of time to plan and i'm not going to stress too much til it gets closer. For now i'm just going to plan and scheme to see if i can get what i want for the price i want!!!

I love Bruce so much! Every time i look at my ring i get so excited! i know he is my other half and i am oh so grateful that we were able to find each other and make each other happy! Yesterday showed me that even though everything could go wrong and i was upset and in tears and stressed and didn't know what to do, i could turn to bruce wrap my arms around him, cry my tears, then he kisses them away and says thats it time to work and try and fix it all. Even though not everything was fixed i was happy cuz he was right there next me and working on everything right along side of me!!!

Kaci (my 2 year old niece) says it the best! "Krystal marry bruce! " Dance prince forever!"

I'm the future Mrs. Bruce Wayne Balls Jr.

2009-10-21T00:25:00.000-07:00

Bruce came over and we had planned on carving pumpkins. We had a contest to see who could carve the best pumpkin. Bruce surprised me by having my ring inside of his pumpkin!!!! My roommate Stephanie was in on it, and was there to take picture of the whole thing! This picture i just looked up at Steph and was like... oh my goodness my ring is in the pumpkin!!!!! i was so surprised! and soooooooo excited!
He sat me down and asked me to marry him! i said YES of course!
Here is telling me how much he loves me and that i'm he best friend!
I kept kissing him. I wasn't making it easy for him to get stuff out. I think i cut him short on a lot of stuff cuz i just kept kissing him!

He's amazing!!!!My mom gave me her original wedding band which I have been in love with since I was little. When she got another band a few years back I told her to hold on to her band for me. When we went up to prescott this last weekend she gave me her band!!! Its perfect! Bruce and i had shopped around for rings but i couldn't find the right one. Then my mom gave me her band and it was EXACTLY what i wanted!!!!!!!!
This was bruces pumpkin!!! He came up with this idea all by himself! He knows how much i lov carving pumpkins and how much i was looking forward to carving them! He is amazing!
Out the spirit of the night (i knew i was getting my ring at some point.. i just didn't know at what point of the night he was going to do it) i carved LOVE into mine! it turned out soo good!

I'm a WORKING girl!

2009-10-20T22:53:00.000-07:00

I GOT A JOB AT METRO TECH HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!

I now work 7:30 to 3:30 Monday through Friday. I get full benefits! I make as much as I did at Fry's! I work in the early child care class. We teach the high school kids how to take care of the day care that is next to our classrooms.

I am the teacher assistant! The teacher is in my YSA ward and told me about the job! I LOVE IT!!!

ASU vs U of A volleyball game

2009-10-18T21:28:00.000-07:00

Every year bre and i have gone to the ASU and U of A volleyball game. This year was no different... expect that Bre is engaged! I brought along my roommate too.
Stephanie loves taking pictures. I had something in my eye!! bre thought it was funny....

the roomies

We saw sparky climbing the stairs so i took a quick picture
then we got him to come over and take a picture with us! go ASU
Bre's got the bunny ears going on
pose for the camera
Best facial from bre i must say!
Baseball card anyone?

Pumpkin patch!

2009-10-18T21:19:00.000-07:00

I have always wanted to go and pick the best pumpkin ever! bruce took me on our way home from prescott valley! There were soo many pumpkins!
Brucie and i found the best pumpkin ever! its pretty big so brucie carried it back for us!
My man with all the pumpkins
Its always windy in prescott! i wanted a small pumpkin and a large one!!

BAD A$$ BBQ!

2009-10-18T21:10:00.001-07:00

Bruce and I went up to prescott valley for the weekend. I have always wanted to stop at the Bad A$$ BBQ grill so bruce took me finally!!! The food was all right. I have had better, but we did get to take fun pictures!

They have their own petting zoo and I got to pet the giraffe!!

Bruce trying to stick out his belly to match the elephant!

He need to catch the next load! lol

=] love it!=]

ROMMIES!!!!

2009-10-09T17:41:00.001-07:00

GO NATE!!!

2009-10-09T17:20:00.000-07:00

All of nate's fans!

Conference!

2009-10-09T16:58:00.000-07:00

I didn't have to work on sat so I went over to the Balls to watch morning and afternoon conference. Bruce and I watched the morning one by ourselves

Then my roommate came over for the second one along with bruces brothers, thomas and Danny
Stephanie was a little hyper. Thomas thought it was would be funny to tape Bruce's ankles to mine with duct tape. Stephanie thought it would be funny to help. Sadly we didn't get a picture of it but it hurt way bad.... for bruce! I had pants on but he was wearing shorts! Poor boy!
On Sunday I have a tradition of making a big breakfast then watching conference. During the second half we make fajitas. Bruce was willing to help me out. My roommate and her boy came along with bruce's family minus the parents since they were in utah.The anniversary of Sputnik is Oct 4th. Marie and Michelle (two of bruce's sisters) both went Idaho for school and every year they celebrated by having a SPUDnik day. They would watch October sky and have a pototo bar. Since conference fell on Oct 4th, for dinner we had a pototo bar and that night we watched October Sky. It was tons of fun! Michelle is an amazing baker and she made us a chocolate raspberry cake and we made 2 kinds of homemade ice cream. We also had noni nut muffins (sambruce's 2 year old nephew calls banana's nonis) They were super yummy!!!

This is Thomas... bruce's little brother. He has long blonde hair and we were being a tad crazy in between conferences and we tried curling his hair. He let me do one strand but wanted to do the rest himself. So he had one curled strand and the rest looked... interesting. lol We had a lot of fun!! I look forward to many more conferences with them!

North Mountain

2009-10-09T16:37:00.000-07:00

One night my roommate had me drop her off at work. She went in at 10 pm and got off around 3 am.(she works in a hospital) Bruce hung out with me while we waited to get her. By the time we got back it was almost 4 and we had wanted to hike Squaw Peak that morning but I wasn't feeling the idea of getting up early anymore. Then we had the idea of packing breakfast and hiking North Mountain and watching the sunrise!

Isn't it pretty? We took blankets cuz it was a tad chilly. Bruce pointed out some stars and what their names were. We also talked about us and where we wanted to go. We both are set on getting married. We are both set in the idea of getting married next summer too.

If you look closely... in between the tree and rock there is an owl! isn't it sweet! we heard it hoot on the way up then we were able to spot him! I took this with my phone so it didn't let me zoom in very close.

The sunset was soooo pretty!

It is very difficult to try and kiss, take a picture, and get the sunset in all at the same time while freezing cuz the windy is super cold... we took about 50 pictures and I only liked 2.

This is my super cute Brucester! We climbed to the peak and sat on a rock while we waited for the sun to peak over the horizon. We ate bagels with cream cheese and we brought granola bars and oranges but we ate half a bagel each then moved to a little hole to get out of the wind. After we ate our other half Bruce made me stand up to watch the sun come up over the horizon. After it came up i sat back down in the hole and realized the sun came up so we could go home. So we did.

All in all it was very fun!

Funiture Double

2009-09-17T14:33:00.000-07:00

My roommate stephaine bought a new table and we had to wait til bruce got off at 9:30 to go pick it up. I set her up with logan, a friend of mine and bruces, so she wouldn't have to listen to me and bruce all night. We picked him up and thankfully we did cuz bruce was a tad cranky from working all day and i had to be nice and play with him so logan and stephanie tackled putting together the chairs which took them til about 1 am to finish.

can you say poor YSA? lol i made soup and grilled cheese for every one cuz it was fast and easy.
We watched the office while we worked.. well one episode then we had to stop cuz we didn't have the remote to put on the next one lol

stephaine looking for some tools in the laundry room
My job was putting the table together.. i did it the fastest but we had to take the legs off cuz i put in the wrong screws.. but other than that i did a good job.I make dinner every night for bruce and stephanie and this night logan, bruce was nice enough to do the dishes so i could help put the table together

Stephanie just had to have this table! She hated the one we had! it was not comfortable and it wobbled tons!
trying out the new table! It looks so much better then the one we had before!
Stephanie loves this table lots!
We only have a table and love sac so logan had to sit on the floor after the fun ended...

ALL in all it was a fun night!

Cuteness for Bruce

2009-09-10T19:42:00.001-07:00

Did you know Labor day means you LABOR all day long? apparently thats how it is in the Balls family. We woke up at 6:30 am and moved his sister into her house. Then went and had breakfast at the stake center. After that we painted my desk, then went shopping, then ate lunch, then rearranged my room, then put my desk together, went to lowes, hung shelves on wall, then clean room, then go to FHE, then put everything away and go to bed by 11.

Bruce was so helpful all day! He spent his day off helping me get stuff that i wanted to get done, done! He didn't complain at all the whole day! We went back and forth all day long and didn't stop! He is AMAZING!

I had his truck for the day since i had interviews to go to, so my roommates and I heart attacked his room.

"You stole my Heart" is a line in a Ne-Yo song so we thought it worked out nicely!

Kerri gave me some canvas so i made a little sign to hang in his room!

Every Christmas Stephaine's (roommate) grandma makes each grandkid a candy bar bouqet and uses it as their place settings. She told me about it so we thought we'd make one for bruce! it turned out way cute!!
If i had 100 grand i'd more then willingly share it with bruce! He is so amazing! It goes without saying he loved his room! I guess no one has ever done anything like that for him, which suprised me cuz he does this stuff all the time. I guess he is just one of the ppl that does for others but no one does for him. I LOVE doing dumb stuff like this so i'm glad he liked it!

Castle n Coasters

2009-09-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

We all went on a quad date! My roommate sierra wanted to meet bruces friend dane so we planned a double. Then i asked a boy in our ward for my roommate stephanie and he said he'd go so we had a triple. Then they invited their younger sister to come along so it was a quadruple date. We all went to castle n coasters and played in the acrade. Bruce and i got 93 tickets and got cool shooter guns! stephanie and Chad only got like 65 and got bow and arrows. We played the ghost shooter game and got like 30 tickets! We all had a blast!

ONE reason why i love being out on my own again! going on fun dates with roomies!!!

UPDATE!

2009-09-10T19:21:00.000-07:00

***I MOVED***

***I QUIT FRY'S***

***Goldie is dead...for now... i hope ***

Lots has happend and i haven't had time to post everything...

I moved out with a girl from bruce's ward. I now live on 30th ave and thunderbird! Stephanie and her sister Sierra share a room and i have my own room and bath. Its sweet! i already love the girls! I'll post pictures of my OH SO CUTE room soon!

I quit frys cuz it was a 50 min drive to work everyday and i wasn't having that. So now i have a job at Deluxe. Its a fancy restaurant hamburger joint. Its pretty sweet. I hopefully start next week, and i get to work with chantel (friend since 2nd grade) again!!

Goldie died cuz i left my lights on at work, then i was given the wrong battery and put it in, and toasted the fuses. We changed those and it still wont start... so now we have to go fight the big bad SAM'S club to make then fix my car!!! Hopefully they will cuz i now pay rent and don't want to have to buy a new car.

Life is WONDERFUL! I love being with YSAs again! I also LOVE being so close to bruce! Its amazing!

Oh and i'm thinking of changing my major... to like physical therapy or ultra sound tech.. what do you think?

Associate's Degree

2009-09-10T19:20:00.001-07:00

I officially have my associates of arts! How very exciting! its going up on my wall!!!

Hallelujah!!!

2009-08-26T01:30:00.000-07:00

I've made up my mind! Forewarning this is will be a very long post! I'll try my best to explain but feel free to call and ask questions.

As every one knows, i have been in a rut this last month or so. Today i finally climbed out!!!

I struggled with if I should go on a mission or stay home. My true desire was/is to stay home and figure out school and earn money and set up my future life and get it started. I have and will always desire the next thing to happen in life. I love growing up. You will never hear me say, "man I wish I could go back to high school, or man being a grown up sucks and I wish I could stay a teenager or kid forever." I loved every age of life so far. I will always be looking for the next stage with excitement. I can't wait to reach the next point. I blame it on being the youngest and watching my siblings with their lives and me wanting to be just like them. Example... Kim as three kids! WOW crazy! I can't even imagine having one! However, being in Hawaii and watching Kim and learning how to become an AMAZING mom like her, I can't wait to have three kids and be like "hey Kim, remember these days?" Or watching Kerri with Kaci and learning and remember how to be just as cool, and watching and listening to their struggles with school and figuring out where to go next or what to do next. I want to be in their shoes. Some say, "a mission is part of the next stage too." However, I want the marriage life. From the time I can remember, if anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I said, "a mom!" that desire will never go away.

I wanted to serve a mission for many reasons.
1) I wasn't sure where life was heading and I'd be 21 so a mission could be good
2) I felt the Lord wanted me to serve a mission
3) After much struggle and thought... I wanted to bring the gospel to others and serve them
4) I wanted to live someone new and experience a different life for awhile
5) It would make me a better person
6) I could go on and on but 5 is enough=]

All of these things are great and I know that. I know going would be amazing and hard but worth it. I wanted to do the right thing. I wanted to follow the Lord and listen and obey. That's why I was struggling. After a lot of talks and advice from all, I still struggled. I knew I wanted to stay and move out and figure out school and live on my own. But, I didn't know if it was a rightoues desire to give up going on a mission. I wanted to do the right thing for my life. I didn't want to go down the path I wanted if it wasn't the path the Lord wanted for me.

After talking to the stake president, I finally felt comfort in the fact that the Lord trusts me. No matter what I do or where I go this next year, I know that now He knows I will be trying my best and doing the right things. A line from my patriarchal blessing which has brought me a lot of comfort this last week states, "Krystal, the Lord loves you and what is more important He trusts you. He trusts you for what you are now and for what you will become." I want to stay. The Lord is ok with that. Yes, He'd be pleased if I served a mission, but He still will be pleased if I stay home as well.

Another thing that I struggled with was this line. "In the not to distant future, you will be able to go to the temple to have your own endowments, to perhaps be sealed to someone for time and eternity." I've taken this line so many different ways. It has never sat right with me. It has always made me apprehensive. I never knew what it meant.. Did it mean i was going to get married? Did it mean I was to go on a mission? Did it mean neither of the two? WHAT DOES IT MEAN!!??! But that's the beauty of it. I realized, with the help of my stake president, who I know is a mouth piece for the Lord, that I will go to the temple and receive my endowments. I get to pick if its for a mission, or for being married, or if I just feel its time. Its up to me. He worded it so that I could figure it out on my own.

This last month has been very hard for me. Lots of emotions, lots of struggle, lots of misunderstandings, lots of tears. But I have also had, lots of love, lots of studying, lots of growing experiences,lots of knowledge, lots of comfort, lots of tender mercies.

With the downs come the ups.

I am staying home. The EMT program didn't work out sadly, but I'm on to the next thing. What that is, I don't know. I just know that I'm staying and I'm excited to figure it out. I'm excited to make plans and not be uneasy about them! I'm excited to finally apply to nursing school! I'm excited to (yes I want to come out, we'll see if it works out) go see kerri and brad in virgina! I'm excited to plan Sylvia's bridal shower (i'm the maid of honor!) and know that I will be here for it and the wedding! I'm just plain excited to have my mind made up. So happy! So ready for the struggles of finding a place to live, finding a new job, working out regularly agian, and training or attempting to train for half marathons and such! I have NO clue how its going to work, or whats going to come along now, I just know I'm staying and am content with that!

Another big thing in my life is BRUCE! I love him dearly. He is my true best friend. Plain and simple, he means more to me then I have ever imagined a person can mean to someone else. He was there through it all. He held me as I cried my eyes out. He sat and listened to me rant and rave. He sat there while I didn't want to talk or move. He played when I just need to play and not talk. He held back his emotions as I said good bye. He remained my friend even though I said "nope i'm done." He never pressured me in anyway. He was always there to give advice when needed. He was there to help me figure it out. He was there for my downs and for the ups. He is still here.

We as a couple, know that we will be sealed together for all time and eternity. What we don't know is when. We both are lost and confused on how our lives are working out. Most say, "get married and figure it out together. its just going to change when you get hitched!" We both know that we need to find ourselves. We also know we need each other in order us figure it out because we wont be able to without the other. We are each others other halves. But the marriage thing just isn't part of the cards as of now. We are both ok with that. As much as we just want to go against our better judgment and say here is our date we're going for it, we both know that we need this time as best friends to help us grow closer together without the stress of "real life" pushing on us. Also, we have only been dating for like almost 4 months. We are still discovering each other and the multiple layers that we both have. We know that we are each others eternal companions. We know it. No doubt with either of us. We both have had a confirmed positive from the Lord. What we have also had is a wait answer on our date.

When we know, you'll know. For now, bruce and krystal are best friends. That will never change. Only thing that will change is we'll will be married and sealed and start producing little bruce's and krystal's in the future. We don't know when that will be, but it will be someday!

Thanks to all for being around during my ever changing mind and plans. Thanks for all the advice. I took each piece of advice to heart. Even if I didn't like it, or if I didn't want to listen to it. Every one and everything helped me grow more then I ever have. Sorry for those who were excited about me serving a mission. One thing I've picked up on a lot though is, Every member a missionary! Very true, and one thing I will be working on.

This is my story. Hope you enjoyed the ride! I'm sure there will be LOTS more to come =]

Day at the lake

2009-08-15T17:57:00.000-07:00

syl turns 24 on monday so we took her boat out for the day! It was a lot of fun! I learned how to knee board

I didn't get the first couple of times..
BUT i ended up getting it! its pretty easy! next stop wake board!
Syl's bro degan was super good at it!
Syl could knee board and wake board. i didn't try the wake board cuz we ran out of time but we'll take it out again soon! It was lots of fun! i got fried but now i'm super dark!!!

Gondole ride!

2009-08-15T17:51:00.000-07:00

Bruce and I went a real date. We went to famous daves bbq and had the 2 feast meal. It was super tasty! I'll eat there again some day!
Then he took me to the Hyatt Regency in Scottsdale and we rode on the gondolas.
It was a lot of fun! So not worth the $20 for one song in Italian and a 10 min around a super small lake. But it was a lot of fun!

***disclaimer** before break up but we are still friends

Camping Suburban style

2009-08-15T17:28:00.001-07:00

So Nate asked Jessica if she has ever done anything cool... her answer. NOPE! Bruce and i were going to take her camping up in prescott but by the time we would have got up there it was going to be super late sooo i said hey lets camp in the back yard! It was about 11ish when we got home and we made the girls help put up the tents.

Jessica listening to how things should be done by bruce
I was super hyper and cold and didn't want to help so i made ppl play with me.
Really bruce did all the tent building. i kept jumping on jessica and trying to make her hold me! We fell once, i hit myself in the face with the camera the second time, and the third time... well...
I gave jessica a bloody nose! i promise i barely hit her nose and if she would have caught me i wouldn't of hit her in the face.
it went from a little bit to nasty vampire girl!!!
Anyone ever seen "She's the man"? They say tampons are the best for nose bleeds so jessica tried it out.. it worked!
Marsha informed us that the sprinklers come on at 5 am so we moved the tents under the gazebo and brought every blanket pillow and exersice mat out so it wouldn't be so hard
Since bruce was the only boy he got his own tent.
Then me, jess, brooke, and her friend alyssa sharded the other 2 man tent. Surprisingly i slept really well, other then the fact that i was cold all night then woke up sweating and went in side at about 7ish cuz i couldn't take the heat. All in all a successful camping trip.. some day we'll make it up the mountain for a real one =]

*** disclamier** happend before the break up.. but we are still friends and hang out!

BIG UPDATE*

2009-08-12T09:43:00.000-07:00

K so i haven't called anyone... kerri you never answer! i called you two days in a row so no more saying i don't call and talk(p.s happy late brithday) ... and kim i'll text you here in a bit... cuz that the easiest way of getting a hold of you... and you are still sleeping! Everyone else sorry i just don't call ppl. The only person who knows as of now is aunt marsha and thats cuz i live with her and tell her everything when it happens.

So i broke up with bruce last night.

Big shock huh? After conversing with my sisters about where my life is and where it was going i became super distrught and i had no clue what i wanted in my life. I was just very upset and sad and confused. Bruce was right there with me the whole time. I'm grateful he was there so i could voice all my feelings. After such an episode i came to the conculsion that i needed to do this alone. What "this" is i have no clue but i need to make that deicsion on my own. So i broke it off with bruce.

Idk if i'm going a on mission. I really just have zero desire to go. I can't make myself want to go.

Right now i kind of want to move to flagstaff, work and get into school next semester. Then apply for the nursing progam. It seems like my next adventure. I really want to do this. My mind is kind of set on it, soooooo its most likley where i'm headed. we'll see though.

I have an appointment with my bishop tonight. Then i'll figure out where i'm headed... just giving the family and whoever is interested in my ever changing life a heads up =]

Pepper sauce caves

2009-08-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

Bruce and i went down to tucson with a bunch of his friends and hiked in the caves. We bought cool headlamps so we could see inside. I was real excited about them!!!
AND..... we bought cool hydration packs for like $22 at costco. We got matching ones.. mine is green! Bruce and i are going hiking every saturday so we need them.. and we are taking a hiking class together in oct! The caves broke in the packs for us! If you look behind bruce you'll see a GT 500 shelby mustang. Thats the car we rode in to the cave! its a SWEET car!!! The road was a dirt bumby road the last 5 miles so we went 4X4 in a performance car. lol we got lots of stranges looks! But it was a sweeeet ride!
This is scott.. the owner of the Gt 500 and idk the girls name.. we drove with them
they "like" each other.. at least he likes her.. and get this.. he does research for cancer. he comes up with figuring out why cancer is the way it is and finds ways to detect it faster! he is super smart and super cool! he just joined the church like a month ago. its rich and nice and doing something great for the world! He is amazing! I like the girl should date him... to say the least haha
We are in the caves. Its hard to take a picture in the dark of a dark cave... but of course we tried
The cave has 2 huge rooms then little tunnels that go off and end in dead ends. You really can't get lost in there. Some places are muddy but it makes it that much more fun!
There was also a lake inside of it. we had to go down a ladder to get to it. Some kid swam in it. We didn't get close enough to it touch cuz eww! lol but it was cool!
we tried another shot of it.. you can see the trash floating. There was one spot we climbed down to see and i couldn't see the water but i saw a bottle just floating magicly in the air... i was all wow is it just me or is that bottle floating on its own??? remember its dark! haha bruce explained that there was a lake there and it was water. he then threw in some pebbles so i could see the ripples. It was a weird experience =]
it was soooooo fun!!!

This is me after all the fun and games. You can't really see that i'm super dusty and have mud all over. It was tons of fun! I want to take kerri and brad next time they vist and if kim and nate ever come home without kim being pregnant we'll all go =]

Tucson trip

2009-07-31T10:30:00.000-07:00

Bruce and i went down to Tucson to meet his oldest sister rachel. Come to find out i really like her! We got down there kind of late cuz we were playing with his other sister Liz who came out from utah and her family. I really like them too. Rachels house was the coolest house. I got to sleep on an amazing mattress and poor bruce had to sleep in the computer room on a mattress that was super not comfy! We got up the next moring and drove up mout lemmon. We went all the way to the top then went back down a ways to do a hike. It was like the best trail ever! It was super pretty. There aren't any pictures cuz bruce didn't bring the camera... i stole this one from the internet.

AFter that we went to his sisters store razors edge. Its pretty cute. ITs all punk stuff but i liked it. We hung out and shopped then bruce and went to the mall while his sister attended a class. Her boyfriend jack made us an amazing dinner! (hes a super chef!!) Then we went out for creme bulee and this rich yummy chocolate and berries in cream. It was way good and way fun. Then we went and crammed into his sisters room to watch I am Legend. It was a super fun trip!!!!!!

Goats

2009-07-20T21:08:00.000-07:00

Jessica and I went out to Goats Island today. i told her that it was shallow you can walk all the way out. Well it was later in the afternoon and was very choppy. We walked most of the way but had to swim some. We got the island and we both got blisters from our shoes. Then we started walking back and we had to swim back. Half way there we were tired but still swimming. I felt something on my neck and then it started to hurt. I felt my neck and pulled off a blue bubble(aka jelly fish). I freaked out and then i felt my back hurting and pulled off another maybe 2 more blue bubbles. I yelled at jess to keep swimming and swam as hard as i could to get away form that spot. It did not feel good!!! Come to find out we swam way far out of the way. this is the sting on my back. It looks the worst but hardly stung.

You can't really see my neck but the red welt went all the way across. It hurt the worst!! i came home and took a hot shower to get rid of the sting. it went away for the most part but every once in awhile it stings but hey at least i got to see what the big fuss was all about... feels like a really big bee stung me. no fun!!!!

jessica didn't really enjoy her trip to goats.. maybe she will next time she goes =]

and you can see the very cute horse shoe charm bruce bought me! i love it!

He's home!

2009-07-18T21:02:00.001-07:00

Favorite Aunt Krysie with baby Mason!
Cousin jessie with Mason.. only family here to ring in Mason
New addition to the Howard family
Nate was very excited about his new brother
He had so much fun holding him. He will be a GREAT big brother!

Mason Reef Howard

2009-07-17T18:12:00.001-07:00

Here's the first picture and i'm sure more will be coming! Yesterday kim wasn't in a good mood cuz she was only at 3. Jessica asked how long it takes to get from a 3 to a 10.... in kims case... less then 24 hours. We got home from our day in town and shopping and talked with everyone on web cam. Kim just sat and looked not so happy. After a super long shower we were all waiting for her to get done so we could watch a movie. Nate came out after talking to her and said they were going to the hospital. they left around 11.. checked in at 11:45 kim pushed out mason at 12:45. They are still in the hospital but everything went well. He was 7lbs 6 oz. I'm so excited!!! I'm glad that i'm here to help kim and nate out! Jessica and I have played with the kids all morning. everything has been going great!!!!

cousins

2009-07-17T18:09:00.000-07:00

We are having lots and lots of fun!!!!

Nate the younger

2009-07-17T17:55:00.001-07:00

We went to the beach today and nate wanted to be covered with sand. He's showing off his muscles again
he had fun playing in the sand!! we all got very sandy
King Nate
He got stuck in the play place so jessica went up to rescue him

He found jessica's sunglasses and he thinks he looks better in them then she does =]

RAD

2009-07-14T19:54:00.000-07:00

The kids were dancing with us. This doesn't show all their good moves but it gives you the picture of our RAD - random acts of dancing!

Nate playing with us

2009-07-14T19:52:00.000-07:00

Nate was so much fun that day. We played this game for awhile. Before he started this game he was wrestling jessica and putting her in a head lock and jumping on her. He licked her like crazy and even bit her head. It was pretty funny!

Sharks Cove

2009-07-14T19:37:00.000-07:00

We went to sharks cove up on north shore today! I had never played there so it was fun to go down
there are a ton of fish that you can just stand and look in the water and see them swimming! we went snorkeling too and it was shallow enough for the kids to play and have fun
the zoom was on when i took this one. look closely and you can see how many freckles i have. its pretty crazy, i didn't think i had that many!
heres the farther away one
kim and lili! aren't they so cute
Nate is Mr. Muscle man!! He was KING OF THE ROCK! =]
This is sharks cove... as jessica always points out.. there aren't any sharks, but its a great snorkel spot and really pretty, next time we will be prepared and bring our watershoes with us

oh course there is one of me with the pretty view

PCC day!

2009-07-14T19:26:00.000-07:00

Kim's friend were nice enough to get tickets for me and jess to go to PCC. we had both already been there but its still always a bunch of fun!
When i get old i'm going to be a super rude person. Apparently there is a rule that once you get old you are allowed to be rude to any and everyone. I noticed this at work with all the old farts that come in but i found it to be true at PCC. This old guy comes and stands in everyones way then SITS on top of me for a seat!!!! I was soooo mad!! I sat and waiting for 30mins to get a good seat then he comes and thinks that just because he's old he gets a good spot...on top of me?! i think i not! i don't care how old you are there are still manners! Old people make me angry! i can't wait until i'm old so i can terrorize the younger generations. No one will escape my rudness!!! =]
This is new zealand's village... enough said
jessica with a pretty waterfall. After our village fun we went to the night show. It was a lot of fun. jessica had never been to it. Thanks again shanae and melisa

Snorkeling

2009-07-10T22:41:00.000-07:00

Jessica was bored so i told her to put my hair in braids.
We went to turtle bay today to play. Nate relaxed in the sun
Jessica and i went snorkeling. SO FUN
walking in fins isn't to easy
we are cute we know
snorkel princesses
=] it was jessica's first time. she loved it! we saw lots of really cool fish
kim and the babies
chilling on the beach
I made lili a mermaid

Days in Hawaii

2009-07-09T18:10:00.001-07:00

So I of course being the favorite aunt brought presents along with me. Nate got a carpet with roads and cars. Lili got a bubble gun and sidewalk chalk. Big nate thought it was more fun than anyone. We got stencils in the pack. There was a giraffe one!

Jessie and lili playing together

So I'm missing bruce lots. Kim and jess keep makeing fun of me but i left a little something to remind me of him =]

We went to the swap meet and we got nate a toy.. lili liked it more!

Today was beach day. Kim went into town and we took the kids to the beach. Isn't this the cutest

Jessica and lili walking along

Jessica posing for the camera.

Jessica was playing with them in the waves. They had fun running in and out of the water

jessica didn't want to get too wet

Jessica showing off and doing handstands for the babies

Nate loves falling in the waves

cutest girl ever

i was talking to brucie while lili sat and got warm until she could go play again

Jessica was showing the kids how to build a sand castle

TAAA DAAAA

I wrote this in the sand and jessica taught lili she had to hold her sand castle so the waves wouldn't take it away. Lili was kind enough to "hold" my writing for me

She figured she could hold it better with her whole body

me and my girl lili

Lili wanted to write in the sand so she wrote happy birthday

cutest boy around

jessica and I

We had FUN at the beach!!!!!

Snack time!!!

jess showing off again

Last part of the trip

2009-07-08T21:18:00.000-07:00

Bruce and i went for a walk on sunday and found this super cute place to take pictures. we both just had on comfy clothes but we still wanted to take pictures. Bruce's phone had the cool sepia look so we took all of them with it! Bruce is just so handsome!

This pretty butterfly was on the path we were taking so we took a picture. it was huge!

This is a cool picture of the little creek running along the trail

Isn't this a beautiful waterwall?!!!

There was cute fence and bruce wanted to take a picture like this so we made syl and cliff take our picture

I love it!!!!

Bruce kissed me at the last second. This is my favorite one!

After our walk we went back and took a nap then syl and cliff took a nap so we went up the mountain and played with sticks. We each had a stick and were hitting all the dead sticks off the trees. We had so much fun! We felt like little kids just having fun and playing! Then we walked a little more up and found this pretty flower so i asked bruce to take a picture for me. He is amazing at taking pictures. he's never taken a class but for some reason they still all come out amazing!

This was his perpective picture. It looks like a log but really its just a little piece of bark!

This to me, looks like the scared grove. Bruce is amazing! I love this picture!

We saw a bunch of trees with ppls initals at the campsite and bruce was all yeah i'm pretty sure its aganist the law. I was a little sad cuz i have ALWAYS wanted to carve my initals in a tree.. and with a boy whom i love. But he didn't want to. Then i saw a tree that had fallen and was all.. hey we could do it in this tree... he just ignored me and the next thing i know he has a rock and carving in a tree.

BB and KH in a heart! I love it!!! He was all excited about it. he has always wanted to do as well. I was so happy! i love it!!! and its at syls cabin so we can visit it any time we want =]

Best 4th weekend ever!!!

2009-07-06T21:08:00.001-07:00

One day in june i said to bruce, " So i know its like a month away but can we plan what we are doing for the 4th of july?" Bruce being the oh so amazing boyfriend that he his, pulled out his phone and said, "have you ever been to the rodeo?" I said no and he said we were going to Springerville for the 4th! The planning started from there. He's family planned on going up and camping and my friend syl has a cabin in Geer so they planned on going up with us too. My camera broke so i was at the mercy of everyone taking pictures... there are A TON more to come... i just have to wait for them.

Oh and bruce and i got into an accident. We left home about 5 in the morning with his brother danny. We passed globe (we missed the turn off and kept going to safford) Danny wanted me to plug something in for him but i was doing my makeup and my ever helping boyfriend looked down to do it for me and as we rounded a corner we saw a truck sitting in the middle of the road waiting to make a left hand turn. We didn't have enough room to stop so bruce slammed on his brakes and swerved into on coming traffic ( a 18wheeler was coming but had plenty of time to pull off and stop) we ended up hitting their back left bumper with our front right bumper. The truck did a 180 and flipped on its side. Everyone in our car was safe and sound. the other couple got air vaced to tuscon for precaution. Bruces car was totaled which was sadness for him. Thankfully syl's parents live in globe so her dad came and picked us up. We had to wait for his sister and bro in law to pick us up on their way to springerville. THe funny thing about it was bruce and i just talked the day before about car accidents. i told him i was over a year free of being in an accident. thats the longest i've gone since i started driving. Then we go and hit that car. At least this time it wasn't my car!!!!

His parents and family set up camp in geer. It was the perfect spot!!! The weather was amaing!
They had a hammock set up and i made bruce swing with me. Sam wanted to play too =]
Aren't we the cutest!
I love feet pictures! This one is cute!!!
Tom is Bruce's youngest brother. He had the great idea of making himself a swing. IT was just rope tied to the trees. it hurt is butt real bad! haha

Sam had a ton of fun! He fell into the fire pit (w/o fire in there) trying to get his ball... then he fell over the log.. then he fell in the ice chest and the lid closed on him and we could only see his feet. It was so funny! there is even a warning on the ice chest that say. WARNING KIDS MAY FALL INTO ICE CHEST AND NOT BE ABLE TO GET OUT. sooo funny!

It was so pretty there! not far from camp there was a cute little creek flowing. We all went for a walk. At the very top of the creek there were a bunch of.....

CRAWDAD'S!

They grossed me out! Tom being the 14 year old boy that he is had fun playing with them

I did end up picking one up but it was gross. we all had fun playing with them!!

There are so many more pictures to come like our cowboy pictures. As soon as i have them i'll post them =]

Prescott retreat

2009-06-28T11:05:00.000-07:00

Bruce and I went on his ward retreat up in prescott. This is our signature pose! Every single one of bruce's mission pictures he is doing this! I make fun of him then when we went to take a picture i was like can we do the brazil pose?! He didn't want to cuz i was doing it just to make fun of him. But we did it anyway! Now every time we take pictures i'm going to make us to this pose! i love it! bruce has the pose down perfect.. i'm still working on placing my arm correctly and smiling the right way!!! I'll get it though!
We went on a hike and walked passed this tiny hydrant. i thought it was sooo cute i made bruce take a picture with it!
Bruce was stretching while he was waiting for me to climb up to where he was and i thought it was funny so i made him keep the pose =]
"Oh my gosh becky look at her butt... it is soo big"... yeah look at it... man... =]
Aren't we an adorable couple?!
Bruce found a stick that looked like an antlear... =]
Children at play..
We went back down to the valley cuz there was a fireworks show. I LOVE FIREWORKS! This is my attempt to document our first fireworks show together. We were right under the fireworks. I was sooo excited!
My eyes are huge.. i was just that excited! I never got the fireworks in the picture but close enoug

2009-06-28T11:01:00.000-07:00

Syl wanted to wax each other legs... so we did!
This is me waiting to get waxed!
This is me during! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you look real close you can see all the hairs... pretty amazing!

SUNSPLASH!

2009-06-28T10:54:00.000-07:00

Dad bought ice cream for kaci to him to enjoy! Isn't she to cute?
WE were all every excited to go play!! Sunsplash is amazing!
She wasn't in the mood to take picture but i snuck one in =]
Aren't they two peas in a pod? =]
The hott cousins!

Frozen Yogurt anyone?

2009-06-28T10:50:00.000-07:00

Bruce i went to mojo yogurt one night. You dispense your own amount of frozen yogurt then go to a table of toppings and put whatever you want on it.
Bruce and i had lots of fun with this! there was cap'n crunch and oreos and cookie dough bites, fresh fruit, chocolate chips, yogurt chips, m&m's. name it they had it!

We put EVERYTHING on ours... it was a grand total of 19.9 oz! it costed us like $8 but it was soooo yummy!!!! we had cake flavor so all the toppings went with that one. The orange one wasn't so good with the toppins and pisaticho wasn't good period but bruce liked it! we are going to go back soon =]

ICE CREAM!

2009-06-28T10:47:00.000-07:00

Bruce and I went to an antique mall and when were there they had a ton of ice cream makers. We saw a really old one that you have to hand crank. I told bruce i wanted it! The next day he went back and found this beauty! it looks old fashion but you don't have to crank it! The first attempt at ice cream failed. Jess didn't know you didn't put the ice with the salt in the ice cream. OH well! next time we'll get!!

I miss my baby!!!

2009-06-23T18:38:00.000-07:00

Kaci and bruce's nephew Sam spent the afternoon with us. We took them to the park so they could play and feed the ducks
They looked liked twins! They were so cute playing on the playground together!
Bruce and i were walking towards the pond with the kids and i was like hmmm... bruce do we look old enough to have twins? Kaci is only a few months older then sam and they both have blonde hair and blue eyes. I thought it was pretty funny!
She is tooo cute!! I miss her already! We had tons of fun playing!
What are they looking at? No clue!
We brought a huge bag of popcorn to feed the ducks. Dan bruce's little bro works at theater and he gets all the left over popcorn.
Kaci loved the ducks
Aren't they so cute?!?!
Babies had so much fun watching all the ducks flock to us for popcorn
=]

I'm in love!

2009-06-04T12:11:00.000-07:00

I've been trying to figure out just how to write this post. I guess the best way is to just explain! Bruce and I are unofficially official.. What does the mean? We are engaged without the ring!! According to Kim we are still official without the ring but if you tell someone you are engaged they ask, "Where's the ring?" So, we are working on the ring part. Saturday while we are waiting for kerri to fly in (I'M SO EXCITED!) we are going ring shopping!

Bruce is the most amazing man ever! He is my missing piece to my puzzle. Right now i feel like I'm on cloud nine! Everything is just how i always imagined it! Its pretty crazy! All the little things i thought of as a little girl and how i thought things should be, have really turned out that way. Bruce is perfect for me. Every thing about him. It just feels right being by his side. I catch myself thinking wow i can't believe this is really happening! I love it though! It might be a little bit until Bruce can save up his money for a ring, and then I'll be gone in hawaii for a month. We have a date in mind but we are going to wait until we are officially engaged to release that kind of news! There is so much i want to say and how i feel but time is short. I'll add more as the months go on.

Syl's cabin

2009-05-26T11:56:00.000-07:00

Syl and her family have a cabin on top of mount graham. Syl was heading up there for the long weekend. she was sad cuz her boyfriend cliff had to work and wouldn't be going. I was all sad cuz she was going to be gone and bruce was going to be at lake powell. so we decied that i should go up and we would have a girls weekend without the boys! It was sooo fun! 2 of her brothers and their families were there her dad and her younget bro who just got home from his mission last week. Their mom came up later on sunday. It took us all day to get up there cuz we stopped and did lots a long the way. I was so excited to go back to thatcher. It has been an entire year since i was there last. Everything is upgraded. I couldn't believe all the things that had changed...yet it was still same old thatcher. i'm so glad i went to EA last year! Once we finally got up to the cabin i had to run 7 miles since i'm training for my half marathon. I figured it would be easier to just run down the mountain. I made degen (syls bro the RM that just got home) run with me. He was a trooper and ran the whole way. It wasn't hard since it was down hill but it took us an hour. Our legs HURT the rest of the weekend!!!

Sunday syl took me to hike ladybug trail! We kind of got lost but eneded up finding the trail. It wasn't hard... but my legs were sore and it was up the moutain.
Syl is pointing to the moss. i told her the story about how jessica and brooke would make moss their pets when they were little. lol
Syl was a trooper and made it to the top!!! It was soooooo pretty up there
I MADE IT TOO!!!
This little guy was a fast flyer. He was the only lady bug we found. Apprently later in the summer the entire rock we were on is covered in lady bugs. Hopefully i'll make it back up when they all get there
Right after that hike syl took me to hike up to bear cave. That one was straight up the mountain!! It was a killer! But sooo worth it!!
I was holding up the rocks so syl could enjoy the view haah
It was sooo green up there. There was a stream running so everything was growing and very green. i loved it! nature is one of my absoulte favorites! It was so nice to just sit and listen to the water trickle and see all the beautiful plants

On the way back this ugly bug was on our windowsheild! IT WAS HUGE! can you see the stinger on that??!!! it gives me the goose bumps to think of that thing stinging me! OUCH!

After our hikes we went back and took a nap. i got up to go play games with syl and her sister in law and my legs wouldn't move. Syl had to carry me into the kitchen. My legs are still sore but i had lots of fun!!! We played lots of games and made homemade ice cream. All and all it was great trip! I missed bruce a ton though. hawaii is going to be hard but i'm so excited to go!!!!! Syl and i have planned on going back up to the cabin later this summer. I loved it there!!!

Payson

2009-05-22T12:14:00.000-07:00

Bruce being the oh so amazing brother that he is, told his sister he would drive up to Payson and pick up roofing shingles that she had ordered. I love road trips and since he was going to be leaving real early i offered to drive up with him!
It was early and i look like poop but we had to document our first trip together!!! We had fun listening to music and enjoying the pretty drive up. It was a good time to talk and get some things settled and talked about.

These are the shingles... bruce didn't know i was taking the picture lol. There was a lot of them but we got them home safely! So far things are amazing! We take turns driving out to see each other since he lives in noth phoenix and i live in chandler. Things with bruce are so different. I don't think i have ever felt this way about any of the guys i've dated. bruce and i talk a lot about how this is an "adult relationship". Its weird to think about sometimes. i know i'm an adult but i still feel like i'm just me. Kim points out that i will always be her baby sister and i feel that way and i'm ok with that. I love growning up but i don't feel old. I guess that is a good thing. Bruce and I are getting pretty serious but we have talked and are just going to have fun and enjoy the summer and if things still look up by the time i get home from hawaii we'll get " serious". =] its werid that i'm in the position to be thinking about him as a possibly my future husband. It freaks me out to think about it seriously but at the same time its fun to think i'm in that stage of my life. Don't worry people we are still just boyfriend girlfriend. We've talked some but we are still getting to know each other. I just thought i'd let you know that i'm really into him and am oh so very happy!

Sylvia!

2009-05-19T23:54:00.001-07:00

This is me and syl! I love this girl!!! She is by far one of my most favorite bestest friend! We have so much fun together! These were taken on my birthday. She spent the whole morning/afternoon with me!
Our real smiles. We were laughing about something! We laugh all the time! There are many nights when we have ofraph (when you are slap happy and every thing is funny) and we laugh and laugh!
We see each other lots! Now that we BOTH have boyfriends we get to go on all the fun dates we had planned before the boys came into our lives. We made a pact that we wouldn't be those stupid girls that gives up everyone just to be with their boyfriends. Syl did a GREAT job since she has been with cliff lots longer then i have been with bruce. Thankfully cliff and bruce like each other so we all hang out lots!
We also have nights where its just the 2 of us. We like to go out to eat. We have our "golden Red" nights every once in awhile (red robin and get endless fries and then golden spoon for fozen yogurt) but mostly we find places we have never been and try them out. We have gotten really close and plan to be friends FOREVER! Cliff and syl are going to be engaged by the end of summer! how exciting is that!!?!? She is my first close friend to be getting married. Its nice to have her going through it so i can watch and learn and see what its like through her. She is amazing! AND they both are in agreement to move to colordo some day!
This is just a picture of me when i turned 21. I saw a picture of aunt karen at her 50th birthday party and she was 21 and in a cute cute outfit. I wanted to have one of those pictures so when i turn 50 i can show everyone my cuteness when i was 21 and living it up =]

School....

2009-05-17T19:04:00.000-07:00

Q? What does 61 hours in the tutoring room plus all the other hours studying get you?

A-

I passes both my anatomy and microbiology class with a B!!!!! I am oooooh so happy about it. I worked my tail off for both of those B's.. Uncle kevin said.. a B is good? miss straight A student id excited over a B?? YES I AM!!!!!!! i really thought i was failing all semester.. and i'm pretty sure i was... but i pulled out with a B!! this was by far the hardest semester of my LIFE! and i realized it... its just going to get harder. It is worth it though.. maybe if i had more then 61 hours i could have got an A! but with work that was not possible! i'm happy though!!!

Hawaii here we come!

2009-05-11T15:06:00.001-07:00

Jessica and I are officially going to hawaii to see the Howard clan!!! We leave july 7th! Jessica comes back the 22nd for school but i'm staying until the 4th! i can't wait to see my sister! It will be almost an entire year since i have last seen her! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!

I think 2 additional people to the Howard apartment wont be to bad... since jessica insists on ALWAYS laying on top of me =]

My amazing mother

2009-05-10T14:02:00.000-07:00

This is my mommy! The best one out there! Since today is mother's day i thought i'd send out a little shout out! This picture shows one of the many reasons why i love my mother. She has the COOLEST hair ever. I can move it and put it any way I want.. and it stays! i have many memories of playing with her hair and laughing until i cried! And she always let me! What a grand mom i have!

As i have gotten older i've realized that i am who i am because of my mom. I get my wild crazy personality because my mom was never scared to be her crazy wild self. She showed me that life is more fun when you are your own person. Some day i hope to be the same mother to my children has my mom was to me. This lady walked me through life and was/is always there for me. She let me yell and scream out my frustrations. She let me be the all knowing teenager who just did not want to talk. She let me cry out my pain and sorrows. Through everything she was always there for me. I always knew i could turn to my mother and she would always be there and know just what to say and do.

I'm truly blessed to have been sent to the BEST mom ever!

CES firside

2009-05-04T20:06:00.000-07:00

Bruce and i went to the CES fireside on sunday. Elder Bednar spoke. He talked to us about how our bodies are the most important gift that we have received and that we need to treasure them and know that satan is trying everything he can to get to us to misuse our bodies. he then went into the computer world and how we need to be careful with not allowing us to fall into the cyber world. He warned us against to many hours on the computer and living our lives vicariously through online games. It was all very interesting. I love CES firesides and was very happy that bruce went with me..then we headed to the pirate party.. see next post. When bruce got to the house aunt marsha saw him all dressed up and i was in my dress so she had us take pictures together. I didn't have any objections and bruce was down. =] Aren't we tute?
this is my dress i made! i love it! it's my favorite~

Pirate Lego Double date

2009-05-04T19:54:00.000-07:00

Syl and i have been planning a double date in which we would build legos. We have been planning it since before she started dating cliff 4 months ago! Now that i have a bf we finally went with our plans. While we were searching for legos, we saw the priate set and had to have them. Then us being us we wanted to dress up as a pirate and have a pirate party while we built the set. Bruce went along with it! isn't he great?!
Isn't he so sexy? I brought the best dressed pirate thats for sure!

RRrrr matey
not the best picture of us but we were all dressed up
After we ate fish sticks, biscuts, grapes, cherries, strawberries, avacodo shakes we started the legos

The booty was my favorite part. it had rubies!!
This is everything put together!
the raft
the abandoned ship which is soo cool and had trap doors and a bridge andd lookout point and sword chopper head offer thing
there is also a boat but i can't find that picture... we want to save up our pennies and do get the SHIP! its $100 so it might be a very long time!!!

We had so much fun! I loved every minute of it.

Romantic Date Suprise

2009-05-03T16:55:00.001-07:00

So I have the most romantic boyfriend ever! He had this whole night planned out. He got a hold of my cousin and had her help him plan dinner for me in our back yard. Uncle kevin has THE most romantic yard ever!

As soon as i got off work jessica rushed me into my room to change. I was hurrying so i could call bruce and she kept telling me she had a surprise for me outside and that it took her all day to do it. I just had to go see what it was before i called bruce. I was like ok fine whats a few more minutes right..

she pulls the blind fold off and bruce is standing under the gazebo with the twinkly lights and a candle lit table!! I will never forget it! He pulls out the chair for me and jess and brooke brought out the salad and bread. It was so amazing! I couldn't believe everyone knew and kept it secret from me!!
He made, from scratch, chicken fettuccine alfredo and cheesecake! Both were ooooh so yummy! we even had sparkling cider!

After we went out on the lake then took a walk across the bridge. Most romantic and fun night ever! we watched she's the man after to top it off!!!

Introducing....

2009-05-02T12:45:00.001-07:00

my boyfriend Bruce Wayne Balls Jr.

Day with BRE!

2009-05-02T12:13:00.000-07:00

I didn't have school or work on Friday and i had a date with Bruce but that wasn't until 9 so bre and i planned to play during the day.. since i was going to be on that side of town!

We went to Castle and Coasters and played a round of mini golf!!! I had so much fun! We both got par on the second half of he course! I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE! i owe it all to my daddy who showed me how your suppose to putt when we went a few months back!!

After we played we went to the park and played racquetball!! I now love that game!

Sister Hebner?!

2009-04-29T11:18:00.001-07:00

I went and talked to my bishop last night.... and.... I can start filling out my missionary paper work! I'm so excited! I'm going to start attending Missionary prep classes sunday mornings! He thinks that if i can get every thing done i could have my call by the time i leave for hawaii! CRAZY HUH!?!? He asked if there was any one i was dating.. and i told him i just started to hang out with bruce... He then asked if we should wait and put off doing my papers. I was all.. we JUST started dating and i can't even begin to say where it will go. Yes i like him but we only started dating. So i asked if i could start my papers and also see where it goes with bruce.. if it goes anywhere. he said that it was fine and there were a lot of steps to filling them out and i could stop at any point if something develops.

I'm so happy right now! life is so great! School is almost over too!!! what more could a girl ask for??

Fry's employee of the month

2009-04-29T11:06:00.001-07:00

I didn't get anything special for being Employee of the month but its still an honor! My boss came and took a picture of me and i asked what it was for, she said oh you got employee of the month. I was all.. cool! lol I've never had a job in which that was offered so its cool that i can say i've been an employee of the month! Makes me feel like my hard work is noticed! =]

A day at the zoo!

2009-04-29T10:35:00.000-07:00

I got a free pass to the zoo since i ran the 5k and syl and clif came out to go with me!!

As we were walking into the zoo this lady comes out with a cooler and ask... "want free ice cream?" of course we said yes!! i got a bullet! Every time i went to the zoo with my family or with my friends family we would ALWAYS get a bullet afterwards! I got mine before we went in but still how AMAZING is that!!!
My bullet! This so made my morning at the zoo!
syl being a bird and asking for food haha
this is a really cool bird... you just can't see it
los monos! so cute
we brought cliff to the zoo since we are all over 20 years old and at the zoo with no little kids.. that was cliff's role =]
He made me take this of him... he likes the camera i guess lol
he wanted to look like a toursit i think
syl and clif looks that the nasty bugs that i won't even name here cuz they are that gross!
typing away on the type writer

pretending to cool off in the fan
this was by the bears.. clif made me take pictures of himSyl goes and looks at this boa constrictor then comes and gets me and cliff and points to the sign and says... its a cobra!! hahaha i had to take a picture of the sign haha
These always remind me of the fife family!!!
the sign says save some water, save a native fish, have fewer mesquitos! when we read this clif pointed out to syl that it was the circle of life... i laughed and took a picture of it
we were soo close... i wasn't even using zoom!
krystal + giraffes = HAPPINESS!
Aren't they sooo pretty! i love them! Coolest animals ever!
They built this cool giraffe tower so you can be up with the giraffes! No feeding them like at the wild zoo but still very cool! and the steps move and the bridge moves too! its fun!
Syl made us peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I got a pudding cup while they ate nasty apple sauce. She's amazing!
Syl and clif... aren't they just sooo cute!
I saw a sign next to the otter cages and it told us how to be an otter for the day! how cool is that!!!
here is a closer look at what it says! i think its so funny!
I love the zoo!! so many good memories there!
clif and i smelled burgers at the zoo so we all went to in and out afterwards
we love in and out!!!

Video's from the 5k

2009-04-29T10:30:00.000-07:00

Amazing video of our 5k

the cool guy with the nice calves.. if you look close you can see that they split!

my first 5k!

2009-04-28T16:35:00.000-07:00

K8e and i as we got to papago park to run our 5k!!! It was early but once we got our free shirts (i was most excited out that!) I started to get really excited! i loved all the different people there running. Young (1 year old running... this little girl ran with us at the end.. it reminded me of lili) and old like old old, skinny, fit, fat, average.. all were welcome to run! We got to help save the cheetahs and run! it was a very fantastic experience and i am sure i will be doing it again soon!!
k8e putting on her bib
i was number 204 and k8e 209! My first bid from a running race.. more will follow i'm sure!
me with the famous high school runner pose! don't i look skinny! i love this picture haha
k8e with the famous high school runner pose
we got free breakfast!!! blueberry bagels bananas and oranges!! YUMMY!
our banana halves with these nasty gummy energy things

you can't see the banana which was the whole point of the picture =/
there were a ton of people running! i loved the atmosphere of runners all around doing what we love to do! There was such a buzz in the air! i can't wait to do more! i'm going to be addicted to these things!Me and katie in the crowd of people waiting to run
This guy had the coolest calves.. they split in the middle!! the video you can see it better
our 1st mile maker approaching!
our mile marker!! i was there... see the tiny arrow.. its pointing to me!!
the turn around point! half way done!
this was at the turn around.. we couldn't take a picture at the marker since it was kind of crowed
2nd mile mark approaching
This was our 2nd mile maker! see i was running =]
we ran our 5 k!
Right at the finish line! we sprinted to the end and there was a ton of people and the announcer was all " oh look at the fast sprint to the end. this is a photo finish people" It was an amazing feeling to run a 5k and have people waiting at the end! i will be doing it again!
We needed some water after our run! It was nice weather though
afterwards we got free massages!!!
We tried putting oranges in our mouth but k8e couldn't get hers to stay in
she tired but it was still popping out
Then k8e got me an orange and i couldn't keep it in my mouth! haha
We both were able to get the oranges in out mouth!
We finally got the oranges in our mouth... at our 5k!

Here were the results...
212 KRYSTAL HEBNER 21 11/25 F 204 31:11 10:02

213 KATIE FENDERSON 21 12/25 F 209 31:12 10:03

over all i came in 212 place and for my division i came in 11 out of 25 ppl. I ran it 31:11 and had a pace of about 10:02... it was a fun run and we stopped and took pictures along the way.. but it was still a good pace for us! I loved it!

The dating scene

2009-04-28T16:23:00.001-07:00

So the whole mark thing didn't work out... i was kind of sad but i got what i needed out of that.. to get over joel. I also got to be like my sister kerri and date an older guy haha =]

Now i'm on to new and better people! Have you ever heard me say that i wanted to marry my friend bruce cuz of his last name? I would be Krystal Balls! how cool is that??!!? I met bruce when i turned 18 and started going to the young single adult ward. I was dating joel at the time and bruce, brad, and brian (the 3 b's what we called them) were in my ward and we all hung out and played volleyball that summer. that was one of the funnest summers! joel and i broke up before he was leaving for school and that week Bruce asked me out. I said no thanks and then we kind didn't talk any more after that and joel and i got back together. Bruce then went on a mission to Brazil and got home this Oct. He texted when he got home and then we never hung out. I invited him to a couple of stuff but nothing really happened. I invited him to my birthday party and he came and ended up being the only guy there. My friend k8e then invited him to come over the following friday and play video games with us.

He came over that friday and we went to applebee's instead. Thats when the past got brought up. We explained what happend to katie and got to talk about why things never worked out for us. Then sat after my run and the zoo i went over to go swimming at his parent's house. His roommate and a girl came and played with us. I got to meet his family again and then i went over to granny's for bit while he went to his friends wedding. I went back over and we watched the movie Big! SO cute! i loved it! that night just happened to be our first kiss too =]

Sunday night syl invited us over to her house for dinner with clif and her roommate and her date. we ate and played catch phrase then watched the count of monte cristo. bruce and i stayed and talked for awhile... and now we are dating =]

birthday pic from k8e's camera

2009-04-20T14:53:00.001-07:00

don't worry folks we are all at least 21 now... the rootbeer is safe! =]
my surprise for a girl from k8e and bre
the the gifts instead were oh soo cool!
my so very cute shoes
bre on the paddle boat
k8e and bre
my virgin strawberry daiquiri yum!
bre with hers and the umbrella
my birthday cake!
my wish will come true i just know it!

we thought the sunset was very pretty so we took pictures

we went out on the boat with 5 of us
this is monica... she's my friends from my microbiology class.. Love this girl!

cute don't ya think!!!

my feet k8e and bruces.. isn't this the cutest picture ever!
they were standing up in the paddle boat
we switched spots cuz our legs were tired
the 2 paddlers now in the back

very cute picture i think
haha they were taking this picture so i leaned in to be in it. bre was faking being scared but k8e really was so scared when the picture was taken! i think i rocked the boat a tad to much for her haha

we went to the fun park and spun on these spinny things
this thing was soo fun and kind of scary
cousins and their friends and garrett playing with us

monica and i are pros
bre on the spinning thingy
monica and bruce trying to figure out what these thigns do
this is when it would get scary
we all are on the swings! its dark but still cool
this was on the way to walmart where we bought apples to apples.. a fun game!

these pictures are thanks to k8e!!!!

21st birthday!!!

2009-04-20T10:56:00.001-07:00

One of jessica's friends who i've known as long as they have been friends and her mom who i now work with brought me these flowers at work!! aren't they pretty!!!

Apirl 18th the best day in the whole year!!! my day went like this... I woke up and ran 3 miles
then syl and i went to good egg for breakfast
we then got our toes done.. i got a free flower cuz the lady made me hold her baby while she painted my toes.. weird i know! we made it home in time for the party to start...
my six foot sub! it was all gone by the end of the night
liz had a giraffe cake made for me
me and syl in our matching sunglasses
mark and us playing soccer.. we played for like an hour. I so won but mark made the winning goal at the end. half an hour in i sprained my ankle =/
grape soda for me and root beer for syl
me and brookie jumping in together
i had to hold syl's hand so she would jump in

brookie jumping in
mark and I are soo amazing huh!sub time!
jumping to get warm to go back into the pool
liz and nick. I work with liz at frys! she is my favorite!!!! nick is her bf!
syl me and bruce chilling in the chilly pool
all of us playing soccer again.. i wasn't that great the 2nd time with my sprained ankle
we went out for like 2 seconds but there will be more pic from the paddle boat later when i get them from katie

bre and katie! we've been friends sincefreshmand year in high schoolsurprise for a girl gift hah

hananah monatana ball, play dough, hair stuff!all my gifts
liz got me giraffe print shoes! LOVE THEM
my oh so cute shoes
high school buddies now 21!
Liz and nick

bruce and me.. i meet bruce my 1st summer in my 1st ysa ward. We have been friends ever sincewe made virgin straberry daiquires and toasted to being 21!

singing happy birthday to me!sarah, jessica, monica, me,bruce, katie, bre all jumped in cuz they missed the pool party. it was COLD!!
bre beat me in our race but my ankle was killing me!
we were all a tad bit chilly!
we all went and played sand volleyball after playing on the equipment of course
all our loving fans
the last remaining 5 who stayed and played apples to apples after volleyball
bruce got me a gift card to target and you could play pin the tail on the burrow.. so we did =]
my ankle by the end of night was very fat. i sprained it during the 1st hour of my party playing soccer but i didn't let it stop me.. no siriee!

More pictures to come once i get them from every one!

BIRTHDAY WEEK!!

2009-04-14T21:57:00.000-07:00

Yup that's right.. on Saturday i will be 21 years old! i have been looking forward to this day my WHOLE life!

I don't know why, but i always thought that i would be married when i was 21. My mom, and both my sisters (almost) got married when they were 21. It just always seemed i would too.... now that i am approaching the big 21 i realized that i was meant to serve a mission. Why you ask? well...

When i was 16 I got my patriarchal blessing. When it got to the part about marriage and such there is one line that says "In the not to distant future, you will be able to go the to temple to have your own endowments, to perhaps be sealed to someone for time and eternity." I remember my mom saying, oh no krystal is going to get married young. But the PERHAPS always stood out to me. I always took it as you are going to want to get married but really your not going to get married.. just get endowed then get married later. I always feared (sad i know) that it meant a mission. I refused to expect it! When i turned 20... a year ago.. i was trying to figure out where i should go to school. i kept having the feeling of going to my parents and staying there. I did, then went to utah. I came home not knowing why.

During president monsons talk sunday morning i got my own little personal revelation that i had to come home to go through some certain trials.. money related.. and find in myself the will to prepare to serve a mission. I'm still kind of be fighting it hoping to meet that special guy that is going to sweep me off my feet... but i'm about 99.999% sure that i should go on a mission.

I never knew that this was where my life was going to go but i'm finally excited about it!! i know what i'm suppose to be doing! even though i still wanna meet that boy and start a life with him, i'm very excited about preparing and serving a mission!!!

This week is the start of my 21st year and i can't wait!!! there is no looking back! Starts with a pool party and ends.... who knows where =]

My date with mark...

2009-03-29T11:41:00.000-07:00

So i know everyone wants to know what happened with mark... So... thursday i was going to ask him out for sat to go to this YSA thing. But he ended up leaving before i got to talk to him so my friend Moncia put "hey mark i just wanted to say bye today, and hello saturday" on the board and put my name and number. I thought it was funny and clever so i left it. Later that day he texted me and said, "hello saturady! thanks for the note." we started talking and i asked if he wanted to do something on sat and he said he had a party but invited me to go with. I had to work until 9.30 so wouldn't be able to make it. he was all ok maybe some other time. The next day i texted him and then he asked how my patho class was going. i'm not taking patho.. monica is.. I was all hmmm awkard! he thinks i'm monica!! Marsha talked me into texting him back ( i was just going to avoid him from then on out haha) and i texted him ..hhah awkward.. i'm krystal not moncia... He called me and explained that he was pretty sure i was krystal but the people in the tutoring room told him moncia put it on the board. I laughed it off and was all at least we are on the same page now. He then asked me if i wanted to go to a party that night. I was like sure! He gave me the directions and then i asked if he just wanted to carpool. He was for it so after i got off work i headed over to his house (he lives in gilbert and thats where the party was) We went to the party and it was LAME! we ended playing old school nintendo then left and went to sonic. we sat in my car and talked until they turned out the lights on us.

I don't think he's into me. Which i'm ok with, even though i do like him. I realized that he was my first date that i've wanted to go on, that i tried putting together since i broke up with joel. that in itself is a BIG deal to me. I finally realized that i was over joel. It has taken me a VERY long time to get to this point but i've finally made it! I stopped talking to joel in jan and wasn't going to contact him until i finally moved on. yesterday i texted him and while we were texting was when it hit me that i wanted nothing to do with the kid and that i wasn't sad about not being his friend and that i've been so much happier without him. I didn't know when i was going to reach this point but now that i have i feel so free!! Its an amazing feeling to know that i'm over him and that i made the best choice i could by breaking up with him. I hadn't moved on so it was still hard and i still thought i had feelings for him. But i don't at all and never will again. To be honest i never thought i'd make it to his point be so happy. Just have faith and this to shall pass! always gotta remeber that!!

I do like mark, but i don't think anything is going to happen there. But for me just going out one time with him HELPED me so much that i will be forever grateful to the guy. Even if i wont ever know about it lol.

Arla's gift

2009-03-29T11:38:00.000-07:00

Hopefully she doesn't read this before the shower.. if she even reads this at all.. but I thought i'd show my sisters what "we" got her for her shower. i'm going to be nice and put your guys name on it so you can be apart of the fun!!! The are really cool cuz they lay flat then you push them and they pop out to be the size of the measuring cup it says.. same for the strainer.. Aunt marsha and i thought they were cool! and they were bright colors!

Half Marathon!

2009-03-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

One of my goals in life is to run a Half marathon. Crazy maybe? YES but still how cool is that to say you had the will power and determination to run for 13 miles!

As we were signing up for the cheetah run k8e asked if i ever wanted to run a half. I said OF COURSE so she looked one up , and there is one Aug 8th in flagstaff. We decied to take the leap and start training for it.These are some old pictures of us when we ran track in high school. Yes sadly we did wear these outfits to school on a track meet day! Yes my booty was in tight spandex at school! poor boys prolly didn't learn a thing that day hahah (side story... this kid at work calls me bubbles.. wonder why? lets just say my family has always told me i had a "bubble" butt... lol)

Kim this means you have to pop out that baby before i leave hawaii!!! And nate you can run with me while i'm there.. i'll be in the high milage by then but you can keep up right! =]

Running style!

2009-03-29T11:22:00.000-07:00

I went to the movie the other week and saw an ad for a 5k run to support the cheetahs. For $20 I would get to run a 5k, get a shirt, and get to go to the zoo for the day. I'm all about getting new shirts, and i love zoo.. i also love to run!

My friend k8e from high school, we used to run track together and played soccer together, said she would run it with me! Its april 25th! I'm sooo excited!

Espanol aluguin?

2009-03-29T11:17:00.000-07:00

Idk if i spelled that right.. but i'm taking spanish and this is my 4th year learning the langauge. I'm still not good at it at all! I can understand more of it, and in class i do really well.. but when people start talking to me i lose all of it. My mind just goes blank! i was trying to think of a way that i could learn it but out of class. I asked my bro in law nate if he thought reading the book of mormon in spanish would be a good idea (he speaks spanish lol). he approved so i went and bought a little paperback one. I started reading it, and since i know the first chapter of the book of mormon i get whats going on. I'm adding reading in spanish and learning whats happening to my scripture study. I figured while i'm learning i can be studying too right! We'll see how it works. nate gave me a exersice to do while i'm reading it so i'm going to give it a try!

Pedicares ROCKS!

2009-03-29T11:16:00.000-07:00

My friend from work and I wanted to get out toes done so after our shift we headed over and relaxed while the ppl worked their magic. I got checker boards on mine and thought they turned out really cute!

Victoria's Secrete

2009-03-29T11:08:00.000-07:00

MOm and I went shopping after buying the car. Mom had seen a commerical about the Prefect Bra and victoria's secret so she wanted to see it. We went in and the lady asked if she wanted to be measured. I had never done it so i wanted to! she mesured mom then me. She said i was a 36 C. HAHAH sure... i tried on the 36 B just to be safe.

This is me in my prefect bra. Nice huh! It really is the prefect bra! it fits amazing and i feel in love as soon as i put it on.
Mom was being a little shy so we didn't take her head shot but this is her trying on bra's. after We tried them all on she liked one (and old lady one that i didn't like) and i like my prefect bra. Both of us had never had a bra from victoria's secret before. i figured mom needed to have at least one in her life... and that i didn't want to have to wait til i was 49 to get one from there, so i bought one for her. HAPPY way EARLY mother's day mom!! =]

Introducing....

2009-03-29T10:51:00.000-07:00

Cami... or Goldie locks. I haven't picked yet but i really like Cami. any ideas shoot them over!
Dad was able to get this steal of a car for only $200. Thankfully I have a J-O-B and was able to buy her. She is in pretty good shape. I love her!!! I am sad that Sundance is no more, but i got a VERY good upgrade.
She looks a little old lady inside (you can't really tell from the pic sorry) Funny story about the seat belt. The day before i went up to Prescott to pick her up i had a dream about having a car with seat belts that go over you automatically. I thought it was strange since i've never had a car like that. Then when i saw her and the seat belt i was like HEY it was meant to be!!!

Some of the upgrade this car has from Sundance... 1. She is automatic locks! 2. Automatic windows! 3. Cruise control! 4. Window washer button that sprays water on the window! 5. pop gas tank! and the best part about her......

SHE HAS AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!! it works really really really well too!!! I use it all the time.. even if its not hot out!!! i love it! i have never had a car with working a/c. That upgrade only is sooooo worth it! I am one blessed lady! I'm offically old too. I bought my first car! Even though it wasn't like buying a new car, I still bought it! It makes me happy to keep growing up... and not too fast either!

Photo Savenger Hunt

2009-03-21T18:03:00.000-07:00

Bre came out to Mesa and we all headed out to Mill Ave to do a photo sevenger hunt.

WE had to ask an employee for his john hancock and we picked the hottest one.. didn't think to take a picture with him though... next time

we had to find a waterfall.. believe it or not this is acutally a waterfall on mill ave

Bre acted out the staute or in this case the sign with a dragon on it.. she makes a good dragon huh

We had to get a picture with someone playing an instrument and i ran up to this street preformer and bre took our picture. The ppl got us on their video camera hahaha

we wanted to see who had the biggest mouth. i think bre and i tied!

My girls!

This was my catalog pose...

Bre's pose was for a rock climbing magazine i guess

we had to find swings but we couldn't find any at tempe beach park

We couldn't find anyone walking their dog so this worked for us

Bre cliff and syl had never been on the light rail so we thought we would jump on!

We were all very excited about going on the light rail... we got on around 11 and weren't sure when it closed down for the night. We got on of course i'm a VERY loud person so i'm talking and looking for a gas station (long story) and the guy across from us asked why we wanted one. we explained that we were doing a photo savenger hunt and he was like oh cool. We passed like 3 stations and i was still being loud (not that i knew until.. ) then the guys asked us if we were going to phx to stay for the night. we said no we wanted to get back to mill cuz thats where our car was parked. Then every one on the rail started laughing and said that the rail leaves each station at 11 and if you don't catch the rail you'll be stuck where ever you get off. We started laughing and freaking out just a little... everyone on the rail started to tell us about their stories of being stranded while we waited to get to the next station to get off.

Cliff squirting water out of his gap while we waited for the next rail

Bre wanted to be the little mermaid so she's squirting water out of her mouth too.

Thankfully we made it safely back to mill ave. We had lots of fun!!!! Bre and i so won too!!

SPRING BREAK in prescott

2009-03-21T17:52:00.001-07:00

I got 3 days off of work so we headed up to prescott to play! Dad was bored so we headed over to play mini golf.

Brooke thought she was playing golf at a real course and whacked the ball all the way into the parking lot!!!

Brooke was the first one to get a hole in one! she got it on the 2nd hole!

dad and and brooke making friends with the wild animals

dad got a hole in one... then i got a hole in one (not pictured its on dads phone)

Then jessie got a hole in one

Then garrett got a hole in one all on the same hole.

The four of us with our hole in one!!

St. patricks day

2009-03-21T17:35:00.000-07:00

Sarah and I had planned on going to a st. patricks YSA dance thing... but then ended up meeting a friend at in-n-out burger and then watching a movie. WE did get one picture in our green.. (i'm wearing brooke's shirt.. doesn't it look good!!)

Sundance is very sick

2009-02-28T22:48:00.000-08:00

This is going to be long.. but i promise it's entertaing but has a sad ending

I headed out to my aunt sandie's on friday since i didn't have school and had to work at 1. I thought i'd go and talk to my bro.

We left so i could get home for work and as we were getting ready to turn at the light my car stalled. I thought it was weird since i stall maybe twice a year. I tried turning it on and nothing happened. The car behind us was blaring on his horn, The radio was cranked up and i couldn't tell if the car was turning on or not. I turned off the radio turned on my blinking hazard lights and waited for the annoying car behind to go around me. The car still didn't turn on. I got out and check my oil and water. it was good. I just put oil in it on monday. Garrettt called aunt sandie and i called dad. Some guy drove up and and asked me to turn it on and said it sounded like a fuel pump. BY this time a moving truck like car showed up and saw that we needed help so he got out to help.

We had to push sundance back to the house which wasn't too far. I was talking to dad on the phone, trying to push my car and steer at the same time. I found out that when pushing your car to leave your keys in otherwise your wheel will (hehe that sounds funny) lock up and you wont be able to turn it. Once we got it headed back to the house garrett and i started pushing it and the moving truck guy followed in his car and aunt sandie in hers. We got it going and started to go down hill. I jumped into the car so i could steer and garrett was running behind it... he wasn't wearing tight enough shoes and his feet caught and he fell and rolled into the dirt. thankfully aunt sandie retrieved him and they followed along. You must remember that i am on the phone with dad trying to explain whats going on and i'm wearing flip flops. the car slowed down and i saw a hill approching so i figured i should jump out and keep the cars motion in order to make it up the hill. my estimation of the cars speed, my lack of control of steering and my shoes not being right and trying to talk on the phone all resulted in me falling and rolling in the street and sundance jumping the curve, I had i jump up fast to get back into sundance and press the breaks before she ran into a wall.

Thankfully people were walking and came to help push it back into the street.. the man who had been helping the whole time came to help push.. and a bunch of men going by in a truck came to help us push. We got it over the curve then had to push it up the hill and back to aunt sandies.

We made it back to the house and had to rush to meet aunt marsha half way since i was going to be late for work!!!

Sundance is still sick since i had to work today as well. Hopefully we will be able to get her into a shop and fixed very soon!!!

The only injuries were scraped knees and a hands and a bruised arm.

good news!!!

2009-02-23T20:07:00.000-08:00

I found out today that i am one of the lucky people that was born WIHTOUT wisdom teeth!!! I kind of knew i would never get them cuz i just have a "young mouth" but there was still the dread that i might have them! I was mostly worried that A) i would have to end my streak of never having stiches and B) paying to have them removed before i could go on a mission!!

I don't have to worry about them and i am sooooo very grateful!! Thank you heavenly father for blessing with no wisdom teeth!!!!

The dentist

2009-02-23T19:57:00.000-08:00

So I officially feel like an adult now. Why you ask? Well for the very first time in my entire life, A) I made a dentist appointment B) Went to the dentist appointment by myself C) Had to explain what was wrong by myself and D) had to pay for it myself!!!!

It didn't really hit me that I had never done anything medical by myself yet until I was sitting in the dental chair waiting for the dentist. I had the sudden urge for my mommy!!!! At work as I was thinking back on this, I realized that my last doctor appointment was my freshman year of college for my physical to play soccer at GCC. My dad took me and then afterward we went out for ice cream. NO dad this time.. no ice cream!!!

It felt kind of liberating to do all these things, but on the other hand it sucks. No more getting the work done and not thinking about price and how to pay for it. The dentist brought me the paper work and showed me the price to see if i could afford it. Without having insurance, lets just say my savings is now depleted and i have to start that all over again. I've always wanted to be grown up and to do these things. now i am.. i love it!! even if it sucks paying for it myself... but on the other hand, half of me misses my daddy and going out for ice cream afterward!!!

Thanks mom and dad for all you have done for me! Its true that as you get older you really do appreciate your parents so much more. I never realized how much i'd miss you guys going with me to things like Dr appointments. Thanks for paying for me and taking all the worry about money and not showing me the bills growing up. I don't think i would have my excitement to grow up if i had had to share in the worry of money growing up. I miss you both but i'm grateful that i get this chance to learn about being an adult. I always wondered how you guys knew so much! Its cuz you lived it and had to learn it yourselves. It makes me happy to think i'm learning and growing and becoming that you guys more and more each year!! I LOVE YOU!! thanks again for everything!!!!!

My cousins!

2009-02-15T15:29:00.000-08:00

I love my cousins! I don't know what i would do without them! Especailly since both of my sisters live so far away from me! I love living with them. its just like being young again and having kim and kerri around. We always have a blast together. The things they come up with make me laugh! I'm glad i'm here for their sake and their parents. I sit and listen to them fight and yell about stuff and i can relate to the girls and i know what they feel... it wasn't that long ago that i was in high school and a teenager. BUT, now i can see what my aunt and uncle are saying and see where they are coming from. I"m right in the middle of them and can see both sides. Its weird at times. Some times i want to side with the girls and times i want to side with my aunt and uncle. I help out my aunt and uncle then try to explain to the girls what and why they are saying what they are saying. These girls are more like my sisters then cousins. I love them very much and am so grateful i get to live with them! they help me more then i help them i think!!!

My valentines

2009-02-15T15:22:00.000-08:00

So I told this guy I would go with him to a concert in tucson on valentines day. He is an old friend of the family and i didn't think it would be that weird. WRONG! He is a very quiet guy and had noting to say to me the whole night.

The concert was Andrew bird. He was amazing! you should look him up! The concert was the best i had ever been too! But it didn't make up for the night!

Thankfully my sister responded to my text message and she talked to me during the night.THANK YOU KIM!!! I LOVE CELL PHONES!! She pointed out that she never had the luxury of texting when she was dating. What would i have done without texting on this date!!!

It goes without saying, that dating is no bueno and lots of work. For all you married folk you best be happy with the one you got, cuz otherwise you'd be in my boat going on very awkward dates! =]

Wedding

2009-02-15T15:14:00.000-08:00

Chris and sheree got married yesterday! It was a very pretty wedding. I was there for the ceremony but then had to leave to attend a concert. I think it turned out to be a very nice wedding!

Wild cherry

2009-02-15T15:11:00.000-08:00

Brooke has decided to call me wild cherry... why do you ask...

I dyed my hair auburn brown! It turned out REALLY red.. i thought i grabbed the dark auburn but i guess not. My hair has never been this red before. I kind of like it though. Its staying until the next dye job in about... hmm 2 months. what do you think?

Mardi Gras Party

2009-02-08T10:46:00.000-08:00

My friend Liz who i work with at Fry's had a birthday party.

Hot guy at fry's Shawn went and we all had lots of fun!

Lookin' FINE in 09!

Go check it out!

Flowers for a Great Day!

I'm Pregnant!!!

Biggest Loser

I'm sorry MOM!!!

Halloween dance

Follow us on our blogspot!

Week 1 of our engagement!

I'm the future Mrs. Bruce Wayne Balls Jr.

I'm a WORKING girl!

ASU vs U of A volleyball game

Pumpkin patch!

BAD A$$ BBQ!

ROMMIES!!!!

GO NATE!!!

Conference!

North Mountain

Funiture Double

Cuteness for Bruce

Castle n Coasters

UPDATE!

Associate's Degree

Hallelujah!!!

Day at the lake

Gondole ride!

Camping Suburban style

** BIG UPDATE***

Pepper sauce caves

Tucson trip

Goats

He's home!

Mason Reef Howard

cousins

Nate the younger

RAD

Nate playing with us

Sharks Cove

PCC day!

Snorkeling

Days in Hawaii

Last part of the trip

Best 4th weekend ever!!!

Prescott retreat

SUNSPLASH!

Frozen Yogurt anyone?

ICE CREAM!

I miss my baby!!!

I'm in love!

Syl's cabin

Payson

Sylvia!

School....

Hawaii here we come!

My amazing mother

CES firside

Pirate Lego Double date

Romantic Date Suprise

Introducing....

Day with BRE!

Sister Hebner?!

Fry's employee of the month

A day at the zoo!

Video's from the 5k

my first 5k!

The dating scene

birthday pic from k8e's camera

21st birthday!!!

BIRTHDAY WEEK!!

My date with mark...

Arla's gift

Half Marathon!

Running style!

Espanol aluguin?

Pedicares ROCKS!

Victoria's Secrete

Introducing....

Photo Savenger Hunt

SPRING BREAK in prescott

St. patricks day

BIG UPDATE*