birthday pic from k8e's camera

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!!!

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!!

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...

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.