Favorite Pictures

We were working on a project that is a secret right at the moment and we decided to find all of our old memory cards and put all the pictures on the computer. Very entertaining! So since I don't have much to blog about, because I promised Edwin I wouldn't tell my family about him, this will have to do for now(because he's afraid they will think he's a bad person before they actually meet him)!

These two pictures are most absolute favorite in the world, I loved everything about them. The first one is in Friday Harbor, Washington(San Jaun Islands). The second one is in Anacortes Island, Washington, gorgeous. For some reason I love the view. The sail boats, the ocean, the smell. I want to go up there again so bad. It's like a homesickness for me! I just need the money!

Ok, a couple of years ago we went on a hike, I know I've posted one of these pictures before, but we lost my moms memory card, so here are some more. The first one is me from the front, my mom took that picture, but you can see my dad in the background, taking the second picture, that was on my moms camera.



This isn't a very good picture, but I was freezing. Then a few minutes later I'd be dying of heat. But the only good time to go on that hike is in the early spring, late fall because it gets SO hot down there and then the sun reflects of the rock, which makes it hotter! I want to go back down there again. Maybe I can get Edwin to go with me in the spring- oh shoot, I mentioned Edwin!!! :) Ha, ha!!

Second Batch of Reunion Pictures-day 2ish!

Here are some more pictures, I might as well put more on here since I'm waiting for the washer to be done so I can take a shower.

My Mom and Dad!


Me, they wanted to do individual pictures of me, since they were doing pics of each family and I was my own family I was thinking "Whatever"!


Kellie and Kyson- they were freezing and sharing a sweater! It was funny!


Lindsay and Madison


Me! We went to Peach Days the night before going to the reunion and I bought each of my nieces princess crowns, I tried them on. Thats how long I WISH my hair was!!!

Sorry, I just had to put this picture on here! Melinda(29) wearing Emily's(10) sweatshirt. With the help of Mike was able to get it on! It cracks me up every time I see it!

Not much to say, but I do want to congratulate my cousins Jessie on her baby girl yesterday. And Chrissie on her baby girl a couple of weeks ago. I'm super excited for them and I know they will be awesome moms!

So, on Saturday night(I mentioned this on facebook, but it's funny) Wade's kids were here(all the way from California) and I was just playing on facebook and my niece Lindsay who is 5 1/2 was talking to me. She had this serious look on her face(here's the conversation)-

Lindsay- aunt Jerolyn, it's time!
Me- what?
Lindsay- to pick a husband
Me(wow)- really
Lindsay- yes, you need to pick a husband now
Me- why?
Lindsay- you need a boyfriend so you can get married
Me- ok....
Lindsay- it's really important that you pick out a husband now and get married like Aunt Katie.

Her aunt Katie just got married the day before so I figured she's like any other little girl who loved all the dressing up and all that went on for Katie's wedding. I just thought it was funny.
I will be her last aunt(or uncle) to get married. Maybe I should wait till she can remember it for later in life! Hmmmmmm!

Those kids are smart! Ella who is I think 2 1/2 has the 10th article of faith almost memorized! Lindsay was saying the 13th. WOW!!! I never memorized any of them!

Anyways, so I am sure I will get more pictures to post over the next few weeks, since Wade's family will be here(Bryce is here in Utah and Wade & Annie and the girls will be back this weekend). And there is the Leavitt family reunion!
And I for sure am taking my camera to Peach Days because I ran into so many people last year, so hopefully I'll see Sarah this year, she only lives like 5 blocks from me and that was the last time I saw her. I need to be a better friend!

First Reunion Post of the Summer!

So we had an Ipson reunion this weekend, it will probably take a few posts to get all the pictures on and tell the awesome stories and hopefully make those who didn't come jealous! This is my cousin Ricky and me. We never see their family, but it was so fun to see them, Ricky was ordained a priest and they got persmission to do it in the Junction ward(they live in Clearfield) so that was totally awesome, he's a cute 16 year old without a girlfriend........

This was TOO funny! John was giving Ronnie(on top) a piggy back ride and they decided to see if he could hold Ricky to, then Justin decided he'd jump on- he didn't, but it was funny! Ronnie's face is awesome in this picture!

We had almost all of my dad's siblings children there, so we got me, Jaqcue, Mandy and Melinda together, we just needed one of my Uncle Dave's daughters(sorry, John is the wrong gender).

DJ is so awesome. He's hot too! Why is he not married yet??? We were twins in this picture, everyone was saying we totally could have been. Check out our hats with our sunglasses, our guns, it was fun. He is such a cool guy to hang out with!

But yeah, so I'll write more later. Especially the funniest story about Mandy being pulled over! That was so funny, the way it happened was awesome! But if you happen to see Mandy or Melinda ask them, they tell it so much better!

Dork is the wrong word!

Ok, as me and Edwin have our texting dates(pathetic huh) I always call him a dork! He told me to look it up! Lovely definition(he has WAY too much time on his hands). So he is now a goober, which means peanut! : )

I know we are weird! It runs in the family(well, mine anyways).

Oh and seriously do they make 80 inch measuring tape(soft measuring tape). I decided to start using a exercise ball(for my stomach) and my tape measure is only 60 inches! Hmmm, maybe I'll have to cut out an 80 inch string or something to make sure it's pumped up enough!

This is a picture of my funky little flower! I can't remember what it is called but I love it!

Happy 90th Birthday Grandma!!!!

I know my grandma died a few weeks ago and you all probably don't want to keep reading about her, but the night she died I absolutely could not sleep and memories of her kept popping into my head, so I started writing them down and they just kept coming. My aunt Linda read some of them at the funeral, but here's all of them(plus I wanted to type them up and put them in my journal).
Anyways, about 2 summers ago I was spending the night up at my grandmas with her, my Linda, Melinda and my Uncle Dave and Aunt Ruth and I think John was there to. It was on a weekend, which was so fun. That was a really good weekend. Anyways, so I took my dad's laptop and the scanner up with me and scanned a ton of pictures.
So here are some random pictures and the things I remember about my grandma(she would have turned 90 this week). (I think these are her parents, but I'm not sure)
She always remembered our birthdays
She always wrote letters back(great pen pal- weekly letters).
She acknowledged- everything- graduations, baby blessings, eagles, baptisms, weddings, missions, all the church achievements(young women's, duty to God, etc)

(her wedding day, she made her dress)

She loved to sew for her family(knitting, quilting)
She always gave us New Years eve presents- notebooks and pens and wrote a note inside the notebook(I think I might have one still, somewhere in storage)
She was very resourceful with wrapping presents(in cereal boxes, cracker boxes)
She was a really good cook

(my grandpa and grandma)

She was a very faithful church member
She loved the temple and loved working there

She loved canning
She had really neat handwriting(unique)
She loved her family so much
She played the piano

(random pictures- wedding, temple work, military)

She made really good/interesting treats to send out for the holidays
She helped her kids in any way she could
She loved writing for the newspaper
I loved her stories about how she met grandpa, her life with her family in Idaho
She was a very strong woman
I loved how she always pinned her hair up before going to bed.

My dad's family- Linda, my dad, Ruethella, Dave

grandpa and grandma, Mary

If anyone can think of other memories, let me know.

Grandma's Funeral

THIS GOING TO BE A LONG POST!!!

This weekend was my grandma Ipsons funeral. The day of the funeral was my grandparents anniversary. I can't remember which one, but it's over 60 years. Everybody was saying they were on their second honeymoon. These pictures are backwards, I haven't gotten this blogging thing down yet. These 2 pictures were at the family dinner, me and Travis in the top one and D.J. and my aunt Mary in the below picture(my parents camera sucks and we forgot to change the date stamp).

This is at the cemetery, Trent and John putting the pallbearer boutonnieres on the casket.

Aunt Linda with my great aunts Mary and Viola(they are my grandpa's sisters- both in there 80's)

Me and my dad.

The casket was so pretty, I was there when they picked it out in Richfield. I was there when my aunts Linda, Ruethella and Mary and my cousin Melinda helped dress her in her temple clothes and put make up on and Melinda did her hair. That was really good for me. To see her that way, for some reason it was healing for me.

We went to lunch with my aunt Ruethella at Wendy's. Then drove to Junction to get dinner ready and get ready for the viewing. Wade called us, saying he was in Hurricane, we had no idea that he was coming from California. That was awesome. And Cory who was planning on leaving at like 4 in the morning to get there in time for the funeral from Arizona, but he was able to leave earlier and got there that night.

The viewing was good, the cousins who were there visited and just enjoyed each others company, Melinda talked me and Emily into spending the night at our grandmas instead of at the hotel, which helped because we only had two rooms and 3 families. So they weren't so cramped in there.

It was really good for me to be able to hang out with my cousins that night, Melinda, Tom & Natalie, D.J., Jacque & Justin, Louisa, Roni and Ricky were all there, we had so much fun. Holy cow, I grew a 3rd boob- actually really funny. My grandma has this Easter chick that cheeps when you touch the two metal circles on the bottom and D.J. and Tom were being annoying, somehow I managed to get it and while they were trying to get it, I stuffed it up my shirt, it looked like I had a 3rd boob, that cheeped! It was funny.

But yeah we stayed up forever, I slept on the porch(my bed, up there).

I went back to the hotel to get ready(so there wouldn't be a million people trying to get ready in that small bathroom). I got to the viewing, Wade was there, yeah! More of my cousins were there. I was doing OK emotionally until each family got up to say a last goodbye before closing the casket, that is when I started crying, Chris even started crying. It was sad. But the funeral was really good. I made a list of things I remembered about my grandma, my aunt Linda read most of it. I looked around while she read it and could see that my cousins remembered those things too. Made a few smile too. I will post that another time.

Being at the cemetery was interesting. It was really windy, it had snowed, the ground is clay, so each step we took added another layer to our shoes and of course I was in open toe high heels, that sunk into the ground, those shoes are still in the jeep, dirty. We weren't there very long, but it was so cold and windy that it wasn't a very fun thing, we were all in a hurry to leave. My toes were white and blue, so as soon as we got some pictures, I hurried back to the jeep, turned the heater on and pulled some thick soft socks on. I had a blanket I started out wearing, but my two aunts Mary and Viola wanted to be there and were cold so I let them use it.

We went back to the church for dinner, that was good. There were a lot of my dads cousins that he hasn't seen in a really long time that were there, from Idaho, so that was fun for him. The dinner was good. The company was nice.

We went back to my grandmas to change, and my dad's siblings had a little family meeting, the rest of us talked and joked around and just had fun.

Being together with my cousins, as much as I was(Friday night and after the funeral) was very healing for me emotionally. And being able to be with them during such a sad time, them being so fun to be with, that was very good for me.

But physically this weekend was hard for me. My boss pretty much forced me to leave Tuesday night( I was crying too much), then he made me take a 3 day bereavement(which is paid). But my allergies kicked in Wednesday(horrible, it was worse that it's been ever), then I have 3 canker sores that are extremely painful, right at the front of my mouth and my braces would rub on them. Then I got a cold sore. Had very little sleep because I couldn't breath, and had other things on my mind, wasn't in my bed, stayed up hanging out with family in Junction, then again at home while Cory and Wade were here. Oh, yeah, Wade stole my favorite pillow, so I had to use another one, I had the worst stiff neck, so that was horrible all day Sunday. So yeah, I was in a really depressed, horrible mood all day Sunday!

I only watched the afternoon session of conference. I was just plain too tired and didn't feel good. I was looking forward to sleeping in today(as LONG as I could), Cory woke me up and made me go to lunch with him and Shellie(wade had left already).

Now I am starting to feel better, my canker sores, don't hurt as bad, I've been taking claretin and Wade says it takes 5 days for it to work, and my allergies aren't really that bad right now. Now I just need to get back to work and get back to my normal routine. Get Easter out of the way and everything will be OK! Yeah!!!

If you read this all, I warned you, it would be long!

Rula Ipson- April 21, 1919- March 30, 2009

We just got a call from my uncle Dave saying my grandma Ipson passed away today. I don't know how to handle death. The only person close to me that has died was my grandpa Leavitt and that was when I was still in high school.

My grandma was awesome. She used to always come down on tuesdays, work in the temple on wednesdays and leave thursday. For years she did that. She's had such a hard life, but she was such an amazing person. She is finally with her husband- my grandpa Ipson(he died in 1982- 26 1/2 years ago) and she never remarried! As soon as I find more pictures of her I will post them. Right now I am just in shock! But it's been a long time coming. I don't know whether to feel blessed to have had her in my life and happy that she now with grandpa Morrill or sad that she will no longer be in my life. The shock will probably hit me when I am at work and I'll probably start crying while I am packing a box. I hope my bosses will be understanding if I have a break down.
It will be great to see all my cousins at her funeral, but I just wish it was for something happier!
I love you grandma!

Montezuma's Castle and Well

Ok, these are backwards! This is the ditch that the water from Montezuma Well comes out of(It comes out of the mountain).

This is Montezuma's Well, it's like a big crater, and water is at the bottom. You can see the little Indian houses(I don't know what there called) on the side of the mountain. There are 3 of them. The water is lukewarm, for winter(it was probably in the 70's), so for Indians to find something like that would be awesome. And it's fresh water, there wasn't any smell(sulphuric-like hot springs have). The water goes through the mountain to the ditch and I guess it went to the castle, I really didn't pay attention to the exact details, it was too neat!

Trent, Dani and Emily. They were being dorks. They wouldn't smile decent, ok, we did get some good pictures of them, but Trent won't let me put them on my blog, he wants to put them on his.

Montezuma Castle, it's on the side of the mountain, it's really cool.

At a distance. If anyone goes to Phoenix or southern Arizona, this is one place to stop and see. It's a really neat place.

The trip was so fun. We originally were going to go hiking in Sedona, but I've never been very comfortable in Sedona(I've heard too many stories), even though it's gorgeous there, I just feel like it's not a very good place. But me and my dad wanted to see the castle and well, and Cory lives in the town named after them, so we decided to do that instead. I really enjoyed my time there. I was afraid I was going to have panic attacks, but I guess I stayed on top of it, even though I was tired the whole time. I had a nap at Corys after hiking, High School Musical woke me up(the most annoying movie ever- not really the musical fan).

Sunday was nice, we went to the blessing, then to Tammy's(Natalies stepsister) for lunch. She has a really nice house. She has this huge chair and I almost fell asleep in it. It was so comfortable.

The drive home was LONG!!!!! I slept from Camp Verde(Tammy's) to Flagstaff, then after that I was too wired. But I love the drive over the reservation. It's so desolate, it's really interesting. Then Marble Canyon is gorgeous. It's just a really pretty drive. We stopped on the bridge and some California condors nesting there. Got some really neat pictures of the kids. Then after that the drive was boring!!!

All in all it was a good trip!

This is what happens during a panic attack!

I know I've posted these 2 pictures on here at some point of time or another, but I never really put them together! I've been talking about my panic attacks a lot lately! So here is what happens! This is before the xanax(I've never noticed the scars on my bottom lip and chin like that before-cold sores and sun blisters suck!!!). Up at grandmas house during the deer hunt.

After the xanax! I look really sad right here! I personally think I was lost in a whole other world! In one world I knew my mom was taking the picture, another world, I was like whatever! Leave me alone!!! Up on Beaver Mountain, camping- our annual Joe Ipson family reunion.

Anyways, that was just for laughs!

I'm weird! I know!

I'm just sitting here trying to wake up fully from my LATE nap on a Sunday(that should never happen again). I've got southern rock literally blaring right now! I'm listening to "Caught up in You" by .38 Special. I just really got into that crazy music just recently. Trent definitely thought I was weird when I told him I wanted to play "Keep your hands to yourself" by The Georgia Satellites(not The Calling's version) at my wedding! I LOVE that song! Especially that version! Here is my favoritest picture of my parents! I don't know why I like it so much, it's just one of those pictures that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside(if that makes sense). It was taken up on Kolob one year that we all went up there to listen to general conference. That was a fun trip, it's just a day trip, but we don't do anything wild and crazy. We just go up there and listen to conference, eat and hang out. We'll take the kids out for little hikes down by the lake, tell stories and joke around. I miss going up there!


Ok, this picture cracks me up! I love it! When my grandma Toni was packing her apartment to move to Page she had all these pictures that she was going through at the time that I just happened to be there, and she gave them to me, most of them are just of my grandpa, but this one was in the pile. I was just a baby when this event took place. But the family remembers it. It's my uncle Lane, Uncle Jerrol and grandpa Leavitt. They were always doing crazy things like that. I seriously wish my Ipson family was like that. Not dissing on my Ipson family, we are just a bunch of crazy white trash rednecks on my moms side of the family.

I love this picture. I swear Goldy was the best dog ever! But then again, she was the only dog we ever had. That I know of! One day I just put my sweater on her. I can remember doing it, but I don't remember if I was the one thought of it and executed the doing or if someone else helped me! Oh-well! Memories!!!!

This week was an interesting week. On Wednesday night I was leaving work and Edwin was at the AP desk, and we got talking and he said something about me transferring to AP(not gonna happen) and I told him I hate getting on the intercom and he teased me about that for awhile, so he told me he was going to teach me how(I already know how, I just don't want to). So Thursday he sent me a text that he was going to show me how, but I ended up leaving really early, so I teased him about it. So Friday before work he texted me again and we texted back and forth until work started. Luckily for me, he was at the gate and I was in the Marketing Room. So we didn't even see each other, but Stephanie and Easton kept teasing me about it all night. Yeah, thanks for telling them, Melissa. Then at 3 in the morning Edwin starts texting me again, it was so funny. So I didn't get to bed till forever. But he's a cool person to talk to. He's the kind of person that if your hanging out with him, you'd be laughing your butt off the whole time(and he likes the whole Twilight thing- I haven't even read the books or seen the movie).

I went to the oral surgeon on Thursday. I guess the surgery is going to be sometime in may, but I am going to try and push for it to be the first week of June. I'll have my work-up done in April and get ready during may, then take 6 weeks off work to "heal." Doctor Davis said I could go back to work 2-3 days after, but then he heard what I do, and said it would be better to take 6 weeks off. There is absolutely no lifting, bending, stooping over(which is exactly what I do for work). I can't eat anything at all for 4-5 weeks. I'll be on a straight liquid diet for the first 2 weeks. Then soft foods after that(I HATE yogurt and pudding- I learned that when I got my wisdom teeth pulled and that was only for a couple of days). So yeah! I just can't wait to get it all over with! But I'll be in debt for like trying to pay for it all! Plus my jeep! Maybe I should find a weekend job! Hmmmm, that's a thought!

My song is on!! I better find someone who won't care if that song gets played at their wedding(in the music video, the girl is pregnant at their wedding)!

Last night Dani and Trent were here with some of their friends and their friends want to set me up with a brother(I don't know these peoples names), so next saturday instead of a double date it will be a triple date! I just hope he isn't weird like some of these people I've met(and have been hooked up with).

I just had to laugh.........

Ok, Sundays are always boring to me, and instead of writing in my journal(ever) I just update my blog! So I was looking for pictures to put on here and I was at loss on which ones to pick, because it seems like everyone has seen everything we have on our computer, so I was looking through a photo album and I scanned a ton of them because they are FUNNY!!!! Like this one-This was from my Joy School(preschool), I guess I didn't like boys back then! I think Austin Beardall, Travis Carney, Will Hutching and Justin Stout are the boys I scribbled out, I think! The girls are Kristi Hinton, Tamarynn Jones, Arriana Beatty and me! I think that is who is in the picture! I mean it must be over 21 years since then. I hear hair spray gets permanent marker off! But I don't dare try!

My cousin Kim's wedding- Kasey, Tara and me. Kasey and me were flower girls! I actually remember that day!

When I graduated from Joy School(gotta love the couch)!

Me and Kristi hugging! I don't even know how old we were back then. I remember the camping trip though. It was my family, her family, the Laubs and I pretty sure I had other cousins up there I just can't remember, I know the Laub family was there because that's Suzy in the back ground! We have more pictures somewhere.

Trent and me. I LOVE that floor! We were so stinkin' cute back then!

This week has been an interesting one! I decided I don't like the Hurricane singles ward. Well, it's nothing new, I just never really felt comfortable there because everyone is SO young. So finally I decided to go to another one. I went to the Washington singles ward today, just because I know Edwin and he told me when and where it was. It seemed like a cool ward. The bishopric spoke, they seemed pretty nice. I went to go visit my friend Monica after church, but she was asleep, I know that she's been having a lot of problems, so I just wanted to let her know I love her and that I'm there for her. I don't even know where she is living anymore.

The place I work offered a tour to our families to to see the warehouse. They haven't done that since it opened 15 some odd years ago. I didn't think my parents would want to go, so I didn't mention it, but Shellie did and they wanted to go, so I took them. It was interesting. I used to think my boss was super hot, my mom agrees!

I got my expander out so now I have about a 1/4 inch more room in my mouth! Yeah! And I can talk again. I hated having it in! It was so hard to talk, it tattooed my tongue, I will permanently have a deep line on my tongue from that. It won't look as bad in the future, but it will always be there. But I WILL have to have the surgery, :( I go into the oral surgeon this coming week. I'm hoping I can put it off till june or something like that. We'll see! Or I could take TLO now and get unemployment and have the surgery, but other people need unemployment more than I do. So I don't want to do it that way.

Oh-well! We'll see how it all works out!

Last Post for 2008- grandma Dorene

I don't know where all of our pictures went on Trent's computer, they just disappeared, so I had to pick one from Trent's file.
This won't be much of a entry, depends on my mood I guess.
I just wanted to do one last blog for '08, for sentiments sake. I guess. Last week and this week we worked 1 1/2 days. Then we get 5 day weekends. Last weekend seemed like it went on and on! I hope this one goes that way to. But it probably won't. Cory and Natalie are here, my cousin Melinda Lou is here and Trent will be back from Brighton thursday.
I went to my grandma Toni's on saturday, down in Page. That was fun. She told me to tell EVERYONE that she loves them and keep sending her pictures(snail mail)(especially Tammi). She has this book that was never given to my uncle but is for him and it has a letter for my grandpa from my grandma Dorene during a time she thought she was going to die, it was really cute. She told him to be patient with Ronnow and that he needed to remarry a nice gal so he wouldn't be single(I got a copy of it and I thought about scanning it on and putting it on here, but I didn't think anyone would read it) I loved it, then there was a tribute to her written by my aunt Jeannie that she read at her funeral, so I got a copy of that. That was funny. I never knew her, she died 2 years before I was born. There was a part in it where she was so fed up with my grandpa's tormenting(comes from the Leavitt side of the family) so she threw an open can of spaghetti on him(he was in his church clothes). While she was in the hospital in the end she was kinda in and out of conscious and the family would be laughing at a joke, she would open her eyes and smile.
I love hearing things about her because I wish I knew her. But sometimes I feel like I have met her because people will tell me that my personality is just like hers. Last night we were joking around that my parents found me on the side of the road because I look nothing like my siblings(EXCEPT--- I'm the only one who LOOKS like my parents) and so my mom told me how all of her kids had red hair or blonde and looked like Ipsons or whatever and so one day my grandma told my mom that she needed to have a little black haired baby that looked just like her, then my grandma died and the very next baby my mom had was me. So she said that my grandma hand picked me out just for my mom. And she prepared me to come to earth so that is why I am so much like her. I wish I knew more about her. I wonder if my mom might have journals or something. Hmmmm, I'll have to ask.

Anyhow- HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!! Don't Drink and Drive!!!!!

My Dirty Jeep!

Every year we have a tradition to take the four wheelers out on christmas day and just go out south of Hurricane and play. This year because of all the storms, Mikes shoulder and Trent wanting to be with his girlfriend, we didn't go. Bummer! Then I got this bright idea to take the jeep instead! My dad, Jameson and me we out and had a ball! There is a HUGE puddle in the middle of the road on the back way to the sand dunes, I have only seen in dried out once in my life. So we went around and the fields surrounding it are empty because people go four wheeling out there all the time, the mud was so slippery and gross, I was too chicken to do much, then we drove out further and found some smaller puddles and my dad told me to go through them fast so I wouldn't get stuck, with mud flying everywhere and my dad laughing, it was so fun! There were about 3 of them, then we drove back to the HUGE puddle and my dad told me to do what he said, so I did, I went to the middle of the field, turned the wheel as far as I could and floored the gas, HOLY COW!!!! My tires were spinning and mud was flying everywhere, then he told me to turn the wheel and go the other way. It was so fun! My jeep was so dirty. When we got back to the house I parked it so the dirtiest part was facing the road, well that night we had a huge rain storm and it washed the drivers side off, and I didn't want to drive around with a half clean/half dirty jeep, so I froze my butt off spraying the mud off. I was going to wash it before I went to Page, but it's a good thing I didn't, the roads between Kanab and Page were really icy and I got dirty water all over it(people in Northern Utah probably know what I am talking about). When I got up for church today there were dirty icicles melting off where the tires are. But I diffently need to wash it soon. If I didn't have the back wiper and fluid on the back I would have gone crazy. But it was FUN and totallly worth it!

These two pictures are christmas morning. We really don't take a lot of pictures christmas morning, so these are kinda dumb.

Christmas was a fun day. Chris woke me up a little after 8. When we were kids we had to be up at 7. So it's nice as adults to sleep a little longer. Trent, Chris, Emily and me all got nintendo DS's, so that was fun. Cory gave me a "boy" game. It's a monster truck game, I just thought that was funny. But it's actually a fun game. Then he gave me 2 fire fighter t-shirts, a sweatshirt and a beanie all for Lake Montezuma/Rimrock department. I'm excited.

My parents gave me more than I expected. I didn't get a dog though! :( But I know why.

I went to Page on saturday, it was fun. I didn't leave as early as I wanted to. But I was there for a few hours, I wish I had been there longer, but oh-well. I don't want to wait as long to go back down there next time. At least I know there is a next time.

My grandma let me look through a little journal/scrapbook that she is going to give my uncle Ronnow one of these days, it was so interesting to look through there. My mom has one too, but it's in storage so I've never see it. But it has a letter from my grandma Dorene(she died 2 years before I was born) to my grandpa from a time she thought she was going to die, it was a real tear jerker, but good. I think my grandma Dorene sounded really neat. It was only a few sentences, but I loved it, so I got a copy of it, because it was to my grandpa, not one of her kids. Then there was a tribute to her written by my aunt Jeannie for grandma Dorene's funeral. I thought that was really good. Funny and good. I love reading things like that.

That trip was a good trip for me. I always love going down there. I guess I've always had a connection with my grandma(even though she's my step grandma- she will always be a real grandma to me). I personally think she's awesome!

I found out today that the Hurricane's singles branch will stay at 1 pm, YEAH!!! I'm excited. I hate 9 am church. I just can't do it. I've tried it(every 3 years of my life) and now that I am on a night shift, it's just to hard to suddenly change my sleeping habits. It's crazy.

Ok, one more thing before I go, my grandma and me were talking about blogs and how she can't get on private blogs, she kept calling them blobs. Not really realizing it was a g not a b. And as I was trying to leave she told me who all to tell she loves, she went down the list naming EVERYONE, then as I was walking out the front door(clear on the other side of the house) she yelled some more names. It was funny! She cracks me up!