Road Trip to Casper, Wyoming

I took a road trip with my friend Lacey to her house for the weekend and here are some highlights: We played tons of games all day with the fam...it was pretty sweet.
We decided to go running on night and it happened to be raining...we got soaked and then as you can see Lacey is trying to attack me.
We ran up this muddy hill and got mud all over, luckily the ran washed most of it off.
We're pretending to be tough. But I'm really just holding back laughter if you couldn't tell.

Mission Statement

For my English 111 class my freshman year my teacher had the class write a mission statement for what they wanted to accomplish that semester and in life. Since then I've wanted to write my personal mission statement so here's a rough idea of what it would be:

To never set limits on myself or others. To always be building up. To be open enough to allow change to occur. Live without regrets.

Count Down

38 Days until I leave....A rough Schedule:

first week: Stay in Rexburg (get my passport, shots, temple recommend, sell my housing contract, figure out refund for school, say goodbye)

second week: Transport from Rexburg to Rupert to Utah--Go through the temple (I think somewhere in Utah)--General Conference

third week: Fly to Ohio, Indiana (hang out with the sistas Oct. 10-17)

fourth week: Come home from Ohio and finish buying everything I need

fifth week: Talk in church (October 21), Celebrate my birthday (october 24), milk cows, visit family

sixth week: Say goodbye--Enter MTC (October 31)

My Mission

the orangish pink is my mission

Updated Status

Guess Where

Venita thought it would be fun to play a guessing game of where I will go on my mission. I don't really care to because it's not like anyone's opinion really matters as to where I go. But here we go. The person who guesses the closest wins:
Icecream--if you live close
Favorite candy--if you live far away

I'm Finished

On Sunday, I had my final interview with the stake president to be able to serve a mission. He said the papers should be sent in as of yesterday. All that is left is waiting...

My Baby Sister's Hair Cut

Before:

After:

Chanae cut her hair for locks of love if you didn't know. She's just such a cutie. It's not the best picture to see her with new hair but it's all I could find. Her hair now comes to her shoulders and she has more dates than ever.

Cell Phone

I've had my own cell phone since I went to college so I could contact my family. Well this week I accidently left it in David's car when I got dropped off at Spencer's house and now my cell phone is in Idaho and I'm in Utah. It's kind of nice and at the same time it's frustrating. Becca laughed at me because she said "that cell phone held your whole life, now what are you going to do?" I tried to dispute her and tell her that it wasn't my whole life, and she said, "What's your bosses phone number? What's my phone number? What's your house number?" Of course, I know my house number but that's the only phone number I remember so she won. The cell phone kind of is my whole life. I'm not going through withdrawls, though. I apologize if I don't call anyone but if you really want to talk to me you'll just have to find me some other way. Good luck.

Venita's Married

All my brothers and sisters' and their families were all together yesterday. It was great. I love every single one of them and I love being with them. They are my best friends. The only thing that is sad about it is you know all these people and there is so much love but I only get to see them for a couple times a year, if that. But my parents were sealed in the temple when they got married so I'll get to be with my best friends forever. So it's okay if they live far away for now.

Teaching Lacey how to work

She couldn't figure how to put boots on so I had to show her how. This is in the barn, you can tell by the poop on the bridge. Appetizing.
I'm the one supervising if you couldn't tell. Lacey is just wearing my shirt. There's not two of me.
She's moving pipes, but she wasn't very good at it. I found it entertaining though.

We Built a Garage--Phase 1

Spencer was the man in charge so hats off to him...it looks good. We did this on the weekend.



Chanae scared on the roof!!

Tomorrow...

I'm going to post

Advice

Don't stand by an electric fence while you are soaking wet, the ground is wet, and you're holding a large metal pipe. It hurts all over your body if you get shocked by the fence. Your brain even gets a shock which results in a headache. But you don't have to take my advice. You can try it for yourself...if you're brave enough.

CountDown to the 4th...Do I Make You Proud

Dirty Hands

Last week, I was working and we were staining and resealing the cement flooring of a swimming pool room. My job was to do the inside rim above the swimming pool without getting any chemicals inside the pool. So I used my hand to catch the drippings of the urethane. Pretty soon my hands were covered and my hands were sticking to everything I touched. It was like putting superglue all over your hands. I spread my fingers as far apart from each other as I could so they wouldn't stick to each other. And the hand that was holding the roller brush got stuck to the roller brush. It was awful to pry it off. After a while the urethane dried and it was permanently stuck to my skin. I came home and used fingernail polish remover, fast orange, gas, anything I could think of. Five days later it's just about off only because I've been picking at it relentlessly.

Moral of the story: Hands are not made for everything.

Interesting Family History Website

http://roots.cs.byu.edu/digroots/selfafninfo.php
Check out who you're related to...
Here are some numbers that I typed that worked into the AFN (they're my great grandparents that worked so if your family they'd be cool if not, find your own):
1R9K-3D –Rosetta Lowe
7NP9-62 -Lewis LeRoy Lowder
18SC-N1 –Myrtle Kenner
1FRM-F5 – Heber C. Wilson

MY SISTER'S GETTING MARRIED

Coolness :)

August 7, 2007

Sunday

This is me sitting in a hammock at Spencer's house. I've always wanted a hammock and now I live with one. It's beautiful. I don't sit in it as much as I would like, but that's okay. This was a relaxing Sunday afternoon. I went to church, and decided to walk home, however, I didn't realize I was wearing terrible shoes for walking and half way home had to take them off. I have 3 big blisters on toes that have already popped. I walked a half a mile bare foot in a dress on one one of the busiest streets in Layton in a dress. Perfect.

Sorry sorry Sorry

I apologize for not posting for a while this summer has been so crazy. I've just been going where the wind blows and I'm still not done yet. It's been fun except I'm going to be running out of funds soon. I applied for a job shuttling rental cars at the airport. Right after I filled out an application they asked if I had time for an interview so I went in for an interview that lasted 2 hours. The man was really nice and the interview went really well. He said the only thing keeping him back from hiring me is that I wouldn't work on Sundays and that was a busy day so he wouldn't hire me if I didn't. He said I had to work every Sunday for the rest of the summer. It was tempting because it would have been a great job driving nice cars and meeting new people all the time, but I just couldn't bring myself to accepting it. Their loss. ha.