Randomness in no particular order

I realized that I am the worst blogger, but I have finally accepted why. Each week I think of all these things that I want to blog about, and when I finally get the time to sit down to blog, too much time has passed and there is too much to blog about. At that point, I get overwhelmed and then I just don't blog. Until a day like today comes along and I decide to blog a years worth of stuff in one sitting and then I'm blogged out for the entire year. Whew, just thinking about it makes me tired. So, here we go...

So, we moved into our house in December (2010) and we have our very own pear tree. I was super excited and decided to try to can my very own pears. I came home from work one day and just decided that I was going to can all of them that night.

Word to the wise, canning takes longer than you think.

You have to de-core and peel each fruit and then make the juice, process it, etc. After I finished, I went to bed and all night I heard them popping and making these terrible noises and I was so sad because I thought that none of them were going to work and we would have to eat a million pears in a few days so they wouldn't go rotten. Apparently, the lids pop and it all worked but here is the product of my hard work. 12 cans, probably lame, but I was happy!!

Nursery is the best calling EVER!! Here are some of our cute nursery kids from my parents ward. I miss them. What calling can you hop around to music and eat Bugles? Loved it!

I am a couponer. I have actually really gotten into couponing. I am not one of those crazies, no offense, with their huge binder and 10 carts but I use coupons and I love it! This was something like $175 worth of groceries for $35. How cool is that?

So, Mark and I were parents for a weekend and we took my brother Nathan to Vegas for a soccer tournament. We realized that we are terrible parents. We reserved the cheapest hotel, "The Golden Spike," need I say more? My brother was scared for his life the whole time. I don't recommend it.

We decided to go to IHOP for breakfast the morning of his championship game and by the time we got the food, ate it, and finished, it was only 30 mins before he needed to be at the game. He ate somewhere around 7 pancakes, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage, eggs....he was soooo sick. I felt bad.

He took first though and we were sooooo proud!!

Side note: The Run for Lindsey was such a success and we raised over $10,000. Thanks for all of those who helped and participated!

The opening prayer will be by...

We had just moved into our new ward when I received a call from an unknown person, which is not my favorite thing. I decided to answer and the person was mumbling and all I heard was something about opening prayer on Sunday. I agreed and then the call ended.

I am always anxious about saying prayers in public, I don't know what it is, nobody is looking at me (or at least shouldn't be), and it can be quick if you want. It could go back to when I was a little girl and was supposed to say the opening prayer for this big achievement day get together and on top of starting with the words to "I am a Child of God," instead of the usual prayer, I also had a brain fart and forgot how to start the prayer. Awkward.

So, Sunday came, and we got to church early, big thing for us. I grabbed a program only to notice that my name was replaced with someone else's. Whew...the stress was gone. Until I noticed that I must be on the program at my old ward.

Needless to say, I was asked to say the opening prayer in my old ward and I was not there to say it. Thank goodness for parents that love you and say the prayer for you!!

Run for Lindsey

My cousin's wife has been battling brain cancer and so me and a few others are putting together this fundraiser to help them out with the huge amount of medical bills. It is a 5K but you can come and walk it, ride your bike, push a stroller, run a mile, whatever you would like to do. Because it is a charity, there will be a limited amount of free t-shirts given to those that register early. T-shirts can also be purchased if you can't/don't want to run :) You can register and get more information at the runforlindsey.com website. Hope to see you there, it will be a lot of fun!!

Green Thumb??

I have become extremely interested in gardens lately and so I took this amazing class by Gordon Wells, purchased his book, and then tried his tips on my own. This is the product of our Spring garden. I was so excited to get it all planted.

Little did I know that I would wake up the next morning to my garden covered in snow. I was so sad that I didn't even want to go out to check on my plants. The next day I walked out and most of my plants looked pretty good but my peas are completely smashed to the ground. Any way, we'll see how it turns out. I can't wait to eat my own home grown food!!!

We have an EMT in the family!!

Mark is officially an EMT now!!! I am so proud of him.

Funny Stories

K, I have had some really funny things happen the last couple weeks and I wanted to share two of them.

One story happened on a Saturday afternoon when I decided to run to good old WalMart. I was with my little brother and we were speed walking to the back because we were in a hurry. But, if any of you really know me, I will stop anything for free food. On the way to the back of the store, I see this lovely sample booth for pizza. So, of course, we stopped to get a sample. The lady who was keeping the stock of pizza samples up to consumption, all of a sudden says loudly in my face, "How old are you?" Being 23, I ignore her because she couldn't possibly be speaking to me, and I go to grab my sample and she says it again in my face, "How old are you?" I look at her puzzled and I say, "Are you talking to me?" She says, "I am just making sure that you are at least 18, because if not, then you need an adult to accompany you because you may be allergic to something in this sample." I look at her in awe and respond with my age and she was totally embarrassed. So, we got our samples and left the store laughing all of the way home.

The next story happened while I was working. I had to run to the bank. I pulled up in one of the pull throughs and I see this older guy parked in his car next to me. We had eye contact and smiled politely. I sent the deposit in and I was sitting in my car waiting. Next thing that I know, there is this terribly annoying fly in my car. I am watching it fly around hoping that it will go out of my driver's window. It ends up landing, so conveniently, on the passenger window. I am staring at it, wondering what I could hit it with. I then realized that the guy thought that I was staring at him, and not the fly on the window. I quickly look away and am avoiding and ignoring him as best as I can. This lasted only a few seconds and then the fly started on his adventure again and I started to follow his path again. The fly starts flying toward the passenger window again and I have a brilliant plan that if I have two window's open, then I have a better chance of that darn fly getting out. I start to roll the passenger window down, and again realize that the older man thinks that I am rolling the window down to talk or something. He is just staring at me and has this look on his face. I quickly roll the window back up and luckily I was saved! My deposit receipt had just come back and I sped away.

Holy Cow!! Sorry man, I wasn't staring at you...I just wanted the fly out of my car!! hahaha

UPDATE!!!

I know that's an original title, but hey, it's been a while since I have blogged and after all, it is an update.

First off: We bought a house!!! We are sooo excited.

This is our cute little house! We haven't moved in yet because we are fixing some things first. We will post some before and after pictures after we are done. The house is in Provo, in a neighborhood off of Center Street on your way to the lake. So far, the neighbors are absolutely amazing! Oh, and I can't wait to invite you guys over to see it. I'll even make you dinner :)

Second: I started a new job and I love it! I work at L&T Construction in the office. I do accounting, I answer the phones, and I assist the project manager/president/v.p in whatever they need. I really like it! I still work at my old job (Prototyping Management Corp) a couple hours a week, keeping up with all of their accounting. It works out so nicely cause then I earn a little extra moola, which is always nice.

Third: McKenna, my cute sister, is ENGAGED!!! She is getting married in December and moving into the apartment that we were living in.

Anyway, that's a short update, but an update nonetheless.