For those who don't know, I got to go home to Utah for 2 1/2 weeks. It was soooo good to see everyone!! When I got off the plane, and stepped outside I thought I would die of coldness. It was freezing!! I had been saying how excited I was about going home to some cool air, but that soon ended when I was violently reminded what that felt like. I like warm air. It's nice.
When I got out of the airport I went straight to get my hair done. It had been a while and it really needed some TLC. So I got it cut, and put some highlights and low lights in it. It feels so much better now!!
On Saturday, I went with my friends, Becca, Lauren, Amanda, and my fam Samantha, Qyncee, Kyndra and 2 others that I forgot their names, anyways, we went and saw New Moon. I thought it was pretty good. And I was happy that they stuck to the book pretty well.
I actually spent quite a bit of time with Becca and Teona. I just love those girls!! I miss having them around.
Me and Becca
Becca, Teo and Me
On Sunday, I went to church and my mom spoke. She never ceases to amaze me. She spoke on service in the church. She is such a wonderful example of that. I'm so blessed to have such an amazingly wonderful mother!! After church we went out to visit Mark and his family and Brian and his family. My nieces and nephews have grown up so much in the last 8 months, it's crazy!! They both looked really happy, which makes me happy. I love my brothers!
Madeline and Abbey
Later that afternoon, I met up with a friend and we attempted to drive to Casper, Wyoming to pick up a truck from his brother. But we only got to Little America and had to turn around because of the snow. We ended up waiting on the freeway for about an hour because of an accident, it was quite the adventure!
So I just read what I wrote and it sounds more like an itinerary than a hey look at my cool vacation, so I'm just going to point out the highlights of the vacation from here on out.
Here are some things that I did:
Went to Wheeler Farm, several times to take pictures and walk around it and enjoy a little bit of the country. I love that place!! It's just a great place to get some awesome picture taking in and some fun walking adventures. If you haven't walked around the walking path and taken the little side trails, I highly recommend it!
I went out by the Great Salt Lake and watched the sunset with a friend. I miss those sunsets. They are just so incredibley awesome!! It amazes me how people can look at something that beautiful and think to themselves that God doesn't exist. I think it's living proof among so many other things that he does live!! And boy am I grateful that he blesses us with such beauty. While I was there, a bunch of birds were flying by and one pooped on my head. I ws told that a bird pooping on you is good luck. I don't know how that constitutes as "good luck" it more seems like that's just my luck. Leave it to me to get pooped on, but I could use some good luck, so thank you birdies, thank you...
(This is what the birdies looked like flying by... there were thousands of them!)
I also went to Thai Pan Trading. oh how I love that store!! It's a good thing that my suitcase prohibited me from buying too much there, because otherwise I think I could have blown my whole paycheck there. I can't wait to someday own my own place just so that I can decorate it!!
Thanksgiving was quite the treat!! We made, as is normal in my family, 95 pounds of turkey, 30 pounds of potatoes, 7 dozen eggs, lots of saldas, stuffing, and baked beans. Along with about 20 pies. It was incredible. I was so excited to eat and eat and eat until I was so huge that they would have to roll me out the door., but when it came time I didn't really have much of an appetite, which was explained a few hours later when I started puking my guts out. My sister, Missy had been throwing up that morning and missed all of Thanksgiving, but we attributed it to being pregnant and morning sickness. Oh boy were we wrong!! I don't think it was the flu, but whatever it was it hit hard and quick!! I know this isn't very pleasant to read, so feel free to skip this part. I started puking around 8 pm and puked every hour until around 5 am. After that I was good but I didn't get may appetite back for a few days. By the next day this sickness had begun eruppting throughout the entire family. My grandpa got it, then my cousin Wendy, then my cousins Megan, Austin, Rusty and my nieces Baylee and Gracee and then my nephew Deegan and then my sis-in-law, Cassi... it seemed that we had an epidemic on our hands!! It was definitely one of those Thanksgivings to remember!! ha ha
me and my silly brothers
Me and Gracee Lou
Me and Qyncee
On the bright side, because of Missy sickness and her not feeling too well by Saturday, I got her ticket to the Utah vs. BYU game!! (I know, that's sick that I'm happy that my sister wasn't feeling well, so so wrong of me... but I couldn't help but be wrongfully happy to see the most anticipated game of the year. ) I went with Melinda and Brady Johnson, who were die hard BYU fans! In fact, where we were sitting, I was the only Utah fan. I cheered and yelled at the top of my lungs for my Utes!! It was a really good game and I was sad about the outcome, but happy for BYU. The conference did well and so I had to be happy. Next year we will have the upper hand, with Max Hall graduating, and our quarterback excelling quite rapidly. It was just a great time!! GO UTES!
A few days later, I got a cold. Probably from being out in the freezing tundra called Utah for so long, but it was well worth it!! I'll take a cold in exchange for a good football game anytime. :)
I also got to go to the temple. all I can say is AAAAHHHHHH!! I love the temple, and I really miss having one, in operation that is so close. In Rexburg it was only a short 5 minute walk from my apartment.. I miss that!! I'm going to save my pennies so that I can go to the Big Island next month to go to the Kona temple. It's just a relaxing, feel good, charge your batteries kind of place and I miss it!!
I also went to an Ugly sweater party with my friend, Robert. D.I is a really good place to find ugly sweaters! I rocked out in a Cosby type sweater and Robert found one that reminds me of Charlie brown, I don't know why, it just does. Anyway, I had been craving a good themed party and it hit the spot. Here's a picture of the ugliness:
Other stuff I did was a lot of Christmas shopping, visiting, ooh and I went to temple square to see the lights with Scott and Cassi and their kids, and Missy and Madeline, and Sam and my mom. It was a lot of fun. We rode the tracks down, which is something I recommend. We stopped and got pizza at Peir 49 and then looked at the lights, which were great as usual.
The gang (minus my mom cause she was taking the picture)
Scott, Cassi, Deegan and Baylee
Me and my sisters :)
Me and Missy
I got to spend some time with my grandparents too, whom I absolutely adore!! I just love them to pieces!! They are such great examples to me and are always doing something to make me laugh. I missed them so much and it was so good to see them. :)
I also got to see my friend, Stacey and her little family. She is such a good mom. She has the cutest little kids and they are just a cute little family. She has been my best friend since forever, seriously, forever. It was so good to see her, I wish I could have spent more time with them. Her kids crack me up. :)
Well, that pretty much wraps up my vacation. It was long, but full of fun, family and friends! I do have to say that I was happy to get back to warm Hawaii. I think I needed a break from it to realize just how much I really do love. it.
And that is all for now. :)
