I actually did it!

I guess you are all wondering what it is I have done. Well at the beginning of the summer sometime I wrote a blog (that I cannot seem to find) about a goal that I was going to make. Now it was not a big goal but a goal at that and I would just like to inform everyone that I have succeeded. Now if you don't know what my goal was I am sorry but I guess you will have to pay better attention to my post. Anyway moving on. Today I spent the day canning apples. I have the most favorite dessert in the entire world and that is Apple crisp. SO today I canned 27 jars of apples and it only took me 5 and half hours but it was worth it because now I will be able to eat it whenever i want and I hope that it will be delicious.

Frustrating stories of my life as a Nanny.

As I sit here at 1:15am trying to stay awake I think to myself. I should update my blog. I don't have much to update about but I have nothing better to do. Lets see. . . What have I been doing in the last month? Well I am still working in Park City as a nanny. Which I have to say is going OK. I have started school which thankfully I only have one class that I am taking. It is on Wednesday night and it is about the best class ever. It is a literature class and all we have to do is read elementary novels and do some form of book reports on them. The books I have to read include: hatchet, The Giver, Maniac Magee, Esperanza Rising, One series of Harry Potter and Watson's go to Birmingham. Pretty good selection if I do say so myself. Well that is about it. 

I do have a funny but frustrating story to tell about my job. I was babysitting on Thursday and I watch two little boys. They both take a nap. The 4 year old has to be in bed from 2 to 3:30 and believe me this time flies by. So the other day at about 3 I hear him practically throwing a fit in his room. So after about five minutes I go in there to see what the problem is. And you will not believe what he told me. He says to me, "My Poop will not come out. I just keep squeezing and pushing and it will not come out." I was just baffled. I really did not know what to say. So trying not to laugh at him I tell him that he should just lay back and calm down and his poop will come out when it is ready. I was quite proud of myself for the answer I came up with because I was about to strangle the kid. You can tell that my life is quite pathetic when this is the best story of the month that I can give but there it is. I did get to spend the day with my favorite kid today so I am fully recovered from the incident. 

Tag your it!

I am only posting this because Gen is my friend and she tagged me. Plus I have nothing to do right now and I am totally bored. Just keep in mind that I am no where near as creative as Gen and so you might be really bored reading this. So here you have it.

Eight things I did yesterday: (Well Friday because Saturday I sat on my butt all day)

1. Slept in until 9
2. Watched TV
3. Went catering ( The next 5 fall under this activity)
4. Showed a bunch of special people how to set up canopies.
5. Bobby pinned canopies together to keep the rain off of our beautiful buffet table.
6. Went searching in the woods for roasting sticks and fell in a river.
7. Found out that a guy names Glen is super annoying and wanted to hit him.
8. Watched pea sized hail fall all around me in the middle of August.

Eight of my favorite TV shows:

1. Bones. My dad hates when I watch this because it makes him sick but I cannot help it I am addicted.
2. House
3. Friends
4. Gilmore girls
5. What I like about you. Only can watch certain episodes because some of them drive me nuts.
6. I didn't know I was pregnant. Cannot quite figure out if this show is for real. But I have meet some really stupid people in my day so...
7. ER
8. Charmed

Eight of my favorite Restaurants: Don't have eight of these. I don't go out that much.
1. Olive Garden
2. High Mountain Drug. I know if I don't put this one on here I will never hear the end of it from Gen:) Only eaten here maybe five times in my entire life.
3. Cafe Rio. Love their baroque Pork Burrito.
4. The melting pot. Can only go here on special occasions because it is way expensive.
5. Just about any Sushi Place.
6. Panda Express. Chinese anyone?

Eight things I look forward to:
1. Graduating. Only three months left.
2. Finding a job that I absolutely love.
3. Finally being done with dentist appointments.
4. Going along with #3. Getting my dentist bill paid off. Only $1,800 more to go:)
5. Losing 5 more pounds before the end of summer.
6. Wearing my new cowgirl shirt to school. Ye Ha!
7. Going to St. George to see my Grandma.
8. Getting this post over with because it is making me feel very uncreative

Eight People I tag: I don't have eight friends so these are all the people I know.

1. Nicole (Who has already been tagged but I need her on my list.)

2. Sian (Who does not even read my blog but I read hers because I am a creeper.)

3. Gen. Tagged me but didn't call no tag backs.

Well there you have it. I am a loner what can I say.

July

Ok, so I have been getting a few complaints that I have to updated my blog for a long time so here it goes. The rest of my summer has just flown by. I cannot figure out where it all went. So I will just tell you all the things that I have been doing sense July.

July started off with a bang when I woke up one morning with my tooth feeling like I have rammed an ice pick through it and into my ear. So I set off to the dentist only to find out that my month of July was going to be filled with pain and it was going to be expensive. Starting off on the 30th of June I had to go on antibiotics to clear up my huge infection I had in my tooth so that I could get one of those awesome root canals. After being on those for a week I got to go in on the 6th and have my root canal done. The next couple of days we horrible. My jaw hurt from being propped open for an hour and a half because one they got in there it was still pretty infected so they had to but cleanser down there and made me sit for twenty minutes. Promptly after my root canal I headed to Lake Powell with Susan and her extended family. Can you say Fun! No actually it really was not that bad. The best was getting to drive home with Don because he decided that he had had enough of Susan's family and wanted to come home with me the night before everyone else left. Oh what fun that was. It was probably the longest drive home from lake Powell ever recorded. After getting home from the longest drive ever I had about 6 hours of sleep and then I was up the next morning to go to a babysitters bash where I met Bryna. She has two little boys and wanted me to start babysitting two days a week. So two days before my birthday I started my nanny job in Park City. This is Leo. He is the youngest of the two boys and a complete cutie...

Next was my Birthday. Which I did nothing except at around 4 I went to my friend Patti's house and had cake and then ended up going to a movie with her and her son. The next day Susan felt a little bad because she had forgotten that it was my birthday so she decided that she was going to pretend that it was still my birthday so we had our traditional cake out on the lawn. It is way more fun for the kids then it is for me as you can tell from the pictures of Luke and his little mini look-a-like cousin Zach...

The next Monday was followed by possibly the worst week of my life. I had my wisdom taken from me and the dentist had a hard time getting my left tooth out and he dug and dug at it until it finally came out in five different pieces. This is how I looked three days later. I had to eat apple sauce and chicken noodle soup for four days!!!

Not that this was the end of all my fun. Later that week I developed a dry socket and if you have ever had one I am terribly sorry because it hurts like none other. But because this wonderful thing developed on a Friday night I had to wait until Monday to get it fixed. Not to mention that I had to work a catering job on Saturday. When I got home that night I don't think that I have ever been in so much pain in my life! But once Monday came around I was a happier person. All the dentist had to do was but a few medicated gauze rolls in the hole and it was as good as new. I ended up working all day on Monday and Tuesday so I had no contact with the outside world.

Then to finish up the month I went to the snake river with my family. And wow was the the best time ever. Not. We went up on Wednesday and rafted down the river on kayaks. Then at about one thirty in the morning on Thursday my mom, sister, and my sister's boyfriend showed up at camp. The next two days were filled with arguing, river rafting, and my brothers complaining that they were bored. Tyson and Shawn left Friday night so it was pretty quiet that night but we woke up to the sound of rain puring down on us and it didn't let up all morning. We had to be out of our camp ground by noon so we had to take everything down in the rain. I was soak through to the bone and all muddy. This trip just gets me looking forward to the ten day trip up the coast that my mom insists we need to take as a a family before my brother leave to go on his sail trip around the world. So now as you can see from this very long post that I have been extremely busy in July and so I get to be excused from not updating my blog.

Out on the town.

So lets start the day off with Katie and Nicole being a half hour late picking me up. Which I was not all that surprised because they are always late. Then Katie tells us that we need to go and get gas but she wants to go to Oakley and fill up at the gas station there. Now this is where all the fun began. As Katie is pulling up she starts telling us how she hates to go to this gas station because they fill your tank for you. (It is probably one of the only places that still does service for you which shows you how small our town still is.) Anyway. As she gets out of the car she cannot figure out how to open the gas tank. Which is down right funny. So the guy comes out to fill the tank and starts to make fun of Katie because she still doesn't have the gas tank open. She finally fins the lever to open it and the guy says, "Is this your first day driving a car?" Wow it was funny but it might just be one of those you just had to be there stories so bare with me. Then Katie proceeds to sit and watch the guy as he clean of her windshield. Just sitting in the car watching her be all awkward was the best time that I have had all week. Well we finally finish up there and headed on our way. We ended up going to Fashion Place mall because someone told us that there were really cute sun dresses on sale. (Misleading information. We found nothing) But we did manage to take some pictures.

Waiting for Katie and Kelsey


We were starving as we sat for like a half hour waiting for Katie and Kelsey to finish their shopping. We sat by this sign debating on whether we needed to get some junk food or not. Look at sad Nicole thinking if only I had some Mike n Nite's (No idea how to spell that)

It was their idea not mine to take their picture in front of this awesome sign.

(Notice I am not in any of these pictures. Apparently I was just not look presentable. AND I even showered and did my hair!)

As we are winding up our time at the mall Chanae remembers that she left her camera at the really expensive black dress store called black and white. Nicole and I were fallowing her through the mall as she was practically running to get back to the store. Much to her relief she found it at the store and this was the look on her grateful little face.

We finally got to eat. We went to Olive Garden and had their soup, salad, and bread sticks. They were delicious but we totally got riped off. Oh well.

(As you can see I think that I look half decent. I am not sure why nobody wanted to be in a picture with me.)

Chanae licking her fingers and I have no idea what Nicole face is expressing.

Katie of course not paying any attention.

After the mall we went to Target. By this time Chanae and Nicole were feeling like they really wanted to be done. I tried to convince them to get in the cart and I would push them around but they decided that they wanted to just sit on the floor and wait for Katie and Kelsey. I decided that I needed some black pants and sense I didn't want to go to the dressing rooms by myself and these guys were not moving I decided to try my pants on right there in the middle of the store. And lets just say that it kept us entertained.

Oh and on the way home. This is what we saw just sitting in the middle of the gas station so we had to turn the car around and park on the other side of the street just so that we could get pictures. I have been living in this town all of my life and it is amazing how I can still find things that just amaze me.

Pictures as Promised.

The Narrows

The end of the hike. We were all ready to go home shower and relax.

Up above. Waiting for MJ as Chanae would call her.

This is just my favorite picture. Not! But it is the only one where you can really see me so to risk total embarrassment I decided to post it.

Brooke and I had a really hard time staying out of the water. This is one of our great falls caught on camera.

The Narrows

Wow. I finally have something to blog about. It has been quite a boring time sense I got out of school. But this week I got to go down the narrows with 20 other people. It was quite an adventure.
Wednesday:
We left on Wednesday at about 9:30am. I rode down in Bertha (The lewis' big white van that holds 15 people.) It was Me, Nicole, Jason, JT, Brooke, My Aunt LuAnn, and a lady named Mary Jane. It was about the longest ride ever with Mary Jane asking every hour if we wanted a pumpkin cookie and trying to watch a movie on my very small laptop. At about 2 we were twenty minutes away when Mary Jane asked if we were going to stop anywhere for lunch. WE told her that we were just going to eat when we got there but apparently she did not feel that she could eat there. So we had to drive twenty minutes out of our way into Springdale. As we get to where all the restaurants were she just couldn't decide where she wanted to go. She just keep saying isn't there a McDonald's anywhere. After we told her no like five times she finally saw Taco Bell. As Nicole pulled into the parking lot she says, "Do you just want to go in and order? Or (after a long pause and in a sarcastic tone) Do you want me to take this through the drive through? She just does a little giggle and says yeah. Then Nicole says so you want me to take this through the drive through? She give a little laugh again and says yeah I think you cold do it. SO Nicole takes the bus through up to the speaker and asks Mary Jane what she wants. Mary Jane says I just want a taco and a burrito. Ok, well what kind do you want Nicole asks? Oh it doesn't matter. Wow we were all at this point just plain annoyed. We were tired of being in the bus and she was just being annoying. We finally get to where we were going at about 3pm. We spent the rest of the day just playing outside. We played Volleyball, Soccer, and rode horses. Brooke and I went down to the river and went for a little wade through the water. Then we all went tot he park where we spent hours playing basketball, Volleyball, played on the swings, and rode the rip stick. At nine we headed back to the house where we sat for the next three hours deciding if we were going to go on the narrows the next day. There was a chance of rain and that made a lot of us uneasy. At Midnight we finally decided that we were going to go and went to bed. Jason, JT, Brooke, Nicole, and I went out to sleep on the tramp. Brooke and I could not fall asleep and at one thirty we were still up whispering and Nicole was not to happy about that. She keep telling us to shut up and to stop moving all around. We all talked about just pushing her off the side of the tramp because she was on the end and it would have been fairly easy. At two thirty we finally fell asleep. That morning we had to get up at four to leave.
Thursday:
Surprisingly enough I was not even tired. I was full of energy and ready to go. We got up to the beginning of the hike at about 6:30am and set off. The canyon was completely fogged over and it was only 41 Degrees out so it was a bit chilly. I was soaked up to my knees in the first ten minutes of the hike and I was never completely dry again. It took us about 9 and a half hours to get through but it was a lot of fun. Brooke and I had about an hour or so where it was impossible for us not to slip about every five minutes and fall into the water. It all started when Brooke fell down a rock slab that was about ten feet high. Jason had taken us on this trail that took us up the side of the canyon without anyway down besides these cliffs. We got to where the trail had ended and there was a rock slid. Brooke was up in the front behind Jason and decided that she did not want to slid down next. She was trying to get out of the way so that someone else could go first and she just lost her balance and went rolling down the slab face first. Poor girl got all scraped up but it was the funniest thing that happened the whole trip in my opinion. After that I started to follow Brooke and we took turns falling into the water. The rocks were so slippery and I just could not stay standing up. It did not help of course that Brooke was making me laugh so hard that I could not even stand when I was not moving across the slippery rocks. Along the way we found some fun places to jump of some rocks and Brooke and I were the only ones that would jump off. We figured sense we were already soaked that we would have some fun. I had a couple of bad spills myself. One I tripped on a rock and fell with my leg bent behind me and wow did that hurt. Brooke found it quite funny because I was following her and all of a sudden she heard me saying oh shit oh shit help. She turned around and was laughing so hard that she could not even help me up. After we got on our way again her karma caught up with her she was following me and slipped on a rock and did the splits smacking her you know what on a rock. I tried to pull her up by her back pack but I was laughing so hard that I didn't really have any strength left. We continued on our way practically running through the narrows because Rockey thought that it was going to storm. The only problem was was that we had to stop every half hour or so and wait ten minutes for Mary Jane to catch up. She had a hard time and was falling more then Brooke and I combined. Every time we saw her we just had to laugh because she looked like death. I don't think she was enjoying herself quite as much as everyone else was. The last mile of the trip seemed to drag on forever and I was losing my motivation. I finally made it to the top around four and sat there with JT, Jason, and Brooke. We waited for a half hour for our group to start emerging from the entrance and then we rode the shuttle down to the bottom to catch a ride back to the house. We then waited at the bottom for another twenty minutes for the group to come. By this time we were just tired and sore. We went home and ate dinner and then just sat around for awhile before we dicided that we were going to go and visit Heidi. She lives with her Aunt down there in a paridise house and it was so nice to visit with her. We got home around ten and went straight to bed. Now this is only about half the story but I am sick of writing and I bet you are sick of reading so I will just leave it as it is.
Friday:
We woke up at 6 the next morning, We sat around ate breakfast and then headed back home. We were going to go hiking but we were all to sore to even move so we just headed home. We got home about 2 and then our trip was over. I am glad that I got to go and I really enjoyed myself even if it does not sound like it.
(I will post some picture later because i didn't take my camera.)