Lagoon.. This is the place!

My family went on a vacation this week. I promised I would blog about it in my last entry, So here I go!

We started our journey in the afternoon of Monday. Where we reached our destination of Bountiful around 5ish. From there we helped set up tables, chairs, and manned the grill until the whole family had eaten. The food was spectacular. We even had lemon lime flavored sparkling water... well that was an accident. The night ended with lots of rain, family laughing, and swimming in the hotel pool. We knew we needed a good night sleep so that we could party it up at Lagoon the next day. Lagoon was brilliant as always! We rode the rides, we played in the water park, I got a nice tan, and everyone had a great time! Every time I turned a corner there was a member of my family there. It was fun to run into everybody periodically throughout the day. I got really tired really quickly. So when I did I decided it was time to walk through Pioneer Town with my mother. We had fun looking at all the old pioneer stuff. Old antiques are interesting to me. And we even got some strawberry cheesecake ice cream. That stuff is delicious and not very nutritious. Worst part of the night was when 5 buck let our pizza's fall straight from the oven into the garbage. I knew we should have gone to pf. It's the only reliable source.

The next morning just my baby, not so baby, family headed to Salt Lake to the "This is the place" monument. Just long story short we had a way good time. We got to find gold in the river, we got to ride the train, and we walked all around the whole place looking at all the cabins, the stores, and the cute hotels. No, I wouldn't want to be a pioneer. Yes, I do like their style. Not the cabins, just their houses. I love old houses. I could go on forever about them though so I'm gonna quit rambling now. The train was probably the highlight, well that and when Xander got stung by a bee. That was quite the experience. Don't worry I played nurse Kayla and put some mud on that bugger of a sting and yup, he was happy!

Over all I believe the trip was a success. We all had a very good time!
And X and I loved the train :)

You Don't Realize What You Have Until It's Gone!

This quote keeps making it's appearance in my life. None of you can tell by looking at my blog but just five seconds ago I was not happy. Because when I logged into blogger to post today I viewed my blog and my background had been erased. There was a little icon in it's place that said the picture had been deleted from photobucket. I guess I didn't realize how much I loved my background until I noticed how sad I was that it was gone. So, sadly, I started the search for a background that I could love as much as my old one. I decided to look on some websites that I hadn't been on before. I went through all the backgrounds, some were way too gandmaish for me, some were way too kidish for me, and then there was one that I though I might could handle, well if it didn't have the wings! So I was stuck! I found one that kind of resembled my old one, but it was kind of ugly. And then there was one that I thought I could handle but it had a little blue monster hand looking thing in the right hand corner and I knew that it wouldn't last long. So in my desperation I decided to go back to the cutest blog on the block website. And sure enough after looking at about three pages of backgrounds there it was, clear as a button, waiting for me, practically screaming out my name, MY OLD BACKGROUND WAS BACK RIGHT THERE WHERE I COULD USE IT!!!! OK, so I posted it back up on my page and wala! I am so happy now.
A little update on my life, well let's see I've been working a lot lately. It's been very good though. Tiarrah and I found us a place to live. It's behind big o tires for all of y'all who know your way around cedar. We're just waiting for the lady who owns it to say it's ok to move in, and I can promise it won't take us long after that. Tomorrow is Sunday, I'm way excited! I spoke in church last Sunday it went well. Aimee and I got to speak together and we had a good time with it. Also next week I get to go up to Salt Lake with my family and have a little vacation. We're going to Lagoon and we get to have a bbq and honestly I'm just really excited that I don't have to work. My birthday is next Saturday I think I have some plans, they aren't set in stone yet but hey it's my birthday so I will for sure think of something! I know I haven't posted any pictures recently. But this week is promising for many pictures with the vacation and the birthday! So no worries they will be coming soon!

"Don't Sell Yourself Short"

It has been so long since I have updated you all on what's been going on in my life. I apologize, but I hope that this will prove that when I don't post for a long time it isn't because nothing is going on... it's actually quite the opposite. So I'm sorry that this is going to be long, but I hope you enjoy the updates on my life! Uhh... I don't even know where to start!
All of my life, just like all of yours I'm sure, I have been asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never had an answer for this question. I never even would pretend like I knew. I would get asked, I would avoid the question, and then I would move on with whatever I was doing before this horrible subject got brought up. In the back of my mind I always knew that the time would come when I would find out what I wanted to be, and I would be 100% sure of my decision. Luckily for me this time came a few weeks ago. And since then I have been happy and excited to inform everybody that I have decided to become a nurse. I put a lot of thought into my decision and I'm excited to start working towards it this fall. I know that nursing programs are hard to get into and I know that it is going to be a lot of hard work. Probably more school work than I have ever done in my whole life, and more time consuming than anything. But for something that lasts me forever I would hope that I would be willing to spend the time and effort that I need to put into it. And I am. So for the next four, or so, years I will be working towards becoming a nurse. Super exciting right?! Yea, I think so!
I was going to save this subject for another time, but, while I'm already on the subject of growing up this is as good of time as ever to say that I'm moving out of my house. Yes, wow, I know it's time to grow up. I think more than anything I'm ready to grow up. I'm ready to take on the responsibilities of living apart from my family and to learn how it is to have to provide and take care of myself. I'm excited, and I'm sure you all are too because this means there will be so many entertaining things that will be coming soon for you all to read about. I will be moving in with Mandy (remember the one you read about who I visited over spring break? Yea, well that's her) Mandy and I will be sharing a room. I'm very excited to become better friends with her and to steal her shoes! Also we will be living with Tiarrah, who I work with at Pizza Factory, she's such a doll. And I'm excited that we might be able to car pool to work sometimes. And that instead of going to Denny's at night we could just go home and make pancakes there! Carly will be living with us too, and I have never met her. She is one of Tiarrah's best friends, they have known each other for a long time and so I'm sure we will get along great! I'm excited to meet her and make a new friend! Now, finding a place to live has been quite the adventure. We kind of procrastinated and it hasn't quite been as easy as I had imagined it to be. Tiarrah and I have been searching cedar to find the perfect place. We almost had a place and then the guy rented it to some other people. So now we're at a loss again. The thing is though that we don't have very much longer. So tomorrow is the day. It is possible, and tomorrow we are going to find a place, decide we love it, and do everything we need to do to make it be ours before she leaves town. I believe that it is possible.
While I was working away the other day running around like crazy trying to please all the customers at Pizza Factory I noticed that one of my professors from last semester was in one of the other waitresses sections. I said "hi" to her briefly and then went on doing what I was doing. Right when she was almost finished with her meal she called me over to her table and said she needed to invite me to something. I was a little confused and flustered because I had a lot of stuff to do. But I let her explain to me that the communications department at SUU is hosting a mediator training course. This course is the first step you need to become a court trained mediator, and also I would be able to get a lot of upper division course credits on my transcript. She was telling me all about it and how that if I decided it was something that I was interested in I would be able to have 100 dollars off the cost because I was an SUU student and SUU was hosting it, and also they had 300 dollar scholarships that they were giving out for the program and she offered me one. The next morning I called her and went to see her in her office. We talked more about the program and I decided it was an opportunity that I didn't want to pass up. The training course runs the first week in August, so it will be a quick course and I will get 3 upper division course credits and have the first step of mediator training complete. I'm excited to learn more about that field of work and possibly go on to more trainings where I will be able to get all of my mediator training completed. That would be cool. A nurse and a court mediator. Not too shabby of jobs.
This morning in church during the ward council meeting brother Christensen turned to me and asked if he could chat with me after. It was the moment I had been dreading for the past year. I knew exactly what he wanted. Yes, I will be speaking in church next week. It's not as bad as it could be though. He originally asked me to speak in two weeks, which would mean that I would be speaking in the tri-ward combined meeting. But, I won't be there in two weeks because it is Steve's mission farewell and I promised that I would go to it. So thankfully I will just be speaking to my quaint ward next week. I should start preparing!
I think that's about all that I need to catch you up on. I know it's quite a bit to take in, but you're just reading about it, imagine how I feel! I don't know if I have ever thanked you for following my blog, I don't even know who all reads these, I hope that maybe somebody finds it entertaining. I like when people tell me they read my posts. So thank you all. And I hope you all have a great week.
My next big accomplishment I am working towards is that I really need to purchase a lap top. I believe it will be a great thing for me to have this coming semester. I'm looking at Mac books I think they are the best, longest lasting, and they don't get viruses which is a good thing. But they are also quite pricey. So maybe I'll have to start a side fund for it or something. And if it doesn't work out, I guess I'll just spend my life in the library.
Next time I won't wait till so much has happened before I post again. But, for sure by the next time I update you all I will have a new place to live. I'm looking forward to that!
Today I was sitting by one of my best friends in church and she has the cutest little quote book ever! I loved one of the quotes I read. It was the very first one in the whole book and I want to share it with you all right now. I think it describes a lot of what I've been feeling lately.

"You never know how far you can fly until you spread your wings"
(or something to that effect)