BEES GAME MAY16TH 2009

Well I decided to go to SLC and visit some friends and watch a Bees game. It was a lot of fun and even though it was minor league it was good. The Bees are the Angels farm system so a few players have been up playing the Majors and back down. I have a picture of one down lower.

Me and Melinda getting ready to go in. My friends Selina and Brianne also came with their husbands.

Freddy Sandoval made is Major League debut against the New York Yankees on September 8Th, 2008 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim California. I was going to get his autograph but I didn't have anything for him to sign.

MOVING

Well I am moving again. I think this will be about my 11th or 12th time moving since I moved to Cedar, But my Bro is getting married and I am glad but I do hate to move. So I will try to post some pics of my new place I am sure it will be awesome, probably the bathroom at the park because that is about all I can afford these days:)

Easter 2009

Well this year for Easter we were told to be expecting a special guest at 6:30 Sharp on Sat! so we all waited and pretty soon a car pulled up and stopped on the white tarps that were set up and when it pulled away.............It left behind these 3 showgirls who did a lovely show to "super trooper" from Mama Mia. It was pretty funny, Then they held a photo shoot afterwards and then disappeared as mysteriously as they showed up. We got it on video if anyone wants to see it, I think we will be posting it on youtube soon.

My Mom:)

Aunt Renon, My Mom, and Aunt Katherine

A CHILDHOOD MEMORY REVISITED

Well a friend convinced me the other day that I needed to purchase some Rollerblades with her and we could take it up again in our spare time. Well I gave in and decided to do it. Lets just say I am not as good as I used to be. I used to be so good on those things I was out of control. This time I could barely stand up. I don't know how I used to ever cruise around on those things. I did get some pictures from our first outing but a few of them ended up with me on my face. I'll post those later. Which is more than I can say for some people who made fun of me for falling but were to afraid to try the spin move so they stayed safely in the vertical position(KACEE). Anyway I guess we will test these out from time to time and get some practice in. I will probably be passing them on to my nieces and nephews soon though. However if they land me a HOTTIE like this then maybe I will keep them!!! o and just for the record I did get the spin move down.

A BIG.......

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their comments on my last post. I had a little vent session. I do try to keep in mind that people just care and that's why they ask. So again thanks and I will keep an open mind when that question comes along which it has been increasing in the last weeks due to one of my best friends getting married next weekend!! can't wait for the wedding reception where unmarried people are targets for those people who just want to know "what you have been up to and why you are not married,but all your friends are?" and I am sure I will get it about 527 times:) I will remain calm and simply answer "I just haven't found someone that can put up with me yet" (which really means I just haven't found someone good enough yet, but people think I am a high maintenance broad when I say that) so I will keep it simple to avoid a longer discussion:) so excited!!!

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I just wanted to address a few questions that I frequently get asked and I think my friend Kyle says it best, so below is the answers to some questions so people can stop wondering or asking:) You have now been warned and this is your last chance to stop reading if you don’t want an ear full. Okay I tried to warn you…..Okay people. This has been on my mind a lot and thanks to a few of my fellow co-workers it has got me a little wound up. First off let me address the married people that got married right out of high school. I am so happy that you found your “true love” in high school and may your life be nothing short of a fairy tale. BUT that is not how it happens for everyone. I know you are just trying to be nice, but there is never a time to ask someone, “why aren't you married?” NEVER! To me, that is like asking someone, Why are you so fat? Yeah there is probably a reason, but it still doesn't make it right.
This hasn't really bugged me until the last couple of months. I get the question, “why aren't you married?” at least once a week and that's just by one co- worker. After hearing this over and over, I finally just said I rather find the right one the first time, then the wrong one and get divorced! That got her silent for a few minutes as this hit a little too close to home. Plus I have seen too many people get married too young and feel like they missed out on too much and result in acting like a teenager in their forties. You know the people I am talking about. The ones that want to hang out with the daughter and all of her friends. The mom that wears the tube top and daisy dukes, that shouldn't’t EVER wear one or own one for that matter. Let’s just say if it takes two tube tops to go around you, maybe a tube top is not your best option. Or if you have to cut Levis into daisy dukes, because you just can’t find your size. You shouldn't wear them…EVER!
I just get sick of everyone worried about me not being married.WHY DO YOU CARE?! I know you just “want me to be Happy,” but if that is true then send me on vacation or better yet, bother someone else with your dumb questions, that is what would make me happy.
Now for the reasons I am fat. I eat too much, I eat late at night. I eat right before I go to bed. I love candy. I don’t exercise enough. I eat past the full feeling and to the point of getting sick. I eat because I can. I eat because I am worth it. I eat when I am sad. I eat when I am mad. I eat when i'm, happy. I eat to celebrate. I eat when I am stressed. I eat greasy food. I love cheese. I love bacon. I think everything taste better with cheese or bacon. I want to eat just writing about food. Well I gotta go, I am getting hungry. As always have a good week! Until next time!

Random happenings

Just me and my mom before we headed out to do some shopping This is my friend Theresa that came to visit form Nebraska, She was here for a few days and it was a lot of fun. She should really move back here. She loves it here. She is always saying how she likes being here cause everyone looks so different and she absolutely loves girls with "Utah hair".

My newest niece

I decided since I had nothing going on I would share a picture of my new niece. She is wicked cute.

CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!

Well if you know me very well you know I like to have a little fun, so for our work Christmas party I decided to go all out with my out fit! the sad thing is I could not find a crazy Christmas vest like I had last year and when we asked the little old ladies at walmart if they had any they said with a concerned look on their face "you know we have not seen any of those this year!" we about died laughing. But don't be alarmed walmart did not disappoint. I found a shirt! Then we headed off to the Christmas jewelry! no disappointments there either:) Then it was off to the dollar store to find a hat. I was able to find a Santa hat and some antlers, I decided to go with the antlers, they pretty much completed the outfit. So needless to say it was perfect. Some people knew I was totally joking and the sad part is some people actually complemented me and were serious:(

So basically I rolled in, allowed them to ENVY me, grabbed a handful of popcorn shrimp, grabbed my white elephant gift which turned out to be a size 10 pair of yellow and green sponge bob underwear(those pictures will come later) and blew outta there! success(check mark) My awesome antlers
random pic

My shirt! and the nose totally blinked!

My cat pin, and my jingle bell Santa hat necklace

And my jingle bell Christmas earrings

NOTHING NEW

Ok so I have nothing new going on in my life. I just work and that's about it, Sorry I know I'm super boring. I was talking with my friend Derrik this last weekend and we were saying how we hate it when people ask us whats new? Cause we have nothing to tell them. I basically got a second job so I would have something to say:( sad I know. So since I have no big exciting news unlike my friend Melinda (wink wink) I guess I'll go with some lame stuff. I decided to learn sign language, so my friend is teaching me, I borrowed a DVD from my brother-in-law of how to teach myself to play the guitar, I got to see all my old friends on Sunday so that was awesome, and the last lame thing I did...... you know when you are trying to say something and your mouth is moving faster than your brain, and then something comes out backwards or messed up. Well my friend took my phone away from me the other night when I was texting someone and I yelled to him "hey! I was the important of a middle conversation!" we all stopped and then cracked up laughing. Wow I was like, "who thinks I'm awesome right now? let me try that again. I was in the middle of an important conversation."

So that's all I have for now. I encourage any stories anyone would like to share with me about some crazy funny things they might have said. Until something else exciting happens.........

YES! I AM STILL ALIVE!

Yes, everyone I am still around. I guess that's how you find out that people really care and start to wonder if you are still around, just don't post anything on your blog for a couple weeks and people start asking questions.

I have been super busy this last little while so I have kind of dropped out of site. I work two jobs these days, I still work at the Residential Treatment Center for girls and I also work at the Crisis Center. I have been running back and forth between those jobs and it keeps me pretty busy, plus my laptop decided it had enough and quit working in addition to the Internet not working all last week at the treatment center. This is pretty much why I have not posted anything. Plus I really didn't have anything to post.

This week I have been at a 40 hour training to become an Advocate for victims of Rape or Sexual Assault for the Crisis Center. I am really excited about this and think it will be something I will enjoy doing. I am also going to start volunteering for the SUMCT which is the Southern Utah Mobile Crisis Team. They pretty much get dispatched when the police get a call and we go on site for Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Rape, Homicide, Suicide calls, and anything else they might need us for. Our job is to be and advocate for the victims. We are there to support them and help them with their needs while the Police department handles the other stuff. I will also be responding to hospital calls for victims of Rape or Sexual Assault to help them through the process, provide resources, answer questions, and anything else they need. I am volunteering so I can get experience and then hopefully I will be able to get a job when the funds are available. I am also looking into doing a few ride alongs with the Police Department. I am really excited and think this will be fun.

I will try not to be absent so long from blogging, and try and do something exciting and fun so I can post.

O and PS I finally watched the office and it is like my new favorite show.{THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!! :) }

SHEEP PARADE!!!

Here are a few pics for your enjoyment. I forgot my camera so these few just came from the cell phone.

So I guess every year Cedar has what they call a sheep parade. I have never been and probably would not have ever gone except I have decided that I probably miss out on a lot of things in life because I think they are stupid. So for the next little while anything that I think is stupid I am going to try. Well........

The sad part is I went to the sheep parade and actually liked it. It was pretty entertaining and provided a lot of laughs. They not only paraded a 1,000 sheep down main street but also a very nice and long line of several different makes and models of tractors from small to big and some other random farm equipment(mostly I think that people just got in there farm equipment and showed up at the parade so they could be in it). I swear every sheep wagon in Cedar City and the surrounding areas, the diesels that haul the sheep, and.... ...you guessed it- a bag pipe playing marching band. The parade was topped of with, no not candy! they actually threw out sheep wool(hahaha). It was pretty great experience. I guess this new experiment is paying off. I never thought I would attend a sheep parade let alone enjoy it. AWWW small towns:)

A few of the other events I was sad/glad I missed out on.

-Tractor pull

-Sheep dog event

-Dutch oven mutton

-Cowboy poetry

WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE?

Ok so on my way to work this morning at 5:40AM, I am trying to hurry so I won't be late. I take the back road where it is all dark, run down and basically pretty ghettto! I see a car coming toward me and it is flashing it's lights. Without even really thinking I started to stop. Then all the sudden the voice of reason came into my mind, yelling what are you doing? it's dark, there is no one around, and you are stopping for a car and have no idea who it is or what they want! I was already stopped at this point the the person was rolling down there very dark tinted window! (yikes!!!) I was freaking out at this point thinking, well I've finally done it! this is how I'm going to die! but I just sat there and didn't speed of like my human instinct was telling me to. Luckily it was a lady who was lost looking for the airport! whoosh. I tried to give her directions but she said she had been lost for awhile. I was already going to be late for work and knew she probably would not find it. She said "I beg of you"(sad, that totally suckered me in) So I led her there!(totally making me late for work being as my gas light was on and i had to stop and get gas too) she stopped me again and said "what do I owe you?" of course I said nothing. She said "o thank you, you are an angel" well that gave me the warm fuzzes:) I drove off feeling good and glad I stopped! But really that was a risky thing that I did. SO MY QUESTION, WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE OF BEING A KIND HELPING CITIZEN OF SOMEONE IN NEED OR A CITIZEN THAT HAS THE "EVERYMAN FOR THEMSELVES" ATTITUDE? ANYONE?

CHAMPIONS!!!

Well we won the championship last Thursday night. We played at 6:30 and beat that team by 15 runs then we didn't play again until 9:30 for the Championship. We ended up playing the same team that we played at 6:30 but they had played us then another team so they were still warmed up and had a lot of batting practice in. They got a lot of runs on us and were ahead of us by 7 runs with time running out. Somehow we managed to put up 9 runs in our last at bat with all the time gone. They had last bats and we were only ahead by two. We got an easy out then a few people got on base. One run scored on a sacrifice fly, so we had two outs and were only ahead by one. luckily the last out came quick with no one on base. We won by one! we got another trophy and T-Shirts. Sorry the pic is blurry its from my phone so its not a great picture.

A CHALLENGE

Ok so I don't know if any of you have ever had the pleasure of driving northbound on I-15 comfortably cruising at a speed of 76mph between Beaver and Fillmore at 6:53 in the morning in a mini van, but if you have not your missing out! just as I was sitting in the back soaking in all the luckiness that had recently come upon me, my boss hits the breaks which immediately pulls me back to reality and totally freaks myself and another fellow employee out. She says "is that an animal?" as we frantically search back and forth and scan the area we see nothing! and could not figure out what she was talking about. She points into oncoming traffic and we all realized what she was looking at. The top of a semi coming up and over a hill! BAHAHA I was like "what you mean that big 18 wheel semi truck?" Seriously we laughed forever, I was a little scared for my life after that I'm not gonna lie. But in her defense and to validate her feelings, I posted some pictures so everyone could see how interchangeable these two things really are and how easily she could have mistaken one for the other(common mistake I'm sure). Good times. If any0ne is board or got a little extra time on their hands I highly recommend this experience. It creates laughs all day and I'm sure many in the future. I challenge all of you to try it and see if the same experience will happen. In honor of my lovely, outgoing, hard working, extremely organized and amazing boss. POP OFF!! Thanks for the laughs all day!

A FUNNY OBSERVATION

The popper AHHHHHH!!!!The Dart gun

Well I don't have kids but I have pretty much been around them my whole life being the youngest of 6 kids and having 21 nieces and nephews. I know that parents mean well when they go to the store and want to find the perfect toy that they think their child will love and have so much fun with, or the child picks it out and wants it so bad and cries until the parent gives in and buys it. The funny part about this, is that parents don't really consider or think about what exactly they are buying sometimes. I know a lot of you parents can relate, you know they toys that make the same annoying sound over and over or the little popper thing they push around that has the balls that pop when they hit the thing in the middle(that toy makes me what to get a sledge hammer and go to town) so I'm sure by now you all have a vision in your head of the toys that annoy you to death. What then usually occurs is the kids are having a great time but the parents are about to pull their hair out and then start to get mad and the kids for playing with the toys. A perfect example of this, this last weekend I went home to visit my mom and she was babysitting the kids she had bought them these toy guns that shoot little dart things(at an unusually powerful force that should be reevaluated for a child's gun! I would know I got hit by several) anyway, they proceeded to run all over the house and shoot them at each other and at targets, well after a couple of hours my mom was trying to get them to "put the guns away and watch a movie" ha ha yea right they are little boys with toy guns that actually shoot things. She looked like she was about to lose it and start pulling her hair out and I started laughing and said "you can't buy them toys like that and then get mad at them when they play with them", we had a really good laugh after that about it . I have witnessed this several times and just think it is so funny. I personally blame the people who make the toys for not considering this to begin with, but since they don't, next time we want to put a smile on a child's face with the perfect toy I recommend really doing some research on they toy and how it is going to affect us 4 hours after we buy it. Just for everyone sake.

Please feel free to comment and tell me the toys that annoy you I would really like to make a list so that I never buy them for my children and then have to hear them cry when I take them away and smash them with a hammer into tiny pieces:)

GETTING IT DONE SINCE THE YANKEES CANT!!!

Well since the Yankees cant make the playoffs, it's a good thing that my team can. I'm not the best one on the team in fact I'm probably closer to the worst one, but I get my good hits in every now and then so I feel like I contributed. This is me with our trophy. Last week we clinched the co-rec softball division and headed first place into the tournament. We won out first game tonight and avenged our only loss by like 15 runs! With the win we head right into championship night. Cross your fingers!!

STAGE ONE: SHOCK AND DENIAL

Seriously this morning was pretty rough I can't believe its over! I know i'm probably over reacting but it's just sad. All the history and all the memories. The house that Ruth built is no more. I'm sure there will be many more memories and a lot more history made in the new one but it's hard to let go, I HATE CHANGE. I'm glad I had the oppertunity to visit there twice and sit in the Yankee dugout and visit the club house. Thanks Mo and the rest of the great Yankees for the memories!!!

THE SEVEN STAGES OF GRIEF HAVE BEGUN!!!!!

Well for all you baseball fans you know what I mean. Tonight was the last game ever played in Yankee Stadium:( In the last game Andy Pettitte got the win, Jose Molina hit the last homer and Mariano Rivera finished the Yankees' 7-3 win over the Orioles. Let's just say there were some tears. I put a few pictures for some memories.

This is what you see when you are coming out of the club house to the Yankee dugout. It says "I want to thank the good lord for making me a Yankee"
I'm gonna miss it but I'll probably enjoy the new one as well. It's even worse that they probably wont make the playoffs either. This will be the first time in who knows how long. SAD I KNOW!!

SEPTEMBER ENSIGN

SMALL THINGS HAVE A WAY OF GROWING LARGE WHEN WE DWELL ON THEM

TOOTHPASTE ON THE MIRROR

By Bryce R. Peterson

I thought this was a really good and sad story. It is a story about an older lady and her husband. It is told by her daughter. She said that one of her mom's complaints was that her dad would splash toothpaste all over the mirror when he brushed his teeth. It drove her mom crazy! and she couldn't let it go.

After her father passed away her mother missed him more than she thought she would. one day when the daughter visited, her mothers eyes turned watery and she told her daughter of a mistake she regretted. She reminded her of the toothpaste and how adamant she had been that her dad was so slothful in neglecting to clean up his mess. She had been so angry over such a small thing.

Her mother went on to say that after her dad died there had been toothpaste on the mirror. She had cleaned it off, the next day there was more so she cleaned it off, and the next day more... this went on for a few days. Her mother realized that she had blamed her dad for the toothpaste for many years but it had been both of them splashing it in the mirror. She felt terrible that she had been so upset about that for years. She admitted that her anger had hurt her much worse than it had affected her dad.

I liked this story because it shows you that everyone has faults and before we get angry about something someone else is doing we need to take a look at ourself and see what we are doing.