Side Explosion

This weekend I decided to head up to Caroline and Jeff's house to stay for a few days.  Caroline had bought some fireworks that we could light off tonight, and after a surprise visit from Lizzy (Hannah still hasn't stopped talking about how happy she is), and learning how to drive the Vespa we lit them off.  After a couple of small ones it was time for the Aerials.  One goes off, then another, next thing we know one flies towards us under Lizzy's car!  Our oo's and awes turned into shouts and piercing screams from the kiddos.  After laughing for five minutes we lighted another one. This time the kids were hiding in the garage-two little heads poking out.  Once again it the fireworks come out the side!  What a night to remember, great fireworks, refreshing scooter rides, kids falling asleep while being read stories and mosquito bites to prove it all.

1:36 am

This is the time when I'm wide awake and cannot sleep.  Why couldn't I have felt this way today at 1:36 pm?  Alas, this is life.  This is life, but life is also calling up your best friend right after waking from a nice nap at 6:56 pm.  Then traveling the Layton streets, buying a pack of mini Tropicana cartons, a couple of cups for college, finding out that all the cool places (RC Willey and Sam's Club) close at 9pm, buying a jug of Horchata and then writing down recipes that we will rarely make, due to lack of funds.  This is what I did today after a morning of serving Gelato to happy kids and a group of 29 year old girls who are... would you say, bad decision makers?  I'm to harsh, they only tried 8 of the 18 available flavors.  I'll try the Lemon.  What's this one?  Egg nog?  gross.  No chocolate?  What about that one?  A hazelnut, chocolate with baci candy in it?  Yeah give me that one.  That's my girl pile it on.  I'm not your girl.  The only reason you know my name is because I magnetize it to my shirt.  Please don't say it, that's unnecessary. 
Well, now it's 1:51 am.  It didn't take me 20 minutes to write that paragraph.  It took me 20 minutes to write to more paragraphs and then realize that the reader probably doesn't want to hear about my run on thoughts and what I heard in a podcast I listened to a week ago.  But maybe you'd like to know the music I am currently listening to.
Trials by Damien Jurado

Last Blast

Well, it's over.  I can't believe that yesterday I graduated from High School!  Senior year was so much fun, and now I can't wait to start college down at BYU this fall.  Here are some pictures from yesterday, I don't have any family ones yet, but I'll try and put some up later.  Thanks to everyone who came, it was a lot of fun!  I love you all and  Like Dad said, "Today is the start of your life."

Moments before we walked out we took this picture of all last years officers :)

Hunter Jensen--Senior Pictures

 I took some pictures of my friend Hunter for her Senior Pictures.  Isn't she just so beautiful?
The down side was my memory card broke the day before so I borrowed my friends, and it only held about 55 pictures, so that wasn't very fun but it all worked out.  Anyways, it was a lot of fun!

Sister's Retreat

I was going to post pictures from the retreat but then I realized that almost all the pictures aren't from the retreat.  So here are some photos, enjoy!

This is what Jack did most on the time he was at Mom and Dad's: Play with "Twucks!"

This is the tree right by Mom's hot tub, it always has the prettiest blossoms in the Spring.

If only we were all as photogenic as Jack.

Sigh

My  heart longs to see the day when I will stand on that walk way and smell the ocean breeze with the wind on my face.  I long for that day.  Yearn, desire, ache, hunger, want very much.  Pick a word.

Chinque Terre, Italy

Nutella, Movies, Horribly Funny Kiddos, Sore arms, and Frozen Grapes

Is what my weekend consisted of.  I got to babysit the Laurissa's kids over the weekend while they went to New York and let me tell ya, it was fun.  We saw movies, ate Nutella and bread, played tons of games and laughed our faces off at dinner.  I rediscovered the delicious healthy bite size popsicle: frozen grapes.  Me and Isaac played on the WII which resulted in some very sore fore arms.  I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but yes, I'm that weak.  Video games make me sore.

My favorite part of the weekend would have to be our dinners (although I can't forget finding out about Grace and Lily's love for flour.  Yes, straight baking flour.).  One night during dinner we had staring contests, and lessons on how to make your face bright red to the point the your veins stick out.  I couldn't stop laughing watching Isaac and Matthew hole their breath until I though they would faint.  Seriously, their faces would get so red it was almost scary looking.  At another dinner we got on the subject of teachers and we all told scary teacher stories and the horrible nick names we give them.

I love staying with these guys and talking to them.  They are so awesome and I would gladly to it again any time.  I only wish I would've taken more pictures.

Bad Decision Tuesday

I know that it's not Tuesday.  But this is funny.  I was reading a blog and the blogger does this thing that she calls Bad Decision Tuesday.  In the post I read of hers (which you can find here) she has worn an exceptionally badly picked plaid shirt.  It is hilarious as you go through and look at her other Bad Decision Tuesday posts.  I thought that I would also do a Bad Decision Tuesday post.  And maybe in the future is I can think of a creative enough name I will call it something else.  So here it goes.  My first Bad Decision Tuesday.

In this particular picture you can see many problems.  Fist of all I'm attempting to act out the part of a sheep as we reenact the manger scene on Christmas Eve.  Notice that I didn't try to be just one happy sheep, but as you can see multiple stuffed sheep are tied to my back ( I think I was rather convincing).  This year I was also asked to play the sheep.  I remembered my past incidents playing the role and reluctantly turned down the offer.  I think that the worst decision in this picture is the hair.  The half straight-half curled hair.  I think that back then I thought this was cute or attractive in some way.  Maybe as attractive as my 5 inch long bangs.

Watch out, perhaps in the future, a past you will appear on a Bad Decision Tuesday post.

Touch football the Wallin Way.

Oh the joy of football.  The only thing that gets better than an amazing Ute game (not to many this year eh?) is an Amazing Wallin Way touch football game.  This is what we did Thanksgiving today.  You can practically see the turkey and rolls falling off of our bodies.  We worked hard to burn those extra calories.  I think this has got to be the best Thanksgiving ever. 

 The greatest part about the game was Nicola.  This man was so good a football, nobody could get him.  It was a lot of fun to see him play a game he didn't really know.  Especially when he was the best at it.

 Jeff's moves.

The Storm.

 I thought that I would post some pictures of the wind storm that happened up in Davis county on December 1.  You can't really get a feel for all the damage that was done unless you see it with your own eyes, but these still show the damage even after a day and a half of cleaning up. 

 

 

You can't see it very well, but the two of the Smith's trees (the house you can see in the pictures) fell into our back yard.  They were massive.  We filled up at least 3-4 trailer loads full of just those trees.

Owen's Baptism

Here are some pictures of Owen's baptism.  It was so much fun and what a special event.