moving the piano

so we finally convinced tania to move in!!! oh joy! happy day! yahoo! yippee! hooray! i was very excited indeed. but that is beside the point. one of the items that was to move in with tania was a piano, which also pleased me very much. only trouble was, tania had no one to help her to move the piano, and so, tania, with her sad eyes turns to me and says, "do you know any boys that could help move the piano?" well, i said i wasnt sure, but that i could check. so i did check, and sure enough, i did know some boys that would be willing to help move a piano. and so it was planned that, the boys (jaron, jayce, brian, and eric) would show up at tanias house at 4 so that they could help her to move the piano. we waited patiently at the townhouse and waited, and cleaned the spot where the piano was to reside. and then, the boys arrived, piano and all.

they looked so smashing in their sunday clothes, moving a piano. it was quite the sight. it made me very proud to know such wonderful boys who would be willing to give up their time on a sunday afternoon, right before dinner no less, to help my friend/roommate to move her piano.

all in all, the piano made it into our home and i have 4 spectacular boys (and two men) to thank for that! you guys are great! <3.

rumba!

tonight, after we went to look at cars we decided a nice rumba salad would be good. so off we went! on our way to far far away. we werent quite sure where it was so there was a little adventuring involved, but eventually we made it. i was going to take a picture of my salad to memorialize the occasion and to prove i got there. but i got it and it looked so good that i dove right in and all that was left when i remembered the picture was this:

as we were finishing we were talking and just being goofy, which is what we normally do. and all of a sudden i feel a splattering sensation on my foot and i look down and ...

christy had spilt her ranch. and it was funny. and we all laughed and christy put napkins on it and it looked kinda gross. but it was still funny. and we continued to laugh about it the rest of the night. it was an exciting and tasty time! <3.

new car shopping.

so, ive been in the process of trying to find a car to buy. ive been all over town and to many different people with no such luck. so i decided to go to the dealership where one of my roommates, christys dad works. we get there and im looking around. they had a camry which i had been looking at earlier in the day. and then i see the beatiful dodge charger.

and i was so sad because i believed it would be at least $25,000 but when i looked it said $18,000. i was quite surprised. so i looked closer. i found out it was a 2008 dodge charger with 18k miles on it. very nice i thought. so i got in to check it out.

the back seat is like, so large, its amazing. one of my biggest must haves was a back seat big enough to put a baby car seat in so that i can keep the car for a long time and have a family in it. and it passed in that category, not to mention, so so pretty. and so, of course, i had to give her a test drive. and it was a nice ride. so i went on to check out the rest of the cars, and i test drove a malibu to keep my options open. but in the end. the charger won out. so im in the misdt of trying to work stuff out to get it. but im waiting anxiously. and she is so pretty, if i didnt mention that yet. haha. <3.

i have never hurt like this before

well, today was the saddest sunday of my life. i got released as the first counselor in the relief society presidency in my ward. it was weird, i thought that i was going to feel a sense of relief myself from getting released but instead i felt like a giant hole formed in my heart that i didnt know how to fill. it was strange what an amazing sense of sorrow i felt as i was released. its weird, i have felt a lot of things in my life, and i am no stranger to sorrow, but i had never hurt like that before. it took all of my energy to hold back the tears that were beginning to form in my eyes as we sang the sacrament hymn. then after a while i thought that i had gotten over it and that i was going to be ok, but then, relief society. i walk in and sit down in a desk, not in front of all the girls, and again it hits me, i had never hurt like that before. so when john dewitt came in and invited any girls that wanted to go to missionary prep to come, and since my best friend tania is going on a mission soon i decided that i would go with her. while i was there i really enjoyed it, i love learning about the gospel and i love preach my gospel, so im excited to learn from that. so i was really glad that i had gone. and then after sunday school i talked to ingrid (the new first counsler), and she looked so scared, but i knew that she would do an amazing job. but again, the hurt i felt was so beyond that which i had ever felt before. i still know that it is going to take some time to get over it all, but i know that the Lord will always do what is best for me and for everyone else. im grateful that i will have a new opportunity to serve in a different way in the ward, i just wish that it would have come immediatly, but all good things take time, so i will wait patiently and serve the ward in my own way. <3.

"ive walked through sorrow
til i could walk no more
ive felt the winds of change blow so hard
its chilled me to the core
and pain has knocked at my door
but i have never hurt like this before

only one
can take the pieces of my heart
and make them whole
only one
can part the darkness
and breathe light into my aching soul
one way
one light
one hope
only one

ill pick up the pieces
every little bit
ill gather all of them
even ones that seem impossible to fix
and ill place them all in His hands
what i cannot restore He can

only one
can take the pieces of my heart
and make them whole
only one
can part the darkness
and breathe light into my aching soul
one way
one light
one hope
only one"

-only one written by hilary weeks

do you need to pee?

so tonight im sitting at my sisters house and im pretty sure that my puppy needs to pee because she keeps trying to jump on the ground and is wimpering a little bit so i pick her up and hold her so her nose touched mine and i keep asking her if she needs to pee. its seeming a little funny so i say, "does poky need to pee? one lick for yes and two licks for no." so she licks my nose and then she kinda licks again but it didnt touch me so im thinking, haha, that was funny, she must need to pee. so caitlyn says shes not so sure that that counted because poky was TRYING to lick me again but i moved, so i lift her up to my nose again and i ask, "does poky need to pee? one lick for yes two licks for no." and the next thing i know caitlyn is shouting, "is she peeing on you?" and sure enough, my puppy was peeing on me, and as i realize this is whats happening both caitlyn (sitting on a different couch) and my sister (sitting next to me) jump up off the couch and run to the opposite side of the room, which isnt very far, well, i just put my dog down and let her finish her business as everyone else laughs and points. she was so scared, she thought for sure that she was gonna get in trouble, but i kept my cool, (and im not gonna lie, i was pretty proud of myself.) personally, i think shes done pretty good. since i got her, which was about, id say a month ago maybe a little more, she hasnt had an accident on anyone except for tonight on me. i think thats pretty impressive myself, and lets face it, i was asking for it! next time ill just take her outside and assume that she has to pee, i think well have a lot less accidents that way! <3.