second day of spring break!.

today was the second day of my spring break and i did some pretty exciting things, haha. i woke up and decided i needed to get going on making a cake for elder faulkner who was going to be coming over that night, it was his birthday on the tenth, and we were having a happy (late) birthday "party" for him. so i got the first cake in the oven, and started some laundry. then while the cake was in the oven i ate a krispy kreme doughnut that my brother was kind enough to buy me the day before. then i sat down to watch the wonderful movie, catch me if you can. it was good, but so so long. then after that i started my second cake. then christy came home from work and she worked on cleaning and i started the frosting/filling for the cake. after that we had to go pick up my little brother from school. but we still had not heard from the missionaries, and we were beginning to wonder if they were really coming over. when we got to the seminary building what should we see, but all the missionary cars. hmm, we thought, so we had brother gordon break us in to the rest of the building to see if we could find either elder pettit or elder faulkner. well, we got back there and we saw elder scott in a room meeting with some missionaries, and decided that is probably what everyone was doing, so we went back outside. we came to the decision that we would just wait a while and see if anyone was coming out. so while we waited christy and jayce climbed the tree,
it was fun. jayce got stuck for a little while and it was entertaining. some missionaries were trickling out, but we did not see either of the two that we wanted, so we decided to write a note to elder pettit and just leave it on his car. and so we wrote up the note and jayce, our "heavenly messenger" left our note on the car we guessed to be his. then we went to joanns because i needed to get some little icing baggies for the decorating of the cake. after that we headed home, and as we pulled in who should call, but elder pettit, who let us know that he and elder faulkner would be coming to dinner, and he thought we had all discussed six for the time.  hmm, i dont know when we would have seen them to discuss such a time, but six worked out wonderfully for us! so, we got to work. christy cleaned and decorated the house. tania came over and played with poky, a little too well, because she squeezed some pee right out of poky! it was funny. i continued to make and frosting and decorate the cake. and caitlyn made the tastee enchiladas! and the bean dip. well, i have such amazing talent, and the cake was wonderful, and it looked like this. well, six came, and went, haha, they were a little late, but thats cool, were used to it. they were there by 6:15 im pretty sure. well, we bought faulkner a really special birthday princess badge to wear, because the elders love their princesses, haha. and so when he showed up we had him put it on. we ate dinner and it was beautiful. haha. then we got to the cake. and we lit all the candles and faulkner was quick to realize that they were magically candles that dont go out the first time. so he blew a few times, but they kept coming back to life, so then he started to put them out with his fingers, then he and pettit decided it would be much cooler if he just put the candles out with his tongue, so he did, but it tasted bad and he stopped and decided to have some apple juice. then one of the ones he had put on his plate because he thought that it was out decided it wasnt ready to be out and started on fire again on his plate, but it was ok, i informed him rather quickly, meanwhile elder pettit was standing under the fire detector and trying to fan all of the smoke away from it so that it wouldnt go off, and it didnt, so then he decided it didnt work because it should have been going off, so he had to test it to make sure it worked, and it did. after that we ate some cake and had the elders try out their really fancy cups that we bought them. and they were singing, and it was hilarious! haha. not becuase they were bad singers, cuz they werent bad, it was just funny. and then we went and elder faulkner played the piano a little and was singing some more, and then elder pettit gave us a very good spiritual message, and they had to be on their way! it was a good second day of spring break. <3.

crackers

so, the other week i went to crackers with my brother and caitlyn, and it was fun and we got tasty food.i had some sweet action hot cocoa. it looked awesome.  i was going to put up a picture of it but its isnt working right now, so maybe i will do that later. after that we went to walmart to do some quick christmas shopping.  well, quick turned into not so quick.  and then we went home because we had stuff to do, or something.  

hair cut!

so, i would like to start off by stating that the fact that my little brother has little to no hair at the moment is not entirely my fault. haha. ok, it might be. but in all fairness, he asked me to cut it. and i also did warn him of the possibility of unwanted side effects. but he persisted and so i took out the clippers and a little buzz here,

a little snip there,

and viola! he was ready for the army!! unfortunatley, he did not feel that he was really the army type and so, a little more buzz buzz, and viola! he now has hair that is about 1/2 an inch tall, and i have more hair cutting experience. i keep thinking, someday. someday, if i practice enough, i will actually get good at this and then i will be able to cut hair like a pro, and when my little brother asks me to cut his hair, he will know that, unless he WANTS to look like hes in the army, he wont. <3. style="font-weight:bold;">

tampons-because they work wonders.
a job-that i love and dont mind getting up for every morning.
cell phones-that allow me to communicate with my roommates at lunch when the weirdo sub shows up.
my car-because, lets face it, my car is flippin' sweet, and i love it, and it makes me smile every time i see it, and it gets me from here to there.

ihop for breakfast

its a tradition. i think. well, im not really sure. on some holiday (i think presidents day) we used to all go to breakfast as a family, usually to ihop. sometimes we decide that its whatever holiday seems to be next and i think that is what happened this time. we decided to go to ihop and get us some breakfast. i was going to be left out, how nice, luckily my brother invited me and i accepted. so i get up (earlier than i really would have hoped on a day off of work) but excited to be going to breakfast with my family. so, they show up and i get in the car and were off. it just so happens that i love my family, and i was excited to get to spend time with them, just us, not that i dont love my roommates, but sometimes it is nice to just be with your family. to be able to sit at a small enough table that everyone can hear what everyone else is saying. so that you can all be joined in one conversation. it was nice.

we also only got four menus and had to be civil and learn to share, jayce and i did just fine, on account of were good buddies and all.

my mom was there too, i like her, she makes life a hoot.

there was a point where i looked over and i believe my dad was day dreaming about when he would get his food and how tasty it would be and how much he loved to come out with his family. i caught the moment of course, and i love this picture!

also there was the brother who invited me, whom i was very grateful for, jaron! he had some good food, and some funny things to say. hes a good one (sorry ladies, hes a taken)

it was a good time. i like my family. their good people. <3.

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.