Fun and exciting things

Upon Request....

2011-10-16T17:32:00.000-07:00

......here are more pics of my puppy. I am still deciding on a name, It is between Frankie and Maximus. What is your vote?

Today, I bought....

2011-09-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

A PUPPY!

Isn't he so cute? He is only five weeks so I am going to have to wait 3 more weeks til I can take home with me, but I can visit him all I want until then. I do need some name suggestions though, so if any of you have any ideas please let me know.
Thanks, Bye

From the Mouths of Babes

2011-04-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

One of the things I have been doing in my classroom this year to encourage spontaneous verbal communication between students is show and tell. The kids love this and cannot wait until it is their week to bring a toy to show and tell their peers about. A couple of weeks ago, one of the boys brought a little girl fairy, that was a barbie type toy. After he told us a few things about it, it was the other students turn to ask him questions about his toy. The following conversation took place, and although I do not agree with it, I still find it hilarious and worthy of sharing.

A: showing the fairy. " Any Crystalballs?" (For some reason, no matter how many times we correct him this is how he asks his friends if there are any questions).

Other Student "Does it drive?" (This is a very common question, that is asked at least once per toy, even though it is obvious that the object being shown does not have any wheels, or any of the other necessary tools to make it so an object can drive).

A: In complete shock that this question would even be asked "NO! Women's DON'T drive!"

All the adults in the room, which were all women and one of which happened to include A's mom, who had driven A to school that day, busted up laughing. I guess even young children pick up on stereotypes at a young age.

Boring

2011-04-12T11:22:00.001-07:00

My life hasn't had much that has been blog worthy lately. While I have been staying busy and enjoying my time, there just hasn't been much to blog about. And there still isn't, but I am blogging about this anyway. This weekend I was really bored as the majority of my friends were either out of town/studying for finals/with family, I found myslf looking for something that I could change up and keep me busy for awhile. So, I decided to do something with my bedroom. I went shopping and found stuff to hang on my walls.

For some reason I really like bird decor lately. So when I saw these I just had to get them. Once I got it all hung I stepped back and looked at it. I then realized my bed looked rather plain. I had nothing else going on so why not go look for some cute pillows? A couple hours later and too much money later this is the final result

pilllows, pillows, pillows and more pillows.What do you think? I LOVE the way my bed turned out, but I am not so sure about the wall anymore. Oh well, it is going to have to stay that way for awhile now.
It is spring break this week! I have the rest of the week off. On Thursday I am headed to St. George for a girls weekend with the girls in my family. I am so excited for this! I am not sure what I am going to do the next two days until then, since most people are still at school or work during the day. I am looking for another project but this next one needs to be cheap. (because decorative pillows aren't). I did buy a pumice stone. Maybe I will go pumice my feet now.

Apparently I look like a boy

2011-02-21T11:38:00.001-08:00

This is a conversation I had with my nephew, Sam while I was in Colorado watching him over the weekend. It was just too funny not to share.

Sam, in disgust: "Amber, grow out you hair so that you can get a boyfriend!"

Me, trying not to laugh: "Sam, sometimes girls have short hair. Like your mom, she has short hair."

Sam: "Yeah, but she looks like a girl."

Weekend with the Erickson's

2011-02-14T11:41:00.000-08:00

I was able to take some time of off work and spend the weekend with these cute kids, and dog, while their parents took a little trip out of the country.

I had a blast! those kids are so fun! We stayed busy and I was exhausted and ready for bed at 9 every night.
We wrestled, tickled, went swimming, went to a movie, had our own superbowl party, made and decorated cupcakes, and much more that I can't think of right now.

Guster

2011-01-17T15:22:00.001-08:00

Clint and I went to the Guster concert this past weekend. We had a blast and enjoyed listening to some of their new stuff as well as their old stuff.

My New Years Resolution.

2011-01-01T00:03:00.000-08:00

" Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. Is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearance to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others"

Remembering 2010

2010-12-31T17:00:00.000-08:00

2010 was a great year I had and did a lot of fun and neat things. Here is a list of just some of the most memorable:

I saw the Grand Tetons for the first time.
I went to Yellowstone, twice. Once with my family and once with friends
I saw my first bears in the wild.
I learned how to make home made chocolates.
I accidentally drowned two cameras this year; one in the washer, and the other in the Henry's Fork river in Idaho. However, the third one still survives!
I also broke my Dell computer. I replaced it with a Mac, which I like much better.
I went to Strawberry days for the first time. The Strawberries and cream that you get there amazing.
I was ran off the road by a diesel and hit a construction cone. My car only suffered minor damaged and was quickly fixed.
I went to The Chocolate for the first time. DELSIH!
I got my first sewing machine.
I became THE favorite Aunt!
I got the job I had been hoping and praying for.
I went canoeing and we tipped the canoe.(This is how I drowned camera number two.)
I tandem jumped off a bridge...not a smart idea, but it was fun for me.
i hiked to Shoshone lake
I saw the Broadway musical, The Lion King
I got attacked by a bird.
I survived THE "blizzard of 2010".
I watched all of the Indiana Jones, and Star Wars movies for the first and, probably only time in my life.
I went to Disneyland for the third time.
I panicked as my apartment flooded in the middle of the night.
I bought a queen size bed.
I went to Vegas.
I went to Bryce Canyon.
I canoed right past a moose and her baby.
I spent the day sledding up in Midway.
I attended two of my nephews baptisms.
I saw Safetysuit in concert.

I am sure there are many more things that I am forgetting. But you get the idea. It was a great year full of fun and adventure and I can't wait to see what 2011 has in store for me.

My Favorite Christmas Card EVER!

2010-12-31T13:52:00.000-08:00

Christmas 2010

2010-12-31T13:21:00.000-08:00

Christmas this year was fantastic! It was very quiet, with just me Mom, Dad and Grandma at home this year. Kristie's family came and we had our traditional ham dinner on Christmas eve. We continued our fairly new tradition of going to Ihop for Christmas breakfast with all the family that is around. This is starting to become a favorite of mine. Sunday Mark, Kammi and their boys came down and we we able to play with the boys and their Christmas presents.
I am SO grateful to have such great family to spend Christmas with. That we are able to focus on the true meaning of Christmas and enjoy spending time together.
I slept downstairs in the back bedroom where it is always shielded form the morning sunlight. I was woken up at 8 a.m. to someone stomping on the floor above me. I guess Mom or Dad were ready to open up presents. I got up and the festivities began. I was very spoiled this year. I had asked for a sewing machine so that I can make more quilts, and learn to make other things as I learn and become better at it. I was expecting a cheap one from wal-mart or somewhere just to get me started. Instead I got this..

How Spoiled am I? Very. It is so nice, and not at all the cheap one I was planning on. I have sewn a few squares for a quilt that I have had fabric for for awhile now and I can't wait to do more sewing. I'm looking forward to having a new hobby that I will be able to do whenever I have an extra hour or so to work on it. Mom and I are also going to take some classes together, which is going to be alot of fun!

Several years ago, I think it was my 16th biirtday, my parents gave me an Amber ring. I absolutely loved this ring. I always wore
and rarely took it off. My finger was indented from it. Last spring the band popped. It split right down the middle on the bottom of it. I was very sad about it and planned on taking it to a jeweler to get it fixed but just never got around to it.
I was very surpirsed on Christmas morning to find this in my stocking.

It is very similar to my first one. I haven't been that surprised by a present in a long time! I put it on and Christmas morning and haven't taken it off since. It was a wonderful Christmas and I loved being with my family.

I'm Dreaming of a white Christmas....

2010-12-21T10:29:00.001-08:00

....and I think that that dream came true. There is a foot+ of snow in Provo. And even more in Payson where I will be spending Christmas.

Roommate Christmas

2010-12-19T17:51:00.001-08:00

The past few years I have been blessed with great roommates. We have a lot of fun together and a lot of memories together. A favorite past time when we are incredibly bored and/or a little bit sad is to force ourselves to laugh as loudly and weirdly as possible. Before you know it turns into real, uncontrollable laughter and our whole mood changes. It's a lot of fun, you should try it next time you are bored and or sad. We haven't done this in a long time, just writing about it makes me want to do it soon.
Anyway, tonight my roommates and I were sitting in the living room talking and looking at our Christmas tree and we decided there was no time like the present to open our Christmas presents to each other. So we did. Emily gave me key finders and Bonnie gave me a blanket. Both of these are very useful. I am always losing my keys at work, at home, At my Mom and Dad's, at friends, pretty much anywhere I go. They are usually at the bottom of purse, which come to think of it might be too big and thus causing most of my problem. The other day Clint hid my keys from me and thought it was very entertaining to watch as I pulled out a can opener, mucinex, approximately 100 pens, eccinecea, mardi gras beads, just to name a few. Well losing my keys wont happen anymore, now all I have to do is push a button and my keys will beep until I find them, or the battery goes dead, which ever come first.
Bonnie gave me a fleece blanket. In the winter I am always cold and if I am at home I usually have a blanket wrapped around me. Sometimes even when I am not cold I still have one wrapped around just for the comfort factor. In short, I love blankets, especially soft ones, And this one is soft and warm and heavenly.
Thanks Bonnie and Emily for being great roommates and creating fun memories that will last a lifetime.

It's Christmastime!

2010-12-19T17:31:00.000-08:00

I love this tine of year! It has been really fun to watch the excitement of the kids at work grow as Christmas gets closer. For the kids gifts to the parents I painted their hands white and had them grab hold of a dark blue Christmas ornament. I then painted the ornament to make their fingers look like snowmen. I turned out really cute and I was impressed at my tole painting skills since I do not have artistic bone in my body.

p.s.
The yellow tole paint that looks like hair is really supposed to be earmuffs. So when you're looking at it, think of earmuffs and not hair. OK? Thanks.

soccer fans are crazy!

2010-11-08T12:28:00.000-08:00

I went to my first soccer game on Saturday night! It was so much fun, I was surprised at how much i got into the game and how crazy RSL soccer fans are. I can't wait to go again. Sadly, RSL is out of the playoffs now so i will have to wait for next season.

We had great seats, fifth row right behind the goal. most of the second half was played right by us!

Me and Em. We are really excited, can you tell?

Dallas, Emily and I getting excited for the game.
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Our chuckin for chicken hats

Halloween

2010-11-01T11:46:00.001-07:00

Me and my two aides; tweedle dee, retro roller skater, and a bumble bee.

I am usually not big into Halloween, or even dressing up for that matter. This year was different though. My students were so excited for our Halloween party. It was contagious. I found myself actually excited for the Halloween festivities this year. Every day the kids would want to know how many more days until our party. We even had some interesting conversations about costumes. One of the kids even asked Adri why she was so fat in her tweedle dee costume.This was by far my favorite though:

Me: "What are you going to be?"

Child: "Karate Kid!" as he kicks and karate chops in the air.

Me: "That is so cool. You'll make a good karate kid. What should I be?"

Child: "hmmm, well you're a girl so you should be Cinderella."

Me: "That's a good Idea."

Child: In deep thought. "but you'll have to get a really, really BIG dress."

Needless to say I wasn't Cinderella. I did not want to buy a "really, really big dress". Instead I settled on a bumble bee costume. I love my students though, they made this holiday so much fun, even if they were so hyper they wore me out every day the entire week before our halloween party.

I am starting to get excited for the upcoming holiday season. I went to the store today and they were putting up Christmas trees. Even that is a little too early for me, especially since I walked outside to 60 degrees and sunshine. However, I can justify listening to Christmas music as soon as it snows, whether Thanksgiving is over or not ....Don't Judge!

The Return of Keys

2010-10-25T13:12:00.000-07:00

My Room mate had a halloween party at out house last night. We invited people over from our ward, at one point we had 22 people crammed into our tiny condo. Everyone brought their favorite halloween treat and we played several different games. We played the game Keys, which if anything, provides a great opportunity for some awkward pictures. My old room mate taught me this game and it is alway a hit. It was a lot of fun and I felt like I finally got to know some people in my ward a little better.

A Halloween-y Day

2010-10-25T12:54:00.000-07:00

This was my first time going up to Gardner village. It was so fun to spend the day with the girls and see all the witches and Halloween goodies out and about in preparation for Halloween. The weather even cooperated for us. It was rainy on the car ride up and back, but just perfect as we were walking around.
This is a house of pumpkins

Mom, Kristie, Me and Amanda enjoying girls day out.

One of the many witches seen at Gardner Village

Disneyland/Hollywood/Venice Beach

2010-10-18T14:44:00.000-07:00

What a fun weekend. Me, Ryan, Paul and Shaina took time off of work and headed to California for 4 days. We spent 2 fun and exhausting days at disneyland1/2 a day at the beach and 1/2 a day at Hollywood. Each time I go to Disneyland (This was only my third), It seems more enjoyable and I love it a little more. It was so fun to see how they changed things up for Halloween both with their decorations and the rides. I wish I could go more often but oh well, I enjoy it when I can!

Finding Nemo Submarine Ride

Paul and I were both exhausted so we took a break and watched some cartoons

My Review: It Hurts So Good

2010-09-27T16:14:00.000-07:00

I have done the Jillian Michaels workout routine a couple of times now. And it is a BEAST! but it feels so good to be working out hard again. I actually like her "no more trouble spots" routine better than the kettlebell routine because it is broken up into 5 minutes segments so when I was in pain and I wanted to give up I could tell myself thatI could do it for 4 more minutes and then move on to another muscle group and go through the same thing again.

Dinner was SOOO good last night. The lady whose house we went to was from china and she even let us help her make the food. It was so fun and so good. I want to make it by myself now. It was very authentic and I rocked the chopsticks! I will have to thank Bryant and Tina for teaching me how to use them a couple of months ago. I was suprised at myself and how well I did with them.

Fabulous Fall Four Wheeling...and Food

2010-09-26T13:08:00.000-07:00

My dad and I went on the hobble creek trail, which goes from hobble creek over to sqauw peak, yesterday. The fall colors were gorgeous and the company was great. The only thing that could have made the day better would have been BYU actually winning a game.

Tonight I am going to dinner with a friend. Apparently we are going to his friends house who is making us authentic chinese. eeek. I am excited but nervous about this. It should be really good, but what if it is some strange meat? I am a very picky meat eater. One of my past students moms opened up an authentic mexican restaurant and when I tried it I struggled a little bit with it. It was good and all, just different...and chewy. In short, with every type of authentic food that I have ever tried I have always preferred the americanized version more. So we'll see how I feel about authentic chinese later tonight.

I Need Motivation

2010-09-19T21:21:00.000-07:00

I bought this yesterday.

I bought it because A) It was only 9-ish dollars B) I like The Biggest Loser. C) I want to get in shape and D) I want to save money by canceling my gym membership that I rarely use.
I am posting about It in hopes I will feel accountable to let you (my 4-5 loyal readers) know how it works. Just give me 5-8 business days to try it out for the first time.

Grandma Bernklau

2010-09-18T23:08:00.000-07:00

My Grandma turned 90 Years old back in August. Here are some beautiful pictures that my sister Linnea took of her. I love you Grandma!

SafetySuit

2010-09-18T22:26:00.000-07:00

SafetySuit+Dale=A super fun night and a new favorite band.

Dale and I have liked these guys for awhile now, but after seeing them live and the message they share of suicide prevention and self worth I am now in love with them. It was just cool to hear such a good message from a rock band. They were so engaging and fun to watch. You can read about them and listen to their music at safetysuitmusic.com.

It's Official!

2010-09-12T19:37:00.000-07:00

For the past several months I have been hoping to land a teaching job at GIANT Step's, which is an autism preschool. It took longer than expected to get the position posted and to do interviews. On my birthday I was finally able to apply. And last wednesday I interviewed, on friday I was informed I got the job.
I am very excited about this new experience in my life. I am also a little scared.. ok maybe a lot. I have worked there as an aide for the past 4 years so I think I know what I an doing. But with the teaching job comes more authority and responsibility to the kids, and that is what scares me. I want to help them as much possible and in the best way possible. GIANT Step's is a great program and I plan on using what I have learned there the past 4 years and running with it. As well as the things I will continue to learn from the kids that are currently in my class. I hope and pray that I can help the children that I am working with progress and better live their lives. They are so cute and fun to work with and they mean so much me.
Heres to a great first year as a teacher!

Lazy Summer Days

2010-08-15T17:14:00.000-07:00

Emily and I wanted to enjoy the great outdoors, so we hiked/walked to Bridal Veil falls. Once we got there we talked, dipped our toes in the freezing cold water and people watched.

oquirrh mt

2010-08-07T16:42:00.000-07:00

My friend Megan and I were talking the other day and we realized that we are so blessed to live within 2 hours of approximately 10 temples. We decided that it would be fun to go to these temples. They are so close to us but we still haven't been to them. Today we tried to go to the draper temple. We drove up there and realized that they were closed for maintenance so we decided to head over to the Oquirrh mt temple. It was so pretty!

Megs and I almost getting blown away

Oquirrh mt, Utah Temple

Yellowstone Bear

2010-08-02T20:46:00.000-07:00

My Dad sent me this picture of the grizzly bear we saw on our trip. I still can't believe how close we got to it.

Linnea took this picture of Sophia, me, Josh, Caleb and Sam. I think it is such a cool picture with the lighting and the steam.

A Day with Sagie

2010-07-31T12:53:00.000-07:00

Me and Sage got to spend the day together while everyone else was busy. We had a nice, girly day. First we went shopping. Then we got pedicures

Then we went to my school to see how torn up the classroom I will be in this fall is, from the janitors "cleaning" it. I mean the carpet that they supposedly cleaned has black streaks on it from the carpet cleaning vacuum they used on it. That's not normal is it?
Then we went to The Chocolate and ate these delicious cupcakes
If you live in, or ever visit Utah County, you NEED to go here, the cake is A-MAY-ZING and it is in a really cute, old pioneer home. I think it may be my new favorite place.
Then we went back to my house and watched She's the Man. It was a great girly day. Thanks for playing with me Sage.

Wow...I have been blogging for the last hour and half. It's not like i had anything better to do. Like clean, Laundry, go food shopping. or the bazillion things i need to be doing for work to get ready for the new school year. Oh well this was funner.... The month of July was busy and fun and now everyone is caught up on the events of the month. Hopefully next month I will be more on top things and not wait until the last day to blog all my fun adventures. Because that wont happen, The last day of August is my birthday, after all. And I will want to be out and about playing. Plus it will be my fourth day of the new school year and we will be starting a new kid that day, so I will probably be exhausted. Yep, that solves it, I am going to try ad be a better blogger next month.

Family fun: Day 4

2010-07-31T12:45:00.000-07:00

Our last on final day of the trip. We left West Yellowstone and headed back to Marks place in Star Valley. We took the scenic route through Ashton, Driggs, Tetonia, Swan Valley, and Palisades. It was such pretty country. I wish i had gotten pictures of these places, I think i was just too tired to even think of it (If anyone in the family got pictures of these please send them to me. Thank you). We got back to Mark's house and had a birthday party for T.J. His birthday was on day 3, but since we were all in different cars, driving through Yellowstone, we didn't see much of him.

After the Birthday party we all headed our seperate way. It was a fun trip. I love spending time with my family and can't wait to see them all again.

Family fun: Day 3

2010-07-31T12:35:00.001-07:00

The next day we drove back into the park to see more of the sights and animals. I know this is a ton of pictures. Deal with it.

Family fun: Day 2

2010-07-31T12:01:00.000-07:00

on our way to yellowstone aka "yellow snow", if you ask Cael we stopped in Jackson Hole. We took the kids to this really cool old fashioned candy store. We pretty much overwhelmed the store with all of us in it, but it was a fun atmosphere and the kids loved filling bags full of candy.
Yippie-i-o's candy store

Avery and Sophia were excited about their candy purchases.

We then drove through, and had a picnic in the Grand Teton's. This is one beautiful mountian range. I couldn't help but take a bunch picture, so enjoy, or don't it is up to you.

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After our picnic at the base of Jenny lake we headed into yellowstone national park. We drove over to old faithful and some of the mud pots.src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PN79bb204TA/TFR3vCRYnxI/AAAAAAAAASc/ZHhOKF7YOys/s400/IMG_0058.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500152694873562898" />

On the way out of the park, back to our cabins in Colter's Bay we saw this...
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And this....

Thats right people, I FINALLY SAW A BEAR!!!! and not only did I finally get to see a bear I was no more than 30 feet away from it. Which was really cool, and kind of scary to be that close to it. I know it is not the best picture. it was getting dark and with my point and shoot camera it was a hard to get a good picture. I am in the process of having my family send me a better one. when I get it I will post it.

family fun:Day 1

2010-07-31T11:50:00.000-07:00

This year the whole family met up at marks house to begin our family vacay. we had dinner, chatted, launched water balloons from a water balloon launcher, broke a window with said water balloon launcher, oops. The guys played paintball. Here are some pics from the first day.a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PN79bb204TA/TFRxzvDuPEI/AAAAAAAAAQs/x2eL_WX6gKY/s1600/IMG_0014.JPG"><
the whole family eating dinner.

launching water balloons

Star Valley

2010-07-31T10:56:00.000-07:00

Mark asked me several months ago if I would watch his kids of the weekend while he and Kammi went on a river trip with her parents. With kids this cute there is no way I could turn them down.

Krista came with me and since it was her first time I just had to show her the worlds largest elk horn arch (the second picture, not the one we're standing under).

Pretty impressive, huh?.

Island Park

2010-07-31T10:27:00.000-07:00

Last minute road trips are the best. The monday before the fourth of July Bryant told me that his cabin in Island Park, Idaho (20 minutes outside of yellowstone), was available over the fourth. So we got everything together and headed out thursday after work.
Here is what we did...
Jumped off the bridge, I have suddenly developed a huge fear of jumping/falling of tall objects. So I almost chickened out and didn't do it. But clint grabbed me around the waist in a bear hug and jumped off with me. I wish I had a picture of it cause both bryant and Tina we amazed that Clint was still alive. He took the brunt of the fall, and there was so much wieght between the two of us that we went straight to the bottom, He scratched up his back and pulled muscles....Sorry Clint.

We also floated/almost drowned in the Henry's fork. Ok so we didn't almost drown, but we clint and I tipped our canoe and froze the rest of the way. We started floating around 8 thinking that would be a good time to see wildlife along the river, and it was, we went right past a moose and her baby. But we did not take into account that if we tipped our canoes on accident there would be no sun to warm us up. Luckily Bryant and Tina a gems and let me grab onto the rope and they towed us most of the way. Leaving Clint and I to sit in our canoe and shiver 3/4 of the way down the river.

We hiked to a really pretty lake, Shoshone Lake, I think it was called which is located in Yellowstone. We got to the beach and we were all so tired we just laid there in sun for awhile and enjoyed the peaceful sound of the water lapping up on the shore.

We went on short walks around the cabin, played games, watched movies, fireworks in West Yellowstone, made steak dinner and much more. It was a blast and i am so glad I got to go agin this year.

Lovely

2010-06-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

For some reason I love this picture of me and my niece, sophia. She is just so cute!

Happy Fathers Day

2010-06-20T17:24:00.001-07:00

I can honestly say that I feel like I have the best dad. He has taught me the value of family, faith, hard work, integrity, service, love, marriage, fun, and so. so many others. He always puts his family first. Lets me know of his love for me and the rest of our family. He always jumps right in in any activity that is going on, like hiking to the bottom of the grand canyon, or the top of timp, and participating in paintball wars, despite the injuries that might occur (refer to last 4th of july post.). He is always ready and willing to have fun.
Thanks for being such a great and loving example, Dad! I love you!

Strawberry Days

2010-06-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

Any weekend called "Strawberry Days" promises to be a fun, if not delicious one. And sure enough this weekend held up to it's name!

The strrawberries and cream were so good! It really felt like summer, eating strawberries and with the weather finally being nice.

Friday night Bonnie, me, Tina and Bryant went to the rodeo. although it was kind of stressful before and we almost didn't go,due to trying to find someone to take clint's ticket since he was sick, I am glad we ended up going. It turned out to be lots fun. Just ask Bryant; He loved it, especially the part where I tackled him to the ground...yeah I will NEVER let him live that one down.

I didn't get enough of the strawberries and cream friday night so on saturday me, Stephanie, Marianne, and Krista went back for more. while were there we decided to also walk around the booths and the carnival. But honestly, it was only for the strawberries and cream that we went!

Fun and Exciting Things?

2010-06-06T16:40:00.000-07:00

Since i stink at blogging lately here is a quick look of what i have been up to the past month or so:

*I went to my friends Ricky Hacking and Neil Aaboshama's stand up comedy show at Wiseguys. I forgot how funny these two are and now i miss them and wish that I could see them more often.

*I ate at Smashburger with clint for the first time. I love the beehive burger.

*I finally saw Avatar-and I actually kind of liked it.

*My old bishopric got released. I was able to attend my old ward and catch up with some old friends, chat with the members of the bishopric, who I miss terribly, and then later in the week i went with some friends to a party held in the bishopric's honor and chatted with them some more.

*I've been preparing to run a 5k, and was doing really well at running on the river trail and then i got sick and ever since then I have not been doing so well at running.

*Recently I have also seen Robin hood, Ironman 2 and Letters to Juliet.

*I made Cafe Rio's sweet pork, lime rice and house dressing for some friends. It was AMAZING! And I made it!

*I broke my Dell computer, so I bought a Mac to replace it. LOVE IT!

*Now I am in debt.

*Me and my friend Katie got attacked by a bird at work.

*I went to Star Valley for my nephew Jake's baptism

*I went to Colorado Springs for my nephew Caleb's baptism.

* My friends at work have got me watching the tv show "the big bang theory". It is super nerdy but super funny.

*Me and a group of friends went to Texas Road house--their rolls are delicious.

*My friend Bryant served his mission in Japan, and he and Tina talked me into going to an authentic Japenese restaurant. It was umm....interesting, and I need to work on my chop stick skills.

*I was sick for about a week. I finally went to the doctor and found out that I had 103 degree fever, bronchitis, and a sinus infection.

*I went to 7 peaks yesterday. I had a lot of fun with my family but I got sunburnt pretty bad and i can hardly move today.

*Hence this boring blog post.

*Hence The end of this post

Happy Mother's day!

2010-05-09T19:07:00.000-07:00

Happy Mother's day Mom and Grandma.

Mom-You are truly great example in all that you do. I look up to you more ways than you will ever know, and value all many things that you have taught me and the examples that you have set for me. I have never doubted your love for me. I love that I can always call and talk to you for any reason and that you are always there for me. You are the best mom a girl could ask for and I hope and I pray that someday I can be as good of a mom to my own kids as you have been to me and all of us kids.

Grandma- Since you have moved to Payson I have also learned so much from you. I have learned the value of patience, and how useless it is to feel sorry or complain about the trials that come with life. You are always so positive and caring. It amazes me.

I love that as mother and daughter, gandmother and grandaughter, we are able to enjoy quality time spent toghether, whether it be reminiscing, laughing, creating, hearing about childhoods, or all the many other things that we do together, I can never get enough of the two you. I Love you both so much!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

2010-04-25T17:46:00.000-07:00

Ahhh spring. I love it! I went down to my mom and dads house yesterday, walked around the yard and took pictures of all the beautiful flowers in their yard. It is so refreshing to have the sun shining again, the flowers and trees blooming, and temperatures warm enough to be outside and enjoy this time is year. Amaaazing!

Las Vegas

2010-04-11T20:02:00.000-07:00

This past weekend me, my mom, my two sisters, my two sister-in-laws and niece all met up for a girls trip in Vegas. It was sooo much fun. I hated to come back to the cold Utah weather.

Did you enjoy the plethora of pictures. I wanted to post more but for some reason it wouldn't let me. That is probably a good thing.

We had such a nice relaxing trip. We ate, walked the strip, saw the Lion King (which, by the way was amazing, great costumes), ate some more, sat by the gorgeous pool that had a sand beach and was surrounded by palm trees and beautiful flowers, ate some more, laughed a lot, shopped, enjoyed the hot tub, saw the botanical gardens at the Bellagio. Oh and did I mention, we ate a lot of really good food?

Easter '10

2010-04-11T19:37:00.000-07:00

Despite having some weird, random sickness over Easter weekend I was able to enjoy the time spent with my family while we enjoyed conference and celebrated the life and resurrection of our Savior.

Mark's family came down for the weekend. We went and saw How to Train you Dragon. It is a really cute movie ,you should definitely see it

Cael loved his "computer geek glasses."

My family has a tradition of rolling Easter eggs down Peteetneet hill the day before Easter. This year we "bowled for Gehrig" he was so excited when he saw all the eggs rolling down the hill at him at the same time!

Kammi taught us one of her families Easter traditions, peppering Easter eggs. You pick an egg and tap the pointed end against somebody Else's egg together. Only one egg will crack. The one that doesn't crack gets to go again. Once an egg has been peppered twice without cracking it moves on to the championship round. Jake and I were in the championship round and my egg won!

why is it that....

2010-03-03T19:36:00.000-08:00

every time i have a problem with my ipod or computer or anything electronic, I cannot for the life of me get it to work? But when i take said ipod or computer to a guy all he has to do is touch it and it will work. I mean this is after i spent an hour searching the internet looking up how to restart my ipod because it is not turning on. According to google all I have to do is push the toggle back and forth while holding down the center and menu button simultaneously. Trying without succcess to restore it and finally getting so frustrated with it I threw it on the floor and walked away. The next day I took it up to Clint's and what does he do? He pushes the toggle back and forth, pushes the center and menu button down simultaneously and guess what...it turned on! HE DID THE EXACT SAME THING I DID! This isn't only a one time occurrence either. I swear this is how it always goes.

Oh well hopefully someday electronics will work properly for me. I can alway hope right?

A mell of a hess

2010-02-15T17:44:00.000-08:00

I put my camera through the wash. Despite my best efforts to revive it, it is dead. but if i did have a camera, and I wasn't panicking i would have taken a picture very similar to this when I was so rudely awoken by a loud noise at 3:30 a.m.this morning:

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Yep, my bathroom was flooding and i panicked. When things are calm i could tell you right off the bat where the water shut off is. but in the middle of the night, woke from a very deep sleep, and home alone, as well as having 4+ inches of water swirling at my feet i panicked. I tried calling my upstairs neighbor for help. He didn't answer. I rang his doorbell and the guys across the halls numerous times. Still no answer. All the while my bathroom and hallway are filling up with even more water. Finally I pulled out the ward directory, said a little prayer that someone would answer. i called Mike across the hall. He came to my rescue! He shut the water off, and then we began shoveling the water into the shower and sink with cups. We got this all done and decided there was nothing else we could do until a reasonable hour when I could call my landlord and notify him. The carpet was (and still is) soaking wet. when we stepped on it it would seep up around your foot. My landlord rented a vacuum and vacuumed up 6 inches of water. And the carpet is still soaking wet, so now we have a really loud industrial fan blowing on carpet that has been pulled up. sleeping is not going to be easy tonight, or maybe it will be since i only got 3 hours last night. I am hoping for the latter, where i just crash and the noise doesn't bother me. It was just so random. I can't believed it happened.

Letter to Mike:
Dear Mike, I am really sorry for the early morning wake up call. But Thank you SOO much for your help.

Payson Gets a Temple!

2010-01-25T16:01:00.000-08:00

I just heard some great news. My little hometown of Payson, Utah is getting an L.D.S temple. My mom has been saying for years that Payson would one day have a temple on P hill. She was right on Payson getting a temple just a little off on the location. Either way I am excited for it. you can see the site and get more info here.

I've been Creatin'

2010-01-11T12:59:00.000-08:00

This is the very first quilt that I made...

I started it at the age of 1o and I finished it at the age of 18.By the time I was done I hated it. It was too little girl for me.

This is the quilt that i just finished....
Here a couple of close ups of the squares....

This quilt only took me a year, but in all fairness to me it was only a couple of months of me working on it when I had time on Saturdays. I finished sometime in February/march-ish but didn't get around to binding it til my Christmas break last month. I love how it turned out. My mom taught me how to do it, trust me I wouldn't dare take this on alone. Thanks for all your help Mom! I will be starting another quilt soon. I got the fabric for it for Christmas and I love the colors on it.

A Bryce Canyon New Years

2010-01-03T14:20:00.000-08:00

For New Years Eve, me, Clint and Bonnie went on a little road trip! Yay, my Favorite. We got hooked up and got rooms at Rubies Inn for a really good price (Thanks T.J. and Sheila)! Rubies Inn has a big party every new years eve and we decided to join them this year. However none of us are really big dancers so we danced a little bit and then we talked and watched other people dance a lot which was VERY entertaining.

Picture of the three of us entertaining ourselves with my camera. Aren't we all just so cute?

Clint refused to take a good picture here, I am putting this one in instead of the one of him eating Bonnie's head or the one of him smelling my hair. at least in this one he looks really happy :)

We went into Bryce Canyon, Where there was a lot of deep snow, which made the red rocks so pretty.

We made snow angels, not very smart because ultimately this turned into us throwing snow at each other and our backsides we wet the rest of the time in the park and the ride back to the inn. BRRRR SO COLD!!

And we went swimming (No pictures of that, sorry), and hung out in the room, goofed off and played games.

It was a great new years. We had a lot of fun and I am already looking forward to my next road trip, whenever and wherever that may be. I hope that each of you had a great new year as well and i wish you the best in the year to come. Love you all!

Christmas Choas 2009

2009-12-29T19:06:00.000-08:00

Christmas really wasn't all that chaotic. It just felt that way because for the first time for several years there were little kids at my parents house. My brother T.J. and his family decided to come up to Payson last minute. It made Christmas so exciting it was so fun to see there excited faces when they realized that Santa had found them at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It was a wonderful day spent with family.

Making Gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve

This is what the living room looked like after Santa arrived.

Playing with new toys.

Temple square at Christmas

2009-12-20T10:57:00.000-08:00

Temple square is so pretty this time of year! I love it! Last night me and some friends went up to salt lake to see the lights. It was really foggy, well at least we liked to pretend that it was fog but i think it was really smog. I am going to refer to it as fog because then it looks pretty and not gross. :) The first picture was taken with the flash on so you can see all of the fog. The next two are with the flash off so that you can't see the fog as well but you can still tell. I love the one of the temple and the fog.

Tina, Me and Bryant
This Christmas season has been great. It has been and will be filled with many more family and friend traditions. It is also a great time of the year to reflect on the birth of Christ and all that He has done for each and every one of us. I find it hard to truly focus on the true meaning of Christmas with the parties, hoards of people everwhere you go , and everything else that distracts us during the holiday season. This trip up to temple square always serves as a good reminder and always, without fail, gets me in the Christmas spirit.

It's Christmastime!!!!

2009-12-14T18:22:00.001-08:00

I love Christmastime and all the goodies that come with! Yesterday after church me and Emily decided to make a bunch of goodies to take to the boys across the hall and the boys upstairs. The plateful of goodies included: snicker brownies, Oreo balls. As well as sourdough, m&m, and sugar cookies. (The cookies were all left over from munch and mingle but don't tell the boys that)

Christmas Thoughts to live by...

2009-12-09T16:55:00.000-08:00

"What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. It was said of Him that He 'went about doing good.' As we do likewise, the Christmas spirit will be ours."--Thomas S. Monson

AND...

"This Christmas, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love and then speak it again."-Howard W. Hunter.

Thankful

2009-11-30T14:30:00.000-08:00

I know that I am a few days late on posting my Thanksgiving photos, but better late than never, right? There are so many things that I am grateful for this year. Here is a list of just a few.

My Family. I have such a great family, they are always there for me and I hope that they know that I am always there for them. I love and look up to each one of them so much. They make me want to be better. They are all so fun to be with, they make me laugh. I may not see them as often as i would like because we are so spread out, but I look forward to the times we are together.

My Friends. These are the people who entertain me. I hate being alone for long periods time so i love it when I can go out with friends. I also look up to, and have a desire to be better because of them. I love that we can pretty much be anywhere and doing anything and laugh and have a good time regardless of what is immediately around us. This may result in some funny looks at times which makes us laugh even the harder. I am so blessed to have such great friends in my life.

The Church. I am so grateful for my knowledge of the gospel. Without it I am sure I would be a mess. I am grateful for the Savior and for His sacrifices for me. I am grateful for the faith and hope that I have because of the gospel.

My Job. At times I might complain about having to go to work for 10 hours a day, but in all honesty I love my job. I love the kids that i work with and I feel so blessed to be able to work with them and hopefully help them progress in their ability to better live their lives. These kids are little angels and Iam blessed to have them in my daily life. They make me laugh and cry at the same time because they are so sweet and innocent and precious. I hope that in some wayI really am helping them.

I had a great Thanksgiving. I enjoyed spending time with my parents, grandma and my brother and his cute family. I also had the entire week off work so I got to spend a lot of time with my friends. It was a great week. Here are the pictures

Me, Avery and Sage playing with my camera. Avery stole my camera, I have some very interesting pictures. lol

A family tradition: gum drop turkeys

2009-11-15T20:48:00.000-08:00

Hee Haws Corn Maze.

my singles ward went to Hee Haws corn maze a couple of weeks ago. Me and my room mates are pretty much able to have fun in any situation. And this corn maze wasn't any different. I mean honestly, why are corn mazes so fun? Walking around completly disoriented, not knowing where you are walking down the same path numerous times seems to only be considered fun around Halloween time. While at times it was frustrating out little group, Bonnie, Emily, Dale and I had a blast, singing songs and being scared to death by some guy in a gorilla costume.

After we made it out of the corn maze and were ready to head to our cars for home we found these fun swings that looked like horses. Dale took a bunch of pictures for us but I will only put on the really fun ones.

I am so glad to have such good room mates. Who enjoy being goofy and having fun with me, even though at time we may look like huge dorks. I love them!

2009-10-26T13:16:00.000-07:00

I Love My Sisters!

I was looking through some pictures that were on my camera and computer today and I saw these pictures of me and my sisters. Aren't they both gorgeous? I am so glad that they are in my life and that they are always there for me. I think that it's time we get all the girls together in the family for a girls weekend.

Me and Kristie up Payson Canyon last fall

Linnea and I over the weekend.

Linnea, me and Kristie last yearAnother one of all us from this past summer

2009-10-26T12:48:00.000-07:00

The Vegas

I love road trips! I want to go on another soon. But sadly, as of right now I do not have any planned. Hopefully that will change soon. Anyway, me and 3 friends went to vegas over a weekend to see the BYU UNLV football game. It was so much fun! We walked the strip, shopped, I may have gambled a couple times (penny slots). I can arugue the fact that is wasn't actually gambling by saying that the two dollars bills that I used weren't mine; and it was only the penny slots and i felt like it was more throwing money away than actually gambling. Needless to say i wasn't neccessarily impressed with the penny slots. For me the football game was the highlight of the trip. We had amazing tickets. We were 10 rows behind the BYU team on the 40 yard line. We were also in the middle of the UNLV fans. We automatically began the trash talk with them and they gave it right back to us. It got to the point that every time anything happended, good or bad for BYU, the older guys a couple of rows in front of us would turn around to see what our response would be. This was by far the funnest BYU game i have everbeen to. Here are pictures from the trip:

emily and I in front of the giant wheel of fortune.

Emily, me, stacy and sue at the game.

2009-09-14T16:01:00.000-07:00

Maybe in Another 17 Years....

Last time I hiked Timp I was 10. I do not remember a lot about that hike except that I was tired and not very motivated to get to the top. My mom kept telling me lets just go to that tree, rock, bench etc and then we could stop. That is pretty much how it went until we were almost to the top. Once i saw the top i was motivated to keep going because i could see how close i really was. My brother T.J., who also has not hiked Timp thought that it would be fun to do over labor day weekend. so me, Kristie, Linnea, Caiden, Statyn and Spencer set off to do just that early saturday morning. Keep in mind that for the first two hours of hiking we got rained on. And anyone who knows me very well knows that my hair looks really awesome when it gets wet and i dont have anything to straighten it with.

The very beginning.

This was the only toilet on the whole trail....ewww gross and kinda funny

Yay we made it to the top!

This was was the view looking sown from the summit to the saddle. It was by far the hardest part of the hike.

We found this dog at the summit. We were able to get a hold of her owners and bring her back down the trail.

Some of my favorite sentence of the day are:

"It seemed easier when we kids."

"I dont think that it is really going to be worth it."

"Why do we consider this to be fun."

"Is this ever going to end."

Now that it has been a week since i hiked i can say that it was fun. I was really sore and could hardly walk the next day, and i still have blisters. It is such a long hike. I may never hike it again......or maybe i will in another 17 years.

ps see what i mean about awesome hair?

CALIFORNIA

2009-07-29T16:08:00.000-07:00

OK, remember from my last post When I said that I am horrible taking pictures. Well sadly it stands true for this post too. I have officially set a new goal to better at taking pictures. Over the weekend me and two of my friends went to California. We got there at 2am Friday morning and left at 2pm Sunday afternoon. We played a ton and got very little sleep (I do not think we got more than 4 hours a night). But there was just so much to do. We went to Disneyland, it was only my second time ever being there so the Paul and Ryan, who have been there many times became my tour guides. We went on a lot of really fun rides, and ate lots of really good food. We were at Disneyland for 15 hours, after that we were all exhausted and ready for sleep.

Me and Paul on the tea cups.

We were at Disneyland for 15 hours, after that we were all exhausted and ready for sleep. We got back to house at 2:00 am only to get up Saturday morning and head to the wedge, which is a place known to have really big waves on Newport beach. The waves were HUGE. (The waves in the picture do not look nearly as big as they were ) There were probably 500 people standing on the beach on 5 people were crazy enough to try and surf these waves. The poor life guards looked so stressed out. We were only there for 45 minutes and we saw them rescue 2 or 3 of the surfers.

We then drove sown the beach to the U.S. Open of surfing where professional surfers were competing. We saw Kelly Slater (Who is apparently one of the best surfers) score perfect tens. It was so much fun to see the tricks these guys were doing in huge waves. After that we drove down to San Diego for a wedding reception, then back up to Hollywood for Fiddler on the Roof, which was an amazing play to watch. Once again we were out til 1 or two in the morning. Sunday got up and went to church, and then headed home.

Johnson family summer bash!

2009-07-29T15:46:00.000-07:00

I decided that I am horrible at taking pictures. I do not know what happened, I used to be so good at it. I got ready to post this and realized i did not have very many pictures. Annyway, over the fourth of July my whole family got together in Payson for a family reunion. It was alot of fun to have everyone together again. I wish we could do it more often but we are so spread out it makes it hard. But when we do get together we have a lot fun. This time we went to Lagoon, fire works, swimming, paintball wars, and duels. Dad got the worst of the duels TJ shot him in the head just above his mask. (and somewhere else which I wont mention here). ouch!

We also took family pictures, which is always fun with a bunch of little kids. Amazingly several of them turned out, with everybody looking.

My Poor Car!

2009-06-26T22:43:00.001-07:00

I went and saw the movie up tonight. It is a really cute movie. I advise you go and see it. Hopefully during it you wont recieve phone calls and texts from your room mate telling you to call her back asap. Yep, that is what happened to me. I did not notice that i had missed these calls until the movie was over, almost an hour after my room mate Bonnie had last tried to reach me. I got a hold of her and she told me that the tree in our front yard had split and that part of it was on top of the trunk of my car. We hurried home and this is what we found:

back view. good thing my lights are reflecting otherwise you wouldnt be able to see it.

Clint was nice enough to help me survey the damge and get the branch off my car once we got back to my house. Then he tried to break the branch off but that didnt work!

When I first heard that a tree had fallen on my car, i had envisioned it to be much worse than this. Luckily there was no structural damage. It does look like there are several scratches on the roof, trunk and side of my car. It is hard to tell though because it is so dark. I am anxious for morning to come so i can really survey the damage and figure out what to do about it. I am just so glad that it wasnt any worse.

Carnival fun

2009-06-23T20:38:00.000-07:00

The other night me and some friends walked over to Zupas for dinner. On the way over we noticed that there was a carnival going on in the Alertsons parking lot. So we decided to stop by on they way home and have some fun. Random...

Yellowstone

2009-06-13T14:20:00.000-07:00

One of my friends families has an amazing cabin about 20 minutes outside the West gates of Yellowstone. Last weekend me, clint and bryant took a little road trip up there. We had so much fun, even though we did get snowed and rained on pretty much the whole time

Real guick, here is what we did:

Thursday we left Provo around 7 at night we piled all of our stuff into my car and we were off. We pulled into Island Park, Idaho at 12 am. then we went for a walk down to the river. that was probably the only clear night we had while we were there. we then went back to the cabin and went to bed.

Friday we all slept in, when we woke up we realized we did not have any food for breakfast so we went to the store and bought us some basics; cereal and milk for five dollars each, eggs, cheese bread, etc. We went on a walk around the cabin down to the river, we also shot pellet guns and the boys jumped off of the bridge into the river. There were mosquito's everywhere, I have never seen so many in whole life!then it started to rain so we hung out in the cabin and played games. That night we drove up to West Yellowstone for dinner where we ate the most delicious buffalo burger and pulled pork sandwiches. Saturday we woke up early and drove into the park. we saw so many Buffalo, and lots of elk. We also saw two bears, but they we so far away we had to use a telescope to see them. it was still cool though, they were playing with each other I just wish they had been a little closer to get a good picture.

We went on a hike down to this river.

Then we drove around some more, and Bryant caught Clint sleeping, which he got in trouble for because he was supposed to be watching for bears. (I was watching the left, he was supposed to watching the right and Bryant was driving). We stopped at a place known as the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. This was so pretty the picture does not do it justice. It was amazing.

We then went back to West Yellowstone where we ate dinner, and then back to the cabin where we watched movies because once again it had started to rain and later turned into snow. I fell asleep at the beginning of the second movie which to anyone who has ever watched movies with me should not be surprised about. However, Bryant was determined to keep me awake. He kept getting in my face and waking me up. I am pretty sure in my sleep deprived state i threatened to "punch him in the face". At the point Clint realized that i must have been really tired to be threatening bodily harm to someone. So he came to mine and Bryants rescue and told Bryant to leave me alone. After that I slept great. Thanks Clint for saving me from regret!

Sunday we woke up early and drove into the park again, we went down to Old Faithful, which wasn't very faithul and was about 10 minutes late going off and then the to Yellowstone lake. Then back to the cabin because once again it had started to rain.

Monday we were all exhausted from too many late nights and too little sleep, so we slept in and then woke up cleaned the cabin and headed back to Provo.

We goofed off a lot, shared lots of laughs over stupid things that were said and done. We put 1,075 mile on my car. (It only had 775 miles on it when we left for the trip). and spent over 21 hours in the car. We had a blast and I want to go back.

Free advice that I am not going to take. (sorry tj)

2009-05-10T19:11:00.000-07:00

I got this email from my brother T.J., I thought it was pretty funny and wanted to share it. However, I do not think i will take his advice, until it is at least 15 years old.

Hi Amber,
Heard you got new wheels! Sounds great, I LOVE COROLLAS! I can't wait to drive it, let me share some secrets with you and give some advice since I have had one; This is the best - If you go really fast in reverse, crank the steering wheel hard, then cram the transmission into first gear as your half way through the spin, and punch the gas all the way to the floor at the same time, it's so awesome. You can do a 180 that is very impressive, especially if the passengers inside are caught off guard... don't try it on pavement though. Come to Flag and I will show you or we can do it in July when I am in Payson. There are some great motor cross tracks on west mnt that are an absolute blast in Corollas. Keep your speed up when you go up a jump ramp, if your go in too slow you can high center the vehicle. Plus, make sure your battery is straped down, it can be easily jolted out of its case and land right in the fan and make a horrible noise. Hopefully they have fixed that engineering oversight since the ' 73 model. To get up a steep hill like totegoat hill you have to hit the base with a lot of speed, maybe 50 mph but in a low gear (try third), the motor will be screaming and it will be violently bumpy, so strap yourself in. With the speed and high RPM you will still have some torque when you slow down on the steep part up top, it would kill you're momentum to down shift at that point (I won a bet with that tactic so keep it under you hat). If you loose traction near the top try the reverse/turn/first gear trick that I explained above, that way, even though you loose you'll come out in style. Trust me, Corollas are miserable in deep mud, always have a pair of hiking shoes,shovel, cell phone, and water with you. Also take a screw driver so you can quickly remove the plates in the event that you get bogged down in the middle of a road and have to abandon it until a dryer week. You could get in trouble leaving it or even get a ticket if your blocking the road. Maybe the new ones are better in mud, that would be nice. Can't wait to find out! Is it a stick? One final pearl, you can go a long way (going slow) on three tires in a corolla, not so far with just two tires unless they are on opposite sides of the vehicle. If you lose two tires on the same side, or if you loose both front tires your hosed.
Have fun, be safe,
TJ

P.S. Did you get the extended warranty?

finally

2009-05-09T12:04:00.000-07:00

MY NEW CAR!

after ten years of driving my first car I finally bought a new one. On Wednesday night my dad and I went car shopping and this is what i came home with! I am debating on whether or not I should put a spoiler on it what do you think, should I?

I love it! It is a little different to have knobs on all of my A/C and heater controls and not have to take the one i have left off and put it one of the others to change the temperature. Or to have to use my snow scraper to pry up the gas lever and the use my debit card to pry open the gas tank.

My old car had alot of little quirks that i have gotten used to over the years, in a small way i am sad to sell it cause it has been such a great car. But at the same time it feels great to have a car i know i can trust.