why is it that....

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

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!

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'

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

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

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

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.