More Shots!

So, Thursday, we gave each other shots in the butt.  Its not that bad, but note:  Go in fast.  The girl who gave me my shot kind pushed on the skin till it broke.....just stab it, I promise, it'll hurt less.  After the shots in the butt, we learned to give them in the leg.  Note to future patients:  If you have to get a shot in your leg, it really doesn't hurt unless you watch, so don't watch.  Its a big needle and seeing it go in, you'll tense up a bit.  I thought I was solid, could handle any needle at this point, but I wanted that shot to stop.  It really wasn't painful except in my head.  Natural response, so just don't look.  (you'll usually get shots like Iron there, so just don't get that low on Iron in the first place anyways-and remember you have to count to 10 before the needle comes out)

And heads up:  Tomorrow, me and Travis are going Snow Boarding.  :)  I've Never Tried it, have always wanted to.  SO EXCITED!  Wish me luck!!

California Sunshine

Everyday is a hot day right?  Wrong.  Yesterday Sid had a Softball game, and I had anticipated the day being warm, so I was in Shorts and a T-shirt.  Well, at the game, I was freezing!   Shivering and goosebumps galore.  Its cheap!  I came to Cali for sunshine!

Anyways, I'm lovin it.  Adventure of the day yesterday:  At Sids game me and Alex were headed to the spectators bleachers when the ump guy (If you even have an ump in Baseball...idk) asked "You playing today?".

I said "Of course not-your crazy"

"Yeah you are"

"You don't want me to play"  I still thought he was joking

Then the rest of the team started saying "aw come on, we need you"  And something about tennis shoes and being short a girl and It hit me- They were serious.  AHH!  So, not being one to ruin the game by being a loser who won't go out of my comfort zone (WAY out of my comfort zone) I came around and put on a jersy.  I was a beast for day.  :P   But wait, the story gets even more funny!

They said, "we're at bat first, so we'll just put you at the end of the line and you probably won't even have to do anything."  But just in case, someone had an extra pair of tennis shoes-size 9 (I'm size 7.5) and they handed me a mitt.  Then as we're walking out there, oops.  We're not batting first.  So they put me in as catcher.  AHH!!!  I don't think I caught a single ball-cept one on a bounce.  :P  haha.  Thank goodness it was a short round because kinda quickly there were 3 outs.  So, back to the safety of the dug out?  Is that what they call it-even when it isn't dug out....which I think is the wrong way of putting it....it should be a dug-in.  Because you dig in to create a dugout.....oy.  I'm not a sports person.  But I was glad that Alex and me had had some much catch time, and that Travis has taught me how to throw-so that when tossing the ball back to the pitcher, I wasn't completely embarrassed, and I wasn't worried about hitting the batter in the head....lol.  Progress!

Anyways, otherwise, Dance classes ROCK!  Yesterday we did a psycho dance syllabus Blitz-hour one, the smooth dances.  Hour two-Rythm.  Cuban action-SO much fun!  Still working on it, but Its pretty simple to catch onto when in closed position, because its led to a certain extent.  I love it!

And FYI-Sesame street has a High School Musical rip off-they call it Preschool Musical.    Interesting. The things we learn about around 6 yr olds.

Also, just a shout out to LaMryl Sandholtz.  She's the woman I'm living with, and she is the sweetest most kind and thoughtful lady ever.  I want to be like her.  She's just so tuned in to the spirit that she's just so aware of the needs of others around her.  And its her Daughter that I fell in love with almost immediately my first week here-she's just so excited about the scriptures, Its refreshing and makes me want to read them more.  I love her too!

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE SID!  Me and Alex made him cards, and have a few other surprises up our sleeve-so thats fun.  Later today him and Alex are going to a Baseball game-Oakland A's vs LA Angels.  I think they're rooting for Oakland.

Oh-and send Robin Letters!  She needs em!  Tell her much you love her!

Till later, Adios!

April Showers make me happy

This week was kinda an awesome week-despite its rough start.  On Sunday, my first disaster was at Branch Conference, I'm the choir director and we had planned on singing this awesome arrangement of "How firm a foundation" but 10 mins before the meeting I still don't have my violinist or pianist.  So, the show much go on and we sang a number from the hymn book with Chelsea (life saver) as our Pianist.  That is every choir directors worst nightmare.  Anyways, still recovering from that and a few other personal crisises which also happened during church, I was in Northpole with Travis and I got a phone call from my family that Liam went into the hospital because of breathing problems.  Oy.  So the next few days were busy busy as I played mom and chauffer to Lysie and a friend whom I take to doctor appointments-all the while I also finnished a group project for Sociology and got to all my classes on time.  Tuesday evening, things started calming down.  Liam got to come home, and Travis had a birthday!  <--That was actually all day but I didn't see him till after I was done chauffering and running errands and all that jazz

I must say I was pretty happy with myself, I got travis an icecream cake from Coldstones, his mom made dinner (steak and potatoes, yum!) and I also got him a fun electronic monopoly game and a lightsaber (cuz every jedi needs a lightsaber) and bubbles (Who doesn't love bubbles?).  After dinner we went for a nice walk in the beautiful sunshine and blue skies and 65+ weather, and played 2 hrs of Monopoly and watched an episode of Stargate.  It was a good night.

Wednesday, not much happened, except those creepers at work-see post titled "creepers" if you want that story.

Thursday, after I went to my Chem class and helped my friend get to and from her meetings, I got to go hiking with Lisa Anderson and  Stephanie Dayton-we went to Angel rocks.  We were kinda worried because on the drive we got pelted with rain, but while we were there it was beautiful.  We were all sweating by the top where we enjoyed the veiws and turned around.  By the time we left it was starting to rain again.  After making it back into town, I went out to North Pole to finish the monopoly game with Travis-and he kicked my trash!  He had a total of 69.9 Million at the end and I only had 6 million-the last move I made, I was holding my breath hoping to land on chance and not on his times square property--The most expensive one next that sits right next to go-- he had a hotel on it and the 8 million dollar rent would surely bankrupt me.  So I rolled and sigh of relief landed on chance.  The card read: "Celebrate New Years in The Big Apple, advance to Times Square."  Game over. But, fun way for it to end I guess.

Friday, not much excitement either, but still a good day-went to meetings in the morning, then classes and work was quiet-ish.

Saturday, it was still rainy but it held off while I did the Chena River run with my family.  I made it in 45 minutes, a 5K.  I pushed Liam the whole way while he slept in a stroller. Rulon ran, finnished in 25 minutes, and my Mom and Michelle walked it in 58 minutes with Elyse in a stroller also.  After that, I got some chores done-the world is always jsut a bit better when my room is clean and laundry is done.  Then I got to spend another evening with Travis-we had chicken enchiladas at my house and enjoyed some more stargate at his.  I know it sounds like we're lame watching this show all the time, but I'm in season 6-and almost done, and tomorrow his complete series is supposed to get here-and we're gonna try and have a marathon before we go to Cali. Still, may sound like we're geeks, but I promise we're not.  If you would just give it a chance and watch the show-you'd be just as hooked.  Its hilarious!

Anyways, today was also a productive and relaxing Sunday-Testimony meetings were really good, and its awesome how many new people are showing up for choir!  And I got my temple Reccomend renewed-I plan to go on the Branch Temple trip the 14th/15th-my choir pianist Catherine, and her beloved Jack are getting hitched the same weekend and they asked that I be there for pictures outside the temple since I can't go into their ceremony.  That was special.  I'm so happy for them.  And I'm glad I got to be a part of their coming together-I didn't do much but invite Catherine to come to church in October and be the choir pianist (that one week only-I was begging) but apparently that was all she needed to be called as my pianist and then to become more active and to meet Jack.  Jack always greets me with a Hug and a big "Thanks for finding me my wife" -AGain, I don't think I did much but it means alot to me that I meant that much to them.  Also, about the temple, how exciting that This summer, I'll be just about an hour away from the Oakland Cali temple!  YAY!!!  I've missed the temple so much-Fairbanks really needs one closer to home.  When I was in Rexburg I got to go every week!  I hope I can do that this summer-at least every other week (sing I won't have a car myself....)  And also, today, Travis and I bought our plane tickets to Cali and made some other plans for the summer.  I'm so excited!  We leave in 16 days-which are going to be some of the busiest days of my life, but I'm oh so excited about it!  YAY summer, YAY life!!!