Because it has been a while....

I have been meaning to blog about a few recent events, but life happened and I forgot. So.... here it is...

Friday March 25th- Saturday March 26th

Betsy & "Other" Shawn come to town for a quick visit.

Friday : They come into town, we have dinner at Sammy's Pizza, and Dessert at Max Brenner (Amazing) and wander the strip.

Saturday: Betsy and I go to breakfast and shopping while Shawn tests for the Henderson Fire Department, we all come home, they leave. :/

Betsy & I at Sammys... oh yum.

Betsy & Shawn at the Bellagio Conservatory

Did you take the Picture yet???

Saturday May 7th

RACE FOR THE CURE!

Then "Girls Day" with Mom, Hailee, Pricilla & I. Book signing, movie, shopping, dinner at PF Chang's, shopping & dessert at Max Brenner..... the second year of the girls day tradition was a HUGE success.

Friday May 14th-Saturday May 15th

Girls WEEKEND! The boys all went to Moab on a Jeeping trip, and the girls played! (we decided that they need to go out of town more often. Just kidding dad!)

Friday: Phantom of the Opera! Wandered around the Strip (Lydia had never been down there) and dessert at Max Brenner (do you see a trend here?)

Saturday: Quilting!!! I will post pictures as soon as I take them.

Hailee, Mom, Lydia, THE PHANTOM, Cilla & Me

The Phantom Auditorium and Chandelier "In Pieces, Showing here..."

The Girls waiting for our Car

At the Bellagio Conservatory

Waiting for the Fountains

PS I will post "The Weekend of Dreams" soon... very soon.

In my Dreams

Here we go again...

I think I just committed to my 3rd Ragnar this year. Oh dear...

Napa Valley: September 16-17 San Francisco to Calistoga

OhMyHolyGOODNESS!!!!!

Adventures of a Seminary Teacher

I was at General Conference a few weeks ago, when I was approached by a member of our High Council. He asked if we could chat, and I assumed he wanted to talk about activities, (which is my other calling) and said ok. We walked a little ways away from where our families were chatting (he is in my family ward so his family knows mine) and he asked how I was doing, and started making small talk. Finally he asked if I would teach seminary for the the last 2 months of the school year.

My outside reaction: What? Really?

My inside reaction: *@$&^@#*@&#!!!!!!!!! WHAT?!?!?! (I was obviously nicer than my thoughts, because we were on Temple Grounds)

And I said Yes. Mostly because I might have a small problem about saying "No" and because we were on Temple Grounds AND we had just sustained the leaders of the church. So basically I was ambushed, and now I teach seminary.

I am starting the third week, and surviving. (Which I am very proud of, considering I have never taught before in my life, and speaking in sacrament gives me minor stress attacks.) We are learning about D&C as well as Church History and the Prophets. And so far I have only had one lesson flop. (I have no idea why, I was prepared and it flowed well in my head...) And this morning as I was cleaning up my room, I realized that I might actually enjoy teaching. Go figure. This in no way means that I will be volunteering to teach next year, it just means that I might not cry IF they do ask.

Pros and cons of being a Seminary Teacher:

• Being young and "cool": Pro (considering all of the other teachers are at lease twice my age)
• Being young and having a full time job on top of teaching: CON
• Waking up at 4:45 and having to be awake enough to teach before 6am: Con
• Being awake and ready to start on my day by 7am: Pro
• Learning cool new stuff about the D&C: Pro
• Having to provide lessons (which are hopefully entertaining enough to keep everyone... including myself... awake) every day: Con
• Having a dad and sister willing to help me: PRO PRO PRO

Everything considered, its not as bad as I thought it would be. Meaning that it hasn't killed me yet, and things are looking good... although that might be subject to change...

30 Hours and 200 Miles in Pictures

The team line up at Bishop Leany's beach house. You can tell it's a "Before" picture, we are all too clean.

One more of the team, with my dad who volunteered to be a driver.

Car 2 (runners 7-12) at the starting line.

Poppy and me at the Starting Line...

Car 2 our window line up.

Our Ragnarly Tatoos... we are so cool.

Turn by turn directions, so we don't get lost.

Car 2, before the last leg. We are running on no sleep and less nutrition...

Ragnarly Line up at the last major exchange. (when car 1 hands off to car 2)

At the finish line! We DID IT!!!

Things I learned from Ragnar

Here are a few things I learned from running my Rangar SoCal this weekend... (More details and pictures to follow when I can think properly)

• Running 200+ miles is not as bad as it sounds
• Running long distances with stress fractures is never a good idea, this gets infinitely worse when climbing hills
• Showers and flushing toilets are under-rated
• After missing enough sleep short term memory loss is normal
• The ability to form complete sentences goes after about 24 hours of sleep depravation
• Living solely on PowerBar ShotBlocks, water, Gatorade and chicken pasta salad is not as bad as it sounds
• "Bonking" is Bad
• "Killing" is good
• "Killing" a guy is GOOD
• Baby wipes have a million uses
• Once you and everyone else in the car hit a certain level of stinky-ness your nose stops noticing the smell
• Reflective vests are annoying
• When you live in a van with 6 other people for 30 hours personal space becomes a non-issue
• When unpacking after a Ragnar, half the stuff in your bags isn't yours, and half of your belongings have migrated to other peoples bags
• The medal that you get at the end makes it all worth it

Beee-utiful

Thanks to my dear sweet Nestle, I was introduced to Pintrest. It is AMAZING. I also found these nails on there and would like some of my own....