27 Years

Today is my parent's 27th anniversary! I am so grateful for my parents and for all the good decisions they have made and for all the hard work that they do for me and my brother, sister, brother-in-law, and my nephews. They have been such great examples, and they have taught us so well and I am very grateful to have been in their lives. I haven't always made things easy for them, but I am so glad that they have stuck by me and have been there for me, even when I didn't want them to be. I love them so so so so much!

Engagement Photo

On their wedding day, 27 years ago. ( Too bad I couldn't find a good picture of both of them with my Dad in his black cowboy hat... BAHAHAHAHA! This'll do. :D)

Today... still in love.

I have another thing that I have been thinking about lately... This picture:

This picture was taken around the end of December or beginning of January, right before Cody left. What is he wearing? If you can't tell... it's my headband that I was wearing that night. We were playing around and being goofy and he had pulled it off my head and was playing with it. Then I took it from him and put it on his head. He let me take this picture. No complaints or objections. He just sat there and smiled while I put it on his head.

As I look back on this night, I think... "What an idiot! I must have been super retarded to put that on his head!" But the more I think about it and think about how he never complained or told me to take it off, I realized how much he must love me to sit there and let me be retarded :P and let me put it on his head. What a patient guy. Sometimes I do wacky stuff like that, just because it is my personality. And that doesn't bug Cody one bit. He loves me for who I am and for how I act... even though sometimes it's crazy. And he loves me enough to let me do these kind of stupid things to him...

After I took this picture, he did this:



He put the headband down on his eyes like that and then told me to take a picture. :D

I love him so so much! What a guy to put up with me... sometimes I wonder what he even sees in me haha! But I love that I love him and I love that he loves me. I can't wait for the day that he comes home and that I can give him a huge huge hug and tell him about everything! I can't wait for the day when I can see him smile again and hear him talk and hear him laugh. I just can't wait to see him again.

I have a good post coming tomorrow! I'm warning though, you may want to be have an extra pair of pants on hand, or be close to a bathroom.... you'll have to wait and see why. :P

Bugged!

Oh my gosh! I'm so bugged! Ok so in my English class, my teacher has an online forum that all of her classes write some of their papers on so she can grade them. But guess what... I can't log into my account! It won't let me on! AND I'M SO BUGGED BY IT BECAUSE IT'S DUE BY MIDNIGHT and there is NO WAY that I am staying up until midnight and wait for this website to send me a password reset! UGH! So if it doesn't work in like twenty minutes... aka 10:30... then I'm sending an email to my teacher with proof that I did write it and that it just wouldn't log me on. Hopefully she's ok with that because she's pretty good with working with you if there are problems somewhere. Anyways...
I need a serious massage. I am so tight in my traps that my shoulders and neck hurt constantly! Not good. I'm so busy that I don't really have time though. Oh well. I'm bugged that I'm tight and need a massage.
I saw the weirdest thing at school today. I pulled up next to a car in the parking lot and guess what was hanging from it's rearview mirror?


Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is a garter hanging from this person's rearview mirror. How weird is that!?!?!?!?! Who would hang their garter from their rearview mirror?!?!?! I mean honestly!

State Fair Pics - All 2 of them

Ok so here are the 2 most random... well the pig one at least... Utah State Fair pics I think anyone will ever see...maybe. :P I took the pig one because it was so funny that the one pig's butt was in the food tray and that his hooves or whatever they are are pretty much going up the other pig's butt. HAHA! And they were sound asleep! Mom couldn't stop laughing... hilarious!


You're probably thinking, "Wait! This isn't a state fair picture!? It's a Lagoon picture!" Yes... the chainsaw guy is from Lagoon, but they were advertising Frightmares at the state fair and so they had two chainsaw guys. This one is sitting where Dad was sitting. He wanted Dad to stand up, and so we all thought that he was gonna do something to Dad, but then he nudges his way inbetween Mom and I and started hitting on Mom! SOO funny! It made me think of the time we went to Universal Studios a few years ago and Beetlejuice was hitting on Mom, but Mom was grossed out then and she wasn't this time, just because she hates Beetlejuice and thought that these guys were hilarious! Anyways, I wanted a picture and so Dad took the pic for us. Look at the random kid in the background BAHAHAHAHA! FUNNY!

P.S. Don't mind the flubbery stomach of mine :P I lost 5 pounds this last month and this month I'm gonna lose 5 more!

State Fair and Cody

My family went to the state fair on Saturday! It was fun! But I haven't uploaded photos yet so I will do that tomorrow for sure! We walked around and looked at all the booths and we walked through all the animal barns (made me wish I lived on a ranch) and then we went to the rodeo. That reminded me what a sucker I am for cowboys! Love cowboys! :D MMMM but I also love rappers too... hm.... that'd be why I'm a cowgirl-gangster. Anyways...

I got some pictures of Cody and one of his baptism's. I believe it's the baptism of the Mom of the lady who sent them to me from his area.

Awww I love my missionary! Anyways, watch for the 2 state fair pics I got tomorrow! ;P

Hey There Delilah (I'm At the MTC)

Dr Smith at work showed this to me yesterday and I thought it was so funny that I had to share. Enjoy!

Lots of Updates!

First on updates...
Lindsey, Parker, Holly and I went to the Warped Tour at the fairgrounds! OH MY GOSH! Sooo much fun! But I'm stealing Lindsey's words on this one... I've had enough smokers, F-words and condoms to last me a life time now. haha! But it was a blast! The best show was by Hey Monday! And I found two new favorite bands... The Rocket Summer and The Cab. Loved it!

Hot Mike from Hey Monday (his name is really just Mike but I call him Hot Mike... haha!)

Hey Monday

(Alex, Jersey... who was barefoot the whole time, Cassadee Pope and Hot Mike)

The Rocket Summer

Update #2 -

Parker got his mission call on August 4th! Oh my goodness... you'll never guess where he's going....

AUSTRAILIA BRISBANE MISSION

:D

He reports to the Provo MTC on December 15, 2010. So he'll be gone before Christmas but at least he'll still be here for Thanksgiving and be back before Christmas in two years.

Calling Whitney and Chris with the proud Momma standing by :D

Update #3 -

2 Saturday's ago... Parker, Dad and I went off roading with my brother in law, Chris, his two brothers Mike and Nick, and Clint from Dad and Chris' work. It was so much fun! We went up American Fork Canyon on a trail called Mary Ellen Gulch. SOOO pretty! The Lord sure knew what he was doing when he made that place. Everything had a place. It looked like it had been landscaped. It was perfect! There was some old mining stuff up there that was sooo cool too!

Nick touching stuff in the old house up at the top of the mines in Mary Ellen Gulch. Ugh. What a brave kid haha!

Just one of the pretty moutainside pictures :D

Dad, Parker and Mike at a mine shaft opening.

I had a blast this past week! I love all my friends and family who keep me on top of things and continue to make me love life! Love ya'll!

Mission Call Guessing Game

Parker is supposed to be getting his mission call this week. We are playing a game. This is how you play.
We are having everyone guess where he is going.
Here are some of the guesses so far...

Grandma Kendall - Croatia
Dalene - Ukraine
Dawnell - Spain
Deborah - Germany or Italy
Whitney - Canada
Nash - Jamaica or Colorado (she said Uruguay at first in honor of Cody haha but then she changed it to Colorado because that's what her Dad guessed :D)
Me - Argentina (I said just South America but Lindsey told me that was too broad so I had to pick a specific country. I really would LOVE for him to go to Uruguay and be companions with Cody haha!)
Lindsey - Peru
Tyson - Russia
Jace - Philippines or Boston
Chris - Switzerland or Russia
Grandma Stringfellow - Austria
Mom - England or Netherlands
Dad - Texas
Claude - Tucson, Arizona Spanish Speaking (he was very specific! haha!)
Grandpa Kendall - South America
Jeff - Colorado
Heather Rittenhouse - Brazil
Garrett Carlile - Carlsbad, CA (cause that's where he went)
Debbie Hadden - Des Moines, IA (cause that's close to where she lives)

Anyways, if you guys have any guesses, leave a comment! Then when we find out I'll let everyone know!