My Crazy Life!

So lately I have felt that my life is kind of in a rut! I was in a messed up relationship for 3 weeks, and although we are still "friends" everything is still really weird with him! I feel like i just need to start fresh. And although moving out of town, getting a new job or doing something drastic sounds fun, its not possible for me right now. So Instead i decided I was in need of some new cloths!!So my mom and I went out and I got 3 really cute new "going out/nice shirts". I got me a flat Iron to do something different with my hair, got some new lip gloss along with other makeup, and went home poor, but happy and knowing I was going to look good!! I went out this weekend and had the time of my life!! We started at my friend Nicole's house with some jello shots, fireball whiskey, vodka and OJ, and Beer!! We decided that the house party was not as exciting, so took off (with a sober driver) and went to the Branding Iron (country bar with live music!) Needless to say, I had the time of my life!! The music was great, the company was awesome, and i danced like a crazy woman!! WE did some electric slide, i dance with a couple really nice guys, did a little swing dancing and some other kind of dancing (not sure what you would call it!) Needless to say, i think the new shirts, and all the guys that were hitting on me made me feel so much better about my self, and after this weekend, I'm doing so much better and I'm loving life!! I was even walking past this guy and he stopped me, and regardless if he was drunk or not, he looked me in the eyes and said the words every woman wants to hear... "you are beautiful". I thanked him, introduced myself and continued on my way. I had one guy telling me (as i was texting the ex- boy), that if the guy was not at the party with me, he was a waste of my time and i deserve better. Again regardless of the amounts of drinks all these guys had in them, including the guys that asked me to dance, I went home one happy girl. I got that boost of confidence that i needed again and I'm off this weekend to Spokane to a birthday party for some girls..... and some more fun!




Here is me in one of my new shirts I got!

Nicole, Me, Amanda, Jill and Lauren

Jill and I

Some jell-o shots :)

Thanks to all my friends that i have called these past weeks and months for all your love and support! I don't know what i would do without all of you!!! I call each and everyone of you for a reason!!

My Number 1

This questionnaire was supposed to be done on Myspace, but since my number 1 person NEVER gets on her Myspace, she would never see this!! So i decided, even though she doesn't check my blog to often, maybe one day when she does she will see this!!


1) What’s their full name? Elise (i'm not revealing the rest of her name) But i do know it!

2) Does he or she have a boyfriend/girlfriend? no but she has a husband

3) Do you get along with this person all the time?yea

4) How old is the person? 25

5) Has he/she ever cooked for you? Yes- very good cook!

6) Is this person older than you? nope

7) Have you ever kissed this person? no

8) Are you related to this person? no

9) Are you really close to him/her? yes

10) Nickname? her last name

11) How many times do you talk to this person in a week? sadly not enough! once a week

12) Do you think they will repost this? no

13)why is this person your number 1? because she is my best friend!

14)How long have you known this friend? 13ish years i think!

15) Have you ever been to the mall with this person? yes

16) Have you ever had a sleepover with this person? when i go to visit her

17) If you ever moved away would you miss this person? we don't live close to each other, and i miss her all the time!

18)Have you ever done something really stupid or illegal with this person? i dont think anything illegal, but stupid!!

19) Do you know everything about this person? no

20) Would you date this person’s siblings? no- all she has are sisters!

21) Have you ever made something with this person? yes

22) Have you gone skinny dipping with this person? no

23) Is your #1 on drugs?
nope

24) Have you ever worn this person’s clothes? I don't think so! I can't fit into any of her cloths

25) Have you and your #1 person made up a hand shake? maybe when we were young, who knows what we did!

26) If it was “freaky friday” would you switch bodies with this person? yes

27) Have you ever heard this person sing? Yeah, we sing in the car when ever we are together

28) Do you and this person have a saying? i don't think so

29) Do you know this persons myspace password? nope

30) Have you and this person got in a fight that lasted more than 2 months? heck no!

31) Have you and this person gone clubbing? yes- oh good times in California! :)

32) Do you know how to make this person feel happy? i don't know

33) Do you and this person talk a lot? when we do actually talk, he talk for a while!

34) Do you like this person? i love her like she was my family!

35) Has this person yelled at you? probably, just joking around most of the time

36) Have you and this person got into a fist fight? nope

37) Do you want to go out with this person? i want to go out and party with her!

38) Do you want to be friends with them forever? forever and ever

Leah and Ethan

My favirote picture of my beautifull Niece!! 6 weeks old

Leah checking out big brother Ethan and he is holding her :)

Me, Leah and Ethan- I love these kids! Leah 6 weeks, Ethan 2 years 9 months!

My Family Room!

I finaly got my couch! I have been wanting to get a couch for my family room for quite a while, and i finly found it!
Its a nice microfiber couch and its so comfortable!! I also got a recliner from my Great Aunt Dorthay who passed away over Thanksgiving! I am been greatly enjoying both my couch and recliner!!

My 25th Birthday!

For my 25th Birthday, My family and friends all met me at Jacksons in Richland to watch my favirote band, Colorblind! I had so much fun!

Her is my parents and I!


The band made me go up there to sing Happy Birthday to me and a few other people that were there!

Me getting ready to take my favirote shot of the night! Patron! :)

Me trying not to be drunk :)

Thanks to all my friends and family that could make it out, it made turning 25 a BLAST!!
I have a lot more pictures if you interested, I could e-mail them to you! :)

Leah Noelle

Leah Noelle
November 8th 2007
12:37am
6 lbs 15 oz
20 Inches


My Goddaughter/ Niece is finally here!!! Just one day before my birthday she arrieved and both mom and Leah are very healthy!!
They are both at home trying to deal with life with a big brother. (which by the way is taking some getting used to by big brother Ethan! )

Here she is right after she was born!


Me with Leah about 40min after she was born!

My Niece and Nephew on my 25th birthday!

Getting a diaper check- mean daddy, he woke her up! She is letting out a BIG yawn!!

FIRST PUMKIN PATCH/ HALLOWEEN

This was the first year Ethan actually got to go to the pumpkin patch and trick-or-treating! We had so much fun!!




He was a little to small to hold most of the pumpkins, so we had to help him out with some small ones, but he was able to take one home for him!

After getting off the hay ride (which he loved!) they had wagons for us to put the pumpkins in to take them to the car. Well Ethan is well aware of what a wagon is used for.... to give him rides... So we were able to put at least 4 pumpkins in the wagon, but the other two had to be carried out by dad, (Ryan). Ethan thought it was pretty fun!

Here he is ready to go trick-or-Treating! He was so cute and got the hang of it really fast!!

Every house he went to, the people would give him two or three pieces of candy. Well at some houses they would only give him one, and he would look at them and say "want another one". He thought he should be getting two at every house!! At one house the guy opened the door, and Ethan looked up at him and said "BOO". It was so funny!! He did so good and came back with LOTS of candy! Mom (Gretchen) was not feeling well do to her pregnancy, so her and I both went out and took turns taking him to the doors. Overall we had a good Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Jury Duty!

The month of October I was called to be on jury duty for Franklin County (Pasco)! All month long they did not need anyone till this week. Of course my number was called, along with 17 other numbers! There were 200 people to respond Thursday October 18th. This was my first time of having to serve and it was quite interesting!! Everyone told me how boring it is, and how bad it sucked, but I actually thought the entire process was really interesting and kind of fun! I showed up Thursday morning at 8:05- report time was 8:30am. I was standing out side the court house and got shit on by a bird!! Thankfully it was just on my arm and a nice woman had a Kleenex for me to borrow, so I cleaned it all off and walked inside when they opened the doors. The coordinator starts talking to us about what the process will be, how we will get paid $60.00 a day plus millage to be there and so on. Than she continues with "by the way, for those of you who parked out on this side of the court house on the street, (as she points out the window) your cars will be towed". Guess where I had parked my car..... Yep, right where she pointed to! There was no "no parking" sign, or yellow, red paint on the sidewalk, but apparently your just supposed to know not to park your car there. So I has to ask the bailiff, The guy who watches over the judge and jurors, if I could go move my car, along with 2 other people. He said we had to hurry, so I sprinted to my car, moved it about a block and a half down and ran back!!! Needless to say that was my exercise for the day! So that was the first hour of my first day in court.

Day 1:
We did a lot of sitting, but the Judge came out (who was very nice) and talked to us about the process that was going to be going on and how everything works and took our oaths. After a while we all got numbers, to the court system you are numbers to them after about the first couple hours. I was number 95 of 125. 75 people didn't show up either due to not calling in, or having prior arrangements to not be there. We got a morning brake, which was not that long, being we only had 2 bathrooms, and 125 rushing to get to them first!

By 11:00 both the Prosecuting lawyer and the defending lawyer with his client came in. At this point they told us what the trial was going to be about. It was a criminal case, child molestation in the first degree and was expected to last about 3 days, ending on Tuesday. With that being said, they gave people the opportunity to say weather or not they would be able to stay for the 3 days of the trial. I didn't realize how many excuses people could come up with! One guy said it was farming season and really need to be in the fields, some said they had Doctor appointments they couldn't miss or they were leaving town. After they said what was going on, both the lawyers had the choice to agree or disagree with letting them leave. No argument was made for any of the jurors . They also asked us a series of questions such as, do you know any of these people and listed the names of the witness and lawyers. If so they would just take down your number and move on. We then had to fill out a survey as to weather or not you have had any family members, or close friends that have been raped in any way. If you answered yes, you were to report back at 1:45pm, if not you had to report back Friday morning at 8:45pm. I had to come back Friday morning, but found out that there were about 40 people there Thursday evening till 5:30pm!! So off to work I went when we were excused at 11:40am.

Day 2:
I get there at 8:30 and we get all settled into the court room (which is WAY to small for as many people that were there). The bailiff came in and said "ok, we now need you to put yourself in numerical order starting from here". 1-14 were in the jurors box, and the rest from 15-130something put ourselves in order- which was pretty funny. It reminded me how in grade school we used to have to put ourselves in alphabetical order! After that was done, in walks the lawyers and the client again for more questioning. They informed us that one of the bathrooms was closed down, and that we would all have to share one bathroom!!! The judge comes in and the prosecuting lawyer starts with the questions. How would you feel if this..? What would you do in this situation..? So on and so on. They asked a lot of people questions regarding the surveys we had to fill out that they sent us in the mail last month. They asked a lot of jurors that were in the box quite a bit of questions as to weather or not we can be fair for this trial, being that it was such a hard subject matter. A lot of emotions were going on and people were standing up and saying I can not do this trial and be fair about it. I had to think really hard, but I think i could be fair with the trial cause remember- they are innocent unless proven guilty. But having a 2 1/2 year old nephew made it really hard cause all I could do was was think of Ethan. But I decided that I could be fair and went on with the process. He talked for about a hour, than the defending lawyer got up and asked a lot more question to the jurors and everyone else. That went on for about 30-45 minutes. We got a very short break and than we continued! They went ahead and released about 5-7 people for some of there comments earlier about how they would have trouble being fair in the process. They then called more people to the box and asked a few more questions. Than the lawyers deliberated about who they wanted on the juror, meanwhile we could not leave the room or talk, but we could at least stand up and stretch, being at this point it was 11:30. After a long deliberation a decision had been made. The Judge read off the numbers to the people who were off the juror who where sitting in the box, and read about 12 other number and names that were to go to the juror box. Those 14 were the chosen ones to be on the case, and the rest of us were released at 12:00. I was not chosen, but did find out if was a case of a 27 year old male and a 6 year old girl. They asked us some personal questions because of the nature of this particular case, it was going to be hard for a 6 year old girl to come out and tell about her experiences.

It was very cool to see what goes on behind picking jurors, how you have to take the oath and everyone raises when the judge enters and leaves the room. The bailiffs were all so nice and funny, they made it very light along with the judge. It was a really good experience, and although I did not get chosen to be on this trial, I think that at some point it would be neat to be able to serve. I hope everyone gets to go through the process as well so see how important of a process it is! Has anyone else been called to serve on a trial? I would love to hear your experiences and if you enjoyed it as much as I did?

Much Warmer!

With the help and support from my very nice friends and family, i now have a fully insulated garage that coasted me nothing!!
A co-worker had some left over sheet rock, so he was kind enough to give me some extra sheets to finish off the rest of my garage. Only 1 1/2 sides were done when i moved in and i have been wanting to get the rest of it done so the winters will be much warmer!
My uncle was awesome enough to order me the insulation i would need to finish it off, and wouldn't even let me pay for it!! (Thanks John!!- i owe him so beer :) ). And with my Brothers expertise with sheet rock, Ryan, my dad and a friend Donny came over Monday night and did it all for me! I sat inside and played with my nephew! They were able to complete it all in just a few hours!! A real good family friend who owns a drywall business is going to come over and tape it and make it look completed, again- at the cost of nothing!

Today i went out and cleaned and organized my garage to make it look somewhat decent!


Thanks to all my friends and family, i will now have a much warmer garage this winter!!!

Astoria

I went to a wedding in Astoria Oregon last weekend and had such a blast! The weather was really nice and sunny, just a little cool but not to bad! I have never been to a wedding on the beach before, so it was a neat experience.
The wedding was very casual!
There was only 3 rows of chairs, and the rest of just stood around as close as possible. The waves were pretty loud so it was hard to hear all of it but was really neat.












After the wedding, the receiving line was at the "alter" and there was basket of stones. We were to take a stone and go down to the water and make a wish for the couple, and throw the stone into the ocean. It was a very neat ceremony and a nice ending!











This is me at the Ocean!!! I love the ocean and wish i could live closer :)

Red Shoes!

I have always wanted a pair of red shoes! So this weekend I splurged and got some new jeans and shoes to go with it!!
I can't wait to wear them out next! I have a super cute shirt that will go perfect with the shoes!

2 is better than 1 :)

Last night I had Ethan and his little friend Jayden. They play so well together and are so much fun to watch play together.

After playing outside in the Elmo sprinkler, they were cold and had grass all over them, so i threw them in the bathtub, where they played forever!!! There hands were starting to turn into prunes, so I decided it was time to be done!








After Bath and PJ's, I realized they were probably pretty hungry, so they had a half a sandwich and chips. They are so good at sharing there food! :)









"I'm not tired...I'm not tired" Yeah Right!! They decided to just chill on the couch together and watch TV, and of course fighting over how much of the couch they get.
Trying to keep themselves awake, they thought it would be fun to dump the entire toy box out all over the play room! They were very helpful in picking them all up at the end of the night!!





They play and talk so well with each other, you would think they were 5 years old. But they will both be 3 in March. Jayden is one day older than Ethan!

I have decided, having 2 kids to watch was way easier than just entertaining one, but twice as much clean up :)



What a fun night Kids!

wave surfing!

Last weekend I did a new thing called Wave Surfing with my friend Nicole. It was so much fun I went out again later that week to do it again! You start right behind the boat holding a very short rope, you go about 7-10 mph and surf RIGHT behind the boat where the wave first starts!

My favorite place to surf is right on top of the wave like the picture to the left.


The picture below is coming down off the wave. You can see how close I am to the boat- the board will actually touch the boat when you come off the wave! Such a blast!!!!

New Patio Set

I got home from work on Monday night, and found two patio chairs sitting on my front patio, and the rest of the set was in my back yard. There was a note on the chair from my grandparents thanking them for all my help and this was there gift to me!! I helped them with there computer for 5 hours on day and they were so happy that they wanted to get me something nice. I have wanted this set forever and just never got it! So now i do and i LOVE it!! Now i can sit outside and have a table to use :)

My first race!

On Saturday July 14th, i competed in my first Outrigger Canoe Race. It was at Stevenson WA in the Gorge and was 9.5 miles. I survived it well with all the white caps from the wind and the barges and other boats going by. Our Team did really well. We came in 10th out of 24 overall with the Women's and Co-ed team. I was on the Co-ed team, and compared with all of the other co-ed teams we came in 6th out of 15. So overall we did pretty good and i was told that's the best our team has done. It was great to be a part of it all! We all had a blast!

Putting the Skirt on our boat so we don't get soaked- witch we still did anyway :)
My Crazy team! We had "diapers" or due rags on
our head, and we all had fake tattoo's on our arm
to make us look tough! What a crew!










Everyone that raced that day! There were three boat. A Woman, Men's, and Co-Ed.













Before the race to did a blessing on the boat
to wish us luck and ask God to look over all of us
as we are out there in bad water conditions.
Most of it was done in Hawaiian language. They
asked everyone to join in, so you can see my mom
and dad also joined us. WE all had our hands on
the boat. It was very nice! We also go anklet things
that were hand made by someone in the group that
was made from a seaweed type thing. Its also for
good luck.









This was our last "TEAM" meeting before hitting the water.















Here we are taking off out of the cove to head
down to the start line. I am the second from the front with the blue on my head.


Here we are about half way through the race passing another boat. It was a 4.5 mile course that we went around twice.














Here we are passing the finish line! We completed the race in 1 hour 41 minutes and 4 seconds. We were exactly 1 minute behind the 3rd place team!


This was after we finished, we paddled over to the cove where the mens crew and all the friends and family where there to greet us. You can see the top side of my new paddel i just got that morning. I wanted to have my own instead of borowing one. It is such a nice paddel! My mom and dad were able to drive up for the day to watch us, and Liz came up with me and camped for the night.





Liz and I at the finish! My dad is in the background along with some girls from the womans crew. What a relife to be done!








Thank You to all the people that were supporting me both there at the race and at home, and for the phone calles and good luck wishes! It was nice to know i had lot of friends and family thinking of me as i went out on my first big adventure.

My next race is in 3 weeks, August 4th in Seattle on the Puget Sound. Pictures and Stories to come!