The Magic of Letters!!!!

I love letters! I love everything about them- writing them, sending them, receiving them, reading them!!!! Best invention ever was the US postal service- not kidding!!

These are just some of the letters I have received from my missionaries since I have been home. The stack I received in the MTC is even larger!!! I have 9 missionaries who write me and I faithfully write them each at least once a week. For those of you who don't know- I have 7 missionaries from my district in the MTC that have become like my family and I receive letters from and write to all of them. I also write and receive letters from two more missionaries: my little brother and my friend Chris.

Oh how I love going to the mailbox every day when I get home from work! I get so excited when I get letters!!! As soon as I see an envelope with my name on it I immediately jump for joy!!

This is my baby brother in Denmark. He is holding up a letter he just got from me and his caption for this picture is "The Magic of Letters!" He loves getting mail as much as I do- maybe more if that is even possible. The other day he wrote me and said that he received 5 letters from me in one week!!! He told me how awesome I am and how happy my letters make him. He asked me if that was all I did all day- write letters? ha ha practically! lol Seriously my favorite thing in life is bringing a smile to someone's face and the best way I can think to do that for my missionaries is to write all 9 of them as often as I can! Mail is amazing and missionaries are amazing, put the two together and Missionary Mail is UNBELIEVABLE!!

Growing Up

It seems like just yesterday that I was pal'n around with Adam and company, but now we are just so old! ha ha This past weekend Adam got married and as I was sitting at the reception I just couldn't stop thinking how weird it all was, and how grown up we were becoming. Adam is for sure not the first of my high school buds to get married but for some reason, his wedding hit me. Ha ha I guess I am finally realizing that I have to grow up!!

Adam and I after I kicked his butt in Basketball for the last time right before he left to serve his mission in the Texas San Antonio Spanish Speaking Mission (yes the exact same mission I was called too)

Me with the groom on Friday night. Were all so grown up now. Ha ha well at least I grew out of the bleach blonde hair and boy clothes phase! lol but I can still kick butt in basketball!! :)

3 little words

There are 3 little words that seem so very harmless, but for me they are the cause of most of my fat related problems. "LET'S MEET FOR....."-these are truly evil words. Whatever comes after these words is truly a cause of my distress. It could be dinner, lunch, ice cream, jamba juice, you name it and we might as well add 5 extra pounds to my thighs!! The biggest problem is I love these 3 words because they mean spending time with my friends and family!!! I came up with a solution though- the next time someone says those three words to me I will add "a salad with non-fat dressing" to the end. ha ha No really though I have been going out a lot lately and there is no end in sight any time soon. Before I go back on my mission there will be countless goodbye lunches, ice creams, dinners and so on. I wouldn't miss those for the world, let alone extra pounds added on to various parts of my body. I have decided that I will just work on loosing all this "let's meet for...." weight on my mission!!! Lot's of walking, right, that'll help? lol


Some pictures from my most recent "Let's meet for...."s









And before you leave a comment and say it, yes I know that to solve my little fat problem I could make healthier choices at my "let's meet for"s but seriously, where is the fun in that!?!

Summer Camp is.....OVER!!!

Yay it's over it's over it's finally over!!!

It's a good thing too- because as the above pic shows, we got a little crazy towards the end!! Ha ha I am now working for the same program, just before and after school. School starts tomorrow!!! I will be working a split shift so I will have tons of time to do things in the middle of the day. I will finally have time to study more, go out with the missionaries, go to the temple and spend time with family and friends. If you are free any days during the day- let me know so we can do lunch or something!!!


Oh and also as a side note, this is my 200th post!! CRAZY!! I think I have an addiction- to blogging!

Cousins

I have been watching my cousins all weekend and it has been pretty fun! I love my cousins and spending time with them is always a blast. I took them to Golfland to play video games, to the movies, out to dinner and I TRIED to take them to do other things, but they don't want to!!! They would rather just hang out at the house! Man that is totally the opposite of me when I was a kid, if you offered to take me to a movie or something I was always game! lol Guess every kid is different!

Max racing motorcycles with Jake and Allison looking on.

Jake racing in Mario Kart

We had a air hockey battle and Laura sadly never won a game! ha ha

The things they chose to do instead of get out of the house:

Jake would rather lounge on the couch and watch X-games

Laura was totally engrossed in "Breaking Dawn" the new Twilight book

Allison wanted to play video games

And Max was in the zone watching Star Wars

Kids are so funny sometimes!! But hey they can entertain themselves pretty well which makes my job easier I guess! lol

A Taste of My Own Medicine

PAYBACK- funny at first, then messy! lol My friends Steph and Chels deciced to deliver (some deserved) payback. If you remember several weeks ago I posted pics of what I did to my friends' cars at work. Well I had totally forgotten about it until yesterday, the last day of work. I walked out to my car and this is what I found!!!

The marshmallow thing is an inside joke between us- I came out to see this message written with shaving cream next to my car.

That is shaving cream and marshmallows on my car window- nasty!!

Toothpicks and seran wrap

Ya my car was covered in seran wrap, that was fun taking off- j/k

The empty pack of marshmallows was seran wrapped to my tail light! Man it was funny but the marshmallows were a mess!!!! It was a pain to clean the gooey mess off my windows, but hey it's all good cause next it's my turn for payback and it's gonna be GOOD!!!!

Rock Climbing?

It's more like rock FALLING!! Well for me anyway, Steph was really good at it!! Ha ha but not me! I would get like a few feet off the ground and then loose my grip or not be able to find a good hold- then I'd fall- and not with grace or style either, I fell like a total corn ball! Ha ha well it was fun anyway and that is all that matters right?

My friend Stephanie and I went to the rec center after work to do a little rock climbing and lift some weights. Of course I was being totally competitive but it didn't matter how hard I tried Steph beat me at everything! Ha ha she even burned more calories on the elliptical machine than me!
Steph just totally rocked it! ha ha get it "rock"ed- ya I know I'm lame!

She made it all the way to the top of this one and one of the other ones too!

My turn- yay so excited! Let's climb!!!!

Um, a little help here? I'm kinda stuck, think I'm gonna fall!!!

Yup, I fell and totally not gracefully!! I seriously fell like this! My bad!