This weekend was so much fun going home. I really enjoyed every minute being home with my family. I miss them a lot. The only thing that would have made the weekend better was having Amanda home.
My mom bought me this pedicure set and gave my toes a cute pedicure. I love it so much. :D Then the reason I went home was for conference. I watched the second session on sunday with Jaden and Tori in my moms room and they looked so comfy. What do you think?
It was priceless to see them laying like that with their feet up against the head board both taking notes. I just had to get a picture it was so cute. :D
This weekend I also bonded with my little cousin Audrey. She was so cute! I was out washing my car and my uncle pulls up in his car and she was with him. He said that when she saw me she said to him "Look its Tessa" and then she was so excited. I went to say hi and gave her a hug and when I let go she grabbed my hair and said "I got your hair" and would not let go. She thought it was so funny.
Later that night we went to their house, my mom, dad, tori, and me, and I got to play with her more. She played in the bubble bath and splashed me. She thought it was funny getting me so wet. She laughed so hard every time.
She wanted to play piano and wanted a picture of her playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars" Notice that the book is a picture of 2 people looking at the sky. She thought that was music. So cute! When we were playing, she wanted to teach me a song so she grabbed my finger like I usually grab hers to teach her a song and she led my finger up and down the key board. It was a bunch of jumble but it was so cute how she was trying to teach me.
After the Piano she wanted to take funny pictures so this is what we get from them.
P.S. this is her sad face. Oh I love this little girl. She makes me laugh every time I see her. I hope she always remembers me when she moves back to Utah. I will be sad if she does not remember me.
All in all it was just a fantastic weekend. Thank you family for being so amazing! I love you!
So if I did not know this before I have now decided for sure that I love my friends so much. I am so lucky to have such awesome friends. I picked a good bunch of friends. My new favorite quote was said by my friend Katie tonight. She said " Have I told you that I love you in the last five seconds? 1,2,3,4,5... nope I have not. I love you!" Oh she is amazing!
Afer that, me Kylee and Katie decided to make some Halloween cookies and we named one of the cookies because it had a pumpkin on in. The pumpkin cookies name was Arthur and then we ate him. Poor little guy he never really had a chance. He fulfilled his purpose though. :D After making cookies we acted out the crowning of the burger king crown and then the punishment of texting while being crowned. Katie and Kylee acted that out. Then we began our awesome walk to the post office. Here are our fun adventure pictures.
I was saving Kylee from the cars!
I did not get a letter so Kylee prayed that one day someone will send me a letter.
It was such a fun night! I love them and am so happy that they have come to Thatcher to have fun with me. :D
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
So this weekend was pretty much the BOMB!! I got to go to Roosevelt lake to hang out with my family and I took my wonderful friends Kylee Bloomfield, Maggie Nickolls, and Katie Christensen with me too. Let me tell you that was one of the best weekends I have had in a while and it was much needed. I have been studying so much for the 6 tests I have had this week so after doing all that studying I deserved a break.
Saturday morning Jaden wakes me up early and we go out with my dad to do some slaloming on the super smooth glass water. I have not had that much fun skiing in a very long time. I could actually concentrate on my form without worrying about the other waves in the water threatening to knock me down any second. I rode so hard that my leg and hands could not take any more so I was forced to stop. But after Jaden and Dad went I had another round and it was the best! I love feeling that speed and air fly past me. Wow what a good morning.
Dad made french toast after we got back to shore and then after we took my friends out onto the water to give them a try at wake board and knee board. They all did great! I am proud of the effort that they put in. After we were all worn out from that we went back to pick up mom and Jaden to go out tubing.
When I went I was on there with Maggie and discovered a new way of riding it. I laid down on my back and grabbed the handles as a joke and told my mom to go and she actually did so I spent about 5 minutes riding on my back not knowing where the boat was going to fling me. It was the best ride ever. Unfortunately we had to stop because I was hurting Maggies arm so I had to switch directions and lay on my stomach. This time my mom was really mean on us and after trying to get us out of the wake on Maggies side without success, my mom turned the boat to where it would whip me out of the wake and holy cow she whipped us out so fast! I was holding on with all the strength I had in my hands and it just kept going and going. I was literally holding on with the tips of my fingers before I just slipped off and hit the water. The water was not nice to me though. I hit on my side and was like a rock bouncing on the water. I hit the water on my back then would turn over hit my stomach then flip over and hit my back until finally I stopped and just floated in the water. Wow that was fun but it sure did hurt more than anything. I have bruises on my leg from it but would go and do that any day again.
Well time went by so fast that day. My parents had to leave the lake by 3 so we all went back to camp had lunch and then packed everything up. I really had tons of fun and had a hard time saying bye to my family but I want to thank them for the good time we had. I love you guys!
Last night me and my roomies had a blast! We decided that we wanted to paint our green stools in the apartment to a black color instead and then distress it. So at 8:30 we went to Wally World and bought spray paint, sandpaper, and fabric so that we can make cushions for the seats too. We were so excited for this plan. So we get home and Kassidi and I start painting the chairs. Well she took the spray paint and pressed the trigger and instead of it spraying the chair, she decided she wanted to paint her face. Bahaha it was the funniest thing ever we laughed for a good couple of minutes to the point of tears. Oh she makes me laugh so much I love her! After that incident we were good and got them painted and here is our painting pictures.
My opinion, the chairs look SO much better! Cant wait to get the cushions done for them and the distressed look too. I am excited for this! I love to decorate the apartment!!!! Thank you Kassidi, Kylie, and Hillary for the fun we all had last night! I laughed so hard and loved every second of it!
As I sit here pondering, I wonder how it is even possible that this klutz has not hurt herself worse than she has. This first week of being back in Thatcher has made me get so many bruises and it is all due to one little incident. It was so stupid but funny too.
Wednesday I was trying to hang some picture frames up on the wall and also my magnet board up so that I can decorate the wall. Well something went wrong. No something went TERRIBLY wrong!
Here I am hanging up the magnet board by myself and get it all hooked to the wall and wiggle it around a little once it was up to make sure it was not going to fall. Well the wiggling did not make it move so I thought I was safe with that. Thinking I was ok I started banging some other nails into the wall for another picture and as I was minding my own business, something comes and smacks me in the face. It hit my forehead first and I was stupid and looked up and it hit my nose really hard then fell down my arm and landed on the bed. This all happened in 3 split seconds. I had no idea what came falling down on me till I got over the shock of the impact on my head and the pain vanished slowly. I looked up and saw that the magnet board was no longer on the wall and looked down and saw it was on the bed by my knees. I asked myself “self, how did that end up down there by your knees?” While I was understanding how it all happened and blinking in unbelief that I just got hit in the head with a big heavy board, my room mate Kassidi came running in from the kitchen and asked me if the board feel on me. I just looked at her still a little dazed and shook my head yes and started feeling the pain not only on my forehead but my nose and arm. I jumped off my bed and went to the bathroom and saw this huge red spot on my head and my nose was a little red. It felt like it was bleeding but thank goodness that was not the case.
I put that activity away for the night but tried again the next day and I got that pain back up on the wall and I got it up there good. It is not coming down this time.... I hope it doesn't at least. Cross your fingers please.
But now I have an invisible bruise on my nose and my arm is now a nice blue and green color from the fall. I better find some better luck soon while I am here or else I may come home with a broken bone or something. It is just destined.
Oh and one more short dumb story. Today in my math class we were writing a word problem down and I had to spell the word egg and something was not registering through my mind well today and I ended up spelling egg like "ayge." Geez! college is supposed to make me smarter not dumber.
Anyways hope you all have a great week. I will try to find some better luck and better spelling skills. :D
Wow this summer has gone by so fast! I have been so busy with everything that I forgot to come and update my blog. Shame shame Tessa.
As you know I have been working with a cute little girl through respite. I have enjoyed every bit of working with her. Some days really tested my patience because it is the independent stage of life for her but most days she was so loving and excited to see me and play with me. We went to so many museums. They were kinda hard for her to be in because the first two were not really kid friendly liker her mom thought they would be but the last dinosaur museum was more kid friendly and she loved it. She kept telling me through the rest of the week... "Tessa, a dinosaur goes RAWR!!!!" then she kept asking if we could go back the whole next week. It was so cute. This past week she was so obsessed with the monkeys in a barrel thats all she wanted to play with. We would hang them from her glasses and her ears and her shirt and whatever she found to hang them on. She is one goofy little girl and I lover her so much. My last day with her was this past friday and I am going to miss her so so much!! Her mom and sisters and her came over tonight and gave me a little present it was so cute! They are such a sweet family and I got to hold and hug her one more time before I head back to school tomorrow. I will definitely have to come and see her when I come back to visit.
Other than work, which I did a ton of, I got to go to the lake with my family a couple times. We went camping once at Roosevelt and I got to invite Brian my boyfriend to come for his first time to try the ropes. He actually did a pretty good job for his first time. He got up on the wake board for a couple seconds and had a lot of fun on the tube. I am glad he had a good time there I just wish we could have taken him again to get him some practice time with the new toys out on the water. Oh well sometime in the future he will go again with us.
I was able to spend some time with my friends too. It was much needed after not seeing them for a whole semester while being away at school. I was able to see one of my friends that I have not seen for a super long time. I think it was about 2 or 3 years since I have seen him. It was so great to finally see him again! I got to catch up a little on what he has been up to in the past years. He is still a great guy! I was glad to see that he was just like I remembered him.
I loved being home with my family the most though. I miss them when I am away and being home is amazing. I am sad that I am leaving them tomorrow again. It really has been fun to be able to joke with them again and I am sorry for them for having to put up with me and my jokes. But they took it like champs. And poor Tori. She had to deal with all my junk from college stuffed in her room because I had to move into her room. My grandpa moved into the house and I gave him my room so she had to deal with a stuffed room for the whole summer. Thank you Tori for dealing with that. I hope you enjoy the empty room now. You are such an amazing sister!
I just have to say one thing to my mom... Mom I love you so much. When I am away at school I always think about how much I miss you and how much I just wish that I could get a good hug from my mom. I miss talking to you every day when I am there and not seeing your beautiful face. You have a calming demeanor to me and are able to help me through all of my problems and when I am having a hard day you are the one who has me sit next to you and hug me and tell me everything is going to be ok. I miss that when I am in thatcher. You are such a wonderful mom! I can not ask for anyone any better than you! I know you are going through a hard time with all these changes but you have to know that no matter how many changes your life goes through, I will always love you and that will never change. We all love you and would do anything for you in the blink of an eye. I will come home as much as I can to see you and have fun weekends with. I can not wait for the next time I get to come and be home with you again. You are a strong woman mom don't you doubt yourself for even a minute. You are doing so well in school and everyone there loves you too. You just have such a loving demeanor that everyone loves so much. I am lucky to have you as my mom. Again I love you so much mom.
I will post more about what happens at school this semester. I am excited for the new fun and games there will be with everything. :D
Well the summer has come and it is now time to start working again. I have not worked all through the school year and now I am running low on funds so I decided over the summer I am going to need a job to get those funds. Well fortunately for me, I did not have to search really hard or really at all for the job that I have now. A lady in my ward just emailed me and asked me if I wanted to do some respite work with a little girl in the ward for the summer and instantly I agreed. I was so excited for this job.
When I came back to Gilbert, I went in to sign some papers. Well some papers turned out to be a stack of papers about an inch thick. I was so tired of my name by the time I was done filling out the papers. Oh and I had to fill out tax stuff and let me tell you that just flew right over my head. I did not know what to do. I am actually pretty sure I filed all of that wrong. oops. Good thing I can go change it with the help of super mom. :D
Anyways after all the paper work was filled out I was able to start my job on Monday. Now I sit here on Friday night and think to myself..."self, is this really a job?" I think this to myself because I have really enjoyed working with this little girl. She gets grumpy some times but other than the occasional grumpiness she is she is such a cutie.
For example, she was playing with her big bouncy ball with me the other day and she kept getting her hair in her face so she would wipe it away behind her ears and then start playing again. Well one time when she stopped to do that, she looked up at me and said, "wait Tessa stop." I waited and she came over and looked at my face then she took her hands and wiped my bangs out of my eyes. Only she did not wipe them the right way. She actually made it get in my eyes even worse so I had to help her fix it. I thought it was so sweet though that she would come over and help me see a little better. Ah she is so cute.
I also think it is funny that so many people ask me when I am with her out in public how old my daughter is. I was thrown off a couple times when they asked me that because I was thinking "WHOA WHOA WHOA! I do not have any children so lets not be pushing any buttons here" I actually think it is funny when they say that. I just keep thinking if she were my daughter I would have had her at the age of 16. Wow crazy!! No thank you on that age. That is way too young for a child haha.
All in all I am getting paid to do something I love. I am so glad I have this job. It is so great! Oh and I get to continue a job sort of like this when I go back to Thatcher but only with another child. I will miss this girl that I work with tremendously but her other respite worker will be with her again after the summer. She will be happy to have her back.
So Amanda has kept bugging me ever since I have come home from school telling me that I need to update my blog because I have not done that in a long time. It is now time to wipe off the dust and let you know what is going on in my life. I am sorry for not updating it but I have been super busy. But I am not sure many people look at the blog anyway so I am sure you have not missed me too much haha. For those of you who do like to know about my life, I will be happy to update you with what has been happening.
The first item of business to announce is that I am officially done with my first year of college and passed all my classes!! I was so happy about that especially this semester. The classes were very demanding and I was trying to ballance a boyfriend and school so I had a blast trying to do that. Luckly my ballancing worked out and I did really well in all my classes. Sadly though, since school is over for the summer I had to leave my boyfriend behind in Thatcher till I come back to school. This separation has not been easy and it has only been four days so far. Bleh! I still have 3 months to go. I will survive it though only because I know I will still love him just as much as I do when I am with him all the time.
Second item of business is that I have a couple jobs lined up for the summer and next semester for school! I am SUPER EXCITED FOR THESE JOBS!!!! The job I have for the summer is a job through respite. I will be working with a 3 year old girl who is in my ward. She is the cutest little girl and I will be with her for 16 hours each week. I am excited to become a really good friend with her as these next 12 weeks progress. I will also be working back at Salernos which is the restaurant I stopped working at when I went off to school. I am excited to work with these jobs over the summer!
Next semester for school I start a job working with another 3 year boy. I have yet to meet him but the lady that is assigning me to work with him said he is the cutest thing ever. So I am excited to work with him. This job with him is a little different than working with the little girl over the summer. This boy has a disability and my job with him is to help him work towards goals he has in his IEP. For example if he can not walk more than 5 feet because of a weak leg, we will work with him little by little and by the end of a time period he would need to be able to walk 7 feet if that was our goal. I am excited to help out these kids.
This past week, I have just been hanging out with Amanda as much as possible because she is leaving me for a year and a half. She has been called on a mission to serve in Kentucky if you did not know already and she leaves June 2nd. She has told me that this week she feels like we are mission companions because we have done so many things throughout the days together. I love to spend time with my best friend and am going to be super sad when she leaves. Haha I almost cried just saying that. The airport is going to be fun when I cry. I will make sure to pack about 12 packets of tissues. It will be so good for Amanda and I am so happy she is excited to go on this mission to serve the Lord. She has a great spirit that illuminates the room when she walks in and there are people in Kentucky that just need her there to show them the truth and happiness of this church. She truly is an amazing sister and I am glad I get to always be with her through eternity.
I wish her luck and want her to know that I love her so much. Amanda I will miss our "Classic" moments together. We will definatly have many more of them when you come back. I can not wait to hear all the stories that you will have to tell when you come back. :D Good Skill! I love you!
So I have a confession to make and it is not an easy one to make so I am going to say it as fast as I can. Ok. Here it goes! I am the worlds worst blogger when it comes to updating it! Whew! *Wiping sweat off forehead* glad I finally got that out there. But seriously I have been terrible at it and I am sorry if any of you actually do read my blog. But from the last blog I wrote to this blog, I have found out that I love many different things.
My first love that I have come to appreciate so so much in the last couple months is for my family. My family has been right by my side these past few months because I have come to many different obstacles in my life. No matter what has come up though, my family has been right there watching me and helping me through anything that has come up. I really love them for it and want to thank them all for helping me out so much. I can count on you guys to be there supporting me with the decisions I make and helping me through my heart breaks and sickness I have been through this whole year at school. I know I have had a lot go on and I am so happy you were all there for me when I have needed you so much. I love you guys.
My second love is for chocolate! I really truly believe that if you want to make a girl happy, all you have to do is give her some chocolate. I have come home from school really stressed and I start to crave chocolate a lot because it has a calming factor on me. My mom is great because for my birthday she sent me a present and it was a lap top case and inside the case she sent me a bunch of candy. All I can say is she knows my choice in candy really well and she knows that candy makes me happy. But I think she was secretly trying to make me fat. Well her ingenious plan did not quite work. I am happy to say that I still have candy left over and I have not gained any weight having all that candy there. It has not been easy though. But seriously I love chocolate and it has become my new best friend.
And my last love that I have found this semester would be the love for my boyfriend! I have found myself a really good catch. His name is Brian Ellsworth. We started dating February 5th and this past month and a week has been the best time in my life! Brian is the most kind person I have ever met in my life and he treats me so well. For example on how he treats me so well, this example has really shown me how much he cares for me and I really do appreciate him for this. So 2 weeks ago, he decided that he wanted to take me to the Renaissance Festival. I was so excited to go because I have never been and I was also excited because one, I was able to spend all day with him and two, I was going to stay there over night at my parents house and I had not seen them since the beginning of the semester and it had been driving me crazy not seeing them. So anyways we leave saturday morning and drive up to the festival and when we get there his mom calls him and tells him that his dog had began to have her babies that morning while he was driving up to mesa with me. I asked him if he wanted to go back and help out with the babies but he said no and that we were going to have fun at the festival. So we went in and I could tell he really wanted to be there for his dog but he stayed there at the festival anyways. Well after the festival I told him that if he wanted we could just drive back to his house in Thatcher instead of going to my house so that he could be with his dog Polo and he told me that it meant a lot to him that I see my family since I have not seen them in a long time. So even though I could tell that he wanted to go home, he was staying there so that I could see my family. That was such a great feeling that someone would care about me seeing my family like he cared. I love him so much and he has helped me through some tough times this past month. Being away from him for spring break so far has been really hard and it has only been 2 days. I know that sounds crazy but what can I say, I miss him and there is nothing I can do about that. He has become my best friend and I love every second we are together and love talking to him over the phone after he gets off work and love that he texts me through out the day when he cant call and talk to me. I love how he can make fun of me and that he can deal with being teased back. I love that he makes me happy whenever I am in a down mood, and I love that I can trust him with whatever I have to say. I love when he laughs and when I can laugh with him and I love when he smiles with his teeth for pictures because he knows I like it when he does. (P.S. Mom and Dad and Family that is not supposed to be an old mad joke) He makes me feel like a 10 cow girl and he is just amazing. Thank you Brian for being so amazing!
I love life right now and I would never change what I have for anything in the world!
Ok so I think I have finally realized that I may be a little mentally retarded. My family has always said I am a little slow but I have never wanted to believe them. Today I have realized it for myself that I actually am. My reason for thinking this is...
I AM NOT A COMPUTER SAVVY PERSON!!!!!
Did you get that? So I have been trying to make my blog more cute by putting some cute touches on it, but everything I try to do for it never turns out right. First of all I have tried to put some backgrounds on it but the backgrounds seem to all be too big for my page and I don't understand why. Like half the background is cut off. It is so annoying because the part that is cut off is the cute part of the background. Does anyone have any idea why that would be? If they do I would love to know why so I can fix it.
My second thing that I have been trying to do is put a banner up on my blog so that I can have pictures on it but no matter what I do, I can not get the banner to work out. I have tried putting pictures on it through multiple programs and I cant get any of them to work. AHHH this is driving me up the wall! If you know an easy way to get this done please leave a step by step instruction for this slow mind of mine so that I can make this blog cute. Like I said I am not computer savvy. I hope someone can help me. I am so desparate. :}
I did not get a letter so Kylee prayed that one day someone will send me a letter. 
