Long Over Due -Inspired by April

You know on fast Sunday when the person sitting next to you starts digging in your ribs so you will get up and bare your testimony? Well April has been bugging me about our recent Lake Powell excersion so here we go. April dearest this is for you. 3 things I LOVED about the Lake.

NUMERO UNO- Lake powell is a time to EXPERIENCE NEW THINGS. Like finding it ridiculous to name a bracelet with a turtle on it Nick. Nick is not a bad name but i came up with names i think are a bit more suiting; For Brice-Nick, Branson-Headbutt, Abi-Tanny (short for Tanline), Ruby-Oowie or Whine, Lulu-Intense, Taylor-Knothead, Ali-Cat-Chester, and for the Tiny-Sleep.

NUMERO DOS- As all of you peeps know on Sundays we have TESTIMONY meeting up on the deck. Cody and the Berk were in charge all of our talks came from the last General Conference. It never ceases to amaze me that the talks we get are pertinent to our lives. ex. My talk was on Patience.

NUMERO TRES- A chance to OVERCOME FEAR. I'm not one to talk about my faults, however; Darrin and Pat were going cliff jumping. As some of you know i'm a bit skiddish around 5 foot ladders let alone 30 foot rocks jutting out over dark water which could conceal rocks... or other things which could end my life. For those of you who don't know this let me shed some light on the subect. Darrin and Pat found this cliff earlier on in the week they climbed up and Darrin immediately bailed off into free falling space without a second glance. Pat however, was not so keen to bail. Pat and i share this fear of heights and Darrin saw Pat back away from the cliff and made Pat give him his word that he would jump off when they came back. The phrase misery loves company is coming to my mind. Because later that night Pat discovered that i to was squeamish around heights and conned me into jumping also.

Pre-Lake Crazies

So the girlies got together Tonight (Wednesday) to paint tonails and make our LP2010 shirts. (which turned out way cute it was well executed thanks ladies.) Now we discovered a few things first Air gets really hyper around nail polish fumes complete with sound effects. Kate has dot issues. Letto is silent, Grandma wonders why the table keeps shaking we blamed it on her shaking (instead of on Let pounding the paint at the other end). Mom has foot fungus, and me well i'm under appreciated. :)

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the night and the night is still young but i'll let someone else have the grand pleasure of posting about it.

-Look at my dots!!! _they look seasick
-If my toes are ugly yours are their mother.
-They look like prison numbers... I wasn't going to say anything
-I found Five Dollars, which leads to "I found $100 dollars"
-Pop-eye the sailor man lives in a popsickle stand...
-mom has black feet... we are now contimplating our whiteness and our mothers.
-Grandma'ma kisses aligators... momma works on carborators
-I don't want to be black anymore- -Which is good because Air is racist.
-How did you know he keeps his welding helmet in the back?
-Grandma'ma CHEATS on aligators with multiple seahorses...
-I'm only ticklish on one spot and i'm not telling you where. . .
-erica my toes can't look like everyone elses... That's ok we'll cut some off.
-Tyler didn't catch the memo that this was an all girl party.
-its not straight... that's because it has character.
-Erica laughs just like mom this is the funniest thing i've ever seen.
-I shot him in the dark with the lights off.

Thanks for the laughs

A new Direction

Recently i had a grand ol opportunity to go to the Manti Pageant with a few older devils not to name names or anything but Kyle and Emily, and Erica and Brian oh yes and my date Layne. So the six of us piled into the truck (yes Brians truck so we were all "cozy") and played Scrabble Erica won i think for the first time ever, and nany only has one "n".

Now in my life there are very important people i would like to share two of them with you.

#2 Layne Jeppson who recently became my husband. how did this come about you may be asking well kids let me tell you. At the Pageant there are always a few misinformed souls trying to convince us lucky informed devils that we are not as informed as we think we are. While select few individuals were "bible bashing" with them. Layne and i were standing next to each other listening to how they responded to questions and this man Ed came up and started talking to us asking about what we thought on the discussion the other individuals were having. Me being all wise knew where he was heading eventually he asked if we were members of the Church. Which of course we said yes and we talked for a little while longer and he shot at us "Were you two married in the temple?" Layne turned into a lobster and i didn't know what to say so my arms flew everywhere gesturing to Layne and i and shaking my head (i understand now what it means to have your tongue bound so you couldn't speak.) so Ed assumed we didn't know each other. and Now Layne is my husband. sorry i didn't tell you or invite you. No hard feelings.

#1 In May i had to switch Airplanes in Tennessee at a very high rate of speed so i could make my next flight to the SinCity. I sat down next to the window (yes i'm brilliant i know) and realized when we were landing that i wasn't as clever as i believed so after humbling myself my dads ears came in handy and picked up this on my ear wax radar. "plane is landing i'm going to have hopefully fifteen minutes to get to my next flight to Vegas" I identified this man as the "BCBM" Brief Case Business Man. We landed and we grabbed our stuff i made the comment that i was heading to Vegas also and he nodded and said "well lets go catch our flight first one off find out where it is." We had a plan, he had a briefcase and i was wearing my tennis shoes. He made it off first and as i came out of the tunnel he was pointing and yelling like a man with turrets to the point where i almost ignored him. "This way this way go go go!!" We sprinted through the airport and i looked at him and at the gate then back at him and we took off racing for the gate entrance. (We were quite a sight i'm sure people were making bets). So me and the BCBM made our flight on time.

My Hope Moment

Well this is my latest achievement. As i'm sure you all remember my little accident last March to my right ankle this is my left ankle after practice last Wednesday. I know its huge and it hurt a lot. (notice past tense) Like i said this was Wednesday, on Saturday we had a little 7v7 tournament. Which given the width of my ankle and the largeness there of couldn't fit in my cleat. However do to the amazing ness of one Sam and Doc Ray well i played on Saturday yes just a few days later i was bouncing up and down the soccer field to win the Hollins Tournament.

The Argument

DC

Well ladies and gents this past weekend i've been camping at Ravenknob with the Mormons which was tons of fun, possibly the Hottest camping trip i've ever been on. But tons of fun. the weekend before that i was in DC with the Rays which is my adopted family out here, and we had tons of fun. Sam acts almost just like Ty just not as crude but we had a ton of fun the four of us. And while we were here well we snapped some pictures for all of you. But just for the record Washington (yes the Father of this great Nation) Got GIPPED!!! ok so you walk around and you see the Washington monument ooooo cool!!! tall building yes!!! you take a couple of pictures and move on then you look and you see the reflection pool and at the end of that wait for it, the WW2 monument fountain and all that jazz (also way neat) ah but after that you see a building set on a hill with pillars and if you look you kinda see Lincoln perched in his white marble chair. so George gets a sky scraper, and Lincoln gets a building, a HUGE statue of himself, and his speech on the wall!! Not saying Abe wasn't important but dude what about George?

A little about the Rays well Samuel Jeffry Ray is the Doc. He's a chiropractor but not like uncle Jay he has a more gentle approach. Its fascinating he uses instruments to realign your body. its way cool and much more effective (affective) than getting "popped" by your local chiropractor. Toni Ray is Momma Ray (and yes that's what i call her because she hates her first name.) and she well is a lot like Cokie Colton. Except she adds stains to clothes when she washes them. :) Next is Jacob Ray or as i call him Churchill i've never met him, because he is finishing up school at BYU-Idaho. but he's is hilarious and does THEE best impersonation of Jack Sparrow i have ever heard. Samuel Adam Ray is older than Churchill and the one who i run around with. He's mad crazy random and we have tons of fun together. he is also YSA president and since i'm out here all alone well he has to be nice to me. but i'm grateful for it because we have a blast.