Jenn on a Mission

So December of last year was a pretty crazy month for me now that i am reflecting back. I decided because it was my last month being close to my family i should get all the family in as i could. The first part of December i took a trip up to salt lake to hang out with Chad and Ulma. They live a block away from temple square which is really helpful around Christmas time. On Friday night they had tickets to go watch the Christmas concert put on the the tabernacle choir, because they did not have a ticket for me i decided to go do a session at the temple. I had never been thru the SL temple before so i was excited to experience it as it is a different type of session. Man i felt like i was the only single person in that entire session!! Other than that is was a great experience! Aft er we met at the Joseph smith building and ate at the top in the garden restaurant it was pretty dang good!! So because i missed the Saturday session of the Christmas concert i decided i wanted to try a...

So i decided I really need to keep up with this thing otherwise 10 years down the road my kids(that is if I have any) they will look at this thing and say man mom you where so boring!!! When really that is not true i just never make time to sit down and post! OK so i want to back track a little as i have a ton of pictures from winter which some crack me up, this on is with my girls at out ward x-mas party. It was way fun i came down for the week end from st gorge and I decided to bring my little bro with me(not sure if that was a good idea looking back:) JK ) Anyway we where down for the weekend and we had a great time at the part hanging out and of course getting some pictures with Santa! After the party we all decided to come over to out house to watch a movie and hang out. Tyler was on of the boys that came and he was sitting in our couch chair with his let propped up i think he has surgery ! Any way he gets up to get something and Rachel thinks it would be wise to go and ste...

HAVISUPI....AUGUST OF 2007!!!

So it has been a year since i have added a post to this blog...a whole year!!! Man lets see what crazy things have happened to me in 07!!! I am just going to make a top ten list because there is no way i can hit everything i would be doing this all night!! 10. Dated a boy for a couple month (that did not work out!!) 9. My best friend got married (Can i say hectic!!) 8. My job decided to close its office in AZ down (Wow that sucked!) 7. Moved to St. George with my grandma (She fed me well that is for sure!!) 6. Lived in St. George for 6 months and decided i did not like it much!! (Now i am back in AZ!) 5. Still working for the same job....out of my home now!! 4. In August I hiked Havisupi with my brother (22 miles, it was insane!) 3. My Sister had a baby in October....She named him Caleb (He is a cutie!) 2. My other sister is pregnant with her second...I am beginning to fee left behind 1. I went through the temple in May (What an awesome experience!!) So that is my top ten of wha...

So I am Just getting around to posting my pictures for christmas day, which was 3 months ago can i say that i am just a little behind! Luckily i do not take pics all that often so i will just have to post occasionally to keep up. Christmas day was fun, my dad purchased a new truck no to long ago and we enjoy taking it off roading. It is a nice vehicle but fun to go off roading in, we deciding to go to the grand canyon on christmas day and to take the back roads all the way up there. It took us about 4 hours each way. The view when we got up there was amazing, it was chad, ulma a relative and my dad and I. We had a great time and enjoyed each others company, when we got there we took pics, ate a nd hung out .

To Continue on....the next day was Christmas eve it was really simple this year, i just love every year because you are able to spend time with th e family and remember the birth of our savior. My favorite is spending time with my nieces and nephews, i just love them and they are so fun to hang out with. On Sunday morning we went to church at my parents ward and I was able to listen to there Christmas program. After we came home the preparations began for the fun dinner we have every year on Christmas eve with all the family. We have been r eally lucky these past two years as my grandma and grandpa have come down and spent it with us. I just love spending time with them they are so wonderful, my grandpa has altimzer and it is slow getting worse every year, i just love the way my grandma has such a good attitude about even though it wears on her. He is so wonderful and has some great stories! We have made it a new tradition that on Christmas eve since that is the day that family i...

I have not updated my blog for awhile i would have to admit i am not the best at keeping up with this. Not to much as happened in the past two month besides celebrating the 2 major holidays in December. I went home for christmas to spend time with my family i had a really good time and really enjoyed spending time with them. Christmas was on a monday this year so i has all weekend to hang out before we did the big christmas eve dinner on sunday evening. On saturday Randy and I talked my parents into going to Zions national park to drive around and check out the scenery. I have not been to zions for years so it was a fun time for me to remember how beautifil it was up there. We met Chad, Ulma, Ulam's mom and Cousin in st. Goerge and they came along for the ride. When we arrived we decided to go on some small hikes, it was really snowey and so the hikes where covered with ice and snow. It was really fun to watch everyone try to now slip on the snow!!

So i suck at keeping up with my blog! Alot has happened since i last posted, finals week is next week so this week has been pretty crazy with studying on top of work. I have to tell about our holloween experience and the Lua. We decided for Halloween to dress up as Trolls, it was alot of fun. I think getting ready took longer than going out. As you can see our hair was crazy. Over all it was a really fun night had a good time dancing and hanging out with the friends. Going to the lua was really fun, liz and i decided that we wanted to go with guys that we did not know. she called some guys her sister-n-laws ward, it took her about 5 attempts before she found someone to say yes. The guy she found luckily had a friend, it was a good time. My date was named cody he was a bit interesting. He had a blanket the whole night claiming he was freezing (it was such a girl thing to do) He was fun though, we had a good time talking, and dancing at the lua. The food was great along with the dancers...

After sky diving we where off to the PCC, i have been here before as i came the last time i went to hawaii. It is a great place, this time we had a tour guide as amandas friends there got us in for cheap. It was better becuase he took you around to all the cool shows. You learn about all there different cultures along with seeing some cool dancing. This picture is of us at the night show, that was the best of all the shows. You get to see the fire dance and bunch of other dances. This is us in our canoo ride that we had down the river there. It was fun One of the great activities they have there, learning how to do the hawaiian luae dance. Ya we where not the greatest, but it was fun. This was also one of my favorite shows there, the samoan show, this guy was so funny. He shows you how to make fire along with cracking a coconut watching him put on the show was the best part!

Monday was the best day! We woke up early and headed down to the Arlington airfields. My stomach was turning a bit, as i was just a little nervous. When we got there i decided to pay the extra and get pictures with my jump. It was so worth it, these memories will last forever! Once you got in the plane you pretty much have made the decision that you are going to jump. We each had a tandem instructor to jump with, when we got to 14,000 feet they opened the door of the plane to get ready to J mp. Amanda's mom went first we got up just after that to make the jump. When i got to the edge of the door, i just remember looking down and thinking holy crap do i really want to do this ? And the next thing i knew we where gone, my instructor just jumped. I was the craziest feeling to be that high dropping 120MPH it was crazy, my picture guy videoed me because he thought the look on my face was priceless. This is me flying through the air, it was so great i would like to think i would do it a...

Sunday was a good day, we just went sight seeing and hung out. One of the places we stopped it called poli lookout. It was a cool place if you stand at a certain place the wind is crazy you can lean into it and its so strong that it hold you up. And the view from there is amazing you can see about a 3rd of the island from the lookout. Before we got to poli, amandas dad took a detour to the arlington airfields. We had talked about skydiving before we came but all thought it would be too expensive to go. When we arrived there sunday we went in and asked for the prices i was not really sure i was going to do it but then we started watching people come in as they where jumping that day. We watched on the guys video and it was awesome. After seeing that i was convinced i needed to go.

On saturday after our eventful day, we stopped by amanda's cousins husbands family. They are the sweatest people, there daughter was having a baby show when we got there and they invited us to join them. I would have to say that there baby showers are much different then the ones i have been to. They had a full meal, which was great the food they make is awesome. It is not a party just for girls they have guys tend as well. It was alot of fun we played games with them and had a good dinner. The next day we went to church with them, after attending there sacrament we took off to the temple. They had a primary program the day we where there. It was amazing how many children where in that ward. There had to be 100 children and you can just imagine the number of families. The temple is so beautiful and peacful i think i can stay on the temple ground forevor it is a great place.

They do not call it pounders beach for just no reason. The waves are huge and if you catch one wrong you get pounded. We had so much fun with the buggie boards that day. I could spend all day at the beach catching the waves and some sun. We had a great time we played football and bugie boarded all morning.

My trip to hawaii was great, I went with amanda, sloan and anamda's parents. The company was great and we had a blast! The first day we drove around and say some sites. We went to the punch bowl cematary and to pearl harbor. Although the tours for pearl harbor where closed because we took to much time eating. But we where able to look at the views. This us at sunset beach, the sunsets here are amazing if you catch them just at the right time. We drove up to it with perfect timing the sun was just about to set, so we got some great pictures and enjoyed the sunset. I love the pic of all of us standing on the beach. Me freezing in hawaii how typical. We stayed at a beach house on north shore it was next to pounders beach. Touring the island is great the beaches are so beautiful you stop every 5-6 miles up the shore just to see the great views.

So I finally made it!!!! This is our first day in Hawaii....it was great. The first thing we did was hit the beach with our bugie boards wich was pounders beach. The waves where huge, i think we all got pounded to the bottom a few times. There are five of us total on this trip Amanda, Sloan and her parents. The company has been great. We are staying at this beach house, and we all sleep in one big room. This picture was taken at Pipeline.....i think. We did alot more things on this day but i just wanted to get started.....Sky Diving is tomorrow and i am so pumped it is my first time ever sky diving and i am not sure i can do it. I think i may get up there and chicken out. But we will see......

So i am going to Hawaii this thursday and i cannot tell you how excited I am...i have not had a vacation for a while so this is definatly well due. I thought this picture went will to show my great excitement. Just this past weekend I went home for family pictures it was an interesting trip for sure....that morning it was raining really hard and we had scheduled the pictures to be outside. Good thing there was a nice place inside we could take them. Then my brother decided to scare my mom be showing up in the nick of time...late as ussual and we all thought we where going to have to cancel the whole thing. Needless to say it was a fun trip home with the family, got wot watch my little brother randy play his football game with ended at half time becuase of the rain as well.......Well definatly more pics to come of hawaii it will be great!

So i am pretty new as this and i deleted my other commet...oops..but i am excited to get started. So will we c how good i am at keeping up.