Jenn on a Mission

So this summer my vaca was a week long trip to huntington beach! My Friend Tatum is nannying down there for th e summ er these two little girls so I took the oppurtunity to go and stay with her. A group of us took off on thursday morning 4th of July weekend, it was Joe, Mike, Cory, Kylie and I. The car ride was long but entertaining with all of the boys. Once we got there the first thing we did was hit the beach! The water was freezing, but that did not stop the boys from getting in! Ya i know we were girls and just sat on the beach what can i say! Friday morning was a great morning we woke up and drove into LA to go shopping at the district. Getting there was quite the adventure, we took some wrong turns but it did not keep us from finding it! I bought so much great stuff i had to tell myself to leave because of all the great deals there! YES almost better than my NY shopping expirence! For the 4th we decided to beach it all day, it was so much fun. Although the water was so cold, i d...

So living in AZ you have to get pretty used to the heat as it is so hot outside all the time! I grew up in NV and it is the same way so i guess you could say i should be pretty used to it by now. A couple weekends ago my freinds and I decided to go up to Rachelle's cabin to get away from it. Her cabin is up in pinetop which is right outside of payson. So it is about 3 hours outside of tempe, we took off on Friday right after we could all get off work and get going. There was seven of us total that went up there, 3 girl and 4 guys so it worked out pretty well. One group left in the morning and the other in the afteroon. The ride up there was pretty comical Jennie, Mike and i rode together and we just sang and joked around all the way up there. It was pretty cool up there and because i was not thinking i forgot to bring a sweatshirt luckily Jennie packed two! That night we just chilled in the back yard and checked out the stars I forgot how much better you can see them once you are o...

I love long weekends they are the best! Although when monday feels like a friday it is so hard to push yourself to go back to work the next day. This memorial day weekend was way fun, I pretty much spend the entire day in my swim suit. I started out with working out at the gym with my friend tatum after we met up with her roomies and all went to a BBQ at our friends house. There was so many people there, it was good times. We playes some water melan football in the pool which resulted to a punch in the face for me, it was pretty funny and did not really hurt! That was my first time playing that game, it can get pretty intense that is for sure! After getting our swim time in there and miggling it up with everyone we headed to our second BBQ which just happened to be our FHE for the night. By the time we got there i had swam so much i did not want to get in. So i just plopped down on a confy chair and chatted with peeps for most the night. It was a fun time, but the night did not end the...

So still catching up for the r est of May, the first week of May my sisters and mom decided to participate in a breast cancer walk and run. It was alot of fun, i drove home for the weekend on friday night and stayed at Micheles house. The run was in down town Las Vegas so we got up early that morning and headed there. Tosha and Ulma decided they were going to walk it and Michele and I wanted to run it, she had some friendshere as well. My mom also came with and did the walk, it was fun to all be together as girls becuase i do not get to see and spend time with them very often. Becuase i do not come visit a whole lot we celebrated mothers day and birhdays on that day as well so i could get it all in. After the race we went back to Micheles and cooked i think it was prime rib my dad always likes to go big i just remember it taking forever to cook and falling alseep while waiting for it! It was really good though! The next morning i woke up early and headed back just in time for church in...

So i thought that it was about time i update my blog! i have not done it in a couple months, mainly becuase i was going on a personal blogging strike. Well at least that is the excuse i gave myself for not doing it! I have had a pretty crazy two months to say the least I can honestly say I have experienced more in these last two months, in emotional and spiritual growth than i have in a long time. I am so very thankful for the trials and experiences we are able to go through in life and the things we are able to pick up and learn from them. It always amazes me what you can walk away from when you look back on something you thought was so hard at the time you were experiencing it. Okay enough of the deep thought reflection let's get to what i have been up to for fun! School ended the second week in May and i am so glad that it is done, i was lucky and pulled off an A in both classes i was worried about my online class but it ended good. I was considering summer school but after play...

So i have not posted in over a month, i guess i feel like i need to have something really good to read before i can post. And basically that does not happen much! So couple weeks ago on a tuesday night i took off after my class and headed up to Eager to visit Amanda and Wes. 2 weeks before that they where down here visiting on Valentines weekend and took my out to breakfast, afterwards Wes and i talked about getting me a new computer. My laptop is all i have and it was running out of space so i decided to go with a desktop. Wes ordered all the parts and built it for me, it was awesome when i got up to thier house he had it all set up ready for me to work. I love it so much better than my laptop it is much faster plus i have two sweet monitors to work off of! While i was up there visiting we mainly just chilled and hung out as we all worked most the time. I came home that friday and my friend Deanna was in town. She was one of the first friends i made when i first moved down to AZ 4 yea...

So these last few days i have been super sick and it makes me realize how much I appreciate my health because when you do not have it, it is no fun! One thing i have learned is that i stress out way more than i need to! I am taking two classes this semester and they are both pretty simple besides the fact that one is English 102 which i am not a fan of. Writing papers is such a chore for me and i am usually no good at it! But i know i will survive both of them with A's because i do not allow myself any less. Dealing with seizures my whole life i sometimes feel i let it get the best of me. I know my family has carried me through so much of it and i appreciate them more than then know! But slowly learning to deal with it a step at a time. This last time has not been fun so finally decided i am going to see a doctor and get it figured out. Just thought i would give a quick update other than working a ton and going to school life has been treating me pretty good. So thanks to al...

So I decided we needed one more trip of fun before we all got tied down with school. My Friend Amanda and Wes live up in Eager where there is much snow. Last year we did a trip up there and went tubing and had so much fun so I decided we needed to repeat the trip and go this year as well. We left after work on a Friday night, in my car is was Jorin, Rachel, Scott and I. The Sunday before I ran into Rachelle at church and asked if she wanted to come and she said for sure but let's stay at my cabin in show low. So instead of going all the way to eager that night we ended up going to show low and staying at Rachelle's cabin. When we got there Ben and a bunch of people staying at another cabin where there along with Rachelle, Natalie and Brian so we had a big group of people. We all hung out for a bit chatting then Ben's group took off for the night, that is when Rachelle talked us into playing this crazy game. It was fun times, the boys kept loosing well some of them it wa...

So catch up with my post from the holidays. After getting back from christmas with the family the very next week was new years. That week i just did not want to work at all, on Tuesday Scott asked if wanted to go to Tucson with him and some buddies from work. I was all about it as i did not want to work! We left that morning, i rode with ryan scotts brother,zach and scott. The agenda that day was to visit the missal silo and the air museum. We first went to the silo which was pretty cool but the tour was short, after we went and ate at this place that serves the best mexican hot dogs i have ever had! Then we took off to the airplane place, that was my favorite seeing all the different kind of airplanes. At the air musem After we go done with the museum we ended up going back to the mexican place and ate there again! Yes twice in one day it was that good! So i was trying to hurry back as it was Jennie D b-day that night. Scott brother was to funny as he was taking his time, it was ...

So i have always been a procrastinator, it seems like it happens with everything i do! And i am starting to really learn that it is a bad habit! Tonight i totally paid some consequences for it, i went to sign up for classes for these semester (the semester starts next week) and i am thinking i have done this plenty of times before no biggie right. Well it finally caught up to me because i only have 5 classes left before i am done and have my degree and the ones i could take are all closed!! I am so mad at myself because this means i may have to waste an entire semester with no school!!! ahhhhh

I always feel behind with my blogging, but at least i do it right. So this christmas seemed like it was here and gone in a blin k of an eye. The week before we had a work christmas party so i headed home a week before christmas so i could work in the Utah office then head to Moapa for Christmas. My work christmas parties are pretty crazy every worker that attends gets to be part of the christmas gift drawing where they give some pretty crazy stuff away. I am always so unlucky with that stuff so i am just glad to get anything! This year i ended up with a camera, kinda ironic because i had just bought one a month prior so I had Ryan sale it on Ebay. So getting to this party was quit the adventure, i borrowed Chad's car because i could not find the keys to Randy's (who i had originally borroed since he is on a mission) Well as i going down the street from thier house i make some pretty wide turns becuase the brakes are way touchy and i am not used to that. Well it was just my...

So i thought i better get my post in about thanksgiving before its Christmas! This thanksgiving was a little different than usually as we had it in Vegas at Michele's house versus going out to my mom's. I did not mind at all as it saved me from driving an extra hour to my mom's! I left AZ on wednesday afternoon so i could get there before it was dark, not sure that helped much as it poured on me almost the entire trip. There definitely was times i could barely see the road. Thursday morning i got up and helped get things ready, my mom and Michele mainly took over in that department! My whole family came in to eat with us except Joe and Tosha they took off to dumont on wednesday and spent thanksgiving there. After eating we all did the usual afternoon nap and football for all the food to settle. Chad decided to take the kids up to the snow for a bit and when he returned we where getting ready to leave for dumont. My mom, dad, fred, scott and I where going to head up there t...

This semester of school i decided to take 5 classes which where all 8 week courses so i had 3 the first 8 weeks and 2 the second 8 weeks which put me in class 3 nights a week for 3 hours. I finished the first 3 with no problem as they are all my PM classes. At work we are working on this big project for changing databases because the current one(which i manage) is not keeping up with the companies business. Well this project has been a slow progress for sure since it started back in March. 2 weeks into my second 8 week courses the project picked up big time because they finally decided to assign a project manager just for the project. Because of this change they needed to to come out to NY for 7 days...fun fun I decided i would need to drop one of my classes as it was 2 nights a week and i would be missing alot of class. I am sure i could of handle d it but for my sanity sake i decided to drop it and have work pay for me to take it again next semester. So a week after this all took p...