21rst Birthday

Today was my birthday! I turned 21 this year! I keep joking with people that I can finally drink and gamble. Right when I woke up Chris was standing by my side of the bed holding up a present. He said do you want to open it now? He got me a photo editing program. Im so excited to use it. I had work from 8-12 with the summer school special needs kids. Chris usually works til five but since it was my birthday I picked him up on my way home. When I came inside my apt. was all decorated, I was surprised. Then Ranae poped out from behind my ottoman. Its really shocked me, I totally didnt expect it. Then Samuel came over, I showered and then we went out to taconos. I got a free meal coupon for my birthday and I got to shack a maraca awhile they sang happy birthday to me. It was pretty fun. Then we went out to my parents house to help with the wedding planning. Chris and I also watched Planet of the Apes.

June 21, 2012

Fathers Day

Today is fathers day but it is also Ranaes homecoming talk. It was cool because Hayden was the youth speaker speaking on modesty, then it was my mom who talked about fathers, the primary sang to the dads and then Ranae talked on Rescue. They all did a fabulous job, like I have said before I have an amazing family. As soon as sacrament was over Chris and I booked him to my parents house because I had to finish making my dessert. I did it super fast and they turned out great. I love to hear when people like my treats, I made oreo balls. Its fun because a lot of Ranae and my friends are the same so I got to see some of my old friends. The lacrosse girls came and were hoping to do a scrimage sometime soon. People were over from about 12-3:30. When they all had left we wrapped my dads presents and hid them. This year we got my dad and lazer pointer, it can go super far. After he opened presents the boys went down to watch the finals game. Chris is the only one cheering for Miami. Us girls watched Ever After. Chris went and saw his dad 2 days ago and gave him these 3 stuffed minions from dispicable me.

June 17, 2012

Friends

Ranae has been home for 3 days and I have been enjoying spending time with her but my mom decided that we should finally let her friends see her. So we invited her closest friends over on saturday. Mom wasnt feeling good so she stayed in her room for a while. I would go in and talk to her and bring her what she needed. She ate some mac and cheese and felt better so she came out to mingle. The food was good and it was nice to see the people that stopped by. I also want to take this time to thank my wonderful husband. He has been so sweet to let me spend 3 days straight and my parents house. He hasnt complained about anything and I really appreciated him. We are headed to finally be at our own place together for the first time in 3 days.

June 9, 2012

shooting

Chris went rabbit hunting with Chade and Brett last night so I spent the night at my parents. Chris said that he shoot a baby rabbit because they accidentally ran over it with a four wheeler and it was running in circles so he put it out of its misery. For me I was up talking to Hayden all night. It was funny because at 3 am Stockton was already fast asleep but he started to roll his arms and as he sat up he shouted YA I got it!!! and layed back down. Hayden and I couldn't stop laughing. Chris came and woke me up at 8:30 so we could go shooting with some people in our ward. We just drove past my parents subdivision do the shooting spot. Chris and I rod the four wheeler around for a minute and Hayden just talked to Chade. We waited bu the road so people in our ward knew where to turn. An ambulance came by and asked if there were any accidents up by us. We saw many pass by back and forth but we hadn't seen or heard anything. When everyone showed up we prayed and ate some hot dogs. Then we got the guns out set up targets and started shooting. I wasn't really good at the guns but I would fling the the birds when people yelled pull. I told Chris that I was the official pull girl and he just laughed. It was way fun I hadn't been shooting in a while. My favorite was the rifle and my friends Megan's hand gun.

April 20-21, 2012

Ranaes Return

Ranae got back today. Chris and I slept over so that we could help get ready the next day. I had already started on making decorations. We drew smiley faces on yellow paper plates, taped forks to the back, and stuck them all over the lawn. we also did yellow ribbon and yellow ballons. One of the meanings of yellow is home. This morning we made a poster to put on the garage door. We wrote welcome home. Then I put things on it that reminded me of Ranae like frogs, dice, lax stick, sponge-bob, missionary, ext. It was fun to do. Chris and I had bought Ranae a new lacrosse stick and mom had made her a missionary blanket so we stuck them on the fire place under the minion dressed like a missionary. When the decorations were ready we finished picking up the house, and getting ourselves ready. It was really windy today so we taped everything down the best we could and hoped it wouldnt blow away. We drove off to pick up Ranae!!! We were running late so we were freaking out but once we got there thinking we were 10 minutes late we actually found out that her flight was delayed and we had another 2 hours. When 6:30 came around we all got ready with our posters to hold up for Nae. When people started coming out it seemed like forever. She finally came out and we all started shouting her name. She looked like she wasnt feeling good. She had a wet paper towel pressed to her head. She couldnt see us for a while but once she did she ran over and gave me a hug and mom came and sqeezed the both of us. We had lots of plans for tonight but Ranae really wasnt feeling good. She said she had never threw up on her mission until today. So we just headed straight home. My mom called President Edwards so Ranae could be set apart. He said just parents but my mom and dad told me I could sneak in. Im glad that I did it was a neat experience to see it. He asked her questions and then asked her the hardest thing.....to take off her badge but then he put it back in her hand and told her that nobody could take that away from her, even when she didnt have it on she was still a missionary full of those memories and experiences. Beautiful. Ron came over to say hi because he was leaving the next day for a week and wouldnt be able to see her. When he left we got ready for bed. Chris is such a sweetheart. He let me have a sleepover with Ranae. He went and sleep in the leaving room. Ranae and I talked a lot. She didnt know if she should do something to say hi to Samuel or not. She decided to txt him just so he knew that she was home and that she wanted to talk to him at one point. He txt back "look on your porch I think I dropped some cheese. We ran outside were he had left a candy gram. My mom came running out yelling Samuel if youre out here you better come out now but Sam had already gone home. Ranae couldnt stop smiling so she called him and they talked for about five minutes.

The next day we had a nice breakfast of french toast that my mom made. We helped Ranae go through her closet because everything she had was put up in it. So her room is now her room again but its also moms sewing room. lol That took all day so later Samuel txt my mom to see when would be a good time to call Ranae. My mom said just come over now and he said he was scared and my mom replied so is she so just come over. Ranae ran and got ready when we told her he was on his way. He came over and they went out to talk at the park. We were getting ready to watch a movie and they came back so they watched Jack and Jill with us. After the movie they said good bye and we all went to bed. When Ranae and I were laying in bed she started crying about how she didnt like the movie because it was crued. So we ended up talking about it for awhile. Its funny because I had been warned about RMs but it was weird to hear it from Ranae. We will just give her time.

The next night Ranae came and stayed at my house so Chris and I could get a good sleep on our own bed. Samuel came over and we hung out for a while. She was mad because she found out that he was going sky diving the next day in Moab. When he left we went out to see Hunger Games at 10. Ranae had read the book so this movie wasnt as "bad" because she knew what to expect.

Saturday we invited her closest friends to come by and see her. So we had a lot of treats. My mom wasnt feeling good so I kept disappearing to be with her or sneak her food. It was nice to see everyone though.

June 6-9, 2012

Jenni and Cordells Wedding

Today Jenni and Cordell got married. Chris and I were also invited to the ceramony in the temple. We got there really early because we were worried about parking but we ended up having to wait an hour. Jenni was getting married at 10:30. When it was time to go it was nice to see everyone there and it was such a lovley ceramony. When we got out we waited outside for them to come out. When they did come out the both looked so happy and Jenni looked gorgeous. It was super hot outside so we did the family pictures first. After that we took off so they could do wedding pictures and we could go get the reception set up for the lunch in. On her way to the car grandma Williamson tripped on the curb and twisted her anckle so Stephanie and Bobby took her to the hostpitle. when she got back they said that she had broken several bones. So she came back in a cast. It was so sad. At 3 o'clock we started eating. When the eating slowly died down Cordells dad started doing some cute activities he had planned. The first one was he had Cordell and Jenni sit back to back. They gave eachother one of their shoes and kept the other one so they had one of each. He would ask them questions like who is the better dancer or who has gotten arrested more times, things like that and they would raise the shower of who they thought it would be. Cordells dad said he would give them 200 dollars if they could get at least 75% right. The did great they even almost got 100%. After that was finished he pasted the microphone around so that people could say things about the two of them. Bore kids seemed like they were being roasted. People were just trying to be funny. They really are a good couple together. I am so happy for them. Now we just need to get things moved around from the lunch in to the reception. When that was finally done Jenni and Cordell toke the line outside and people could come in to eat and talk or stay outside. The reception started at 7 and then at 8 they had a dj there to start the dance party. First Jenni and Cordell dance to "girl I want to lay you down" followed by the daddy daughter dance. It was so sad to see Greg cry like that. It made me think about mine. Thats the hardest part about the wedding is that dance. Then they played music and we all dance like crazy for an hour. wow I loved it. I loved dancing with Chris on the slow songs and then going bazurk on the fast ones. At 9 it was time to send the bride and groom off. We all went outside and they came through us all cheering to get to their car. There car was covered in oreos. I dont know how they were going to see out of the window. After they drove off we went in to clean up. Thank goodness we ended up getting a hotel because by the end of cleaning up we were so tired. Chris and I went out and got treats to watch  a movie together and a frosty at wendys because we were hungry. It was nice to spend so time with Chris. In the morning we went to have the free breakfast there. We saw Chriss grandma Garrison. She told me that Chris and I were her favorite to watch dance. She said she could tell that I really enjoy dancing. ha ha We were finally done with everything and headed home to have a lazy sunday in bed.

June 2, 2012

J's Endowments

Today Jenni went through the temple for the first time. She invited Chris and I to go with her. It was so nice to go through with his family. She wanted to go through the Bountiful temple which is the same temple she is getting married in pretty soon. After we got out the Badgers were very nice to take us all out do diner at Apollo   Burger. So we just talked together and ate our food. It was funny because before we went in Chris was talking to Cordell in private about benifits of marriage and I over heard so I came over to slap him and Tara saw so she asked what happened so I told her and she told her mom so Cordell was getting scolded at and Chris just sat back and laughed as Cordell tried to explain. So funny.

May 31, 2012

Josh's Farewell

My cousin got called to the Pittsberg, Pensilvania. He gave his farewell talk on sunday. It was really cool to go listen to him speak. He has such a strong spirit and he hasnt even left yet. We also got to hear from my cousin Sarah as the youth speaker and my uncle Ron was the speaker before Josh. So I got to hear the amazing talks from a lot of people from my family. I am so lucky to have such a great family and a great extended family. They are hard to come by and I got both! Josh you will make a great missionary. We will love and miss you!

May 20 Talk
May 23 Leaves
2012