You may not have known...

Four Jobs I've Had:
1. Shape Tracer for the Porters (strange job tracing shapes on to wood for the neighbors craft business. My sister and I used to sing Opera really loud while they were cutting the shapes because we didn't think they could hear us over the noise that the saw made...we found out differently later on when they mentioned it to my mom. We had been doing it for months...I still get embarassed when I see them!)
2. Nanny (worst job ever!!)
3. Arctic Circle
4. Banker

Four Places I've lived:
1. South Jordan, Utah
2. Logan, Utah
3. West Jordan, Utah
4. A State of Confusion

Movies I love:
1. Nacho Libre (dumb I know!)
2. The Gladiator
3. The Notebook
4. A few I am embarassed to admit

Four Favorite Foods:
1. Ice Cream (the candy bar kinds...like Twix)
2. White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cheescake from the Cheescake Factory
3. Cool Ranch Dorritos
4. Hot Tamales

Four Weird Things About Me:
1. I would love to move to Europe for a while, but I am too chicken.
2. I am OCD about my alarm clock I check it about 75 times before I go to bed and every time I wake up during the night. Same thing with locking the doors.
3. I am terrified of Lizards (the tiny little geckos). When I was in Mexico I couldn't even sleep at night...I was in fear they were in our room. One morning my cousin even told me that she woke up in the night and touched something in our bed and it was a lizard!!
4. I don't know...I am sure there are a lot of weird things about me...but obviously I don't think they are weird that's why I do them!!

Four Favorite TV Shows:
1. The Office
2. So You Think You Can Dance
3. One Tree Hill (cause I am 12 years old)
4. Keeping Up Appearances (the british comedy)

Four Places I'd Rather Be:
1. Anywhere except where I am
2. In a gondola in the canals of venice
3. In Marakech walking through the souk
4. Salvation Mountain and Slab City!! (quite the place! you can read about it on my brother's blog: http://www.itjustgetsstranger.blogspot.com)

Remember When...

I got this from a friend's blog. I hope you will play along.

Here are the directions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot--anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

Hopefully there will be more good memories than tragic ones.

I know you all have good memories so please post them!!!

Fishin' With Dad!!

When we were kids, one of our favorite things to do was to go fishing with my dad. This is my favorite picture from one of our fishing trips! (mostly because Krisanda and I are both wearing Chucky Cheese T-shirts, we were so cool!!) We were so lucky to have such a great dad who liked spending time with his girls!! And...we are still very lucky, I am sure my dad is the best dad in the whole world!!

And, I am sure you can tell who his favorite child is....I'll give you a hint....It's ME!!!

Worst 4th of July Ever!!

So...I seem to have a lot of time on my hands this week so I thought it would be a good time to update everyone on the horrible 4th of July I had.

About 2 weeks ago I woke up in the night with the worst pain I have EVER felt in my abdomen. Lucky for me this pain was followed by violent vomitting. the vomitting and pian lasted for about an hour and a half and then I was perfectly fine. I realized at that time that it had to be my gallbladder. (we have a history of gallbladder disease in my family and several members of my immediate and extended people have had theirs removed. In fact my dad just had his taken out 3 weeks ago.) But of course I ignored the situation and went on living my life. Well, last monday I once again woke up in the night with the same pain and vomitting. For those of you who have never had this lovely problem...I hear that the pain is worse than childbirth. This time the pain would not go away. So I waited until I could not stand it any longer, about 5 hours and then called my dad. He immediately came to pick me up and took me to the ER. The ER gave me morphine and did an ultrasound and found gallstones. So, they sent me on my way and told me I needed to contact a surgeon to have my gallbladder removed.

I thought this would be ok since I was feeling fine and they had sent me home with a little supply of Lortab. But....then again on Thursday morning...PAIN!!! This time the pain was not quite as bad so I went to work and went about my day. Well...after laying around and whining at my parents house for a day and a half my parents started noticing that I was turning yellow. this was definitely not a good sign!!! So on the afternnon of the 4th, my dad took me back to the ER. I had called and made an appointment with a surgeaon, but they couldn't get me in for 2 weeks just for a "consultation" then surgery 2 weeks after that!! There was no way I was going to make it that long. Lucky the doctors in the ER decided to admit me to the hospital. Apparently I had a gall stone that had excaped from my gall bladder and was lodged somewhere near my pancreas (which is life threatening).

So, two nights I spent in the hospital jumping through all the weird hoops they make you jump through. And in the end they removed my gallbladder on saturday afternoon. (after not eating for 3 days!!) It was miserable!!

I am home now recovering at my parents and today was the first day I felt like I could actually move. So...I got up tp shower and ended up passing out on the bathroom floor....not such a good idea, maybe I should stay put for a few days.

Anyway...I think the worst is over...at least I hope it is. And I really hope this all makes sense as I do not have the energy to read through it again before I post it. I just really wanted to post an update because I am sure a lot of you are wondering what happened to me!

and there is a lesson to learn from this...anytime you think something is wrong, see a doctor immediatly do not ignore it...it will only get worse!!

JJ Montana

The things my sister does to her kids for entertainment... This is JJ in a Hannah Montana wig that Krisanda got kaylee for her birthday after she begged and begged. Poor JJ!

Babysitting...

Last night I got the chance to babysit my 2 neices and nephew. They are just the cutest kids ever! It's always so fun being with them especially becuase you never know what they are going to say.

Kaylee is the oldest. She just turned 5. She is sooo smart and acts like such a little teenager. She is always trying to negotiate to get what she wants. Last night when I was trying to put them to bed, we had this conversation:

Me: OK, it's time for bed.
Kaylee: But my mom said I could stay up till they got home. (flat out lie)
Me: Nope, they won't be home till very late and you have church tomorrow. I will have them come in and say goodnight when they get home.
Kaylee: No, it's too hard to go back to sleep after they wake me up.
Me: Ok then you can see them in the morning.
Kaylee: Nope, make another deal.
Me: You have two options, you can see them in the morning when you get up or I can have them come wake you up to say goodnight.
Kaylee: I don't like those...make a third deal please...
Me: Nope, let's say prayers while you decide which one you would like.

She is soo funny! Such a negotiater.

In the mean time, we started prayers. Kamree went first (she is 3 and such a handful!). I was trying to help her, but she kepy saying "I can by myself". Which turned out really funny...my favorite line from the prayer was (in the whiniest voice you have ever heard)..."and JJ, he pinched me on the arm. And it really hurts." As if she was a little spy reporting who had broke the rules for the day.



After prayers, Kaylee told me that she had worked out a deal of her own, and that was that she wanted to call everone in the free world to say goodnight. So, since I am such a nice aunt and I really wanted them to go to bed as we had had a rough night, I accepted this deal. After 5 phone calls I convinced her that everyone else was in bed and she finally gave in and got in bed. Then Kamree climbed on the top bunk bed with Kaylee and started jumping and jumping, screaming "I want to sleep with Kay-Wee!" to which Kaylee replied with a good kick and a bite on the arm.

Needless to say it was complete chaos!!! Luckily for me JJ, the youngest, had gone to sleep about an hour before.



The funny thing is that no matter how naughty they are, I still just love them to peices! I just can't get enough of them. But I was of course relieved when their mom and dad got home and I could return to the peace and quiet that was waiting for me at home.

Just love these kids!