4-Wheelin' Fun!

Great views!!! I have some better pictures, but my camera was being dumb and there is a black spot on them. I need to get Gina to help me photoshop it out of the picture.

A moose that we saw a long the way. It was really far away, this was the best picture that I could get of it. I bet Curtis would have liked to be there with his bow.

The great thing about living in Utah is being surrounded by the mountains. A group of friends from church got together to go 4-wheeling in the mountains. A bit of advice to all, always try to be the front 4-wheeler on the trail. If you're in the back you end up looking like this...dirty! I just have to say that 4-wheeling is addicting. I love it!

Me and Kevin Black, from my singles ward... he has all kids of fun toys... 4-wheeler, motorcycle, truck...

Now the picture that you're looking at isn't blurry, this is all the dust and dirt that ended up on my face and all over of my clothes. This is all that I saw for about 1 1/2 hours up the mountain. On the way back down it was dark so I couldn't see all the nasty dust flying.

He let me drive on the way back down the mountain... FUN is all that I can say about it!

My Sister's Wedding!!

I know that some of you might think that I'm Blob-polar. I blog like crazy and then you don't hear from me for the longest time. Well I have to say...that's absolutely...TRUE. I just get caught up in life and forget to blog. Well lately we had a pretty monumental event in our family, so I thought I write about it. For those of you that know my family, which most of you that read my blog are family, know that I have a little sister, Nancy. Well May 29th, she and her honey got married. Kevin and Nancy got married in the Manti, UT temple.

The happy couple exited the temple!

All the sisters together. All of the girls live in Utah, and all our brothers live outside of Utah. 3 of the 4 brothers made it to the wedding...we missed Chad though.

Me and Nancy's best friend growing up, Megan!

The cutting of the cake!

My dad and my niece, Cassie.

The nieces and nephews waiting in the Temple annex for the ceremony to be over. All arrayed in pink. The girls were loving getting all dressed up for the occasion.

Happy 29th Birthday!

WOW! I can't believe how fast time flies! This is my last year in my 20s. Last Thursday, March 19th, I turned 29 years old. I know most of you don't realize I'm that old, even some of my family, but it's true. Thanks to my family for celebrating with me!

Here's a hat mom and dad sent from Korea. Got to love those Koreans and their crazy party stuff!

George posted a sign for me! Did you know that Wonder Woman's real name was Diana?! I knew mom and dad named me that for a special reason. :) :)

Here's the cake Amanda made for me. I love argyle!!

California Dreamin'

Just a little while back I took a trip to Sacramento, CA. Actually I was in Roseville, just outside of Sacramento. I went to go see to friends from my mission, Jamie and Adam. Adam was my zone leader for about 4 months of my mission. Jamie and I never served together, but have become good friends since being home. As there are few sisters in the mission, we'd see each other at zone conferences and firesides. She came to Utah for a mutual companion's wedding and also for the reunion. These two are some of my best friends from the mission!

Trying to get a good pose for reunion memories..

Eating at PF Changs where Sam, Jamie's boyfriend, works...hook ups!!

The night that I flew in, Jamie took me to a multi-stake YSA dance. Gotta love getting down with my bad self!

What?! Work?!

Most of you know that I work at Zions Bank, well the branch I work at just closed and moved up to another branch. In preperation for the move, we had to throw a lot of things out. One night while cleaning out paper, Preston and I desided to have a paper war. We threw cash out tickets everywhere. This picture is after we gathered them all up.

The next day Caryn found tickets in random boxes...good times!

Tough Girls of Zions...watch out!

Here's the bank that I used to work at, it's an in-store branch. But starting Tuesday I'll be at a normal branch with a drive-up and everything. My new boss is cool, she's pretty chill. I was a bit nervous at first, but things'll be good!

As Sisters in Zions...couldn't resist!

Get out the way! Get out the way! Move!

Well a couple of weeks ago I experienced something for the first time, I hit a deer while driving. Luckily I was driving on a street with a slow speed limit, so I was only going about 25 to 30 mph. I was going down hill so I had my foot on the break to keep myself from going too fast. Although I wasn't going too fast, I'm sad to say that the deer didn't make it. After hitting it, it stood up and just stood there looking at me. As if to say, "what did you just do? did you really just hit me with that car?" After just standing there, making cars go around him, he walked to the side of the road and laid down. I must have done some internal damage, cause by the time I drove off he wasn't moving. I called the police to report it, and it looked dead when the cop was over there prodding at it. Too bad Curtis wasn't there with his bow.

Here are some of the pictures for the damage, you can see it's pretty minimal. The grill looks cracked, because of the bubbling of the crome finish.

This was the worst of the damage to the car, too bad I can't say the same for the deer.

Friends From the Far East!

When I lived over in Korea, I was able to meet some great friends there. Although we've all moved on with life, I've been able to keep in contact with some of them still. Just recently, my friend AJ came to town to visit. So an APB was put out for all Yongson Branch youth to get together. Unfortunately with everyone moving on with life comes crazy schedules. Some could only meet up during the day, and some at night. Daniela and I were able to meet AJ in the evening. It's always great to see old friends, and after 11 yrs I'd say we look as exactly the same.

Christmas!

Most of you saw Nancy's and Gina's blogs, they have all the Christmas pictures. I didn't get any pictures on my camera. I'm going to have to get copies from them both. Nancy Gina and I celebrated Christmas a little early, the Sunday before. That way we could celebrate together. I then spent Christmas with my friends Amanda, Heidi and thier entire family. I'll have to get Christmas pictures up later.

What is up!

So I realized that I hadn't anything new for a long time, so I thought I'd let you know what I've been up to.

For most of you, you know that my parents are on a mission, well that means that I haven't seen them for quite some time. It also means that this last Christmas and Thanksgiving was my 3rd holiday season without them, seeing as how I was on my mission the last 2 holidays. Well with having 2 sisters close, one being married and the other working hard to finish her nursing degree, I was still without family on the actual holiday. There was a real nice girl at work, Amanda(not to be confused with my sister Amanda), that invited me to her family's house for Thanksgiving.

Me and Heidi, Amanda's sister, one of my new best friends!

Me and Amanda! I like to say that we're Sisters in Zion. (fyi...we work at Zions Bank)

Name that movie!!

Ok! Lets see who can get this one. These are two random quotes in the movie:

"I am the king of the echo people!"
"My cat can eat a whole watermelon."

Name that TV show!

I was watching a show the other day and I thought about the game we play in naming movies from lines that are in it. I thought i'd see who could name the TV show from the theme song. Here it goes;

"I'm not the kind to kiss and tell, but i've been seen with Farra. I've never been with anything, but a 9 so fine. I've been on fire with Sally Fields. Gone fast with a girl named Bo. But some how they just don't end up as mine. It's a death defining life I lead, I take my chances...."

Good Luck!

P.S. The lead actor also sings the theme song, it's kind of funny.

More SAHS Reunion FUN!!

Me at the slot machine! Michelle told me that her boss always has luck at those specific machines, we gave it a shot. I guess it wasn't our lucky night.

Me with Ashlee, Bret's wife!

Brynn Wolf and Me! Of course I had to strike a pose!

Michelle didn't seem to have any luck either!

Time! Where has it Gone?!?!

I can't believe that it's been 10 years since I've graduated from high school! This October my high school in Korea had it's 10 year reunion, in Vegas! Luckily it was the same weekend a mission companion of mine got married in St. George, UT. That made it a convenient trip. Most of you know that I didn't technically graduate from S.A.H.S. (Seoul American High School), but neither did about 5 of the others that were there that night. People from the classes of 97, 98 and 99 are invited, those who would have or did graduate those years. I had a blast!! I had a lot of fun getting back in touch with everyone.

Me with Bret Nelson and Heath Coles

I went to Bret's wedding, we've kept in touch with him and his family real well!

Me and Heath! He's a teacher in Dallas, Texas now. Who'd a thunk that he'd be a teacher, he was the biggest goof ball!

Carla Carrillo and Me! We played Volleyball, Basketball and Soccer together. She looks exactly the same, hasn't changed a bit!

Mike So, Mimi Jackson, Antonio Nieves, and Me!!
Mimi and I played Volleyball together. There was another girl that showed up later that play volleyball with us as well. We almost had the whole team there!

Me and Michelle Tarrant! I remembered who she was, but I didn't really know her back in the day. We became friends at the reunion. After dinner we went and played slots together. Don't worry I didn't gamble away my money. I just did a little for fun!

Bret Nelson and AJ Johansen!! I've see Bret over the years, but it was a treat to see AJ. I haven't seen him in probably 7 yrs. He's still living in Korea. In fact, my mom was up in Seoul, and was on the Post up there and this kid past here and said something to her about being a missionary. It just happened to AJ. What a coincident?!

Time with Aunt DiDi!!!

After 18 months of being gone, you'd never thought I'd left. Except for that fact that all the kids are all grown up, and there are 4 new ones that I'm just now getting to know!

Me and Craig's kids!!

Miss Chloe

The Stud Muffins!!
What's the Zoolander pose, Blus Steel? Hudson has a very good 'Blue Steel' pose going on in this pic!!

People that don't know me always ask if Kathleen is my daughter. Then I'm remembered of the time when she was about 4 or 5 yrs, and visiting in Utah. We were at the mall and as we were checking out, she made sure that she told the cashier, "She's not my mom." I wasn't sure where that came from, just said it out of the blue!

After Megan finally warmed up to me. I guess since that was the first time ever meeting her, it would be hard to go right up to stranger.

Always a party with Aunt DiDi! ROCK ON!!!

I just realized that I don't have pictures with Chad's kids. I have one of Olivia on my phone, I'll have to get that one on here. Hey Chad, if you have any with me and your kids, could you send it to me. Thanks!

Finding that E.C...Eternal Companion!

I got the opportunity to go down to St. George, UT, for the wedding of one of my mission companions. Pamela Wade!! She married an elder from our mission, Greg Price! CRAZY! It was a "nice day for white wedding." Actually it was a perfect day outside, i just wanted to quote Billy Idol!

"I'm going there someday..."

Me with the happy couple!!

President and Sister Batchelor were able to make it to the wedding as well. At the Luncheon, President just kept asking us which of our weddings they were going to attend next. We'll have to see!! :) :)