happy birthday michael jackson

dont ask me how i know its his birthday, i think i saw it on someones facebook?! nerd. todays the first day of classes and i feel like a little kid on their first day of kindergarten. i mean if you think about it theres not a lot of differnce between college and kindergarten. its the first of firsts, and obviously nap time is still in affect because dude in yellow shirt is taking a nice snooze on a couch in the library. i want my mom though, and i kinda have a feeling in my stomach that i could throw up any second now and its not because of my breakfast shake i had as i was blow drying my hair. whaaaaa, me blow drying my hair? yes, that never happens so obviously first day of college is up in the category with black tie event.if only i had actual black tie events to actually attend i would always blow dry my hair.

vanessa was dropped off at the airport at promptly 8:45ish yesterday morning. we all squeezed into stephanies car and drove to say our goodbyes to boston and trinadoll. 11 days went by mondo fast. but lindsey and myself would not have been satisfied with our apartment if it weren't for our mothers. so kudos to you two!!

we did a lot of fun things, we went and saw a movie which she answered her phone during and i almost threw her phone across the cinema. we went to tucanos, cafe rio, jimmy johns, noodles & company and every other restaurant thats in utah that they don't have in north carolina. we got a ton of stuff for my place of living for the next year and spent far too much money on parking permits. you rock van!

 

have a happy week !

nursery

on this day of sabbath i woke up 30 minutes before church..whaaaaaaaaaaaaa! i took a 2 minute shower and my hair was still wet as i walked into sacrament, meaning the back of my shirt was soaked. TEN POINTS MOM. going to family wards in utah scare the bejesus out of me though..and heres why. in stephanies ward there was a woman that looked my age and she had TWO kids. oh heck no. no sir. stephanies ward also has 3 nurserys. that freaks me out more than anything. and stephanie happens to be one of the nursery leaders so i skipped sunday school and relief society to watch kids. which im a pro at ive come to find out.

this is tanoyan. he was seriously everything i want in a kid. big ol' head and big blue eyes

and he probably weighed about 40pounds. my fat love and joy is what he was

and this is mckenlee. i had to hold her for the first hour cause her mom said she did better if someone holds her..but then my whole entire chest fell asleep so i made her play with toys and she was having a jolly time with all of the other 15 kids. 

it made me miss my newms. 

i have one more week of my mom being here, and i have one more week till school starts.

yeehaw. have a happy week!

to my dearest of newmans

yesterday i went to lagoon with the newmans, and it brought back such fond memories of my childhood. i remember going to utah for the summer was always my favorite thing cause i knew we would be going to lagoon..and then for some reason we stopped doing that, i guess cause once i got older going to lagoon with your family is actually pretty lame. but yesterday was also my last day of work for the newmans. this last week i tried to just smile and not be mean, and what the children always would call me mean for was me basically doing my job..telling them what to do when their parents weren't around. i think i successfully did my job in making sure the peeps were fed and that their jobs were done and most importantly they were happy. 

i have learned a lot from this job, i think more than i have ever learned in any type of schooling. they took me to africa for crying out loud too, even though i got a little sick it was the most amazing experience ever and ill never forget it. i have learn to see what kind of mother ill potentially be. i now know why my parents never let us have our own little gameboy devices and i thank my lucky stars for that. i think i have also realized that im more like my father in the parenting department. and im not all that disappointed by that.

we went to mcdonalds in a gas station for dinner, truly the most romantic place we could find in kaysville. we ate our dinner and then said our goodbyes. my brownest child had to hold on to me like a little monkey and i swear thats when the water works came. i could do nothing but just listen to her talk cause i knew i wouldnt be able to hear that valley girl voice for awhile and my little monny mcmonmon we just held each other and bawled like little blubbering babies. i dont think im gonna know what to do on monday. i mean when i went on vacation the two times i did?! im obviously super nanny. but whenever i would go on vacation i would be super excited to see my family and friends and then i would get tired of all of them and miss the kids again and now its gonna be ten times worse cause i dont have my friends and family to look forward too. but fall break will come fast enough and ill spend my nice little weekend with them and i wont have to boss them around, their new nanny can and i can just watch and smile as she struggles in controlling my little monsters.

i love you guys.

thats all folks

i spent my real official weekend of summer up in the northern regions of utah with the bears of BEAR LAKE. i wish i could spend every week at bear lake. they have the best fruits at the KOA which is a joke of a grocery store but goodness me the raspberries are to die for. every weekend the family has a cookout on saturday night and its always somehow the best meal of my week. i will miss it dearly. 

i have so many things to look forward to in the next couple of weeks. this is my last week of work which is something thats more bittersweet than something im actually excited for. i dont think i'll know what to do not bossing these kids around and making sure they dont slap the window because a bug was on it 5 SECONDS after i just washed it {harmony} or having spiders the size of my fist crawl out of the boys laundry basket or my little brown child running around saying hey everytime she runs through the kitchen. or eva crying over the most ridiculous things. or caleb wasting away his childhood glued to a gameboy ma bob. ill most definitely not miss bona and sultan hitting/slapping each other, or i might even miss that. or daniel and how he will not tolerate the word "no". or ramadan and his very powerful use of selective hearing. and how the tayiba will only do the table as her dinner job. and dibabe and chaltu laughing at everything i say because i mean im pretty funny. lagoon is the best way to end it all, and fall break will be a glorious reunion. my boston comes into town next week for a whole week an one day. were going to go to the best sushi places now since justin has randomly found a love for it and go to ikea to waste away our days, and to of course eat swedish meatballs. lindsey and me move into our apartment the 25th and everything is just starting to move along just so swiftly its almost frightening, but im ready for the next adventure. 

see, just feast your eyes on that juicy burger and the cut up

fruits prepared by yours truly

heathers homemade waffles and syrup which were ahhhmazing

she even got to skip church, i thought she was in the mothers room the whole time

but no she didnt even go. can't wait till im a mom of a newborn when they can't tolerate large congregations so of course id have to stay home and nurse them..my theory anyway

CORN ON THE COB

and congrats to britney and blake..they got married on tuesday.

love you guys!