Happy Birthday Meme!

So last Saturday was my grandma's, aka Meme, birthday. It was so much fun haha! My aunt Tammie is here from Indiana so her kids were down playing with the cousins and I hung out with all the aunts pretty much while the little kids swam. It was pretty much a blast! At the end of the night we decided to have a talent show. The little girls all sang and I had to help them sing some of the songs so you can hear me in the background. pretty much it was HILARIOUS!!!! I just about died during some of the songs. My aunt Tonie and I had a pretty good laugh. Especially when Meme decided to get up and show the little girls how dancing was supposed to be done! Bahaha! It was great! Here are some pictures and videos!

Ty with his goggles on going swimming!

Ty and Aunt Terrie. All we wanted was a cute picture...

All Ty wanted to do was pick his nose!

Julia, Allison, Elizabeth, and Belle swimming.

And the silly face picture (I love Julia's face in this one!)

Dancing around in the water...

I don't really know what Allison was doing in this one...

Ty talking to somebody! I don't know who took this picture.

Driving like a racecar driver!

Ty playing in the box.

Getting cousin Bradley in was a trick...

And Daniel was just funny!

Ty made a slide out of the box. It was hilarious!

I have never seen a boy so terrified of frogs before. He would not get near it at all!

The video of the frog!

We told Ty to give us a thumbs up...He gave us a pow pow instead!

Me getting ready to watch the talent show!

Me and my favorite cousin Belle!

The girls singing Love Story by Taylor Swift to Meme.

Julia and Allison singing and Belle running in front of them.

Allison, Julia and Elizabeth.

Meme dancing with Ty!

Me and Meme. Happy Birthday!!!

PS. The videos of the girls singing and Meme dancing took to long to upload and i got tired of waiting so maybe I will try again soon and see if they will upload faster! Enjoy the videos here though!

Fun in Holbrook!

So this last weekend my roommate Jessica, my cousin Jeremy, and I got invited to go to a Young Single Adult activity in a small town called Joseph City. We stayed at my aunt's house in Holbrook which is like 10 minutes away from Joseph City. It was a lot of fun! While we were there we were able to go to the Snowflake Temple with some friends from EA. Tanner Gilliland and Bryan Fleming are the ones in the pictures below! But there were a bunch of other people that were there with us as well. Me and Jessica
Jeremy and Jessica
Jeremy and I
Tanner and IBryan and I
Bryan, me, and Tanner
Bryan, Me, Tanner, and Jessica
Jessica, Jeremy, and I

My cousin Alannah was so happy for me to get there. We got to my aunt's house really late on Friday night and Laney wanted to wait up for me to get there. My aunt finally had to tell her to go to bed and I would be there when she woke up. She drew me a picture of me and her that was on the door when we got there haha! After we got back from the temple, Alannah was so happy we were back! All she wanted to do was play with us. We woke up and did three puzzles with her and she kept asking me to give her a bath or do her hair and she kept tickling Jeremy, which was really funny. When we went to church on Sunday she sat by us and she wrote a note with a bunch of jibberish written on it and I asked her what it said and she said, quote no joke "I love you. Get married. Old fart!" I asked her who she wrote it for and she pointed over to Jeremy and then said "But don't tell him right now. Tell him later!" (She is 5 years old and way wiser than her age haha!) She also drew some pretty funny pictures for me! I love her so much! She's one of my favorites that's for sure!

Alannah and Me

Before we went to the Young Single Adult activity we went to Pizza Hut to eat with our friends Katie Layden and Ryan Humes. Katie is going to be our roommate next semester and yes they are dating! These pictures were so funny but I'm only going to post the most funny ones haha! Pretty much there is a story to all of them so maybe I can get the ones that captures the story behind them haha!

The serious one
And finally a presentable one haha!

I didn't get any pictures at the YSA activity but I will tell about it anyway. It was an 8 stake activity, and there weren't very many people there haha! It was really fun though. They had tag baseball, a sand volleyball game, a dunking tank, a slip n slide, and lots of other activities. At first we didn't want to get wet because it was soooo windy at the temple but it wasn't too bad at the activity so we went on the slip n slide quite a few times and then Jeremy told me that he wanted to dunk me in the dunking tank and I said "Heck...okay! But only if I can dunk you too!" So since I'm short it took me quite a while to figure out a way to sit on the little seat thing to get dunked and when I finally got up there it took Ryan only one try to dunk me into the tank and then it took me forever to get BACK up so that way Jeremy could dunk me haha! Jeremy dunked me on the second try! It was funny! So then there wasn't a step inside the tank so Jessica was my stepping stool to get out of it haha! We were pretty good intertainment for whoever was watching! So then Jeremy got in, and I have awful aim so I knew I wouldn't hit it to get him in! I threw the ball three times and I went to go and pick the balls up and slipped in the real watery part and twisted my ankle pretty good so I had Ryan dunk him for me. And of course he is so tall that when he fell in his head didn't go under...where I fell completely under and was covered by like a lot of water haha! So then we went and got ready for the dance. Well Jeremy and I did. We only went to the dance for a little while because we didn't want to stay very long and we had to go and pick up Jessica anyway so that was our excuse haha! Katie's dad made us fajitas for dinner. It was very yummy! Then I was so exhausted that night that I fell asleep within like 5 minutes of laying down. Jessica and Jeremy stayed up to watch a movie but I was out for the whole entire thing. We went to church on Sunday and drove home Sunday afternoon. Driving home was an adventure in itself haha! You had to be there though to understand. It was pretty grand! That was our trip to Holbrook. We made that little town have a crazy weekend! And we had a blast getting to see old friends and make some new ones!

Weddings and Receptions

This past weekend was very full of friends getting married and going to receptions. The first reception I went to was on Friday night and it was for my good friend Cathy Burrell, now Kieffer. She got married on Thursday June 11. She is such an example to me and she is awesome! She looked very beautiful and happy at her reception! The first two are of Jessica Cathy and me and in the last picture we allowed Jerryd to jump in also!The second wedding reception I went to was Briana Ward. Briana and I went to High School together and she graduated two years before I did. One summer we had a pioneer trek for church and Briana and I were the only two girls in our "family" with like five boys I think and we got to be really close. She moved away to BYU and met her husband Ryan there. She also looked very beautiful at her reception and so happy. She has always been such a great example to me and I have looked up to her for a long time!The third and last wedding reception I went to this weekend was my cousin Allison Collins, now Blaskey. She lived in Tennessee all of our years growing up and then our first year of college she moved to Arizona to come to school at Eastern Arizona College where she met her husband Robert. I am happy for her that she found who she wants to be with, and out of the five cousins that are the same age, she is the second to get married, Jillian being the first. I guess the rest of us just aren't as lucky haha! Kandis and I are the last two girls and since Tarlton is leaving on his mission I guess that he is excused from being married haha!PS Here is a picture from my good friend Kim Bourgeous Pease's wedding reception back in November. The first one is me and her and the second one is me and her husband Ryan. Both great friends of mine now!!! Since I didn't have a blog then I guess I can stick it in with this one. Maybe I missed the memo on the whole wedding thing. Oh well maybe next time!

Anberlin Concert!!!!!

On Tuesday, my favorite band came to Tempe Arizona and a group of my friends and I drove there to see them! The concert was AWESOME!!! It was worth the drive that's for sure! My cousin and I absolutely loved it, even though I didn't stay up front for all the mosh pit stuff during the band that was headlining, Taking Back Sunday, I had a ton of fun when Anberlin was performing! Here are some fun pictures that we took at the concert. The pictures go from the beginning of the concert to the very end. Notice how retarded I look haha! The people that went with us were Jessica Russell, Kellie Taylor, Lyndee Hancock, Jeremy Cox, Danny Ziccarelli, and me! It was a blast!! The next time they are somewhere close I'm going again! I really want to go when they are headlining though...maybe next time they will be!!

MRI and Results

Okay. I had my MRI done on Friday of last week and then I left Saturday morning for Girls Camp so I didn't get my results until Thursday. Let's start with the MRI though. I called the doctors office last Thursday afternoon to schedule the MRI and they called me Friday at about 2 and told me the earliest opening that they had was at 4:45 that evening to go get my MRI done. So I said that I could come in at that time and I went in and it was a ton better then the CT scan but I still didn't like it. I felt too claustrophobic and I was in there for 10 minutes or so, maybe more I don't really know. I left the hospital at 5:30. It took them two pokes this time to find a vein good enough to start the IV and I couldn't even tell when they injected the contrast material. I would suggest an MRI over a CT scan anyday haha! So anyway I went to camp, which was an interesting experience in itself, I can write that later when I have the pictures. I called the doctor when I got home and he called me back and said that the MRI just showed that I have some extra blood vessels on my liver, the disease is called hemangioma, and I need to go in and have an ultrasound done in a year just to make sure that it isn't getting any worse or bleeding out or anything. So I guess I'm going to live! There is my scary health story from the past two weeks.

CT Scan Results...

So last night my doctor called me a little before 6 and told me he had my results back from my CT Scan. He said that where my pain was at looks good, but they found a dark spot on my liver so now I have to go and have an MRI done to get a closer look at my liver and make sure nothing is going on there. Other than that I'm still on stomach medication so help keep the pain down and hopefully the MRI goes good. It isn't scheduled yet and I don't know when it will be. As soon as it happens I will let everyone know.

Health Update

Today I went in for my CT Scan and it was AWFUL!!! Don't get one if you don't have too! I had to be on a 4 hour fast before I went in so the first thing I did today was I woke up at 6 o'clock this morning to drink some nasty barium liquid vanilla flavored nastiness for two hours before I even left for the hospital to do the test. When I got to the hospital I filled out my paperwork (why I was having a CT Scan...what has been hurting...when's my date of birth etc) and about 5 minutes after I was done filling out the paperwork they called me back to start the scan. I sat down on the bed and the man that was working told me what we were going to be doing, an iodine contrast scan, and said that we needed to start an IV for the iodine and also in case I had an allergic reaction. He tried to start the IV in my forearm and missed my vein and got another nurse who tried in my other arm next to my elbow, twice, and searched around in there for about 15 minutes and didn't find the vein. So the man went and got one more nurse to try and start the IV and she looked and kept looking until she found one and THEN she poked it right about where my thumb bone meets my wrist. It was a deep vein, but she finally got it so they hooked up the rest of the IV and as soon as that was hooked up we started the scan. The machine would talk to me and tell me when to breathe and to hold my breath and the scan took less than 5 minutes. When they put the iodine in me it made my body feel like it was on fire and I felt like passing out...the first time that has happened to me (feeling like passing out). It was the weirdest feeling ever! When the test was all finished the lab guy had me sit on the side of the bed and bandaged all my "poke sites" and gave me the instructions for after the procedure. I went to work and then I went shopping with my mom, not having eaten anything from the fast I had to be on, and almost passed out in the middle of Wal Mart. That was exciting. So pretty much now all we are waiting for is the results to make sure I'm going to live. That will come in at the beginning of next week, when I am at girls camp so it will be a while before I update.

Health

So this past week I have been to the doctor twice to figure out what is wrong with me. On Wednesday I woke up with this weird pain in the left upper side of my stomach and it kept getting worse and worse. On Thursday we called the doctor and went in and he said he didn't know what was wrong with me. He said it could either be a swollen stomach or a swollen spleen. In my head I was thinking, "Uh neither one of those sound very fun doc." So he gave me a perscription and ordered some blood tests to be done. I went and got all of those and scheduled a follow up for Monday morning. All weekend the pain would be okay in the morning and by the time nighttime would come around it was awful. So I went in on Monday morning to see what my test results said and the pain wasn't too bad. Even the doctor said I wasn't as tender as I was on Thursday. The blood results came back normal so he is even more puzzled. He said that it could've just been a viral infection or it could be a pulled muscle. He told us that we could either do nothing about it and see if it gets better or we could do a CT scan just to make sure nothing is gonig on inside that shouldn't be. So next week I get to go in for a CT scan just to make sure I'm normal and nothing is going to explode inside of me. Hopefully everything turns out okay. I'm still alive. That's all that matters right now!

My Best Friend

My best friend in the entire world is Christopher Aaron Carrell. He has been my best friend/boyfriend for the past two and a half years. Although he has been serving his mission for the past year and a half of that. He is serving his mission in the Brazil Rio de Janeiro North Mission which is going to be changing to a different name sometime soon. He has loved serving his mission and I love that he is going to be coming home in December! I am really glad he decided to serve his mission though. It's been the best thing that has happened to him. He has learned a ton and I'm happy for him. He got to call on Mother's Day and he is doing good. We had a couple of good laughs when a good friend of my family came over to his families house with my sister to talk. A little about him. His favorite colors are orange and blue. One of his favorite foods is frozen pizza and pumpkin pie. He loves his family and the church. He loves playing golf (that one I don't understand) He loves doing things with his hands, whether it is building houses from construction work, building a swing set, or a chicken coop or anything else. One of the best things that ever happened to him was moving to Thatcher AZ and meeting a bunch of good friends that have stood by him and made him want to be better. And of course meeting me! These are some pictures of him from his mission.