Zombie Chicken!

My lovely, wonderful, amazing talented friend Brittany has presented me with another award!!

Presenting:

The ZOMBIE CHICKEN award!

Definition:

The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken – excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words.

I was VERY flattered and VERY excited to receive this award.

The unfortunate thing is that I can only choose TWO people to give this award to.

Deciding who to tag has been really difficult for me.

I just love EVERYONE'S blogs..which is why I have a LINK to them on my blog.

SO..

After much thought,

I have chosen the two I would like to nominate.

Kim from Simply Me

and

Rachelle from The Butterfly Chronicles

I LOVE these two. They really do well at giving their blog it's own personality and uniqueness (is that even a word??)

CONGRATS GUYS!

Well...

I guess I forgot to mention this...

but I am no longer going back to Utah State.

LONG story and you don't want to hear it.

trust me.

SO I'm going to Salt Lake Community College instead.

because of this I am a little sad.

My best friend Keara is going to China along with Chelsey.

My other best friend Terri is married.

Brittany, Mandy, Megan, Elicia and all of the rest of my friends are up at Logan.

This is really not the best thing ever.

I've been having a really hard time with this.

Especially with Keara leaving.

Thank heaven for Skype.

I haven't really posted very much lately because I don't want to be a horrible pessimist all of the time when I blog and I don't have much good to say.

So sorry about that!

My Case Manager job is going well..so that's good.

Fun Weekend

After a VERY busy week,

I had an EXTREMELY fun weekend!

On Friday Night,

I went up to Mandy's Cabin with a bunch of friends.

We had SO much fun.

We roasted Marshmallows and hot dogs, stayed up late and

Stargazed (which I can now cross off my list)!

6 of the 8 of us around the fire.

This is the best picture I have of Mandys Cabin.

(please ignore us on the deck...haha)

It is 100 years old! I never would have guessed.

it was so pretty!

The view on the drive up..

The View from the Cabin. Isn't it GORGEOUS!?

Then,

Saturday night.

We had a going away party for Keara and Chelsey.

They are leaving to China on Wednesday to teach kids English so we had another hotdog/marshmallow roasting party.

They also did a pudding slip n slide!

It was really fun even though I am so sad that after Wednesday I won't see Keara or Chelsey for 4 months!!
I'll miss them SO much!!

In Memory..

You may remember me talking about my close friend Keltson that passed away last year.

Let me tell you a little about him...

He was 19 when he passed away and was just about to leave to serve a full time mission in Charlotte, North Carolina.

On October 11th, 2008,

(10 months ago today)

He was driving home from a hunting trip that he had been anxiously anticipating for months

(and I mean REALLY anticipating. He talked about it constantly.)

while he was driving home,

he was in a fatal car accident and he died at the scene.

No one really knows what happened, but something caused him to overcorrect which rolled his truck and he was killed instantly.

Keltson was a huge part of my life during my pregnancy.

When I discovered I was pregnant he was the only friend that was there for me from the beginning.

He was my best friend.

He is the reason I became close friends with Josh and Terri (both of the friends that were married last week). At least once a week he would invite people over to my house and we would watch a movie. Josh and Terri came the most and those 3 were the only friends I had towards the end of my pregnancy.

Keltson truly cared about others.

He was a great guy and I cannot even express in words how much he helped me during the most difficult time of my life.

He died 2 weeks before Avery was born and I know he was there when she was born. He promised me before he died that he would be there in the hospital every day if I wanted him to be..and he was.

I just can't even explain to you what a part of my life he was

Anyway,

the point of this post.

His sweet mother has put together a 5K walk/run in honor of him.

All of the proceeds go towards a Scholorship for a student at Riverton High School.

(the high school we went to.)

It is September 19th, 2009 at Butterfield Park in Herriman

(14200 South 6212 West)

and starts at 9:00 am

Click HERE for details.

Keltson was an amazing man and deserves to be remembered.

PLEASE COME!!

My week

The past week and a half has been CRAZY!
This post is to wrap it all up:

Family Reunion at Lagoon:


Me and my Uncle Danny and Aunt lisa's baby Jace.
(I had just gotten off the cliffhanger in this picture, so I was EXTREMELY wet. Jace was very sweaty...so I was holding him to cool him off)


My cousin Buddy, Emilee and Me

FSA:

The day after Lagoon, I went to the second day of FSA with Stefanie.
I met her there..
when we saw eachother..we realized that we were matching.

It was quite embarrassing, especially when random people would walk up to us and ask us if we matched on purpose.
haha.

Conner James:

I just had to put this picture on here. It was taken on Wednesday.

I am still babysitting this adorable little boy.

He just learned to crawl and he crawls EVERYWHERE!

In this picture he is trying to stand up and he sat there on one knee forever. It was so cute.

The Timpanogos Temple:

On Wednesday Keara, Chelsey and I went to the Temple.

We went to the Timpanogos one and it was BEAUTIFUL.

Probably one of my favorite.

Anyway, I was able to cross another goal off of My list because of this which was very exciting!! ;)

Josh and Kati's Wedding:

My good friend Josh and his wife Kati were married on Thursday.

It was a nice wedding and she looked beautiful!
I am SO happy for them!!

Dustin and Terri's wedding:

you may remember THIS post.

My best friend got married yesterday and the wedding was absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

I don't know what I was thinking but I didn't actually get a picture with her and her husband together, looking at the camera but I did get MANY exciting pictures.

The Beautiful Bride

The BEAUTIFUL reception.
This was done at a church..I have never seen such pretty decorations.


yes I did catch the bouquet!


Keara Terri and Me


This was the most diappointing part because...


She didn't stuff it in his face!!!!

It was a good week..but I have to say I could sleep forever now..I was SOO tired when I got home from the wedding, I slept for like..10 hours last night and I still feel like I could go longer.

Anyway,
Congrats to my two MARRIED friends!!
I love you guys

the final video

Thank you everyone for your comments on the video!!!

I have edited it a little more after getting different peoples opinons and here is the final one!

It's ALMOST the same, but I wrote a little more about my experience, and I shortened the video at the end..mostly.

BUT,
this is THE OFFICIAL CONTEST VIDEO!!

Which means,
the more views it receives,
the higher my chances are of winning!!

So I just HAD to post the final one!!


Find more videos like this on Adoption Voices


Thanks again!! :)

Adoption Voices

So adoptionvoices.com is having a contest.
It's an adoption story video contest.
The winner gets $100.

I made this video for the contest and I need some opinions.

I was wondering if I should take out the last song or not?
or should I Just take out the video at the end?
or is it good as is?

Any other advice???

I WANNA WIN!! hehe

What do you think of it??

THANKS!!