Cruise Pics

I have started adding pictures of my cruise. I just decided to add a slideshow of some of my pictures. It is hanging out there on the sidebar. If you want a closer look just click on the picture! And while you are looking at the pictures, you should seriously consider taking a cruise yourself...

My "already-loved" car :)

So I did it! I bought a car! But I don't have it yet. It is in Wales with my parents awaiting license, registration, and insurance fees. More to come...

The problem with vacations...they always come to an end

In case anybody noticed I haven't added anything to my blog for a while. There is a reason for that-I have been on a cruise!! My sister and I and a bunch of other friends did the Baja Mexico 5-day cruise through Carnival Cruise Lines. And it was a BLAST!! We stopped in Cabo San Lucas (beautiful coast!) and Ensenda (definitely Mexico, it reminded me of Brasil). In Cabo we went snorkeling, kayaking-and I almost killed myself, and parasailing-600 feet above the water, it was great. In Ensenada we did a "taste of Mexico" tour and learned how to make a bunch of different kinds of mexican food. The funniest thing was that we-and a few other Mormons-were the only sober people on the ship and yet most of the time we acted crazier than the drunks. I doubt anybody really believed we were sober...but we did have some good missionary moments with the cute people that we met. Oh, and I ran into a girl who was in the MTC with me. We haven't seen each other since 2004 so that was way fun! I have pictures, too-millions of them-but I don't have my cable with me so I can't download them yet. Now I am back to my life. blah. And I am looking at buying a 2003 Oldsmobile Alero. It has 53000 miles. But it has a V6 so it doesn't get the best gas mileage. Does anybody know anything about Aleros? Should I buy it? I just don't know...

Countdown to Conference!

General Conference is in ONE WEEK!! Woot!

New Easter Traditions...

I really am not very good at this blogging thing. But anyway, I just wanted to share something way fun-and crazy-that my way fun-and crazy-family did for Easter. Like most people, we have colored eggs every year. Now my mom and my niece are about the only ones that care about coloring them anymore. So on Saturday, we were all home and we had a lot of hard-boiled, colored Easter eggs. My mom has been saying for years that she wants to have egg races down a hill. So we all got the 4-wheelers and headed up to...the church! It has some great hills and don't worry-we cleaned up all the eggshells for Sunday. Anyway, it may sound...crazy, but it was so fun! We each picked an egg in the color of our choice and just raced them down the hill until eventually all we had left were egg yolks. It is also fun if you take the shell off before rolling the egg because then the egg lands upright! I will post pictures as soon I can find them...

My Niece

I decided, once again, that I have the cutest niece ever! She is four years old and so, so much fun. And she is incredibly smart. Last night I drove up to Cedar City to visit my brother and his family and it was great. We played some games and mostly just watched Liz-she is very entertaining. I loved watching her try to hula hoop and do the chicken dance. And it was great to read stories and have her begging for my attention the whole time-it is great to feel wanted and kids are so good at making people feel that way!

Musings of my mind

I am afraid that this post may sound either like a personal journal entry or like something my mom would say. I have been reading President Hinckley's biography and every time I open it I read something incredible that amazes me. Today I am amazed at the incredible growth of the church is such a short amount of time. I was reading that the first area conference in the United States was in 1979 and the first General Conference to be satellite broadcast was in 1980-that really wasn't that long ago!! But now satellite broadcast is used for everything from temple dedications to stake conferences and it is worldwide. Isn't it great? I love it!