Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!!

So today grades came out for Summer Semester 2008! I got mainly B's and one C. I was jumping up and down, that my parents were wondering what happened to me. I am just so excited that I did that well! Especially with all the stress of everything that has been going on, and Savior of the World taking up a whole lot of my time. I first started out my day with getting up at 8 a.m. and going to the doctor at 9:30. He put me on some new medication to try to prevent my migraines, but we don't know if it will work. Then after I headed to work with my two nieces on hand. They wanted to come swimming so bad, so they came! It was such a wonderful day today! I had to be there to guard at noon, and so I got there, and then public swim started at one. Well, I was inside for the first two rotations, and I started rotating at one-thirty. I had a friend brining me some food back from McDonald's, since I was so hungry, and I told her to just leave it in the fridge upstairs. Well, when I go to the deep end, some little kids come up to me and say, "Some boys say that they found poop on the bottom of the pool (deep end). I am like oh great, I have one kid coughing up blood into the water, and another parent yelling at me to do something, and now this!!!! Turned out to be that we had to blow the whistle an hour before public swim ended, so that was a plus for the lifeguards, not so much the swimmers. After work, my nieces went and ate at Sonic for the first time! They said that they pretty much loved it! I was glad for that! Then we went to the Idaho Falls Visitors Center there by the Temple. Turned out that the I.F. Temple was closed today (Pioneer Day), but the Rexburg Temple wasn't. Well, we went and saw Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration, there anyways. Both of my nieces were practically bawling when the lights came back on afterwards. So were my parents. I cried the first time I saw it, but I haven't been able to since then.
I am so glad that the Road Construction on Highway 20 is about done. It took me 1 hour and 45 minutes to get home yesterday and 1 hour and 15 minutes to get up to St. Anthony today. Weird I know, but that is they way it works! Next week I get to start on my papers, and teaching swim lessons in the mornings, and then working at nights in Idaho Falls. So I have to be ready for the two weeks ahead of me! Watch out here I come computer! To many things to do, and not enough time at all to do all of them. I am checking out for the night and possibly for a while. Gnight!
~*~Barbara~*~

Flying away!

So I woke up this morning, and I looked back on the past seven months and everything that has happened. I have just finished one year of school!!! I can't believe that the time had flown by so quickly. One morning I was dreading getting up at 6 am for class, and now I am finished with school and looking for an apartment in Idaho Falls. WOW! This past week I had a migraine bigger than the Empire State building. Absolutely killed me, so I had to ask one of my professors on what to do about my final, and right now it is incomplete, but it soon won't be hopefully if I can get it finished sometime this week. I was just about over the edge with emotion on what to do about that!
So this week has been interesting. Zach and I spent a little time together, but mostly I have been studying for finals. Then on Friday, Zach went and saw Dark Night, while I was at work in Idaho Falls. He said that he absolutely loved it, but I don't know for myself what it is like. Right now, I am just concerned about something, something that I am just going to keep to myself about. I wish I could keep things straight in my head right now. Especially if we want to get married in November. November 14th is the date that we are looking at, but I personally think that it isn't going to happen. Just like when we wanted to get married this July, this weekend actually is what we were shooting for, but sorta didn't happen. Right now I am just going to enjoy the time that I do with him.
~*~Barbara~*~

Random Quotes!

So in my last year of High school, I got this crazy idea to start keeping track of quotes. Well, it only happened mainly in my government class with Mr. Schiess, but there are some others! Enjoy!

There is no love with out money! Kelsi

America will destroy itself by demanding individual rights. Boyd K. Packer


(The rest are from Mr. Schiess!) Lessons Learned from an old Fat Bald Guy!!


To be an orphan your mother or father doesn't have to die.

Parents will have their children no matter what. You need to raise your children so that other people will love them.

Life should not be left by chance, but cease by choice.

Don't have a Plan B? GET ONE!

Compromise makes marriage possible, Frequent Compromise makes it delightful.

Waste like beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Nothing worth while in life never comes easy.

Pain shouldn't stop you from living.

No bet, No play, No chance of winning.

We put our eyes on in the morning, but we never really look at ourselves in the eyes.

Do the appropriate thing at the appropriate time and in the appropriate place.

Don't let 15 minutes define your life.

Beautiful sunsets are created by impurities in the air, but they are always changing.

Don't Marry an abuser.

Borrowing money turns you into a slave.

Pay yourself $10 a month for the rest of your life.

Budget time as well as money.

Keep a journal, DAILY!

Patch up conflicts with your family.

Friends will change, family won't.

Once a parent, always a parents

Life is 10% happening and 90% attitude.

Be happy by developing a moral code and living by it.

Don't gripe, by involved.

Know what needs to be done and do it as soon as possible.

Marry someone that is better than you, so you can raise yourself up.

Do something - lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!


I hope you enjoyed these as much as I enjoyed hearing them come from my LDS public school government teacher! Much love to everyone! (Same document from Facebook notes!)

Nothing really

I don't have much to say tonight. Just did errands and have been typing papers for finals! WHOOP WHOOP! I also have started reading the material that I need for my MATS tour and thinking of starting those papers. Other than that I have been in a gloomy mood all day. Just sitting here crying!!
~*~Barbara~*~

CRAZY!

So this weekend was crazy at my house. I had my two sisters from Utah here, and plus my niece. Last night we went to the Demolition Derby here in Rexburg. Uhhhh, it was ok. I have been to better ones in Kansas with my friends. After that Zach, Derek, and I went to Gringo's and just had fun messing around telling jokes and such the whole time we were there. Our Waitress hardly ever showed up to like serve us or anything, and we were in a corner booth so that made it twice the fun! After that we went to Get Smart. Probably the most random movie that I have ever seen for $7.50! But, it was way hilarious I thought. Came home. When I got home my guests were asleep, and the doors were locked and I had no KEYS!!! So I went around to the bedroom window for my parents and scared the heck out of them so I could get in. Zach was laughing at me the whole time though!
Today we went to church and got there in time to partake of the sacrament, out in the hallway of course! Once we got, I was hanging on to my niece the whole time in the hallway, so my arm was like way hard to lift during the rest of Sacrament. We had an Elder from the Seventy speak in our Ward, and when he got up to the stand, he gave a powerful first paragraph. "Brothers and Sisters, I come to you with a gift this morning. This is a gift which I personally get to give to you myself. This morning I received a phone call from President Monson wondering what I was doing up here in Idaho. I said, "Well, I am up here to bless my grandbaby, and give a talk in one of the wards." President Monson then replied, "Well, tell those members of the Ward that you are speaking to, that I love them so very much!"" That just hit my heart so much, and it brought tears to my eyes. The church is so big, and you think that with this many members, you wouldn't be able to get that message out to everyone by yourself, so you send servants to let them know. And those servants know that you do love them. Even if you may not think so, I know that President Monson does love us all and want the best for all of us to return to our Father in Heaven.
On other news: Zach and I went for like a walk this afternoon along the river, nice and peaceful to be away from everyone yelling at my house for a change. While we were there he asked if we think if it would be possible to get married in November. I replied, "I don't know. With everything the way that it is right now, and possibly going as planned, I will be living down in Idaho Falls, and working at the pool a whole lot." So right now it is still up in the air but we are possibly thinking November! Any objections? Let me know then! Otherwise I am signing out for the night and going to work in the morning to teach little ones how to swim!
~*~Barbara~*~

First Post!

Hey everyone at least everyone that is going to read this!
Everything is hetic right now where I am at in my life. I have four days left of school and that means FINALS! Once finals are over with, I get to start writing papers for the MATS tour that I will be going on in SEVEN weeks. Wow, I can't believe that is coming up so quick! Right now I have my two sisters from Utah up here with my little niece and we are all just having a fun time. My brother has his two little girls with him, so I have three of my four nieces with me. Pretty exciting, but everyone likes to yell. With my head acting up the way that it is, I have a constant Migraine, and it gets worse every time one of them talk (yell). The reason why they are up here is because this weekend is the last weekend for Savior of the World and they are up here to see that production. Last night I went to Relay for Life, and if you were there for the opening ceremonies watching the Survivor walk, you would have seen me. Yes, I am a survivor of Cancer and I am proud of it! Well, I have to go so I can get ready.
Barbara