Time

Wow, it certainly has been a while since I have been on here. So much to tell, but I won't overwhelm those of you who read this! I am loving where my life is at right now. There has been up and downs, and I know there are for sure more to come, but what is life if you don't have those!? I just moved to Ammon not even three weeks ago! I love it so far, can't complain about anything yet! I don't think I ever will. Still working as a Lifeguard at the pool in Idaho Falls, and I coached this summer on the Summer Swim Team, along with the homeschool group for the Cutthroats which is a year round swim team. That was great and amazing! I volunteered coached, and in return I was able to swim! I was able to participate in a Swim Meet at the beginning of July, and did exceptionally well for how out of shape I was. I am currently Assistant coach for the Hillcrest High School Swim Team.
In June my friends from Kansas came out and visited me for a week. Way fun, but when they left, it seemed quiet for me again... We started out in Salt Lake and spent a couple days there. Amanda enjoyed how big and beautiful the City was downtown. She also had fun riding the train. She had never rode a train until this summer. Nick I believe just had fun being here! All three of us though had tons of fun at Lava Hot Springs. Who wouldn't though? Lava is the swimming place to be in Southeast Idaho in the summers, and also in the winters!
I have made some great friends with Families here in Ammon, and I don't know what I would do if I have never met them! They are amazing in all ways, shapes, and forms! Well, I should get going. I have some things that I should get done before I go to Lava today!

Valentines or Singles Awareness?

So Sunday was Valentines day and it seems that most people who have someone love it! As for others who are single are happy to be with themselves and goes and buys themselves a box of chocolates to eat all for themselves! This year was different for me. I was able to spend it with my parents and my brother and his wife. We went over to his house for dinner. I also asked if Esther could come along. So the two of us got to hang out with each with a guy not really around! We had fun getting presents for each other!
I do have a boyfriend, who happened to call me Sunday night, or actually I called him. It has been interesting being in a long distance relationship. I find it fun, but kinda scary at the same time. Fun because you don't exactly know when and how you will see each other next, but kinda scary thinking that you will find a person you can actually see and be around more than you do right now. Right now we are just going with what comes along. I have loved talking to him on the phone, even if it was to just comfort him in his time of lose. It is so hard to loose someone in your life and to have to start over in some ways, and then just trying to keep trudging through the mush that was put in front of you. So I guess you would say that I wasn't single on V-day, but I did somewhat spend it like that! Only with the advantage of being able to call my boyfriend later on in the evening!

72 days until Wii have fun!

This picture was taken almost four years ago. Amanda and I were friends a year and a half before this picture was taken, and to this day we are still best friends! We have so much fun when we talk to each on MSN or when we would hang out. I love her to death! She is coming to visit Idaho in 72 days from today, and I am just thrilled, but I think she is more excited than I am. This will be her first time flying ever in her life! She is going to have fun with that! She told me earlier this week the days that she was going to be visiting me and not to long after that, I had decided that I want to buy a Wii. Except I am having trouble buying the Wii, because everyone is sold out! So I started looking at Ebay, and have found a bundle to buy, but now I just need my next paycheck to help me buy it! I have been working like crazy the past couple of weeks and learning something new each and everyday that I work. It is quite interesting what you can learn as a cashier or CIC. All I know is that I am super excited for April to come. Means many things for me!

This picture was taken just before I moved away from Kansas. It is of Nick, Amanda, and I. We call ourselves the "Besties!" We became very close friends with each other the year before I moved away. This past week has been very hard for one of them, Nick. He has just lost his Dad. I wished so bad that I could be there for him and be able to be around so he knew he had a friend right by. I have been in that position of loosing someone very close. I actually lost my whole family. Over this past week I have been very happy to know that I could be there for my friends just by being able to talk to them over the phone and cheering them up just by talking with them. I especially loved letting Nick know that I have been there and that it isn't just a short time to heal from this. I know that the next month or so is going to be hard. He is thinking of coming out either for his spring break or summer to see me. These two people have helped me so much and so have many others, but these two people I hold dear to my heart. They were my first two friends after such a traumatic time in my life and helped me see the light. That is why I love them so dearly!