Beware Cedar City

The world is so disgusting and messed up these days, seriously! Even here in little ol' Cedar City the nastiness of the world finds you. This post is a voice of warning to women in cedar city and also a minor vent session: There was a sexual assault here in town last night, the second reported one this week! According to my friend that works with the police department cedar has had more rapes in the past few weeks then Dixie had all last semester. It disgusts me really, not to mention makes me even more paranoid then I already am. Getting raped or even just attacked is my biggest fear. I get so mad when I think about how someone can be so sick in the head to do something like that to someone, someone you perhaps didn't even know, and never did anything to you. If I was ever to run across a man who had done something and hurt an innocent girl like that one day I would have to restrain myself from ripping him apart from head to toe. I have no tolerance for it at all so I just have to say girls of cedar (and everywhere really) Be safe and watch your back, because you never know. Lock your doors and windows and seriously don't go running outside, especially by yourself, not a good idea. That is all : )

Rascal Flatts tickets!

Rascal Flatts is coming to Salt Lake on Feburary 26 2009 in the Energy Solutions Arena and I'm going to be there!! woot woot! My sisters and I got tickets and I'm so excited to see one of my favorite country music bands live I can't wait! I plan on getting all decked out for the occasion, getting an awesome button up shirt, tucking it in to my jeans, my cowgirl hat, and boots! Those I still have to buy but it's on my to do list when I get paid on monday : )

I'm going to be an aunt : )

yeah you read it right, I am going to be an aunt! My sisters pregnant!!!!! Oh man I am so excited! Mostly excited that I can finally tell people and talk about it, because having kept this secret since Christmas has been really hard(okay so I told a few people but for such a secret I did pretty darn good!). Well as mentioned Ash and Jake told their immediate family the news on Christmas day. My mom loves wooden plaques with sayings and quotes on them so they had bought one reading "Grandma knows best, have another cookie". When my mom unwrapped it I had just barely opened my own present so, being a little pre-occupied I hadn't looked up until I heard the word grandma. The next minute went something like this: I immediately looked up, stared at my mom for a second and then looked at them, proceeded to stand up, yell "no way" multiple times, and then...yes I started to cry! I seriously was so excited I could not stand it, you can imagine me then being told to not say anything until after the appointment. So here it is my official announcement posted with permission from the proud mommy herself : )

I'm going to be an aunt come August! but I guess technically I kinda already am.

Life right now...

Well my life right now could be said in a saying from a song "School's out forever!". Okay so school for me may not be out for forever but 8-9 months is a really long time! I'm currently not taking any classes this semester since I finished all my SUU nursing program pre-requisite classes last semester. I figured since I'd just be in a waiting period to get in I would move back home, but I tried to sell my apartment contract and apparently no one is looking to move to cedar city right now because I had no such luck. So I changed my plans once again(for some reason I'm really good at doing that) and have now become a workaholic! Even though classes only started a week ago I have already started to feel like an "outcast" when I'm with all my friends and their talking about classes, homework and complaining about professors. This is my first time not being in school during an actually school year and I never thought I would say it but I miss school!! I love my job I really do, but it has definitely been a week full of adjusting to change. One of those changes happen to be I don't get ready in the mornings like I used to so I actually look forward to doing my hair when it comes time to go out and play/party. I also look forward to wearing something besides my work uniform and sweats or jeans are immediately put on when I get off work. I'll make the adjustments I'm sure of it and it will actually be so nice to have one less life stressor out of the way, but for now it feels like school is out forever. Looking on the positive side though it gives me way more free time to do whatever I want : )

Pictures for J.Love

About three weeks ago, the weekend I was home for my sisters sealing, I got to meet up with the amazing McKinleys for some Christmas shopping and little treat at Yoasis. It was so much fun! I loved that I got to see them, it's not all the time you get to hang out with your married friend, and being miles apart most of the time makes it even harder. The yogurt was amazing of course, and we had to take a picture together before we parted, which ended in a photoshoot because we couldn't stop laughing and like usual Danny captured some of our "best" moments(including where she almost pushed me off my chair). Seeing as how I'm the slacker I am, it's weeks after I told her I would post them for her to steal. So here you are my little friend. And as always I love you : )

My Holly Jolly Christmas

I'm behind....

Yeah I know it's 2009 and that Christmas is already two almost three weeks in the past but my break was so awesome that I couldn't not post about it. First of all I got to leave Cedar for about 11 days of the break and that in itself was amazing!! Yes I do love Cedar but being home is way better. I got to Provo on the 18th and ended up crashing as soon as I got home I was so exhausted. I was able to attend my good friend Brittany Herdman's wedding reception on the 19th and meet the new main man in her life. And I must say she looked absolutely looked gorgeous, and I'm so happy for her.

Friends from high school @ The Reception

During the Break My school's team was playing up in Orem @ UVU so considering my obession with basketball I had to go to the game. Luckily for me my little brother and Dad enjoy watching it just as much as I do so they came with me. (and don't ask about the score because SUU should have totally won, but lost in the second half).


My first sunday home it was already time for Ash and Jake to get back from their cruise so I rode with to take my little "niece" to get reunited. It was good to see them and know they were back safe, even if they were tanner then me : )


Don't worry I'm not going to do an entry for every day of my visit but some other highlights of the trip included: playing with my little adopted nieces and nephews, seeing some amazing movies, actually sleeping(but of course having dreams about work), playing games with the bro's, shopping,celebrating my dad's and bro in law birthdays, garlick family christmas party, tons and tons of eating, but most of all just hanging out with and being around those I love the most!

However, I do have to do a little posting just for Christmas Eve, seeing as how it's the biggest day all break for my family. That morning I woke up and went with Ashlee to go pick up my new little niece dog Kimber. The next few hours were spent chasing her around the house attempting to teach her not to chew on everything, bathing her, then hiding her from Jake.

One tradition of Christmas time is that my two best friends and I meet up at my parents house for gift exchange. Seeing as how all of our lives are crazy we finally found time to do it on Christmas Eve, and oh man I have to say that I love my girls! We always have so much fun together and I swear I am laughing the whole time. Of course we had to have a photo shoot, to document everything we do and like always we took a lot. But here is just a preview of some that were on my camera.




Another tradition of Christmas Eve is our family Christmas Dinner. My brother in law's younger brother Rich was able to come spend Christmas Eve with us, and it was really fun to have him there. We all sat down to an amazing meal my mom had slaved over all morning, read the christmas story, and opened one of our christmas presents. It was then finally time for Reina/Jake to get their christmas present.



She's so cute! I love her. Naturally, we all went outside to play with her and watch Jake act like a little kid on christmas who just opened the present with a toy he's always wanted until we were all pooped and ready to head to bed. Our final tradition on Christmas Eve is that we sleep outside on the patio, and yes it is freezing cold to sleep outside in December but I love it. My brother Tanner went to work to find enough sleeping bags and blankets for everyone and after we'd all created our beds for the night we huddled in and took cover.




I'm sooooooo grateful that I was able to go home for Christmas and be there for the amount of days that I was. I loved every minute of it! I love my family and friends up there so much that no matter how many days I get to visit it's never enough and I always groin, complain and yes sometimes cry when it's time for me to head back to Cedar. Thank you to everyone who helped make this Christmas special, fun, and memorable, I love you all : )

Family Pictures

As all of us know Christmas is a time for Christmas cards to be sent to loved ones, usually including updated pictures of children and such. Well I by no means have my own little family so I came up with the idea to send Christmas cards of our apartment family. My roommates were just as excited about the idea and we all planned to be home one night to take family pictures, then assembled the cards at walmart, and sent them out. We were going to type a little lettter to go out with them, to tell family members and friends a little bit about each other but we were really short on time. So here are some of my favorite ones we took(some of them are kinda crazy that we took for the fun of it all):