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Wedding 6/11/11

2011-10-21T13:17:00.000-07:00

I know I'm awful at blogging and I'm EXTREMELY far behind... But cut me a little slack, I started medschool in July and have been going 90 to nothing ever since... I always expected medschool to be hard, but I don't think you can ever prepare for running off of so little sleep... My weekend study days before a test look like... Friday Study: 12PM (and this is only because we have class from 8 to noon...) to 11PM (11 hours) Saturday Study: 9AM to midnight (15 hours)... Sunday Study: 9AM to midnight (at least) (15 hours).... So in 3 days I spend 42 hours studying.... NUTS! But I do have to say I LOVE what I'm doing and could not be more thankful for where I'm at in life (Poor Kenny on the other hand... He thought he had to handle mental breakdowns before... lol)...

Anyways here are a few wedding pictures... It was AMAZING and I felt so blessed and loved... thank you to everyone who made the trip (I know we were difficult and did it out of town)... But it was BEAUTIFUL :) I am now officially Mrs. Ballard :) Kind of weird after being someone's girlfriend for 7 years first :) But I would not trade it for anything...

Me and the boys :)

Twirling around :)

Haha my dress was getting in the way when I was dancing :)

Getting our groove on :)

Kenny going for the garter :)

Tossing the bouquet... Bratty caught it... It better be like 15 years lol....

Our first dance as husband and wife... Boy how I love this man...

Our first dance :)

Kenny and his mama :) Danced to: Song for Mama Boyz II Men

Me and my Daddy... I bawled like a baby... I love this man more than anything... He truly is amazing... Danced to: Tough Little Boys by Gary Allan

We used this instead of a sign-in book and it's hanging above our bed :)

Kenny's Grooms cake... He had NO idea he was even going to have a groom's cake... Thank you Ramen!

My sister... Right before her maid of honor speech... :) After watching an AMAZING slideshow presentation by Miranda...

Our rings :)

Our cake... BEAUTIFUL! Thank you Lacey and Stef!!

Me and my Daddy :)

Our rockin' shoes :)

Love this picture :)

Awww my brothers :)

The wedding party/ family basically :)

The most handsome man in the whole entire world... So lucky he is all mine :)

We were laughing when Kristi took this picture because she wanted us to point the bouquet at her and we pointed it way away from her at first lol...

Not sure how long it will be before my next post... HSF&D tried to kill me off... Hopefully Genetics won't be too bad... :)

Babysitting Kasyn

2011-02-09T15:52:00.000-08:00

So I'm just going through my camera and realized there are a lot of pictures that I have done nothing with... So this is just one of those posts... While I was on Christmas Break, I got to babysit my cousin for 2 weeks... He is such a cute kid and I had so much fun spending time with him... One of the first days I had him he wanted to go to the park and ride his little skateboard down the ramps, luckily he forgot his helmet so I used that as an excuse not to let him go... However, the next day he brought his helmet.... So I took him to the park and let him 'run' up and down the ramps... (luckily he kind of forgot he wanted to ride his skateboard down the ramp)... Anyways here are just some pictures of our Park Time :)

He insisted on taking one picture of me, since I was taking a million of him lol... I'm surprised he actually got me in the picture lol

I absolutely LOVE kids... I'm so lucky to be so close to my family, my cousins, nieces and nephews... I LOVE it... I cannot wait until it's time for Kenny and I to have kids and start our own family :) Until then I'll just enjoy spoiling all the other kiddos in my life :)

Engagement Story 11/6/10

2010-12-08T08:28:00.001-08:00

Sorry guys, this is more for me then you all... But if you want you can read haha... I CANNOT believe it, I'm really engaged, 7 years later :) I'm so excited!!

The wedding is going to be June 11, 2011 (6/11/11)

So... Kenny decided to take me on a picnic. I woke up and was a little grouchy, cuz I had a headache, but we went anyways. The drive was probably 30 to 45 minutes. Our final destination was a little ways past the Sandia Ski Resort. We stopped and began to walk down to the "spot". A little ways down, Kenny had to stop because he couldn't walk, at all. He couldn't move his foot at all. (He had torn some ligaments in it and wasn't wearing his boot). I told him where we were was perfect and we had a good view. He, being as stubborn as he is, said no the spot is just like 50 feet further. I told him I would carry him, but he wouldn't let me do that either. He let me carry the blanket and the food but that was it. He literally drug his foot the rest of the way. We sat the food down and he walked me a little further to show me a heart he had made out of pieces of rocks (when he came up to find a good picnic spot a couple weeks ago). We then sat down on the blanket we had layed down on a big rock. He made me a sandwich (after spilling the brown mustard everywhere because he forgot we had changed elevation =) He drank a sierra nevada and we ate our sandwiches. We had some sour cream and onion chips and some chocolate covered waffers :) Of course I made him take a million pictures with me from every angle lol :) He being the baseball finatic he is, had to thrown some rocks (even with his hurt foot). He had to make sure he could hit the rocks he had made into a heart (which of course he did). Then he had to thrown some rocks at some trees right in front of us, "more power", "more power" throwing it harder and harder, missing everytime... then he barely tosses it and nails the middle of the tree. Just for the record I hit the middle of the tree left-handed my first try ;) He then had to go find himself a walking stick (even though I didn't want him walking around) And of course he just had to use his walking stick as a baseball bat a few times (yes my little baseball junkie)... We then decided to head back up to the car. This time he only let me carry the blanket, and gimpy said "try to keep up haha" but I did get some good pictures of him walking up the mountain ow ow :) He told me he had a surprise for me at the car and when we got to the car I had to close my eyes. I was thinking he had gotten me a necklace because my butterfly one had broken. So we walked to the bathrooms first then I sat in the passenger seat. He made me take off my sunglasses so he could make sure my eyes were close. I closed my eyes and could hear him switching the CDs. The music came on and it was a guitar playing, acoustic, nothing but the guitar. and he walked to theo ther side of the car and said I could open my eyes. He grabbed my hands and started singing to me. It was a song he had written just for me (and the guitar was Darrell playing music they had written just for this song)... I guess I was daydreaming a little thinking how incredible lucky I was to have this man in my life, standing here singing to me, that I didn't really process the lyrics. It wasn't until the second time through the chorus that I realized what was going on. (I of course was crying the whole way through the song)... He finished singing, got down on one knee, pulled out the most beautiful perfect ring I had ever seen and said "Would you make me the happiest man in the world and marry me?" I pulled him in and just hugged him for awhile, I didn't even say anything. When he asked he had tears in his eyes and I was bawling. I finally let go of him and said "yes". I could not believe this was real and could not text people a picture of my ring fast enough. I know the whole trip down the mountain I had this stupid grin on my face. Kenny was laughing at me because I was texting a million different people the whole way back to the house. Kenny told me that he hopes I don't have any other plans and not to plan on getting much Biochem studying done (even though I really needed to because I had a big test on Monday), because we had dinner plans too and I had to get dressed up. We went home and visited with Ricky and Stef (I didn't know they were going to be in town even). And he told me I had to be ready by 6:00pm...

I know it's on the wrong hand, but I wanted a picture and I had a ring on my other hand lol... And it was WAY too big for the left hand :)

I LOVE this man!

The heart he made outta rocks

I think the sun was in his eyes, or maybe he was sick of taking pictures cuz I made him take a MILLION

The rocks from far away

Aww....

Him and his walking stick going back up the mountain... ow ow

The ROCK :)

Attitude... He better get used to it :)

We are not very good at this lol

After dinner, driving around looking at the lights... I still look like a little girl... Could not stop smiling all night :)

The inside of the limo.....

Me sitting in the limo while Kenny told the driver where to go

Us in the limo ready to go :)

Standing in front of the limo... Could not imagine a more perfect night to have my first limo ride :)

He had been planning this for awhile I guess, but I told him he absolutely COULD NOT ask me while I was studying for the MCAT and so he waited... He did everything perfectly! I still cannot believe it! I didn't think I would cry after being together all these years... But I still bawled like a baby!! I am so lucky to have him in my life and cannot wait to marry the man of my dreams :)

**the pictures are not in any order... but the ones in the blue sweater are the picnic and the very top is the only one i had after he asked me... and the ones dressed up are later that night :)

** I need to get the lyrics for the song he sang to me and put them on here too... But they are still in his car...

New Post

2010-12-07T18:16:00.000-08:00

I posted a new post, my concert weekend... if you guys wanna read it is posted a couple posts down... :)

Midterm Week

2010-10-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

Yuck!!! I had 4 tests in 3 days... Not fun at all... And the last one, biochem, I was running on an hour and a half of sleep... That class is rough! But anyways, I'm pretty excited that now I'm DONE and it's time for Fall Break... 2 whole days off from school!! Yay!!

I'll definitely keep myself busy with lots of fun things (and I'll post pictures of those things)... I can't believe Davydoo is gonna be 20 on Sunday!! Anyways, hope everything is going well for everyone!! Don't be too jealous of my Fall break ;) (and enjoy your break if you get one!!) I probably won't post anything until after Fall break!!

Newest News

2010-10-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

Ok, so the most recent news I have is pretty big... At least for me... So I will be graduating in May 2011 with my bachelor's degree in Biology (no this is not the big news)... But the schooling has been rough, but I think it's finally paying off......

I have studied like crazy.... And September 3rd I took one of the biggest tests (so far) of my life... The MCAT, my goodness that test is MISERABLE and I believe it truly is designed to make you feel stupid... At least that's what it does to me... No matter how many practice tests you take or how you 'feel' you did you really can never tell... It's a 6 hour test with a couple 10 minute breaks, but it's rough...

So on September 3rd I went to take the test... (Back up just a little bit)... I was feeling really sick and I mean REALLY sick for probably a week... On Wednesday Kenny said you either go to the doctor or I'm taking off work and making you go... Needless to say I went... I get there and bad news... I had a severe kidney infection and UTI (I've had kidney infections before and was hospitalized for it because of how bad it got) Well my white blood cell count was through the roof... The doctor was not sure how I was even standing in front of her... I told her I had alot of pain in my back, it hurt to breathe and such, but I was still going to all of my classes, etc... She then told me that I NEED to go to the hospital, and be admitted... My reply to her.... "Sorry I can't, I don't have time... I have my MCAT on Friday" So, being as stubborn headed as I am, she was not convincing me otherwise... She gave me 1500 mg of antibiotics twice a day for a week (the very maximum dose) and I left...

So now onto the test... I went to take the test at 1... My sister dropped me off and we sang some in the car, and laughed some and prayed some, etc... I signed in and decided to take a walk (as I was pretty early)... I get back, they fingerprinted me (crazy huh?!) and I took my temperature... My temp was 103.7 as I was walking in to take this test that could determine my life (in my mind)... great... Well I sat down and started away with the test... There was no way they would refund the money or let me reschedule that's how intense this test is... And let me tell you I'm not wasting $230.00...

Kenny picked me up and asked how it went... I said no idea, probably bad... Probably not a very good idea to take that test that sick... But I told him it was completely outta my hands and God would let me know where he wants me...

One whole month later (that's how long the results take to come in)... I logged on, after taking my anatomy practical, somewhat expecting to see a failing score... To my surprise I PASSED! I was in disbelief... So I logged off and logged back in to make sure I was for sure... And yup sure enough I passed... Of course I had to call my mom and dad, this was my dream... The door was finally open right in front of me...

You have to understand what a big deal this is to me... I have wanted to be a doctor since I was 7... Not a single day since then have I wanted to be anything else... And this test determined a lot of that dream coming true...

MCAT Results: 28

So... I guess what I'm saying is if all goes well I should be starting MedSchool here at UNM this coming July... Can you believe it... Really... I'm gonna be a doctor!!!! YES!!!!

Thank you everyone for supporting me throughout this trying time... I know people (at least Kenny) have had to put up with my meltdown moments and freak-outs... And I'm sure those are only gonna get worse and medschool will be INSANE... But here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Concert Weekend

2010-10-08T14:30:00.001-07:00

Ok, SO we had a weekend of fun back in September... On September 18 Zac Brown Band came to Hardrock Pavillion here in Albuquerque... Ricky, Stef, Lacey, Shawn, Kenny and I all went... It was a BLAST! I loved how patriotic they were... Definitely a GREAT show and I highly recommend going if you get a chance... (I know Miranda, you're jealous ;0) The crew went home the next afternoon... Kenny and I however, had bought tickets to go to the Brad Paisley concert on September 19... we got there at about 3 and didn't leave til about 1130... It was crazy, there were so many performers... Steel Magnolia's, Justin Moore, and I can't remember the others... whoever sings 'you might meet them both if you show up here unwelcome son' but they were all great performers as well... However, I have to admit that the reason we had even bought the tickets was not even to see Brad Paisley (sorry) but actually to see Darius Rucker... We both LOVE his music and it was AMAZING!! He played some of his country songs... and some of his hootie songs... so pretty sure everyone there heard something they liked :) Brad Paisley, is an amazing entertainer and very crowd oriented, however... He would walk around, show music videos... Definitely another great concert... So, two concerts in one weekend, needless to say we were EXHAUSTED the whole next week... Not sure how many double whammy weekend concerts we will do, at least not this semester... But it was still a lot of fun :) Here are some pictures, my camera started to die near the end and didn't take very good ones of the stage, but that's ok :)

Lots of pictures to sort through... But we had so much fun and I'm so glad that we got to go... However, we probably won't do a double whammy like that for awhile... We were exhausted and got behind with our schoolwork... But no worries, glad it's almost over now! :) another week and we get a 1 month break! (I know this is WAY late, but hey I get busy =) )

Photo Portfolio

2010-10-08T14:25:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I'm going through my camera and gonna try to update my blog... So some of this goes pretty far back... This was an assignment that I had to for my HMHV class last semester... I had the topic of 'death and dying'... It seems like I have encountered death around ever corner in my life... I know so many people that have not even lost a pet and I feel that I have lost so many close to me... The reason I even chose this for my topic (as some of you may already know) is because of Brittany and my Grandpa Marshall... Brittany was/is my best friend and one of the most influential people i have had in my life... There is not a minute I don't think about her... And my Grandpa... I became so close to him and he helped solidify my desire to be a doctor (another blog on that to come)... Anyways we had to find different pictures that represented death and dying to us and do a presentation on them in class (not easy I might add, but I feel the need to challenge myself...) Anyways so these are a few pictures from my presentation....

This is a picture of Brittany, a monkey (that reminds me of her... I was going to put it in her casket with her, but couldn't... Maybe someday it will find it's way to her grave...) And this is my Grandpa Marshall's ring... He ALWAYS had it on and was the one thing I wanted... This is probably pretty obvious, how it reminds me of death... These two deaths represent the beginning (may) and end (november) of a string of deaths that happened in my family that year...

I put these flowers representing death, because, although they are 'dead' many people hang them and see them as beautiful... This reminds me to not always think of death as a bad thing... No matter how bad it hurts us here, it is a beautiful thing for those that have gone before us (yes trust me I know easier said than lived...

This picture... Well I was unsure of even putting this picture in my presentation but felt I had to... After Brittany had died (the end of that year)... You could say I went off the deep end... I wrote in over 13 notebooks... Filled them up... With poems quotes letters, everything... And I have to say that helped... But I was extremely suicidal, and at a very bad place in my life... I felt there was nothing left and didn't care and convinced myself I couldn't feel anything anymore... (in a sense I was dead)...I think Kenny, Amanda, Kaitlin, Missy and Jess saw me at my very worst... Surprised Kenny stuck around? I am... I am truly lucky to have had people pull me out of this... Because as far as I was concerned, at the time, I was done...
This reminds me of Brittany (one of her favorite poems)... It's hanging on my wall in my room... No matter what you are going through in life... There is always one person there... God... This took me awhile to realize... When I had 'death' happen in my life, I am guilty of asking the question "Why would you do this to me... How could you do this... What did I do wrong" Very easy to do...
This is a picture of the VA hospital... This is where my Grandpa Marshall had to go alot (because he was a Vietnam Vet) He was diagnosed here with Agent Orange... And later (possibly because of the Agent Orange) was diagnosed with stomach lining cancer, which ultimately took his life... This picture represents death to me because of all the death I saw there.....
Hospital, for a lot of people reminds them of life, babies being born, or new beginnings... However, this past year the hospital room I was in was filled with hurt over a mother dying... one of my best friends here lost her mother... And in one of the hospital rooms is where I watched her mother flatline and slip away from her... where I literally caught her from almost flipping off the bed... Hospitals are so full of life... but also of death....
This is a song that comes on all the time on my IPOD (that has 3000+ songs on it) and everytime it comes on I think of Brittany... There are so many times I 'forget' I know that sounds dumb... But when I got my MCAT score I wanted to call her, and it took me a second... oh wait I can't...

I also had another picture... Because even though many people see death as a bad thing... There is another instance where it is seen as a good thing... Many people (more males than females, not to be stereotypical, but yah) see hunting, and killing an animal as praiseworthy... Kenny's Uncle Scott Ballard (you can google him) killed that national record elk... his name is brutus! (yes they named him and mounted him in their house)... He is HUGE! And this definitely was a good feat for him!

So needless to say, death can be seen in both ways... And death is something that is very close to my heart and I feel like I have a lot of personal ties... So I thought this was a good, hard, but good presentation... Definitely tested me in ways I was not sure I could overcome...

I thought, and so many people around me have thought, that having so many people close to me die would shun me away from the medical profession... why would I want to do that and be around that so much... I think it even shocked people that when we had to diagnose a 7mo old baby with cancer, there was no other place I would have rather been... I want to do that... I want to work with kids and help them when they're sick... I'm not sure and I'm keeping my options open but something amazing is going to have to come up in MedSchool to change my mind about wanting to be a Pediatrician....................

Hobbs America

2010-07-22T20:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I know I'm terrible at this... But I can actually put the whole last month in one post :) Well I think so anyways...

I spent the last week of June (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) in Texas spending time with Kenny's family... We spent a lot of time in the pool because it was very hot and alot of time just visiting :) I love going to Texas and getting to spend time with everyone. I have no pictures from this trip because I tore my house apart looking for my camera and could not find it anywhere, so I didn't have it (or so I thought) I get back and continue looking for it, and well it was in my purse... I guess my purse must be a little too big...

We then had a BBQ with all of my family at my aunts house... We all ate and sat outside and watched fireworks, we didn't even have to get any. Fireworks that go about 12ft in the air are illegal in Albuquerque, but the WHOLE neighborhood was lighting huge fireworks, and the cops never showed up :) Some people also bought like a roll of blackcats, you think those little strips are long, or even those bricks... This "roll" seriously rolled down the whole street... It went continuously for 25 minutes... WAY too many blackcats for me (I don't really like them)...

Finally... to what I have been up to this whole month... I am (as the title states) currently in Hobbs America :) I got here July 6th and I am here until July 29th... I was EXTREMELY nervous about coming... Everyone said I would hate it, but I really don't it is a great town and has so much to offer! However, I am getting to the point where I miss my family and Kenny a whole whole lot... And I am ready to go home...

Anyways, why Hobbs?? Well my program sends us out in groups to shadow a ton of doctors and do a community project... Our community project is teen pregnancy (Hobbs is the highest in the NATION) It's unreal how normal having a baby is in 7th, 8th, and high school... Our group was originally supposed to have 6 people in it... And only 2 of us are actually here... So needless to say we are SLAMMED... We are required to do the same 10 page paper and 10 minute presentation as the groups of 5. I feel like we are up from sun-up to sun-down with no breaks in between... So I guess instead of writing a whole bunch I'll put some pictures in and say what I'm doing :)

Ok so I think this is a pretty terrible picture of me... But give me a break... This was after a LONNNG shift.. I worked 8AM to 5PM at Urgent Care with Dr. Hurt... then 6PM to 7AM at the ER with Dr. Velasquez and 8AM to 2PM... And then I had meetings with various people until 9PM... Homework after that and talked with Kenny and watched movies... So I didn't get to sleep til about 3 or 4AM and was up again at 645... So I was running on very little sleep :) But I had a great time... I always thought that I may end up in the ER, after this experience... NOPE! That type of environment is not for me, I just feel like everyone is rude and you don't get to have the type of relationship you want, at least I want, with the patients... But it was a good experience none-the-less...

This is Alyssa and I at a lake we found here in Hobbs... It's actually right across the street from our apartments at NMJC... Ok maybe it's pond but it's still really pretty :) And yes she is WAY taller then me haha.

This is a picture of one of the days of a 3 day camp we did at the boys and girls club... This day was talking about future goals and college and stuff like this... So I had the girls make a "Dreamboard" and this means they put things they want to do with their lives... And it blew my mind that EVERY one of these girls wanted kids, several, by the time they were 20 and they thought we were ridiculous wanting to wait to like 25 to have kids... They said we will be so old... And they ALL knew someone 16 and pregnant or someone 16 that already had a baby... this is "normal" to them... However, the end of today I had a girl come up to me and say "After you've been here, I really want to go to college" before she had not felt good enough to even think about college... So if we helped ONE person, I feel like it was a success... Day 2: Is a talk about self-esteem friends and bullying and Day 3: Is a talk about sex education.... So we will see how all that turns out... This is our main project, but we also plan to meet at the correctional facility with pregnant teens and we have done a presentation at the town meeting... So like I said we keep ourselves very busy... (and on top of all this we have tons of homework and writing assignments every week)

This is Kenny and I at Carlsbad Caverns (he came up one of the first weekends I was here to see me) I had such a great weekend with him and was SO glad I got to see him... When we were going into the caverns it was POURING rain and we were soaking wet, so it was a little cold walking through the caverns soaking wet... But so fun :)

These are HUGE spiders that are crawling all over the roads here... We thought it was so crazy you could see them from inside the car, they are HUGE! So we pulled over to get a picture of how big they were... Kenny thought it was fun to swerve all over the road to hit them... This is another picture of Kenny's visit... This is us at that lake :) We went and played catch for awhile and skipped rocks... This was a couple hours before he had to go back home :( Us in the caverns :) Awww... How cute right??? I'm crazy about this boy he is so amazing :) Another picture of us in the caverns... I made him stop like fifty thousand times to take a picture with me :) Cuz it was hard to get pictures of the actual caverns :) I have some, but they are not very good so I'm not gonna put them up here...

All in all my month in Hobbs has been SO great, I'm just ready to go home and be back with everyone... I got to Skype with all my roomies one night and I LOVED that it seriously put a huge smile on my face... I love all of them so much and I'm so lucky to have them in my life... Only a few more days left here and then I will be home and getting ready for school to start up again :)

I need to become a more regular blogger so the blogs I do post aren't so extremely long... Sorry...

Weekend Getaway

2010-05-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

So Saturday, May 22 2010, Kenny's bank sponsors an event at the special olympics... The event they sponsor is called Bocce... Last year we volunteered and LOVED it, it was SO much fun! So he decided to sign us up to do it again this year.

Last year we had this guy named Jose, he was so funny, he asked us our names about a million times, and would get so excited when it was his turn to go... So this year we kept an eye out for him, we happened to get the same team he played for last year, and asked his teammate where he was, and his teammate Dominic said "He is no longer with us" Kenny and I both looked at eachother and were like crap he died... Then he got this like smirk/glare saying that he plays for the other team now... It was pretty funny! Kenny also almost got beat up twice by some of the competitors... One guy, we were judging, kept getting so angry saying we were cheating cuz we made him thrown both his balls before the other team (but it was because their ball never got closer to the palina) But at one point he literally got in Kenny's face and started yelling at him haha, but Kenny handled it very well, and explained the reason why to him like 6 or 7 times... And then we were going to turn in our clipboard, and an old competitor, like 70+, said I'm gonna freakin kick your butt (haha insert cusswords where possible) Kenny looked at me like what is going on haha...

So the Special Olympics, at least our part, only lasted from about 730-1230... So after 1230 we decided we were going to meet Justin and Dav out at Fenton Lake (they had camped there the night before) So we packed up, and wanted to take Mia but before we got onto the interstate she threw up in the car... She gets car sick, so we turned around and took her home, we're going to have to try giving her some Dramamine... It was like 1.5-2 hours out to the lake... It was such a beautiful drive, and Kenny and I just talked the entire time. It was nice...

We got to the lake and spent a couple hours there, then decided we wanted to go to the hot springs... I was in flip-flops, but I said I would be down to hike to the hot springs... Come to find out it was a 2 mile hike one way... There were alot of really steep parts, and it was a hard hike in tennis shoes... So my calves were burning once we finished... But it was definitely worth it... We had so much fun in the hotsprings... There were little fish that freaked me out, and the dog jumped on my back and scratched the heck outta it thinking I would give him a piggyback ride, but it was way fun nonethe less... I took a few pictures, so I'll post them... But I love having weekends to spend with Kenny, he is so incredible andd we have so much fun :) I can't believe we will have been together 7 years on May 30... Man time flies when you're having fun :)

These are the new hiking shoes, hott off the market :), don't you love them :)

This is us all sitting in the hot springs :)

Group picture once we reached our destination, don't you just love my hair, it made a cute little V haha (Justin, Dav, Me, Kenny)

Picture of one of the hot springs (there were like 4 or 5)

Pretty waterfall, we hiked half a mile in the wrong direction at first, but we ran into this so it was worth it... Our total hike that day was about 5 miles :) Not too bad :)

It was so beautiful there :)

Spring Break

2010-03-28T19:07:00.000-07:00

Ok. So this is a little bit late, maybe a lot a big late, but better late then never :)

For Spring Break Kenny and I went back home. Kenny took the week off from work so he got a whole week off school AND work. (Or so he thought) As soon as we got home, we stopped by to drop off 11,000 feet of wire to my dad (crazy!) and we ended up staying and helping him pull wire... He has several jobs going right now for his business on top of working 60+ hours a week at the hospital... So needless to say he stays pretty busy all the time, and I honestly don't know how he does it all... But we got to help him pull wire, Kenny was pretty excited because he has been wanting my dad to teach him how and he got PLENTY of experience during Spring Break...

When we weren't pulling wire, every other minute was spent with our families... My sister, Bratty's, birthday was Wednesday March 17th and she turned 12, Jaeden's was Friday and he turned 10 and so was my dad's, he is 40 :) So we had 3 birthday parties :)

This is a picture of all the kids at their birthday party... we went to the bowling alley... lots of kids and lots of fun :)

We also took Avyonne and Kayden snowboarding and taught them... They were definitely good sports about it and said they would like to do it again (so that's good :) ) They fell quite a bit but picked it up towards the end of the day...This is a picture of the boys, taking a break on one of their runs down the mountain :)

On a sadder note, our Hedgehog died the day we were leaving back home... He looked terrible, he was blue in the face and we started calling around to see how much it would be to put him down... $98... So we went to lunch and I came back and looked at him, I didn't think he was breathing so I touched him and he was hard as a rock... I guess he didn't want us spending anymore money on him... Poor guy... RIP Knuckles :) Kenny was pretty sad, but the pet store is giving us another one because he had an auto-immune disease so it wasn't our fault and nothing we could do about it...Good news... We got another hedgehog... He is so little right now, and his name is Sonic... Hopefully soon he will be old enough and we will start breeding them :) I will try to post pictures of him soon...

I know this isn't much, and I didn't post near as many pictures as I have... Or get to everything we did over spring break... But I really shouldn't be on here at all... This week and next week are INSANE for me!!! So many tests, papers, tests... ugh... It seems like my teachers waited to the very end to pile things on... So let's just hope I can make it through these next couple weeks... Then SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER TIME!!!!

Birthday

2010-03-01T17:01:00.000-08:00

Me and my aunt at my birthday party

Me and Kasyn at my birthday party Me and my sister at my birthday party :)

Haha well my birthday... Hmmm... I had class til 10 that night... (So no I didn't get trashed) But I had a break from 4 to 530 and Kenny took me to this really nice restaurant for dinner... I loved it and had so much fun :) And then I went to class and came home and did some homework... And then went to bed... Nothing too extravaggant.... I did get a lot of birthday texts and a few birthday calls :) Which was nice :)

This is what my sister and justin got me, my own longboard :)

This is Kenny and I headed to the elephant bar :)

Pretty flowers my aunts got me :)

Me And Darrell at my birthday party :) Haha well the night before Wednesday night, but aunts made me dinner and we all went over there and I opened presents from everyone... Got a whole bunch of cute clothes, Kenny got me a giftcard to the mall to buy more clothes, and a bunch of movies and candy and fun stuff :) He got me this movie called The Gifted Hands... If you haven't seen it I HIGHLY recommend it... I call it my inspirational movie... When I'm having a really hard week or feel like giving up I watch this movie and somehow decide to keep moving forward :) It has Cuba Gooding in it :) Anyways so after that I went home and did some more homework...

And Friday, my friend Candida took me to a movie and dinner... We went and watched Dear John (Another really good movie) haha I cried in it, I know I'm lame it's ok... And then we went out to Japanese Kitchen and they sang to me and threw food at me haha... And then we headed back to the house... When I get there I walk in and "SURPRISE!!!!" Haha there were like fifty people there for my birthday party (I know I still have birthday parties lol) It was so sweet of Kenny to plan a surprise party, especially cuz I didn't really get to hang out with any of my friends during my birthday or anything... This was right after the movie, as you can see I look like I have been crying haha :)

So overall, I had a wonderful birthday :) And I can't believe that I'm 21, it seems like I just got out of highschool and then I think about it and I have almost been out of highschool for 3 years, and am about ready to graduate from college...Life really does go by fast when you're having fun :)

Awww me on my birthday :)

Haha sorry the pictures are all over the place... This thing was not cooperating with me....

Valentine's Day

2010-02-16T21:28:00.000-08:00

Ok... So I have decided that I just never get around to this blogging thing and it's terrible... But basically all that has happened for me in the last few months is school... That is literally all I do this semester... I am taking a full schedule and then on top of that I have an MCAT class that is 3 hours a night 3 days a week... And on top of actually going to the class, every other night I have 8 or so chapters of homework for it... And this is on top of all my other classes... But I take my real MCAT April 17th... So I'm hoping this class will pay off then :)

So needless to say, my days have consisted of school, homework, frequent breakdowns, little bit of sleep, and then repeating this process... So I'm both mentally and physically exhausted most of the time... I know this probably sounds really sad, or you may think I'm overexaggerating, but this semester has definitely been hard for me... I have even questioned being a doctor several times (always arriving at the yes I do want to do this)... But nevertheless it's been hard...

So I am pretty sure all that sounds like a bunch of excuses, and it probably is just that... But now onto Valentine's Day...

Kenny's family (his mom, dad, lexy, and kayden) all came up Friday night to spend the long weekend with us... They stayed til Monday (even though I still had school Monday, BOO on UNM) Anyways... So Friday I actually cannot remember what we did... But I am pretty sure we just relaxed :)We got up for breakfast... Bacon egg and cheese sandwiches, and the girls all went shopping and the boys went to some gun show or something... We didn't eat much for lunch cuz we were saving our appetites for Texas Roadhouse... So we went to dinner with his cousin, we were planning on going to Texas Roadhouse like I said, but it was a 5 hour wait for a party of 12... INSANE!! So we ended up going to Monroe's a really good New Mexican place here :) And then came home and watched some movies...

Kenny And I agreed that we weren't going to get eachother anything for V-Day, because we just bought a 46 inch TV for the bedroom... however, I knew he wouldn't play by the rules and get me something anyways... So this time I did the same thing... So I didn't look like a loser when he gave me a present and I gave him nothing (this has happened before because I usually do play by the rules)So Sunday morning we woke up, and I saw a box with a card, but looked past it because I still had not wrapped his present yet and went to my room and wrapped his present (he thought I was oblivious and just didn't notice it)... So I gave him his box and grabbed mine... Inside my box was a beautiful butterfly necklace, made with mother of pearls and amethyst... And I LOVE butterflies (read one of my earlier posts if you're curious why)...

And he opened his box, and it the bottom inside a toliet paper roll was this picture and the money needed to buy it... He has always wanted a hedgehog, and I knew he would never buy it for himself because he will spend the money on more practical things... So on Thursday (that's when they come in) we will be picking up the newest addition to our family, Knuckles the Hedgehog :)..... Haha yes we have the most random animals.... A rabbit, Hutch, a Cat Power step betty, a dog, Mia and we had a duck Miko, but he flew away... So I'm pretty sure he is super excited about his present because he keeps saying he cannot wait for thursday :)

So this is Knuckles... We now have two of these little guys... The other is a little girl she is even smaller, 5 weeks... They are such low maintenance and great pets :) and this pic was taken the first day we got him, but now we don't use gloves or anything :)
So we then got ready for lunch and went to Texas roadhouse right when they opened at 11, and got right in... haha not ten minutes later was there a 2 hour wait and the waiting area was packed... we lucked out... And per tradition, his parents told the waitress it was my birthday, so I had to sit on top of the saddle while they sang and yee hawed :) (I have done this the last 3 years)

But overall, the weekend was wonderful, and was really good for me because I miss my family and it was really nice to see them... :) Last weekend my family came up for my birthday so I got to see both my families in two weeks... It seems like it had been forever since I saw them... (I will blog about my weekend with my familiy during my birthday weekend, and presents and all that fun stuff later, just figured this would be the shortest blog because I don't have many pictures to put in here...)

Promise

2010-02-11T12:10:00.000-08:00

I PROMISE, I will try to get better about posting stuff... My life is just so completely insane this semester I don't have time to do anything... but I will definitely try to update everyone this weekend... (I have a big Organic Chemistry test tomorrow, or I would do it now)

Anyways hope life is treating everyone well!

Thanksgiving... WOW WAY LATE...

2009-12-14T19:29:00.000-08:00

Ok... So for Thanksgiving we, Kenny and I, flew out to the Dallas/Fort Worth area to celebrate it with his sister and their family (Miranda, Derron, Dayon, Adaryan and Avyonne)... So anyways, we were supposed to fly out thursday morning (cuz Kenny had a debate in his wednesday night class) however, that got cancelled so we called the airlines at like 10 at night and got our flights changed to wednesday night so we could leave earlier :) Anyways so we get there Wednesday night and sit and visit... Some of the food was already cooked, rolls, haha and we went through 70ish rolls the night before Thanksgiving... which is basically all of them, so we had to run to the store and get some more for the next day... Just for the record pretty sure Dayon ate the most of those!! haha... we stayed up pretty late wednesday night visiting and such...

Ok... So Thursday, we got up and helped finish making lunch... oh and by this time the pumpkin pie was already gone as well... haha! But Derron's family came over for lunch... we watched some football games and visited... I don't think we ever took a nap but some of us dozed off for a few minutes, but it was literally minutes, maybe seconds before someone woke you up... well rested our eyes, while we watched the games :)

So, everyone left, and we all decided we were going to get up early and do some shopping... (DayDay, me, andi and miranda) Our plan was to leave at 4 AM... So my bright idea is that I am going to stay up all night and play video games with the boys... I have never seen anyone sit and play games as much as those boys did (COD6) haha... So we played, and somehow I got conned into playing... I suck... But one game I made the rules and said they could only use throwing knives and I get to use my machine gun :) I still lost (sad I know) But I did get 12 kills out of 20 :) haha... But for the record Kenny cheated and threw a flash grenade at me and killed me... I was so mad (I know way to competitive) so I decided to play some pool... I suck at this too like very bad... I usually play Adaryan and he runs the table... But I think me being as mad as I was I actually played really well... I was making cut shots that NO ONE makes haha... And I ended up beating Adaryan 8 games in a row... go me!

Ok so 4AM rolls around, we go wake up Andi and DayDay and Miranda. Miranda is SO not a morning person, but once we got her moving around and some Diet Coke in her system everything was good :) So once we left the boys went to sleep... We stopped at Wal-mart first, and people were SO polite there, they hit you and apologized fifty times, no one was fighting over anything... Everyone was very helpful! I could not believe it, but I guess that's what happens in Southlake (the richest city in the nation) so we filled the car up there, had to drop off the load, and go to all the other stores :) I bought Kenny and XBox 360 for his 21st birthday (I know what was I thinking!!) I only get to see him a few hours a night and now it's gonna be less with that dang thing :) But it's ok, he really wanted it to play live with his brothers/nephews/etc... So we get home about 11AM. Boys are still sleeping... I was patient, woke them up at 12... We left to get some sushi and go check out Darrells apartment...

That night we went to Dave and Buster's, kind of like an Applebee's food place mixed with a Hinkle Family Fun Center game place... This was to celebrate Kenny and Adaryan's birthday... it was lots of fun and we spent like 3 hours there... Ok so I stayed up all of thursday, all of friday and all of saturday... I did go to sleep about 2AM on sunday night (we had to wake up at 430 to fly out)... And we were so close to missing our flight we were literally running... But basically, there was just so much to do and we had so much fun that I really didn't schedule any time in for sleep :) But I'm still alive :) So it's ok right :)

I hope everyone had a blast over thanksgiving :) I know I did!!!

P.S. I didn't even notice this was in my drafts, and I never posted it... Whoops...

Thanksgiving Break

2009-11-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

Ok... So my thanksgiving break hasn't really started yet... I still have 2 more classes. (One today and One tomorrow) BUT then we fly out to TEXAS tomorrow night at like 5:10pm I think... I am so excited and I cannot wait... We are gonna be in Texas until Monday morning :) So the ENTIRE break... So I probably won't be posting anything over the break... But I will try to take a million pictures so I will have plenty to blog about when we get back :)

If I don't get on here again before I leave, or before Thanksgiving... I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving break... Enjoy the time you get to spend with your family... You never know when this will have been the last holiday you share together (to those of you who have lost loved ones, I know the holidays are hard, but think about all the good times and know they are watching over you) And remember to say a little prayer for our soldiers who won't get to spend the holidays with their families this year because they are fighting for everything this country stands for!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! :o)

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

2009-11-23T13:26:00.001-08:00

---> Ok so this is how long my hair was.....I REALLY hate this picture of me, but I think Kenny looks so so so cute I love it :)

---> and this is my hair now... I cut 14 inches off :) (yes i donated it :))

---> this is me and the pic i got at the nickelback concert :) my sister used her KungFu skills and snatched it out of the air and gave it to me yay!!! we were right in the front

----> this is us after the concert... we were supposed to do our mad/gansta look but dav didn't get the memo haha... we were so exhausted and i could not talk at all :)

---> this is us getting ready to go into the concert :) yay!!! so much fun :)

----> these are our tickets for the concert :)

haha so these are a few of pictures that i wrote about earlier :) let me know what you think about the hair?? better long or short?? the nickelback concert again was AMAZING!!!

Mine and Kenny's first Jack-O-Lantern :)

2009-11-10T11:16:00.000-08:00

This is the final product... Doesn't look too impressive right?? Some of you are probably asking yourselves what the heck is it.... Patience...

So this is what it looks like with a light in it :) Good right?? Haha let me just point out this is the FIRST jack-o-lantern we have EVER carved... And we were looking at things we could carve online and found this one... And guess what it says, VERY CHALLENGING... Haha but you all should know that kenny and i never do things the easy way :) It took us a few hours to do but we had so much fun doing it :) haha I hope no one has to ask me what it is... But just in case it is Yoda :)

This is after, haha we shoulda started earlier we were both so tired, and it was so late when we finished, but it was fun and definitely worth it :)

.......October.......

2009-11-02T21:25:00.001-08:00

Ok... Well I'm not gonna even go with the busy excuse again... We all know how that is right??

Well... The month of October seems to have flown by... I honestly don't know where it went... My sister turned 19, Davynne, on October 17th... We went home for fall break that weekend... (I think she was a little homesick, which is understandable she has not really gotten to go home since May)... In that short weekend (Thursday,Friday,Saturday, part of Sunday) We managed to go to doctor's appointments, get our hair cut, get family pictures, go to the kirtland vs. shiprock football game, have a birthday dinner and see all of both my families... There really is not enough time to do everything I wanted to...

But I did want to say thank-you to Brandi for doing our pictures!! She is SO SO SO amazing, and I really cannot say that enough... We had an hour timeframe to get our pictures done... This was the only time my family could be together on Thursday and my dad was flying out Friday... So there simply was no way around this ONE HOUR timeframe we gave her to work with... Poor thing... And guess what?? She not only made it happen, but the pictures look AMAZING :) she is so good at what she does :) I would post pictures, but I left that up to my mom (I don't know why I should have just picked them and had Brandi get them to us haha) So who knows when I will have those to put up :) But trust me on this one :) They look cute :)

Ok so towards the end of October... Well we had some grand plans... I was going to be a bee and Kenny was going to be a terrorist :) weird I know... But things didn't work out that way... We actually went out to dinner with a friend that had a very terrible thing happen to her (some of you may know, but I don't want to put it out for the world to know, so shoot me an e-mail if you're dying to know) but anyways Kenny and I have been trying to help her through this situation... She is an unbelievably strong girl and I have no idea how she is the way she is... But I am thankful for her... So needless to say we didn't go out at all on Halloween... I had not slept in 72 hours straight... And we sat down to watch the Oregon vs. USC game we had recorded (GO OREGON!!!!) And we ended up falling asleep on the couch because we were so exhausted...

However, we did carve a pumpkin :) It pretty much rocks not gonna lie :) I will post pictures of that too probably tomorrow sometime... Or soon :) I just wanted to get on here and give you a short update of October for all of you that are curious :) I hope you all had a great October.... Ready or not November, and daylight savings time, here we come :) On the upside only 6 more weeks of school left yes!!! And I only have 10 more classes to complete my Bachelor's YAY!!!!

Dark Horse

2009-10-03T21:24:00.001-07:00

Ok... So i have figured out that I am not very good at this blogging thing... My excuse I am so dang busy!! Haha I know that's the excuse most of us use... But I honestly feel like ALL I DO IS SCHOOL!! Seriously, two days a week I am in class basically 10 to 10 (an hour break in between for some lunch)... And I still have classes all day the other three days of the week... And when I'm not in class then I'm doing a gazillion tons of homework... It never ends... Never... But some positive to all this negative... I only have 10 classes until I have my degree and then into MedSchool (hopefully, cross our fingers)... Ok so enough complaining... :)

Ok... So rewind... On 9/9/09 I went to a Nickelback concert *my absolute favorite band in the world by the way* And yes I skipped my 7 to 10 o clock class in order to go :) shame on me... Anyways I have only been to a few concerts in my lifetime :) But this was by far THE MOST AMAZING CONCERT IN THE WORLD!!! The concert included, Saving Abel, Papa Roach, Hinder and Nickelback... I was unsure how Saving Abel would sound (as they are newer than the rest of them) But I was so impressed by them... They were funny and very good at entertaining the crowd, and they sounded amazing... They played 18 days for Our Troops which I thought was really cool... Then... Papa Roach came on... I have loved Papa Roach forever, I also watch Scarred for this reason (well partly) He came on and sound fantastic... He really impressed me when he sang the last chorus of Scars in spanish!! Wow!! Then Hinder... I think they played the least amount of songs but they were all spectacular. Ok so for these first 3 bands we were sitting in the grass seats (yes we are CHEAP) However, my cousin and a couple family friends called us and said they had a few extra pit passes if we wanted them... HECK YES!! So we were front and center, ok maybe a little off to the left, but IN THE FRONT for Nickelback... This was like a dream come true for me... Thanks guys :) Let me tell you they put on such an amazing show! The drummer had his own drum solo when everyone else left the stage and he was so good! They also brought all the other bands that performed out on stage to sing some covers with them... Bon Jovi--Wanted...That's just the one I can remember, haha cuz even writing about this I get so excited... I will ask Kenny the other covers when I put up the pictures :) and a few other...(these were seperate from their other songs) I think total Nickelback played 21 songs... Old and New...

I have never screamed so much in my ENTIRE life... I left the concert barely being able to talk... I thought, man I came so close to completely losing my voice... The next day however, my voice was gone... I could talk but barely... You know how when you lose your voice you sound like a smoker, well I was past that stage... And something that was so funny was I tried to scream, like tried really hard to scream and nothing came out... So pretty sure I COMPLETELY lost my screaming voice for about 3 days... It was crazy... And I think because of this, my throat being hurtin, I got sick... Ugh... But if I had to do it all over again... Would i?? MOST DEFINITELY!! Sick, losing my voice! EVERYTHING!!!

So I guess I might be a little biased but I thought the concert was ENTIRELY amazing... So if Nickelback ever plays a concert close to you, I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommed going... It is worth every penny!!!!

P.S. No pictures on this blog cuz currently my pictures are stuck in my camera... Ugh.. I have an SD slot in my computer where I Just stick the card in, but for some reason it's not reading them... So, I am going to have to find time to take the card to walmart and put the pictures on a CD... We will see when that happens,hopefully soon :)

.....Butterflies.....

2009-08-24T18:32:00.000-07:00

Ok... So I went on my first roadtrip home ALONE last Wednesday... Good, but interesting... So let me rewind first...

Well I have been babysitting my cousins all of last week, and we went to my aunt's house to swim... We were in the pool for maybe a whole hour because it was like we were swimming in the freezer... Ugh.. But anyways, out of nowhere this HUGE black and yellow butterfly swam over the pool... All three of us stopped and just stared at it... Well we then got out of the pool and went over to my other aunts house to help put up a fence (about 5 miles down the road) and while we were putting up the fence, again this huge yellow and black butterfly was hovering overhead... I had to just stop and stare.... I have not seen any butterflies around here ever, and I saw 2 butterflies that looked exactly the same...

So anyways, moving on, the significance of the butterfly? Well, as some of you may know my cousin Brittany Currier died during my sophomore year in highschool... She was my best friend. But back to the butterfly... When they did the drinking and driving seminar thing at the high school she was in it.. .And they had to write a letter to friends and family as if they had died... Well at the end of her letter she wrote, "everytime you see a butterfly, think of me, know I am there, listen closely to the beating of the wings, hear my voice in the wind as I am carried away." So every single time I see a butterfly I think of her... So I was already thinking of her, and I packed up to drive home at about 5...

Well on the way home Britt and Dars cross are on the side of the road... And the entire drive there I was anticipating those crosses... I didn't know how I would react, especially being alone. Anyways, so mile marker 110... I came to their crosses and all of a sudden the song switches to Who You'd Be Today by Brad Paisley.... I just started bawling... And I look over at the crosses and there were 2 black and yellow butterflies hovering over the crosses... I just could not believe it... (idk what's up with the prius advertisement... "i'm gay" haha if you've seen jeff dunham)

I have been missing her alot lately... And I guess I needed those butterflies to realize that she is never very far... It has been so long ago since this happened... But I still remember exactly when I found out... I hit my back against the counter and just slid to the floor... She is always in my thoughts... But I am very thankful for those little butterfly reminders... :)

Now that I got you all down... Let me bring you up... Well continuing my drive home... I was in NAPI and I was pretty upset because Kenny had not called me, and he was like really worried about me driving home, but I had not heard from him... So I was upset... Well anyways I had dropped my Sprite on the floor and picked it up to take a drink... Well I opened it and it exploded EVERYWHERE all over me... I just had to smile and laugh... I knew that was Britt telling me to stop being stupid, I knew Kenny was trying to call me something else was wrong... So here I am sitting with Sprite all over and just alone in my car laughing out loud... Loser I know... But I guess I think we just need to pay attention to all the little things... The people we lose never really leave us... Oh and about the calls, Kenny tried calling 9 times... My phone is not the greatest and never got them...

So all in all I made it home safely... A few bumps and butterflies later... But I made it :)

I'm still Alive :)

2009-07-31T17:19:00.000-07:00

Man, I am definitely no good at this blogging... I get on to see how everyone else is doing and never write anything...

Well my camera is still on the fritz, it came back and they fixed the lens, but now it won't read the memory card, so I have to send it in again ugh... What a PAIN!

This month has been really busy for us! We have been home every weekend for one thing or another... It has been alot of fun, but the drive does get old... But I am thankful that we live this close to family and are able to go home for not very much :) We are going home today as well... Kenny has to get his foot x-rayed, we gotta see if he is gonna have to have surgery afterall (he broke his foot back in june and has had a walking boot) so we will see, I hope he doesn't have to. :( anyways, we get to stay home until monday this weekend, so it won't be AS quick of a trip...

My sister is in Hawaii until next wednesday... Lucky I know!! I am gonna finish up my Physics class next thursday (well this thursday)... I am so excited, and then I get 2 weeks off until I start the next semester! I am hoping that we can go camping one of those weekends... I have not been this entire summer and I'm bummed...

Well... I'm gonna borrow my grandma's camera for this weekend... So hopefully I will have a few pictures to put up soon!

South Padre Sun :)

2009-06-25T13:32:00.000-07:00

So I know I told you guys that my camera is broken, and it is... But I do have a few pictures from our trip, at least of the first day...

We went to South Padre Island for Dav's "Senior Trip" I guess you could say... I had so much fun... I love my family so much and really am so lucky! We had a blast!! We laughed the whole week :) But anyways I think I wrote some about my trip in the blog before this... So this one is mostly just to add a few pictures :)

But good news... I sent my camera off friday... so hopefully it will be in soon and then i can take pictures of everything else that has been going on :)

Haha yah she graduated... But I am pretty sure she will ALWAYS be a kid at heart :)

Can you believe how big Jaeden is getting?? I can't... He is so much fun and has grown up so much... Haha I think he looks like a little frog here :)

We all tried so hard to do this... Haha but it was alot harder than it looked... Tris and I decided we were just too heavy, because we could never do it... Haha and we were right... It was made for people under 80 pounds!!

Doesn't he look so graceful :)

Haha he ALMOST got it... But then the board just sunk and he ate it :) But it was still fun!!

He has grown SO SO SO much! You all would be so surprised... He is pushing 5'11 now and he is only a freshman... Well I guess a sophomore now... But he dwarfs me now :(

Haha this is Bratty she actually did pretty good on this thing... But don't get me wrong this sand boarding thing had us all eating sand :)

Haha this is probably the best picture I have of me sand boarding haha... Pretty much all the time I was on the ground haha... But it was still fun :)

Aww... All the kids playing in the ocean the first day :)

Wow... When I went to look at the pictures I had from South Padre Island (I was thinking I only had like 20... haha I guess I went a little picture taking crazy... I actually had 142... In one day, I know that is a little much right :) But hey at least I finally got some pictures on here :)

Ugh!

2009-06-11T19:41:00.000-07:00

Ugh... So I took my camera to South Padre Island... and it worked the very first day... After that when I would go to turn it on it would start to and then turn right back off... Ugh! So I need to send it in and get it fixed... So needless to say there won't be any pictures on this blog either :(

So we went to South Padre Island and we had a blast... It has been so long since our family has laughed that hard... To see my dad in tears because he was laughing so hard was so awesome... We went deep sea fishing and caught a 55 pound fish (no joke!!) I will definitely post pictures of that as soon as I get them!! But my mom and I tried to reel him in and he literally almost threw us both overboard!! It was kinda scary! We were sure we just snagged the bottom of the boat because it was THAT HEAVY!!

Then we went to the waterpark... schlitterbann... it was so much fun... You literally stay in the tube the entire time... I mean you go around a lazy river in your tube, and there are like "exits" off the lazy river to the rides... So you NEVER get outta your inner tube... LAZY huh?? But we had so much fun :) Dav and I put sunscreen on, but were SO SO SO SO burnt by the end of that day... (Again I will try to find another picture eventually) But I am definitely a white girl... And I burn and peel, that's about it... I was hoping for a tan but pretty sure that is not going to happen...

Other then that trip I have just been super busy with school... today alone I went to the school to work on my homework... 3 hours to do 5 problems... UGH! So you can see how much time that takes up!! But it's ok... This weekend we will be going home, Andi just got a total knee replacement so we want to go see her and make sure she is ok... But ya... I will post another soon... HOPEFULLY with pictures :) Love ya!

Slackin.....

2009-05-27T08:53:00.000-07:00

Haha so I know I have been slackin on the blog lately... I just get so busy and find other things to do... But I know that's no excuse :) Anyways, I'm on Kenny's computer (because I forgot mine at home this past weekend) so sadly this blog will not have any fun pictures :(

But no worries I will post lots of fun pictures later!!! So, I have started my summer class... I actually started it 2 days after my Spring semester ending... So needless to say I didn't get much of a break... But it turns out my family and I are going to South Padre (in Texas) for my sister's "senior trip" for a week :) We are leaving Sunday!! So that should be lots of fun, who knows maybe I will get somewhat of a tan while I am there!!

Hmm... We are still unpacking boxes (and yes it is driving me CRRRRAZY!) I feel that we should already be completely unpacked and it is just not happening... Dav is movin into this madness today :) So that should be fun! I'm so excited for my sister to come and live with me!!! YAY!!! Well I just wanted to let those of you that read this thing that I am still alive and kicking, just busier than ever :) Haha I will post fun blogs with pictures later :) LOVE YA!

Lucky 7....

2009-04-23T10:07:00.000-07:00

Me and My Little Man :] Kisses :]

Ok, So I know it's been way too long but i have just been EXTREMELY busy... Only a week and a half of school left yay!! And I CANNOT wait!! Except I don't get much of a break... My last day of this semester is May 15 and I start the Summer semester May 18... Haha not much of a break but that is for another blog... Anyways....

Well April 7th my new nephew was born... His name is Richard Wayned Ballard III... I fell in love when I first saw his picture. He was a big baby, but oh so cute! So of course that weekend I went home to see him, and the other munchkins :] Haha everyone knew the rules when I came to Stef's house... Sheleeha gets the baby, end of story... Haha I think I let Kenny hold him twice for like 30 seconds at a time the entire weekend, and pretty sure I only let his daddy hold him once... Haha basically I never put that baby down! Lexi and Kayden are going to be such amazing older brother and sister. I have never seen a child as patient as Kayden is. I have never in my entire life seen Kayden get angry with Lexi, he does nothing but look out for her and help her in anyways possible. And Lexi, wow let's just say little miss attitude already. She is so amazing haha and you can ask her I'm her favorite :] Anytime I was not holding that baby, I was carrying her around :] Ugh I loved it! And I cannot wait to go back and see them... Ok so you're probably wondering what the Lucky 7 means, I mean I have only mentioned 3 right?? Well I have 4 more nieces and nephews :] duh!

Me and My Little Man

Haha Uncle Kenny wrestlin with the kids
Dying Eggs....
Showin off our eggs :]
Lexi's egg :]
My mini Me holdin the baby
Tripp's first Easter
Daddy and baby
So cute :]
I love this picture :]
Before church on easter sunday :]

Ok... So I'm sure most of you know by now that Kenny's sister moved to Texas :[ we all miss them so so so much, but it was such a good opportunity for all of them... Adaryan is doing so good! He has made a ton of new friends! Heck the first time we went up there, he was invited to like 4 girls' parties all in one weekend... And school wise, he is so smart and picks up everything so quickly! I cannot believe that he is already learning stuff that I just barely started to learn in college!! And don't get me started on sports! He is such a natural athlete! He will definitely go far and I am so so proud of him! Next... Dayon :] yes she is my neice too (kinda weird huh) we're about the same age :] but she is a freakin athlete! She did so good her first year of college, and now they want her all over... So she is probably going to be moving further away to Kansas City, Missouri but again that is the stuff that she has always wanted... WNBA here she comes! 5 foot nothing, but will rock your world! haha... And Avyonne... Wow that little boy is just like the rest of the family, he has so much energy, and is already beginning to follow in his brother/sister footsteps regarding sports... But he is also one of the sweetest boys :] haha we definitely have a good time, haha even when he is wrestling me to the ground (along with the other 5 boys) haha... And finally, Malachi, a beautiful baby boy whom the Lord needed more, the Lord had bigger plans for him, but we love him and miss him so much!

So I guess 7 is a lucky number (for now) I'm sure that number is going to change... But for now it fits right?!? I am so so so blessed... I have one of the most amazing families a person could ask for... My parents would do absolutely ANYTHING for me, and I mean that and truly believe it... And my brothers and sisters continue to amaze me on a daily basis! I guess I am one of those people you could say just "got lucky"... I was born into a great family, and inherited a great family... What more could a person ask for?!?

Spring Break :) phew......

2009-03-25T16:50:00.000-07:00

Haha ok... So I finally got a few seconds to get on here and write about Spring Break... I was SO SO SO busy the entire time...

First of all we left Friday right after our Econ lab... which got over at like 9... we made it to texas by 6 so we could be there for day day's welcome back from college (from spring break) dinner :) it was SO SO SO good!!!! haha, i guess any food is good for starving college students right?? haha we played tons of games and just hung out and visited... i have to say i wrestled around with 5 boys all under the age of 6 and lexi... haha that was not a fair fight but i held my own... they would jump over my back and i would have to flip them over... let's just say i was a little sore the next day when we went to the mall :) but it was fun :) this is how i looked after wrestling with all those boys :)

Anyways we stayed there until monday and drove all the way to k-town that day (i think about 11 or 12 hours) you would have to ask kenny because adaryan and i did most of the sleeping while he did most of the driving :) but we had to go then because bratty's birthday was tuesday and i couldn't miss it :)

lexi playin on the chair in texas

on the road haha don't we look beautiful... ugh it was FREEZING driving through texas weird huh?

so once we got to k-town it seems like we went 120mph the entire time we were there... it's hard to see ALL of both our families, but i think we do pretty good :) So tuesday we had dinner at my grandma's house for bratty's birthday :) so good... we ate lasagna... she just turned 11 wow huh?? she is so amazing i love her so much! we played canasta because that is what she requested... haha and our team won :) go us!! (bratty, me, and dav) wednesday we ran around town kenny got a cool new phone then we went to a dinner at the church (friend's scouting dinner) then rented movies to watch with my family.... thursday was my dad's and my brother's birthday... so we had another dinner at my grandma's... jaeden is 9 i can't believe it he is getting so big... and we played yahtzee i pretty much kicked butt then too :) oh and p.s. i got sick during this whole thing too (from dav ughhhh) :) friday we drove to cortez to see my brother Tristan play in the varsity baseball tournament... haha yes he is a freshman and playing varsity... he made the last 2 outs for the game playing second base... he is SO tall now haha beats me by like 5 or 6 inches lol... haha then after the game steph and i got all dressed up to go out with the boys... we suggested the dollar movie but they chose outback :) so we got ready and went to eat... we talked and laughed and had a blast!! haha while brycee was seeing if his teams were winning :)

haha all dressed up how cute :)

saturday, this is when it really got crazy... bratty had a soccer game at 11, and there was also a breakfast at kenny's house... how are we supposed to be in two places at once?? haha well let me tell u... i stayed for bratty's game and my mom got me roped into sidelining lol... haha stacey was pretty proud i could remember all the signals lol... so after that bratty and i ran to kenny's ate some breakfast... visited with his family... it was like 1:30 by this time... so we went over to aunt june's to talk to her for a little bit and say bye... then over to nana and papa's to say bye... by this time it was like 2:25... we then went to ktown to get a note to take my sis from the track meet after she ran cuz she was way sick... haha the thing was she ran at 3 and it was already 2:35 and we were still in ktown... how do you make it to aztec in 25 minutes? especially when the la plata bridge is out and you hit every light?? i have no idea but we did it... all the way to koogler and i got to see my sis run... she looked so good and ran a 65 400 WOW and she is WAY sick... she's amazing :) so afterwards we got everythin together said goodbye to my family and headed to alb... we left about 630 (because andi flew out of alb the next day at 6am to southlake) phew.... what a week... oh let me add everyday we were up by at least 7 running around with family and watching the kids (kayden and lex) for stef while she did her bus run :) no sleepin in for us!

how cute again :)

haha i know where are all the pictures of everything else i did right?? haha well i was running around so much that most of the time i forgot to grab my camera ugh... but at least i got a couple :)

Finished my last test before SPRING BREAK yay!

2009-03-11T16:40:00.001-07:00

So... I thought I had better not start slacking on this blog stuff so early... I guess I just forget with school and stuff...

But I have been thinking alot... I guess I am the type of person that tries so hard to keep people in my life... I guess I don't realize that there may be some that just don't want to be there... A friendship is not something you can do on your own, it just doesn't work that way (or man would I been good at having friendships) lol... But then when you find those people, the ones that you have worked so hard to keep... And they come to YOU... Like just a random call or a random to text to see how things are going or even just to let you know what they are up to... There is no better feeling in the world... That's how it has been lately with Lindz... I spend everynight over there... And she wants me there... Or she will send me random texts just to say hi... And that she loves me... Those are the people that you NEED in your life... Haha there are also a few other people that send random texts my way and I truly appreciate them (Kelcy) :) Those are the people that are worth holding onto... It's just hard to realize who has that friendship potential and who you are just holding onto for no reason....

Haha... I guess that is just a little spill I have been thinking about lately... Haha I guess you could say I'm notorious for holding onto people that don't want to be held... But anyways, let's see now for the update part... Kelcy and Kelsea and Nick came to see me last weekend :) It was a blast I wished they could've stayed longer, ugh but we still don't have our house... Next time guys next time :) We went shopping :) YAY!! Haha and Nick and Kenny did so good... No complaining at all :) lol... But I just thought I would post a few pictures of our trip... Haha pretty sure Kelsea wanted to kill me, I kept making her take pictures with me :) yay!! I love you guys so much!!

Haha this was one of the first pics we took of Nick, ready to model for me as
soon as i pulled out the camera :)

Haha he loved modeling with the sunglasses So cute mama and baby :) haha this is nick and i waitin on Kelc to get outta the dressing room haha pretty sure this is the only pic we got of kenny (his hand) haha, nick
loved lookin at himself in the mirror (still waitin on kelc lol)

haha how cute :) love u guys!!!

More pics :) haha pretty sure Kels wanted to kill me for making her take so many pictures :) Still all smiles :) Haha he was scaring kelsea lol (he could pretty much fit through that) haha kelc was shoppin so she don't know about this :)

the LAST picture we took of nick and the very end of the day and look at that huge smile :) such a good shopper :)

Other then these few little "fun" moments that seem to find their way into my life, I have just been busy with school... But I have noticed that these little moments are what keep me sane... Thank-goodness... I only have one more test, tomorrow, Bio204 ugh! I have lab tonight, 8 page paper and a 20 minute presentation... Yay 7-10 (long right??) And then Friday econ lab and then off to TEXAS!!! I am definitely ready for a break :) SPRING BREAK! We're going to Texas for a little while and then we are gonna go back home because my sister, brother, and dad's birthday are all during the week that i have spring break :) can't wait to see everyone!! (haha getting better huh, didn't get TOO carried away) :) MUAH

Just a Lil' Update...... :)

2009-03-03T18:38:00.000-08:00

Haha... I know it's been awhile since I've been on, but I have just been SUPER busy... School seems to do that to you I guess...

Hmm... What has happened in my life lately? Not a whole lot... But if you haven't heard my best friend is FAMOUS lol... Yes the one that swallowed her engagement ring... I hope you're having tons of fun KK... But I miss ya! So come back now ok :) And I guess if you come back you can finally get some sleep :) Haha... LOVE YOU!
Haha see I'm not lying... The famous girl is my best friend lol (also Lacie, Me Melissa, KK)

I have a lot to be thankful for... I have a handful of the most amazing friends a person could ask for... I wouldn't say I have a million friends, but the ones that I hold close to my heart I know will never ever leave... And I am thankful for that... I guess I just want to say no matter what comes into my life... You will know :) And I hope you all will do the same... Don't forget/replace those friends for they are few and far between... It may seem hard when some things come up that are more important, but I promise they come back... They want you in your life just as much as you want them, but you both have to work... Remember puzzles? They aren't easy but they are always worth it :) Put the time and effort in and you won't be disappointed......

This is Kenny, Me n Lindsay :)

Also, God has blessed me with a wonderful family... I have never had such a supportive team on my side... They really are amazing... It is so nice to have my aunts and uncle here... At times they are what keep me going... School keeps me busy/frustrated... But coming home to hang out with them is worth all the frustration i could possibly experience... And Kenny, what do I say about Kenny... He can make me laugh, he keeps me in line and keeps me on track... He really holds me up so much and I don't know how I could ever thank him enough... I am so happy that he is able to go to school with me... Haha he is definitely the smart one out of the two of us... He has to teach me stuff all the time :) God has also granted me a mind... One in which I am able to think, speak, learn, laugh, cry... They are all blessings in their own way... God has given me so much... I mean I complain about school sometimes, but I am lucky enough to be going to school. There are so many people that can't... Life can get crazy/hectic/frustrating... But when you can't find the bright side, polish the dull side :) Things happen for a reason, people are in your life for a reason, but at the end of the day... Remember who got you there, God, your family, your friends....... :)Aren't we such a good-lookin family ;)

Let's see what else... I guess I have been thinking about my sister a lot lately... I cannot believe that she will be graduating soon... But I am also SO SO SO excited for her to come up here and go to school with me :) I CANNOT WAIT!!! haha... She is so amazing, and has taught me so much over the years... It's so nice for you sister to be your best friend... I don't know what I would do without her... Yah I'm the older sister, but sometimes I feel like it's the other way around... No matter, we have each other to lean on... I miss you Davy-Doo!!!!

Haha no one can rock the silly string like you!!! So beautiful :)

Haha sorry if I bored any of you to tears... I guess I got a little carried away :)

Puzzles......

2009-02-18T16:51:00.000-08:00

So... I don't know how many of you do puzzles... But I do... They can get so frustrating, yet so addicting... We had a puzzle, one of those photomosaics, and it took us forever to get it all put together, but now it's framed and is never coming apart again :)

Haha so I bet you're wondering why the heck I'm talking about puzzles... Well I guess I have just been thinking alot lately... About life in general... I guess what I'm saying is that life is like one big puzzle... Except you have to pay close attention to where you fit the pieces together... I recently realized that I had a piece that wasn't fitting right in the border of my puzzle... I tried and tried to replace that "piece" with other "pieces" and they just never fit... Without the outside of the puzzle put together it's pretty hard to put the rest of it together...

Anyways I think I finally found the pieces that fit... There have been people that I have fallen away from, and always KNEW they needed to be in my life... And they're back :) (I think she knows who I'm talking about) But I guess if we never had gone our seperate ways we wouldn't have the rest of the pieces of the border and those are equally important... I have some amazing people in my life now a days... And I could not choose to dispose of any of them over any of the others... They all play an important role... But I truly am thankful to have my puzzle piece back in my life :) I have needed you!!

A sidenote to this story: don't worry so much about trying to MAKE someone fit into your puzzle, sometimes they just don't fit quite how you would like them to... Also, don't center your entire puzzle around one piece, you have to remember all the other pieces that make the final product. You may have a favorite piece, but you need them all... Trust me, when you lose one piece nothing feels right... Life's a puzzle, and it can be stressful and frustrating, but when all the pieces start fitting together perfectly, you just have to smile :) and be thankful that you never quit and put it all back in the box...

I guess the reason I am writing this, is because I have had a lot of time to think this week... Ugh it has been so hard and so frustrating... My really good friend had a traumatic experience last week and I dropped everything to be with her... That really took an emotional toll on me, RIP Jere... Then I had 4 tests in 3 days... (yes only one more left tomorrow) So trying to balance that with everything else was difficult... But afterwards, looking back I'm so glad I didn't throw the puzzle back in the box... I'm a few steps closer to completing the puzzle :)

So I just want to say thanks to all the "pieces" in my puzzle... I am so thankful for you all! And glad that you fit the way you do :) I have some amazing pieces and wouldn't trade them for the world... So just remember, when you get frustrated with your puzzle, remember how long and hard you worked to get the pieces together that fit... It would be a shame to rip them all apart and put them back in the box... Look forward to the end product, it WILL be worth it!!!!!

Birthday... Whoo Whoo!!!

2009-02-09T15:24:00.000-08:00

haha so I guess I better put something on here about my birthday... It was February 4th... I know why didn't I post something ON my birthday? Well I didn't really do a whole lot ON my birthday... Kenny bought me 4 pairs of shoes :) And yes he picked them all out by himself :) yay!! They are all way cute... (I haven't taken pics of the shoes yet, but I will post some later) :) And my aunts took me out to get my hair did :) It's DARK now :) I think I like it! But other then that I couldn't go out or anything cuz first of all my birthday was on a wednesday... AND i had class from 7 to 10 at night... lame i know... So that was my birthday...

The first part of the gang...... :)

The Cake... Yumm... Thanks Phung n Dennis

Blowing out the candles..............

The other part of the Gang......

The Birthday Girls......

Since I wasn't able to go out n do anything... I had to wait til the weekend... Friday during the day Kenny took me out to lunch, Red Robin, Yummm :) and we went and watched He's just not that into you... Hope he's not sending me a sign right?? Haha it was really cute... Then Friday night, a bunch of my friends took me and juanita out (we have the same birthday) we went to applebees :) And after dinner Kenny me candida and lloyd went out... we stayed out til about 1 I have SO Much fun with them :) I love it... So you would think that would all add up to a pretty dang good birthday right?? Haha well it's not over yet...

Saturday... Kenny took me SHOPPING :) haha yes he volunteered lol... So we went to Coronado Mall first looked in about 15 stores, and I wasn't really feeling anything in any of them... So Kenny decided we should go to Cottonwood, we got there looked in 10 more stores, and finally ended up in Bloom... Haha Kenny went around picking out shirts for me to try on, I picked out shirts for me to try on and I ended up getting like 9 shirts or something like that... Haha we were "shopping" for about 4 hours... And he didn't complain once... haha :) So for my birthday, I got shoes, movies, dinner, clothes... (haha also coming soon, pics of the shirts lol, haha)MY FAVORITES :) haha... And to finish up my birthday weekend, we were LAZY :) watched 4 episodes of house, and did some homework yes :) very fun!! lol...

Superbowl 43....

2009-02-02T12:55:00.000-08:00

So I guess I'm gonna try this blogging thing out. Where to start :) I guess the most recent thing in my life was Superbowl 43... Can you believe we have had 43 Superbowls?? Haha and I have been alive not even for half of them... Steelers vs. Cardinals.... I was definitely pulling for the Cardinals. Kurt Warner has an amazing story. How he met his wife, his son, his life before NFL. It all really is amazing. Haha and I guess he is a good quarterback :) But anyways Superbowl Sunday isn't really about football is it?? lol. It's more about spending time with family and eating way too much food, kinda like Thanksgiving... And that's exactly what I did. I got to spend time with my family... We ate way too much junk, hot wings, bbq wings, homemade cinnimon rolls, chips, con queso... THEN Kenny made fajitas and we had frontier tortillas and let me tell you, you can't eat just one of those, even if you are completely stuffed...

I don't know if any of you had the 3D glasses for after the 2nd quarter but it was pretty cool when the paddle ball jumped completely out of the screen... and yes we ALL wore our glasses :)

I guess other then that all I have been up to is school, school and school... More to come, stay tuned :)

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