Thanksgiving... WOW WAY LATE...

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**

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**

---> 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 :)

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....****...

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**

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.....*

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 :)