Pictures

My roommate Wendy and I at Squaw Peak tonight. We heard there was a beautiful view so we went on a mini road trip! It was worth it

Behind Squaw Peak

A beautiful sunset. The view was well worth going

The view

My roommates Wendy and Amy with our box tower before making our fort a couple weeks ago.

The top of our fort didn't look very good, but we still thought it was cool

This was where we slept in our fort

We of course had to have our tv in the fort to watch movies

Our couches were deemed "exile," they were very comfy, better than sleeping on the floor.

Those are just a couple recent pictures, I've been really bad at taking pictures lately. I'll try to be better.

Work

Just a little update. Friday afternoon I had deep training for work. Then Friday night I worked a private party. They only asked 8 guards to work deep water so I was pretty excited they asked me to work. It was really cold and windy that night but I still had a good time. Saturday I worked a noon shift at the park. It was the seasons grand opening but the weather wasn't the best so it wasn't crowded which was nice. It was raining off and on throughout my shift so I was pretty cold. Sunday was a good day. My roommates and I made lunch and invited our friend Sun over, then our home teachers came over. That night we had a "shindig" with my ward and that was alright. My roommate Wendy and I listened to Jerry Seinfelds I'm Telling You For The Last Time. That always makes me laugh, I enjoy it. Monday, Memorial Day, I worked a pm shift at the park. Then yesterday I worked a noon shift. It was really crowded. There were a bunch of schools there so a lot of kids were running around. I had to do one assist and I almost jumped in to do a save, luckily I didn't have to. I got burned a little bit yesterday so thats a bummer, I'm trying really hard to be good about using sunscreen and not get burned, but I guess it had to happen sometime. After work my roommates and I wanted to go on a drive so we drove to Heber City. It was a nice night and I had fun driving in the canyon. Today I don't work unfortunately so I'm hoping to do something fun tonight. Yesterday was Matt and Wendy's 3rd anniversary, so...Happy Anniversary you guys! I love you both and hope you're doing great!

Happy Friday!

This past Friday my roommates and I deemed as "Happy Friday." It was just a really good day. We had dinner with my roommates brothers, then we played Balderdash which is always fun. After her brothers left she decided she wanted to set up her tent in our living room and sleep out there, but for some reason it wouldn't work so we came up with the idea of making a fort. Amy(my roommate) had a bunch of boxes sitting around so we decided to use those. We ended up using our couches and our kitchen table in making the fort. We watched Arrested Development for awhile and then slept in our tent. It was definitely not comfortable but still fun. Saturday we had a Relief Society 'sisters shindig' where we got to know the newer girls in our ward. Then we played some volleyball for awhile. Afterwards we were pretty tired so we hung out in our fort and watched Top Gun then Footloose. I am really good friends with my Relief Society president and we wanted to hang out that night. We got a big group of people from our ward to play night games. While we waited for it to get dark we played volleyball then we went on campus to play Sardines. That was pretty fun but our boundaries were really big so it took quite awhile to find people. Then we played a really fun game called Comando. I had never heard of it but it was extremely fun, I have a bunch of grass stains on my jeans from sliding and I hurt my knee and got a big bruise on my arm somehow, but it was definitely worth it. Sunday my roommates and I had our home teachers over along with some other friends for dinner. Then we played Balderdash again and took a walk to the duck pond, then the bell tower and waterfall. It was a really good weekend. This week I just have school and on Friday I have my first day(actually night) of work. We have a private party from 9-midnight and then the public grand opening is on Saturday. I am really excited for work to start!

Finally....Pictures!

At the zoo in San Diego with Porter.

I love this picture!

I thought this was so funny! This was at the fountain by the science museum. He was holding his hands out to feel the mist.

Another one. I love Porter so much and I love having pictures of him!

He wanted to try my sunglasses on, way too big for him but WAY cute!

This just makes me laugh so much!

Nikki and I up at Bridal Veil Falls

Looking up at the bottom of the fall

At the bottom of the falls

Nikki and I at the Y

Christina after she picked me up from the airport

Porter at Grandma and Grandpa Riley's. He was putting his hand in the water then slapping his head, that's why he's wet.

Porter at dinner the night I got home. I was so happy when I saw him and the rest of my family!

Pictures of the car after getting hit.

Up close. Luckily the car is fixed and mom has it back!

So i finally got to upload pictures from the past few weeks or so. I wish I had more to post. I love the pictures from the zoo especially! Enjoy!

Update

This past week has been pretty busy. I started lifeguard training for the waterpark last Monday. It was everyday from 3:30-8:30 then Saturday from 9-5:30. It went really well. It kept me pretty occupied which is always good. Thursday morning I woke up with the worst pain on my right side. I called my mom at 6 San Diego time saying I wanted to go to the hospital it was so painful. I ended up going to Urgent Care at the Student Health Center where they did some tests and were pretty sure I had a kidney stone. They sent me to the hospital in Orem to get a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvis where they told me I had one small kidney stone almost to my bladder. Less than an hour later I got a call from my doctor saying she got a fax from the hospital saying I have multiple stones still in my right kidney and hopefully by drinking enough water(I'm supposed to be drinking 10 liters of water a day right now) that it would flush my kidney out so I could pass those stones so I won't have to worry about them down the road. They're doing some tests on the first stone I passed and hopefully I'll hear the results soon. They gave me some pain pills and some nausea pills to hopefully help. Luckily I haven't been in much pain since that day. After I got all that taken care of Nikki and I decided to go to Bridal Veil Falls up Provo Canyon before I had to go to training. It was so beautiful. We hiked up and took some pictures. Saturday night my roommate Amy had some friends from Korea(where she served her mission) come over for dinner. It was really fun. We then went to the dollar theater to watch Duplicity. I was disappointed. I'd been wanting to see that for months and it really wasn't good. Oh well it was still fun to hang out with girls from my ward. Sunday was pretty good. I got called to Enrichment Committee for my ward, so that should be fun. Then Amy invited me and our other roommate Wendy to have dinner with her family for Mothers Day. I wish I could have been home with my mom for Mothers Day, but it was still a good day. Yesterday I had my last day of lifeguard training and I am now offically lifeguard certified! I'm pretty sure that's most of what's going on with me lately. Just going to school and training. I start working May 23! I can't wait. It'll be really fun. I've been trying to post pictures but I haven't been able to, so I'll keep trying and hopefully I'll have some posted soon.