May-June 2009. August 3

These are some of the pictures of things that have happened since I have been up in Idaho for the summer semester and session. I have met many new friends and people, it has been quite the wonderful time here. I love all these people. :)

Jeff Patten's Birthday close the beginning of the semester. He is the one with all the presents, to my left and your right.
This is the group of people from our ward that showed up to celebrate with him and have a good time. This was our first time meeting Kevin and his roomies. Kevin is the one to my right and your left of me in the bottom of the picture.

This is my dear lovely friend Rebbecca Hill. She was my relief society president and I love her to death. We are so cute. :)

Becca and I got into a water fight after our various soccer games. It was very fun. Warm water because it was a little cold that night. But it was still amazing. I am so glad she is here. One Sunday we decided to go and "chalk it up" with the boys apartments in our ward and this is what happened. We did it at our apartment, but the Manager said it was vandalism and we had to wash it off shortly after we put it up. Sad day, but the guys apts manager couldn't care less. :)

THis is my friend Jonathan William Bealer and Wenis (Daniel Walker). We are getting the slack line set up to go slack over the canal. SO awesome. I was in charge of documenting then playing as well.
Me attempting to go, it was so scary. The water current was dragging me with it, we all kept leaning the same way the current was flowing, it was really crazy. But SO FUN!!

These two are amazing. So cool, and where I get my inspiration for being better at lining.

This is my foot after cutting it on some glass in a different part of the same canal as the one above. I got ten stitches and lots of pain, and no fun for the next four weeks after it happened at the end of June. LAME.

This is Amy, Brittani, and I attempting to bridge jump after our real attempt failed because people bailed on us. So we went to the canal. We are all so excited

This is just up the canal from where i cut my foot on that nasty piece of glass and so I was quite a bit scared of walking in the mud, so I tested out the water first. :)

This is the last jump of the day Brittani and I took. She chickened out on me after we counted to three about two times. Lame! So much fun though.

Yet another attempt at bridge jumping,but instead we went to Swan Valley and jump into the river here by these waterfalls. My dear friend Jon, to the right, took us there. He is awesome.

Britt and I in the falls. SO cool

This was when my family was here at the Dunes playing and Brittani came spent the day with my family and I. Egin lakes. Mica totally belly flopped this on on purpose. OUCH!!

Brittani's sand castles...or shapes I guess. Pretty cool they way they look at first glance.

Me my, brother and little sister playin i the sand and building sand castles

August 3. Spoon Me Please

It sure has been a while since I have written, and a lot has happened in the three month gap of my last writing. I don't even know where to start.

I guess I will start here.

After I last wrote, I found out that I received a Private grant and Scholarship through the school. Someone gave me money enough for at least a bit of a semester. And that is beautiful. Then about a week later of finding out I had those scholarships, I got an email from Newmont Mining Corp, where my father works, and it was about the scholarship I applied for. In anticipation I closed my eyes as I opened it. I slowly opened my eyes very slowly after I knew it had opened; I read "congratulations... and then my heart started to beat more...you have been awarded the Gold Award of a $5,000 scholarship... then the tears came. At that moment I knew that God was looking out for me for following Him and being where He wanted me to be at this moment of time in my life. It brought so much relief to know that the next year of my schooling had been paid for with about a little over $6000 in scholarship and grant money. Now it was just my job to find some income to pay for my housing and food.

I searched and searched for jobs, found nothing, but I did talk to a guy that was in my Geology class about helping him move water pipe out on his fields. He said he would keep me in mind when the season started and let me know when the time got closer to planting and ready for watering. So, I pretty much just had some fun during the summer semester for the rest of April and end of May.

In May, it was Mother's weekend and my mom came up to play with me. It was tons of fun and I got to take her to a bunch of things she hasn't really been to and show her why I love this place so much. She enjoyed some seminars with me, concerts, the likes of a choir and orchestra concert, and one by a famous amazing pianist, and just letting her do nothing and enjoy life, it was fun to see her fidget over not having anything to do. :) I told her to enjoy it all the while. She came to our HUGE slacking party, she enjoyed meeting all my awesome slacking buddies and watching me have fun. I had such a blast. I love slacking, I can't wait to get one of my own.

At the 3 June I started moving pipe. It is quite the job let me tell you. I get paid about $0.14 a pipe I move and I get to ride my bike out there to Hibbard, ID and it is about 28 miles a day, since I had to go out twice a day. I moved about 200 or something pipe those first 4 times. The last morning I moved was that June 5, the diesel gas for the pump was all out and so my boss said he would call me when he needed me to come out next. He called me later that night to tell me he was just going to dust his crops since the gas was out, so it would be about a week or so before he would need me again. Then it started to rain, and rain, and rain, for the rest of June it rained. At the second week of July I started to work again. I got my first pay check for the first four times, $37 wow. WEll better than nothing right? So the the Monday Night i went back to work after working that morning, my hip started to hurt on my left leg. I tried to ignore it and continue to work. That only lasted until Tuesday night. I could hardly lift up my leg to put my pants on.

So I went to work Wednesday both times, Thursday morning/night and friday morning. I couldn't help not working Fri night or Saturday. My body needed a break, But I moved a crap load of pipe like 480 +- a bit. The next week my family was going to be here and so I moved pipe on that Monday they were to come up in the AM and not the Pm cause my hip hurt so bad I could barely walk even with taking drugs for the swelling. So while my family was here I went to work only Wednesday morning that week. Twice and like 40 pipe. I could tell he wasn't that happy with me, but I couldn't help what my body was telling me. I felt so incompetent because these little kids of 13 and 14 were smaller than I and still doing well moving the pipe. But you know, you can only do so much, and it felt like the Lord was trying to tell me something.

I mean I guess I wasn't learning something because I was getting hurt and I guess I wasn't focusing on the right thing or what. So I have been trying to figure out what He has been trying to tell me and let me know. Still I am trying to figure out what he wants for me to do. I have about $120 in my bank account and That is not going to last me until the Fall semester, and I don't have a job yet. So ya...well this entry is long and I am going to add others with pictures of the past three months.

loves