Mother's Day

Yesterday was mother's day! So I just want everyone to know how much I LOVE MY MOM!  She is the best person I know.  She always knows how to get me to laugh and she does so much for our family.  She has put up with five kids, and that doesn't even include dad! :)  I don't know what our family would do without her, I don't know what I would do without her! I Love You Mom, Happy Mother's Day!

Mom and Me on my blessing Day

 



Mom and Me on Sunset Cruise (Newport Beach 2012)

Cute Mom and Hannah on the tube at Lake Powell, clearly enjoying themselves



She is Awesome!

Surfing the Boat Wake at Lake Powell (2012)

My Mom and my cute sisters



Mom, Me, Melissa, and Andrea






I would also like to shoutout the other mothers that have been so motherly to me my whole life! My mom's cute sisters, and Grandma of course! Mom, Jan, Claudia, Janette, and Grandma being silly! so typical!

 

 

 

Thanks for all you do Momma! I Love you!

 

 

 

Yesterday was also my very good friends farewell! Weston Smith! He doesn't leave until June 12, but his farewell got scheduled a few weeks early do to other church things.  He will be leaving for the MTC on June 12 and is assigned to Alberquerque, New Mexico! He did such a good job!  Afterwards, we gathered at his house and there were enchiladas, Salsa, Beans, Rice, all sorts of salads, and ALOT of Desert! It was so yummy!  Here is picture of us with the missionary!

 

 

Taylor Jones, Tessa Gardner, Ruby Matesen, ELDER WESTON SMITH, Carly Bierman, Me, Courtney Shaeffer, and Zoe Jefferies! SO MUCH FUN!

Here is me and my cute friend Brooke Worthen at Weston's Farewell

After Weston's, I went home and we got to talk to Jeff for mother's day! Here are some pictures!

 

He is so funny!

Jeff and Me

Cute Boy

 

We just talked about picking him up and such, I can't believe there is only 42 days until I get to see my big brother!

Love you Jeff!

 

For Mother's Day, Me, Andrea, Sean, and Dad made dinner for mom.  Josh and Lindsay ate at her parents house, but brought desert for our family afterwards.  Our present for mom didn't arrive yet, but it should come today!

 

Well that was my awesome mother's day! Love you Mom!

 

 

18th Birthday!

Today was my 18th Birthday! WOOHOOO! I AM NOW AN ADULT! I had the greatest day ever! I woke up and went to breakfast at Original Pancake House with Mom, Dad, Andrea, Sean, Lindsay, Josh, Grandma, and Grandpa! It was so fun! Grandma and Grandpa gave me a cute card with money, and Lindsay and Josh gave me a gift card to my favorite place, pizzeria limone!  I ordered the White Chocolate, Macadamium nut pancakes with coconut syrup! Yum! 

 

My Yummy Pancakes!

 

After Breakfast, me, Mom and Dad went to the flower place called Noles Flowers to get the flower pots for our back yard, it was quite the adventure! We also got one for Grandma Jane for mother's day!

 

Dad and Mom with Grandma Jane's Plant

Me in the back with the plants

 

After the flower pot extravaganza, Dad took me Laptop shopping! I got a laptop for college! YAY! Thanks Mom and Dad!

 

After that, I thought it was just going to be a lonely night! All of my friends were "busy" So I sat at home with my new laptop! Andrea and Sean brought me some darling shoes for my birthday, and my cute neighbors (The Paces) brought me a cute shirt, which I put on immediately!

Also, on Friday I got a package in the mail from my cute sister and her family! There were many hand drawn cards from Hannah, and Jackson and They sent me a cute bracelet set for my birthday! Love them!

 

So I was just sitting at my computer, alone, being bored thinking that I wasn't going to be doing anything exciting for the night, then suddenly the garage door opened and my six favorite girls in the whole world came in singing Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs! LOVE THEM! Ruby, Courtney, Carly, Tessa, Zoe, and Taylor were all there and it made me so so happy to see them and find out that they were lying about being busy! They just were suprising me for my birthday! Those sneaky girls! 

 

They took my to pizzeria limone, they obviously know me too well!

I opened their cute presents after we ate, then we took these cute pictures!

Ruby, Me, Zoe, and Taylor

Ruby, Me, Zoe, and Taylor

Courtney, Zoe, Tessa, Ruby, Taylor, Me and Carly

Courtney, Zoe, Tessa, Ruby, Taylor, Me and Carly

Courtney, Zoe, Tessa, Ruby, Taylor, Me, and Carly

Ruby, Me, Zoe, and Taylor

 They are my favorite girls in the whole world! Taylor, Carly, and Courtney got me the cutest purse for my birthday. I love it so much, it even had things inside! Ice breakers, because Carly ALWAYS eats mine all.  Ice Cube candy, because Courtney has an empty container of them in her car full of her spare change and I always think it is candy so it is so disappointing when it is just a bunch of pennies and not candy.  There was also a CD in it, and a purple take out box.  I opened the purple take out box and it was full of my favorite thing ever. Lucky Charm Marshmallows.  Not the nasty cereal stuff, but just marshmallows! I screamed for joy and the whole restaurant looked at me.  It was fantastic.  Another thing in the bag was a little photo book with cute notes in it and full of pictures of us!  I don't think they realize this but I got a little teary eyed and I fell apart inside! It was then that I realized that we were all moving on when the summer was over and we have to make new college friends  Our college friends have a lot to live up to compared to our high school friends obviously because these girls are great!!! I also got a cute present from ruby! It was a silver box with an adorable picture holder inside, cute notepads that look like speech bubbles, and really cute pencils! I love it so much, it is so me!  Zoe and Tessa got me an adorable phone case that says "hangin' with my gnomies" on It. It is the cutest thing I have ever seen, I LOVE GNOMES!  I screamed when I opened that too! Which caused the restaurant to look at me again!  I got so many cute presents that I LOVE! Thank you cute friends! I love you to the moon and back!

 

After Pizzaria Limone, we went and got Ice Cream and came back to my house to do a photo booth movie.  It is hard to explain but we had a lot of fun doing it and I will post it as soon as it is finished!

 

We all grouped hugged and they left.  It was the best birthday ever!

 

Here are some of the Instagam shoutout's I got today:

 

 

from: Alice Abrams

me and her when we were tiny at Silver Lake

 

From: Courtney Shaeffer

Collage of darling pictures of me and her! LOVE!

From: Andrea
Cute Collage



From: Marron Gardner



 From: Melissa

 

Thanks for making my Birthday so great Everyone! Love you All!

 

May 11, 1995

Temple Run

This week has been so fun! On Tuesday I walked 7 miles around Holladay, and then walked 7 more miles on Wednesday!  After my long walk on Tuesday, Me, Josh, and Lindsay went to dinner and then to pick up my parents from the airport. (They were coming home from Dallas, where my dad was doing buisness)  After we picked them up we headed to our favorite yogurt place called "Yogurtland!"  There is one in Bountiful so it is kind of far but they are building one in Sugar House! In fact, it opens today! yay!

On Wednesday I had young women's.  We played Human Angry birds with the Young Men.  It didn't work out to well, but me and Alice Abrams had a good time sneaking stuffed animals in peoples hoodies without them realizing it.  Here is a picture of me with Allysson Barlow, our young woman president.  She doesn't know that I put a monkey in her hood!

After Young Womens, me and Alice headed up to Menchies, a frozen yogurt place not to far from us.  (Not as good as yogurtland) We had a good time catching up and laughing about the young women's activity that night. 

On Thursday It was my cute sister-in-laws birthday!  

Here is a picture of my Instagram shoutout to her for her birthday!
I went and got her cake bites from The Sweet Tooth Fairy and made her a little booklet of memories I have with her and some of my favorite moments spent with her!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDSAY DEAR! 

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Today I went to school.  I don't have a fourth period on A days, and Tessa and Carly didn't feel the need to go to their classes, so we ditched and went to do baptisms for the dead at the temple!  We had a good time, and I wore my maxi-dress for the first time! 

Tessa, Carly, and Me outside the Temple after Baptisms

Salt Lake City Temple 

Temple Grounds are beautiful this time of year

 After the temple, we walked across the street to City Creek Mall.  We went a cute little cafe called "Blue Lemon" and got yummy Italian Sodas! Me and Carly got raspberry coconut, and Tessa got vanilla. They were very good!

Carly's, Tessa's, and Ashlyn's Soda

Tessa enjoying her Italian Soda

Me enjoying MY Italian soda

Carly and Tessa

 After the Italian Soda's, we went back across the street to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building!  We went to the very top floor and took this darling picture with the temple! It was so fun to be with some of my favorite girls!

Tessa, Carly, and Me on the tenth floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

That's all for this week! I will be 18 years old tomorrow so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

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Oh how I Hate Monday's...

MONDAYS

This is how I feel about Monday's:

His expression just shows it perfectly.

Monday's mean that the weekend is over. So, goodbye staying out with friends until midnight and hello homework, studying, waking up early, and LONG school days.  I guess there is ONE good thing about Monday's and that is LATE START DAY. On Monday's, our school doesn't start until 8:30 instead of 7:25 so I get an hour to sleep in.  It doesn't feel like much though...

Despite the fact that it was a Monday, I had a fairly good day!  For lunch, me, Carly, and Tessa went to the new Great Harvest Cafe acrossed the parkinglot from the orignal great harvest.  I got a yummy panini.  After that I took my friends back to school.  I do not have a fourth period on A Days, So I went to the mall! I bought some cute jewlery at Aeropostale.  When I got home I read my book on my Ipad. Then I remembered that I needed to visit Charlie and I needed to go walking, so do you know what I did? I walked to Charlie's House.  It was a 3.02 Mile walk there and took me a little less than an hour.  It was a longer walk back because I wasn't as energetic and I took a longer route.  So total I walked almost 7 miles today! I decided that I am going to try to walk alot this summer instead of driving.  It is a good exercise plus it saves gas! 

When I got home, I called my favorite restraunt Pizzeria Limone and ordered a Pizza. 

I went to pick it up with Max and he rode on my lap the whole way there! (which is kind of a pain in the butt especially when you have to make a turn)

When I got home i filled up the bath with water on bubbles, got a glass of water, cut up and orange, and grabbed my pizza to eat in the bath!  It was so relaxing and fun!  I love their Pizza! I talked on the phone with my mom while i was in the bath for about 30 mintes.  She is still in Houston. Here is a cool picture my Dad sent me over the weekend.

So It is a picture of my mom on Houston Street.  If you look closeley there is a white "X" on the street.  That "X" marks the spot where JFK got shot.  The building behind her is the building the shooter was in on the 6th floor.  I thought it was pretty neat and sad.

I ate dinner at Janette's yesterday.  Grandma, Grandpa, Jackson, Janette, and Todd were all there and we had a yummy lasagna with salad and garlic rolls.  Afterwards, I went and answered to the dance with Courtney.  He asked me with diapers and it said "I would feel like CRAP if you didn't go to Prom with me." So I answered a little like this.

I got this jar and filled it with Apple Juice, then on the tag I said

 "Jason, URINE LUCK! I am so excited TO GO (to prom i mean)"

I had it ready last Friday but didn't get it to him until Sunday.  Here is a picture of Taylor from Friday night drinking the "Urine."

Me and Courtney had fun delivering it.  They opened the door before we got the car so his family definately saw us.  It was so funny, we couldn't stop laughing. 

So that has been my week so far! Thank goodness Monday is almost over! Only 3 more late start monday's of my High School life ever! (There is techinacally 4, but May 27th doesn't count because it is memorial day and we don't have school)

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Ruby's Wisdom Teeth

Wow! I can't believe I haven't written for a whole week! Not much has happened this week! I got senior pictures by Becky Reed on Tuesday! She is so awesome, she did my sisters wedding pictures! Her website is called ravenbergphotography.com! I will have to post the pictures when I get them back.  After pictures, me and my parents ate at the cheescake factory.  It was delicious!  On Thursday me Carly and Zoe did homework.  When Zoe left, me and Carly took my sisters dog on a walk.  His name is Charlie.  I visit him every day while Andrea and Sean are at work.  We went walking all the way to Taylor Jones house.  She wasn't home though.  We waited but she never came! I ordered a cute prom dressthis week! I got it on laceaffair.com.

I visited Charlie this week 

Zoe and Taylor 

Yesterday after school, Carly picked me up and we got slurpees and got a free slice of bread at Great Harvest! It was fun, then she had to work so she dropped me off at the School and I went to the Art Room to watch my friend Zach Williams paint.  Courtney, Tessa, and Zoe were there to.  When we were done there, Zoe and Tessa went to go get Zach Clegg and me and Courtney left a little after, and met them at Jamba Juice.  We were getting smoothie for Ruby.  She got her wisdom teeth out, hence the title.  Me, Courtney, Tessa, Taylor, Zach Clegg, Hunter Moseley, and Zoe went to visit Ruby. She was very drugged up from the procedure.  It was so entertainig.  Afterwards, Me Taylor and Zach came to my house to make Mac and Cheese and we met up with Hunter, Carly, Zoe, Taylor, Cooper, and Lou later and we went and hiked ensign peak. Then we went and tried to find Gravity HIll (FAIL)

Hunter Moseley, Zach Clegg, and Carly

Salt Lake City from Ensign Peak

Taylor and Zoe overlooking Salt Lake City

The beautiful Capital Building

This morning I watched Lindsay run the Holladay 5K! Then Me Lindsay and Josh took my parents to the airport.  They are going to Texas.  When I got home, Ruby called me and asked if I would babysit her.  She had her Wisdom Teeth out and can't be unsupervised.  Her mom wanted to go the gym so Ruby came her and I kept an eye on her! It was fun! That's pretty much all that happened this week!

I will try to write alot next week! It will be my Birthday next Saturday, BIG 18! 

P.S. Thursday was Jeff's Birthday! So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER CHRISTENSEN! I LOVE YOU! ONLY 51 MORE DAYS!

my Instagram shout out for Jeff