Highlights of my Oregon Adventure

Here are just a few of the highlights of my weekend trip!
*The woman at Rancherito's saying "Tank-oo".
*The good smelling flowers outside Denny's in Pendleton.
*The tomato basil soup at Denny's.
*It taking Derek 10 million years to figure out that Bryan, Danielle, and I were there waiting to pick him up from school.
*Hearing that I am not the sister he talks about.
*Seeing my family!!!!!!
*Watching "The Wedding Dress" because my mom loves it! (I liked it too!)
*Going to a writer's workshop in Eugene
*Having the poet laureate of Oregon think I was 14, yes 14!
*After finding out I was a college graduate, he laughed about it for at least a minute!
*Library pamphlets
*Surprising Grandma and Wally at Mo's.
*Going to dinner at Mo's and expanding my dining from a cannonball bowl.
*Having Emalee invite me to her YOUTH dance, and telling me there were going to be "lots of cute boys there". Yes, Emalee...cute BOYS! I am not desperate enough to prowl the youth dances quite yet.
*Doing Emalee's hair for her dance.
*Driving Lora's car!
*Our whole family trying to squeeze onto one bench at church, and having to sit basically on one side of my body for a large portion of the meeting.
*Seeing Derek pass the sacrament for the first time.
*Eating mom's homecooking!
*Eating a TON of GOOD sourdough bread.
*Leaving at 5am
*Wearing the traveling pants, and tying them just below my knees. (my roommates told me later that I pull of the grunge look very well...I think that is a good thing. I think I looked quite cute!)
*Driving in a car, sitting in unique positions, causing Bryan to ask if I was ACTUALLY comfortable sitting like that.
*Almost crying when Bryan told us how far we really were from the Utah border.
*Rest Stops!
*Seeing the Boise and Portland temples
*Hanging out and talking with Bryan and Danielle. I LOVED IT!!!! They rock!
*Getting out of Utah!
*Getting back earlier than expected

*If anyone can think of any others, let me know!!! It was a great weekend!

Time FLIES!!!

Oh, I can't believe it! Derek is 12 today!!! Time flies so fast! I still remember the first time I saw him; it was a Saturday, and I was on my way to John Robert Powers, and grandma and I stopped by the hospital on the way out of town. He was so tiny and I instantly fell in love with him. Over the past 12 years, he has become one of my best friends. I am so proud of him and all of his accomplishments and the wonderful young man he is becoming. I am so amazed by him, and I am sure that people get sick of me talking about him, but I don't care! I want the world to know how great he is, and how lucky I am to be his big sister! I love Derek!

I am in LOVE...with a food!

Is it a crime to be in love with a food? Because if it is, cuff me now! To celebrate the end of tax season for Heather, we went to The Cheesecake Factory. The food was good enough, and I loved eating avacado! (random, I know) The food that I am willing to go to jail for is non other than cheesecake. Now, this is not a typical cheesecake...this is a chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake. The beauty of this outing is that the 4 of us that went each got a different kind of cake, and we rotated to taste the different kinds. We wanted a variety, so mine was the 'fruit' one. We also had black tuxedo cheesecake, dulce de leche, and peanut butter fudge ripple. They will all wonderful, but I am seriously IN LOVE with my chocolate raspberry cheesecake. Take me away, I am IN LOVE and will shout it from the rooftops!

A little foolish to achieve a goal

My roommates and I like to come up with goals each semester. I have decided to get a head start on my next goals. I decided to finally learn how to roller blade, after owning them for many years. We needed something to do during the priesthood session, so we strapped on the roller blades and went to work. It is quite embarrassing, but I am sharing some of the pictures with you...it is definitely a goal in progress! This is me, getting ready to go!!! I really like this one! Oh, yeah!!! Check me out! Watch out world!