being let go, passing on, 6 feet under... crashed!!!

k so nothing bad has happened to anyone, it's just my computer is dead!!! well i am told it's just the hard drive (yeah..JUST) but my dad has an extra one and maybe we can get it swithched out pretty easily and it'll work again... hopefully.. and if not.. my cousin said i could buy his macbook at the end of august before he goes into training for the military... so yeah i just need something that works! for now i'm just using the computers where i nanny... it works!
But we had a great reunion for my granny and mom's family at ft yargo. It was filled with laying out by the pool with stacy brooke and pete (it was nice for brooke to be back in town) and a lil volleyball action, of course some half rubber, and card games. pete didnt realize there was a game lazier than baseball.. and came to realize that half rubber deffiately blew it out of the water! haha it's tradition and makes me think of Pop- he was great at it... or any game really! But it was nice to visit with cousins i hadn't seen in a long time that are my age, and that pete could meet them! It was overall lots of fun and ended with going to the braves game- where we lost horribly.. but i ran into sooooo many people i knew it was so fun!!! as well as being in the company of my cousins/aunts/uncle.
Pete is starting his busy month of july with lots of work days so he could get off for the month of june for all the vacation days! I have also started back up with nannying everyday with kids that still need to learn how to think of other people rather than just themselves and say please and thank you for once! They are starting to learn i require those few things and get the hang of it- i just hope it sticks!
For my reading now.. i have finished wicked and i enjoyed it... it relates to todays world with an athiest, supporting animal rights, and idk i thought it was interesting... a little risque at parts.. but i just skimmed it and kept going.. it wasn't my favorite book ever, but i enjoyed it. Now i am reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safron Foer- it is different.. but about a boy who's dad died from 9/11 and he has a key he found in his dad's closet and searching NY for what it opens... but he's a really interesting boy so it's entertaining.
well until next time!

We are Family!

To start off.. Happy one year Pete! well a few weeks ago- June 16th!! we have started our new family and have survived the first year pretty smoothly- thanks to pete for being so great (and patient with his crazy wife) love you for forever!!!!

So we had a wonderful time with alll the forsyth family at lake tahoe a couple weeks ago! We flew in on the 16th (our anniversary) and james picked us up and we stopped by pete's grandmas for a while to chat then made our way to the one place pete wanted to go.. In n Out baby!!! it was scrumptious!!!! (we also went about 3 more times after that during our vacation) We made it up to the cabin through all the windy roads and we got our own room and hot tub for the night due to the anniversary.. how kind!
Then Tuesday i spent my day with my sister in law mercy shopping for the loads of food for the week up in Reno- also had a great lunch at Red Robin. While we were gone the boys and the kids were checkin out the dune buggies and dirt bikes that John brought. Supposedly it was a really rocky ride where their trails were and they had to go through a lil river.. as they all came home soaking wet! Then of course that night we spent time in the hot tub with mike and mercy and got to play some Hand and foot .
Wed. I got to take my turn on the dune buggies and acctually learned how to drive the manual one! it was pretty sweet.. pete was a lil nervous i think but he was patient with me for the 100th time i stalled... haha but i got the hang of it though! We went to this really sweet place with a beautiful lake and a place for the bikes to jump and what not.. as well as a large mountain with a SUPER ROCKY climb... i was at the point of tears cause my insides just wanted to bounce right out and my head and shoulders were killing me! seriously... it was rough... and we got the stinky slow dune buggie which made us way behind everyone else as they were looking for us... but then we made to the top of the mountain before them due to our great short cut! well.. we survived it back down as well... but it hurt! i don't remember what happened when we got back from that.. but i know we played hand and foot and me and mercy won! woot!
Thursday everyone went to the place we went to on wed... some got in the lake some rode the bikes and stuff.. me and pete laid out a bit and attempted to get into the freeeeezing dam water (i am not swearing i swear!) but our feet are the only things that made it in! We left early though to go to lake tahoe.. cause we hadn't barely SEEEN it yet!!! but we just got babysitting duty instead with my wonderful nieces and nephews... we still had fun. That night.a nice sand volleyball game with the adults and a few kids.. it was a good time! then hot tub and hand and foot- AGAIN!
Friday was the most eventful for me... idk bout pete.. but me and my two sister in laws Mercy and Galynn went on a lovely bike ride into tahoe to go shopping... i got a great deal on a lil hoodie that had a small hole in it... so it was marked down 75%!=steal!! We cruised through a few different shops from antiques, sports shops (board shops), kids clothes, sweet hippie shops, all sorts and also ate lunch at this yummy baglery that over looked the lake. Then... we got to go on these sweet canoes! it was a demo day where you pay 15 bucks to ride whatever canoes you want and for about 20 min or so or however long you want! first we had big long ones for speeeeeed (shown in the picture before we had to put the camera up) then me and mercy rode a tandom one and had to work on our teamwork while galynn just zoomed on by with her lil squatty one she had that time. Then finally our favorites were the peddle canoes where you paddle with your feet back n forth and steer with just a lil nob that goes left and right! it was sooo easy and a nice leg work out! After a really hard core climb with our bikes (for me and mercy atleast- galynn is a pro) back up to the cabin and it was me and pete's turn for cooking that night as everyone had a turn in the week... we made some chicken enchiladas, hot wing dip, and had some fruit! it was yummy! then that night hand and foot and spa once more!
Saturday:
I believe i got some of friday and saturday mixed up, but either way it was fun :i think we went to the lake one last time but it seems as if i got my days mixed up in there somewhere... but we went to the lake and it was freezing and laid out beside the lake, i jumped in once but it was way to cold, i felt the hypothermia coming on.. so i jumped out.. the boys stayed in for a while and they were getting the kids to jump of the pier and it was quite funny. But it was a good time! With hand and foot once more!

Sunday we got all packed up and ready to go to sacramento for a few things and pete reminisced through some stuff and was quite disappointed when he could not find his old Mase cassette tape but got some old Iverson stuff and track cleats and what-nots. Then made our long drive down to Oceanside that took bout 7 hrs or so. John drove his BIG ol truck with the trailer pullin the dune buggies and dirt bikes. we watched some good ol movies like: men at work, summer school, orange county, and school of rock. i also got to see North shore while at Johns and it made me really miss Hawaii! especially since i had been to a lot of the places where it was taken at! but anyways continuing to the next week:
Monday we went to the beach in oceanside and the waves were so fun! they weren't tooooo big, but they did throw us around a lil bit and the water was warm for a change! We went out to eat that night at some place called Pizza on Mars or something and met up with one of Pete's old roomies Dylan and met his new wife. the pizza was also yummy! there was a chicken pizza that instead of bbq or something it had ranch! how perfect for me!!!
Tuesday was wedding day for Dallin and Michelle! whooo hooo!!!! they got sealed in the LA temple which was much bigger than ATL.. they looked amazing and so happy! we had a good time with Dallins brother Daren and his wife Shannon who we had met a few months before the wedding. After many hours of waiting and eating lunch... we had to quickly make our way over to dinner cause LA traffic and it was a lil while away.. but i did get to go shopping before hand and got some sweet accessories! loves it! The reception was nice with yummy food! they showed some of their wedding pictures and of course dancing at the end. After about 30 min of dancing pete was done... so we decided to try and find my friend Macy Halladay in brea CA which was sorta close to where we were... but macy wouldn't answer her phone allll day! we were really goin out on a limb and just went! I was thinking bout who i could call to find out where she lived and then i was like well we could just pray and try and find her! and right after i was thinkin that she finally texted me back the exit... right as we were getting close!!!! it couldn't have happened better! It was so nice being with her again- especially before she leaves to NY for her mission in a month. And she was one of my best friends in Hawaii and pete never met her! so my one and only wish to see Macy came true as we made it back to Johns at 3 in the morning!
Wednesday (i really hate how that word is spelled- usually i never write it!) Was a real fun day as we slept in late then met up with john to go to this water park in Irvine called Wild Rivers. It was so fun! it was just 4 adults running from ride to ride and seeing how high we could go on this one and how fast we could go on that one... and so forth.. but it was a blast!!! To end the night we went to Los Tacos- and had some sweet tacos that had like pineapple and chicken and guacamole and just yummy stuff in it i would never have guessed! Then finished with some tetris and we all passed out while trying to watch a movie that night cause we were so worn out!
Our trip ended Thursday but before we could leave... we had james go get some In n Out while we waited in line to check our bags and got the fulfillment one last time!

We made it back safely and got to hang out with my family for that weekend and see my uncle who i don't see often and spent a lot of time playing our 2 newest games for the wii... Dr Mario and Top Spin (tennis) it was fun... but my brain was turning to mush and i could see Dr mario in the back of my eyelids as i was going to sleep! Now it's my sides turn for the family reunion at Fort Yargo for the 4th of July! Happy independence day to everyone! Let freedom ring!!!!