what im doin these days

what do i do when im out of college?

cooking- everyone that knows me knows i love to eat and ive started cookin a lot more and actually enjoy it.

scrapbooking- i am ALMOST caught up, which makes me really excited. in about a month maybe two i should be completely caught up.

sewing/quilting- i finally finished my first quilt that i started at quilt camp. im started another one which is a cardinals quilt. then i have the fabric picked out of another one i just gotta chose the pattern.

painting- i painted the cardinals logo and it turned out really good. its framed in my room. i need to go get some paintbrushes cuz i have a canvas that i started drawing the st louis city.

fencing- im gonna take this class in january. fencing is on my bucket list, so i figure i might as well get crackin on it.

guitar/drums- so i realized that i wanna learn one of these. haha also on my bucket list. my friend and i went to a couple of stores a few days ago and were looking at some. i will prolly go for a guitar, cuz drums are so expensive. but let me tell you we went to best buy and played the drums there. it was the coolest thing ever.

my new hobby

ridin my bike! i didnt think i liked to exercise either, but its so much fun especially when you have a goal and a friend that goes with you. but yeah my friend and i a few times a week. and i think i actually like exercisin cuz this time i have a goal, so its different. im tryin to get up to 20 miles by next sat for our bike ride.

and man i went tonite and am so tired, but i found out i just did 11 miles. so thats prolly why im so tired. haha im gonna be dead on sat.

Rest of my summer!!!

ok so heres the rest of my summer. people keep askin me if i miss utah....haha. and the answer is no. i love it here and here are a few reasons...

jet skiin!!!! i had never done it before and im so glad I went a couple times this summer. They are so fun to drive. I was makin all these donuts and just goin crazy. i didnt tip over tho which was good.

and ok so we hooked up a tube to tha jet ski. and i keep telling them to go faster, faster, and faster. and then i felt my short fell off and then tha bottom piece of my swimsuit was down to my ankles so i let go of tha tube and hurried to pull my swimsuit up. i got my shorts back tho dont worry....they float :)

and what we did while we were waitin.....paintballin haha. it was pretty sweet. and i dont know why tha first pic is like that and im too lazy to redo it. and our target.

last weekend, my friend and i went to tha cardinals and right before was photo day and i got pics with skip schumaker and colby rasmus. i was so excited.

johnsons shut in!!!! i love it there. cliff jumping and waterfalls.

takin some of my nephews to tha park to feed tha ducks. we actually went twice that day. we went once and then back later that nite cuz they wanted to feed them again. there were a TON of ducks tho. it was crazy. haha

At tha horse track. it was pretty cool.

jumpin into tha pool at midnight. ..

yeah it was pretty random. so we had our clothes on, but trust me its tha coolest feeling ever. i loved swimming in my jeans. haha

another cardinals

Upcoming events

Sleepover at Busch Stadium

Going to New Orleans in Oct

and a bike ride with my dad. Hes goin 60 miles and im goin 20-25. haha

summer in stl so far

ok so i know i havent written in this forever. but i made a list of the top ten things ive done so far in stl. tha first two are in order, but after that...i couldnt decide. haha


1. goin to tha home run derby- at first i wasnt gonna go cuz tha tickets were so expensive but the night before i realized how bad i wanted to go so i called one of my friends and she said she would go. i am so glad we went. it was SO fun and amazing. i love cardinal fans, they made it so fun. when pujulos was up. they went crazy. david cook sang and in it too.






2. fanfest- every year whereva tha home run derby and all star is they have a fanfest. its basically a baseball fans heaven. they had so much to do and see. they had gold gloves and trophies from the world series in 2006 and etc.









3. rascal flatts concert- i hate country except rascal flatts. they have so many good songs. well basically every song is good. there concert was amazing. it kinda sucked that they have so many good songs tho, cuz then they couldnt sing all of them.

4. riding from tha fanfest to tha FREE sheryl crow concert in a bike buggie. it was seriously tha funniest thing ever. going downtown in it. haha






5.ted drews- only tha best ice cream eva. everytime you go its always packed and tha lines are in the street. and i always get the same thing vanilla ice cream with hot fudge, red raspberries, and nuts

6. lake of tha ozarks/quilt camp- so im not gonna lie tha only reason i went to quilt camp was cuz it was at tha ozarks and i figured i would just go to tha lake everyday to canoe or whatever. but i didnt even touch tha water. kinda disappointin, but i did make a quilt (most of it) over a weekend. and for me thats pretty impressive. cuz i did not like sewin before. and im currently workin on my second quilt. dont worry its cardinals :








7. family reunion up in utah at my grandparents cabin- i love bein in tha mountains. it is so peaceful and relaxing. and im neva with my bros and sista too much so its cool to see them and all tha rest of the fam. i loved goin 4 wheelin, we went to cedar breaks (so pretty), beat my bro at rook, and my dad and other bro at basketball. not to brag tho :)

8. just bein able to finally do whatever i want. i am able to read tha books i want, instead of school books. i just finished my sisters keeper and bought time travellers wife yesterday

9. then goin to other cardinal games, tha zoo, botantical gardens, and everything else in st. louis

10. oh i finally have a good camera. i love it. it takes way good pics. im excited to finally have a good camera that i really like.

kid quotes!!!

So when I was up at Cedar. I worked at Learning Ladder and I loved it. I told my boss that we should make a kids quote wall so here are some of them.

Right after Easter the kids were talking about what they got for Easter. Then one of the kids asked me what I got for Easter. I told them that the Easter Bunny didnt come, because I was getting too old. Then Odin, a 4 year old, said that I wasnt old because I didnt have bumps or lines on my face.

When I could barely walk up the stairs (cuz i had exercised the night before) I told Odin I was getting old. He said, I know. And of course he had to say it all matter of factly. and yeah its the same boy that told me I wasnt old before. haha

You have your ears pissed. -Kadence, 5 years old

When I was having a crappy day at work, Blake, a 4 year old, came up to me and told me I was beautiful, then ran off.

After one of the girls went to the bathroom, she came back in class and said, I forgot my skirt! Good thing she was wearing legging. -McKenzie age 4

After one of the boys finally got his jacket on one of the hooks he said, I finally got a hooker!- Wyatt age 4

One of the girls told me I look like chocolate- Megan age 2

Rosie, the director, told the teachers that one of us could go home, Charlotte said me!! - age 6

I asked Rayce why his puppet only had one eye. He said its a pirate. -age 4

My grandma lives with Hannah Montana- Gage, age 4

McKenzie was showing Cooper the felt board when Cooper asked how they stayed on. Mckenzie said, "It's magic," - age 4

While Seth was eating lunch, I asked him why he wasn't using his fork. He told me because its white. He only uses them if their green. - Age 3

Then my favorite one....

Ms. Melissa you look like your 5.
I was kinda surprised, cuz I know I look young, but not THAT young. Then he said, My mom told me that girls like it when you tell them that they look younger. -Cooper, age 5

givin back to the neighbors

ok so yesterday my mom was tellin me and my dad that our neighbors behind us have a dog and he pooped in our yard.  our neighbor saw the dog do it and didn't care, even when he knew that my mom was right there and saw.  he didnt say he was sorry or that he would come back and clean it.  nothin. 

so i was sayin that i should just go poop in their yard, but then i had an even better idea.  i went in the garage and got a shovel and picked it up and threw it on their yard.  i thought it was pretty funny.  

then when i was walkin back to the house, my dad said somethin to me.  i dont really remember what he said.  but my dad thought it was funny too.  i just told him that i was givin it back to them.  haha 

zions!!!!

ok so i went to zions with my friend tiffany and her roommates. i hadnt ever been there before. and it was amazing. its kinda expensive though- 25 dollars just to get in. you can go to mcdonalds and get 24 double cheeseburgers for that price.

but anyways we went to the zions overlook and to weeping rock. the mountains were so beautiful. i loved it cuz the weather was perfect. it wasnt too hot, so i could still breath at the end of the hike. cuz anyone that knows me knows that i am not in shape. people may think i am, but trust me im not. and im pretty sure im gonna go again for my family reunion, so im excited to go back