Que Sera, Sera: August 2011

happy birthday to YOU!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister MELISSA!!!!

I hope you have a very fun day!!!!

Thanks for being such a great sister.

LOVE YOU!!

Lately

Well I haven't blogged in a while so I thought I better. I haven't taken any pictures latley so this will probably be pretty boring. :) So what I have been up to:

Working-Hours at work seem to come all at once and then nothing and then all at once again. This past week I was at the hospital Tuesday through Saturday. Tuesday I had a staff meeting so I was only there for a couple of hours. Work has been really busy lately. All our patients come in at once and I feel like I'm running around with my head chopped off. But I love it! I have decided that it is your co-workers that really make or brake a job. I LOVE the people I work with. They are all so fun to be around. They are mostly all girls and thats probably why. Ha ha. :) For example at our staff meeting we spent probably most of the time laughing and eating. Jami is moving to Pocatello (or as some people call it poke-a-hell-hole he he) for her husband to go to school. She is one of my favorites and I am really going to miss her!

Reading-When I'm not working I'm usually reading. I'm trying to read a lot of books this year. I finally caught up with Melissa and then she had a read-a-thon and surpassed me by quite a lot and I don't think I have any hope of catching up. Oh well. I read the third and fourth book of the Bayern series which were pretty good. I also read Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder which I loved! I am currently trying to read Life of Pi but I'm having a hard time getting into it. I'm also reading How I Live Now which is kind of odd.

Swimming-Annette's ward had an activity at the Roy Aquatic Center. They rented the whole place out so it was a lot of fun! There are a lot of fun things for little kids but they also have two water slides. One of them goes straight down which makes my stomach lurch around and they also have a curvy one. They also have diving boards which are fun to jump off of. Kortney didn't get to come with us because she had to work. So we decided to go again on Saturday after I got off work. We went down the slides and jumped of the boards it was a lot of fun. I tried diving off the side of the pool but pretty much failed. I used to know how to dive when I was younger but I guess I've lost it.

Dinner-I actually made dinner this week. It was only sloppy joes but that is a big deal for me. I never cook! My aunt was out working in the yard so she had me cook the sloppy joes. It was pretty easy to follow the recipe she had and they tasted pretty good I must say so myself.

Snow cones- I got two snow cones this week. The kids down the street sell them for 75 cent and they are pretty big. Their mom was out helping them when I was out there because there were a lot of neighborhood kids out there. She said that one kid ate 9 snow cones and that is the record! She told the kid that if he ate 10 she would give him a free one but he felt to sick. Now I want to break the record!

Well that is all I can really think of for now. School starts in two weeks. Ahhh!

Chicken anyone?

So at Fresh Market they had a lot sale and they had fresh chicken for sale in bulk. So my aunt bought 40 lbs to freeze! We were all roped in to helping. :)

Annette cut the fat of the chicken.

Roy tore the freezer paper and tape and Kortney and I wrapped the chicken in the freezer paper.

Lots and lots of chicken. Now if we need chicken we can just go pick how much we need and unthaw it. The chicken breasts were huge! We decided they were definitley on roids. They were the biggest chicken boobies I've ever seen! (My mom hates it when I call them that ha ha! I just couldn't help myself.)

The chicken on the paper

I discovered that wrapping chicken is harder than it looks. The freezer paper is slippery on one side which made it hard to keep the slippery chicken in one place. It took me quite a few times before I found a way that worked pretty well without having any chicken poking out.

My Kiddos!

While I was at home I got to hang out with my favorite Kiddos! Melissa, Christina and I have babysat the McClellans since they were born. I LOVE THESE KIDS!!

Livvy!

She is absolutley the cutest. I just love her. Whenever she sees me she runs up and gives me a big hug! There is nothing like the love of a child.

Maddy!

She is so much fun and quite the tree climber! She was trying to shake the cherries out of the trees. She is very artistic and her art just blows me away. I can't believe that she is going to be 12 in February!

Zach!

This is what Zach does: attack me! He is a lot of fun and loves to wrestle. He has so much energy and never ever seems to get tired.

He pretty much dominates. :)

The Beach!!

WARNING: This post contains a ton of pictures. Some of which were taken by Melissa Bell, Spencer Ririe and myself.

We decided to go to the beach for a day. We went to Astoria first and climbed the column.

The pictures on the side tell the story of Oregon.

We bought some planes to throw off the top. I love Melissa's face in this picture.

The wing of the plane

Melissa wrote her name on her plane so that she could find it again.

The column

Mom & Dad at the top

Kimber, Melissa, Mom and I

This picture is out of order but this is us going back down.

Getting ready to throw my plane off. It went pretty far with the help of the wind and to far for me to retrieve.

Spencer and his plane. He didn't really throw his. He just let the wind take it so it didn't go as far as some of the others.

Melissa and her plane.

Kimber

Tom at the bottom

Mom & I

The bridge over to Washington. Try holding your breath across that baby! It is pretty hard.

After the Astoria Column we went for some lunch at the Bowpicker. We heard about it from Erika and Kari. It is a boat on a trailer in the middle of a parking lot.