I'm Moving to Mexico.

You may ask what I have been up to since I last posted. I give you permission.


Oh you want to know? Okay well here it is:

Katherine turned 21 on February 8th. She'd never had her ears pierced. Since my roommate Ashley and I have both pierced our own ears, she decided she wanted us to pierce hers. Here she is icing them up:


Well, we made two mistakes. 1: We used a small needle. 2: We did one at a time. Results?
1: The hole made by the needle wasn't big enough for the earring so it literally took like 10 minutes to get the earing through her ear.
2: The first one hurt her enough that she chickened out and wouldn't let us pierce the other one. She still has only one ear pierced. And as I mentioned before, she's a ballerina, so she has to wear her hair up in a bun every day. I love her.

One night Katherine and I decided to go dumpster diving. She'd heard Krispy Kreme throws out their left-over doughnuts still in their boxes. I'd heard that floral shops throw out bouquets of flowers. Here is our start-of-adventure picture:

And here we are at a dumpster behind a floral shop:

Here's the dumpster. Unfortunately, this floral shop seems to mutilate their flowers before throwing them away. Maybe it's the tactic they use to prevent people from dumpster diving.

Well, while we were digging through this trash can, we both heard sirens. We started freaking out because we knew some guys in a car at the stoplight had seen us, so we booked it to my get-away car (hah...my get away-away car that literally takes 10 seconds to move when I'm pushing down the gas pedal now and shakes violently...poor car :[ ) and drove away. Run from cops: check.

So after that adventure, we made our way over to Krispy Kreme. Unfortunately they were still open and were not due to close for another hour or so. Here is Katherine with the grocery bags we brought stuffed up her shirt:

She walked into Krispy Kreme like that. Awesome.

We also checked dumpsters behind a bridal shop and a furniture store. The only thing we got was a wooden crate that we'll burn whenever we end up having a bonfire in the canyon. So not so successful.

This is Katherine's, Lacey's, and my "sexy" picture:

If you ask me, we fail. Katherine looks ready to hurl, Lacey looks like some sort of peeping tom, and I look like Voldemort about to cast a curse.

We've been playing cards a lot. Here's Lacey. She fractured her wrist snowboarding. (Following photos courtesy of Jonathan Carroll. Annie's cousin, for those of you who know Annie.)

Here is Katherine.

And here I am.

Jonny kept incessantly flashing the camera in my face so to retaliate, I took this picture. Yes. Jonny and I have been married since my sophomore, his senior year of high school and we have 7 children, one of which is named Farakashitamaha, who lived in Syberia in a previous life. Our parents are in the same stake (I've known Jonny since I was like 6) and his dad regularly sees my parents. He always says to my mom, "So how's my daughter-in-law doing?" In fact, once I saw Jonny's sister at a fireside and she said, "I'm so sorry, I don't remember your name...I only know you as Jonathan's wife..." Lol. Let me just say this boy is so hard to read. I'll leave it at that. If you wish to know more, you may inquire within. Haha.

And now to address the title of this post: I'm moving to Mexico. For real. Here is a picture of Jorge representing Mexico. Don't worry it's not racist, I think he would greatly appreciate this.

So yeah I'm totally serious about Mexico. If all goes as planned, I will move to Mexico in either August or January for 4 months to teach English. I'm super super excited. The whole trip only costs $2500 (things like this are usually around $7000) and that includes airfare, food, and housing. I can't waaaaiitt!!! Hopefully it all works out. Plus the whole $2500 is tax-deductible since it's for service, so the agency said lots of people do fundraisers and get great outcomes.

Now I have to go to FHE (bowling!) so I must goooo but I suppose I probably have more to post. Oh yeah, like this is my third week at work and it's going swell. I'll post more later. Looove you all!!

P.S. Rhonda--remember our sad faces when someone didn't let all the pizza board things have their turn??? Well I making pasta from a box tonight and realized there were a few stragglers stuck in the bottom and I HAD to get them out so they wouldn't feel left out...I thought of you. :D

Okay, Rhonda

Happy Groundhog Day. If I read correctly the groundhog DID see his shadow, and as long as the however many more weeks of winter are like today and yesterday (not too cold, sunny, snow is melted) then I'm down. Otherwise...death.

We had cleaning checks 2 weeks ago or so. My roommate Jade asked me to put any dishes that were in the sink into the dishwasher and start it right before the checker lady came (Jade's job was to clean the kitchen but she was gonna be gone for cleaning checks). Well apparently I don't know how to start a dishwasher or make it run right or something.


It was gushing out. This picture doesn't even do it justice.



Neither does this one.
I swear I've done the dishes at home before. I don't know what the deal was. Anyways, it was hilarious but unfortunately I was the only one home to witness it.

Here's all of the roommates.
Katherine (notice she is not using a giant knife nor a nail file):

Mikelle:

Ashley:

Jade:

And me:

On another note, we have to do oral presentations (dang I had to ask Katherine how to spell that word, all I could think of was "presentaciónes"...oh! Thinking of mixing Spanish and English, yesterday I was talking to my mom on the phone and talking to my friend Tito, who many of you know, on Facebook. I was talking to my mom in English and Tito in Spanish and let me tell you, my brain did not like that. I kept trying to respond to my mom in Spanish and it just came out a garbled mess. Back to the sentence this set of parentheses is interrupting) in my Spanish class. So far I've done it on a singer named Julieta Venegas and a war called La Guerra Sucia. This is my last one for this class, which ends at the end of Feb. And I'm doing it on Lucha Libre!!!! (Mexican wrestling...like Nacho Libre.) While I was looking for Youtube clips I could show my class, I came across this and I fell in love.




His luchador name is El Rey Mysterio (real name: Óscar Gutiérrez) and I love him. Unmasking is really embarrassing/insulting/sad/angry/what have you so that is why he looks so distressed but oh my gosh he makes distressed look irresistable. I am crazy. I've watched this clip like 20 times. Anyways.

Well...as I told you, Rhonda, I would probably update my blog since I have tons to do this week and I often resort to blogging instead of homework. Tomorrow I have my Spanish presentation and a 5-page essay due in another class (I'm only on the third page and out of juice), then I have a finance midterm that is today through Thursday and another midterm for one of my family classes at the end of this week. Funny I don't feel too stressed. Good/bad.

Oh yeah and I got a job. It's at BYU Independent Study, I start next Monday. My cousin Matthew works there so he'll probably get to train me part of the time. 20 hours a week...hope it works out.

I love and miss you all!!!

The End.