Grandma Fern

I got to spend a good part of Saturday with my Grandma Fern. She is awesome. I need to see her more.

She told me the funniest story. When she was like 14 or 15, there was this cute guy that would walk by her house often and she would watch for him out the window. One day, she was at the city pool and walked by this good-looking boy and as she passed him, she pushed him into the pool.

She said that the look of terror on his face immediately told her that he didn't know how to swim. Sure enough, he sunk right to the bottom. She couldn't swim too well either ("I could doggie paddle" she told me) but she jumped in and pushed him to the top while she stood on the bottom. Cute, huh?

Thankfully, they both survived this ordeal, but he was so mad at her that he never even spoke to her.

That's some gratitude for saving your life, buddy.

Moral of the story: If you can't swim, don't stand next to the pool!

Gross

This little guy was waiting to scare me as I left my apartment on Friday. He totally freaked me out. We have so many spiders in my new apartment because we are literally on the edge of civilization. There are no other houses to the east of us. Just a big mountain.

A couple nights before this photo, my roommate Amy left to go to the store. About 2.5 seconds after she left, I heard her run back into apartment, slam and lock the door and scream at the top of her lungs once she was safely inside.

I ran out of my room and asked if there was a monster outside.

Almost.

As she was going down the sidewalk, a skunk walked off the hill and into the parking lot right in front of her!

Welcome to the wild frontier.

What the...?

As I was driving into my neighborhood this evening on my way home from work, I noticed 3 or 4 little kids playing in a yard. Just as I was about to look away, one of the little kids pulled down his pants and mooned me! I was shocked! What is this world coming to?! He was only like 4-years-old! I know he knew exactly what he was doing because he and his little partners in crime pointed at me and laughed like it was the best thing they had ever witnessed.

Seriously.

Maybe I need to move to a neighborhood with better morals.

The New Me

This has been a week of changes. I moved to a new apartment and I cut my hair. Both are good changes.

When my brother Kyle saw the above picture he said he thought I was holding a fish. Funny!

The funny part is Jordan got her hair cut this past week too. She went for a trim and came out with a cut very similar to mine! Oops! So, we are basically 6,200 miles away from each other and still have quite the connection!

I miss her so much! She's half way done tomorrow! I can't quite believe it but I'm so excited! She's doing really well and rocking life as a missionary.

This is by far my favorite picture from her mission. Mission plaque worthy for sure!

Crossing things off my list...

I know it's been so long since I've blogged and I have a ton of things to write about. Little by little, I'll get caught up.

First of all, I have crossed a couple things off my list.

44. Watch an entire b&w movie

(I kinda cheated on this one because my TV is not connecting well with my DVD player currently, so any movie I play is in black & white. Not sure what's wrong with it, but I am totally counting this as achieving one of my goals. My roommate Amy and I are watching Something Borrowed that came out on DVD today. It feels kinda old though since it is in black & white).

24. Hold a new baby

(Nothing feels more like heaven than holding a brand new baby!)

23. Visit a new city

(I went to see my brother & his fam in MO in June and visited many new cities as we travelled around. My favorites were Nauvoo [so cool!] and St. Louis).
 

32. See a live sporting event

Go Cardinals!

I'm working my way through it.