So...the purpose of me logging on today was to "disable" my blog. I am horrible at updating it, and sometimes the thought of my thoughts out there (regardless of the few people that actually read them) bothers me sometimes.
Then I started reading old posts, and was glad for them. I think i'll stick around a little longer. For me. :)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Skydiving
So, Once Upon a Time, I turned 25. When i turned 25, I was living in St. George. I had some great (like, really amazing!) friends. We were super close. Jess, Brooke, Brian, and Jason. For my birthday, they decided to take me skydiving. It was AMAZING. I felt so strong afterwards, for a long time, because if could do THAT, I could do anything!
Even just thinking about it now makes me feel strong!
Even just thinking about it now makes me feel strong!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Random Thought
I'm going to start putting down random thoughts/memories i've had. Because i feel like i've done some pretty cool (sometimes bizarre!) things! And i don't want to forget them. So this is MUCH more for my benefit then anyone elses...
This morning, out of the complete blue, i thought of something that happened while i lived in St. George.
I worked an amazing job at a Wilderness Program for troubled teens. This really was an amazing, life changing experience--for me! I don't know if it helped the kids, or just kept them clean for a while, but it did help me.
One of the staff that i worked with was this fellow Don. Don was cool. Don was a polygamist that only had one wife. He was interesting and different, and a great guy. We had a really cool schedule, that worked 8 days on, then had 6 days off. During Don's 6 days off, he would sometimes do "escort" runs. Escort runs were when a parent didn't think a child would go willingly to the program, so they paid the escorts to come in and pick the kids up and bring them to the program. For obvious reasons, two people were required to go on a run, and when a female student was involved, one of the escorts had to be a female.
One day i got a call from Don, who said that he had a run that he wanted me to do with him. I guess the female that was supposed to do this run had something come up and couldn't' make it. The run was to ALASKA. Having never been to Alaska, I jumped on the chance to go. :) The pay was also pretty good! Anyway, so they bought us plane tickets, we jumped on a plane and went up to Alaska. We got up there, and were supposed to catch this little puddle jumper plane to hit up the town she was from. We called the main office of the escort biz when we got up there, because our flight had been cancelled--and found out that the girl had run away from her "hometown" to Juneau (where we were at). They had a houseboat number that they thought she might be staying at, so we very tv-like "staked out" the houseboat to watch to see if she'd show up.
We'd been there a few hours, and she hadn't shown yet, so NATURALLY, we went to a national park (where we saw some black bears! but i don't consider it in the wild, cuz they lure them out in the open with fish!), then went out and got some freshly caught Alaskan Salmon. Normally, i'm not a big fish fan...but this was GOOD!) Then, we went to the police. They were able to help us find a few more places she could be, and then found out somehow that she was at this "flop house" in a trailer park. They came with us, and had us wait in our car, while they went in and took her. They had to take her into custody, then with our paperwork, we were able to take her. It was too late to get a flight home, so we got a couple hotel rooms.
Now...here's a "it's a small world" story. While i shared the room, me and this girl got a talkin'. She was a ward of her aunt and uncle, because her father was in jail for shooting her mother. She was in the room and saw it happen when she was just a little girl. In FACT, there was a book written about her family and all of this that happened. Can't remember the name of it, buti immediately went out and bought the book and read it. As i was reading, i saw that this took place in Vincennes, Indiana. I had a roommate (Brian, Tall Bear) from Vincennes, Indiana. I mentioned this to him, and it turns out his DAD was part of the investigation into this murder.
Just crazy. Anyway, we brought her home with no incident. She was very accommodating to us given the circumstances. She said that her aunt had pretty much had her in some sort of custody since she took her when her mom died--because she got quite a life insurance policy and her aunt had access to that as long as the girl was in custody of some kind. Of course, that could be entirely fiction. You never know if you should take the word of a troubled teen. :) Regardless, she caused no problem, and the next day we had her to her little program.
The end. :)
This morning, out of the complete blue, i thought of something that happened while i lived in St. George.
I worked an amazing job at a Wilderness Program for troubled teens. This really was an amazing, life changing experience--for me! I don't know if it helped the kids, or just kept them clean for a while, but it did help me.
One of the staff that i worked with was this fellow Don. Don was cool. Don was a polygamist that only had one wife. He was interesting and different, and a great guy. We had a really cool schedule, that worked 8 days on, then had 6 days off. During Don's 6 days off, he would sometimes do "escort" runs. Escort runs were when a parent didn't think a child would go willingly to the program, so they paid the escorts to come in and pick the kids up and bring them to the program. For obvious reasons, two people were required to go on a run, and when a female student was involved, one of the escorts had to be a female.
One day i got a call from Don, who said that he had a run that he wanted me to do with him. I guess the female that was supposed to do this run had something come up and couldn't' make it. The run was to ALASKA. Having never been to Alaska, I jumped on the chance to go. :) The pay was also pretty good! Anyway, so they bought us plane tickets, we jumped on a plane and went up to Alaska. We got up there, and were supposed to catch this little puddle jumper plane to hit up the town she was from. We called the main office of the escort biz when we got up there, because our flight had been cancelled--and found out that the girl had run away from her "hometown" to Juneau (where we were at). They had a houseboat number that they thought she might be staying at, so we very tv-like "staked out" the houseboat to watch to see if she'd show up.
We'd been there a few hours, and she hadn't shown yet, so NATURALLY, we went to a national park (where we saw some black bears! but i don't consider it in the wild, cuz they lure them out in the open with fish!), then went out and got some freshly caught Alaskan Salmon. Normally, i'm not a big fish fan...but this was GOOD!) Then, we went to the police. They were able to help us find a few more places she could be, and then found out somehow that she was at this "flop house" in a trailer park. They came with us, and had us wait in our car, while they went in and took her. They had to take her into custody, then with our paperwork, we were able to take her. It was too late to get a flight home, so we got a couple hotel rooms.
Now...here's a "it's a small world" story. While i shared the room, me and this girl got a talkin'. She was a ward of her aunt and uncle, because her father was in jail for shooting her mother. She was in the room and saw it happen when she was just a little girl. In FACT, there was a book written about her family and all of this that happened. Can't remember the name of it, buti immediately went out and bought the book and read it. As i was reading, i saw that this took place in Vincennes, Indiana. I had a roommate (Brian, Tall Bear) from Vincennes, Indiana. I mentioned this to him, and it turns out his DAD was part of the investigation into this murder.
Just crazy. Anyway, we brought her home with no incident. She was very accommodating to us given the circumstances. She said that her aunt had pretty much had her in some sort of custody since she took her when her mom died--because she got quite a life insurance policy and her aunt had access to that as long as the girl was in custody of some kind. Of course, that could be entirely fiction. You never know if you should take the word of a troubled teen. :) Regardless, she caused no problem, and the next day we had her to her little program.
The end. :)
Been a while!
Ok, So i admit it. I'm not very good at this thing. I even tried to do the "30 days of Blogging Challenge", and didn't even get that right.
But work has slowed down a lot, and so i thought i'd catch up a little.
School is out for the kids. Since then, we've gone to a baseball game in SLC, been to a childrens museum, been to a "festival" in Layton, watched fireworks on a rooftop, gone to the City of Rocks and other camp adventures, gone to the beach several times, caught some catfish at our fav fishing spot, and have been hiking several times. I say that because Andrew thinks we haven't done anything. Which is OK. I guess for a kid, we haven't "done" much. We haven't been to Disneyland, or played on our new (dont' have one!) trampoline, or even been to a national park (city of rocks is a national Monument).
But we've laughed a thousand times this summer over this little number: "Are you with me!?!" "Moo." "I SAid ARE YOU WITH ME!?!" "MOOOOOO!!!!" as we witnessed a cow uprising (they couldn't beleive we chose to set up camp around their precious "salt lick").
And how about driving backwards down a mountain for a quarter of a mile because there was no where to turn around on the AWFUL HORRIBLE ROAD during our exciting adventure to find Bloomington Lake...only to discover if we'd driven from the other route, the road would have been paved.
and ... "YEAH-uh". As we discovered the joys of watching the Regular Show together.
I mean, sometimes we don't do the BIGGEST grandest things, but we do a lot of small things and i think we have a lot of fun doing it!
But work has slowed down a lot, and so i thought i'd catch up a little.
School is out for the kids. Since then, we've gone to a baseball game in SLC, been to a childrens museum, been to a "festival" in Layton, watched fireworks on a rooftop, gone to the City of Rocks and other camp adventures, gone to the beach several times, caught some catfish at our fav fishing spot, and have been hiking several times. I say that because Andrew thinks we haven't done anything. Which is OK. I guess for a kid, we haven't "done" much. We haven't been to Disneyland, or played on our new (dont' have one!) trampoline, or even been to a national park (city of rocks is a national Monument).
But we've laughed a thousand times this summer over this little number: "Are you with me!?!" "Moo." "I SAid ARE YOU WITH ME!?!" "MOOOOOO!!!!" as we witnessed a cow uprising (they couldn't beleive we chose to set up camp around their precious "salt lick").
And how about driving backwards down a mountain for a quarter of a mile because there was no where to turn around on the AWFUL HORRIBLE ROAD during our exciting adventure to find Bloomington Lake...only to discover if we'd driven from the other route, the road would have been paved.
and ... "YEAH-uh". As we discovered the joys of watching the Regular Show together.
I mean, sometimes we don't do the BIGGEST grandest things, but we do a lot of small things and i think we have a lot of fun doing it!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Spring Break pt deux
Well, we had a great plan to take off a few days during the kids spring break and go to Melanie's house and go visit Zion National Park. We both lived in St George for a while (Ryan and I), and we have a great loveof southern utah. Because of gas costs, weather, and the chance of "government shut down", we decided to keep the days off work, but stay at home and try to do something fun here. And, worse, we thought we'd go to SLC and do a few things then hit the bee's opening night and the weather wasn't goodenough even forthat!! We went to town and hung out with Ryan's mom for a few hours, went out to eat then went to Rango. It was pretty cute. I liked it, plus i just love movies--and movie popcorn.Then we hunkered down in the snow at our house the rest of the night. Today, we thought we'd go to baby animal days. Still snowing,but the good news is,it wouldn't be as crowded as every other year...and they had a slight discount going on because most of the stuff was shut down. We DID get to see some cute baby bears. They were born in January and were quite possibly the cutest things i've ever seen. :) No baseball game in our future today, so...another dayof hunkering in and watching shows together and watcing the snow fall.Brr..
Day 17
Someone you would switch lives with for 1 day and why. Honestly, i thought about this, and I'm not sure there is anyone i would switch lives with for a day. I just feel content in my own skin, and wouldn't care to take place of someone else,and deal with their problems and their pain. I think everyone everywhere has pain and problems. Sorry, boring i know...
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Spring Break
Andrew is going to type what his favorite thing about spring break has been so far, and what else he wants to do... My favorite thing about spring break so far is beacause of how many dys it is.IX days.I don`t want to do anything else this week but stay home.
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