"To Make You Feel My Love"
~Adele
Repeat count: 12
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Ducks, Trains and 409
Once upon a time, (last Friday) I went on a ward camp out.
I had had a little bit of a rough Friday and wasn't exactly in the mood to go play R.S. pres all evening. Tawny, Cindy (my VT coordinator) and myself made plans to all go up together. So Cindy met us at the house, we loaded up the car and left for the night. I immediately knew what kind of pick me up I needed. Disney songs! So I plugged I my ipod and sang all the way up. 3 songs into the drive, I was feeling much better. We got up there, set up our tent (very humorously, might I add...we had an incident with the rain fly. Lets just say we basically slept under the stars that night, even though we were in a tent haha), grabbed some food and then sat around the campfire, talking and laughing and enjoying time with others in the ward.
WELL...
Early on in the evening, Lane, our elders quorum president, figured out he could lure the ducks wherever he wanted to by throwing little handfuls of chips out to them. They would follow him anywhere. (See exhibit A below)
Well, later on that night, Lane was sitting by me around the camp fire and by this time he seemed to have given up on the duck business. Well I happened to glance over my shoulder and saw someone standing by our tent...
I paused and said "hmm do I need to be concerned with the white shirt sneaking away from our tent?" to which lane simply shrugged his shoulders. A few minutes later I said to tawny and cindy, "Maybe one of us should go check on the tent" and immediately lane piped in and said "I think that would be a really good idea" I laughed it off because I thought he was just playing off my paranoia. But then he said "no really. I think you might want to go check on it." and I kind of had a concerned look on his face. So Cindy, getting annoyed with the playful banter, gets up grabs the flash light and walks over towards the tent. Moments later we hear a scream followed by loud laughter. I looked at lane with a "no way" look in my eye and jumped up to go investigate.
Sure enough, as we shined the light into the tent, two nervous, flapping, quacking ducks were zipped up into our tent.
NO WAY!! How??
Well, apparently after his lack of success, Lane jokingly challenged this guy Mike to get the ducks in the tent for him. Mike is a very odd duck (no pun intended) himself. Just one of those people who are strange in a way that makes you slightly uncomfortable. And we learned that night not to put anything past him. You tell him to try and do something like catch two crazy ducks and put them in the girls tent, he'll get it done! haha
Well you can only imagine what happened next...
Think if you were a small feathered animal that could only quack and flap and you got locked in a vinyl prison...what would you do? Oh yes that's right
POOP ALL OVER EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!
Way to think that one through President. Haha! It was a super gross mess. When Mike and Lane realized what those gross little creatures had done, they felt really bad. The task of getting the ducks out of the tent proved quite humorous as well. They didn't want to cooperate. Finally, upon getting them out and realizing the mess, the boys started to clean. It smelled disgusting! And I kid you not, it was EVERYWHERE!! Huge mess. Lane was like, "Holy crap! How could two little ducks do all this in 15 minutes??" haha haha He ended up driving to a walmart and getting a bottle of 409 (and bringing us redemption ice cream ha) and scrubbing down the whole tent. It was the best part of the whole camp out. Everybody was laughing and joking about even on Sunday when we came to church.
We do good news minute in R.S. and Tasha, our FHE committee head, raised her hand and said "my good news is that my tent wasn't the tent with the duck poo in it" we laughed and I said "well, my not so good news is that my tent WAS the tent with the duck poo". It was so funny.
Needless to say, besides the stink of the lake/ducks, the noisy trains, the freezing cold, going to sleep at 3:00 a.m. and waking up at 6:00 to cook everyone breakfast...it was a BLAST!! I was glad I participated as I should have.
Oh, and the trains part is that we were about 100 yards from a train track and apparently there was a road crossing a mile away from the campsite, so every 30 minutes or so when a train would pass by, it would blare its horn right as it paralleled out camp site. of course! no sleep for this little one :)
SO there's my entertainment from my weekend. I hope you found something in there amusing.
I had had a little bit of a rough Friday and wasn't exactly in the mood to go play R.S. pres all evening. Tawny, Cindy (my VT coordinator) and myself made plans to all go up together. So Cindy met us at the house, we loaded up the car and left for the night. I immediately knew what kind of pick me up I needed. Disney songs! So I plugged I my ipod and sang all the way up. 3 songs into the drive, I was feeling much better. We got up there, set up our tent (very humorously, might I add...we had an incident with the rain fly. Lets just say we basically slept under the stars that night, even though we were in a tent haha), grabbed some food and then sat around the campfire, talking and laughing and enjoying time with others in the ward.
WELL...
Early on in the evening, Lane, our elders quorum president, figured out he could lure the ducks wherever he wanted to by throwing little handfuls of chips out to them. They would follow him anywhere. (See exhibit A below)
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| (Exhibit A) |
I caught on early enough that he was trying to get them into our tent. Every once and a while I would see him getting the ducks closer and closer to our tent, at which point I would abruptly march over there and chase the ducks back into the pond. It was entertaining and fun, but I began to get paranoid that the ducks WERE going to somehow end up in the tent. So every so often i would go check. Lane started teasing me "you might want to go check on your tent Kelsee". But he was always teasing because he knew I was paranoid. There was never anything inside the tent when I would check. Well, later on that night, Lane was sitting by me around the camp fire and by this time he seemed to have given up on the duck business. Well I happened to glance over my shoulder and saw someone standing by our tent...
I paused and said "hmm do I need to be concerned with the white shirt sneaking away from our tent?" to which lane simply shrugged his shoulders. A few minutes later I said to tawny and cindy, "Maybe one of us should go check on the tent" and immediately lane piped in and said "I think that would be a really good idea" I laughed it off because I thought he was just playing off my paranoia. But then he said "no really. I think you might want to go check on it." and I kind of had a concerned look on his face. So Cindy, getting annoyed with the playful banter, gets up grabs the flash light and walks over towards the tent. Moments later we hear a scream followed by loud laughter. I looked at lane with a "no way" look in my eye and jumped up to go investigate.
Sure enough, as we shined the light into the tent, two nervous, flapping, quacking ducks were zipped up into our tent.
NO WAY!! How??
Well, apparently after his lack of success, Lane jokingly challenged this guy Mike to get the ducks in the tent for him. Mike is a very odd duck (no pun intended) himself. Just one of those people who are strange in a way that makes you slightly uncomfortable. And we learned that night not to put anything past him. You tell him to try and do something like catch two crazy ducks and put them in the girls tent, he'll get it done! haha
Well you can only imagine what happened next...
Think if you were a small feathered animal that could only quack and flap and you got locked in a vinyl prison...what would you do? Oh yes that's right
POOP ALL OVER EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!
Way to think that one through President. Haha! It was a super gross mess. When Mike and Lane realized what those gross little creatures had done, they felt really bad. The task of getting the ducks out of the tent proved quite humorous as well. They didn't want to cooperate. Finally, upon getting them out and realizing the mess, the boys started to clean. It smelled disgusting! And I kid you not, it was EVERYWHERE!! Huge mess. Lane was like, "Holy crap! How could two little ducks do all this in 15 minutes??" haha haha He ended up driving to a walmart and getting a bottle of 409 (and bringing us redemption ice cream ha) and scrubbing down the whole tent. It was the best part of the whole camp out. Everybody was laughing and joking about even on Sunday when we came to church.
We do good news minute in R.S. and Tasha, our FHE committee head, raised her hand and said "my good news is that my tent wasn't the tent with the duck poo in it" we laughed and I said "well, my not so good news is that my tent WAS the tent with the duck poo". It was so funny.
Needless to say, besides the stink of the lake/ducks, the noisy trains, the freezing cold, going to sleep at 3:00 a.m. and waking up at 6:00 to cook everyone breakfast...it was a BLAST!! I was glad I participated as I should have.
Oh, and the trains part is that we were about 100 yards from a train track and apparently there was a road crossing a mile away from the campsite, so every 30 minutes or so when a train would pass by, it would blare its horn right as it paralleled out camp site. of course! no sleep for this little one :)
SO there's my entertainment from my weekend. I hope you found something in there amusing.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Yes, I know...
I really need to play catch up!!
I haven't been blogging my happenings very consistantly as of late.
Fail.
I will improve upon this situation asap!!
p.s. Did you know that the plastic things on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets??
I haven't been blogging my happenings very consistantly as of late.
Fail.
I will improve upon this situation asap!!
p.s. Did you know that the plastic things on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets??
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
'Tis a Puzzlement
Tonight was all about being conscious to the goings on in my brain. not letting them escape. I drove and thought, then sat and thought, then wrote, then planned, then read then prayed then thought. Interestingly enough what I thought I was thinking, I'd already thought about, so what I thought was that I shouldn't think about what thoughts I'm thinking before I have a thought. Perhaps that will un-fuzz some of me.
p.s. If something that you usually use to find things is lost, how do you find what you lost while looking?
p.s. If something that you usually use to find things is lost, how do you find what you lost while looking?
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Strike, spare...who cares
This may come as a shock to most, but please believe what I have to tell you is true.
I went with a NORMAL person, on a legit, real, and normal date last night. We went bowling and out for ice cream and played the only Nintendo game I like, Mario Kart (simply because I threatened to dominate...but it was a very empty threat).
Lots of laughter ensued throughout the evening and I was happy to announce at the end that I had actually enjoyed myself. I was grateful to my friend Michelle for setting us up. I had started to forget my heart could feel light in the dating world. He was a great date. The night was a huge success. Is there another date with "superman" in the future?? I haven't the foggiest, but we count the good moments sometimes as more of a success than anything we'll get out of a circumstance down the road. Right now I'm just grateful for the bowling pin band aid it put on a piece of my heart.
I went with a NORMAL person, on a legit, real, and normal date last night. We went bowling and out for ice cream and played the only Nintendo game I like, Mario Kart (simply because I threatened to dominate...but it was a very empty threat).
Lots of laughter ensued throughout the evening and I was happy to announce at the end that I had actually enjoyed myself. I was grateful to my friend Michelle for setting us up. I had started to forget my heart could feel light in the dating world. He was a great date. The night was a huge success. Is there another date with "superman" in the future?? I haven't the foggiest, but we count the good moments sometimes as more of a success than anything we'll get out of a circumstance down the road. Right now I'm just grateful for the bowling pin band aid it put on a piece of my heart.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
RSL!!
Went to my first REAL Salt Lake game tonight. It was awesome.
There were lots of records set that night for the team. One of them was the number of fans in attendance. Over 18,000!
Pretty awesome.
We were on the East side so I got to watch one of my favorite things from a new viewing point...
...a gorgeous sunset behind the jumbo tron. haha
I even got ice cream AND entertainment after the game.
Plus we sang in the car. Good times.
Braydon,
he's a gentleman, he's funny, and he put up with me for a whole night.
(Thanks)
The best part is I tried to kick back a little...and braydon got a picture of my favorite shoes.
I love experiencing new things.
The world we live in is scary in lots of ways, but it is still awesome in many others.
Music, ice cream, soccer, sunsets, shoes...need I go on??
:)
Friday, September 3, 2010
Mowage...
My sweet friend Angela Secrist (Cooney) got married today. Her reception was so great! She looked beautiful and they both looked so happy. It was also a WONDERFUL reunion! Jessica came with Tawny and I and brought her sweet bundle of joy with her. Cutest little girl on the planet!! I love her red hair and chubby legs. I just want to eat her up! haha Ran into Dalen, Clay, Kelsey, Kellie, Tyson, Lindsay, Emily, Steve and a bunch of other old friends there and we had a great time. I even came back after I left once because I wanted to spend more time with old friends. It was special to me. Here's a few pics to document the evening. Love!
They were nice to each other when they cut the cake. No smashing in faces.
Funny how Clay always manages to look evil in the pictures I get of him...
Love them both :)
After the wedding, I came home and my sweet friend Sarah was over. We (Sarah, Tawny and myself) decided it was a good night for spaghetti and a flick.
This is how we chose the movie:
Since my room was a disaster and I forbid anyone to enter, I took picture of each of my movie shelves and made them look at the pictures and pick one. haha
I love my friends and the random things we do!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Song of the day goes to...
"The Day We Fell Apart"
~Kelly Clarkson
Repeat Count: 3
This was the BEST to listen to driving home today. Thanks Kelly
~Kelly Clarkson
Repeat Count: 3
This was the BEST to listen to driving home today. Thanks Kelly
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