My CRAZY Life!!

I have decided that I should get back into blogging! I can let you all know what I am doing in my crazy life and how I can keep up with 2 jobs, school, and having a life.  I am entering my last two semesters at Weber State University! I am so excited to almost be a graduate with my Bachelors degree!!! I can't believe that I made it! It has been a rough road and there have been many times that I have just wanted to give up and not continue going to school because I wasn't enjoying the school experience and just wanted to go out and work. Now that I am almost there and I have spread the word about how close I am to graduating I am SO SO glad that I stuck with it and kept pushing through! As many of you know I work at the grocery store in Morgan which is now called Ridley's Family Market (formerly known as Jubilee Foods, IGA, Rogers, etc.). What many of you probably don't know is that I was recently promoted as a manager!! It has been a great experience and has helped me to grow and get over alot of fears that I have had in being able to confront people for doing wrong things, and to stick up for myself.

Recently, I have taken to my running again! I think it has been since I graduated high school in 2009 that I have seriously gone outside and ran just for the heck of it! My running partners are Mackenzie and Samantha that I work with... sometimes I wonder if they are just trying to kill me off! My first day of running.. we ran 3 MILES!!! Ah!! We have gotten up to about 4 miles and we are just entering week two! We run at nights and there have been a few times that I have felt like I was going to get run over because people probably couldn't see us (although with my white legs I don't see how they couldn't have seen us!), so Tyson's family gave me a UDOT vest so I am pretty sure that people should be able to see us now!!! I am proud to announce that I am now able to run 1.5 miles without stopping! Hopefully I will be ready for our race next Saturday! We are competing in the mud run! I will have to post pictures of the after math of us running and crawling through mud pits! I am way excited!!

ICEE RUN!! Christina, Kylie, and I went on an Icee run to the back of the Ridley's parking lot to help cool down! I would highly recommend this ice hut place. Their icee's are the bomb.com! I had the pina colada icee... oooh it was SO good! The mango is also very delicious!

This is my older sister Karen and her husband Dustin, and their two ADORABLE kids! Marissa and Jaxson! Marissa just recently finished her potty training! I can't believe how big she has gotten! I swear everytime I see her she is so much bigger and smarter! I absolutely LOVE her red hair! Jaxson is so cute! He is my little cuddle bug! Last time I saw him he was just starting to goo.. he is going to be a jabber jaws like his mom and big sister!

This is my oldest sister Kimberlee and her husband Kai Lani and the newest edition to their family Marshall! He is SO SO cute! I could just hold him and kiss him all day long! He loves to lay and kick kick kick! I swear he runs a marathon anytime you lay him down just from all the kicking. He thinks it is really funny when grandma is giving him a bath to roll over in the bath tub so she hurries and grabs him and he starts to giggle and gets a big smile on his face and does it again!

Me and Tyson on his birthday, where I took him to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate the occasion! We recently celebrated our 2 year anniversary of dating in June!!! I can't believe that it has been two years that I started dating some guy that turned out to be the love of my life and can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together (someday).. No we are not engaged.. yet :) Just to clarify, since it is a daily question that we get asked!!!

This is my FAVORITE brother Denny and his wife Benita, their cute puppy Hemi, and their foster daughter Casandra. I can't wait to meet Hemi and Casandra! I also can't wait to see my brother and benita! I miss them like CRAZY!!! Hopefully after I finish school I will be able to go out and see everyone.. or maybe they will come here and that would just make my entire day!!

More updates to come! Hopefully, I can become a better blogger than I have been in the past! Much love!

Danielle 

Update!!

Since I last posted I was attending Utah State University, however, now I am attending Weber State University. I am about a year and a half out from getting my Bachelors Degree in Athletic Therapy, then off to SLCC to get my degree as a Physical Therapy Assistant! Since I have moved back home many different things have changed in my life! First, my sister Karen had a cute little girl named Marissa Claire! She is almost one year old in 3 days! Crazy how time flies! She is so adorable you can't help but love her! Second, I have fallen in love! Tyson Dearden is the lucky fella! :) We started hanging out in June and it was love at first site and everyday is like a dream come true! Third, we got another foreign exchange student in our house! He is from Puebla, Mexico and his name is Marco Prosperi! He is one funny kid! Since he has joined our household we hold daily phase ten and Yahtzee battles to win "employee of the month" - February was Marco and March - after an intense battle Dad took the title! Fourth, I am working at WSU testing centers as a proctor. I sit and watch people take their tests and make sure they are not cheating! Its a great job! I really like it, I get to work and if its slow enough then I occasionally get the time to study! Speaking of which! Starting Monday, it is FINALS week!!! HOORAY!!! During this semester Jessica Cox (Coffman) and I signed up for an ice skating class - little did we know that we would fall in love with ice skating! We are now taking ice skating on as our new hobby and have signed up for summer ice skating classes and I am still debating whether to purchase my own ice skates!!! They may just have to be my own little splurge on myself for my 21 birthday coming up!!!!! WOOHOO!!!

Now that I have filled you in on a little portion of what has happened in my life the past year - I will work on posting pictures for you all to see! :)

Shopping at the Gateway!

Sometime during January, Jessica and I decided to go shopping at the gateway... We took the front runner down there... it was so much fun! Then we went window shopping and got what we needed at the time being... then I made Jess go try on wedding dresses because SHE'S GETTING MARRIED!!! We went to Costa Vida for lunch... mmmm... and of course hit up the rocky mountain chocolate factory... what is a trip to salt lake or wherever there is a chocolate shop without getting some chocolate?... Then we caught the front runner back to Ogden and met my family for dinner at Good Wood!

This is Jess and I enjoying our "femur" ribs.. we can't ever remember what they are called so we call them femurs... they are really good!

This is us at the fountain thingy at the gateway... We are both freezing to death! ... It was a great day and I'm glad I got to hang out with Jess and torture her by making her try on every wedding dress I could find :)

I am alive

So I am still alive! NO WORRIES! I will update my blog tonight or tomorrow after my chemistry test! Have a busy night ahead of me... going to learn how to do some chemistry so i don't fail my test tomorrow!!! :) Much love.. Danielle...

Learning to Knit!

On Tuesday, December 28, 2009... Karen and I traveled down to Grandma LaNae's house where we had craft day! While at Grandma's she taught Karen and I how to knit!!! I am so excited to be making slippers... I already finished one slipper and am in the process of making the second slipper... i will post more pictures when I can show the finished product!!! Thank You Grandma for teaching me how to knit so I can pass on the wonderful gift that you possess and have passed onto me... as some quote goes.. "Give a man a quilt, he will go cold again... teach the man to quilt he will always be warm!" ... in this case it would be slippers and now I will never have cold feet thanks to this wonderful talent you have shared with me! Thank you again! I can't wait until our next craft day!!!

Christmas Fun!!!

For Christmas this year Karen and Dustin drove out to Utah to come visit us... although we missed Denny and Benita a great deal this year it is so wonderful that Denny is back from Afghanastan and is safe!... Karen looks so cute being pregnant and I can't wait for her to have her baby GIRL!!! cuz the fact is... I'm going to be the best auntie!!! :) Kimberlee had a fun Christmas Eve party where we all gathered and had a wonderful meal, good meal, and spent quality time together! Then on Christmas, mom and dad called me about ten o'clock and watched the last half of Night at the Museum then went and opened presents! I got many wonderful things such as several warm coats and hats to embrace for the cold weather in Logan... some pants... boots... long sleeve shirts... some movies... and time to spend with my family!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanksgiving in California!!!

For Thanksgiving my parents and I drove out to California to visit Karen and Dustin! Although it was a very very long drive it was worth every hour we spent in the car to lay on the beach for a couple of days! We had a great time and a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

My cute neph dog Bronco!

My cute neph dog chillin on his chair on the patio!

Karen and I standing by a beautiful Christmas tree after we got out of movie theatre from seeing the new Twilight movie...

Karen and Dustin got me a boyfriend for my birthday/graduation/thanksgiving present! Thanks! I totally love him!!!

While in Cali we were introduced to Yogurtland... they have every flavor of yogurt you could imagine and you can put delicious toppings on it to create a little cup of heaven! You then pay by how much your yogurt weighs (we got a free shirt because our yogurt put together was the certain weight limit)... then you get to indulge in your creation and enjoy!!!

Karen and I being yogurtland models!...

Me getting a tan at the beach!!!

Having fun at the beach!!!

Me and mom having fun at the ocean!!!

Me and Mom at the ocean!!!

I was talking to my roomie Lindsey while I was at the beach and she told me to make a sand angel for her since she was in Utah in the snow... so instead of getting covered in sand I just drew a sand angel!

Our toes at the beach!!!

Karen and I at Laguna beach!!!

Me, Dad, and Karen... at Laguna Beach!... Please note dad's hat!... mom and I picked it out at some gas station along the way when we were driving to cali... we got dad a hat with hair on it... it is quite a hilarious hat... so it was a must buy item! :)

Me, Mom, Dad, Karen + Baby Nellie!

My photography skills while at the beach!!!

Me and my "boyfriend" after he's fully grown... he's so cute!!

Karen made an apron for me for my birthday! It is such a cute apron! I love it!!!

Thank you Karen and Dustin for letting us come to visit you in Cali!! I loved visiting you and can't wait until I come out there to visit you again!!!