TO BE A BOY....

Dear Bloggers,

I LOVE being a GIRL! I wouldn't call myself girlie but I will tell you I do my best to act like a lady. I think girls are better than boys and I LOVE being one. :) There is only one thing about boys I am jealous of. . .

I work at Xactware and mostly men work here. During lunch hour I see multiple MEN leaving to go running, biking, walking, playing basketball, volleyball, etc. They can do this during their lunch hour and be back to work in the hour... I am jealous. I wish I could spend my lunch hour working out. I don't think I could run four miles, shower, blow dry, curl, make-up back on, work cloths, lotion, perfume, etc. in an hour. So boys I am jealous of one thing you do better than girls! That is getting ready faster than us. Oh to be a boy...

That is all ...

xoxo,

Emo

Surprise Attack

So you all remember my BEST friend Chels? Yes the one that is living in Europe who comes home July 19th? You all remember her?


About a month ago I got a call from Ashley Irons (Chels little sister) asking if I wanted to come to Twin Falls (where they are from) to run a 5k. I LOVE Chels family and running so I was all about it.

I bagged Megan and Tess to come up with me of course they were in. We left around 5 and got to Twin around 8. Chels dad answered the door with a great warm welcome. Seriously he is the nicest guy in the world. "welcome everyone. I think Lynn is in trying to get Chels on skype."

My reaction... I think I am going to cry.

I got up to the computer to say hello. Megan and Tess started talking to her as well. In the middle of the hello's Lynn said "Chels we can't really hear you. I am going to turn it up." Lyn turned the camera around to "turn up the volume"

I TURNED AROUND AND CHELS WAS WALKING TOWARDS ME... I was completely surprised. I couldn't believe she was really home. Like I said she was not suppose to be home until July 19th. I HAD NO CLUE she was back. I then found out Amy and Spooner (people Megan and I both talked to earlier that day.) knew she was home. It was the GREATEST surprise. Thanks Irons you pulled it off well.

We made homemade pizza for dinner and had malts for dessert. We just talked for hours and hours. I missed my best pal.

Saturday morning we got up to run the race. It was a little cloudy but PERFECT running weather. My goal was to run in 28 mins. I have been SO SLOW lately. Megs and I ran together and Chels and Tess ran together. It was great! I finished in 27:37. I was happy with that time. :)

We went to the real Twin Falls which is BEAUTIFUL! I loved every second of it. We went to the bridge as well which is one of my favorite things in Twin. LOVED IT!

We saw Randi and Tyson. Had ice cream, ate lunch, showered, talked forever, then sadly we had to come home. It was short but VERY sweet! LOVE Twin FALLS IDAHO!

Pictures from the weekend!

Thanks Irons for the BEST weekend! I LOVE YOU!
xoxo,

Emo

A day off work and I still get paid! :)

This Memorial Day Weekend was a great and much needed weekend. It is always great to have a day off of work and still get paid... I guess this is why I went to college :) Well this weekend was AMAZING!

Friday night Tess, Megan, Jeff, Mike and I went to the ward camp out. I love my ward so it was great to go with them. We drove up on Friday night. We stayed at the Heber camp ground! I have never been there before. We slept in really nice cabins. We played cards and just sat around and talked. BEST PART of the trip... sleeping next to Tess!!! :) we were basically spooning the whole night. It was better than being cold and sleeping on the hard wood cot.

Saturday we went to Park City to the outlet malls. Gap outlet... CHECK!!! Banana outlet... CHECK!!! Great deals at both! Truly it is sad how much I love to shop. I would say it is a talent I am that good!!! :)

We had the Henshaw Family BBQ at my parents house which is currently my house. It was great to see all my cousins.

Funny Picture

cousins and their spouses

After Celisa and I drove to Logan for the rest of the weekend. I love Celisa SO much! She is the best to road trip with singing, dancing, and just talking the whole time. LOVE IT!

I realized this trip why I love Logan SO much. Logan is where I became Emo. I have so many memories at every spot in Logan. I have this special, special, special, special, special, spot that over looks Logan. It is the best. I go everytime I am in Logan and remember all the times I would just sit and ponder on what I wanted my life to be like. Only very special people have been to my special spot with me! I of course went there this trip. LOVE my special spot!

Saturday night we just sat around and talked for hours! Since I lacked sleep from the night before (sharing a bed with Tess) I fell a sleep a little early... But still heard most of the conversation. I love my freshmen year friends. I am incredibly lucky to have them.

Sunday we went to church and Ash taught Sunday school. After I went on a walk with Syd. (I have a girl crush on Syd, shhhhhhh don't tell her. ) We walked all around campus and the cemetory two of my favorite places in Logan. I went back to Ash's house and watched OTH with Celisa and Ash. I forgot how good that show use to be! :)

We had a BBQ with Amy and Christian that night. All of our favorite foods from freshman year... It makes sense to me now why we all gained ten pounds our freshman year! :)

Later we walked around the temple and campus again! I love USU campus. It is so pretty and amazing when you haven't seen it for a while.

Monday, I got up and ran my favorite run in Logan. I seriously love and REALLY miss running in Logan. I feel faster when I am there. It's great. The best part is where ever you run in Logan there is ALWAYS a hill (hills are my favorite). We had breakfast with Amy and Christian and then went to hike the wind caves. George my watched told us how fast and far we were going. We had a great time guessing how fast we were going.

It was a great weekend.

xoxo,

Emo

bunking up with the parents!

SOOOOO I live with my parents! That is right I have not lived with them since I was 18 years old. So why am I back under there roof?

Well I HATED where I was living. I loved my roommate Tess who seriously is one of my BEST friends in the world now, but after she left I decided I needed to get out of there. I don't know if you remember the story about my land lord from before? with the mice? He is a REAL winner... Let me tell you...

I wanted to get out of my contract and move home for the summer. My little brother Nato gets home from his mission in one month so I decided it would be fun if we lived together. My parents were nice enough to let me move in to there BRAND new house. I LOVE it!

So back to my contract... My landlord said I needed to sale it which I was not surprised I was expecting that. Well I figured out that my landlord was breaking the law. According to Zonging Guidelines in Utah there can only be three unrelated people living in a house at one time. Since there were five of us he was breaking the Zoning Guidelines. So I asked him if I could get out of my contract. After he "talked to his lawyer" he told me I could get a total refund and could be out of the contract.

So today I moved in with my parents! I LOVE it! I am living in the apartment in the basement. PERFECT for me!

Thanks mom and dad for being my new roommates! LOVE YOU!

xoxo

Emo

Amy J... Oh i mean I !

Amy Lyn Jensen became Amy Lyn Jensen Ivins on Tuesday! I LOVE her so much! Seriously I am so lucky to have Amy as a best friend. Christian is ONE lucky lucky boy! Love Mr. and Mrs. Ivins!

DEALS!

Like I said Deals... They just find me... I can't really help it. :)

So Thursday night Tess and I went to dinner with the cute Burton girls (minus Mandi... Missed you lots) that were in town.

Before dinner we were waiting for Tess to finish her final that she got a 97% on.... YES my roommate is an honors student. She is SO smart. We went to Macey's and Whitney pointed out this really cute dress. I looked at it and thought "that has to be mine!" I tried it on and LOVED it! I looked at the price tag... $89.98... Remember this about me people... I don't buy things unless they are on sale. Deb Burton had a 25% off coupon so in my head... "Good I am getting a deal."

Went up to the register and the coupon didn't work on this dress for some reason...

Thought process... "Emo you are an adult now who has to wear nice clothes to work everyday... you should probably start buying things that will last a long time... not just anything anymore..."

So I bought it... when I was walking out I thought to myself... "you are a better shopper than to pay FULL PRICE for something...." BUT I loved it! :)

WELL.... Today I came to my parents house to sew the slit up because it was way to high when I sit down... My mom wanted to go shopping so I decided to go with and sew after. We went to TJMAXX... I thought "I will just look at the dress to see if I like anything..."

GUESS WHAT I FOUND STARING ME STRAIGHT IN THE FACE??????????

The SAME EXACT DRESS that I had bought at Macey two nights previous???

LOOKED AT THE PRICE TAG??????????????

$29.99

I KNEW I WAS A BETTER SHOPPER THAN TO PAY FULL PRICE FOR SOMETHING. I got three new dress for 63 dollars... TOOK THE 89.98 dollar dress back... SAVE about 30 dollars...

THANK YOU MOM FOR TEACHING ME TO NEVER PAY FULL PRICE FOR SOMETHING????

I guess I learned my lesson!

XOXO
EMO

I MISS CHELSEA!

Okay it has been about eight weeks with out my best friend in the world. I mean really the email and gmail chats everyday is just not enough anymore... Seriously I miss you Chels! Could you please come home? I know you miss me... I will give you a prize if you do... I mean stop living our dream life in Europe and just come home already to your selfish friend Emo who really misses you... I mean seriously is it really that hard?

Get back to me...

XOXO,

Emo