Jen's Last Weekend

My roommate Jen was leaving for Switzerland for 6 weeks to teach and I would have moved by the time she got back, so for her last weekend we went all out. I took Friday and Monday off of work (Dr Hineman was out of town again which worked out perfectly). We ended up using her parents time share and staying at a resort in Scottsdale, just about 20 min from our house. This way we could take full advantage of the pool and just relax.

And of course it isn't a weekend with the Oneders unless there is a murder mystery. We did the Class of 54' which was the best one we've done yet, at least scandalous wise. My character was named Dee and I was a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who made a life for herself and was currently in law school.
This is us working on dinner. We had hamburgers, and salsa and watermelon and all sorts of fun stuff. You can tell I spend the day at the pool by how burnt my face is!!

This was my date Dave. I met him at a YSA Conference a few weeks before when he asked me to dance because he'd recognized me from church. We also got to know each other a bit better when we had our ward boating activity and he and I were on the same boat and wake boarded all day. That was a fun trip and I'm now addicted to wake boarding.

The guys of the evening. The Jock, the geek, the tough guy, and the business man.

The ladies of the evening. Yes, Bonnie Jeane is wearing my old bridesmaid dress. The best was Jen's poodle skirt. She made it herself the night before.

So to complete our weekend at the resort we thought golfing would be a blast. Keep in mind that Jen, Curtis and I had never been golfing, so it was quite the hilarious 4 hours. But we were able to keep up with the guys ahead of us, and even skipped a few holes to get ahead of them since they kept taking so long!! Four men, 5 golf bags, and they were appalled that we were golfing with only one bag of 5 clubs that we had borrow from Bonnie Jeane. This is Curtis tickling Jen as usual.

I LOVED driving the golf carts around. It made the whole thing in 100 degree weather totally worth it. I can die happy now.

Me holding the flag for Curtis to make his put.

This was me helping Jen look for her ball, but when I saw Curtis taking a picture I tried to run away because I didn't want to be associated with the picture of looking in the bushes. I only lost one ball. I was very proud of myself!!

Trying to be as official as possible and lining up my shot. Or just being retarded as usual.

Let just say we were just glad that we didn't get kicked off the course or anything for how bad we were!!

Here is BJ and Emily showing off their head stand skills while goofing off in the room of our resort.

I'm going to miss Jen a ton and I'm sad that she is gone already. I have the best roommates who make life so much easier and are so fun!! And of course Emily our adopted roommate. :)

Colorado - Ees for fun!!

So Dr Hineman went on vacation for 2 weeks in May and to save myself from boredom I took the last week off and decided to go visit Sarah Londberg in Grand Junction, CO. She was the girl I went to Ethiopia with and my Opera going buddy. We started the week off by going camping at Buckeye Lake. And I promise that the name is a total coincidence. It was fate. This was true camping, us and the lake and the fish. We did run into the lake manager the 2nd day we were there and so he made us pancake, bacon and eggs for breakfast. The rest of the time we ate what we caught. It was so beautiful!! Here is my first fish I have ever caught. I named him Trouty One. I was a bit freaked out, I didn't know they were so slimy!!

Here is the fruits of our spoils. I even learned how to gut my own fish!! Then we just wrapped them in tin foil, threw them in, and flavored with some lemon after. So good!!

Remember how I have lived in Phoenix for 18 months now? Yeah, I used to not be able to handle the cold but now I'm really a wimp when it comes to the cold. This is my camping Star Wars style trying to keep warm.

Sarah trying not to go crazy with the Granddaddy fish that decided to make a game out of teasing us. Sarah hooked him 5 times and every time he got up and we both swear he swam right up to the shore, popped his head out and stuck his tongue out at her. He was really good at also getting the bait off of her hook. We were determined, but unfortunately granddaddy fish was conqueror in the end.

Me being so grateful for our Captain America Powerbait. And a bit cold since I just went for a swim in the lake. I needed a bath!!

So after camping for three days people started coming up for Memorial Day and so Sarah and I booked it down the mountain, not wanting to be caught in the madness that was becoming the lake.

We found our way to Sarah's Aunts house where we were going to take her three horses for a ride down some of the trails and just enjoy the beautiful Colorado country side. Unfortunately the horses had something else in mind. Her aunt, who has been riding horses since she was 11, was thrown off of the horse Jack and ended up breaking her finger. Then Sarah got up on Diablo who slammed her into a fence, badly bruising her leg, and then fell on his side, kicking her off. Jack wouldn't let anyone touch him and her aunt finally calmed Diablo down. So we settle for running around the arena down the road. It took some coaxing to convince Sarah to get up on my horse Santana, who was gentle and so responsive. This is me and Santana after going for a few laps around the area at a pretty fast pace. So fun!!

So for the rest of memorial day weekend Sarah and I went antique shopping and went to second hand book stores, where I bought 16 books that I'm now currently working on. Sarah also wanted to take me dancing, so we ended up at a country dance place, and were a bit more dressed up then everyone else. But one 60 year old man kept asking me to dance, and it was fun to bust out my country dance moves from my class I took at BYU. Needless to say it was an interesting experience. I'd never had so many guys pay so much attention to me as they all kept offering to buy me a drink. I'm sure you can imagine the looks on their faces when I told them I didn't drink and went back on the dance floor to teach Sarah some awesome dance moves.

It was such a nice relaxing week. Sarah is such a great friend and I'm so grateful for her!!

Moving Preparations

So I have been busy getting everything ready for the big move to DC on August 1st. A part of that has been trying to get all my projects finished, trying to decrease as much junk as possible. I also have gone into panic mode and am trying to do all sorts of things that I know I won't have time for once I'm back in school. This quilt has been the most recent project I've been working on. It still has a long way to go, but this is how much I have done so far. I'm still learning how to sew straight, which I've learned isn't easy when you are sewing all sorts of different type of fabrics together, but I'm getting better. You can tell I started on the left and worked my way to the right because my sewing is straighter :) I have also been going into high speed reading mode with all the books that I've been trying to read. I got 16 books from a second hand store when I went to go visit my friend Sarah (the girl I went to Ethiopia with) in Grand Junction, Colorado for a week. I just realized that I didn't post a blog about that...I will do that next. But I have already read "The Historian" and have almost complete "Band of Brothers" about Easy company in WWII and "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. I have already learned so much from these books and can't wait to read what else I bought. I absolutely Loved and I mean Loved "John Adams" and also just finished John Berandt's "City of Fallen Angels" about the burning of the Fenice, Venice's Opera house in 1996.

Also part of me getting ready to go back to school has been taking advantage of my dental and vision insurance while I still have it. This picture is of me right after I had my wisdom teeth pulled. All four and the bottom two ere impacted and the bone was getting infected. I was retarded and didn't think it would be a big deal and had them removed on my day off on Tuesday and showed up to work the next day. My boss thought I was crazy and after lunch overruled my comments that I was ok and could work and sent me home and told me that I could only come back the next day if I had a doctor's note. Thank you Shar, I hurt more then I thought it would. I also had three fillings and my teeth cleaned and then got new glasses, which I am sporting in the picture as well.