Happy Fourth of July!!

I am so grateful to live here in the United States of America. Independence and freedoms that are invaluable. I'm so grateful to those who have given their lives for this great country.

That being said this is how I celebrated!

A couple church services in a couple languages
Singing lots of patriotic music (also in different languages)
Visiting old friends
Holding little Benjamin (I'm on the up and out of sick sick mono... I can hold babies again :-) )
Making friends with Chileans
Eating strawberries
Watching waaaay too many violent action movies with my dad (Mel, Tommy Lee, that one dude from Outkast... O MY!)
FIREWORKS
Enjoying how all the good people of NP can put aside differences and come together to watch fireworks and listen to America songs
Eating cold cereal and watching Criminal Minds with my mom

O and the pre-celebration? One crazy night of Bealtes Rockband with my favorite olders and two other very very dear friends.

Happiness.

Do I really have to go back to Provo?

All my baby's llamas

O life!
Hi to anyone who reads this (Lindsey *ahem*). I'm back from being a full time misionera and I'm finally ready to blog again.As of late:

I just got back from the best trip to Oregon EVER! It was filled with all of my favorite things:

The power trio + Madame Jakey
Babies
Grandmas
Baby seals
Seals
The ocean
Feeding baby cows
Petting baby cows
Sitting in a swing for like a million hours
Sitting in a swing with Fauf and Stooph
Spinning on a swing til near barfing
Playing hide and seek with mostly adults
Rock band
Beatles Rockband
Birthday cakes
Camp fires + s'mores
Jumping and a trampoline with a half dozen 5 and unders
Chocolate milk
Diet coke everyday
Book stores
Fair rides that make you fly
Street markets in Portland
Crazies in Portland
Voo Doo Doughnuts
Sushi
Baseball
Kickball
Waterfalls
Singing TLC at the waterfall
Rivers and lakes
Hiking
Catching lizards
Shooting (What?! Yes, I really shot a gun thank you very much.Scared me to death!)(But I totally hit the target on the second try. Whatever haters)
Making new friends
Visiting old ones
Singing and piano playing with the bros and Jakey
Watching disturbing internet clips with my favs
Reading the Juicy Bits with Stooph instead of sleeping
Waking up to a wee one singing Bop to the Top (and dancing his little legs off)
Not having to pee every two seconds in the car
Reading a horror novel on a plane
Talking to Terry at Moe's

More fun things and surely some pictures to come. Be patient. I can't figure out how to blog. Heaven help me.

way to go MO!

my call finally came! i'm going to Independance, Missouri in april and I'm totally excited. Shoot. Aaaaand Lisa is going to St. Louis at almost the same time, so I'll have a friend! Yay!

Seriously, i couldn't be more happy to serve my Savior and whatever down home people i meet there. And I'll be kickin it daily with BrakeSk8. No big deal.

the oval office, from one library to the next

also known as: You know you're a nerd when you have worked in a library since middle school and can't seem to escape them and all of their peaceful charm.

My dad gets the hebbie gebbies in libraries, among others places like middle schools and hospitals. Luckily for me, libraries give me happy-town feelings and soooooo...

Today I went into Reagan's Air Force One! and the exact replica of the oval office. Those Nicholas Cage movies (you KNOW me and nick are bff. duh. squared)? surprisingly accurate. not totally but a little right which is more than i thought could be.

so so these days i'm working at the ronald reagan presidential library in the special collections. i'm doing inventory on all of the gifts he and nancy recieved while in office. o. my. stars. we're talking mountains of gifts. so crazy! I would say the most beautiful gift is a tree given from the wild and somewhat terrible emilda marcos. picture a tree somewhat like an almod tree in flowery bloom. the trunk is ebony-ish and the leaves are all hand carved mother of pearl. it is absolutely incredible. (try not to think of the people who probably had to pay for it....o politics...)

i'm happy and i have one more interview to go. o snap!

Lippy Sticky

last weekend i froze my lip to a red hot popcicle. does anyone look at this any more?

I am Grace hooray. I love my friends, especially Abby and Bridgette. They are so awesome, I wish every day I could be just like them. Oh well.