New Calling!

I feel like I'm slowly but surely growing older in the ward again. After Jaren and I were married we enjoyed not having a calling for about a month. We are in the ward he grew up in so I think they felt fine about putting us in the nursery assuming since Jaren knows most of the ward, I'd know them too? Maybe that's what they thought? So in the nursery I got to know lots of babies! But not their parents. Then we were called to the primary. We've never had a definite primary calling, really. We were substitutes and taught all ages, then we were teaching Sunbeams. That was fun and funny. The first of this year we were called to be team teachers with an older couple in the ward teaching the oldest primary class the 11 and 12 year olds. We liked that calling because we only had to teach every other Sunday and so I got to go to Relief Society too.

New Calling! Last Sunday we had to meet with one of the counselors and who knows what that could mean. We had heard they were releasing a lot of people from the primary and so we thought we were going to be permanent full time teachers for one of the now empty spots. Hah, nope! Jaren was told first; he was called to be the Young Men's secretary. He's so busy with farming that he thought this wouldn't be so bad. Nothing was said to me for a few minutes so I thought I was home free and wasn't going to have a calling for a little while. Wrong!! I was asked to be the Beehive adviser. I was so excited! I've always wanted to be in the Young Women's cause I'm practically their age. Come to find, this Sunday when they were sustaining me in Church, the 1st counselor said Beehiveadviser, but after the meeting I was informed he was wrong, I'm the Mia Maid adviser! I'm a tid bit nervous because I'm only 7 years their senior. I'm pretty excited too, though. I hope I can make some sort of difference in their lives. I thought in order to celebrate this momentous occasion of finally graduating from Primary, I'd share some pictures when I was a Mia Maid! (Eventually I'll make it to Relief Society)

I think I might have been 16 in this pictures. And those leapord PJ pants were from my mom for Christmas along with matching undies. I was rather impressed and surprised with her present choice.

So I was 16 here on a date for a dance.

All dressed up for that dance.

For our Homecoming week we have dress up days. This was 80's day. Everything I was wearing is my mom's. The pants are "MC Hammer" pants; ya know, the big baggy one's but are super tight at the ankles.
Another dress up day; Husky Pride. This is Kevin's (older brother) football jersey from when the team took state.

I was 15 here and I thougt I was so cool cause my name was Whitney also.

Now that I look at this... why the heck am I sitting on the Sacred Grove sign!!! At least my eyes are closed so I'm kind of trying to be reverent.

At Vicki's wedding; she was so beautiful!! I was 14 a month away from turning 15 here. Lindsey is so little!

Hungry For Baby

It's true, I'm hungry for babies. Well, not just babies, but at least one baby. I feel like everyone around me is pregnant. I have 3 sister-in-laws and two are expecting. Wait wait... let me explain so you'll understand. I have 4 siblings.

Jason - oldest, smartest, has a PhD.
Married to Vicki they have 2 children. Josh - 3 yrs almost 4 and Claire - will be 12 months September 10th.

Kevin - Next oldest, has his masters, is the most friendly and outgoing (besides myself, of course)
Married to Lena they have one child and are expecting their 2nd. Isak - 15 months Fetus - Due February 17th.

Nathan - 3rd oldest, will graduate with his Bachelors in April (as will I), and is the most driven of all my siblings.
Married to Stephanie they are expecting their first child February 21st.

Whitney - this is me, I'm amazing and awesome and I can't wait to graduate in April with my Bachelors in Health Science so I can finally have me some BABIES!

Lindsey - The youngest and is my only sister. She's very outgoing and is absolutely hilarious. I love spending time with her and am glad she has chosen to live in Rexburg.
Not married and currently single, for any of you young men out there who are wondering (Yes, she's a beautiful almost 20 year old brunette who would definitely keep you on your toes. Man, she'll love me for offering her up on my blog.)

My Family

So there you have it; my siblings. All of us girls, except my spinsty single sister, all planned on having some babies in the year 2009. As you can see two of them took this very seriously and jumped the gun almost too early. Well... here I am, blazing my way through school trying not to think about babies cause I know I can't have any till I graduate. I know I know... I've only been married for almost 17 months; but you see... were settled. Forever. In Rexburg (sigh....). I married a man with a career and he's 5 years older than I. So, he has been set up here for some time and I just get to be along for the ride. It's nice most of the time. Him being done with school and us never having to worry about where we might end up or how we'll end up there. So, the excuse that we can't bring a child into our world because we are not prepared or cannot handle the responsibility or cannot afford or will have to tote around the U.S. is not an excuse. Okay.. so onto being hungry...

I paid for my school clothes all growing up by baby sitting. I love kids. I feel rather knowledged on the subject of children; especially without having any of my own. (I don't need to hear about how hard it is or what a responsibility or anything, I know I know I know) The idea of having to take care of a teeny little baby does not frighten me in the least. The idea of popping a BABY out of ME on the other hand is horribly terrifying. I've gone through bouts of wanting a baby and not wanting one at all. Feeling much too young (I'm 22) and then feeling like I'm getting too old. (In the Mormon culture... 22 is plenty old to start a family). To be honest, I want to be done having kids by the time I'm 35 if I can help it; sooner if I can manage that. So.... I kinda want to get started. I don't feel pressured at all, especially since 2 of the 4 of us are already expecting. I just personally want a baby. My husband is not at all ready, hence the fact that we are not "trying" right now. He's almost 27, but he doesn't care, he says that he's not the one who has to have the babies and raise them, I'm the one that has to be young. I'm not ready right this second... because I don't want to be wheeled into the Hospital in my graduation gown (ew, horrible image) But how do I get a hold on myself and get rid of the baby hunger for a few more months? It's driving me mad. Not even kidding when I say all of my friends and most of my family are expecting or have just had babies. These are the times when it's the worst

• Sacrament meeting when all around me are babies looking all cute and cuddly.
  
• Seeing Fathers holding their infants.
• Seeing a pregnant woman
• Looking at baby furniture (I can't help myself!!!!)
• Walking through a parking lot and seeing a car seat in a car
• (don't think I'm crazy) hearing a crying baby (I want to hold them and calm them down, cause I know chances are I probably can. I always have)
  
• Being around my pregnant family and feeling a teensy eentsy bit left out.
• Right now not being in school; I have waaaay too much time on my hands to feel lonely and think about it (next semester starts in 2 weeks... boo).
  

So. What to do, what to do.... I am surrounded by growing belly's and mostly happy women about it. I have a husband who all but cringes when I mention babies and "trying" dates. And I just cannot help myself... I want a gosh darn baby next summer! Blasted farming for getting in the way.

The Happy Seedless Couple

My neice Claire and I. She made me the baby hungriest of them all.

For Your Education

Some of you may be surprised to know that my Dad owns and runs a Dairy Farm with one of my Uncles. I grew up working mostly on the farm, but helping at the Dairy and with construction because they are constantly building. I mostly drove the swather which cut alfalfa (hay) and I custom cut mint and straw. (see swather much like the one I drove, below)

I drove truck during corn harvest and did a lot of manual labor growing up. I thought I knew quite a bit about farming... not a ton, but enough. Come to find out, being married to a Potato farmer, I don't know as much as I thought I did. Here are a few things that I felt rather dumb about not knowing, but have been recently discovering. I realize that some of this is probably common knowledge, so I'll take the dumb card.



(picture of field behind my house of grain babies.
Those are Sand Dunes in the background)






Grain turns gold on it's own, you don't have to stop the water to dry it out. I thought that in order for wheat/barley/oats to turn yellow you turned off the water and they dried out. Just this summer I've realized that Jaren is still watering his grain while it's yellow.... I couldn't figure out why, till I realized that that is how it ripens. On it's own it turns yellow and hardens and still needs the water.


This is almost ripened grain.







Potatoes have to be "killed" before they are harvested/dug. You don't just dig up the potato right out of the ground come fall. The plant is killed, then they drive over and "de-vine" the potato, then wait for the skin to harden and then it's harvested.

Potatoes can be stored in cellars for 10 months without going bad. As long as they are kept cool (below 43 degrees), dark and humid they are still yummy! It's quite a sight, let me tell ya. I'm going to take pictures this harvest.

Animal Cruelty???

This last semester I was sitting in my Exercise Phys class and the boy who always sits behind me started talking to me about vegetarianism. I personally love me some juicy steak and will always eat more meat than vegetables probably for my entire life. I try to be healthy, but I just can't help myself most of the time. This boy has a brother who has a girlfriend who is Vegan. The brother has decided to try it also and has been converted. The two brothers argued about animal cruelty and the Vegan in training argued that cows were mistreated and raped and taken advantage of by being milked all the time. I couldn't help but laugh. I grew up around cows, I mostly just think they are funny and I love love love milk. I decided to see what my dad would say. I told him that this boy thinks cow's are being raped and taken advantage of, to which my dad responded, "They like it." hahahaha. I really think they do. They like being milked 3 times a day and I'm sure they like their set up. They get tons of food, water, shade, straw to sleep on, 24 hour doctor that makes sure they are healthy; these cow's have a much more cush life than those who get to graze and wander like nomads. So animal cruelty? I think not.

Blog Stalkers... Come Forth!

So... I see my counter dealy goin up every time I get on, but I hardly ever have any comments. I'm not sure who looks at my blog, but if you do and you want to be friends, just leave me a comment! I love to meet new people and I try and comment on the blogs I read even if I don't know them. So if you get a comment from me... it usually means I want to be your friend cause I think your cool. I should probably try and make my blog more interesting, I guess. Well see if anything clever or interesting comes to mind soon. But really.... don't be shy cause I'm not.

Trip to Yellowstone

Since my family was all in Rexburg at the end of July we decided to take a trip to Yellowstone since most of my family hasn't been. August 2nd we loaded up the burb and drove the hour and a half it takes to get to Yellowstone. The park was nice that day just a little windy. We saw elk and a moose, but I wanted to see a bear! Maybe some other day.We got rather lucky with Old Faithful. We parked walked to the park and 30 seconds later it started to blow. The next eruption was scheduled to happen an hour and a half later. I'm so glad we didn't have to wait! (That's my little sister Lindsey in the bottom right corner.... I'm not so good at taking pictures, I guess)
A tree that had fallen over and made this rather appropriate sculpture perfect for picture taking!
I'm not quite sure why there was a moom man wandering around the painting pot or whatever it was called. But there was another guy filming him and they thought it was funny that everyone wanted pictures with him. I sure wonder what they were filming for...... and if I'll be in it?

Not quite lined up like it should be. But you get the idea, right?
Vicki, Lindsey and I after Old Faithful blew.
One way to get a 3 year old to sit still for a picture and smile is to have him pose. Hence, the thumbs up. Whatever works! Too bad Claire is just a leg and a white hat... she's pretty cute. I'll show her off in another blog.

Pervert with a Rock

This is an old blog from my myspace page. I never blog on there anymore cause I'm addicted to blogspot! But, since my post about Goose Lake, I thought I'd share my experience from 2 years ago.
July 2, 2006

Perverts with Rocks
Current mood: annoyed
Category: Automotive

I am going to dramatize this story just a little :)

One day I was back in the wonderful land I like to call, O Town, break it down visiting my most wonderful friends whom I love oh so much. It was maddeningly hot so Chelsi and I drove to a lake called Goose where there are plenty of cliffs we can throw ourselves off of into water. We were meeting a bunch of our guy friends at nooner. We got there 15 minutes past nooner and they weren't there. People like to get drunk and drive their cars off of the cliffs so our trusty park rangers put up a chain as a gate so we have to walk 3/4 of a mile to the cliffs. When I got there I saw a little black pick up backed up by the gate, and I thought to myself, "Oh, there are already people here, wow, Ooo and good idea, this way you can get out easier." So I backed in also. I am one smart girl so I put my purse underneath a blanket in my backseat, but I must not be that smart b/c I left my jargantuous CD case on the seat. I locked up the car, and started the oh so long treck to the cliffs on goose lake.

When we arrived at the lake there was no one there. Ooo, we had it all to ourselves. I just figured that someone had left the truck there over night, didn't surprise me, people do that quite often. About 10 minutes later the boys show up and we start our fun time jumping, diving, splashing, climbing and swimming. About 15 minutes later a big truck pulls up and my good friend Chris is standing on the back w/ a mega phone and says, "Can Whitney Gilbert please come here" (I was at a different cliff a little ways from the main one where cars can park). I recognized the men in uniforms and got so scared I was in trouble. Maybe I parked wrong.... maybe I'm going to get a fine because I needed a parking permit... maybe we can't be here... but why do they want ME for that?? I started my way over and Chris met me and said, "Whit... someone broke into your car" My heart dropped. "But they caught him." So I took off and ran over there. They had my purse and my CD case with them. Asked me to come with them to my car and make sure nothing else was missing. I did and nothing else was. The guy, we'll call him a pervert because he had some pretty high tech binoculars with him and one of the rangers saw him walking along the cliff while chels and I were walking and told us he was a pervert. So, the pervert had thrown a rock through my back window on the drivers side, crawled in, grabbed my CD's, threw the blanket off and grabbed my purse. Ran into his little black truck and took off, and my favorite park rangers caught him only a few yards after that. I didn't get to see who he was.... wish I could have. He was in the back seat of the truck the whole time and you'd better believe I glared at that window everytime I passed. Although, I did ask one of the rangers if I'd get into trouble if I hit him... he said yes.. too bad. I had to vacuume all of the glass out and tape up the window because the next day (today) I had to drive the 9 hours to Idaho. Now, THAT was annoying. The plastic came off a few times and I had to pull over and duct tape it back on.

Moral of the story... if you take your car to Goose, don't have anything in it. OR, take your 1991 chevy suburban that anyone who wanted to get into it could just open the door cause it's never locked and all they would find is windsheild washer fluid and crumbs. Too bad the perv didn't smash my windshield, it has a crack, it needs replaced. But he did pick the window that had a little bit of tape residue from the paper at the dealer. So that's my story.. I do feel a little white trash riding around w/ no window and plastic over it. haha. But thank goodness for Park Rangers!!!

Cliff Jumping at Goose

Any of you who did not grow up in the Columbia Basin of Washington will not understand the term "Goose". Thousands and thousands of years ago... I think? Some flood or something washed through Washington, or what was to be Washington and made all these Gorge's and lakes and stuff. There is a lake 10 miles or so (right?) from Othello called Goose Lake. There are cliffs that are oober tall, and some that are not so oober tall. Upper Goose is the part of the lake with the "baby cliffs" that are a good 30 feet depending on the water level. Correct me if I'm wrong on the feet. You would have to drive another 15 minutes to get to Lower Goose where the "Mother cliff" is. I've jumped off all of them, needless to say I am not afraid of heights. The mother cliff is at least 50 feet... or maybe I'm wrong, I've never taken a measuring tape out there. Anyway, while I was visiting the town I grew up in, Othello, I went with some friends to jump cliffs. Last time I was there was 2 years ago... I think I'll post that story too! But later. :)
Chelsea and I. I can't wait to see your little one! I wont be back till Christmas, but I'm excited all the same! I didn't realize I had so many freckles.... they usually show themselves in the sun, figures.
The group that was there. I wasn't able to stay as long as I would have liked but I can't wait to go again next summer..... or the next, whichever. Fron the left: Carly (right? I sure hope so), Tanner, Chelsea, Chad, Rolando, me, Chelsi, Vicki and Michelle.

This is so funny... look at their faces if you can. If you could get it full size you'd see what I meant.

Yes, what strong men you all are. From the left, Tanner, Rolando and Chad.



I supposed I didn't hear Chels say that Rolo wanted me to wait. I got impatient. Chelsi kept filming after I jumped trying to get Vicki and others to jump... looks like everyone else is chicken!


This is the boy's "Mountain Dew Commercial".

I have a lot to post because I've been all over the place doing all sorts of stuff. So I think I'll do a post every day for a few days. I know your all so excited!!

Lincoln City, Oregon

This last week has been an eventful busy week, but oh so much fun! We drove to Lincoln City, Oregon where we go every summer to a beach front house. My grandma has rented a house on the beach since I was 12.... or younger, I'll have to think about it. It used to be mostly my mom, aunt, grandma, little sister and her age cousin, Roxanne, and Chantile my age cousin and myself. Sometimes Nathan, my older brother and his age cousin Lige would come, but since we have all been older and out of high school it's been harder to get us all there for the whole thing. Just about everyone showed up for at least a few hours for the 5-6 days we were there. There were really 4 super sunny days, and 2 cold overcast days. 2 days where it was warm enough to not have to wear your jacket. Thanks to my aunt for sending me these pictures through email so I could post while I'm still in Washington visiting more friends and family. Oh, and on one of those sunny days.. I got quite the sunburn a long with my cousin, Roxanne. So hopefully this is the start to a bit of a tan!

Swinging at a park with my 10 month old neice, Claire. I have a video of her swinging by herself, she thought this was the funnest thing.
And I'll never grow out of playing on the toys myself. This was so fun! I glided back and forth for a while.
The day Chantile showed up. It was so fun having her and her boyfriend, Reuben there for even a little bit. We are usually attached at the hip the entire trip, but since they just live an hour and a half away she has to work!
This was quite the site. I wasn't involved in this crazy fiasco, but I watched it from the beach house; which I will post a picture of later. One peice of bread is thrown and you have tons of seagulls. Amazingly, no one was pooped on.
These two cousins had quite the time getting to know each other. Claire loved Isak and it took him a day or two to warm up to her. Isak walks and Claire is 4 months behind him and she is still crawling. They love each other and would play together often. Isak loved to come over to Claire's head and rub it because she has such soft hair. I wish I wish I had caught a video of it, but we are going to Boise Sunday for a few days and maybe I will catch them then.

P.S. I won a Seriously So Blessed contest! I won a bumper sticker and as soon as I get it, I'll post a picture. I never win anything so I was pretty excited!!!

FINALLY Time for Vay - Cay!

Credits go out to SSB for introducing me to the term, "Vay-Cay"

Yes, it's true, I am done with this semester! I would like to thank my husband for being my sole employer so that when I neglect my wifely duties because of school work, I just have to bat my eyes and I'm forgiven. This last month has been insane. I had to finish school early so that I could drive myself to Washington on Thursday (Today). To do this, I really didn't get any house work done. There was a sink full of dirty dishes, 2 hampers full of clean unfolded laundry, an unmade bed, a bedroom with tons of clothes scattered about and un-ironed (is that a word?) church shirts. Jaren let me know he'd take care of it all.... no big deal. But.. that's why I get paid the big bucks; I do the dirty work, can he handle it? ;) He cleans the kitchen all the time and he does a better job than I do. I have been so high strung the last 2 weeks. Finally, I got everything done and left Rexburg at 12:00 pm. 9 1/2 hours and 43 gallons later, I arrived in my wonderful hometown of Othello. Tomorrow morning were up early again and on our way to Lincoln City Oregon. My Grandma rents a beach front house every summer for us to enjoy. It is very much needed for me this year.

I wont be back to Rexburg for 2 weeks... this is the longest Jaren and I have ever been apart (the previous record being 3 days). It sure isn't going to be fun.... But, I would like to leave everyone with this image of me doing... I guess you can call it a "happy dance" because another semester is behind me, two more to go.

You need to have your volume on to have the full effect.

I Finally Did It

I finally did it. After over a month of talking myself into it, I finally did it. I had been wanting to change my hair for a while. I never thought I would look good with short hair. I've never had short hair; it has always always been long. I was bored with my long hair and I wanted to cut it. But how much to cut off? Then I found that hair mixer thing and started playing with that and realized I didn't look that bad with short hair, even if it was fake! So that's when the wheels really started turning and I started to plan on cutting it. I still had about a month left of softball and I was afraid of not being able to put my hair in a pony tail so I decided to wait till that was over. My last game was last night, I had made the appointment at the beginning of the week; I knew that if I didn't make the appointment I wouldn't do it. Today at 10 am I walked into the Paul Mitchell School and got a girl who was finishing the program that day (thank goodness!!!!). She started to measure my hair and we found I had enough to give to Locks of Love. I wanted to give my hair, but I didn't think I'd have enough with the length I wanted to cut it. I was really excited and felt a bit better about the hair cut knowing that my beautiful hair wasn't going in the trash. So... the entire time I just kept saying, "I can't believe it... this is so weird...." I had huge knots in my stomach and I know there are a lot of pictures, but I'm documenting the whole thing on here for those who know how big of a deal this was to me. I'll have more pictures on facebook. After 2 hours and 10 inches later it was done.

I was terrified. I wanted to do it but I was scared the whole way. What you see here is knots in my stomach.
A bit scared... A bit excited.....
This meant it was all over. No going back! I was in shock from this point on, both Linds and my hair dresser are laughing at me.
Looking at this, I wish she had cut it another inch shorter.
I was laughing hysterically as she kept handing me my hair, I didn't know what to do with it!

It was really unreal....
This is while it was happening. She took her time and made sure everything was strait.
The end product! Some more of my hair. The bangs are taking some getting used to.
I can't believe it's all gone! But I sure am happy with it. I really love it, Jaren likes it and I think he likes it more and more as he see's it. I told him I might not ever have long hair again if I like this enough and he said, that'll be okay. I think my face looks different, Jaren says it looks thinner which makes me happy cause that was one of my worries. I'm so excited to try all sorts of new things with it! What do you think??

The Championship!!!

Last night was our championship softball game. As you can see, we won! It was my last fast pitch softball game ever. Unless I play this fall, but chances are high I wont. I thought about playing soccer with Lindsey but we'll see if she has time for it. That would be a lot of fun, I haven't played since fall of 2003. So, I made some pretty amazing plays, if I do say so myself, but batting wasn't my best. This whole season I have struck out once and what happens this game? I strike out twice AND I'm the third out BOTH times. Goodness, I was so mad. This ump's strike zone was either at someones knee's or their head. Not at the belly where the perfect balls could be hit and anyone else would call a strike zone. This is my third Championship out of 4 times playing softball. I just bring such luck to my team, I guess! (hahahahahha) Unless we don't have a good pitcher (which is what happened last time). The pictures are not in order.

Were Number One! Were Number One! We only lost one game this season, and that one shouldn't have been lost. This is what you get when you win a Championship at BYU-Idaho; T Shirts. I have 3 :)
My noble fans! They didn't hoot and holler like my second championship when my brother's were there. But, who needs hooting and hollering!
So, they said to make a mean face.... I didn't know that meant a "serious" face. So, here I am Grring out loud and no one else did. Boo.

Before the game, this was a fun picture. I'm the photog so I'm not in it.
I had to get a picture in my uniform before I got all sweaty and red cause it was hot.

For Your Entertainment

This is one of the funniest things I think I've ever seen on TV.




The Soup is our Friday night favorite.

Wish I Could Meet Jack Someday

I would love to have one of the super cute backgrounds that looked like you scrapbooked them. I tried for a second but it did weird things to my page, so I switched back to my old one. Then it took off my entire blog list, which irked me because I had to look everyone back up and I finally just bookmarked the pages too so if that ever happened again I wouldn't be as irked. Not only did it take off my blog list, it took off every page element I had except "about me" and the past posts element. Boo! I don't quite understand why. Am I dumb? Is there something I did? Stupid backgrounds.

Anyway... just thought I'd let everyone know I'm now officially obsessed with Law and Order. I come home and leave the TV on and watch re runs on TNT while I'm doing homework. I tell ya, if I don't watch the beginning it's not as good of an episode for me. Is it morbid that my favorite part is finding out how the crime was committed? Or found or whatnot.

If you can't tell, I'm bored. Jaren is out checking water and I didn't go with him because I figured I might pass out.... but I'm wide awake. I should be reading for a quiz I have Monday... but, I seem to have a hard time getting myself to do any school work till the last nano second lately. Maybe because I'm sick of it!? Yeah... could be.

I'm also really entertained by the blog, "Seriously, So Blessed". It's someone posing as a Utah wife and plays the epitome of a Mormon Utah girl. My friend, Victoria sent me the link and I spent an hour yesterday reading posts. It's really funny. Lena, I think you'll especially enjoy it. What's even funnier is reading one of your friends posts who talks just like her. Not that I have any friends who do that. :) I really don't, but I'm sure you guys might. Hope everyone is having a super non boring night!

Oh yeah, I painted that extra bedroom I was going to re-do today and it's way too dark. I'm bummed and now we have to prime it and then paint it a different color. It's all my fault! I'm a bit stubborn and made us paint the whole thing.... I really should not have done that. I'll post pictures later. It looks like you walked into a super green pine tree needle.

Jerry Seinfeld!

This is Jessica at her luncheon. Jaren and I were able to go to the ceremony and it was beautiful. Then we had to rush through the luncheon to get to Salt Lake in time to go to the show. Jess looked beautiful and was really happy. I'm jealous; they are in Cancun on their honeymoon. :)
So this week has been one of the busiest this semester. I had things going on all day every day so far and it's so nice to sit here right now writing this with most of it out of my way. I had 2 hard tests, one in Epidemiology and one in Exercise Physiology. I had a take home test that was due wednesday in Exercise Phys, and a 12 page case study that was due in Epi today and a few other assignments that don't sound very impressive so I wont mention them :) I finished both my tests yesterday and the case study; it took all day. So, 2 weeks left of this semester and then it should be all down hill from here. Next semester is 12 credits (I'm taking 15 now and took 15 last semester too), with 2 or 3 pretty hard classes, maybe. Then my last semester will be 7 credits! I'm so excited to be done! I just don't think of it in months from now... just 6 months of school left; it sounds better.

Anyway, this last weekend we got to go on a mini vacation to Salt Lake to see Jerry Seinfeld. I had never seen him before and I haven't seen a lot of Seinfeld episodes. I know I know.. "What?! Whitney they are so great!" They ended in 1999, right? I was 13, not quite old enough to care a whole lot about anything other than TGIF episodes. But, Jaren on the other hand is old ;) He likes it when I tell him that when he graduated from high school I was a beehive. haha. He is a major Seinfeld fan, can tell you about any of the episodes and quotes them all the time. Not only him, but his family too. They will be talking about something, then one of them will quote something and everyone will laugh. At the beginning I felt so left out. Now, I just know they are quoting Seinfeld and someday I might catch up. We have all the seasons and Jaren wont open any of them to watch, he wants to tape the episodes on TV to watch. I find it really funny. So Jaren's parents got everyone tickets, 3rd row might I add :) The opening guy was a guy with the last name Papas, so they call him Papa. I wish I remembered his first name. He was super funny talking about how "What if humans really weren't supposed to eat meat." "One of the Saints comes back to God and tells Him, 'You know those humans.. well, their eating EVERYTHING! We've got a problem.' " I love comedians because not a whole lot makes me laugh super hard and I love to laugh super hard, who doesn't? One of the funnier things from Seinfeld was his encore bit. He started talking about the automatic toilets and how super sensor sensitive they are and how the sinks aren't as quick to catch on. "For the sinks, we have to do a David Copperfield arm waving just to get it to come on." Then, "and they seem to use the most sound reflective materials made by man, metal, tile, porcelain, what else can they use to make every noise reverberate in the room?" I can't remember the exact wording but it went something like this.... "nothing is made very tight. There are the cracks in between the doors and the door doesn't go all the way down to the floor so you see everyone's sad pants and socks and skinny legs. And your walking down trying to find an empty stall and you catch glimpses of these frightened deer in the headlights eye's through the cracks. What else can they do to make this experience more humiliating?!" That was the part that made me laugh the most, because it's all the truth. Every bit of it. I really had a good time and I love seeing comedians. We saw Brian Regan last summer in Idaho Falls and it was hilarious too. Hopefully he comes again this summer.

So, I made Jaren talk about it too, because I knew he'd remember more than I did. And he's never posted and I hope to get him to post more often. This is all I got and its sure better than nothing.

Jerry Seinfeld is the "King of Comedy", his routine was dead on. He spoke on his wife and kids and how he can't speak to his wife in his "normal" tone but has to use his "nice, higher-pitched, falsetto" tone. If that is not the truth, I don't know what is. He talked about how fathers wardrobes are frozen in the time period when we felt in our prime. Oh Jerry, its funny because its real. The opening act before Jerry was a guy named Pappa and he talked about his father always ending every conversation with "is that what you want" his dad would ask, "if you miss school today you'll end up a hobo living under an overpass panning for food and money... is that what you want?"

I hope everyone has a fun day today. I'm very excited for our reunions this summer so I can see my family that I never get to see. :) That will also mean this semester will be over! Happy 4th everyone! I sure do love living in this country. (I added the bolded things to Jarens entry because I like the way it looks)