Changes, turn and face the strange.

I really don't even know what to say. I cannot believe how fast the past 10 months have gone. I lived in New York City. This morning as I sit on my couch for the last time writing this blog so many things are going through my head, I can't believe its time to leave already. My parents and younger siblings came in yesterday and I couldn't have asked for a better day, if anything was going to make this easier that was it. The past two weeks have been fun filled. I have great friends here and I am so sad to leave them behind. Life is so crazy in all its stages and phases. I decided that I can look forward to Utah, and starting over once again. I'm so thankful for the time I had to spend in this great city, and mostly for the people I've met while I was here. This will be something I will never forget. Ahhhh, this just feels so surreal. Ok so I'll post picture from the past couple of weeks.

'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine.

Ok this is a little bit of old news for those of you that have heard this story I apologize, but I didn't get around to calling all the sibs to tell them about my sweet weekend! So last Friday I went to a Yankees game with Jeff, Natasha, and Russell and it was sooo great! I've never been a huge baseball person, I've always been partial to watching guys pound each other into the ground during football, but going to this game opened my eyes a little! I love baseball games!! (This doesn't mean you'll catch me watching it on tv, I just don't see that happening). But I absolutely loved it! It was Yankees vs LA Angels. Now before this game I was a bit hesitant to go and cheer for the Yankees, but after being there and enjoying the atmosphere I changed my mind, and I am now a Yankees fan! We sat in the bleachers and it was just so much fun, the people were so funny! There were two old men (ok they weren't that old) that were my absolute favorite!! so here's what happened. Yankees were up, 4-0 after the first inning, then in the 6th inning the angels came back and were up 6-4, and in the 7th the scored another 3 runs, so going into the 8th inning it was Yankees 4 Angels 9. During the 8th (maybe 7th) it started to rain and our spirits may have dropped just a tiny bit, but then something amazing happened!! The Yankees scored 4 more runs in the bottom of the 8th, then comes the 9th and the Angels get all three outs with no points, so its bottom of the ninth BASES ARE LOADED!!! Cano was up to bat he hits and and we get two runs which means.... YANKEES WIN!!! yay!!
Two hilarious guys sitting in front of us.

This was obviously a low point in the game.

Bottom of the ninth.......BASES LOADED!!!

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free!!!!!

I’ve often wondered where that phrase came from and why it is used in Hide and Seek, but that has nothing to do with this post, now onto something completely unrelated........... Queen. So if you know me, then you know how much I LOVE my 80's music, I often joke that I should have grown up in the 80s instead of just being born in them. In high school I'd say 95% of the music I listened to was from the great era of the 80s. So I don't know why I didn't know this before, but I didn't..... So this past week we were playing a karaoke game and one of the songs was Another One Bites the Dust, naturally I gravitated towards singing this song, because I LOVE queen. So in the game the background is the music video of the song, and as I'm singing I stop, bewildered, and ask "Is that Freddie Mercury?!" My world was shattered........

Enough Said.

Major Tom sees now the life commands this is my home.

Okay so last night (Friday night, mind you) my brother was at my other brothers house, and I was not invited, (ok well I really was but they were finishing a basement, and I really did not
want to help with that!) so I was at home with my two youngest siblings, and my parents, after having some delicious Chinese take-out, we said family prayer and it was off to bed. It was probably 11:30, maybe midnight, and the three of us trucked upstairs, where we should have gone to our respective bedrooms, but instead all ended up in my little sisters room and here is how it began .................. So I was sitting there thinking about how a couple of days ago my dance teacher was talking about pulling his legs up with his abs and pulling them into a head stand, he was saying he could do it like it was such a big deal and that he was so talented, so of course I needed to try to see if it was really as hard as he was making it out to be. So to the left is my first attempt, a little sloppy but I still did it, the later times I did it very pretty, toes pointed legs straight etc, etc. So this went on for quite some time, I would try, then Ivan ,then Natasha. I think it was maybe the funniest thing I've seen my little brother try to do! He was so hilarious, we were all laughing hysterically! So we stayed up doing this past one in the morning! It was soo great! I think that the funniest thing was all the comments that my little

brother was making! So yes I admit, I was at home doing head stands, until one in the morning on a Friday night with my two youngest siblings! After our heads hurt from all the blood rushing to them I decided to try a little ANTM, I knew this would be hard, with a 10 year old little boy, but surprisingly, he was the one that shouted YES! OK I'M FIRST!! Then he ran to the door to do his runway walk, and it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, I wish that I had it captured on video, because the picture did not do his hips justice! He is so hilarious! I love my siblings, they are so great, and I also love that the same thing that entertains 10 and 11 year olds, can entertain me.

I'm leaving on a jet plane..........

So I'm pretty excited to be going back to Ohio for Spring break. Among the many things I am excited for, is the fact that I will be able to have 3 acres all to myself, pretty trees, grass, a lake, air and no tall buildings! I do love the city I do, but sometimes its just nice to be out away from all the noise and be able to just breathe! woohoo! I just love Ohio and I think it is beautiful (hence the picture with me standing creepily in my front yard, it just shows how pretty Ohio is). So I thought I had so much to do this morning, and I did, but I finished it all so quickly I'm so proud of myself now, I have two hours to just sit and wait to go to the airport! I think this is the first time that I've actually been ready far before I needed to be, I'm usually running around doing everything at the last second, I guess I was just really excited to be going home so I got everything all together in a timely manner! But this morning I did go to crumbs yum! I am such a good sister I cannot even believe it sometimes! Here's a picture of the deliciousness that I am going to be bringing home to my siblings!

Yes I am an amazing sister! Hopefully I wont eat them all before I get home! They just look soo good! But it was Nathaniel's birthday on the 30th, Ivan's on the 5th and Natasha's on the 7th, so I thought I would bring them some yummy treats! I'm really excited to be home for a little over a week, I was recently asked if there was anything I HAD to do while I was home, and I started thinking about it, and I think that's why I love going home, because I don't have to think about doing anything, I just do. I'll spend time with my siblings, my niece and parents and just have a great time, I'm excited for BW3's on Tuesday, followed by helping at the elementary school's library! I'll stay a couple of nights at my brothers where we will no doubt stay up all night playing video games, watching movies, and eating food that is not good for us! I just get to be home, and that is good enough for me.

I'll take the rain

So I really love it when it downpours, which is currently happening! I was just at the grocery store up the street getting some french bread and fresh mozzarella and tomatoes, when I went to leave it was raining so hard, everyone was just standing waiting for it to let up, but not me! I jumped right out in it! I love love love the rain, I love standing in it, walking in it, and playing in it! For some reason it is just makes me so happy, it liberates me, weird I know! Growing up I would cry every time there was a thunderstorm, I was always afraid that there would be a tornado along with the storm, but now I welcome them with open arms (thunderstorms, not tornados), I love them. I know the rain ruins your hair, runs your makeup, makes you all wet, but for some reason it just makes me feel so good! Thank you downpours!

I do go to school .... occasionally.

So maybe I've been a little bit of a slacker this semester, but today I was not! I went to school today, and let me tell you what.... I wasn't missing anything by not going. I find it so easy to justify not going, its an hour commute, the commute costs $10, and my classes are pointless and have nothing to do with anything, but alas, today I went to school!