Oh my Goodness....Too Long!

It's been MONTHS, since I've written! Gesh! So much has been going on!!
So to start off--December!!
Main highlights of December were: My littlest brother, Nathaniel's Birthday and getting to see my little brother Josh on Skype from Nicaragua! OH and my teaching job here in Vegas!
For Nathaniel's birthday, my father took him and I to California to play paintball! It was awesome! We went to this place called SC Village. It has like twenty different set up courses to play on. Such as, an Iraq scene, Bosnia, Vietnam, and many more! It was scary though because I felt like it would really look like that in those places and plus we were competing against people we didn't know! It was so much fun though and I know Nathaniel loved it as a birthday present! After we went paintball-ing for hours we finally got to eat and rest. The next morning, Nathaniel and I went to Santa Monica beach for some fun. Took lots of pictures, walked on the pier, and of course messed around on all the cool playground gym equipment. We had a really fun time and a great birthday for Nathaniel to remember!

Next, was seeing Josh! It was so great and I told myself I wouldn't cry when I saw him...that didn't work at all.  As soon as his face popped on the screen I balled!! I miss him like crazy! It was so great to see him! This was the first year that family was away for Christmas. Hillary was with her in-laws, and Shelby was with her in-laws, Josh was gone, and my grandparents were with my Uncle, it was my parents, my little bro and sis, and myself home for Christmas. Extremely small, considering our big family! We were all able to group Skype together! It was awesome! Josh is doing great and loving it there in Nicaragua. Language has been difficult, but I think he is finally getting it. I am, as well, learning Spanish. I think it would be awesome to speak fluently with Josh when he gets home. That's my goal anyway!

Christmas was great! I love spending time with my family... and... I think.. my family loves spending time with me too! My nieces and nephews are getting so big! They are growing so fast! It's crazy to think the my niece Zoie will be 3 years old this year! And my nephew and second niece, Elliot and Charlotte will be turning 1!! It's amazing how time flies..I don't really like that. 

 

Grandpa feeding Elliot Protein!! Big Boy! And Elliot giving me some love!

One last thing to add to the month of December...I moved into Vegas, got a new roommate, and started my new teaching job!! I'm an Art teacher for Brookman Elementary. It's down the street from the LDS Temple! I love it! I really enjoy teaching these children..most of the time. They're really creative and a lot of fun! My roommate's name is Diana and she is awesome! We informally met a couple years ago at an Institute luncheon and now we formally met in our single's ward, both looking for a place to live and decided to search one out for us to get together! She is a Great roommate! We both like things clean and tidy! The month of December was a pretty good month! Good way to end the year! 

Fun Pictures!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  

Updates and pics for Halloween will be later! As of this late post...

..I finished my summer work!  Yay!  On the last day of the fair Matilda, Nathaniel, and I went on the fair rides.  Not too many though.  I forgot how sick I can get on those.  I also bought Elliot an awesome muscle shirt! It totally suits him! Anyway, here are some fun pictures!  

Left: Elliot's Muscle shirt  Right: Matilda and I working, sort of.

Nathaniel and his Home Depot builder's Certificate

Left: Matilda and Nathaniel on the Footloose, or as we know it- the Kamakaze. 

Right: Nathaniel, Matilda and I on the slide

(a kid was coming down the slide in my lane so that's why I wasn't looking, whoops)

On the Tilt-O-Whirl

Nathaniel, Matilda, and I

Some Hair Ideas

I'm still in California working, but I got a present!  My family came to help out and to visit!  It's been great!  We've been slow for a couple days, but yesterday was busy so it was nice to have extra help.  And it's just been really great to see them.  My Dad, Matilda, and Nathaniel came down.  They're amazing! I love my family!  So, while they've been here I decided I wanted to try some new hair ideas, Matilda as my practice! What I'm thinking is taking seven days or two weeks and do her hair everyday with different hair styles and then post them on the blog and if anyone wants to try them, they can!  I enjoy doing hair and hope it works out!  Here are a couple pictures of Matilda's hair that I've already done.  The first is a half up waterfall braid and the second is the Hunger Games inside out, side french braid. Enjoy!

Last Fair!

Well I’ve been tired and slacking on my blogging!  Sorry for not staying super updated lately!  That being said, we left the fair in Othello, WA and drove home!  A good long twenty something hour drive!  It was long, yet short.  Joe and I were really excited to be home and see family and friends.  I got a week off before our next fair.  My dad was able to schedule a fair in the week I was home.  It was in Pahrump, NV.  I have family there, my Aunt Jeannette and Uncle Lee, and my cousins Makayla and Caleb.  It was so great to see them!  Caleb helped us work too!  He’s in fifth grade!  Crazy!  We had both the wall and the bubbles at this fair and it did great!  The people there really enjoyed it.  My dad enjoyed working it as well.  He misses it.  Anyway, so after that fair my dad took a second set of bubbles to Las Cruces, NM and I took the other set and went to Waco, TX.  Ridiculous, because the Las Cruces changed their fair dates during the middle of the summer and I didn’t realize that so the TX and NM fair were schedule at the same time.  It was a stress, but my dad and I handled it and everything went great.  Dad said the NM was a little slow, but again he missed it and enjoyed working.  I went to TX and it was alright.  Sorry to those who love Texas, but I do not enjoy Texas.  The weather was terrible all ten days we were there.  It was stormy, rainy, windy, humid, hot, up and down left and right, all over!!  It wasn’t fun.  We had half the tent rip off the frame and then it started raining.  We were so cold we bought a little heater at walmart to stay warm.  It was just nuts.

There were positives here too.  I took Branson Anderson with me.  He did a great job!  And the fair doesn’t start til the evening, like four, five or six.  So we have time to do whatever we like!  We were able to see four movies while being there!  We saw Looper, Taken 2, Trouble with a Curve, and Hotel Translyvania.  They were all pretty good. Trouble and Hotel were probably my favorites!  We laughed really hard in Hotel, good kid movie, but also scary at some parts.  We also did some shopping, well I did some shopping.  Branson just hung out!  Haha, it was fun.  We would get pretzels at the mall too!  Best part!  We went to the gym too! I also enjoyed building relationships with the staff there and the other vendors.  I have a lot of learning experiences while being on the road.  I feel like I’ve really matured and became a better person because of it.  I can tell you that I have a fair amount of patience now!  The drive home went by pretty fast.  Branson slept most of the way.  I drove the whole way, which was about 22 hrs. I had to pull over at one point to sleep for ten minutes to recuperate.  

Oh, funny story!  So, we took down Saturday night after the fair was over.  There was a major storm coming and I didn’t want the tent ruined so we hustled and took everything down.  Well, I forgot to buy a squeegee thing for the pool to suck the water out and make it clean.  So the pool was pretty much empty, some water and dirt.  I told Branson to watch it so it didn’t blow away or anything while I ran to the store to buy a squeegee.  When I came back the pool was completely flipped over!!  Branson says, “I’m sorry Blythe, you told me to do one thing and I couldn’t do it.”  I was laughing so hard.  He then said, “I did what you asked.  I started to suck up the rest of the water and a gust of wind came and picked the pool up, while I was in it, and it flipped on top of me.  I had to crawl out of the pool.  It was so scary!  Like a giant blue mousetrap snapping down on me!  I thought I was dead!”  Ohhh, I laughed so hard!!  I could only picture him trying to run away but having nowhere to go! Hilarious!!  Hopefully you can all imagine this.  Anyways, it was a good trip.  I am now in Ridgecrest, CA.  This is a decent fair.  I have some time to hang out and have fun.  From my facebook post the other day I posted a quote from a movie Pitch Perfect.  The boy says, “I think I have the feeling we should kiss.” The girl says, “Well, I sometimes think I have the feeling of doing crystal meth, but then I think, hmmmm…better not.”  Oh man, funny movie!  So that’s what I’ve done so far in Ridgecrest, CA!  Watched Pitch Perfect, twice.  Haha!  It makes me happy and smile!  Well wish me luck!  Last fair of the season!  Very exciting!  Then more time with family!! I love them!  Have a great weekend everybody!

Mi Español

     It’s been a slow boring weekend for work, which is nice, but not so nice at the same time. Everyone is working hard for that dinero! Anyway, I’ve had some time to catch up on reading and my Spanish! Yes, I’ve been practicing Spanish for a few months now and I would like to share a little bit of what I’ve learned.  I’ll just write a basic and brief paragraph for you all.

Boring work day, cant you tell?

¡Hola!  ¿Cómo estas usted?  Yo soy muy bien. Mi familia es grande con siete niños y dos pequeños perros. Mi mama y papa amor bicicletas. Mis hermanos amor nadan, come, cocinas, corre, y mucho mas. Nosotros tenemos a blanca y azul casa. La sala de estar es verde, y la cocina es roja, y el comedor es amarillo. El dormitorios en la casa son azul, blanco, rojo, y rosado. Mis abuelos viven debajo de la calle. ¡Yo quiero mi familia mucho! ¡Adiós!

     So, I’ve learned a lot more than what I’ve written, but that’s the basic. I’m sure most of you can interpret it. It’s been a lot of fun learning Spanish. Though, it’s getting a lot more difficult.  But I’m ready for the challenge. I can’t imagine how my brother is feeling and doing with his Spanish.  I mean, c’mon, with only two months of learning the language then heading out to the foreign country to speak it?!  Crazy?!  I think so, but I know he is doing his best and the Lord is helping him. Hope you all enjoyed that!

Gorgeous sun in Othello, WA

     Well, back to the fair! We close up tonight and will take down and guess what?!  Yup, head back HOME!! Joe and I are both super excited about it.  Joe has some plans with friends and of course his football.  I also have some plans with friends too and I’m super stoked about it!  We’ve been on the road for a few months now and it’ll be great to see familiar faces other than each others.  Anyway, we’ve got a seventeen hour drive ahead of us and it’ll be a long, fun one!! Can’t wait!

Picturesque Cashmere

Here is some neat geography information for you all, The city of Cashmere is acknowledged as the geographical center of the Washington State! And Cashmere is home to an internationally famous fruit candy, fruit packing and processing industry! Pretty cool, right?! And if you drive all over Cashmere, not a very big place (the population is like 3000) but you see signs and orchards of apples everywhere!! It's a really neat and homely place, if that makes any sense.
SO, the fair! Cashmere, being small as it is, is also a small, slow fair. We got there on Tuesday to set up. We had no difficulties, besides being on uneven ground, but we handled it, as we always do. Joe got pretty sick. I'm not sure how, but it was no bueno! We did laundry, grocery shopping, you know, the typical errands to prepare for the week, then we relaxed in the RV. Joe and I like the television show called Lie to Me. It's amazing! And we pretty much watch it everyday. It's quite fun! Anyway, the fair came and went. The last day was pretty crazy though. So, this whole season being on the road there hasn't been any rain! Or wind, for that matter. But the second to last day, Saturday, there was lightning and thunder all over the place! Then rain!! It was nuts! It was towards closing time too so not many people were out, but we still had quite a bit of business coming in. I think it was to get out of the rain though, but money doesn't say 'why', so I'm not complaining. But it was pretty cool, then the wind, on Sunday. That wasn't fun at all. We took down on time, but it was just crazy and hard with the tent. But, as we always do, we handled it and everything was fine. I finished taking down the next morning and we then headed to Othello, WA. I'll give you some geographical information next blog! Anyway, after this fair we head HOME! Yay! We will be home for a couple weeks and it'll be nice! Until next time...Adventure is Out There!!

Exhausted, but Staying Strong

Joe and I spent this last week in Walla Walla, WA. Joe is such a great friend and a great help, as well! We had no problems or worries setting the wall up or working it! So, in our time off, we went bowling!  This was quite fun and funny.  Seems like everything Joe and I have been doing has been just that.  It was pretty cool there too because we were the only ones in the bowling center!  Anyway, we played three games; we were going to play two, but the second didn't end so well so we had to play another one.  Joe won two games and I won one.  We had a lot of fun. 

The fair went decently well.  Pretty slow, but still decent.  The worker that helped us did a great job. His name is Noah.  It took him a couple times to get it, but he finally got it and like I already said did a great job.  Got to meet up with a few friends as well, that was really cool! We partially took down on Sunday night and then finished Monday afternoon and drove to the next fair.

We are now in Cashmere, WA!  Little town next to Wenatchee, if any of you know where that is.  Anyway, we set up today and ran our errands and have been relaxing.  The fairs are starting to slow down now and we are coming to an end of our season.  Joe and I have both been pretty exhausted.  But on a good point, we get to go back home for a week in eleven days!! Yay! 

We’re so excited!!

Also, Joe and I have been trying to keep in shape, lose weight, tone, gain muscle, you know-the works. So, that's pretty tough with all we do already, but with discipline and hard work, we're getting some of the results we want. I saw this picture on Facebook and it really motivated me to work even harder. Just thought I'd share that with all of you!

Well thanks for reading! I’ll keep you posted!