Brittany!!

Happy Birthday to you. Well not to you, unless you are Brittany. There is a birthday sheep for Brittany.

This blog is dedicated to her btw. Brittany you have been away from me for two years now, which makes me sad. I'm only 3 years behind you. I enjoy watching you be an adult. Instead of being in your life, it's like watching from the outside, which is sad. But there are many times when I laugh at you....not in a mean way though. I just like watching you and all of your adult-ness. And school-i-ness.

I'm really not too sure on what to blog about. Um, this day is the mark of three days until my birthday!

ooh! I was the first person to talk to the new and improved Brittany version 20.

That is exciting. I don't have a funny picture of brit like my mom put up, so we'll just say the sheep is her. haha, you're a good looking sheep brit.

Anyways, to my smart and beautiful and devious sister: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

GASP!!!!!

Rawlins, Wyoming used to be part of Texas!

Just thought I'd share the news...

Daughter (aka Jaycey) Knows Best

I know it's usually "Mother Knows Best", but to get my point across, I have changed it.

There have been many a times when I walk into my kitchen and my mother hides her hand from me.

The next sentence out of my mouth is almost always "did you cut yourself again?"

And almost always the answer is "no". But that is not the truth.

You think after cutting yourself about 70 times with sharp objects you'd get tired of it right? Well, not my mother.

I have told her many a times to not cut herself, but now I'm starting to think she might enjoy it.

As if I don't have enough worry because of her cutting habits, now I have to worry about her stabbing herself. Yes, you read correctly. Stabbing.

Today when I walked in the kitchen, she had a very odd look on her face. It was not the "i cut myself" look so I was confused.

"What are you doing?"

".....I almost stabbed myself"

"I thought we've had this conversation!"

(thinking back to her teenage years) "Yes, I know, always cut away from yourself."

"No, well yes, but also don't cut yourself. stabbing included. don't hurt yourself."

Sheesh. What shall I do with her?

Changes

I've changed the look of my blog so I thought I should blog about the recent changes in my life.

First I have to think of a few :)

1. I'm not wearing pants, do not worry, I am appropriately covered. I'm just in a dress. I enjoy dresses.

2. I have a job. I think it's considered a job at least. I babysit a 7-year old girl during the day and will start watching her 5-year old brother as well once school starts. I'll be watching both of them for only the first week of school and then an after school program starts for the girl. The boy can't go until he's 6 so I will be watching him until October 11th.

It's going well so far. This little girl likes painting nails....and faces, playing games and eating. I have introduced her to the wonderful part of my life called Guitar Hero. I'm not sure if that was the greatest idea because in the past 48 hours I have played "I Love Rock 'N Roll" about 4,000 times on easy. :)

3. I am going to be taking a class starting the 26th that I am very nervous about. I don't think I've ever been worried about a class before it started, but this one I am worried about. My high school doesn't have a math class for me this year so my mom and I went to sign me up for one with a community college that the school has an agreement with. Anyways, we went in there to sign me up for College Algebra, but somehow, by the time I left I was signed up for College Calculus. I am worried. But I will have all of the math teachers to help me (and Camille :D) so hopefully I will do fine.

4. I am going to the temple tomorrow.

5. The bottom of my silver flip flops have soaked up probably 3 lbs of grease from working the fair this year. Yum.

6. School starts on my birthday! I will have to post a picture on the first day with my birthday outfit :D

7. I have side bangs now.

8. My camera has been found and my iPod works again.

9. I discovered a perk of being the only child at home. It is called school clothes budget. For most of my life, whatever money we had for school clothes got split between the three of us, which is fine, but this year all of the money went to me! That sounds shallow. I don't mean it that way, just trying to look at the positives of being the only child home.

10. My mother had a birthday. Before her next birthday, I will be out of high school. :P

11. I won! It was a contest on Kristin's Blog! That was probably the best day of my life. I think there have been 4 contests on there and my mom has won half of them. So I really wanted to win. She takes amazing photos so I am glad for the prize I won.

12. My room is clean.

13. I drove my mom to and from Rock Springs the other night.

14. It is not just grape kool-aid that I love now, I love cherry too.

15. And also m&m's. I used to only like mini and peanut ones, but now I enjoy the regular ones.

16. Brittany will be 20 on the 28th. Remember that date.

I think that's it. Oh wait...

17. My best friend is going to go to seminary with me!!!!

That is all.

It's Been Awhile...

I hope "awhile" is one word....anyways. I just realized I haven't posted in quite some time.

I'm not too sure what this blog will be saying, but we'll find out together!

This summer has been very hectic for me. I was home for less than a week in July because of a family reunion, Anna's baptism, spending time on the Oregon coast, in Washington and at Girl's Camp.

For those of you who know my mother, you know that she likes to be organized. She does not like surprises. She enjoys making lists. So you can imagine how she was when it was just the two of us in Oregon with no plan of what we were doing. We ate at odd times and were forced to get a hotel room without any previous research! (gasp!) Although it was probably not my mom's favorite part of our vacation, I found it exciting.

Then of course, before I can finish unpacking from that adventure, I have to pack for Girl's Camp! Girl's camp was a blast, especially because my best friend Adrianna got to come with me :D

We went to Utah just before my mom's birthday and that was fun, ooh especially when I got to go shopping with Brittany. We picked out one of those toddler G.I. Joe toys for my mom and got matching shiny zebra shoes :)

Last week I worked about 72 hours at the concession stand at the fair. It was amazingly fun and I think I'm having withdrawals from the burgers and fries. I worked there everyday last week except for Tuesday. Tuesday was my mom's birthday so I got to decorate her cake! After Doug got home, we went to Saratoga for dinner and this creepy shirtless guy wearing overalls watched me eat. Gross. Oh yeah and Santa cooked our food.

So this week I'm finishing Brittany's birthday present, I have to give it to her this weekend. I'm also watching a ton of tv, cleaning my room and at the moment, eating m&m's.

I'm thinking that is all I will blog about, oh and does anyone know what I want for my birthday? My mother seems to want an answer to that question... :)