Brazil

So, the Brazilian Consulate decided to change their rules, which means...we may not be going to Brazil. Stay tuned...i will let you know as soon as i do!

Update

Elliot and I are doing great. Still living in Orem, but we are going to move in August. Although I don't know where we are moving yet.

Elliot is still working at the same place, Burrelles-Luce in Provo. He reads news papers and pulls out articles for clients...in SPANISH!!! (Which is AMAZING because he doesnt speak Spanish...he speaks Portuguese). I guess it is kinda a PR thing...I don't fully understand everything he does.

I am still working at NorthStar Alarm and LOVING it. I just got a promotion and am now the Customer Care Supervisor. It is so much fun, I wouldn't change it for the world!!!

All in all things are GREAT!!!!

My Mom

I was looking at my blog today and realized that I am the WORST daughter EVER!!!!!! I didn’t post anything about my mom on Mother’s Day. SORRY MOM!!!!!!! So here is a post just for her…

My mom is the most amazing person ever. Anyone and everyone that meets her thinks so too. I use to hate it when I was younger because everyone would tell me how cool my mom was and I felt like they liked my mom more than me.

She is such a happy person. I love calling her when I have good news, whether it is good to her or not she is always so happy for me. Even when I call her and tell her something lame like I figured out how to fix an alarm (at work) without asking our lead tech. She gets all excited and tells me good job, and makes me feel like a million bucks!!

I love that I can talk to her about anything and everything. And when you talk to her she makes you feel like you are the most important person in the whole world.

When I was young I remember her being wonder woman, she could do anything. I remember she use to touch hot pans and it would not even burn her that was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

She is so amazing when it comes to the piano, she use to play the piano and sing for us to dance. She would do it at grandmas too for everyone to dance.

She has the best heart; she would do anything for anyone. She will bend over backwards for her family. Us kids never went without because she always put us first. She would spend her birthday and Christmas money on us and never think twice about it. WOW!

I wish I had all the time in the world to go on and on about how amazing and wonderful she is…

I love her so freaken much!!!!!!!!!!!!

Daddys Day

My dad is one of the most amazing men you will ever meet. He is kind, loving, giving, wonderful and the list goes on and on. Every one that meets him has nothing but good things to say about him. I was once told that animals and children can tell the heart of people. I do not know anyone children and animals love more. In fact, my Uncle once called my dad Snow White, because he is so good with animals. As his daughter I get to see a side of him that not many (out of our family) do. I get to see his funny/goofy side.

I don't know what it is, but he LOVES to put things on his head. Anything and everything he can find goes on his head.

When we were little Saturday morning we would crawl in to bed with him and watch cartoons. We would be laying there and he would start to tickle us. I'm not sure if my mom liked it or not (she got kicked a lot). But we would laugh and laugh and try to get away and he would just tickle us more. The only way we could get loose is tell him we had to go to the bathroom. Once we got a little older that stopped working, he would say "you are old enough to hold it" and tickle us some more.

He has always been there for me, no matter what I need, I know my dad will help me in any way he can.

When I use to work in SLC I would get paid every Friday but for some reason I would ALWAYS run out of money and gas on Thursday. So every Thursday I would go in to his bank and he would give me $20 for gas. Then Friday I would go pay him back. It became almost a tradition, when I paid him back he stopped putting it back in his wallet, it would put it in his top desk drawer and say "it is here for you, when you need it next week".

I could go on for HOURS about how amazing he is and about how much I love him.

Also, Now that I am married I have two more dads. Dahl and Mike.

Dahl is such a fun loving guy. He works at the DMV and the Scera Theater. Which I love!! I don't have to stand in the long lines at the DMV any more =). At the Scera he always lets us come see movies whenever we want (even though I don’t know if he is supposed to). I love to give him a hard time, and he does the same to me.

Mike is a funny guy. He always has us laughing. He is a perfect match for Tracie. He is kind and is always trying to do what is right. He does everything he can to make everyone feel at home and comfortable.

The Newest Memeber of the Jenkins' Family

I know I know

It has been a VERY long time sense (I don’t like the word sense, I never know how to spell it, sense or sence…thank goodness for spell check to let me know it’s an S not a C) my last blog, this is going to be random, long and I would be very surprised if ANYONE makes it though it…if you do…I'm sorry, you must have as much if not MORE (if that is possible) time on your hands as I do.  If any of you know me (I'm sure anyone that has made it this far does) you know I get distracted and get on tangents VERY easy (I just want you all to know…that I spelled tangents CORRECTLY the first time I tried!!!) Because (I know I know…you’re not supposed to start a sentence with because…but it’s my blog so I can do what I want HA!) of this, this blog will be VERY random. There are a lot of things going through my head, but yet nothing at all. So that is what this blog will be about, a lot of nothingness.

I hate the word supposed to, well its kinda two words, but I hate it. I can NEVER figure out how to spell it, which was totally okay until they came out with the whole keyboard phones, now I don’t have help on my cell phone when I am sending texts, so EVERYONE I text now knows that I am a bad speller. And why don’t they have spell check on messenger??? BAH!!!! Everything should have spell check!!!

So, hands down (I'm not totally sure what that means or why people say it, but I like it) I have the BESTEST, FUNNIEST, NICEST, LOVINGEST …you add in whatever other good est thing you can think of … and that explains my little brother.  He has this great, I don’t want to say relationship because that sounds wired, but something with his teacher. Every paper he has to write for school he makes two pages longer then the teacher asks because the first page is ALWAYS a page of jokes…and the last page is the punch lines. For example on the first page it would say…

1.       1.   Where does the president keep his armies?

2.       2.  What’s red and green and goes through walls?

3.       3.  What do you get if you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic?

And so on…then on the last page it would say…

1.       1.  In his sleevies

2.       2.  A frog if you throw it hard enough

  3.    3.  About half way

I think if I did that my teacher would fail me, I think it is so funny that one, she lets him do that and two, he really does it. I love that boy and am going to miss him like CRAZY when he goes on his mission!!!

So, a few weeks ago I thought I was prego.  I got really scared then excited, and then I thought about everything I wanted to do before I had kids and got kinda disappointed because I wasn’t going to be able to do them. I want to go back east and visit, (but I kinda think that would be fun to do with a baby so I wasn’t too bummed about that). But the number one thing I wanted to do before I had kids was go back to Elliot’s mission. I know how bad my parents want to go back to theirs, but they couldn’t because they had kids and bills and things like that. It took my mom years and years to get back to hers and it was only because she was in the right place at the right time, and my dad and never gone back. So, to say the least I was getting a little down about the whole thing, and then feeling bad that I felt this way. Well….GOOD NEWS!!!! I'm NOT prego!!! So guess what Elliot and I are doing!?!??! We are going to Brazil!!!!! I am so excited!!! I am working for an alarm company so we are SUPER busy during the summer so I can’t take anytime off till the “end” of the “summer” which is the first week in September.  So we are planning on going October 10^th through the 18^th or 19^th. I can’t tell you how excited I am, I check the tickets EVERYDAY because we haven’t bought them yet The reason being were going to wait till we got paid, but…we got a computer and Elliot a DS lite (Game Boy) (I will be getting one in a few months) and an iPod (because his is like a 2 gig and he needs more than that for the plane ride), so I think we are getting them with our next paycheck. The tickets are only $1,450 TOTAL for both of us ROUNDTRIP!!!!  We are going to stay in pretty nice hotel because we want to be safe and stay away from the ghettos.  The part I'm most excited about…well it’s tied with the beach…is one American dollar is 2.17 brazilin dollar. Shopping is going to be SOOOOOOOO much fun!!! I plan on taking only a few clothes down and buying the rest!! I heard they have pretty nice jeans for CHEAP!!!!!

Well…I guess I will let you get back to your lives…if you even got this far :D. You now know every thing new about my life…my new computer, Elliot’s new DS and iPod (which we are actually getting tonight) and the most exciting our trip to BRAZIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and side note…did you know if you turn in your old (no matter how old it is) iPod in at the iPod store at Gateway they will give you a new one for 10% off?!?!?! How cool is that?!

(Sorry there are no pictures…maybe I will post some next time) 

8 going on 25

I am sitting here bored out of my mind at work. I have read everyone’s blog up to date, and now I am going through reading everyone’s posts on face book. There are a LOT of the “25 random things about me”. This made me think…I have done one before, but I thought why not….I’ll do another one. So…here goes nothing…

 

1.      I love my job!!! Like really love it!! A few weeks ago I was moved from the back (the customer care section) to work at the front desk. I am doing the same job, with a few additions, just in a different location. At first I was totally bummed, I LOVED working back there, when calls weren’t coming in we could chit chat, but up at the front desk I have no one to talk to. Well, I have learned to love it!! One because I it is quieter up here, I am the only one on the phone (and really the only one up here). Two, I get to listen to my music, I keep it low but I still get to. Three because I have gotten to know Amanda a lot better because she comes up here and talks to me. And four, I have gotten to know the “office” people, like Justin, he is FUNNY!!!!!

2.       I love Zesta crackers. Not a big fan of saltines unless they are Zesta. I think any other kind of saltine crackers taste stale.  I break them in half or thirds (depending on how daring I am feeling) and then suck on them until they are mush then swallow. I think I got the love for Zesta from my cousins Nicole and Marc (Matt may like them too…but I’m not sure). I could eat them all day long, but I try not to because one they can’t be that good for me two sitting and eating all day is not healthy and three they sometimes give me gas. J

3.       I Love Fiji water. I don’t know what it is; it may just be that it is super expensive so I think it is better, or it may be the bottle. I got Fiji water (I'm not sure how long ago) but I still have the bottle and drink out of it every day. At work we have a Mount Olympus water cooler and I fill my Fiji water bottle up every day!

4.       I love the Christmas hard candies. You know the ones I am talking about, the ones that look like ribbons and things like that. I could also eat these all day every day, but I don’t…because…do that would make me SUPER fat. (And I don’t want that). But I think the biggest reason is because they cut up my tongue. My amazing sister (Haley) gave me TWO, that’s right TWO bags of this candy a few months ago. So, to stop myself from weighing 500 lbs, I brought them to work and I share them with Jarom and Kristen. I would share them with Mary too…but she doesn’t eat sugar. (I wish I had that kind of will power WOW).

5.       If I get bored and I have a water bottle nearby I will drink and drink without noticing how much I have drank until I am either sick or about to wet my pants. I also do this when I am watching TV or playing games, so pretty much doing anything. I have to be very careful when I have water around. :D

6.       I LOVE fax machines. I think they are so cool!!!! I kinda want to own one of my own. The reason I don’t is because I don’t have a land line, but more importantly because I don’t know many people other than business that have them. If you have no one to fax, why have a fax machine you know what I mean?? Oh, and the other reason I don’t is because it would be a waste of money and Elliot really is not in to wasting money.

7.       Some people know this, some people don’t, and I don’t usually admit to it. But I kinda stocked Elliot until he decided that he really did like me again, and that I was the one he wanted to marry. (Since I am writing a lot about everything I will explain the story of our courtship.)  When Elliot and I were in high school we dated for about 6-7 months then we broke up because we were in high school and wanted to date other people (you could say). Then about a year later after we were graduated I found out he worked at Taco Time. Toni and I decided to go visit him, but also play dumb. I didn’t want him knowing that I knew he worked there. So we went and when I saw him I played the dumb girl and used the line “oh…I didn’t know you worked here”. Well we talked for a while and then he told us if we wanted to we could come back around midnight because that was when he got off. We, of course, ended up back at Taco Time at midnight, and ended up hanging out with him ALL night. A few days later he asked if we wanted a job there because they really needed people. Toni and I started working at Taco Time, and Elliot grew to hate us. We would always talk to each other on the head sets. One night we were talking to each other over the head sets and it really made Elliot mad, right as we closed he took them from us. We went on with our closing responsibilities but we would stop every once in a while I sign to each other (ASL). That REALLY upset him, so he turned to us in a fit of anger and said “if you girls don’t stop signing to each other and start working, I will cut your hands off.” We laughed HARD…poor guy!!! Anyway…Toni and I quit Taco Time and Elliot went on his mission. He wrote me 2 and I replied both times, but we didn’t talk after that. Right before he got home from his mission my friend Sarah was working with his mom at the state hospital and she told Sarah that she should go to Elliot’s homecoming. Sarah invited me to go with her and her husband to the home coming. Unannounced to me, Elliot had received an email a few weeks before informing him that I wanted to date him. (SIDE NOTE: I told my cousin that I was excited for him to come home because then maybe we could be friends again. She asked me what I would do if we dated, to which I replied, that would be cool. She took it as “I want to date Elliot!” she told his brother who told him.) So, when he saw me at his home coming it freaked him out, so needless to say we didn’t talk much. A few months later I heard he worked at TGI Fridays, so what did I do?? I started going there. I would go about every other month, and whenever he would be my server I would leave him a HUGE tip.  After about 8 months or so he realized that maybe I would make a good friend. We exchanged numbers and long story short 3 (or so) weeks after that we were engaged.

8.       I don’t like when there is a light bulb burned out in a fixture even if there are other lights in it. For example, in a bath room above the sink if there are 4 lights and one burns out, I HAVE to replace it. AND if I don’t have the same light bulb I have to go out and get a matching bulb. I think this stems from my slight OCD. Because I feel this way I stood on my desk a few days ago to replace a light bulb J

My mind has gone totally blank, I cannot think of anything else. So I decided I would just add things as I thought of them…so 8 down 17 to go!!!!