~*~UP-DATES~*~

Advice for the day..."Don't lick a metal ice cream scoop after scooping ice cream. It is frozen, and it will stick to your lip and rip the skin off making you bleed!!!"

So, I’ll tell you what happened. Elliot and I sent our passports and information to a company called A Briggs to take our information to the Brazilian Consulate to get us our visas. We sent this information through FedEx and they told us it would be there Friday, or Monday at the latest. Well it didn’t get there Friday, so we figured it would be there Monday. It wasn’t there Monday so I called and they were trying to deliver it to the WRONG address. (I don’t know where they got the address they were trying to sent it too.) So, I changed it with the person I was talking to. Then I had a feeling to call back and make sure it was changed, it wasn’t. I changed it again with two more people on the phone. Well, it wasn’t delivered the next day or the next and after LOTS of phone calls, lots of yelling and a HUGE mess we got it delivered to the correct address a week later. FedEx told us they would reimburse us for the shipping fees, (which by the way they still haven’t). I then found out I sent the wrong paper work so I had to overnight more paper work to A Briggs. FedEx paid for us to overnight that for free, (which was very nice). Well after everything was received at A Briggs, a week later then it should have. The Brazilian Consulate decided to change their rules. They decided that you could not hire someone to get a visa for you. You had to apply yourself in person (or an immediate family member could do it for you). AND you have to make an appointment to go apply. So, I looked on line to make an appointment and they are booked until AFTER we are supposed to leave. The other problem is the Brazilian Consulate is in LA!! That’s right Cali!! So Elliot would have to drive out to LA drop our applications off, and then TEN days later drive back out to pick them up. Because they won’t mail them to you…you have to drop off and pick up in PERSON!!!!! So there goes our Brazil trip. Then we found out that Delta charged $250 a TICKET (so yes, that is $500 TOTAL) in ticket changing fee’s. So we paid almost $1,400 on our flight to Brazil and we get a Delta Credit of just under $900 in return. LAME!!!!!

So, now that we can’t go to Brazil we deiced to go on a cruise, we have almost $900 in Delta tickets so we could fly to Cali for no money out of our pocket. Well, yesterday my dear husband (Elliot) called me and said…”do you know the Honorable judge Ted Stewart?" I told him “No” and thought…OH CRAP!!! What ticket did I forget about?? What did I do????? Elliot replied “You may get to meet him...as a juror in his court room.” So I get to go to SLC on September 28^th at 7:40am to find out if I am going to be a juror. So there goes our cruise plans. Well, kinda…we want to wait to book our cruise until we know if I have to serve as a juror and if so how long.

In other words someone does not want Elliot and I to travel for some reason. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

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)