In the Life of Kendy....

I have been reprimanded by a few people for being a slacker about my blog… I apologize!! I know I have been horrible. Simply horrible. Okay update on life:

Work: Still going great! I am getting a little bit (just a little bit) better on getting up so early! 6:00 am comes very early for me. But I love the people I work with. They are all so different and fun. They truly make my job fun and wonderful. This Christmas season was a learning experience with all the things that happen from Poinsettias to Kringle. It was simply wonderful! I am still learning so much and it has been good. ☺

Church: My calling is going wonderful. I am getting to know all the girls and they are all wonderful! I have really enjoyed getting to know everyone and they are just fun. There was a change in the presidency so now the first counselor is the president and then my good friend (you know who you are) was called to be the first counselor. It has been great working with her and always wonderful to work with the Presidente. ☺ The ward has some great and interesting people. Let’s just say that I feel like I always have some type of story. Makes me laugh just to think about them. But the ward is great and I really am getting into my niche.

Family: So much has been happening with the family, good and bad of course. ☺ My dad and brother are still working away with their new business. They just hired a new guy down in Palm Springs. I might regret admitting it, but it is great to have my older brother around sometimes. ☺ He is a very funny guy. Now the sister is on her Senior year!! I can’t believe it.. It makes me feel a little old. We have gotten a lot closer since my move home and everything. We have had some very fun times. Mom is still working hard in her job, church, and keeping the family stable and afloat. ☺ She is basically wonderwoman. For all of those who have met her, you can understand. She is amazing. Now the little bro is coming home from his mission in a little over 2 months!! I can’t believe it. 2 years have passed by so fast. My parentals are flying down there to meet him and the Presidente and to tour the country a little bit. And then they are back and we will almost have a full house! Craziness… WOW! I have missed him like crazy. It is going to be so weird having him back! I am so looking forward to it. ☺

Other random shindigs: Well let’s see, in my life…. I have decided to take up crocheting. I am not that good… I seem to drop stitches a lot! So I am learning. I have become obsessed with Bones. (the little sister can complain to you all day about this one) I really, really like the show. The little sister and I have gotten quite good at Mario Kart for Wii and also Super Mario Brothers for Wii. (Actually the second on we kind of suck at but we are working on it) I am still learning constantly about plants and all that fun stuff. It has been amazing to work in a place that gives me hand on experience. Simply wonderful. Um… in a few weeks I will be going to Disneyland for the first time!!! Happiest place on earth!!! The group is my mother, little sister, about 8 family friends, and me! Craziness! It is going to be so much fun! Sadly we are going over Valentine’s Day weekend. Blah, but we are going to make the best of it… Yesssss… Love you all!!

I just finished watching the BYU vs. Tulane game and BYU won 54-3. Wow! I mean seriously, beating Oklahoma and then kind of trouncing , okay well really trouncing Tulane.. Quite amazing if I don't say so myself. It is very interesting watching the games from home now... I mean 5 years straight going to the games. But I do enjoy watching them with my family. They are ALWAYS fun. Yay Cougs!

While being at home I have become quite addicted to TV. I think Corrine is the reason why. :) Well it's true... she keeps on getting me to watch all these shows with her and then I started DVRing other shows I wanted to watch too. SO BAD! I have become obsessed with The Rachel Zoe Project, Glee, the Food Network, (and many others) and I watched the premier of The Vampire Diaries too... Personally it is a little to close to Twilight. I mean seriously, high school vampire, can't see any other girls except "the one", very interesting. Glee is just funny and they sang JOURNEY!! Of course I would love that one. Anyway, I think it is getting to quite an unhealthy level and I might need to cancel some of my recordings. :)

BIG NEWS!! I forgot to write about this last time... I got to go see Wicked again.... It was absolutely, positively, the most amazing thing EVER! My sister has never seen it and so my mother dear promised to take her when it came into town next. So.. they came to the Paramount Theater in Seattle and we went on Thursday night. Oh heavens... just wonderful! I get goose bumps every time I see that show! (Which really is only twice but you know... both times!) And this time I got a shirt to commemorate the seeing of this amazing piece of artistry. Oh just pure bliss!!!

Congrats BYU on the superb wins... you are making me quite proud to be an alum. :)

I have realized that I am not doing very good with my blog writing. :) I need to be much much better.

Some exciting things have happened in my life though! I got a new calling! When I first moved into my new single's ward, I was a little scared to put down my previous callings. (RS President, 2nd counselor, and RS teacher) But then I couldn't lie because when they receive my records, they can see all my previous callings. So when I called into the Bishop's office a few Sunday's ago, I was a little nervous... yeah he asked to me to be the 2nd counselor in the Relief Society.

I am a little nervous!! I got to teach today, but it has been awhile. :) So anyway, NEW CALLING! Quite exciting!!

It has been WAY too long since my last entry! Criminy! I am just a little behind.

Okay updates... my job at Molbak's is basically wonderful! I have loved it and I have learned SO MUCH! It has been great to try something new and extend my "vast" knowledge in landscape. My first day proved that I was just a little out of my league with just ONE Plant ID class. Sorry BYU. That education was not complete. Just kidding :) I have made many AWESOME friends at work though. It makes it fun to work there.

So since my position was seasonal and they only kept about 1 or even no one on, I sadly didn't get to stay on in Garden Plants... but it is okay! Since I guess they like me... I get to stay on in other departments! I interviewed today for the accounting department and I will be working there for now! And then possibly in the cashier area. My good old training at the BYU Bookstore is coming into play again. :) LOVE IT! In the accounting department I get my own desk and name plate on the door! I feel so official.

Work is great. I am loving Molbak's and I will be starting Monday in my new position! Now the social scene, I have been bad about keeping up but the single's ward is good! I have been frequently, but the activities have been a little harder. My work schedule had me work a few late nights till about 8. I missed quite a number activities. The ward is big right now for summer though!

The family is great! My dad is just working away with my older brother Chris in getting ready for this coming season for sales. They are heading up to Alaska in the next few weeks. And I will be going with them! First time visit to Alaska! I get to drive up there with my dad and then spend a week there and fly back. And my dad is taking me fishing!! I am really excited if you can't tell. :) I am seriously stoked! :) Corrine just finished her Junior year at Newport.. that means she is Senior next year and then graduates! Time flies. She is so funny and we are actually getting along a lot better than we ever did before! It has been great. Mother dear is still working hard and is the wonderful same as ever. :) She makes my lunches. Wonderful mother. :) Oh and of course Craiggy! He is doing AWESOME! He just got transferred to a new area in Argentina and is working hard. :) He finally had his first baptism and is so happy. :) Weekly emails are truly heaven sent.

Well life is going great! Making new friends and connecting with the old ones. It has been great seeing my old high school friends! I will post pictures soon of Alaska! I am so excited for vacation!!

Love you all!!

FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO!

Graduation is done!!

I know it has kind of taken me awhile to write this post but it has been a CRAZY past couple weeks.



I officially graduated Brigham Young University on Thursday/Friday April 23/34 2009!! It was wonderful! We first had Commencement on Thursday where President Uchtdorf and Elder Nelson. They were great speakers and it was kind of nerve wracking doing the "processional" thing and walking by them. Scary! I had to do the typical graduation and feel like an idiot while my parentals and family were trying to find me in the MASS of graduates. The texting conversation is definitely a keeper. :) So then they pronounced everyone an official graduate. But of course you have to go through Convocation to actually be considered a graduate I guess.

Convocation was on Friday and was just wonderful. I wore my new graduation outfit and walked across the stage (WITHOUT TRIPPING!!) and received my diploma case. They won't send you the diploma until a few weeks later. Then we did the pictures outside and all that jazz. Lissa came up with Andrew to take some family pics for me and it was so nice of her! And they turned out great!! Thanks Lissa!






After graduation was just fun after fun. :) Got to spend some time with my aunt, uncle, cousin, grandma and so forth. Always fun to get the family together. We had some amazing WIZARD tournaments. Great game.

Sunday morning my parents and Chris flew back and Cory and started our long trek home. And let me tell you, it was VERY entertaining to pack up all my stuff the day before. I had SO MUCH STUFF! By the end I was just tossing stuff away and cramming stuff into my car where there were any spaces. Dad had some idea what he wanted to do with some plastic wrap stuff from Home Depot and then these ratcheting things. I don't know but it looked pretty funny.

After our eventful drive. I had one day to unpack everything and then my birthday. :) And then my first day of work! My work schedule has been pretty normal. I work from about 10:30 to about 7:00. So not as bad as the Bookstore hours! Well until the weekends, and then I bite the bullet and work 11:00 to 8:00. But closing at Molbak's is SOO much easier than closing the Bookstore. People actually leave on time! It is simply wonderful. Oh and I don't have to wait until all the registers are in, I can just leave once I start getting all the customers out of the area. WONDERFUL!

So my day at work consists of helping customers, re-stocking plants, and answering a lot of questions I have no idea what the answers are. Even my horticultural classes didn't prep me very well. And the fact that all my classes were in Utah and there are VERY different from the plants here in Washington. But I am learning everyday! It is great to work with everyone at Molbak's, they are so nice! And of course I get to work with plants which is great!! I always find a new plant I want each day but I don't have any room at home to plant them! I really want to start a tomato plant in my backyard but I would have to put it in a pot because we have like NO place to plant it! Thank you Dad and his entire backyard a sport court idea. :)

In a nutshell, that is my life so far. I got to work, come home and then just chillax with the family until the next day of work comes along. :) It is nice to have a reliable schedule and a full-time job. :) Let's just hope it is longer than seasonal! Gotta love Molbak's! :)

I OFFICIALLY HAVE A JOB!!!

I am ecstatic!! I was hired to work at Molbak's in Woodinville! I will be starting a few days after I get back to Washington. I will be working in the Annuals and Perennials area and I am going to learn so much!

I also got my graduation outfit today! It is great. I like to put in the "sassy" category. :) I am hoping it will pass my sister's test of approval. I think it is funny that I found the shoes and then the rest of my outfit followed. :) I will put up pictures sometime after graduation.

Hello all!!

The time is getting short... I officially have 21 days in Provo left! Ahhhh! Craziness!! Woo hoo!! I have started packing up my room and came to realization that I will have to toss a lot more stuff than I anticipated. Hopefully it will work out... we will see. Luckily I have my expert packer of the car in the family. Thanks mother! So yes, the moving process is coming along just fine.

I applied for my first job this past week! Molbaks in Woodinville is hiring! So we will see what happens. I really really just want to have something stable set up for when I get home. :) I would LOVE to work there, it is my mother's favorite nursery!

Wish me luck! Peace... :)

So I have to say I have kept my little blog to myself lately but I have been getting very distressed exclamations from friends for not sharing my blog with them. Sorry to all! :) I have posted a link to my blog on Facebook and we shall see what kind of responses that gets.

I had a little chat today with friends and I discussed the whole blog thing associated with newly married people. It is quite the Utah thing to have newly married people to start blogs and always have their address with their names combined. Oh fun. :) That is one reason why I have been a little hesitant on taking my wonderful blog public. But I have decided that you know what, it really doesn't matter and it will be one more way to keep in touch with my long distance relationships. We shall see how things go with that and all.

So welcome all to my wonderful blog. I know it isn't much, but it is mine. :)

So life has been quite uneventful. Basically just school, work and then homework. Last week I went to the Draper Temple Open House and it was amazing! I have never been able to go to an open house because all the temples at home were dedicated before my time. :) It was a really great experience! Just walking through all the different rooms and seeing the beautiful woodwork, paintings, and furniture. Then finally going into the sealing room and looking in the mirrors, just completed the entire experience. But of course we had to finish the afternoon off with some Chipotle for lunch. :)

Well it has been quite awhile since my last post! It has been kind of hectic with school and work and such. It is kind of weird to think that I will be leaving Provo in 3 months! I have mixed feelings because I am dying to go home but at the same time there are still things that I want to do here! I will just have to get everything in while I am still here.
Classes are going just fine. I have some hard classes but they will still be worthwhile. Work is interesting this semester because I am the closing shift. It is almost completely dead and nothing to do. I am part of the closing crew and I have to stay there until everyone has their stuff turned in for the night. Those first two weeks of school were not very much fun. Staying until 9 o'clock is not my idea of how to spend my first week of school. Overall it is nice to get a lot of stuff done and trying to find more things to do.
The social scene is better this semester! My roomie and I made a goal to be more social, which would be basically going to an activity compared to last semester. We have been pretty good I guess because she now has a boyfriend! I swear I am cursed with finding roommates boyfriend, fiancees, and husbands. :) It is my lot in life. Good thing I am moving home and I don't have to worry about finding another roommate!
I am missing my brother dreadfully. It is crazy to think that he has been out for over 10 months!! I seriously can't believe it! It is coming up to the year mark and then I heard it just flies by. It will be wonderful to have him home with us. :) I love him.
Since I posted this on Facebook, I thought I would do it on here just for record. :)

25 Random Things About Me...

1. Since working at the Bookstore, I have found a favorite candy for every season. Quite sad actually but my roommates always benefit from it.
2. I love books in series, if there is a series I will read it and I go crazy if I don't read them in order.
3. Watching movies is one of my favorite things to do on the weekends. You can totally tell by my movie collection. :)
4. When I go home for the breaks, I spend most of my time hanging out with my family because they are so coolio and I love them.
5. I love learning new plants and then seeing them and being able to name tons of stuff about them.
6. I have a hard time shopping without my sister because she tells me what to buy. She is quite the fashion expert in the family. Even my mother won't let me go shopping without my sister with me to help me. I am not even that bad at shopping either!
7. Come April I will be first grandchild on my dad's side to graduate from college! Quite exciting.
8. It totally made my day when my brother added me as a friend on facebook. Love ya brother!
9. I have this great habit of marrying of my roommates. I have not been able to keep any of them for over a year! It is gets quite tiring to keep on finding new roommates.
10. Almost all of my old roommate's husbands have a nickname for me.
11. This may be kind of gross but I love eating hot dogs in my top ramen and I like eating SPAM. I grew up on it and so it is delicious to me. :)
12. I absolutely LOVE Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, Seriously, I am up for watching them anytime. Marathons are definitely my thing! Harry Potter, Pirates, Ocean's, I am all for it.
13. Every night I have to use lavender lotion to help me fall asleep.
14. I have never been to Canada and I live only a few hours from the border. But I have been on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. :)
15. I think I have to rent a u-haul trailer after I graduate to take all my stuff home. I have accumulated so much here at school! Ahhh!!
16. I used to drive a PT Cruiser and it was freaking amazing. When my dad first got it they used to have a PT wave that everyone would give each other in their PT's. :) I still used to get the wave.
17. People don't believe me when I tell them that my old high school now has about 50% Asian and the rest white and some other nationalities. Seriously, look it up.
18. I have this weird obsession with Dave Matthew's Band. It is one of my life goals to see him in concert. And it would be a million times better to see him at the Gorge. :)
19. One of my very first concerts was at the Evergreen State Fair and we saw O-Town. And the best part is I think it was free. :)
20. I have quite a large collection of Beanie Babies in my closet at home.
21. I think I would have a very hard time if I could not do some type of artsy or creative thing. Or cook and bake. I need to do something fun or I have problems.
23. In my life I have never broken a single bone in my body. The closes thing I came to was spraining my wrist rollerblading at a skate rink.
24. I sometimes get quite upset that there is no caffeinated drink on campus. There are those times that I really need a caffeine boost. I swear I am not addicted; I just need a little upstart sometimes.
25. I have a two-page list of books that I want to read in my lifetime. And it just keeps on getting longer and longer. :)

Well as you can see, things are going just fine here in Provo. I am excited to be graduating and moving on with my life. :) I am loving life. :) So long and farewell until next time.