Going Green!

Alright, so my good friend Haley Collett is the one to thank for this video. She texted me and told me that I had to look up this video, and man was she right! Now, I've got nothing against those eco friendly people, but is this really necessary?? I mean, come on... But, I guess if you want to cry over a fallen tree, go do so. Myself on the other hand, I'm going to go out and celebrate life while I can.

One of Those, "Almost Pee'd my Pants" Moments

Now i'm not sure if this was out of sheer delusion, or if it really is funny. A friend of mine told me to search for this video on youtube, but I stumbled across this gem of a clip. In the end, I am so glad that I did, and I wanted to share my joy to all of you. Please, do enjoy yourselves!

Look out for that *BaM*....pole...

All those innocent and naive little children out there, I love them to death. It's great going to family parties because on my mother's side of the family, there are lots of little kids and cute little babies to play with. I'm always chillin with the little ones. There's one of my cousin's kids that really peeks my interest. We all know him as Taters. A little tyke with curly hair, a great smile, and a whole lot of energy. This kid is abnormally off the walls 24/7, even ask his dad. At dinner parties, he can never stay in one spot for very long. It's pretty much inhuman. Well, when I play with Taters, we like to play this game where I chase him, catch him, spin him around, and then release him. We play this for about 30 minutes or so, no joke, and it's pretty much his favorite. Well, at my Grandma's birthday dinner, our game got cut a little earlier. As we were playing, about the third round, I spun him around once and put him down, and pretended to chase him. Well, my bad when I realized that I had released him near a giant pole. I knew what was going to happen next, but wasn't fast enough to stop the inevitable... Naturally, he whipped around as fast as he could to escape me and...*BaM*, nailed his little noggin against the pole. Pretty sure he should've gotten a concussion, but being the little ball of energy he is, he bounces right up, shakes his head a bit, and runs off. Incredible, this kid is indestructible. Of course I felt bad and stopped playing because everyone blamed it on me, but I can't help but replay the whole incident in my head and laugh... Taters, your one of my favorites!

The Loneliest Churro...

So this night all kind of started out random. Those nights usually turn out to be the best, and this one was definately one that I will never be able to forget. Kimi, my second married sister, comes over trying to get me to take some of her stuff she doesn't want anymore. When she told me that Ryan, her husband, would be back soon from doing laundry, I suggested that we should go bowling. Long story short, we ended up going miniature golfing.... What a laugh... let's just say, i'm no Tiger Woods. I'm more of a Happy Gilmore when he first starts out. If you want a good laugh, come watch me play. I swear, the only way I can get a decent score, is when I use my "Pool Table" technique. You know, when you get down to the ground and try to poke the ball into the hole. It works! But let's be honest, I look like a fool, as seen below:

Now compare my picture, with Happy Gilmore...LOL

After golfing, we decided to treat ourselves to some dessert and went to try out the mexican joint called Gecko's across the street. My new favorite place, it's so... charming in it's own kinda way. The reason we went there is because Kimi had to get her some sopaipillas (so-pah-pee-uh's). At first I had no idea what they were but I thought i'd give them a try. When we got there and ordered, it turned out they only have enough dough for the two out of the three we ordered. Well, me thinking i'd be the hero, I offered to keep it safe and just stick with the churro. To my dismay, when the waiter brought out the sopaipillas, I had realized that I had them before on a trip and thought they were SUPER delicious!!! (even said that out loud and the waiter felt bad) So while my sisters were happily spreading away the luscious butter onto their sopaipillas and eating them, the waiter brings over this meesly stick of a churro and hands it to me... I didn't realize it, but when I took my first bite, apparently I made this really depressing face which in turn made my sisters laugh so hard they almost choked. Of course, they had to take a picture documenting this event. So they told me to make another sad face while taking another bite out of it, and at that time the waiter had come back to check on us. Being the great actress I am, I sold him the fact that I was unhappy and he asked if my churro was okay. I started to laugh way hard, causing me to spit some of it out, and told him that it was great. Yeah, I felt a little stupid after that. But I did enjoy my churro very much! (and the two leftover sopaipillas my sisters had) The waiter I guess felt bad for me though, and gave the churro to me for free, so all in all, I couldn't complain. However, after the second sopaipilla, I think I got a little tipsy because as we were walking through the parking lot, I totally ran into this tree...BAM! In the end, I should have just stuck with my lonely churro....

Alright, Alright, I know.....

This post of mine will be used to shamelessly promote my brother-in-law, Kirby Heyborne. I'll have you know that I am all too proud to do so, so i don't care what you say. Kirby is hilarious, talented, and hansom to boot (sorry still married). But uh, I realize that I don't promote him like I should when someone asked me if I went to his concert recently, when in actuality i didn't realize he was in town.... But that's only because I have been to soooooo many of his concerts that he is so sick of seeing me there. Ha ha ha, I really hope that isn't the case. But honestly, I love his concerts! He has a talent in combining great music, funny stories, and getting the audience involved to create one heck of a night. Let's see, for those that I might have sold on seeing him, he has a show coming up, info below:

Monday, Sept 29, 7:30 PM

CONCERT Covey Center for the Arts

423 West Center St. Provo, UT 84601

Tickets: $10

Concert tickets available online, click here.

He's totally legit, I swear to everyone. It's great for the family, and he appeals great to the youth. You won't be dissapointed. I do have the hook-up, but you have to speak to me fast because requests are beginning to rocket.

For more info and to hear some of his music, you can go to his official website at kirbyheyborne.com.

That is all.

Gwenyth June Heyborne

August 27, 2008; 3:57 AM

I am pleased to introduce to you all, my beautiful and gorgeous new member of the family, Gwenyth (Gwen) June Heyborne. Yay for another niece!!! AAaahhh! I totally wish I was down there to hold my new niece, she looks like a bundle of joy, doesn't she?

This is Gwen. She looks tiny! I was expecting a chunk like the others! ha ha jk She's 7 pounds and 20 inches long.

My sister... She's a wonderful Mother. Something for me to aspire to be.

The Kirbster is always one proud papa. I'm glad to see he gets another joy to smother with kisses. From the looks of it, the chin chopper is out of business... ;)

Oh Max... ha ha I wish I had such an awesome big brother such as yourself.

Lastly, we have Sadie. She's so excited to be an older sister and teach her new little sister all the ways of being a girl.

Viola! One big happy family! Welcome to the world there Gwen, I think you will enjoy it. :)

An Ode to Summer

Oh Summer, how I will miss you so. That was one heck of a legit summer. Great Friends + Awesome Family + Grand Ol Times = AWESOME SUMMER!

For the first time, I have felt like a had an accomplished summer. (Even though Basketball was out of the picture this year). I will cherish all of those crazy times forever, and here's a look back on what a crazy summer it was. Summer in a nutshell if you will. :)

1: The Fam Fam

Got to see a lot of the fam, and hang out with them this summer. Once again i love my niece and nephew, they are great to hang with. I am the Mandi Toy and I am just fine with that title. As for the sisters, we had an amazing California Road Trip.

Here's A shout-out to my cous, Amie Purles, she is the best! I am so glad that we got to have that cousin night we were planning for so long. LOVE YA COUS!!! Let's hang out more!!

2: BATMAN

Need I say more?? This movie was awesome!! I saw the Midnight premiere of it, and since then I have seen it a total of 4 times! I totally recommend this movie.

3: Ward Family

Oh man, my ward family is great! I love everyone. It's kinda sad that i am the only one my age out of the girls, but the youngins are fun. We get along great. I'm like the older sister of the group. As for the boys, love them!!!! Andrew and David are favorites, we get along swimmingly!

Below is sara, aka shadow my gangsta gurl! She's hilarious!

4: BASKETBALL

Alright, so it's true, I love my basketball team. Even though i couldn't play with them this summer, it was a real treat, as always, to join them on the colorado trip. They are some great girls to hang out with, crazy beyond all reason though.

5:POOL

Man, we just love the pool so much! I wish I could've gone more over the summer. It's where I got somewhat of a tan!!! I'll miss the pool days!

Okay the story of the picture below is the fact that we just barely made it to the dock after attempting to go boating and getting stranded out in utah lake for 3 hours. It was a bad day. ha ha driving home for instance, a rock hit the windshield and cracked it bad... scared me so bad!!

6:CONCERTS

Alright, so if you haven't heard of Kid Theodore, I suggest you give them a listen. They are great, and we go to many of their concerts. Many good times down at Kilby Court. We also took amazing pictures down there too we were so inspired. :D

7:The Friendlies

Below is the historical girls night that we were planning for months and finally had. It was great! Thanks Tiff!!

Alright, the next two pics are from Karli and Alec's birthday parties. They were great fun, and hope they had awesome birthdays cuz i had an awesome time. You guys are great!

AAAaaawwwwww!!! I am pleased to introduce to you all Con Con. This is Conr Kinman who is friends with tiff and stayed at her house for some time. He's a great kid, who we all enjoyed hangin with! We miss ya Con! I will miss being called Mandacious..

I would just like to put in real fast that i love all the girlies! You guys are awesome and always great to hang out with! Love ya, that is all!

We also enjoyed some firework shows, they were great!

Alright, this next pic is from Mole night. It's a new game we started playing and it is awesome... i am one sneaky mole though so you better watch out! ;)

YAY!! Finally, we were able to do the sleepover night we were planning forever!! Sleep outside under the stars, and chill out late...Unfortunately as you can see in the pic below, Tiff was dying that night. Symptoms: Awful sunburn, Hives everywhere, hands swelling, very cold...Tiff, i'm so sorry that night was awful for ya!!

Oh and uh, me and karli took silver in doubles volleyball... Yeah, we kick butt basically.

8:Simply Up to No Good

Whoops...where did this picture come from?? That's strange, but good looking. ;)

We love trying to prank the guys, even though it doesn't work out. But we still have good times. The first picture was when we wanted to surprise mike by leaving a box full of tiffany in his room. ha ha, failed. The next ones, we wanted to plaster pictures of the joker on Alec's window. Ha ha...once again, failed. (sprinklers came on, and wrong window.)

So, don't trust those innocent smiles cause in reality, we just made a dry ice bomb and threw it off the balcony and were waiting for it to blow. ha ha Just give us a bunch of 2 liter cokes, mentos, dry ice, and we can be entertained for hours! So much fun.

Yep, that's right, i got a tat... ;)

Oh man, this was great... The unveiling of Vicky! The funniest story ever, for more info, go to this site and read the post. You won't be dissapointed. http://justinpdavies.blogspot.com/2008/08/jersey-girl.html

This is a picture proving that me and tiff are tough and can prevail over anything. Ha ha we had just survived another hike, but wasn't as bad as the last one we went on. Let's just say, Tiff and I scaled a cliff barefoot, tiff in a dress, late at night, and with some crazy boys. ha ha it turned out to be quite a fun night...when we were safe.

That's basically what my summer was like. I'd like to thank my family and dear friends for making it spectacular! As for school, I may not be exactly ready, but I'm ready to rule as a senior! Hope it's fun!!