Work and Babysitting

I decided that April 12th will be my last day of babysitting and April 14th will be my last day at work! I figure that will give me enough time to get the rest of my stuff packed and do last min shopping and getting ready. Plus my sister, niece and nephew are coming April 17th so I get to have time spent with them and not have to go to work or babysitting! I have 7 weeks of babysitting and working left. It's so crazy to think about but I'm so excited cause that means I'm only 2 1/2 weeks left before I go into the MTC!!!! It's funny to think that a year ago I was so set in NOT going on a mission and if you told me that I was going to be getting ready to leave on one I would of thought you were crazy! But here I am getting ready to go on a mission! I am so thankful that Heavenly Father helped me to have a change of heart! I can't wait to go teach the gospel and serve the Lord full time! I need to be better at managing my time better so I can do the thing's that matter most like studying the scriptures and other books I'll be using! I'm so glad I get to share the gospel and be apart of the church growing!

IT CAME, IT CAME!!!!!!!!!

IT CAME!!!!!!!! Thursday Feb. 9th my mission call came! Wednesday on our way home from Utah I was trying not to get excited that it could be there when we got home! But when we got home and it wasn't there I was kinda disappointed! So Thursday all day while I was babysitting I was wanting to call my mom and ask her if it came just cause I couldn't take any more waiting and not knowing! I told my mom not to call me and tell me it came when it did cause I didn't want to be waiting for time to go by so I could go home and open it! But I couldn't do it so about 3:30 I called my mom and asked her and she said, "Are you going to put make-up on?" I freaked out and started to squeal! The kids I was babysitting looked at me like I was so weird, well I kinda was at that point! I was so excited and now I had to wait! So we played for a little and then Lincoln and I started watching funny videos online to pass the time away! Their dad came home and I went home and did my make-up cause you know I can't have pictures taken without make-up on! HA! Well that didn't take long at all and then there was more waiting cause my aunt couldn't get there till about 6:20! I kept walking back and forth being very impatient! Everyone got there and we called my sister's and brother and then I opened it!

This is what I got to look at while I waited! Not that fun! I wanted to open it up right then and there!

 This was while we were waiting for the phone calls to be made!

 I asked if everyone was there and could hear me and Amy (on the phone) was like JUST OPEN IT!!!!!!

 I was so excited to see where I was going.

 Not 10 words into it I started to cry! I felt so overwhelmed with the Spirit and so happy that it's finally here and so real, really happening! I kept telling myself I need to compose myself so I could finish reading and see where I was going! While I was trying to compose myself I looked down a little and saw where I was going before I read it! HA! That helped me get myself together cause excitement took over! YAY!

 I am going to Cleveland Ohio and am speaking English! YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!! I was so excited all I could do was squeal! Everyone was laughing at me! Oh my gosh it's so real now! I can't wait to leave and serve the Lord! I never thought that I would be going on a mission but here I am with the call in hand and super excited to go and spread the Gospel!

Painting!

This last weekend Mom, Dad and I went down to Utah to go to Carter's baby blessing and little did we know that we'd be helping painting their down stairs to get ready for carpet to be put in. We all helped in some way but my dad and Shawn did most of it! When we started they had me paint on the wall along the ceiling. NOT FUN!!!! So I told my mom that she can do the trim! So I did corners and the shelves! Here's just a few pictures of the fun we had!

 I wanted some pictures of me painting so Heather took a few. The one right before this that I deleted, Heather took a picture of my butt. Not funny! She also said something right before she took this picture. That should explain the face! Ha

 She told me to smile so this is what she got! Ha. See how much fun I'm having?

 Shawn took over doing the trim! I'd rather have him do it then me because if he messes up it's his house!

We ended up staying a day later then we planned so we could help with packing and getting thing's done for them to move. Dad stayed down there to help them get things packed and loaded into the moving truck! It was a good weekend and had fun visiting and being with my nieces and nephews!

Hammering Bent Nails! :-/

Last week I got to help my dad with fixing up out barn a little! Let's just say I don't hammer nails really well over my head! I think I bent more nails then I got in! Even though I was really struggling to get those nails in and hated being up that high on the ladder I had a fun time helping my dad and spending some time with him!

This is one of the several nails I was trying to get out after I bent them. It was not an easy thing to do over my head!

I learned that I could somewhat hammer the nails in straight if I used both of my hands and used the bigger hammer, which meant it was heavier! I ended up just getting the nails in as far as I could before I bent them and let my dad finish getting them in! So really I wasn't that big of a help with hammering! Oh well!