A few things I want to blog about

I can't keep up with blogging right now! I am only getting to it once a week so be patient with me. I will try and get to your blogs to read them. I do love reading them! So much has been going on! I wanted to post about a few things real quick because I am getting behind on the things I have been wanting to post. So here they are.

First off I posted my 200th post 8 posts ago!

This post is number 208!

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My sister, Marion took her last test for her license and she passed! She is officially a Nurse now!!! Good job, Marion!!! I am proud of you!

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I finally got a hair cut! Thanks again, to my good friend, Melissa!

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Remember my lonely flower?

I planted more of them!

I am proud of my job, being that it is my first flower garden!

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A couple of Sundays ago, me and my friend, Ann got to meet our blogging friend, Nancy Face!!!

And Nancy is just as cute and funny as she is on her blog. I loved meeting her!!! She is so fun!

And of course we had to pull a Face!

Nancy's blog is so fun! Her and her family always do things together and they love to pull faces. It is so hilarious! I love it! Nancy always pulls the best faces!

I also got to meet a new blog friend, Klin. She is the one on the other side of Nancy. She also was so fun to meet!

Here is one with the four of us!

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I got to go to Youth conference and part of it was Trek.

Trek is where people get to experience a glimpse of what the pioneers went through. You get to dress up as pioneers and push hand carts in assigned families. Usually it is a 3 to 4 day thing but this one was a 1 day trek. It was pretty intense though; we pushed the carts up a mountain! And I mean a mountain! It was the most laborious thing I have ever done!

Oh, just a couple of things. First, I was able to borrow these trek pictures from a friend of mine named Cory Milligan. He was nice enough to let me get them from his facebook. And second, do you see my apron in the picture above? I made it out of a curtain. I was so proud of myself. I do plan on blogging about it sometime.

You can see the kind of carts we pushed in this picture.

This was our Trek guide.

He was so much fun! He had such a good attitude and you could tell he loves doing what he does.

This is how we had to pull the carts.

The carts weighed 150 lbs by themselves and we had water and food in the carts as well. It took at least 5 people at a time to push the carts when we started to climb the mountain. I was told by the assistant Trek guide that the pioneer's carts weighed a good 500 lbs when loaded.

This was how the trail started out and it was hard enough to pull the carts then.

And then we pulled them up the mountain. You can't tell in this picture but it is pretty steep. Cory is the one on the far right of this picture in the hat. He is the one I borrowed the pictures from. Thanks Cory!

We were so exhausted when reached the top!

I am in the middle of this picture standing in between the carts next to the boy in the yellow shirt.

You can kind of see how high we were at that point.

They then taught us how it felt when women pioneers had to pull their own carts. They made us women pull some carts up the steepest part of the trail without help from the men. The men were told to stand off to the side of the trail and they were not able to say anything. This really effected us all! Trek was truly an amazing experience! It was a very humbling experience. I can't stopped thinking about the pioneers now. I am truly grateful for their sacrifices!

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And last but not least, I wanted to post about my sweet aunt, Ruth!

This was taken 2 years ago on the 4th of July.

A year before this picture was taken we found out that we were pregnant at the family BBQ. Aunt Ruth was even at that BBQ. A few days later, Ruth was told she had breast cancer. She was in remission last year and, shorty after that summer, they found cancer in her bones. It had spread. She has been doing really well until recently. She has now been put on hospice. It has helped with the pain. But now I am just asking for your prayers for her comfort and comfort for my family. We love Ruth dearly!

It feels good to get some things posted! I am so behind! I still have our Memorial Day post to do.