All About Me in ABCs

A
Available: Nope I'm happily married!
Age: 22
Animal: Dogs, probably Koda, even though she's a pest!
Actor: Vince Vaughn... I don't really know
Actress: Reese Witherspoon
B
Birthday: July 13
Best Friend: Kit
Best feeling in the world:
Blind or Deaf: Neither, but if I had to choose, I'd rather be deaf
Best weather: Summer
Been on stage?: Not recently
Believe in yourself?: Usually
Believe in life on other planets: yes
Believe in miracles: yes
Believe in Magic: Not really
Believe in Satan: Yes
Believe in Santa: no, but I like to pretend
C
Car: Honda Civic
Candy: Whatchamacallit
Color: pink
Chocolate/Vanilla: Chocolate
Cake or pie: Cake
Countries to visit: Italy, Ireland, England, Scotland, Greece, Australia, New Zealand
D
Day or Night: Day
Danced: Yes
Dance in the rain?: I have not. It's usually pretty cold when it rains here
E
Eyes: Bluish
Everyone has: an excuse
Ever failed a class?: yes, in sixth grade
F
Full name: Jenny Marie Burdick Caldwell
First thoughts waking up: Do I really have to go to work today??
Food: Round Robins
G
Greatest Fear: having a big accident
Giver or taker: A little of both
Gum: green
Get along with your parents?: Yep, I'm at their house right now
Good luck charm: don't have one
H
Hair Color: Brownish today
Height: 5'3'
Happy: Yeah
Holiday: Christmas.
Hate: liars
I
Ice Cream: Half Baked
Instrument: I like to hear the piano and violin
J
Jewelry: I don't really wear a lot
K
Kids: Hopefully someday!
Kickboxing or karate: Kickboxing
Keep a journal?: I haven't for a long time
L
Longest Car Ride: California
Letter:
Laughed so hard you cried: about a month ago at Camryn
Love at first sight? Sure
LAST PERSON WHO...
1. Slept in a bed beside you?: Kit
2. Saw you cry?: Kit
3. Went to the movies with you?: Kit
4. You went to the mall with?: My mom
5. You went to dinner with?: Kit
6. You talked to on the phone?: client
7. Made you laugh?: Kolby Jack
M- Milk flavor: I'm not a big fan of milk
Mooned anyone?: haha
Marriage?: June 28, 2008
Motion sickness?: Sometimes
McD's or BK?: McDonalds
N
Number of Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers
Number of Piercings: One hole in each ear
O
Overused Phrases:
One wish: To have a cool place to have receptions and other events
P
Place you'd like to live: I like my house for now
Perfect Pizza: No olives or mushrooms
Pepsi/Coke: either
Q-Quail: ??
R
Reason to cry: people dying
S
Song: toes
Shoe size: 7
Salad Dressing: Ranch
Sushi: Never tried it and I do not plan on it
Scent: Christmas
Skipped school: Yes
Slept outside: sure have
Seen a dead body?: Yes, more than I'd like to
Smoked?: yes, stupid
Skinny dipped?: Nope
Shower Daily?: Yes
Sing well?: probably not as good as I think I do
In the shower?: Not usually
Swear?: I try really really hard not to
Stuffed Animals?: I don't think I have any anymore
Strawberries/Blueberries: Strawberries
Scientists need to invent:
T
Time for bed: usually 9pm
Thunderstorms: I like them when I'm not trying to sleep
TV: One Tree Hill, Cougar town is a new fav
Touch your tongue to your nose? Nope, can't
U
Unpredictable: probably not
V
Vegetable you love: broccoli
Vacation spot: Hawaii, Cali
W
Weakness: Food
When you grow up: School counselor, mom
Which one of your friends acts the most like you: I don't really know anymore
Who makes you laugh the most: Camryn and Kolby
Worst feeling: having no control
Wanted to be a model?: No way
Where do we go when we die: heaven, I hope
Worst weather: When it is snowing and I have to drive
X
X-Rays: never had one
Y
Year it is now: 2009
Yellow: I like it, but agree with Kandice, yellow trucks are ugly
Z
Zoo animal: the long haired monkeys
Zodiac sign: Cancer

30 Days of Gratitude (days 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5)

I've seen a few people doing this, and since I'm not creative enough to come up with things on my own.........

1. I am so, so, so thankful for my family. I would go crazy without them. I am so happy that Kit and I moved to Roosevelt where we can be closer to them. I think it drives Kit crazy sometimes because if we have nothing to do we go to my parent's house. My mom does make better food than I do, so I don't think he minds that part. My family is always there for me. I know that I can always count on them when I need help. I hate to ask for help, and they know that, so they never hesitate to offer.

2. I am thankful for my home. Kit and I spent 10 months in a tiny little apartment that didn't even have a silverware drawer! We had to do our dishes by hand, and we would always say that someday we would miss it. I can honestly say I do not miss doing all of my dishes by hand one bit! Don't get me wrong, I was happy to have a place to live where the rent was not outrageous, but I am so happy not to live there anymore.

My new house has enough room in the kitchen for all of the kitchen stuff we got for our wedding. We have a dishwasher, a huge freezer/fridge, a pretty big pantry, a laundry room that is not in the bathroom, two jet tubs (they don't get used very often), a walk-in closet, two extra rooms, and a garage. What more could I ask for? Well, the yard is not in yet, but someday it will be and I will be grateful for that too.

3. I am thankful for our little Koda. Dogs are the best. No matter what happens, they still love you. Koda is always so happy to see us. She just wants to jump on our laps and lick us to death. I get really upset with her sometimes because she refuses to let me walk through the room without grabbing on to my pant leg with her teeth and going for a ride. We can usually find a reason to laugh at her everyday. For Halloween, she was a bumble bee. She was super cute. We went to my mom's and everytime she would go to jump on or off the couch, someone would laugh because she looked like a little bee flying through the air.

4. I am thankful for my job. I really hate it some days, but there are other days that I feel so fulfilled. Those days come when a cute, loving child gets adopted by gracious, loving parents. I was able to see a foster child get adopted by probably the best parents out there and then see them get sealed together as a family a few days later. This was the most precious thing I have seen. I think I will remember it forever (partly because the sealer's name was Wilford Woodruff). I knew in my heart that it was meant to be that way. The baby, smiled through the whole thing. If it weren't for this family, this child wouldn't have been able to have the blessing of having the gospel in his life.

I am thankful that through my job, I am able to see children get opportunities they would never otherwise have. I am thankful that I am able to see changes for the better in the parents that I work with.

5. I am thankful for trials. I know that a lot of people say this. I don't understand why certain things have happened in my life and I probably never will. I have lost a lot of people who have meant so much to me. I have seen people I love with illness and hardships. I know that through all of these things there is something I can learn. I know that I can become a stronger person and grow in my testimony and relationship with my Heavenly Father.

I will never understand why Lily and Chip died and when I get to Heaven I am going to rough them up! Now, more than three years later, I can't imagine how my life would be without Kade, Kolby and Baily as my brothers and sister. They mean the world to me and I would do anything for them. They are such examples to me everyday. I cannot imagine the pain they feel everyday, but I know they will be rewarded for everything they have had to go through.

I have watched my Grandma struggle with cancer for almost 5 years. This has brought us all so much closer as a family. We did not have a close relationship at all when I was younger for so many reasons. All of those reasons just went away when she got sick. We all started to say, "I love you" more often, and really meant it.

I would not be who I am today if it weren't for the trials I have. My small everyday trials help me to learn and grow. Kit lost his job, but that too has helped me to be humble and grateful. I knew that I had to put my trust in God to help us make it through. My family has been such a support because they have been able to give him some work to do until things pick back up. He has also been offered another job, that we are still thinking about. I think it has brought us closer together. It has been a trial. We had been planning a trip to Disneyland. The ironic thing is I was driving past the airport in SLC when I got the news. Yes, I cried because I would not be boarding one of those planes in a few months. I cried everyday for about four days. That is a scary feeling, not knowing what to do and having no control over the situation. I am so thankful that I have my job and I can handle all of the bills. The income that Kit will be making by doing some work for my family and the business will be just what we need to help with the food and any extras that come up. I know that after this I will work harder on getting my food storage and putting money into savings.

So.... there are my 5. I didn't put Kit yet, but I will by the end of the month.

Labor Day weekend fun

This post is a little late, but oh well. For Labor Day we went out to Salt Lake with Kit's family. We stayed at the Little America. I haven't stayed there since I was a kid, but Kit's aunt always gets rooms there for cheap on priceline, so we gave it a try. On Saturday we all went to Cowabunga Bay. It was fun, but it was so cold, so we didn't do a lot of the waterslides. After that we went to Boondocks.

Kit and I like to play miniature golf, so we did both of the courses there. I didn't do so hot. That night we ate at the Little America.

The next morning we got up and all of the kids swam. After that we went to Rodizio Grill. At first none of us wanted to go there because we thought it would be alot of money, but Kit's aunt said that lunch there is the same as any where else, so we took her word for it. Kit had never been there. He really liked all the different meats. We gorged ourselves and then had dessert. It was so good. And then the ticket came. For Kit and I to eat is was almost $70. We couldn't believe it. We have never spent that much money on a meal. To be honest, I don't care how good the food is, I don't think it is worth $30 a plate. We found out that on Sundays they serve the dinner menu all day long, so it was dinner price instead of lunch price. I guess now we'll know. We went to the Zoo after that. It was a lot of fun. We got to see a lot of babies, the giraffe, snow leopards, and tiger. The Elephant came out like two days later. We were sad we didn't get to see her. We watched her on tv a few days later and she was so cute.

While we were there, Kit took care of his cousin the entire time. He thinks Kit is the most entertaining person in the world. I had two of kits cousins attached to me the whole time too.

After the Zoo, Kit and I left to come home. We had to pick Koda up from my sisters. She watched her for us because she has a backyard that is all fenced off. Koda ran and played all weekend. When we got there, I picked her up and she fell asleep in my arms. That never happens. She was beat.

The next day we were going to go golfing with my sister Heather and her family, but there was a golf tournament. We went four-wheeling at Yellowstone instead. It was fun. I got to see a lot of things I hadn't seen before.

The Halloween Tree was really weird and kinda creepy. I don't know who would take all of that stuff clear up there to decorate a tree. The tree itself is weird and stands out, but then people go put like a headstone and pumkins and coffins and all this weird stuff on it. You can't see all the stuff very good in the pictures, but if you are ever up that way, take a gander at it.

We were on the trail that leads to the look out over Moon Lake. We got to about the end and there was a fork in the road. None of us had been up there before, so we took the wrong trail. It was Brett and Heather's idea to go that way. We got to the main road and waited for them for a long time. We didn't know where they had went. When they finally got there, we found out they had turned around and went to the lookout. I was so mad because that was what I really wanted to see! Oh well, maybe another time. I was trying to compete with Baily for the dirtiest rider award, but I don't think I was even close!

Overall, it was a very fun and exciting weekend. We usually don't do much, so anything different is always fun.

Koda

We got Koda when she was just 6 weeks old. She was so tiny and I was so worried she would be sad for her mom, but she did so good the first night we had her. She didn't even cry! She's grown so much in size since then.















I just took her in for her first hair cut today. I don't have any pictures yet, but when I do I will post them. I tried to get some befores, but she wouldn't stop moving and my camera died.

She's about 15 months old now and she is sure a pest. I can't walk any where without her grabbing on to my pants with her teeth. A few weeks ago she learned how to jump on the couches, so we would go to the love sac for some peace. Well this week she learned how to jump on there too, so we have no where to go. We love her, though, and like to show her off, so here are some picture.

Life

So, I'm new to this blogging thing and it took me two days to figure out how to put a background on here. Ok, not two whole days. I started yesterday, couldn't figure it out, took a break, tried again today and it clicked! Maybe in a week or two I'll figure out how to put some pictures on here!
I started looking at blogs because Kandice told me it was kind of fun. I figure my life won't be too interesting to read about because I don't have kids or anything to talk about, but it will give me something to do.
Here's what going on with us... We just bought a house two months ago. We're working on getting the yard in. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. We had tons of rocks that we had to get out, then we had to haul in topsoil. We're working on getting it level now. We hope to get a sprinkler system put in by the end of summer. I'm trying to decide what to do with all of the space. Here are some of our options: a volleyball/badmitton spot, a basketball court, and a dog run. We are definately putting in a garden, a spot for a swing set some day, a big shop, some mounds, and a large patio for barbecues.
We just finished up softball for the summer and I've never been so happy. We were driving to Vernal at least twice a week. Usually we had two cars and got home about 11. I get up at 5:30 for work, so it hasn't been too much fun. Kit is sad that it is over, but I will find something else to keep him busy.
I'm hoping that we find something exciting to do so I can write about it on here. We'll see how it goes.