Guys are the worst back seat drivers

This is the conclusion that I came to after last night. Last night we had to drive down to Escondido and I was just with my brothers and Dad. Nobody wanted to drive so I offered I really do enjoy driving. (well at least I thought I did) Anyways, I printed up directions but Ryan was like "no I know where we are going don't follow those stupid mapquest directions." so I did as he requested and listened to his directions. Might I add that they were exactly the same as mapquest. That's right. those stupid directions ended up being the same as his. Then they make fun of the way that I park, where i choose to park, how close I am to the lines in the parking space. Then they want me to pull out of a parking lot and go left across traffic on a major road. I said no I'm gonna go right and just do a u-turn. So then they make fun of me for that. So all that to say, I had three back seat drivers and they were all men. And they say that women are bad back seat drivers. I have 3 words for that statement. I THINK NOT!

New adventures

I just got a new job! I will be starting on January 8th. I will now be the purchasing agent for Eagles Peak Charter School. I'm excited, nervous, scared and happy all at the same time! I know that God has opened up this oppurtunity for me and I see it as a blessing. I think it will be a great oppurtunity to grow my office skills , I have learned so much at the job I am currently at seeing as I came in knowing nothing. God has truly blessed me with the job that I have had over the past year with a wonderful christian boss that has been really flexible with giving me time off just with everything that went on with my mom this year and time off to help my sis move. He also has been a great source of encouragment to me. I will miss a lot of things about this job, but am excited about what God has in store for me on this new adventure that He has given me! Please pray for me as I will be learning a lot of new stuff that I would be quick to learn and be a blessing to the people that I will be working for!

I look the most like a man? That's just great...

My mom always makes me laugh!

My mom is a never ending source of enjoyment. She always comes up with the most witty things to say or the most interesting way to put something. Anyways, yesterday we were at the gas station (obviously getting gas) and so I get out pump the gas and then ask her if she would also like a car wash, seeing as we live down a dirt road we could wash Durango the Dinasour at least 4 times a week. So, she says yeah why not. I get all done pumping the gas and we go into the drive through part for the carwash where you enter your code. So we have to wait a few minutes to go through because there was someone already in the wash, so we are sitting there listening to music and just talking away when all of a sudden my mom looks at the front window and goes "oh no my windows getting all wet from the car wash Heather" I just sat there and looked at her for a minute and then procedeed to kinda giggle and then it finally dawned on her that we had not yet gone through the carwash and that it didn't matter if the window got water on it or not. It just made me laugh.. I love my mom.

This is my new camera! (digital by the way. I finally crossed over!)

Well, the time had finally come to go from 35mm to digital. I wasn't sure that the day would ever come. But with the help of a little christmas money, I decided it was time! I'm so excited. So you should be seeing pictures posted a heck of a lot faster than before!

Triple Espresso

Last week a group of us from my Sunday night Bible study Kaleo got all dressed up and went down to downtown San Diego at the gas lamp district. We went to dinner first at the Star of India ( I've decided that I can live without Indian food) and then went to a comedy show called Triple Espresso. We had a blast and we all look forward to doing it again soon hopefully!

Colorado Pics

Foothills
The Rockies
Smokey Mountain Rockies
Nevada Sky

Courtney Driving...
Mirrored image in New Mexico
Some Street in Greenwod Village
The Starr little ones...
Fort Collins

These are the pictures of our trip to Colorado!

What is classified as "sleeper" music?

So I have had this question in my mind for quite a while now "what is sleeper music?" The reason for this question is because whenever we go anywhere in the car I'm usually the one that brings the music and the fact that I'm the only one with the ipod hook-up in the car...:) anyways, Whenever I go to put on music everyone says "no don't put on heather's music, it's sleeper music and it'll put us out." So my question is: What is sleeper music? I think I listen to good music such as.... Lifehouse, Ben Lee, Jars of clay, Gavin DeGraw, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Josh Kelly, Jeniffer Knapp, Nickel Creek etc... I don't like screaming music or hard music or music that you can't understand. I like music that tells a story. Is that such a bad thing? So you tell me, is that music sleeper music? If it is, please tell me what constitues not sleeper music. Your help is much appreciated...And I happen to like all my music too. So there.

I'm home

This past week me and my sister had driven out to Colorado to take her stuff back there and to visit with Ryan. We had a blast driving out there, although it's tough driving a u-haul up major hills it was worth all the time that I got to spend with my sister. We had a lot of fun just talking, hanging out, singing/dancing (scary I know) It took us like 2 days just to get there because we drove through Arizona and New Mexico (yuck, i do not like the desert. Especially when you are in it for like 600 miles...) anyways, once we got there we just drove around and got to be familiar with wear my sis and brother in law are going to be living, went downtown. While we were in downtown we got to visit with some friends the Starr's who had moved down there a while back. Anyways, we had a blast playing with their kids, playing hide n seek, sitting in their "secret room", eating dinner and reading with them! I really think they are the cutest kids I know! We were only in Colorado until Saturday, so we took off early in the mornign and drove home through the rockies. Which is a much more beautiful drive then AZ. and NM. we got to stop in Glenwood Springs and sit in the hot springs for a little while and then take off again. Anyways, it was a great trip and I really enjoyed the time spent with my sister since we wont get too much off that once they move. I will be posting some pictures once I get them developed.

Just in case.

If you were ever thinking about becoming a turf manager I just wanted you to know that you can now take a class at MSJC titled "turf managment." this could be interesting. I mean there are many types of grass. Real, fake, spray on grass and you can't forget good ol' astro turf. Maybe this would be a good job. Who knows, but if you had the need to know about turf managment but could never find where to find the class so that you could fullfill your life long dream, have no worries and look no further then the MSJC catalog of classes.

Why?

Why is it that whomever or whenver I e-mail people they never feel the need to e-mail back. It's not like I'm writing just a bunch of statements. I know that there are sentences with question marks on the end of them, which in my mind requires a response. I don't know, maybe I'm going crazy and this is how it works now. I just would like to know that they are still alive and breathing. Is that too much to ask? All I know is that most of my friends that I e-mail don't respond, however I beleive that if I had a myspace they would be more than happy to respond. Because they check their myspace every five minutes. But since I strongly dislike myspace and have vowed never to have one this problem will never be solved. I guess I will continue to e-mail and get no responses. It's kinda like talking to myself, I guess that could be fun...

What are you thankful for this year

I wanted to post some of the things that I am thankful for in my life this year. God has blessed me above and beyond what I ever could deserve but becuase He is a loving and gracious God He pours out his blessings upon each of us in so many ways. Her are just a few of mine.

I'm Thankful this year for:

• My relationship with the Lord
• My Family
• My health
• My Sunday night Bible study
• The friends that God has blessed me with
• The trials that He has put in my life (they make us who we are today)
• another day of life
• my job
• a roof over my head

and so, so so, many more. if you want to share some of the things that you are thankful for this year go ahead and leave them in the comments so we can all celebrate a thankful heart to our loving Heavenly Father!

Don't forget to call your mama...

This is a piece of advice you should always remember if you are a girl and still living at home. This is why: On Sunday nights I have the college group that I go to Kaleo, after study there is usually a small group of people that go out to Denny's to hang out and eat. I like to go and fellowship so I usually call mama and ask if it's ok if I can go. She always says yes but that I have to call her when I leave because that way she knows how long it should be before I get home. And I always do that even though I wake her up when I call and sometimes she's not the happiest when I wake her up, but I know that if I don't call I would be in big trouble. And I usually leave Denny's to be home by 11:30pm because I have to work the next morning. Well, this past Sunday we didn't even get to Denny's until about 10:15 so I wasn't really watching the clock. Well by about 11:40 i finally hear my phone ringing and it's good ol' mama (really mad) and she asks where I am? I tell her I'm at Denny's and she says I'm out on the freeway because you never called me at 11:30 and I thought something happened. So she says you need to leave soon. I'm truning around and going home. I beg for forgivness and ask for my check so I can pay and go. Needless to say about 2 minutes later I see a silver Dodge Durango slowly pass by Denny's and I was like "I am so dead it's not even funny." In the end everything worked out and I just begged for forgivness and told mama it would never ever happen again. And by the time we went to bed we had worked everything out. The moral of this story "Call your mama she worries"

Colorado or bust!

I'm so excited I get to go on a road trip starting the first week of Decmeber! Me and my sis are driving out to Colorado together and we are going to find her and Ryan an apartment. I'm just so excited because I haven't been on a road trip in a long time. And the fact that I'm going to be able to see beautiful CO. for the first time and see where they are going to be living. Can't wait!!!!

strange i know

So I have decided to start a log of all the fun words that I hear people make up as they are talking. The first word of the oh so many more that are to come-

Laterwards= a combination of later and afterwards.

And if any of you can't guess who said this, yes it was none other then Aubrey Brown.

Thanks for all the great laughs girl.

3 days 60 miles: here is our journey

These are just some of the pictures that we took this weekend. Pretty much the highlights of the weekend

Pardon my French

My great grandma lives here in Murrieta and no longer is able to drive (thank goodness for that though!) So either Tony, Courtney or I usually take her out once a week to go to the bank do some grocery shopping and pick up medicine from Target. Monday was my day to have the honor of doing this. Well, as we are driving first of all she tells you exactly what way to get to the bank and which lane to drive in and when to turn on your blinker but it's ok because that's kind of her way of being able to drive and I figure if that makes her happy then why not allow that. So anyways, she doesn't like traffic AT ALL. As we are driving she's looking at all the cars and looks at me with a little grin on her face and says "Heather, I hate all these cars, all I want to do is go to the bank and we have to go through all this (pardon my french) CRAP!"I don't know why I find this so funny, but there is something entertaining about a 80 something year old grandma saying "crap".... Love you Grandma!

I've never felt the urge to cut off my feet before....

But this weekend I did feel that urge, quite a few times actually. See, like I had said before I along with my sister were walking in the 3 day 60 mile walk to help fund research for breast cancer. So that's what we did this past weekend. The first day was great! 20 miles? No big thing right? well by day two each step we took felt like a mile long. day two and three we took our sweet time. No rush to get these miles finished, we had all day to get it done. We slept in tents at the most beautiful place in San Diego right on the water Crown Point. It was absolutley gorgeous when the sun rose each morning. I believe I went to bed the earliest I ever have this weekend. I think it was around 7:15! It felt so nice though. Overall it was a great weekend with my sister. I'm still in pain today I have blisters the size of my toes and my ankle is twice the size is should be (AKA cankles) and my knees are creaking... But every step was worth it! There were about 5600 people that walked it and in total with everyones pledges combined we raised 11.3 million dollars! Thanks for all the prayers and support this past weekend!Pictures to come when they are developed...

The 3 day starts

Please remember to pray for me and my sister as this weekend we will be walking a total of 60 miles! We have to be down in San Diego tommorrow morning at 4:30 am. We walk about 20 miles each day. It's a long walk but goes to support a great cause. Helping support funding for reasearch and treatements for breast cancer! Thank you to all who have helped support us financially! It has been a total blessing! Have a great weekend!

Cute shoes= pain to the feet

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On Monday I had an event that I was going to where I needed some shoes to wear with the new outfit that I had bought to wear, well I had my eye on these shoes for quite some time and decided that this would be the perfect time to purchase them because I actually had a reason to buy them and somwhere to wear them to. So I go in and purchase these shoes ( they were black peek-a-boo toe wedges) get in the car and put them on so I can get going to the event. Then as i'm getting out of the car to walk in. I realize these shoes aren't so comfortable, ouch, they are pinching my toes in the front, and my heel keeps on popping out of the back of them. But I just keep telling myself "they are cute though, they are cute though." Needless to say that by the end of the day the circulation in my toes was being cut off and my big toe was turning blue. ( not a good thing by the way) So I have come to the conclusion that I have inherited a disease from my mother that I have entitled " My feet can only wear birkenstocks or rainbow sandals." But I think I'm ok with it because i enjoy walking more when you can feel your feet and you have blood flow to them. I feel sorry for all those girls who daily wear uncomfortable shoes for the sake of having their feet "look cute.". It's just not worth it to me.