April - Now!

In April we had another baby join the family. Chris and Shawna had their 2nd baby (it was a girl) Brooke! The summer went by pretty fast, I worked a lot! It wasn't a crazy summer at work but it seemed like everyone was exhausted by the time school started back up again. I started dating Darren in July and things have been going great. Halloween was fun this year, we went to the pumpkin patch to get our pumpkins and we carved them a few days later. Darren made me watch 3 scary movies on Halloween and I'm still having trouble falling asleep! I'm such a baby I know! But scary movies just do that to me! I decided that it was time again for another vacation and seeing as how I have so much fun when I'm in Utah staying with Natalie and Steve I decided that I would go there again. I would love to go somewhere like Hawaii or Mexico but I would need to save a little more to be able to do that. This is still a vacation for me, it's very relaxing and it's always what I need. So, I'm in Utah right now. It was an adventure getting out here. I had to take the bus down to Seattle as I always fly out of there. We were held up at the border for almost 2 hours! I was supposed to get into Seattle at 3pm but we didn't get there until a little after 4:30pm. When I bought my greyhound ticket it said that the destination was the airport but when we pulled into the bus depot in Seattle the driver said that if you needed to go to the airport then he would tell you how to get there. I had to walk up 2 blocks to get to the train station and take public transit to get to the airport which is about a 30 minute journey. I was so mad! my flight was at 4:45 so there was no way I was getting there! Needless to say I missed my flight and the next one out I missed by 5 minutes! There were no more flights until the next morning but they wanted $200 for the ticket. I was so tired and hungry and just ready to go home. After talking to Natalie, my Mom, and Darren in the airport and crying the entire time! I decided that even though at that time I wanted to just go home cause I was tired, I would regret it so I sucked it up and became very thankful for credit cards and overdraft. I was able to get a ticket for $150 for the next morning at 10am and then made my way to a hotel. Luckily they have special rates for people that are stranded in the airport. I did not like staying in a hotel by myself but it happened and I just had to deal with it. I finally made it to Utah the next day and I was just so happy for the whole thing to be over with. It's been so nice to relax and sleep in and just do whatever we want. I'll be here until Saturday evening, my plane leaves at 4pm and my sister will pick me up in Seattle. I will NEVER take the greyhound bus again! Well, that's how I feel right now but it's gonna be a long time before I ever take it again! So that's it for now!