growing up

so for me...ive always looked forward to growing up. Being financially, physically, and emotionally responsible for everything that i need. But it seems like my parents wont ever let me. Here i am, almost 18 a high school graduate, and my mom doesnt trust me to be on my own. Today was my first day back at work after spending yesterday being responsible and running errands, o and spending some time with my sister and boyfriend. I was hanging out with some friends and she told me that i didnt have a curfew. Welll 10 o clock roles around and she completely changes her mind, i had to be home at 11. And if i didnt finish thank you notes before tomorrow i wouldnt be allowed to do anything at all this weekend. I have been home for two days, yesterday i had to buy thank you notes, and today i spent the day working. I dont understnad why i am forced to do everything right away, nicole and della never did. Well i got the thank you notes done. But it is still aggravating! why do i need a curfew?? ugh...why does she change her mind?? it really makes planning hard...

home at last

So yesterday me and kristen made the long journey home. It was definitely sad. I really didnt want to go! Well we safely made it to all of our flights (barely on one) and made it home with only minor scrapes and bruises .lol Which im just kidding...none of us got hurt...though i did hurt my shoulder but that was from carrying the vest...lol Today, thursday, was a day or remeniscing on our trip, and unpacking/resting. It was a pretty good day i must say! I unpacked, which doesnt usually happen on the first day back, then took a long and very enjoyable shower, it was heaven! Then i played grownup. lol i made a list of all the thank you notes i needed to write and a list of what i need at walmart. FUn stuff!! after this i had a splendid idea...lets have lunch with heather =) so me and my baby sister had lunch...it was enjoyable! Well i didnt want to be alone while i ran all my errands so she came with me, and we spent the rest of the day together =) it was so much fun! and i got to see josh for a little bit =D and that was pretty much my first day home...tomorrow it is back to the real world...got to work...all day long! i am not excited...

Idaho day9= final day =(

Today started out like any other, me and kristen sleeping half the day away. I got up about 10, and was sad. I cant believe that today was our last day!! I really dont want this vacation to end! Throughout these 9 days i not only have gotten closer with my best friend, but have been able to get closer to people that i now really consider my family! I dont know what i would do without grandma, grandpa and mr bob. You three have come to mean so much to me! I really do not want to go home! Well, today all we did was pack. Then grandma took us out to a late lunch, where after that we went shopping, again! Then it was back home to repack and make sure we had all of our crap. Then we took to the couch to read our new books. Grandma was taking a nap because she was coughing like crazy! We started getting ready for out bbq around 6. I helped grandma cook the biscuits and shuck the corn, and of course kristen helpsed ;) lol. WE had a great time hanging with alisha and her parents, they are some really cool people! Dinner in itself was wonderfully yummy! AFter dinner it was chilling in the living room for a little, mainly us trying to stall. We really didnt want to leave. Finally it was time for goodbyes. I really did not want to say goodbye. Going home is great, but i didnt want to, i had found another home here and i wasnt ready to leave!!! I still aint... But alas, it must come to an end. Thank you so much grandma, grandpa, and mr bob for letting me invade on your homes and your lives! I have enjoyed myself so much! I will never forget anything that has happened in the past week. I am eternally grateful for everything and i cant wait to come back!!!

Kristen: Thank you so much for letting me come with you to visit your grandparents! I had so much fun! I know that we got on each others nerves sometimes lol but what are bestfriends for?? I enjoyed hanging out with you , and cant wait to see you at work on friday...actually i lied...i dont want to see you then! lol im just kidding. And hey at least we can say that we came back better friends then we were when we left, instead of enemies like we predicted! i love you so much krissie kinz!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

idaho day 7/8

So not much happened on day 7 and day 8. SUnday was day 7, and also fathers day. I got the chance to talk to both of my dads and even my grandpa. It was great. Me and Kris also had the amazing oppurtunity of cooking grandpa breakfast and linner!!! ok not breakfast...he cooked us breakfast, which it was quite an interesting affair since me and kristen insisted on taking showers first and he got tired of it lol. After dinner though we had a good time just hanging out with each other. WE watched M*A*S*H pretty much all day, except for when we watched the Italian Job which is the best movie ever! =) after dinner we made the move back to grandmas house. On the way, kris got sick, we are pretty sure that she is lactose intolerant, and we had extreme cheesecake for desert. But all is well now!

Monday was amazing!! Me and Kris slept till about, 10, then after that we did nothing but stay in our pajamas all day and watch the ocean 11, ocean 12, and ocean 13. in bewteen the first two movies we got hungry and drove to mcdonalds. Still in our pajamas. it was great!! a complete lazy day!!! the rest of the day was spend vegging on the sofa in our pajamas lol amazing!!

Idaho day 6 =)

so not much happened today. We woke up rather late (well like 9:30, 10). and then just waited aroun duntil grandpa came and picked us up =) by that time it was lunch and we had no idea what we wanted to do. We took the 45 minute drive to boise (which still does not seem like 45 minutes to me) and went straight to grandpas house where me and kristen immediately set to work. aka we laid down on the floor and worked on our blogs and updating the pictures from yesterday lol. we didnt know what else to do and we felt it needed to be done. That was when we decided to go to the movies. Somehow we convinced grandpa to take us to see The Proposal. We met up with grandpas girlfriend, ms patti and her oldest daughter sarah. She was a really cool girl =) i decided this when the previews came on for transformers two and she agreed with me when i said (kind of loudly) that shia labouf (sp) was hot!! and she helped me and kristen to gulp down a HUGE tub of popcorn, which i must add the popcorn here is not as tasty as the ones back home... Which reminds me...lol...at the popcorn counter kristen wanted to get candy and she made me choose, well i dont eat alot of candy so i dont care, well we argued for like 2 minute sover it and the dude behond the counter said that we were the most entertaining thing to happen all day. it was funny .lol random i know... well after the movie we went back home and have been vegging ever since =) im going to go to bed now so goodnight =) love you all!!!

Idaho: day 5 : yellowstone/ Tetons

The morning started out great =) When we stopped for gas, grandma was mistaken for our mother it was hilarious!! I was pumping the gas and kris was in the car and grandma was inside. this old dude on a motorcyle was talking to kris about what we were doing today and he mentioned how me and her look just like our mother. It was great!!! The rest of the day was filled with random stops for animal pictures and jokes that made all three of us laugh till we were crying! Later on we saw old faithful, which wasnt as exciting as i thought it was going to be, but it was still really cool!!! As we were driving through the Tetons we saw a female moose right on the side of the road and a grizzly bear that walked across the road, right in frony of tha car it was awesome!!!!! We drove through the "famous" Teton mountains, though i had never heard of them before lol. After the Tetons we had a very long journey home. It was quite long, but we made the best of it. Throughout the ride there were many jokes about grandma being our "mom" and i must say that the funnest part of that trip was seeing the donesticated buffalo, deer, and rams!! aka cows, deers, and sheep. lol we had some laughs about that. O! there was alot of traffic at one point because of consturction, so kristen jumped out of the car and got her laptop out of the trunk, while doing it, she hit her head on the trunk lol it was funny! o and i beat josh's high score on the most addicting game! his was 24.60 and i beat it three times, the most at 30.90 seconds lol it was thrilling!!! well i think thats about all that happened! ill keep you all up to date about the rest of hte vacation love ya!!!

Idaho: Day 4 - Yellowstone

So today we went on the 11 hour journey through yellowstone. We didnt get to see all of it, but we got to see some pretty awesome stuff!! It started out with the first siting of a bald eagle in his nest. It was awesome! The rest of the day was filled with so many neat and awesome things i dont even know where to start explaining them! Well lets see, first i would like to start out with i am tired of sitting in cars. It seems like everywhere we go on this trip it is through a car, like we drive everywhere! it was definitely worth it today though. The morning started out a little rough, but soon got better. THe drive throughout yellowstone was extremely gorgeous. We got to see tons of wildlife. You can tell when wildlife is spotted, everyone pulls over! it can create quite a traffice jam! We saw tons of elk (or deer not sure which), and their babies. They were so cute!!! We also saw tons of bison (buffalo) and their young. I have never seen so many wild animals in my life!! Along with these we saw a grizzly bear, 2 sets of black bears, a coyote, birds, and the cutest ground squireel you will ever see, and i think thats it. Along side the wildlife was the gorgeous scenery. Throughout the day it threatened rain, and did rain a couple of times. Because of this rain we saw the most beautiful and perfect rainbow that i have ever seen! It had all colors that you normally expect to see in a rainbow. It was awesome!!! and the sunset was gorgeous!!!! Even though the ride got a little boring at times, we girls still found ways to make it interesting. From crazy talks int the car, singing the songs when they aint playing, to jumping off rocks for pictures and making faces! It has definitley been one of the best times in my life! The most interesting event of the day was when it snowed! When we entered the park the road was clear, but on our way out the sides of the road were pretty much covered in snow! it is the middle of june!!! It was the weirdest thing ever!!! but also very pretty, it gave the landscap a character that i never would have imagined. Well i think that is pretty much all that happened today, so im going to bed. Love you all =)

Idaho day:3

So today is the third day of our (mine and kristens) trip to idaho! I cant believe that we are finally here!! we have gone through so much to get to this point...lol like high school! I was so looking forwars to this trip! So far it has been amazing! Kristen and I have continued with our normal banter of hating/loving each other...lol it is quite interesting to partake in. We left raleigh at 6:30 monday morning, it felt way to early! The first flight went pretty good, the scenery was gorgeous, we could see the land pretty much the whole time, it was great! Even when the clouds were out the scene was gorgeous! the clouds were so very pretty! We arrived in salt lake city Utah around 9 west time, so i guess 11 nc time. When we got there we just kind of walked around bored and ready to fly. Nothing interesting happened until around the time we were supposed to be boarding. The gate on our ticket wasnt not the gate that we were supposed to be at, and we realized this once we got off the plane, so we went to the one that the airport said. After waiting around for an hour, we realized that the plane should be boarding by now. Well i looked at the screen and they had changed our gate...AGAIN!! we almost missed our flight! it was not good! but we made it just in time. We arrived in Boise around 1150 idaho time, and there was gradnpa! lol we celebrated our safe trip with a lunch at dennys where grandpa left his phone lol then we drove to his house where we collapsed on his o so soft rug. Then we commenced driving to grandmas house in mountain home which is about 45 minutes away. THat was pretty much the end of monday... yesterday we hung out with kristens pregnant friend alisha! She is a really cool girl! i am very glad we got ot hang out. We also saw the movie Ghost of Girlfriends past. It was pretty funny. Totally a chick flick which made me miss that stupid boy i have back home lol. And that brings us to today =) Today we drove all the way across idaho to the yellowstone bear world! it was so cool!!! the landscape on the way was nothing like we have in nc! I was mesmorized by the different type of scenery, i didnt know that the land could be so flat without trees! I couldnt stop taking pictures! After bearworld we drove to our hotel which is in MONTANA!!!!I have now been to two states that i never thought i was going to go to! lol its is so exciting!! well thats about all that we have done so far...ill write more tomorrow! must say though, im pretty exhausted...getting used to these times is not fun! I love you all!!! =D