The Time Has Come!

We're finally there folks...Dan and Sarah are both here and Scott and Cassie will be getting in later tonight...and we're headed to Maryland!

The reality of the nearing end of my summer in New Jersey has begun to sink in and is saddening, but exciting as well. I'm excited to have a few days to visit with Bri while heading up to Rexburg (what an amazing friend...she offered to drive me), And I'm excited to see all my Rexburg friends. But I'm sad to be leaving my world of little to no responsibility, good food, and cuddly little brothers to go back to my world of classes, homework, cooking for myself, and very limited human contact.

I wonder where I can adopt a new cuddly little brother who can fit in my closet. Googling now....

Real Men of Tomatoes

Emily presents real men of genius (real men of genius). Today we salute you Mr. Tomato Sandwich Eater (Mr. Tomato Sandwich Eater). Never has one man done so much with so little (eating them tomatoes). What do you do when you have a wheel barrow full of tomatoes? You eat through hundreds of tomatoes in a summer, and prevent explosive bowels by putting the tomatoes between two slices of bread (between two slices of bread). There is no stopping you when it comes to laying on the mayo. Armed with stretchy pants and an empty stomach (stretchy pants and an empty stomach) you eat what every one is craving but they just don't know it yet. So crack open another over sized tomato and enjoy one more sandwich oh prince of the most debated vegetable on the planet, you deserve it (Mr. Tomato Sandwich Eater).

Lobster Family Faces

This small collage is long in coming...but for those who did not see these three on Sunday...you can laugh now at their crispy lobster faces. Ben was the only one who cooperated in my picture taking attempts...and Becky gets two pictures because her "don't you dare take a picture of me" face is just too funny! We'll just hope they aren't too peely and gross for family pictures this weekend!

Speaking of this weekend, we leave on Saturday, after our ward camp out, to embark on another Kinghorn Family Conference (more affectionately known as KFC). We are renting a house in Maryland and everyone who can, is flying in at the end of this week to join in! Though we will be lacking a number of people I really wish could be there with us...we'll make the best of it and hope for them to be able to join us next year! Pictures of our adventures will definitely be posted for your enjoyment! I can't wait for a fun filled weekend with my favorite people!

Swash Strumming Stuff

I do not know the true definition of swashbuckling (I'm not sure anyone does), but today I think I probably swashbuckled.

We are getting a lot of rain from hurricane Bill as he makes his way up the coast. Jeff and I went out to play some basket ball while it was still hot and dry out, and finished our game in a refreshing downpour. I won the game 40-17. After the game we frolicked in the puddles and swashbuckled up a storm, then convinced my mom to take a picture of us all drippy and cold.


Splashing around in the rain for an hour or so also loosened the skin from my biggest blister that I got last weekend, and so that you can see truly how big and painful it was, I took a picture.

Perhaps I need to rename my blog to relate more to the many disgusting pictures that I post : P

I'm off now to make some home made bread for dinner and laugh some more at the kids who returned home from the youth beach trip today, looking more like lobsters than they did when they left. And then to strumma-lummin on the guitar.

Sweating Sunsets

My mom and I spent Thursday afternoon through this morning together on a small Girls-Get-Away trip. I got called into work, and we got off later than we had planned, but our spirits couldn't be dampened. We stopped at Bridgewater mall for a little shopping and some burgers at the food court. Then we drove the rest of the way up to Newton and checked into our hotel and then drove up to girls camp for the Liahona. Seeing the Liahona again brought back some amazing memories and I got remarkably few mosquito bites. We left right after to party hard watching tv in our air conditioned hotel room!

Today it was hot. The kind of hot that makes me not miss New Jersey. The kind of heat that made my chilled macaroni sweat. Though it was 92 degrees today (with humidity it was more like 101) we got a break when a cold front brought some rain in. In a matter of minutes the temperature dropped by like 20 degrees. Then the remaining clouds made for this fantastic sunset. And my love for New Jersey returned.

Thundering Laughter

At the dinner table last night, we were eating our way through a rather large bowl of cherry tomatoes from our garden, when I made a comment on the state my bowels would be the next day, given my larger than normal intake of fiber. After this comment Jeffrey out of no where sang "They call it thunder!", which I'm not sure are the real words to the song he was trying to sing.

But we all exploded into laughter. The timing was perfect.

I am thunder free, and looking forward to a tomato sandwich for lunch!

PIcture This...

Today I thought I would update with pictures taken since I got home for the summer. Many of them are probably of things I forgot to mention doing...

Like cutting Becky's mile long hair the first week I got back.

I touched it all up with more layer and some angling in the front, and though it was a little shorter than she thought it would be...

She was glad it wasn't as short as mine!

We went to go see Singing in the Rain at Plays-in-the-Park in Roosevelt. The show was fabulous as was the company!

My mother's belated birthday dinner was an attempted recreation of Cafe Rio's infamous salads. Homemade tortilla's, rice, black beans, barbecue pork, lettuce, and every topping imaginable. It was a lot more cooking than I thought it would be, and rolling out almost 30 tortillas is quite the workout. But it was worth it as they tasted as good as they looked!

To add to my comments on the 4H fair there are a few pictures my dad got of some of what we saw. Well the funny stuff we saw...

Goats never cease to make me laugh. Imagine if we all had ridiculous and unnecessary appendages dangling from our throats. My favorite goats are the pygmy goats with the crazy beards!

Some of the animals you just had to feel bad for. Sheep in leotards? Really, what has this world come to? Lol...okay well they probably aren't leotards, but still, humiliating nonetheless.

Happy Monday to you all!!

Ridiculous Rent Ramble

So I'm back to having a life, other than just playing with clay and driving everyone everywhere.

I worked a full 8 hours on Thursday, after getting a call from my boss at 8am asking me if I could come in at 9am and work til 1pm. I complied...giving up my mid morning nap...and worked until 6pm.

When I got home we went to the Somerset County 4H fair and slopped through what we hoped as only mud, to various tents to see all the animals and other displays. I thought the alpacas were particularly funny looking, but they probably thought the same about me. This little kid got bit by a goat in the goat tent, which was hilarious, but his lifetime fear of goats probably wont be.

Then on Friday I went with Alex, Ben, Dakota, and Danie went to see Rent at Villager's theatre. It was way better than I thought it was going to be. They did a good enough job that I almost cried! After the play we went to Taco Bell and McDonald's for foods and then home for sleeps.

Saturday after a mosquito ridden breakfast in the park, I went to Island Beach State Park for a YSA Luau on the beach. I drove down early with the food packed in my van and then helped setting it all up. When we first got there the sand was crazy hot, like hot enough to give my feet blisters.
The soft underside of each toe got pretty roasted, this toe is bad enough I can barely bend my toe without searing pain.

My big toe on the other foot has a massive blister on the lower left hand side of it nearest to my other toes. It's gross but doesn't hurt to bad. When it pops though...its going to kill!

Regardless, it was a really amazing activity. It was nice to be on the beach again and to to see Seth who drove up to hang with us for the day. There was tons of good food, and I managed to drive there and back without getting a ticket, or having any of the crazy drivers hit our van. Best of all I was able to get a little color back!

Up this week: Who knows!?! We'll just have to wait and see!

Video-mation Relaxation

I have not worked again...but have managed to keep myself very busy. One of my biggest projects was putting together a compilation video of pictures from our family conference this last year in preparation for our conference in a month or so. It is pretty amusing. Dad posted it on YouTube for public viewing pleasure.

I also have kept busy relaxing, helping out in the yard, starting tickle fights, driving Alex to and from cross-country practice, listen to some all time favorite JumpStart songs, and rediscovering my artistic side.

Jeffy was bored and wanted to play with clay...I was bored too so I joined in the fun.

We had a sheep making contest...his was more of a sheep dog than a sheep...so as the only sheep in the contest this cute little guy won!

In honor of my fellow clay-player, I made a miniature statue in his likeness. Yes, there is a gun in the gun holster...I know...I should do clay-mation.

I have also kept busy by teaching myself guitar, playing tennis in the park with Jeff, getting back massages from Becky, going to institute and other YSA activities and playing with my newly inherited ipod.

Moral of the story...I might not be too upset if work never calls me in.

"While we're emptying the Vacu-um"

We had a lot of fun today with the box from the new vacuum my mom bought. We stuck Jeffy inside and taped it shut to see if he could get out on his own. I grabbed my camera and got some of it before my camera died.



After my camera dies Becky picks him up and he falls through the bottom. Lol...

This is what happens when 5 kids get too bored in the middle of the summer, and have a brother sized box laying around!

The Fat Worker

I'm sorry that I have been terrible with keeping up with my blog since arriving in New Jersey. It probably will not surprise you to find out that my life at home is fairly uneventful.

I worked today but at a different center than I did last summer, to sub for teachers going on a field trip. I was in a room of toddlers with some of the weirdest names ever...I think by the time I left I had finally gotten them down. Let's see how many I can remember Aarav, Anush, Narun, Viv, Kritin, Geovanny (this is how is parents spelled it), Divya, Anya, Marina, Akiel, Niah. Whoa...I remembered all of them...go me! Yes,the majority were of Indian descent in case you couldn't tell. I may be working again tomorrow at one of the centers, but I guess I'm on a call when needed basis. But if not I will probably stop by my old center to visit with the teachers and some parents.

I also went to the Grease Trucks in New Brunswick for a fat sandwich this week. I went for the ever classic Fat Darrell, a wonderful combo of chicken fingers, mozzerella sticks, fries, and marinara sauce on a torpedo roll. It is simply delicious I tell you!! I kinda want to go again, but how many 1700 calorie lunches can you have in a one week period...I'll go to the Chinese Buffet instead.