LIVE LAUGH AND LOVE!

2009-11-13T23:03:00.000-08:00

I HAVE MOVED ON FROM MY SINGLE BLOG AND WENT ON TO ONE THAT TYLER AND I CAN SHARE...SO THOUGHTFUL EH? DONT WORRY, I WILL KEEP THIS NEW ONE UPDATED!! CHECK IT OUT! TYLERANDJESSDAY.BLOGSPOT.COM :)

2009-05-22T09:49:00.001-07:00

I had surgery yesterday, my first time ever! I was really nervous, but the nurses were just wonderful! My parents too. Both came to witness...and I am sure after the 4 hours of waiting while I was in surgery was worth it afterwards...I had some crazy things to say!! I guess I wanted to hit a home run really really bad! And I had to go to the bathroom so bad I thought I was going to explode, so when I sat up I threw up...the nurse caught it though so all was good. My knee had a lot more damage than they originally thought! I ended up getting my miniscus shaved and since it was torn they just sewed it back up. I have stithces inside of my knee! Interesting. My ACL was GONE...so I got a cadaver graft put in there. It is held in with two scews, one on each side! I hope the metal detectors go off when I go through them now :) They took some pictures of my knee but they are only on paper so I found similar ones on the internet so you can see! Exciting eh?

This picture above is a torn ACL...looks gross eh? Mine looked a bit different because my ACL has been ripped and torn so many times it was gone!

This is of a cadaver graft that they would put into your knee...again mine is a little different because you can see the scews on each side! I hope this new person inside of me was very athletic :)

This final picture is of damaged miniscus. Mine was sewed up right where that line was, and than on the bottom there was a huge peice sticking off that they shaved off so that I don't die? I don't know, I think it was rubbing everything and hurting me. I am still pretty drugged up so at this point I am doing great! They say that since I had so much done I can't start therapy for awhile, and its going to be a long process to fully recover. I can't play sports for 6-9 months which will be the ultimate killer. It will all be worth it in the end though! And my family is soooo great to me and take such good care of me...I am being pampered!!

2009-05-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

My family and I just got back from our usual Lake Mead trip! It was such good weather, the Marina said 105 degrees on the first day! Even though I couldn't do much because of my knee, I had a lot of fun watching the others and riding in the boat! Kyle took me for an easy ride on the tube though...it was fun! These are pictures from the ride up there. Jordo, Brax, Ty and I all rode in the back of the truck. We took lots of pictures and played card games to pass the time!

These pictures are our 'Lake Shots' Jordan was sick the whole time, and didn't want his picture taken!

It was an AMAZING time at the lake! :)

2009-04-25T13:29:00.000-07:00

It has been fairly nice weather and Tyler, his friend Geoff, Lucky and I went up Hyrum Canyon and played catch and in the river! It was so much fun! Geoff is a photographer man so he snapped a few cute shots of Tyler and I. Don't worry, they are not engagements or anything!

2009-04-25T11:44:00.000-07:00

I think my computer is being so silly! I can't find how to change the font and color of my letters and stuff...so you just get the same ol' same ol' over and over again! For Easter we all went to St. George for the annual 'FUN IN THE SUN' Easter getaway :) It was really nice weather for the most part, and I even got to go to Cedar and hang out with my friend Meggan and then to Tylers house for more fun and car work! Tyler painted his car black and red, it looks really nice! It has been great to be able to hang out with Tyler so much, especially in the sun! It was fun to be with the younger generation of the family too, they are all growing up and are so much fun!

2009-04-25T11:42:00.000-07:00

Its getting to be the end of the school year at Utah State...and I am so happy that I am not worrying about finals right now and having to do homework!! :) I have been going to a lot of end of year banquets, however, and a lot of my favorite people will be graduating!! This is a picture of my Transfer Ambassadors. I LOVE USU AMBASSADORS!

2009-04-25T11:33:00.000-07:00

My wonderful parents let me and my friend Kaylie take the Jazz tickets! I love the Utah Jazz and wish them luck against the Lakers...even though I know it would be a miracle if they pulled this one off! GO JAZZ! :)
This is all pretty old news but for the Priesthood session all of us girls went to Market Street Grill for dinner! This is the best part of Conference Weekend every 6 months! Of course I love to hear the apostles speak too :) I love being with the girls! And little Braxton...although he hates being with the girls. We had a good fun time and then went shopping! I am so blessed to have such wonderful examples in my life! I LOVE YOU GIRLS!

Reunitation!

2009-04-04T10:07:00.000-07:00

I finally got to see all of my Snow College friends!!! Shawnee is ready to have her baby boy and was having a baby shower, so we decided to have a slumber the night before! I have not seen them in a long time, so it was so exciting! I have not seen Maddie since before her mission! We all stayed at Jills house and talked and talked and talked :) We also went on a mission to find Twilight..don't worry, 8 red boxes and they were sold out! Thank goodness for Blockbuster!! I LOVE YOU GIRLS!!!

Road Trip!

2009-04-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

Buff and I went to Arizona to visit her old school! It was a lot of driving but SO much fun! As you can see we got kind of bored in the car... :) We also stopped at the Hoover Dam which I have never been too! And we saw President Kimballs house where he grew up in...right there in the town of Thatcher! It was so hot there, and hard to come back to this crappy Utah weather!!!

2009-04-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

When I got back to the good ol' USA my family took me to St. George! It was nice weather and so much fun! My niece Addie is getting so big, and she is so much fun to play with! All of the girls went to Vegas to shop, go to dinner, and go to the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!! It was so cool! What a good weekend with the fam :)

Welcome to the Jungle...

2009-04-04T09:16:00.000-07:00

After Ecuador I had the opportunity to go to the Yachana Lodge in the Amazon! It was such a cool experience! We flew to Cokee in an airplane that was really small! We then took a jungle truck to the Napo river. While we were waiting for our canoe/boat I started feeding some monkeys and they jumped right on my shoulder! We got to go on many hikes through the jungle and saw many different Jungle animals!! Bats, tarantulas, the harpy eagle, dwarf camens, HUGE spiders, bats, hawks...etc. We also got to FLOAT DOWN THE RIVER! We were just floating with the paranas and anacondas...no big deal :) We went to the medicine man and got cleansed with tobacco and learned how to throw spears and shoot blow guns. The whole experience was the coolest thing I have ever been able to do!

I love Ecuador!

2009-04-03T23:39:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone! Have no fear I am back to the blogging world! I just spend the past three months having the most wonderful time of my life! I was living in Cuenca, Ecuador working in many different orphanages! I fell in love all of these children and got very attached to quite a few of them! It was the hardest thing to leave them. This blog is a tribute to my babies! :) I love you! Oh and PLEASE...if you are even slightly interested in going to Ecuador to do this they are in need of volunteers! You would not regret it! Also, if you are looking for ways to help these orphans but don't know how, contact me! You can sponsor a child for only 30 dollars a month for a year! What a wonderful thing to do :)

2009-01-04T12:23:00.000-08:00

Hola from Ecuador! To do a blog here takes FOREVER, because the internet is slow. I am going to do one for this first time, but if you want to see all of my pictures I put them all on facebook! There are a lot :) Ecuador is great...the whole traveling experience was not the best. I have never had so many delays or had to wait in such long lines in my life! My casa here in Ecuador isn't bad! I live with 16 girls, my Cuenca parents, and the head family is here visiting with their 4 kids. It is crazy, and there is always something going on! I work a lot in the orphanages and keep busy! I was pretty homesick at first, but I am starting to get the hang of it! It is hard because of the language barrier, but hopefully I will overcome that soon! I know enough words right now to get by, I just can't communicate like a normal person! There are a lot of hand gestures, thats for sure! I have about 10 weeks left...my first week is already done! This is me and my parents before I left on my way to Ecuador! The other picture is supposed to be of me and Tyler...but seriously it is hard to get the right picture because its all in Spanish! I don't even know the word for delete...so it is staying! The picture is of the sign that went on our doll...the Ecuador people burn a doll when it is New Years to burn old bad things that happened to them! We burned our ex's...and we wrote down bad habits we have and burned those too. It was an exciting night! I have never seen so many fireworks in my life! We were not allowed to go out on the town because it wasn't safe at all! But family and friends, I love you all and I am doing ok! It is scary and different than the US. I am happy to be here to help these children. I love working with the special kids...there are almost 20 that we are working with, and than the casas kids, cunas babies, OSSO babies, HML girls and ladies...and than a couple other orphanages that I have not been to. I will be putting my pictures on facebook from now on...so be ready!! :) Love you all!

2008-12-13T10:50:00.000-08:00

We had two formal nights, and on the first one we did family pictures. Everybody was dressed in black, and it was so much fun to get all dressed up!

This is my cousin Jenny and I.

Sisters!

The family. We are so funny :)

There was a lot of entertainment going on throughout the whole trip! On the ship days we played all of the sports and was involved in everything that we could. We were soon known on the ship as 'Utah'! That is my family for you, always trying to be the center of attention! ;) Isn't it great.

Jonny and I were the team captains for 'The Quest'. We had to do all sorts of crazy things to win, and don't worry, we won GOLD! I never would have expected less out of us. Together, we shall never lose! It was kind of embarasses the things we had to do in order to achieve gold, because all family members were present including the Parentals. It was all worth it in the end, however. :)

I enjoyed hanging out with my cousin Ry Guy...USU forever...we went to the Jesters Club and danced with the black people, and we always had a grand time together!

When we got off the cruise ship we went back to Peurto Rico and went to some forts! They were really cool, and had really pretty views! This is my sweet grandparents, oh how I love them!

The cruise was an amazing vacation! I loved being with my family!!

Caribbean Cruisin!

2008-12-13T10:24:00.001-08:00

This was our first night on the cruise ship. We started off by playing as 'Team Johnson' against a bunch of Peurto Ricans...if thats how you call them...it was so hot and humid! And so much fun! We than did the whole 'if the ship sinks' thing with the life vests! This is some of the fam watching us cruise along. Also, everyday they changed the elevator to what day it was! We tried to get a picture of it every single day! It was fun for the first four days...and than we kept forgetting.

On the cruise we went to Aruba, Curacau, St. Maartin, and St. Thomas! They were all wonderful islands! It was my second time to St. Maartin and St. Thomas. In Aruba we went on a bus tour. It was kind of rainy. We saw the missionaries and met a member that lives in Aruba! We played beach volleyball! We went shopping, and than sat in the hot tub while the rain poored down. It was awesome!

Caracau was my favorite island! We got to ride scooters and buggy things! Poor Annie got the privelage of driving with me and since it had rained the day before, there were prime mud puddles! We went through all of them and got so muddy! We than went to the prettiest beach ever! There was a thing you could swim out to in the middle of the ocean, and the water was soo blue! It was a wonderful day!

The next island was St. Maartin! We went zipping through the mango trees! It was the coolest thing, we got all harnessed up and than they let you go zip through! There are rope challenges between zipping as well, it was so cool. This is the nice man that harnessed me up.

In St. Maartin we went to the prettiest beach I have ever seen. It was called Coki beach. It was nice to lay out and read my book. I also got to snorkel with Jordan! All of the islands were SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

Caribbean Cruisin!

2008-12-13T10:10:00.000-08:00

Over Thanksgiving Break I got to go on a cruise!!! My whole entire family went, and it was a crazy blast! We left the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and returned the next Monday. This is Jordan and in the airport getting breakfast before the big trip! We started this eating trip off with Burger King. And we didn't stop eating the whole trip! haha...it was so much fun! :) Jordan was proud of his Minute Maid.

This is some of the fam waiting to board our plane in SLC. We had a layover in Texas and than flew on our way to Peurto Rico!!!

After arriving in Peurto Rico we stayed in a hotel and went to a little Mexican Cafe thing. It was raining and so windy! Rach and I decided to take a model picture because the wind was blowing, and this is the picture! I love it :)

In the morning it was crazy! Traveling with 29 people is always an adventure! This is some of our luggage. The ride to the ship was an experience, the driver didn't speak English but he sure knew how to sing and shake his muraccas! The day was starting off wonderfully :)

2008-10-28T19:47:00.000-07:00

Alrighty!! So...its been quite sometime since my last blog. I decided to get over the fact that I don't live in Sunny San Diego anymore, and even though that was my last blog I can't live in the past. I know, depressing...haha jk! But seriously, I miss California! I am not living in Logan going to Utah State! I work a lot, and it has been a lot of fun! After Cali. my wonderful dad took me boating before I started school! He is such a wonderful dad. We just got back from Lake Mead, but I will have to document that later cause I have seemed to lost the connector for my camera. I went to Bear Lake for my Ambassador Retreat and we dressed up in our best 70's attire!! I have been really busy as an Ambassador since then, visiting Snow College and planning awesome events here in Logan! I love it! I swear everybody is getting married! Just after school started, my friends Caitlyn and Matt got married in Sacramento! I also got to see Tyler in Paradise! It was a very fun and exciting adventure to drive there! My BFF D of FOD got married as well to the lucky Allen! I got to go to the temple and the reception...awww another one bites the dust ;)

When I was with Tyler we went and ate Thai food and than mini golfing! It was great! He has recently moved here to Logan...so far so good!

This was me and the Anderson boys at the Demolition Derby! It was awesome!!! We also went to the White Trash Bash...gotta love it.

My best friend Erin came up for the weekend!! I miss her!!!! We also took great pictures of ourselves at Hollys wedding at the temple...this is me waiting to go inside...someday, someday.

This is me at work!! This is Janell...I love working with her. She is a plumbing specialist! Melinda is the other one in this picture that I work with, she is standing next to me! Those are all of my bosses...I love my work! :) And that is the end of my blog...for atleast another couple months.

The looooong waited arrival!

2008-08-06T17:47:00.000-07:00

Last week was so completely awesome because my family finally came and visited!! I thought I would die without being with them for that long of a time, . Especially my...dad. :) I missed his birthday, and so I wanted to throw him a suprise birthday party! It sure was a party, and we also celebrated my Grannys and Jonnys. Sorry about getting the numbers wrong dad...I just always assume you are younger because that is how you look. :) It was the best weekend! It went by so fast! We hung out at the beach a lot, and got to spend wonderful time together. I can't wait to go back home and be with them again! I love you fam!! Thanks for coming and visiting!!

2008-07-05T17:37:00.000-07:00

The fun didn't stop there!! We went to the world famouse San Diego Zoo!! We took the bus around and saw all sorts of things. The monkeys were doing some very interesting things as well, keeping everybody entertained! :) My favorite animals were the monkeys. Erin, I didn't see any foxes, I am sorry...but I am posting an Otter just for you because they are awesome! I am so happy that is my totem. They were swimming and going crazy and having a good time, just like I like to do ;) Fits me perfectly. But anyway, the Zoo was awesome!!!

Jordan smooshed a gorilla...funny. We also got these awesome sippie cups and got to be verrrry close to the Hippo's.

And the best part of the day...........

Padres!!

2008-07-05T11:24:00.000-07:00

Jonny, Ash, Jord and I also went to the Padres Game! It was awesome!! We had some pretty good seats with a bunch of drunk guys behind us. The best part about the whole game was....THE SUPER NACHOS!! Oh man, they were the biggest, best things I have had, ever.

After the game we went to misson beach and played around. We went on the big roller coaster, it is my favorite one! This is the spot that me and Jordan both swooshed to win our money balls!!! Once again, we are awesome. Enough said. :)

Boomers! You gotta love it baby...

2008-07-05T11:06:00.000-07:00

So one day while Jordan was here we went to Boomers to check it out. We got addicted to the basketball shot game, and stayed there for nearly two hours wasting away our lives shooting hoops. It all payed off though because a couple days later we played at the carnival place and both won ourselves a good prize. More about that later. But the next day, we decided to go back to Boomers for just a bit, and ended up buying Gaming Passes. Thats right, unlimited arcade games for like 4 hours!! We played all sorts of games, Jordan and I did. What a way to spend vacation in the hot and sunny San Diego?! Haha...it was completely awesome. We also got these awesome mugs full of delicious slush....

CHEEERSSS!!! .....SLURPPPPIN AWAY!!! .....BRAIN FREEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an awesome day. Don't worry, that is not how we spent all of our time. We spent our fair share at the beach. We went there probably 6 or 7 times. We both skim boarded, as well as boogie boarded. We are awesome.

The Fair!

2008-07-05T10:57:00.000-07:00

So the last week here in San Diego has been very exciting because...JORDAN WAS HERE!!! :) We did so many fun things!! It was so good to have him come and visit. The first night Jordo got here we went to the fair. It is the biggest fair I have ever seen! We walked around and saw all of the cool shops, and all of the farm animals. We even ate deep friend reeses. Sick. The best part of the night was the ferris wheel!! We crammed six of us in that thing, and all was well tell we got to the top and I could have sworn the thing was going to bust off!! It was a great night celebrate Jordans arrival! :)

Blog Tagging...how great.

2008-06-04T13:38:00.000-07:00

So I have just been tagged by my good frind Erin Kay Taylor...ok, so not 'just barely', it was actually more than a week ago, I am just really slow at blogging these days. These are the rules, I must wrote 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsession/collections, and 3 random suprising facts about me. Get ready everyone! Let the tagging game begin! Oh, and at the end I choose five people that have to do this too. Exciting, right?!

3 JOYS

I have a lot of joys in my life, but for sure my greatest joy of all times is MY FAMILY!!! My extended and immediate. For real I have the best family ever. I miss them more than they will ever know! We have awesome dinners on Sunday where the whole family gets together and we eat eat eat and laugh laugh laugh. That is what we are best at, and we are good at it too! :) Also, my family is just so welcoming to everybody. I could go on and on and on about my family, seriously. But just know that my greatest ultimate joy in life is my family, without them I would be lost. Because of them, I am the happiest and luckiest girl ever!

My second joy in life is...BEING ACTIVE! I couldn't narrow it down to one specific thing, so this is a pretty broad joy in my life. I LOVE playing sports, especially volleyball. I love boating sports, hiking, ect. Yesterday I learned how to skim board, it was difficult, but it is things like that in life that make me happy! I also had relay races on a playground for approximatly 2 hours. Oh the joys of life!

My third joy in life is SCHOOLING. It has to be, because it consumes a lot of my life!! There are such amazing experiences and things to learn during your schooling years. I am excited to get my degree, although I don't know what I will do in the real world! Snow College and Utah State University are true joys and passions in my life. The experiences I had at Snow and USU, and the ones that I will continue to have are priceless memories that I wouldn't change for anything!

*******I better shorten these things down or nobody will read them! I wouldn't. I will have to add som random pictures, whats a blog without pictures!?********

3 FEARS

My greatest fear is that I will be seperated from my family! This goes along with the greatest joy in my life, so I won't expound.

My second greatest fear is not finding my trueee loooooove! That one is kind of embarrassing to write, but it is true. Scary.

My third greatest fear is...hmm...not succeeding. I want to have success in all that I do, and a great fear of mine is trying my hardest but still falling short.

3 GOALS

Goal #1 M & HB!!!! (Money and hot bods! Mine and Erins Club...it WILL happen!)

Goal #2 Read scriptures and prayyyyy twice a day!

Goal #3 Be happy ALL OF THE TIME!! Because really, life is soooo good, there is no need to not be happy! The blessings always outweigh the bad, seriously.

3 CURRENT OBESSIONS/COLLETIONS

My first obsession right now is for sure laying out. I love it. It is so relaxing, and I LOVE THE SUN!!! Its perfect to be in CA so I can, eh?

My next weirdo obession is Alberttacos. Can I just tell you... I LOVED Taco Bell...but this place is the most amazing fast food place in the world. Their bean and cheese burritos are massive, delicious, and cheap. Their chips and salsa are amazing...Chunky salsa with lots of tomatoes and onions...I want it everyday. It is open 24 hours, and I wish they had one in Logan.

Third obession. Running. Ok, maybe it ISNT an obsession, but I am MAKING it an obsession!! I must do it EVERYDAY! So I guess this could be a goal of mine? It goes along with M & HB. A guy at the gym told me he has not come down there one time that I have not been there. Haha...I guess we just go at the same time always. But yeah.

3 RANDOM SUPRISING FACTS

1. I would choose a bean and cheese burrito over any other food any day. Haha, thats the first thing that came into my head...I want Alberttacos!

2. I have a crush on a guy from Bachelorette. His name is Graham, and I love him. Hahahaha.

3. I love meeting new people! I have met awesome people here in Ca... and I am sure there are much more to meet!

***Ok, I think I covered all of the bases. I would like to thank my dear friend Erin for allowing me this opportunity. I would love to tag ASHLEY, RACHEL, KELS...and thats all. I don't have very many blogging friends, haha.***

2008-05-14T21:05:00.000-07:00

Here I am...chilling in the beautiful SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA! Yup, thats right. I live in California. Who would have thought? My brother conned me into coming here and being the Office Manager. He is for sure a salesman at heart. He isn't doing too bad either, I hope that it really starts to pick up though because these boys out here work so hard! It has been awesome since I have been here. We are staying in these super nice places, it is gated and we have to have a little key fob thing to get into everything! The pool is so nice, I have spent a lot of time there since I have gotten here! As long as I am by my phone in the afternoon I get to do basically what I want! I wake up in the morning and go to the office and do ppwk (office lingo, I am catching on fast!) I also attend their meetings and help them with everything. After that I am good to go! I love it because I get to hang out with Ashley during the day (my new sista!!!) and then both of them at night! I know they will get sick of me, but I sure do love my family. I am so blessed to be here with them! Seriously. I DO miss my family back home...Rach, Josh, baby Addie...Jord...madre and padre....awww I have the best family in the world. It is an awesome experience to be here in San Diego though! The beach is beautiful, the clubs are fun, BBQin hamburgers and living the life! Its all about the lifestyle! (Pinnacle motto) :) Life is good.

2008-05-14T20:47:00.000-07:00

Hello hello! I finished yet another year of school, this time from Utah State University. It was a good year, and I met a lot of really good friends! And I am one year closer to being done with school!! Its hard to beleive that will ever happen.... haha. At the end of the school year I got to go and see a play, Beauty and the Beast, where my good friend Lee was the Beast! I went with my dear friends Erin Kay and Ryan James...and my date was Mikey the Farmer. It was so much fun! I just got back from the coolest place ever, Escalante! We went on some dang awesome hikes, I would recommend them to anybody! My favorite was where you hike in a gulch that is like...less than 1 foot wide, no joke. At the beginning it says 'Fat? Turn back.' Seriously, I was so glad I fit! I was so worried. A couple people that we were hiking with us had to turn back. So you go through these little gulches and they are pretty high. Clausterphobic?!?! YES. But worth it? FOR SURE YES! Not only are you turned sideways, having to take your backpacks off but you are climbing as well. It was awesome. We went on other cool hikes but that was the best. We had awesome dutch oven food and good times at our campsite. Good times had by all!

Washington/Oregon!

2008-04-26T15:24:00.001-07:00

So I just traveled to Washington and Oregon for the first time in my life! It was a treat. I flew with my madre and padre and little Jordan. This is a picture of Jordan and I getting ready for the flight. We flew into Portland Oregon and then drove across the Columbia River into Washingtion, where Ashley grew up. It was reception time again! The best part of the trip was going to the waterfalls that were in Oregon. They were so beautiful, everything was SO GREEN!! My mom, Jordan, Jonny and I were all packed in the back of the car for the ride there, that was what made the trip. We are funny. Seriously. If you get 4 Johnsons in the back of a car you know there are good times to come! There was another awesome event that happened...my license is expired, and I guess thats a problem with security when you are trying to fly these days...ooops. So I was all worried, but the guy didn't even check in the Salt Lake airport. I was safe. I didn't even think about my return home! First of all the day started off bad because the security guy made me throw away my brand new lotion from Bath and Body. I love that stuff, and was close to tears. Then he checked my license and asked if I was aware that my license was expired. My dad, prior to entering the airport, told me to act dumb. I played the part! But the next thing I knew the security man was yelling...FIRST LEVEL SECURITY! Man, that was a scary moment. They took me to another line and put me in the 'puffer'. I had always wanted to go in there anyway, so it wasn't bad. Then they checked me like crazy...they did that little swab on every single thing in my purse. All in all it took forever & I will go and get my license renewed shortly. I guess I shouldn't be driving either...oops.

A Beautiful Day!

2008-04-21T18:38:00.000-07:00

Awww....love.

It finally came...the day we have all been waiting for...JONNY GOT MARRIED!! Can you believe it? It was an awesome day! I love my new sis, she is just wonderful! I am going to San Diego with the newlyweds for the summer...that could be interesting. I am really excited to spend time with them! They got married in the Salt Lake Temple and then had their wedding luncheon and reception at gardner village. Everybody keeps telling me I am next...hahaha...maybe so but that won't be for awhile so don't get your hopes up! I still have to find myself a man of course! That comes before the whole wedding part, well thats what people tell me anyway.

2008-04-05T19:48:00.001-07:00

Mission Beach!

SPRING BREAK 08'!

2008-04-05T19:35:00.000-07:00

I am going to do another one! YES! This one is what I would like to call...the AMAZING Spring Break Trip, 08'. For Spring Break this year, a group of us went to California!! We road tripped it up. We stayed in St. George for the first two nights, and then we went to our Hotel in Los Angelos. It was marvelous. We went to Disneyland...the happiest place on earth for real...and California Adventure! We got tickets off of ebay, it was pretty sketchy but cut the price in half! We just had to find the black car in the back parking lot of McDonalds...dun dun dunnnnn. We also went to Huntington beach, it is beautiful!! This was great because we played BEACH VOLLEYBALL!! You know how much I love that! We played on the beach all day long. We went to mission beach and road rollercoasters in San Diego, we went to Jimmy Kimmel live starring Adam Corolla and Sheryl Crow...she did a concert outside which was amazing! I went to HOLLYWOOD for my first time! I was going crazy. I got to put my hands where the stars have...yes. Every girls dream! Seriously though it was so awesome. We went to the Grove and shopped, we went to Vegas...best night of my life. :) We did plenty of awesome things, it was a Spring Break to never forget!!! Then we came back to reality...the bitter cold Logan where it was snowing...ahhhh....

2008-04-05T19:14:00.000-07:00

Its about that time that I do a new blog!! Wahoo for everyone! :) March has FLOWN by, I can't believe it! I have a lot of great things to post. So...March 5th was a very special day. I turned the big 21!!! Yahoo!! Legal! So for the big day I went out and did something wild and craaaazy. I put pink in my hair! Rebellious I know. It was a fantastic birthday! It all started wonderfully with a little shindig to bring me into the birthday the night before. A bunch of friends and I went to get icecream at Charlies, and then we went to the cube and played Mario Party Wii til three in the morning. Addicting. Early in the morning my roomies made me breakfast in bed, and then I drove home and went to lunch with my parents. I then went and got my hair done, and then went to Texas Road House with the whole family!! I love my family so much! I got to ride the saddle...it was so awesome. Then me, Josh, Jonny, and Jordan went to the Jazz game!!! Me and the brothers, it was awesome. We got to go up and eat food in some sweet room because Josh is a big deal. All in all it was an amazing 21st!!

And PS...look at how we are all wearing our Jazz clothing and Josh is in the suit...always doing business that one...and PPS...I really wanted to turn that photo of me on the saddle but I just dont know how so that is how it has to be. Help! :)

The Blogging World

2008-02-06T14:32:00.000-08:00

So! I have already been told th'update my blogs', even though my last blog was approx. two days ago. I am ok with that, I have such an exciting life with things happening every second that I am all but happy to share them with the blogging world! Really...Erin, RJ, and the Fam :) So! Right now my forearms and thighs are KILLING. I went rock climbing last night on a date and lets just say I NEVER work out my forearms, and they are really really weak. It was an awesome date though! Hurray for fun dates. :) P.S. I am supposed to be writing a paper right now. That can wait. Oh! And I have been on four dates with this 'new one', and hung out quite often over the past month, and we still have not kissed! That is really good. I hope he doesnt read my blogs, that would make things awkward. But yeah...oh! So in accordance to my last blog and how I was sad I missed my family superbowl party...we had our very own party at 5B! We ate a lot of food. It was awesome. Oh! And Jonny/Ashley, thanks for the whole 'laundry thing', that was very nice of you. And it was good to see you. Oh! More news...so last night I get home and there is mounds of toilet paper sitting right outside my door. Underneath all of the toilet paper was a sign that said TO JESSICA and it had a picture of a toilet on it with hearts around it. Then there was some yellow gatorade and two of those 'big cup' reeses. I didn't know what the deal was so I took it all in and there was no name or anything to be found on it! I made my friend Erin (your claim to fame! hehe...jk) come over and investigate with me this morning and we found a hidden message in a roll of toilet paper that said... I hope you will 'roll' with this 'duck' to the valentines dance with me on Tuesday...yadda yadda. So....there is no name to be found on there! And I have searched high and low for some sort of 'duck'. I get the whole 'roll' part (toilet paper roll) but I am just so confused! So if that makes any sense to you, and you know what that is talking about, please...enlighten me. That is all for my Valentines Dance story. Life is good, and hopefully going to get better. I think that is all I have to say for now! Thank you blogging world.

Oh the life...

2008-02-03T11:30:00.000-08:00

Here I am, starting an amazing blog! How exciting for me, for you, and for all who get to witness this wonderful site. So a lot has been going on in the life of Jessica Johnson. School, work, ambassadors, dating...life can get rough if you know what I mean. I miss my darn family back in South Jordan, who are all right now getting ready for the annual 'Johnson's Superbowl Eat-A-Thon' which is an event where loved ones gather around the kitchen counter and eat eat eat! There seriously is more food than provided on Thanksgiving Day! It is the best event of the year...the best holiday at that. And I am stuck here in Logan, where the Snow is two feet deep and my car gets stuck everytime I try to manuever out of the parking lot. Of course there are still wonderful activities going on. Take last weekend for example. A bunch of us decided to go and see Cloverfield. Yahoo. Not the best movie...well actually I don't know because I only saw a good 15 minutes of it. I got motionsickness and had to exit to the bathroom really quickly. I spilled my dinner...lovely I know. We got good photos though! I have also been on a few awesome dates...shooting is probably my favorite thus far, although eating pizza with Jason will always remain somewhere near and dear to my heart. I have just recently returned from a recruiting trip at Snow. It was an awesome trip, we did swell!! Everybody should get there A's up here to USU!! But the trip was full of adventure. I was the lucky one that got to drive the USU school Minivan. I was ok with that, it will prepare me for later in life when I have 8 kids. But I was driving along, listening to good tunes, contemplating life...when out of nowhere there was a ginormous rolled up mattress in the middle of the road. I as going about 80 MPH and I tried to swerve...I hit the side of the mattress and jumped over it...I drug it under the minivan for a couple seconds then jumped the second half. Have you ever been off a jump in a minivan? Wow...scary. I almost peed my pants. Maybe I did. A lot of other events happened that night which probably shouldn't be disclosed on a blog. Lets just say the night was named 'The Mattress Night' for a reason. It is always fun recruiting at Snow College! I miss it there! Utah State is treating me very well too. I have some awesome friends and some awesome experiences! I also work at the best place called RISE, working with developmental disabled people. It is the coolest job a person can ask for! I just went to Hardware Ranch with Robert and saw the Elk on a sleighride...that is just the beginning of a hard days work. :) I also got to see my good ol' neighbors competing at a swim meet in Hyrum! I love the Westras! :) Thats about all that is going on right now. I know this blog is like...HUGE...but deal with it. Haha just kidding, but give me some slack because it is my first one and I have a lot to say! That is all. Love you!!! Snow Badassadors!The cute swimming Westra Fam