Birthday

I almost forgot, before I left for California my family and I went to the zoo to see all the baby animals. I wanted to go for awhile and no one would go with me, so I decided we would go for my birthday :) It was so fun!

From Hogle Zoo Oct 09

Click on picture above, it will redirect you to video. A little long, but so fun to watch!

Family Picture. We should have used this on our Christmas cards that never got sent out!

Mom being silly.

KD being a gorilla ;)

How cute. Their tails wrap around each other's.

Baby Tigers in the back playing.

When I got home from California, we went to dinner at Tucanos at the Gateway to finish celebrating, then met up with my dearest friends Jennifer and Brandon for the advanced screening of Michael Jackson's This Is It! AWESOME!!!

California October 2009

I attended the Society of Women Engineer's(SWE) National Conference Career Fair in Long Beach in hopes of finding a job. I drove down the day before my birthday so I could go to Disneyland for FREE! My AWESOME Aunt Carol took the day off work to celebrate and play with me at Disneyland!!

Then the conference was the next 2 days. I had 3 interviews at the Career Fair which isn't too bad, but I wanted more. I met up with some students from the University of Utah's SWE Chapter and went to dinner with them after the Career Fair.

Then I spent one day with my aunt and uncle. We went to Costa Mesa to get the best tacos and orange drink(they take me EVERY time I visit!) and then we stopped at Newport Beach on our way back home. It was a beautiful day, then when we got to the beach it was super foggy! I have never seen the ocean like that before, it was so cool! The following pics were NOT taken in black and white, or edited in any way...

Good trip, can't wait to go back!

Working Woman...again

I started my new job yesterday at Hill Air Force Base. I do NOT enjoy the commute!! I have to be there at 7am, and I am NOT a morning person. Other than that, so far so good :) I am in orientation until next Wednesday, then start my actual position Thursday, January 28.

I got some pics posted before I started working which I'm happy about, although my goal was to get them all posted. I plan to get the rest posted this weekend, then I will be caught up!! YAY!! Now the trick will be to stay caught up ;)

St. George

My father recently changed territories for work and gets to go to St. George now, well it changed in August 2009, so the end of August I went with him for 3 days. I had lost my job a couple weeks before and thought I would hop in the car and go for a ride and relax out by the pool while my dad was working. It was nice, hot and relaxing :) Then my mom had a break from school for UEA the beginning of October 2009 and thought she would take my grandma down to Tuacahn and the Shakespeare Festival for some plays. I decided to hop in the car again and join them after I had a couple of job interviews. My dad planned to go down for work at the same time too. We stayed at my aunt and uncle's house which is close to Tuacahn which was nice since the shows we saw were there. We saw Footloose and Aida at Tuacahn.

Grandma, Mom and Dad at dinner before the show.

Then we spent one day in Cedar City to see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and The Women in Black at the Shakespeare Festival. In between plays we drove up to Cedar Breaks to take in the beautiful scenery.

We also went hiking and to the Dinosaur Tracks Museum during the day since the shows were at night. While we were on our hike, we ran into a couple turtles wondering around on the trail. My mom kept saying she wanted to see a turtle and at the end we saw 2!!

My dad checking out the turtle on the trail

Me standing next to a dinosaur leg, I'm 5'7".

San Diego July 2009

My mom won a trip for 4 to San Diego on the radio and my family chose to use the trip for the week of July 4th, 2009. It included 3 days/2 nights at a hotel, 4 passes to the Contemporary Art Museum and 4 passes to Sea World. When my littlest sister, KD, was younger and my family went to Sea World, she wanted to swim with the dolphins SOOOO bad but my dad told her no! So ever since then she would tell my dad he "owed" her. So this time she finally got to swim with the dolphins, and Alyssa and me too!!

Our hotel on the beach

My parents on the left, sisters on the right.

Contemporary Art Museum

Contemporary Art Museum

Contemporary Art Museum

KD

Alyssa

KD

Me

Me and my sisters :)

Me and my sisters :)

Our last day in San Diego we also went to tour the U.S.S. Midway, a Naval Air Craft Carrier.

KD and Me

Towards the end of our trip, we headed to Hollywood to see Michael Jackson's star on the Walk of Fame. It was about a week after he had past away.

My sisters, KD and Alyssa

My parents

There was so much stuff from fans that flooded the sidewalk they had to block it off to create room for people to walk.

The last day of our trip was the 4th of July, we went to watch fireworks at the Newport Beach Country Club where my aunt's mother and aunt live. Such a wonderful, fun and much needed vacation!