Not much has happened since my last entry on July 18th. YEAH RIGHT! I’ll try to sum up what’s gone down since then. Alright, after living with Grandma and Grandpa Barrow for the summer, Steven and I made the long drive back up to Provo, Ut. I loved spending the summer down in Sugar Land with the Barrow’s. One of my biggest goals was to really become a Barrow. Does that make sense? Like to really belong to the Barrow family. You know, I’ve been an Eddington my whole life. You don’t just transition over night. Every family does things different. I wanted to learn how the Barrow’s do things. Steven’s biggest goal for the summer was to master his soccer POWER KICK. Haha. I think we both accomplished our goals. =)
All summer we’d (more like I’ve) been wanting to get a pet when we got back to Provo SO after a lot of thinking about it and convincing we got a baby red foot tortoise.! His name is Douglas (Doug, Dougie, Dougel smuggle). WE LOVE HIM! Surprisingly, he’s pretty entertaining. We thought he might have some mental issues but then we realized that he’s still just a baby so his motor skills aren’t developed yet. Like he can barely eat on his own. He’ll open his mouth really wide like a yawn and we’ll have to try to get the food into his mouth as quick as possible before he closes. He’ll get pretty big but right now he’s smaller than my palm.



Schools great! I’ll be graduating in December!!! Looking forward to that. Steven still has a while left in school. He’s busy working a little more than part time and has a full class schedule. He’s so awesome. He never complains and works so hard. Right now I’m working at United Way. Oh, I LOVE it! I work 2-1-1. 2-1-1 “connects people with important community services and volunteer opportunities. By making services easier to access, 2-1-1 encourages citizen involvement and fosters self-sufficiency” (unitedwayuc.org). Steven says I’m saving the world, one phone call at a time. Haha. I also work with the Sub for Santa program. I’ve helped with S4S before but nothing like this one. We help over 5,500 individuals! I’m excited to play a part in such a large wonderful organization. Here’s a little inspiring video.

WORDS TO LIVE BY - How to LIVE UNITED

Lola / Elmo

For the past month and a half Steven and I have been house sitting for a family. The main reason for us to house sit was because of this dog:


She's CRAZY! Her name is Lola. ("whatever lola wants, Lola get...") Lola started off as the most annoying dog I've ever been around. She follows you right under your feet wherever you walk to; so you're constantly stepping on her. When she gets excited she pees. If we put her in her room, she would bark as if someone was trying to murder her while she was in there. Oddly enough, we came to love this dog. Once we accepted the fact that she was annoying, she all of a sudden became not so annoying. haha. By the time we had to part from Lola, Steven and I were both sad to say good bye to her.
This video is when we liked Lola and started realizing how much fun she could be.


This is kinda random, but Steven seriously has the FUNNIEST tickle laugh. I just had to record it. If you've seen any Sesame Street you'll make the odd connection that Steven and Elmos laugh are pretty similar. haha. =)

So You Think You Can Dance?

I am a BIG So you think you can dance (sytycd)fan. This season, the girls are the BOMB.COM! Last night Ricky and Ryan performed my favorite dance of the season. As Steven and I were watching last nights episode I just couldn't get over how awesome this dance was. Steven made the connection that I have something for Zombie dances. It's SO true! My two favorite dances on sytycd are zombie dances.(Disclaimer: These are weird dances. I admit that. But I like weird things. It's good to appreciate weird things.)

The first one is last nights episode that Ricky and Ryan danced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB5qTN9QcrM


This is the Ramalama Bang Bang dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj5qoo9kQRM&feature=related

I can't... I'm allergic

Two summers ago while we were in Greece, I learned the hard way that I was allergic to Eucalyptus. But apparently, I'm allergic to something else. We figured this out after my complaining bamboo experience. I had a rash on my arms and legs. It really wasn't to bad, it just itched like CRAZY! Is this an excuse I can use for the rest of my life to NOT do yard work? "I can't... I'm allergic."

bamBOOOOO

Grandpa Barrow hired Steven and I to cut all the bamboo down at the cabin. The picture below doesn't even show 1/2 of the darn bamboo!



I like to think of myself as a pretty optimistic person; but cutting down the bamboo showed a whole new side of me that I didn't even know existed. My Dad is a property manager. Our yard work was usually done by the people that worked for my dad. Therefore, I haven't really done yard work. Sure, I would rake or weed sometimes but nothing to big. I was dead after 30 mins of cutting down this bamboo! I kept thinking "ok kt, you are one of those hard core wives; like a pioneer wife!" Then I would think "But I don't want to be a pioneer wife!" Seriously, biggest mental game I've played in a long time. Poor Steven. haha. He didn't think it was that bad. He made sure to listen to my complaining but he wouldn't join in with my bamboo trash talk. He always sets a good example to me. Every girl should want to marry a guy like Steven.

One of Stevens life goals is to beat me in basketball. Cute... One of the houses we are house sitting for has a small arcade basketball game. Steven's goal will have to wait a little longer. I creamed him...

Happenings

I recently was given back the charger to my camera. (Hence the reason I haven't been putting up any new pictures.) This person shall stay anonymous, let’s call her Cheeser, has a tendency to hold on to my stuff FOREVER. So never mind that my senior year of college basically doesn't exist because I have no pictures; but let’s look at the bright side, I'll be taking A LOT of pictures this summer. Here's what's new:
Steven's younger sister Niki had prom. She was stunning! Her date, Jason, seriously was the luckiest guy at the prom.



For Kenzies birthday we went to the Strawberry festival. We eat some of the world’s largest strawberry shortcake! 1905 square feet of goodness!!! The whole building was filled with the smell of strawberries. The strawberry festival might as well as been called the "Straw and Hick Festival." I'm from TX but not the hick part. While at the festival I got to witness what true hicks would do. We saw Hog racing, Alligator Wrestling, rode a mechanical bull, and best of all, Mud volleyball. The mud volleyball looked like so much fun but we needed to pre-register. There were probably 20 pits of mud just for you to get dirty in. haha.






A while ago on facebook there was something called a Doppler. A Doppler was your famous look-a-like. I’ve never thought I look like anyone famous but Steven thinks he looks like Eminem. When he said that, I started laughing SO hard. Eminem is this hard core rapper and Steven is the most loving person you’ll ever meet. Ironically, they kind of do look alike.





This past week was my niece Kyla Rays 7th birthday! We were so lucky to spend her birthday with her. She needed to help the sick fairy Iridessa. So all day Iridessa had little tasks for Kyla to do; like the fairy Silvermist had Kyla plant a seed and water it. Another fairy had her paint a picture. Kyla eventually truly became a fairy helper when she got her first pair of fairy wings.



After shopping at Kyla’s favorite store we had a big birthday dinner with the Barrows. We spent the rest of the evening riding bikes and skateboarding outside.

Pocket Full Of Sunshine

Alright, I admit that I saw this movie, Easy A. Dumbest movie. In my opinion don't see it. BUT this was by far the funniest part. I can't stop laughing when I watch it. Check it: