Ardie is...

Man I can not believe that Ardie is actually 19, crazy!!

I can't let today go by without writing "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to Ardie even though if he reads this his words will be "Your soo weird."

Ardie is probably the most awesome kid that I know, actually, what the hay, he is the the most awesome kid I know.

I feel like this year ardie and I have become even more best of friends. If that is possible. Although I feel at times it is a one sided relationship :)

I love when Ardie and I have late talks into the night and we both conclude that we are over tired and need to go to bed because our comments are becoming more and more inappropriate
(whitney wonnacott). I seriously love how ardie turns into a different person at night. It makes me forget about all of the somewhat rude, but I hate to say it, true comments he makes to me during the day.

Like Mindy said his comments, although rude, are totally necessary, its weird. People could look at it as "man your brothers mean" but I get used to it and I hate to admit it but Ardie would not be special if he didn't make those seriously funny comments.

Ardie, thank you for taking care of me when the parents are gone, even though It makes me feel guilty about all of my terrible homemaking skills when you do the wash, dishes and dinner!

I also love your white boy moves!! "Teach me how to Jimmer" was epic! Represent!!!

Another thing I love about Ardie is he lives for the future. I always feel like ardie sees ahead of him while we sometimes get caught up in the present. I have loved watching him change into a mature pre-missionary. Ardie's increased spiritually this year has been admirable to watch. Thank you for setting an example for your little sister!


Love You bro!

Uhhhh okay?

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

~ Robert Frost

On Sunday...

Ardie : "Kirsten lets play Take Two."

Me: "Ardie Why? That game doesn't even work with two people."

Ardie: "Kirsten we need to expand our vocabularies or else we aren't going to get any where."

Kirsten: "Uhhhh okay?"

Ardie: "Ohh and besides your the one who needs it, not me"

(These are the words ardie came up with.
Ummm Yeah ardie I think you need a lot more help than a little game can provide.)

( The words Webster and I came up with while ardie went to the bathroom.)

In the end I told Ardie I cheated so he would stop worrying that he had an under cover genius for a sister.

HATE SCHOOL!!

I Really Hate School maybe because it feels like I start homework from 1:30 pm to 9:30 pm and need to finish the next day in school. How come I feel this way and It is only the fourth day uggggghhhhhhhh. Isn't senior supposed to be good (easy). Hopefully it cools down or there is some routine... I also hate virtual for not letting me sign in, come on. Well come june noooo mooooreee High School hopefully.

Schedule/ Murray

Well, we have been in Murray, Utah for pretty much the whole summer. It is hard to believe that I have only been home for like two weeks out of the summer. The weather feels a lot nicer than Vegas but I still miss my bed.

Our schedule for the month of July was:

Wake up between 7-8
Go to the gym 8-9:30
Go to the library 4hrs
Watch Chick Flicks, we watched North and South about 3 times (Mr. Thornton is hottt!)
Do yard work 1 hr

It is pretty crazy I can't believe it is August and there is still so much I need to do. Often I make schedules and then they get lost or forgotten. I am determined to make a schedule for the rest of August and keep it (If I write it on here there is no way it can be lost or forgotten!!!).

Here is my new schedule (month of August):

Wake up- 6:30 am
Scripture Study/ Personal Progress- 6:30 to 7:00
Exercise/gym- 7:30 to 9:00
Breakfast/Get ready- 9:00 to 10:00
Piano -10:00 to 11:00
School Work-11:00 12:30 pm
Lunch/Lazy-12:30 to 1:30
Library/Study-1:30 to 6:00
Dinner-6:00 to 7:00
Yard work-7:00 to 8:00
Walk/Bike ride- 8:00 to 8:30
Random-8:30 to 9:45
Get ready for bed-9:45 to 10:15
Scripture/Prayers- 10:15 to 10:30
Sleep -10:30pm to 6:30 am

*Schedule is only in use Mon-Fri.
*Schedule will begin August 6th, 2010, Schedule ends August 28th 2010.


Craig turned two and he is so cute. We celebrated his birthday a couple of weeks ago. It is kind off nice getting to watch the sisters tummy's get bigger. Crazy thinking that there will be three new nephews in less than a month!

Funny Moments:
I am in the bathroom Mindy knocks on the door "Ard is that you?" "No Min its me, Kirs."
"Yeah whatever that is totally Ard." I open the door. "No min its me!" I guess I have a Manly voice. Or maybe Ardie just has a really girly voice.

Mindy and I were walking around the neighborhood at night and for some reason I started singing "Man I feel good duhduhduhduhduhduhdudhduh I knew that I would duhduhduhduhduhduhduh sooo goood, duh duh soooo goood I got you" then out of no-where this dog starts barking, I freak out and use mindy as a shield. I hurt her arm a little bit. She was like "So good? Huh?"





The Yard is really Green and Pretty. I love it!

Today

Well today we were at Costco. I was wearing a BYU shirt and I kept seeing people eying me, after a few seconds of awkward staring you start to wonder did I start staring at them or did they stare at me first. Ardie must have noticed this because he said, "Wow Kirsten way to give us away with that shirt." When we came home we watched Fireproof. Yes its cheesy acting but I was on this full out emotional roller-coaster throughout the whole movie. Mindy saw me crying and she was like "its okay Kirsten don't cry" Ardie was just laughing at me the entire time. It has a good message, okay? A girl can cry, can't she? Wow, and I have a good 10000000 years before I get married. I need to broaden the types of movies I watch!
I need to be better at blogging because I stink at keeping a journal so I am hoping that between blogging and my "journal" my future posterity will know about me...although I don't know why they would want to know about me crying over FIREPROOF haha :)

Side note: I cut 10 inches off of my hair. I decided to donate it. I figure it was getting so long and I needed to do it before it got too hot. I keep telling myself its okay and it will be back in a couple of months..hopefully.

16 (just a number)

-Yesterday was my birthday I don't know why but for some reason I wasn't that exited. Just kind of seemed like another normal day. I guess that is a sign of growing up :) (traveled to Murray too)

-CAMP, camp was super fun this year I loved it so much. Being a YCL made me feel a little old and it got me thinking about Mindy and when she was one. It is pretty sad to think that this was probably my last year.

- Mom has been so stinkin funny these last couple of days. I love when mom just gets into the really funny sarcastic mood. I didn't really realize just how much I missed her until I came home. On Saturday we went to one of Ardie's little tournament games at Durango. Mom was saying a bunch of random comments. For instance, a kid on the other team got a technical and mom said "wow must of said something about his momma." "Man I don't know why they pat each others butts I would hate it if my butt was always patted, how would you feel?"

Knee slapper moments :)

-There was this card board cut out of a lady in the store. Ardie comes to me and says "wow it took me like a whole second to realize that she was made out of card board"
Ardie you need to stop checking out card board cut outs haha.

In the car after church we watch mom walk to a car that looks just like ours and she starts looking in the windows. Ardie and I the whole two minutes are just laughing our heads off until mom realizes that that was the wrong car. Once again mom is such a cutie!

OKAY...

Wow I need to be better at this whole blogging thing. I think I might just make this into a pointless journal of random things because nothing exciting:

animating, appealing, arousing,astonishing, bracing, breathtaking, commoving, dangerous, dramatic, electrifying, exuberant, eye-popping, far-out, fine, flashy, groovy*, heady, hectic, impelling, impressive, interesting, intoxicating, intriguing, living, melodramatic, mind-blowing, moving, neat, overpowering, overwhelming, provocative, racy, rip-roaring,sensational, showy, spine-tingling, stimulating, stirring, thilling, titillating, wild, zestful has happened :) Well since nothing exciting or shall I say hair-raising has happened I will just write about random things that are going on. (dang how I love thesaurus.com) The parents have gone to Utah again!! I miss them a lot:( Even though I miss them it seems like being alone with Ardie makes us closer and I learn little things about Ardie- some worrisome and others plain out hilarious. After we have talked really late at night or when he vents to me and me to him. I step back and ask this question to myself "are we booonnnding?"(name that movie). -Other day at Wal- Mart Ardie asked "do they have a blue- box here so we can get a movie." "Ardie do you mean red -box" haha -This weekend I was looking through the movies and ardie wanted to watch Pride and Prejudice. Yes our manly 18 year old brother, peach fuzz and all, wanted to watch Pride and Prejudice. Through the first half hour of the movie he kept asking me questions like "Is that Mr. Darcy?" "Are they sisters?" "Who does he like?" "Does she like him or the other guy?." It was pretty cute. although it was cute I must ask myself, Is that normal?... I knew having five sister would catch up to him one day :) -Ardie has been doing the dishes with the parents gone and doing his laundry, bedding, everything. He asked me yesterday if I had "whites." Wow kid... your future wife is going to love you and my husband will hate me. -I also love how in the morning he asks me if I have eaten anything to make sure I eat. I have come to the conclusion that Ardie is pretty amazing. Even though I miss the parents, I love getting to know my big brother a little more. Sometimes it makes me sad to think that we will both be graduated in a year and he will go on his mission and me to college, as for right now I will enjoy watching Pride and Prejudice with my big brother. “I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.” ' Wow this post did not turn out like I thought it would ohh well.. hey I told you that there wasn't anything electrifying going on.