Peeta is my hero!!

I just died and went to Hunger Games heaven. 

I wish it was March 23rd now!! aaaahhhhhh I can't wait!!!! 

If you haven't read The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, first of all....shame on you. Now go repent and partake of the goodness. I'm serious. 

She's got the fever...

The girl loves Bieber. 

General Conference

My heart is so full. Conference literally ended two minutes ago, but I just had to jump on and blog about it. This mornings session was incredible! I've had SO many prayers answered already. 

God is SO GOOD!!! We are so blessed to be able to hear messages from the Lord through Prophets on this earth today. 

 Earth life is only temporary! Eternal Life is forever! Be faithful and it will be a wonderful experience.

Want to know more? GO HERE!!

First Officer Maxfield

Congratulations to my brother Renton, the newest pilot at Skywest Airlines!!!! 

If you know Renton at all, you know that flying is ALL he has wanted to do since he was about 4 years old. 

Renton interviewed about 6 weeks ago, and was offered a job on the spot! Here's the email we received from Lisa, letting us know the good news!

Hey family,

As all of you know, the last few days, weeks, & months have been kind of crazy in our household as Renton has been preparing to interview with SkyWest airlines. After much hassle in getting to SLC, he finally had an interview yesterday. Thank you all for your prayers and for being so concerned for him. It has meant the world! So here's how it went, the interview started at 8 am and lasted until about 4 pm. It was a three stage process consisting of a CRJ simulated scenerio (which a radical Arab locked himself into the bathroom praying and they had to make an emergency landing at an unplanned airport, & apparently this was a real situation!), then he had a simulated flight in a seminole (which is the multiengine plane he currently flies in & has probably shown most of you:), lastly he met with a friendly SkyWest captain who asked him multiple technical questions about systems in the plane, weather, etc. (which Renton said he aced:) When all was said and done, Renton felt he had done well and they said they'd contact him in the next 24-48 with an answer. Thinking the hard part was over Renton rushed to the SLC airport to catch his flight home, which turned out to be delayed cuz of low visiblity in San Francisco (where his layover would be). Long story short, Renton ended his interview day sleeping in the San Francisco airport with a dead phone and no money. To our relief, he finally made it home this morning safe and sound, only to tell me he had told me a little white lie...they had finished the interview saying they would contact him in the next 24-48 hour, but not with an answer...with a start date:) Renton has officially been hired by SkyWest airlines as a first officer in the CRJ!!! They offered him the job on the spot at the conclusion of the interview. We are thrilled as can be! I was so surprised & couldn't believe he had kept it a secret so long. He has already been contacted by HR early this morning, and told his training would begin Aug. 29th. That is our exciting news today. We look forward to sharing more details with each of you when we have a chance to talk to you. Love you all and thank you again for everything!

Renton, Lisa, and Ava

We are all sooooo excited for them, and even MORE excited that they'll get flight benefits now and can come visit whenever they want! 

So, next time you're on a Skywest flight and they announce First Office Maxfield, you can say you know him! 

His new office:

 

CONGRATULATIONS Renton!!! We love you! 

SO excited we'll get to see her more! 

YIKES.... just... yikes...

"I'm allergic to the sun.... death..deathly allergic..."

So apparently when an antibiotic says to avoid direct sunlight exposure, they aren't messing around. I am now covered head to toe in red blotches/hives. Feels like someone threw me in a swimming pool of flames. I die.

If you need me you can find me face down in a big vat of aloe vera and cortisone. I'm not allowed to go outside.

cabinfevercabinfevercabinfever

This better go away before I head to Phoenix next Friday. I doubt my skin would agree with the Valley of the Sun.

**If you can name the movie that the title of this post comes from, you win 5 golden sparkle hearts**

Sleeping habits of the rich and famous.

So around 3:30am last night I woke up with this sudden urge to unplug my alarm clock. Why? I don't know because I obviously needed it to wake up in the morning for work. I just knew that I needed to unplug it though...so what do I do? I reach over and start trying to unplug it. I was struggling to reach behind my bedside table and actually find the outlet all whist only being about 10% awake and aware of what I was actually doing. I don't know how long it actually took me to unplug it, it felt like eternity, but I finally got it out.

But once I got it out I just sat there like "What now?" I honestly didn't know what I was supposed to do next....so naturally I cradled it in my arms like a baby and laid back down with it. That was obviously the smart thing to do. I laid there for a while drifting in and out of sleep, but my mind was going a million miles a minute trying to figure out what to do next. Finally I realized that I would need it to actually go off in 2 hours to wake me up so I sat up and tried to find the outlet to plug it back in. I was too tired to actually get out of bed so I just sat there aimlessly trying to find the outlet...to no avail. I eventually just gave up and set the clock on the table. I had also set a couple alarms on my phone, so not all was lost. But seriously.....what the heck was I trying to do?! All I know it that it was imperative that I unplug it. I have weird sleeping habits and have been known to walk and talk in my sleep, but man, I wish someone would have been there to take a picture of me cradling my alarm clock. I can only imagine how rich that must have looked. Ha.

There Kyla. I blogged.

This really happened.

One summer while I was in college I worked for a photography studio here in town. When school started in August, we went around to all the middle schools and high schools and did their school pictures. One day I was sitting at the front table taking the kids’ money and stuff and I after I took their orders, I had to write their name, ID #, homeroom teacher, and if they were male or female…that kind of stuff. Well, this boy comes up to my table, hands me his packet and I fill out his card and send him on his way.

A little while later he comes back and goes, “you marked the wrong box, I’m a girl.” And I go, (I STILL can’t believe I said this), I go “really?!” and she goes “yeahhh…” and then if that wasn’t bad enough I go, “Seriously?!” she’s like, “yep, I’m a girl”. The whole time this conversation is going on, it’s like, I heard the words coming out of my mouth, and my mind was screaming “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” in slow motion! It was SO BAD!!! So then after I realized that I had totally humiliated myself and this girl and probably made her feel horrible about herself, I tried to cover it up and be like, “oh..haha…I’ve been doing that all day. I must not have been paying very good attention to the form when I marked the box. I’m sorry!”

In my defense she DID look like a guy. She was wearing boys basketball shorts, a boys t-shirt, her hair was in a ponytail and she was wearing a baseball hat backwards. She wasn’t wearing any make-up and she was with a bunch of guys…so I had to go with the odds. Oh, and she was like, Tongan, or something so she was larger in stature and she had absolutely no chest. It was sooo bad. I still can’t believe I said that. But it is funny now that I look back on it. Probably not funny to her, though. Open mouth, insert foot.

Bounce Bounce Bounce

I love it when she jumps!

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I'm a Mac

I just bought a Macbook. You can all be jealous.

I'm pretty much in love.

1.1.11

Oh yeah....and finish Harry Potter Books 6 and 7. Finally.