Halloween

So this is a little late but I thought I would still put it up. Since I had to work on halloween I did not wear an actual costume, but I sure did my make-up. These pictures were taken a few days after halloween so I'm wearing a little bit of a "costume", but the face do I have was what I did for work. I eventually had to take off the black lipstick...... I was scaring little children...

Just a really sweet picture I happened to take...

Some cool effects..... I'm not quite that white.... I'm real close to that though... :)

Dallas

I went to Dallas this weekend and had soooo much fun. I went to visit Ashley. We were going to go to the BMX championships but alas it was moved to somewhere in Washington. We were very sad about the whole thing. We looked up what else was going to go on this weekend and found a concert that we noth wanted to see. It was for a band called, Forever the Sickest Kids. Theye are pretty much amazing. They are part of a new genre called power pop, which is kinda like punk rock but not. I highly reccomend them because they are awesome and they do not swear in any of their songs which adds to the awesomeness.
So about the concert..... Ash and I got to be in about the 5th row back from the stage and in the middle. It was great until about half way through the first band's show. They told the children that were there to basically start moshing, just not violent, and to crowd surf. Ashley and I ended up having to saving the little 15 year-old girls around us due to the stupidity of that band while we were trying not to die ourselves. It was horrible. We did not like them pretty much at all. After they were done we got out of the middle. The second band was better, but still not great. They kept dropping the F bomb. Which is pretty much the only thing that I did not like about them. Then came the third band. The band we ahd been waiting for. They were AMAZING!!!! Ashley and I got to meet the lead singer from the band too. He and his friend liked Ashley and I because we were pretty much the only girls there that weren't 5. We were talking and starting up a pretty good little conversation and his manager was like ok jonathan you need to get a move on, you have other fans here. So we left.

This is the headlining band that we did not care about....

Ashley and I after we almost died...

We recovered....

Us and Jonathan Cook, I have a pretty big crush on him at the moment and I'm trying to figure out a way to convert him so I can marry him.... :)

Final Twilight trailer

OK I saw this and got all kinds of excited!! I cannot wait until November 21st!!!

The Frog and the Tupperware......

OK so we have to dag living in our house right now due to the blasted fences being broken from the hurricane. The fences are propped up so we can let Shadow out in the backyard so she can take care of business. So this morning I walked over to the back door, opened it, and called for the dog to coem on out onto the carpet so she could get to the backyard. She goes outside and waits by the door for me to join her. So nonchalantly I start to head in the direction of going out the door and I grab the door handle as I am going so I can close the door behind me. I did not want to cool all of Southeast Texas. And as I grabbed the knob, my hand touched something unexpected. It was a little wet. I just thought there was something yucky on the knob until I heard a soft thud on the ground.... I look down and this is what i see.

Yes a tree frog!! I kinda start to freak out because I just really do not do well with the whole reptile and amphibian families of creatures. Then it starts jumping further in the house and oh my gosh I almost lost it..... I am the only one home mind you...

So what do i do you may be asking yourself...... I do what anyother good Nelson woman would do. I ran into the kitchen abd got a tupperware bowl. I came back and it had jumped onto the fireplace ledge, and it was like right on the corner so i could not put the bowl on top of it and really trap it underneath the bowl so I try just making loud noises and movement around it. Not a real good idea. The frog proceeds to jump towards me, and again the freaking out resumes. I scream a little and back away. The frog then starts to jump towards the open door, I no longer care about cooling Southeast Texas. I was all kinds of excited, and then it veers off to the left and gets into all the gaming equipment and cords behind the entertainment center. I tried kicking the toy guitar to get it to move and it would not move. Then all of a sudden it makes a mad dash and it is right by the exit to the outdoors. The frog ran under the door towards the parents room. I was just thinking to myself, "Well if it gets in there at least mom isn't home for a few more days so the boys have time to find it....." Then one thing led to another and it ended up hiding between the fireplace and the movie shelf. I was not real happy about this. I almost left the house to wait until a boy got home in about 3 hours. But before I did so I grabbed a flashlight so I could possibly locate where exactly the little sucker was, and by the time I had come back with the flashlight it had come out of hiding. It was in the middle of the floor. Perfect position for the tupperware bowl to go on top of it. So I get on top of the fireplace, because my thinking was that I would be safe up there I mean it is not like the frog had already been on the fireplace.... I drop the bowl and kinda freak out because I was all prepared for me to miss it or for the frog to jump out from under the bowl before it hit the ground. But I had it. I had the frog under the tupperware bowl!!! Now came the part of getting it back outside. So inch by inch I slide the bowl across the ground, jumping away from the bowl everytime the darn frog would jump and hit the bowl. Then I got to the ledge it front of the door that prevented me from being able to just slide the bowl outside and lifting the bowl in the frogs domain. I was real scared lifting up the bowl to let the little guy out because what if he didn't go the way I wanted him to go and I had to start all over again. Luckily, I lifted the bowl and he jumped to his freedom. I quickly stood up and closed the door and locked it, like the frog was going to break in, and let out a sigh of relief. Oh and the dog just watched me during the whole ordeal, just cocking her head to the side and looking at me.... Yeah i was not real happy about that either.

So after a good fifteen minutes of trauma I have recovered. I just really wish I had had a video camera to record it for everyones enjoying pleasure but alas I did not and you will just have to picture it all in your mind. And mom and Cassie it was very similar to the night of the geckos...... just nothing had to die this time.

Loopy Lippy

So I got my wisdom pulled this morning and it wwnt really great. They gave me a sedative and laughing gas. I was not completely under but I was gone. I fell asleep and then the next thing I know they are telling me to stand up and walk over to another chair. I was like wait a minute aren't you going to pull out my teeth? Apparently they already had.... who knew?!!! So I sit up in the chair and the ground is moving under my feet and the room is rocking back and forth. I look at the lady and say, "you want me to get up?? Yeah thats not happening." She responded with its OK as long as you stand up we will guide you to the next room. I was just like OK but the room is moving all over the place. I get into the next room laying in one of the wonderful dental chairs, and i get a text message. Naturally I have to answer the text..... I was seeing about 2 and a half phones in my hands and it really made it difficult to respond to the text. I did though and the lady came in and was told me that I was not allowed to text yet. And I said oh well ok then I apologize. They were all laughing at me. I was pretty silly I guess. The doctor releases me to Dad and then we are walking out to the car and I took a corner a little quick and my world took a little bit to catch up to me.... it was kinda cool. Dad held onto me the rest of the time to the car even though i was fighting him a little telling him I was fine and didn't need help. So we get in the car and I look in the mirror for the first time and this is what I see.....

As you can see my cheeks were already a little bit on the swollen side. Granted it could have just been the fact that my mouth was loaded up with gauze, but still they looked swollen to me. When I saw this I turned to dad and said, "Dad, we need to get a move on I am already swelling, and I don't want that to happen sir." He laughed at me and told me that we were getting there. Then I looked at where we were and I was like where the heck are we??? Then I remembered where we were and everything was good. After that i just took a liitle bit of a look at my mouth becasue it was sooooo incrediblely dry and this is what I saw...... This a a little gross for those with weak little tummies.

Are you seeing what I saw??? There was blood all over my lips. I was kinda like eww that is nasty. Then dad was like oh you have been kissing on Edward Cullen now haven't you and I was just like yes, yes I have...... if only... that would have been awesome. But so anyway I am home now and I have taken all the meds I needed to. I almost died in the process of doing that but I am OK now. I'm just chilling here in my bed waiting for Zach and Chase to get home so they can take care of me, because dad had to get back to work to teach some flight controllers or astronauts or something like that. I am icing my face down which BTW I cannot feel anything from my top lip down to about my neck. it is pretty cool. And this is what I look like right now.
Yes those are socks and that is me attempting to smile. I took one picture and I looked so pathetic I didn't think I should put it up here, so I trued smiling and this is what I got. Thats all for now folks. I think I am going to try to goto sleep now I think the meds are starting to kick in a little bit... I am beginning to see things double again. :) Not majorly but a little bit and it is kinda hard to type like that. So peace out and if anyone wants some entertainment you could probably give me a call I I would be all kinds of fun to talk to most likely.

Twilight Trailer #2!!

I like this one a lot. It shows a little more. I don't know how I feel about them basically flying instead of running real fast but whatever. If they do not do a good job on the movie then they will have a ton of very very angry people on their hands.

4th of July!!

I totally forgot that I had not made a post about my July 4th activities. I went white water rafting and then went on to the Bear Lake area. It was sooo much fun! It was much better than working, which is what I have done for the past 3 July 4th's.

On Friday the 4th we got up at either 5 or 6:30, I don't remember the exact time. All I knew was that it was early and I did not want to be up. So we drove there and the leader did not really know how to get there so we got lost a couple times. It was great... So we finally get to where we wanted to start our rafting. The water was soooo high and moving extremely fast. I think the ranger guys there said it was moving at 18,500 somekind of inches a minute or something like that. All I knew was that it was faster than when I had gone in September. I was a little nervous about doing it considering when I had gone in September there was no question as to whether the guys with us weighed more than me. Well this time it was different.... There was no question in my mind that I weighed more than the guys on the trip.

Our first run down the river was great. I was really looking forward to seeing Big Kahuna, but I found out that the water was too high for it to be any rapids. Big Kahuna was my favorite rapid that we went down in September. Then I found out that it was OK because there was one that would take the place of Big Kahuna. It is called Lunch Counter. Apparently on that rapid 1 in every 4 rafts flip. I was a little nervous about this just because I did not want to get out of the raft inthe middle of a huge rapid like that one. We hit the rapids perfectly on it!! It was amazing! There are people that jsut chill by the rapid and watch the rafters go down it. They were cheering us on and we were all yelling because of the awesomeness of the whole thing.

Our second time down was a different story though..... We changed up the seating arrangements which should not have been done. The guys decided that they wanted to try some rapids that we missed in the first run..... Not a good idea. So the first real rapid that we hit caused a little bit of a problem. There was a rock that we did not see until we were basically right on top ot it, and when we went over it some of the people stopped paddling which is a big no-no. The back of the raft, where I was seated, got sucked back into the water, and there was a moment where I was not sure if I was still in the raft or in the water. It was a moment of great fear for me, because I knew that if I was in the water more than likely I would have died. The water there was churning in a circular motion so it would be like I was caught in an undertoe, only swimming parallel to it would not get you out if it. I would have to wait for it to spit me out and who knows when that would be. Scary I know. But we were able to get out of it after a lot of struggling and some hardcore paddling. Then we got to the Lunch Counter again, and we did not hit it right. I was praying the whole time that we would not flip, and my prayers were answered. We did not have as good of a ride but we did not flip thank goodness. Then we decided to pull off to the side and watch people and just relax a little. That was another not so good idea, nothing bad happened it just took forever to get out of the place we were and it made us really tired.

After we were done we went to my room mates home in the Bear Lake area and we watched the fireworks and then lit some of our own. On Saturday, we went to Bear Lake and played in the Lake and the sand.

It was so much fun!! I am so glad that I was here for it!!!

Now here are the pictures from the trip...

This is all of us before our first run.

After our second go at the Lunch Counter.

The best picture of the rapids we got. They look pretty cool to me.

Only in Idaho, would you need a blanket on the 4th of July.

The boys were very sleepy and fell asleep while Niccol read them a bedtime story.... aren't they just precious. :)

I don't have any good pictures from the Lake but it was real real fun.