Not again....

My sophomore year of high school I got the ingenious idea to take up skateboarding. My career was short lived and pretty much non-existant. Tragically, it ended with me lying in the middle of the street with a busted up ankle, and the neighbors yellinng at me to get out of the street because a car was coming. My ankle has never been the same since.

Well......

I bet you all thought I was dumb enough to try the skateboarding career again. Well I did not.

Last night in an amazingly played volleyball game, I went up and blocked the ball, and made it go down on the other side... Yay point for us! But.... on my down from being in the air, someone moved, and I landed on the foot of a girl on the other team. It made my ankle twist and roll and pain there was lots of pain. I was on the ground with my ankle in the air. I heard it pop about 5 or 6 times, so I knew I was hurt pretty badly. I get up and try to see if I could put any weight on it and that was so not happening. I hop over to the side and get some ice. It is already nice and swollen, and it had only been a couple minutes. One of my team mates sisters is a nurse practicioner here in the Rexburg area so we head off to her house so I can get checked out. She examines it which did not feel real good since she had to kinda poke around on my foot, and told me that if she were to just diagnose it right there she would say it was broken. Great thats all I need is a broken ankle. So 2 of my roommates and my team mate head to Madison County Hospital, so I can get X-rays done. I get there and get into triage in a matter of minutes... the joys of living in a small town. They examine it too, which still did not feel good, and determine that I need x-rays.... duh I could have told you that one. They take the x-rays and come back in and tell me that it is too early to see if it is fractured. So they gave me an air splint and some crutches and told me that if it doesn't get any better in about a week then I should go to the orthopedic surgeon, and have him take a look at it. So today I have been iceing it and keeping it elevated and taking pictures of it. It looks pretty wicked.

Pi day

One of my roommates is the co-president of the math society here at school. So on March 14, 3/14, there was a celebration of pi. You know 3.14159.... yeah that pi. Naturally there has to be a pie eating contest on pi day, and she needed another girl to do it, so I volunteered to do it. I show up after the celebration had started, at 1:59, and waited for said pie eating contest to commence. Well it turned out that the other girls had backed out or just did not show up. So it was me against 4 guys. I was not the winner to say the least but I held my own. I would have done better if I had not just got back from eating a sad excuse for mexican food just 45 minutes before. You can see me slowing down in the video.... but the video is not going on here. It is 6 minutes long and really not that exciting. But I have a few pictures from the pie eating contest.

I was thinking.... Well where's the bathroom so I can go vomit now...

No worries.... I didn't vomit.

Thank you so much

I got out of the shower this evening, and found this on the walls of my room.

My first thought was which one of my roommates did this?..... Until I saw this one...

Yes it says Aunt Lippy on it, and my roommates don't really know that I am called that. I was real confused for a little bit.

Then I thought that Cassie had done it because she and Jonny always call me Lippy and Hailey is going to be calling me Aunt Lippy, but the hand writing was not her's or Jonny's.

I could not figure out had done this. My roommates all told me that they hadn't done it. I was really wondering who it was from now. Then my room roommate, Camie pulled out an envelope and was like I don't know if we are supposed to tell you or not. Then she told me that she had gotten it from a girl onn our ward named Brittany Brassell, and as soon as she told me that I knew who it was from and I totally recognized the handwriting.

It was from Laura and Adam!

I just want y'all to know how thankful I am for this. I've been having a little bit of a hard time lately and this totally made my night and probably my week.

Here are my favorite ones up there besides the Aunt Lippy one.

This one says, "Charlissa- You are like the '1000' flushes thing in the toilet, you always keep things 'fresh'!"

That has from Adam written all over it! Not really but that is so something that he would write.... the sad thing is that I just about died laughing when I read that one. It must be part of the Nelson sense of humor...

This one says, "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Oh sweet Charlissa how we love you"

I loved this one too just because well it is one of Adam's and it just makes me laugh. Especially since the guy here has a "chain", the black string in the picture, going from the piercing in his eye brow, to the one in his nose, to the one in his chin/lip. It cracks me up.

So again Adam and Laura thank you so very much. It meant so much to me.

Oh and P.S. I am expecting Charlotte to call me Aunt Lippy too. Just so you know. :)

Thr Good Ole Days...

My roommate Haley and I made a cake for one of our other roommates for her birthday. We decided we were going to throw her a fiesta... Which really just consisted us having chips and salsa and guacamole.... and a sombrero cake of course! OK so the cake really ended up looking more like a safari hat but we had limited resources.

Now on to the reason of the title of this blog.

Back in the day when mom would make cakes, she would write our names on our forearm with the frosting she was using to decorate the cake with. Naturally, I had to keep the tradition going for myself. So I wrote my name on my forearm with the frosting we used in the decorating of this beautiful cake.

Fun times in Orem

I went to Orem to see Cassie and Jonny this past weekend and I got to see one of the cutest babies in the whole entire world.

Hailey is getting sooo big. I saw her about a month ago too and she has gotten so much bigger.

Hailey loves to squeel. I was able to get the tail end of one of her squeels, but as soon as I would turn the camera on she would stop and when I stopped she would do it like 2 seconds after I stopped.

I wanted to get a video of her giggling but I was not able to get one. She has the cutest little laugh. Jonny can really get her going. It is so cute.
I just love her.

Hair Cut

I decided I needed to kinda update my look... so I went to the Paul Mitchell Cosmotology school and got my hair chopped off.... OK so not way off but I got a good 4 inches chopped off. I really like it. I am still trying to get used to the bangs. They cut them pretty short even though I told them not to because I have a cow lick that will not work with short bangs but they were very positive that they would get them to work... But I am beginning to get used to them.

This is the back of it... kinda...

SURPRISE

I decided to surprise the fam this past weekend by going home. I weny home on Friday and came back to Rexburg Monday evening. It was a great visit, and I really had a good time. I wish you could see my dad's face when he first sees me.... It was so funny.

It also rained while I was at home which was a beautiful thing. And I did play in the rain it too was a beautiful thing. :)