I've finally found some free time to sit down and journal what has transpired in my life for the past month or so. I've been a very busy girl! I'll start with the first (and my most favorite) event...

Aleta's Bachelorette Party!!!
Our little Aleta is growing up! She met a wonderful man last year and they decided to make it official. For her bachelorette party we went up to Park City. Stayed the night in a hotel, and went shopping the next day. How could this NOT be five girls perfect weekend? Spending time with four of my absolutely most favoritest people in the world AND Park City?! Yeah I was in heaven. So we started the night off by trying to find an outfit that would embarrass Aleta-- you know possibly a crown or a boa, that sorta thing. We made our way to the Park City Walmart-- and despite being in Park City this was one of the trashiest Walmarts I've been to in a long time (odd right?) But that's beside the point! They did have what we needed. We scoured the isles trying to find something that would work. When we ended up in the barbie isle, we knew we had found the right outfit. Ages 3 and up? Yeah, we'd take our chances this would fit her. We hadn't even gotten to the car when the package had been torn open and was being put on Aleta-- who I might add was quite the sport and was actually SUPPORTIVE of her new attire. Words can not describe the awesomeness of this outfit, hopefully this picture can do it a little justice.



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w, Aleta had clothes on UNDERNEATH when we went to dinner, however she gave us a show at our hotel room that night. On to dinner: We decided to try something fun in historic Park City. We chose a pizza/italian parlor called Fuego's (or somethin like that). The food was most excellent. They kicked butt at my salad, AND the pizza was some of the best I've had. HOWEVER their service was horrible-- comparable to even AppleBee's service!! Despite them not saying a word about Aleta's attire, we still enjoyed ourselves.
Aleta and Amber

Lyndsey and I

BreAnn and Amber
After dinner we mad our way back to the hotel and decided to go swimming in their pool/hot tub. It was non-eventful (minus eyebrow boy) however very relaxing.


While at Walmart we had purchased a few "treats" to give us energy and to snack on. We had plans up staying up all night! Come midnight, things had changed... two of us were already asleep and the rest were well on their way. We had an interesting night of people snoring, talking in their sleep, and just plain awkwardness (which with us is normal and to be expected). Half of us woke up early the next day and wanted to get the day going-- we just had to convince the other half that 8 o'clock was normal. We had breakfast at the hotel and made our way back to historic Main Street in Park City. We did a lot of window shopping, I think I was the only person who bought something-- and it was a hat. We still had quite a good time though checking out the pet store with collars that were over $100 and the museums we weren't allowed to take pictures in....

Lyndsey

BreAnn lookin mighty fine in her hat

How can you NOT try on hats like that?!
We made our way to the outlet malls after our adventure on Main Street. Is it odd that most of our time was spent at the animal shelter there looking at dogs and even taking one for a walk? With us? No way. We met in the Vet Tech class, it wouldn't be normal if we DIDN'T spend that much time at the shelter. After shopping we found ourselves pretty hungry. Driving around Kimbal Junction we couldn't make up our minds of where we wanted to eat-- good thing they had a Cafe Rio-- who could resist that? Yummmm pork salad.
I just wanted to say to these girls thank you so much for the great weekend, I know that I can ALWAYS count on you guys to make me laugh until my stomach hurts, and just forget about all of the stresses that life brings. I know that we'll always stay close, and I'm so grateful for your friendship. I love you guys!

Aleta's Wedding!!!
The big day came, and I'm glad that I was able to be at the Draper Temple when Aleta and her new husband Paul came out. She looked absolutely stunning, and so happy! After pictures Tim, Taylor and I headed to go to lunch GOLDEN TREE. I was in Riverton-- how could I NOT go to Golden Tree. It was to die for (as usual!), I'm glad that Tim puts up with me because I make him go there with me any chance I can get! After lunch we went and hung out at my parents house while we waited for the reception. It was really nice for my mom to be able to see a side of Taylor that she never gets to see. He was his normal self, doing the robot, talking about his pink pet guinea pigs (imaginary), and just being a ham! When we're usually there he is VERY shy and I don't recall him saying an entire sentence, however my Mom was able to see my little chatterbox who keeps me on my toes. Thanks Mom and Dad for putting up with us for a few hours!
We left my parents to go to the reception at Millennial Falls. BreAnn had just gotten there, and Lyndsey was right behind us. Aleta looked gorgeous once again. The reception was one of the nicest I've been to in a long long time. It wasn't busy. It wasn't crowded. They didn't invite whoever, they invited those who truly cared. I was able to actually TALK to Aleta and Paul, unlike most receptions where you rush through the line, get your food and that's it.

Now we DID rush to get our food-- because it was catered by COLD STONE!! Best idea ever Aleta. It was just plain awesome. We decided to go outside and have a look around. It turns out the backyard was GORGEOUS and made some really good photo ops. Yay for Lyndsey who's prepared with her camera!


Two of my favorite girls.
Aleta's wedding was a success. I'm glad I got to spend so much time with my favorite people AGAIN. I hope I don't have to wait for another wedding to get to see these girls!

Business Trip to North Dakota
We have recently been making a lot of changes to our North Dakota office/area. I was asked to spend a week out there to hire/train a new administrative assistant. I flew out on a Sunday (got to fly in the tiniest plane- a total of 21 seats) to Williston North Dakota. Ron picked me up from the airport at ten that night and we headed back to the house/office. I met a few of the technicians and then I went to bed. Williston is in the middle of an oil boom, and hotels are booked through the end of June- so that means that I got to stay in our office trailer right across from the house. All I need to say is that it felt like I was camping the entire week. On Monday morning I woke up ready to take on the task ahead of me. I had been doing phone interviews the week before and had narrowed my search down into six potential candidates. I had interviews all day, and between the interviews I had to reorganize the office and dispatch the guys PLUS try to do all of my usual work load back in Utah. I was pretty dang busy. I had a total of 84 hours for that week. My last interview of the day I was able to find someone I had a strong feeling about. I hired her and she began the very next day. I know that I made the right decision! She is 10 times better than the other secretarie's we've had over there. I trust her as well, heck it's my name on the line! So she and I worked hard that week to pull the office back together, track down things that had been missing, organize, and re-organize. It was almost like starting from scratch out there because the previous secretary had a system in place- however it was not working. We had rig calls like CRAZY, I was able to get to know my technicians out there, and I can honestly say I loved the work.

The Missouri River (this is the view from the office trailer)

All of the work trucks ready to start the day

Our Rig map
One night before I was getting ready to head to town, one of my technicians asked if I wanted to go out on a rig. UMMMM HECK YES! I had to go buy PPE (personal protective equipment) which consisted of brown boots and gloves. My tech didn't understand why I didn't have any closed two shoes with me, only flip flops. I went to Walmart and bought some little boy shoes for $4.00. I was SUPPOSED to have steal toe boots, however Rich said just as long as I had boots on that LOOKED like they could be the proper PPE I'd be fine. So equipped with my new boots I headed out to the rig. It was only about 20 minutes from our house there. I drove on County Road 10 to Nabors Rig 254. This rig was in the "rigging up" stage where it hadn't quite started to drill however everything was basically ready to go. Rich took me on quite the extensive tour. We went to the Derrick floor, the cellar, the SCR room, Mud Pump room, and all of the other components that make up an oil rig. It was better than any documentary I've seen on the history channel. I learned SO much! Really it was one of the coolest experiences of my life.
I headed back home EXHAUSTED. Tim picked me up from the airport around 11 on Saturday and I ended up sleeping almost that entire day. I missed my little family quite a bit while I was gone, however I was so busy I didn't even have time to realize just how much I missed them!

This is the oil rig I was out on

So this has been my life as or recent. I've decided that this bi-polar weather is confusing me. Other than that, I can not wait until summer, when it decides to actually come!