White Castle.

Not the Prince Charming kind... that is for sure!

Welcome to White Castle. {An Eastern food chain}.

The home where you kind buy the cheapest, nastiest things they call hamburgers on this entire planet.

What scares me most is that Dad loves them!

Tell me....would you eat this?

To give Dad some credit...they are cheap. And you can buy them in a sack stuffed full of them for 5 bucks.

Oh well. There is nothing like a free lunch...and an angry stomach!

Oh the joys of this trip!

{Bugs}

Big Bugs. small bugs. The ones that splatter all over the windshield!

Jamison was quite proud of his camera....and its spectacular bug capturing capabilities.

I think this bee suffered the most...gross! There is stuff coming from his butt...

I think this bug was full of water...or ate something purple...

This sneezing splatter didn't come from me...just one obese bug.

This was our drive through Kansas at its finest.

The Summer Scoop

Last Wednesday, I made the move.

The move to Maryland!

 Although it was frantically crazy I became grateful to my one roommate who I disliked the most when she quietly cleaned things for me as I scrambled to pack so that she could relieve some of the stress I was under. Thank you McKennah!

Once we finally were able to get onto the road we took the Denver/Richfield exit just a little north of Beaver and we drove past beautiful terrain! I could not believe the beauty of the canyons we were passing through and the changing color of rocks and desolation as we drove past. It reminded me a lot of the colors and beauty of the Grand Canyon {but obviously in a smaller scale, and I was looking from the bottom up.} It was absolutely gorgeous! It was only until Green River city in Utah that we met up with my parents, Austin and Hudson and Aaron Parkes. {He just happened to be caravan-ing with us}. My parents got in to my car and I joined Jamison in his truck and we all took off for Maryland!

To be honest, I thought that this drive was going to be torturous (all 32 hours of it), but I actually had so much fun! The terrains that we would pass through in each state were surprisingly different, and it was interesting to watch the terrain slowly morph into a different terrain when we would enter another state. For example, the mountains in Denver to the flat, flat, barren land of Kansas, to Missouri that was extremely green with rolling hills, to thick, dense forests for the rest of the states we entered in to. It was a lot of fun!!

One thing we passed by were these windmills that I find fascinating! I don’t know why I find them so fascinating looking, I love to listen to the hum of them as they move, mostly because it is somewhat eerie to hear them! These pictures are when we were passing a large wind farm in Kansas.

America is so beautiful. It has been so much fun getting out of Utah and seeing what else America has to offer. This is one driving adventure that I will never forget!

And So It Begins...

Just started my first day at work today...and it was fun!

{Well the monotony of my job still hasn't kicked in yet}.

I do have it figured out for the most part, and although I am nervous, I am running the entire office by myself tomorrow and it's only my second day! It is almost as bad as starting at ToysRUs on Black Friday...ha! Now that was crazy hard! So pretty much what I am saying is to keep them crossed peeps! 

{Mom says 'peeps' all the time, 'Hey peeps!' It's almost her form of "What'sUp Dawg!"....really it's too funny}.

Jamison had a really good first day, he is currently shadowing a more experienced technician but he seems to be getting the hang of what he is doing as a technician, in fact, he should have his first install tomorrow. I pray that the install won't be cancelled!

Poor Hudson {my older brother a.k.a head technician}is pretty stressed, even he will admit that he is running around like a chicken with his head cut off. For now, I'm trying to help him out the best I can and he seems to appreciate what I have done so far.

Well, after 11 hours of work on my very first day I am pretty exhausted. Hopefully I'll be able to move out of this scary Ramada Inn and finally get in to my amazing new apartment! I'll post pictures of my new home once I've moved in. I can definetely get used to not seeing bugs in the shower anymore, the Ramada is creepy disgusting!

Flying Time.

Wow. I have been busy.

{Finals, R.A, School Projects, Packing, Moving}

You got it. Moving.

I'm finally in Maryland!

It only took 3 days to finally get here, good ole 32 hours of driving...not including a major detour through West Virginia. {more scoop on that later!}

I just wanted to make a post letting you know that I am still alive. It was just too hard to find the time and energy to write anything. But now that I am in Maryland, I get to blog about all my new adventures here with both my older brother Hudson and Jamison!

Why Me?

Really life? I need this now?

I went out to my car today to find a large crack in my wind shield, to make it even worse is that it is a least a foot long.

Was it there two days ago when I last drove it? No.

Has it moved from it's parking space since two days ago? No.

Where did you come from? Nowhere.

I hate you windshield.

In fact, I can't afford to fix you.

{So hopefully you pass inspection}

I don't know what I'll do if you don't.

Happy Easter!

What a wonderful weekend it has been! General Conference is always such as inspirational time to listen to what our Prophet and Apostles have to say. It was even more appropriate that we were able to spend Easter as well remembering our Savior through beautiful talks. {More thoughts and feelings about Conference later...}

May all your Easter Eggs be colorful and thoughts of our Savior be remembered.

Happy Easter!