Battle Creek Falls Pleasant Grove

Pre-hike boy band looking picture. Good times.

Our ward had a hike planned for an activity. We invited sukie, wudan and the boy because since Moab they've been loving the hiking and wanting more. We got together ridiculously early (6:45am on Saturday) for an amazing pancake breakfast (not pictured). It was worth it but it was early. Really early. The hike was very easy and pretty short but the waterfall was nice and it was fun to do.

Falls from the top looking down.

View of the valley.

Creek above the falls.

Pipe emptying water back into the creek. We never really did figure out how that all worked.

We did figure out that if you put your foot under it, it would do this to you.

Falls from the bottom.

Hiking buddies. Love the salute.

Love birds.

David's throne/tree stump seat.

David decided it would be a good idea to go in a little pool on the way down the hike. It was deep and cold.

As you can see by the shock on the boy's face. LOL. And he only got in up to his ankles.

It was a great weekend activity. Later that day we played some beans, had hot dogs, went up to salt lake and to a funky craft fair downtown. It was super fun and worth not sleeping in for sure.

To Rebecca

The sweetest person! She is entering percentages for me. Awwwwwww. On the spreadsheet of doom. for the TELL mafia. Our brains are fried. Tomorrow is another spreadsheet. "Say it ain't so joe."

Another interesting medical condition

I have the strangest things happen to me.

A couple of days ago my jaw started to hurt. Not terribly but just kind of annoying. So i gave it a day or two to see if it would get better on it's own. Nope. No such luck. It got a bit worse the second day and today(third day) it hasn't gotten worse but not better either. So today i called the nurse to see if i should go to a dentist or doctor. Dentist was the verdict and so i called mine up to see if i could get in today. Just my luck there was an opening just then.

When i got there the dentist asked some questions and did some interesting little tests to see where the pain was. Tests included tapping on my teeth with the dental instruments, feeling my gums and moving my jaw around. After that he told me that he was pretty sure it was a sprain. He said there's no way of knowing really until it goes away. ( Like if the treatment works then that's what it was.) So i get to take 3 Advil 3 times a day for 2 weeks. Hopefully it will get all better from that.

Apparently jaw sprains aren't very common but they do happen. he said that it usually happens while you sleep. my sprain isn't very bad. it should heal fine. Some people it takes 3 months to heal. So I'm glad I'm not that type of sprain!!! So i should be back to normal in a couple of weeks. And i have something else weird to add to the list of interesting medical problems I've had.

Little Girl?

We went to lunch today for my boss's birthday. She wanted to take a group picture and had the waiter do it. He couldn't see me apparently but he said "i can't see the little blond girl in the corner." Little girl? Really? I'm 24. I don't really look young for my age i think. Even if i do i look at least 20. And I'm married so i at least have to be 18. Little girl? Not flattering. LOL.

I went to the bathroom today at work and there were two professors talking right in front of the bathroom door. I had to say "Excuse me" to get them to move to let me in. Now you would think that knowing that i went in and would soon be coming out they would move their conversation. No when i left the bathroom they had moved more fully blocking the doorway than before. I had to literally squeeze past. Way to go.

So soon forgotten

at work my coworker, Rebecca and i are learning about the presidents of the united states. Each day we research a president, chronologically from Washington on. well we were talking about the recent election and vice presidents. well we totally forgot McCain. we forgot his name it took us a good minute to come up with him. No problem remembering Palin but totally forgot McCain. "Gone too soon"

I've decided that i hate Mary Kay

So Carebear had a Mary Kay party last weekend. I went to be supportive, i couldn't really afford to buy anything but i went any way. it was a facial party so we did the face wash and the moisturizer and the foundation. It was fine until i started breaking out like crazy the couple days after it. Not cool Mary Kay not cool. They say that their products have nothing that will clog pores. Lies. Well at least for me. My skin is semi-sensitive. Whatever i use it gets used to but if i change things up it will freak out a bit before acclimating itself. So I've decided I'm not going to Mary Kay or similar parties again because my skin does not like it. So if you've been thinking about doing one and putting me on your invite list. Thanks but no thanks. I will not be attending.