Pearl vs Emelie: 3rd (And Final) Episode

Day 12 - PM

Not much left... Thank goodness!! I seriously forget about it until I go in public and people start to stare. I don't mind getting questions...its the staring that REALLY annoys me. ;)

Bathtub Finger Paints

The best yard sale item I have ever purchased was a book by John E. Thomas and Danita Pagel called "The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions." I paid a whole $0.75 for it and Jace and I have had a lot of fun getting down and dirty and drawing closer as Aunt and Nephew!

Our project yesterday, we found on page 14, Bathtub Finger Paints. These recipes are super easy and super fun. Its all (mostly) house hold items you already have and its all earth/kid friendly. These recipes allow the kiddos to get messy and as involved as you want them to be.

Being a boy...*giggle*...he LOVES to get dirty! The dirtier and better! The recipe calls for :
1/3 cup of clear, mild liquid dish soap
1 Tbs cornstarch
Food Coloring

Jace pouring the soap into the measuring cup

Pouring in the cornstarch

Mixing, mixing and more mixing

This mixture makes six equal portions if

they're poured in an egg carton.

It only takes two drops of food coloring for each section.

(The red, though, we dropped in three, to give us a deeper shade)

We decided to do our primary and secondary colors:

Red - Yellow - Blue

Green - Purple - Orange

The straw worked really good for small

hands and small sections.

All done!!! Good Job!!!

(Hahaha...it looks like a promo for

Dawn Dish Soap!)

Finished project...super fun, super easy!

Pearl vs Emelie: 2nd Edition

Day 2 - PM

Day 3 - AM

As you might be able to tell, the bruise has moved to the outside of my eye a bit, further down and then over the whole inside of my eye lid a bit on my eye itself. My cheek bone is super sore this morning - I sure hope she didn't fracture it! No insurance, no MD visit... whatever, though. What are they going to be able to do, unless I'm just super deformed - which obviously I'm not...I think! ;)

Pearl vs Emelie

Okay...here's how it went down - I went out to the horse pasture Sunday, (I know, I know...a Sunday. Probably not a good day to pick to groom and deworm the horses) but anyway. Pearl came up to me first so I grabbed her.

I haltered her and began grooming her - of course she always stands still for that, though. Next I grab the dewormer package and once she hears the wrapper opening she started walking her circles and tossing her head. When we deworm Pearl we either hhave to cross tie her in the shoot at the corral or twitch her nose. I only had one lead rope with me so I tried twitching her. She knows what's coming and she always tosses her head pretty good to keep me from getting her. Anyway, when I do decide to twitch her, I know to hold her with my left left hand on her let side (when we're facing each other), so my hand will be between her and I.

Well, she turned just right and tossed her head just right and she landed "just right" and whopped me a good one! I immediately drop the syringe (and of course she calmed right down) and held onto her and waited for the dizziness to come. Jarom was out with me and he said, "Um, Emelie. Pearl just hit you with her head." "Haha, yep!" "Are you dizzy?" "Nope." But my adreneline was sure going!!

I started to take her halter off and just let her go, but I said to myself, "Wait! If I don't deworm her she'll learn that all she has to do is pitch a fit and she won't get it." (Its that quick desolving apple flavored stuff - the rest of the horses REALLY love this stuff!)

I handed the dewormer to Jarom adn got "rough" with her and twitched her and had Jarom give her the medicine and then I let her go. I was going to groom and deworm my two out there then play basketball with Jarom...and I started to when I let Pearl go, but then I started to feel my eye quickly swell up!

I headed to the house and grabbed some ice and put it on my ever-growing eye. This picture is about 15 minutes after the incident. At the "whitest" part of the bruise is actually stretched skin and where the goose egg is! It bruised pretty quick, huh?! Mom said the face and around the eyes, especially, are a lot of capilaries...

10 minutes after the first pic

20 minutes after the 2nd pic

10 minutes after the 3rd pic

Same time as above picture, different angle

30 minutes after above two pics

The next morning

Day 1 - AM

Day 1 - PM

Day 2 - AM

I'll keep everyone posted with more pictures. I'll take two a day, AM and PM. Later...

Life Is Like a Rollercoaster?!

You know I've heard for a long time that life ..."is like a box of chocolates" ...sorry, drifted off there for a minute. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah... life is like a roller coaster. There are ups and downs, blah, blah, blah.

Well, (and I'm sure I'm not alone), but my life feels like its like one of those extreme roller coasters, with ups, downs, twists, more downs, more twists, more loops and little bit more ups...but mix those ups with some gut-wrenching, wanna-throw-up, twists and hard jerks to the left, then to the right and back to the left, no make that another right.

Kinda catching my drift...? I feel bummed ALL (OK, just most) of the time. There are a lot of factors that contribute. I've "over heard" (like 3rd person, friend of a friend told me) that some are tired of hearing about all my problems, to try to walk in other's shoes and to be grateful for what I have and someone always has it worse than me.

Yes, yes...YES!!! I know this...but can't I just focus on ME for like half and hour?! Can't I just feel bummed for 15 minutes without someone telling me that I have "no reason" to be down?! PLEASE!!

Without getting too personal, my patriarchal blessing promises me a spouse...that part of the blessing is super special to me and it mentions a lot of details about this man. Again, without getting too personal, I do have that ONE MAN out there for me... Ya know this Cinderella Complex... the knight in shining armor on a white horse...that ONE PRINCE... well, I got it...or will get it!

So, #1) I'm 26 years old...have never had so much as a boyfriend...EVER! (So not exaggerating)...which means, I have never even been kissed, which means, I've not been married, which means I don't have a family. So not only am I having to deal with not having a family, but I'm always second and third guessing myself. I'm 26 and have yet to have even so much as a boyfriend. Does anyone find me appealing? What is it about me that people don't like? When a guy talks to me or even looks at me, all I can think of is crazy stuff like , is he looking at my roll or is he looking at me? Is he seeing ME or is he seeing my size 22 pants? Is he seeing my pretty blue eyes or is he seeing my #3 issue?

And don't flippin tell me that "oh, if you just put yourself out there" Um, let's talk about the people who are telling me this... Heber (I love you dearly), but you found your first wife at school and the girl you "just saw" met up with you, the girlfriend you have now...is your freaking next door neighbor. Sarah...love you too...you wrote to your cousin's brother-in-law while he was on his mission and knew he was the one before he came home!! Mom and Dad...you guys freaking met while Dad was still on his mission.

I'm pretty sure, in fact, I'm positive that there is way more to your little love stories and I probalby have it all wrong and all that jazz...throw me a friggin bone.
I probably know that since I'm so shy, Heavenly Father will probably make me try harder, to "put myself out there" a bit more...to, ya know, make me grow. So next time I burden you guys with my hang-ups, please give me some advise I can work with.

#2 I'm obviously bummed by my weight. And yes...I flippin know...its no one's fault but my own and its always been an issue. And I am fixing it. Not the way I want to, but its working. I've been continuously nauseated (with the exception of about two days a week...seriously) for like 2 years! Not fun... And now that I don't have insurance... But anyway, I'm learning to "deal" with it and I've started walking in the mornings 6 days a week and since I my VERY active 3 year old nephew most of the time, he's helping me. (By the way....he has been a tremendous blessing in my life. He's pulled me from the bottom on up to the top and I don't know what'd I do without that little boy in my life)

#3 I kinda wish to keep that one secret and discuss it only with a plastic surgeon.

#4 Is pretty private (involves family...not me directly) and that I will only discuss with my branch president and close family.

And #5 of the "big list" is that I was wrongfully fired from my job. The boss wanted to make room for a friend of hers and well....I was the one was was moved over... Anyway... because of this, though, I've been able to spend countless, precious hours with my grandpa and have been able to keep Jace. And this Fall I WILL go to school!! (Finally...)

Sooooo...back to the roller coaster thingy... the downs are pretty down and the ups are, well, masked well with twists and loopty-loops and I can't even tell I'm going up because of all the jerking until I start heading down again and I'm like, "Oh! While I was spiralling uncontrollably, I was headed up and oh wait...I'm already going down again..."

So, dear people who are tired of hearing from me and thinking to themselves that I should get over and and/or do something about it...just, please, chill on the comments and thoughts. If you care about me, care... To those who really care about me... all I really need is a tissue and an ear and every so often a few encouraging words.