A Tribute to My BFF!

Oh where to begin.....well first today is my bestest best friend in the whole wide world (besides my hubby, of course)...BIRTHDAY! Yay! I have known Liz for 10 years (yikes that makes me feel old) and it has been a blast having her as my friend! I was going through all of the pics I have of us and there are some pretty good ones (I spared you the embarassing braces and awkward teenager pics....lol) but I thought i'd post a few favorites just for memories sake...

I think this one was in 7th of 8th grade up at kelly canyon getting ready to snowboard-something we did all the time together!

This was in 9th or 10th grade (man I gotta remember and write the dates down!)

This was Jr. or Sr. Year

And this was Jr. or Sr. year too..

This was at the Taylor Swift concert Liz's first semester of college when we were living at Tuscany together.

This is this summer at our 4th of July promo for the place we work together!

Thanks Liz for always being there for me through ups and downs and just being my friend no matter what! I'm so happy for everything that you have accomplished in your life and am excited to see what the next 10 years of friendship brings! I love you!!!!!! :-)

CCFA Camp Oasis 2009

Yes folks, It's me. I'm blogging. Please, please...don't die of shock on me. I have been a huge procrastinator...but here's my post for the month of August:

So, as I said I went to an amazing camp for kids with crohn's disease. It was so neat! I loved being around other people who are going through what I am. The camp was so cool and so inspirational. I can't post pictures or any info about the kids I worked with or the camp for safety reasons, but i'll post what I can! So basically the camp is for kids with different illnesses and they host a different camp each week throughout the summer. I of course wanted to go to the CCFA camp. I was placed with the 11-13 year old girls along with 7 other couselors. We took the girls to different activities through the week and watched them enjoy themselves! Some highlights for me included:

-dancing for 30 min. after every meal (yet I still gained 10lbs. while I was there!!!)

-having a food fight for "silly-o" and having the fireman hose us down (sooo coool!!!)

-watching the kids be themselves and realize that camp is awesome.

-going all the way to cali to meet someone who grew up 15 min from me

-having three co-counselors with accents (i was thinking in british and was afraid I was talking that way for about a week after camp!!!!!)

-meeting a ton of people who can relate to me and not having to explain what crohn's is to them.

Heres a few pics...

Me and some of the crazy ladies I worked with....sweet hats eh?

Making DUCT TAPE flowers!!! Arts and crafts was my fav! (how is duct tape spelled? duck....duct....goose..ha)
Archery.
Canoeing on the "lake"....I think it was a lake. It was fun though...they had fishing too.
They had activity where the girls had to work together to solve problems. Pretty cool. It reminded me of team building things we used to do at girls camp.
Making bags in arts and crafts. The girls got pretty creative. One of them drew sponge bob...heck yes!
NO HANDS spaghetti night. I'm pretty sure spaghetti tastes better with no hands!
Horses! Yes, people in California ride horses. I seriously had no idea! haha...

This here is a sweet piniata (how the crap do you spell that??!!!) that one of my girls made in arts and crafts. I believe is is a mix between a cow and an otter....a "cowtter". Pretty nifty.

Here is the crew of ladies I was privileged to work with in my cabin: Aine, Kim, Aimee, Tonya (who happens to be an IF native...imagine that!), (me), Sarah, Lauren, and Ruth....thanks for the great week ladies! It was a blast! :)
And for those of you who are wondering- I found out I was pregnant at camp. I was 5 1/2 weeks and sooooo nervous i'd miscarry while I was at camp. Luckily I didn't. But the day after I got home I did. So, 6 weeks seems to be the unlucky week around here. I'm planning on going to see the doc about all this....so hopefully good things come from that! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers- Especially you ladies in my ward. You have been great! I'm lucky to have such awesome sisters in my ward!

Anyway.....I hope everyone is enjoying the last week of August!

ESTHETIC JOB OPENING!

I know this isn't the post everyone was hoping for- but I need to find someone to hire ASAP- so i'm just doing a quick post. If you know any estheticians looking for part time work send the message along.
I've had a crazy month so far....I was gone for a week to an AMAZING camp for kids with crohn's and then came back and had a misscarriage for a week (I know, I know...). Fun stuff... -but i'll write more about all that later. For now, here's my job posting. :) Thanks ;-)

Company Name: Cosi Bella Medical Aesthetics
Contact Name: Breezie Bitter
eMail: mbbitter@gmail.com
Business Phone: (208) 201-2742
Address: 3360 Washington Pkwy. #1Idaho Falls, ID 83404
Site: cosibellamed.com

Job Info:
Req. Experience: None
Req. Education: Idaho Licensed Esthetician
Salary: 15.00/hr (DOE)
Benefits: Free/Discounted Treatments

We are looking for a Esthetician licensed in Idaho or who is currently trying to acquire their Idaho License. We need someone ASAP and as soon as we find the right person we will begin training right away. Currently the position is part-time, but has the possibility of becoming full-time. You will be required to use lasers, chemical peels, and other medical aesthetic procedures to work on clients. Assisting the doctor in aesthetic injections is also required. Knowledge of PCA Skin care line is helpful.

End of semester, 2 Years, Kids, and Bags!

So, this might be a long post with many pictures. But that's okay i'm sure :). First of all let me just say that I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that school is out for 7 WHOLE WEEKS! Wa..hoo. For those of you wondering about my grades- all the grades I posted stayed the same but I added a block class that I got a B in. So much for a 4.0! But i'm definitely not concerned with that anymore!

Here's some highlights from the past couple of weeks:

The kids (AKA my brother's 7 kids) all came over (except for baby Anna) and had a sleep over. It was so much fun! Matt had his Dad's Austin Heley (can't spell) on a trailer so they all hoped in and thought it was pretty nifty. Me and the little ones went to the park for a bit that was fun. We ended up going over to Matt's Grandmas and helping her in her yard- so the kids got to play with Katelyn and Krystal- they had a blast in Grandma's huge yard!

One thing the little ones always do when they are over is go into "Matt's room". He shows him all of the flies he ties and other cool things he has. This time he had his fox fur hats (yes, he shot them) and so the little ones were wearing them around. They thought they were cool stuff!

Gabe and Seth sporting the fox hats.

Mia- she wasn't to sure about it at first but then she didn't want to take it off!
Mia LOVES Matt! She won't even give me the time of day! It's always Matt this and Matt that....its' pretty stinkin cute! :)

So- Matt and I have been married 2 years as of Sunday.....PHEW! I can't believe that! It has gone by so fast! In that short time this is what has happened:

Matt graduated with his Bachelor's in Ag Business from BYU-I, we went to Hawaii for a second honeymoon, we got 2 new neices and 1 new nephew (I count Kael as my nephew:)..), I was a primary teacher, we got sealed in the Rexburg Temple, I started school again....TWICE, I got a killer job as an esthetician, Matt started his own business, I started selling bags, we bought our first house, we fished a lot, played a lot, and worked pretty dang hard to get where we are.

Thanks the BEST two years of my life Matt! Your the BEST! :)

For our anniversary we floated warm river to Ashton and fished. It was fun! Then we camped out up in Island park...just for the heck of it!

I have never rode a motorbike before- so Matt taught me...okay really I taught me...but it was fun! I only ran into a tree and the pickup....and only tipped it on myself once. I think I did awesome! :P

So the kids are gearing up for school again and we went over to my moms to see their new school clothes they got. Seth just turned 5 last week and will be starting kindergarten. He is the one who we took out to the farm and is in love with tractors now. Well, they found this shirt for him...
If you can't read it it says "will trade sister for tractor". I think it's so stinkin cute!

On a side note...I just finished making two bags for some girls I know (sorry it took me sooo long guys!!!) Here is a pic of one:
Check out Bitterbags.blogspot.com in the next week or so and i'll have more posted!

(Don't mind the construction on it....I'm trying to redo a few things. Hopefully i'll get it done in the next couple days!)

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!

Ever fish for squirrels? I have!

So I know it's been nearly a month since i've posted...I know, I know it's horrible. But here is my little catch-up (I always think of ketchup when I type that....funny).
The weekend of the fourth we went up to reunion flatts (by the tetons) for the Klingler fam reunion. We only stayed one night- but it was pretty fun. Here's the highlights:

We went on a hike up a canyon- can't remember where (cuz i'm cool like that). Notice how excited Matt is about it...(well about me taking a picture anyway...boys!) and ignore the lack of make-up please. :)

Matt & Katelyn (his lil sis)- two of my favorite people!!! :)
After the hike we were hanging out at the camp site and Matt's cousin Rob decides he is going to catch a squirril on his fishing pole. So, we gathered our camp chairs (well only 4 of us) and watched. And sure enough, he caught the little bugger- I wont go into detail, but here is some footage:

yah, it was funny. He let it go though...so don't worry :)

On the fourth I hung out at my booth for work. Liz (my bff) works with me now too so she hung out for a while too. We made lots of contacts and it was a great day! Afterwards we watched the fireworks with the Klingler fam. It was amazing! My ears were ringing!