2017 [Pregnant] Summer To-Do List | DIYs

It was less than a month ago Chris and I were at a Real Salt Lake game and it was snowing. Now it's averaging 80 degrees every day. Utah weather is so weird.

But summer is here and I'm so grateful that it's finally warm outside! I get to spend this summer pregnant with my twin girls. I'm so happy that I get to start my family that it's easy to ignore the fact that my summer plans aren't what they normally would be.

Here is a list of my summer plans. If you're not pregnant, I'm sure there are a lot more adventures you'll be going on, but if you are pregnant, maybe my list will give you some extra ideas on how to have a little bit more fun when you're uncomfortable and dying of heat.

2017 SUMMER TO-DO LIST!!
	BBQ		Mini Golf
	Be spontaneous		Movie in the park
	Bowling		Outdoor yoga
	Bubbles		Pick flowers
	Campfire		Picnic
	Chalk Drawings		Pool Day
	Concert		Read books
	DIY spa day		Roadtrip
	Drive-in movie		Rodeo
	Explore SLC		Root beer floats
	Farmer's Market		Skip rocks
	Figure 8 Race		Snow cones
	Find an ice cream truck		Star gazing
	Finish a puzzle		Take more pictures
	Fireworks		Try a new recipe
	Go fishing		Try new restaurants
	Go to a Parade		Visit a garden
	Go to the fair		Visit a museum
	Lake/Beach day		Watch the sunset
	Make a pizza		Waterpark
	Make lemonade		Write poetry
	Make popsicles		Yard Sales
	Make summer wreath

Daycation in Pineview, Utah

Last Friday Chris and I spent most our time at Pineview Reservoir. We swam, ate wonderful food, and did a lot of searching for Pokemon. I forgot to take pictures the second day we were there, with  jet ski and paddle boards, but here are the pictures I did take from our "daycation."

THE MAD MOOSE CAFE:

Happy Tuesday 7/7/2015

Independence Day fun

Journey concert

Dancing with Chris

Fireworks

Pizza

Italian ices

Summer heat

New swimming suit

Being able to use my new swimming suit this weekend

This song, this song, and this song

Happy Tuesday 6/16/2015

Devin coming home!!! 

Knowing the last Farnes brother gets home in two weeks!!! 

The thought of seeing Chris with all his brothers for the first time since I met him!!! 

Jimmy Johns for Tweeting me back

New Facebook followers! (Welcome and thank you!!)

Demi Lovato

This Demi song, this Demi song, and this Demi song

That last song especially though

Like seriously, if you haven't already, click on the link and listen

That song saves me

Warm weather

Summertime

My lunchtime nature walks

Chris for saving me from a wasp in our bedroom

Pizza

Doing better at work

Starting up #FashionFriday posts again

My mom for listening and loving and being all around amazing

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Hey friends, so as you know my Happy Tuesday posts are always just like the above list. No explanations, just the simple things in life that have made me happy the past week. But I just want you all to be aware that I am currently struggling. If you've ready any past posts on my blog you've probably learned by now that I suffer from depression... and it's been bad lately. We're working on it and this week has already been so much better than last week, but I wanted to tell you that making these Happy Tuesday posts has been helping me a lot. Simply taking time to think about the little things making me happy has changed everything. Finding gratitude for the little things and being a bit more positive is doing wonders for my emotional health. I didn't write a post last week and I probably should have considering how bad things got last week, but I really want to encourage my readers to participate in Happy Tuesdays with me. They are helping me and maybe they can help you too. Even if you're late (like I was today) on writing your blog post, tweet, Tumblr post, Instagram photo, or Facebook post, be sure to tag it with #HappyTuesdays so I can see it too. 

I love all my readers and I hope that your week is amazing and you remember to find the small positive things in your life that make you happy. 

Why I'm Pumped for July!

It's July!! Yay!! I typically say that May is my favorite month but I think July is a close second, but the Christmas season and my birthday are other favorites. Anyways July is always such a great month and here's why I'm so excited!!

-Independence Day. This is honestly one of my favorite holidays. Call me crazy or pathetic if you want but every Forth of July during a good firework show listening to the great songs about our country I tend to tear up, because I truly love being an American! I love this incredible nation I get to call home and I love being able to celebrate it! I don't know yet what we're doing and I'm super upset I have to work most the day, but I'm still excited nonetheless. And I bought a really awesome outfit for that day.

-Cow Appreciation Day. If you know me and/or this blog, you know I love cows. I love celebrating Cow Appreciation Day and am so happy to have a husband who allows me to celebrate it without thinking I'm a weirdo. Ha ha. This year Cow Appreciation Day lands on July 11th, and I still think it's weird it's a different day every year. Anyways, every year I dress in black and white, wear my cow necklace and earrings, eat ice cream (to appreciate the great product cows help produce), and take pictures with cows. This year I might not get to see cows though. I don't know where to find them here and Chris and I both work most the day, so I won't even see Chris. :( Also, if you dress up like a cow then you can go to Chick-Fil-A and get a free meal! I would wear my footie pajamas and my cow hat but I think both are in our storage unit in Logan. Bummer.

-My Family is Coming!!!! Much more importantly, on Cow Appreciation Day my mom, sister, brother, and grandma are flying to Texas to visit me!! I'm so insanely excited to see them!! My family is really close and I typically see them a lot so living in Texas is kind of difficult being so far away from them. But they wanted to come see me and we're going to Sea World, visiting the River Walk and finding lots of other fun things to do. I'm super excited and cannot wait!!!

-Pioneer Day. Texas doesn't celebrate Pioneer Day, but for the longest time Pioneer Day was my favorite holiday! I spent it every year sleeping on the side of the road downtown SLC to save our spot for the parade with my best friend, Lauren, and her family. It was the absolute greatest!! Even when I wasn't with Lauren there were at least still firework shows. But Texas won't have fireworks on Pioneer Day and I'm sad. Maybe we'll have to buy some and have our own firework show!! And Lauren, next Pioneer Day we totally need to do something together!

-In Laws Coming!!! My in-laws are coming to Texas as well!! But my husband doesn't tell me anything so I don't actually know when. Ha. So my brother-in-law Sheldon was actually supposed to be here the whole summer working with Chris selling pest control, but he had to stay in Idaho for school so he's not coming until the end of this month. Chris is both really upset Sheldon didn't come sooner, but also super excited for him to be coming later. We miss him. We also miss my in-laws and they are coming to visit! It'll be a good month having both sides of the family coming to visit us! We'll have to do lots of fun things!

-Summer Fun. I think the reason July is my second favorite month is because it's when it officially feels like summer, and summer is the greatest!! Also at the end of July my family always goes on our annual trip to Jackson Hole and it's the greatest! This year we don't get to go to Jackson Hole, which is something I've done with my family every summer for as long as I can remember. It'll be really weird not going and Chris and I are both really upset we can't go, but we're going to make sure next year in Jackson will be the best year ever!!


...So now that I think about it, technically maybe I should not be so pumped for this July. I mean, I'm working Independence Day and Cow Appreciation Day, I know after seeing my family for a weekend I'll only miss them more once they leave, Pioneer Day doesn't exist here, and I don't get to go to Jackson Hole... Yeah...Maybe this July actually will be horrible.

Regardless, I am excited for this new month and all the excitement it will surely bring! This is our last full month in Texas! What?!?! I'll be excited in August when we get to go back home, for sure! We won't be leaving till the end of August, right before school starts, but I'm already missing Utah, even though I love the warmth and having a pool. Texas is fun but I think I'm more of a Utah girl. We'll see though...

What fun things are you doing in July? Let me know it the comments below! 

Paper Boats

This post is a part of my Cache Valley Checklist. You can find all my other Cache Valley Checklist posts HERE. 

One of the main reasons I wanted the apartment that we got is because of this:

Right beside our apartment complex is this beautiful little canal. It runs right by our apartment complex and is just a short walk out our front door. So when someone suggested floating boats down the canals for my Cache Valley Checklist, I knew it was something I had to do! 

So today Chris and I made paper boats and floated them down the river. It was simple, easy, but still a really fun thing to cross off on my checklist. 

A huge thanks to Wiki How for teaching me how to build a paper boat! 

My first attempt was pink, I didn't end up putting this one in the water. 

Chris folding

It's so exciting when you fold it right! 

He was annoyingly proud of himself. 

My purple boat! 

Preparing to drop them in the water!

Welcome to July

Happy July 1st everyone! I always love July because of the sunshine and barbecues and flags and swimming and playing outside and being with my husband and parades and fireworks and family fun!

July is a great month. I'm very excited for this July. This week Chris and I are heading down to Sandy to see my brother marching in the parade!

My brother is a very talented tuba player. Although in the parade he'll be playing the sousaphone, which he is also very talented in. I'm excited to see him! This will be his first parade. :)

Chris works on the 4th of July, which I think is really dumb. I think businesses should be closed on the 4th. It's our nation's holiday! It's quite possibly the most important holiday there is! It doesn't seem fair that my husband has to deliver pizzas on the nation's birthday.

I'm still looking for a job and it's getting hard, we can't afford to pay our bills and are really struggling. We haven't gone grocery shopping in over a month. We only go to get important things like eggs or milk, but other than that we just eat whatever we already have, which is mostly soups, tortillas, and frozen foods. But we are okay because we're just happy to be married and to be together all the time.

I hate the feeling that I'm putting all our financial pressures on him though. I want to be working. I hate making him work hard to get us money. He's even been donating plasma for extra money. I just wish I could contribute more. I really want to find a job soon.

I've had two very successful interviews with Anniversary Inn and should receive a call this week about it. I really want this job. It's something I know I would love and be good at. I could really do this job and keep wishing and praying that I'll get it. Wish me luck!


Basically I just wanted to tell my readers that I hope you all have great July plans coming up! Welcome to July!

So You Think You Can Dance: 8/15/2012 My Evaluation

So tonight on So You Think You Can Dance they all did former, Emmy winning, Mia Michaels routines. I absolutely love Mia Michaels and all the routines that they did were dances they I have watched over and over again! Now I don't know the dancers this season, I haven't watched any of it except the Salt Lake auditions (yeah go SLC!). I've been living in Logan with no television, so it never happened. But my mom recorded them all, so I may go watch them all.

So I liked tonight's episode a lot, but since I am such a big fan of Katee, Kayla, Twitch, and Joshua, some routines just didn't cut it for me. So here's my full evaluation of tonight's dances.

1. Mercy (the door)

• This one I felt really disappointed with. When Twitch and Katee did this dance it was absolutely incredible. Katee burst through that door with a bang! I always felt Katee should have won that season. She is a truly remarkable dancer. So when they re did this dance, I wanted to love it, I really did, but it just didn't cut it for me. Katee and Twitch had so much power, energy, and emotion. I felt that tonight's version lacked the power, energy, and emotion. It just felt flat to me. 

2. Hometown Glory

• This was a favorite dance of mine with Katee and Joshua (Joshua was the winner that season so he had to be good). This dance was incredible, again, because of the emotion that Katee and Joshua put into it. You could read clearly on their face what they felt. I didn't feel that emotion with tonight's version, however, I do feel that the dancers who performed were incredible dancers. They are very talented and did a wonderful job. I also agree with the judges though, they didn't help each other enough. And if you read what Mia had to say about the story of the dance (http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/08/15/so-you-think-you-can-dance-mia-michaels-tribute/) you might agree that they needed to work better as a couple to fully perform this dance well. Overall, very good. 

3. Koop Island Blues (butt dance)

• Ha ha. This dance is funny to me. I liked it the first time around, didn't love it. I love the dancers though, Randi and Evan, I liked them both a lot. This dance, both tonight and during season 5, loses my attention at some points (I think I have ADD or ADHD, never been tested, but you can kind of tell if you meet me). If the dancers aren't doing their job at performing, it gets boring. It is a very technically wonderful routine, however, the dancers can kill the mood. Randi and Even killed it for me a little bit, but tonight they killed it for me a bit more. Not a favorite dance, but good. Although I really wasn't fond of him jiggling her butt tonight...

4. Time

• This choreography is incredible. Props to Mia for what she took from her father's death. She turned her sorrows into an incredibly beautiful dance. It nearly made me cry tonight because they did an incredible job! As with Koop Island Blues, this dance has potential to leave you bored at some points, they take pauses, sometimes the movement is slow. Tonight they held my attention through the whole dance. Bravo. I thought it was amazing (but every time I see it, I worry they'll slip on those flowers...).

5. Dreaming With a Broken Heart (bed dance)

• This song gets me every time. I don't love John Mayer as a person, but he writes song lyrics that stab right into my heart, this song is one of those. This original dance with Twitch and Kherington was incredible, and I thought tonight's lacked a little bit on the wow factor. Again, it was emotion for me. I love dances where you can read the emotions in the dancers faces, Twitch was incredible at that in this dance. Tonight it lacked emotion, but the dancing was really well.

6. Calling You (the bench)

• I did not see this dance during the season. I first saw this dance on youtube. So unlike the majority of the world, I don't have an emotional pull to this dance. Regardless, it's an incredible choreography piece (I cannot stress enough how much I love Mia Michaels). In my opinion tonight's performance of this dance and the original were equally fantastic. I really don't have much else to say on this dance...

7. Gravity

• This has been my favorite SYTYCD routine for a very very long time. This routine is about addiction and the darkness of it. Mia Michaels said: "I love the song 'Gravity'. Instead of taking it into a love relationship, I took it into a very dark addiction, and that's how that came out of it." Using addiction as a gravity, as a pull, was an incredibly bold and real thing for me, but not in the same way. When I originally saw this dance with Kayla and Kupono I was struggling with my depression on a very difficult level (I've had depression a long time, it comes in waves). I felt like my depression was constantly pulling me down into its deep dark world. It always had a hold on me and I couldn't free myself from its grasp... like gravity. This routine was my favorite for so long because I felt like it related to my life perfectly. Kayla's face during this dance told MY story. It was the most amazing dance I had ever seen. Tonight, they did a fantastic job at recreating this routine. I'm sorry I don't know his name, but the guy who danced tonight changed the role that Kupono had played, but in a fantastic way. He made his character of addiction different than Kupono's, he was so dark and sinister, almost robotic with his movements, making him unreal. While addiction is a very real thing, it is not a human and doesn't have human characteristics, the gentleman who danced tonight helped portray that, that addiction is not human, and the female (who I also don't know her name) was caught in with something not human, but still just as deadly and dangerous. What a magnificent piece of art! I thought they did the original justice, they did Mia Michaels proud, and they nearly made me cry by telling my story again. Thank you. 

So there you have it, my opinion on tonight's routines. If you have different opinions or have something else to say about the dances, please leave a comment! I love my followers!

--Kaylee 

And the Job Hunt Continues!

Let me begin this post with a little background (if you read my other blog (Solo Ballroom Dancer) then you are already caught up (if you want to read my other blog, there's a link on the homepage of this blog, just click on Solo Ballroom Dancer under the cow)).

So I'm a student at Utah State University... but I ran out of money. Yes, my parents would have helped out, and yes I could probably take out another loan, however, I'm trying to be more responsible. Which makes complete sense considering my plan of action ended up being to move back home with my parents.

The way I see it, I'd rather stop wasting my money on an apartment in Logan and just move back home for free. So I quit my custodian job (finally) and moved back home with my parents. Well there you have it. There's the background. Oh! Also, I left my boyfriend back in Logan (who I am engaged to be engaged to) and I feel so lonely without him! :(

So my days living at home begin something like this:

Calmly, but disgustedly, staring at my laptop, looking up new jobs to apply for (and lets be honest, getting distracted by youtube, Pinterest, Facebook, and many more wonderful sites). It's kind of nice that I can just apply for jobs at home... in my bed... but at the same time, online applications suck.

For example:

You notice an employee stealing from the company! What do you do?

a. Ignore them

b. Stare at them so they know you've seen them

c. Talk to the employee during your break

d. Tell the supervisor

Yes, this is a real question on an application I filled out, and yes those were the real answers. "Stare at them so they know you've seen them"? Seriously? Because when people stare at me I stop what I'm doing to make sure I haven't done anything wrong. Who on earth would pick 'b'? And  quite honestly, you know that they want to hear the answer 'd'. But sometimes in a situation like that I feel going straight to the source is better than being a tattle-tale.

So my staring at my laptop turns to this:

...because it's not just the questions on an application, it's the AMOUNT of questions. I literally spent forty-five minutes on one application. And that's not even the worst part! When you submit an online application, your chances of being contacted are very very slim. In fact, it's basically like your odds are 1/10000000000 (or maybe I'm really not qualified for any job). 

It's ridiculous because I'm looking for anything in the Salt Lake Valley. That's a big amount of area, and there are tons of posted jobs on ksl.com and other job finding sites. But it doesn't matter, because when you've worked as a custodian for the past three years, people don't really care that you have more experience than that. All they see is CUSTODIAN. But I don't want to be a custodian anymore. I took the job because I was desperate for a job and I was constantly looking for something else, but never found anything in Logan (and don't even get me started on job searching in Logan, worst thing ever). But three years later I was still a custodian. 

I was a receptionist in a doctors office for one summer and I loved it! I love having a job where I can dress up everyday. I absolutely love skirts, dresses, and heels. But you can't wear that being a janitor. And apparently one summer of receptionist work doesn't mean you're "qualified" for a different receptionist job. Oh. So how do you ever become "qualified" for receptionist work if when you DO work as a receptionist, it doesn't count? 

I suppose I'm just confused. Everyday it's the same thing. I apply for a bunch of jobs... but my phone and email remain silent. Not even a call for an interview. Nothing. Silence. Worst silence ever. 

I'm living at home with my family where my mom, dad, and older sister all have full time jobs, and even my 16 year old brother has a job (custodian, ironic huh? He'll have the same problem as me someday). So I sit at home and do nothing while all my family works. 

I promise that I'm a hard worker and I am a fast learner. Someone please hire me! I promise to love you forever! 

Sigh. Too bad it doesn't work like that. 

If anyone knows of any jobs available in the Salt Lake Valley, please let me know. I love my followers!! 

--Kaylee