Alaska

Lived

So this summer Kaden and I have stayed busy playing, working, and doing online classes. Mostly we have been playing though. In June we went to Alaska for 7 days with my Dad, Malcolm, and Bryce. We went fishing twice, once for Salmon (we didn't catch anything) and once for Halibut (we only caught rock fish). We blame our bad luck on my Mom's brother Mike who took us both times.

  

 this is a black bear that was about 20 yards up the hill from Kaden and Bryce 

 As you can tell we were trying to be serious fishers

 first fish caught by Kaden

 Biggest fish caught by Kaden (of course)

 My first and only fish

 But i did catch the coolest thing ever, a sea cucumber!

 I dragged it right off the bottom of the ocean

We also went to my Dad's brother Mike's property about 2 hours out of Anchorage. We stayed the night up there, went four wheeling, made smores, and some of went to a small town called Takeetna.

 Dad sized four wheeler

 Malcolm did Awesome! While we were there, he was more active than he had been in a very long time. I had to post the proof of him chopping wood.

 Making Smores

 Getting ready for a ride

Elliot hanging out

 eating some more smores

 Malcolm knows how to camp lazy boy and a trailer

 Dad cleaning the trailer 

This little lake was made by a beaver dam, in the picture are my 2 new cousins Elliot and Nick and Nick's girlfriend Brenda. It was a lot of fun getting to know them and spending time with them. 

Fattest beagle Me and Malcolm had ever seen

We were pretty impressed by this ice cream maker

Malcolm was in love with all of the planes that were up there

Loved

I loved spending so much time with Kaden and my Dad, and Malcolm and Bryce, as well as my Uncle Mike and his family. Alaska was so Beatutiful! Here are alot of the scenery pictures.

Learned

While in Alaska i learned that Kaden and I definitly need to go on vacations as much as possible. Not only are they fun, but they let us spend time together and really enjoy each others company, especially when we are so busy with work and school.

I also learned that the next time we go to Alaska we will stay longer, and go to more places. We both would love to go back and are thinking we might try to with my family and the kirks next August.

Learned

Hmm first week of summer classes and im already onto my 2nd night of sitting at the computer to Oh 12:30 or so. I am wondering why i thought this was a good idea again. Anyone else ever feel like going to school is like the first 30 minutes of long run? That is literally exactly how i feel at this moment, it is all mental and i just need to keep going.

I really need to find more picture time, i also need more clients. This hasn't really bothered me since im not advertising much and i am so busy but i had 2 shoots last week and well they were absolutely amazing and i feel so uncontrollably happy when im taking pictures. Just ask Lindsi Morrison, im sure shed tell you i looked like an idiot smiling behind my camera through her adorable families shoot.

I need to be a better friend. Seriously i think i spend way too much time focusing on myself, and i have gotten to the point where i don't care a hole lot to have many friends. I have an amazing husband, wonderful sisters (including sister in-law) and great parents and in-laws. After going to an old friends wedding last weekend i realized i really do miss that. I wish i would have taken the time to still know her. I feel that way literally about all of my friends, even the people i consider my best friends i rarely talk too. My new goal is to try harder and to reach out to people and really have good friends.

Lived

Woo Hoo! Elder Kirk is home! I had the amazing opportunity to be at the airport when Bryce landed in Las Vegas. Honestly i can not think of words that describe how much this family means to me, how much i have learned from them, and continually do. My life is continually blessed just by being able to spend time with them.

For some reason when i told people i had a Leavitt family reunion they thought i was kidding, I think most people imagined like a thousand people to be there. Ha there really are like a billion Leavitts but this one was pretty small. I really enjoyed it though. It was nice to see everyone in the family and to spend time with them. Especially the girls. I can't get enough of them. I do love my nieces quite a lot!

Kaden is no longer a Jiffy Lube employee can i get an Hallelujah? And i quote this strait from Kaden's facebook "I have the best job in the world. who else gets to blow shit up for money." Ha really? my husband never swears i am the one with the bad mouth in our family. He is unbelievably excited though, and today he got an official card in the mail pretty much saying is authorized to play with explosives.

Loved

Alright i know that i already mentioned this, but I loved taking pictures this past week!

I loved spending time with my husband this weekend. On Saturday we both did different jobs at my parents house and it honestly amazes me what a hard worker my husband is. Last weekend Kaden helped my dad clean out the garage and then Saturday he transformed their back yard. He is so amazing and i am so grateful that i was lucky enough to marry him.

Are We Sure Its May?

Learned

I will never live in Utah again after we are both graduated. Yes you may quote me on that someday.
I hate the snow, and what i hate even worse than the snow is... Snow in middle of my summer vacation. I might only be May 18 but i start classes again in 13 days. Can i get some sunshine please!

I have the ability to run a lot further than i physically thought possible for a Hendrix. Seriously i am thinking if i could find my stinken ridiculous track coach on face book i would send him a video of my 8 min miles, not amazed? Well i ran 10 1/2 of them.  (yes in a row)

12 credits is still full time for the summer, so guess who added another class so they could afford tuition.
Doesn't make a hole lot of sense does it? Well the school wouldn't give me my entire pell-grant unless i added 2 more credits, so 3 credits late im saving 700 bucks. Please cross your fingers and pray that i pass.

I'm thinking i desperately need an Ipad. Here are 3 reasons why
1. I am taking 13 credits this summer and will be out of town a lot (i promise to do homework on it.) 2. Kaden and i wont have to fight over the computer so i can pay the bills and he can search for bronco parts. 3.  If When we ever have kids, there are some awesome teaching apps on that thing including Montessori ones.

Lived

Survived my last week of the spring 2011 semester. I am also no longer a Junior, woohooo here goes my first Senior year. Oh and i kicked that stupid 12 lesson plan finals butt 80 pages (yes, 80 full pages) later i was done with it forever! Oh and grades came out. 3-A's and 2-B's I was happy.

I got job and already got fired, but thats alright because Kaden decided he would move up in the world instead. Kaden got offered a job at the Iron mines last week. It is amazing how tithing blessings work and how the Lord truely knows our hearts and how much we can handle. Kaden came home in a melt down one night over how much he hated his job. My heart literally ached for him trying to imagine how unpleasant it is but I knew in the end everything would work out how it was supposed too. We truly are so blessed. Who could have imagened that just last year we were jobless and living in aunt dianes trailer just trying not kill one another.

2 weekends ago we went to California for my cousins wedding and to visit my other cousins. We were so grateful that we were able to go.  The wedding was beautiful and i absolutely loved the L.A. Temple, what a neat experience being able to attend temple weddings. The sealer really pointed out that you truly are in the presence of God and Angles in the sealing rooms, you can only imagine the spirit that is present there. The rest of the weekend was a blast! James and Justice just adore Kaden and it was so fun spending so much time with Jimi and Heather. We played games, shopped, ate until we literally couldn't anymore and watched the boys play some awesome baseball. They really are some great athletes.

Last Wednesday my mom went to the Hospital. I found out from a text from a neighbor that said I love you, let me know if there is anything i can do for your family. Instantly i though oh goodness Malcolm must have died. (He didn't and he is doing good). Sarah and i drove down to the valley though and after being in pain for awhile  my mom found it was a UTI and a Kidney stone. I honestly asked why in the world she got to be rushed in an ambulance to the hospital after probably 45 mins of pain when one time i had to endure a huge stone for 2 days before my mom would take me to the hospital and even then I got to wait in the er waiting room of UMC for 5 hours before i got any meds. My mom  said next time she would call the ambulance herself. I am just glad that she is feeling better and that she didn't have to feel pain for very long. Seriously Kidney stones are just ridiculous.

Loved

I love how in shape and how energetic i feel. I also love how happy i feel. This is getting personal and i am very hesitant to share this but i hope that no one judges me by this. I am not looking for sympathy or anything like that. I just think my posts would make more sense and so would all this working out. I started fertility hormones about 5 months ago and they have done a number on me. Between the hormones and then having to switch to birth control for a month my body has no idea how to handle itself. Also I can't take my migrane pills as often in case by some miracle I do end up pregnant so running is my only way to control that. But really I am now doing at least 60 mins of cardio and working on going to the gym at least twice a day. I'm praying these endorfens I'm releasing kick those hormones butts.

(I wrote this over a week ago and forgot to post. So sorry if the timing is confusing.)