Fridays

I haven't written in forever... I know! I'm sorry. At any rate, yesterday, I went over to my new friend Amanda (Mandy) Wood's place. She's the new nanny for the Lee-Wen's. She took over for Lindy when she left.

For the most part I just hung around the house while she got Caleb all fed, and such. But when he went to take his nap, we watched a movie, (and ate rice and beans, that Mandy had cooked for our lunch!). And after the movie we sat on the couch for a while talking. Which is always good. I don't think we'll end up being like best friends or anything, but she's pretty fun. She reminds me a lot, of Lindy, but her personality is very different in a lot of respects. When Caleb woke up, and Eilie got back from school, we painted pretty pictures! lol. Fun times, I know. Around 6:30 I think, I left and it was seriously POURING, like I've never seen so much rain in my life. NO visibility, man. And while I was driving home, this guy randomly stops dead--in the middle of the highway, I mean, really!? And I had to swerve into the other lane, and I started hydroplaining.. and just, YAH! At any rate, I did get home okay. And I texted Mandy when I got home to let her know that I was safely at home.

Ate dinner with the fam, and then scurried off to Beth's birthday party, which was located at Ali Hancock's place, in Cedar Park (forever and a day away). Beth is a girl in the Mt Bonnell Singles Ward, that I really don't know all that well, but hey! Gotta go to the parties, right? Yep! Anyway, lots of fun smiling people were there at the party. Virginia, Shaunna, Caroline, Ali, Kayla, Tiffany... you know! And Mandy got there a couple minutes after I did.

A bunch of people, including the first three girls I mentioned, and Mandy, ended up playing a version of like King of the Mountain, with this huge floating circle, in the pool. I of course, avoided it, since I can't get my ear wet! Hole in the eardrum and all. But they certainly had a lot of fun. So I took pictures for a while, and then got in and swam around. As it got later, more people started to dissipate away from the party... and I joined the group of people sitting in the hot tub. We started to play truth or dare, and two truths and a lie, and that kind of thing, you know. And slowly more and more people started to leave, until it was left down to Ali, Mandy, and I, and a guy named Jake, that I don't really know (like, at all!) lol. We got into all kinds of deep conversations, and just talked for like, EVER! lol. It was lots of fun, and I found out some exciting, entertaining things about Ali. And it was a bonding moment, of course!

At any rate, Mandy and I didn't leave until like 3am haha. I got a text at midnight from Steve, my brother in law, saying "My, aren't we out late tonight?" lol... which was pretty funny, considering I got that text three hours later. At any rate, I texted Mandy to make sure she had gotten home, because she had been starting to look pretty tired by the time we left. And then proceeded to stay up for the next like hour.. haha. What a party.

Lots of fun though!
Live life!