oh em gee cat

wow, hello! it's been a while, no?
to be honest i just haven't had too much to blog about...and yep, i'm still drawing a blank.
oh, i'm going to utah next week!

hahaha. oh em gee.



 that's all i got right now. peace out rainbow trout

[kristen]

Birthday dinner!!!

So im 19! Woo! Anyways we had family dinner, allllll for me :) and i didnt have to help with anything! So i was walking by the kitchen to get a drink of water and i looked at the table:

Looks like a typical table setting, right????
WRONG.
Look again my friends:

why yes, that IS the halloween frankenstein hand poking out of the tablecloth.
welcome to my family life.
-jwag.

racoons get hungry too

once upon a time, a fetching racoon was sitting outside my house eating my cats food.
yeah. thats right.
I opened the front door (porch light on) to check if my little brother had swept the front porch (it was his chore). The parents would get home late that night from their weekend trip to Utah. Anyways, so i opened the front door and A HUGE BANG came from the corner. well, bang is the wrong word. it sounded like a THUD. yes, a huge THUD. I look over and "holy sweet mother of fetching pearl" a racoon is just chillen eating food!! So i am screaming and slam the door and am like, scream/crying/laughing. And i yell for andrea to come look, and she does the same thing! then i yell at riley to come look! and then, we got the camera.
Here is the culprit:

We finally scared him away, with lots of screaming, hissing, yelling, and running directly at him. That little...

-jwaggie.

serve.

I have quite a few slices of humble pie recently. Conference was great and after the Sunday afternoon session of conference my family watched the 5000 days project. It was about two brothers growing up...i dont know how else to explain it but it was amazing. I laughed, cried, cried more, and was uplifted.
Here is the link: http://youtu.be/DiT1zZ6pEW4
These young men are great examples to me. It reminded me of all the great friends I have that are serving missions right now. Heres a picture of a few of my bakersfield boys:

David, Daniel, Blake, and Cole

They are all serving the Lord. I am so grateful for their sacrifices to give up two years of their lives to serve the Lord and bring people closer to Christ. I am honored to have such great friends who are amazing and great examples to me. I know that they are starting the best two years of their lives, and i am so grateful that they are all worthy, righteous, and willing to serve in our Heavenly Father's name. I know this gospel is true and I pray that these boys will be able to spread the joy that the gospel brings into each of our lives. I know that the Book of Mormon is a true book and i am so grateful to have it in my life. If you want to learn more about it, ask me! Itll be great :) haha. Anyways, I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I know my Redeemer lives and loves me. Gratitude is the best attitude. Always.
-Jacquie.
p.s. if you ever see any Elder's near you, always say hello :)

special task for someone who is special...i mean, new.

so today at work i was given a "special task".
it involved syringes, blue tips, and chlorhexidine gluconate.
chya. chlorhexidine gluconate. I wrote it down so i could remember it.

c.g.

haha. anyways so i had to fill two big ziploc bags FULL of syringes with this stuff.
man, it was way more fun than it sounds (no sarcasm). I would try and see how close i could get to making it perfect without looking. I'm sorry, that probably didn't make sense. I put the tip of the syringe in the chlorhexidine gluconate and pulled the syringe up without looking to see if i could make it to the mark by just feeling.

TONS of these!

Anyways, that was fun. I got perfect at it by the second ziploc bag. :)
Chlorhexidine Gluconate is this blue mouth wash/sterilizer solution that smells like mint. But ive been told that it tastes like dirt....rocks...no i mean something that doesn't taste good to normal people! (inside joke). It's like when you go to the dentist and they're like "what kind of toothpaste do you want? Cherry, Orange, Cookie-Dough?" and youre like "yum! cookie dough!" and it ends up tasting like dirty drain water. ugh. thats the worst.

should be good, right?

good thing im not drinking any chlorhexidine gluconate.
:D
-jwaggie.

bringing sexy back. yeah!

we brought sexy back. yeah. them other boys don't know how to act. yeah. take em to the bridge.
anyways, i havent posted too much lately, but now i have stuff to post about!
first of all- i bought my plane tickets to utah! well, my mom did. i love my mom. that's besides the point. they are bought! i'm going up! i can't wait! i get to see Chris (yay! :) ), my aunts, my grandma, and my little crazy cousins! and i get to go to beautiful salt lake! and i'll be flying for the first time by myself! crazy. I'M SO EXCITED!
second of all- i got a second job at macy's. the shifts are early morning, i'm going to be so tired all the time now...but thats ok i'll be making good money. i love my job at the boy's and girl's club! it is stressful but it is very rewarding. i am in charge of the K-1st graders and i love it! they are so cute. i love them. today i took them outside to read them some books- they were so excited. but there aren't many age appropriate books there (it's kind of ghetto) but that's ok, they like to look at the pictures. i love my job- it comes so naturally to me to work with kids.
third of all- i went to the padres game tonight with my friends. it was so fun! here are some peectures...

cody is special...

7th inning stretch!

swords

the epitome

the group!

love love

we then finished the night with a dance party in the car. it was the best! we got down the best we could with being squished in the back seat of a mercedes. we sure brought sexy back. that's all. life's great!

[kristen] 

should i start flossing now?

That's right folks! I got a job! Woo! And its full time! I'm a fetching adult! 8am-5pm.
I work at Bakersfield Smile Design for Dr. Krauss, i get to wear scrubs!
Its great, scrubs and tennis shoes.
Anyways I do whatever they need done: sterilizing tools, helping out, filing stuff, etc. etc.
Its a cosmetic and family dentistry.
I saw so much blood today. Hence the cosmetic part. Esh. Good thing I dont get queasy like mi padre.
But yeah! I'll be making money! Thank goodness for that. And another great job to put on the resume.
:)
-jswag.
p.s. Now that i work for a dentist, should i start flossing regularly?
p.s.s. some of the ladies at work (dental assistants) as in most of the ladies, after lunch all brush their teeth. its hilarious. like hardcore brush their teeth, and then rinse with listerine.
i guess i needa step up my dental hygiene....