Special Friend

Last November I signed up to be a mentor to a foster child through the state foster care center; they call us special friends. I had to go to a few orientation meetings, get my house and car looked at, get a fingerprint card, show that my car is registered and insured before I could be placed with a foster child. Then I waited a few months before I got matched. For security I'm not going say her name, but she's 9 yrs. old and such a sweet girl. She likes earrings, music, movies, shoes, clothes, water parks, and reading. So do I!! I've only hung out with her twice so I'm still getting to know her, but I can tell we'll have lots of fun together. CPS and the other workers would like me to help her learn math and reading since she's struggling with those subjects in school. I hope that I can be one person in her life that she knows she can trust because one thing I learned during the meetings is that a child has a hard time gaining someone's trust because they've been hurt so much. I pray that she will feel my love for her and we can build a friendship together.

Tomato

So I have been growing a tomato plant since March. It finally started producing a few tomato's in April. Well, guess what... it's dying! I don't know what I did to it. I watered it everyday. I think it might be too hot now. So right now there is a mini one almost ripe and that's the last of them. Oh well. It was exciting while it lasted. At least it produced something; better than nothing!

Happy 25th to Me!!

Back on May 9th I turned the big 2.5. Crazy how time flies. I had such a fun and memorable day!

It started out with a bang at exactly 12 a.m. Here's the story... Two friends, Maya & Christina, and I had just gotten back from a movie at 11:45 p.m. May 8th and they kept asking me what I wanted to do to celebrate my birthday. So I said go for a bike ride. (Maya has 3 vintage beach cruisers that I love! I wish I had one too) So were strolling down the street and I stopped to take a breather for a minute. Meanwhile Maya pulls out a princess crown (that lights up non-the-less), a lighter, and sparklers from her bag! It was SO awesome! The best part is it ended up being exactly 12 a.m. when she lit them! It was a great start to a fabulous birthday!


I woke up that morning to the house decorated with streamers, balloons, and signs that had sweet and funny inside jokes all over the walls.


I went to Chipotle for lunch with my friend Alison. I ended up getting mine paid for by the manager/owner. Here's the deal... he just started talking to us because he could tell I couldn't decide on what to get. Alison ended up telling him it was my birthday so he said my meal was on him, but Alison had to pay for her own. For dessert we went to Cold Stone and got ice cream. They were both so yummy and I was SO full after!

For dinner my rommates and I went to Joe's BBQ. Another free meal for me! Anyone can get a free meal on their birthday there. They just have to show some proof so in my case it was my driver's license. I love homestyle BBQ!! It had been quite a while since I'd had it so it tasted extra delicious!

Heading out...

Friends came over that night to help celebrate! We had oreo cake, ice cream, played mofia (old school I know, but fun), and chatted. Anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE oreos; A friend gave me a huge box of oreos from Cosco. They're just about gone now. Haha, but I did share so that's part of the reason.

1st home teacher

2nd cousin

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! It meant a lot to me.

Catching Up

I just realized I haven't blogged in almost a month. That is on my to-do list for tomorrow. But it'll have to wait until at least early evening because I'm volunteering at the Temple and going to see the foster child that I mentor. We're going to watch a movie and eat popcorn; that's what she requested we do on our next hang out. After work today I checked out some movies for her to pick from. She wanted to watch College Road Trip, but I had to put it on hold because it wasn't in. Hopefully it'll be there by the time I need to go. I don't want to disappoint her at only the 2nd visit.
Check back Sunday for all the updates like my birthday, tomato's, roommates, and changing bedrooms.

Look Look!!

My tomato plant is growing fast! The first tomato is getting closer to being ripe. Yay!

Random Thoughts

I have a lot of little things I want to say. There's not big stories behind them, but I have pictures to go with them. So here come some random thoughts...

My roommates twin sister came to visit last month. They are so much alike; so funny. We went out to dinner one night.


Next up: Beth's birthday was Sunday. I made the cake, but I failed. Well the carrot cake itself was delicious, but I messed up on the frosting. It said put cream cheese on top so I did, except I put the regular kind and not the frosting kind. I didn't know there was a difference!! I think I did, but obviously I didn't think of it. It was still tasty, but I felt ridiculously stupid when people were taking their first bites and said is this cream cheese? Oh my! Maybe I'll get it next time.

It's a cute picture of Beth, but not of me. I thought I would make the sacrifice and still post it though.

Our scrumptious dinner

I went to the Temple today and gorgeous flowers were again in bloom.




Saturday night when I went to get some things for Beth's birthday dinner Sunday I saw these purple tuplips and just had to have them. Their beautiful! Then her friend, Wendy, brought her orange ones so I combined them.

Growing Veggies!

I planted tomato, green pepper, cucumber, and strawberry plants the first part of March. Well, sadly the strawberry and cucumber plants died, but the other two are thriving. See for yourself!

You can visibly see 2 tomatoes, but in fact there are up to 10.
The others are still just tiny, but they're there!

Biggest one

Newbies

I noticed the tomato leaves had been bitten with some kind of critter, but I wasn't sure what. Then this little burger appeared as I was watering the plant. Luckily he did or he'd still be having a feast. Don't worry I wasn't too cruel to the caterpillar... I just took it to the neighbors front yard. Hopefully it doesn't come back.

Cucumber- Nothing yet, but I can tell there will be something soon.

Yeah for gardening!