Christmas Time

I am awake, done with finals, and bored so I thought I would finally catch up on my blogging I have had a busy past few weeks, actually last weekend while at work at Legacy House where I am an activities aide we lost a cottage resident, well about an hour or so later we found her, locked inside my car. She was having a blast wrecking havoc on my radio and playing with my warrior head doll chuck from Hawaii but it was one of the scariest moments of my life! And of course when I called my dad to bring me my spare key he answered the phone “panda express dine in or take out??” and when I said dad I need my spare key his tone turned to stern with a “Jordan” but then I informed him that there was a resident in my car he thankfully rushed me the key!!! What a day what a day. Luckily she was safe and happy. The full essence of this story is lost in words so for a full fledged telling of the tale hunt me down and I will make you see what I saw…not pretty.

But while I was working about a few weeks or so ago my family went to chop down our beloved Christmas tree and documented their adventure...

It looks like they had a blast, I am sad I missed the hot chocolate and toast and the company but maybe next year. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and enjoys their families because they are so precious and you don't realize how great they are until they are gone. I know that my Grandpa Luthi's and my Great Grandma Haderlie's spirits will be with our family as we celebrate Christ's birth into this world.

Friday Night Lights

So through my older, wiser, lovely sister Linsey who happens to have pretty good taste in TV shows minus the fact she was a lipstick jungle fan...(we'll let that slide) she introduced me to this little gem of a show. Its currently in its 3rd season which can only be seen by direct tv owners (if you have these on your dvr call me!!!) but seasons 1 and 2 can be seen on NBC.com or HULU.com. The 3rd season will air in February 2009 on NBC and I will give you the one reason this show needs to be watch, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch)
Just loads of yummy. Although he is a good reason to tune into Friday Night Lights, there are other reasons too. Reasons that make me want to move to Texas, it has southern charm as well as High School Football and drama. It also has lots of lovable characters. Give it a shot and I guarantee you won't be disappointed. And hey if it isn't your cup of tea at least you got to have some eye candy!!

Halloween pictures

So Halloween was really fun, although it was a sad time we decided that Grandpa would want us to enjoy ourselves so we had a good time, thank you to all who have helped out our family!! We have the best friends in the world, you have helped more than you know.

For Halloween we went to Salt Lake with some friends and partied the night away literally we danced our costumes off ( I had to throw mine away it got so trashed...)

the weekend before Halloween we went to Brett and Laceys for a party and my mom and aunt decided to crash... but it was fun to have them there!

then on November 1, we went to Micahs after halloween party and had so much fun.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!!! And are gearing up for a fantastic Thanksgiving.

When I think that my whole world is crashing down around me and that I don't know who I am or what I want to be or do, I get hit with such a blow that I see the light through all the crap that is my mind. My Grandpa Luthi passed away yesterday and hearing of his passing was very unexpected. When I was younger he was fun and loving but it wasn't until these past few years that I have really gotten to know him. He was funny and so clever and he could always make me smile. He was also genuinely interested in what I was doing, he was so chatty and I loved talking to him about my plans for the future. I will miss him everyday although I do believe that everything happens for a reason, and contemplating his passing has made me re-evaluate my life. Am I doing everything I can so that one day I can be reunited with him? No, but that is about to change because even as I am typing I can feel the reassurance that he is with our Heavenly Father and that he lived a good life and was a good example to his family and friends. But what am I doing??? What I have become is not a person that he would be proud of and that hurts me, so from today I am changing. I am going to try everyday to be the person that he was because he was happy and loving and kind, he is the person that I want to emulate. I love you Grandpa and am looking forward to seeing you again.

HALLOWEEN

So from all the help I got (none!!) I finally choose a costume for Halloween this year... me and my two friends are going to be the Muses from Hercules. We are very excited and pictures will be posted as soon as our costumes are complete. We have some fun plans coming up now through the big day of scariness, the corn maze, cookie making, haunted forest, Lacy's party, the howl, and many more but if anyone has any ideas about other fun activities let me know!

life interupted

So for the past month and a half or so I have been seriously considering my future...well as serious as I can handle, which means I am just thinking about it constantly and doing nothing about what I am thinking. I really need to declare my major and my minor(s), but I think I am scared of being backed into something I don't want to do. Also they are many avenues and majors I can pursue with the career I am currently pondering. So do I become Dr. Jordan Luthi Psychiatrist, or Jordan Luthi Marriage and Family counselor? Do I go through Social Work and set up a private practice or do I go through Psychology, or do I go through the FCHD program????? So many decisions I don't know what to do, maybe just drop all those plans and open a salon with the sister. But until then I guess I am just going to be stuck in a limbo...

October

Its October!! Halloween is just around the corner! Oh my October is my favorite month and Halloween one of my favorite holidays. The many reasons that I love October is because it is finally fall which means that the days are warm but not hot, and the nights are nippy. I love to open my windows and nuzzle under the covers, I also love to carve pumkins, dress up eat candy I mean who doesn't right? I also love the smells of fall and all the colors. I wish that Utah only had two seasons, Spring and Fall...but alas that isn't reality. So the main decision to make about Halloween is what to be!??! I am struggling with that myself, last year I was ursela from the Little Mermaid...But what to be this year?? a flapper maybe?? me and my group of friends the ones in the picture were thinking maybe the decades?? someone be 20's 30's ect...what do you think????? any ideas I need help!!!!

CSI:NY

Hallelujah CSI NY is back and better then ever...okay I will admit with the writers strike last season was a little lacking, and this premiere episode wasn't what it could have been. However with the new twist, Flack's sister, Macks personal vendetta against the bank robber who tried to kill him etc... but where was my Danny/Lindsay romance?? Come on! I was impressed by Flacks airtime, as well as Adams personal developments but Danny and Lindsay weren't hardly in the season finale or the premiere!! What gives, Mac has A LOT of camera time as does my girl Stella but that gets old fast. Hawks didn't get much either, but he is kind of a forgettable character anyways. I did love this episode despite the fact my favorite characters got gipt, it should be an eventful season and I look forward to every Wednesday at 9:00pm (CBS) tune in an hour earlier and find the Studly Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) on Criminal Minds yummy! I am also job hunting sort of so if you have any suggestions for part time work give me a holla!!

Week One at School

So I started school this week! Gotta love the college days. If anyone knew me last year I was really a slacker but hopefully this year will prove that I am serious about my education. My classes are pretty early, and I have gone to all but one... Old habits die hard haha. My classes are really exciting I have a abnormal psych class that is gonna be really fun, and some other interesting classes! I really just have to buy my books (scary part) so if anyone wants to contribute to my education let me know!

Back To Reality

So now that I have been home a whopping 2 days, its time to hunker down and locate some employment. My dad was upset that I wasn't working yesterday...but come on!! So I have two jobs lined up hopefully they both work out. One is a nanny job here in Logan for a few days a week, the other is working for the Child and Family Support Center in the nursery. I want to do both but I will have to see how my school schedule and both jobs scheduling works out! It has been amazing coming home, some things I enjoy...

1) the mountains
2) air conditioning
3) no humidity
4) my huge bed!! it really seems so big after my child sized bed
5) a large shower, I can actually bend over in it!
6) soft water my skin is loving that!
7) I can walk around nudie!!!
8) seeing my family everyday!

there are more but I won't bore anyone with the details, hopefully I will have all my work issues settled by the time school starts next Monday!! If anyone needs a babysitter however, give me a call because I miss my girls already!!

coming home!

Today is my last day in East Hampton, well full day anyways! I am in the middle of packing all my things...yes I had to take a break I have soooo much stuff... But I was looking back to the blog I wrote right when I got here. It seems like forever ago, because I have changed and grown so much here. This summer has flown by so fast and I have had the most amazing opportunities to actually live, breath, and see things. I have accomplished exactly what I had hoped I would coming here, back home I was stuck in a job I didn't like, I had no friends besides Linsey(your all I needed...) and I didn't have a plan. You may be thinking that "what do you ever have a plan??" and usually I do, however I also tend to fly by the seat of my pants.

Coming here has taught me how to appreciate life, I got to come into someone elses world and live their life with them. I always think that life will start when I have my own family, and it was so interesting to me to step into a different family dynamic, and see how other people live. It has shown me that my parents are some of the best in the world, because they have made me self sufficient, they have taught me how to think things through, and they have given me all the tools that I needed to make it in this world.

I also learned a lot about myself, although I am outgoing when I want to be, I decided that I hate meeting new people. And the reason for that is because I never have had to step out of my comfort zone and actually do it, trust me have had to do it a lot here. I have met some of the nicest people, people who feel like family even though I haven't known them all that long. Its going to be hard to leave for that reason because I have ties here that I know may be severed indefinitely.

I don't know when the Seitz's went from being the people I worked for to 'my family' but that happened as well. I use to refer to them as my bosses or the people I work for, etc. but now I always say 'my family' or Mike or Anne Marie, they have been so great to me and I know that I want to remain in close contact with them for years to come.

Although I am sad to leave, I am so excited to come home and put what I have learned into my own life. The lessons that I have been taught and was forced to learn are ones that everyone should experience and I am glad that I had a positive one!! Now that I have become a better version of myself, I have more confidence, more knowledge and more ambition for my life I can't wait to come home!! see you all soon!

New York City round 3

So Anne Marie took me to the city today along with Kelly to see the Lion King on Broadway, our journey started bright and early at 7:00 we had to be on the Jitney at 8:00 we got into New York City around 11:00 and Anne Marie took me to the New York Public Library, and we stopped into Toys R Us to check out the Farris Wheel inside. Then we went to John's pizzeria which had some of the BEST pizza and salads I have had here in East Hampton, then we went to the theater to get our tickets for the show.

When we got to the door there were about a dozen paparazzi and tons of other people, guess who came walking out?? Ben Stiller and Jack Black, just to add to the list of celebs I have seen here in NY. The show was pretty cool, the costumes were awesome but they changed a lot of the story and added new songs which kind of bugged me. Wicked was definitely better, but I was so happy for the opportunity to see it. Its been running for 10 years now!! You better hurry to if you want to see it, it will stop running in just 8 short years haha!! No really it was pretty great the lady who played Rafiki Tshidi Manye was by far the best performer I have seen! She was great.

We also took the Subway...yes me on the Subway twice!!! It was a neat experience and wasn't as scary or hard as I thought it would be. We also went to the Upper East Side gosh wish I could live there, we got manicures in a cute nail salon, where they give you a massage while your nails dry.... and it only cost $11.00, plus a hefty tip of course. Then after we walked through Central Park, and passing the Met, (wish we had time to go in!! next time) we ran literally to Penn Station to make our train home! We made our train with seriously 3 minutes to spare, way to close to cut it even for me but children don't understand the word hurry or late for that matter or if we don't run we will be stuck in Manhattan until 10:00 PM!! The train was nice (cheaper than the Jitney and more roomy, if you can stand the boat like motions...I almost couldn't). I bought a new purse, can't pass those freaking street stands I am a sucker! But thats all I got it was hard trust me! I love the city if you could get it cleaner, with less people, and less smelly I would so live there!

living 101

So apparently I have not had enough crazy moments this past week to meet my quota...thats right folks the good times just keep coming. Well about halfway through my sisters visit last week Mike told me that their was a leak coming from the upstairs bathroom, and even after he didn't use his shower he could still hear dripping and the mold spot was growing. So we didn't use my shower but the past few days the dripping has gotten worse, I figured it was because of the down pour in the playroom earlier in the week but after today I have been cleared from causing any damages. You see it turns out that it wasn't a leak because after we got home today we discovered bee's in the front room. Yellow jackets actually, and guess where they were coming from??? About a hands length away from the mold spot, they had eaten through the ceiling and the mold spot what about that right?? well that would be their nest sick right??? So Anne Marie is deathly afraid of bee's so I had to inspect the situation, I called my daddy (sorry to wake you up from your nappy poo, and on your anniversary!! your sooooo great!!) and told Anne Marie to go buy wasp spray. Well I was out voted by Mike who insisted we call an exterminator, haha I guess its the Hamptons. So we put a piece of tape over the hole, and although the ceiling is paper thin from the bee's hitting into it (hence the dripping sounds) I hope it holds!!! More to come hopefully with pictures, but I guess that I can't complain for learning new weird things...!!

this picture is not what came out of our house...ours is still hidden but trust me I will post some pictures cause its been up there all summer...eeewwww!!

Um I hate water..

So from my quick post you know that my sisters and friends came to visit me in East Hampton, NY for a week. Well having them here made me miss home so much, and I had forgotten how funny we all were...even Casidy is as witty as the rest of us! I had so much fun with them here and I can't wait to go home in 8 short days. While they were here we went shopping both in the outlet mall in Riverhead and in NYC, we also went to WICKED!!!

It was amazing and I wish I could sing as well as everyone there ah everyone needs to go to a Broadway show!! It makes me so excited for The Lion King on Wednesday with Anne Marie and Kelly. The one thing that Anne Marie said to me before she left was don't ruin my house, and thinking in my head everyone coming is cleaner then me...but once I was alone, all my house guests on their way home I had to deal with a few scary events.

By reading my earlier blogs you can probably tell my plumbing here stinks (haha see I am funny!) and so the toilet upstairs plugged the last day my family and friends were here, but I decided that it could wait and before I took Summer to the Jitney the toilet was overflowing a bit. Gross so I put a towel down and decided to deal with it after I had taken Summer to the bus stop. But when I got home I heard more water then just a little leak and to my dismay the ceiling in the playroom was leaking...yes from the fan the lights and a strip down the ceiling!!! Of course I ran to the phone and called my dad, he was golfing and didn't answer so I called my mom bawling and she got me under control and I turned the water off and got towels and cleaned the whole mess up. I won't go into further details to spare you all the fun facts of unplugging a toilet, however when I went to wash the towels in the cellar I found another problem. ..

The rain from the night before had flooded the cellar!!!! I hate water I should have taken pictures but I was a little stressed out...ok a lot stressed out! Thank goodness everything is under control now!! But I just wanted to thank everyone for coming to visit me! Without Steph, and Jennie and my sisters I would have had a boring week... I have the nicest friends and family, they look out for me in lots of ways and they think of everyone else besides themselves and I forgot how it is to be taken care of!! But I love you all, and can't wait to come home.

I have learned to be a better person here, I am now a good host, plumber, mom, cook, cleaner, and I am a heck of a lot more resourceful. I can even get somewhere with just an address and map! I freaking rock! haha ok maybe I am still a little full of myself...

quickly...

my family just left from their visit!! I am really really sad but I know I will see them all very soon. We have had so much fun in the city and at the beach and at Wicked!! I love that show oh my gosh. I would post more but I am too sleepy its been 3 months since I have stayed up until 4 in the morning more than 3 times in a week!! pictures and stories to come! I love you Linsey, Casidy, Jennie and Stevenie!!

AHHHHH!!

I have had a very long week, filled with laughter, fun, anger, tears, one sleepless night, and three very early bedtimes (8:00 pm I feel soooooo old!!) But all in all I have learned that I may over react and be slightly dramatic at times...sorry Mom, and Linsey, and Cas... this week I have been working really long hours, usually from 7:30 to about 8:00 each night when my head hits the pillow and I am a goner!! It has been a fun week though,

Monday we had a beach party with some of Mike and Anne Maries friends from Ireland, their accents are the greatest...I love it, while we were there my very good girl Nicky said 'Jordan I need to go peeps, I want to use the beach potty' and so as I went to take her to the potty I realized that they closed at 5:00 and it was about 7:00 and she did not like the idea of going in the ocean and using the fish potty haha, so I thought back to my girls camp days and decided she could use the bucket we brought. She really liked that idea, she has been going around all week telling people she went peeps in the bucket, they all look at me REALLY weird!

Tuesday we went to a pool in Montauk downs which was way nice for a change no sand in the crack!! By the end of it I was exhausted and we came home and I figured the girls would be tired too but they are like energizer bunnies, they keep going and going and well you get my drift. So I brought out some finger paint I had bought a while back and they had a blast!! I don't know why but but Nicky only got blue finger paint on herself, not red or yellow only blue... we had to let them run nudie through the slip and slide to clean them up, it was funny!!

We also had a fiesta, I made the girls balloon hats and balloon animals, we made pinatas and had Mexican food for lunch, then we came home and finger painted some more... today we went to the beach and my kids played while I read my romance novel it was delightful and helped me calm down from this hectic week. My girls have been kid of whiny and it wears at you...especially when Nicky is just copying Kelly but being more annoying!! I hate having to raise my voice an octave or give them the look that means 'i am serious' I hate it even worse when Nicky burst into tears.

It has taught me to have patience, and Anne Marie told me today that she didn't know how I did it, how I was with them all day and didn't want to run out the door when she came home. However the truth is, the girls are usually only bad around their mom, I think its cause they don't think I can get mad or tell them what to do when she is around. It scared me that she would undo all the good thing I had done but really it has been great we both discipline the girls around each other haha its great!

more than memories...

The last few weeks I have been here have been so much fun, I am at the point in time where I am so comfortable with Anne Marie and Mike and I love meeting their family and friends. I have had so many opportunities while I have been here, the week before I come home Anne Marie is taking me and Kelly to the Lion King on Broadway...and we are taking the train to the city which is going to be a whole new experience for me. The week my sisters come...one week from today we are also going to the city and going to Wicked on Broadway. New York is amazing and I have never seen any other place like East Hampton, I have had the discussion with a few people about what is prettier Mountains or Beach and it really comes down to are you a person who loves to live at the beach and visit the mountains or live in the mountains and visit the beach...drum roll everyone!!! I am a mountain girl, while I would love to be at the beach everyday the mist and fog does nothing for my hair, and the sand gets EVERY WHERE!!!! Want to know a good way to keep your kids within sight at a busy beach??Haha I dug a whole they are sitting and couldn't get out on their own it was ingenious!! They also buried me and made me have a mermaid tail...it was pretty fun! Today we went to the LVIS fair and I got to go down one of those ghetto old slides from the fairs ya know the ones you ride on a burlap sack to go down?? yeah Nicky was on my lap, Kelly holding my hand and Nicky loved every minute of it... I couldn't breath... and Kelly said it made her heart hurt. But they had a carousel and pony rides, face painting and a petting zoo!! And of course we had to get cotton candy...
Nicky's face after was priceless...should have taken a picture however I didn't because we went on the slip and slide after this. I enjoy that thing more then the girls do haha. We are also going to the only public pool on the East end on Tuesday so that should be fun!! I can't wait for my visitors to come only 6 more days!!

reunions...

Last night was one of the first times that I have been really homesick, it was one of those nights where I was tired and cranky and I wanted to talk to Linsey or have Casidy make me laugh or just talk to my mom and dad... I also wanted to sleep in my own bed haha. But maybe its only because my parents are only 4 hours away and wont come see me :( just kidding mom I want to make you feel bad. But we have had a fun week here we went to the Atlantis Marine World the local aquarium on Sunday and we all did our hair super straight so we would match haha but here are some pictures my girls are cute!!

I am so excited for my Sisters to come next weekend!! I am ready for some family fun, hugs and laughs!! I am also excited for Casidy to meet my girls because Linsey already knows them!! See you soon girlie's...your driver will meet you at the airport with a little sign!!haha I am still working out who is going to come get you...

Ding ding we have a winner!!

So potty training has been going strong for 5 days, yep we have had a few accidents, mostly in the evening and usually poop. So this morning the girls didn't wake up on their own shocker...so I had to get them up and we hurried to get them ready for tennis which meant I got Nicky up last and she wore her diaper to the park. I know right?? But I didn't have the heart to wake her sooner, she woke up at like five and so she was sleepy!! I was hoping that I didn't screw up her potty training too much, and when we got home from tennis I put her in the tubby and I got in the shower. Well I have noticed that whenever Nicky has to go poop she goes into another room and hangs on to something...(usually her height for leverage I guess?? haha kinda gross) but when I was getting ready in my bathroom I saw her go into my room and I said Nicky come out, and she tried to go back in and the she burst out "Jordan Jordan I need to go potty!!!" she was trying to head downstairs to her little potty but I knew we were running out of time so I picked her up and plopped her down on my potty. Good move on my part because she had already started!! But she made it and she was so excited she kept saying "Kelly Kelly come look I went poop in the potty!!!" We are having a potty breakthrough...I couldn't be happier!!!!!!!

5 weeks to go...

With only a little over a month left here in East Hampton, I just have to say that this summer has gone by too quickly! I am super excited for my sisters and Steph Jennie and Summer to come visit me in August...19 more days!! then in two short weeks I will be home, my mini summer adventure over... I am so attached to my girls, especially Nicole we have been together every day since I got here and she is my baby. I was really worried about getting attached when I first came and I figured that with such a short amount of time that I wouldn't but these little girls have stolen my heart, I wish that you could meet them! Especially you mom you would love Nicky she has such a personality, and Kelly haha today she told me when she grows up she wants to be the tooth fairy. I have been so lucky to have had the opportunity to meet this family and live with them for these months, if I don't come back next summer I will definitely have to come visit. Cause its hard to think of coming downstairs around dinner time on a Sunday and not see this.... It will also be no fun not being able to dress my girls or do their hair, everyday I get to be creative and come up with fun hair do's and super cute outfits...sorry dad but you may have to let me get a dog so I can have something to play with!! It will be weird not having someone with me all day, mommy your going to have to go everywhere I go for a while, and I am going to have to buckle you in and sing to you and bring you snacks... I will also have to pick out your outfits and style your hair OK???

Fireworks!!

Nicky and Anne Marie driving Jacks sailboat

Last night I had an incredible opportunity (thanks aunt sue) I got to go out on 3 Mile Harbor on Mike's sisters boats and watch the fireworks over the water!! It was so fun to be tied up to some others boats, the people we went with (Mike's three sisters and their friends) were awesome I have met some of the nicest people here. They are genuinely interested in where I am from, and how I am enjoying New York, they also have great ideas about what I have to do before I leave. It has been such a fun weekend!! Its going to be hard to leave this place in a month!

SHE DID IT!!

I was so happy that Nicky finally used the potty!! We have been trying to get her to use the potty since I got here in May... But she did it!! And we went all day in her big girl underpants without a accident it was so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was a proud nanny...

six more weeks

I cannot even believe how this summer has flown by, only six more weeks and I will be home. Which is both kinda sad and really exciting at the same time. This experience has taught me a lot, like if you want to make new friends you have to BE FRIENDLY, also that you have to want to have fun to have fun times. Also don't take the little things for granted, like mom doing my laundry haha... Also I've learned that people back East are some of the nicest people I have ever met, aside from the citidots (those people that come from the city on the weekends and make my life a living hell!!). Some things that I love about East Hampton are:

1. that there is a beach at the end of every south facing road

2. you can catch a crab and eat it for dinner and people do it all the time

3. the trees are awesome

4. you can put bull horns on your hummer...just cause you have the $ too...

5. I live 5 minutes away from Martha Stewart, and Bon Jovi

6. on any given weekend you can see a celebrity

7. the heated pools

8. riding in taxi's you meet the funniest people

9. you meet the nicest people, some who will steal wood for you and others who will search for it on the beach and bring it back for you!!

10. the locals are the ones to meet, not the rich snobs

11. you can walk across the street whenever you want and by law the motorist have to stop... yep I often stop traffic

12. every other car is a BMW, Mercedes, or Audi, but every third car is a Toyota Prius

13. The number of landscapers out on a given day is greater than the year round population of EH

14. to go to Wendy's you have to drive 45 minutes to Riverhead

15. to go to Wal Mart you have to drive 45 mintues to Riverhead

16. you can walk to anywhere you want to go

17. if you are late to somewhere and its your fault, you can blame it on that crazy traffic and no one thinks twice haha...

those are just some of the reasons that East Hampton has become one of my favorite places!! it is like Smithfield, calm and quiet but if walk into the village its a hot spot of fun things to do and even funnier people to watch, and of course every sunny day is spent at the beach soaking up the sun. I sure hope my next six weeks are full of as much adventure as my last 8 weeks have!!

From the mouth of babes...

I am sure everyone can admit that kids say the darnedest things right? Well they also speak the truth, the cold hard brutal truth. Another thing they do is directly interpret the sarcastic things you say to adults. For example today I was talking on the phone to Linsey (haha shout out sista) and she informed me that my blog makes me sound like I am not having the time of my life out here... And after reading through it today I can see that she is right. But on the phone I was explaining that I only feel the need to write when I am sad, lonely, or mad at the world and I need to be better about telling the good things that are happening here in East Hampton. But this really didn't set in until Kelly wanted to write in my special notebook, the notebook I take everywhere I go in case I think something profound or I want to doodle, and I told her that it was my special notebook that I write in sometimes. And she said 'oh the one you write in when your mad at me, or when your sad?' and it hit me how much little kids can hear when you think they aren't paying attention... It also made me see that I need to write about my great adventures.

Well this past week has been so fun, we have played in friends pools, gone to the beach (nearly everyday for at least four hours a day...yep that equals I will be tanner than all ya'll) I also had the chance of meeting my bosses friends and their families. They have been so wonderful to me and I have got the kissing on the check thing down! Sorry if I accidentally do it to anyone when I come home. But last night we went to a Fresh Pond and watched the fireworks over the water, (this is Camille and the fireworks behind her) they were done by Devon's Yacht Club and they were shot off a boat so we had a great view, but we also had a beach fire and roasted smores for all the kids. And being the good girls camper I am I got to make all the marshmallows and put out the fire because no one knew how!!

We also went to the game farm today in Manorville which is like going to Salt Lake from Logan, its a great place for the kids it has rides, and tons of animals. They have a tiger show, giraffes, mountain lions, ducks, zebras, monkeys, turkeys, pigs, Bambi land where you go in with all the baby deer and feed them, and baby animal land where you can feed the goats bottles of milk. It is a great way to get the kids out and take up a day. On the weekends they have pony rides so the girls got to ride them today!

And although I love my girls dearly its also good to get out and I have great friends here, Tara and Chelsea are nanny's I met here through Summer(TDB2008EHPT) they are both from Blackfoot ID, and they are we have some crazy adventures, we are even having our very own beach fire tonight and roasting smores and starburst, I have also met some local people who are so nice and fun to be around. I have successfully driven a truck on the beach and rode a wave haha!! But I am sad that I have only 6 weeks left here its going to break my heart to leave my girls especially Nicky. And although they have asked me to stay for a year(don't worry mommy I said no) I just might have to come back next summer.

firefly lies

Once upon a time there lived a girl in a small town she was born and raised there and had seen but little of the world. Although she loved her family dearly she felt that she needed to go in search of something greater, something that she herself could not name. So she took a job in a distant land and left her beloved home, upon arrival she had second thoughts of her choice but soon came to the realization that she was in the right place. Days came and went and she became more and more tired of the day to day mundane as she had in the town before this, but on one Friday after a longs day work she went out with her companion in crime Summer. It is not what happened, where it happened, or who it happened with, but she found what she had always been searching for...or so she thought, once the weekend ended she discovered that it had not calmed the stir in her heart. Although she had experienced a new thing in her life she worried that she what she was in search for didn't exist, but she knew one thing, she knew that if it was raining it would be better to dance then to just get wet.

exuse me I have lost my mind, have you found it?

This has been an interesting week for me, Summer is leaving me in two days and I am going to be alone on this Island for the rest of the time alone!!! But I will get by because humans are the most adaptive species right?

So Nicky's new thing to say is "Jordan, I've lost my mommy" when she leaves. Its funniest when we are out somewhere because people think that I've kidnapped her... really they give me the stink eye. But last night was a real tear jerker, Mike, Anne Marie and Kelly went to look at a car to buy and me and Nicky stayed home. It was getting late and she was tired so I started to go through the routine of putting her down, we say "goodnight" to everything in the house on the way to her room. But when we got to the stairs she looked at me with little tear filled eyes and lip quivering and said, "Jordan I lost my Mommy and Daddy and my Kel" it was the cutest thing ever!! Although I reminded her where they were and that her Mom would wake her up the next morning a thought occurred to me, who is there in our lives to remind us all is not lost?

I know that there are greater powers in this world and the next that definitely fit into that category, but as we grow older we start to cut out things and people in our lives like you would trim the fat of a steak. But at this time in my life my steak has almost no fat, however I have lost the part that makes it taste good. So now that I have removed the people who were once the guides in my life, I am forced to distinguish not only right and wrong which is hard enough, but who and what is right in my life. It feels like I am about to buy a car, and I can't ask anyones opinion because there is no one to ask. Summer has shown me how lonely and miserable I was at home, not because I didn't have friends but because I was living my life in a closed frame of mind.

I cannot even tell you how great it has been to have Summer here with me, I would have been happy to sit at home every night just because I had no idea what fun you can have by just exploring the world around you. If I have learned anything here in New York its that it doesn't matter what you do, who your with, or what is happening in your life, fun is a state of mind. That's why kids can fall down and cry and five minutes later laugh and run through a bunch of bubbles, because they see what is truly important the good times not the bad.

New York City

So this past weekend we decided to go into the city... quite an adventure let me tell you! Well first off to get from East Hampton to the big bad city you have to take a bus...Yes a bus, and to get on that bus you have to get to the stop, and then you have to pay for the bus ($51 for a round trip ticket) then the bus drops you off in the city and you have to get a taxi to go where you want to go, because let me tell you its confusing!! We had some fun though I took my very first taxi to Time Square, we went and had some lunch and then sought out some good times.

Our first adventure was a run in with the Naked Cowboy, let me tell you ladies he is kinda ranko!! But we posed with him anyway, also once he found out where we were from (Utah = Mormons in NY ya know) he decided it was time to hang on tight! Ha ha Summer was freaking out and I look like I am enjoying myself but don't let the picture fool you...you weren't there! After we had been violated (Casidy it wasn't sexual assault!!) we went in search of the perfect purse, on our quest we stop at many roadside purse stands but the big beauty was no where to be found, on about are fifth stand I ran into Arty. He was a street vendor and he grabbed my hand and gave me free stuff, oh how lovely it is to be called beautiful by a random stranger!!

Next we moved on to Central Park, we walked the eleven blocks to get there and by the time we were in it we were sweating to death. Don't let the movies fool ya New York City is smelly and hot in the summer. Later we made our way back and got caught in a hasty rain storm and ran for cover the storm made our day cooler but a lot wetter so we hailed a new taxi and sped away to the bus stop! We spend a good few hours in the city and I will be going back, but at night, when its cooler, and not suppose to rain!!