Tuesday, June 29, 2010

...Freakin Hot...

Morgan Coles had a friend coming into town this weekend from Utah and he's thinking about moving down here so she wanted him to make friends with some of us kids in the Singles Ward... so we got the whole dang group of us together; Me, Ben, Alyssa, Jason, Erin... We all drove over to Cocoa beach and it was so flippin packed! Tons and tons and tons of people everywhere! The water felt great, but I think it was because of how hot it was outside... There was a hot wind and my feet burned on the ground... Ben and Jason taught me and Alyssa how to throw the frisbee (Lets just say I'm slightly frisbee challenged)... Alyssa got some pictures of everyone so I need to get them from her, but I did manage to get a picture of Ben and I... lets just say I look bad, but you have to admit we're a good looking couple :)
After we went to the beach, I made Ben go with me to Lauren Baas (now Andersen's) wedding reception. Before I left Tallahassee we were friends, but her fiance and I did not get along very well and I got my position as Made of Honor revoked. I wanted to go to their reception at my church building just so I could tell her how proud of her I was and to wish her luck on her new life. That's not how things turned out. When I got there, she avoided me the entire time, which was quite embarrassing because I had Ben with me, so I told him to go grab some food and I went up to Lauren--I told her hi and she looked at me and walked off. Let's just say that Ben got to see me cry for the first time ever and I was only there less than 10 minutes... Then Sunday I got to give a talk on the revelating powers of the Holy Spirit... I think it went well--it was the first time I was over prepared and I was only supposed to speak for 10 - 12 minutes and I went to like 15 and that was after I cut a ton of it out! I'm really excited for this Fourth of July weekend because the group is going to Coral Springs for a long weekend and we're going snorkling in Key Largo! WHOOP WHOOP! and tonight Courtnie Morris and I are going to see Eclipse at midnight! Dang what a week...

Friday, June 25, 2010

...ShufLow...

Just another day at ShufLow... I got a run to Daytona Beach that took most of my day... got to love when that happens! $54 worth of milage and not in the office... ahhh got to love my job!


...DISNEY!...

Last Friday my mom let me and Ben use her and dad's tickets into Disney afterhours with Amber and her friend Hannah... IT WAS AWESOME! Have any of you ever gotten on Splash Mountain and had them say, "If you want to stay on and go again, go ahead?!" NEVER! That will never ever happen again in my life! Being able to do the entire park in a couple of hours was amazing and I'm glad we got to go... best part was getting Amber to go on Thunder Mountain and she loved it! Her face was priceless! This is the only picture I got and it was while we waited on Amber... just remember that we look awesome for 2:30 am...


Thursday, June 10, 2010

...Bad Guy...

This week I had to be the bad guy to someone I care about. I know I hurt them a lot. I know I did the right thing by them, and now I have to trust that the Lord will take care of the rest. This was not something that I enjoyed nor looked forward to, but I know that by being honest I did do the right thing... hopefully it all works out!

...I'm A Mess...

A little over a week ago Ben needed to study and I wanted to see him, so I convinced him that I would be the best study buddy ever because he can't ever concentrate on studying and I promised that I would keep him on it (which I did... mostly). Once I had Ben all set up, and by set up I mean, a cup of water, a sandwich, his books, pen, paper, music, and me next to him, he started to study. Studying turned into Ben starting to get really A.D.D. because he can't just sit there and do math, so after a long period of entertainment for me (I had never seen this super restless side of him) I suggested that we go for a bike (a "ding- ding" bike not a "vroom-vroom" bike) ride through his neighbor hood before I went to go pick Emily up from the airport. He jumped at the opportunity. We were riding along, minding our own business and totally enjoying the beautiful weather and I said that we should head back soon because Emily's flight would be in soon. As we made our way towards Ben's house, something happened. I'm not entirely sure what that something was, but all I remember was flying through the air and having my bike go on with out me on it, and my chin nailing the ground under me. Embarrassed, I immediately rolled over and started to laugh at myself and then I saw the look on Ben's face. I sat up to assess my injuries, because I thought I just knocked the wind out of myself and wanted to make sure I was fine... that's when I saw all the blood start coming from my chin. There was blood everywhere! On my arms, hands, face... it was a mess! I laid back down and told Ben that he needed to be the one to look at it because I am a baby.

Everyone was backed up on his street because I was lying in the middle of the road. This only added to my embarrassment so I asked Ben to help me over to the side of the road. This only caused everyone to continuously ask, "Is She ok?!," "Does she need a ride somewhere?," to which Ben so coolly handled and told them all I was fine in his care, which I was. Then this one lady would not stop bugging us (I now see it as she was trying to be helpful, but I was in so much pain that I just wanted to leave at the time and she was holding us up)... she kept asking if I needed anything... we told her no... she continued to pry, saying that she had band-aids in her car... she got them. Then, the kicker to her story is her kids are in the car and she wants to show them my chin because she teaches by example. I started to laugh as she went to go get her 3 and 4 year old children from the car--Ben rolled his eyes. Poor little Johnny and Jane as I like to call then, walk up, see this bloody girl laying there and have their mom yell at them, "See kids?! This is what happens when you don't wear your helmet!" Ummm lady, a helmet did not protect me chin at all, well, unless I was wearing a football one! (Whoa, holy tangent!)

Ben then walked me back to his house, which luckily for me was not too far away, and cleaned my chin up for me. I asked him to give me a blessing to calm me down, because everyone knows I can't handle situations like that, and he did--I'm mostly grateful for that. He then delivered the new that because of where the gash was on my chin, he thought I needed stitches. If any one knows me, then they will not be surprised by the fact that I adamantly insisted that I would not get stitches, to which he accepted and be not push against. If I didn't want stitches, he was going to respect that and find another way to heal me! What a guy right?! He then sped over to CVS and got butterfly bandages and applied them. They didn't work because anytime I'd laugh or talk or even more, they would come apart. He told me once again, "Kaylee, I think you need stitches." I insisted again that I did not want them, so he called his friend's grandma to ask her what to do because she's a doctor. She said she didn't want to do it because she didn't want to leave a scar on my face, but that if I were to go to an urgent care center and ask for no stitches they would probably use sterile glue... if we wanted to do it ourselves, then we could just use super glue. So taking the kind doctor's advice we went to the 7-Eleven and got some Krazy Glue and came back to the house where Ben and his older brother Spencer super glued my chin back together. Awesome huh?! Let’s just say it looked pretty gnarly.

The super-glue scab came off yesterday and it looks perfectly fine! Honestly you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference if I had gotten stitches.

Also to add to my "I'm A Mess-ness," Ben and I decided to go running around Lake Eloa after work on Tuesday. I got off an hour earlier than he did, so I decided to go over to the really cool Publix in downtown to change and to get some fingernail polish. As I was looking at the red nail polishes I saw one start to fall. I tried catching it, but my efforts were in vain. The bottle of Candy Apple Red collided with the hard tile ground busting everywhere, including my bare legs and shoes. Let’s just say I looked like my legs just got hacked up! I bought nail polish remover and headed over to Ben's work so I could clean myself up before he had to see me. The nail polish remover was just smearing it around making it all look entirely worse. I actually had a guy pass me and ask if I was alright and if I needed to go to the hospital. Oh jeez! Let's just say that the look on Ben's face was priceless, not because it was of shock, but because it was something he's starting to expect and be used to with me. Let's just say, I AM a mess!

I'm waiting for Spencer to email me the pictures of my chin.

OH! and also, if you hadn't noticed that I've been spending a lot of time with Ben, then your oblivious! but its official... I'm his girlfriend and he's my boyfriend :)

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

...Garden Party...




Two weekends ago Emme and I had a double date with Ben and Jason and us girls were personally excited about it, but it seemed pretty girly, so we didn't know how the guys would react. You know that once scene in "The Wedding Planner" where Jennifer Lopez meets Matthew McConaughey at the park and they watch a movie on the side of the building? Well basically that was what this was... Leu Gardens in Winter Park does a date night in the gardens where people can watch a movie and bring picnic stuff and lay on the lawns... It was fabulous! Emme and I decided to pack her picnic basket and bring blankets... Since this was our first time doing this adventure, we hit a few bumps that we now know how to perfect, like bring lawn chairs instead of sitting up on your arms for two hours, and bring a citronella candle so you don't deal with the bugs... The movie was "The Proposal" so I was pretty stoked because I just adore that movie! I'm almost positive that they guys enjoyed it because they never complained once, and they did laugh, so that's good right?

After we watched the movie we went back to Emme's house and we played Clue! I love that game so much... Emme, Jason and Ben happen to be some of my most favorite people in the world, so it was a really great night for me... I didn't take my camera to the gardens, but Emme did and I stole this picture from her!

Monday, May 17, 2010

... Tricked ...

Supposedly, according to my mother, Elder Neil L. Anderson was in the area and was giving a couple of firesides to different groups... She told me about the Young Single Adult one on Sunday and I even went through the effort of inviting some of my friends to come along for the ride (and by invite I mean I guilted them into coming by telling them that Apostles don't come all that often and that my mom was super excited to have them over for dinner before)... I seriously should consider going into interrogation or something like that because I have a way of making people do things that I want them to do (within reason)... so Jason, Emmy, Ben and I caravaned over to Tavares to have Sunday dinner with my folks... It was great... I haven't had that much fun with them in a while... Mom made a great dinner and dad really made everyone feel at home... We all laughed and ragged on each other and told stories--it was fantastic... what could make the evening even better? An Apostle! But wait?! I our dismay, we drove to the stake center and no apostle was there!!! Nope--my mom read the announcement wrong and it was for Single Adults, not Young Single Adults and apparently it was at a different building... So we all drove home, sad, tired, yet full from a good meal... Mom texted me as we drove home and told me that she made it all up just so she could trick me into having my friends and I come over for dinner... somehow that doesn't surprise me :)

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