words from a wild-one.

I have had lots of visitors while I have been unpacking my room.

All the welcome home parties makes me feel like I am so sort of celebrity.

And I must say I kind of like it.

Halee came over for a quick visit after softball practice

and because I wasn't being super entertaining she started playing on my computer.

So I asked her if she would like to write on my blog

(she is a frequent visitor and fan of the blog).

So, without further adieu:

my Luella

My name is Halee Mason.

I am Kelsie's niece.

Have you thrown a pot fly and it hit yourself in the eye?

 Today I did and it gave me a black eye.

I was at softball practice when it happen.

Oh almost forgot my crush is Isaac

Am I back in time or not

fun little girl 

DANCE  ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I love her.

Please enjoy and have a lovely evening.

Fall Break (at least that is what I was told. . .)

It is Friday.

Fall break actually. But it doesn't feel like it.

I have been working on homework all day long-

Halee came over, so I took a break. It was wonderful!  

I love being home with my family, even if I do have to spend most of the day doing homework.

Simple Surprises.

While waiting to move my laundry I decided to look at some of the pictures on my computer. 

This is what I found:

I don't know when my miss Halee took these but they are lovely.

Friday was an emotional roller coaster.

• My classes went well
• I went to Religion and Life
• Talked to the Missionaries
• GOT A LOVELY PACKAGE FROM MY NIECES!
• My heart was broken
• I met with my Relief Society President
• Recruited girls for IWA (Institute Women's Association)
• Cried some
• Helped cops look for a drunk man
• Danced the night away
• Fell asleep eating popcorn 

I wouldn't change that day for anything.  But I am glad everyday is not that extreme.  

Halee, this made me smile.  

Thank you for being beautiful, spunky, seriously silly, and absolutely perfect!  

Thank you for taking crazy pictures on my computer-  I

 miss you!  Never forget that I love you!

      XOXO,

Kels

Location: D4 Kitchen
Date: Sometime during finals week
Occupation Title: Professional Self-entertainers

I have been home for a little over a week.  My summer thus far has been busy, fun and full of catching up with the times.  It is weird being home, sometimes the moments are just like they were before I moved away, and then others I feel completely out of place and uncertain as to what my place is here.
I don't miss school, or the cool Logan climate what I miss the most are all the friends I had made over those eight months of living on my own.

I have a feeling there maybe a few more Logan trips than I had planned on over the summer months-  I should be used to that trip by now.

BIG NEWS:  Miss LuLu turned eight (8) today!  She is going to be baptized on Saturday!  I am so proud of her and I can't believe that she is that old already!!!  I am going with her and her mom to get her ears pierced this afternoon- she is so brave and so big!  Goodness gracious where has the time gone!  

When Halee was born I was eleven years old- yet I still remember it like it wasn't that long ago.  I remember everything about the day-  What I was wearing, how slow Grandma drove Shay and I to the hospital, waiting in the hall until Jon said we could come in.  I remember holding her for the first time, and having an instant love for her.  I was in fifth grade when she was born, and my mama let me print off a picture to show everyone at school.  It seems so long ago when I think of all that has happened since then, but on that same note I still don't believe she is so old.

Sno-Cattin' Adventure (mind you no boy/husband talk included)

BEWARE: picture OVERLOAD! (yes, each picture deserves to be large and centered!)

Okay now for the story. . . not that each picture doesn't speak for itself.

. . . . . 

Friday before Spring Break I loaded up my roommates, Aubrie and two of the J3 boys- Eric and Tyson. The Durango was packed, but we got off in really good time.  See we had to leave decently early because Shay's prom was that night, and yes we went to watch- (where I come from the whole community goes to WATCH prom, but that is another story)

Saturday we ventured up into the mountains.  My pa had agreed to take us all up on the Snow Cats.  Long story short it was a new experience for everyone! 

Quick shout out to Pa, Weston and D!  Thanks for playing tour guide!

RECAP of the weekend:

(no particular order)

• Eric went up in the mountains with a broken leg. . LOTS OF PAIN
• Played in the snow all day long!
• Rode Snow Cats
• AMAZING food (thanks Ma!)
• My friends got to see what it is like where I grew up
• Everyone fell in love with my kids
• Sleepovers on the floor
• LOTS OF DRIVING!

I missed lots of important details - this is true. . .

But I would need a whole day just to relive those little moments.

Really- the weekend was just SIMPLY MARVELOUS!

Read Kellie's two-bits 

of the glamorous weekend!

just let her sleep.

I love this.

Holding a sleeping child is like nothing else.

To me it is like a piece of heaven- in the moment.

It is simple. It is about love.

I will miss this when I go back to Logan.

Today as been lovely.

Not only did I get to rock my little Addi to sleep, but today I slept in. . . In my mind perhaps a bit too much, but I feel good now- my body must have needed it I guess.  I finished my book.  I started reading The Hunger Games on Wednesday and despite many pleasant interruptions I finally finished it.  I highly recommend it.  It was beautiful outside.  I love the first hiccups of spring!  Last but not least tonight, or tomorrow morning we move the clocks forward. . . and even though I will loose one hour of sleep (I made up for it today) I love when it is brighter later!  

and I thought this was bad. . .

I have driven from Logan home 

three times in the past two weeks.

Pretty sure I could do it with my eyes closed

. . . doesn't mean I want to try it.

 I took this picture driving home last night.

I wish the roads had been this good all the way home,

maybe then it would have only taken me four and a half hours.

Surprisingly it wasn't too hard for me to drive slow on the way home.

(background: I like to get places quickly- I speed. . .too much sometimes)

Having my little girls in the car though 

made it really easy to take my time.

I am so thankful we made it home safe.

Even if it did take almost twice as long.

Counting my blessings!

Vehicle: 2004 Suburban (mom's)

Passengers: Lulu, and Jaders (fell asleep as soon as we got in the car)

Driver: Me 

Number of seat belts worn: three

Movie: Despicable Me (played through twice)

Road conditions: terrible

Lowest speed on I-15: 0 mph

Highest speed on I-15: 60 mph

Number of passed wrecks: six

Anxiety level: too high to measure

Time to get home: 5 hours and 35 minutes

Average time to get home: 3 and a half hours 

While I was driving this is what I heard going on in the backseat:

Jades, "what if a lion was lying? (giggling)"
Lulu, "yep."
Jades, "Halee, knock knock"
Lu, "Who is there?"
Jades, "Lion"
Lu, "Lion who?"
Jades, "Rawr! because that is what Lions say."
Lu, "Okay" (while texting boys on my phone)

Love these girls.

my kids.

Before I turned babysitting age

I would cry to babysit.

When I turned ten I got my first babysitting job

. . . since then I haven't stopped.

I love it!

That is why I want to be a mom.

a stay at home, 24/7 homemaker.

(I already have a soccer mom car!)

I was eleven and a half when my niece Lulu was born.

I remember riding over to the hospital with my grandma,

. . . longest car ride EVER!

Eight years later I am nine kids richer!

Being away at college I get homesick.

especially for my kids.

Not this last weekend, but the weekend before

I came home from school

(for the first time since Christmas- wild!)

I decided that I needed to have a ginormous sleep over with my kids!

So that is what we did.

We watched How to Train a Dragon 

(Swayz picked)

I tucked all of them in like Burritos

and then I spent the rest of the night juggling kids

(aka: helping them fall to sleep)

I love my kids.

end of story.

. . .remember that time it snowed.

I love being home with my family.  

The excitement of Christmas is real! FINALLY- I believe that it is really here! 

It snowed 18 inches between Monday and Tuesday and today the schools declared it a snow day!  The first snow day in 30 years. . . Wow, I don't remember ever snowing like this. . .  And it isn't the regular "Utah-snow" it is WET and fluffy not dry and powdery.  Kinda hard to get used to.

Tuesday I babysat Bosty and Strat-man.  I guess you could say I am pretty much a pro-babysitter! 

When I was ten years old I would cry to my mom because I wanted to babysit so bad and I hadn't been asked to yet.  (little did I know that babysitting was my destiny!) 

I have been babysitting ever since then.  I used to baby sit my niece Halee every day while Sandi coached basketball practice. Mind you I was only about eleven almost twelve years old and Halee was a new born.  She had ear aches and would cry for hours while I watched her.  I remember crying with her in my arms, not being able to do anything, but hold her!  However we now have a deep burning bond!  

I also had a few regular weekly babysitting jobs growing up and a summer babysitting job for two summers where I babysat five days a week from seven to five- those long summer days taught me so much.  I love kids. 

Back to Tuesday.  There was so much snow outside that I for sure would have lost Strat if not Boston in the depths of the whiteness that I decided to bring the outside in.  I fed them SNOW-cycles.  They enjoyed it.  And I mean I found clean snow for them to eat, so it was perfect!  We also cut out snowflakes to hang from the ceiling, danced to Christmas music, drove (threw) toy cars down the stairs, and we each ate a spoonful of peanut butter!

Did I mention that I love being home?

Late last night I finally got to play in the snow!

My High School Seminary Teacher took his fourwheeler and a hose.

We (Taylor, Kaden, Kinz, Layni, Taylor T, T. and Abbie) brought sleds.

    Picture this: 

Stake Center parking lot full of slushy snow.

Bro Cow driving circles with a garden hose tide to the back of his fourwheeler.

Everyone else lining up on sleds to try and grab the hose as the fourwheeler drove by.

The snow was so wet I could feel water dripping down my legs- GROSS yes, it was melted snow!

I think I was the only person to never make it around the entire loop without getting thrown, pushed, plowed off.  

The hose finally broke- then it broke again, and again until there wasn't much left.

We headed for the hills!

I love the Snow when I can go play in it!

My heart is pounding with excitement!  

I feel great!

I  went running again today (addicted) and I pushed myself harder and faster than I have since I have come home it felt so good!

Every time I want to stop because I "feel tired" I tell my head to shut up!  

I think it would have been really funny to see me running today in the slushiness of my town!

To my Bosty.

To my dearest Bosty-sauce,
I miss your craziness!  I miss you wanting me to spin you around and around just to have me stop and have you say "'gain Kels- one, two, three- 'gain!"   I love your spunky little self and wish I could watch you grow up.  I wish I could have celebrated your birthday with you and kissed your face repetitively just to hear you giggle and feel you squirm in my arms!  I love you saucy!

The Holidays are killer- I wish I was home.  I don't think I have been more homesick at school until this point.  I just want to go home- my real home where my family is.  I want to be around those who have known me my entire life and that love me unconditionally.  I want to be by my family- and to enjoy all the simple moments that we share.  I want to laugh at the dry jokes my dad tells, I want to rough-house this kids and to paint my mom's toe-nails.  I want to cuddle up with my sister in her bed and talk about boys and how stupid they are.  I want to have late night conversations with my grandma Rueleen who ALWAYS has the best advice.  I want to help around the house.  I want to be able to escape to my home and just to get away from school and life- but here school is life and no matter where I go I have to deal with my own problems.  I have to figure things out on my own, and I have to grow up- all things I am not fond of.
I have ALWAYS been really close to my family.  I would often skip out on hanging out with my friends just so I could spend that time with my family.  I would give anything to be home right now.  This last week I have wondered why I came to USU.  I have asked myself over and over why I didn't choose a school closer to home, a school that I could have gone to for a very little cost.  I would have known people.  I could go home just to spend the afternoon and make it to class on time the next day.
I want to be home.  I miss my family.  I miss my kids.  I miss my friends.  I miss everything familiar about home.

a promise is a promise.

Look at this little man!  Isn't he gorgeous!  Can I say that about a boy?  Anyhow I promised Sandi that I would get some pictures up of her little chillins!  And so this is me kind of keeping my promise (:  The last time I went home I took head shots of my kids!  It has been extremely hard for me to stay focused on my studies this last week because these pictures have just been waiting for me to pay them a little bit more attention- I want to so badly, but for now I must have self control.  I just finished a huge test I have been studying for all day and now I have math homework, I need to type up my outline for my research paper (at this point I have no direction at all) and I am working on a group project in an hour- not to mention I need figure out my class schedule before midnight so that I can register!
I will get more pictures up of all the kids as soon as I can (possibly tomorrow or tonight late-late).  O and there is a very funny/sad story that goes along with this picture of Strat!

My Rilez-D

I love this picture of Rilee.  Rilee has many nicknames like surgar, crazy, fuzz and I for one call her Rilez -D
She is beautiful.
I drove down to Provo with Sam to go watch my sister play during the state volleyball tournament (she represented by the way!)
That evening all the Mason Support Group went out for dinner- haha I wonder if we intimidate the servers with our large numbers.  While we were waiting to be seated, because it takes a while to seat fifteen people Sam and I were entertaining the little chillins!
Rilee and I decided that we would count and name off all the people who would be eating dinner with us tonight.  She went around the room and when she had gotten to Sam she called him Deven!  bahaha now this could have been a very embarrassing moment for me, but it wasn't and I couldn't stop laughing!    Poor Rilee though felt so bad!
Sam was really good about it and soon enough Rilee warmed right back up to him.

I love my family and it was so good to see them tonight!
Good Luck with the rest of state Shay I wish I could have stayed and watched you play.  You kicked butt though I must add!  Way to represent!

Hello World!

I love this picture- Shay took it.

The song going through my head right now is "A Whole New World" off of Aladdin - I'm entering my whole new world and I'm anxiously excited for it all to begin!

Today I moved away, well sort of, I haven't moved into my apartment but instead I'm crashing at my cousin's house!

Thank the heavens for families!

Tomorrow I start my freshmen orientation- I'm nervous but so ready to meet new people!  I just wish I could move into my apartment already!  

Today was a day of firsts:

• First time I drove in the city by myself- and well I'm pretty much professional. . . 
• First (sort of) day of college
• First day being homeless. . 

I guess I haven't had too many firsts yet, but I know that I love Logan- and I'm anxious to start school.

I feel like a little kid again getting ready to start elementary!