10 dollas

I just got a call from Linda (front desk Linda), and she said that the money I turned in a few months ago, is now mine!! I'm picking it up when I come to the MTC as a mish, and I'll have to get a treat for all the general service lades.

Good Luck Jessica!

A week from Wednesday our lovely Jessica will come into the MTC as a missionary. We've had some good laughs through the years, and we look forward to all the stories you'll tell us when you get home.

We love you, Jess!

I love hospitals...

While I was home for Christmas, I had my gallbladder taken out.

Don't I look beautiful all prepped for surgery?!

This is a picture of my dad and I leaving the hospital after both getting our gallbladders out! What a great daddy/daughter date!

And here we are at home, showing off our battle wounds!

Well, apparently I couldn't stay away from the hospital for too long... Only two weeks after coming back to Utah and fours weeks after my gallbladder surgery I was back at a Hospital. This time it was the Provo Hospital and I started in the Emergency Room at 1:30am.

After throwing up a few times, getting lots of pain medicine through an IV, and getting a Cat Scan, it was determined that I had Appendicitis!! I couldn't believe it! I told them I had just had my gallbladder out, how could I have Appendix problems too?!! But by 6am I was being taken to the operating room.

Here is a picture of me after the surgery. I look so drugged!! Kimber and my sister Suzanne were with me through it all. They said after surgery I was really loopy.. I don't really remember much though.

Now I am recovering and praying that I don't have to visit any more hospitals anytime soon. I can't believe I had TWO surgeries and lost TWO internal organs in ONE month!

Not as far as Jerusalem...

...but you'll probably not see me for these next four months either. :) So here is this veteran GS girl's update!

Lily is almost 5 months old. She (sometimes) enjoys rice cereal and drinks water from a cup much like a little puppy. I love her!

Please note the attractive rice cereal coating my glasses. And the content, "Ha ha" look on the adorable baby.

Yes, I make her do chores. This is her idea of folding laundry. She's really very good at it!

I'm doing my student teaching right now and I'm loving it. My feet and throat really hurt after a long day of teaching, but I just have to get my "teaching legs," says my mentor teacher. The hubby is working hard with school and two jobs. If you ever see him on campus, give him a high-five or something. (And yes, it's SO weird to not go to campus anymore!!!!)

So, not as far away or as cool as Jess in Jerusalem, but there you have it! The end of the college tunnel is approaching.

Long way from Provo

Alright, alright Kari
I was hoping to update this blog soon, but life is crazy in Jeru. I know that all of you have been writing to me via facebook, but just so you know, I can't get on that here. So send your emails to my gmail instead :)
I know you guys will have lots of emails for me.
Man, I miss you guys! I miss familiarity a lot. And I've been pretty homesick and disoriented. But, things are improving. Rough week, but life is getting better.

My roommates are cuties, and I'm in JERUSALEM.
Isn't that crazy!? That life is here for the next 4 months. Some girl said 96 days left today. So far it has felt like much longer than a week..but at the same time, I'm still learning so much and getting used to everything.

Tonight we went to the Western Wall. Soooo cool. It was the Jews sabbath, and we watched them worship and joined in some dances. They are such devout worshipers, it's so interesting. The people here are just, so interesting! It's unlike anything I imagined. Loud and different languages being shouted, whole raw cows just hanging there, and cats everywhere!
There is so much to learn and so much homework, and, it's just crazy!

Miss y'all. And, the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem are so pretty!!!

PS. I have a blog called, jessinjeru.blogspot.com

This Blog NEEDS to be Updated!!

Attention all past and present GS girls!!!! Please update this blog!!! NOW!!!! Thank you in advance for your corporation!