My fuzzy caterpillar friend
Troy with a sweet sign in Ft Collins
It started hailing!
Dude, not this chipmunk but a different chipmunk ate KFC biscuit from my fingers and then nibbled on my finger. so cute.
Elk at Estes Park
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Estes Park 9/20/2008 and Troy
My fuzzy caterpillar friendTroy with a sweet sign in Ft Collins
It started hailing!
Dude, not this chipmunk but a different chipmunk ate KFC biscuit from my fingers and then nibbled on my finger. so cute.
Elk at Estes Park
I am posting again!!!! YAY!!!
Ok, I know it's been way too freaking long since I've posted, therefore I will do it again. So this is for you Hayley. Last Saturday Mark and Zaneta (the people I work for and live with) were nice enough to take me to Estes Park, which is a part of Rocky Mountain Natl. Park. It was beautiful! We saw and heard a whole bunch of elk. There were blue jays and chipmunks and even a fuzzy caterpillar who I found in my hair in the car. He was my friend. And of course mountains. I walked up this path to the top of Longs Peak and it is 12,005 ft above sea level! Basically I had the worst headache ever since we started inclining and it just got worse. I didn't feel better until we started declining. I literally felt like I was drunk or high (even tho I've never been any of those things) like on those Mt Everest movies where the climbers get so high up that they need oxygen and they are stumbling and not walking straight and can't think straight, well, that's how I felt. So yeah, my brain is just not used to being this high up. I just wikipedia'd Kennewick, WA where I grew up my whole life and found out the elevation is 407 ft. And I just wikipedia'd Longmont, CO where I am currently living and the elevation is 4,984 ft. Quite a difference. Ok I just looked up Spokane, WA where I lived for about 3 years and the elevation there is 2,376 ft. so I haven't lived just above sea level my whole life I guess. Anyway, now I'm just being boring. I sometimes get bad headaches here, if anyone has any suggestions on how to not get headaches in high elevation places please let me know. So enough about elevation. The reason they took me to Estes Park is because Mark got the job in Baltimore he interviewed for and they are moving really soon. I am not going to be working for them after Tuesday of next week. So I'm trying to figure out what I am doing. I had a second interview for an office clerk job on Thursday so I am hoping and praying I will get that job. We'll see. I'm really not too worried because I know the Lord will take care of me no matter what and everything will be ok.
So last nite I saw Pineapple Express at the cheap seats with Troy and it was wayyyy funny. Watching the crowd of people walk out at the end was the best part. I've never seen such an odd group of people walk out of a movie theatre before. It was great. And this morning the first thing I thought was that I wanted a HUGE bowl of lucky charms for breakfast and I did. I felt sick afterwards but not for too long. I was just impressed that I could eat that big of a bowl. Oh wow, Mark is blasting 'It's my life' by No Doubt on his bose and singing along. He can be quite eccentric, which is fine. Anyway, yeah Troy and I have been spending as much hang out time together as we can because he is the only person here that I knew previously to moving here and it's nice to have that connection. So I'm trying to think if anything else exciting happened that I would want to share on a blog. Ummmmmm, I don't think so, plus I'm sure everyone's sick of reading this. Oh wait! I found out if my trany does need replacing I can get the hook up with this guy's brother and get a new trany plus labor for 1,000 which is way better than twice that much or four times that much. Since I will need a car, I will probably do it. Also, I made a trip to one of only 2 Jack in the Box's in the state of Colorado. It was about an hour away near Denver. The Bishop's family took a carload of kids, awesome huh? Also, on my first date I went to Denver for the first time and that was awesome! I have some good photos, It was dark. Oh yeah and I found out I can follow people's blogs on here. I've got Richard's, Hayley's, Aynna's, Heather's and that' it so far, so if you have a blog on here let me know so I can follow it. Love you all. Thanks for being interested in the goings on of my Thuper, therial exciting life!
-Beka
ps. I love house season 4
Me at Jack in the Box in 
Driving to Boulder
This is for Hayley (creepy looking bunny statue in
Denver
Estes Park
Monday, September 15, 2008
Oh yes, crappy Colorado photos
Sorry these are so crappy. I'll get better one's soon. I need to go to the mountains. There are a lot of corn fields here that I need to take photos of. These are both on the way to church.
COLORADO 101
Dude, sorry this is late, I told some people it would be up like a couple weeks ago, but you know me, just a simple minded procrastinator sometimes. I hope this has spell check... djsgiun sweet, it does. Anyway, I have been living in Colorado since Aug. 30, 2008. I was living at home for like a year and a half, and that is just too long for a 22 year old adult to be living at home. I loved working at Hastings for the 11 months that I was there and it was really cool being promoted in a job for the first time in my life to a manager position AND finding out I was good at it. Really great experience, but needed to end sometime. I am now in Colorado north of Denver being a live in nanny for a set of twins, boy and a girl, 17 months, Luke and Caydence. They are adorable. So yeah, craigslist is a beautiful thing. My car's transmission started having problems as soon as I crossed the Wyoming/Colorado border and luckily made it the 89 more miles to my new home. Colorado drivers are MUCH better than Utah drivers I've discovered, I like them a lot. So, I have never experienced the no car life and with a job right where I live, it's really not so bad. I just catch rides to all the church activities and I'm good to go. Plus, I'm saving money on gas and insurance. It's perfect for my plan on saving money.
So the family I work for are really nice and the kids are really good and fun and like me, which is always good. I am making friends all the time. I found out that my friend Troy is living like 30 miles north of me which is nice, just to know someone from before. We hang out sometimes, it's a nice familiarity. There was a church dance on Saturday which was pretty dang fun. Troy is a great dancer and so were a bunch of his friends so I didn't feel alone cos I always dance. Plus there were some pretty cute dudes, that doesn't hurt. I actually had some homesickness at first which I wasn't expecting at all so that was strange. I was just so ready to leave, but I really do miss my family a lot and some good friends of mine. I love change and new experiences tho so I am ready for this different adventure. I'd never been to Colorado before and it is beautiful. I don't have any really good photos tho yet, sorry. I will post some crappy ones, just to give you all (Hayley) an idea of what it's like. It's sunny 300 days of the year which is awesome and the winters aren't as bad (Mom and Dad) in this particular area as you would expect. Something to do with the location of the mountains. So that's good to know. I won't be driving in snow anyway tho. I do like to drive in snow, I find it thrilling and challenging.
Mark and Zaneta (the people I work for) hooked me up with a cell phone which is nice and I went a little crazy so when you call me and hear loud music don't be alarmed.
I apologize for this being long, I just feel like there's so much that I haven't shared. Oh and the faint is doing a second US tour I just found out last nite which I am stoked about! They are playing in Boulder next month and I am totes (internet for totally) going. I can't wait. As some of you may know they are probably my favorite band and I was going to see them in Spokane beginning of August, I had a ticket, but no one would commit to going with me and I decided to hitch a ride down to Utah for a family reunion, I really wanted to see my siblings, so I just did that instead. I was bummed about missing the faint and now I don't have to be! And Troy is going with me. Cos he's awesome and likes the faint too. I think that's about it. I found out NM is only 7ish hours away, depending where you go of course and I want to go WAY bad because I've always been fascinated by the state. My horizons and traveling experiences are widening more and more. I am sure I will think of more to write soon so you won't be bored.
I miss you all!
-Beka
ps. I've read Green Eggs and Ham about 37 times already!
Mom and I at the Great Salt Lake , my first time
Me driving thru Wyoming
Wyoming
Caydence
Luke
So the family I work for are really nice and the kids are really good and fun and like me, which is always good. I am making friends all the time. I found out that my friend Troy is living like 30 miles north of me which is nice, just to know someone from before. We hang out sometimes, it's a nice familiarity. There was a church dance on Saturday which was pretty dang fun. Troy is a great dancer and so were a bunch of his friends so I didn't feel alone cos I always dance. Plus there were some pretty cute dudes, that doesn't hurt. I actually had some homesickness at first which I wasn't expecting at all so that was strange. I was just so ready to leave, but I really do miss my family a lot and some good friends of mine. I love change and new experiences tho so I am ready for this different adventure. I'd never been to Colorado before and it is beautiful. I don't have any really good photos tho yet, sorry. I will post some crappy ones, just to give you all (Hayley) an idea of what it's like. It's sunny 300 days of the year which is awesome and the winters aren't as bad (Mom and Dad) in this particular area as you would expect. Something to do with the location of the mountains. So that's good to know. I won't be driving in snow anyway tho. I do like to drive in snow, I find it thrilling and challenging.
Mark and Zaneta (the people I work for) hooked me up with a cell phone which is nice and I went a little crazy so when you call me and hear loud music don't be alarmed.
I apologize for this being long, I just feel like there's so much that I haven't shared. Oh and the faint is doing a second US tour I just found out last nite which I am stoked about! They are playing in Boulder next month and I am totes (internet for totally) going. I can't wait. As some of you may know they are probably my favorite band and I was going to see them in Spokane beginning of August, I had a ticket, but no one would commit to going with me and I decided to hitch a ride down to Utah for a family reunion, I really wanted to see my siblings, so I just did that instead. I was bummed about missing the faint and now I don't have to be! And Troy is going with me. Cos he's awesome and likes the faint too. I think that's about it. I found out NM is only 7ish hours away, depending where you go of course and I want to go WAY bad because I've always been fascinated by the state. My horizons and traveling experiences are widening more and more. I am sure I will think of more to write soon so you won't be bored.
I miss you all!
-Beka
ps. I've read Green Eggs and Ham about 37 times already!
Mom and I at the 
Me driving thru 
Caydence
Luke
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