Tasha and I contrived to get together at about 4 on Friday to start preparing for a sleepover with my nieces Adelle and Lydia. She decided she was going to get her car fixed (the window was having troubles staying up) and thought it'd be good to drop by since she'd be in the neighborhood. Of course, it didn't take her as long as she thought it would. She called me ten minutes after my alarm went off to wake me up and asked if she could play. I said alright and quickly showered. I meant to clean my room on Thursday, but my cousin Tyler came over in the evening and we played Rockband until eleven. Which meant I couldn't vacuum...so my brothers and I watched some television and I finally went to sleep somewhere around five.

Before I went off on this wild tangent, I was about to tell you that Tasha got to my house before I finished showering. Kinda weird. She saw my very messy bedroom. But she already knew I was messy person, so it was alright. While I cleaned and thoroughly vacuumed my room, she played the Sims. We disappeared to go Wendy's for lunch about half an hour before the girls came over. It was yummy. Adelle and Lydia came over at about four and we started playing. I got started on our homemade pizza. I made dough with yeast for the first time in my life! Wahoo! While the dough was rising, we made chocolate chip cookie dough and started cooking them. Lydia helped me punch the dough down and then spread it over the pan. Her crust was really neat. We put on pizza sauce, cheese, and both Lydia and Adelle helped me place the most important ingredient--pepperoni! (They only wanted pepperoni on their pizza. I asked in advance.)

We ate the pizza in a hurry and the girls had some cookies before we put the car seat in Tasha's Jeep to go and see Kung Fu Panda. I thought they were showing it at Hollywood Connections--I checked online before we went and also in the newspaper, but when we arrived, the girl at the ticket stand looked at me like I was crazy when I asked for tickets to see the movie. So, we went over to the mall to see what was in the dollar theater. There wasn't anything kid-friendly. Adelle and Lydia decided it would be fun to walk around the mall, so we went into a few stores and looked at gorgeous porcelain dolls and neat figurines. One of the stores had glittery eggs on sale, so I got a purple one for Lydia and a pink one for Adelle. Lydia and Adelle thought it would be a good idea to play "Movie theater" at home, so we came back and put in Pirates of the Caribbean. It was time for bed before we got too far, though.

Lydia and Adelle didn't really want to sleep. They convinced me that talking would help them feel sleepy--which wasn't entirely accurate. But eventually we all fell asleep until Adelle woke up at 4:30 in the morning complaining about being the wrong direction. She tried to make Lydia move over, so I offered to share my bed. She took over most of it. It took me a while to fall back asleep, and it seemed a moment after I did, Adelle was awake again and the sun was coming up. I made pancakes, and we went off to church on time (which was rad). Adelle enjoyed Sunbeams--she was confused because they sang the same song at my ward as they do in hers. Lydia and Adelle were very well behaved during "dry" council sacrament meeting. We came home and they changed and had leftover pizza for lunch. I ended up falling asleep on the floor after putting the air mattress away and rolling up their sleeping bags.

Here's a picture of Adelle I took while we munched on some crackers:

Here's one of Lydia:


Lydia took this one of me:



Wes and Liz (their parents) came at around five for the sendoff mentioned in the title, as did my grandmother, aunt, cousin, and Devin. He moved away from home this past week. I think he mainly came to steal food... But that's okay! We had yummy ham, cheesy potatoes, jello-like salad, and chocolate cake. Saying goodbye to the girls was hard. I'm going to miss 'em! Adelle and Lydia want me to put them in my suitcase. If I could, I would.

Once they left, Dustin (a brother), Jeff, Tyler (my cousin) and I played Rockband for a while. Kyle (another brother) joined us and we played some fun gigs.

It's sad that I'm leaving Wednesday...I'm going to miss everyone so much!