Thatcher Hick.

okay lets start with yesterday morning! sunday- church. no one else in the house was going due to a broken radiator (so no car) and no real desire to. so i got up early and got as cute as i could. grabbed the MoPed and took off. in my church clothes. so, some pretty high heels and a skirt. i felt pretty boss. i was even fast enough to pass a tractor! cool stuff. so church was interesting. i got some nasty looks when i walked into RS. while that was cool and all i had to giggle because i don't consider myself much a a threat. i mean come on. i burp and fart like a man and sometimes i choose not to shower. 

this is the best part though, one of the girls that gave me the stink eye was sitting there in class totally picking her nose. not even trying to hide it or anything. just stinking her finger up there and then straight back down to her mouth! i remembered her face from when i was visiting Tali! so im pretty sure she works at the beauty school. ohh pretty girls are gross too. good to know. 

in sunday school is was asked to read a scripture full of names i couldnt pronounce. so i turned red and that was lovely. And in sacrament all the girls who talked had a sort of introduction to their talks that sounded like they were trying to sell themselves. i guess that is why singles ward is made fun of so much. people there are freaks. to say the least. 

after church Ed came over to hang out and when he heard that i hadn't ever shot a gun he jumped up and called  his brother and we all went over to his sisters house. they loaded up a crazy bunch of kids and we all went out further into the middle of no where! and shot at golf balls! i shot 3 different knids of guns! i couldnt tell you when kinds but one of them gave me a big huge bruise on the kick back! and then a different kind of gun had hot brass (thats what they called it) that flew at me after B shot it and it burnt my arm! so i have a cool scar from my first real day in Thatcher. 

we hung out with Ed's family for a while! theyre all really cool! his pregnant sister never missed the target when she was shooting- which was kind of scary. and the other 3 kids were super cute and welcomed me really quickly so i had a blast! Emm (a 4 year old) kept grabbing my ankles and asked me to pull her around as i walked "like uncle Eddie does"

then Carter (3 years old) with is lasso string would run around hitting B and I and tell us that he was being a cow boy! and lastly Claire (1) would ask to be twirled around like a princess! and when i would stop she would say "again! again! pleeeeeaseeeee"  

B and Ed and I road in the back of the truck on the way back from shooting (we sat there on the way out too) which was a first for me. but the little kids would knock on the window from inside and play peek-a-boo. while we threw golf balls out the back! 

on the way back to Ed's brother house we were talking about what everyone does for fun here and he asked me if i had ever been swimming in a pond. my answer was something like "um, no. that sounds a little gross."

and then we went to a pond. luckily it was dark so it didn't look suuuuper gross or anything. it was actually kind of fun- a little freaky though because there was no touching the bottom of this thing. you just jump off this huge floating dock! and you're in. 

afterwards  we crammed back in Eds teeny car (me on B's lap) and drove home! 

we actually got pulled over put it was super weird. the cop didnt really look into the window, so B and Ed think that he didnt know we were piled into the passenger seat. i think he knew but that we looked like stupid college kids so he just let us off. but who knows! either way its kind of funny! 

it was a pretty great first day! ending with home made biscuits and gravy! and shooting stars! 

 i can now add HICK to my resume. cool beans.