Sorry Sorta...

After reading my cousin's blog for this morning (who is an excellent writer), I have realized that my writing skills have been terrible. I understand that my thoughts have been quite lazily slapped onto this blog in a way quite unbecoming of a future educator. I'm going to be teaching children how to read and write and I can't even use the right form of "they're/their/there"? I usually quickly throw thoughts on here as they come, not paying much attention to my writing skills. I think I need to start paying attention to things like that. Where better to practice, right? (Besides school of course). From here on out I will pay attention and write with a little more dignity. It still needs to feel like my voice, but I'll take more care not to write like one of those people that make you sick to read because it's so awful. It's not my strength-good writing and grammar-but I would like to get better at it, so I'm going to try.

Hoorah for the english language and using it correctly!

No More Pets

I have made an executive decision-I am never having pets when I grow up and have a family. Sorry future children, no way. Right now I'm living at my parents house for the Christmas break, and George my dog, and boots my cat are here as well. They both shed like freaks. This is pretty much what george does...



and Boots is a lot like this...


Ah man I'm so sick of pet hair. Gross. You look at George and you're covered in like 1.7 seconds. It's like stinkin magic. No more pets for me. Yea, they're cute, and they give you that face that stops you from strangling them after they have barfed on something or meowed all night long. I'm being harsh. I know I love them. They're funny and cute, I know that. That's part of the problem-I always get attached. And then they run away or they die and I get so sad. Therefore, I decided I'm not going to let my kids have hairy monstrosities for pets, or any pets that we'll get attached to and bawl when they die. That narrows it down to....goldfish. I think I'll let my kids have a goldfish. They don't get their bodily fluids all over anything, and if they die you can flush them. And I wouldn't even be sad since I hate fish. It might lead to an early discussion about death when they wonder where the fishy went....but I am willing to take that risk. I've wiped too much cat hair off my bed and yelled for george to stop barking too many times. In fact as I'm typing this I'm sittin in the front room and the cat is staring at me while George is in the kitchen sleeping and snoring like a monster. Ah I'm such a scrooge. I'm a cranky old no-pet-patience scrooge. Maybe I'll change my mind tomorrow. For now? Bah Humbug.

p.s. now watch one of them will get hurt or something and I'll bawl my eyes out and feel so bad for being so brutal. It's just my luck, poor pets. Their cursed now because of my bad attitude. We'll save the apologies for tomorrow though, cause I'm just gonna be cranky pants about it tonight, and that is that.

Christmas brings some good memories.

I was just on my couch before I went to bed last night thinking about past Christmases, and some memories. And then that brought other memories. Just funny family times.
You need to hear about these people. This is my family.


In this picture I'm trying to put my hand on kyle's knee and he won't let me. George and Sabrinna are staring at the same thing over on the left. I think it must have been a cat. My dad was getting something from his pocket. And the grass was wet so I believe we all had wet bums after it, but it's worth it. What a great pic.

Well two Christmases ago this happened:


Jay swore by Columbia brand coats. So him and kyle both put on their coats and sat outside, so see how long they could last the cold. They just sat there, and withstood the cold.

Well to keep themselves entertained they had the rubiks cube of course. That was the rubiks cube Christmas. Jay and kyle got it down to about a minute and a half. Let's see, there have also been Christmases of Ping Pong, Smash Brothers, Monopoly, Parcheesy. We go through phases. We wouldn't play once or twice, but over and over and over again. That's where the Wentz tournaments come in. We'll play a game like five times or more to determine a winner of the designated tournament, not just of a game. That's like the Budweiser Pioneer Day Open, or the Pepsi New Years Classic, or the Christmas Triple Crown (that had parcheesy, smash brothers, and I think ping pong?) was two years ago. Jay won that.

Actually,Jay usually won most of them. He was really good at beating Kyle and I at games. But it was fun to play so it was worth it. Actually, that same Christmas I was playing Connect Four with Jay for like three hours, and whenever one of us was about to go somewhere wrong the other person would say, "if you go there you'll lose". and we'd rethink it and find a better move, until we figured out our strategies so well that after the first three checkers were put in we knew who was going to win. So, we eventually stopped that night cause it became three checkers long per game, instead of until someone has four in a row. Ya know like in tic tac toe, it gets to where you can tell who will win after only three moves have been made? It was like that. Games at the wentz home are intense.

We kinda overdo things sometimes. Like once when Kyle, Jay and I were all sick, we decided the least sick among us should go buy us ice cream and a movie. Kyle was dubbed least ill and returned with bananna coldstone ice cream, and "The Incredibles".



We watched it six or seven times in a row. By the third time Jay would stop and rewind it at parts he liked and would show us how good the animation was and why he liked it. That was the funnest sick day I ever had.

Oh another Wentz Christmas thing? National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Most of the vocabulary that comes out of our mouths between Thanksgiving and January 1st is from that movie.

Oh and when Steve and I would put up the Christmas lights we made them into a smiley face on the roof.

Peeking at presents? Masters. We were absolute masters. We would know every single present under the tree guaranteed. I don't remember ever not knowing what I was getting for Christmas. Mom would try and double wrap them. Ha, good effort. But we couldn't be stopped. We'd take a little pin and carve on the line of the design on the wrapping paper, lift up the flap, see what it was, and then put invisible tape on the inside and push it closed so you could never tell where the incision was made. We should be surgeons I tell ya.

My mom's fudge is delicious. We would eat so much we'd feel kinda sick, so we'd go lay on the couches or play nintendo to wait until we felt well enough to eat more of it. That's how it goes with candy corn as well. We were sugar addicts growing up. I think some of it is still lingering as well, I totally have a sweet tooth.

Well, this is long, and there are so many more funny things I have been thinking about. These are some of my favorites though. Holidays are just fun with my family. We won't even go into halloween or fourth of july. :) I love them.
It's really nice to have steve and syl and their two kids out for Christmas this year! So there are plenty of memories to make. I can't wait till Kyle gets home though. I miss the old days sometimes. It's different now, but that doesn't mean it can't be as much fun. Two days till Christmas, and lots of memories to be made.

Merry Christmas! Don't forget what it's all about. Best Holiday Ever.

yikes.

Finals = done. finished. gonzo. end. boom!!!! I did it!! yee haw. That was a tough semester, but I did better than I have in any semester yet. Ah man it feels good to have it totally done. It took so much work though. Dang.

Last night? well, didn't even go to bed. yep. my first all nighter of my life. and the night before I got three hours. yikes.

How did I do it? Prolly cause my friend Jade stayed up with me cause she was workin on the same project. And it could have been the five bowls of apple jacks. I got them for two dollars at macey's. Best purchase I've ever made. My eyes still aren't focusing quite like they should. I need some sleep! But it's done. and that's what matters. and my grammer and punctuation is terrible. yikes. sorry sorta.

oh and I'm banning myself from facebook. no more facebook for a while.

oh and I'm choosing to have a good attitude about things. Like even things that are stinky. Remind me will ya? remind me that I'm gonna choose to be happy. :)

and I get to talk to kyle next week on the phone! woot woot!

and I start the El ed program in january! I'm SO excited for january! A fresh start. A new year, a new apartment, a new ward, new classes and a new program, new goals and fresh motivation, and a new chapter in my life. Every year on my birthday I make a list of goals. Goals for that year of my life. Like right now I just began my 21 year goals. and let me tell ya, 21 is gonna be a good year. I'm so excited to start the program and be so focused on elementary ed. it's gonna be fabulous for me to just jump right into it.

And we're moving back to the elms. That ward is so fabulous. It's so close to campus. So many of my friends are there. There are going to be some awkward cons to moving there-well mostly just one actually- I understand that, and that makes it seem kinda stupid to move back, but for some reason I feel like I need to be there. I feel sooo good about moving back. That is definitely what needs to happen for me, I guess I'll figure out why later. But even with some rather not so fun situations that might be there, it will be worth it for me I know it. I don't know why I just feel so good about it. yay for moving. That's gonna be fun.

Ok, this is random blubber. Mostly it's just fun for me to write out what I'm thinkin. Ha, who even reads this anyway? I think Sis Wilde, Emilie, and Syl. So hello to you. :) Ha I know berkeley doesn't cause it doesn't have any pictures. :) Sorry I write gibberish. but hey it's my blog, that's what it's for.

Merry Christmas everyone! Happy no more school for two weeks!!

This is style my friends.

I REALLY want to purchase this hat. Wow. Have you seen a better lookin hat? No, you have not because this tops them all. Hopefully soon you will see one on my head, I just need to find somewhere that has them first....

Advice to myself again. Pardon the deep and cheesy.

I know that finals are coming, and I have plenty to study. I know. I will get to it. But right now I can’t push aside some reflecting and thinking that is happening. Can I share a few thoughts? Of course I can. Well actually this is REALLY long, so it's a lot of thoughts, but it’s my blog. And I’m 21 now, so that means I can do what I want. :)

I have been thinking about goals. Improvement. Motivation. Bettering myself. Healing. Momentum. Change. Choice. Faith. His plan. Purpose. Destiny. The Atonement. Determination. A lot of self introspection happening as you can see.

I love those words. All of them. Something about goals and improvement just sparks something inside of me and I love it. What a great feeling it is to know that you can improve. You can change and progress. You literally can be whoever you want to be. And it’s all because of the Atonement. I am so thankful for the Atonement. Because we can repent, we can improve. Because of the Atonement and the fact that we have been redeemed from death there is a reason to want to be better because your soul is eternal. You will be you forever-a fact that comes with an underlying fire to want to become the best you you could possibly be. Because of the Atonement we have hope. We can overcome, heal, trust, and live because of that gift. I am so thankful for it. Holy cow I am thankful for it more than words can say. Maybe you know the feeling, so my words don’t have to say it. You can just feel it yourself drawing from your experience in life.

I want to be better. I want to be a better Kellie Wentz. A better student, sister, daughter, friend, and Latter Day Saint. What makes us better than looking at the experiences we have had and learning from them? Sometimes life is so hard. Wow. I wonder how we can feel the way that we do. It seems almost unbearable in those moments when you feel your heart literally aching for solace. Why do we have to feel that? My opinion? That’s life. Not in the cruel way like, “oh, suck it up, that’s life”. But as in, those little moments of heartache accompany those little moments of bliss, boredom, mediocrity, excellence, sadness, surety and laughter and make up life! Life IS little moments. You have to learn to love the cruddy along with the magnificent. I’m always looking and the future thinking , “when THAT happens, I’ll be living life!” No sir. I’m living it right now. Life is a like this big cookie that is made up of all those different ingredients into something delicious. Yes, salt by itself tastes super crappy, but its cause you aren’t supposed to eat it by itself. You add sugar and flour and chocolate chips to it and it’s fantastic. Those heart wrenching moments are like the salt in life. Yes, it’s terrible right in the moment by itself, but don’t let it be by itself for long. Notice the sugar and flour in other parts of your life in those times when salt is staring you in the face and you’ll be able to see the cookie. Does that make any sense? Life is delicious. I’m so serious. Life is incredible.

I like this quote by President Monson. “Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend . . . when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us [happiness]—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.”

You will ALWAYS have things you wish were better or more a part of your life. Why focus on what you don’t have? It makes you miserable. Like he says, you can experience heaven when you realize all you do have. Sometimes “life salt” blinds you from that for a little bit, so during those hard times you have to take the stinking biggest blind step of faith ever and trust that heaven is there, you’re just not lookin at it.

President Monson also said this, “If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will—to your surprise—miss them profoundly.”

Mom’s hate that laundry and messes and all of that. But what He says is so true. You will miss it one day. Maybe that cruddy score on your bio test is like dirty fingerprints on the wall and you hate it now, but it’s life. Its one of those salt moments that’s going to flavor your life down the road. I swear I would be happier if I would just find a way to be grateful for it now. I swear that’s why old people are so happy sometimes-cause they have realized all of this stuff about loving life that’s gonna take me years to really appreciate.

I love elder Hollands talk “Remembering Lot’s wife”. Oh MAN, that is the talk for my life. I can’t even write any highlights from it cause the whole thing is a highlight. Please read it. I want to focus on moving forward, while using the experience I have acquired, without looking back and wanting to be there. The best is yet to be. I believe that. That’s what I’m talking about when I talk about living life in the moments that make it up. If you are doing everything you possibly can right in your life, Heavenly Father will take care of you. No matter what. That takes faith, but it is so worth it.

President Hinckley said, “Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”

Alright, half hour later, here is my point. Yes. Sometimes life is hard. Very very very hard. But sometimes life is very very very good! When life is hard you remember that hard and difficult is necessary, and it is just one ingredient that adds to your delicious life. I am thankful for hard things. I really am. Heavenly Father knows how to make me grow. He knows how to make me happy. I gotta trust that, even when I am blinded by hard things, and remember that life is sweet. Every moment. I love every moment that I’ve been given here. Someday I will even love those moments that tasted bitter. I’m trying to make my life the best stinkin cookie you’ve heard of, and for it to taste just right, I’m gonna need that salt. :)

Ophelia Syndrome.

This is how I feel right now.


I'm tired of making choices. Like you know those times you have to make lots of choices, and they are all difficult, and you feel like no matter what choice you make something is going to stink. I hate those choices. Who wants to make them for me?
I could pay you as an employee. Think of it as a part time job. Applications open immediately. I need a"personal decision maker". STAT! Except you don't get holidays off. In fact you will probably have to work extra on holidays. I'll make it up to you by offering a cookie bonus. Like, I'll make you cookies. You don't want to miss this opportunity.

thank you.
sincerely, management.
just kidding.
sincerely, kellie.

Parental Idiosyncrasies...

This is my family. I love them. They are great. One of my favorite things about these people?...I have really funny parents. If you know me, you probably know Stuart and Michelle, and that right there is nuff said. If you don't know them, well, they are hilarious. Since it's thanksgiving I wanted to highlight some of the reasons I am thankful for them, and love them. Mostly I was thinking of a lot of funny things they say or do. It makes me want to just go hug them right now. Maybe you can get a laugh from them too.

• Once when I woke up before school in junior high, I walked down the hall and saw my mom on the couch eating hot fudge with a spoon straight out of the jar. I asked her why she was eating it by itself (meaning that it probably wasn't good for breakfast) to which she responded matter of factly, "well it's too early for ice cream."
  
• Once at a ward function, there was smoke in the kitchen from something burning. My dad went in there to help them clean it up. He brought the vacuum with him and started to vacuum up the smoke. It didn't really work. ha I love my dad.
• Most parents discourage the use of BB guns or explosives. When we got a BB gun for Christmas a few years ago my mom also bought us a box of those glass ball Christmas ornaments and a bag of little plastic animals to shoot. And we all had a great time setting them up in the back yard and destroying them.
  
• Kyle would always tell my dad totally bogus facts about things, just cause my dad is really gullible. I think our whole family is pretty gullible actually. but it was hilarious when kyle and I would keep it going, and when he was falling for it, our dad would get this high pitched voice that would say, "oh come on now, you are pulling my leg!" or a low pitched drawn out, "Naaaaahhhhhhh. now kyle. I dont' know about that" if he was doubting.
• Once at the carwash my mom and I spent about twenty minutes making fun of a woman who was taking boxes of blueberries out of her car. We aren't exactly the healthiest family, we enjoy mostly refined white flour and snack food, so blueberries were just hilarious to us. What on earth would you do with a box of blueberries? Well, we came up with some funny ideas. For days after that I would get texts or voicemails from my mom about blueberries.
  
• Once when me and a bunch of friends were downstairs watching a movie, my mom came in the room carrying the BB gun and said, "Bell, you gotta come try this, this is really fun!". So I followed her upstairs, and she showed me how she had been shooting the snails crawling up our house with the BB gun. I think Emilie said something like wow, our parents think completely opposite of each other. :)
• it's funny when my dad cries during touching movies. usually it's in remember the titans or another touching sports or Christmas movie.
  
• Phrases my parents use:
• You little turkey lip! -dad
• this is a good quality item -dad
• you little lazy bum -mom
• men don't look under things -mom
• men follow you around messing up what you just cleaned -mom
• men don't think that far in advance -mom
• stuart, I just said that -mom
• you need to be a little more pleasant kellie -dad
  
• hey belltone (one of mom's nicknames for me)! -mom, followed by, Michelle! she is not a hearing aid! -dad
• mom's nicknames for me and kyle: kell, kell bell, beltone, beltini, bellisima, bell bottom, kelty, bells, ky, kyty, killer ky, tiny mite. This woman is creative I tell you. and I love it.
  

Well, that's all that's really all I have thought of for now. They are so funny. I love my parents. I'm glad they both have such good sense's of humor, and love me. They are great.

today's fact for good health...

The title of this blog is a reminder necessary for keeping good health, is it not? In keeping with the spirit of that, I would like tell you another fact for a healthy life.

This is a Daphnia, aka waterflea. They are really tiny little buggers, this pic is under the scope.



Disgusting? Yes. I am fully aware. I have had to stare at them for a long time today.

I have learned about him and grown to love him as a close friend the past little while as I have studied about him in my biology lab-despite his see-through grossyness. My group (which is me and two other girls)was assigned to do an experiment with Daphnia (multiple daphnia, in fact our teacher has a whole fishbowl full of 'em). We chose to see what substances would affect their heartrate, since you can see their heartbeats really well under a microscope.

In water his heartbeat is about 200. In apple juice it's about 50. And here's where we get to the health part.

this is a popular energy beverage of today's society.



Tasting of lime sherbet and smarties, it is packed with b vitamins, guarine, taurine, and caffeine.

We chose a little daphnia that was swimming around like a champ, put him on the slide and put TWO DROPS of rockstar on him. Boom. Dead. Heart stopped. kicked the bucket. gonzo. done. Poor little fella. It was fatal.

But maybe he was just wimpy, so we got another little guy and put him on the slide.

He swam around for like two seconds aaaaaand... croak. on to the next life. Do you think there are Daphnia in the spirit world? If there are, welp, then they had a flood of em coming home today, cause they just couldn't handle the process. Sorry sorta...
It was cardiac arrest I'm pretty sure. yikes.

OK, MORAL: aka, health fact.

don't drink Rockstar. Its a killer. Imagine what it does to your poor innards. don't do it.

Lifting Burdens-The Atonement

How lucky are we to know all of these things? That we have Prophets and Apostles of God to give us such an obvious formula for happiness? We are SO lucky.
Most of the world doesn't have it, I bet half have no idea it's even possible to have such a blessing. I love this Church. I am lucky and I know it. :)

I love the fall!!

(secret: I didn't actually take this picture. but it's gorgeous)

Fall is AWESOME!
By far my favorite time of year. Which sounds weird cause in reality its the time of year when everything is dying. It's getting colder, and the leaves are falling off, and plants are starting to reach their end, but it's BEAUTIFUL!!
I can't think of a whole lot I love more than seeing pretty fall leaves on the mountains and going up the canyon this time of year.
Do you know one of my favorite things ever? Possibly more than fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, or getting to sleep in- Driving up the canyon during a break between sessions of fall general conference. I already love conference so much, and I love the canyon, and it usually seems to be incredible weather during conference. I hope I get a chance to go next weekend cause conference is right around the corner.
Welp, I struck some good luck because last weekend me, Steve, Scott, and Cait went up to hike Stewart Falls, and I felt like a three year old on Christmas with all the beautiful scenery up there. We ended up not being able to find the trail, so we just walked around by aspen grove and took some sweet pictures. here's a taste test of our fun:


This is Steve. Me. Crunch-a-bunch. and Scooter.


Ha. Great picture.

We tried to be funny. Do you think we are obnoxious BYU students? I feel like this post and these pictures give off that vibe...don't believe it. We all get on photo shoot sprees every now and then.

One of my favorite parts was trying take pictures while we all threw leaves in the air. Here is the succession of how well that worked...

Try one.


Try Two.
Try Three.
Try Four.
HA. I sure got him. I hope that you will go outside right this second, scoop up a big pile of leaves (there aren't actually a whole lot on the ground yet in the valley, mostly just in the mountains), throw them in the air and dance around like you love this beautiful season. I sure do.

Advice to Myself

I was reading through my old journal today, and besides noticing how dramatic I was and how much I liked boys, I was really impressed with some of the things I wrote. It is from April of my junior year, to last Christmas. So basically it covers the last year of high school on. Yes, I have funny stories and memories and such, but there was lots of like "advice" I gave myself, goals, thoughts that would come to mind about how to be better, or quotes I had come across and liked. It was good for me to read and remind myself of who I want to be, and what I have to do to get there. So, here is some advice, from me...to me. But I suppose you could take it too if you'd like. :)

Be too happy to permit troubles, and too noble for anger. Have a sense of humor. Live the gospel and all else will fall into place. Faith includes believing in his timing. Be IN the gospel- live in it, work in it, play in it, grow in it. Don't sweat the small stuff, and most of it is small stuff. Be confident about being solo, you don't have to follow others trends-confidence is everything. As long as I know I'm doing what's right I can be confident. Bring out the best in others-we all make mistakes, so who am I to judge? Be a builder and a light. You have no right to ever tear anyone else down. EVER. You cannot take another persons agency, or you are trying to fulfill Heavenly Father's plans satan's way. Let your passions shape you into the unique person you will be. Our motives need to be in the right place when we do good things, pay attention to your intentions. Let yourself be polished by the waves that will come crashing down-not if they come, but when. What is stopping you from being the YOU you want to be? Don't worry about tomorrow, live in today. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, so make it good. Don't let the world squash your enthusiam. You squish their bleakness with your spunk. Sometimes, its ok to quit, and sometimes, it's just not. Keep going with faith.
My personal favorite:
Maybe the things I worry about and fear aren't worth fretting over. Don't you think that if you are doing everything you are supposed to be doing that He is in control and He will take care of it? take care of you? In His own timing perhaps, but nonetheless things would be OK? Yes. I do believe He would.

Um, alright I have been rebuked. By myself. I think it's time for me to take my own advice and become better! I totally know what I need to do, sometimes I just forget, or get distracted by the things the world tells you will make you successful. I guess my idea of successful is different than theirs. But I like mine better. :)

work today. what a day.

Hey so this is kelly thomson. I work with him. he is boy kelly and I am girl kellie. and it's convenient that we spell it differently. Oh and we have another kellie. This is kellie cash.She is also girl kellie. So things get a little crazy sometimes as far as identification is concerned. Usually in the office when someon says "kelly/ie" we all just assume they are talking about boy kelly. He just seems to be more popular to talk to than us. Or sometimes people will say kelldawgalicious. He goes by that too. Anyway. Kelly has a blog, and on his blog he wrote a post about things he hates that people say. I totally agreed with them too. And then we started talking about it in the office, and brittany said I say "um" alot. So now I'm self conscious about saying "um". If you hear me say it, hit me. I want to stop it. Well so Kelly asked if I had updated by blog lately, and I said no. So he told me I should. and I said what should I write about? and he said I should write about things I hate, just like he did. I feel bad writing a hater blog post, but there is one thing I hate that I thought of. So this ones for you boy kelly.

I hate kobe bryant. a lot. I'm not even gonna put his picture up just so no one sees it and gets the wrong idea that I like him.

Thanks kelly. I feel better now. hope you enjoy this post. in fact. you should write a comment about it! :) I love comments.

Favorites.

Sometimes, I have some things that are my favorites. I'm at work right now staring out the fabulous new windows that we recently acquired, and thought about writing these favorites down. They are in no particular order, just a whole conglomeration of great things. In fact, Kelsey Celeste Jones, I might even make a toast to these things...:)

• Stars
• Sunsets
• Daisies
• Mountains
• Cute rocks, not the ugly ones, but you know what I mean, you've seen em, the ones that make you say "oh how cute!"
• Freshly painted fingernails
• New socks, especially when you wear them on a hardwood floor
  
• A perfectly placed witty comment. Not sarcasm as much, but irony- it's so much funnier.
• When the underdog team makes a victorious win. For example, Boise vs. Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
• Right after you shower after playing hard outside all day, and your skin feels hot cause you got sunburned. Does that make sense? I love that.
• When a long standing prayer is answered in a way you didn't expect. It just shows the Lord has such a hand in your life.
• Finishing something you have worked really hard on. Especially something that you were that close to giving up on, but you persevered.
  
• Opening a brand new jar of peanut butter or sour cream and it's perfectly smooth on top, and then sticking a spoon in it and squishing it. That's fun.
• The sound of a tennis ball hitting a racket.
• A good nap
• When people play with your hair
• Freckles
• Doing better on a test that you expected.
• When snow is falling outside and it's silent and white and peaceful.
• A good water fight
• Working with Kelly Thomson. Sorry everyone else, he is just really fun to work with. Who else will make up fake vacations to the Himalayas with me in between calls?
  
• Wrestling with someone and laughing the whole time
• Finding a unique connection with someone, either something you both really love, or something you both can't stand.
• People.
  
• The school supplies aisle, especially when it's the mid-July. It makes you get excited for school again!
• When something tricky works out in a way you didn't expect.
  
• A random text that makes your day.
  
• Running into old friends
• Fresh paint
• A fresh start
• Emilie Laura Jackie Lucille Wright
  
• When you are running you and you just feel awesome, like you could go forever.
• Warm homemade bread
• Other people's birthdays
• Kids
• Using a brand new pen
• Finding a scripture that is just perfect for you right at that moment
• Those moments when you actually realize, like it just clicks in your head and your heart, how much Heavenly Father cares for you, and how much He is aware of you, and your life.
  

There is so much more, but that is what's coming to my mind right now. Gah, I love life. And every single thing in it.

lately.

welp, it's sure been a while. How about I post a little somethin somethin on this here bloggy. Ok, what have I been up to lately...

• EFY. Oh my lands how incredible was that!? Answer: SO incredible! It was so hard at first, and really I had a rough time getting used to it, but by the end I could honestly say I love EFY. It was an awesome life learning experience I will cherish for the rest of my life. I loved the things that I learned there as well as the fun I had. The last week I did I almost peed my pants like three times I was laughing so hard. Thank you Sheridan Rockhill. :)
• I miss tennis! I have been at EFY for so long I haven't gotten to play tennis in a while! I think my skills are atrophying since I haven't been using them.
  
• Heather's bridal shower is coming up and I'm going to get to make some cool culinary creations. I love any chance I have to experiment making really pretty stuff. I'm gonna try out some sugar art and tuilles this time, so we'll see what happens.
• My eye has been twitching lately...it's really wierd. It's prolly from lack of sleep. Ok maybe I have been staying up a little too late with certain distracting individuals...I'll work on that, but I can't promise any changes. I'm just gonna have to deal with twitching.
  
• I'm flying out to Colorado to go visit steve and syl next week! That's going to be a great time. I miss Sabrinna and Tanner, that's for sure.
  
• I really love Canada. Sometimes I don't really know why, I just do. I want to go to Canada someday. That would be fab if I got my mission call there. I had a dream a while ago that I got my call to Canada, but then again I had a dream that I got my call to Sydney, Austrailia too. And Tokyo. and California. I have a lot of mission call dreams.
  
• I love American Fork, Utah. I know I am probably a little too in love with it. So I apologize to all of you who have have gotten "the tour" from me lately. I just stinkin love that place and want to share the joy that it is with everybody. That's all.
  
• I have recently decided where my heart lies, and what things are my true loves. A. Brad Paisley B. American Fork C. Canteloupe. D. My cowboy boots E. Canada. There you have it folks. Kellie Wentz in a nutshell.

Thanks for being part of this update today. I hope you have enjoyed your readings. Have a fantastic Tuesday.

Fourth of July has Arrived

Well my friends, my favorite holiday is coming up in two days, and I'm pumped. I love the warm weather, the BBQ's, Lagoon with my family, the food, the patriotism, the colors, and last but not least the Fireworks.
One of my favorite things ever is fireworks. I think part of it could be because I grew up with all boys who started buying fireworks at like age 9. I think I lit my first firework when I was probably 6. I got excited too for when my friends turned twelve and their parents would let them light them with me. I think part of it may just be genetic. I am drawn to fire, I just love it. I have had at least half my life to experiment with tampering with fireworks and making them do different things. I'm a big fan of the smaller ones that you can mess with, vs. the big fountains that you just light and watch.
Last year we went to wyoming and picked up some fireworks and it was the most fun I had had in a long time. I still have some of them, but my supply is getting low. I have a whole stash in a blue tote thingy under my bed. I also have a lighter collection to accompany them. I know this is wierd, but I blame it on how I grew up. Some families just didn't get into this sort of thing much, but I'm lucky mine did, and still does.
Since I live in provo now, however, people are much more uptight than in my hometown. In my neighborhood we will light five whistlers at once to summon all the neighbor kids that want to watch, and we all just had a great time.
Everyone here gets all antsy pants on you about how loud they are, or that we're going to catch something on fire. Seriously, it's fine. Everyone chill out and enjoy the show. They are a fun part of the summer, and we're not stupid with them-we are as safe as possible. I have never gotten injured yet besides a thumb burn from a lighter or something. I wish people appreciated them like I do.
Well ok, that's my soapbox. When you hear bangs and sparks going on in your neighborhood just smile, and know that someone is having a lot of fun right now. :) Thank you.