Yes, I will post . . . the question is, What?

What does someone that does practically nothing all day with her life post about?

I will find something. . . . That is the goal. Be prepared.

A little summin summin I whipped up for my good friend Steph!

Steph! Check it out!!! 

I made you A KILLER CHALK BAG!!! 

disregard the safety pin . . . unless you like it, then it can stay. but for now, it is just temporary. 

Features: 

• Hand woven encasing
• Bright colors
• A stay open top for convenience
• A sophisticated draw string for the safe keeping of your chalk; complete with a quick easy access for those desperate times when chalk is essential to your grip. 
• Embelished gold grommet, complete with name en-graven to make it truly personalized!! 
• Carribeaner to clip . . . VIRTUALLY ANYWHERE!! As you can see, Even our front door! 

BASICALLY, You are gettin Hooked up My dear!! You may just be the luckiest person in the world!!! 

Messed up

I messed up the blog somehow.

Under construction now I guess.

So, disregard the disarray. Hopefully I will have this straightened up and looking shnazzy soon. Good night.

I'm Home

I Love My Family!!!

Family Pictures. Captured by my amazing cousin Julie Wallace. Thanks Jules!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HIKING

This explains the ripples in the above picture. A barrel full of fun!

GRAND FINALE:

6 years ago, the three of us went on this same hike. 

We took one of our favorite pictures of all time. 

We decided to try and recreate it yesterday.

We got pretty Close!!

Even the rock that is split in half in the middle right is still in the middle right. 

From memory 6 years ago, not to shabby. 

Way happy we recreated this one. 

Pretty Fun to be Home!

Coming home

Got my plane ticket home. I'll be home on Wednesday night at around 11:40. Way sad to be leaving, but way excited to get home for the Halloween festivities and my family! And civilization . . . kinda. I think having less is more. We are so lucky to have the things that we have! There is so much to go around when all you have is nothing. And let me tell you! There is a LOT to be grateful for in this world!! I hope we all realize the good in Every day that we have. And the blessings that are so prevalent all around us. I sat in a home yesterday with a family and two members of the crew and some friends from town and enjoyed lemonade milkshakes from what little they had. And the mother, was wearing one of the dresses that I put in a bag to give away. She doesn't know that it used to be mine, but it made me realize how much we really have. And it looked Really Cute on her. Anyway. Just hope that I can always realize how much the Lord looks our for us, and how well He knows each one of His children. Excited to see you family! Take care. And care for those around you, and don't let the little things bother you, and find joy in the simple things in life. For that is what will truly fill your soul.

Pictures!

 Me Casa. 

Some of My Brothers. 

The dive site is right on the other side of that cliff. It's Beautiful! 

Remember that crystal blue water with no white caps? Yeah, the hurricane has really stirred things up. We had to let out some of the anchor line so that the boat wouldn't have as much tension on it. 

When the weather is bad, we have nothing to do but to play with the artifacts. Captain Billy (left) and Our Archeologist Alejandro (right) he is very dedicated and working around the clock, I think the fact that we aren't diving is good for him, gives him a chance to catch up. He is doing some excellent work right now!! It's actually really impressive. 

Every night we have a gorgeous sunset! Especially with the storms. 

Caught yah! We work hard around here. . . So, you need a good ciesta every now and then. A La Cueva (to the cave) to go nighty night. I was in the kitchen and looked down in the cueva to see this, it was so cute, I just couldn't pass it up. We printed it off, just in time for them to wake up, and when they did, wow, some great reactions!

. . . . Priceless. 

They look scary in pictures, but their really not. We have some great laughs! This is the back of the boat, the hang out spot. Man, I just love these guys!! Mingo, Cooki, Carnelo, Amiel, and Roberto. Each one so different, and each one so valuable to this crew! Glad to be even just a small part of it. 

That's about it for now. Later!! 

Tail end of a Hurricane.

So, we haven't been able to dive for the last 4 days. The waves are pretty big. We're braving the weather. I haven't gotten sea sick yet. Which is good. There have been times where our outriggers have gone into the water on either side, which, means the boat is rocking a ton! The cupboards opened and we lost the bottle of soy sauce and the bottle of chicken wing sauce. Sad day. We have rice 3 times a day to, so no soy, its gonna be difficult. :) The guys on the boat are great! I still am really bad at spanish, but I'm getting to where I can kind of follow a conversation along and figure out what they're talking about. We have a lot of fun!! When we're diving, its even better!! Having fun! Missing home every now and then, and civilization. I can't wait for the day when I can get some homemade popovers and gravy from me mommy. I made cream puffs last night, everyone was way happy. It was quite the task, trying to keep things from not flying off the counter and go everywhere. I succeeded though! And, it was amazing, I didn't leave any tracks. While the puffs were in the oven, I was sitting at the table, and no one would have even known that I was cooking!! Mom, you'd have been so proud, lets see how I do when dishes aren't at risk. Let's hope I can keep up that good habit. Anyway. Life is great. Can't wait to see the fam. And get back to diving. I'm gonna find a cable and load some pictures soon. Life is bueno!!

Conference starts in 10 minutes! I have been counting down for the last 6 hours!! The guys were pretty sad that I wouldn't go diving with them today, but I told them that they were going to find something awesome, so we'll see if they do. The generator on the boat is shut off right now, so it's getting a bit toasty, and I only have about half hour of battery left on this computer, good thing there are two others right next to me so I can watch Conference! Man I didn't realize how much I love conference!! I always knew I did, but not being with the family yesterday to watch it really sucked. But, I know that you are all enjoying puffed pancake right now and are about to go nestle in to hear the words of the prophet.

Yesterday was awesome!! We found so much stuff! Everyone came up with a very unique treasure. Roberto and I definitely had the best hole though! We pulled up a ton of precious metals (is how I'll put it) I don't know what I'm allowed to disclose or not. So, once dad finds out and if he wants to tell you. Go ask him about it. It's pretty exciting! Everytime we pull something up, Roberto and I sing a muffled little song under the water that has to do with what we pulled up, and then when we get up, we sing it even louder! So much fun!

Conference is Starting!!! YAY!! Alright! Love yah tons! I'm doing well, and life is Grand!

Dominican Republic

Well, I am in the DR. I have been here for 2 weeks, and I am going to be here for 4 more. Internet access is limited, but just know that I am safe and having a great time! My tan is great! My skin is humidified, and I have gotten wet at least twice each day from outside. I feel so fortunate to be here! And, I am really bad at Spanish still, but, it is coming along, at least I can order food, that's important. All of the investors and my family have gone home, so, it's just me and the crew. We aren't going out on the site for another couple of days, waiting for groceries and for the hurricane to blow by. I am sleeping in the hull down below, I have my own fancy shmancy room, and it has a/c and I feel like I am sleeping in an ice box. The way I get around is on the handle bars of Tommy's mountain bike, or the back of a motorcycle, or I walk (which isn't very often because of creepos that see my blue eyes and blow kissy faces at me) But, I assure you, I am in great hands. And I am way excited to get out and start diving! Alright, we are shutting the generator off, thus the computer as well. So Adios.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBER!!! The real Reason I got on the internet! Love yah!

Okay, these are all out of order, but its some of the stuff I've been up to this summer. 

And I tell yah! It's been fun!

Taking pictures has been a little less than average, but the ones I've gotten, have been timeless.

Storm chasing

Hikes with rivers

9 mile hike with the Cousins and Kerr! So fun!

Camping in Woodland, past Park City, we went four wheeling a ton! 

Dad let me drive once, and only once, I almost knocked him out about 3 times. 

Checked out a chunk of land.

Cohwen was our guide. (Which was partly the reason why dad almost fell off) Which was totally worth it and so much fun!! 

Caught grass hoppers and put em in a bag and went fishing, four wheelers to get to a pond that we canoed on. I actually caught a fish!!! And then it ate my hook, So, I never got to bring it up. 

So peaceful! Especially when we're not on it. Surprisingly, we never tipped the canoe. 

Me, Dad and Kerri took a Rescue diver course and are now certified, we had to 'save' our instructor. If you are a scuba diver, take this course, you learn so much! And its a hoot! 

The mottly crew! So much fun! I went to Rexburg over the weekend and had a blast! We went Mountain Biking (i ran over a cactus and popped my tire on our last little jaunt), Fishing and Canoeing, Four-wheeling, had a fire, had lots of cookies, played some b-ball, played some guitar, was serenaded by a theatre organ that our friends father built (amazing), star gazed (amazing), got an AWESOME new camera strap from my way awesome Friend! (That deserves a post all by itself it is epic!!) Thanks Rach! played with cats, dogs, birds, frogs, spiders, grass hoppers, fish, And best of all . . . A ton of people that I haven't seen for what feels like forever! It was so good to just be up in Rexy and see a ton of great friends! And best of all, know I didn't have any homework assignments due or be stuck their in the bitter rexy winter! :) 

So, I head to the Dominican Republic in a couple of hours, and when I get back, summer will be over, the leaves will be a changing! And I will have way more pictures for ya! 

It's Official . . .

One more post . . .
I really do need to go pack after this!

I Am OFFICIALLY A 
                       Paramedic!!!

I Have passed all of my National Exams! (on the first attempts) And can now have the title

Karli Blum NREMT-P on any badge I wear.
-Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic.

I guess first I'll have to get a job that will actually give me a badge, but, I'm Still WAY Excited!!
We celebrated with Olive Garden Tuesday Afternoon after I found out I passed! YAY!!!

Glad I'm Home!

Two of my Favorite People in the whole wide world! And probably two of my favorite to take pictures of . . . Cause they're so dang cute and funny! 

We pulled out the hose for the kids to play with the other day! And It was way fun! . . to watch and take pictures of. Especially when they would fill there mouths and run somewhere far and water the flowers or paint splattered water on the ground. 

Covering the spray . . . Very Wise.

I just LOVE Being With my Family!!

Man Alive I have missed them dearly! I can't wait for the Family Reunion this weekend! Speaking of which, we leave in the morning, and I still haven't packed. Woopseydoodle. 

Home "Improvements?"

Kerri and I are home!! Well, until we go to Canada tomorrow, but our stuff is moved back in! And we are here to stay!! My closet has never really been to functional. So, I drew up some plans on how to make it more useful, and emptied it. . . . along with all of the stuff that I moved back home with INTO MY ROOM! It's a good thing I built a room up in the attic a while back, at least I had a place to sleep.

Lucky Mom!
She WAS excited about us being home, until the projects started exploding everywhere.

I completely Emptied This! . . . . 

And Put it into THIS!!! . . . . Wow!!?

Once the clothes were able to be hung up . . . It wasn't Too Bad. 

The Closet that I drew up, That mom and I constructed.

Where did it all go you ask . . . ?

Well, 6 garbage bags now overflow the garbage bins outside.

3 D.I. Bags. 

And 2 boxes of college stuff went in the attic. 

Who knew I had such nice carpet?! Isn't it just lovely!?

It is completed! And it is SOO Clean! I Love it! It is completely organized and Clutter Free!

And the best part is . . . . MOM's SUPER HAPPY It's Done to! And now, WAY Happy That we are Home! Yay!! Love you Mom! Thanks for putting up with us!