Rugby

My Grandma Cicotte stopped in Provo for a few days before continuing on her trip to Kennewick to visit my family during their spring break. We were able to hang out a little on Wednesday night and have lunch together on Thursday. It was a good little visit but I really wanted to go to Kennewick with her! Only 3.5 weeks left!!!! YES!

My first rugby game to play in is tomorrow morning and I literally think I'm going to pee my pants. I'm super nervous. I don't feel like I know what I'm doing but it will definently be good experience for me. We haven't lost to UVU in 10 years so I feel like we will be ok with that part but I don't know if I will contribute anything to our win.

Weekend with the Family!!!

So my family came last weekend and it was AMAZING!!!

After fidgeting in my room for what seemed like FOREVER, my family finally arrived Friday evening around 6. I was soooo excited and everyone was hugging like crazy! When Lucy hugged me she was literally freaking out super bad! I thought she was going to cry because she was so excited to see me. Supposedly she had a hard time remembering me before she came thought. We ended up going to dinner at Sakura, since it is my Moms favorite, and it was pretty dang good. It was really funny when the chef came to cook our food in front of us. I sat across from the big hot place between Joe and Lucy, because they begged to, and when the chef lit the fire, our faces burned so bad! Joe was in a cranky mood because he had been driving all day in the car adn was starving so the chef tried extra hard to cheer him up. He had fake bottles with things that would shoot out like ketchup but only go so far. Joe would always jump. After dinner the family and I went up to Lacey and Jakes house (my moms brother) since that is where my mom, Lucy, and the two boys were going to stay for the weekend. My sisters and me went over to Sariahs house where they were going to stay and we watched Josie and the Pussycats which was totally a random movie. I went home around 12 but I was up bright and early for the next day.

While my two sisters were still getting ready, all of the rest of us went to get our haircuts and to run errands at Costco and Walmart. We had to go to Costco to order me a new pair of frames for my glasses because my other pair had snapped in two. I was extremely thankful to order the new pair because I was sure getting tired of just wearing contacts and having no glasses at night. All of my family plus all the extended family that lives in town on the Cicotte side went to lunch at Cafe Rio and all 10 of us squeezed into one table. It was a VERY tight fit. While my sisters and aunts went to see Alice in Wonderland at the theaters, my mom, the boys, Lucy, and me went to the Monte L. Bean Museum for the reptile show. My mom thought that the younger kids would enjoy that more than a movie. I was just hoping that I would get to hold a live snake. Lacey, Jake and their two little boys came too. It was pretty boring at first because the lady was like "name a reptile everyone..." but then she brought out a live turtle and then a lizard and then a SNAKE!!! At the end of the show we all were able to put the snake around our neck. I'm pretty sure I was the only kid over the age of 10.





After the reptile show, since the girls were still at the movie and we needed to kill some time, we went down to the creek near the museum and bell tower. It was fun to see the ducks chase after us thinking that we had bread and my mom got some adorable pictures of the kids.




After we went to the creek my siblings and I persuaded my mom to take us to the creamery on 9th which I absolutely love! The sparkle sherbet is amazing!!! After we waited in line forever and squeezed into a very small table and were enjoying our icecream and fries, my mom was like, "What is that nasty smell?!" I couldnt smell it but it was so funny because we were like body to body with the table next to us. All of us at our table denied that it was us and then my mom started cracking up and we all started cracking up and the whole place was probably looking at us but it was so good to laugh with the family again. My favorite times are when the whole family laughs together plus I love my moms hilarious laugh. I can't help but laugh when she does. We ended up blaming the people behind us as the culprits to the horrendous smell but once we left the creamery Joe admitted that he farted. Hahahaha!

We ended up hanging out at Lacey and Jake's place until my mom decided to take everyone ice skating. I hadnt been ice skating in forever! When we got to the ice skating rink, which my parents had taken me to when I was about 4 when we lived in Provo, we got our skates but apparently one of mine was bad. It was leaning really far in like it was broken but I didnt notice until I had gone around the rink one time and couldnt skate. I thought I was really bad until my mom gave me one of her good ones and I was able to skate normal. Don't worry, we traded the bad one in for a good one.


This is me when I had the bad skate on and was finishing my first round. I felt really stupid. Hahaha! Thanks goodness for my mom and her generosity.



Joe was adorable with his little "walker." He was actually pretty good and of course adorable as ever. The kids had a lot of fun skating. Jake and little Samuel ended up coming too and Sam just loved it even though Jake got tired of it pretty quickly.



Sariah was so great taking Lucy out on the skating rink. When we were first getting on the rink, I was ahead of Sariah and Lucy. All of the sudden I hear Sariah say, "Lucy! That's not Taylor!" I turn around and see another red head girl holding the hand of her boyfriend. She had red hair but we did not have the same body build and I definitely don't have a boyfriend. I just rolled my eyes and laughed and went skating. About 20 minutes later Sariah tells the whole story to my mom, Maddy, and me. So a little background information: I taught my family how to do a concho over Thanksgiving Break when I was at home. Basically you stick your finger up someones butt hole. It's pretty funny but I guess Lucy went up to the girl with "red hair" and stuck her finger up the girls butt. When the girl turned around, Lucy had the most terrified face when she found out that it wasn't me. I laughed so hard when I heard the story. That is totally what my family would do :) Ice skating surprisingly makes a person pretty hungry so we ordered pizza and went over to Sariah's house to eat it. I ate 5 whole pieces! I felt like the old high school version of me was back! Everyone ended up going to bed pretty early because my mom wanted us to all attend Lacey and Jake's church at 9am.

My mom ended up picking me up at 8:20 which was really hard because I'm used to church at 10:30 and waking up at 9 am. I'm really glad that I went though because I got to spend more time with my family and it was nice going to a ward with a nursery and old people. After church we chilled at Jake's house and ate some lunch and then for dinner we went over to Sariah's place to have dinner with the Cicotte Clan. Sariah made a famous recipe that the kids loved from when she stayed with us for a summer about 9 years ago. She was super nice and made mine without chicken. Our aunt Michelle had come in from Alaska for a wedding and was supposed to visit us but unfortunately wasnt feeling too well so we she didnt make it. During dinner Lucy threw the biggest fit because she had just woken up and was very cranky. I wanted my mom to have some time with the the aunts and uncles so I took her outside screaming and kicking. We ended up having some good quality sister-sister time even though it took awhile to calm her down. In the evening we played apples to apples and then I brought my mom and the boys to my dorms. Boys can only come up to my room during visiting hours and those are from 7-9 on Sundays and Wednesdays. They were really excited to see it because only the girls had been able to previously. After the night was done and everyone was going home to bed it was sad to think that they were going to leave the next morning.

I woke up super early to say goodbye and hug everyone. It was really fun having them visit for a weekend but it was hard to let them leave too. I'm just so glad they decided to come down because I didn't want to end up not seeing my family for 4 whole months! It was a good visit and if I'm lucky, maybe I will get another random visit :) I'm very excited for the summer when I get to be back in Kennewick and have a lot more fun with the family!

I just can't stop smiling

GUESS WHAT?! MY MOM AND SIBLINGS ARE COMING TO VISIT ME!!!!! I am soooo exicted and I just can't stop smiling. They will be arriving tomorrow night. I never thought that they would come and visit me before the end of the school year but here they come!!! Make way for the Cicotte Clan!!!