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Rules: Answer the questions and then google your result and pick an image off the first three pages to post that goes with the answer!

1. My First Name: Leslie, aparently there is a pile of volcanic ashes named Leslie's Guch in Washington state!

2. My Middle Name: Anne. As in Anne Boleyn, you know the Queen of England? At least until she was beheaded!

3. My Last Name: Bucklew, lots of my relatives and extended family are buried in Arlington National Cemetary in VA.

4. My Age: 21, apparently there is a movie called 21?

5. Favorite Place to Visit: London, England!

6. A Place you want to visit: Italy

7. Where I Grew up: Lake Worth Florida!

8. First Job: Teaching Piano Lessons.

9. College Degree: My A.S. from BYU-I

10. What I'm doing right now: I'm a Bank Teller at UCCU

11. Grandmas Name: Dorthy

12. A Nickname of a Good Friend: Bri VandeCamp... I mean TRAMP! lol

13. A Past Love: JTT man was he a hotty!

14. A Pet that I've Owned: I used to own two finches, one was Hedwig and the other one was Mr. Finch the Grinch.

15. My Favorite Color: Blue, any shade!

16. A Bad Habit: I rarely eat breakfast, and when I do its usually not very healthy!

My Mom is Amazing

So besides the fact that my mom is my best friend, she is also amazing at her second job. You know the one where she gets paid! LOL But anyways for those of you who may not know my Mom is a CRNA which means she drugs you so you don't feel anything when you have surgery. Today She was able to be the Anesthesiologist for Dara Torres who lives in FL with her Family. Dara Torres is an Olympic Swimmer(41) who recently returned home from Beijing with 3 silver medals! Anyway My mom was in the surgery the whole time and made sure she had a good surgery. If you want to watch the surgery its on CNN.com and you can follow the link below to see it. My mom is standing behind the Blue operator sheet and you can see her silhouette the whole time!
Way to go mom, your amazing!
Plus it was cool getting to see my mom from so far away! MISS YOU AND LOVE YOU MOM!

The Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/08/27/torres.surgery/index.html
The Video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?iref=videoglobal

A Complete 180

So it seems like just when you think your life is down in the dumps and all hell is breaking loose on you personally, the Lord finds a way to brighten your day, lighten your load, and of course chase the clouds away. My load is light, my heart is happy, and I am fully back to loving life. Funny how if we didn't have any pain we would never know bliss. In the last 2 or 3 weeks my time days have been so full of things to do its been such a blessing, between finishing up school at SLCC and going to the temple and going to ward activities and planning enrichments I have had little time to get on and update.
Right now life has never been better. I am out of school for the fall and going to be working my butt off to try and save up some money for the winter. I am currently serving as 2nd counselor in the RS presidency in my Singles Ward and love my calling. The sisters in my ward are amazing and I learn so much from them every week! Its also our wards turn to take the cleaning assignment for our church building which has been a wonderful service opportunity. On top of all the great church stuff going on I have been able to spend more time with the wonderful Trinnaman clan! They are so amazing and so much fun. We eat dinner and play games every sunday! Their oldest daughter and her husband and 2 kids are getting ready to move back from VA for a little while so there will be even more fun to be had!
Life is great and the mountains are beautiful in the summer. I will try and get some pictures posted soon but it all depends on when I get my hands on them and then get my computer somewhere that has the internet!
Till then!
xoxo

Feeling with words

Ever since I was little I have loved to read, there is something so amazing about escaping into a completly new world with new people and new places where you have to use your imagination to figure out who the people look like and where they are at. When I was growing up I always liked to imagine myself as the characters in my books.
Reading for me has always been something that has helped me through some tough times in my life. A book never changes and most stories have happy endings unlike real life which is always changing and lately seems to be less on the happy side. I have been re-reading one of my favorite book series, which I was hesitant to pick up again because it is a very angsty romance and my life has taken such a twist in the romance department I didn't want to make it worse. But I started to read it anyway. As I was reading I came across a passage that specifically describes how I am feeling at this moment:

" I intuitively knew - and sensed he did, too - that tomorrow would be pivotal. Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility."

As I read this I realized that this is exactly how I feel about my relationship at this point. And I'm not sure that its a good way to feel, especially when it turns all power and control into the other persons hands. I trust him a lot, with my life. But at the same time, I know that with that trust comes the power to crush me. I would rather continue in one way or another, at this point I have a feeling that the road i'm going to travel will be a bit more lonely than i'd hoped for.
For the past 2 weeks I feel like I have been just living life to get by, to go through the motions, which I guess when any major life change happens you have to do for a certain amount of time while your heart heals itself. I want to heal, but part of me knows that a small portion of me will never be the same. I know I will be happy again and I know that the pain will dull. But for now. Being away from the person I love hurts more than any other pain I'v ever known and ever care to know again.

New Mexico

This las weekend was so much fun for me! I got the chance to fly down to New Mexico and meet up with my Mom and Dad in Albequerque! After they picked me up from the airport we drove down to Roswell and stayed the night there, the next day we spent most of in Carlsbad Caverns some 750 + ft below the surface! So much fun! After that we drove through the mountains up  north to Alamagordo and spent the night there. Saturday morning we were up bright and early to drive out to the VLA. Then back to the airport. It was a short visit but a good one! 

Twilight Movie!

Turning 21

So this last Wednesday was my 21st birthday! whoopie! or not? Well I guess my birthday is just another day. Initialy I was so excited! 21 is such a big number! but then as my birthday was suddenly upon me I wasn't so happy. I'm not sure why still but I guess its just the thought of getting older(even though its not that old) and I was a little freaked out that in 9 years i'll be 30! YIKES! thats enough to scare anyone.... For my Birthday I worked all day and then went with 15 good friends to Hard Rock Cafe in SLC! It was a lot of fun, the service was kind of slow and they didn't do much of a birthday celebration.. which was dissapointing because I went to HRC for their specific birthday fun. Oh Well... just another year in the life I guess! I did get some awesome presents! So at least I have those to enjoy! John got me a subwoofer for my car! I am so excited to get it installed so I can cruise around with my car shaking! haha! He also got me 2 dozen lovely roses! They are the prettiest pinks, reds and yellows! Very Summerish! Anita dug out my old '97 gigapet so I would have some form of entertainment! AND she handmade me a cellphone strap charm that is a replica of Bellas Bracelet from Twilight! I love it so much! As for my Parents, They were so kind to send me a care package full of clothes and other things I needed! They also sent me a cute card which had a jamba card money in it and the movie ENCHANTED! So overall it was a good haul.