My Birthday Gift

Improved Essays
In February I decided that I wanted to go up north with my fiance for his birthday in June. I started to save up most of my money from my paycheck. Most of the money that I got I would either put into my account for college or into my account for the trip. In the daytime when I wasn’t working or at school I would work on the birthday gift for my boyfriend. The gift I have in mind for him is a wood box with a slit cut into it so we could put pictures in it. I had my uncle cut the wood to the size I need it to be. After I got the wood back I found out they were measured wrong but I would fix it. I started to take one of my pocket knifes to cut the wood to the right since I have no saw. I drilled some holes across the line where the wood was remeasured …show more content…
After the measuring I screwed the wood pieces together except the top piece. I took the top piece and cut the slit out the same way as I did the other pieces. I made sure to sand down the sharp part after having a friend bring me sandpaper. After months of working on the box I finished. I printed up pictures and painted the box. Once the paint was dried I sprayed it with mod podge gloss. I put pictures of me and my boyfriend in and then I put the box into a cardboard box to wrap up. A couple of weeks after finishing the box it was almost time for the trip. I had the days off for the trip but I had found out that my boyfriend did not have the days off. Since he didn’t have the days off I went and asked my one friend. She said she would go. After I told her that she had to bring some kind of money because I didn’t want to spend all seven hundred dollars that I had saved up for me and my boyfriend on the trip she told me that she wouldn’t go with me. I kept asking my grandma who I should invite to come with …show more content…
I finally decided to go with the one friend even if she kind of irritated me. I messaged her and asked if she would go and if she could if she would bring as much money as she could. The next day she messaged me back saying that she could and that she would ask her dad if he could give her some money. It came the the day before the trip and I had messaged her all of the details for the trip. I set an alarm to wake me up around six in the morning to get me breakfast. After putting the last of my stuff in the car and eating I went down to Saint George from Hurricane to pick up my friend. Once I finally woke her up we left to go to Salt Lake City. First we drove to Panguitch because I promised a friend I would meet up with him to say hi since we hadn’t seen each other in a long time. Once it was getting later in the day we left to go to Ferron even if I didn’t get to say hi to my friend. Once we arrived to my cousins in Ferron we stopped the trip for the day. I, my friend and my cousins hung out and watched beauty and the beast. After the movie went to

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Oklahoma trip This last week was Labor Day weekend my family took a trip to Oklahoma. We were going to Shattuck Oklahoma which is 4 and a half hour a way to see my aunt and uncle and cousins. On the way there it was so boring and long that I just texted some friends and slept. Then my mom told us to wake up because we were almost there.…

    • 325 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Cotton Fest This is the 30th annual Cotton Fest in Crandall TX. At the Cotton Fest you can ride the rides, eat junk food and listen to music. I will never forget going to the Cotton Fest every year in Crandall. On Friday, before we went to the Cotton Fest, we picked up my best friend Tatum and then we went to the Crandall football game.…

    • 255 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “Daddy I think that’s our tire,” I screamed. As our tire was rolling down the side of the snow covered hill with smoke coming off of it. Two years ago our trip to the Wisconsin Dells over spring break started off like like most of our family vacations. My mom wanted to go somewhere for spring break and my dad didn’t want to pay a lot of money.…

    • 1148 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    How One Girl Changed My Life Has there ever been a moment in your life where you have spent time with someone special to you and you feel really happy and excited when you’re in their presence? I know I have because this one sweet girl that was very different from all the other girls that I’ve ever met, asked me to Winter Formal. We spent time a lot of time together, which made me feel more and more excited to be with her to where I was constantly in a good mood all the time and was very crazy about this girl. On Winter Formal night, I asked her to be my girlfriend before my friend and I left her after party around 12:40 a.m. in the St. Thomas Moore parking lot across the street from her house.…

    • 1598 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Spring Break Short Story

    • 742 Words
    • 3 Pages

    It wasn't a normal day at school, I was way to happy the whole day. I could barely stay in my seat while doing work or listening to the directions being told by the teacher. It was a Friday, not just any Friday though, it was the Friday before spring break of 2017. I could tell it was going to be one of the best spring breaks yet.…

    • 742 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jonas Brothers When I was about ten years old, I was in love with the Jonas Brothers. I had over one hundred and forty- three pictures and posters on my bedroom wall at one point. I owned all of their CD’s and even had the Jonas Brothers book. Although I am not on bit embarrassed about liking the Jonas Brothers in the in the past, I am a bit embarrassed about my recent obsession with them.…

    • 1131 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Unit 2 Key Vocabulary Assignment The Biggest Mistake It was October 6th, 2009. I remember every second of it as if i went through it a million times, and I did. I went through the pain and the ache of it everyday.…

    • 1285 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Wisconsin Dells You’re never going to believe what just happened… So, it all started yesterday. Me, Kayliegh (my best friend), her mom, my mom, and Kayleigh’s baby brother, Tristan. We were all going to Wisconsin Dells for a girls trip (well, besides Tristan anyways,).…

    • 1403 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If you are a vacation fan you need to read this story. I will tell you about my trip to Minnesota. Ill Tell you about were you can swim and fish in. I will mention stuff like, swimming, fishing and about my aunts and uncles wedding. There will be awesome stuff like catching Northern, Walleye and Gar.…

    • 576 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As I was excitingly woken up by my brothers on Christmas, I ran downstairs to see what I had gotten. I opened my presents like I do every year, and got excited about them like every year, and then thanked everyone for my presents like every year. As we had just finished up opening presents, expecting no more, my mom told my brothers and I that there was one more present and got out her phone. Whenever my mom pulls out her phone, the family knows she’s about to record something or take pictures . So, my brothers and I cautiously looked at each other, deciding if we should get excited or not.…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fall Break Research Paper

    • 624 Words
    • 3 Pages

    This fall break was a fall break that was absolutely but on the top of my list for the most memorable breaks that ill never forget and cherish forever in my heart. My 2015 fall break kicked off with the school movie night that happened in a way that I never thought of going down. I was surprised to be the first one there when I’m always late to church. The movie that we watched was “ the Martian “ that was honestly boring and used so many big words that I’ve never heard of or even use myself. While everyone was in the movies enjoying their greasy, salty popcorn, stall candies and there watery drinks I was outside in the cold waiting with my friend carol for her friend who never showed up.…

    • 624 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Tuesday of Thanksgiving break my sophomore year my best friends Cassandra Johnson a.k.a. Cass and Emilie Oesterle a.k.a. Half O and I all had one crazy night. It started out leaving SJA and heading to Emilie’s to get her some clothes then to Cass’s.…

    • 1783 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Last summer my family and I went on a trip to Key Lime Cove. It took us three hours to get there. The longest three hours of my life, I almost died. We got there and got signed in and got our rooms. I was the lucky one, I got my own room, now i’m feeling like a king.…

    • 660 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This is the first time I got into an argument with my dad. It was about a ‘letter’ that wrote to him. The letter was only about his drink addiction, so in other words he’s an alcoholic. I have known about it for awhile and he was getting worse.…

    • 433 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It was about half-way through when I realized that I had messed up. I was left puzzled. So were my parents. I could not believe that creating money would be this hard. In fact, there was even a mathematical proof backing me up.…

    • 956 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays