Happenings

Hello all! Life has been pretty crazy lately. I moved out of The Colony (Hallelujah!!!!), and into Raintree at the end of August. So far things have been really good! My roommates are Quincey (Yay! So fun having her as a roommate), Rachel, Elsa, Jayne, and Ezmerelda. There are definitely a lot of strong personalities in our apartment, so that'll be interesting. I think we'll have a lot of fun together though. We've all gotten to know each other pretty well and for the most part everyone has gotten along. We've spent a lot of time at the hot tub, going on walks, and watching stuff on our gigantic TV. On my 19th birthday, school started up again. It made for a weird birthday, but it's kind of nice to be back on a regular schedule. I definitely didn't miss all those textbooks though! I'm busy now, but I think it will be a really good year. I guess we'll find out! Here's some of what I've been up to:

So we tried to make breadsticks once.......that turned out well. 

Then we tried to use our dishwasher.......also a success. 

And since neither of those plans worked out we decided to do homework........ya we're getting a lot done.

The one thing that did turn out nicely was our gigantic TV! It takes up half of our living room and we had to go door to door to recruit guys to carry it up to our apartment, but we made it work! Finally a success! 

That's all for now folks!  

Summer Days With Family

Lately I've been spending just about every weekend at home for one reason or another. It has been fun to spend time with my family!

Max and I had some fun hanging out in my trunk! Because what else was there to do?

Justin, Max, and I spent some time washing the cars and then had a picnic on top of mine ~ Just for fun!

It was Mother's Day not too long ago, and my mom got some M&M's and a new camera

This past weekend Max, Justin and I did some experimental cooking (thank you pinterest), and it all turned out pretty great! 

Here are our Koolaid slushies-

Snicker doodles!!! So yummy! 

For Memorial Day we had a big family BBQ at a park. Fun stuff!

Max and Jesse

 Justin decided to try out the baby swing- he got stuck haha

April 2012

Wow, has it really been a month?! I have been crazy busy. First of all, I moved out of Wyview and into The Colony. It was actually a lot harder to leave than I thought it was going to be. I forgot about the whole, "Hey new roommates. We met 2 seconds ago, but we're living together now" thing. And the not ever seing a familiar face thing. I'm getting kind of used to it now, but it's still not the same. I feel really unproductive without school, but I will be starting some Independent Study classes here pretty soon so I'll be busy again. Work is still going well and I'll hopefully be able to get some more hours this summer. 

I wrapped up all the kids at work and "turned them into worms". They loved it!

 Oh Meghan.....This is her being normal

 I often look down to find children strapped securely to my legs. 

Young Love :)

Oh the bromance of Taylor and Dean hahahaha I miss these 2 already! 

Dean's going down!

This was our goodbye party :(

Goodbye Wyview!!! Our apartment looked so naked! 

And here's my new room at The Colony! 

I've also been home a few times recently for random stuff. Once was for Zak's homecoming and Cody's farewell, another time was for Millie's funeral (a lady I took care of for about a year) and to say goodbye to Melanie Hunter before she heads off to Virginia, and so on.

Here's me, Haley, and Justin just being ourselves....

I was also given the incredible chance to go inside my old childhood house in Springville with Haley, my mom, and Uncle Bob. It was so cool and so much fun! There were definitely a lot of things that had changed about the house (especially considering the fire and all), but some things were still the same and it brought back some really fun memories that I had completely forgotten about. It was also fun to talk to the people who live there now and hear things that their kids do in the house that we used to do. In fact, the hall in the basement now curves in from so many years of kids climbing up it! It was awesome :) Things like sitting at the top of the stairs and having flashbacks to Christmas mornings or touching my old fireplace were thrilling! It was incredible! Here is a picture of me and Haley looking into this mirror in our old bedroom that somehow lasted through the fire. It was weird seing my "grown up" self in it because of all the memories I have of looking into it when I was little. Still, so cool and so much fun! 

It's been how long?!

I didn't realize it had been so long since I've posted on here! I guess part of that is because I really haven't been doing anything exciting enough to take pictures of. Well, here's what I've been up to!

First, I chopped my hair off. I'll definitely be growing it back out, but it's not horrible.

Before: 

After:

I also went to the festival of colors. It was really fun! I won't bore you with all of the pictures from it, but basically, here's the aftermath. 

 Last week I went home for a bunch of "Haley stuff". I went to her Lax game and her young woman recognition night. 

Justin's George Washington wig hahaha

Max's note to Haley :)

My old street in Springville :) These trees are so pretty in the spring!!! 

This past weekend I went home again for general conference, and we had a birthday party for Shay afterwards.

I love this picture of them :)

Well, that about sums it up! Enjoy!