In Case You Were Wondering

Blue Giraffe

2009-05-20T20:34:00.000-07:00

In Seattle we have a sweet lady in our ward who served a service mission for our church in Uganda, Africa. Through her and her family they have organized a group that sells jewerly made by a family in Uganda. I have a string of beads that I just adore and all the proceeds go to the family in Africa. From this money, they have been able to support their family, increase their business, and finally buy a home. Go to this website- http://www.bluegiraffebeads.com/home.html for more information and spread the word. I think its great when you buy something and it benefits others in return....

"When you purchase a necklace from the Blue Giraffe Trading Company, you're not only buying a piece of beautiful handcrafted jewelry - you are becoming part of a global success story, one family at a time. Whether you are a family of one or many, you contribute by telling the story of how a single necklace represents the hard work, creativity and opportunity for another family a continent away."

http://www.bluegiraffebeads.com/home.html

My parents are babes

2009-05-04T22:11:00.000-07:00

This must be where we all get our good looks?

It has been so fun to spend the last couple days with my parents and look forward for the next couple weeks!

Seattle you have my heart

2009-05-04T21:36:00.000-07:00

This pictures are a little older, but I love my Seattle.

Today I wore my rain jacket today and it made me smile. Loves it!

Graduation!

2009-05-03T18:30:00.000-07:00

On Monday it was official... I graduated from dental hygiene school! It was so fun to have a few of my siblings and my parents come to join in the celebration. It feels so good to be done and now I am ready for my vacation to Seattle.

I miss Mom!

2009-04-12T13:49:00.000-07:00

I have the best Mom in the world! Thanks for being there so much for me during the last couple months. I can't wait for you to come for graduation!

2008-11-21T10:53:00.000-08:00

My Roomates are the best!

2008-11-15T13:52:00.000-08:00

Guess who is who...

I have had such great roomates this year at school in Provo. A few of us lived together last year and now after living together for a couple months we have become really close. We went to one of our roomates Senior Projects who is in the drama department at BYU. It was enjoyable to get dressed up and go out as roomates and see Maggie's play.

Emily, Nat, Laura, Shanna, and Me (Melia wasn't able to go)

Who ya gonna call?

2008-11-07T14:10:00.000-08:00

I made my roomates and I's costumes for halloween I was so impressed by myself! We were ghostbusters! My favorite part was or proton packs. I may not be joking when I looked the whole night to see if anyone was dressed as a ghost so I could try to suck them up.

Who ya gonna call?

2008-11-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

We decided to be Ghostbusters for Halloween this year. I think it was even better because we made out costumes. We got the white suits from the painters isle and the tubing in Home Depot, the patches were made out of material from the craft store, and the boxes from some random dumpster. We put little stereos in our backpacks that played the theme song to ghostbusters.

I am already starting to think about what I will be for next Halloween...

Hiking Mount Timp

2008-10-12T12:32:00.000-07:00

On top to the shelter I need to update my blog so things may be a little outdated, but in the least updated. Back in October we tried to climb Mount Timp. We were a little late in the season so we unfortunately were not able to make it past the shelter with is think is a little over half way. We have plans to try again since the weather is warming up, but it was fun none the less. This was only the second or third hike Nat has been on. Nat and Jen weren't sure about all the snow but we all had a good time.Jon, Me and Jen licking the ice chunks

We met these crazy people when we finally got to the shelter who were taking a nap, but woke up when we got inside. It was a couple who were in their 40's with two dogs. They were both EXTREMLY happy as they chatted with us and even showed us all the tricks their dogs could do. I still laughing thinking of everything that happened.

It was really beautiful I'll be excited to do it again.

A bicycle made for two

2008-09-12T14:05:00.000-07:00

At the end everyone lifts their bikes up

There is an event in Provo on the first Friday of every month. Critical Mass. All the bikers meet together at the courthouse then go on a bike ride. Emily and I decided to ride our friend's tandem bike... better yet be twins and ride the tandem.

These are a few of my roomates

You can see Emily and I are standing by our tandem with the others.

I think this time there were about 80 people that went.

Yes... it's true

2008-09-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

HAHAHA ok I can't help but laughing so hard everytime I look at these pictures. So I was at Shannon's house and I was getting ready use some super glue. I was getting frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to break the seal, the metal thing you have to poke in. So lucky me i jam the lid into the metal thing and it EXPLODED all over my hands. I was screaming slash laughing so hard. It glue all my three fingers together on the left and then the bottle to my right hand. Shannon thought I was joking but no I am just an idiot. Hahaha so then I went to Sallys to try nail polish, peanut butter, actually super glue remover, oil, soap, comet, you name in and in the end i had to just pull everything apart and rip the super glue off my finger. I still can't stop laughing.

Char, Mom and Baby Colton

2008-08-30T13:08:00.000-07:00

It was nice because Mom, Char, nad Colton got to stay a few extra days to play. Bummer though because I still had school.

Millie's Wedding

2008-08-29T12:56:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from Millie's wedding. I am not going to make excuses... I am really not good at this blogging thing. Her and her husband are the cutest together!

And I was lucky enough to have Mom, Char, and Colton for the weekend in Utah!

School's out for Summa!

2008-08-06T19:45:00.001-07:00

I love my life. I would just like to thank UCDH, my dental hygiene school, for giving me the whole month of August off so I can party during summer. I have started my summer traveling expedition in Illinois with the Cleverly's. So far on my trip I have been in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. Stay tuned for the next state. I have had such a great time with them!

Jaxson running really hard+slamming into Taylor=bloody nariz
(For those of you that don't speak spanish thats nariz meaning nose)

MmMmMMmm delicious snowcones before the Nauvoo Pageant, and I of course chose lemon-lime!

Happy Birthday Taylor! Just a quick picture with Taylor's sweet remote control car. Lynds I am sure once Matt hears about this he might want one.

We looked at the history board in Nauvoo and found the Babcock's that passed away on the Trail of Hope on their way west. I felt so blessed that our family was present and obedient in following the Lord.

I am standing with Taylor and Brooklynn in front of Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum's grave stones.

Taylor and I learning about how to make a rope the pioneer way!

Learning about how to make barrells or coopering if you know the jargon.
An old pioneer game called the stick pull. I know the competition looks tough... she won.
You don't have to wonder... yes I can use stilts.
We made these braided ropes and I convinced them all they were sweet headbands.

Stuck in the airport

2008-07-07T14:16:00.000-07:00

What a nightmare! Liane and I had to sleep over at the airport because of some transportation conflicts. You know how things go. I think we calculated that we spent 12 hours in the airport in an outskirt town of New York. We got ready for "bed" in the bathroom, tried to take a snooze, had some dinner, and just enjoyed out last time together before she flew back to London.Just washing my face and brushing teethThis was a little after I found out how long we were going to have to stay... It was a long night.

And me sleeping covering all the bags so no one would steal our things. Hahaha there are so many funny stories from that night!

New York

2008-07-05T13:59:00.000-07:00

After the wedding we went to New York for a day. That is the biggest city ever! I think it would be fun for a tiny of my life to live in a large city, but I don't think I could do it for a long extended period.

Everytime we road in a cab we would only flag a van cab hoping that we would make it on the cash cab, the TV show in the discovery channel.

YUMMMMMM! We went to Magnolia's cupcake shop. They are famous for their delicious cupcake. I ate it in tiny bites so I could savor the taste.

We are outside of the store. We had to wait in line it was so busy!

Central Park was absolutely amazing. It was mind blowing to figure how a lovely park is placed into the middle of a city.

The wedding!

2008-07-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

The main reason for traveling out to the east was to go to my good friends Janelle's wedding. It was the most fun "party" of a wedding I have ever attended. She looked so pretty and it was such a joy to join her on her wedding day!

This is my roomate Natalia. She is from Jersey.

Transportation

2008-07-03T13:54:00.000-07:00

You are probably wondering hmmm... how did they get to all these places. The Birds let us borrow their van the whole time we were there. We put several miles on the van and watched movies and lounged the whole time. It was absolutely hilarious that all of us piled in there and road tripped it along the coast. We called in the Gladiator.
I felt like a little kid in the van especially when we ate at McDonalds

I think we watched about 5 videos that week while traveling.

The East Coast

2008-07-01T11:40:00.000-07:00

Where do I start it has been so long since I posted and by request need to catch up and chage the picture from Jaxson's bloody nose. Here are some pictures from when I went to Washington DC with my gal pals. I really enjoyed finally being able to see this area of our country and enjoying a vacation. I felt like such an adult. In the picture above it POURED and so we all got soaked. Made for some good memories.

There is a great story that comes along with this resturant. We just looked up on the Tom Tom where we could get some Mexican food and it took us to this place. Haha except for we walk up to the door and there is this huge bouncer and its this dark entrance and in the distance sounds like there is music. Come to find out its this salsa dance place that is also a resturant. So we ate dinner and watch everyone salsa dance. It was most entertaining.

Just at the White House

It was such a great trip!

Moab in 24 hours without a Map

2008-06-13T06:59:00.000-07:00

My friend Emily had to travel to Moab, Utah for extra credit, for one of her classes. She told me this and then I thought it would be a great idea if we went! So the day after my finals we hoped in the car and drove down to Arch's National Park. We got there so late but we found a place to camp... it was a little interesting since we didn't bring sleeping bags or a tent, so we just laid a tarp on the group and brought every single blanket we owned. We set everything up and then had a little fire to keep warm, make some smores, and roast some starbursts. We then woke up really early and went to find the Arch's so I turned to Emily and said so which way do I go? She looked at me and said I didn't bring a map. So we just went for it. The whole trip was done in less than 24 hours and without a map. Fortunately for us we met this Moab connaisseur who told us all the secrets to the National Park. Thanks Jim!

I love roasted starburts over a campfire! If you haven't tried this I would highly recommend it.

You are probably wonering how we are both in this picture... Jim took it.

This was my favorite arch. Sandy Arch.

Skyline Arch. Do you see me?

We hiked up to the arch and sat inside the arch. I didn't realize how long of a drop it was until we actually went inside and looked over the edge so then I told Emily to hurry up and click it.

I was pretty proud of our little fire.

Willy Wonka

2008-06-07T09:38:00.000-07:00

When I went back to Seattle during the break I was given the opportunity to live the dream of every 6 year old child. Yes, I got to tour a chocolate factory. Pierina is one of my besties from BYU-Idaho and her Dad works at Seattle's Chocolate Company. Her Dad is like Willy Wonka for realsies. When we went into the warehouse part we had to wear these sweet jackets and hair nets. I honestly felt like I was living the TV show on the discovery Channel "How its Made" and it was hosted by Willy Wonka (well Pieina's Dad).

These pigs are all over Seattle and this is the one that is customized for the Chocolate Factory.

They sent me home with a box full of treats too! I think I have tasted every flavor and type of chocolate they make. You name it coconut, orange, toffee, and some secret ones that only VIP people get.

This is Pierina. Love her! This is at the Mariner's baseball game vs. the Oakland A's, and yes I have the most inappropriate crush on Ichiro.

The LOVE the Eighties

2008-06-07T09:18:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I am a little confused as to why I was not born at a time so I could grow up as a teenager in the eighties because I love the eighties. My friends and I went to an eighties party the other week and upon request here are some pictures. Unfortunately, you can't see that I am actually wearing a jumper along with pink high-top converse and a fanny pack.

There was this random polar bear that was running around hahaha. I thought this was hilarious so I danced around then I realized I had no idea who it inside and then got a little creeped out.

This is Jared and Melia, they both live at m apartment complex.

The Blog

2008-06-04T17:49:00.000-07:00

After refusing to blog for several months, I finally broke down and took the blogging plunge. I would like to say my sister, Lyndsey, is the inspiration to this new endeavour (or should I say threatened me?). I was looking at my familys blogs today and realized that looking at blogs makes me miss people. I enjoy being able catch up on their lives and see what I am missing. Soooo welcome to my life and I hope you realize you miss me. Hahaha!