Capture the Flag

This is my team. Front row: Lorin, Danielle, Me. Back row: Kyle, James

The other team. Front row: Paige, Anna Marie, Careena, Samantha. Back Row: Ryan. haha.

I told everyone to dress for the game.... James showed up in this. :) It made me so happy. hahahaha. such a funny kid.

I have such awesome friends!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :)

FHE and other shenanigans.

For FHE, we played toilet paper dodgeball. It was rather amusing to watch. In this picture someone is in the act of stepping on Careena... it was a little dangerous. hahaha.

Lorin didn't have the middle seat in his van in there for some reason. And we had one extra person. We didn't want to take another car, so lauren just entangled herself in the long seatbelt. Don't worry. It was a VERY short ride.

This is Jamestrons attempt at the obstacle course

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He was the first to actually finish the obstacle course.

double dare

We found the Double Dare game from like the 80s.... so we got it out and opened it up... I don't think we had half the pieces. haha. But James had a good time wearing a weird headpiece from it as we played killer bunnies. I'm pretty sure he's wearing it wrong. :P

mommy dearest! :)

Can I just say what an AMAZING mother I have?!? Seriously. She is absolutely amazing. She's gorgeous, funny, silly, so loving, and so nurturing. My list could go on forever. But I cut it short for your sake. She really is awesome. She is always there for me. If I just need to be held, she is there. Even when she's busy, she will make time to just be there for me. She will do anything for me. She randomly takes me out for food. She'll bring me that textbook I left at home. She'll run errands that I just don't have the time for. She'll buy that book I've wanted. She'll bring me that food I've been craving. She is just so wonderful! And I'm so grateful that I have her as my mother!!!

Bronze Statues: The Healing Powers of Christ

In April, we had an amazing exhibit come to the Mormon Trail Center. I attended this exhibit several times. The first time I went through, this is the statue and plaque that just hit. I could feel the spirit so strongly while reading this plaque that I was in tears. I could barely finish reading. I immediately took out my camera and started snapping away. (no worries, photography was allowed.) After I took a few pictures, I realized this entire exhibit was something that I absolutely did NOT want to forget. So, I took pictures of each plaque and statue. I decided just now that I will occasionally post a picture or two from the exhibit. That way you can enjoy the whole exhibit with me. :)

This is just so amazing to me. Christ was so willing to heal, not only this man with leporacy, but EVERYONE. Because Christ came to this earth to atone our sins, we all may be forgiven for our sins. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for this. I am forgiven for even my tiny little sins on a daily basis. I feel so sad because there are sins that no matter how many times I do them, Heavenly Father forgives me. I have my daily sins such as speeding, judging, being rude. And everyday I ask for forgiveness. And everyday, I am forgiven. And the next day, I always do it again. Heavenly Father is so patient with us as we try to work and perfect ourselves. And then there are the big sins. Like, oh I don't know, the law of chastity, or the word of wisdom. Through our bishops and the Lord, we are forgiven. It takes work. Oh boy does it take work. And it is not an easy road. But it is one so worth taking. And I am just so grateful for Jesus Christ and what he did for us. Life would be pointless if it were not for him.

This is the statue...

And I just absolutely love looking at Christs face on all of these statues. He is such a kind, loving man. And the artist I think represented him well. I love looking into his eyes, and just seeing so much love there.

Present for my wonderful niece

My mom and I went to Target one day to get a gift for Lianne's (my sister-in-law) baby shower. Target is amazing. It is seriously like my favorite store. Their baby clothes are so ADORABLE! I saw these little PJS and I just HAD to get them!!!!! :) I hope my little Calvyn is enjoying them!

New Phone

When you get a new phone, everyone wants to look at it... Well, as much as I tried to keep it from people, Kyle got a hold of it while I ran upstairs to grab something. In the short time, he took like 20 pictures and a few as my backround and screensaver. Here are a few of the pictures he took.

WARNING: Don't look at the last one if you have a weak stomach. :P

this picture reminds me of Derek... hahaha .

He knows i HATE feet.

"i can see up your nose honey" -Duckface from Full House

YUMMI COOKIEEEEE

videos for the laziness

I had two videos to upload... but the first one got deleted... and i really didn't feel like uploading it again. but this one is kinda long. and pretty funny. so enjoy! :)

Laziness at it's best

You remember Nintendo, right? Well, I had really been wanting to play Nintendo, so we finally got it out. Careena and I decided to do this running game.... it was NOT the running game I thought it was. And it was not a game I EVER remember playing as a youngin. It was basically the HARDEST game I have ever played. It was an obstacle course..... we failed. We did not finish. The game cut us off at ten minutes. So ever since then, we have forced each newcomer in the group to participate in this horrific game. We have only had two successes. James and Jake. When it was Ryan and Kyles time, they ran for about one minute and gave up. Kyle sat on the couch kicking his legs. Ryan attempted to make the runner go with his hands and eventually gave up and layed down and tried kicking it. I will soon post a video of their utter patheticness. :)

MS Walk

On April 30th, I participated in a walk for MS. We met at the civic auditorium at about 8 AM. The walk started at 9:30. We walked 3 to 5 miles all around the downtown area. I was a perfect day. At first it was a bit chilly, but it warmed up to the perfect temperature. Katie and I got our faces painted to support Erika. Who was our manager at GAP. I'm so glad that GAP is so involved in the community. I think it is awesome. It was tons of fun walking with my co-workers. And it felt really amazing to support the research that is going into MS. I have many members of my family who have MS. I also know many others with it. It's a terrible disease. And I hope that someday we will be able to get rid of it for good!

lazer tag and cosmic bowling

One day, we decided to go Lazer Tagging. After lazer tag, we went cosmic bowling at Papio bowl. We were about an hour too early, so we left to go to Target for a bit to kill some time. We didn't want to take more than one car.... and we didn't have a very far distance to go, so we all piled into Careenas car. :)

lorin, calli, kyle, ryan, lauren, paige, careena

me. being weird.

and and paige!!!!

Brother Comes Home!!! :)

Dustin came home for the weekend in April. It was AWESOME! I love my brother so much! He is such an awesome guy! :) Well. All the pictures I took of him were on my other camera, and they are in raw format. And my computer doesn't read that.... so they are hidden from the worlds eyes until I can figure out how to work my computer. hahaha. Anyways. We decided to go to the zoo! It was lots of fun! And of course, I have more videos of the funny animals!!! :)

This first video is of frogs. One seems to be giving the other a back massage! I should have started recording earlier though because they were doing a much better job before i got my camera out!

this second video is of an otter.... we think he's blind. He kept touching things and stuff... he was acting real weird.

This video is of a fish. he was just lying in the water. on the ground. like he was dead. then BAM!

this last video is of a cute little monkey that was playing peek a boo

ZOOOOOO

We went to the zoo before all the Idaho peeps left for school. Here's some pictures...

leah, jenna, and sarah

jenna, garrett, leah, and sarah

jenna, sarah, leah, garrett.

the first video is of a funny little fish.

the second video is of a sun bear. people were throwing popcorn in there. and he couldn't swim. so he'd go in as far as he could and reeeeeeeaaaaaaach for the popcorn. and there was one time that he couldn't get it and he reached. and switched hands and reached. and switched. and switched. and switched. and finally it floated close enough for him to grab. its really sad... but i still thought it was funny.

this last video is the clipspringers.... they just sit and chew and chew and chew. and then you see them swallow... and i'm so upset because then, you could see it come back up his throat and he started chewing again!!!! but i missed it coming back up. and stopped recording. :/

scavenger hunt!

Careena and I decided to organize a scavenger hunt because we were really tired of just sitting and hanging out at the institute. So I put together a whole list of things to find and we set it all up.

this is mom's mouth. it was my april fools joke.... :P Jokes on you mommy dearest. now you are on my blog.

this is kissing a strangers hand.. and yes i know my mouth is not touching him... it was... but my camera takes a year to take a picture. so i had started laughing by then. haha

this is with an interesting looking branch.

this is sharing a drink... (i'm thinking i got this one from a date one... hahahaha) this is my whole group though. it was ryan, garrett, careena, me, and jared.

this is in a phone booth.

Sushi

Many people in our group of friends like to eat sushi.... so once in a while we all go out for sushi. There are some, such as Careena and I that just go to hang out. and only get drinks. haha. At this particular time, we got to use the party room upstairs because they were too full to fit us downstairs! it was pretty cool. And it made me feel a little better because our group is a little rowdy some times. So since we were by ourselves it was ok! :)

on the left from front to back: Me, Emily, TJ, Kyler. right from front to back: Lorin, Careen, Lauren, Danielle

we got our sushi on a boat! it was super awesome!

after sushi we went to the pedestrian bridge. lauren, danielle and jared were all walking in step together.

all of us except me on the bridge. from left to right: emily, danielle, careena, lauren, kyler, jared, tj,, lorin

Face cake

So, My group of friends kinda has an obsession with cakes and putting it in peoples faces.... seriously. you shall soon see. i have many more videos where this came from! This was after FHE, we had a cake decorating contest.

RODEO!!!

My mom, dad and I went down to Kansas to visit my brother because he was working in Manhattan for the week. While we were there, we heard about a rodeo. And you know me, I HAVE to be cowboyesque.... so we went to the rodeo. There were lots of good looking cowboys there. And the cowboy I picked to root for, was a bull rider.... AND he was the first one to actually stay on the bull the whole time. :) I picked a good one.

mom dad me and derek

roping the baby cow

i was obviously dressed for the occasion.

this is not my cowboy. i just thought it was funny because he looks like a california kid...do they have cowboys in california?

this one's my cowboy. I'm so proud of him! :P

bored at the mall

Emily, Blake and I went to the mall to hang out. We stopped in at DEB and saw that they had all their prom dresses out. Being girls, we had to try all of them on.... obviously. :P we wanted to get a picture together so we went out to "show blake" and he sneakily snapped a picture of us. so sneakily that we obviously weren't even ready! haha. but yeah! we both liked the bottom of our dresses!!! But I sure am glad I'm done with highschool. It would be really fun to dress up and go to prom again, but it's so expensive! And kinda pointless.... :P haha. so yup yup. this is our picture.

Lancers Game

it totally looks like garrett is holding that bud light.... don't worry. he isn't.