January

First post of the year and it's halfway thru January, I am so all the ball this year. First off I wanted to share this picture simply because I absolutely love it and have had it as my desktop picture for a year and I don't think I'll be changing it anytime soon. I hope to be able to take such interesting photos, I love, love, love fairytales and the fairytale feel photographers are able to capture.

Utah!

This weekend was so fun! I really enjoy being around grandma and grandpa and Heather and Roy and their beautiful girls. They are so cute! I got to go down to have Heather take my senior pictures. I've been trying to find the perfect photographer that wasn't far away, and she matched the description! So I headed down with half of my wardrobe and took a few pictures. Logan has such great spots and the leaves at this time of year are colorful and still in the trees, it was exciting. Here is a pic of grandpa surrounded by girls like he was all weekend.

For several months I have wanted to a make a candyland cake. Since I was sick on my birthday and sweets didn't seem like such a good idea, I saved the plan. Sharing with grandma, grandpa, and a bunch of little girls seemed like a great plan. It turned out to be a super sweet cake.

HeidiAnn and Amberly had fun taking pictures in the back.

One of the many Beautiful pictures that Heather took. I am so happy with them.

Thanks Heather!

Halloween!

I love Halloween, and I don't really know why, I don't like being scared, I don't like gory things, but I really like the feel of it. Maybe it's because the holiday feels old kind of like an old house. I don't have a clue why Halloween is my favorite time of year, but I just love it. This year we dressed up but really didn't do much. I volunteered to help with Trunk-or Treat the night before, so I decorated the trunk of the van and dressed up as Velma, while Adam and Amberly dressed as Shaggy and Minnie Mouse. It was fun to have us kind of themed. On actual Halloween, Adam and Amberly went trick-or-treating for a few treats, and then we sat down and watched Scooby-Doo while eating Scooby-snacks.

Snowball fight

This is really delayed, but here is the snowball fight when it snowed in the beginning of October.

Homecoming Rock Star

Things have gotten kinda hectic since school started and I haven't posted. I've been stressed over things that really aren't that stressful. For homecoming this year I was put as chairman for a ton of things simply because I never say no, which kinda isn't that bad of a thing. I have yearbook this year now, however it's only on Fridays. Since the yearbook class needed a new camera and I'm the only one who is really in that class, guess who gets to use the SLR? I have to admit I've taken more pictures at home than I have of school functions. Purely because I don't really know how exactly to work it. Anyway, this week started with hat day, then animal day, then nerd day and then today, Rock Star day. I didn't think I had anything but went searching, found some fishnets and built from there by going looking in Amberly's room. I thought it was a super fun dressup day but I scared myself by looking in the mirror a couple times.

Coming up next: throwing a snowball at HeidiAnn

GivesMeHope

I scan through the harry potter mugglenet site every once in awhile. Recently they've been putting up little excerpts from the site givesmehope.com. This story was posted on here so a went to the website and came across several others. They just make me smile.

"Today, I was walking in a dog park. I reached this really steep hill, and noticed someone rolling down it, laughing the whole way. At first I passed it off as a just a kid. Then I noticed that it was a woman at least 60 years old, and that her husband was waiting at the bottom of the hill to catch her"

Grade "A" hiking

This morning I finally got up and went hiking. Although it wasn't as early as I should have gone I still woke up Adam Amberly and Alyssa, the triple A's", and we drove up to the number hill. Our quest? To hike to the big A. At first we had no clue where the trail was, it just looked like a water runnoff and then just like someone had decided to climb some rocks. But it was the trail, and wow was it steep. I remember hiking it with my dad when I was younger and thinking it was so long, but I didn't remember it being steep. Maybe I just confused long with steep. After several breaks we did make it up just as the sun hit the top of the hill.

The Triple A's Sitting on the A

Admiring the veiw

In attempt to capture the glamorous picture that didn't turn out. Amberly didn't get the memo

One of the paintbrushes they used got paint glued.

When the excitement of reaching the A ran out, we decided to go to the B. It's not that easy and there is a downhill and then going up and around another so we decided just to go to where we could see the B, the highest point of the Number Hill. Amberly was too tired and wanted to stop so we left her sitting on a rock while Adam and Alyssa and I went to the top. We took too long taking pictures and exploring, and found a new way down that was easier than the steep trail we had come up. As Amberly was hiking up I took this picture.

Standing on a lonely tall thin rock

Superheroes vs. the villain

On the road that we finally found that ended up going around TWO hills the triple A's found several items: Alyssa's broom "fan", Adam's bead type thing, and Amberly's pocket knife.