300th post! WOW

I miss the days of cookie parties. I was reading about my cousin Mal at college and her cookie parties and random parties with boys. sigh. those were the days. So what am I going to do about it? Have a cookie party! Invite random people over and have a good time, just not this week. This week is too busy. :)

Camping @ Big Lake on Labor Day

Almost heaven....

ummm....

Just checkin out the fire. haha.

wait, are we wearing matching underroo's? why yes, yes we are. haha

Going on a ride looking for some good fallen wood.

Dallin has a new hobby. Photography. He is really good at it and just scored some BLUE ribbons at the state fair. Well he wanted to get some good shots of my truck going through the puddles. I think he was positioned a little too close to that puddle. haha.

Mom and Dad! HUGS

Just beautiful

Enjoying the camp fire.

i know why i feel jipped.

its just a normal day at the mall. your walking through the hallways either on a mission for the perfect camel colored jacket for fall or just sauntering through looking at whatever catches your eye. all of a sudden you are bombarded by a sales person! eek! you know the ones. they ask you how your day was or compliment your shirt. ones you respond you are done. they want you to try their product. the product that you shouldn't live another day on this earth without. how could you possibly have lasted your life this long without it!???
have you ever bought something from them? i know i have. you know what? i kinda felt jipped. was it a bad product? no. was it a fair price? mostly. but it was how they got me. like it was one of those games at the carnival. the ones that look so fun but is rigged that there is little chance you can win. you know the product at that carnival game is crap because they stand there begging people to play, and people do for some strange reason. they play knowing they are giving their money away. so kiosks at the mall might be more successful if they weren't begging like a carni.

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Camping in Payson on Labor Day

Jakeb, Zach, and Travis put together a camping trip at the Tonto Recreational area over labor day. Christi and I stopped for the night on our way to big lake. There were a few other peeps there but I didn't know them. It was fun.

Cuddle to stay warm!

more thumbs up for good camping. yes her bed completely deflated in the night but oh well, my cot never lost its air. haha.
In the morning Jakeb made a grand breakfast that fueled us for another fun filled day at big lake with my family.

Camping on MT. Lemon

Jenalee moved to Tucson for a job. She loves it and wanted us to come visit and meet her new boy. :) We did a little camping on Mt. Lemon and then helped with a stake service project.

Christ, Cornel, Jenalee, Juliann

A horney toad! I remember catching these when we were little! When I say we I mean my brothers. I would never touch them. ew. This one is just a little baby!


Cornel would get closer to it than we would.

we are so goofy and thats what makes us so fun.

take one wrong step and off the cliff you go.

Such a pretty makeout point. I mean look out. It's at a girls camp so just a lookout.

I love my feet. they take me so many great places.

Happy Birthday Brynn-O

Trisha threw a great party for Brynns GOLDEN birthday. :) Robert put together an amazing video of all Brynn's closest friends. It was legit.

Mern, Antonio, Jilario, Nic, Robert

I talked the partiers into playing the bag game. It was EPIC. haha

Good memories.

JOHN MAYER

We had so much fun going to John Mayer. It has never been a secret that Sister-In-Law Sara would leave Buddy in a heart beat for John Mayer... haha jk.... but seriously.... she just might..

Here she is with her ticket.

Trisha and Brynn went to. They ended up ditching their seats and sitting with us in some empty seats.

Lindsey and Robin were sitting on the lawn. So we were all there but in different places!

Owl city opened for them. They are not so good in concert. They had some seriously ridiculous dance moves.

not joking this picture is not planned. She was seriously screaming like that when John hit the stage. haha.

He is just so beautiful.

Oh I wish I was that guitar....

Did I say that out loud???

2 thumbs WAY WAY up for a good show.

Cricket Pavillion in the middle of August makes for a HOT show. A really really hot show. But as you can see it didn't effect our enthusiasm! :)

Camping and fish hatchery

A group of the coolest kids in the valley got together for a small one night camping trip up to Tonto Recreation area. We stayed the night and the next day headed to the fish hatchery and then to box canyon.

Matt, Jakeb, Josh, Whitney, Amy

Matt, Jakeb, Cash, Ashley, Josh, Whitney, Amy

So many fish! They had food fore sale for a quarter. You could feed the fish! Fun for kids.

As you went up the hill to the different ponds the fish got smaller and smaller.

Cash dominated some fish.

okay so they were already out here dead but so cute right?

Suicidal fish. RIP.

JAKEB. Don't touch the fish.

Didn't get any pictures of box canyon. Mern, water, and camera's don't mix so better safe than sorry. :) Very cool spot though. Didn't get to explore as much as I would have liked but I can't wait to go back!

VIOLIN LESSONS

I am LOOOOOOVING my lessons. I was taught so incredibly wrong growing up. well maybe I wasn't taught wrong but I wasn't taught right either. I hold my violin wrong, my thumb is in the wrong place. my bow hand has amazing skill that I never knew it had because I wasn't holding my bow right! grrrr. so now I get to re-train myself. what fun. I have much to work on. I am doing scales and learning how to play in 2nd and 3rd position. I was never able to in school because our orchestra was so small that we had 1 girl who played all of that stuff and I got stuck with the 2nd and 3rd violin pieces. Those were the easy easy ones. I never complained though because that meant less practicing for me. SCORE. So things I am working on this week

1. Holding my bow correctly
2. Keeping my thumb lower on the kneck
3. Bringing the thumb along to 2nd and 3rd position
4. G and D scales

The half hour lesson FLEW by. I couldn't believe it. My teacher, Christi Porter is amazing. She is a teacher for a middle school and a ton of fun. I also loves that she compliments my musical ability a million times in a lesson. She better since I am paying her to. haha

peace.

And we're off!!!

Labor Day weekend. Yippee... Labor day means camping. It has for the last many years. In fact I met my first boyfriend on a camping trip over labor day weekend. Lets see if this weekend can meet that high standard!



Tonight I am headed to Payson to camp with some friends. There should be about 20 of us there so I am really excited. I don't think I will pitch my tent but just sleep in the back of my truck. Saturday morning I will hop up and head up to THE REAL GODS COUNTRY. (yes Chuck I am talking to you. Pima is second best.) Mom and Pops and little brother are going to be waiting for me to head up to Big Lake to chop down some timber trees. Gotta stock up for the winter right? I want to learn how to use a chain saw this weekend. Maybe I will make a deal with pops. I will do your grunt work of moving the logs into the truck if you will teach me how to massacre a tree. Deal?