So this is the most exciting Spring Break that I have ever had! It was SO much fun!! I am glad that I went. Well let me tell you what happened :)
Tuesday: We (Rex Sowards, Ted Sowards, Tim Schnepf and I) went and picked up Lauren Pew. That is when the trip started. Right there at her house!! We headed west on the 202. We arrived in Havasupi Lake. Where we saw the London Bridge and ate at In-N-Out. Then we headed for Las Vegas. We immediately went to the Casino and got tickets for the Lion King. It only was $26, student discount. Then right before the show we went and dropped our bags off at the hotel we were staying at. The Stratosphere, which was located on the other end of the strip from where the play was taking place. Once we got to the hotel room Lauren and I changed clothes while the boys did their hair :) hehe. Then we went and saw Lion King. It was AMAZING!! No joke! One of the best plays I have ever seen, one of the only ones that I have seen, but that is besides the point. Then we walked down the strip. We saw the M&M's store where there was 4 stories of M&M merchandice. It was crazy to see that many M&M things and that many colors of M&M's too. Then we went and watched the water works, then we went and walked around Paris. That was fun. Then we went back to our hotel rooms at about 2 in the morning. Where we saw someone in the casino as we were going to the elivator I was walking in front of everyone cuz my feet were about to fall off and there was this couple and the girl yells at him "Don't check her out!" and he says "I can't help it. She's hott!" I looked over to see who they were talking about and low-and-behold they both were looking at me. Once they walked away I began to laugh so hard! It put a little hop to my step when I walked to my room haha.
Wednesday: We woke up and went on the strip. We went everywhere. We went to Greece and then down to the Pirate ship. We didn't go to New York New York which I was kind of ok with. But it would have been fun to go. We want to the Hoover Dam where we told the funniest dam jokes that I have ever heard. And I used to live on a dam... so I have heard tons of dam jokes. Then after we had lunch we left for Cedar City Utah. On the way there we saw tons of Hay and had fun yelling "Hay" out the window. We stopped in St George to see the Temple. It was beautiful and we got there right as the sun was setting which made it so much better! Then we arrived at Tim's sisters house in Cedar City. It was really different being on daylight savings time. Lauren and I have a lot of inside jokes about this night.
Thursday: We woke up and all headed out about 10. We went to Zion National Park where we found snow! It was so beautiful up there. We had fun taking pictures and having a blast. Then we went to Sadona where we looked at shops and walked around for a little bit. Which was nice that we did that because my bum was asleep from staying in that little car for so long. Then we went and saw the Grand Canyon. I had never been to the South entrance I don't think. We got there right before the sunset and it was such a deep red. It was so pretty. It was also freezing cold!! We were going to camp there but then we realized that we might freeze during the night so we called Tim's dad who graciously got us hotel rooms in Flagstaff. So off we went to Flag. When we arrived we went to the hotel room and then to Walgreen's. We had so much fun that night. Then we went to bed.
Friday: We had breakfast at the hotel and then we were off. We went and saw the painted desert. It was so windy through there. There were no mountains they were all little hills. It was crazy. The wind had to be going at least 50 mph. Because when I leaned forward, and I mean far forward, I didn't fall over. There was a perfect ledge that made it look like you were standing at the top of Pride Rock. It was amazingly beautiful. We saw the Petrified Forest, that was pretty cool too. We took a picture by the sign of Root 66. Which I always have wanted to drive down. Then we went to Show low where we stayed at Jared's cabin/house. We had friends join us up there. Jared Neilson, Kristen Fitzugh and Brad Billings all came up there. We ate food, went star gazing and played games. It was a lot of fun.
Saturday: Today was the sad day that we headed home. We went the long way and looked at all the forest that we went through because we didn't get to see a lot since Wednesday, in fact that was the only day that we saw trees. But we had a lot of fun watching movies and driving home. We blared good music and we were safe everyday. We got home and we travel about 1,766 miles I think it was. I had a blast and made close friends on this trip!!
That was the best Spring Break that I had ever had. Now I wish that it wasn't over. hahaha I would have loved to have seen all of Las Vegas. That would have been so much fun.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
BUTTERFLY
Beauty
Under-estimated
Talented
Tempted
Elegant
Radiant
Flawless
Light
Young
Every time a see the beautiful butterfly,
I think of my sister with a sparkle in my eye.
She had a great smile and a really big heart,
Unfortunately from this world, she had to part.
I have fond memories with her in my mind,
All I need to do is search and those memories find.
For I fear that she is slipping away and I cannot grasp,
The life that we shared together in the past.
But there is a wonderful thing put on the world now,
The knowledge that I can see her again some how.
I live the commandments of the one true God,
I have to be honest, loyal and not a fraud.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the key,
To have a family for all time and eternity.
It's a comforting thought that I have this blessing,
To be with a family where no one is missing.
I think of my sister with a sparkle in my eye.
She had a great smile and a really big heart,
Unfortunately from this world, she had to part.
I have fond memories with her in my mind,
All I need to do is search and those memories find.
For I fear that she is slipping away and I cannot grasp,
The life that we shared together in the past.
But there is a wonderful thing put on the world now,
The knowledge that I can see her again some how.
I live the commandments of the one true God,
I have to be honest, loyal and not a fraud.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the key,
To have a family for all time and eternity.
It's a comforting thought that I have this blessing,
To be with a family where no one is missing.
Monday, March 1, 2010
A lot can happen in a year
It's crazy to think that one year ago I was in high school. I was just finishing basketball and I was done with it!! YAY! One year ago I graduated from seminary AND high school. One year ago I had the best friend I could ask for. One year ago I had a great relationship with a wonderful guy. One year ago I wasn't confused. One year ago I was in shape and could run longer than 5 minutes. One year ago my nephew wasn't even one year old. One year ago I didn't have such great friends. One year ago I was still in Young Womens. One year ago I was looking into his eyes :) One year ago I wasn't afraid of him leaving. One year ago nothing was screwed up by me. One year ago....
Its crazy how things change in one year. How you can change in one year. I am not sure if I am nervous or excited for this next year to come and go. Excitement and fear both fill my emotional tanks. I don't want time to fly by too fast, but at the same time it would be nice if it could speed up just a little. ( For some odd reason I just thought of "When you find the one you want to spend the rest of your life with you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible" I have no idea why I thought about that.... but I did).
One year ago I didn't have a blog :P
One year ago my sleeping habits were A LOT better than this!! Goodnight :D
Its crazy how things change in one year. How you can change in one year. I am not sure if I am nervous or excited for this next year to come and go. Excitement and fear both fill my emotional tanks. I don't want time to fly by too fast, but at the same time it would be nice if it could speed up just a little. ( For some odd reason I just thought of "When you find the one you want to spend the rest of your life with you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible" I have no idea why I thought about that.... but I did).
One year ago I didn't have a blog :P
One year ago my sleeping habits were A LOT better than this!! Goodnight :D
Sunday, February 28, 2010
I can't sleep
So I am sitting here in my room listening to my family cough and snore the night away. I can't sleep because I took a wonderful 6 hour nap tonight from not getting any sleep last night. Why was I up till 6 am in the morning you ask? Well I will tell...
It all started when Rachel and I went to Shayna's battchelorette (sp?) party. We were having tons of fun! Then 11:30 rolled around and I was ready to go to sleep because I needed to be somewhere at 2 am. So we leave and I take Rachel home and we started talking because we are best friends and that's what we do. So next thing we know, after talking about her boyfriend and my missionary it is 1:20 in the morning and my mom is calling me telling me to get home. That we are leaving in ten minutes. So I go home. I change and run around like a chicken with my head cut off (lovely imagery right? I thought you'd like it) making sure that I get all the things I need. So after the car is loaded and my mother is in the driver seat, we head out to AJ to pick up my older, pregnant sister. We get out there to her house and she and I head out! We are headed to the middle of no where to hand out water to random people running for two days in the wonderful fundraiser called the Ragnar Relay. It's actually really cool. Thousands of people run from flagstaff to Phoenix for two days. Well we get where we needed to be at 3:30, a half hour early :) so we decided to take a nap. Well at 3:50 my phone began to ring. It was the woman in charge of the relay telling us that she didn't need us anymore. So we got up, went to where Wendy's husband was sleeping she kissed him while my tush was being frozen and then we drove a whole 2 hours home. It was wonderful! :D So we got to her house and we fell asleep, she made us all breakfast and then I went home at 10 and fell asleep till 4:30 and here I am talking about my 6 hour nap that I regret 5 hours of it. haha.
Now on with the rest of my day. We played 007, I don't know if you have ever played. But it is tons of fun. I was thinking that we should make it more interesting and challenging. But no one seemed to agree with me, at least not the majority. I had fun running, singing and dancing in the rain though. I wish my missionary was here though. He loved that game and we always had the best time going. Just because he would yell "spotlight" and I would jump behind a bush or a wall and he'd bust out laughing. Punk!! :D haha good times.
I love the sound of rain. I wish that I could have just sat outside and listen to it all night, but knowing Mesa's moody weather, it would turn off and on every ten minutes, or even shorter. That and my neighborhood probably isn't the safest, but that happens. The soft pitter-patter of the rain hitting the roof and the ground. I love watching it fall so gracefully in the light of the street lamp, envious of how it falls through the air. Wishing that I could follow its example and just fall... fall in love.... fall out of love... what is falling in love?! Why do we calling it falling IN love? A good friend of mine says that he doesn't believe in falling in love, you can't fall in love someone, but you can BE in love with someone (he was a lot better and voicing his opinions than I am).
I am so tired I'm just rambling now... I think I'm going to go lie in bed and just wait for sleep to come take over.
Goodnight faithful bloggers, may sweet words fill your thoughts tonight as you sleep.
It all started when Rachel and I went to Shayna's battchelorette (sp?) party. We were having tons of fun! Then 11:30 rolled around and I was ready to go to sleep because I needed to be somewhere at 2 am. So we leave and I take Rachel home and we started talking because we are best friends and that's what we do. So next thing we know, after talking about her boyfriend and my missionary it is 1:20 in the morning and my mom is calling me telling me to get home. That we are leaving in ten minutes. So I go home. I change and run around like a chicken with my head cut off (lovely imagery right? I thought you'd like it) making sure that I get all the things I need. So after the car is loaded and my mother is in the driver seat, we head out to AJ to pick up my older, pregnant sister. We get out there to her house and she and I head out! We are headed to the middle of no where to hand out water to random people running for two days in the wonderful fundraiser called the Ragnar Relay. It's actually really cool. Thousands of people run from flagstaff to Phoenix for two days. Well we get where we needed to be at 3:30, a half hour early :) so we decided to take a nap. Well at 3:50 my phone began to ring. It was the woman in charge of the relay telling us that she didn't need us anymore. So we got up, went to where Wendy's husband was sleeping she kissed him while my tush was being frozen and then we drove a whole 2 hours home. It was wonderful! :D So we got to her house and we fell asleep, she made us all breakfast and then I went home at 10 and fell asleep till 4:30 and here I am talking about my 6 hour nap that I regret 5 hours of it. haha.
Now on with the rest of my day. We played 007, I don't know if you have ever played. But it is tons of fun. I was thinking that we should make it more interesting and challenging. But no one seemed to agree with me, at least not the majority. I had fun running, singing and dancing in the rain though. I wish my missionary was here though. He loved that game and we always had the best time going. Just because he would yell "spotlight" and I would jump behind a bush or a wall and he'd bust out laughing. Punk!! :D haha good times.
I love the sound of rain. I wish that I could have just sat outside and listen to it all night, but knowing Mesa's moody weather, it would turn off and on every ten minutes, or even shorter. That and my neighborhood probably isn't the safest, but that happens. The soft pitter-patter of the rain hitting the roof and the ground. I love watching it fall so gracefully in the light of the street lamp, envious of how it falls through the air. Wishing that I could follow its example and just fall... fall in love.... fall out of love... what is falling in love?! Why do we calling it falling IN love? A good friend of mine says that he doesn't believe in falling in love, you can't fall in love someone, but you can BE in love with someone (he was a lot better and voicing his opinions than I am).
I am so tired I'm just rambling now... I think I'm going to go lie in bed and just wait for sleep to come take over.
Goodnight faithful bloggers, may sweet words fill your thoughts tonight as you sleep.
Friday, February 26, 2010
First (random) Blog!!
Well it is 1 AM and I decided to actually Blog something. I'm not tired and I feel like I need to talk... So what better than here to do so? So I just spent the last hour reading Annie's page and I loved it and it seemed like fun to Blog so I decided to Blog. But I'm not sure what I want to Blog about. So bear with me if you are reading this.
Basketball is my favorite sport, some people will disagree but who cares? I have played it since I was in the 7th grade and I love it with all my heart. When I got to basketball games and sit on the sidelines it drives me insane because I would much rather be playing than cheering, at least on the bleachers and not on the bench. I wanted to try out for College but I got out of shape way too fast and I think I might be too lazy and not motivated to get back into shape (which is really bad because I hate it when people are lazy... I hate my laziness right now hahaha)
Singing, I love to sing. You will hear me singing everywhere I go. If I'm not singing out loud then I am most likely singing in my head. When I am in the car and there is a good song on, whether it be country, pop, classical rock or classical music, I am not ashamed to turn it up LOUD and jam out!! I wish I would have been more confident with my singing. I have always been nervous to sing in front of people. I wanted to be in honor choir so bad!! (In fact I believed that I was a better singer than some of the people that were actually in honor choir and people told me (who were in honor choir) that I was better than some people) But I just couldn't relax enough to sing in front of Harris for some reason. I don't know why I was so intimidated by that man! I wish I didn't care what he, or the rest of the class, thought. I would have had an even BETTER senior year than I already had.
Von, pretty much my best friend EVER and I miss him terribly and love him... and can't wait for him to come back... That's all I should say (although I just wrote a WHOLE paragraph about how wonderful and amazing I thought he was.... but I didn't think I should put that on here)
Ice cream. Pretty much my favorite food EVER!! Period!!!
Family. I love my family. There is so much that we have been together through. I am so glad that I was born into this family because I don't think I could have made it if I were in any other family. I love my mom so much! We get along really well. We love watching TV together because we like watching the same things. My dad may act tough, but he's really just a big teddy bear. My sister Julie died when I was 13, but she was TONS of fun! We would always do crazy fun stuff with her! We always went to Sunsplash with her! She was a free spirit. My sister Wendy I look up to. She is independent, beautiful, smart and knows what she want's in life. She is also a great mother and a good listener, when she isn't teasing me about something. We are "twins separated by 10 years" and I love it. My brother Wayne passed away when I was 6, but I remember that I loved him and that he loved me. We played a lot of games together. My sister Jeani, I love her! She is the super artist in our family! She isn't afraid to voice her opinion and does it often. My big little sister Jayme is a sweetheart and I am glad that she is my sister :) I love my family SO much!!
Friends, I love friends! "Friends are the family you are allowed to choose." I agree 100% and more! hahaha. My friends my be a little different but that's what makes them SO AWESOME! I wouldn't have it any other way! Right now I'm not sure who my best friend is. I have a lot of friends that I turn to about things and it's getting annoying cuz I can't remember who I told what. I used to have a best friend that I could confide in no matter what. But she has found someone more important than me and I'm trying to accept it but it's hard. Especially when they start dating and she leaves you there crying.... Literally....
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Pretty much the best church EVER! It may sound like I'm kidding, but I'm serious. This church and its teachings have helped me so much in my life. I am a child of God and He loves me. There is nothing I can't do without Him. I have no idea where I would be with out the church, I am so glad that I live in the time where it is on the earth so that I can learn all that I can about it. I love this church.
Night Owlism.... I think it should be a disease! Because I have it!! I cannot fall asleep and look how late it is!! 1:29 AM! I guess this is better than just laying awake in my bed missing and thinking of Von. Which I would kind of rather be doing than this :) maybe I'll write a whole blog about him one of these nights :) we'll just have to see... or at least you will. I know whether or not I will write about him. I pretty much told you almost everything in the paragraph above, but oh well....
I should get some shut eye. I'm going to go hit the hay.... Why do people say that? I guess it sounds better than 1"I'm going to go hit the springs!" hahaha whatever random thought.
GOODNIGHT!!
Basketball is my favorite sport, some people will disagree but who cares? I have played it since I was in the 7th grade and I love it with all my heart. When I got to basketball games and sit on the sidelines it drives me insane because I would much rather be playing than cheering, at least on the bleachers and not on the bench. I wanted to try out for College but I got out of shape way too fast and I think I might be too lazy and not motivated to get back into shape (which is really bad because I hate it when people are lazy... I hate my laziness right now hahaha)
Singing, I love to sing. You will hear me singing everywhere I go. If I'm not singing out loud then I am most likely singing in my head. When I am in the car and there is a good song on, whether it be country, pop, classical rock or classical music, I am not ashamed to turn it up LOUD and jam out!! I wish I would have been more confident with my singing. I have always been nervous to sing in front of people. I wanted to be in honor choir so bad!! (In fact I believed that I was a better singer than some of the people that were actually in honor choir and people told me (who were in honor choir) that I was better than some people) But I just couldn't relax enough to sing in front of Harris for some reason. I don't know why I was so intimidated by that man! I wish I didn't care what he, or the rest of the class, thought. I would have had an even BETTER senior year than I already had.
Von, pretty much my best friend EVER and I miss him terribly and love him... and can't wait for him to come back... That's all I should say (although I just wrote a WHOLE paragraph about how wonderful and amazing I thought he was.... but I didn't think I should put that on here)
Ice cream. Pretty much my favorite food EVER!! Period!!!
Family. I love my family. There is so much that we have been together through. I am so glad that I was born into this family because I don't think I could have made it if I were in any other family. I love my mom so much! We get along really well. We love watching TV together because we like watching the same things. My dad may act tough, but he's really just a big teddy bear. My sister Julie died when I was 13, but she was TONS of fun! We would always do crazy fun stuff with her! We always went to Sunsplash with her! She was a free spirit. My sister Wendy I look up to. She is independent, beautiful, smart and knows what she want's in life. She is also a great mother and a good listener, when she isn't teasing me about something. We are "twins separated by 10 years" and I love it. My brother Wayne passed away when I was 6, but I remember that I loved him and that he loved me. We played a lot of games together. My sister Jeani, I love her! She is the super artist in our family! She isn't afraid to voice her opinion and does it often. My big little sister Jayme is a sweetheart and I am glad that she is my sister :) I love my family SO much!!
Friends, I love friends! "Friends are the family you are allowed to choose." I agree 100% and more! hahaha. My friends my be a little different but that's what makes them SO AWESOME! I wouldn't have it any other way! Right now I'm not sure who my best friend is. I have a lot of friends that I turn to about things and it's getting annoying cuz I can't remember who I told what. I used to have a best friend that I could confide in no matter what. But she has found someone more important than me and I'm trying to accept it but it's hard. Especially when they start dating and she leaves you there crying.... Literally....
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Pretty much the best church EVER! It may sound like I'm kidding, but I'm serious. This church and its teachings have helped me so much in my life. I am a child of God and He loves me. There is nothing I can't do without Him. I have no idea where I would be with out the church, I am so glad that I live in the time where it is on the earth so that I can learn all that I can about it. I love this church.
Night Owlism.... I think it should be a disease! Because I have it!! I cannot fall asleep and look how late it is!! 1:29 AM! I guess this is better than just laying awake in my bed missing and thinking of Von. Which I would kind of rather be doing than this :) maybe I'll write a whole blog about him one of these nights :) we'll just have to see... or at least you will. I know whether or not I will write about him. I pretty much told you almost everything in the paragraph above, but oh well....
I should get some shut eye. I'm going to go hit the hay.... Why do people say that? I guess it sounds better than 1"I'm going to go hit the springs!" hahaha whatever random thought.
GOODNIGHT!!
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