Capital Reef

Parker posing with his favorite aunt!

CampFire

Marshall, Brooke,Parker, & Me

Our trail marker

Our very large rock climbing experience!

Marsh Man, Quinn, Amy and Parker

The full view!

Early Pioneers names carved on the rock

Old school house

OH! Pretty deer.

Myself & Amanda

Fire!

Skull of the deer

Miss Brooke and Nanna

Amy & Tyler


Parker,Tyler, & Marsh Man

Dad & Amy
Planting our targets!

Myself, Mom, Dad, Amanda, my other sister Amy, her husband Tyler and their four kids; Quinn, Marshall, Parker and Brooke all took a sweet vacation to Capital Reef about three weeks ago. While we were there we found a great place to go shooting and had a lot of fun! I shot a 22 Magnum, 17HMR, and a 22 Pistol. On our adventure we found a skull of a dead deer which was pretty nasty, and lots of wood for our fire that we had later that night. We went hiking, saw some sweet Petrogliphs from a long time ago and ran into a real live female deer. She was a beauty! We climbed some steep rock and thought I was going to die,but didn't. Visited some history cites in the park. It was so beautiful outside we jumped in the pool and had a party! We enjoyed each others company while sitting aroud the campfire every night roasting marshmellows and having smores! I love my family and was so happy to have been able to spend this time with them. Little Parker became my best friend and made sure we took pictures so here they all are!

It's Over! For Now.....

I finished school yesterday and graduate on Friday from SLCC! It has been a very LONG process to get to this point, but I am very excited and proud of myself for accomplishing one of my goals! The plan for now, is to take a break off of school for the summer semester and catch up on the fun things in life. Don't worry I still am doing more school, but for now it's over!

Addiction

One of my close friends is very familiar with eating well and exercising. I on the other hand am good with the exercising part, but LOVE candy and sugar in general! I wanted to make it a goal to get myself off of it and allow my body to become acquainted without it. So, I gave myself that challenge and asked help from Robby to do it with me and coach me through this process. He agreed and we have made it a goal/competition to see who can go the longest without sugar, HFCG, and any other sugar substitutes. We're able to eat natural sugars, which mean...basically fruit! The first week we started, I really did well and was very proud of myself for making it through the first long week without it. In the yoga class I'm taking right now my instructor Tiffany always uses the saying, "Acknowledge the Thought or Feeling and Let it Go!" I really have relied on this quote not only is yoga and Pilate's, but in any situation I come across that I find myself struggling in. I know that if I acknowledge the thoughts the come to my mind EVERYDAY of having candy, I can be strong and let them go. I know I can get over this addiction I have!

'April Showers Bring May Flowers"

"April Showers Brings May Flowers," which means the Bee's will be coming out for another season! In terms of Bee's I mean...The Salt Lake Bee's!!!!!!!!!! It's once again spring time! I LOVE it, as well as baseball! This season I was pretty excited, but kind of not looking forward to it as much because I had heard "B-Wood" (Brandon Wood #8) would be moving on to the Angels. A few days ago the news was on, and I about had a heart attack!!!! Brandon was practicing not only on the field but in uniform! Sadly to say, he has "buzzed" all of his long beautiful hair off! Still looking good, I'm glad to say I'm not having to find a replacement of my favorite player this season! I am very excited to spend a lot of time looking out and gazing at the field! The environment of baseball is a beautiful picture. Observation is the best word I can use to describe a lot of my time spent there. People are enjoyable, as well as weiner Wednesdays now called Dollar Dog Day, Thirsty Thursday's and my all time favorite... ice cream in a baseball cap! One day I am going to catch a ball, I know it!!!! Brandon will toss his ball over the dug out to me, and winks as I catch the ball in my hands! It will be a wonderful, life long dream now fulfilled...well one day!

You'll Laugh @ This!

Some advice for anyone who wants to laugh....watch the T.V. series The Big Bang Theory! I absolutly love it and find myself laughing I'd say 90% of the time! Monday's 8PM or go buy season 1, it's worth it! Howard is one of my favorites!

My Vow to Myself!

I am very excited!!!! My brother in-law Tyler, bestest friend Ryan and I will be running the Provo 5K and Tyler is running the 10K on July 4th! I am really looking forward to this. Tonight Tyler and I started talking about running and Amanda my sister said I would never be able to run a marathon....so to this day, I am making a written vow to myself that I will in the near future train for a marathon! I'm going to prove everyone wrong!

Skin

Tuesday I had a lovely docters appointment @ the dermatologist. Sadly to say they've diagnosed me with Psoriasis, which is basically where my skin cells grow too fast in certain areas. Weird I know, but no worries...it's not contagious!