Wendy's Wonderful Wedding!

On August 8 one of my best friends, Wendy, got married!! She was the first girl from our group of friends to get hitched and it felt so weird! It made me feel so extremely old. But the day was perfect for them. Beautiful sunny weather, gorgeous temple, stunning dress...the whole works! Congratulations Wendy and Kory!

A Look Back At Some Old Times....

Well I am obviously a spitting image of Mulan, Jill is a roock star...but what are Kenzie, Wendy, and Cambria?? Maybe gangters. I just can't be sure.

This is us after the 9th grade dance. I remember that we were all so disappointed that Cambria couldn't come. We thought this was a huge moment in our lives and we wanted to ALL be together. So she came with Renee to drop us off (tee hee) and came to dinner with us after.

This is us with our favorite young women's leader ever! Her name is Lisa and she was our leader when were just wee little beehives and we all just became great friends with her.

She is a bit of emotinal an gal.

We thought this was pretty funny. Wendy did not enjoy it so much.

Brooke was not able to come to the temple because she was a leader at EFY so we were finally all together for the reception! It was my goal of the day to get a picture with all six of us. Even though I hardly hang out with these girls anymore, I will always consider them some of my best friends. I love them all so much and feel so lucky to have had such great friends growing up!

Well I guess you should all be looking for my save the dates in the mail cause I am GETTING MARRIED!!! Not really. But I did fight down a six year old girl for this bouquet. She obviously wasn't going to be next!

Bear Lake!

I should be doing a lab, studying objectives, watching a video lecture, or reading my textbooks right now...but all I want to do is get my blog caught up! It has been stressing me to the max to be so behind. At the end of July I had the most pleasant opportunity to join the Marshall clan and BreeAnn for a lovely trip to the beautiful Bear Lake! We stayed in a cabin of some friends of their's and it was so nice! Our activities included yummy s'mores, a rousing game of Ipod Idol, lots of sunny beach time, classic raspberry shakes(or flavor of choice), four wheelin', and much much more! The Marshalls were so kind to let me intrude on their trip and I just want to thank them for such a fantastic time. But who am I kiddin? The trip wouldn't have been half as fun without me there!

Doesn't Krista look ready for an intense game of phase TWENTY?! It is the Marshall version and it takes forever and it is kind of confusing and hard. But still fun I suppose!

Do not tick Karalee off during a card game cause you will have a curse card after you forever! She thought this was pretty funny. BreeAnn did not.

Just roastin some mallows.
I guess Hollie's nieces and nephew just love me.

Hollie's mom was so cute and got a pinata for the kids to break on our last night there. The kids loved it!


I will warn everyone that reads this that Marshall is a dare devil when it comes to the ATV'S!

Hollie's cute nieces on the beach.

Not quite as cute...

It's hard to get a semi decent picture when you are camping, ok?

Would you like a doggy cone??

I just have to give a quick shout out to my friends at DQ! After the rodeo a few of Holly's family members were craving a little treat so we stopped at a Dairy Queen. My feelings for the DQ worker in the drive thru were like an emotional roller coaster! At first I did not like her at all because she was snappy with me when I was placing our order. I just feel like drive thru workers should know that we are going to change our mind at least five times and be completely pleasant the whole time. Well then when I got up to the window I found out she was a midget!! And as most of you know I LOVE the little people so I was having a really hard time staying mad at her for her snappy attitude. Well THEN as I was driving away she saw Ruby in the back seat and said, "Would you like a doggy cone?" How cute is that?! So, my final feelings on the midget DQ worker were positive ones. I of course said yes! She got me a pretty good sized vanilla cone just for Ruby. Ruby loved the thing! I will now try to take Ruby through DQ drive thrus as often as possible.

It was hard to get a good picture of her but you can tell she absolutely loves it!

Give me, give me ICE CREAM!

Giddy Up!

I would have to say that rodeos are definitely on my list of favorite summer activities. I try to go to a few every summer but this year I only made it to one. At least it was the most important one...The Burley Fair and Rodeo baby! I have attended this rodeo for the last few years with Holly and her family and it consistently proves to be a mighty fine time! Hollie, Ruby, and I met Holly and her family there and it was just a blast and a half! Unlike her mother, Ruby is not a fan of rodeos. I felt bad for bringing her because she was TERRIFIED! After the rodeo we went to Holly's brother's house in Twin Falls for a rad sleep over before heading home. It was a fun weekend and great to see Holly!

We literally hadn't seen Holly in like six weeks so we were super excited!

Here we are eating the traditional fair meal deal. Talk about delicious!

This is pretty much the only picture I got of the actual rodeo but just know that it was a amazing and I really wish I was a barrel racer.

The University Inn...A Dream Come True

So I recently moved (a lot more to come in a later post...I am so behind) and there was a about a week in between locations where I was HOMELESS! I went around singing homeless from the forgotten carlols to help get me through the troubling time in my life. I had planned on staying with the family I nanny for, which I was so grateful for...but they are always TOO kind. Melanie got home from work the first night I was going to stay with them and informed me that her and Jason had booked me a room at the University Inn so that I could have my privacy. I felt so bad because they have already helped so much with the move and I was completely fine staying at their house. But she insisted! I was way excited because I have always wanted to say at the University Inn. For those of you that don't know, it is a hotel that is literally in the middle of campus at Utah State. It has always intrigued me! So thank you Melanie and Jason! I really appreciate everyhting you have done for me! The hotel was so so fun!

Hollie came to stay with me one night and she appears to be VERY excited about the University Inn!
We ordered yummy pizza hut to our room. Little did the delivery man know that we are stalkers...

This is one of the views of the lovely campus I had from my room.

I Sleep With Crazies!

One of my very favorite traditions is sleeping on the streeets of Salt Lake on the 23rd for the big parade on Pioneer Day! So, after the Kenny concert we had to head to our traditional spot for some quality entertainment. I have done it for the last four years and I hope to do it for many more! Like it is probably a pretty risky place to bring your kids but I will most likely still do it and just try to shield their eyes. We always meet our fair share of crazies and this year was no exception. We don't even usually stay for the whole parade because we are so tired from all the fun we have during the night. This year the lucky people to join the fun were me, Hollie, Brit, BreeAnn, Jill, Lyns, and Kenz.

The random kid in this pic is Jesse. We know everything there is to know about Jesse now and he is quite and interesting guy. He is kenzie's friend that decided to hang out with us for the night and he just really latched onto Brit and they were definitely boyfriend and girlfriend for the night I would say. He is one of the crazies I speak of. We were best friends during the night and then all of a sudden he HATED us in the morning! But then liked us again before we left. I wonder waht it'll be next time we meet Jesse...

Let me tell you a few fun facts about this guy: 1. His name is Kevin. 2. He is a U.S. Marshall. 3. He has been all over the world, the most impressive of all, Jackson Hole. 4. He owns Jackson Hole. 5. He saved Elizabeth Smart, who actually looks exactly like Hollie Marshall. 6. His sole purpose in coming to the parade was to protect us from the cowboy hat guy in the backround. 7. The parade experience would not have been half as fun without him there.
My favorite part of the actual parade is when the prophet or member of the first presidency drives by. This year it was President Eyring. I didn't get a very good picture, unfortunately. But he was so cute!

Darin was so impressed with how good we looked after our night on the streets, he wanted to take a picture.

I love the parade and I can't wait to see who we meet next year!

Oh Mr. Chesney...

I always forget how much I love Kenny until I attend one of his hot rockin concerts again! He is such an amazing entertainer and I always leave on such a high. I was pretty sad that his concert was not going to be at Usana this year because it is sure to be a good time there, but he did not disappoint at the soccer stadium place it was at. The concert was so much fun and I can't wait until next year! Maybe he will finally realize that I am his soul mate and we will elope together on one of his private islands I am sure he has!

Here we are waiting for the greatest concert ever to start! Well actually I say that about all the concerts I go to when in all actuality Celine Dion was the best concert I have ever and will ever attend. But it was still really amazing.

I am not sure why, but the beach balls being tossed around before the concert started made me joyful beyond belief. I really wish someone would have whipped one out at my high school graduation now that I know they bring me such happiness. Here is Brit blowing up a flat one so that we could continue the fun. There was one security guard in particular that hated life and kept taking the beach balls away from us. Like what could it hurt? I hope every concert I go to from here on out has beach balls. Yeah baby!

Another form of entertainment before the concert came in the form of this man. He literally thought he was so great and he kept walking around bowing for the crowd. I personally am grateful he was there because, well, I like really white trash ghettos. They just make me laugh!

And beautiful. But I must say, I do not find him one bit attractive without some sort of a hat on. I am not picky so it can be a baseball cap or a classic cowboy, but keep your head covered Kenny.

These are the stamps that got us down on the floor! That's right people, I was on the floor. We saw this guy walking around talking to people and it looked like he would give them something and then they would proceed to scream excitedly and run toward Kenny. I was determined to fetch this reward for myself so we decided to try and go talk to him. We were asking the security guard to go and get the man, when all of a sudden he grabbed our hands and stamped them! Can you even believe that? It was pretty funny because these girls right next to him were telling us how they had been working on him all night and it was a lost cause. I guess he just wanted to impress me so that he could date me or something.

And look who we ran into! You might not be able to recognize him fully clothed...

I messed this picture up so it looks kind of weird. But the point is we are REALLY excited to be so close! After we made it to the floor we jumped a row of chairs and walked up the side where we enjoyed the second half of the concert from the FRONT row. It was unbelievable and so so fun!

I am really jealous we got separated from Brit and Jamie at the end because they were able to snap a pic with the man that made our night so incredible!