Sad.

Well since this saga has finally had some sort of a conclusion, I thought I better share my thoughts about it. Last night was a pretty rough night for me. I knew I was not going to be able to watch the HUGE announcement live because I do not have access to any television channels here at my home in Logan. This in itslef is a huge struggle for me because, like what am I supposed to do with my life? But it has been expecially hard with all of this Jon and Kate drama going on because I have to wait until the next day at work to see the latest on my favorite t.v. family! So anyway, I was hoping to not find anything out until work today but when my internet pulled up the first thing on MSN was: Jon and Kate announce divorce. I instantly exited out of it and tried to pretend it was a dream but I couldn't stop the tears. I can't really explain why my heart goes out to this family so much! I just feel like I know them and they are a real family. They are not characters, this is really happening to them and my heart just breaks for those cute kids. I decided to just call my mom, who was currently watching the show, to confirm what I had just found out. She told me they did in fact announce their divorce, and I once again broke into sobs. It is just so tragic! And then I did the stupidest thing imaginable and put in season one of their show and just cried and cried watching them in happier times. Anyways, I really have no point in this other than to just get it off my chest because it has been on my mind all day. I watched the episode this morning and it just made me so sad. They both just kept saying that their main focus is still their children, but I kind of find that hard to believe. I think they have both just changed so much. I tend to blame Jon more and he sounded especially selfish during the episode. I hated when he said he was excited to start this new chapter in his life! Like, you can't just choose not to be a dad anymore! And those gay earrings make you look like a mega geek wad! And while I know that Kate loves her children very much I think she is a little caught up in the fame and money the show has brought her. She is so eager to keep the show going when she should really be focused on taking some time out of the spotlight to better their family. I was really glad the TLC announced a temporary hold on their show until August. I think that will be good for them! So these are my thoughts. I hope they really will try to do what is best for their kids in this difficult time!

Holla for Holly!

Holly came down from Boise(where her parents are keeping her prisoner for the summer) to attend the Taylor Swift concert. She was able to stay with me in Logan for a few weeks in order to see if she got any work from intermountain. While she was here we did loads of fun things! It really made me miss living with her here. We cooked dinner, went to movies, tried to go swimming in first dam in below freezing temperatures, went out to eat, and lots of other things! It was a blast and I can't wait to go visit her here in a couple weeks!

Rumbi Island grill...yum!

Apparently she wasn't only cold, she also got attacked by a shark. And lived to tell the tale!

Holly won the brave award this night becasue she went in past her knees. I think I put my big toe in.

We also went to Crystal Hot Springs and it was quite an adventure! It down poured for a good portion of the day but it was still really fun! I am choosing to not post those pics for a number of reasons. Come visit again soon Holly!

Nature Woman.

So apparently I am a total outdoor girl! Like I got this idea to go hiking yesterday and I just did it! That is totally not like me but I am trying really hard to move my body more than once a year. So, Hollie was up for the weekend and we decided to go to the wind caves. I remembered doing this hike one year for girl's camp and I also of course remember dying on it. That is not really saying much because I die when any sort of exercise is involved. Seriously. But I was really nervous we were going to pass out from exhaustion on the trail and ravenous animals were going to drag us deep into the woods to enjoy us as a Thanksgiving feast or something. Thankfully that didn't happen. We started out really motivated and happy with our decision. I was in a jolly mood taking pictures of the pretty nature scenes around us. About twenty minutes into our hike, our cheerful moods had disappeared only to be replaced by self loathing because of this terrible choice! Who goes on a death hike on a friday night when we could be enjoying a yummy Fh'zookie at the local Firehouse? At this point we asked some people coming down how much farther we had because we knew it had to be almost over judging by the fact that our legs had pretty much stopped working. To our dismay, the super skinny wench mom told us we were just getting started! For a brief moment we considered turning around. But we didn't want to feel like big fat failures so we kept going! We got a good timing system that helped us stay motivated. We seriously asked everyone we passed how much longer and one man a little past the halfway point really encouraged us! He told us that we could do it because the terrain was not any harder than what we had already done. He lied. The last half was killer! But I am still glad he was such a nice man to motivate us and make us feel strong! I am proud to say that we made it to the top! And it really was fun to do something active for a change! I want to keep climbing this same hike to see how well I progress.

We had no idea what was in store for us. Poor innocent souls.

We were a little nervous about the rough terrain ahead of us when we had to cross this river full of rapids that could have easily knocked us down within the first five minutes of the hike.

Here is one of the many beautiful pics I got when I still had energy to pull my camera out.

I believe we are trying to portray how exhausted we are, not quite sure.

Yea! We are the champions of the world! Nothing can stop us!!!!

We were so happy to finally see Winnifred again we just had to take a mament to hug and kiss her.

Taylor Swift and Vegas!

So, this is pretty lame of me to do but because I do things with the same people all the time and those same people have blogs, we end up having identical posts. So I am going to go ahead and tell you to check out either Britney's, Hollie's, or Jamie's blog for a complete synopsis of my experience at Taylor Swift. Let me just say that it was a night to never forget! Defeinitely one of my favorite concerts ever! It was a really fun girl's concert! And go ahead and check out Britney's blog for a summary of our fun weekend in Vegas. Also really fun! I had no idea I even liked Vegas. Like I thought we would run out of stuff to do but we actually couldn't even fit everything in! Crazy.Next time I will try to beat my insanely fast friends to the posting finish line!

I felt like I had to post at least one picture so here is a pic of me and my cousins when we were just wee ones. My cousin put it on facebook and it brought back so many memories! Plus, I just really felt like everyone should get to see how adorable I was.

Jon and Kate..are great great great!

I have been pretty much obsessed with the Gosselin family for a little over a year now. I really think that I was supposed to start watching the show because I am going to have the exact same life and I need to be prepared when I have my twins and sextuplets. So, the recent rumors about them on every magazine and on every internet site have made me sick with worry. I just think they have been through too much together to lose it now. I don't want to believe anything that is being said about them but obviously there has to be some truth to it. So I am really praying that they can work things out! So, if you are as worried as I am about them or you just enjoy watching the show I am hosting a party on Monday night to watch the season premiere of their show on TLC. It is the first time they will be interviewed together since this mess began so hopefully it will give us all hope that they will be trying their hardest to make their family happy again. Anyone is invited! And if you don't come just remember their family in your prayers. Sorry about my dead seriousness. I just know that if any family can work it out, they can. Hope to see you Monday!

Oh, the show starts at 7:00 PM and the get together will take place at my parentals house. Look how cute they are! It is especially sad to me that all this is going on because they just renewed their vows last summer.

And The Winner Is...

I am sad to say that my programs are over for the season. Which is probably a good thing because I no longer have television and it would drive me crazy to have to wait until I could watch the shows at my parents house to see what happened! But I did just want to share my thoughts on how they turned out. Let's start with American Idol...I thought it was such a great season! There were so many talented people that I loved! Early on I picked Adam as my favorite for the season, and he did not disappoint! He could pretty much do no wrong in my eyes. But every week I also found myself loving Kris! He just snuck right on up there with Adam as my other favorite! So I thought the show could have not ended any better than it did. I know that Adam will still be super successful even though he didn't win. Congrats to Kris! Now for Biggest Loser...The ending to this one wasn't quite so happy for me. I really wanted Kristin to win, but back stabbing Mike and Ron made that impossible! So when it got down to Mike, Tara, and Helen I just wanted either Tara or Helen to win. Even though both of them really irritated me at times. But as long as Mike didn't win I would be happy. Helen took the title so I was satisfied. She got down to 117 pounds which is totally amazing. I can't wait for the new seasons to start!

One thing that really bugged me about Helen was that when her and her daughter Shannon fell below the yellow line, she asked America to send her daughter home. I just think as a mother she should have wanted her daughter to stay as long as possible.
She does look really great now though!

He is completely beautiful. He needs to ditch his lame face wife for me I think.

Fun Logan Weekend!

Britney and Hollie came up to Logan last weekend and it was oh so fabulous! One of the goals for the weekend was to try to do things that are local to the great town that is Logan. Therefore, some of our adventures included Cafe Rio, Wingers, and Olive Garden! Did I say local? I meant places you can go pretty much anywhere in the United States! But it was still a way fun weekend! I am so lucky to have such good friends to come visit me!

This was my most favorite part of the weekend. Hollie thought she saw signs for a fair so we headed to the fairgrounds to find that a dog show was in town! We decided to get out and walk through it to see what kind of dogs there were. We saw a whole bunch but this girl and her friends were our favorite! She was so friendly and cute. After we looked at all the other dogs we went back and asked for a picture with her. You can tell by the pic that she absolutely loves us. It is pretty funny how obsessed people are with their dogs.
We did make time for some aggie ice cream of course! This could have been a really adorable picture but the man taking it wasn't patient enough I guess.

On Sunday after church we took a little visit to my favorite temple ever. We couldn't get on to the actual grounds which was kind of sad but it was still fun to go and see it!

This is us with our yummy ice cream again and also some bluebird chocolate. Delicious!