Arizona!!!

So a while ago, four of my roommates and I decided to go to Arizona for a long weekend. Utah weather was starting to get too cold and we needed a break from school before mid terms came up. My roommate Kelsey has grandparents that live in Pason and have a condo in Scottsdale where we could stay. So we planned the trip. Most of us didn't have Friday classes so we took off bright and early that morning! After just one or two minor detours we made it to Arizona! The funnest part of the trip was watching the temperature slowly rise from 11 to 85!!! Once we were in Arizona we spent our time swimming, window shopping, eating out, and we even hiked a mountain! On Sunday we went up to Pason to go to church with Kelsey's grandparents. It was so much fun and so nice of them to let us come! All in all it was a great weekend!! Let's just say it was hard to come back to Utah!

Before we left Provo... very cold...

Finally on Arizona ground!!

Going to dinner the first night there...

This was our favorite breakfast place!! Randy's!

We hiked Camel Back Mountain.

I found a cactus!

And my inner peace.

Sweet look out on the ride down!!

We decided to forge some of our own trails!

Mesa Temple!

Crazy hand chair at the condo.

Finally back in Utah!

Oh hey blogging world...

So... I decided to start blogging again. I know it's been a while and a lot has happened in my life! I just started my 4th semester here at the Y and I'm loving it! Last semester was a tough one for me and I was definitely ready for a change! I'm taking more classes for my major now and I'm really enjoying them. Right now my favorite classes are ASL and Human Anatomy. ASL is so fun and I love my teacher! She is deaf so there is no talking allowed in class. I've learned so much so quickly! It's been so great so far! Anatomy is by far the hardest class I'm taking right now but by far the most interesting! We have labs where we can study on human cadavers. At first I was a little weary of the whole thing but after spending upwards of 10 hours in the lab a week you get used to just picking up an arm and studying off of it. The human body is an amazing thing. It makes me realize that God had to have a part in it. There is no way that all the specific muscles, tendons and bones could magically come together to form the human body. I love learning about the human body! This semester is going to be a great one, I can just feel it!

Family in town!

Our whole family was in town for a good couple of days which was so much fun! Wendy and Kevin and their family are staying with us for a couple weeks while they are preparing to move to Texas. Matt and Jess and their family came for a couple days around the 4th of July. It's been so fun to be with everyone! With everyone in town we of course had to get a family picture! Sadly it will already be out of date when Rachel and Robert have their little baby! But oh well! It's so fun to have a big family! I wouldn't have it any other way! It's been a great summer having everyone around!

Anna smelling the flowers!

Callie is a great older sister to Will!

Little James

Cute Anna playing in the yard

All 9 grandkids together!!

EFY!!!

Well, I had the great opportunity of being an EFY counselor a couple weeks ago. It was such a great experience!! I participated in a volunteer stay-at-home session in Ogden. The kids got there at 9 every morning and left again at 9 that night. I drove up every day which really wasn't too bad of a commute. When I was young I really enjoyed going to EFY and I was really excited to help other kids have a good time. I learned so much that week! I think I needed the experience as much, if not more than those youth! It was a good opportunity for me to step back and to judge where I am spiritually. Watching those young girls, some of which didn't really know much about the gospel, start to learn how to search the scriptures and ask questions was so great! There are so many smart, strong youth out there! So much stronger than I was at their age! It was so great to feel the spirit and try and help them feel it as well! It was also so much fun to meet new people, the other counselors were great and I feel like I made some great friends for life! Over all it was such a great experience that I signed up to do another week in august! I can't wait!!

Our Company "Made Alive"

My wonderful girls!

Our co-counselor group

Playing catch up!!

Well! It's been a while...haha. I guess I just let time get away from me! Since my last post I've moved home, said by to a lot of great friends, some I may not see for a couple years, and gotten on with my working/grown up life. This year was such a great year, probably one of the best of my life! I had so much fun and it was soooo hard to leave! It's good to know I'll be back there soon! But things will be different! I hear that freshman year is on of the funnest of college! It's crazy I'm already a sophomore in college! Being back home I've seen all the kids a year younger than me graduate and it is so weird to think that it was already a year ago when that was me! Anyway... I'm back home and life is good!

Buffalo, New York


Picture outside my brother's house

Well, after being home for a couple weeks laura, my dad and I all flew out to meet my mom in Buffalo where my brother and his family live. It was lots of fun! we were able to see a lot of church sites and go to Niagra falls! We also got to see my new little nephew Christian and my other cute nephew James! It was a lot of fun! Here are a bunch of pictures from the trip!

Keeping busy!

The other day, some of my friends and I saw a flier advertising a rock, paper, scissors tournament. It was only five dollars to get in and you got a t-shirt and a bunch of free food...so we said, why not!? the other cool thing was that whoever won got $3,000!! Although none of us won, it was still fun! And we helped break a Guinness book of world records for the largest rock, paper, scissors tournament! They had bands playing and stuff so it was fun! it felt almost like a tail gate party! Here are some pictures of that!

Before we headed over to the tourney!

The front of our sweet t-shirts!

It's been such nice weather lately that we've been trying to be outside more and more! The other day some of us went on a really cool hike! We went up a canyon and found some neat hot springs one of my friends had been to before. It was about an hour hike in and then we reached the hot springs. They were really well kept with cement and rocks around them to make them look like real little pools. Even though they smelled like sulfur, it was lots of fun. It wasn't a hard hike at all, there were quite a few families with little kids who made it even. I'm so glad that the weather is getting so warm! I am so excited for summer! here are some pictures from the hike!

Basketball!!

Well, with finals coming I've had less and less time to do things like this blog. If I'm not studying, I'm either sleeping or spending time with friends that I won't see all summer! I've had such a good year! I love it here so much! It really seems like we just got here and we already have to say goodbye! It'll be a sad day when we all move home!
Well some fun things have been going on, for one, our basketball team is still in the tournament!!! We are one of the last two teams in our division!! We have a championship game this week! If we win, we get the intramural champs t-shirt! In our last game some of our friends from our ward brought us sliced oranges and capri suns for half time snacks! they wanted to be called the team dads! It was so funny and nice of them! We've had so much fun playing this year and hopefully we'll keep doing it in the future years! It'll be a nice way to keep in contact with good friends from this year!! here are some fun pictures from different basketball games!

Team Huddle!

Getting excited for the second half!

The team with our team dads!!


Enjoying the half time snacks!