Lagoon- Fun Memories!

A couple weeks ago me and a good friend Jordyn went to Lagoon randomly for a fun day in the sun& on the rides! Not a huge event but we got some hilarious pictures, just you wait ;)

The start of our adventure :)

Jordyn hates the spinny rides and I made her go on "The screamer" twice.. as well as the swings :)

Again on the screamer, it looks like she enjoyed it... right?

Then it was time for the "Merry-Go-Round"......

Getting on the horse was quite a challenge...

But NO WORRIES! I made it nice and safe!

Somehow.. Jordyn managed to find it difficult getting OFF the horses!

....and then we rode the "Sky Ride" 9 billion times... our day was complete :)

BAND CAMP!

Every year I DREAD going to band camp, its like boot camp. NOT something to look forward to! Well... This year was magnificent. I don't understand why I liked it that much more then I usually do. I'm kinda coming the realization that I'm a senior this year and it's going to be a year of "last's" which makes me sad! Hopefully it'll be a year of alot of "firsts" too though. Camp this year was definately very memorable so I'll post some pictures about it and what not! Thanks Colorguard friends for making it so much fun! and thanks for an amazing 4 years of hard work and success Tiffany! (Here's some pictures! Sorry I haven't posted ONCE all summer!)

Some of the friends looking their best on the bus ride to Delta!

More Colorguard FRIENDS! (Rachel Taylor Sabrina Gretchen & Elizabeth)

Drum Majors (M'Kay Richard Debra)

I couldn't help NOT posting this one... Nikki at her finest :)

This is what camp looks like most of the time, standing in the sweltering heat waiting for instructions to do it "one more time" yeah right... :)

Senior Sabre's with band director Mr. Miller

Me and Chelle looking better than ever! :)

All the Sabre's with Tiff and her kids.

prom!

a couple saturdays ago i got to experience PROM :) i'm pretty sure a girl never forgets prom, and i was almost positive i would be one of those girls who got to sit at home and enjoy a box of icecream and some soap opera's! but luckily i got to go with a great friend who i've known for a long time, Dakota, we had alot of fun together but it was mainly all of my girlfriends who were in our group that made it such an awesome night. me and all the girls went shopping all day and then got ready together after wards, we went and got pictures after we got picked up and then dinner & the dance after that! it was really alot of fun. :] The following saturday we did our "day date" and just went mini golfing, it was kinda silly, non of us took it seriously or were anything close to pro's at it, but it was alot of fun :)

overwhelming peace

I am just so grateful for the gospel, i cannot help but to be obsessed with this video right now. I would go on and bear my testimony on what i feel right now but if you watch the movie you'll know, cuz that's it. :] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAjZ8mfoYw

spring break! :]

FINALLY i got a little bit of a breather, a tiny teeny little vacation, and thats all i really needed just a 3 day vacate.

Sunday we were gettin everything in the trailer and gettin all packed up to head.. south, we didn't even know what we were doing or where we were going, just gettin away :) we got food and clothes and all the other essentials packed into the trailer and left at about 3 pm. We got to Kanab (where??? yeah, exactly.. haha!) around 9 and ended up settin up camp there for the couple days we planned on being gone. there really isn't much to do in kanab.. it's just little. but on monday we went to the "toad stools" which was cool little sandstone things with giant ROCKS on top of them.

Me and Dillon in a little cave/cove thing.

The kids, standing infront of the main Toadstool.

It was only a little one mile hike is to the "toadstools" and it was worth it, it was SO FUN. and my youngest brother kept saying "i don't ever wanna leave, this is like a jungle gym for little boys like me!"haha and it's kinda true, there were lots of rocks to climb and stuff, kinda dangerous to be honest though.

After the playing around the toadstools for about 3 hours we were all kinda pooped and decided to take a drive, we made a loop through page arizona and then back up to kanab, it was really pretty and my two youngest brothers and i rode in the back of the truck the whole time because of the nice weather :)

We stopped to look at the Glen Canyon Dam, this is just the bridge over it, kinda cool though.

on tuesday we decided to go to ZIONS!! it was SO pretty, i could not believe that i have lived in utah my whole life and haven't ever seen zions. it was phenomenal! we took a little two miler hike up to view the "big picture" which was totally worth it.

Can't really see, but there's my mom jake and dad on some of the hike.

The family and the final view, thank goodness for the fence, it was SCARY!

We also rode a little shuttle bus in some of the places that not all traffic was allowed, it was pretty cool too but unfortunately it started pouring so we left for camp early :(

Wednesday the weather was still bad, it had poured all night and we planned to come home that day anyways so we just packed up camp and headed home, on our way we stopped (still in Kanab i think) at utah's "little hollywood" where some of the movie sets for old country movies were filmed, i was a bit lost since i'd never seen the movies, but it was fun to take pictures around the old cool looking stuff anyways, fun until it got too cold, then we were on the road again!

too much time!

ohhhh boy.
i have an endless amount of time on my hands! blogging is pretty much all i feel like doing now days, i write in my journal then i blog on my personal "dear tanner" blog and then i sit on facebook.. and then i blog some more. hmm what to do what to do? :)

tanners in the mtc!

tanner is officially in the mtc!! wow! that went SO quick, i hope his mission goes just as quick, i already miss him! last night was easily one of the hardest nights of my life, i felt so terrible sobbing in front of tanner, i'm sure that's the last thing he needed but really i am just SO proud of him, what an extremely awesome sacrifice he's making. and i know so many will be blessed because of this awesome boy! i love him so much and am already missin him :) last thing he said to me was see ya soon! can't wait to hear his experiences! thank you everyone who has been my shoulder to cry on, your all so awesome!!

hope

ever feel like there is nothing left? like your ready to just give up? nothing is going to fix things, nothing is going to make things better? well i feel like alot of people who i am friends with or associated with in one way or another is feeling this way and hope is just one of those words used in my vocabulary often that makes me feel so much better. "Hope has the power to fill our lives with happiness.Its absence—when this desire of our heart is delayed—can make “the heart sick." i know hope gets ME through the worst of times because theres... hope. for me hope doesn't run out. i'm so grateful for actually finding out the meaning/importance of hope when i did because i never knew how much i'd need it in my life and need to share the importance withothers. the other day i had a friend show me this small clip.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbcyKQjwvYsometimes it does take more than medication, it takes hope. i looked hope up on wikipedia just because i was curious as to what the world defined it as, this is what i got. "Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. "then i was curious to see what the church would say. Hope is the confident expectation of and longing for the promised blessings of righteousness. The scriptures often speak of hope as anticipation of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ isn't the second one so much better? ahh i love the gospel! and i love hope. i hope all of you out there that are struggling can have hope. :)

Gracie

all the prayers and all the sorrow and tears must not be what gracie needed, i'm so very grateful for this sweet baby gracie's story that has influenced me and taught me alot, (http://www.thegledhillfamily.blogspot.com) the poor gledhill family has many hearts to mourn with and they as well are in my prayers to feel comfort and happiness, even at the hardest times. i'm so very grateful for the plan of salvation and the opportunity this family has to see gracie again, familes are forever.

finally....

it's REALLY time for an update isn't it??? finally i get around to it.. hah well, i lost my camera, and blogs are simply just boring without the pictures right? right. but i guess we'll have to do without for a while cuz i feel left out without blogging! "everybody's doing it" ;) not a whole lot is new to be honest. still going to school, still working, and still just hanging out with friends and doing homework. :) dillon's birthday was a couple days ago and we partied for that, that was fun, we also went down to st george for a surprise party for grandpa over valentines day, and got to hang out with ALL the cousins, it was nice to see everyone :) i also went to temple square with my sweetie a couple days before so it worked out good. ALTHOUGH, all these fun events would be funner with pictures huh? :( i'll work on it. let me know how you all are doing, i love reading your blogs :)

halloween!!

eh, i didn't do like anything to celebrate halloween so that sucks, but me and the boys did carve pumpkins so that was fun :)

nobody likes pulling out the guts....

....and i mean nobody :]

CHAMPIONS!!!

the boys have been playing football for what seems like an eternity! i went to a couple of games this season but they always had to be saturday morning, my sleep-in day! so i did what i could ;) well anyways championships were on saturday for the both of them, garrett has been on the same team for 3 years now and has NEVER lost a game, undefeated! woo-hoo! Dillons team did exceptionally well considering their coach was a newbie, they took second place at champion ships, so that wasn't bad :) i'm so proud of my brothers! and am glad they have a fun hobbie. especially because they're both CHAMPIONS :)this is dillon and a few team mates with his metal on, his face is all dirty, haha isn't he a cutie?

and garrett :)

the kids :]

my mom and dad and 2 little brothers took a trip out to my oldest brother clays house a couple weekends ago. and i didn't get to go :( i never ever get to see clay and his little family because he lives in the middle of nowhere, but clay has two kids, kyler (7) and maddison (4) they're so adorable! and i miss them so much. well they took some pictures for me so i thought i'd put them up :)

this last one says "grandma quit taking pictures of me!" madi is so cute.

hopefully i get to see them soon, usually we have a family tradition of seeing kyler on his birthday (october 28) and then trick-or-treating and having them stay for grandma's birthday (november 1st) and going to lagoon for frightmares, but that didn't happen this year :( bummer. rumor has it that they're coming for thanksgiving! THANK goodnes ;)

a rotten day :(

it's kinda scary how quickly people can disappear from your life so quickly, i just want to share some feelings real quick... yesterday was a pretty rough day for me, today was a rough day too though, more rough then my "normal" rough days. my mom has been sooooo depressed lately, i hate to see here like this because i love her so much, we are so close and i never know what to do to cheer her up. but then i don't even want to cheer her up when she takes it out on me..which usually happens. then i spent the whole day at dreadful work with a huge sale going on, dumb customer's asking stupid stupid questions..oh boy it was just hectic, maybe i was just in a bad mood i dunno. well then i FINALLY got off work hoping my night would be better considering i was going to a halloween party..! when i walk through the door my family is screaming at each other, common what is this?? i just went straight to my room to get ready for the party, trying to ignore them...but then i started feeling awkward showing up late..and my family started bugging me like super bad and i got some really terrible news about a friend that had gotten in a severe car wreck and passed away, i was NO longer in the mood to party. i just wanted to cry, so i did. at this point i'm starting to feel bad for myself like everything is falling apart over the past couple of days and i'm just sad, sad sad sad. whitney called me and askead if i'd like to go to the candle lighting for the friend who had passed away, i wasn't feeling like partying anymore and my family was driving me mad so i decided sure why not...even though it's not something to exactly "cheer me up" but it was really really good for me to go to. i'm extremely glad i did because it made me realize...that when everything in my life feels like crap, there's always something twenty billion times worse going on with someone else's, and i just need to be thankful for everything i have. i didn't know lindsay very well at all. but i knew that she was always happy no matter the circumstances. lindsay would light up the room with her smile, you could see the light of christ in her miles away, she was just a perfect example of what i want to be.
when i came home to tell me mom how it was we talked for a bit about trials and blessings our family has been through alot lately, i'm not gunna lie. but at the end of our conversation my mom said "yeah i'll take the trials i have right now, than loosing a kid anyday." i am so sorry to the sandstrom family for the trials that they've recently had, but i also know it's a blessing because i know it will strengthen their family and bring them closer to the gospel. i'm so excited to see lindsay again.
after the candle lighting i felt much better, it was definately really sad but i didn't feel sorry for myself anymore and i could feel the spirit, i felt peaceful through the rest of the night.

baptism!

on saturday my favoritest brother finally got baptized by my dad! (teasing, i don't have favorites :D) anyways, it was such an awesome day for him, he still hasn't let that smile go and you can definately tell he is filled with the holy ghost. i lucked out on having to give a talk on baptism, i was so so nervous, i just read my talk. kinda embarassing, but that's the only way i know how to do it without breaking down. this is a picture of my cute family, look how happy everyone is?? :)

life.

so i haven't blogged lately, and nothing has been going on physically really but alot has been going on emotionally. my head has been jam packed full of just STUFF! first of all..my weekend was alright, i've had better that's for sure, i found out that there's a possibility that we may be moving to canada so that just freakin sucks. CANADA? like seriously who wants to live in canada? and then i've missed like tons of school this week so i'm getting really behind..and right before the end of the term...gahh not good, i can't believe the first term is almost over i would've guessed it was the 3rd term, or 2nd at least, this year is going by SO slow.
my little brother is getting baptized on saturday, i get to give a talk too..yippee :s i'm totally miserable and stressing tons over it. i know i shouldn't do it with a grudging heart but it's so hard i'm such a perfectionist i just want it to be perfect you know?
this week as just been a complete "off" week for me, first of all i'm like NEVER stressed, and that's all i've been this week. my emotions are all out of wack and i'm feeling kinda down... :s it'll go away soon though i hope.. oh well. i hope all is well with you, and i hope to hear from some of you :)

my weekend.[boring]

So my dad is home for the weekend now. He's been working out of town, and only comes home on the weekends. so he's been here a total of like 4 hours, right? i'm like thrilled to have him home finally and he just starts ripping at me, i swear it's like a hobby to get me all upset and stuff, he does it so often and makes it look fun, pure evil. oh well, i love my daddy :D we went to the boys football games together this morning, it was pretty fun, dillon's little team finally won!! woot!

also today i was feeling extra generous and decided i'd mow the lawn for my little brother. it was almost kinda fun, but my first time mowing, so you can imagine what that lawn looked like, yikes! : i was supposed to do a whole bunch of homework today while nothing was scheduled but then i got busy doing yard work and whatnot, so non of that got done. then i went to work!

i've only been working at old navy for about 2 or 3 weeks-ish, and it is just so much fun, i hope the fun doesn't get old as i work there, cuz i really am enjoying it. although, we've been haveing wicked good sales lately (like 1$ tee's, no joke) sales that are pretty much a steal, so the store is just a mess! i was there until about 11 tonight, we close at nine.... hmm yeah but life is going good! just haven't blogged for a while and thought i would :)

homecoming!

tanner asked me to my school's homecoming a week or so ago, and i've been anxious all week to go, well yesterday was finally the day! we went to the BYU game for our "day date" and it was super fun, see? :)then after the game we went to Tucano's for dinner, which was absolutely delicious. and then we went to the dance! yay! unfortunately i don't have some of us at the dance or anything, but we took some at my house before we left, we look sharp huh? ;) we had an absolute blast.

newbie :]

it's september 11th and i've decided to start blogging, i have had this emotional feeling of hanging on to the people i know lately, like something inside me just wants to love everyone and be everything i can be for them, i've never been the one to reach out to new people and go out of my way to love someone i haven't loved before, but it's just something i want all of the sudden, i want to hang on the the relationships i have right now because i know that maybe someday it won't be there... remember those whose lives were taken today 7 years ago..
p.s. any hints to blogging would be helpful hah, i don't even know what i'm doing!