Temple~Birthday~Running

Ok well I obviously need to get better at this updating stuff! I don't update or ever then update everything at once! Ok well I guess this time hasn't been to bad! But anyways so me and my family went to the draper temple open house! It was really cool! I loved it! Here are some pictures!

Tyler, me, Kirsten, my mom, Derek, Ashley, and my grandma!

Tyler, my mom, Ashley, Derek, Kirsten, me, and my grandma It was FREEZING when we went to we were very cold! (as you can tell:D)

And then it was my dad's 50 birthday! I know he is an old man! haha just kidding but on his birthday we went to Kohlers and we each go 2$ to buy something for lunch then came home and cooked it! While we were cooking everything we had him open presents! After that we ate our lunch then sat at the table talkin about a bunch of stuff then we had rice crispie treats for desert!
my mom, Derek, Kirsten, me, Ashley, Tyler, and my dad
Derek, Ashley, Tyler, me, Kirsten, and my mom Eating our lunch!
eating our lunch again!

Then on Sunday night my grandparents and my grandma came over for dinner!
my Grandma (mom's mom), my Grandpa and Granna(dad's parents), Kirsten, my dad, me, Derek, Ashley, ad Tyler

Then this morning my dad made me wake up at 7:30 and go run 5K at the last minute. I wasn't very happy about that at the time but now I'm glad I did because everyone in my mom's family are coming down in April and we are all running a 5K or a 1/2 marathon I'm running the 5K ha. But here are some pictures (remember its really early and I just woke up! haha)my mom, Ashley, and me (my dad was taking the picture.. As always:D)my mom and me runningAshley, me, and my mom after the race!

Well as you can see life's been good right now and getting better every day! Plus the fact that my brother gets home in 4 months from his mission! And schoo is almost over! Very exciting! But I'll just live life to the fullest now=)

Tubing at Soldier Hollow!

Last week I went tubing at Soldier Hollow with Rachael and her family! It was so much fun! We were up there for a couple of hours and it was my first time! I loved it! Here are some pictures from it!

Riding up!me, Caroline, McKayla, and Chelsea (Rachael's cousins!)

Rachael, me, Caroline, and Chelsea

Caroline, me, Rachael

a random picture of me, Ali, and Rachael haha

and then I just got these pictures from Halloween so I'll just put these on here... A little late I know but hey better late than never!The Chefs: Brooke, and Mikayla....then Olivia haha

February Update!

Ok well I haven't written in a while because my dad didn't put the pictures on so I have a couple of things to talk about! Well a couple of weeks ago I had some friends come over and we had a cooking experience! We made muddie buddies and Snicker Cookies! It was lots of fun!

Olivia, me, Brittani: Making the Muddie Buddie's!

my hands after making them haha that was like a middle shot... They got worse!

the Snicker Cookies!

ya that blobby weird looking one was Brittani's...I think haha it could have been Olivia's but we just had to take a snap shot of that one!

Then on Valentines day In the morning my family decorated cookies for each other! Every year we draw name's then make 2 cookies for them and put stuff on them that represents them.Derek, Tyler, Ashley, me, my mom, Kirsten, Grandma, my dad

our cookies!

Derek, me, Kirsten, my mom, Grandma, my dad
Then this last Friday I had a bunch of friends over and had a High School Musical 3 party! But my brother and 4 of his friends had a Rockband concert. They called themselves the Goblet of Fire! It was the FUNNIEST thing ever! We were all laughing so hard! They dressed up for it and everything! Oh my it was great! They even had nicknames for all of them! haha Here are some pictures from it!

Preston, Derek, Chandler, Brandon, and Beau

Brandon, Chandler, Preston, and Derek

Derek.....nuff' said!

Brandon

Chandler

Preston... haha he was rockin' out the whole time! haha he was the main reason we were all laughing!

the audience! Seth, Scotty, Ben, Jake, Carson, Carson, Olivia, Kirsten, Kimmy (Kirsten's friend), me, and Rachael!
Well as you can see life is just so much fun right now! I will update again soon and won't procrastinate anymore!

Visiting Grandpa Ray & Sisters!

Ok well we have a family friend that has been a family friend for a really long time!! Even before I was born!! He is so nice and the cutest old man ever!!! He is so close to our family that he has been Grandpa Ray for so long! haha He has been in the hospital for like 2 months because he had something happen to him while he was in Hawaii and now he is in this rehab place recovering still so we went and visited him! We couldn't visit him very long because it was when he was eating but he is such a cute old man! And his wife is so sweet! They are like my step grandparents haha. His old wife Marjorie passed away a couple of years ago and his new wife Beth is with him and both of them were and are like family! We love them so much!

Beth, my mom, Ray, and my dad

Ashley, Tyler, Derek, Mom, me, Kirsten, Beth, and Ray

And now here are just some random pictures of me and my sisters in our hawaii lifegaurd sweatshirts haha

Kirsten, me, and Ashley

Birthday/ Birthday Party!!!!!

Well this is a little bit late but I'm going to write about it anyway because I haven't written in a while! Ok well last Wednesday January 14 was my birthday! FINALLY 15!!!!!! When I got up in the morning we had scripture study then we ended a little early and my dad asked me if I wanted to open a present this morning. I was getting an Itouch and I knew it because I had to pay for some of it but I didn't think it was going to be there yet because my mom said that it hadn't come yet and she called and everything and they said that it was going to be shipped today (which was Monday). I was really mad because it wasn't going to be there on my birthday and so I thought that it was going to be something really small because I wasn't getting very much. He made me play the "Hot and Cold" game to find my present. I found it under there pillows on there bed. It was a box and so I started opening it. Once I got the wrapping paper off I saw that it was from BYU Bookstore (that's where we got it from). I was like oh my gosh! It was a great surprise for something you knew that was coming but not at that moment! It turned out that my whole family knew it was here and I had been asking my mom for 2 weeks if it had come yet....turns out it came about 2, 3 days after we ordered it! UGH!! haha it was a great surprise though! Well After I was ready and such my mom and me went to go and get my PERMIT!!!! We got all the way down there, in the parking lot and my mom realizes she didn't bring my birth certificate or anything!! We had to go all the way back home then back up there again! My whole family all passed the test on there first try and I was so scared that I wasn't going to pass it! I studied for it but I was still scared I would be the only one who didn't pass it! Well I took the test and at the end of it, it said...... I PASSED!!!! WAHOO!!!! I was so happy I couldn't even stop smiling! haha the guy that was helping us was like oh your smiling...You must have passed!! Ah I was so happy! Well I got to school during 2ND period and just the normal day of school. When I got home I played with my Itouch and such and went driving with my dad. That night me and my family went out to dinner to the Pizza Factory. It was so good!

Me with my pizza!! haha 15!!

Ashley, Derek, Kirsten, Grandma, me, and my mom

During dinner I opened the rest of my presents! I got some clothes, money, a piano book, and just some other random things! After dinner I went to Young Women's and then sadly my birthday was over. But the celebrating wasn't over! My friend Mikayla's birthday was on the 11Th and I was gonna have a birthday party and so I asked her if she wanted to have one with me so we had a double birthday party! It was lots of fun! We talked, played games, danced to music, and ate YUMMY CAKE!!! Here are some pictures!!Mikayla & Olivia and me & Rachael dancing to Can I Have This Dance- High School Musical 3 haha we always dance to this dance like Troy and Gabriella dance to it in the movies haha its great!

Rachael, Paige, me, Mikayla, Kaitlyn, Brelynn

Olivia, Megan, and Chelsea

Me and Mikayla posing for a picture while Olivia and Rachael try to get in! haha it was pretty funny!

me and Mikayla-The BIRTHDAY GIRLS!!!

Mikayla, Brelynn, me, Megan, Olivia, Rachael Chelsea

Mikayla, Brelynn, me, Megan, Paige, Kaitlyn, Olivia, Rachael, and Chelsea chatting away...You know girls haha!
Kaitlyn, me, Megan, Olivia, Rachael, Chelsea, Paige, Brelynn, and Mikayla

Mine and Mikayla's cake!!! Ok well it said 486 but really my mom forgot to get candles and those were the only ones we had haha so just pretend it says 15! haha

Brelynn, Megan, Olivia, Rachael, me, Mikayla, Chels, Paige, and Kaitlyn!!

Blowing out our Birthday candles! haha waiting for our cake and ice cream!!

This was such a fun night! I have the BEST friends anyone could imagine!! I LOVE them all! haha there the best!!!! Sadly now the celebration is over but the driving is still in progress!!! haha I'm actually a pretty good driver if I do say so myself...Even my parents think so! haha well I will get the other pictures on as soon as I can!!