Wednesday, July 13, 2011
double rainbow
Monday, July 11, 2011
guest post for the day
A friend of mine from work, Darrik Cheney, had an overwhelming desire to write a blog post, but unfortunately does not have a blog of his own. I have allowed him to post it here. Hope you enjoy and are edified by it.
The other day I went to pick cherries with my friend Ryan Boyce. I was going mostly to see some worms I had heard live in those cherries so I was unprepared for the amazing life-changing experience that was to come. I started by picking up what I knew to be the craziest ugliest looking cherry in the whole world. It was all black and stuff on the outside. I squeezed it open looking for worms but there wasn’t any. Just normal cherry insides. Then I picked up a really pretty shiny red, cherry-on-top style cherry and it not only had worms, but it had like this really gross black stuff. Some cherries had holes, but no worms, and only gross black stuff. That’s when I realized something! Cherries are exactly like people! Some of them are messed up a little but they’re really great on the inside. And some of the ones that are pretty are really black and gross on the inside, and some have worms. This was such a revelatory, spiritual, life changing experience that I wanted the world to know all about it. Since this I have steared clear of anyone that looks normal, and I’ve been super happy.
The other day I went to pick cherries with my friend Ryan Boyce. I was going mostly to see some worms I had heard live in those cherries so I was unprepared for the amazing life-changing experience that was to come. I started by picking up what I knew to be the craziest ugliest looking cherry in the whole world. It was all black and stuff on the outside. I squeezed it open looking for worms but there wasn’t any. Just normal cherry insides. Then I picked up a really pretty shiny red, cherry-on-top style cherry and it not only had worms, but it had like this really gross black stuff. Some cherries had holes, but no worms, and only gross black stuff. That’s when I realized something! Cherries are exactly like people! Some of them are messed up a little but they’re really great on the inside. And some of the ones that are pretty are really black and gross on the inside, and some have worms. This was such a revelatory, spiritual, life changing experience that I wanted the world to know all about it. Since this I have steared clear of anyone that looks normal, and I’ve been super happy.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
sunshine in my sky
Stefan and I took a spontaneous trip to Waikiki, Hawaii over the long weekend. We layed out on the beach and played in the ocean all day long and at night would walk the streets and do some shopping. One night they had a 4th of july celebration on the beach and we watched soul surfer. It was sweet watching it on the beach, plus it was filmed in Oahu and Bethany Hamilton (the girl its about) and AnnaSophia Robb (the girl who played Bethany) were there to watch it with us. It was sweet and a real cool true story! Enjoy some pictures from the trip!
Stefan and I took a spontaneous trip to Waikiki, Hawaii over the long weekend. We layed out on the beach and played in the ocean all day long and at night would walk the streets and do some shopping. One night they had a 4th of july celebration on the beach and we watched soul surfer. It was sweet watching it on the beach, plus it was filmed in Oahu and Bethany Hamilton (the girl its about) and AnnaSophia Robb (the girl who played Bethany) were there to watch it with us. It was sweet and a real cool true story! Enjoy some pictures from the trip!
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| the sand of waikiki beach |
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| kinda candid on the walkway |
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| yummy burger joint, and me trying to take artistic photos |
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| Siblings at the international market place |
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| the gorgeous tabernacle in hawaii where we went to church |
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| huge, huge tree in front of the church |
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| july 4th, i love america |
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| AnnaSophia Robb hugging the director for Soul Surfer |
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| AnnaSophia was the actress that played Bethany Hamilton in Soul Surfer |
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| Bethany Hamilton was there watching the movie with us, and note her only arm is in a sling because she hurt it while surfing, but said it should be better soon. |
Friday, July 1, 2011
what a wonderful morning..
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| view from my window |
So I woke up to my alarm, turned it off and was laying in bed for a moment when I hear a woooooooosh sound.. Immediately I recognize the sound, jump out of bed, and pull the curtain to the side of the window. I was right... HOT AIR BALLOON! And one was practically in my backyard. It was having a hard time getting up or possibly it was trying to come down who knows.. but it totally made my morning!
I don't know what is so cool about watching these balloons but I seriously could have stood at my window watching them forever yet I had to go get ready for work.
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| there were a total of 21 balloons up this morning |
I now have realized a dream of mine-- to ride in a hot air balloon!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
most perfect day
Beware: This is going to be a long detailed post.
Thursday morning. Madison made the first flight out to Salt Lake from Atlanta- miracle! Since the flights all said overbooked online. So I drove to pick her up at 9:45 and while I was driving up I pasted the Extreme Home Makeover Bus (which was escorted by a police car) and also a huge trailer that had a house on it! It was so cool, I wish I could've taken a picture of it, but alas I was driving. I do love that show! And have met Ty Pennington in the Airport before (back when he was the carpenter on Trading Spaces).
So I pick Madison up and we start our drive into Salt Lake to the Gateway Mall. And while we were driving there was a lot of construction and the road we were supposed to take was closed, luckily the Free Shuttle to Temple Square pulled up next to us and I knew that I could follow that Shuttle and find the Mall from there. And blessing-- it lead us straight to the road we were looking for in the first place so we turned right while it went straight to get to the Temple. And there was our parking garage. It was perfect!
Madison and I then walk around shopping, and found cute clothes to buy. Then we were trying to get to some bathrooms and were walking around when this guy comes up to us. He introduces himself and tells us he is from the radio station 99.5. He goes on to ask us if we would come watch Andy Grammer perform. They set up a little show for him and nobody showed up, and so He was out recruiting people to come watch him. So we were like okay, sure. We didn't really have a huge schedule, just hanging out til the Parachute show that night. The guy lead us into this restaurant, Flemings (a super nice restaurant). And the guy then hands us this envelope and says because we like you girls so much here are two free tickets to The State Room for Natasha Bedingfield, Kate Voegele, and Andy Grammer concert that night! We looked at each other and were freaking out inside but tried to keep our composure. Once in Flemings we were a bit confused cause it was empty but they lead us to this back room where they had a whole table full of food and drinks. We walk in and were offered drinks so we took water and then they offered us food, and didn't know if it was free so I just asked and yes, it was all free! We filled up our plates and then asked where the bathroom is because if you remember that is where we were headed first and never got there. We go into the bathroom and start freakin out!!! We just got sweet tickets to see Kate Voegele!!!! And then free food and a free low key pre-show concert with Andy Grammer.
After that we were just on a high the rest of the day. Although we were a bit confused on what we should do because we really wanted to see Parachute perform, but we love Kate too. And they were both free. We finished shopping and then headed to temple square to hang out. We did all that we wanted at Temple Square and decided around 4:30 to start walking to the Gallivan Center to check it out. As we are walking to the Center to boys stop us and ask if we have change. They are trying to pay for parking and only had a $10, and fortunately we did have change so we exchanged that with them. We get to the Gallivan Center and we are like one of the first ten people there. (I guess that is because we were 2 hours early, haha) And so we go and sit front row and watch all the bands do their sound check. While we are sitting there we see the two boys we have given change to walk up and sit near us.
We started talking to them and made friends. We chatted to help the next two hours pass by quicker. Allred started the show at 7pm and was awesome as always. We got our new friends, Kyle and James (aka Daniel and Corbin) to be real fat and save our spots as we ran down 6 blocks to the State Room to try and get into the concert and watch Kate Voegele perform and be back for the Parachute portion of the other concert.
We get to the State room and they won't let us in. Since they serve alcohol you have to be 21 and up to get in. We stood outside to try and sell our tickets and make all profit because we got them for free. We saw some guys walking around to the back alley where the tour buses were and both of us were thinking that they might be members of Kate's band. So we went to the alley and listened through this door to Andy play and then those guys were like "hey, you can come talk to us, we're not scary" and we asked what band they were in and they said Kate's. So we walk over to them and tell them our sob story about not getting in and they are sympathetic. And think its so messed up that we can't get in. We asked them if they could bring Kate out for us to meet her, but she was unfortunately getting ready for the show and was in her dressing room already. He said she would come into the alley at 9-ish if we wanted to wait for her and that he would tell her about us! But we decided to go back to the Parachute concert and enjoy that since we couldn't go inside and also our friends said our front row spots were closing in and they were trying to hold them off til we got back.
We ran back six blocks to the Gallivan Center and made it back to the front row just in time for Parachute. Their show was freaking awesome! Best concert I've been too. After the show we walked back to the Gateway Mall and our parking ended up only being $3 and we were parked there for like 12 hours! It was so great! And then we decided to drive over to The State Room again and see if we could meet Kate or something. So we park and walk back to the alley where we can hear Natasha Bedingfield performing through the door. And she does a few songs and then our favorite, Unwritten and we are singing and dancing along outside. A few minutes later we see someone come out the other back door and it was KATE! We like freak out as she is walking towards us and she comes up and chats with us for like 5 minutes and apologized we couldn't see her show. She was so sweet. We're like best friends now. And we got a picture with her and her autograph.
Basically, Madison and I are the most blessed girls ever. And had the most perfect day.
Thursday morning. Madison made the first flight out to Salt Lake from Atlanta- miracle! Since the flights all said overbooked online. So I drove to pick her up at 9:45 and while I was driving up I pasted the Extreme Home Makeover Bus (which was escorted by a police car) and also a huge trailer that had a house on it! It was so cool, I wish I could've taken a picture of it, but alas I was driving. I do love that show! And have met Ty Pennington in the Airport before (back when he was the carpenter on Trading Spaces).
So I pick Madison up and we start our drive into Salt Lake to the Gateway Mall. And while we were driving there was a lot of construction and the road we were supposed to take was closed, luckily the Free Shuttle to Temple Square pulled up next to us and I knew that I could follow that Shuttle and find the Mall from there. And blessing-- it lead us straight to the road we were looking for in the first place so we turned right while it went straight to get to the Temple. And there was our parking garage. It was perfect!
Madison and I then walk around shopping, and found cute clothes to buy. Then we were trying to get to some bathrooms and were walking around when this guy comes up to us. He introduces himself and tells us he is from the radio station 99.5. He goes on to ask us if we would come watch Andy Grammer perform. They set up a little show for him and nobody showed up, and so He was out recruiting people to come watch him. So we were like okay, sure. We didn't really have a huge schedule, just hanging out til the Parachute show that night. The guy lead us into this restaurant, Flemings (a super nice restaurant). And the guy then hands us this envelope and says because we like you girls so much here are two free tickets to The State Room for Natasha Bedingfield, Kate Voegele, and Andy Grammer concert that night! We looked at each other and were freaking out inside but tried to keep our composure. Once in Flemings we were a bit confused cause it was empty but they lead us to this back room where they had a whole table full of food and drinks. We walk in and were offered drinks so we took water and then they offered us food, and didn't know if it was free so I just asked and yes, it was all free! We filled up our plates and then asked where the bathroom is because if you remember that is where we were headed first and never got there. We go into the bathroom and start freakin out!!! We just got sweet tickets to see Kate Voegele!!!! And then free food and a free low key pre-show concert with Andy Grammer. 
After that we were just on a high the rest of the day. Although we were a bit confused on what we should do because we really wanted to see Parachute perform, but we love Kate too. And they were both free. We finished shopping and then headed to temple square to hang out. We did all that we wanted at Temple Square and decided around 4:30 to start walking to the Gallivan Center to check it out. As we are walking to the Center to boys stop us and ask if we have change. They are trying to pay for parking and only had a $10, and fortunately we did have change so we exchanged that with them. We get to the Gallivan Center and we are like one of the first ten people there. (I guess that is because we were 2 hours early, haha) And so we go and sit front row and watch all the bands do their sound check. While we are sitting there we see the two boys we have given change to walk up and sit near us. 
We started talking to them and made friends. We chatted to help the next two hours pass by quicker. Allred started the show at 7pm and was awesome as always. We got our new friends, Kyle and James (aka Daniel and Corbin) to be real fat and save our spots as we ran down 6 blocks to the State Room to try and get into the concert and watch Kate Voegele perform and be back for the Parachute portion of the other concert.
We get to the State room and they won't let us in. Since they serve alcohol you have to be 21 and up to get in. We stood outside to try and sell our tickets and make all profit because we got them for free. We saw some guys walking around to the back alley where the tour buses were and both of us were thinking that they might be members of Kate's band. So we went to the alley and listened through this door to Andy play and then those guys were like "hey, you can come talk to us, we're not scary" and we asked what band they were in and they said Kate's. So we walk over to them and tell them our sob story about not getting in and they are sympathetic. And think its so messed up that we can't get in. We asked them if they could bring Kate out for us to meet her, but she was unfortunately getting ready for the show and was in her dressing room already. He said she would come into the alley at 9-ish if we wanted to wait for her and that he would tell her about us! But we decided to go back to the Parachute concert and enjoy that since we couldn't go inside and also our friends said our front row spots were closing in and they were trying to hold them off til we got back.
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xoxo
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
hiking the Y
Well I got home from work and my Dad invited me to hike the Y with my brothers and cousins. It was pretty fun we got to watch the sunset as we were hiking up.
It isn't a super long hike, but I forgot how steep the trail is and that is what makes it difficult!
Here are a few pictures from the trip!
So I already fulfilled one adventure on my summer list! On to the next...
It isn't a super long hike, but I forgot how steep the trail is and that is what makes it difficult!
Here are a few pictures from the trip!
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| the cousins made it to the top |
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| love my daddy |
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| beautiful view from the Y at sunset |
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| brother and sister |
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| another one of the cousins |
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| crazy stu |
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| the boys |
So I already fulfilled one adventure on my summer list! On to the next...
xoxo
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
summertime
Top 5 favorites of summer
(in no particular order)
- pool time-- either laying out soaking up the sun, or playing games in the water
- vacations--family reunions, beach trips, hiking/camping
- popsicles--always cool you down when its sunny outside
- outdoor concerts/movies--awesome times with friends
- picniks--eating outside makes it that more fun
And here is a specific list of other things I'd love to do this summer:
- Go to Boise to visit my Grandma and other Aunts and Uncles in Idaho.
- Have a sweet bonfire up in the canyon
- Go on a motorcycle ride through the canyon (I'll have to get Dan to help fulfill this one)
- Spend the night with Ali in Bountiful, stroll down the boulevard and watch the sunset from the most perfect place!
- Fly to P-town to spend the weekend with Keara Ann
- Tubing down the Provo River
- Camping somewhere
p.s- it would be fun to have some summer lovin. who knows maybe something will happen...haha :)
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