Rainy Days

Lately

2009-06-27T20:24:00.000-07:00

So I haven't made a post on here in forever!!! but I took some way cute pics of the kids at the beach and just couldn't keep it to myself!!

The Girls made sand castles
Lilly Made Sandy pie.... yummy!

Emma Played with the sea Kelp

Sophi built her own kingdom of castles

Pushing in Squishes! aka sea enemies

red egg growth thingy

Hunter lookin all Indiana Jonesie

Car and Lill side by side

Lilly tryin out her whip

Fantastic Four

Show me your Muscles

Sophi climbing up a rock taller than her.

Lilly posing for the camera

2009-03-09T23:34:00.000-07:00

It snowed today alot.. yesturday it was sunny and birds were cheerping... now were are those little birds seems as though yesturday was so far away.

sometimes you just wanna be a little kid again...

2009-02-16T16:18:00.000-08:00

I don't think I ever stopped being a little kid

Ten Reasons Why:

10. I love taking naps why I ever stopped and thought they were UN-cool is beyond me.

9. PBJs are my fav lunch... especially when cut into triangles

8. I still play dress up

Me and my friend Becca playing dress up it the hall yours mine and ours box

7. You know how little kids just instinctively move when music is on and while it may be uncoordinated and odd looking it's still the cutest thing you've ever seen, that is me minus the cutest thing you've ever seen

Me and woot
6. I still sleep with my baby blanket and stuffed dog every night.

5. I love watching Saturday morning cartoons and Disney movies.

4. I use the words come play with me translation__ come over so we can hang out.

Visiting hours with Conrad and Jamie: they were trying on our sleeper masks and other costume items we had around our room.

3. My favorite thing to wear is still t-shirt and jeans

2. I enjoy water coloring and putting them on my fridge or closet door what ever ya know they both work for displaying the master pieces

1. Forts... When your little you can make a fort out of anything, blankets, your t-shirt, towels, chairs, woods, and under your bed.

Rearranging our room after Christmas break.

All I'm saying is there is no rush for me to grow up and be a big adult anytime soon I'm loving being a kid :)

Brooke Me and Becca: showing our anger towards the stealers for winning the super bowel!

Kids have such an innocent perspective on life they love easily forgive easier and will always be there to love you in the best way!

Becca messing around with my camera above, lower pic me and Becca in the tap room working on our sweet skills and choreographing our master piece number called: ode to love more on that later.

I recently had the blessing to attend the Utah Draper Temple open house (more on that later) and on the shuttle up my ward was all packed on to the bus with many people standing. My bishop had brought his family along with him and they were among the standing. So me and Bairett ( a girl in my ward) offered to have the kids sit on our lap. So they happily accepted. On the short drive up I got the chance to talk to Kyler age 6. We talked about kindergarten and how excited he was to go to the temple. It was a sweet experience that made me miss my little brothers and cousins. I love them so much and being away I feel like they grow ten inches more every time I come home and visit. They are the sweetest! Car and Hunt you guys make my world a little brighter by being my two fav little brothers I love you guys.

# 5

I love Life

2009-02-16T15:05:00.000-08:00

Literally Life the cereal.

Nutrition Facts

Cals 120

Cholesterol 0mg

Sodium 160mg

Potassium 90mg

Total Carbs 25g

Protein 3g

The most important Dietary Fiber 2g wouldn't pass for aunt shannon but works for me.

oh how I love it in the mornings, as a snack or just because. With or without milk. Life is a staple breakfast food.

p.s. I love Life too living being alive it's all great!

It's a Miricle!!

2009-02-12T10:38:00.001-08:00

So this morning on my usual breakfast run through the cougar eat on my way to my fab Book of Mormon class I discovered a miracle. To really appreciate this miracle with me I have to take you back a year in my life.

"Senior Year our wonderful school district decided that zero hour classes were the way to go but their genius didn't stop there they continued on their wonderful path and made all the advanced music classes be zero hour classes. This meant that my Valhalla Vox or classically known swing choir would be held at 6:30 in the morning. I don't exactly know the studies but I am pretty sure that singing at 6:30 in the morning is both unhealthy and completely crazy mostly crazy. But next to that was the wondrous blessing of having zero hour seminary 530 in the MORNING!!! ha ha how I ever survived is still a mystery to me. Well I know one thing that made it better. My dad. He would wake me up at 530 (when seminary started) I'd roll out of bed grab my books and homework for the day and run down stairs in some form of sweats or pj's getting dressed that early was over rated. I would get ready at school after my real first period PE. Anyways back to rolling out of bed I would walk down stairs through the kitchen and to the cold garage throw my sports bag and backpack into the backseat of my Honda and then run back inside to pack a lunch. Now I haven't even gotten to the part that made it bearable. Usually every morning on the counter next to my sandwich (consisting of white bread, strawberry jam and crunchy peanut butter) and a whole apple always crispy and delicious... well yes next to those wonderful delights was a hot mug filled with either cream of wheat, oat meal, or if I was really lucky cracked wheat. Next to the mug was my dad giving me an encouraging hug kiss on the for head and calling to me as I ran out of the door "to make it a great day" and "remember who I was". I loved that mug filled with goodness as I would hold it in my lap in my freezing car it warmed my day and always started it off great. I don't think I could have survived zero hour seminary without my dad's breakfast to go."

As you can assume a girl could really miss those wonderfully warm and delicious breakfasts being some 30000... etc (too many to count) miles away.

Now flash back to present day I am in the cougar eat my stomach hungry for some breakfast and instead of the usual donut or muffin from the bakery I decided to try a different station hoping to grab some hash browns and eggs. well I got the the counter and saw that there was cracked wheat on the menu. My heart stopped and I thought my eyes were fouling me. I had to re-read the menu and then in high hopes questioned the lady whose name tag read Julie if it was really true that they served cracked wheat?!!! She happily replied yes ma'am so I said well I have to have bowel of that. So I walked happily to my Book of Mormon class with a warm bowel of cracked wheat in my hands and the words of my daddy playing over in my mind "make it a great day" and "remember who you are". It was a miracle morning!

slippery slopes

2009-01-08T10:53:00.000-08:00

Well usually slippery slopes are things like problems that have taken you a while to get over or to deal with... well at least i think that's what that is. But this past week I have created a new definition of the phrase slippery slope... now i would like to refer to freshman hill or basically all of campus when it's snowy and icy. It becomes simply impossible to walk on!!! I have fallen more in the past two days than i think every in my life combined. Basically a very uncoordinated clumsy person such as me mixed with ice= disaster! I have three stories to go along with this thought

story#1 So It was the middle of my second day of classes I was walking back to my dorm room to watch the Tuesday devo after my book of Mormon class so i was feeling very uplifted and somewhat joyous I had even forgotten my hatred for how cold it was outside. So I get to the top of freshman hill it looked particularly slippery at this time so I decided to walk on the white snow on the sides of the path because that was not packed down and slippery yet. I took on step over to the side and..... pew!!! crash!!! smack!!! I fell directly on my backside. It was like a perfect movie fall. I had my phone out and in my hand and as I fell it flew out of my hand and in the the snow about two or so feet away from me. So right after I fell not only was I covered in snow from my waste down but I had to hunt through all the powder about a foot of it to find my phone that had sunk to the bottom of the snow. Like five minutes later I found my phone dusted my self off best I could and continued walking to my dorm with my pride completely crushed and my lower half all wet.

story#2 so this is where the second story comes in. I made it down the bottom of the hill after my horrendous fall and was about ten feet from my dorm when I stepped on a sheet of black ice and again plop right on my behind!!! Thinking that I was all alone I let out a desperate groan! right then a boy I knew from my summer walked by and asked in a very concerned voice if I was OK. I replied yes and picked up my bruised bum of the sidewalk and then walked shamefully back to my room. At this time I was completely soaked and had to change my outfit and then slipped int the family room (our hall's lobby or TV room) and watched the rest of the devotional.

story#3 So all in the same day I went to tap dance and then walked to the bookstore to by the book for that class. and on my way home I was getting to the cross walk and just as I was almost there stepped on another slippery spot but thankfully this time someone was behind me. Some stranger girl who caught me. I gratefully said thank you so much for saving me from my third fall of the day! I hope I can do that for someone else sometime. I'll keep my eyes out for the people slipping all around me and maybe next time I'll

catch them.

So because of these three stories I have been thinking a lot about ways to not slip.

1. I saw a man walking with a stroller. I think that I would like that like something to lean on. I don't think I would love to have the baby that comes along with that but the stroller maybe I could push my books or laptop around in it.

2. Football cleats... those things have spikes that if I were to get a pair I would not be able to go anywhere. Solid as a rock that would be me.

3. The perpetual buddy system. If you fall your friend goes down with you... at least you'll have someone to laugh or cry with just depends.

Thought this was funny I typed buddy system into google image and these were the first two that came up.

4. some sort of elevator escalator system or tram subway system underground campus that way you wouldn't have to walk or slip

5. Just learn the art of hibernation from the bears and stay in the dorms as much as possible.

the end

happy eve of christmas eve

2008-12-23T23:26:00.000-08:00

So this holiday season i find myself nestled on my very own couch with my two doggies snuggled by me with a cup of cocoa and White Christmas on the telly! I am loving my break from school and the chance to mess around with my younger sibs and old friends!

My favorite Christmas...
Movie: White Christmas & It's a wonderful life
Song: all of them! sorry can't pick one :0)
Memory: when we got our doggy
Tradition: sleeping under the tree with my sibs
Decoration: our stockings under the fireplace
Book: The little match girl

I love Christmas time!!!

why not???

2008-12-15T13:03:00.000-08:00

This past weekend was filled with a bunch of why nots and firsts
Why not...
1. go on my first blind date
2. go on a first date with married people
3. go to my first bachelorette party
4. dress up like an Indian war paint and all and go support my friend Robert and his band
5. sing happy birthday to my friend Mel when it's not her birthday
6. jam out to backstreet boys from the jute box in the malt shop with 20 other people
7. sleep under the Christmas tree in the lobby

all of these why nots made for a pretty stellar weekend!

B, Mel, Taylor Alex, Ethan, me Jase... oh and the other Ethan is jumping in the background

Me putting war paint on Taylor

Me, Mel, and Brooke

crazy faces

Robert and the Carols
This is my friend Robert center stage. I met him over summer he was not in my ward but hung out with everyone who was in my ward so he may as well have been. Also half way through the summer semester I realized he was in my choir class too. He is a very gifted musician ( guitar player pianist, vocalist, song writer) Over this past few months getting to know Robert he is one of the nicest people i have ever met. He is always happy and smiling and includes everyone. So his band played at the battle of the bands showcase at Velor a venue on univ. ave last Saturday. They are a cowboy and Indian band and in support of that they asked all their fans to dress up accordingly so we did. It was a great show and Roberts last before he goes on his mission to Canada the 31 of Dec. can't wait till they band gets home and they have their reunion show.

Rockin out to the Imagine Dragons another amazing band that preformed that night!

Indian

Sleeping under the tree... the next morning we got woken up by a very surprised ward choir haha gotta love that!

crunch crunch crunch

2008-12-13T18:23:00.000-08:00

This morning we woke up to a blazing blizzard outside so what did i do? waited for the snow to stop threw on my boots and grandpa's sweater for warmth and took tons of pics of the campus all white and pretty! Everyone around me seemed to be all calm about the snow not me from Washington I was def FREAKING out! snow that actually sticks this is weird ha ha

Right out side my dorm

I spy the Y?

the never ending stairs

Tunnels echo

I love the snow and the cold it's for sure a change from what I'm used to but who says it's a bad change?! Not me... may there be many more snow adventures to come...

Can you keep a secret?

2008-12-13T18:11:00.000-08:00

Peace and quiet are usually the things you look for in finding a nice study area on campus... well mine comes with quite a view.

The stair way that leads to my secret place!

The roman styled arches and the natural fountain are great for thinking and reflecting after a long day of classes.

The beautiful view on a crisp fall afternoon after my sociology class.

My Jksb balcony i love it!

Shh! it's a secret

weekends are for relaxing...

2008-12-07T22:22:00.000-08:00

NOT!!
Weekends are for packing in as much fun as possible before you start another week again!!! This weekend we drove to our relief society specialist's home and cooked dinner for our elders quorum and saw twilight liked it better the second time understood the story more and then on Saturday morning woke up went to play Frisbee on Helman Fields then ran to grab a Jamba before my ward took a trip up to Salt Lake City to see the temple square lights and the Joseph Smith movie both of which were amazing!
LOVE LOVE LOVE THE WEEKENDS!!

Sweet mates:top ramen cooking assignment

Me Lo, Mich, B

Lick the mixers, cheesecake batter

Melissa, Brooke, me, Lauren

Tracks Stop cuties

Tracks booth

Me Brooke (left) Brielle Melissa (right)

Smoothing all the ward on to one car if that's even what they are called??? lol

Me,b, and woot

Our ward is kinda picture happy someone takes a pic everyone wants to get in too

Jessica, Me Jase (above my head) Brooke and cheals (woot)

Christmas tree inside the Joseph Smith Building

Rachel, Melissa, Brielle, Me, Brooke, Ceira

Temple as we were getting out of the movie

Lights Pics

Jase, Melissa, Brielle me and Brooke

Sweet-Mate Pic

Me, Lauren, Brooke (missing Michelle)

Roommate Love

AMAZING LIGHTS ON THE SQ!

See what I mean about photo crazy this was supposed to be an all girl pic... can you spy the guys that snuck in???

too many to name

86th ward girls!

love them all!!!

Pretty tree!

Peace out

ducking into the mall to find warmth from the cold Utah nights

Warm Warm Warm

Jase Me and B

LIVIN FOR THE WEEKEND!

Christmas time is here!

2008-12-04T18:15:00.001-08:00

Ring the bells! Blast the christmas music! and wish everyone you know a Happy Christmas!

Christmas cookies from my daddy! YUMMY perfect way to bring home for the holiday's to the dorms!

American Sign Language

2008-12-04T17:58:00.000-08:00

Alex has extremely long legs! ha ha so she put her wonderful shoe on my desk as pictured

Left: Alex brown van paired with a wonderful sherbet pink and orange stripped socky

Alex after class not wanting to get up from her "comfortable position"

Alex with her leg on my desk during class!

This Semester I have been taking American Sign Language 101 and I LOVE IT. I guess according to my mom I have always had an interest in sign since I was in like the wee days of primary and well I guess it's fate that I take it in college now that I'm all grown up! Also thing that's kinda weird and funny is my friend ALEX got in my class just by chance first day of class was so great when we realized that we were in the same class. Everyday since has been a party we sit in the third row and laugh and have so much fun while learning of course... today i had my camera and we documented our adventures maybe 'll get some pics of us actually learning next time. Ha Ha!!

Alex likes to draw.... so she drew on my hand... say hello to RUPERT the ROBOT

little library adventures...

2008-11-21T15:49:00.000-08:00

Grandma Raquel's book in the BYU Library

Never checked out til today!

That's right I'm bringing the book home for grandpa and who ever else to see it first hand, for now enjoy the pics!

ROAD TRIP:Colorado

2008-11-17T17:57:00.000-08:00

Last weekend on like Thursday night i believe it was... me and Brooke were returning to our room and I realized that there was a slip of paper underneath the door. I picked it up it was a flyer for a Colorado road trip. Instantly I was like that would be way fun I've never been to Colorado before... But i def had to get my parents on board so i decided to bring it up see what they thought about the whole thing. So i asked my dad and mom and got the approval on account that the weather was good and we wouldn't have to brave the challenges of snowy weather through the Rocky's.... So i went and before i give any details it was prob one of the funnest (don't care if that's not a word I'm using it anyways) trips I've ever been on.

The drive to Colorado was a long 9 hour drive we encountered ice for a little bit but that was it for weather conditions everything else was fine and dandy on the road. We drove in a 4 car caravan down and got to Colorado safely at like 12:30

Famous gas station picture with the glasses

We had a 7-11 dance party to keep warm.

Me and Rachel

Me Rachel and Brigham with I heart Cuties stickers on our heads from the oranges we were eating

We stayed at a girl names Rachel's house in Colorado springs

The group

Then next morning we woke up got our BYU gear on and went to the BYU vs. AIR FORCE GAME!

The girls

The boys quoted saying "you can't make us smile... this is our game face"

Parachutes at the start of the game who brought the football into the stadium

They did push ups when they scored

This lady came up to us during half time to tell us what awesome BYU fans we were!!

Me and my cousin... Lees and Lybberts

It's another cougar first down! GRRRRRRR!!! (Rilyn and Jackson: doing the cougar growl)

TOUCH DOWN COUGARS!!!

The group had awesome celebration when we scored jumping cheering we even sang the fight song.

Me Rachel and Kel

We brought our own cheering sec. And we are thoroughly convinced that BYU only took a victory in that game because we drove all the way to cheer and support them...:)

Dave, Rachel, Keli, and Me smooooshing our way too church.

Then we went to church and went back to Provo dorm sweet dorm.

A gas station we stopped at that didn't have any gas... funny and weird

Some of the beautiful scenery we saw on our drive to and from Colorado.

It was a way fun weekend I got to know some kids in my ward better and had a blast of a time!

My first road trip I hope there are many more!!!

1...4...U...1...4....u...&1....4...U

2008-11-14T09:52:00.000-08:00

This post is dedicated to all my missionaries (Elder Lybbert, Elder Lybbert yes there are two Elder Low, Elder Oaks, Elder Williams, Elder O'connor and well all the others who get letters from me) and to the post men and women who rain or shine, snow or wind deliver my letters unless of course there is the incorrect amount of postage on the letter and it gets sent back 4 times... because international postage when up and somebody forgot to tell me :)

Letters Letters and more letters!

The other day on the phone i was talking to my mom and i told her i had sent out happy Halloween cards to all my missionaries... well it was semi jokingly said seeing that all my missionaries are either related to me or my very good friends! But either way i claim them as my missionaries!

I love writing letters! So much so that i think it has become my new favorite Hobie!!

To all the missionaries thank you for the example to the me and more importantly to the world!

Date Nights

2008-11-14T09:28:00.000-08:00

THis past weekend I had a memory jerker moment.... back to the days of Everett 3rd ward volleyball! Now your probibly thinking volleyball luc you were ten when we lived there but i'm talking about what the kids did when the mommies were playing volleyball... LAZER TAG!!! The cambell family who always had all the hightech gear but we all somehow had a set and would team up spread out and play all over inside outside... i think we enjoyed those fridays more than the moms did!

Well ya so back to what the week had to do with that memory... this past weekend i got drug on a hang out date but i was happily there i say dragged cuz i had no idea i was even on the date until he was paying for my dinner :) good laughes...But after dinner we went to a gettooo lazer tagging place and teamed up

REd Team: WInners! Matt and Lucy

I had a ton of fun thanks matt for the awesome date! and for the memories!

I'm a big kid now!!!

2008-11-03T23:55:00.000-08:00

So today for the first time ever in my human existence i voted for an election that was deciding more than next years' asb officer or who I want to be the homecoming queen. I felt like such a grown up and i have to admit at times it was kinda stressful but i did it! Hurray and i was so proud to walk my ballot up to the cannon center mail room and put it in with the other letters to send off my vote! It felt like the first time i graduated from the little kid table and ate with all the grown ups or the first time you realize you know how to pump on a swing and your daddy doesn't have to push you any more! (but dad don't take this as you are relieved from your pushing job out on the Lybberts' farm I'll want a push every time we go) Just wanted to share my growing up moment with Y'all happy voting day!!

when in dought peanuts has the answer

2008-10-29T00:29:00.003-07:00

Linus says:... And then, sally on halloween night the great pumkin appears!
He flies through the air, and brings toys to all the children of the world!

Sally: HA
Linus: I don't think she believed me...

I have been reading the comics since me and my dad would read them to each other every sunday and they still bring a smile to my face and make me laugh
top three fav's
a.Peanuts & Pickles
b.Sally (but that one is discontinued now sad day)
c.zits,Dilbert, baby blues

Awesome things about living in Provo Utah

2008-10-29T00:06:00.000-07:00

#1 Living with my best friend brooke and getting to have an all year round sleep over

#2 The fall colors are probibly the prettiest thing i've ever seen (pictures inspired by keirra's post about fall colors)[picture taken on the way to physical theropy]

#3 I live a 30 minute walk from everything. Literally walking has just become second nature Story: like when i came home for summer break in august after church i was like ok lets go walk home and car (carter's new nick name i really want to stick) just looked at me like i was crazy and laughing pointed to the car only a few feet away. [picture above on one of my many walks to the byu pt]

#4 People don't use the newspaper to sell their cars here they just write how much the car is going for and the number to call if you interested in white car paint and park it anywhere they please. this number also works as a double function for the toe truck to call as they remove the car from the spot it's been abandonded:)

#5 Provo is just a fun place to be (summer friends lane, me and alex)

Flip-Flops is to summer as Boots is to Winter

2008-10-25T18:49:00.000-07:00

As the warm summer weather seems to be coming to a close the cold breeze on my toesies tell me it's time to put away the comfy flip flops who have served me well thru the summer and trade them in for some boots with the fur to barrow the phrase. These equally comfy boots keep my feet warm all winter long. Best part is i feel like i'm in slippers all day long.