If anyone cares.

If anyone is wondering. My hair is the longest it has been since I was 12 years old. I am now 22...and my hair is way long!

This is not my hair...but I think it would be cool to color it like this. I think I will.

Death By Chicken

Let me tell you this story.

I'm at work, cleaning panini grills. I scrape a steaming hot piece of chicken off the grill; it lands in the small gap in my shoe where the tongue had been shifted slightly. This chicken then burns through my sock (which was fairly thick) and leaves a blister on the top of my foot.

There was little I could do about the damn chicken at the time except scream and try to shake the meat off out of my shoe.

Finally, I was able to go into the back, away from customers, and tend to my wound. I was pissed when I saw the blister.

This scenario provoked the thought that I would never want to be burned to death. However, if someone were to light me on fire, I would rather just die then survive that horror.

The end.

Je suis désolé

That handsome fellow next to me is Reggie.

He means the world to me.

He's my everything.

Happy Earth Day!

Our planet is full of beautiful places. Doesn't matter where you are, if you just look out your window you will see something that can amaze you.

A few summers ago, on a drive down to St. George with my family we passed through a part of the state that doesn't have a lot going on. I was bored. I said to my dad, "there's a whole lot of nothing out here, huh?" My dad, being the geologist that he is, said, "This whole area used to be filled with volcanoes, they're all extinct now. Look you can see one over there."

I was amazed. That stretch of road doesn't bore me anymore. Since then I have tried to find beauty where ever I am.

I hope you enjoy your Earth Day. Go spend a day outside! You might be surprised by what you find. Even if it's just a city of bugs. Or a beached starfish

Lessons Learned.

(Dad, Mom, Heather, Josh, Megan, Nick, and Me)

I have learned a lot of valuable things from my parents like how to ride a bike, tie my shoes, read, etc. But some of the lessons I've learned from my siblings are just as valuable. Such as:

~Don't cook gravy in a glass pan over the stove. (Megan)

~Don't use Pledge to clean hardwood floors. (Heather)

~How to do my hair curly and how to braid. (Megan and Heather)

~How to Skip. (Nick)

~The proper way take the screen out of the window and put it back. (Nick)

~How to put someone in an FDH (forever death hold). (Josh)

~It's good to walk to school, even if school is on the other side of the mountains. (Josh)

Brothers and Sisters are fun to have around. I'm glad I was the youngest so that I could learn all kinds of lessons from a lot of different teachers.
(Megan, Heather, and Josh)

The Winds Are Changing

Spring is in the air! I love this time of year. At the new year I'm not too motivated to make any resolutions/changes in my life, but the coming of spring gets me all excited about it! I read an article in the Oprah magazine (I know, I'm cool) that said spring is a good time to get rid of all the baggage that has been building up, such as a cruddy job, a lousy friend, or just old clothes. Oprah was in inspiration to me (like she is to everyone, I'm sure). I have been slowly changing things in my life that I'm not happy with. I'm hanging out with the girls more often, I'm climbing more, and I'm eating better. So, what most people do at New Years, I do in the spring.

(for those few followers, did you notice I changed the appearance of my blog?)

Another change that has happened is officially becoming facebook friends with Michelle Johnson.

She is a special girl that loves Zupas. We haven't hung out yet, but she is penciling me in. Michelle is a fun loving person, she enjoys boating, movies, pool, costa rica, cliff jumping, umm.....and Oprah. She is going to marry my brother, who went to costa rica last year.

California here we come

I have succeeded in getting Dan addicted to The OC. However, I may have created a monster.
We stayed up until 3 watching it. When I was all ready to leave he started another episode, he tried to do this a second time, but I paused it then left him with the disc so he could finish it (I had already watched it). We will be continuing season 1 tonight. we'll see how that goes.

2012--dun dun dun

So I saw the movie 2012 last night....Not the best movie to watch considering I had a nightmare about tsunamis while I was in Hawaii (I'm now terrified of them) and I also have a phobia of earthquakes. Well tsunami and earthquake sums up what 2012 was about, those two disasters will end the world. After the movie I had a nightmare that I was living the movie and I had to call my family to tell them I loved them, but I was too late to tell Nick (my brother). Love you brother!

Don't see the movie if you're afraid of natural disasters...the two don't mix well.

Big Island, Big Fun!

So for the 3 people that look at this blog...this is gonna be a LOOONG one. Hawaii was sooo much fun! Dan and I were so sad to come home, but unfortunately here we are...back in the freezing desert that is Utah. But at least we have pictures to let us know that our vacation wasn't just a really good dream.

The volcanic eruptions of the past.
didn't flip this one, but it's still cool. this is at Honaunau Bay.

Ralphy's Christmas presents from Dan's aunt Barb.That little squirrel is full of catnip.

I did not teach Ralph to do this.

Doesn't he look thrilled? haha

Fresh of the plane (and after a quick clothes change). It's super humid in Hawaii. When I got off the plane I was like "I'm drowning"! Not really, but it was an adjustment. After Day 1 I go used to it.

Dan was doin a little work. Since we couldn't pick up the rental without Dan's sister (Jodi) we had to sit at the airport for 5 hours until they got there...

My first Hawaiian meal. It was pretty good.

Sick. Dan's fam finally made it! Dan and I were exhausted we had been up since 3am utah time and here it is about 8pm hawaii time.

Our view from the balcony. I watched the waves everyday.

For some reason I look like Jaimie Scott in this pic (but Jaimie is prettier than this). Those flowers are pretty cool.

Christmas! Dan's new bracelet.

Chris!

Joel!

Eli and Evan!

Bryce!

Jodi!

Christopher and our Christmas Tree!

Christmas from Dan and Gina!

I thought this was pretty funny. Joel looks real stressed.

What a good shot.

Beautiful. The sunsets were always this pretty

White Dan

This hurt my pride more than my butt. I would have liked to watch myself when this happened.

Tiki

This is in a recreated Hawaiian village

the King's thinking rock

Geckos were all over the place!

Oh ya. We're both pretty hot!

The volcano

It was sooo green! trees were growing out of trees!

this is not plastic

Cool little walk way

he's not taking a crap. he's just squatting down a bit.

leafy

the lava flows were super cool. I took tons of pictures of them

typical dan

Fresh out of the shower. I didn't blow dry my hair that often.

pretty

do you see the foot ball? Don't be fooled this little pool is super deep and swarming with fish!

Hilo

Helicopter ride. I didn't take a ton of pictures on this due to that fact that I was trying to hold down the pancakes I had that morning. I have never been that motion sick.

lava flowing into the ocean

Rainbow falls. This was my favorite day

the banyan tree. We litteraly spent the rest of the day in this tree.

creepy

even the tiniest vine could hold dan's weight

cute

I Tarzan

Him Turtle

I'm impressed with my camera sometimes. The flowers out there are gorgeous!

another winning sunset

We are on a boat headed out to the submarine. So I thought it would be cool to get a shot of the Island from the ocean instead of the other way around.

The pictures are cool. the sub guy said that red and green are lost after so many feet. But you can still see that there are a lot of fish

BBQ night!

I always look so tired in the pictures

what's weird about this picture, is i did not editing to it at all. it's pretty cool.

Good bye sea village

I was very very very sad to leave. I didn't talk much on the way to the airport.

No I am not an amazing photographer. This bee flew into the picture at the right time.

Oh and who is this with the amazing calves? Oh it's Lance Armstrong!


I hope I can go back really soon. Maybe next time I can take my family I think they would all have a blast out there.