President's Day

Skyler joined the swim team this year. It was a lot of fun to watch him and see him improve throughout the season. Hopefully he'll stick with it and continue to do it throughout high school. However, he may be trying out the the high school basketball team again this year. Time will only tell.















This is Beau with a few of his teammates















This was taken at the state swim competition. Beau and a few other members of the swim team were able to go swim in state. I believe Beau swam in a few relays and then a 200 m., but I'm not very savy in swim jargon so I may be wrong. However I do know that him and his relay team broke 2 school records. They were all very excited about that.















For President's Day my family, the Stewarts, the Jones's and Grandpa & Grandma Jones went up to this ranch and we were able to see Elk.















The tour guide passed around a few items that come from Elk. Amanda is holding a part of an antler and I'm blowing into uh....well I'm not quite sure.







































Eric pointing at the dear ol' Elk. Can you tell that it was a sunny day that day?















"Look more elk!"















the bobcat made Beau mad. Watch out!




















Ah, the fur of the bear is attacking Beau! Watch out!




















Skyler found himself a cute coyote fur hat. Precious!




















"Look there's elk!"




















"I see it! I see it!"




















"Hey Aunt Bonnie, will you shake my hand?"















He looks like the dog off of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"!















"Everyone, act like an elk!"

Winter Fun!

Here are a few pictures from the Winter Break mmmm gotta love christmas break!

Temple Square Lights

Off Broadway Theatre

Christmas Carol Sing-Along

Roo's 21st B-day Party! SURPRISE!

Temple Square Fun

My Family!

Our Brick at the Gateway & our sweet shoes!

Catching Snowflakes...the best of the best.

3rd Annual Pre-Feast

Man, this night was incredible! All I can say is that I LOVE my friends...there's no other way to put it. SO many funny memories happened...it'd be hard to express them all so...I'll just show you the pics & then you can make your own judgement. Enjoy!

Kamas & SIGNING TIME!!!

So I've been meaning to update this but man oh man, the ITP has gotten the best of me. Last week Roo & I went up to Kamas & went to Oakcrest & Dick's. Dick's is a local burger place in Kamas that Oakcrest staff members would eat at periodically, especially when it was your "floater" week (your week you had no girls). Well, last summer I didn't have a floater week & so we went to Dick's so I could experience it first hand. It was SO much fun & their marshmellow shake is delicious! We also stopped by Oakcrest & it was so enjoyable to walk around & reflect on all the amazing experiences.
I don't know if I've mentioned this but I'm applying for Oakcrest again & I'm applying for Assistant Director. I know that the Lord has a plan for me & I just hope that oakcrest is in that plan. I would love to serve him & the amazing girls again this coming summer.
Then after stopping by Oakcrest & Dick's, we took a pit-stop in Park City & did some shopping. I told Roo that I've never been shopping at the Park City Outlet Malls so she said it was a must that we went there. It was such a blast!



















this is the lodge bathroom















this is an overview look of Oakcrest

this is the flag pole string that I was attached to & hung from.
















this is my last cabin..good ol' sassafras




































**SIGNING TIME**
I know a lot of my cousins are watching the Signing Time movies in their houses & I just wanted to tell you something really exciting. For one of my ASL classes we have to observe an interpreter so after much tribulation of searching I got an appointment to go to Canyon View Elementary & watch interpreters in 1st, 3rd & 6th grade. WELL...the deaf girl in 6th grade is LEAH! yes, the cute little girl from signing time. Oh man, I'm SO excited! I get to MEET her this Monday & I'm seriously so excited. Anyways, I'm tempted to ask her for her autograph but I don't think that's professional to do that haha, so I was thinking about secretly getting a picture of her. haha, we'll see how my plan goes.

One Republic Concert!

Yesterday Roo and I went to the One Republic concert up at Weber State University. It was so much fun! I've completely decided that One Republic is AMAZING!!! The concert was so great, definitely one of the best concerts I have ever been to. Here's a few pics from the concert. Enjoy!!! P.S.-they're coming out with a new cd in the spring! :)

Halloween Adventures

This Halloween was quite eventful and splendid. There was an institute dance but I preferred to stay home with my family. Early in the day Skyler, Keaton & I racked our neighbors leaves. He had over 8 bags of leaves & before we bagged them, Skyler & I jumped/played/rolled in them. I believe that you are never to old to play in leaves.

Anyways, then later that day I worked until 7 pm and then I came home & passed out candy with my mom. It was so much fun to see all the cute children and especially my primary kids. Ah, they are my favorite! Then Roo came over about 9 and she said she'd carve pumpkins with me if I carved out the guts of her pumpkin. I completely didn't mind. So we carved lovely pumpkins.

Then as we were placing our pumpkins outside we saw a HUGE slug and decided to burn it...ya Oakcrest kinda turned us into pyros, not our fault. haha. So we tried to burn the first one and it didn't work too great. Then we got this brillant idea to gather as many slugs as we could find and then soak them with gasoline and light them on fire. My mom didn't mind because they eat her flowers...so we proceeded on. In the middle of burning the slugs I realized that we created a Holocaust in my yard because we had 1-searched for a specific thing 2-killed them all. Slugs stink SO bad when they are being roasted...holy cow it was gross!
Then on Saturday night Beau got home about 12:30 and I was woken up by my parents asking what was on our lawn. I walked outside, half asleep, and to much to my surprise, there's about 25 pumpkins all over my lawn. Beau was nice enough to roll them in a big pile & as you can tell, there's a TON! So if you need any pumpkins, you know who to call. hahaha. Great prank OC girls! :) Also this week I was asked to be on the Institute Council and I get set apart in 2 weeks...so I'll give ya updates on that later. Anyways, that's about all that's been happening in my neck of the woods.