Weekend Shenanigans!

This past weekend was a blast! I seriously LOVE my roommates! They are just what I was hoping for this semester and I couldn't be more excited for the rest of the semester!

Friday night we planned for a big group to go to I-Jump in Idaho Falls, we were so excited and then at last minute everyone bailed! We were bummed but decided we would still go! It was the most fun I have had in so long! It was just our apartment and we were practically the only ones there! It was so fun! We really bonded as an apartment and since then we have been really close!

** If you feel so inclined go ahead and watch a pathetic attempt at a front flip! It is really dark...but you can see my glowing shirt! 

Saturday I went to Island Park with Hyle to do some work on the cabin and the scenery was beautiful! I am beginning to love Fall more and more every year! It was breathtaking and these pictures don’t even do it justice!

Saturday night a big group was going to the Straw Maze and so we decided to join along with them! It was really fun…not gonna lie I get pretty frustrated in those things, but I still had fun! Our group was the first ones to get out and then they had a bunch of games and stuff for us to play while we waited…watching was way more entertaining!

Have a great week! :)

Holy moly am I behind!

Holy cow! This semester is only two weeks into and I can barely keep up! I can tell this is going to be a busy semester, but I know it is going to be a good one! I LOVE LOVE LOVE all my roommates! Seriously we were meant to be put together! I have never laughed so hard at 1 in the morning! It is only the second week of school and we are already best of friends! The first weekend of school was pretty entertaining! Friday night we went to a block party at this place called Sammy's. They do this every fall and have live bands come and free stuff its pretty fun! 

Saturday was a day for homework but Saturday night was a night for partying! The crossroads was broadcasting the BYU vs. U of U game...go figure there are a lot of BYU fans at BYU-I haha! We stayed until about half-time and then a bunch of kids were going out to the sand dunes to have a bon-fire! There was a pretty large group and this 12 passenger van was going out! A couple of my roommates thought hey lets just get in and it'll all be fine...well we climb into the back where there are no seats just mattresses and about 15 kids...it was a little sketch! But hey we were still thinking oh this is an awesome idea! We make it out to the dunes and the girl driving gets stuck immediately in the sand...luckily there were a ton of guys to get us unstuck! We had our bon fire and started to head back! We climb in the van and the girl thinks it is a good idea to go 67 in a 50 MPH zone with well over 20 kids in the van! She passed a cop and he immediately flips around and says I need to know how many are not wearing a seat-belt but I need to run your registration first. The cop is gone for about 20 mins. and of course I am thinking of  the worst things that can happen, getting arrested, losing my license- even though I wasn't the one driving, and so on when the cop comes back he tells the girl it is your lucky day...my computer is down so you just get a warning! Holy cow that girl is a lucky one...and I vowed to NEVER ride in the back of a van like that again...in the moment I wasn't thinking but then I thought about how dumb that was and all that could have happened! Someone was certainly looking out for us! 

Today we were able to have Elder D. Todd Christofferson for devotional and it was so cool! Having an apostle in the same room is certainly humbling and the Spirit is amazing! Also Heidi and I went to Pizza Pie and they messed up her lid...we thought it was funny! I promise to be better with blogging!

Working, Birthday, Blackfoot Fair!

So my dad hired me to do some work on the farm for him...mostly just clean up! I love working with my dad on the farm, we were out to my grandma Browning's old house, really weird to say that, and we were fixing up hand lines, burning weeds, moving equipment around and lots of hard work! It felt good!

I was pretty proud of this backing up job I did, backing a trailer up is not easy!

Sunday was my Grandma Stocking's birthday! I sure love her! I know I get my anxiousness from her, but I love her anyways!

Monday my family and I went to the Blackfoot Fair! It is something I have never been to before and I was excited to see how much bigger it is compared to little Rupert, Idaho's fair! Sadly it rained the ENTIRE day, but we all agreed we would rather rain than the heat. But it was still way fun...we went to the Indian Relay Races and I can honestly say that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! Indians hop on bareback and ride a lap and then jump off their horse and jump onto another horse and race another lap...they do that 2 or 3 times and its such an adrenalin rush! Ironically when we were sitting under cover was the only time the rain stopped but it was still ok! We had a lot of fun just going and trying something new! They had these huge Clydesdale horses...they were pretty neat! They also had giant pumpkins! I guess everything is bigger up there!

Fun Fact: Holli and I have a birthmark in the exact same spot...on our right foot, left side of our heel!

Life lately...according to my iPhone pictures!

So I follow this blog...Love Taza about this cute little LDS family living in New York City and she does this post every month called, Life Lately According to my IPhone pictures. I thought hey since I have been off the face of the blogging world for the last few weeks why not! So here ya have it the last two weeks!

The little girls I babysit love to go feed the ducks at Emerald Lake...we take my neighbor Kyson who is a year younger than Lux and it is so fun to watch them play house! Lux is almost a foot taller than him and its so funny to watch them play mommy and daddy while Sayde and I play with the ducks! I am sure going to miss these girls when I have to go back to school!

I got to go boating with some good friends! It was so fun, and a perfect way to send off the Summer! I have been really good friends with these girls for a REALLY long time! I love them both!

Holli started high school and my mom is signing her up for drivers Ed...I don't think anything is more shocking to me right now! She is growing up and I feel like its all been this summer! She isn't just my way younger sister anymore she is really growing up and getting really fun to do stuff with. I woke up with her on her first day of school just to annoy her and take pictures of every little thing she did...I guess maybe I haven't grown up...or I am just really good at playing the older sister!

Sunday was an eventful day...our kitchen sink got clogged and so my mom and I attempted to unclog it before church...more like my mom...but it didn't so we went to church and came home to fix it.  My dad was still in meetings so my mom Holli and I Attempted and succeeded at fixing it. We brought in a hose and put water pressure in the pipe...my mom and I say right in front of it and as we said oh this must be working no water is coming back out the hose flipped out and squirted us good! We haven't laughed so hard in a long time! After the mess was cleaned up my mom didn't feel like making another mess so we hopped in the car and took Sunday drive to sun valley to see where all the fires were...everyone napped I drafted this post and dad drove!

Life is good...I move to school September 13th and I am slowly getting ready to go as I watch everyone else leave! But I know the minute I get there I will be ready to come home! Ah well life goes on!

Pondering!

Here I am sitting in my rocking chair at 10:30 at night with my bath robe over my shoulder, sticky and sweaty from working out, tired as heck, and pondering! Pondering is an interesting word...it's something I've been doing a lot of lately! Life throws a lot of curve balls our way! It's our choice to make the best of it! This is not a new and exciting shed of light on life to all I'm sure...but it's a phrase passed around a lot and put to the test a lot! Sometimes...just sometimes I wish I had complete control of what happens, when it happens, how it happens, and so on. But 99.9% of the time I am glad I am not in complete control. I just know I would not be nearly as happy if I was. I see others happiness and often say...oh I want that, why can't I be that happy, lucky, fortunate, blessed. It's something I really struggle with. I will fully admit! But on nights like this where I am pondering in my rocking chair that I realize how happy, lucky, fortunate, and blessed I really am. It's hard to see in the busy day to day life...but at the end of the day I know I am. I tend to over-analyze EVERYTHING...what girl doesn't...but I swear I have a disorder of over-thinking, over-worrying, over-stressing...I blame my Grandma Stocking...she's the same way, but it's OK I still love her! I get myself so worked up into situations, and I just bottle it up inside until I just can't take it...and it takes a night of pondering to really put everything back into perspective. I am happy, and I am thankful for such a wonderful life...it's hard to realize how wonderful YOUR life really is until you ponder. I don't know if this made any sense at all...I'm sure it didn't to you but I feel better now and that is all! And now I'm going to go take a shower now! Good night! 

Island Park Day 5 & 6

The last two days of the trip were pretty relaxing! We rode 4-wheelers went swimming and just had fun messing around Island Park. We attempted to go float the river but apparently you have to be one of the first to get a raft anywhere because they go fast! We decided to go swimming but didn't stay long because poor Holli couldn't do anything but get into the hot tub so we decided to head out and just watch movies at the cabin! We went to the Playmill friday night but I forgot my camera so no pictures! But it was so fun! We saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and it was pretty good! 

Saturday we decided to ride the 4-wheelers again and we rode them up to Sawtell...I've driven that a hundred times or more but never on a 4-wheeler and it was so fun! The view was beautiful and it was just a blast! I rode with Brooke and Holli, Kyle, and Heidi switched on and off...seeing as Holli really wasn't supposed to be riding anyways but we were more than careful with her! One thing I did overlook is how dusty and dirty it would get on the roads...we were nothing short of being clean but that's ok because that's what showers are for! We also went on another moose hunt/bear hunt through Island Park and had not luck to find bears but we did find another mama moose and baby! We caught them right as they were running into the trees and I barely got one decent picture but just know that we did see them! 

Cabin trips are always the highlight of the summer! I love just getting away with no worry! Until next year cabin! 

Island Park Day 3 & 4

The painting was finally finished and it was time to have fun! Wednesday morning Holli and I woke up and wanted to go find bears! So Dad agreed and said we would leave later in the day for Yellowstone! So after getting ready we went for a four-wheeler ride! It was so fun to find trails and see where they take us...I got lost quite a bit but that's what made it fun and adventurous! 

We ventured into the park with high hopes! We started to get disappointed after seeing nothing except a few elk and lots of trees! But our luck quickly changed when we saw plenty of brake lights! A grizzly we were so excited and satisfied to see what we were hoping to see! 

Please excuse my misspelling...you'd think as an English major I'd know how to spell something as simple as grizzly!

Thursday the entire family went into the park! It was our traditional picnic in the park day! Kyle's sister Brooke from Alaska also came on Wednesday night so it was fun to show her around! We saw plenty of elk, lots of buffalo and two bears a black bear and a grizzly! It was definitely a successful trip! We went around to all of the different hot pots to show Brooke, it was actually pretty cool. We never really stop to look at that stuff because we go every year and never think to look but it was pretty interesting!