We tried something new.

We were bored.

I wanted to take pictures of the lightening.

It didn't work out.

I asked Tam to do something cool.

This is what she came up with.

You see we've been kinda obsessed with the Lord of the Rings lately.

I guess thats what happens when you watch all of the extended versions and eagerly awaiting The Hobbit.

I prayed for a social experience.
I was hoping one with a good looking guy.
Tam has class after institute. I don't.
I decided to hang in the institute building this time around to waste a little time.
So get this, I'm sittin' on the couch watching the CES fireside and one of the institute teachers comes up to me. I had my earphones in. She motioned to her ears and mouths "can you hear me?"
hahahaha i don't know why i still think thats so funny but i do.
I paused my spiritual moment and said yes.
She started to tell me about her dating and courtship class and how she has like 20 boys and only 10 girls.
She proceeded to tell me about how she was doing speed dating for her lesson.
Clever Heavenly Father.
I excepted her request.
It was fun to say the least.
i thought one boy was cute until i stood up and realized he was 4 inches short than i was.
nothing against short men. in fact they should marry tall women so they can balance out the next generation.
haha i kill myself.
The best part was after class one of the boys came up to me and started talking about something completely random. Asking questions like I knew the answer.
Shortly after seeing my blank face he realized that he had mistaken me for another girl he had talked to.
To put it lightly he was embarrassed and walked away.
i would be to. i would be to.

Park to the City.

I've been here a few times in my life, mostly when I was a youngin.
I'd like to visit more often

I call it home of the hipsters.

Maybe i'm wrong but i like the name.

it was fantastic.

One day I want to spend a whole entire day there and visit every little darn store just to pretend i'm rich.

Oh wait i am...at least in blessings.

We hit up the alpine coaster. Everyone needs to experience it.

Traveled up and down to small stores for an hour.

Then enjoyed the most delicious food.

 

Whats new

-The vain picture featured above was taken by my very own branspankinnew Mac Book Pro. That's right peeps I finally have a Laptop and I'm in love. I'm growing up.

-Tam and I had a double blind on saturday. It was awkward, weird, bizarre, and any other word that might fit into that category; like most. To put it simply Tam's date walked us to the door while mine sat in the car. It was great, but wait there's more...Tam's date later on Sunday asked me (me!) out on a date. "Forget Tam and the other guy let us go on a date instead."

"Excuse me?"

-I've been indexing...pretty much...with all of my free time. I started because of a competition in my ward. Now I'm kinda obsessed. I need to get up to 30,000 points like the big man on the block then I'll be happy.

-Summer's almost over. I may shed a few tears.
-Sometimes I wonder why I have a Facebook then I remember its to stock people. Then I remember why we have blogs and I find myself over here at Ruthie's blog and I find myself fantasying about her hair. Stop making be jealous bloggers.
-Tambam and I often find ourselves going on icee runs at Maverick. Fill the bottom with the yogurt and add icee on top it's gonna be the new thing. We've introduced our friends...frankly they're scared.

How we defeated death.

We went on a little adventure. 

We traveled to a little town in Colorado to visit my sister.

We mostly went thrifting at least 75% of our time there.

I'm obsessed with the local Fruita thrift store.

There are teasures in that little place; it's magical.

This is gonna be a long story. 

It might be worth reading.

It's mostly for kicks and giggles for those of us that were on the river at the time...you had to be there.

After a long day of thrifting and talking about floating down the Colorado river we decided it was time. 

Mom warned us of the danger knowing our past excursions on moving bodies of water.

Somehow we almost die every time.

Nate said don't disrespect the river more then once.

We bought mattress floaties and I stole little Sierras floatational device for myself.

Grabbed some Gatorades, some fruit snacks and we were ready.

We were lectured before leaving the house.

I received a phone call on the way to the river. My father, who did not accompany us on the trip, asking if I wanted to get married and have kids.

They were over reacting, obviously. We didn't turn around.

The portion of the river we were floating was the calmest part of the Colorado. No white water rapids.

As smooth as the lazy river at Seven Peaks.

Nathan drove us up to Grand Junction and we would float back to Fruita, a three and a half hour glide.

We were pumped and ready. 

We pulled out our floats and wasted all of our energy on blowing them up switching off on losing our breath.

The river was as dirty as Utah Lake, my favorite kind of water.

We got in, waved goodbye to Nate, and we were off. 

No more than five minutes down did we start to hear "rapids" oh no rapids. Stupid rapids.

Being safe and listening to the advice we got from the expert fisherman we exited the river with our floaties in hand walking on the side. After trekking for a while Lis turned and asked if we wanted to call Nate to come pick us up. I wanted to give in. Who wanted to walk most the way down the river? I sure as heck didn't. 

But we didn't give up. We're Craven girls.

Without any rapids in sight we climbed back in the river and didn't leave again. We floated down the...rapids... more like waves...smalllll waves...instead of getting out.

And guess what it was fun!

We were happy chilling in the nice water with the nice weather talking about how "mom would lovvve this" "I know its sooo nice out." "it's just like the lazy river at Seven Peaks." "We should do this with the whole family. Family reunion on the Colorado river, babies and all...so calm, soo relaxing... so nice." "I'd do this every freakin day if I lived here."

We were talking, laughing, and having the time of our lives, honestly, beside getting left behind several times because they had the soft, swift mattresses and me, getting stuck on several rocks by my bum and having those speedy two laugh while I tried to scoot off we had a sort of rockin' time. 

We we're incandescently happy.

Sadly it completely changed when the clouds started to hang over us, the thunder started to roll, the lighting started to strike, (yes i did just quote Garth Brooks) and lets not forget the light rain droplets. 

I started to us my arms as propellers. I didn't want to get stuck in the storm. I'm sure the end of the river was just around the corner...or an hour later. We hit some soft rapids. Since I was ahead I told them to go left or right to stay away from the rocks so our floatational devices wouldn't pop. By this time we were professional in avoiding the rocks. It was maybe a foot deep tam lost her tube tried to jump on the mattress and missed...haha...it wasn't funny, she was hurt, but Lisa and I couldn't stop...going against the rapids was a no no. We got to the end waiting for Tambam to appear, it took awhile but we saw her lifeless body floating down the waves. 

I yelled at her, she didn't move. Crap mom was going to kill us. Minutes later she moved and yelled back; she was okay.

We all caught up to each other. 

It started to pour. The rain pelted our poor bodies. I wasn't staying in the dumb river any longer. I got to the edge ready to climb out. Lisa asked if we'd rather walk in the rain waiting for Nate to pick us up or to finish floating. It was wise but dumb. Lighting was hitting right next to the river, if it hit the water we'd have been dead. Including the little one inside Lisa. 

I gave in we started to float. 

I started to move as fast as I could down the river leaving the other two behind. All of us trying to not hit trees, rocks, or any sort of bad rapids. The rain was coming down so hard I could hardly see in front of me. 

It became extremely cold.

I could barely see Tam and Lisa behind me but I knew they were in the water. It was the only way to keep warm in the freezing outdoors.

I couldn't get in. I had the gatorade bottles, fruit snacks, and cellular devices on me. 

I was tired, freezing, and shivering to the point where I couldn't stop.

I yelled at my sisters to catch up so I could get in the water. 

I knew Tam didn't want to leave Lisa because she was pregnant.

She finally reached me, helping me get in the water. 

We were all gonna die if not by lighting then by hypothermia.

But we made it. When I saw the Fruita bridge I wanted to die I was so excited. The end couldn't come fast enough, the towel, the warmth, the hot shower couldn't come fast enough.

As we were getting out Nate stood waiting for us. He looked down at our poor souls and said,

"I told you not to disrespect the river."

We made it out. We made it out alive. 

A little over dramatic?

Maybe.

Did the story need to be that long?

No. 

Welcome to my life.

The Air Show

Time of my life right here.
It was kind of a bumpy ride, a little adrenaline rush, it's fine.
That's right we watched from the cliffs.

 
 The thunderous noise was the bomb. 
Try not to be jealous.

The Subway

Best place ever! 

Everyone has to hike this beast. It's a must.

Before we started to hike we were warned to pay attention to the weather. That day had 45% chance of heavy rain. Which means flash floods. Which means death or severe injury, but most likely death. On our way up to the hike the rain was pounding on the wind shield. Scary? Yes.

We were gonna die and I knew it.

I said about a billion prayers & I did not get one rotten feeling.

So we got out of the car, said a prayer as a group, and off we went.

Boy, was I happy. 

Best decision of my life.

Seriously.

The hardest part was the very end when you had to hike start up 800 ft or something like that.
The water was cold but fabulous.
Wanna come next year?

Hello.

Mr. Bryce, my dog isn't scary. Infact she's kinda cute. Don'tcha think so?

After ward prayer on Sunday, we headed home with our girls. Inviting some boys from our ward to come join our society of foxy females mingling. We played Disney Scene it the 2nd edition. It got a little intense. Of course myself and Mr. Jack creamed won the others, but Ms. Lauren and Ms. Kac were a close second. Mr. Dan and Ms. Tam had no hope, sorry you two, it's the truth, but moving nine spaces was legit in your case. Mr. Bryce showed up a little later with his girl. After the domination we ate cake, m&m's and talked about the good ol' times mostly. Thanks for pow wowing with me!