Best Friend's Wedding

Yesterday my best friend Shannon Thompson got hitched. Aside from this being way weird, I have never seen her so happy in my life. And if you know Shannon, you know that she is one of the happiest people in this world all the time. I was one of 3 bridesmades, and to put things lightly, we almost got heat stroke 10 times from dancing so hard ALL DAY. I haven't gotten out of bed yet, so I can't say this is actual fact, but I'm thinking my legs and feet are black and blue. Pumps are such a joke. I hate them lots. But it was so worth it :) Here are some random pictures from the day, I didn't take them, so be warned. Enjoy!

Call Lo RAD oh!!!!

Alright, so last week the smaller version of our family headed to Colorado! The trip started out pretty sketchy when dad took the wrong exit and we ended up waaaay out in some field next to this lovely barn that was tipping over.

you might not be able to tell, but this baby is about to be done with life.

Nah and I got bored.

A couple hours later Babo decided he wanted to see the Green River airport. Wahoo! This place is half airport, half secret Kepsel workplace. Those kepsels are pretty entertaining.

Nevertheless, Nah and I couldn't help but play on the runway. Then Levi kicked us off.

After about 7ish hours we finally made it to Glenwood Springs! This is a teenie town known for... Umm... I don't know what it's known for, but this pool is incredible. It's something like 406 feet long, and it is a constant 92 degrees. Aaaahhh!! I love hot spring pools

Babo is obsessed with ice cream wherever we go, and hanna got a little anxious while eating hers.

I decided that was a good way to go

Aw, aren't we precious?!

One night the 'rents ditched us, so we went to this super sketchy mexican place for dinner. And it was AMAZING.

We also went mini golfing. Hanna and I are expert mini golfers. I beat the snap out of Nah.



Our ending scores were +21 to +27. Oh yeah.

We also took a bus thang 16.6 miles up a canyon, and the dude just kicked us out of his van, handed us some bike things, and said good luck.

Actually that's a lie, it was all quite lovely. But that is a looong ride! Especially for wimps like us!

I passed this flower and had to stop for a pic

Dad thought it was funny, so he had to take a pic of me taking a pic

The path was pretty interesting at times. I want to say we're in some crazy slot canyon, but... we're actually under the freeway.

This is my mom.... yeah.

The river was kinda cool. I guess.

Hanna has this weird 8th sense, and she sometimes decides to look in odd places for random things.

This time she got lucky. No GPS involved here!

We're hottttt

That night we hated Hanna and locked her in a phonebooth.

Then we headed to Aspen! It was a lovely little town. Hanna and I tried to catch a gondola up the hill, but.... sigh. So many disappointments.

So we drove up the mountain instead!

We ended up 12,000+ feet on earth. It was cold. I felt like a birdie.




Oh how I love our strange family vacations :)

Mora

I would like to take a moment to welcome a new worldly item into my family. Her name is Mora. She is hot.




Luckily for me, I have a Babo who loves Mora the Alfa Romeo as much (or more) as I do, so if any little thing goes wrong, he is more than happy to drop whatever he is doing (unless that thing happens to be working on his bike) to pop the hood (that goes up backwards, by the way. A must for awesome cars I guess) and spend a day exploring the Italian engine. I must admit, I got pretty giddy when I saw the oil cap that said olio. I'm not sure what is going to happen when winter rolls around, but for now I love cruising around in lil Mora :)

Ewe, gross

So I'm sitting here trying to think of what to blog about, and I guess I'll just say a couple things about the last few days. I spent some time at the hospital, nothing major, and yesterday I learned that I can't take Lortab because it makes me puke all over. It's suuuuper sexy. So today I learned that I don't have to take the stinkin pills, and I don't have to be a man about it, I can be a WOMAN about it and just tough it out! And guess what! I'm not even in pain! I know the traditional thing would be to post my gross surgery pictures and videos and whatnot, but I'm pretty sure I would loose my blogger account if I did that, so... I'm going back to bed instead. Peace.

I'm just weird sometimes, ok?

So I'm sitting here in the middle of the night in my old red room, and I'm supposed to be asleep like 10 hours ago, but for some reason I just cant bring myself to shut these lids! So I think I'm just going to talk for a while. Usually when I'm in this brain-dead state, I call Jayne. We talk for about 30 seconds till she is brought back to her awesomeness motherhood, and we continue the next 30 seconds a couple hours later.
Anyway, we just went through this trazy storm that sounded like it was ripping the house apart. Serious guys, it was su'm fierce. Then it stopped. But I have a faint feeling my tent is strewn across the property, so I'm staying inside tonight and I'll deal with the lovely aftermath tomorrow! Woot! Plus Nah will be home from her rafting trip, and I can make her help me, muhahaha!
STORY! Ok so today me and my friend Diego were bored, so we drove up to Camp Atoka in South Fork to tube down the river (eh hem, stream). There was a HUGE stake girls camp going on, but none of us seemed to mind. And we almost got lost in the woods when we were hiking up stream. That's another tale. Anyway, we floated down it twice, and the second time there were these three fat ladies standing on a bridge as we were cruisin under it, and they were like "Hey, are you part of our girls camp?" And Diego, who has had a lifelong dream of going to girls camp, said "Yes!" I shot him a look (I can't remember which look it was... I have lots) then I told the kind ladies that no, we weren't. (And I almost told the one on the right to hurry off the bridge before we passed under it, for our safety. Don't those things have a weight limit?) (Sorry. I take it back. That was rude.) So then we carry on our journey, and as we were getting out there were these 3 fat guys sitting in a golf cart (poor lil thang), and in a nice old fat guy missionary way they told us to beat it. Ol Dieger almost peed his pants. I'm not sure that cart could have gone very fast, but we ran back to the car just in case.
Hey. You guys. I'm tired. Why am I not going to sleeeep!? Ok. I talked myself into it. Shewie. That was a close one. Ciao!

BigFeet Storeys and Hawkes

Last night I went to one of the weirdest things I have ever been to. My friend John Storey picked me up and we drove to Huntsville where a crazy amount of people had gathered for a Bigfoot... pow wow? This guy from the valley stood on stage and had people come up and tell about their experiences seeing Bigfoot in the valley and surrounding mountains. It was pretty cooky, but interesting to see people bearing their testimonies about this thing.

Bigfoot was totally hitting on me

I'm serious, this thing went on for about 3 hours. People were almost in tears telling their "experiences"

John tried everything to be just like his ol buddy BF

BF and I... we're BF's 4 ever.

Then we played some tennis at the park with Macky and Jessica. This moth was as big as half his face. Bigfoot's cousin, I think.
Anyway, after all that hoohaw we all went over to the Hawkes house for food and dancing to MGMT in the kitchen. In the end, I was just really happy that I live in the valley. My friends up here... Well, there's something about being raised in the valley that makes you... special ;)

Cornnob

Summer so far has been fantasticly amazing, to say the least. My sister Hanna (Cornnob) is somehow just as bored as I am, so we... do stuff! We went down to the park to play frisbee, and after about an hour of running madly (we're not too great at the whole frisbee thing, so we get a lot of running in) we collapsed on the ground and took pics of our gorgeous faces. ha.






It was such an awesome evening. Pretty cool how we had this huge park all to ourselves!



The next morning we picked up a couple kayaks and headed to the lake! Why not.
I should have gotten a picture of us with the kayaks... but I'm not that cool. The Subie looked uber sexy though.


After the lake and more frisbee and swimming at gram's, we hiked Big Rock in North Ogden right before dark. The sun had already gone down, but it was so gorgeous!
Here's a little vid just to sum things up. Be afraid.



Thanks Nah for being a dork with me :)