I really hate this place...

Sorry, this is nothing but a venting session. You can agree or disagree with my current distaste. Saturday it was sunny and 60 degrees, beautiful...well, beautiful except for the fact that what the sun was shinning on were a bunch of dead nasty tree skeletons, dead brown grass, nasty muddy gutters, unkempt yards, and dirty buildings & houses. I'm not complaining about the sun at all, just the effects of 6 months of snow. And of course that sunny day was simply another teaser because yesterday the snow came back, blizzard style. Today I went downstairs to leave for work at the cheery hour of 7 a.m. and there was a heaping 8 inches of snow on my car. So, much to my extreme annoyance I pulled the scraper out of the trunk where I thought I had put it AWAY for Spring. The wind was blowing something like 40 mph and as I dusted the snow off holding my 4 bags and bagel the wind blew my hair to a wet frenzy and so lovingly blew chunks of snow from the car into my face, eyes, and mouth. After a few words of profanity, covering myself with snow, and having the freshly applied mascara drip down my face, I took off for the 20mph drive past all the poor fools who slid off the road. Why do I want to move out of Utah you all ask? OH I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

MOAB has Bright Stars and Red Rocks!

I have a fabulous Bishop. He's the coolest and loves to do fun things and always invites some of us along, even if it's with his family. We are really tight buddies and as luck would have it, I didn't have to be at rehearsal on Saturday....soooooo, Lisa and I took off to Moab to meet our Bishop and some fellows in our ward to camp, hike, and ride four-wheelers. It ended up being so much fun! I loved it! Moab is gorgeous! It was fun to go back :)



Ha ha ha! Yes that's a pretty good face I'm pulling...and it was brought on by my apparently dramatic reaction to the bright flash. You see, we had just hiked up to Delicate Arch in the pitch dark with flashlights (which was fun and slightly frightening at the same time) and my eyes were adjusted to darkness, so that flash was WAY more than I could handle. The best thing about this night hike was the AMAZING and BREATHTAKING display of stars. I've never seen that many stars in my life! We could see the Milky Way and so many constellations, many of which I forget the name of. I was truly amazed, it was awesome!


So, we went back the next morning so that we could see what the beautiful rocks and arches look like in the sunlight. I love this picture.


Lisa, Callie, and I


Ryan and I after our long scenic ride. Sorry that I left my camera in the car so I don't have pictures of the great things we saw while on our ride. This is just the dirt parking lot where we started. Speaking of dirt, we were covered! It took seven Q-tips to clean out my ears completely. Lisa's red dirty face was definitely the best.


The four-wheeling adventure crew...Bishop Kitchen is in the back with his hat backwards, he's the bomb!!!

"Run Like a Princess!"

1/2 marathon #2 in my life was much more pleasant :) Perhaps it was due to the fact that it involved running through the Magic Kingdom castle in Disney World! However, next time these feet hit the road for 13 miles, I would love to have a friend running with me! Thanks to Jamie for droppin' me off at the crack of dawn and then coming to cheer me through Main Street. She took some fun pictures of our activities over the weekend and I don't have them yet...so just know that we totally went to Blizzard Beach water park and slid our day away and it was a blast!!! I was not happy at all when I came home to snow!!!...and my job. I'm actually still trying to recover from the sun, Disney, and Jamie withdrawls...it's been a week. It was a great time. The only disappointing thing was that I wasn't able to pick up a shift to work, which could turn into something tragic, but I'll worry about that later!


I wasn't exactly ready for this one, but Minnie and Mickey are so cute!!!


Agraba


Later that day once I was cleaned up a little :) Aren't we cute? We are by some yellow flower trees at Magic Kingdom that Jamie loves.


At the Cirque store...uh, yes, that is Dustin ON THE BAG, and he's a sticker! We bought them. He's famous!


Dinner with Erin and Meg!