I'm an AUNTIE...again!

I'm now an aunt of TWO adorable little boys! My sister had baby Cannon on Wednesday November 4, 2009

 isn't he precious? I can't wait until Christmas when I can hold this sweet little one, and play with my Jackson boy!

So other events that have happened this past week was the Special Olympics held at Utah State. In my English class, we are doing service learning and have to do service for four hours. I noticed this was going to be here and knew thats where I would do my service.

This was taken at the Opening Ceremonies

My good  friend Alex was one of the coaches for the basketball team!

Me and Jamie after volunteering, what a good feeling to give up some of our time to help out!

Things I'm looking forward to this next week: thanksgiving break, my birthday, disneyland, and seeing my brothers (who would have thought i'd ever say that? haha). After thanksgiving i have one week of school and then finals! HOORAY!

it's halloweeeeeen time (ok not really, but that's what lori said)

This halloween, Aunt Lori had her annual halloween party. She is such an entertainer and it always is a blast! She had a haunted grave yard walk in the basement. You had to be blindfolded and hold hands in a train as we walked around. We had to walk the plank, then step on the treadmill and then onto the grave yard but we couldn't step on any head stones. Then when we could take our blindfolds off, we were in a room full of fog. She showed us her table full of eyeballs, a brain, and the witches brew, and even tried to get us to eat everything! Later we took Elephant Ava around the neighborhood to trick-or-treat!

Here are a look at some of the cool costumes this year.

A zebra, a two faced scull, a dcc, a wicked step-mother, a elephant,

and a boo baby (who was supposed to be the peanut, to match the elephant)

Awesome face painting Corey!

Thanks for a fun party Lori! We all look forward to next years!

.october.

so much has happened and so much have i been slacking. so much that i can't even remember what happened, and if i do remember it's only because i have a picture to prove it. it's pretty sad that i only have like 6 pictures from the last post, which was about my apartment. i think i need to start taking pictures of little things i do so i can have more, plus it's always fun to have pictures and those memories. so here they are. the 6 pictures i have.

Tamori's Wedding! isn't she beautiful?

best friends, now all with dark hair

Dinner with the roommates

plus a few extras

then we went to THRILLER! this creepy girl came over and sat on us

all of us!
Natasha, Jamie, Nicole, Ashley, Lynsie, Jimyl, and Ryan

ps. if you haven't noticed i dyed my hair and these are the only pictures i have of it. hope you like it. leave a comment and let me know! :)

my new place!

Ok i know i'm like three weeks past due on posting these but i've finally got around to cleaning, and taking pictures of it to put up! plus thanks to my mom i got a cute sticker clock, decor stickers that match and some new curtains to keep out the sun in the morning cause it gets really bright!

My cute bed, curtains and
stars (thats what Jackson called them when he saw them on the web cam)

thank goodness for spray paint.
this was a nice di special and it looked horrible,
we spray painted it and it looks a thousand times better!

My bathroom! Yup thats right, MY bathroom. its all mine.
(you can't see it but to the right is the shower)

My also spray painted night stand and clock!
(it actually looks like a face because of the velcro.
but it wasn't strong enough and in the middle of the night it fell off
and scared the crap out of me so i took it off so it
wouldn't happen again. I haven't got more velcro
to make it stay yet. but it's super cute!)

Thanks for my cute room mom and dad!

Oh how i have missed you phone..

long story short: i had my brother sell my 2g iphone, cause i wanted to upgrade to a 3g. but there were a couple of weeks in between selling mine and buying a new one. during this time i had been using my old Motorola phone. it sucks. from going to a iphone to a Motorola.. that phone does nothing. finally on ksl a phone comes up that was as much as i sold mine for so i figured i get it for a free upgrade. but the phone didn't have a shield on it so i had to get one. and for being a used phone, the back was a little scratched but not too bad. then i had an awesome idea. my sister had gotten me a skin it for my ipod for my birthday last year and so i thought i could get one for my phone. i looked online found one that i liked and ordered it. i waited all week for it to show up in the mail and finally came today. so here are some pictures of the final look. and i LOVE it! its so cute and makes it more girly.

i'm glad to have you back phone. i missed you.

so much to catch up on..

wow, am i behind! i guess let's just say that i've been to busy having the best summer to spend time on the computer blogging about it all. i'll try to sum it up in a nutshell for you all, but be prepared it might be a little long. i tried to compose all the pictures into collages so that i could still have more but it wouldn't be just this huge strip of pictures to bore you all. and who knows you still maybe bored.
July was full of plenty of birthdays, lunch dates with the bestest of friends, boating, and just hanging out. Shane and his twin sister had their birthday at the beginning of the month. We woke up super early to hit the lake before everyone else thought they'd go on a pretty day too. i ended up making Shane a blanket, with the New York Yankees on one side and his initials on the other. i'm glad to see it going to good use, as his mom told me, "he doesn't go anywhere without his yankee blankee."
i love getting together with Angie and Ashely, catching up on everyones stories, and even being funny by leaving their numbers for the waiters on the reciepts. it's something we're going to have to keep up, considering we won't be living together coming this fall. sad.
boating has been the other beloved activity. i could be on the boat all day, not even get to do something, but still be so happy! i love going and can't wait to get those last days in before summer is over.

the second week in july, we went to cancun. we had fun going to all the tourist places like. chichen-itza. ek balam. and cenotes. it was amazing to see these beautiful places that have been there for thousands of years.
we didn't just go for all the site-seeing, we actually went to celebrate my mom's big 5-0 birthday! if any of you know her, you for sure wouldn't guess that she's 50 years old! most of the time, people think she's mine and cassie's sister. props to her for looking so young and fabulous! i hope that i look just as good as she does when i get that old. (not that that's old mom...haha) We knew taking gifts was going to be harder and limited, but then cassie came up with the best idea! she made a "50 fabulous years and memories of our daughter, sister, mother and friend." it's full of exactly 50 memories from people who love her, and filled with great pictures to match. thanks for all your heard work cass!

besides our other great adventures, we loved spending time at the beach right at our hotel. it is so beautiful. that white sand. and aqua blue water. love it.

the only thing that i have always wanted to do was swim with dolphins. so when i heard we were going to mexico, i didn't care about doing anything else but getting the chance to swim with the dolphins. and my dream came true! we went to wet 'n' wild and they had a program where you could swim with them for an hour. best hour of the trip. i totally want to be a trainer now.
since all of us in the family were together finally, my mom couldn't let the perfect family picture opportunity pass by. on our last day there we had fun taking pictures on the beach. isn't my family the cutest?

it was an amazing vacation. thanks mom for having the birthday party. and thanks dad for inviting us all! i'm sure all of us could make our own memory book out of that wonderful week.

Happy Father's Day!

Hats off to you DAD!

Happy Father's Day DADDY! I sure do miss and love you! Thanks for everything you do for me and everyone else! I'm so blessed to have you as my daddy, and I look up to you so much! You're a great example and you make so many sacrifices to provide for us! I couldn't ask for anything more! And I couldn't thank you enough! I LOVE YOU DAD!