bear lake 2011!

(said in the "mona 2011!" voice but minus me almost crashing into a tree part)

we loved bear lake! 

we loved this horse we found

(brooke especially as you can see)

i actually didn't hate these chacos

 we loved being on the boat

 and tubing

and lisa

 and some of us loved reading

(book not pictured)

the babies loved playing in the sand

 lisa loved being pregnant

 i loved entertaining myself by taking pictures while ryan loved reading

 then i loved helping build this creation with brandon and annie

 then i loved finding a heart shaped rock but did not love not ever being able to spell love without it getting washed away.

we all loved wendy

 ryan's hands loved being sliced open by nasty fish

nasty fish loved being nasty

i love blurry photos and this photo of annie

i loved all these sail boats

 even though ryan took many pictures of me standing i loved this one most

 love this photo

(and i loved these next few taken by brooke:)

and this one

and this one

and these guys

 and all those people

 and i love this picture brooke took of haylie

 and i just love those margetts!

and jumping silhouettes.

sorry i hated making captions and so they are dumb. but it was a very fun trip!

those margetts do know how to have a good time.

one time sister roper got married

..and i forgot my camera.

who does that?

luckily their photographer did not.
 so these pictures were classily taken from fb and photographed by trenton davis.

(and if you like what you see check out that link! he is pretty good)

first off, anne is absolutely gorgeous and looked like a dream.

and tom didn't look to bad himself!

maybe i felt so excited to hug her that i oddly jumped up on 

that ledge and made quite a spectacle of myself.

then ruined what could have been a perfectly good photo probably by having to

 tell her from a far "you look so goooooood!"

i gotta stop doing that. but as a sidenote, absolutely loved taking my normal seat by president and sister hoer for the sealing. i feel happy everyone is getting married just to have that quality time with the hoers haha.

goooo taizhong mission!

the mission blessed my life with so many great friends! i love it for that.

(and let's talk about how i served with such pretty girls!)

so best moment of the day would be when anne and tom reinacted this photo 

(of her grandfather m. russell ballard and his sweet wife)

...aaaaaand they nailed it. so precious.

once again, anne being the prettiest ever

and i just thought this picture was magical.

i'm just so happy she let me share in her special day.

i really love that girl.

(once again, these photos were all taken by trenton davis)

third installment of awful things sold at grocery stores

do you ever think you are only working 8 to 4:45 and then realize a couple hours into it that you are actually working until 9 pm? funnest realization everrrrrrr.

so in honor of that moment i bring to you this:

(okay it wasn't a grocery store it was kid to kid)

but really.

preggie pop drops? could they not think of a more awful name?

oh you missed the first two installments of awful things sold at grocery stores?

don't worry, they are right  here and here.

sometimes you ruin fhe.

and by you, i mean me.

disclaimer: longest and most boring story ever. sometimes i know that no one will care about every detail of a story and i could probably tell the same story in two sentences but i still find myself doing it. so, just skip this one probably.

so one day i had this great idea to ride our bikes to the theater to see kangfu panda dos. initially, this was a great plan. ryan got off work, we ate cereal real quick while he gave a nice lesson, then we headed out on our journey. five seconds into it i realized my front tire was kind of low. riding with a low tire makes me craaaaazy so i insisted we stop at the sev and pay a dollar to fix it. ryan was somewhat anxious because we only had 15 minutes to get there but kindly let me fix my bike.

(slash he did it for me because yet again, he is so kind)

since we still had time left we decided to pump up his tires too which was the worst idea ever because it ended up just deflating it entirely. who knew we had different tire valves? wnotd.

so i stood by his bike feeling sad as he rode my bike to his house, got his pump, came back and tried rather unsuccessfully to pump it up (the tire was hating us!) and ended up just sweating to death from all the pumping and frustrated that our nice little plan was ruined. so we took our bikes back, jumped in the car and felt like we could still make the movie because we all know you have that twenty minute cushion of previews. this, on any other day of the week, might have been a good idea but not on a monday at at theater where families of three or more get in for 75 cents. dang you families with small children for taking all the seats in every pg rated movie!

so, because ryan was hating bikes that day (with good reason) and i refused to watch fast five (which was the only movie not sold out), we decided to play speed but couldn't actually find the cards. another bummer. but found phase ten instead! and listened to the jonsi station on pandora! it was great.
(and intense as you can see from the pictures above)

usually it is difficult to go completely out with the "all of one color" phase but with all those wilds i kept drawing it magically happened!

this is how we felt about it.

and as you can see, ten phases actually takes awhile considering when this picture was taken it was no longer light outside.

 i think my favorite moment of the night is when ryan started calling me dragon lady (i have this problem with trying to be nice to people in card games and then feeling mad when they aren't kind back) and at one point said, "and now you are having dragon babies with your rhetoric!"

maybe it was one of those had to be there moments?

anyway.

 glad that even when everything goes wrong,

we can still manage to have good time.

aaaaaaaand we eventually went and saw kangfu panda and i loved it way bad. highly recommend it.