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New Blog

2011-04-02T19:35:00.002-06:00

I'm switching over to the married world I guess its not cool to have hottubb be my blog name. My new blog name is www.mrandersonswife.blogspot.com. So head on over, nothing is really done yet but that is were I will be doing my blogging from now on.

Sisters weekend

2010-09-11T08:40:00.008-06:00

The Sisters Weekend at STADIUM OF FIRE!!!!
So I was online looking at fun and cheap dates to do in Utah Valley for me and Troy to do and there was a contest to enter to get 4 stadium of fire ticket if you enter. It was ending in like 4 hrs so I was like what the heck, i won't ever win them so i did it anyway to amuse myself to see how ridiclously unlucky I am. Well the next morning at like at 8:00am I get a call. This is how it went
Caller: Is this Melanie Tubb?
Me: Yes
Caller: This is blah blah from Utah Valley Visitor Center. I am calling to let you know that you won 4 tickets to the Stadium of Fire this year featuring Carrie Underwood
Me: Are you Serious? I never win anything!!!
Caller: Yep its serious, I will be mailing them to you today.
Pretty much i was really happy about this. This was the weekend before my wedding and Troy and me were playing to go to Wyoming to be with his family. I asked him if I could spend the weekend with my sisters before the wedding. He is so awesome he said he would! I love him. So here is documentation of our awesome sisters weekend, and we let Carrie Underwood be a part of it a little.

The awesome sisters, minus Ashley

Amber being the designated driver

Picking up Emily at her place

Lisa not want to be a part of it her own picture

Once we sat down we all couldn't get into the picture

Lisa and Emily Singing

Ha Ha Lisa's awesome picture at Cafe Rio before we went to the Stadium of Fire

Lisa trying to kiss me

The usual sisters

This is how close we were. Not!!!

If you can't read that the envelope says lisa's mission fund. Well it bought us water bottles

The awesome section that has families of soliders and etc

Shawn Tubbs, yep we are related to Carrie Underwood's Guitarist. Ha we wish

Over the river and through the woods and over the mountains and and and and.. Until you get there

2010-09-05T21:01:00.009-06:00

This camping adventure was very fun. Troy was still working the night shift and didn't get off till 7:30 at night. We down to Fairiview which is like 50 miles from here. Well it feels like. So we got up there with our friends at like Skyline at like 10:30pm a storm was coming in so it was super windy. So trying to set up our tent with out it blowing away was rrriiidddiccullouss. And starting a fire was even better!! Just as we were finishing our dinner a guy pulls up and starts doing a dead rabbit call, calling in who knows what. Well a pack of coyotes were coming in. Scariest thing in my life. We didn't have a knife, gun or anything!! The sharpest thing we had was probably a plastic knife. My finger nails would probably have killed better then that!! Well we all jumped into the truck and sat there for a min, or more like 30. After we sat there we drove over there and made our camping site know to the caller inner of the coyotes we fine went to sleep. Well we woke up went for a ride, then the boys went on a ride by themselves and came back we all took a nap. I woke up to what I thought was a plane breaking the sound breaking the showing barrier lots of times but now it was the storm was rolling in. It was like lord of the rings dark clouds surronding us about to consume us and thats when we decided to leave. So this is pictures of our campsite. This is where we where

The truck

The grove of trees that hide us. ha sure

We woke up to this. The cows wwere around us at night i guess

We slept on this, totally thought it was a rock. Nope just an old dried cow pie

The load, mostly for the boys

Roxanne is what we call her

Dirt was everywhere

A drinking water

Coming Up Next

2010-09-02T21:52:00.001-06:00

Camping and Sisters Weekend and Maybe if I get really excited it the wedding day

Hope They Call Me on a Mission

2010-09-02T20:30:00.007-06:00

So my sister Lisa is gone on a mission. She has offically finished her first week of being a greeny and loving it. She is in a fun place. Carlsbad California. Which includes Laugna Beach, Oceanside and all those fun rich areas. So as a good bye rahoo, she got to pick a resturant where everyone went to eat. She picked Texas Road House. Here are some pictures of it!

Tan Lisa

This picture is just for Lisa. She is always saying a look like an elf. My ear always poked out. So here you go Lisa I love you.

Drinking her strawberry darquri. Virgin of course

Typical Lisa

The Family

Ha Ha addys only and favorite food she will eat at Texas RH

Groomials

2010-09-02T19:17:00.014-06:00

So these are my groomials. We took these at the PG carinval. I have to say that this is my favorite picture. In fact I have a canvas of it in my dinky one bed room apartment. Well I hope you enjoy I am so i will continue to put more pictures up. Sorry my computer is freaking out!

This picture. I thinks its funny i look really mad

Just hit my head with the umbrella

To Be Wed....!

2010-05-21T17:31:00.010-06:00

So good news, I am getting married, I know long time since my last post, things are getting a little crazy. The date for my wedding is July 9, 2010, yeah I know I really need to tell you the year but I am just clarifying it. Well let me introduce my fiance. His name is Troy Anderson, I know sweet last name right. I love my last name and all but I know my kids won't get fun of with this last name. I love him to death. Well we meet, here it is drum roll please.... at the singles ward!! Who know that those actually where used for a purpose. I sure didn't think they were I was there for fun! ha ha Well he is from Kentucky and I love him soo much!!! So here is a background of our relationship ha ha are you ready. So Troy moved in to our ward and my best friend, Love ya V, instantly liked him. She was not going to let anyone get him before she did. She invited him to all of our activities and everything. He tells me that he was really trying to chase me and so he would come to these activities to see me, which I think is a little false but we will give him the benefit of the doubt. So I had a crush on him to but i loved my friend more so I let her take him, while i went and did my own thing in my perfect la la land of taking pictures and work and being the crazy no life Family Home Evening coordinator, loved the blessing, haven't seen much of them but i bet they are coming soon from this awesome calling ha. Oh wait there is one. Troy. Well there you go, testimony of fulling your church callings is true. But well Troy was still trying to pursue me and he wasn't gonna let that up. So my friend gave up on this stubborn southern boy and got her self an awesome boyfriend now and Troy moved in for the kill. Well i was so afraid to step on V's toes that I wouldn't let Troy take me on a date for a while ha I know stupid me. But finally I got a text from my friend kinda questioning mine and Troy's relationship and I asked her to come over to my house to ask permission to date Troy. So pretty much I felt like a boy trying to get permission to marry a father's daughter. But that is alittle tid bit of our relationship. I hope you love our engagements as much as us. We are sending out invitations soon so if you want one leave a comment or sending me a message and I will for sure send you one. Love Mel

This is my personal favorite!

Another my favorite, mostly all my favorites are one that you can't see my face!!

More Updates

2009-12-19T12:37:00.019-07:00

I haven't taken pictures in awhile and this was a while back but i decided to take a day for myself and take that urge I always have within me and feed it. So here are some from the mountains, to the prairies and the temple.

I saw this tree a couple of times while passing the temple and thought you poor thing. Just red and all alone, you don't fit in. Then ha I thought psh Mel, who are you talking to, a tree and you are that tree you weirdo.

Trail leading to the back of mount timp.

I seriously just want to go and sit and read in this grove.

I am gonna say this is probably one of my favorite pictures of this season.

Love :)

I like the chaos or the weirdness of this picture. Lisa gets sick when she looks at it.

Here is normal.

The back of Mt. Timp

The 'B' family. They are a friend of my brothers and they wanted family pictures taken, so here they are.

They want to show the different style of shoes and how different everyone was in the family.

Mom and Dad. I love this picture I can say. Just the love in it makes me giggle.

The oldest and youngest with their fohawks.

Ha Ha them being funny, it was hard to capture a serious moment with this family, they are just funny it was great.

The girls and dad

The Family

Colors peeking through the darkness

Mmmhm black and white.

And more Aspens

I really like this picture too, competing with the leaves.

Henna tattoos from the Llama festival down at the yep you guessed it, Hindu temple. I don't know who this chick is but i thought her tattoo on her neck was cool, so i asked and she said yes.

Some weird effigy they were going to burn.

Me getting my tattoo, they last for about 2 weeks. I think that might be the last I get that, just an experience thing I guess I had to do.

Me and my 3 friends and our henna's.

A tower

I always think its cool when these guys dance, but not for 3 hours.

Now for some pictures of flowers and peacock feathers with amazing bokeh in it.

My singles ward had a pinewood derby and that is one of the pictures.

We had a ward trip up to one of the bishoprics cabins up in Wyoming. It was amazing I can say. Don't worry the guys slept outside in tents and the girls slept inside. I slept in a closet.

Ha this kid cracks me up, we had a collison when we were playing ultimate Frisbee, yeah ha people said I looked like raggedy Ann.

Periodic springs, this is a underground glacier that we hiked to that turns on and off every 15 mins. Its crazy. We didn't see it happen but it just shows up out of no where.

The water is really that blue, it was beautiful.

I love this picture. It just makes me want to go somewhere and call it home.

Ha ha in this picture I was twirling around singing the hills are alive with the sound of music. No joke, man I love that movie.

Me and Nessa out in the wilderness with no make up, its the best. Try it sometime, its good for your skin and your health.

AHH the kubota. This thing likes to stall on you. You are in the middle of a field it stops. In the middle of a steep hill, it stops. And don't worry it rolls backwards too, yep experienced the last one for myself.

Waiting for breakfeast and not wanting my picture taken.

Driving the Kubota with my ring pop, to dinner.

The view from my picnic area. Yep I frolcked in the fields, and trust me I will do it again. Girls yeah you know who I am talking to ha I will do it again!!

Nessa and Krista eating the sandwhiches.

Me in the back of Curtis's car, and it started to rain.

It ruined everything for our perfect picnic and having the convertable part down. But we kept going.

All in all it was an awesome few months. Hope you guys enjoyed the pictures.

Forgive Me!!!!

2009-11-24T22:07:00.019-07:00

Wow its been forever, school and work consume my life and when I am not doing that I am either at church or taking naps to try to catch up on the lack of. For example this past Saturday, I have a 8am Saturday class, I know shot me ( won't ever do that again!!) and after that I went straight to work to do a H1N1 vaccine flu clinic until 4. That's 4 hours of kids who hate you the instant you say their name, no matter what you say. Its kicking or screaming and kicking and oh yes biting, had an 11 yr old boy try to do that 3 days ago. I came home and crashed for a 5 hour nap. I know my life is not that hard but hey I just had to whine for a bit..... OK I am finished with the pity party. Back to reality. A lot has happened. So lets just start at the beginning. That's usually the best place to start, don't you think. More will come though

So we went to go see my Grandma Tubb who I haven't seen in like 12 yrs. This is grandma though, this is Uncle Brent, pretty much the funniest guy I know.

Just chilling at Grams house.

I love/hate my smile in this picture

And people wonder were I get my weirdness from.

Grandma and the Girls

Me and Grams. Her only redhead Grandchild. Don't tell the other cousins or my siblings know this, but I thats why I am her favorite. She always says how her mom looks down from heaven and loves that she has a grand baby that is a red head. But then she says that redhead are special, besides their tempers :)

The parentals and Grams

Son and Mother

So I was eating my Mickey Mouse Pancake and looked over to this thing on the wall. To sum it up this is my favorite scripture, it made my day. My grandma is Catholic if y'all didn't know that.

Short grandma and everyone else.

K this is in someone's backyard, ridiculous right. There is an island back there that has a tree in it. If that was my backyard I would row to that island and read all day long on it and maybe have a picnic.

Scariest ice cream man/truck ever. I was walking around the neighbor hood well me and Lisa and we kept hearing children singing. I thought it was like a baptist church practice singing. So we are walking and this thing come downs the street with thee most scariest old scruffy man, and his DOG. Talk about gag with a dog hair in your fudgsicle.

Look at this guy, me and Lisa chased him yep that is what we do, alot when we were little too.

Grandma's rosaries

The cutest picture of Grams and Gramps, I love it.

Their wedding day

Grandpa. I think he was a very handsome young man, don't you think.

Uncle Lenny in the paraolympics

Can you find my dad?

The Tubb brothers

Yep that's Gram's car, and no joke she really believes in gnomes.

No just some pictures I took to remember grandmas house.

Can you find bambi in this picture?

Nick wanted a picture of this bridge, the coolest bridge, and the mountains in the background, I love it!

The Sunset was so pretty, but it was so windy.

I really love this picture, i don't know maybe its the way they are looking at each other.

Just in someone's driveway

I love this picture too

Probably my favorite well like top 2.

The at&t commercial.

Courage can make my day any day!! Love this kid.

My new shades? You Like? It was soo cold outside.

Class on Photography

2009-06-07T15:41:00.013-06:00

Me and Emily decided we wanted learn more about photography. So we took a photography class through Thanksgiving. Here is the Result, sorry they are backward, I totally forgot that it goes backward.

Day Three: We were late for the class so we decided to go take pictures in the children garden, which I would recommend to any mother who has a child. It is very short and very fun. And as we will see has Noah's Ark and the water to play in.

Mmm can we say sun!

Here is Noah's Ark and as you can see the kids playing in it love it.

So I saw this path way in the bushes and I told Emily we should go in it. Ah turns out it was a maze, which I said when we went in the park would be the worst thing ever to get stuck in, but I think most gardens should have. We got out eventually.

The fruit is coming!!!!

We learned about the lighting. The most attractive lighting, which I tried on this, but It was in the middle of the day. Usually the back lighting is during the early morning or the night when the sun is just about the set.

The pond.

Pink Lotus flowers

Looking across pond.

The prettiest darn lotus flower I have ever seen.

Ladder leading to no where

Day Two: This is the second day after class, learning about depth of field, reflectors and etc.

The last of the tulips.

Ah they have gotten so big, and I dont know where the other two went, but look how big they have gotten.

This was taken during the tulip festival two weeks before.

Add some of this wonderful stuff, IN THE MIDDLE OF FREAKING APRIL!!!!

And you get this, luscious garden walk.

The carousel horses had pansy packs.

Choppy falls or

Wispy

I thought this looked really interesting. The teacher was also a Horticulture teacher and he was saying that this black stuff wasn't killing the tree, its actually good for it I think I remember him say. Oh well it made for a cool picture, don't you think?

We learned about Depth of Field and using objects to help show how big things are. So I used tree, well he told us to use this tree to shoot through at the falls.

So we learned about reflectors and how they work. This picture had a silver reflector on it, we tried a gold one but the sun wasn't out so you really couldn't tell but this one you can tell I think.

Under normal lighting. Can you tell now?

I know pansies get hold after so much, I guess I haven't seem them in a while and I really like the colors on these ones.

The amazing African Daisy, I had tons of these in my garden last year.

First Day. The tulips are more then died, in fact they were pulling out the bulbs and all of them.

He thought us that most cameras can't pick out the darkest of blues or the brightest of whites. They just can't seem to do that in most pictures, especially taking them just right after each other. So he made us attempt. This is my attempt of the dark purple.

The last of the tulips at the tulip festival.

White tulips that are just almost past their prime. This was my bright white, what I was talking about before.

Photoshoots Again.

2009-06-07T14:22:00.013-06:00

Here is the photo shoot my awesome Lisa did for me. We have always said we would do this one day, we tried when were like 12 and 13, lets just say that didn't work out the best. So here is my part. Her's will be up when she comes and sees me again. Yep that's right Lisa you heard me.

The first shot of the day.
If my legs aren't long enough for you. Well here they are looking a couple feet longer. If any body needs a couple of inches I do lend mine out on the weekends.
Taylor Swift has nothing on me.
On the night of her 16th birthday, she will be pricked by a sewing needle. Only true loves kiss will wake her.
I guess I really like this prickly weed.
I like this one. Alot.
Dazing.
Sitting here waiting for my carriage to arrive.
Shoes.
I finally found out where my butt went. Just kidding, never had one, this only makes me look like I do.
Hanging out on the bars. Not the best picture for me but hey I am not running for anything and Lisa told me to put her abilities up on my blog.
There was a hole in the platform and I did not any funky wild animal jumping out at me. I was being very careful in this picture.
Ha Ha can we say I love love love this picture. While me and Lisa were uploading these, I said eww that is a totally bad picture. She loved it, she said it looks like you have a said story behind it. Then we decided this should be an add for a teen drug addiction line. Hi, My name is Melanie and I was a teen addict. As you can tell I can't tell things seriously. It does look like a have a story to tell and it might be interesting. So sit down, kick off your shoes and get something to drink.
Look at what this piece of gold metal does for my hair. It totally brings out the auburn, this is how red it was when I was little. It has gotten darker, back to the family roots I guess.

Vainty is everything. Ha not. That's what this reminds me of. Mirror Mirror on the wall.

I really like this piece of metal

This was on accident to, it was so freaking windy. But Mary Poppins here I come.

This fan was fun.

This picture was a total accident, I think it is my favorite out of all. I said to my sister, Watch this I can be Asian and Spanish at the same time. You can tell I wasn't ready by the stoney look in my eyes.

Bring it world. Melanie can take you!!
I love this picture. I know I can't do a serious face. But to me this is what this picture says. " Now brethren we have come today to council. Listen to Me!" Can you see it?
I have always wanted a picture doing this. I think everyone should have one.
Yeah lets see what that does for my allergies. HA can anyone say epipen!!
Dainty
I am looking for you. In this pile of highly allergic allergens.

Tulip Festival. Yes another Festival.

2009-06-07T12:53:00.015-06:00

As so begins the next festival of things I go to. I love them you could say. This is the tulip festival at Thanksgiving point in Lehi. Last year when we went nothing was out. Like I mean nothing. This year was way better. Well here are some pictures that I took. I hope you enjoy.

Alone.

Here comes the colors.

A little different.

I love the sun, well in pictures.

I have a new addiction of taken pictures in the funkiest ways.

Different view

Doesn't this make you want to go to sleep in the sun.

Lakeside view

Oh no, here come the Koi fish pictures. If you know me you know I am obessed with taking pictures of these things.

There were so many, don't you just love the way they look.

They got a little mean after we feed them.

I love koi fish.

So I know this picture is not the best, but I cropped it from a picture. Doesn't it just say to you, ok family lets go, form a line.

Spring is here in this picture, for sure.

Closeness.

Church today is one my mind. As soon as I say these trees I thought of the first vision, and thought of Christ and The Father. I know I get a little weird at times, but bear with me.

I love this picture a lot. I love spring lets say.

I love this door, I think it kind of reminds me of the picture of Christ knocking at the door with no door knob. It's just so inviting. Come into my secret garden. Like the movie almost. I wish have a secret garden someday.

This fountain I couldn't decide if I wanted the effect to look smooth or chop. You choose this one,

Or this one.

The first flowers to spring in the bloom. Hope.

I can't say how much I love this picture, I am weird I know but it is so freaking awesome. I tricked some people with it. Look closely!
I took this picture thinking it would show the passing of the winter with the dead leaf and the bring of spring with the bright colors behind it.
I so so wish I could still do this, well I could I guess but with out getting very sick and being able to stand up afterward and still be excited to do some more.
Some pretty pink flowers.
This kinda makes me fell like a soft spring day in the breeze. Its soft I should say.
Downward fall to the bottom.
I don't know why I did this one really. I wanted something different. I really like it though. It kind of reminds me of a painting where the painter just kind of got some paints and dabbed them on there. I actually really like it.
Can we say New Moon front cover. Just Kidding, I didn't really think about that until after my sister mentioned that, I was more concentrated on the lone red tulip. I guess I thought we connected in a special way, red and all.

Hare Krishna Festival of Colors

2009-03-29T16:48:00.011-06:00

I know I am on a roll. But lets get start to the point. So I went to the Festival of Colors or Hare Krishna Holi Festival of Colors. It is a Hindu celebration, you can see the temple it looks like the one in Aladdin, anyway it is the celebration of spring pretty much ending with a burning and a huge chalk fight with over 3000 people. The chalk is different colors and it is suppose to represent the colors of Spring exploding. So let me take you through lots of picture and you can see how dirty I got. And by the way my hair is still green, well you can see it only in my blonde streaks.

Me and "J" waiting for the show to start. There was like no one there yet. As we go through it you will see how many people get there. Its ridiculous.

Me and "V" she is a good chair to lean against. Just kidding.

The lady is gonna burn, i don't know all why she is, you can look up on their website and see just type in Krishna temple for utah in google and see, but I take it as her being burned represents winter and our fight of colors represents the coming of spring and all its colors.

Me trying to blow a bubble. I look like I have lots of freckles in this but i really don't.

She is burning. They actually started burning her before the eclessatical leader said to and he kinda got mad.

Me and "J" again. Love her! So glad she came.

I actually didn't take this picture, a friend of mine did. He was on the temple steps I think. But isn't that the coolest thing. I think this is when we weren't suppose to start and got introuble. But I was right in the part were they are throwing it.

The are as it begins. I think I might get the purple lung from it.

It was so nasty breathing it in.

Me in the middle of it. Pretty sure I got it thrown in my eye twice and I killed so yeah that is why I am closing my eyes in this picture.

Not quite sure what I am doing in this one. Just thought it looked funny, so I put it up.

Trying to be Hindu, Not working so well.

Then my friend "C' wanted to do it to so we tried to make it look cool. Ha we tried!

"K" and "V" were taking a picture and right as they were taking it this guy came up and throw the purple in their face. This is the result.

It got a little crazier down their by the band.

Funny faces and paint are the best.

Looking fabulous as always.

The whole group. You can't see me and "C" in this really well, cuz he was leaning on me like full on lean and right as we took this I stepped out from under his weight and he fell and rolled down the hill. It was so funny.

After math, and the crowd of people.

The people on the temple after 20 mins of throwing chalk.

Leaving was a joke, but it was fun. Hope the pictures get the feel for it. Tell me what you think.

Slacker

2009-03-28T00:15:00.007-06:00

So I know I know I am a slacker and don't update a lot. But school is kicking my butt right now so I am noting updating as much as I want but here is some. So this is my other lovely brown friend. So jealous. So is "V" cousin so she say V's pictures and want some so we went adventuring. I love them some are a little different so bare with me. Another fun thing to look forward to is when it gets warmer, I want to go do some on the salt flats but we will see. So here we go.

She dressed up like this and I instantly thought farm, so we went down by the lake.

This one I like, I don't know why, maybe the seventies look to the picture.

Tell me what you think, I can't decided between these two pictures on which one I like more.

Ha she was really little she barely could fit across the tires, it was funny.

This one I know, I'm weird but I thought it looked cool.

Had to get a girly picture by the big boy truck!

A little softer for ya.

Really she is so stinking pretty, I'm so jealous.

So this one is out of focus, but "V" is so pretty she can shine through my flaws. I like it though.

Stunning once again.

A little different look.

She is little but she got power.

New Yorkers! Think they own the place!

Cousins!!!

First Photoshoot

2009-01-25T01:44:00.008-07:00

So yesterday was my beautiful friends birthday. So I said what better thing to do on your birthday than to get your picture taken. So we went on an adventure in Utah county taking pictures. Here are some of the few that we took. Tell me what you think.

It was raining so some of the pictures might have rain drops. Love this one so cute!!

A tree where we took some of them. I have always seen this tree driving by and I always have wanted to take a picture of it or by it. Its so dramatic I love it.

Funny story we also went to an antique mall and i saw this hat, had to try it. Isn't it so cute. Well I bought it so ha ha oh well. What do you think.

Outhouse/Pipecover

K totally took these in Provo. Totally saw it and pulled over. Looks like the slums of New York uh. Well my friend just mad it even more awesome. I'm so jealous.

Dramatic!

I can't tell if she looks cross eyed in this picture but she's not. The stupid blog made it look like that.

Why can't I be pretty, and have brown skin!!

And have awesome boots.

She is really to pretty!!

She is totally standing on a stump right here.

I think this is my favorite. The funny thing is she is not trying to look like fierce, the sun had come up, but it made for an awesome effect. My favorite, i think.

Arg really why is so dang pretty.

Ha this was so much fun and i hope she had fun too. Happy Birthday.

Fog is no fun!

2009-01-21T15:14:00.004-07:00

It really is so not cool anymore when you drive past the temple and can't even see it!! But it sure makes out for some cool pictures so here is some from a couple of days a go that I took.

This was in my backyard! I can't even see it! Well barely.

The Rising sun

This was the worst probably like at 8 on a Saturday Morning.

This one is a little better but still cool. Hope you like them.

Wow 2 days in a row. I think I should get an award.

2008-11-21T22:55:00.001-07:00

When I was younger I kinda had a knack for falling asleep anywhere, especially at the dinner table. That story is later in these pictures. But here are the many places my mom would find me asleep.

Who wants to draw at night, seriously I guess I was deprived or something.

At the dinner table; you will get sick of these ones. I'm surprised there is no peanut butter and honey sandwich. You wondering why, well keep reading.

The privilege of being the last of seven children is taking advantage of the oldest siblings. Heck, what am I talking about, I still do this to her.

Ah the great reading of the books. I have another picture of me doing this and I have my finger right on the spot I was reading. My sister claims I really wasn't asleep, psh yeah right.

Ah ha. Here it is the peanut butter and honey sandwich. So here is the story. When I was young I would always suck on any food that was put in front of me. Meat, sandwiches, chips, you name I sucked it dry. I don't know why I did this.
If you think about it trying to eat a whole sandwich with only sucking kinda takes a while. So I tended to be the last at the table and as you have seen, even fallen asleep at the table a couple of times trying so hard to finish this sandwich or maybe it looks like pancakes. Oh well you get the just of it. Thank goodness I grew out of it. But sometimes I catch myself still doing that when I eat my peanut butter and honey sandwiches, now that's a sight you don't want to miss. So try to catch me if you can ha which is rare because I usually eat those types of sandwiches alone!!!

I guess eating was hard for me to finish, but you wouldn't be able to tell that by my weight. Geez I was a chunk.

Ha ah! Here is the peanut butter sandwich, I'm to lazy to cut,paste, and move the story down here; so here is the real picture. As you can kinda guess I probably didn't stop doing it until I was 5 years old. What a sad child.

You have already seen this from previous blogs, but I'm just proving my point.

Yee haw for Hee haw

2008-10-22T17:42:00.007-06:00

So I have gotten in trouble from all sorts of people for not keeping this blog update, but I have no time, but I will try to keep up. This is from about a month ago during UEA weekend. Me, my mom and my sister with her daughter went to Hee Haws. It was pretty fun besides all the bees, flies, and the annoying 8-12 year old boys who have no manners what so ever. It was fun for the most part though.

I just took this picture on the trick or treat hay ride.

They had these race karts for older people so of course me and Emily raced, lets just say I haven't worked out in a while and my knees killed after doing it. But they also had some for little kids so of course Addy want to do what we were doing and here is the result. She is a short little girl and her legs didn't quite make it but it is still cute.

Just the tractor that pulled our wagon for the hay ride. Some times I wished I had a cowboy. Ha Ha I know big dreams uh.

This tower was the scariest thing in the whole wide world. I think it was scarier than sky diving. What you did was you hiked up this huge hay stack as you can see and then you get in a line where everyone is pushing. Lets just say this is no simple task and there is no easing to it, it is just a dead drop. They hay and the a slab of plastic. Me having long legs this didn't work out so well. So as I got up there with Addy-who loved it- I got one leg over and my body started going and i was like ah no way Jose. So I'm straddling this thing and holding on the hay ha ha lets just say it was probably a sight to see for the parents and people at the bottom this craned legged girl trying to do a simple task like going down a slide. Who would have thought childhood play was so hard.

They had a corn box there and it was awesome, besides getting it in my shoes. Addy loved it and that is where we were most of the time.

Addy and ma-ma as Addison calls her playing with the corn

I know more of my random pictures but i thought it was really cool. You think your looking through a window but it is actually a mirror.

Cute little pig family taking a nap in the sun. Some days I wish I could do this, but not with all my siblings.

2008-10-04T09:59:00.006-06:00

So the other day I was passing the temple and couldn't resist to take these pictures, especially with with the fall colors and the sun setting. And I guess because it is General Conference weekend.

South side

Isn't it perfect?

typical temple pictures

I love this picture, I don't know why I guess the just the opposite colors.

Front

Stand tall!

'Oh tell me tell me tell me what was I like when I was a baby!

2008-09-14T00:16:00.005-06:00

To everyone who thinks I am a twig, let me just tell you I always wasn't one!! And here is the proof! My mom had to put lotion on my cheeks all the time because they cracked so much, because they were TO FAT!!!!

addy

2008-09-14T00:11:00.003-06:00

This is Addison who I love freaking to death and I only wish she would love me back. She is seriously my best friend, and I don't know how I lived before she did. She is my niece by the way!!

A Tribute

2008-08-19T01:01:00.004-06:00

This is my latest photoshop design or what ever you call it. It is a tribute to my sister who is my best friend. Even though we have the worst fights we have the best of times. I wouldn't give this title to any other person. I LOVE YOU SIS!

Photoshop

2008-08-17T23:33:00.002-06:00

This is my latest hobby well not really but I was playing around in photoshop and decided I wanted to make something for my sister. This is her daughter and we always call her nugget, let me correct myself, my sister calls her nugget. So this is for my sister. Don't worry Emily and Lisa I have some coming for you!!!!

One simple word folks. . . . SKYDIVING!

2008-08-04T00:23:00.015-06:00

This Saturday I decided I wanted to go skydiving. So I went. This is probably the coolest thing I have ever done, there has been some crazy things I have done, like jump off a roof, but nothing compared to this. I loved it, there are no words to explain it, you just have to go for yourself.

This is me getting in to the plane.

This is my friend Krista who went with me. What a brave soul to come with.

This is me and my instructor right before we jumped out of the plane! Crazy uh!

This is barley jumping out, the view was so beautiful, my photographer said i am going to spin you when we get out. So thats what I am doing right now, spinning.

I just have to laugh at this picture and how my freaking skinny arms look! Its kinda funny actually.

Here we are again.

And again

And here comes our parachute. it was kinda of a shock, more like a stop of the really fun, the free fall to the earth.

This is right before our parachute opened. I know I am freaking long.

The most amazing view.

Our landing site and take off site is to the right of the black top, that rectangle of grass.

Here I come!

The dark clouds in the back, thats probably why we felt snow coming out of the plane.

Landing, thats right, I didn't fall off or hit my head, I landed standing up straight. I was so proud of myself.

And this is me and my instructor saying by to my videographer/photographer and saying ya we did great.

I should take singing lessons from her!!!

2008-07-13T22:22:00.002-06:00

So Addy likes to sing, to herself, with others pretty much anywhere. Here she is singing the wheels on the bus go round and round. It is sooo cute! I really should just take singing lessons from her!

Here she is singing Once there was a snow man, you can hear her say tall tall tall, its more like ta, ta, ta.

More eggs

2008-07-13T21:58:00.007-06:00

Sorry I have been so behind on photos lately but here are what the eggs are up to.

Taken 7/11/2008

Taken 7/10/08

Taken 7/9/08

Baby Birds

2008-07-08T19:24:00.005-06:00

When I was little we have this apple tree that would always get nest in them. So one summer we decided to take pictures of them with out Polaroid camera. Everyday we would sneak up in to the tree, despite the mother bird yelling at us, and take pictures. It was fun to see how the mother bird moved the eggs everyday. So on the 4th of July I found this nest and couldn't resist. Hopefully this is fun for everybody, I will have fun posting them. The picture below is todays picture.

Taken 7/7/2008

Taken 7/6/2008

Taken 7/4/2008

Becoming Kids Again

2008-07-03T14:48:00.020-06:00

Well me and my sister decided to have a reunion of the old days, catching frogs, hiking to places that didn't end up going places, jumping off cliffs and miniature golf, well you get the idea.

This is the first real big one we caught, we had to rip apart a tumble weed caked with dried moss, well i didn't my sister did.

This is the biggest one we caught.

I caught this one, it still had a tail, we saw lots of tad poles it was awesome.

This is the place were the frogs were.

We went miniture golfing inside and paint that glowed in the dark and it had black lights everywhere it was AMAZING!!

I had to put that up ha ha

This is called the dixie crack from the top. People hike through this think, let me tell you it is very tight.

From the inside looking back to the beginning.

Looking up

The very beginning looking to the end.

This is was our unsuccessful hike to the Red Cliffs, but this tree was cool you could go inside of it.

Stair way to heaven, just kidding but it was really far.

The RED CLIFFS

This is called Kolob, it is so awesome isn't it.

This is sand hollow, awesome place in St. George were you can boat and jump off cliffs, this video isn't of us, but of my sister and her friends but you get the idea and how high it is.
It was fun.

Summer Fun

2008-07-03T13:40:00.007-06:00

So this summer I am trying to be more active I should say, so I am hiking waterfalls, literally waterfalls, not on the trails, up the water. This is Bridal Veil falls and ah fall down is all I can say!! It was really fun though.

Here is one looking up from the side.

I took this one last year when i did the same thing last year, i tried to take a picture this time but it was to blurry. JUST DON"T FALL DOWN!!!

Its so beautiful.

A beautiful sunset to end if off, what more could i ask for.

Alllergies SUCK

2008-06-12T09:32:00.002-06:00

So I have allergies if you can't tell. Yesterday I went to go get my shot and decided to let everyone know how much it sucks ha. So supposedly these shots are suppose to build up my antibodies to the allergy I am allergic to. Who would thought of that, lets inject some one with what they are allergic to!! But it is pretty much like immunizations, which are just a little dose of the disease so our body can build stuff up against it if we can come in contact with it. ANYWAYS every time I get a shot I grow a whole new muscle. Then I will start getting hives on the other arm. Then I have to take a benedryl, me and that medicine are pretty much best friends. So never get allergies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peek a boo

2008-06-10T23:30:00.003-06:00

Addison has learned how to play peek a boo. This does not do it justice!! It is so cute!!!

Temple tulips

2008-05-29T00:50:00.009-06:00

One Sunday i decided to take some pictures of the temple and these are the results. I know I am obsessed with flowers, but hey I'm a girl what can i say

Talking already

2008-05-29T00:09:00.009-06:00

This is why you don't go golfing at 1:00 in the afternoon. These aren't my legs ha they are my brother's!!!!

This is Addison's hair when she wakes up... not much there we try to put it in a pony tail.

She was saying i don't know but not really.

Funny story we were sitting at the table and i was raising my hand to have someone pick on my and Addison saw me doing it and did it. It was a funny night.

So same night ha we had Addison on a roll this picture isn't the half of it but she makes this face all the time. She use to do it when she got mad, but now she does it all the time.

She is saying words now check this out

She goes balitstic, cracking everybody up at the dinner table.

MOTHERS DAY

2008-05-17T09:04:00.007-06:00

Vana White aka Nathan

Mom getting excited for it to come out

HAPPY BIRFDAY

2008-05-06T21:11:00.012-06:00

So it was Addison's birthday and we had a party here are some pics from it, she had really fun with the cake!

Having some helpers open up her presents.

Cousins again

2008-04-28T23:03:00.002-06:00

Story of my life, booger nose kids

Tulip festival

2008-04-27T22:39:00.023-06:00

The Tulip festival has arrived

Biggest man made waterfalls

So small in this big ol'e world

Pretty flowers

The Secret garden

Awesome design uh

These were so pretty and they were in so many different colors

Sorry i just really liked these fish

There was so many fish
The girls just had way to much fun ha ha yeah right

These were pretty much the only tulips in bloom

A day at the park!! In Tennessee

2008-04-27T22:01:00.005-06:00

She really didn't care what was happening

She is way to cute it kills me

I know i know not my best, but who cares its the park and my amazing sister, who is my hero!!!!!!!

More Tennessee

2008-04-27T19:29:00.018-06:00

Crazy bamboo

The flower is for Shaun and his two ducks that im not going to take care of! ha

They had bamboo everywhere i loved it but here there was tones because it was the Asian display, they had relaxing music playing to.

Mask ha ha i just noticed my hair ha ha oh well

Ah so nasty

There were waterfalls in every cage it was so pretty

Brooklyn is always sleeping like this ha ha

They were playing a beautiful song for me!! ha ha yeah right

Should we put this in the garden? This was a pretty flower at one of the greenhouses

Yes this is a street and i took this picture just for NATHAN!

These birds were mean, and you could feed them is the scary thing.

Being a Merkat

The hugest lizard i have ever seen

Creatures of the Unseen world, or the creepy creatures house ha ha

I had to crawl on all fours to take this through fiberglass but it was worth it

This was at the Zoo wouldn't you love to have that in you back yard

Its so green there the medians are full of trees and they have to mow the lawn on the side of the roads, they even have signs saying caution lawns being mowed!

Beautiful sunsets every night

These funny signs were everywhere

Old people glasses ( cough dad cough) i tried on ha ha

We have to much fun with her

LONESTAR VIDEOS!!!!

2008-04-27T18:33:00.006-06:00

I know this is really crappy we were standing behind the light stand but it was pretty close anyways besides that!!!

Dedicated to the Families of the Soldiers in the Middle East and the Best Song ever!!!

WHAT ABOUT NOW

LET ME LOVE YOU

Tennessee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-04-27T16:02:00.017-06:00

I love flying in airplanes and looking out and just seeing a sea of clouds and the sky getting blueier and blueier its so relaxing.

Tennessee here i come

So close ha not really but pretty close for a concert for these guys

Here they are

At the amazing LONESTAR concert

So pretty again

So beautiful

Their tulips had already bloomed and died but it was still pretty

I love this picture i don't know why but its so pretty

We went to the temple it was awesome, very different, and it was smaller than the stake center that was right next to it but hey they have a temple.

Talking on the phone

2008-04-08T23:35:00.008-06:00

She knows all to well what you are suppose to do on the phone, like point, and say no, and hi, and multitask like playing with her toys its just to cute!!!!!!

Boys will be Boys

2008-04-08T23:02:00.009-06:00

My mom does daycare and there a billion boys about the age of 5. Well the one on the far right family is very athletic. They do ladders, sprints, and push ups. So he rounded up the rest of the boys and had them doing football practice right in our back yard. It was hilarious!

Spring is here

2008-04-08T22:51:00.009-06:00

Kite flying is one of my favorite things to do it is so relaxing, when you finally get it up in the air, it is just a fresh breathe aw i just can't quite explain it.

I love spring especially the flowers here are some in my moms front garden, i know i need to weed, well i am the only one who weeds but still they are cute.

Brooklyn

2008-04-08T22:23:00.020-06:00

Here is brooklyn my oldest sisters daughter this is pretty much all the pictures i have taken of her but she is so funny i love it. He father is a high jumper and her mother is a cross country runner. And all she does is jump when you hold her and she is only 6 months old. Wonder who she is going to take after?

Me and Brooklyn had a sleep over a quite a few occasions in my room. Cause that is the main reason my sis came out. To get some well earned sleep. So Brooklyn stayed with me most the nights and she is a squarmer. She will lay in bed with me and then wake me up by picking at my eyes or my nose and jabbering. She is just to cute

She just wouldn't sit still so this is what mom did or all that she could do to keep her still while changing a diaper. Its censored so don't worry!

She loves to do this one hand thing, on more then one occasion she has fallen flat on her face or cheek but she is strong.

She had chocolate cake for the first time and she really loved that

Cousins united

2008-04-08T22:11:00.005-06:00

This is brooklyn and addison's first or second day with each other and they are already fighting but it is so cute. Poor brooklyn had an eye infection

ITS GONE ALL GONE

2008-03-22T15:14:00.006-06:00

The final finish ah its is gone i am so sad not really though cuz its and out of my face

Nathan wishing he had my long beautiful hair

There is the final cut ah

Before ah it was so long it is crazy

My picutres

2008-03-12T23:41:00.013-06:00

I love sunsets let me tell you

Senior pictures

2008-03-11T23:38:00.005-06:00

Lisa was getting mad that I only put pictures up of Addison, so here is some of my senior pictures. I know some of them are very cheesy and yeah thats all i can say.

Todays adventures are tomorrows legends

2008-03-09T21:10:00.006-06:00

Always with my phone i swear she all ready knows how to rack up the bills!!

Our daily routine of taking pictures and playing with the dolls

Good day to go on a wagon ride!!!

2008-03-01T14:47:00.004-07:00

Isn't that just the cutest thing you have ever seen

Enchanted

2008-02-29T23:42:00.013-07:00

This is me dressed up as Giselle off of Enchanted. Mary Poppins was there too! Isn't my hair so fun, props to Amber!

more adventure

2008-02-26T23:30:00.000-07:00

Here is lisa

Adventure

2008-02-26T23:26:00.001-07:00

This is mine and lisa's idea of adventure ha ha

Addison

2008-02-26T23:07:00.005-07:00

I have nothing to do except take videos of Addison all the time!! Its my life.