Summertime Wrap Up

Can you believe that summer is already over? I neglected my blog for quite some time, and now have a bunch of things I should have blogged about but never did. So I am going to squeeze them all into a long post filled with pictures! Here are some of the things I did through the last part of summer:

Going to this little lady's blessing:

As well as this angel's:

They are seriously the most darling babies ever!

No worries! I did not have a baby over the summer (though I have considered stealing Aubrey or Violet ;-) but I still think this picture is funny. No, Lacey and I are not twins.

I spent two days in Provo at a conference on children's and young adult literature. It was AWESOME! On my way home I stopped and visited Karl and Liz. On Saturday Lacey and Steve came too, and we all went to the zoo. I haven't been to the zoo since I was a kid, and it was quite fun!

When we were at a life size replica of a dinosaur I looked down and saw this:

I laughed really hard!

Riding the train:

The babies were angels the whole time!

I visited Mari (the former Sister Da Silva) and played with her "son" - named Toothless

It made me seriously consider getting a pet lizard of my own

So basically I spent my summer vacation playing with lots of cute little girls, family, and friends.

It was a spectacular way to spend the summer!

Mud Madness

This weekend I did the Cache Valley Mud Run with five of my friends. It was a 5K with all sorts of muddy obstacle courses, loads of water guns, and lots of fun! Our team name was the Disheveled Damsels, and we had a great time together! You run the whole thing as a team, which is really what made it as fun as it was!

Back when we were just damsels, but not yet disheveled

Resurrecting the "My date thinks I'm hot" t-shirt from high school

Starting the race on the first of four giant slip-n-slides

halfway through the race
already disheveled

Lacey getting artsy with the camera

trying to run across the river.
As you can see, I didn't make it very far!

Getting squirted by the fire hose while waiting to go down the final slide

It was super cold

The last slide was incredibly fast and shot you into a pool of knee deep mud. Somehow I ended up speeding down it at an alarming rate and being thrown headfirst into the mud. I was completely saturated, and couldn't see (contacts). Emily was kind enough to drag me out! (if you click on the picture above there is an arrow that shows you which one I am)

WE MADE IT!

YIPPEE!

The worst part - rinsing off in the icy water

clean! (well, sort of)

It was such a fun race! I hope they do it again next year! I think everyone deserves the chance to play in the mud and just have fun!

*A special thanks to Lacey, Steve, and Ivy who gave up their Saturday morning to play photographer!

The Five Outfits of the Day Before School

Outfit One: Blue lace shirt, white undershirt, nice jeans

This one was for school pictures (one of my least favorite parts of the school year!) It took almost five minutes to get a picture that worked. They would position me, tell me to tip my head, and then my hair would fall in my face, causing me to have one eye in the picture! They did get one with both my eyes showing, too bad it was terrible! The photographer actually offered me her bobby pins (which I GLADLY accepted) pulled the hair back on the sides, tipped my head with no hair falling in the face, and FINALLY got a good shot. Actually, I really don’t know if it was a good shot, but my hair wasn’t in my face so at that point I didn’t care! Then I gave the sweet photographer her bobby pins back. I really don’t like school pictures!

Outfit Two: School shirt, jeans

Changed quickly into my school shirt to be ready for the faculty picture. Then changed out of it 15 minutes later when they decided to postpone the photo shoot for another day.

Outfit Three: Grungy t-shirt, capri’s, flip flops

I spent most of the day putting the finishing touches on my room, then cleaning it so it would be ready for the first day of school. So I wore cleaning clothes.

Outfit Four: Blue summer dress with flats

The outfit for Back to School night. Did you know that Back to School night slightly terrifies me? The first day of school is exhausting, but not really scary. Dealing with lots of students AND their parents at once – YIKES! But I survived! And I shouldn’t have worried, all the parents were very nice.

Outfit Five: Extra large and extra comfy pajamas

The best outfit of the day!