Memorial Day Weekend

This  Memorial Day weekend I hitched a ride home to the Tri-Cities and got to spend some fun time with part of my family and one of my best friends Amanda. Philip had too much work and school to do to come with so he just stayed home..... I was lonely without him, but still had a good time!
The date of my birth happens to be a very lucky one because it always falls around Memorial day..... so it means that Memorial day is birthday celebration time! The sad part was that Drew, Cody, and Baylee were gone all weekend, so I didn't get to see them =(

22 years old!!!!

 We went on a boat ride.... and it was a little chilly and the only jacket in the car was Cody's... so I wore it!

 Amanda and I got pedicures.... always nice! This was my once a year pedicure!

 My brother and I

 My cousins Myah and Max!

 My daddy and I!

 Opal, me, and dad!

 Opal and me

 Brother, me, dad

Aunt Kylee, Uncle Vincent, Grandma Sandy

Pictures of me and Amanda!!!

Amanda is one of the friends that I have had the longest. She and I have been friends since 7th grade.... so for at least 10 years now! She is one of the few really good friends I have who I still stay in good contact with who knew my mom... which brings me to the next picture....

It was Memorial day weekend, so of course my dad, brother, and I visited my mom's graveside. Kylee and Vincent were kind enough to let us come by their yard and take our pick of their roses to bring.

Annular Eclipse

On May 20 of this year there was an annular eclipse-this is when the moon moves in front of the sun and leaves a ring of sun shining around the moon. One of the best spots for viewing this eclipse was in southern Utah-3 hours south of Provo. Philip and I had not been planning on going down there to see it, we just figured we would see if anything was visible from Provo. But we have some awesome spontaneous friends (Tyler and Maddie) who called us the day before and asked if we wanted to drive down there with them to see the eclipse, we said yes, and it turned out to be a lot of fun! And we weren't the only ones there.... There were THOUSANDS of people who were pulled off on the same highway we were to see the eclipse! The couple who parked next to us drove to Utah from Wisconsin to have a prime view of the eclipse! Crazy!

Us at the eclipse location.... parked right off a highway. 

Tyler and Maddie using a fishing pole to fly a kite - its actually a pretty good idea! 

Philip just chilling waiting for dinner to cook and the eclipse to start. 

It was really hot and sunny that day.... and there was no shade to be found where we were..... so this was our way of trying to escape the sun. 

 Philip doing some cookin!

 There was a pretty desert view

 My most wonderful hubby =)

 Cooking dinner!

 Okay... so it was really weird, but we got our camera to take a picture of the eclipse like what you see above.... the eclipse was actually happening where the huge shiny sun is, but the actual eclipse (what you would see when looking through the special eclipse glasses) shows up really small to the left of the huge sun.

 That is an annular eclipse! When it was like this for a couple minutes Philip goes, "Look! I'ts the ring to rule them all." Lol. 

 The eclipse between our heads!

These are the cool glasses things that you would look through to be able to look at the sun and see the eclipse! Nifty!

Overall it was a really neat experience to drive down to Cedar City and watch the eclipse with the thousands of other people who came to see it. It was lucky that it was so easy for us to be in pretty much the prime viewing spot in the WORLD to see this eclipse. This life is a place for experiences and you have to take the ones that come because you never know if there will be one like it again! 

Wintertime

I'm not confused, I know that it is in fact springtime, but I haven't blogged for a looooong time.... so wintertime will be the topic today. I completely attribute this blogging hiatus to school. This past winter semester was insane for me. Definitely the busiest semester I have ever had, but it is finished now! Yay! And today was my last first day of classes at BYU!!!!!!!

So here it goes...... starting with Christmas break. We visited my family in Washington for Christmas break and we had a lot of fun! We were able to visit with family, relax, bake, eat, and just enjoy the season! 

Philip & I on Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve lunch at Lou and Dave's house with Grandma Danz and the rest of us!

Baylee and I on Christmas Eve

Philip on Christmas morning.... he didn't shave most all of Christmas break, so he was prickly!

Everyone at Christmas Dinner! The extra's include Grandma Sandy, Andy, Vincent & Kylie with their kids Myah and Max and Kylie's mom Cynthia. 

 

I may be 21, but Baylee's only 9, and sometimes I prefer her kind of fun :) 

We are just so cool, you don't even know. We made a music video and even put it on youtube. If you can find it you can watch it! =D 

There is a Euro market in TC... we went and found these chocolate wafer cookie things.... we bought these all the time in Russia! They got me through teaching those kids!

This is our family cat Scamper. He is 13 years old now, and I just love him! 

During Christmas break we had my friend Jessi take some family pictures for us. If only Edward, Kate, Ketra, and Will (my oldest brother and his family) could have been there the pictures would have been complete! 

They all look so much like Opal! So cute! I just love them! 

Valentines Day was nearly overlooked this year. We were just so busy with school, and it was on a Tuesday, but we did make these cute cinnamon rolls!

We frosted them with pink frosting after baking. Easy and fun! 

Philip turned 25 this year! Happy Birthday to him! It's also good for lower insurance rates and renting cars if we need to.... and getting the EIC credit on taxes next year!

He got a dinosaur cake from Costco! 

The story of getting the cake is kind of funny..... so a day before his little mini birthday party I kept asking him if he wanted me to make him a special cake or if he wanted to buy one somewhere. We were at Costco getting gas when we were talking about this and so we decided to go inside and look at the cakes. So we go in and are looking at the bakery cakes and there was a cute dinosaur cake, but it was on a white cake and not a chocolate cake and so we didn't get it.... but then Philip still didn't know what he wanted and told me to pick a cake and buy one for him.... and then I said that I would come back the next day and buy one and Philip says that if I come back and there is a chocolate dinosaur cake I should buy it. And I was like, Philip, that is not likely, but then I went back and there was one! 

Easter! I love Easter! It is an amazing holiday and I loved that we got to have testimony meeting on Easter and here so many testimonies of the Savior. Here is some of what Philip and I did on Easter:

Dying eggs! All of mine were ugly, so they are not going on here.... but Philip made a cool one!

Philip made this one to look like one of the spirals on St. Basil's Cathedral, and the X B are initials for how to say Christ is Resurrected in Russian, which is how they say Happy Easter, which is so cool! Can you tell which spiral the egg represents? :)

We also made egg shaped cakes! And for once something I made turned out more aesthetically pleasing than something Philip made, doesn't happen often. But I don't think he was trying very hard. 

Making these cakes was also fairly easy and fun! Cute, cute, cute!

The day before Easter (Saturday) BYU held an Easter conference where they had speakers from the department of religions (specifically ancient scripture) here at BYU as well as some great music. We went and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a great way to begin celebrating Easter early. =)

RaNdOm. So just some random things......

Feeding tons of stalker hungry ducks!

In the middle of an intense study session for my theory of analysis final with my friend Melissa.... Fall finals

I was a grader for a college algebra class this semester and one of the students drew this on the back of one of their quizzes =) Funny.