The year 2009 in Photos

January: New Years Eve Party!


February: Amanda & I at Eirene's Birthday party in San Fransisco


March: Elk Hunting during Springbreak (not with those guns though lol)


April: First Reggae Katchafire Concert


May: Taylor Swift concert with the girls (best concert I've ever been to!)


June: P.U.C. Annual Mud Bowl


For the summer month's I couldn't decide on just one picture....
July: Jaimie and Marissa come to visit at P.U.C. while I'm taking summer classes




End of July: Me and Ashley at Big Lake


August: Annual Family Trip to Florence, Oregon to ride ATV's in the Sand Dunes


Me and my favorite little girl :)


August: Sublimity Rodeo


September: Trevor and I went camping and Rock Crawling in his truck


End of September: Back at School-Went to the lake with Allie and Janae for some end of summer tanning and wake boarding


October: If you dress up like a burrito on Halloween... Chipotle will give you a free burrito! (We wrapped ourselves in aluminum foil just like you wrap burrito's from Chiptole in aluminum foil)


November: During Thanksgiving Break-Marissa, Jaimie, & I at Michael's Wedding (the first of our close friends to get married :))


December: Going out with friends for my 21st Birthday!

Merry Christmas!

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care :)



My Sister :)


The Gigantic Christmas Tree :)


Merry Christmas to All and to All a goodnight :)

21

On Tuesday I turned 21....
Yep! I'm almost a Christmas Baby.

It was pretty cool to turn 21 but that just means I'm getting older and I don't want to get older. Can I just stay 21 forever?



I've never been much of a cake eater so my mommy made me my favorite... Cherry Cheesecake! Mmmmmm :)
We even added 21 candles!







Eating some yummy pie


Lots of friends and family came to help me celebrate!










Thanks to Everyone for helping me celebrate my last cool birthday! Love you all!

A Yummy Tradition

Every year the girls in my family and Grandma Mary get together to make Christmas cookies. This year, since my Grandma has not fully recovered from having surgery from her colon cancer, me and my sister did most of the work! My mom helped us make the dough because apparently in the 7th grade, she won 1st place at the fair for making this exact recipe!



Me and Ashley ended up eating way to much cookie dough.
It's so yummy though!


Mom and Ashley mixing up the dough


Some cookies waiting to be baked




My crazy sister and the gingerbread man...

All the cookies that had to be frosted

Frosting them is my least favorite part and it takes so long! As you can see from my Wordless Wednesday post, my dad wanted to help... that didn't last long :)




My sister is an obsessed blazer fan

Wordless Wednesday

New Rule

So this year, my Mom made a new rule.
Everyone has to make something for everyone.
Apparently my dad is excluded from this rule because he doesn't have enough time....
Anyways.... the last few days my mom has pretty much locked herself in the shop because she was working on a top secret Christmas project for me and my sister. I'm quite curious to see what it is but I'm not the type to peek :) I like to be surprised on Christmas. I'm not saying I didn't peek when I was little.... but I've grown up since then :)

Yesterday my sister and I went to Craftware house to get supplies to MAKE presents! I could spend hours in that store!

My sister had some interesting ideas.... a wooden brief case for my dad because he's in the wood business.... (not like he's ever really gonna use it -sigh-). I'm sure she'll find some interesting way to paint/decorate it though. Oh and she found huge wood clothes-pins for my Mom because she thought my mom would use them to seal up the chip bags.








I decided to paint my mom a picture. I've never really painted before. Except when I was little... but that doesn't count. I painted a sunset. I don't think it turned out too bad. I also got a few other things to make and decorate but haven't quite gotten that far yet.









My parents don't read my blog because they're a little computer illiterate. So shhhhhh! Please keep the secret!

Wordless Wednesday

Home Sweet Home

I flew home Sunday night, and the last couple days I've just been sleeping in and bumming around the house. I'll be home for the next three weeks! I've got a big list of things to do so I'm sure you'll be hearing about them throughout the next few weeks :)


I missed my bed. Doesn't it look so comfy!