Skydiving!

So this last saturday, August 18, I finally did my lifelong dream. I WENT SKYDIVING. I don't even know how to fully describe it. All I can say is that it was the most amazing thing I've done all my life. The sensation was incredible and it was so much fun! I'm glad that my friend Carrie went with me. It was fun to hang out with her and do this crazy adventure with her. I would recommend doing this for anyone who's not scared of heights and wants to do something that will change their life. I would totally go again if anyone wants to do it. So here are some of my pictures and my video. Enjoy!

Summer fun

Here's an update on things I've done throughout the summer so far.

• I went to Railay's superhero birthday party. It was fun to see all these little kids running around in homemade capes and masks, eating superhero cake, and having a lot of fun.

Here's Railay as a superhero. I'm surprised I actually got a picture of him smiling for the camera cause he never does it for me.

Railay's awesome superhero b-day cake.

Rowan as a superhero

• My dad took my mom, Lindsey, Josh, Chelsey, Taylor, and me to see the Dark Knight Rises. It was a really good movie and it exceeded my expectations. It was fun to spend time with my family. Also my family members are very sneaky people. Lindsey had brought a tub of chocolate ice cream, homemade cookies and my mom brought candy for us all to eat. I must say it's the first time I've ever had my own ice cream in a theater that I didn't have to buy.

• I went boating with the Rusts and the Ogdens. We went on the tube, swam in the lake, and just had a lot of fun.

Me, Diesel, Chelsey, and Lindsey

Me and North

Josh, North, Railay, and Rowan on the tube.

• I went to one of the Twilight series concerts, no not the book Twilight, with the Rusts. Even though we missed the person we wanted to see, Joshua James, we still had a fun time. It was nice hanging out with my sister and her family..

I sure do love Rowboat. He was my little buddy that night.

• On the spur of the moment mom decided to take me to see The Bourne Legacy on opening day. It was a really good movie and I loved it. Jeremy Renner did an awesome job at his role and not to mention at looking very attractive.

• Last saturday Aaron and his family (Britt, Emery, Van, and Izzy) officially moved in with us! They'll be living with us for probably a year or at least until they find a good home. I'm really excited to have them with us cause now I can spend more time with the kids and also hang out with my awesome brother and sister. (Sadly I don't have any pictures, but I will in the future.)

• Last but not least I got a new phone….AN IPHONE. I was able to get an upgrade for my crappy old phone, about time, and even though it cost me a bit I really wanted to get an iPhone. I'm pretty excited to have one. Hopefully with instagram I'll be able to take more pictures to put up on here. :)

Well that's all I can think of. Summers almost over, but that doesn't mean my adventures will be. I have a lot of fun things coming up and I will for sure post about them on here.

Freedom 5k Run

For the 4th of July I did the Freedom 5k run with my friends Carrie and Craig and two other guys, Brian and Chris. It was actually a lot of fun and I enjoyed myself. Usually I would have been at the parade and doing things with family, but everyone is in California. It was definitely a weird 4th of July, since I didn't have all the family over, but it was still fun. I'm glad that Carrie encouraged me to do the race with her. In the end, I actually did a whole lot better than I thought I would. I ran it in 32:38 minutes, which meant I was running at a 10:32 minute mile pace. It's a lot better than I've done in the past and I feel pretty proud of myself. Now I have a cool running shirt and a medal. Probably the only running medal I'll ever get.

Me at the end of the race

My friend Carrie at the end of the race

My running team: Craig, Carrie, Brian, Chris, and Me

Life update

Here's a quick update on my life so far:

I'm halfway through my CNA program. It's been really fun so far and not too hard. Yesterday I became officially CPR and First Aid certified. Oh man, my arms are so sore. We did a lot of practicing and I added up my total amount of compressions I did on a mannequin. 2,250. That's a lot of times to push real hard on a stubborn mannequin.

Next is I've been training these past two weeks for the 4th of July Freedom 5k run! My good friend Carrie really wanted me to do it with her, since that's her birthday, so I agreed to do it. At first I didn't want to, because I'm not much of a runner, but as I've been running everyday I'm actually really excited to do it. I know that a 5k isn't a big deal to some people, but to me it is. I'm also excited to get a cool free shirt and to have a fun time with my friend. Plus in order to get ready I've been trying to eat really healthy. One of the things I've been eating, or drinking I guess, is a nice green smoothie. My favorite green smoothie is one that has: Spinach, Bananas, Flaxseed, Cinnamon, Honey, Protein powder, half milk, half water. IT IS SO GOOD.

So that's basically all I've been up to besides work. Life is good and I'm glad for it. Oh, here's one last cute thing to end this post. Chelsey, my Mom, Cheri (my cousin), and I went out to eat for a girl's night out. Diesel of course came with us but was a sleep. He woke up when we were at the restaurant and had the cutest sad look on his face. If you can't tell, he has tears in his eyes. Here a few pictures I got on my iTouch. Enjoy :)

Things that happened this last month

Oops, I haven't posted on here in a while. My bad. I guess I've just been busy with all the stuff I've been doing. So, let me do a recap of everything that's happened this month and include some pictures.

1. I went on the annual Moab trip that Chelsey/Taylor and their friends on go. We had a lot of fun going repelling, hiking, rafting, camping, and eating good food. Plus, I got to spend a whole lot of time with baby Diesel. Awww yeah!

2. Went on a cute date with my nephew Railay. We had a lot of fun playing superheroes, watching a movie and going to his favorite place, McDonalds (yuck!)

3. Had a girl's day out with my sisters where we went to the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival and had a picnic. 

4. I had my 20th birthday. Woo! I got a cool pop-up tent, a nice sleeping bag, and then got to go to REI and get some more stuff dealing with outdoor adventures. 

5. I saw the Avengers movie and it was THE BEST. Man, I need to see it again soon cause I forget how much I loved that movie when I saw. 

6. I went on a trip to a cabin at Brighton Ski Resort and that was a lot of fun. It snowed like 1 1/2'' on us, maybe even 2 feet. It was really beautiful up there.

6. Now for the best news ever. I'M AN AUNT OF 17. My sister Lindsey and sister Britt had their babies and they're both little girls!! They are so adorable!! Lindsey's girl is named Catalina and Britt's is named Izzy. I love them so much and I can't wait till them and their two other cousins their age, Diesel and Marshall, are older and can be the four musketeers. If you haven't noticed, I really love babies, especially my nieces and nephews.

7. I'm starting my CNA program today. I'm pretty excited to do it and I'm also excited to wear scrubs. Don't know why, but I have a weird fascination with them. 

7. Don't know why I haven't posted it up on here yet, but I'M GOING TO EUROPE IN FOUR MONTHS. AAAAHHHHHHH!!!! My mom and I are going on a cruise to Italy in October! We'll first fly to Venice, Italy and stay there for a day. Then the cruise ship takes off from there and goes to: Koper, Slovenia, Split, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Messina, Sicily, Naples, Italy, and ends at Rome, Italy. We'll then stay in Rome for three or so days to see everything there is to see. BUT OH MAN. You don't even realize how excited I am for this! I've always dreamed of going to Italy and when my mom told we that we were going, I literally screamed out loud and had tears in my eyes, cause I was so happy. So, I can't wait till that happens cause then I'll have something really cool to post on my blog.

Okay, I think that's the most part of what's happened this past month besides working a bunch. I'll post some pictures and hopefully remember to post more often.

Lil' Diesel being a cowboy. "Howdy Ma'am"

My cool repelling shot down the crack. (This wasn't photoshopped or 

anything, just to let you know)

Taylor's cool repelling shot. (Chelsey went down to 

fast for me to get one of her)

Here we are after playing an intense drinking game consisting of

6 kool-aid jammers, 6 water bottles, 1 martinelli (a weird watermelon lemonade one), 

a really gross V8 fusion drink, and two big flavored water drinks. We then had a competition

on who could hold their bladders the longest. It lasted for 2 1/2 hours. Kylie (on the left) won.

Taking a nice walk on/around the lake.

I thought this was a cool cabin. I like the colors.

Here I am with lil' Marshall on the girl's day out.

Some of the sisters, mom and I at Thanksgiving Point.

Me and lil' Diesel at the gardens.

Baby Catalina! Look at that adorable smile!

Baby Izzy! Look at that cute dress and that little face!

I DID IT!

Oh my gosh, I got a B+ in my anatomy class! I can't believe that this has happened. This class was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. I studied at least 30 hours a week, went to an unscheduled lab at least 10 hours a week, which was usually at 10 p.m. till midnight, AND THEN I also went to my scheduled lecture in lab class. Pretty much I had no life except for anatomy. I never got to hang out with people really or do anything fun. And if I did do something fun, I would feel immensely guilty. So, it feels absolutely amazing that I got the grade I need to count for the nursing program and that I don't have to retake it during the summer. I'm sure I would have gone crazy or something drastic if I had to retake it during the summer. WOO I'M DONE WITH IT. 

Camping, General Conference, Donating Blood

So two weeks ago the Ogdens invited me to come camping with them for three days and even though I was already behind with school work, I couldn't possibly refuse an opportunity to spend time with my awesome family WHILE going on a fun adventure. But before we made our way to Base Camp 1 we saw the Hunger Games. It was a good movie and I enjoyed it. :)

After the movie we headed up to our camp site. We stayed in their camper, which they had left in the middle of nowhere near Green River, and it was in a cool area. We didn't get in until late Friday evening, but on Saturday we did a lot of fun things. We went hiking up Black Dragon Wash, played a fun bean bag game, had a bonfire and cooked our dinner on it, celebrated Taylor's birthday a day early, played Settlers of Catan (of course), and other fun things. It was really nice to spend time with my family. I sure do love them a lot.

THEN this last weekend was General Conference which was so amazing! I really felt that a lot of those talks connected to me and were something I needed to hear. It's definitely helped me to make some hard decisions I've had lately. Oh also, last week I donated blood for the first time! It was a lot of fun and I want to do it some more.

Anyways, here's some pictures from our trip, but they're not really in any order of what we did.

Just chilling on the edge of a 400 or so ft cliff.

This was a crack between two cliffs we found while climbing up. Just below me is a llllooonnnggg ways down.

Thought I would get a cool shot of my feet dangling off the cliff.

Look at this adorable couple! Chelsey and Taylor are such good parents to baby Diesel.

The entrance into Black Dragon Wash.

Look how smiley baby Diesel is! He is one happy baby.

And here's base camp. It may not look like much, but it sure is a good little camper.