Discovery Kingdom

So, when I was with Maria in CA. We went to Discovery Kingdom. It was LOTS of fun. Sorry it took so long to get up here, but my blog wasn't loading up pictures for me for a while. First we went to a lot of the must-see things that Maria was telling me about. First there was....

Tava the Elephant Show

Then there was Shouka the Killer Whale

And this wasn't a must-see but it was new and so we wanted to see it, but it's Ordin's Temple of the Tiger...

It's not like we just saw shows, I did go on some rides in between shows and some while McKay were going on some kid's rides. Maria told me that while they were waiting for me, McKay was looking at the ride I was going to go on and was saying 'ooooh!' while pointing fingers at the ride.

It's JOKER!!!! I Went into this Superman & Batman Store and I just had to have these pictures I also bought a Batman shirt and a Batman Bracelet. And Guess where it was...the boy In case any of you don't know, I am a BIG Batman fan. I LOVE the movie and pretty much everything...I'm just not obsessed. Which is why I LOVE this picture and would actually pose for it...
It was funny the way that I ended up posing. It wasn't even my idea, but I didn't know how to pose and these two girls told me to kiss him on the cheek. Naturally, I did. I mean how many People can say that they have kissed BATMAN?!? It's like a once in a lifetime opportunity! ;)
And I couldn't resist poseing as superman....

This is one of the rides that I went on with McKay. I was surprised how it was actually pretty fun. I mean it wasn't a roller coaster, but I didn't mind going on it with him. I mean it like actually moved around a little bit. And when you hear him laughing, it's hard not to like it.
This one wasn't as fun, but it was still fun because he liked it. He LOVED driving on it all the way around on the 'Safari Drive'.
It's sort of 'my thing to take pictures in front of a fountain, so I chose the Dolphin fountain. Just thought I'd throw it in.

Naturally, you have to have a picture with one of the characters in Discovery Kingdom. The whole trip was LOADS of fun THANKS for taking me Maria!

San Francisco

For those of you that don't know, I went to Maria's house in San Jose CA from June 26-July 11. Just me. :) On Saturday (June 27) we went to San Francisco...yes it was my first time, and i LOVED it. It was SO much fun. We went to china town first. This is me in front of the entrance.

Maria and I in front of the entrance.

After we went down Chinatown we went to little Italy. Just so you know...Calzones has the best pizza crusts that I have ever tasted. I highly recommend it. After that we were walked over to Ghiardelli. If you haven't had their chocolate before, you need to. It tastes SO good. the carmel was my favorite. It was amazing.

I am now a definite fan. :)

We were walking down the street and I decided that I wanted my charicature done. Maria was taking pictures while I was being drawn.
We didn't really take out the camera during it, but we saw a breakdance competition. It was SO cool! I'd never seen one before and it was AWESOME! This picture is the finale when he is flipping over two volunteer's arms. WAY cool.

Alcatraz Island

My first crepe! It was SO good. I had a nutella with bananas, strawberries, pwd sugar and whipped cream. WOW! It was SO good.

This is a monk siting, recognize it?

You can't go to San Francisco and not go to the golden gate bridge. It was beautiful there, the fog makes it look even better...in my opinion.
This is how thick the cables are on the Golden Gate bridge. I know it seems tipical that they would have to be so big, but woah! it's HUGE!

Sunsets at the beach are just perfect aren't they? We went to the beach in San Francisco before we went home.

My name was in San Francisco...till the waves took it away. :(

Just after the sun went down.
I really have to say that San Francisco was one of the funnest places that I have ever been to and maybe ever go to. I wouldn't like to live there but I would definitely visit again.

Cardon Reunion

So...i kind of don' t really feel like sorting through all of the cardon reunion pictures, so I'm just going to show you our family picture for this year and call that good. Drumroll for the only picture on the post....

Don't we look GREAT!

Trust me, if you knew how many pictures i had to sort through and upload, you wouldn't blame me for it...(my mom had the camera;)) well, my schedule of the cardon reunion sort of went like this...we started out at about 8:30 to leave to Utah, but first we went over to where Chris works (in Flagstaff) first so that we could pick him up before we left. It took us about...13 hours? ( it was 12 or 13 at least) at the same time we lost an hour so we got there sometime after 10 Utah time (i wasn't paying much attention. The second day was a really nice day, so we mostly played various games outside and had lots of fun that day...btw...I got FRIED! It was pretty bad. The next day is the day that we took the fabulous picture above. Then it started raining so we stayed inside most of the day. Everybody was kind of doing their own thing so I'll just say that we played a bunch of games. Ping pong was a great hit though. The next day we went to church in Benson and then left to go home. I know I don't really give it enough credit with my pathetic summary...but really it was fun. Can't wait until next year.

Friends & Dance

This is a picture of Ariana and I. She came over so that we could talk and have fun together. We don't have very many pictures of just us together, so we thought that we would take some. We liked the different color settings...a lot.

We LOVED this picture, It turned out so cute! We were going to do a star too, but we don't have enough fingers to do that. :(

This has to be the HARDEST picture for us to take. We couldn't stop laughing long enough to take a good one, this was the best we could do.

We also had our dance recital that night, here's Dustin and his partner for the Charleston.
And his partner for the other dance, but I can't remember what it was called. She had to change for another dance though, that's why she's not in the same dress as me.
This is me and my partner Zach for our dance that was the same one as Dustin and McKenna's (the girl in the red dress).

David's Graduation

My Parents went down to David's institute graduation. I just though that I would put him up here.

YEAH DAVID!!!

The Band Trip

So, I know I was supposed to start this sooner, but I never really felt like it when I had the time to. The band trip was SO much fun! I had a BLAST! The picture above is before the light show on Saturday night.(my camera died for the actual thing) It was AMAZING. I have to say that my favorite type of fireworks were the ones that when they were lit up they made the whole sky look like it was daytime. It was the coolest thing ever!


To summarize briefly how it went, we left on April 1st to California. We stayed at Embassy Suites during our stay. I took a couple of pictures there, but not very many...

The elevators were cool, I was just disappointed that it didn't have any music inside like I thought they would.

The view strait down from my room. (I was on the 5th floor) I thought that it was funny how they had four square tables and then a circle.

This is where we went swimming the first night.

Venesa and Halie on their bed in our room.

Me and Jessica Martindell on our bed in our room.

The next morning we had to be ready to go to Disneyland in our uniforms by 9:00. We had breakfast in the hotel, then we made sack lunches for that day before leaving. As soon as we got to Disneyland we were on our own until we performed or went to the workshop. I was mostly with Venesa and Halie, but for a while we were with these people and took a couple pictures.

Halie, Me, Caitlin, Sherilyn, Venesa, Jessica.

Garret, Venesa, Jessica, Me, Halie, Sherilyn, Caitlin. We were the last people to see Sully before he left to go on break (pretty AWESOME!)
I didn't really get very many pictures, of either days, but I got a couple. I just didn't want to keep getting it out in between rides, since that's pretty much all we did. We got back to the hotel at around 1o:30 p.m. (it closed at ten on Thusday)

Friday, it was pretty much the same thing only we could wear whatever we wanted to and I was with Rockie and Frank as well as Venesa and Halie. It was a lot of fun to have a whole day at Disneyland and California Adventure.

I actually got out my camera a couple of times. This is connor, Jake and Rockie, on Pirate Island. I couldn't miss Rockie's expression. ;)

This is right before the light show on Saturday night. Rockie and Venesa.

On Saturday, we packed up, went to the beach and went home. It was BEAUTIFUL at the beach. I never got into the water, but it was perfect weather to play beach volleyball. I wish i would have gotten pictures of it, but I didn't. There were TONS of sailboats there. I even saw some dolphins. It was really fun. I am SO glad that I could go on the band trip.

This is for Maria

Maria has been wanting me to put up the pictures of my bed spread that I got from Melinda for Christmas...so here they are...Isn't it so CUTE!!! I LOVE IT!!

You have to have one of the front of course.
I haven't put up the picture of my AWESOME basketball sweater. They're SO comfortable! here's the back...

And here's the front. :)

Don't you just LOVE it???...well I do. ;)