On June 5-7 the Snowflake Stake had a "Pulling for Zion" Trek. It was fun. Or at least I thought that it was. We tried to get some before and after pictures before we left. But we were already late to get our bags checked....so we just settled with these ones. It would take me an extremely long time to write out about the trek, so I'll try to keep it short. On the first day, we arrived at the Stake Center to get our bags checked at 8:00. (they wanted to make sure we weren't sneaking deodorant or make up). Then we got on buses to get to the place where we would find out who was in our family and start walking. After they told us who our families were we played a few games, put our carts together and started walking. We did the women's pull later on in the day. Even after the women's pull, we still walked for 7 more miles (in dark pretty much the whole time. We didn't arrive at the camp site until either 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. Then we rolled out our sleeping bags, ate some chicken broth and rolls and went to bed. (they hadn't given us anything during the whole day, so it tasted SOOOOO good) We were supposed to have set up camp a mile before, but the people setting it up went a mile ahead by accident. During all of that time two people in my family(Chantelle's) got ran over by our cart. (Alisha Flake and Vic Frei.) They didn't get it as bad they could have though. :) The next day we had mush for breakfast. Then we packed up and went about 3 miles to the next campsite. My family was the first ones out :) (we were sick of everybody stopping and starting from the night before. We didn't stop once when we were the first ones out!:) Then we set up camp and just chilled for a little while while also eating our lunch. Then we were combined with different families and had numerous activities. We washed our hair, played stick-pull, made taffy, shot guns, killed chickens, had races sawing off the end of a log, and made butter. Then we went back to our camps to eat (beef stew) and get ready for the "Hoe Down." (just a bunch of old styled dances). Then we had a fireside. It wasn't a normal fireside, they had most of the mas and pas do skits. Some of them were actually funny. But there were still spiritual moments. After that we went to bed. The next day we had oatmeal for breakfast and then went into our "solo time." It's when we go out alone with a solo packet and you read letters from your parents and also write a letter for yourself. (you give it to your ma and pa and they mail it to you later. I still haven't gotten mine back) It's supposed to be a really spiritual time for you. Right after the solo time we had a family testimony meeting. It was absolutely AMAZING. After that we ate lunch (chili, which was EXTREMELY good!) Finally we packed up and left to go back to the buses. It was so relieving when we got there. They had watermelon and everything. :) Then we just went to the stake center and went home. This is just a brief summary of the Trek but really, it was an amazing experience.
Before..........
After...........
Me and my ma and pa......The Shumways.
I just had to have a picture with Joseph. :)
Here's Dustin and his ma and pa........the Hancocks.
Me and my ma and pa......The Shumways.
I just had to have a picture with Joseph. :)
Melinda & Devin came up just in time for my graduation and spent the night, As you can probably tell, the boys liked to be out of the van. Well, as most of you know, my mom (Anna) is a piano teacher. When ever she sees them playing the piano, she gets really excited and takes pictures as well as demonstrating the "proper way"Melinda saw the pictures afterwards and wanted me to put them on the blog, so Melinda, Here they are. :)
Mom got her haircut right before my graduation. It took a surprisingly long time too. It actually made me almost late for my own graduation. Talk about annoying! However, I think it was worth it the way that it turned out, don't you?
I told you in the previous post that I would put some more pictures of my graduation on the blog. These are my friends Ariana Montejano and Hannah Kelley.
I just had to include my guy friends in this since they are half of my friends. (even though I can't put them all on the blog I chose them since there's more than one in this picture.) This is Joseph Bonham, and Joseph Peterson.
This guy is literally one of the coolest guys in the entire school. You would have to be crazy to say that he wasn't. I introduce to you J. Laithem Hunt.
This is the girl that helped me get through the ceremony (it gets boring when you have already heard all of the talks).....Brooklyn McCray.
On May 23rd, I graduated from Jr. High. It feels SO nice to have it over with. The only pictures that didn't turn out good at all were the ones that were of me getting my diploma. I have a lot more pictures, but the post is only allowed to have 5 pictures per post. I'm going to put some more on the next post. Note the necklace earrings and bracelet Melinda helped me pick out the beads to make them (we have such good taste).
Melinda, me and Dustin after graduation. (it was in the High School Gym)
Mom, Me and Dad after graduation.
Me and my buddies Tycee, McKenzie, Venesa, and Tara. Venesa is the one that gave me and McKenzie roses after graduation. I love that she loves us. :)
This is a picture of me and the coolest teachers in the Jr. High. (and my favorite even though they worked me the hardest) Mr. Owen and Mr. Bennett
My birthday was on May 22nd. It was the first time for about a week that we had rainy weather. I loved it and hated it at the same time. I loved it because it smelled so good and I like rainy weather. But i hated it because I had my graduation practices were that day and we were outside for some of the time. I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO FREEZE! I couldn't even feel my feet. Anyway for my birthday I got a ride to school, I got to go to sonic for lunch :), Reese's & milk duds (from my friend McKenzie.) an August Rush c.d.(from dad) a t-shirt& necklace (from grandma C.) a body lotion kit (from Dustin), a silver necklace(from mom), ice cream sandwiches from our neighbor Ron Marshall and Eskimo Pies from Melinda. It was really a pretty memorable birthday.
For my Birthday cake I had a cherry chip cake with chocolate frosting. We even had sprinkles on the top. But even better than that, I blew out all of the candles :) It was great!
I'm so sorry that it has taken this long to get a post done, but i didn't know that they saved the drafts you make until maria told me about a week ago.On May 3rd, Dustin and I had a Dance recital called The Greatest Show on Earth Saturday day and night. We were both in Ballroom Dancing (different classes though) I danced the Samba in her Silver class and Dustin danced the triple step.
I LOVED my skirt and just had to take a picture. They were cute and comfortable(for these performances that is REALLY nice) :)
This is me and my partner Anthony Dominguez after the first performance
This is Dustin and his partner Ashley Tenney.
