Finals Week!!! :)

YAY! It's finals week...good and bad news about finals. Good, semester is almost over and I am so ready for this semester to be over with (18 credits of some pretty hard classes was not the best idea!) But Bad news...18 credits worth of finals haha...kinda stressful! I've been working super hard this semester to keep up in all of my classes and I feel like I've been doing pretty good. This semester has almost burnt me out of school completely, but i'm just about done..It seriously has flown by, time just goes way to fast for me. End of semesters are always the hardest because thats when professors decide to pile everything on! (because the rest of the semester was soo easy right? haha) So if I can just make it through this next week I will be golden!

Lace & DJ-Disco Divas

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Canyon View Volleyball

So the season ended a few weeks ago..and i'm just barely posting this..oops! These are our team pictures (completes of Nia haha). I had so much fun coaching this year! I absolutely love the girls I coach, and the other girls I coach with! I'm going to miss it alot. It's been nice to have more time to spend on my homework because I have ALOT. I hate end of semesters! Teachers feel like they should have big huge projects due the end of the semester so I'm trying to keep up and get everything finished..Lets hope I don't fail any classes so I can graduate on time! However, next week is Thanskgiving break!!!!! WOOT WOOT! I'm so excited to get a little break off of school-well atleast I'll be home, but I'll be doing homework while at home :( I'm so excited to see all the family and hang out in Emery county, and be in the new house!

80s video dating montage

Now, where are these types of men now a days???? hahaha..

VolLeYBaLl

So just a little update! I am coaching the sophomore volleyball team at Canyon View High School again this year. This is a pic of me and Heather (she coaches the freshman team). We spent all day at a freshman/sophomore volleyball tournament in Hurricane! A long day with no wins, dang it! So far our team has not been winning, but they have improved so much since day 1 of tryouts, so I'm hoping for the best. I absolutely love coaching, don't get me wrong it is really hard and frustrating at times, but it is also so fun! I love being with the girls and playing volleyball and teaching them to play. They always crack me up. I really like the other coaches also. Teresa is our head coach and then Nia (she coached freshman last year, and now does JV) and then Heather (our freshman coach) and me (sophohomre coach :) ). They are alot of fun! I like being able to play volleyball everyday with the girls, and it's good to help keep me a little in shape with the occasional conditiong I do with them. Pretty much you could say that lately volleyball has been my life. I practice everyday and then the last 3 weekends, i have played in 2 1o hour volleyball tournys and coached 1 10 hour tourny! Crazy...I'm looking forward to this weekend because there is actually no tourny-not that I don't love playing in them, but it's time for a break! I think I will get some cleaning, laundry, and homework done...Yay!!

Fires in New Harmony

So this is what our sunset has looked like for the past few days in Cedar, not a way good pic but it's from my cell phone so it's the best I could do, but it gives you an idea! Pretty much the whole town of New Harmony is on fire! New Harmony is a small town fifteen minutes south of Cedar City. The other day they had to evacuate alot of the town because the fires had reached town, and a few homes got burnt. so sad and scary! Some people in Cedar had ashes on their cars from the wind blowing over, crazy! The sky has looked crazy and you can smell the smoke way bad. Well last night we got a huge burst of rain for about a half hour and the sky today looks sooo much better, we needed it way bad! I feel really bad for the families in New Harmony that lost their homes! How sad! We drove and watched the fires for a bit just off the exit, and it was so crazy to see everything on fire like that, I have never seen so much fire. I'm glad that they aren't spreading faster, and hopefully our fire fighters are able to stop it from going any further.

Enterprise Has-Been Tourny!

So last weekend, it was Enterprises "Corn Fest Days" equivalent to Huntington Heritage days, or ferron peach days ha. but enterprise is a pretty small town, so its funny that corn fest is like a huge deal. I guess they have really good fried corn on the cob-like the kind you get at lagoon, but we never had time to go grab some, so i'm kinda mad that I missed that, but oh well! These are some girls that go to SUU, we decided to put a team together and play in the volleyball tourny that was a part of Enterprise's corn fest. There was 10 teams total in the tournament, and it went from 8:00 Am on Saturday to 9:00 Pm! Such a long day, but soo fun!! We had a couple breaks here and there, but we pretty much were playing or reffing non-stop all day. So needless to say, I was so sore for the next few days, kinda threw my shoulder out, but it was worth it. We have never played with each other before, so its kinda hard to play together when you don't know how each other play, but this team really clicked well together, so we had a strong team which made it alot of fun. We ended up winning the whole thing! Yay! The last few games of the tourny were so intense, pretty much went point for point, so it was a tiring game, but we came out on top! So we got t-shirts just for playing in the tourny-which were not that cute btw, and then for winning we got a gift certificate to Kohls! SWEET! I'm going shopping :) Coming up this next weekend, I have another tourny with a different team in Hurricane, for Hurricane's Days-I think they call theirs peach days too.....but hopefully we do good as well, I'm excited! I love playing all the time..

ShOUt ouT to Grandma!

Yesterday it was my Grandma Nielson's 81st birthday! I had so much fun hanging out with grandma over the summer while I was home, she is such an awesome lady! I admire her so much and love spending time with her. I miss her now that I'm down in Cedar! Here are just a few fun pics of her! Happy Birthday Gram!!

PS-She would kill me if she knew that I put the pirate picture, and the funny wig picture up here, so don't tell!

Some PeoplE!

So I was at Subway just waiting in line to get a sandwhich when I saw this delightful outfit. Who would have thought to pair ankle length nylons with flats?! Genius! And the bunched up capris to top it off...Dang! OK so this may be a little rude of me, but I thought it was funny and couldn't help taking a pic.....Admit it you laughed.

PhArMaCy TeSt!

So Last Week I went up to Salt Lake to take my pharmacy tech test...I was soo nervous! I've been studying alot the last few weeks and I didn't feel ready, I almost rescheduled it, but then I told myself I just need to get it over with so I can relax the rest of the summer and stop stressing. So all of us kids (Me, Tan, Hay, and Burg) headed up to stay at Lace's for the weekend. The testing center was really nice. It was really quiet in there and I had my own little cubicle and computer, they even gave me ear plugs so I wouldn't hear the computers by me. And they were hard core too, I had to get fingerprinted everytime I entered and left the room, and get my picture taken. But good news.............I passed!!!! I'm really excited. So now I just have to fill out some paperwork to get my state license and I'll be all certified! This is going to be a really good oppurtunity for me to have to work my way through school and it'll be something I can always fall back on. So to celebrate, me burg tanner and my friend Gentry took off to LagooN!! Yay, I haven't been in forever, but it was a blast! We just basically rode rides all day..I really like the Wicked, it's the first I've rode that roller coaster because i haven't been to lagoon in like 5 years, but it was fun. Brandon was going to pay me 50 bucks if I'd do the sky coaster, because I'm TERRIFIEd of heights! I really came close to doing it, because 50 bucks sounds pretty nice haha, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it, I know i'm a wimp! But then me and my friend Gentry went out to dinner at the Mayan which is a way fun place, and the food was good. So it was a really good weekend for me!!

SliP N SlIdE! 4th weekend!

Just standing in the pool-Not room enough for all three of us to swim around.

Just Splashing in the pool-Can't believe I didn't wear a life jacket. CLose one!

Sweet Jump-We did all sorts of stunts on the slip n slide. I almost didn't make it over DJ-who is sliding underneath.

Just being tough-I realize my swimsuit does not match my shorts-I did it on purpose..I have a skirt that matches that swim suit, but I didn't think a skirt would be appropriate sliding on the slip n slide so I just grabbed a pair of shorts and went.

Sweet Slide-barrel roll

Waiting for DJ to jump over

The onlookers-These Lame Wads didnt want to get wet. They missed out as you can tell.

At the Parade!!


So I'm a little late putting these up...Sorry! I've been pretty busy lately getting ready for my test. Wish me luck it's in 2 days! I'm definitely not ready for it, but I just want to take it and get it over with. Anyways it was a really fun 4th of July weekend. We also celebrated Lace's birthday (all week hahaha JK Lace). But that was alot of fun. We built a fire outside the house and did some of our own fireworks on top of a way nice dinner (Thanks MOm :) ). The next day was the parade and of course a Begay's navajo Taco Yum..and then on to some sweet wakeboarding-I totally redeemed myself from last time I went so I felt much better about my wakeboarding skills..Not a pro definitely, but I did pretty good. That night I hit up the fireworks with some friends at the Lake, so all in all it was a really good weekend.

Crested Butte, CO

Four Wheeling-Sweet Helmets~

Very pretty waterfall..it was really pretty there~

In The car!

Cute Mom & Dad

Getting ready to river raft, I don't have any of us on the raft because we didn't want to get our cameras wet!

Being way cool haha..

Sitting outside Olive Garden, it was a bit windy which explains why my hair is so pretty ha.

Sorry, picture is turned sideways, but this is me measured up to the shoulder blade of a supersaurus! haha...The museum was actually pretty interesting.

Me & My cute mommy

Shhhh....haha

Model posing

Me & Hay-just chillin in the condo

After we got poured on for an hour of four wheeling..SOO cold!

So I just got back from Crested Butte, CO..MY family finally planned a vacation and it was so fun! I love spending time with my family, they are the best! We stayed at this condo in Crested Butte, thursday-sunday, and then stayed in grand junction sunday night. We went river rafting, rented 4 wheelers and rode around the rocky mountains (which was soo gorgeous! Everything was really green and pretty!) It was a blast until it started to rain, which was cool, but then it got really really cold! ha..we almost froze to death! but still lots of fun..We did some sight seeing and hit up some fun little shops! Then in grand junction we ate at the olive garden, and went swimming! Then before we left, we took Maddie to the dinosaur musueum and she loved it! It was so fun to see her so excited, she is so dang cute I just love her! We had a blast, I wish we could have stayed there for a lot longer! Now it's time to get back to work, YAY!

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Memorial Weekend-Lake Mead/Vegas!

On our way to Vegas after hitting the lake all day-I got FRIED! haha..I thought that sunscreening twice would be enough, but I should have known that I burn like crazy and it definitely was not enough! I was pretty miserable at this point in time ha, but it was a way fun day at the lake!

Brooks driving along, he told us several times that he is a "professional" driver. So I guess I should feel very safe with him driving hahaha.

Redneck's turn to drive-you can tell he is really focused...probably on trying to not fall asleep since we got like zero sleep the night before. Also yes I was being a creeper with the last couple of pics haha, I think I'm funny.

Me & Shay attempting a cute picture, but keep in mind we had no sleep and then spent the whole day on the lake so this is as good as it gets!

So basically memorial weekend was a blast!! I'm so mad though because I made sure to charge my camera up really good so that I could take a lot of pictures of the weekend and then I forgot to take my camera out on the boat so I couldn't take any of all the fun lake stuff, and then basically I forgot to take pics all weekend-I guess I got caught up in all the fun! So I have 4 pictures sorry! But it was a really fun weekend. My friend Redneck had some friends down in Vegas so we decided to get some people together and head down there for the weekend. So me, Redneck, our friends Brooks and Shay came with us. Me & Brooks drove to Salina and then Red picked us up there and then we picked up Shay in St.George (She was one of my roomies down in St.George!) We didnt leave till we got off of work on Friday so not till like 5, so needless to say we were driving all night! We decided to camp out at Lake Mead Friday night because we were going to spend all saturday at the lake. We finally made it to the lake at about 1 in the morning (Vegas time- so like 2 our time! ) So we drove FOREVER! So we were dead tired by the time we got there..but we were really smart and just packed a tarp and sleeping bags so we layed the tarp out and just slept on top of it, but the ground was SOO hard! Also it started to rain for like 10 minutes so we all had to huddle up for awhile underneath the tarp..Everyone else was sweating to death all night after the rain let up, but for some reason I was freezing!! So needless to say none of us got any sleep, I think I maybe got 10 minutes haha..So we ended up hitting the lake at like 5 in the morning! We met some more friends out at the lake so we had quite a few people out there..It was so fun! We wakeboarded, tubed, fished, and swam!! I didn't do to good wakeboarding so I was a little frustrated with myself, but it's the first time back this season so I guess I just need to get warmed up or something! But it was alot of fun, other than I got soo burnt! I was in alot of pain all weekend because of it. So then after the lake we headed up to Vegas which was like another hour long drive! We got there and took a much needed nap and then got ready to hit the town! We went to Red Rock Casino, it's a really nice casino (As nice as a casino can be anyways haha) but I did my first slot machine- I figured out how to use the machines this time! and I'm out 5 bucks! Dang, I'm no good, but don't worry i'm not a big fan of gambling so it won't be happening again..The boys got a little caught up with all that gambling stuff haha so us girls hit the Arcade!! And I won big time there haha 247 tickets, it was alot of fun..We ended up starting to head back sunday, so we spent Sunday night in St.George just chilling with some friends in St.George and then we got up early Monday and headed back to Emery!! I got to Huntington around two and my family was out to the desert, so I headed out to the desert and did a little 4 wheeling, and wiffle ball!! It was alot of fun..I had such a good weekend and had a blast with friends and family!! I love weekends like this where it's just non stop fun-however I was very worn out after it was over!! I definitely didn't want to get up to work the next day, but oh well, thats how it goes!!

July 11

SO I registered to take the pharmacy tech test today! So my test date is July 11th, at 8 a.m.! I'm excited to take it, but a little nervous..I know there is a lot I need to know and I haven't started studying yet..OOPS.SO I gave myself 2 months to get myself ready. It'll be really nice to have my tech license to help work my way through school. It'll be a job I can find anywhere and always something to fall back on. So lets hope I pass!

VIva Las VeGas!

I'm 21 now! So I wanted to give the slot machines a try, just to say that I did it..However, we couldn't figure out how to use the machines!! You could definitely tell we are Utah girls that don't gamble ha. We sat there for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to put the coin in it, and couldn't. Than figured out that you need to buy a ticket to use them, but we didn't know how to use the ticket machine! oh well..I didn't need to waste that penny anyways, I'll save it for something better. PS.Look at Chelsey in the background, she's only 19 so she couldn't be caught "loitering" haha..so she just kept circling around us while we were trying to gamble.


Me & Melanie at dinner. We went to Trevi at Ceasars Palace..Very good itailan place.

Me & Gen

HAHAHAH-Love Gentry's face in this picture! So we went into this store at Fashion Show Mall and saw some pretty expensive dresses, so we decided to just try them on for fun and have our own little fashion show! It was fun!

Chelsey & Melanie

This dress was a tad big haha, i had to try hard to make it so my bra wasn't totally hanging out.

So we went to the Fashion Show Mall, it's on the strip just off spring mt. exit. Every hour they do a runway show through the middle of the mall, its a fun idea. This show was plus size models modeling some Dilliards clothing..They were getting way into it, it was hilarious

On the Road!

Just loving my life cruising to Vegas! haha..

Chelsey fell asleep for a little bit! Caught ya :)

Ya I know I'm gangsta.

So last Saturday we decided to make a little Vegas Trip! It's been awhile since I've been down there and we were all not to busy on Saturday so we thought, why not?? So we woke up and just headed out! It was such a fun day! We went shopping at the fashion show mall, ate at Trevi (a way nice place) and then tried to gamble and then just headed home! It was really nice down there, and it was a fun way to spend the day.