Las Vegas

Well I had never been to Las Vegas and found the chance to. My mom needed another car to take up kids to EFY in Vegas, and well I said yes, and asked Karisa to come along. Well we decided to stay there for the week!

We had alot of fun! We walked down on the strip pretty much everyday. We went to most of the casinos and looked at art, and other attractions.

Inside the Luxor

M&M World, 4 floors with all M&M merchandise

Coca Cola Store. This picture is just for my grandpa!

Lady Bug inside Belagio Botanical Garden
Belagio Botanical Garden
Ceasar's Palace inside of it!Karisa and I

Luxor

Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay

Lion Habitat at MGM. This was very cool to watch. The trainers played with the lion just like you would a normal house cat!
New York New York.
MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
This is a little Diagram inside M&M world "I will not melt in the hand"
Karisa and I inside M&M World Picture Frame
Just for Dad!
New Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip

We were going to go to the Temple while there, but soon found out that it was closed for parking lot repave and cleaning repairs! We were really bummed, but managed to get a couple good pictures from it!


Luckily Karisa's Parents own a timeshare and we were able to stay there. It was great, like a little condo. 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, Full Kitchen (including cookware), a living room, and dining room, plus a washer and dryer. The facility also had a pool and a free shuttle down to the strip.
I enjoyed my time there with Karisa and my husband (he came up at the end of the week), but I will have to say that since I neither gamble nor drink I will probably never go back! Thank you Karisa for the great time and great place to stay!

First Year Girls Camp!

O wow- How crazy a couple days camp was. I had so much fun. Since I am a convert to the church I was never able to experience girls camp. I knew from my sister that it was a lot of fun outdoors activities and projects, but I never thought it would be as great as it was! So here are a few of my favorite pictures!

It was an early morning! We met the buses at 7am!

Because of seating shortages I drove my car up and since I had no clue where I was going I had to follow the buses all the way to Pine!

The camp director and I bunked with the first and second years. We found we fit with them more since we were both first timers. I thought we were so prepared for this trip, but when we arrived we saw other leaders pulling out rubbermaid bucket after bucket of stuff. I still have no clue what they brought!

The Third year hike was on how to read a compass it was a neat experience!

Our trooper fourth years dirty and smelly from there two day hike!

This year for camp our theme was Get Serious, It is Time! Going back to basics. Well we went green, using things we had to make our cute sign. Again though I think we took the basic a little to serious. All the others looked like they were sewn and pressed and cloth and really nice. But I give credit to our girls, this was their idea and we went with it!

My sister... What can I say I always new she had a big mouth. 64 pieces of bubble gum! It was pretty grouse!

On Sunday our Brand new bishopric came up for the day. We had church outside! It was so beautiful and peaceful! I wish church was outside all the time!

This was after our service project (hence the hats and do rags!) We cleaned yards for the houses on the road leading to our beautiful camp!

The Fourth of July Part Two!

What a weekend! We had so much fun. But I did not take as many pictures as I had wanted. But here is what I have. The parade pictures are in no certain order, just showing a few of the parade entries. The first is probably of the Wells Fargo carriage that was used to run mail and bank stuff from Prescott to Phoenix. They still do this once a year around this time to commemorate the adventure. There were so many flags through the parade, standing up and sitting down.The picture above and below were with the rodeo. The girl in the top her and about five others did a routine at the rodeo. The horse below was a horse that they were showing. I was sad that I didn't take pictures here at the rodeo, but it was so muddy. The guys were knee deep for calf wrestling and the bucking animals were having a hard time kicking up. But all in all so much fun!This video is of my sister Summer. My mom said she would pay the guy $10 extra to buck her off!

Thanks to everyone involved in our July Fourth Fun! My family and the Schultz family for the cute kids and laughs!

July Fourth Weekend Part One! (veiwer discretion)

Happy July Fourth! It has been a great day already! This is only part one... Which means there will be more pictures later! So to start off, it has been a long running tradition that my sister and I make or get something that semi-matches for the fourth. This year we decided to tie-dye t-shirts! We get silly when together and well Summer cut the collar of her shirt and put it on her head. Nice visser!

This is my shirt before we washed them, unfortunately the dye faded quite a bit after washing!

Then we decided to paint on our shirts!

Thank you Eddie For fighting for us all! Your an amazing Brother!

Now after we were finished we had a new adventure that our family, the Schultz family, and half the Mortimier family was involved in, Butchering 14 Roosters! Viewer be advised a little grotesque! This is my dad just being goofy, he was like a little kid in a candy shop tonight!

First step slit throat and let bleed, second step (which I did not get a picture for) dunk into boiling water a few times to loosen feathers.

Next pluck all feathers from neck down. We were all amazed at how easy they came out!

Then cut open from bottom and cut loose guts! (Grouse!!!)

Next reach hand in and yank guts out and throw away. Thanks for the visual Dad! Finally clean really well and freeze until ready to eat. I was thoroughly groused out and well kind of intrigued by the fun that we were all having. Lately I feel as though my family is turning into Farmers, garden with veggies and chickens, and now butchering roosters! Crazy!

Next myself and my brothers went back to my house and made a bonfire in my sand pit! They were having so much fun. We roasted marshmallows and then just played around!

These were the biggest marshmallows I have ever seen and eaten! I was done after one s'more!

We are enjoying this great weekend, and look forward to the parade and rodeo and the fireworks tomorrow! I wish everyone a great Fourth of July!