A Bit of France

So I just wanted to post some pictures real fast of the first few days we have spent in France... So this is the bathroom in the hotel our first night here, it was so stinkin tiny! You could barely turn around in it and the shower, you couldn't turn around! I don't even know how many bruises I got that first night :)
The bedroom, tiny as well of course. There was the bed, a small entertainment center and room to walk on either side of the bed but that was it
A very old catherdral we visted, not a long hike at all but very steep. My legs were shaking so bad I couldn't stand by the end of it.

One of the many small villages in France

My wonderful mommy and myself on our volcano hike :)

More pictures to come but I have to get off now cause we just got a converter that will work with my computer so AF is dying to get on and play around himself so I will post more pictures of our time here later!

Postcard Pictures

These are the same picture, one is just edited. I took it one day when walking home from school cause I missed the bus and didn't feel like sitting around for thirty minutes for the next one when I could walk home in half that time, so I did. This was taken the first couple weeks of my very first TRUE fall!!! (Beautiful colors if I may say so myself) Everytime I looked at this picture it made me think of a postcard so I just had to edit it for fun and I like how it turned out personally. Thats one thing I miss about my old computer, the editing capabilities, my laptop only has the basic red eye and cropping capabilitites. Very sad day for me. So this last month has been spent with me tryinjg to figure out what I was going to do this next year and I finally came to a conclusion!! It was a hard one to make and really kind of sad but I know it is the right thing for me to do. I will not be returning to BYU this next semester, I am going to be deferring it and then going from there. I will instead spend this next semester working to save much needed money and going to institute. I am going to miss all of my wonderful friends and even school for that matter! But who knows, maybe I'll be back up there in January, you never have what the Lord has instore for you. All you can do is have faith that what you are doing is His will and the rest will work out in the end.

Collins Comfort Masters

My Work!!!! The Lovely candy machine that keeps me and A-girl sane...

My Desk, ain't it perty :)


P, the woman who has taught me everything with one of the techs...

Sneaking a picture of T working hard...

Enjoying lunch...

Work boredom...we keep ourselves entertained to say the least :D

A Few of the MANY Hair colors...

These are just a few of the MANY MANY different hair colors I have had in my life. I've gone anywhere from blonde to dark red. And pretty much anything inbetween as well :) I've had five different colors in my hair at one time to only one color in it. I started dying my hair when I was 14 and it pretty much changed every 3 months from then until my senior year when I grew it out to my natural color for my brother who was on his mission.

I've had long hair, short hair, and everything imbetween...

5 colors

14 and blonde!

My natural color!!! Now, I'm thinking of dying it again...any suggestions on what color?

Life

I haven't posted in awhile and that would be because life is a little crazy right now. I work 8 hours a day five days a week (six these last two weeks) and then come home eat dinner and just want to crash. I haven't really done anything exciting since being home...but I have met a lot of new people and made a few new friends!
Since I obviously haven't been taking any pictures I thought I would post some old ones that I have fiddled and edited :)My 19th birthday weekend at my cousin's reception holding little Mini-E

This picture was a total accident but became my favorite fast. I was trying to take a picture of our faces but didn't know the camera was zoomed in and this is what I got.

Best friends!! This was taken on Halloweend when Carrie came to Utah to visit and I finally got to see her after what seemed like forever!! (she was an 80's girl and I was a cowgirl in case you couldn't tell :) )

The three roomates the second or third Sunday of our first year of college. Lots of memories made with these girls. And wonderful friendships!!

NEW COMPUTER!!!

This is my new computer!!! It is an Acer Extensa and I absolutely love it!! I bought it after a few weeks home and a couple months of looking for a good deal. This was a killer deal! I was able to get the computer and some extras along with it. Plus right before I bought this, I got a job! Heck yeah baby. Things started falling into place and I know that the one behind it all was the Lord and I am and forever will be (of course) eternally grateful for all of the blessings he has given me in my life.

Trip Home

I finally got my camera back and was able to upload all the picture's I took on my drive home from Utah!!

These are just a few pictures taken of the beauty that is all around us. I started thinking about how blessed we truly are. We have been given this wonderful opportunity to come down to earth and prove to our Father in Heaven that we are worthy of His love and the sacrifice of his son. He has given us everything in the universe, what are we going to give back to him?

California

Last summer my parents, teacher, and I went to California before school started. Something to do about teacher's graduating or getting a job or something, I don't remember right now. While there we took a tour of the Pixar lots and of course went down to the beach. On the beach there was a huge bridge like thing that went over the water and many people were fishing on. We walked out on it to the end and I got this picture. There were a ton of boats in the water and most of them were coming in for the day because nighttime was coming. We then went to Santa Monica Pier. Onto the ferris wheel we went. By this time the sun was setting and creating a beautiful sunset. And it was even colder and windier. This picture was taken on the ferris wheel, the head on the left is teacher's I believe. We were bother trying to get pictures while the parents just enjoyed the ride.

This picture was also on the dock, the sun reflecting off the water. I almost went blind taking it but I love how it turned out. It was so pretty out that day, just a little windy, as you can tell by looking at the water.

Blast from the past

My camera kinda sorta broke (in the way where the camera chord isn't working) about a month before I came home. While I was still at school I was able to use C's memory card chord so I could still download pictures, but yesterday I took my camera in to get fixed so I don't have any new pictures but thought it might be fun to show some old ones...

These two pic's are from my senior orchestra to Boston. The first picture was Mar and myself trying to recreate a picture from when we went to NY City but the person taking the picture didn't zoom out. This was at like 4 in the morning and I hadn't gotten any sleep the night before so I was pretty out of it and hyper...interesting combination for Mar and myself. The second picture is how we slept, we had three beds and six girls but for some reason Ali-Mack, Mar and I decided we wanted to sleep in one bed and so we did! It was pretty fun and extremely amusing...especially since we are girls so we talk...a lot! haha Some interesting things were discussed in that hotel room and bed. What can I say, we're girls and proud of it! :)

Anniversary

My wonderful parents have been married for 31 years!! Can you believe it, I can't even imagine getting married let alone being married for 31 one years with 5 grown up kids and two grankids. It's just amazing to me. This picture was taken last year for their 30th wedding anniversary. I made this collage of pictures for them of some of the things that have happened through the years. Pretty amazing how much we have all grown and changed isn't it. I am their baby and I am turning 20 this year, their oldest (seen in the top right with his wife ZB) is now 30. Where does the time go?