4th of July!!

I totally forgot that I had not made a post about my July 4th activities. I went white water rafting and then went on to the Bear Lake area. It was sooo much fun! It was much better than working, which is what I have done for the past 3 July 4th's.

On Friday the 4th we got up at either 5 or 6:30, I don't remember the exact time. All I knew was that it was early and I did not want to be up. So we drove there and the leader did not really know how to get there so we got lost a couple times. It was great... So we finally get to where we wanted to start our rafting. The water was soooo high and moving extremely fast. I think the ranger guys there said it was moving at 18,500 somekind of inches a minute or something like that. All I knew was that it was faster than when I had gone in September. I was a little nervous about doing it considering when I had gone in September there was no question as to whether the guys with us weighed more than me. Well this time it was different.... There was no question in my mind that I weighed more than the guys on the trip.

Our first run down the river was great. I was really looking forward to seeing Big Kahuna, but I found out that the water was too high for it to be any rapids. Big Kahuna was my favorite rapid that we went down in September. Then I found out that it was OK because there was one that would take the place of Big Kahuna. It is called Lunch Counter. Apparently on that rapid 1 in every 4 rafts flip. I was a little nervous about this just because I did not want to get out of the raft inthe middle of a huge rapid like that one. We hit the rapids perfectly on it!! It was amazing! There are people that jsut chill by the rapid and watch the rafters go down it. They were cheering us on and we were all yelling because of the awesomeness of the whole thing.

Our second time down was a different story though..... We changed up the seating arrangements which should not have been done. The guys decided that they wanted to try some rapids that we missed in the first run..... Not a good idea. So the first real rapid that we hit caused a little bit of a problem. There was a rock that we did not see until we were basically right on top ot it, and when we went over it some of the people stopped paddling which is a big no-no. The back of the raft, where I was seated, got sucked back into the water, and there was a moment where I was not sure if I was still in the raft or in the water. It was a moment of great fear for me, because I knew that if I was in the water more than likely I would have died. The water there was churning in a circular motion so it would be like I was caught in an undertoe, only swimming parallel to it would not get you out if it. I would have to wait for it to spit me out and who knows when that would be. Scary I know. But we were able to get out of it after a lot of struggling and some hardcore paddling. Then we got to the Lunch Counter again, and we did not hit it right. I was praying the whole time that we would not flip, and my prayers were answered. We did not have as good of a ride but we did not flip thank goodness. Then we decided to pull off to the side and watch people and just relax a little. That was another not so good idea, nothing bad happened it just took forever to get out of the place we were and it made us really tired.

After we were done we went to my room mates home in the Bear Lake area and we watched the fireworks and then lit some of our own. On Saturday, we went to Bear Lake and played in the Lake and the sand.

It was so much fun!! I am so glad that I was here for it!!!

Now here are the pictures from the trip...

This is all of us before our first run.

After our second go at the Lunch Counter.

The best picture of the rapids we got. They look pretty cool to me.

Only in Idaho, would you need a blanket on the 4th of July.

The boys were very sleepy and fell asleep while Niccol read them a bedtime story.... aren't they just precious. :)

I don't have any good pictures from the Lake but it was real real fun.

Talent??????

I need to put a caution on this blog entry..... If you have young children in the room, it would be best to distract them..... the following is a little on the scary side and I do not want them to be frightened. I don't think many of you will be able to look at me the same way after you see what I did for the talent show for my ward, but I am totally OK with that.
So in preparation we went to the DI for our outfits. Did you know that the DI has an ENTIRE section of jean jumpers???? Well they do, hence the outifts we are wearing.





This is the part that may scare young children...... My face is the best in this picture! I laugh so hard everytime I look at it.......





























Now that you all see the get ups and what not up close and personal I will show the video..... It is a good one. :)

Now this is the end of my humiliation..... Judge if you will.....

The first completed scene for Twilight!!

Monkey Rock

There is a place here called Monkey Rock. At Monkey Rock there is a bridge with a pretty deep river running under it. So what do college students do??? Oh they go and jump off the bridge. It is a lot of fun!!! Mom stop freaking out, I didn't do it. I have no problem standing on the edge or sitting on the edge but as soon as I thought about jumping I would start freaking out and psych myself out.

After everyone had had their fill of jumping off the bridge, we went to the real area called monkey rock where we played in the water. There are waterfalls there too that we were able to swim under and walk behind them. It was so cold but soooo much fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing

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This is us behind the falls.

In front of the falls. Sooo pretty!!!

Porter Park= AWESOME PARK!!

For FHE last week, we decided that we wanted to go to the park for our activity. This park is a great park. Iy has swings, and open fields to run around in. It is just great. What makes this park different from others???? It has a water area and it is like playground equipment with water!! It is so awesome! My FHE group went and played in the water there. Many of the other FHE groups were there at the park doing a variety of different activities, but we wanted them all to join us. We went and got them, and it pretty much turned into an unofficial ward activity, because basically the whole ward was there, minus a couple apartments. It was soooo much fun.

This is my beloved 30th ward! It is the BEST ward ever!!! I just love it and I really don't want to leave it!

Hostage situation gone bad.....

A friend of my apartment made the mistake of leaving his beloved Boise State hoodie at our apartment... The hoodie is our hostage. We made an audio tape for said friend and went to deliver the tape. Naturally, we had to go all out on the deliverance of the tape.

We get water guns and pantyhoes, and begin on mission: tape delivery. We get to the boys apartment and have gun in hand and pantyhoe over our face. We bang on the door and hide to the side of the doors, kinda like special agents. The door opens and he assault begins. We start shooting our guns, and they run behind the "chastity line". Little suckers!! We slide the tape to the boys, and begin to leave. Thats when all of a sudden the boys come out and are getting us back. We didn't think about that happening. We run out the door. We run around the corner to hide and come to the realization....... WE LEFT A MAN BEHIND!!!! The other girls wanted to just leave her. I thought otherwise.... I went for the door... it was locked... I knocked on the window and kindly asked one of the boys to open the door. The guys at the sink were yelling at him not to, and then they were yelling at him to open it. I did not understand why the sudden change of heart. Then I saw. They had a big jug filled with water, and I was their target. I tell the other girls to run, and thy are happy to do so. I begin to retreat as well. Just out of his reach. He turns to Puff, the one left behind, and starts to pour it on her, but she gets her hands free and is able to turn it onto himself. HE is now soaked!! I take this opportunity to run across enemy lines to get ammunition. I get a big glass for one hand and a smaller one for the other. I am not caught yet. I fill them with water, and oh no I have been spotted. Josh comes to get me, and I turn and throw all the water on him! He is trying to recover from the freezing cold water that ha just been thrown in his face, and he grabs me! I have been captured also! Puff and I are trying our best to get away/get the boys more with water. Josh is totally taking us both. The boys have captured all of our guns by this point and we are just trying to get what we can. This picture here was taken right after I got slammed in the head with my team members head. Did it hurt?? Yeah, it did.

We call a temporary truce while the tape is played. And by temporary truce I mean we, the girls, were basically forced into submission, as you can see by the picture. The tape had the conditions of the exchange. They must provide a dinner with every course, and it must be home cooked. It was all very simple. The boys tried to change the conditions, but we were strong and stood our ground!

Our innocent little tape delivery turned into an all out battle that the boys basically won. We only had one gun left and that wa after much begging to get it back. The gun belonged to another guys aparment and we had promised to give it back to them.

We are a little frightened because repercussions have been promised. Now we are going to lock our aparment and our living room window everytime we leave the apartment

Anyone have any good retaliations that we can do once the guys get us?? JonnyI know you have some..... hook a sister up!!!

Din-din

So I have introduced Chicken Roll-ups to a few of the guys here at school and now anytime I invite them for dinner that is what they want. The last time I made the chicken roll-ups, at the request of the boys, they wanted to come help make them. Dustin had never used a hand mixer before.... He was so excited to use it for the mashed taters. It was really cute he had that smile on his face the whole time he would use the mixer.

Sterling wanted toget his hands dirty so I gave him the job of rolling the roll-ups in the butter and bread crumbs. He really was more excited about it than the picture shows. He is just a goof ball.

Chelsee mixing the chicken and cream cheese, and Puff reading New Moon to all of us in the kitchen. We aren't obsessed or anything like that. :)

Bryan, Brooklin, and Randy eating dessert.

There were a couple other guys there, but I didn't get any pictures of them. I know sad. Oh well.

Oh and dinner was sooo good. I mean hello it was chicken roll-ups. After this dinner I was asked if I would teach some of them how to cook some other things. It was so much fun teaching them. I don't have any pictures, but it was a lot of fun!