Halloween Weekend!

On Friday My sister Callie and my cousin Sadie came up to Berkeley to go to the Halloween party/dance with me. Here we are: Rainbow bright, miss Peacock, and Miss scarlet!

Here I am with my freind Naz and I at the party. Naz is on the activities committee with me and we worked on the haunted house which turned out amazingly!

Rainbow bright and Jem...My friend Chiquies and I decided to bring back the 80's this Halloween!

Kathy was a chalk outline (quite cleaver), I was Rainbow bright, and Megan had and amazing Cleopatra costume.

Amy and I looking cute for the halloween party! We are both on the activity committee and did a ton of haunted house work together, it was lots of fun.

Me and my friend Katy (she's the YSA rep) the girl in-charge of the whole party she did a great job.

Emron and his friend not only danced "thriller" like a dream but also scared the pants off of everyone who came through the haunted house!

On Saturday I went home and went with my parents to their ward Halloween party. Here I am with my Dad see the family resemblance?

At the party I got to see my friend Jana who is married and moved back to the old home town. It was fun to see her!

I had forgotten how beautiful the ranch is in the fall! So amazingly beautiful!

My brother, my sister-in-law, and my nephew Adden were home for the weekend as well so I got to see them on Sunday. Here I am chasing my little nephew around the house (he's dressed as an owl soooooooo cute). It was an amazing weekend!

Disney Land in October!

So I've been putting off updating my blog, thinking to myself how many events I would have to blog about....turns out it was really just one big post about our trip to Disney land! One Thursday I drove home (to my parents house) and met up with my Mom, my sister Callie, my cousins Sadie and Addie, and my good friend Hillary and headed down to LA where we met up with my sister Brianna and drove out to a hotel right across from Disney Land. Then next day we headed out to the park. Here we all are (note our stripey matchie-ness) ready for a day of Disney fun.

We were all excited to go on the rides....Hillary not so much when it came to it's a small world but we dragged her along anyway.

One of the things I love most about hanging out with my family is how funny we all find each other.

...I guess we just don't have what it takes to pull the sword from the stone...

Mom & daughters!!!

Sticking together on the Spooky haunted mansion. Hil, brianna, Sadie, Callie and I.

Classic infront of the castle pic. Cal, me, Addie, Sadie, Brianna, & Hill.

On the Matterhorn.

Getting wet on Splash mountain.

Soaked after splash mountain. Me, Addie, and Hill got soaked!

Lov'n the 3-D glasses on Toy story ride!

Me and my sister Callie on Toy story our favorite ride!

Me, Brianna, and Sadie taking a rest at the end of the day.

Glowing bracelet group handshake.

It was an amazing day and a much needed break from the stresses of life!

New Apartment!

My bedroom from looking in the door.

Looking to the left from the door! Nice big window!

The hallway. To the left is the bathroom. To the right my roommates bedroom. Straight foreward is my room!

Our living room! I washed the window yesterday...the papertowles I used were black!

Our kitchen. I cleaned and set up the table yesterday so it looks cute!

So yesterday morning I woke to a free saturday! I love the feeling of being able to do whatever I want. So I decided to do some cleaning since I really haven't had a chance to do so since I've lived in my aparment. I knew it was dirty and all of the areas in which I have placed my things I've cleaned with bleach wipes...but that had been my room mostly and the bathroom. Well yesterday I cleaned our common area and it was disgusting!!! My roommates and I moved into the apartment that had been previously occupied by girls living in our ward. It was kind of a slow transition and in all honesty some of the "grossness" factor could have been caused by my roommates before I moved in but it was very frustrating to move into a place that was so dirty, all grossness not of my own making. So moral of the story... clean your grossness before you leave a place, it's rude to leave it behind for someone else to take care of. Anyway I spent 3 hours on our tiny apartment and I must say I think it's looking good.

Adventures

So I've decided...I'm going to be more dedicated to making Berkeley feel like home, which means a few less trips home. This weekend is my first official weekend here since I was gone at Camp Ritchie last weekend. This morning I went hiking with my roommate and a few girls from my ward. Here we are ready for our hike Erica (my roomie from last year), Allison (my current roommate), Amy, and I.

About 10 minutes into our hike we came across this bad boy, honestly if I hadn't seen it moving I wouldn't have thought it was real...but it was, very cool looking salamander.

The morning was foggy and the landscape was amazingly beautiful!

We walked though this path under the tree limbs..very romantic (in an Anne Shirley kind of way), there was so much scope for the imagination.

We stopped to get some water and Amy and I took this pic...sweaty glow, yeah that's the look we were going for. :)

Group shot on the hike...so beautiful!

Another pic of the scenery! It was so gorgeous.

After our hike we hopped in the car and drove over by the bay and picked Black Berries. Here I am ready to drop one in my bowl. We did some serious hiking around these hills to find the most delicious berries.

The reward was all these delicious berries which we made into pie tonight and had a game night with some friends. It was a great day full of adventure, friends, and yummy food.

Labor Day Weekend...one last hurrah!

For Labor Day weekend I went to camp Ritchie for a YSA conference and brought along my sister Callie and my friend Hillary! We arrived late Friday night due to heavy traffic and getting lost (thanks so to a combo of heroics from Myriah and Clair we made it to camp).

The next day after speed dating and a service project we headed for the lake where we went out in the boat, swam and floated on inter tubes all afternoon. Here's a pic of Callie and I on our way back to camp looking tan and relaxed.

Here's Hill, Callie and I after getting ready for the dance that evening.

Before the dance we designed our own mini golf course. We met so many fun people at camp.

The next day we woke up and got ready for church.

After a relaxing afternoon of resting and nature walks we had a fireside where we made up our own parables. Here's my group presenting our parable which basically consisted of life being like a road full of things jumping out in our way or distracting us from the side but we need to keep our eyes forward on the destination.

Here I am hanging out with my friend Yolanda one of the only people I knew from Berkeley that went.

Dinner with my new friends Jake and Marie!

Marie and I both had our head lamps handy for hiking around at night. The camp is set up in such a way that you pretty much have to climb around to get anywhere.

After the fireside and dinner we had a bonfire where we had the chance to chat and hang out with our new friends one last time!

The next morning we packed up and got on the road. Here we are saying good-bye to our new friend Heather. We met people, spent time in an amazingly beautiful area, relaxed and had the best time ever! It was an amazing weekend!!!