Pumpkins!

We have a pumpkin carving contest, Me and Camerin vs. David and Bonnie. We posted this picture on facebook for voting.

Me and Cam won by a landslide!! I thought their's was great too. Just for the record we didn't look at each others' pumpkins until we were completely done. It was just a coincidence that we had similar ideas.

Fireball

We went to the Sand Dunes on Saturday night to play FIREBALL!! You might be wondering what fireball is....Well, you soak a ball of yarn in kerosene for long time, light it on fire and throw it around. Sound crazy? yes, but hey it's actually pretty cool. It doesn't burn at all(as long as you don't try to hold onto it for a long time). It's just like an extreme version of hot potato.

This is an open shutter picture. It captured all the light for 13 seconds, so the ball moved around pretty fast!

Catching/throwing the fireball.

Conference Weekend

I went to Grandma and Grandpa Hale's house for General Conference.

I took my roommates Megan and Bonnie with me.

Hanging out with cousins.

BAD LUCK!!!! (That didn't tickle)

WARNING: IF YOU DON'T LIKE GROSS THINGS DO NOT READ THIS POST!!! Can't say I didn't warn you.

Lately I have had a bit of bad luck. It started on my birthday. We were getting out of the Weber River after doing a 2 hour float and I stubbed my toe on a rock. I thought "wow that was the most painful part of the float" When I looked at my toe I realized that my toenail was coming off. YIKES!! It was pretty painful. After getting home and soaking it was was pretty sure that the toenail would not fall off.

I was proven wrong a few days later when I looked down and saw this. My toenail fell off shortly after. Now I have painted now painted my nail-less toe so it looks normal. As you will see in later pictures.

Just two days after the toe incident, I was cutting a watermelon for Grandma when the knife slipped. Resulting in....

David, and I were slacklining last Thursday, which we do all the time. We tried to set it up differently than we normally would using a wench. We just grabbed a wench out of the truck and the rope connected to the wench was somewhat weathered. We set up the slackline making it tighter than ever before. When I stepped on the rope the weak part of the rope snapped, which caused the wench to drive into my foot with all the force of the extremely tight rope. Let me tell you! It did not tickle!!!! Before I knew what happened there was blood everywhere. It hit me on the top of my right foot at about the first metatarsal bone. Literally blood was pulsing out of my foot. My first instinct was to put pressure on my foot. I was completely calm and told David to call Dad. After which David ran to his car to get something to wrap my foot in, and Camerin got me some water (mostly to clean the blood off of my hands...there was A LOT!!). David returned with the only thing he could find, a Hollister shirt, and didn't even hesitate to wrap it around my bloody foot (What a good brother?!). During all of this I found the time to call the mother of the boy who I was supposed to tutor for 20 minutes later. That conversation went something like this "Hi, this is Janae. I'm sorry I won't be able to make it to tutoring. Something came up, it's kind of an emergency." ( I called her later to fill her in on the details). The boys helped me to the car and David took me to the doctor where I got x-rays and stitches. Turns out I fractured a bone, and I was bleeding out bone marrow blood. That is why I was bleeding so much and it was so thick. Through the whole experience I was able to stay completely calm. I do not have to wear a boot, and I get my stitches out on Monday. It really could've been so much worse. I'm just grateful that it wasn't!

This is the day after the accident (notice it is the same foot that is missing a toenail and I have painted over so you cannot tell). Also notice that my foot is fat and swollen.

Two days after the accident.

My 21st Birthday

On my 21st birthday I was with my Uncle Bob and Aunt Beth's family. We started the day by river running down the Weber River,

And finished with birthday cake. With lots of fun moments in between.

Michigan

I was lucky enough to visit my sister Janel and her cute family in Michigan. I really enjoyed spending time with them. Brooklynn and Kate are just too cute!!

I got there at about midnight. In the morning Janel brought the girls in my room to wake me up, and Brooklynn ran straight into my arms. I love that she did that. Normally it takes at least a little bit of warming up.

Brooklynn loved playing with my "Repunzel" hair aka long hair.

Katers keeps busy, she is at a really fun and playful age.

We took a bus ride to the University of Michigan Campus. It is a beautiful campus.
At the museum
Paddling the canoe
The bell tower at U of M
Brooklynn not only loved playing with my hair,
But she also loved it when I do her hair. She loves wearing her hair down, but when she saw me french braid my own hair she wanted me to do her hair to match.

We celebrated my birthday the last night I was there.

The girls wanted to help me blow out the candles.

I got to sleep with Brooklynn in her bed. She's so cute. She would cuddle up with me. Sometimes she would reach over and rub my back, or play with my hair in her sleep. Other times I would reach over to find her foot on the pillow. I miss those cute little girls.

Janel and I made circle skirts while I was there. I'll post picture of them as soon as Janel sends me the pictures.

7 Week Break

The break from school has proven to be eventful. The last 7 weeks of my life have been nothing short of fantastic.

I couldn't find my camera charger so I didn't have a camera for the whole break, but it was eventful. I wanted to blog about it anyways just so I would have it documented somewhere.

In short I went on a lot of adventures including going up to the Jones family property on Cedar Mountain, swimming in Kolob Reservoir, camping, watching the sunrise at the Grand Canyon, working at Jacob Lake for a week, St. George, Going to Zions National Park with family, giving Ammon and his kids hair cuts (including a temporary mullet for Jack...Ammon's request), BYU Education Week, making a quilt, driving my sister to her mission conference, visiting my sister Janel in Michigan, river running, my birthday, much needed rest and relaxation, and lots of time with people I love. A PERFECT break if you ask me :)

Kolob Reservoir

Sunrise at the Grand Canyon
After a swim in our clothes, during FHE with my cousin Kristine.