My week.. and a new found love

This week I could finally play VOLLEYBALL for the first time in almost 3 months. You can imagine how excited I was! It was so fun, we went to EXCELL camp. and From about 9-12 we had team practice.. the guy in the pic (Steve) is who our team coach was, hes from Cali! He was the COOLEST! then we had lunch for like an hour.. then from 1-3 we had position work, then we did skits (fun) after that, from 4-7 we had tourney play!! It was A BLAST.. we learned a lot. We finished Fourth out of 9 teams.. not great. but there were some amazing teams there! and we had some problems with people having to leave because of other sports.. and our setter got hurt.. so our amazing outside player filled in setting and did a great job! :D Being crazy in our hotel!

This is my new found love.. okay not really. But since I LOVE flowers.. I decided to try drawing them.. and I think for my first time I didn't do very bad? haha.. these are just a few.. :D

Tates goodbye's..

Sunday Tate gave his farewell talk. It was so cute, and I think we were all amazed at how well he did because he wrote it all on his own! :P Then Sunday night his close friends and family came over to say their goodbyes. Then family, and a couple of his friends stayed for his setting apart. It was such a fun yet spiritual night. Tate and Jeff!
GIRL COUSINS!! how fun huh? at least we all can still hug Tate when he comes home but isn't.. um released? I don't know what they call it when there not a missionary anymore! :D (would you say our family likes black and white?) haha
Me and my daddy!!
Tate and some of his girls! :D their last hug goodbye! (going from left to right- I dont know the girl on the far left, but then its Kylie, Dana, Tate, Janell, Angela, and Cortney)


Tate left on Monday with my parents to drive up to Utah to visit some family in Utah before he left. They also went into the Salt Lake Temple. And who knows what else.. haha on Wednesday Tate reported to the MTC in Provo. And begun his mission experience. I know he will be such an AMAZING missionary! I already miss him SO much! But.. time will go by fast, its weird to think I will have graduated when he gets home!

My favorite thing..

When we went to Chicago, there were people all over that would play their instruments. I LOVED it. These ones were outside of Wrigley Field before the game. But what amazed me was the little boy! He was SO good, and kept up with them. It was awesome!!

CHICAGO

Wrigley field. (Chicago Cubs Stadium)

We went shopping and at one of the malls the Lego store was there. it was so cool, it was like a mini Lego land.. okay not really at all. But it was still cool.
This is another one made out of Lego's..

This is us walking the streets. I told Tate to carry me, and he tried but couldn't (hehehe, he really could if he wanted to) So i said. I'm stronger then you, i will carry you. and i did! - but i don't know what he is doing in this picture.

This is the whole reason we went to Chicago. The Hohokams (they run the spring training for the cubs, and my dad is the big ho (president) of it) anyways, they go every year to get their picture taken on the field.. yes we went onto the field. It was so fun!

This is us the second day we went.. we sat in the seats that day (the first day we sat in the.. hmm something suite. but it was an inside thing with a buffet.. etc.)

Random pic. But i love the old buildings mixed in with the new modern ones

My dad asleep on the "L"

So me and Tate got to go for the 5th inning and sit right behind the dugout for the cubs (they passed around the tickets so everyone could go) and it was so cool. We were SO close to the players!!!!

MY TWO DADS!! my real dad.. obviously, on the left. And on the right is my "dad" When i was about six we were in a magazine thingy and for the picture, he was my dad! Ever since then, i have just always called him dad! haha.. good times

On top of the Sears tower! it was so cool, we got to go on top of the tower and see out, the city is amazing. This is just playing with the different effects on my camera..

:D

My mom said this makes it look like its under water! cool!!

These are what i bought there.. i wanted to go shopping, like for clothes. But everything there is SO expensive. And we found this little shop with really cute jewelry, i don't think any of the jewelry was over 8 dollars that i got!! and the sun glasses and purse my mom bought at Marshall's!

The bracelets.. sorry its blurry!

Thank you MOM and DAD for a really fun trip!! this is the last trip we got to take with the four of us before Tate leaves for his mission... :'( but it was SO much fun im glad we got to go!!!

Tuesday

So. Tuesday.. Trev called me and told me that on Monday it was gramps birthday. And I didn't know that, so I told him to come over, so we could make brownies and take them to him. Well he did and it was a lot of fun.. oh ya, he also brought me taco bell for lunch!!! So, we made the brownies.. although they didn't turn out perfect.. but that's okay! And we put some aside to take to gramps.. then well Trev took this cooking class or something, I don't really know. And they made this thing.. I don't know if it has a name. But with the rest of the brownies, we took out the middle, but left a little layer on the bottom, then you make chocolate pudding and mix it with cool whip. Then you fill in the hole you made with the pudding stuff, and add in the chunks you took out.. I don't know. Weird stuff. But it was really good actually! haha. Then Colton came over, and we went and took the brownies to Gramps, he wasn't there though, so we talked to Grams for a little while. And then went home, it was a lot of fun! :D

This is it! oh ya.. drizzle Hershey's syrup on it!! :D
oh wait, I think he called it a brownie pie? maybe...

The Ranch

- (The cinder pit) Tanner is on it, and Julie is standing at the bottom

- My mom and Melinda

- me and Jake

- Rob and Mason on the quad

- Julie and Matt

- Scott and my dad

TO SUM IT UP- so last week/weekend we (my Mom, Dad, Me, Staci, Matt, Parker, Rob, Julie, Mason, Tanner, Gemma, Scott, Melinda, Jake, Matt) went to the ranch for our i guess annual fourth of July thingy.. I never realized we always go then. Anyways, it was a lot of fun. the fireworks were cancelled cause of fire danger. And there was a parade.. but right during the middle of it it started hailing SO hard, it killed my fingers and toes. But we still had so much fun together!

How To Play This Game of Tag:Post these rules on your blog.List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself.Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!

Okay well Britt tagged me so here I go:

JOYS:
1. playing sports
2. my family
3. my friends
FEARS:
1. cockroaches
2. the dark
3. sharks
GOALS:
1. get a scholarship for either Volleyball or track
2. finish my personal scrapbook
3. figure out what I want to be when I grow up
OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS:
1. collect- precious moments
2. collect- anything Cinderella
3. music!
RANDOM:
1. I love flying in airplanes, but I'm scared to fly over an ocean
2. Sports is basically my life.. I wish music was a big part too, but it might help if I was good at it :P
3. I currently have found out that I really enjoy painting/drawing even though I'm not that great at it

OK I TAG, Tannis, Emily, Miya, Sheridan, and Julie