The Apple Store

   The Apple Store in the mall is awesome.

The other customers were giving us funny looks.

AWWW!!!!

Thermal Camera Mode!

 

 

CUTIES!

Yuck.

This morning I woke up with two pink eyes.
Joy.
My eyes burn.


Today I walk in the door from being out.
Ben answers it.
He looks at me, gives me a look, and sinks back into the house in utter disgust.
Thanks Ben.
He won't come near me.
He treats me like I have the Plague.

Pioneer Trek!

This year for Youth Conference, our stake went on a pioneer trek! It was soooo much fun! Although it was terribly humid and we were all sweating a ton, it was so worth it. The trek really gave us an idea of the kinds of trials that the early Saints went through. Trekking made me really appreciate the sacrifice that the Saints made for the church. This was a special experience and I had a blast!

This is me french braiding Jacie's hair before we started walking. This is the cleanest I was the whole time. No sweat, no smell, no dirty. Just how I like it.

Kaitlyn and I were in the same family and we spent most of our time talking and driving our family crazy. We were the official supervisors of the pushing and pulling because we are slightly physically challenged...

Oh yumm. Look at that sweaty face of mine. I have a funny story about my bonnet. I wore it the first day of the trek and by the end of the day it was making my head too hot, so I just had the strings tied loosely around my neck. I went into the porta-potty do my buisness, and as I was leaving the little stall, I saw a purple lump in the bottom of the tank. Delicious. Much to my horror, my bonnet had come untied from my neck and had floated into the toilet as if it was okay. Because it was the first day of the trek, the tub of muck was not very full. Without thinking, I grabbed it out of the gross and held it with a leaf (that's what I'm doing in the picture). I brought it to my mom in utter disgust and begged her to clean it. I couldn't even look at it any more without crying. She cleaned it with lemon dish soap and all was well. By the end of the day, the entire camp had heard about my infamous bonnet tragedy. For the rest of the week, pretty much everyone I knew had cracked three or more jokes regarding the clealiness of my bonnet and the stench, etc. It smelled like lemons though...

Don't we look like we're deep in thought?

This is Kaitlyn, Brooke and me. A few days before the trek, Brooke sprained her ankle and ripped something in her foot at soccer training and so she walked the trek on crutches. The bruises on her foot were the same color as the bruises that she got on her armpits. Poor Brooke!

From left to right: Savannah, Amanda, McKayla, Kaitlyn, Courtnie, and Lizzy. Don't we look like legit pioneers?

We had a hoedown the first night! It was awesome! Our speaker system rocked the whole forest. We learned how to play the spoons. Then all the boys lined up on one side and the girls across from them and we danced the Virginia Reel! 16 times! The music was on loop and they probably made us dance to it for a full 20 minutes. We did some other line dances too. Such as the Boot Scootin' Boogie and Fishing in the Dark. We also had a dance with some slow songs. Someone brought glow sticks and they were so cool! Then a genius decided to break them open and splatter the glow juice over all of us. It was so awesome looking with little glowing polka dots all over until the juice got in my eye. It stung like no other. My eye was glowing. I'm just glad that the glass in the glow sticks didn't get in my eyes. That happened last year at girls camp and the girl had to go to the ER. Fun right?

This is Noah, Kaitlyn, Brooke, and me. During the trek we formed a Mormon gang. We are so hood in our pioneer get up. Don't you think?

GANG SIGN!

don't we look shady?
(We're all actually about to burst out laughing...)

This is my family! From left to right: Front: Kaitlyn, me. Back: Krislee, Sarah, Evan, Bianca, Connor, Michael, Hunter, Pa Ray, and Ma Ray. I'm the shortest! Yippee! But it is kinda on a slope, but I was still the shortest... 

Well this is everyone! Look at how cute we are! This was on the last day before we hiked back to our cars. We all smelled so awful, especially the guys. I could hardly stand being next to them in this picture because they smelled putrid. You almost had to hold your breath.

Here is a real pioneer picture because it's sepia and we aren't smiling most of us aren't smiling.

Here's a link to all 885 pictures from the trek.