Lonestar Concert!

I went to my first country concert last weekend...Lonestar!  I got a random phone call from my friend Brandon saying his boss won a bunch of tickets to the Lonestar concert in Wendover, Nevada, so he invited me, Josh, and Addison to come and bring dates.  I'm not a huge fan of country music in general, but what songs I did know of Lonestar I liked.  It ended up being really fun and I had a blast. Plus it's always nice to get out of Utah.

My Birthday Party!!

I just had my birthday on the 7th and turned 24!  I was really dreading turning 24 up until about 2 weeks ago when it hit me that this new year of my life is going to be amazing.  I have so much to look forward to and just thinking about all of it got me really excited to turn 24.  Plus when I hear "24" I automatically the TV show and Jack Bauer, and that connection alone is worth being 24.  I love that show!  

So for my party I decided to have a bonfire up in Provo Canyon.  There was a really good turn out.  Most of the night there about 20-25 people there.  We brought stuff for smores and my awesome cousin Brittany made me a cake and brought it up.  Most of the night we just chilled around the fire but after blowing out the candles we started to play some night games, but someone got hurt on the first round so after that we stopped. It was a very fun night though!!  And I must say that I have THE BEST FRIENDS EVER!!  

my wonderful creation :D

we put my camera on long exposure mode and had a lot of fun taking pictures with the sparklers 

me goofing off with the glowsticks before playing night games

Concert at a waterpark...best venue ever

When I found out about this concert it was the day before it happened.  I heard it on the radio but I thought I must have heard wrong because Mayday Parade was coming to perform at Raging Waters in Salt Lake.  Ever since they came out with their new album "Anywhere But Here" this band became me and Travis's new favorite so we looked up their tour schedule for the summer and it only said they would be playing at Warp Tour at the end of the summer, so when we found out about this spur of the moment concert we got very excited.  It was a gorgeous day for a water park and then the concert was in the middle of the day so we took a break for lunch and watched the band perform.  It was all acoustic and sound great!  We all had a blast.  And with my waterproof camera I was able to get some pretty cool pictures and I even snuck it on some of the water slides and took some videos.

This slide was awesome!  You had to get enough speed to clear the hump in the middle.  It started at 70ft in the air and went pretty much into a straight drop.  Way fun!

My BB

As many of you may know I am back in Provo now.  I'm here for the summer to live with all my friends again as well as to work.  I'm selling pest control this summer and it's going pretty well.  I've been meaning to put a new post up for a while now but i've just been putting it off, then i came across some pictures i took a couple months ago while i was in Hawaii and thought they would make a perfect post.  A little bit of a background explanation is needed first though.  The girl in all these pictures is Natalie.  We call each other "BB," and as weird as it's going to sound stands for butt-checker bestie.  We used to just call each other butt-checker because i called her that after she forgot her phone at wendy's one night a long time ago.  She realized it wasn't in her back pocket and explained that she always checks her butt for her phone.  I told her i do the same for my wallet and we called each other that ever since.  Later the nickname changed to bestie and then one day Natalie very excitedly told me she came up with the best nickname ever:  BB!  so that's why we call each other that now.
Now to explain the pictures.  I was studying in the library one day and Natalie started a video chat with me, but i had to type everything back because i couldn't be loud in the library. Then she got the hilarious idea to start making faces at all the people walking by to make me start laughing!  It worked and i had to try my hardest not laugh out loud.  Then i started taking screen shots of her faces so I could put them on my blog eventually.  Then it evolved into me taking screen shots whenever we were on Gchat so i have quite a few funny ones.  So here they are :)  Love ya BB! p.s. don't kill me for this...

Shark Video

I decided that pictures don't the shark dive justice so i put together this movie of it from videos i took on the dive.  I tried to get the video to upload, but it wouldn't work for some reason so i put it on youtube.  here's the link for it.  enjoy!  Swimming with the sharks

Swimmin' the Sharkies

Last week i did something very crazy and fun...i swam with sharks!!  It was so amazing!  We took a boat ride about 3 miles off shore and were then lowered into a cage while with snorkel gear on so we could stay underwater and see all the sharks.  We saw two kinds of sharks, Galapagos and sand sharks.  They averaged about 8-10 ft, but there were a couple of 12-footers swimming around us.  And there were about 10 sharks swimming around the cage while we were down there.  SO COOL!! 

OOOPS!! i did it again!

on friday i was hiking to this beautiful waterfall in the mountains of hawaii and on the way back down i slipped while crossing a big stream. it was very wet and muddy, and my shoes had no traction on them. i fell backwards and tried to catch myself, but landed on my hand. i wasn't too concerned at first, but then it started swelling and hurting more so i wen't in and got it x-rayed on saturday and they said it was just sprained, not broken. so it's in a splint for the next couple of days. it happened to my right wrist, so it's been really hard lately doing everything with my left hand. the biggest problem is that i have a big dance performance on wednesday...so hopefully everything will go well with that still. we'll see...