Grand Cayon Trip

Okay be ready for a long post. I am mostly posting these pictures so I can remember this trip for a long time. Sorry If you get board of pictures of the Cayon!

We arrived at the North rim of the grand canyon in the evening just in time for the sunset!

The Grand Cayon lodge.
Inside the Grand Cayon lodge There was this awesome place where you could sit down and do whatever and have a view of the canyon.
There was also a very nice restaurant we ate at on the last night. Our reservations for dinner worked out perfect. We watched the sunset and then went and ate dinner with a view of the canyon.
My Dad and Mom.

The first night we stayed in this cabin. It was only supposed to fit three and we fit 5 in it. I was the lucky one and got a bed! (My brothers were on the floor).


The second night we had an amazing room! It had 5 places for people to sleep 2 sinks a refrigerator (Wich was much more nicer that what we had stayed in the night before) a separate room that was my parents and an AMAZING Cayon view! It was off into the woods more instead of next to the lodge. Our room had a "Rim view".

The bunk beds
A couch ish thing that Evan slept on.
Our views looked like this.
And this. It was sooo pretty! You just went out the back door and you could see the canyon!

And here's one more view. In the morning we drove till we found a trail we wanted to stop at. It was call the "Roosevelt trail".
Here are a few big ones that I love.


The views we great!
And I loved all the trees.


We then went to some other trails and places that you could look down and that was cool.






Me

Some pretty flowers.
This is Aaron on the edge of a rock. It was pretty scary and it of course scared my mom to death.

Can you see the Colorado river?
Evan

My family looking off at the bottom of the grand Cayon. This was the place where I was finally feeling yucky from looking down. We were so high.

Aaron, Evan, My and my Mom

Sunset on out last night there.
Me with the Cayon behind me!
It was a really fun trip and I'm glad I could go. After the Grand Cayon we headed up to Utah!

10 things on the 10th

1. I have SOOO much to blog about!! Well kind of... I just have to blog about our visit to the northern rim of the grand canyon (Amazing!) and out trip to Utah, but I have a ton of pictures!!

2. For now here is a picture of some flowers I took at the grand canyon. I liked how it turned out!


3. Since I posted a pic from the grand cayon here is one from Utah! Here is my cousin's son Max. I love this kid!! He is so funny and he is a poser. (I also went to an awesome cupcake shop you all know I love.... but more on that later!)


4. A few weeks ago I started Seminary! I thought it would be super hard for me because I really don't like waking up in the morning till 9:00. Really! But so far it has been fine as long as I go to bed earlier than I used to. I have a awesome teacher and all of the freshmen girls in my ward are in my class!

5. On Thursday I started all my classes at the school I go to called MSA. I am taking two classes there. The 1st one is called "Pryrimd project". It's all about Math & science, patterns wondering about things (and learning about them) and then finding the answers. My 2nd class is called "Classical acting". If you have taken two years of Shakespeare you can be in this class. It's about acting, Shakespeare works and other classics. (I am taking other classes too, but the ones I'm taking at MSA started on Thursday. )


6. I am really ready for fall so I can do more baking and crafts! I have ideas from other blogs so I am going to make a list of great treats and crafts to make. Here's an Idea I love. Isn't that so easy but cute?!

7. Okay kind of boring but.... This is my Flicker page if you want to see my pictures. It doesn't have annything new on it but it will maybe this weekend!

8. So we went to the beach like twice this summer (Sad I know, but we forgot and there wasn't great weather for the beach. We'll be sure to go this month!) but one of the times I went I got this sunset shot I liked!


9. I want to get back to blogging regularly. Like once a week at least. It could be pictures or just writing. I just put it off a lot of times! I want to post a lot so someday I can make a blog book from all my pictures!

10. Okay I saved this for last! This great lady we know does musicals for groups of friends that want to do a play. She hasn't done one in a long time but she decided to and today were the auditions. (Everyone gets a part). Oh and the play she picked was "The wizard of Oz". The 2 people I wanted to be in the play was Glinda the good witch and The wicked witch". She kept the group super small so we could all have more parts and more lines.

I was picked for.....
Miss gulch (The mean lady)..........

AND the wicked Witch!
I have never had a super mean/bad part in a play before so it should be fun! I am working on my voices and my evil cackle! :)

Did she really just say the word cupcake... again?

Oh yes she did! I know many of my posts are about cupcakes... Sorry I can't help it. (I decided that if I could live with one dessert it would be cupcakes. Homemade thought, not the store bought kind.) Moving on. One of the days I bake most is on Sunday. I find it relaxing.... kind of (Except for all the times when I hate the way my cupcakes turn out and I am stressed out about them... which is like all the time.) But today was a great cupcake making day and I was relaxed and loved how my cupcakes turned out.





And here are two cupcakes... One with a chocolate covered ball on top and the other plain. I was trying to decide what looked better but I was leaning towards without the ball, so that's why I made more without the balls on them. BUT I want to know (Just for fun) which cupcake you like better. With the ball or without? Leave me a comment letting me know!
It's kind of cute....
But this just looks like a plain Yummy.
I <3 cupcakes

Happy Birthday to Me! (Can you see the pictures now?)

FINALLY! I spent a long time trying to get the pics to show up... so I'm hoping they do. (Oh and after the last picture there's a little white box that won't go away. Just so you know it's not a picture that you didn't see or anything).

So my birthday was back in July and I never blogged about it so I guess I will now. I had no idea what I wanted to do on my birthday and no plans which is so not like me at all. But it all it was a good day.

I started the day off with cinnamon rolls and then opening some presents. My first gift was an I pod! My mom got me a purple one but then I changed my mind and wanted a pink one so we went and exchanged it for a pink one. I also got the I home.. sorry not pictures.

I also got this super cute book written by the same people who wrote Hello cupcake. You will want it!
My next gift was.... (No not cupcakes) but these amazing cupcake wrappers that stay bright and don't fade when you bake them!! I got like six boxes of different kinds. :)

(Homemade Raspberry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting made by me in amazing non fading wrappers)

To see more about these wrappers and to look at the different kinds go HERE.

Then we were off to visit two cupcake shops! The first one we went to was called "Baby cakes". Here is my and my friend Natalie.

Here we are again.

Some yummy cupcakes....


And more yummy cupcakes!

Next we went to another cupcake shop this time called "Heavenly cupcake".


I took more pictures here.

Don't you just love cupcakes??
We then went to In In out for lunch! (My pick).

Then we sampled them..... My lemon raspberry cupcake from heavenly cupcake.
Me, my mom's, and Evan's cupcakes from Heavenly cupcakes.

And my Red velvet cupcake from "Baby cakes". SO after eating our cupcakes (During different times throughout the day) we decited that we all liked "Baby cakes" cupcakes the best!

Then I had an easy going afternoon at home and we exchanged my I pod for the color Pink.

For dinner we had take out PF changs lettuce wraps (THE BEST THINGS EVER!)

And ate at this beautiful little park that was hidden away.
It has a waterfall and ducklings! By the way the ducklings loved the brown rice we gave them. :)
And since we were so close and I love this store we stopped at....
Me in Crate and Barrel

Not great pictures but my favorite colors!


Lime green!

And just because my mom let me get two from the pile below. (For cupcakes of course!) I got the little balls (We found they have chocolate in them!!) and the green sanding sugar.


I had a great day! Thank you mom and Dad!


Then on Sunday we had a Family dinner and A Nothing bunt cake. White choc raspberry.. SO good. And that was my birthday!

I'm back to blogging!

Hello! It has been a while since I blogged. I promise I'll start again. :) For now here is a collage of some pics I took of Alyssa. (It looks small but if you click on it it gets bigger.)

Hope you enjoy! Oh and also I started a flicker for my pics! So if you want to check my Photo stream out click HERE . On the side of my flicker is also my "Pictures a day" set. It is helping me to be encouraged to take a picture a day so that I can post it on my flicker.