Finally....

Finally something to blog about! My brother, Brandon, kept getting after me about not updating my blog more, blah blah blah, but i just don't really put anything up unless there is really something to say or post about. haha So here i am, summer time......and what does summertime bring? RODEO SEASON!!! I LOVE going to rodeos! Even though i lost my rodeo partner, due to a marriage, they did happen to come with me to at least one that we usually go to.

Katie and her new husband, Adam, came with me to the Strawberry Days rodeo! It was a lot of fun. Even though i forgot to take my allergy medicine before i went and was coughing and sneezing the whole time, I really enjoyed myself. It was Adam's first time to a rodeo, so we got to share our knowledge of all the rodeos we have been to! ;) My favorite event is the bull riding, and i think it will always be.

They had a presentation i guess you could call it during the night. I don't know if you have heard of her, but it was called Amanda Payne with The One Arm Bandit and Co. She did a little show for us, with her and her horse, and two buffalo. It was pretty cool.

I don't know if you can see it very well, but she is standing on top of the horse on top of the trailer.

And she got the two buffalo to go up on top of the trailer, and she eventually went up there to, but i wasn't fast enough to get a picture. It was pretty cool.

Then Saturday, me and my cousin Kirsten went to Lagoon and spent the day there! We had a lot of fun, and hope to go again this summer, to go on some rides we didn't go on. There were so many people there! The line for Wicked was 30 min. The line for Rattlesnake Rapids was an hour long. Can't really blame the people though, it was one hot day. It's kind of lame how you wait in line for so long, and the ride, is only last seconds. :( Not very well put together! haha But we had fun none the less!

These two rides are my most favorite rides at Lagoon. The top one is called the Samuri. It takes you up in the air and spins you around all crazy. Each section of seating moves in a different direction flipping you back and forth, upside down and such! SO MUCH FUN! The bottom one is called Wicked! You sit in a tunnel, waiting to be launched out, and then all of a sudden off you go, straight up, then straight down, then does a few twist and turns and such to flip you upside down and all. Love them both, but LONG lines for both as well!

Sorry i know it's a lots of slide shows, but these are my pictures! Enjoy!!

Spring Break

Well, we are home, and I'm relaxing and thought I would put on here my exciting Spring Break vacation! What a week it was too! I guess you could have called it my celebration for being "fully healed"! haha Tuesday was my 6 week mark, and that's what they say it takes. But let me tell you....they are just saying that! ;) It definitely takes longer. But I guess what I did this week, doesn't really help my case a whole bunch. Cause MAN I'M SORE! I'm loving it though! It was such a good accomplishment for me! So here we go!


We left Friday after we(Mom, Dad, and I) all got off work. Traveled down to St. George to spend Easter with my Dad's family! It was so nice to see some of them down there that we don't usually see that often. Saturday we had our little Easter Egg Hunt, then went to the Art Festival St. George throws every year! It was really cool. Then after that some of us went up to the narrows and climbed the rocks for a while, and took some pictures. Sunday after breakfast we got back in the truck and went our way to Bryce Canyon. When we got there, there was snow on the ground and it was cold. We went and checked out Bryce's for a bit, and the wind was freezing so we didn't stay very long. But Monday was a good day, a tad cold, but after hiking all day we warmed up quick. We went on a trail down to the Queens Garden. It took us about 3 miles to hike the loop. I was exhausted after that....just 3 miles. We then took a ride around Bryce's and checked out most of the scenic areas when it started snowing. So come Tuesday morning we had about 2 inches on the ground. Yet we still went and did some hiking....try not to slide on the snow and right off the cliff. ;) After our little adventure, we packed up and drove to Calf Creek(back in the desert with no snow). We hiked up a trail called Lower Calf Creek on Wednesday and that was a 6 mile hike round trip! That did me in for Wednesday! After that hike we packed up and drove to Goblin Valley! On our way there we had to drive through snow, but Goblin Valley is in the middle of no where with no snow, and all desert! We couldn't make up our minds on the weather!! So all day Thursday(Dad's Birthday) we went on a hike up a slot canyon called Little Wild Horse Canyon. That was so fun, and challenging!!! I had to use my arms and legs a lot to climb over these rocks and water puddles. It's amazing i could do it. I sure feel it today, but it's a great accomplishment for me to have been able to do that 6 weeks after surgery. Anyway, that hike was probably about 6 miles or so. After, we went and walked around all the little rock structures that are called the little Goblin's. It was cool. So here I am on Friday. 


It was hard to adjust from desert to snow to desert to snow to desert. But it was a lot of fun. It's was cool to see all the different type of rocks and dirt Utah has, the different climates, plants, everything. So very interesting! But it was fun while it lasted. Now i'm off to hopefully a recuperating weekend, and then back to work i go! 


Hope you all had a good Easter and Spring Break wherever you were!