Back Tracking Pt. 3

I have three favorite holidays, The 4th of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas. These are the holidays that bring my family together and that holiday that we have the best traditions for. I love the 4th of July because of the BBQ's, fireworks, family, friends, Freedom festival parade and booths, and the cute outfits and how patriotic everyone is, it's a great day for everyone to be reminded of the great freedoms we have and be thankful for those who have and are currently fighting for our freedom. But this years 4th of July was even better than they usually are. Adam and I were going to go to a BBQ with my family at some friends house. Since I woke up late that morning and missed the freedom festival I decided to be productive by making treats to take to the BBQ. I asked Adam to help me and of course he did. After the treats were made we went to the BBQ where he was able to meet some of my cousins, aunts and uncles. But the day just got better after that, we spent our evening at the stadium of fire, we had good seats too. My sister and her boyfriend joined us for that. After the stadium of fire ended they had dancing in the street for people. Since traffic was going to be bad we decided to dance for awhile. Adam claims that he can't dance, but it doesn't stop him from trying, he always is trying to get me to dance with him, in the candy store, in my kitchen, at the snowcone shack...everywhere, it's so sweet. After we had danced for awhile we laid down in the grass and watched everyone else dancing and he officially asked me to be his girlfriend right then. The perfect ending to the perfect day and holiday.

Adam helped me make these strawberries, they were such a huge hit at the BBQ

The cupcakes Adam helped me make, despite the frosting malfunction they were also a huge hit

Tyson, Mikaela, Adam and I at the BBQ, not sure why Adam and I felt the need to hunch over.

Adam and I at the Stadium of Fire.

Back Tracking Pt. 2

In the middle of June I had to opportunity to work with a photographer who is helping me and an agency create a portfolio for me. It took about 4 1/2 hours, most of that was hair and make up which is my favorite part. And then  off we went to the location to get the pictures done. When we were doing a hair and make up touch up I very quickly became light headed and threw up soon after. I was mortified that I just did that in front of everyone. They were really nice about it and made sure I got food and water in my system fast! They also told me that it happens every now and then, girls just forget to eat, or the shoot is outside and its hot and you get dehydrated. Just so happens that both applied to me, I hadn't ate in the last 8 hours and we were outside shooting the photos and it was unbelievably hot and I had no water with me. Anyway here are a few pictures from the shoot. I am suppose to get the whole disc hopefully in the near future and I am going to be working with another photographer in the near future, and hopefully I will be able to compose myself more professionally in front of him, fingers crossed.

Right after I threw up

Back Tracking Pt. 1

Now that you all know the recent events that have happened in my life let's go back to what happened before Adam left. Three days after I met Adam (End of May Beginning of June) he and Josue convinced me to go to Moab to go skydiving with them that weekend. It was super last minute and I had work but this had been on my bucketlist since I was about 16 years old. So I luckily got work off and off to Moab I went. And let me just say it was a BLAST. Such an amazing feeling. I would do it again in a heartbeat and recommend it! There were 7 of us. Adam, Josue, Me, Adam's dad and two brother and Stumpe (Yes I was the only girl). We all did it and it was a first time for all of us. 2 of the boys threw up, but I won't mention who. But other than that we all had a great time and I was able to make new friendships and get to know Adam more which later turned into the relationship we have today! While I was up there I was also able to visit Arches National Park which I'd wanted to do for a long time and that was so much fun for me as well.

We literally had to sign our lives away on this waiver

Right before my jump

All of us with our certificates saying we completed our jumps.

Mediation by the Arch. 

To Do List

This is the list of things that I plan to do over the  next 3 months to keep me busy and to help the time pass by fast.

• Read Atlas Shrugged (my boyfriend recommended I read it)
• Redo my room (repaint, redecorate, redo everything) I was going to do this a few months ago, I purposely postponed it because I knew when he left I was going to need a project to do.
• Go back to school in August
• Go on a family vacation (Seattle, Washington and Napa, California)

and last but not least

• Get back into my gym routine including going to yoga twice a week

I think three months will fly by!

OORAH!

Today has been a very anticipated/dreaded day. My boyfriend and my best friend both left for the USMC (United Stated Marine Corps) bootcamp. I am so proud of both of them and blessed to have them in my life, and we are blessed to have men like them leave their families to go fight for the freedoms that we enjoy today. They will be gone for 3 months and after they graduate (Oct. 12th) they will have a 10 day break and then they will be gone for another three months doing infantry training. My boyfriend however wants to do Recon, the Marine Special Forces. I know he is capable of doing that so we'll see how that goes. I had chance to spend this last week with these amazing boys and tell them how proud of them I am. Although it will be hard to be apart, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Even though you boys will probably never see this blog post I just want to say that I will be praying every night for you guys and your families. You will be missed but I am proud. OORAH!

Playing Catch Up

I know it's been quite awhile since I've posted any real blog posts. But don't worry I'm ready to begin playing catch up. I just can't do it all at once. So I will post some pictures today so you can have a little preview of whats coming up! Three VERY good blog posts will be coming soon!

What WILL Happen If I Try To Kill A Spider Myself!

What my wife thinks will happen if she tries to kill the spider herself - Imgur