so. many. things. going. on.

my life is so hectic and crazy and insane right now!!

i'm moving to edmonton on saturday! a whole week earlier than anticipated.

carter moved to slave lake. bummer. but it's closer to edmonton than raymond is!

i'm getting my student loans asap. yay!

my family - no offense to those of my family reading this blog post - is driving me crazy. cousins, aunts, brothers.. i'm going nuts. there is so much drama and fighting and back biting and blah blah blah. i don't want to know about your problems. no one really does. ANNOYING. okay sorry i'm done.

also, lastly but not leastly, i'm turning 19 tomorrow. excited? naw. it's not even a big deal. as far as i know, i'm not getting any presents. i don't get a cake. carter won't be here. it'll just be me and mom. and i have an ortho appointment. so bummer there too. annnd i also have to pack my guts out. :( we'll see.

but i don't have a computer and internet so blogging will be scarce. we shall see.

peace out, homies.

incrediblility.

if we're friends on facebook, you probably know that i'm in slave lake for a bit. my dad is working to help rebuild the city, after it was ravaged by a wild fire, and then a flood. (read this article for details.)

anyways, slave lake has definitely been on the radar since may. i've heard so many things about the fires and the floods and i had this image in my mind of a broken city, sad people, a feeling of loss.

the houses to the right and the left of this lot were completely untouched by the fire.

trees - or what's left of them - along the highway.

remains of a quad.

bbq.

a truck.

what's left of a gas station.

but now i'm realizing how terribly wrong i was. the residents of slave lake did not let the fire - or the flood - break them. they are growing. they are rebuilding. they still have hope. 

we went to church here yesterday. my family, heather, justin and their baby, kevin, sheena, their two kids, and mark joined the ranks of the branch. in total, there were 42 of us. it was fast and testimony meeting, as many of you know. and through the testimonies of the members of the branch, i realized that hope is not gone. tragedies to not define us.

slave lake is a beautiful city. the citizens are so faithful and brave. seriously, if you ever have the opportunity to come to slave lake.. do it. i plan on spending a lot of time up here, getting to know the city and the lake and the people. 

there is hope. there is always hope.

ps, sidenote.. i am loving instagr.am !!! :)

whadda day.

i got fired today.

yep. me. perfect worker. fired.

oh well. they sucked anyway.

then i bought an iphone4. expensive much? totally worth it. text me your name! my number is.....

403-393-6423

and now i'm not ready for bed yet. but i should be, cause i'm leaving for slave lake to see my family at 6 or 7 in the morning. :( sick. but i'm doing it. have a great weekend! i'll be back... sometime.

it's a dare!!!

okay. i dare you to go to www.stumbleupon.com and NOT spend an unnecessary amount of time on it.

in the meantime, enjoy these little treasures i found.

alcohol poisoning!
jk. if you wanna have a great time, do this with a 2L of a pop of your choice.
it's just a good.

confessions.

i'm selfish. i eat way too much junk food. i don't take care of my diabetes like i should. i spend my money too fast. i don't always pay my tithing first thing. i waste way too much time on the computer. i hate my job. i think i sing really well. i don't. i don't take much pride in how i look. i wish my teeth were whiter. i wish i wore smaller jeans. i wish i had a butt. i wish my boobs were smaller. i'm a very jealous person. i am not only in the world, but of it. i litter. i speed. i like bubble baths. a lot. i have a short temper. i don't always wash my hands before i come out of the bathroom. i'm usually really unprepared for basically everything. i expect other people to do a lot of things for me. i don't express my thanks often enough. i have a hard time saying "i love you" to the people who deserve it the most. i have mean thoughts. people do things just to make me mad. that makes me even madder. i want things that i can't have. i have unrealistic dreams. i get addicted to tv shows like jersey shore and teen mom. 

but what do you want from me? 

i'm only human.

hummingbird heartbeat

i've had a crazy trash weekend.

first, adrian totes got his mission call!

second, it was thunder in the valley! supes awesome.

me and boyfriend drove up saturday morning/afternoon and hung out with my famdamily at the downtown fair/show&shine all day.

then we went and sat in the field at six thirty.

wanna know what time the fireworks start at?

eleven.

yup. we were there for 4.5 hours. just sitting.

maybe we took some pictures?

anddd we got rained on.

no. rained is an understatement.

we got POURED on.

the clouds opened up and blessed the farmers.

some more.

damn farmers.

but we stuck it out, and saw some great fireworks.

also, we were supposed to go to the mountains after the show and camp out with my grandparents.

but because of the rain, they left early to go to bed.

so we opted out of camping and decided to drive home.

bad idea.

but such a good one.

you see, if we had ended up driving to the mountains, we would have got half way there and then had a bad car incident.

if you've never been to thunder in the valley, you can't possibly understand the traffic.

basically what happened was, in the hustle and bustle (not! it was a stand still!) of blairmore, of people trying to drive out onto the highway, my car overheated.

we're not just talking that the temperature gauge got to the H.

but when we shut the car off...

we could hear it boiling and bubbling.

talk about stress!!

luckily, aunt dianne was there to come rescue us. again.

i swear, she always always always comes to my aid.

such a great lady.

we finally got home at 3:14 on the dot. but we were too wired up on energy drinks to sleep. so we popped in a movie, and cuddled up for a long night.

[secretly, i ended up falling asleep and carter woke me up at 11:52. i dunno if he slept at all!]

we decided that, instead of being good little mormon kids (oops) and going to church

we would go on a date.

so we drove to lethbridge, ate at denny's 

(so good!!),

and went to

and it was amazing.

i, like every other hardcore potter fan, shed a few tears.

but even carter - who has himself admitted that he has never read the books, and never really got into the movies - said it was "so freaking good! can we go to it again?"

but i, unlike every other hardcore potter fan, disagree when they say

because these movies, like so many before, are so incredible that the hogwarts love spell will never end.

the end is near for our generation..

but i, for one, plan on reading the books to my children (or letting them read on their own), one at a time, and showing them the movies, one at a time. same as it was for us.

we will dress up and have harry potter parties.

there will always be harry potter halloween costumes.

HARRY POTTER WILL NEVER END.

this occurred to me at the end of the movie, when they showed *** and *********, ***** and *****, *****, and their ******* in the ******

*edited as to not ruin the end of the movie for those of you wieners who have never read the books, and have yet to see the movie. but when you see it, this is my favorite part!!

and it's not over! they are passing on the magic of hogwarts! just like i will, and i'm sure many of you will! 

anyways, that was my weekend.

how was yours?

apologies.

happy independence day to my american friends.


enjoy this.


i just thought i'd apologize for your lack of health care. yeah, that sucks.


also, your anthem is really really long. sorry about that too.


and i know you guys have 9.2 times more people than we do.. but we're over it. we live 3.8% longer!


sorry about all the protestants down there.


and looks like the USA is 91 years older than canada. just means you'll die sooner.
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ps! i'm totally kidding. although i do love living in canada, i also love the united states of america. i love the shopping and the beaches and the people and i love utah and hawaii and california. i have nothing against the american anthem, or protestants. i know a lot of canadians that spend july 4th moaning and groaning about how much they hate americans and the states and blah blah blah. but me and carter were trying super hard to figure out a way to get to great falls tonight to celebrate with other us of a citizens. 

i hope you all had a great weekend with family, friends, sunshine, bbqs, swimming, camping, and fireworks!

apple products.

i need an iphone.

yes, it's true.. i have had an iphone in the past.. but it broke. and now i want a new one.

what phone am i currently using?

this ugly turd face. 

it's not even smart enough to be considered a smart phone.

so right now, i'm pining for an iphone.

and what better accessory for an iphone than an imac?

carter says i need a macbook pro. cause i'm pro.

plus, i need one for school.

do i have any voluntary sponsers ??

oh my goodness!

oh my goodness!

i've missed www.blogger.com !!

in fact, i just spent the last 40 minutes reading posts that i've missed over the last 6 days.

see, my internet was down.

except for about 10 minutes, in which i was able to post a picture of me and carter beside a motorcycle!

we took that baby to grad.

and it was so sweet.

let's see.. what else have i been up to..

well, like i said.. grad. carter graduated!

YAY for boyfriend!

and i had matching hair with his sister..

and i made a new friend!

L-R : me, boyfriend, boyfriend's best friend (nathan), and new friend (shauna)

yesterday was CANADA DAY! :)

i love canada day.

basically, in my little town of raymond, canada day means a number of things.

1 - family reunions. 

2 - lame parades.

3 - loads of bbqs.

                 seriously, if you don't have a bbq, you have no friends.

4 - no rules. go ahead, ride your quad with no helmet. go jump off a bridge. no one cares.

5 - fireworks.

6 - sunburns.

pre sunburn.

post sunburn.
even boyfriend got sunburned!

that's about it.

catching up..

i haven't posted any decent photos for awhile.

enjoy.

ich bin fabelhaft.

remember how i mentioned that sunburn?
this is just a better picture.

i got my butt handed to me on a silver platter.
beans(aka christine, aka brad) kicked my trash hard.

it rained.

he got kicked playing soccer on his birthday.

happy birthday to him?

just some driving.

are cameras considered a driving hazard?
kidding!
we were parked.
but not THAT kind of parked..
we just hadn't started driving home from the
work bbq yet.
i promise.

pretty self explanatory.
i think he really appreciated this picture with his weekly email.

ps. new blog design? yes or no?

weird, right?

okay... so last night i you gotta see this for yourself.

this is real life. at sometime during the 8 hours of sleep i got.. i seem to have semi woken up, switched my whole bed around.. the demon sun came up and ruined my life.. and.. yeah..