Boise-Day 3 Wedding Day

The day we have all been waiting for since we met Erica had arrived. Finally after 3 years the wedding we had all heard about, to the man we had all heard about was taking place at 1pm. We got dressed and headed down to the temple.

I had a good thirty minutes of scripture study while waiting for the ceremony to end. Erica apparently bawled as soon as she knelled down and then the rest of my friends started crying too. We took some photos outside but these Idahoians don't know how hot really hot is, so they were all dieing to get out of the heat.

Walking out for the first time and then over to hug us

(He is taken now)

We took a quick detour to the mall while we passed the time until the luncheon. I have to give James propts, I thought a few pinatas was a perfect addition to any lunch, I loved the candy and the food for lunch wasn't bad either, in fact the honey butter was so good, I used it as my happiest moment for the day.

(escaping from the dogs)

Again we had an hour or so to kill before the reception, so we headed to the pool next door to cool down before we started dancing like maniacs at Erica's house.

We boxed out Jessica, but none of us got the flowers :(

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The night had a tragic ending, yes Erica was married but Kara threw her back out dancing. That just goes to show you, we do not mess around when it comes to a dance party, go big or go home. Taylor Swift came on when we were driving home and we had to sing all the way home and even sitting in the drive way.

Boise-Day 2 Shooting Montana

Thursday was an amazing day. Woke up and was getting ready, when I didn't know what to wear. Gunnar called Paps and we were good to go shooting, so that made my clothing decision easy, camo shorts it was. We headed down to Wally world for some essentials, clay pigeons, ear plugs, and a 12 pack of pop. Drove just a few minutes from the house and Gunnar counted off 100 yards. He was money shooting the rifles. I on the other hand, couldn't hit a target to save my life. I felt bad for wasting just a few rounds of his ammo. Once we switched to the shotgun, it was another story. I really loved that gun, it seemed as if I couldn't miss. From candles to oranges to beer cans and clays, there wasn't much I didn't hunt down. And when we didn't hit them in the air, we just walked right up and took them out point blank. My proudest moment was hitting an egg with the shotgun, you can bet I yelled a yee haw when that egg splattered high in the ID sky. Gunnar and I highly suggest shooting candles too, they smell so nice after being shot. The afternoon of shooting couldn't get much better than a stop at the snow shack on State Street.

'Ready Stance'

Aim

Fire

We picked up Butch and Mckayla from day care and Tammy made us sloppy joes while we waited for the rest of our crew to get here. It was fun catching up and finally getting to see Cristy (she is the one who most recently got back from a mission) and tease her again. I had Gunnar try and teach me how to do a back flip on the tramp, but while I did improve, I realized eventually there was no hope, especially with my thumb being out of whack.

We ended the night by watching Hannah Montana, (we all couldn't get enough of that boy) and it wouldn't have been an end of the night without a little dance party where we all tried to learn the pop it lock it polka dot it song

Boise-Day 1 Party Time

The plane ride to Boise was freezing, it was a good thing I brought a jacket. As soon as I got my bag I went straight out to the sun. From the airport we headed to TJ Max, apparently Ash had gotten 4 new dresses there and so we had to go pick some out for Jamie. Its amazing to me how having other people tell you, 'oh that's cute', or 'yea that looks good' nfluences your purchase choice. I can go into about ten stores at home and not buy a thing, but put me in a dressing room with 3 of my friends and I walk out with two new outfits. Its probably a good thing my friends don't live near me cause I would be out of alot of money.

(you cant tell, but we are squished into a fitting room while Jamie is trying clothes on)

After shopping we headed to the bachelorette party, which was quite an experience. No one was able to answer my question about how we could be better prepared for the week after a honeymoon but it was alot of fun getting to see friends and laugh. Erica put on quite a show for us.

Some of the goods she got
One of my favorite parts of the day was coming home to see Gunnar and Shelby, I had been gone all day and didn't get to see them till that night. There is nothing like having kids run to hug you, they sure made me feel loved, I realized I had missed my kids in Eagle!

Beach Paradise

I'm not one to commit...... my life is evident of that. I was hesitant to go to San Diego for the 4th of July, but figured 'why not' onlya few days before we left. It ended up being a pretty awesome time and wished it was longer. Katie's condo was to die for and one of my favorite moments of the trip was getting to relax and watch some tennis. Don't worry the beach was pretty amazing too.

Taking the cruisers out was basically amazing, it was very vintage to me

The food at Joe's was disgusting, but the pop rock drink was the best thing ever, I would go back again and again for that!!! Easily my happiest moment for that day!

Balboa Park was fun until we lost Hadyn

I'm a Survivor

I love the show Survivor and the Reba song, so getting into the theme of camp seemed real easy to me. Most of the time I felt like I was just trying to survive getting caught by any leaders. I could def tell you what I hated about girls camp this year, but its hard to say what I loved most about girls camp. First and fore most would have to be falling asleep to the hum of Julianne's snoring every night, nothing gets better than that and I'm being dead serious. Everything else was just icing on the cake, like meeting a celebrity, playing with Mufasa, having rocks thrown at me, waking up everyone in our cabin every night, those kind of things just make camp an experience. Here are just a few pictures of me in sunglasses as much as possible because I just got lasik eye surgery....

"Reach out and Sprinkle Someone with China Glitter"

John Locke from "Lost"

Everyone was making fun of me for having to wear my goggles

This might be a new camp tradition

Bloody Hands

Sunrise

Waking up early is not my style, but every once in a while waking up is worth it, especially if you get to do something fun like wake skating. I didn't pull a 180 and it took me a few times to get up which was totally lame, but it was kind of fun messin around.

I ride even better when my life jacket is gigantic
Shredding so hard that I'm breaking my board! ha

Some of us had more trouble getting into the wakeboard Crazy Boys!