A New Week!

Its Monday! Well, I guess its technically Tuesday morning now lol. Not much happened for me this week. I had a lot of fun with friends, and lost my puppy. It was sad. We had to sell Hugsy. He wasn't learning and began chewing things up, ruining the walls and mopboards, and returned to his old habit of peeing all over the house. We tried for weeks to make it work, but were unsuccessful. I had my last clogging class of the summer on Tuesday. We are taking August off and won't be starting again until September 4th. I'm already missing it! ;) We are learning a new dance in the category "Traditional Line". It sounds like it would be boring, or cheesy, but is really not. It is one of the funnest dances I have ever done! It is extremely upbeat and the steps are a blast! Maybe I will try uploading a video soon...I've never done it, but there's a first for everything! "Breaking Dawn", the fourth and final book in the Twilight saga, comes out Friday night! Kristie and I are totally going to the release party at Border's! Yes, we're nerds. We know, and we don't care lol. I am interested to see the team Jacob vs. team Edward debate. If anybody would like to join us, you just have to reserve a book at the store (you don't have to actually pay until Friday night) and then pick up your wristband Friday morning. The wristband gets you into the party, and has a number on it, which is your number in line for the book at midnight! Oh, and I'm looking for a cheap apartment to live in, so if anyone knows of any, please let me know!

Powell

Well, I'm back from Lake Powell. I've actually been back for a week now, but I've been slow on the blog front! Every year, my extended family camps out at Lone Rock, Lake Powell for a week. We all come from Texas, California, Utah, and Arizona. Its a huge trip with tons of people, and tons of fun. This year we had a grand total of 3 boats, 4 waverunners, two dirtbikes, two "floating trampolines", 3 tubes,1 wakeboard, 1 kneeboard, 5 pair of skis, countless amounts of "floaties", 10 tents, three trailers, 5 gazebos, 12 cars/trucks, and about 50 European neighbors. (I had to throw in the europeans just for fun. There were tons of them, and they all got stuck in the sand. My dad was the lucky guy who got to pull them all out of the sand. He got offered many beers, but turned them all down. Some of them even gave him cash lol. Watching people get stuck was our entertainment during meals haha.) This year, Powell was a blast, as usual! I actually didn't get sunburned! Of course, we had our usual "tube wars" for hours everyday. For those of you who don't know what that is, we pull two tubes behind the boat instead of just one, and you try to jump onto the other person's tube and knock them off, into the water before they do the same to you. It is super fun...it sounds really dangerous, but we've been doing it for years now, and nobody has ever gotten more than a simple tube rash! I beat my cousin Tim 3-1! He's usually the best at stuff like that. I'm sure it was hilarious for the little kids in the boat watching two adults wrestle on the tubes! We went cliff-diving, as usual, but it wasn't as great this year. The water raised so much that the cliffs we usually go to were completely submerged. As a result, we were forced to find new ones, and they just weren't as perfect as the others. I thought I broke my leg one day, when my brother did a donut on the waverunner, and threw me off the back (we were both on the waverunner, he was driving). As I fell, I slammed my leg on the footrest, which was quite painful, but I recovered by the next morning with nothing but a few bruises! We went on a tour of the damn this year. We've been going to Lake Powell every summer since I was a little kid, and we've never taken the time to actually go inside the damn, so it was pretty interesting. The weather could not have been better. Every year, we encounter one big storm while camping at the Lake. This year, the storm came our first day, which made setting up a little difficult, but it was over quick and never came back! The rest of the week was beautiful! Every year, my favorite part of the trip is campfire. Every night we build a fire and hang out around it for hours. Its fun to see cousins from other states that I don't see very often! My family is amazing! This year, everybody remembered there guitars and fiddles, which made campfire extra fun (my family is a little obsessed with music,especially my Grandpa). The trip was a success, and I can't wait for next year!

Week in Review

Well folks, I'm gettin ready to head to Lake Powell for a week! Here is a quick lowdown on the past week before I head outta town again. I recently returned from Yuba, where I had some fun with my famous belly-boarding, and also acquired a nice fat lip. When I got home, I spent a lot of time painting my sister's bedroom. Three walls are white with blue, green, and yellow polka dots and dragonflies. The fourth wall is blue. It is adorable, but of course, I got stuck doing all of the work. I tired of painting, but It was fun, and it helped having Kris there to finger paint herself for entertainment! I have spent the past two days sleeping and working, but it hasn't been too bad.

Now I'm hoping that the super hideous cold sore I have on my lip (my souvenir from my weekend in Yuba) will go away before I leave for Powell Sunday morning. We'll see. I can't wait for my lip to be a normal size again! Its about 3 times its normal size right now-no joke! Yuba was hot, but really fun. It was nice to get away and relax, and I can't wait to do the same at Powell! It will also be awesome to have ten days off work!