I miss

skies of blue. and clouds of white.

this face. a lot.

This is not what you think.

Seriously. Let me say it one more time so none of you freak out. This is not what you think it is. These are just some photos that David's sister, Felicia, took a little bit ago in Henderson. She's taking a few photography classes and Finis [David's mom] just thought it would be too much fun if Felicia snapped a few of us after Sunday dinner. Felicia did a great job! David and Giulia however, not so much...I was laughing the whole time [shocker] because his Mom was saying funny things and telling David what to do. Plus it was a stinkin' hot Henderson night, which means Giulia's hair was greasy, face was zitty, pits were sweaty. mm mm mmm. love it.

August part 3. Rise and Shine.

David came to Provo last weekend (two weekends ago?). OH HAPPY DAY!

Activities included: hiking the Y on Friday morning. [um...this hike is HARD! i was rather embarassed of my huffing and puffing. so much so that I've committed to hiking it EVERY week. I'll be going for the third time this month on Friday. or saturday. if you want to come along let me know!]

Eating breakfast at Denny's, YUM!

Shopping for the bun in Keri's oven. Giulia went a little overboard...haha.

Getting ready to campout in Kamas [east of Park City] with Ashley's ward.

Visiting with Grandmama in Salt Lake. 

Driving to Kamas. [David learned a lot more about Giulia during this drive. Surprisingly, David still likes Giulia even though she was a stressed out, emotional, PMS-ing wreck.]

Kickin' it with Ashley's ward. haha. so many good memories, and no pictures. so sorry. [well, there are a few on Facebook of Ashley and I singing karaoke to "Oops, I Did it Again."] We got rained out and hailed on. Goood time to go camping, eh? But we still had a blast. Some big steps were taken during this little roadtrip. hahaha. 

Drove back Saturday morningish to make it for the baby shower! David did not attend, he hung out with his sister instead. :) Dani, I want those pictures, please and thank you! :)

Went to Tabith's Rugby game in West Valley.

Tried going to the Zoo. It was closed. 

Went to the "This is the Place" park instead [it was across the street, so why not?] Turns out the visiting center was closed as well [and David and I both really needed to tinkle, so that was interesting...] but we could still walk around and check out the monuments.

And...that's about it. Unfortunately, due to the embarrassing nature of many of this weekend's events, some stories simply can not be shared. David and I will keep laughing about them though! :)

August part 2. The Lake. [again]

My best friend. These pictures are just, oh so Casee. 

Love her.

Netters and her bff. We all love Kaley.

Meet Preston. ;) He cracks me up!

No one knows why, but Quinton and Preston decided to have a contest to see who could stuff more grapes in their mouths. Preston won with 16 grapes! Impressive, eh? haha.

Take note of mine and Quinton's concerned/disgusted faces.

Oh and! One more thing about Preston. He tried wake boarding for the first time and TOTALLY ROCKED IT!!! He got up on the first try! He got up every time actually, what a natural! Now THAT truly was impressive.

Meet Carli and Skylar. 

Carlie was so funny to watch as she sang and danced to the songs on the radio. I tried to be sneaky and get a picture of her doing this, but I could never get a good one, as you can see. And Skylar is just the sweetest girl ever. 

***Tracey and Julie: I have more pictures of Carli, Quinton, and Skylar. Let me know if you want them.***

Q and P abandoning the tube. I should have had my camera out the second time they did it. It was way cooler. Sorry boys. :/

Check out who came down to watch us jump off the cliffs. Neat!!!

mmm. my favorites. ;]

David didn't know I was secretly doing a GQ photoshoot on him.  heh. 

Ciao!

p.s. Dear Grandpa Robbins, am I your favorite person to blog stalk now? I did two posts in one day! bottaboombottabing. And, I can't wait to play Aggravation with you again. :)

August part 1.

The birthday boy. 

Logan's birthday was a few weeks ago. If you asked what today was he would reply, rather shyly (is that a word? shyly?)"it's my birthday"...adorable. All afternoon he kept asking for Papa (my dad, aka Grandpa) and the fourwheeler. I kept him and Spencer entertained for a few hours just playing around on the "wheeler" parked in the garage, but that got old after a while and Logan wanted the real thing. Papa was at work and couldn't take him on the fourwheeler. David to the rescue!!! (thanks Randy and Lindsey for letting David take the fourwheeler! Having so much family so close is so great, isn't it?) As soon as David pulled up to the driveway, Logan looked up to me and said, "wheeler??!!!" He was pretty happy. And oh happy day, there's construction going on by our house that involves tractors, big ones. Logan LOVES tractors. One of his first words was "gracterr". Anything that is big and has a loud engine, Logan knows what it is. Airplanes, helicoptor, motorcycle, truck, fourwheeler, fire engine, tractor, train, etc. When I was telling David that Logan can name different types of tractors, he didn't really believe me until we rode to the construction site with the tractors and I would ask, "What's the name of that tractor, Logan?" And Logan would respond "loader, x-raider, steam-roller, back hoe". This 3-year old was in heaven. 

The scaredy cat.

Shelly wanted me to give Logan a few swimming lessons while they were down in Henderson. The first day we tried, Logan did not want to get in the water at all. When I was holding him and standing in the water, Logan politely asked "Can you please step out please? Please?" So we went home and walk through the door and Logan announced that he was going to take a nap. Later that day we realized that he had fever of 103!! Poor guy! No wonder he didn't want to do anything all morning. So in actuality, he wasn't being a scaredy cat, he just wasn't feeling well. We felt bad. :/

The clean freak.

Logan's favorite toy is his vacuum. Seriously. He asked me several times where HIS vacuum was, and if we could vacuum. haha! And when I started a load of laundry he asked if he could get up to watch the laundry. "Look, it's cleaning! Ooo, bubbles, hahaha." Crazy kid. Everyone should hear his laugh. He has the best laugh, ever. I'm pretty sure he picked it up from me. ;)

Love him.

Last of em'

I'm getting ready to make my blog into a book/journal. Before doing so however, I needed to upload a few more pictures from last year (2008). So...here they are!

Brianna and I had a little girls night at the temple. We walked around, took pictures, talked, laughed, pondered, dreamed. I love all temples. But I especially love the Las Vegas temple. And I know I will especially love the Rome, Italy temple. :) Do you not know what a temple is? Please click here and watch this!

We came out of  a movie and Casee's car was all decorated! We were shocked because we didn't tell anyone we were at the theater, and we were in a parking garage! How hard is it to find a car that isn't yours in a parking garage? creepy...

Casee, Bryce, and myself, killing some time before our game of laser tag started.

Grandpa, Grandma, Tabitha and Erin came down for mine and Casee's graduation.

And then we went and partied in St. George.

And then we went back to Vegas!

A little bit of fun before heading to the airport...

(they didn't turn out good...we know...)

...To pick up...

Elder Stolworthy!

Girls night shopping trip to Townsquare.

Fourth of July. In the car, trying to get out of Boulder City traffic.

Giulia had a sunburnt lip. Can you say ouch?

Going back a little further...to...Spring Break in Utah. Grandpa went and bought me cheesecake. So cute and yummy! We then drove to Smithfield and went to dinner at Firehouse (i think that's what it was called. mmm pazookie) with the Pasketts.

What Utah looked like on March 19, 2008:

After Utah, we drove up to Boise to see Chris, Shelly, and Logan. It's so fun to see old pictures of Logan. He's so much bigger now. He's sportin' his mini backpack that Papa gave him. Please take note of the massive amount of drool on his shirt. haha. Logan also did a few dance numbers for us on the kitchen table. Love that boy.

We had a few errands to run up at Capitol Hill, where we saw geese in the park. Logan chased them, of course. We then went to the Wildlife Reserve. Of all the animals and plants to look at, Logan loved the rocks. Yes, the rocks. (top row, second picture. He crawled under the fence to get the big 'grock'!)

And I just couldn't resist taking a picture of this sign at the Reserve.

And then...Casee and I had another Spring Break. We drove up to Sanpete County to see Tabitha participate in the Junior Miss Pageant, a scholarship program ;). Lots of memories and jokes were made that weekend. All I have to say about that is tutelage and dirty bird. I love these girls. And on the day we headed back south, it snowed. Gotta love Utah.

Last but not least: the family that plays together, stays together. Here is one of my family's favorite thing to do, SING.

The end. :)

T & E. The End.

Tabitha and Erin's partying in Vegas ended way too soon. Maybe when they come down next time, Giulia won't be working from 4:45am-1:45pm. :/ boo! We still had lots of fun, but Giulia averaged 2 hours of sleep each night. yuck. Needless to say, when we drove up to Provo Wednesday afternoon, Giulia slept the whole way up! After riding to Provo on a prayer (Sue the subaru was having a few issues) we bunked at Aunt Jo's (erin's mom) house. That night we saw Harry Potter at 11! Giulia only screamed once [and she might have been the only one screaming, but she was so tired that it took her a while to realize that she was screaming and to tell herself to stop. people in the audience laughed at her. :/ ] 
and then we all rode up to Wyoming together for the annual Young Family Reunion. Some pichas!

Hiking time.

What is not pictured is our run back to camp. heh. Tab and Erin had jeans on, Giulia had shorts and spandex. When we got back to camp, Tab had her jeans on her shoulders and Giulia's shorts on. Giulia was sportin' her spandex. Erin stripped down to her undies. Just kidding. We thought it would have been hilarious if she did though. :)

Want more pictures of the YFR? Just click here, or there.

T and E part 2

Yayyy lake! On the second day of Tabitha and Erin's adventures down south, we went to the lake!!! If you haven't already noticed from previous postings, Giulia loves going to the lake (and she also loves talking in third person, apparently...). We did a little bit of tubing...

...a little bit of cliff jumping....

...a little bit of fast driving to beat the sunset and hook up the trailer...

good times. good, good times. 

all persons on the boat included: me, Casee, David, Tabitha, Erin, Courtney, Chelsie, Preston and Quinton! Thanks, again, Joe and Tracey for letting David take the boat! You two are SO AWESOME. we love you!

ciao!

oh and...GOOD MORNING Grandpa Robbins, you blog stalker you. :)

Unwinding cable [car].

Five bucks* for the one that can name the band who sings the song of my title for this post. *(five dollars may, or may not, actually be given to you...i'm poor...)

The correlation: giulia is too lazy to dig through her boxes randomly placed at her aunt's house in provo to find and UNWIND the CABLE for her camera to upload new pictures. So, I took some from my dear friend Courtney's facebook. Thanks Court!

FYI: Giulia is now back in Provo. NO, not just visiting. I was beckoned to move back up here a few weeks earlier than originally planned to start my job as the Head Coach for the Sophmore volleyball team at Mountain View High School located in Orem, UT. Go Bruins! We had tryouts yesterday and today. It was so hard to make cuts!! Especially today. Sigh. Those poor girls. I really wanted to keep everyone that I called back for 2nd cuts today (thursday). Unfortunately, I only had room for 12 girls. I hated having to tell the girls that didn't make the cut why they weren't on the team. It made me really sad because I really would have loved to work with these girls and watch them get better. Anywho, that's what i've been up to this week. Here's a little bit of what I was up to last week:

Wake boarding. (I'm getting pretty darn good, if I do say so myself.)

Soaking up the sun out on the lake. This is my friend Courtney. LOVE HER!

Hanging out with this guy. 

Playing with David and the fishies.

...giulia doesn't play very nice...

T & E part 2 soon to come [if anyone cared...]

Other news: Subaru has been purchased, licensed, and registered. it is now mine all mine; I'm currently boarding at my Aunt Jo's house until I can get moved into my apt (won't be until the 28th...); David came to Provo [infact, he's sitting right here, reading everything i type over my shoulder]; tomorrow's plans include: hiking the Y, a bit o' shopping, meeting Grandmama (David's grandmother), Hogle Zoo, and camping with Ashley's ward. FUN!

good. night.