T and E part 1.

Summer is quickly coming to an end. I'm sure everyone is experiencing similar feelings. The end to mine is coming quicker than I expected. It looks like I'll be back in Provo this time next week. Crazy! Anyway, that's not what this post is about (I will give more details on that later). This post is the first of Tabitha and Erin's adventures down south. :) I'll let the pictures do most of the talking for these. 

Trying to get an awesome jumping picture at the "Botanical Gardens" at the Ethel M Chocolate Factory.

+ Tabitha smelling the cacti.....

Who came up with this great idea? Seriously! We all agreed that we would follow this sign's advice. Genius!

Car rides and staying hydrated. And rockin' out to "Hotel California".

Look who we met up with!!! I think Tab and Erin were more excited to see Casee than they were to see me. ha. Can't really blame though, because Case is  like the coolest person EVER! 

These are the "Tabitha can make really awesome faces" pictures. :)

And then David joined us at the Stratosphere where we rode the Big Shot thrice! (..three times...)

Oh and I guess this is blog-worthy news: Giulia has a car [and ridiculously nice parents]! I'll be cruising around Provo in AJ (that's the name Andy and Jenelle [my Uncle and Aunt who we bought the car from] gave it, and I'm going to keep it).

Stick shift + sun roof = Giulia happy. and oh so blessed! Happy day! (This is the car that I basically learned to drive stick in, and I've always had a sentimental attachment to it)

Tangent: So I'm blog stalking this blog called the Sartorialist, and there's this picture of some fashionable ladies in Milan, Italy. I did a double take on the sandals of the one chick. I totally have those shoes!! In black! haha! It made me happy...(and you can see me wearing them in that fantastic jumping picture at the top of this post. ;]) Speaking of Italy...it seems that BYU is NOT doing a Spring 2010 Study Abroad for Italy. If they are, they haven't posted any info on it yet, so I'm assuming there is not going to be one, because all the other 2010 programs are listed and ready for you to start applying. :/ I'm only a little bit sad about this because I know I still will go there someday ( I think the sandals are a good sign), and because I know that everything happens for a reason. My reasoning: it would appear that I am not supposed to study abroad in Italy for the Spring of 2010. I guess the Lord has something else in store for me. I can't wait to find out what it is! ;) Ciao ciao! E un abbraccio!

Yikes.

Laughing so hard.
Whhhy do I look ridiculous in at least half of the pictures that are taken of me? Whhhy? But, I'm not complainin'. If I looked decent, normal, sane, etc, I wouldn't have these beauties to share with you, and it would be one less laugh or smile in your life (can't let that happen).
So, I get online at work to google something real quick, the internet homepage is some City of Henderson employee portal. Before I went to google, I noticed a "Corporate Challenge 2009" link. I think to myself, "Huh, I wonder if this where they posted results and stuff for corporate challenge. If so, our team should have our picture up there with us sportin' a gold medal..." So I click and scroll and this is what I find!!!!
Why am I so cool? haha! Leanna, I love you!
oh and FYI. Corporate Challenge is a big deal down here. It's where a lot of major companies/businesses, etc compete in an array of different activities trying to be number 1 at the end of it all. It's a point system, so for each game, tournament, race, etc that you win, you win points for your team. I was on the City of Henderson Team (...because I work for the City of Henderson...) and our volleyball team took GOLD. AGAIN! Yah...we rock and won the whole [volleyball] thing last year too. So right now I guess we're "Champ" Status. Maybe even a legend (because few teams have ever won two years in a row! [ i wanted to say no team has ever done that...but i'm not sure and i don't want to be giving false information]). We're shooting for "Dynasty" status next year. (...but minor problem...Giulia might be in Italy at this time next year, and will probably not be employed by the City of Henderson. what will they do without her skills?) Unfortunately, the City as a whole only took 8th place. bummer. But whatevs, 'cause I have TWO gold medals! bowchickawowwow.
Here's how it went down this year: First day, ease. We breezed through our matches without breakin' a sweat. Seriously. We did not break a sweat and we were all rather disappointed. Second day, not so much. We had a really rough start in our first match and lost. Soooo....we went to the loser's bracket and worked all the way back up to the top.(that means one match right after the other, after the other, after the other...) We get to the semi-finals. We play the same team whom we first lost to, Bally's (a casino). dun dun dun dunnn. It was back and forth for a while, but we ended up winning with a good lead. Then, to secure the gold, we had to play Bally's again. That time, we totally shut them out!!!! It. was. aaawesome [i feel like i use that word way too often, but whatever]. (it's so long ago, scores and what nots have left my memory) I think Bally's had less than 5 points (...making the scrore 25-a number less than 5). It was insane! and so much fun. [and last year, (this is just so I can remember 20 years down the road) giulia totally got the block for the winning point against Nevada Power. on a men's net. totally roofed the guy, bet that sure made him feel good. What do you say to your friends?...I got roofed by this blonde chick who's 5'6"....yah, I wouldn't say anything either...](and i only bring this up now because i can't jump like that anymore. what a sad, sad, sad day.)

ps, sorry this is so chalked up with parentheses and brackets. i like them tho, so they're staying.
ciao!
more awesome pictures of Giulia. just. for. you.

kisses!

Good-bye Myspace.

It's time to get rid of the space. I don't ever use it anymore. My inbox is full of unread messages that I don't care to go through. I don't talk to 75% of the people that are my "friends". The only reason I go on it now is to look up an artist to listen to their music and check out a few pictures. I've decided to just delete my profile and be done with it. Not to mention I can ditch any creepers that are trying to creep stalk me. My only problem is that by doing so, all my pictures would be gone as well. I don't know where more than half of the pictures are saved now (darn the digital world!) and I didn't want to lose some of these treasures. So, I worked a little bit of magic and grabbed my'space' pictures. Here they are! [they're all super random]

"Casee and Giulia are awesome."

"I love my Family."

"Casee and Giulia are awesome. Part 2."

"Fun friends." Jacent. Shanalei. Jenson.

"Fun times."

"Football games and such."

"Volleyball. Part 1."

"Volleyball. Part 2."

"Pretty Nights. Part 1." 

"Pretty Nights. Part 2."

"Pretty Nights. Part 3."

"Pretty Nights. Part 4."

"'07 Thanksgiving Fun."

"Sadies '07."

"Picture of pictures on my profile."

"Picture of pictures on my profile. Part 2."

"Picture of pictures on my profile. Part 3."

"Caro is awesome. NY NY rollercoaster. Summer '07."

"Ciao!"

[Senior Pictures.]

And coming soon is Giulia's adventures with Tabitha and Erin! I know, I know, I know. Please try to contain your joy. To curb your appetite until then, click here and check out my super crazy, fun, loving, large, loud, completely wonderful family at the annual "Young Family Reunion", held this year in Alpine, WY. pictures taken by Ashley Stolworthy, check her out here! and here!(...just in case you missed all those other links...) Yes...that was a shameless plug for the sister. :) Love ya!

Kisses.

one fine day.

Yesterday was one fine day. "Why?" do you ask? Well, let me tell you! I spent the whole day with this handsome face! (Lucky girl, I know)

David was asked to speak at Camp Helaman, a sort of "missionary prep camp" that his stake does every year up on Kolob Mountain. He was going to drive all the way up there (about 3.5 hours), speak for an hour or so, and then drive back to Henderson all by his lonesome. Luck would have it that Giulia had the day off! OH HAPPY DAY! So he drove and I took shotgun (just call us Bonnie and Clyde...where did THAT come from?), and we talked and laughed and danced and sang all the day long. 

The agenda for the day was as follows: ran at 6 in the a.m. (it was supposed to be 5....i slept in...)(and yes David came with me! ha.), on the road at 8:10 (was supposed to be 7:45ish, my bad), hit St. George around 10:30, went to the "Lemon Squeeze" (at least, that's what I know it by. According to David its true name is "Fat Man's Crack". awesome. Here's a part of that conversation: David, "You been to Fat Man's Crack?" Giulia, "Whaaaa???" + serious giggling. "Umm...I don't think so..." He laughs too, then points at a certain mountain and explains that it's a small climbing area with some rocks/cliffs that you SQUEEZE by and climb out. Giulia, "oh yah! Been there, squeezed through that crack." [okay, so I didn't really say that last part, but it just came to me and I thought it was hilarious.] Anyway, we went up to "Fat Man's Crack", climbed around (no pictures, sorry), then found some lunch), hit up Cafe Rio [yum!] for some cibo [food], left Georgetown and made our way to Hurricane, missed the exit [woops], took the Toquerville exit instead, wound our way back to Hurricane, and then started on up to Kolob. Camp Helaman is just at the same place they do girls' camp. David didn't quite know how to get there, so my mom gave us a map (she's going to girls camp next week, so she had one handy) and off we went! We found out, the hard way, that there are TWO different campgrounds used for Girls' Camp at Kolob. His stake uses one, and my stake uses another. And they're on completely different mountains!! Once we got to the turn-off to start going down the mountain road into camp, David kept saying, "This does not look familiar at all....weird..." And Giulia was saying "Oh, we're fine! It looks familiar to me! And look, we're right here [point] on the map." So we get to the camp ground and David is saying "umm....this is not familiar AT ALL." And Giulia's saying "Look, that's a chick. Oh wow, there's another girl. They're all over!" [young women don't go to Camp Helaman, FYI] Both of us are saying "Uhhh...not good..." To make a long story short (I'm gettin kinda wordy, sorry) we climbed back to the top of the mountain where we found some cell service, called his mom Finis [Finesse, like the shampoo :) ] who instructed David to call Joseph, his brother-in-law, who was able to tell us where we were and where we needed to go. It was worth the mix up though, because on our way we saw this! Well, we made it to the correct campsite (45 minutes late), and turns out he was right on time! The other speakers showed up only 10 minutes before we did and they were going to start in another 10 minutes. Happy Day again! Giulia stayed near the truck and started to prepare for her Relief Society Lesson on Sunday while David went down and did his thing with the boys. The camp director invited me to go down and listen in, but that was too awkward [the only {cute} girl at an all boys camp....yah....awkward....], so I just stayed where I was. After all, I did only come for the ride. David finished and we got right back on the road to head home, but not before we took advantage of the BEAUTIFUL scenery and took some pichas! The ride back consisted of some serious rockin' out, beltin' it till we almost lost our voices, and booty shakin' like Beyonce. It was a great day! A fine day! [complete with an awesome sunset.] mm mm mm. The end. :) For your viewing pleasure:

Blerb.

First things first. I get home from work today and my mom (yes, my mom! who would have thought?) showed me these videos on youtube. I thought they were worth sharing. Enjoy:
He made a number 2!!!! This one is pretty darn good. Which one do you like more?


"This one is funny...in a sort of creepy way..." says my mom. I was laughing.


Randoms :)
After a few antagonizing weeks Netters finally got her Mac! (it's been sitting in our parents room until she finished her Personal Progress stuff. hahaha, talk about torture!) Here are the both of us enjoying our beautiful MacBooks.


So I'm going through pictures today, and I see this one:

I love Breezy! And I'm putting this photo on here because she had this helmet at work today! hahah! What a superb yard sale treasure Breeze, good eye!

She is back.

Going dark (for the first time EVER!!!) was tons o' fun. I felt smarter (not really, but that would have been nice, wouldn't it?), no more dumb blonde jokes were thrown in my direction. It was a good change. And it's nice to know that I can pull off both- brunette or blonde. Maybe next time I want a big change I'll go for red...hahahaha. 

Me in desperate need of Andrea's skills.

After Ann's handy work. I just love her.

Recap.

Summer is FLYING by!!! We're almost at the halfway mark, :/ can we just make it slow dowwn please???

Pictures are worth a thousand words, or so someone said, so here's a few for your viewing pleasure.

Casee and me at The Lion King. Soooo goood! (ps, can i get the picture of all us? what camera is that on? Ashley's? And what about that awesome jumping one??? ) 

Keri came to visit!!! I just love her. We thought it would be super fun to give our arms a good waxin'. ;) Jenette documented it for us, which is why i have so many pictures of it. they're not all that exciting, but here's everything she got of the fun time in my bathroom. (and she only got the parts where Keri waxed Giulia, not when Giulia got Keri. sorry.) 

Check out her awesome belly!!!! 

Our fridge about a month ago. I drank 98% of that milk. YUM!

(it's a good thing Mamma raised us on skim. I LOVE my milk. I bought 3gal/week for myself up at school, and usually that wasn't enough. All I'm sayin is that had it been whole milk I've been guzzling my whole life, I would be the size of a baby whale.)

Okay, two stories here. #1: I'm out running with Brutus one afternoon, and this big ol' storm rolls in. The wind is crazy strong, rain is falling, rocks flying. Brutus was a baby and freaked out and i had to hold him and wait for the wind to die down until he became functional again. By the time we got back home i was sopping wet and plastered with rocks. It was a fun run. :)

#2: first burn of the season. Look closely. Can you see the small hand tan-line on my back? I guess I didn't rub my sunscreen in at all that morning, just gave myself a pat on the back at walked outside into the sun. woops. Also, be sure to check out those permanent suit lines. Those bad boys are there year round. awesome. :)

Another stormy day. The rain was comin' down SO HARD. It was insane! And look at the blue skies over vegas! This is one of the reasons I love southern nevada. We have some intense thunderstorms in the summer. I love just sitting outside and watching it pass through. In Provo it would be rainy all day long sometimes, but never would I hear the roll of thunder or the crack of lightning, and those are the best parts! It's hard to see the rain in the pictures, but wow, it was pouring! I have a video of it, but it was having issues loading, so I just gave up.

I was so happy I had to run outside and jump around in the rain. 

Fourth of July!

Courtney, David, and Yours Truly

:)   

Courtney got this awesome picture! hahaha! (I stole it from her facebook page) 

The end.

Oh, I guess in the last half of these pictures you'll notice that I'm blonde again. It feels good to be back. :)
And another really exciting event took place this summer. My camera's batteries were dead though, so i didn't document it at all. Daniel and Tricia's wedding was about two weeks ago. They are so cute together and so in love it's funny. It was wonderful to see family and friends at the beautiful reception....where Giulia caught the bouquet! hahahaha. There are several stories running around as to how this happened. Mine is that I was in the right place, at the right time, and I happen to be quite good at jumping in high heels. :) Mom was yelling, "Throw it back! Throw it back!" heh.

good night!