can't sleep

You know when you can't sleep because you keep replaying events from the day trying to decide how they could have gone or what you would have done different. Welcome to what is happening to me at this exact moment. I don't know how it is with other people but I know when I have too much going on in my head the best way to get rid of it is by shutting my door, turning on my Ipod, and taking a paint brush or pen to paper. I'm not an artist by any means but it helps. And I know I said paper but lets be honest more than half of the time my paint brush ends up on my walls :) 

don't ask me why I am about to put up this next picture... even though I'm fully aware that it is thoroughly creepy... I kind of like it :)

March Weekends

March has been fun for a many reasons but lets be honest, the main reason is because every weekend i've made it out of Draper! :) Here are the places I've gone and who I went with ~ in short version (there will be more details of each trip coming soon)!

Week 1:

St. George, with Katie Mikkleson

Week 2: 

Moab, with the Zimmerman boys and Parkers roommate Jared

Week 3:

Montana, with Lynny

Week 4: 

St. George and Vegas, with Katie Mikkelson and Christy Seabolt

Coming soon, Week 5:

Hawaii, with Brittan Tehan and my family!

home sweet home!

Check out where I'll be living in 5 months! I can't wait to move out and start this thing we call college! I also have some of the best roommates, so look out USU (oh yeah well obviously I ended up committing to USU... :) ) 

a wish list

(1) Ovation cell therapy for my hair (2) Petzl Luna climbing harness in (jade/grey/green)
(3) La Sportiva Mythos rock shoe's-woman in (green)
(4) HD helmet or motorsport hero gopro.

These are the top things on my wish list right now! Oh what I could do with any of these things ... maybe the easter bunny will take in to account the fact that I don't want candy this year :) 

prom

-we started out with a bike ride through down town Salt Lake City, 

and breakfast at Carlucci's Bakery!

-Dropped off to get ready!

hair done and photo taken by Kaitlyn VanHoff

-Then picked up, Dinner at Tsunami, Dancing at the Capitol building!

-And what better way to end the night but with cup art :)

2011 Operation Jyoti

This is a little video of our India expedition, so you guys can get a better feel for what it was like! Every time I watch this I feel inspired to be the best person I know I can be, so I hope this can bring a little of that into your life too! 

-Oh and P.S. that pool I jumped into at the end was in the Himalayas and it was so cold!

India

I guess i've never talked about the fact that this last November I went to India to teach english... I don't talk about it much because it was such a life changing experience and it's hard to try and explain the experiences and memories made over there (that's why it is so amazing when I get to hang out with my YMAD group (operation Jyoti) because they just understand). But any way I finally got around to developing some of the film I took over there and wanted to share this picture.

- sorry the way it scanned on to my computer made it look really dusty