my side of the story (family trip to the east)

A few weeks ago my family and I went on a vacation to the east. We went to Washington D.C., New York, Vermont, etc. Anyway, my mom did a really good job at posting about the trip and talking about where we went so I decided my post would just be some of the random pictures that were taken during the trip. I hope you enjoy! :) 

me and some friends hangin'

steering

this is a picture to show you how nasty and huge and fluffy my hair gets in the humidity 

lunch time!

my dad, his girls & and elephant 

me and the wright brothers. we go way back.

dance picture with the skeleton

in the jaws of a shark is a scary place to be

being president

looking deep into his handsome eyes

showing my sympathy for that poor injured man

me and my buds listening to that guy talk

this is my lame attempt at making the same face as that head behind me

as you can see i was very unsuccessful

being a sleeping person

more swimming. such fun!

me with my friends the Washington's

from left to right Washy, George, Chelsea, Martha and Nelly

in this cab adi didn't have a seatbelt so savannah and i made one with our arms

swimmin' buds

cute miss adi carrying me sorry bout the blur 

i can't remember what this is..but its a cute window.

don't mess. we mean business.

i love my little bug

coolest road name ever

this picture blows my mind. its amazing.

at a monument having some fun

just chillin' in the hotel room

lion king on broooooaaaadway!! (sing-songy voice)

my sissys and my new nieces alison and zoe :) 

looking at plymouth rock

being good little crew members

taking a peek at whats inside his cup..nothing.

just helping him hammer stuff, i'm a big help

the mayflower is some exciting business, folks

my engagement picture to mister scary indian man.

this picture was going to be really cool but the sun totally washed out my fiances face :( lame

we are friends

me hangin' with my stuck up pilgrim peeps

(yes my stuck up face is terrible but i had the giggles so thats the best i could do)

thats the fake mayflower behind us. it woulda been cooler if it were the real deal.

savannah is freakishly strong. and amazingly adorable. 

rejoicing the fact that i got my own bed that night! 

(except i ended up having adi come join me..)

"pot head"

we were on a joseph smith tour thing and i happened to stand under this pot of flowers and it looked like it was sitting on my head. oh cute.

we were in the cars many hours this day. we got bored.

we were driving from vermont to palmyra, i believe.

Apparently this is the pose you do when you're bored in the car

Notice Adi in the background pouting cause she is in the backseat. :) 

Hill Cumorah spinning! 

Farmer Chelsea (in a barn by the Smith home)

my best friends and me in the sacred grove. very pretty place.

please go there someday.

looking at flowers i guess..

This slug was at the temple, therefore it is a mormon slug. we saw a mormon deer too but didn't get a picture..

The temple in Palmyra 

At Niagra Falls with my cutie-pa-tooties

Random..

Hello! So..I really wanted to post again but really don't have much to talk about..Well I do actually, my LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL was on friday! I graduate this thursday..Ah! That is exciting..But I have no pictures to go with that.. So I decided to put some pictures up of me and some friends because I am just that bored. :) On Tuesday Katie, Robert, Colton and I went to the park (the dolly park) and just played for many hours. It was really fun! We took a bajillion pictures but I chose four of my favorites. 

I love this one. Katie's freckles are my favorite.

Colton and me! :) 

Katie and I being thoughtful..? (Colton was taking lots of candid pictures..& I like this one) Oh and yes, its sideways, but I still don't know how to turn the pictures!

Robert and Katie! 

I am now a seminary graduate!

This last sunday I graduated from seminary!! It is SO crazy I am now officially done with seminary. I feel so old.. Anyway here are some pictures of that special event. :) 

Not only am I super lucky to have Katie as a BFF but I am even LUCKIER because she is in my ward! And yes.. She is freakishly tall.

Our funny picture. My daddy decided to stick his head in too.

All the seniors from my ward who graduated seminary. There are a lot of us & this isn't even everyone! A few more people didn't stick around for pics. Lame.

Me & my diploma. 

Those beautiful sisters of mine..

My beautiful family!

"Last Chance For Romance"

Last night was the Last Chance dance. "Last Chance For Romance" as my daddy would call it. A bittersweet dance because it is my last high school dance EVER!! :( Thats crazy. And sad. Anyway.. The dance was amazing! I went with Brady Hansen who is one of the coolest boys you will ever meet & it was his birthday! :) We had a great time. Oh and please excuse our awkward picture up there. We look like we are afraid to touch each other. Every picture Brady got was cute and we actually had our arms around each other. But the one picture I take with my camera was one of those things where Katie had the camera and started counting 1,2,3 so we just had to hurry and stand by each other and in result we got a picture that looks like we think our date has cooties. How perfect. I promise we weren't really this awkward. :) So anyway we started by picking our dates up and taking them to a park where we painted our shirts we'd be wearing to the dance. (oh and ps, Katie was in my group! Which was fantastic! We've been best friends for years and this is the FIRST dance where we've been in the same group. Its about dang time!!) The shirts were just black and we used some fancy neon paint things to paint our shirts. It was rad. Then we took them to a girl in our groups house (she lived right next to the park) and hung our shirts up to dry. Next we drove up to Bridal Veil Falls to eat our dinner. That was fun but we kind of had to hurry our eating process because we wanted to get to the dance kind of earlier. So I am sure that part could have been more fun, but we had to scurry. After we walked back to our car (the walk was a mile long!) we went back to the girls house and got our shirts, put them on, put our bandanas on (Brady and I were team orange bandanas. Both of our favorite colors!) and decked ourselves out with lots and lots of glow sticks! We looked AWESOME! Then we were off to the dance!! Yay! First we took pictures and the dang line was SOO long. I felt like we stood there forever. Our pictures are going to be so cute, I'm gonna try to post them once I get them! After pictures we danced! :) We stayed until the very last dance. Was it one of the coolest dances ever? Yes! Yes it was! It helped that Brady smelled like heaven! :) Wowie.. Okay anyway..So lots of dancing. Then we lucked out and a girl in our group has a pool in her backyard so after the dance we went to her house and swam! Her pool was heated but it was still pretty chilly! Fun though. Brady sure enjoyed dunking me haha. We played lots of games and did lots of talking. After we all were so tired we got out of the pool cause we decided it would be bad to fall asleep and drown in the pool.. We got all changed back into our normal clothes and then we ate a few snacks but pretty much we were wasted! Our day consisted of hiking, dancing, then swimming. Full body work out! So we drove our cute dates back home, said goodbye, all that good stuff :) and that ended my very last high school dance! 

My group! :) Very fun one. 

Our Silly Picture

AND..HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!! Especially to my mommy! The mommy! I love you honey bunny! :) I am SOOO happy you're my mom, I could not be any luckier!! Mommy, mommy, mommy. :) You're the shiz! LOVE YOU!!

Introducing..DOLLY!

See that tire swing looking thing there with Katie and I? That is her, THAT is Dolly. Me and Katie's other best friend. Dolly has been our friend for about a year now. She solves all your problems. When days are hard, call me and Katie and we'll go swing on Dolly with you. I'm serious, Dolly is therapy. We LOVE her!! We go visit her often. 

Anyway..A few days ago, Katie, Savannah, Adi, Robert White, Logan Merkley and I went to see Dolly. These are just some photos of our play date with her. Enjoy!

Dolly can spin FAST! 

Getting in good ol' Dolly

Katie and Miss Adi. I love this picture. Katie is soooo good to my little sissys.

Katie with Bug. Darling. Savannah loves Katie Lynn.

Katie and I..Doing what we do best.

This is Robert. You cannot tell.. But he is spinning faster than I think ANYONE has spun on Dolly! Logan was pushing him and he was cruising! Then he jumped off and tried to run.. We all played this game but I only got a picture of Robert doing it before my camera died.. :( Maybe next time I'll get all of us..

Katie and I just having our problems whoosh from our minds while on Dolly! :) 

I love both of them!