All grown up and going to College (or University as we say in Canada)

Yep, that's probably the same nervous/excited face we all had on our first day. It was so fun to be there in Rexburg with Brian. So many memories of my first days at Ricks!

Proud parents at the free Freshman Orientation lunch.

Signing up for iTeam activites.

Unpacking.

Yes, I was the embarrassing sister that demanded a new roommate picture. (That was for your benefit, older siblings.)

The Rexburg Temple is breath-taking inside. It was neat to go with family.

Go Cougs!

For the first home game of the season, I sat on the front row. It was fun to see the players so close, but impossible to really see what was going on in the game. We ended up melting in the hot sun and watching it on the big screen anyway(which by the way, they put another one up on the other end!) So after the first half, Megan and I went up to the very top to visit another friend. We don't have season's passes so we're just wanderers anyway. (I like to keep my options open. That way I can sit with the flavor of the week. Just kidding.) Anyway, it was a fun game once the cloud cover moved in... a little frustrating with all those fumbles, but fun. I have one friend who is dating the second string QB and another friend who is genuinely deathly afraid of mascots. Their unnecessary panic kept us all entertained.

Motown Philly Back Again...

Yep, total blast from the past. Hilary and I decided this afternoon to hit up the Boyz II Men concert tonight. It turned out to be a good choice. We had so much fun dancing and singing along. It brought back some pretty vivid Stake dance memories too. We even saw some people doing the deacon shuffle. Obviously I wasn't the only one that made that association.

PS. I had to remove the tarantula post because I was too afraid to open my own blog. I saw another one yesterday too. This one was alive and blocking my path. I took the long way home. It added on another 30 minutes to my walk, but it was totally worth it.

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On Sunday I sat in inner courtyard of the V&A museum cooling my feet in the fountain. I took all these photos shootin' from the hip, but I was so entertained by this animated child and his

super soggy diaper that I couldn't help it.

After a while, the mother came over, removed the diaper and replaced it with shorts. He played for a while and then decided the shorts

were cramping his style, so he got his father to help him remove all his clothing. He played freely and openly in the fountain until security came and his parents clothe him again. Still, it was good entertainment for us all.

Well, I went on a date while I was in London. I met Paul at the singles ward and on Monday night we went to dinner then saw Wicked. Who knew I'd be dating on my Lonely London trip?

Paul and I couldn't resist snapping pictures of these plastic outfits. We giggled as we followed them all the way onto the Tube. Everyone who saw us snapping pictures laughed with us.

Chicago

July 16th - 21st

Most of the week was hard, exhausting, no-time-for-food work, but we still managed to do dinner at some pretty fancy restaraunts, see The Dark Knight, and take a quick trip into down town Chicago after CHA show hours. At least, some of the girls went in to the city.

Laura Giddens, Laura Miller, Andrea Smith, and Amy Walton

Backpacking in the High Uintas

Jason, Derek and I headed into the High Uintas last weekend. We originally planned for Back country Yellowstone, but I since Derek had been backpacking there the weekend before and there wasn't a suitable lake for cliff jumping, I convinced them that we could have an equally exciting experience on a little hike I did five years ago to Hidden Lake. We started at Trial Lake and packed in to the perfect campsite at Wall Lake. Jason grabbed his fishing pole but didn't catch anything. Probably because Derek and I were cliff jumping only 20 feet away. The next day we packed a couple miles further to Hidden Lake. Jason grabbed his fishing pole again and started fishing, I grabbed my camera and started taking pictures, and Derek grabbed his ridiculously large knife and started practicing for his own episode of Man vs. Wild. "I wonder," Jason said as he cast his line into the water, "if we could cut that tree down." He motioned to a tall dead tree waiting to fall into the lake. Derek was all over that one. The two boys dedicated hours to that project. They sawed it halfway through before the little saw wouldn't reach anymore. The tied the rope around it and swung it back and forth. That's when Derek noticed the whole roots system shaking. He started excavating the roots and sawing them off. Still the tree got the better of him. We finally convinced him to leave reassuring him that if he had had more time, "Wild" would not have won that episode.

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Pieces from this weekend...

Hot AirSparklersSplash Down
" Where's the pig?"
Make a Wish
Patriotic Parents
OrangeBad Hair Day?Balls
Parade Spectators
"Squeeze it, Molly."
Runners
Simple Beauty
Bocce
Just Chillin'
Gotcha!
Slightly Askew

The wind-up