Last weeks flowers!

I didn't have a chance to post the flower arrangement that I made last week. It was cubes. We all had a small cube vase to put our flowers in. The funny thing was that I had to take it into the testing center because I didn't want to leave it in my hot car. All the testing center workers thought it was funny. I also took it to my meeting with one of my professors. She made me put it in the center of her desk to make the meeting more casual.

I won't have a floral design lab this week because of our flower ID test. Instead I get to name by sight the botanical name, several common names and the name origins of about 25 flowers. Yippee. Next week we get to do boutonnieres for homecoming, supposedly we get to make a couple different ones so if anyone needs one let me know, they are supposed to last for several weeks in the fridge.

What do you do if you don't have it?...IMPROVISE

We don't have any containers for staple foods like flour, sugar, etc. And I didn't know where to put the ugly cans from the cannery with the staples in them. So...I improvised. This was super easy. I just cut plain black or white paper for the back and then used some cute decorated paper to cover up and make it look good. The letters I cut using my Cricut. (best invention ever). It makes the cans look better and I can keep reusing them as my staple canisters. Oh, and I have more paper so when I need to open a different kind of food I can decorate it to match.

I need help!

Okay, I got my hair cut today and I need an opinion. Travis says it looks fine but I wasn't expecting to have so many short bangs. Please let me know what you think. By the way, this is all your fault Becky...your new haircut is so cute it made me want to get mine cut too. Just kidding, I love you. I think I like my hair but I need a second or third or fourth...opinion.

Floral Design

In my floral design class this semester we get to make floral arrangments. It is a really fun class and not too much work. I thought you'd all like to see what I'm making. Yesterday was the first lab and this is the first thing I made. I'm not too exciting. I just did a monochromatic color scheme with white added. I think it looks elegant but you decide. One is the wrapped arrangement and the other is the finished product after I got is in the vase.

I'm Terrible at Posting!

I'm pretty much a horrible blogger. But I'm trying. We don't have a lot going on to take pictures of so I'll post some old pictures from our trip to Moab this summer. I don't have a lot of time right now to post a ton but keep checking back because I'm really going to be better.

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More Pictures!

I wanted to post some more pictures of the fun time. Mostly it was just relaxing and loving every minute of it.

I just had to get one more picture of the cute dog in here. I secretly named him Harold. (don't ask why Harold because I don't know. My stuffed animals all had really weird names like that when I was growing up.) The dog learned that I was the least hostile of anyone and pretty much followed me around and did what I said.

This is my favorite picture of Savanah. She is so cute!

Here are the guys doing what they do best...Guy stuff. They had fun shooting cans on the side of the mountain.
This picture is hilarious. Trav and I took care of Savanah while Courtney and Nicole went 4-wheeling. She doesn't like how loud the engine is so she was hiding between my legs and Travis took the picture unbeknownced to me.

Travis and I rode down the dirt road to the paved road on the 4-wheeler. It was so much fun. Travis got going so fast and a moth hit my glasses giving me a welt on my cheek. I was fine but I don't know if the moth survived.

Lions, Tigers, Bears! Oh My! Okay just Bears

This weekend we went camping one last time (or first time) this summer. We went up with our friends Courtney and Nicole and their cute baby Savanah. Friday afternoon/night we drove up Spanish Fork Canyon and then turned off where you go to Ephraim but there is a dirt road right off the the exit which takes you up to some private property then to some National Forest Land. It wasn't an official campground but is was awsome because the camping spots are so far apart that we didn't hear of see anyone unless they came up the road. We love the spot and will definitely go back again. Anyway, we set up camp and while Courtney and Nicole got dinner ready I got to take care of cute Savanah. The ground was pretty uneven so she fell down a lot but she didn't cry once. even when she walk up a small hill, saw Travis, started running toward him, tripped over a rock, then rolled down the hill. She's a tough girl. We didn't get any pictures of Friday because it got dark too quickly. It was so much fun though. We stayed up super late with the fire. And dinner was delicious dutch oven chicken and potatoes with peach cobler for dessert. When it got dark I started getting really paranoid because there the area was open range and some cows scared me to death when I heard them but couldn't see them. Then Travis put the shot gun in the tent with us because it was bear country. That really scared me. I know it was just a precaution but the river was right next to us and I swear I heard animals walking all around us. When we went to bed we had just fallen asleep when we heard something outside knock over the table. It was so freaky. Travis was alert in an instant. He snuck over and used his heavy duty flashlight to look outside to see was it was. I was sure it was a bear. Check it out...

It wasn't a Bear it was a dog. A very social and nutrition starved dog. I felt so bad for it. He was so cute. But he kept us up all night because he wanted to get in the tent and whined. In the morning we had to tie him up because he wouldn't leave and we needed to get breakfast started. He kind of made the 4 wheeler trailer his spot. Luckily he was very friendly and never nipped or bit at us because if he had, especially with Savanah, I don't think Courtney and Travis would have let him hang around like they did. Anyway, breakfast was Travis and mine. We had blueberry pancakes, pan toast toast, bacon, and eggs. Delicious! We had hot chocolate to warm us up too because it was mighty cold that night. Nicole and I rode the 4 wheelers for a while after breakfast and then the guys took them out. They stopped at every camp to see if anyone had lost a dog. Nothing. The poor dog seemed to have been abandoned out there. Anyone who knows me well, knows that that just killed me inside. I wish we could have done more for him but we didn't have any room (and the guys didn't have any tolerance left) for him when we left. (By the way, I wasn't thinking of adopting him, I just wanted to take him to a shelter so he wasn't left alone in the mountains.) Here are some fun pics of the day. Sorry there are so many pictures of Savanah. She's just so cute!

Here is gorgeous Nicole with cute Savanah. Don't worry, they don't let Savanah drink soda, she's just playing with the bottle.

Travis made em practice shooting his hand gun. Apparently, I need to be acurate. I'm actually getting pretty good.

Savanah loved the rocks, she spent a lot of time picking them up while the guys were shooting we took her down to the river bed to play with all the rocks.

This is one of the few pictures I was able to take of Courtney. I guess he doesn't like pictures.