Hiking, Baseball, Painting and Other Events

One Wednesday afternoon, RAH did a hiking adventure to Stewart Falls up at Sundance. It was my first time there. It was a pretty easy hike about 2.5 miles (or something like that) round trip. There were some tricky rocky parts for our guys, but they all prevailed and made it!

Our hiking line. My coworker, Davey, and me at the falls.

One Monday night, our ward did a ward FHE to the Orem Owlz baseball game up at UVSC... actually just recently UVSC was changed to UVU... Utah Valley University. Anyway, we went to the baseball game and were highly disappointed. By the bottom of the 3rd inning, the score was 14-3 for the Mustangs from Billings. We left after the 5th inning.

One Thursday evening, RAH went to the Scera theatre in Orem to watch an outdoor play at the amphitheatre. Footloose was the show. The movie I've never seen and maybe am not that interested in seeing either. My roommate Kendra and neighbor Andrea came that night too, and set their blankets next to our group which was fun for me!

On Pioneer Day, Alyssa, our friend Tyler, and I painted the office/lab where Alyssa works on campus. While it's not necessarily permissible to paint rooms on campus, we were given the go ahead by the boss of the office, whose name I will not reveal at this time. Alyssa and I prepped the room in the morning and in the afternoon we painted and it only took a couple of hours. I'd say we did a pretty good job, although Alyssa wasn't keen on the color by the end, so we may be changing it... we'll see.

Almost daily it seems, Alyssa wakes up feeling like she has puffy eyes. So how does she help them? Well, get some spoons out of the freezer (because who doesn't keep spoons in the freezer?), pop an ice cube in your mouth and hold the spoons up to your eyes for 5 minutes. I don't know how this helps but she says it does so we'll believe her. She didn't know I was going to take this picture but I couldn't resist. I also just wanted to post this other picture for fun.

Thanks Alyssa for being a good sport and not kiling me for posting the most random pictures of you.

Last picture. We are having this ward activity tomorrow, which involves a BBQ. So one of the posters posted around the complex about the activity has this great picture of a burger... with a special tribute to me. It made me laugh a lot. I'm happy to represent!

Got Milk?

Well, we do!

So RAH volunteered at the Freedom Festival breakfast over the 4th of July weekend and ended up with the leftover milk. There was so much milk that after the fridge and freezers at RAH were filled, most of the staff took some home as well. No one really drinks milk in my apartment (although since Saturday I have been drinking about 3 cartons a day), so I gave half of the milks to one of the guys apartments... and we still ended up with about 35 half pints of milk. So you do the math and that is how many milks were in the fridge when I took this picture. All crammed in there. Milk. It does the body good (and for some of us, it does something else to our bodies...)

It's Wedding Season!

This last weekend, I took a trip down to Cedar City for Kim Walton's (now Kim Stubbs) wedding. Actually, it was in Springdale, UT which is right by Zions National Park. It was a beautiful setting for a wedding. I drove down with two other girls and we all had a fun time. We stayed at the Majestic View Lodge and mostly did wedding stuff the whole time we were there. I was one of 6 bridesmaids and when we got there Friday evening, we had a rehearsal of the wedding and practiced walking down the aisle. Pretty simple really. The wedding was on Saturday evening and all that morning we helped with decorations and setting up. Mom Horspool (Kathy) was there doing the flowers and so I helped her with the arrangments... I was told I did a great job. However, I thought most of my arrangements were kinda ugly. But Kathy fixed them right up and suddenly they were lovely. She's AMAZING. Besides the centerpieces that I did which I was pretty much amazing at (hahaha), I think I only liked one or 2 of the other arrangements I did. Well in the end, everything turned out great and all the decorations were awesome. We also got to see Rachel (Adams) Nichols and Matt who came out as well, which was great since I hadn't seen Rach in over a year! It's always nice to meet up with old friends. Besides the stinkin hot weather we were having, the whole wedding was very nice and the dinner/reception afterwards were great too. Those Walton's sure know how to throw a party! Anyway, we are all happy for Kim and Phil and they were just beaming all evening.

Everyone trying to help Kim in one way or another.

Tiffany, Me, Kim, Rachel Nichols. I was actually sewn into my dress because the dumb zipper was broken! Kim's sister also was sewn into her dress and Rachel's dress wasn't even zipped up all the way, but she was wearing a black top underneath so you couldn't tell. Crazy dresses.

The master, Kathy Horspool, hard at work.

One of the arrangements we did and one of the centerpieces

At the reception, Rachel, Kathy and me!