stranger danger.

I know what you're thinking. i'm a stranger. i feel like i haven't blogged in ages. i blame my absence partly on the new love of my life....instagram.

it's easy. it's fast. and i only have to think of one little witty sentance instead of a whole blog post, so basically it's won me over.

so...if you really want to see pics, i suggest you start following me on instagram. it might just change your life.

let me give you a little updating. mothers day was great. we did the usual homemade ice cream at gmas and i got to spend the evening with family. i love grandmas yard in the summer. it brings back such fun memories of summer sleepovers on the tramp, playing in the sprinklers, slip n' slides and cousin parties.

these cats and i headed down to provo for an outdoor concert. good tunes and good company....and got me in the mode for summer. i feel like every april/may i come out of my winter funk and am reminded that i have friends and that i am actually a pretty fun person. winter i think i allow myself to sit inside and try to stay warm...which makes me feel like i have no friends and am no fun at all. see how that works?

the concert was a blast. met some fun people. ran into old friends. even got a date out of it.

miracles happen (when you invite friends that have magic hair)

another memorial day weekend has come and gone, which means another davis family campout has come and gone. guess what....it rained again. it doens't make it any easier (or warmer) when you are expecting rain as opposed to it just showing up. i was prepared with plenty of layers and plenty of blankets. i still managed to wear my toms (which got wet, of course) and eat ice on a regular basis which didn't help with my core temperature. lessons learned....

if you read this blog, you should know these people. i like these people. this pic was taken at the family dance. yes. family dance. and yes, i was the dj...kind of until they took over and started playing

techno/top 40 and then i gave up and me and the chicken dance headed back to camp.

i've been working with my cousin and his fiance to plan their wedding....which happens to be this FRIDAY.

i've learned alot about the planning process and it's been alot of fun, but it will be really great to have it done. i'm hoping everything comes together and looks beautiful and the food tastes good and the flowers turn out and the invitations were all delivered and the cake shows up and the pictures turn out and the dress still fits and we stay on time and the weather is good......

ok, so i've got alot of wedding details on my mind.

so sue me.

i'll post pictures of wedding when i have them....but most likely i'll be doing it on instagram.

so follow me.

so i can follow you.

:)

i'm only 5% depressed

funny how life changes.

my brother and his family are moving in less than a month. i think it's a big deal because i will have to catch a flight to see them. i've never had a family member live that far away...unless they were on a mission, and even then i knew they'd be back in 2 years.
it makes me wonder if i've taken my family all living so close for so long for granted. even when i "moved away from home" i was only a 5 hours car ride away from my parents and a home cooked meal. it's weird to think that this could really be the beginning of my family spreading out. taking jobs when and where they come. raising their family somewhere else and seeing them at family reunions.

i'm not completely depressed about it. 95% of me is so excited for my family to be growing up. moving on. getting great jobs. starting families. excelling in school. but i think 5% of me just still wants to be 12 and babysitting at home on a friday night while my older sister is out with her high school friends and my parents are out to dinner. (when i was 12 that was probably the last thing i wanted to do with my time...)

i guess that means i like my family, right? i really am very lucky to have siblings that are my friends. i guess we'll have to live it up at the DFC this year. :)

?????

Questions I had run through my head today...

Why does work start so early?
Why is visiting teaching so hard sometimes?
Why cant that just be good enough?
Why does Christina aguilara bug me so much?
Why is there so much grey area?
Why didn't I think of FaceTime. Or redbox? Or the bumbo?
Where in the world am I going to find room for that?
Is sleeping on a mattress without sheets really that bad?
How much longer till campout?
Is it illegal to do buckets of gas in the gutter?
How many days till Hawaii?
Is it 5 o'clock yet?
Are you serious?

summah summah summah time

i feel like there has been so much going on lately, but when i try to think of things to write about, i get stumped. can you be really busy with a whole lot of nothing??

i've kind of been planning a wedding lately. kind of meaning it's not my wedding. it's been fun to help with my cousin's wedding prep. pictures. announcements. flowers. dress. hair. showers. cake. registry. food. there is alot to do for a wedding, and somehow its taken over my brain. can't wait for june first to see how it all pans out. it will be beautiful.

i bought a plane ticket. my friend katie had been asking me if i wanted to join her on a trip to....anywhere but here. when they chose hawaii i thought for sure it wouldn't work for me to go. and then i got work off. and then i bought a plane ticket. turns out the flight leaves 2 days after my 30th birthday....perfect time to splurge, right? i think it will be the perfect end to a perfect summer. i can't wait.

speaking of summer.....it's almost summer. ahhhhhhh. summer just puts me in a good mood. sunshiney weather. camping. night time strolls. daylight till 9. bbq's. campfires and roasting marshmallows. baseball games. and outdoor concerts. how can you not be happy during summer???

you've got mail

"Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void."


you've got mail was on tv today. sometimes i like to think i'm a little bit like kathleen kelley. i feel like my life is pretty simple. it's easy to look around at others lives and wonder if i haven't been brave. i see people buying plane tickets to exotic places. training for races in warm sunny places. posting pictures of their new baby that they "just can't get enough of". buying houses. being promoted at work. taking trendy pictures on instagram and posting them with witty comments.


you know that part in the movie when after she closes the bookstore and she sits in her jammies on the floor and eats her cereal? when she's trying to figure out what she's done with her life up to that point and what she's going to do next? i'm at no such crossroads, but i still find myself having that thought process. what have i done. what's in my future. 


just like kathleen, i'm not really wanting an answer. just putting this out into the void.


so good night, dear void.

Y oh Y

I moved to provo two months before my 18th birthday. I wasn't the smartest 17 year old, hence the vow i made to myself that i would never hike the Y. maybe because everybody was doing it? i don't know the reasoning behind my 17 year old iron-clad promise...but either way, i'm not one to break promises.

until i realized it was stupid, and hiking the Y was put on my 30 before 30 list. i was a little nervous. i heard it was steep, and i know how much i hate the stair stepper at the gym. I'm happy to report that WE DID IT!!!

Ryan, Halie and Beb were very patient with my (and my bad hip...how old am i?!?!?) we hiked it at night since it was lit for graduation. it was the perfect temperature. perfect company. and felt dang good to finally check off my list :)

i dont care what you say, but my brother ryan is one of the funniest people i know. either that, or he knows my sense of humor so well that anything he does is funny to me. when i showed up to the hosue before the hike he had made a pile of supplies. rope. headlamps. knives. hatchett. gun. and fishing pole. seriously.

ok, so we only took water, headlamps, and flashlights.

so, see ya later #7. it felt very good crossing you off.

the "cleanse"

remember that 7 day diet/cleanse i told you about? easy peasy, right? only 7 days. i can do it! i've had several people doing this with me, and everyone is having slightly different results, and each day is different for every person.
today is day 6. i had chicken for breakfast. i want to kill someone. several days this week i've woken up with a headache. i feel hungry. alot. long story short, it's been a hard week. yesterday more than anything in the world, i just wanted a churro. i almost caved, but then laura made a lovely dinner of chicken. so i held out for one more day. will i be having cabbage soup tomorrow? i'm just not sure.
i'm not trying to keep you from doing this little week of goodness. really, not all days were bad. i'm just a wimp. and i hate tomatoes. and i want an egg.

just to catch up a bit....

i went home for easter. it was such a quick but wonderful weekend. saturday morning we woke up and went on a nice little hike in the nice las vegas weather.

i already posted this picture on facebook, but i'm just so happy with how our little eggs turned out. we followed the instructions from our best bites on how to silk dye eggs. we actually ended up hollowing them out so we wouldn't have to chuck them after all of our hard work

this picture probably deserves a post of its own. my dearest friend lyric got married on thursday, and i was so lucky to be a part of her day. all day long i couldn't help but be grateful to have such good people in my life. lyric and i are the type of friends that can go for a time without talking or seeing eachother, but when we meet up it's like no time has passed.  her family is incredible, and they literally treat me like i'm family. so kind. so welcoming. so grateful. so accommodating. it was so fun to see them again and watch their family interact. i couldn't help but think all day about how lucky i am to associate with such wonderful people in my life. it might sound stupid, but i'm so proud of lyric and cade for being married in the temple. there are so many other "options" these days. so many different routes to take. these two did everything right. what great examples to me and a great reminder of the blessings that are available to those who worthily marry in the temple.

after the reception, i stopped by to see frank of course. what would a trip to provo be without seeing frank?!?

look out for an upcoming post. we took some pictures for my cousin this weekend. engagement pictures. maybe you can vote on which ones you like the best??

update: this was actually my post from yesterday that i didn't post until today. day of the diet was hard. until it wasn't. i ate (cold) chicken for breakfast and then headed out to take pictures for my cousin. at 2:0 when i realized i was getting light headed because i'd only eaten cold chicken, cousin took me out for a salad at paradise bakery. and then i ate a half of a cookie. and then i had a bowl of lucky charms for dinner. judge me if you must.  so the question is.....will i do the miracle soup today?? probably not. i won't eat like a crazy person, but i will not eat miracle soup. i hope this doesn't deter you from doing the diet. you'll do great!! i still had alot of success with it....and you are stronger than me, so you'll be fine :)