Today was an adventure.

It started off by waking up early.

I went on a little hike..

and then I fell asleep on the drive home.. with full intentions of sleeping the rest of the night away as soon as I arrived.

and then SURPRISE!

I got called in to work.

now it's about 7 hours after my orignal intended bedtime..

Such is life.

today was lovely.

hiking adventures: part one

Robert has been asking me to go hiking with him for about five months now. This week, I finally agreed to join him.

Now.. Cydney has started a new workout called Turbo-fire. She's been asking me to join her for about a month. I finally decided to join, and now I'm hooked.

Thursday morning, I woke up, brushed my teeth, and did a 45 minute cardio workout. It was spectacular and put me in an excellent mood. I decided that 45 minutes wasn't enough of a workout, so I went and swam laps at my pool. I hopped out to dry off just as Robert called me to make sure I was awake. Me? Asleep at 11 am? You'll never see it happen.

I ran a brush through my hair, threw on some mascara, filled up my camel-pack, grabbed some granola, and vegged in front of the computer til he showed up. (if you ever see me take longer than an hour to get ready, please shoot me.)

We grabbed some subway and headed up to mount Charleston.

The kid must have some faith in me, cause he handed his keys over and let me drive his truck up the mountain. Fortunately, we didn't die.

The hike was spectacular. The temperature was perfect. The sun was out. The trees provided shade. It was great!

I love being in the mountains, I really do. Being away from all the hustle and bustle of the city life just calms me down. It makes it so much easier to feel the spirit, and I spent a LOT of time just basking in the warm feeling, wishing I had my scriptures with me.

As we reached the last stretch, my body hit a brick wall. My legs started getting heavy and then decided they really didn't want to make it to the top of the hill at all. I pushed and pushed til I could see the waterfall spraying mist through the air. It was breathtaking. I climbed to the top of the hill (which is really pathetic.. The hill shouldn't have given me ANY problems.) and stared at the cascading waterfall as it fell into a big, snowy glacier.

Robert quickly climbed to the top of one of the snowy hills and slid down. I decided to follow, and quickly re-realized that I'm slightly afraid of descending down snowy slopes at fast speeds. I decided I was going to scoot down the hill, bit by bit, but that really didn't work. I slipped and was suddenly sliding down the hill. On my butt. In shorts. 

Luckily, I survived. 

Then we spotted some people emerging from the ice. We decided to check it out. Climbing up the slippery slope, we made it to a crevice between the mountain and the glacier. We climbed down and squeezed our way under the glacier and into the depths of the cave. What we found was dazzling. The waterfall was coming from directly above us, swirling and whirling its way through the ice and down to the stream beneath us. We were sprayed with the water as it danced it's way down, but sat mesmerized for a few seconds before realizing how cold it really was. We decided to climb back into the sunshine. 

Robert decided to join another hiker in climbing up to the top of the waterfall and I opted out, deciding to stay where it was nice and safe. When he returned (HOURS later), he showed me pictures of a magically snowy place where you can skate across the ground in normal shoes. Obviously, he went to Narnia. There's really no other explanation.

It was a wonderfully lovely adventures. Here's some pictures:

And trees, they grow from the earth,
But sometimes they take to the sea.
No one could have known where they one day would be.
So come and wander with me.

flamingos

I like flamingos.

they're pink and fun,

but I think I like picture taking adventures with Rylea

even better.

the end.

the quotes

You'll often find me writing down the odd things that people say. Here's a list of some that have been featured on my blog previously. I got a nice giggle out of them.

"I was lost in the Celestial Kingdom of flavor... Ha! I just made a Mormon joke!"


"I don't have rugged good looks, I just have regular good looks."


"We wont be a tricycle. We'll be three unicycles weaving in and out of eachother and we'll be legit."


"You can't even comprehend how much I want to make love to your socks."


"I hope you don't have any cats. I could totally see her killing a cat."


"I converted. I wasn't a mormon and now I am. And look at me! I still fart!"


"If you're going to dye my dog, you can't do it blue. She's a girl dog. She has to be pink."


"It's called love!" "No, it's called saliva."


"Hey, do you want to go on a date with me? We can read childrens books and bottle fruit!"

"What are you doing?" "Trying to hold your hand." "Oh.. I see. How about a hug?"


"I can't do that. I don't want to be the crazy guy knocking on porta-potties."

"Mom, I'm going to see a movie." "Okay, are you sneaking out?" "Yes." "Okay, love you!"

"Is my bouncy ball really in the trash? Wow. Real Mature."


"I think I'm in love." "Yeah, but does he know your name?" "Of course he does. He's best friends with my dog." "Oh, okay. Makes sense."

"There is popcorn on my apricot tree."

"I had a blue zebra once. It was tied to a tree."

"Hey Toni! I got smacked in the ball with a knee! Wait... I mean..."

"How are you feeling?" "Fly. Like a G6."


"Sorry, I'm peeing. What's up?"

"When you walk into the kitchen and the drawers are open, do you close them or pelvic thrust them?"

"I'm only hugging you cause we're in public." "I hate you." "I hate you too."

"Girl pants have strange sizes. 9/10? Are they in fractions to make the girls feel skinnier?"

glass bottles make me feel classy

Okay, so I think it's about time I started posting something of substance.

I suppose my brain converted to summer mode REALLY quickly, making it difficult to write something.. or ANYTHING. It seems I just get too distracted before I can actually finish a piece of writing.. Heck, I can't even complete a text message! (I think I'm at a grand total of having sent 10 texts today, 3/4 of them being within the last hour.)

So.. Adventures!

I've been on lots lately, and it seems that as soon as I'm finished with one, I'm ready to set out on another one. No time for blogging and informing my readers (all six of you) what's going on in my life.

Today was a lovely, wake up at 4:30 am kind of morning. I took Cydney to work and was astounded by the beauty of Vegas as the sun comes up. The temperature was incredible and I thoroughly enjoyed the drive to the Air Force Base despite the fact that my eyeballs were burning from lack of decent sleep.

After dropping her off, I returned to my couch and fell asleep for several more hours before waking up to sing at the top of my lungs and dance around my house in my underwear while getting ready for work. There's nothing quite like having the house to yourself for the day.

I was pretty proud of myself that I made it there to clock in RIGHT on time. Not early, not late. Perfectly on time with a complete uniform. (Everything except the socks. They're supposed to be black. One of mine was pink, one was blue)

Usually I manage to forget part of my uniform. Either it's the hat, the belt, or the name tag. Today, I had it all. This was rather lucky since the big boss came in to my work. I mean the BIG boss. The one that's over all the Del Tacos in my area. It was pure chaos in it's most satisfyingly de-stressing state. I loved it.

After work, I went home and relaxed. My only human contact was a call to Redbox to report that my movie wasn't playing. I ended up with three free rentals.

I took a shower and called up Houston to head off to a party with me. When we got there, everyone seemed to be in a post-graduation slump. They were just sitting there. Houston and I left to walmart to figure out our new agenda for the night.

We spent a few minutes deciding which air-freshener to get for my car to make it smell good. I couldn't decide between a vanilla or a Hawaiian breeze flavor, so I just got black ice trees. If you haven't smelled them, they're fantastic. Real men wear Air Freshener Trees around their necks. (not really, but hey.)

We ended up with a couple of bottles of Pepsi and rented something from redbox before heading out to the car.  

On the way home, we spotted A&W and decided to stop for a rootbeer float. I got a pirate hat.

The movie - it's kind of a funny story was pretty dang good. If you're into cute, quirky, indie movie types, you'll love it. You'll probably love it anyways.

The night ended with watching a few video clips of my little brother pre-puberty. There's nothing quite like listening to a voice that was often confused with mine in the past and comparing it to his current "manly" voice. It made me giggle.

lovely day :)