How I spent my summer vacation...

Since it's been a year since I blogged...here are a bunch of pictures of all the exciting things I did this summer...it was full of fun, romance, heartache, music and laughter! I wouldn't trade a second of it! (well, except for that heartache part...)


At The Fray concert in July




At the end of July Mom, Chad, Lydia and I went to Vancouver to visit the fam...The Strang clan!I'm not related to him!My grandma JoanThe Empress Hotel...I really want to stay there one day!Courtney Street in Victoria! Why must they always spell it wrong?We visited my grandpa's grave.

I met the very same Johnny Depp look-alike that I mentioned in my blog from a year ago! He still works at that restaurant...they aren't hiring anymore though...sniff!The boys were SO embarrassed!We're not strange or anything...With the statue that looked like my grandpa...Beth never did get to smell his feet!Jesse, Julian, Marcia and I spent most of the weekend reading the final installment of Harry Potter! (Much to Joe's chagrin, "Put those books down! This is not a library!")still reading...and reading...My mom's the best! Jaime, Kayla, Brit, Katie and I went to Disneyland and Sea World in May.This pic never ceases to be funny!We're hot!!!The only rules at Disneyland are that you must hold hands, but NO DANCING is allowed!His nose was too big!I finally got mouse ears with my name on them! Pirate Princess ears, no less!At the end of June I visited Kim in AZ for the weekend! It was too hot to do anything except shop and eat...but that's what we do best!Kim donated 16 inches of her hair to Locks of Love while I was there!Shopping, shopping and more shopping!Together again after too many years!Waiting for Jericho Road...yet again!

My 28th (82nd?) birthday was celebrated the entire weekend! My friends planned a fantastic night on my actual birthday. Ben cooked dinner and then we hiked up to Ensign Peak! On Saturday night we played Nintendo Wii at my dad's house, then Sunday Russ cooked a wonderful dinner for me!A woman's place??? Barefoot (but not pregnant!) in the kitchen...Party at my dad'sMost of the gang at the top of Ensign PeakWhat attitude?Slip N Sliding on the 4th of JulyScared of the dark!Kayla, me and BritDustin, me and Mike at the Jon Schmidt/Peter B/Ryan Shupe concert

My cousin Jonelle got married! I was jealous of her shower gifts and she wanted to kill me for tying the bows in her hair!This week we hiked to Donut Falls...the scene was much different than when we snowshoed in this past winter...