{midnight fun}

me and kelsey and austin and devin and zac just got back from the midnight showing of transformers 2: revenge of the fallen. it was a rocking fun movie... and a rocking fun time [we all got transformers t-shirts, pretty much the coolest thing ever.] although i have to admit.... i prefer movie theaters to be a little more empty... and therefore a little less smelly. and i think it is absolutely ridiculous for people to clap before during or after movies.... there is no need- so just dont freaking do it. anyway. it was a fun night. and now it is late. and i figured i needed a little down time before i go to bed... so you get a picture right away! :) yep... so yeah go see it. itwas fun!

{pantry fun}

so... last week there were shade t-shirts at costco... mom bought me and kelsey two each in exchange for organizing her pantry. well last night me and kels got a movie ticket pass [and a promise to do her pantry on the morrow] so we could go see year one. anyway... point of that story was that we organized the pantry today. it was pretty incredible. we did a rocking good job.

we should have taken a before picture so that you could see what it looked like. we [as in the fam] have this terrible habit of just keeping all sorts of stuff in there... well, its all food stuff... but a lot of it is old... or still unopened [and we have a other room titled "food room" for that kind of stuff] so me and kels cleaned it out- and this is the result....

oh... and we recently got a laminator machine thing... and me and kelsey have gone a little laminator happy... we made labels and naturally laminated them.. pretty cute! :)

and this is our happy [and pleasantly surprised] mom

and this is a happy [and rather proud] us

{another one of those days}

i havent painted for a couple months... and i got this huge urge yesterday, but i was super busy.... so i painted today. i like the way it turned out... and it was fun. and i feel better now, so... yep.

(oh and i painted over one of my bigger canvases.... getting ready to repaint it. ill let you know how it goes.)

{heck yes}

i finally got a weezer decal for my car.

[i bought it off ebay last week.]

im so very happy.

i love it.

:)



heck freaking yes.

{our poor old plant}

so we have this huge century plant in our front yard. legend has it that these beautiful plants bloom once a century [hence the name] but i wikipedia-ed it and it said it only actually takes about 30 years for the plant to reach full maturity and bloom. the trick to these neat plants is that they only get one shot to bloom... then they die. well our poor old century plant starting shooting up its bloom about a month ago. the bloom stalk is huge... this plant puts every last bit of everything into this bloom to spread its seed and whatever. ours has got to be 20 or more feet high... today we came home from church and it had fallen over and gotten stuck in the palo verde tree.

[those are the seeds]

austin and i went out to take some pictures to send to grandpa neilson and he tried to push it back up... and it is pooping heavy...


so then he started swinging on it...


...and appparently poked his finger. lol.


anyway, ive enjoyed watching this plant's progress... and i have to admit it makes me sad to see it go... and it will be a booger to clean up.


[this is the actual plant... the base of the shoot... its starting to get all withery-looking and nasty- but its a pretty cool picture!]

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and just in case anyone was wondering... i love arizona summers... i love the heat, i love the plants, i love this town, i love my family. its been fun. and i couldnt help but take more pictures of cactus and other such fun... the desert really is beautiful- it has a such a subtle yet striking beauty about it. i sure do love my arizona.

{mmm}

tonight for dessert me and kelsey made a fruit pizza... and mmm mmm mmmmm was it yummy. anyway... it was pretty [and thankfully banana-less]...

oh... and we are all happy that mom is home... we had a lot of gossip to catch up on [hahahah!!]


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and we cant have any event without taking a picture of our adorable little hayley bug...
she sure does love her gran-pappy!! :)

{the greatest dad}

so last night i slept with my window open [my room was feeling stuffy]. well, i woke up a little before 4 am and i swear it to you i heard a man outside... i must have woken up from a really scary, weird dream... but for some reason it seriously... like hard core, for reals... creeped me out. i got up... i didnt see anyone out there... so shut my window and climbed back in bed and tried to calm myself down... then at like 4:30... i saw a light outside... i looked outside and there was a car... like a volvo wagon thing... and they slowed way down in front of our house... then turned around in the cul-de-sac.... and stopped and was shining their lights directly at our house... needless to say, i was freaking out... they started to drive away, but then stopped in between us and our neighbor's... someone got out a and i way freaked out... i went and got my dad... and he [being the awesome and patient dad he is] got up, i thought he grabbed a gun...but it was just a flashlight... hahah.... and went outside. i cant even explain to you how bad i was shaking. i dont usually freak out like this, i swear!! he came back in... with the newspaper...and said he didnt see anyone else out there. it was probably just the newspaper man... and maybe the voice was some creeper walking his dog in the wee hours of the morning. my dad gave me a hug a sent me back to bed. haha... so basically, im a spaz who totally freaked out over the newspaper man. but why did he have to get out of his car like that? and why in the world did i freak out? i suppose ill never know... but i sure felt silly afterwards... and a little bad for waking my dad up, but he sure is the greatest... and i love him!