Life in A New Era

  I just can't believe how fast summer has gone by. It feels like just yesterday that I was counting down the days until school was out, anxiously awaited summer activities such as Roaring Springs, family reunions, girls camp, and unlimited video games. Okay maybe not unlimited. It's crazy to think that now I'm counting down the days until 7th grade. 7th. I still feel like a little 5 year old girl excited and nervous to go to kindergarten. To make friends, learn how to read, sing songs, do math, and become a student. One thing I remember was always wanting to find a way to be creative and add little dashes of color to everything I did. We had to wear uniforms at the charter schools that I attended and I remember wearing a big, bulky, homemade rainbow necklace. Picking out my rainbow shoes covered in stars with with a cute little pink bow on top. Pretending I was a long lost princess from a far away kingdom. Singing my favorite Disney songs to my classmates. Wearing my barbi...

Happy Birthday Dad! These past few weeks have been full of fun festivities as we have celebrated my dad's 40th birthday. We had an epic surprise party for him, bringing almost all of his family up discreetly . He already knew that 2 of his sisters were coming and so we hung out with them for the first day and then on Friday the 13th we sent him to Costco with Cari. The party was soon to begin. Lori, her kids, my mom, me, and my brothers started setting up the party. Then at about 3:30 guests started to arrive. My grandma and grandpa Wheeler, my great-grandma  Janice  my uncle Jeff, and my cousin Grayson all traveled from Utah to celebrate the occasion. Once they all arrived we started to divide and conquer as we finished decorating and preparing for the party. We decided to put my grandma Janice on the front couch with a Davy-Crocket Coonskin hat and a massive green party hat on top of her head, and had her pose with a stone expression while the rest of us hid behind a wall. F...

 Wow. Can I just say that I just LOVE my family! This past week has been one of the happiest times in my life. I got to go to Ashton Idaho with my Savage Cousins and it was incredible! I love them so much! We left last Sunday to head to Utah so that we could drop off my dog at my aunts house. I didn't mind the drive considering we have to drive 5 hours to see family in general. We spent the night at my sweet grandparents house in preparation to head to the reunion. We arrived in Ashton around 4pm on Monday when we got our first impressions of the AMAZING house that we got to stay in as an Airbnb. It had 3 stories, 9 bedrooms, TONS of bathrooms, a massive kitchen, 2 BIG dining tables, a movie theatre, lots of deck space and balconies, a hot tub, game room with a pool table, bocce ball, and  ping pong, a kitchen in the basement, tons of property including my favorite...a private lake with kayaks and paddle boards! That evening we had tacos, and we played on the lake. We stayed u...