Allie

MY Twenty-Twelve!!!

2012-01-10T16:01:00.000-08:00

Well its officially the new year! I have been thinking a lot about what that means. If you're reading this you probably know that 2011 didn't necessarily have the happiest of endings for me. A lot of people told me that 2012 would be better "out with the old in with the new" I really liked that advice at first. But then I started to think about the past year and all of the things that happened. Since I didn't post ANYTHING all year here is a quick catch up.....

In March I was blessed my my first baby niece Annistyn. What a beautiful baby girl she is!

She's the first baby girl on our side of the family so she's a little spoiled sometimes but I think she deserves it :) I learned how to make a quilt and made this one for when she was born.

I finished up my first year at USU. I had a lot of fun adventures but not many pictures to show for it. This was when my friend Craig took me and his blind roommate Quinn out shooting. That was such an interesting experience!

After school I got to move back home for the summer. I got to spend a lot of time with my nephews and niece while they lived with us. Never a dull moment with these kids :)

I was also able to work at FMC again this summer. It was a lot of fun because my dad and brother both work there so I got to see them quite often. They definitely look out for me!

I also met a lot of new people and got to know old friends better. I loved that job for the most part... except one night when I was working graveyard shift and there was a packrat in the warehouse!!! Luckily he liked cheeze-its and I was able to catch him!

At the beginning of the summer I had the opportunity to spend a weekend in Roosevelt with a friend from school and his family. I went on my first real horse ride through the mountains and it was a lot of fun! I was too scared to go very fast though haha!

Every summer our family has a reunion at Cherry Hill water park.

I also got to go on my first backpacking trip. What a neat experience that was! It was so beautiful up there and I had a lot of fun. Thank you Orin :-)

Also thanks to Orin I had my first experience golfing (other than mini golf).

I can't say I was any good but it was fun to try!

I killed my first 'lil antelope! I was pretty excited about that! I went

deer hunting but was not as successful. But it was a fun experience!

In November I got to go with my family to Disneyland. We had a lot of fun on that adventure!

We were able to celebrate my Grandma's 90th birthday in November before she passed away this weekend. What an incredible woman she was. I feel so blessed to have had her for my grandma for so long.

I decided to learn how to make these cute blocks and was able to give them to

some special people for Christmas!

These are just a few of my experiences/ accomplishments in 2011 but it really was such a great year full of fun, learning, and great people. I was able to spend a lot of time with my wonderful family. I gained new family members who are so loving and supportive. So as 2012 begins I hope to not "be out with the old" because those are the people that made this year so great. I hope to keep all of my old friends and family members just as close. But I do plan to "bring in the new" and see what this year has to offer. I plan to embrace all of the opportunities I am given to learn, try new things, and meet even more great people.

New Adventures

2010-09-27T21:26:00.000-07:00

Well... This year I started my new adventure at Utah State University in

Logan, UT I have LOVED it so far!! I have made lots of new friends

and had lots of fun... Oh and classes aren't too bad either haha.

Here are just a few random pictures from our apartment... the living room...

one of the bathroom areas... and of course my bedroom!

There were some mix-ups on move in day.... like which apartment

I was supposed to be in and such but it all worked out really well

and I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new roommates!

Dani is from Honeyville, UT and she is a blast!

She is definitely the "mom" of our group which we love...

She interrogates guys when they come to pick us up for dates.

Ashley is from Boise... she is super sweet... we have gotten to

do a lot together and she is super fun!

Kylee is from Washington. She and Ashley are cousins and she's super cute.

Ashley's brother lives across the hall from us so we are good

friends with him and his roommates too.

We have gotten to do a lot of fun things since we've

been here but I haven't taken a lot of pictures.

A couple of weekends ago we went "camping"

It ended up being really cold so the guys just let us come

up for dinner and the fire and then we left.

The left picture below is me, Brad, Todd, and Tyson and

the right one is Kylee and Ashley while we were up in the canyon

This picture is pretty blurry but its our whole group minus Ash who is taking it...

But from left to right...

Tyson, Kylee, Colten, Brad, Me, Kellen, and Todd

This past weekend Ashley and I went to the Rodeo here in Logan

It was really fun even though we got a little cold

We got to watch goat tying which was definitely a new experience

Us being goofy

Like I said I am loving it and can't wait for more good times!

And I miss you all back home

Summer Fun

2010-08-29T20:39:00.000-07:00

This summer I worked A LOT and didn't have time to do a lot

of things but I did get to spend time with my family and we did

some fun things with my nephews.

I'm not totally sure when I took these but I had to post them because it just made

me laugh.... both of the boys decided they wanted to try on my shoes

and walk around in them!!

We went to Hogle Zoo and they had fun playing in the

playground... maybe more than seeing the animals

Michael and Jake came to stay for a week and so

I got to help entertain them (give grandma and grandpa a rest!)

We went to Arctic Circle for dinner and ice cream...

Believe it or not, Michael is posing for this picture haha

Michael got to spend a night with Derek and Tamika and Jake

was a little jealous but he and I made some bird feeders with pine cones

and peanut butter he had a lot of fun with that!

Michael helped me make some cookies for our family reunion...

He was SOO good at scraping the edges of the bowl while it spun

They of course wanted to lick the beaters :)

At the end of the week we had our family reunion at Cherry Hill

Water Park

Jared LOVED crawling in the little kiddie pool

Jake was pretty terrified of the dragon slides but seemed to enjoy the pool, and the lazy river before it started spraying him

Michael liked going on the slides but he mostly just liked swimming on his back

We got to play mini golf!!

And my mom and I did the batting cages!!!

Orlando!

2010-08-29T12:42:00.000-07:00

So... back in April I had the chance to go to a big international convention for Phi Theta Kappa

which is the honor society for 2-year colleges. I went with two other officers from our school to ORLANDO for a few days!

We drove to Salt Lake City......

Me Kelly Darcy

....and caught a red-eye flight!! We had a layover in Altanta

(you can tell how tired we all were) We got to Orlando in the early morning.

We stayed at the Swan and Dolphin Resort Hotl which was nice

(other than having to pay for the expensive food) We went to

A lot of different classes and heard some great speakers....

Luckily we had some free time to wander around and have some fun too :)

We walked all around the Disney Boardwalk to do a little shopping

I got to see some real live fruit trees!!

And of course Kelly and I had go to Disney World!

We went on all of the rides... and they even stayed open an hour later for those of us there from the convention!

There was a boat that took you around on a little tour from our hotel

so we went on that a few times

One of the nights we had a big formal dinner and dance which ended being a lot of fun

This is our group by the fountain at the hotel before we left

St. PaTriCk's DaY!

2010-03-17T18:53:00.000-07:00

I have always been a fan of holidays, but I have never been one to go all out to celebrate the smaller ones. Today, however, I just felt the urge to do something.

I made sure to wear lots of GREEN. I had to go to the elementary school for a little while and I didn't want to be PINCHED by all of the kids!

I decided I wanted to make a fun dinner. I didn't want to have it by myself so luckily I was able to get Tamika to join! We made lots of cute food! We made

little pizzas with SHAMROCKS, cottage cheese and fruit "rainbow", and a jell-o POT-OF-GOLD

We also had GREEN salad and rainbow sherbet drinks!

My favorite part of the whole dinner was the dessert! I made some rainbow cupcakes and they turned out way cool! There is a picture of me and one of Tamika with our cupcakes below :)

Snow!

2009-10-04T11:51:00.000-07:00

This morning I was watching General Conference with my roommates and

we saw that it was snowing! As soon as conference ended we threw on our coats

and boots and ran outside to play and take pictures!

Usually I am not very excited for the first snow of the year but I decided its

never going to change so I should just embrace it :)

Brooke is on the left, I am in the middle, and Kirsten is the one on the right.

Brooke and me by the Tiki man

We had a hard time finding anyone willing to stand out in the snow long enough to take our picture but finally someone did.

Kirsten couldn't resist shoving some snow in Brooke's face!

She wanted to have a snowball fight and she got one.

Here is the video.... I think Kirsten won.

Don't Drink and Drive!

2009-08-02T12:33:00.000-07:00

Well this morning my mom came in my room and said, "You know that dent you've had in your car? Well you don't have to worry about it anymore." (The dent was a pretty small one behind my rear driver tire that was there when we bought the car.) So i said, "Who hit it?" She proceeded to tell me that she didn't know who it was but a 17 year old girl was driving drunk late last night and hit my car and Tamika's mom's car, both of which were parked on the street in front of my house. The girl had just dropped of her friend before this happened. She of course went to jail. One of our neighbors actually watched it happen. My dad got up to take some pictures...

...here is the front view while her car was still there.

Here is the back... her car had to be towed out and I guess it was pretty stuck.

Now for the damage... its not such a tiny little dent anymore! `

She hit it pretty hard considering she had already hit a car 5 feet away!

The metal even bent over the fuel door!

The damage was not quite as bad to Tamika's mom's car but even hers isn't driveable.

She hit her rear tire and bent it out pretty bad and scratched up the sides a little.

Looks like she gets to stay longer than expected.
I don't think the picture does it justice.

oops...

2009-02-05T07:45:00.000-08:00

Well... this morning I woke up a bit late, showered, and rushed to class only to find no one was there. I was so confused. There were no notes saying class was cancelled. Finally I rememebered class was cancelled so we could go meet with her about one of our projects! I felt so dumb but at least now I can finish getting ready :)

Oh and.... I forgot to post these.... Connor and I watched Chuck on 3-D Monday and we are rockin the sweet glasses!

Hair cut

2009-01-20T15:11:00.001-08:00

Well on a little bit of a happier note I got a haircut today and I love it!

Victims!!

2009-01-20T15:01:00.001-08:00

Saturday my roommate Sarah and I took advantage of an awesome extra credit opportunity for government. We went to the fire station to play victims for a training class. We got all made up with different wounds. Sarah had a broken leg....

I had a black eye....

and a big gash on my arm...

There were 3 other girls as well. One had a gash across her forhead and internal problems, one had a big rod thing through her hand and one was in shock. Basically what we did was act like we were in an earthquake. We went in this room and knocked over tables and chairs. We turned off all the lights and hid around the room. Then they would send in the rescue team. ( the people training to be emergency response people) They would come in and find us and take us out of the room to get medical help. We were supposed to make it feel as real as possible so there was a lot of screaming and stuff. It was a lot of fun but I hope to never be in that situation for real! Sorry if the pictures gross you out remember its just makeup :)

Christmas Tree

2008-12-05T14:59:00.000-08:00

Today Rissa and I put up our little Christmas tree and decorated it! She put the lights on... It only took two tries. The first time she ran out in the middle so she tried again again and got it!

We didn't have a little star or angel or anything so we had to improvise.

This is our little Flounder tree topper.

We used mini green bulbs, red icicles, and disney characters!

It looks a bit lopsided but we still love it.
This is us with our masterpiece!

Colds

2008-12-02T11:17:00.000-08:00

So this weekend I started getting sick. I had a sore throat for a while and now I just have a stuffy/runny nose. I took some Nyquil last night and went to bed at 10. Well around 5am I woke up and could not fall asleep again. My nose kept running every time I laid down. It was too late to have more Nyquil. Finally I gave up and took a shower. Well I decided something needed to be dome about this cold. I wanted to take a bubble bath but didnt have any bubbles. So this afternoon I went to buy bubble bath at walmart and I discovered an amaizing invention....

Its a bath salt for colds and sinus congestion. It smelled like Vick's Vapor Rub and that always helps, so I figured it was worth a shot. That was the most relaxing part of my day, even though my cold didn'y go away it felt so nice and it cleared it up while I was in there.

Sunset

2008-12-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

One thing I love to do and probably don't do enough is sit and look at the beautiful things God has created. I feel so lucky to live in Wyoming where we can see such beautiful things like mountains, and the stars, and especially sunsets. I took this picture not too long ago on my way home from Idaho and just seeing the trees and river and sunset all together was amazing. Pictures never do the real thing justice.

Thanksgiving Day

2008-11-27T21:44:00.001-08:00

I really love the Thankgiving Holiday for a lot of reasons. I love being with family and just staying in and spending the day together. I also love that it encourages me to stop and think about all the things I am thankful for and there are a lot that I don't think about as often as I should. So its great that Once a year its somewhat required. I also, of course, love the food!!! This year we celebrated here in Green River and my Aunt Trudie and Grandma Davis came.

Mom started cooking very early. The first thing in the oven was the pumpkin pie. I don't actually like it but its not Thanksgiving without it.

Grandma watched the parade on TV.

Then came the mashed potatoes. That was a little more eventful than we would have liked it to be. We peeled potatoes like crazy... and then put the skins down the disposal.

BAD IDEA!! It got very clogged up. So Mom got the plunger and started trying that.... all that did was make gross water come out of the part of the sick that is there for the dishwasher. So Aunt Trudie held a towel around it while Mom kept trying to plunge and still no luck.

Good thing my Daddy is Mr. Fix-It and he took care of it when he got home from work! Whew!

We got to use our nice china dishes for the feast!

Everything looked and smelled so good! We had turkey, green salad,

mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, rolls, stuffing, and cheesy veggies.

Finally we got to eat and it was just as amazing as I expected!

Even Dakota got to enjoy a little bit of turkey.

Derek and Tamika got back from Utah later that evening, and Connor came over,

so we played Scattergories, and ate pie and cobbler!

Broncos Game

2008-11-18T15:38:00.000-08:00

At the beginning of the month, Connor and I drove to Denver for the Broncos vs. Dolphins game. When we got to Denver, we put on our awesome jerseys and got on a bus to go to the stadium! We sat in the coolest part of the bus. It was like an accorian and it bent when we turned corners.

We got there about an hour early. The stadium is huge and there were already a ton of people there.

After we found our seats in the 20th row... ...we walked down to the front row and watched some of the players warm up!!

Peyton Hillis

Before the game they had all the junior cheerleaders from a cheer camp perform with the Bronco's cheerleaders.Then the mascot came down from the sky, and....
It was GAME TIME!! The flames that shoot up were sooooo hot!

There were some very dedicated fans for sure!!
We cheered very loud (yes...even Connor)...
But it just wasnt enough... the Bronco's lost 26-17

(partially because of horrible horrible calls)

But thats okay because it was still so much fun and we had a totaly blast cheering with all the people around us!!

MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

2008-11-03T17:27:00.000-08:00

I got to celebrate my birthday a few times this year! The weekend before my birthday two of my roommates and I went to Bern, ID. (Rissa's Hometown, population 126) It is a tiny little town. When we got there we took a walk up to a fish pond so we could feed the fish some cat food.

Within a few minutes we noticed a couple of really nasty things floating in some moss. We got a rake and fished out a GIANT RAT THING. It was really really disgusting.

The fish were really cool though we fed them and touched them. Nellie Fell in!

After the fish we went and saw some baby pigs. They were so stinkin' CUTE! There were tons of them and they just ran all over chasing eachother.

We caught this little guy and played with him for a while!

Its too bad they grow up to look like this....

We took a drive.....

And we went to Bloomington Lakes. It was so Pretty.

Rissa's Boyfriend Derek Swung on the rope swing! Good thing he didnt fall in,

that water is FREEZING!!!!

That night we drive up to Lava Hot Springs. That was so nice. We met some really funny people. Sorry No pics of that.

Sunday evening before we came home we went to Derek's dairy farm. Nellie named this cow Nellie Jr.

Once again its too bad they grow up....

The night before my birthday I celebrated with my mom and dad. I had a really cute cake!

I think all the smoke is a sure sign I'm getting old...

some of the candles aren't even blown out yet!

Monday night Luke, Nellie, and I stayed up late. This is my first picture being officially 19!

I only put this picture up becuase it doesnt look like Nellie's head and body are attached!

On my birthday Connor (my boyfriend) took me to dinner at the Wonderful House. Then I opened my presents from him and we went to ColdStone. It was a lot of fun! One of my presents was a Bronco's jersey with my last name on it to wear to the Bronco's game! #19 for my 19th birthday.

Vending Machines

2008-10-13T15:20:00.000-07:00

Well today started off like any other Monday. I woke up at 7:55 and made it to class by 8:03 (impressive right?) Then I had my work out class... and then Pychology. Well today in psychology our teacher asked us which was more common, death by shark attacks or vending machines? Of course we all said Sharks Duh! Well we were "wrong". She said more people die from vending machine accidents than shark attacks. She said "Think about that next time your candy gets stuck and you decide to shake the machine to free it." I didnt think much of it at the time just that it was really random (and I think an urban legend type thing). I never use them so I just kinda blew it off.
Well, later in the day I am sitting in math and I decide skittles sound really good. And I just happened to have 85 cents to buy them after class. So I stop at the vending machine, put in my change and press E7.... and they get stuck..... At this point I am talking to Derek on the phone. He says just shake it. So I look around, no one is watching, so i start hitting the machine. It moves a little but still stuck by just the very corner. I hang up the phone so I can hit harder. Then this girl comes up to me. She starts talking to me and trying to encourage me or something. I feel like a total retard hitting a machine for a lousy bag of skittles. Meanwhile I am thinking "just don't die, beacuse that would be too ironic." Finally I surrendered to the candy so I wouldn't be late for english. But all that for one little bag of candy.

Top Models!

2008-09-17T18:00:00.000-07:00

Well I guess this is an example of what happens when we get really bored and don't want to go to bed at night. Nellie, Rissa, Luke, and I got all "dressed up" and went around taking pictures. I look pretty darn good right?

No we did not actually go in i promise.
Hot Stuff ;)

What a lucky guy!

Denver Trip

2008-09-14T14:49:00.000-07:00

Well, this weekend our honors program toko a cultural field trip to Denver. It started Friday morning. We left around 8:30 am. We were all pretty tired and really to catch some zzz's when we were told it was time to do a little "speed dating." We spent five minutes talking to each person on the bus getting to know each person. It wasnt too bad at first but 4 hours later when we got to Cheyenne and it was STILL going everyone was a little crabby. WE finally made it through and it surprisingly made the time go a whole lot faster.

When we got to Denver we went straight to the hotel where we had a couple hours to just rest before dinner and our first play. That was nice. Then we went to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. That was so delicious. Rissa and I both bought fruity drinks and got to keep the glasses :) They were also way way good. After dinner we went to see "Avenue Q" It was different from anything I've ever seen. There were a lot of funny parts and also a lot of things that made me think," wow did that honestly just happen?" but overall it was pretty good. We sat in the "nosebleed" section of the operahouse.

Saturday we woke up and went to the Denver Art Museum. To be honest I was not very excited for this part. I was pretty sure that 2 1/2 hours in the building was going to be torture. At the very beginning there was a big turtle statue that said "Climb on me!" so of course we did. We decided ot must have been just to get that urge out of our systems before we got to all of the expensive stuff that you can't touch. And trust me the urge was there.
We started on the 7th floor and I was instantly in awe. There were just so many different things and they were all so cool. We all had a lot of fun and didnt even get to see everything.
After the art museum we were free to spend a few hours exploring downtown Denver. We took the opportunity to shop at 16th street mall. Its basically a mall that is about 3 miles long! First we had to eat lunch though. We stopped at the first place we could find. This happened to be Jonny Rockets. It was a diner. The waiters all came out and danced so that was really fun.

After Lunch and shopping we had another (much needed) hour at the motel before dinner and another play. We ate at Villiage Inn. Then we went to the Vintage Theater to see "A Streetcar Named Desire" The theater was very small there were just 4 rows so everyone was very close to the stage. It was a very emotional, intense play and we felt like we were just sitting in the apartment it was taking place in. After the show the actors came out and we got to ask questions for a little while. They did a very good job and I enjoyed the play a lot. Finally we got back to the hotel really late.

This morning we got on the bus and slept. It was an uneventful ride (other than looking over to see the semidriver we were passing texting!) I had such a blast and can't wait to go back sometime.

Roommates!

2008-09-10T11:19:00.000-07:00

Well I moved into my apartment in Rock Springs a few weeks ago and am loving it. I have really fun roommates, and we just have a good time. We all get along really well, so that is a big plus. This is me with two of my roomates Rissa and Nellie.

Jen is my other roommate. She is from Big Piney, Wyoming. She is a lot of fun and an AMAZING cook.

Rissa is from Bern, Idaho. (Bear Lake) She is such a sweet girl, and makes everyone smile.

Nellie is from Sandy, Utah. She is crazy and likes to "party"!

This is our lovely kitchen. So far I don't think we've had a bad meal. We all like to cook and we let the neighbor boys come eat with us too sometimes. (When they are lucky!)

Our living room is still really empty and boring. We do have a lot of wide open space though :) And a giant tiki man poster.

This is my bathroom, I share with Jen.

And finally this is my bedroom. I've been able to keep it pretty clean. This is where I spend most of my time.