PINTEREST | 10 Celeb Girl Crushes

Come on. Don't act like I'm the only one.

 

Blake Lively

 

Kate Bosworth

 

Emma Watson

 

Keira Knightley

 

Selena Gomez (give me a break on this one, she's an adolescent idiot sometimes, but she's still gorg.)

 

Olivia Wilde

 

Rachel McAdams

 

Emma Stone

 

Allison Williams

Lily Collins

Still Alive, Just Busy

any time i get even a tiny bit busy, my blog is the first thing to go from my to-do list. sorry (not really so much). at least this time it's been blissfully busy. still a little stressful, but in all the right ways.

devin just got called as the stake young men's secretary (this counts for at least 3 spots on my list of things that have kept us busy lately, right? yikes. he is the busiest person i've ever known. between school, work, new gym opening (have you been? you need to go. this gym is AMAZING, you guys.), another huge giant work thing we'll have to talk about later because it's still sort of secret, and school? yeah. just a bit busy.)

i've been sick. we'll leave it at that and spare you the details. (ew, gross. not like that.) (stop. i'm not pregnant. nice try.)

we've been actually living our lives instead of living them for the sake of documenting them on social media (there is a huge difference, and this side of it is so much better.) we've been going out with friends and hanging out with family and doing all sorts of awesome things and being super old fashioned about it because we're hardly taking any pictures (laugh, guys, that was a good one.)

this weekend will be a lot of fun. we actually get to go on a date tonight, and then we are babysitting scarlett all weekend while mckayla and zac head out of town for a little getaway! i'm so excited and also nervous. and then on sunday, devin will be at ward conferences all day, so i will be solo with the baby. but i'm going to go to church with my mom to my old home ward (my dad is in the bishopric of a single's ward so she goes alone most sundays), and this is where it gets really fun: going to my home ward (all the people that watched me grow up and have known me longer than anyone else), without my husband, and a baby that isn't mine. it's gonna get real confusing. it will be hilarious, i can't wait.

other things:

we had a wonderful easter. our sacrament meeting was so amazing, i cried like a baby almost the entire time. i don't want to get into it or else i'll start crying again, but i just felt so absolutely surrounded with love from my savior all day and i really needed it and it was amazing and i hadn't had a moment like that in awhile.

i got to spend an entire day with my sisters and mom celebrating my mom's birthday (which is actually today). we shopped at city creek for like, 6 hours. it was glorious. and then my little brother went to prom, and it was the cutest. he is the greatest kid. he has awesome friends, and the cutest date. and i just think the world of that kid. and then we went to provo beach resort with our friends, the andrews. and i haven't laughed that hard in a long time. it was the best. 

life's just been the greatest. and the busiest. 

junk drawer

Remember photobooth? It's like the junk drawer of mac computers. At least, to mine anyway. These are a few of the gems I stumbled upon when I was cleaning up my computer a few days ago.

 

ugh. cooper does not understand photobooth. like, get with the program.

 

my squirrely little rascally baby coop!!! and that handsome man in need of a haircut. love them both to the moon.

 

avant garde - still trying to make photobooth happen. (it's not.)

three reasons you know this picture is eons old: i'm sitting in our old apartment, i have eyelash extensions (i so wish i could keep up with them. but i'm just not high maintenance enough), short hair (haven't cut my hair in almost 2 years), and (bonus) i have no idea what happened to that shirt.

 

not even going to try to explain this one

those blasted good hair days when you do absolutely nothing important. damn those days. they are the worst.

Buckhorn

It has been about 3 years since we were last at Buckhorn Wash (we went just after we got married - read about that trip here), and we were overdue for a camping trip anyway, so we decided to make another trip to the wedge!

The weather was beautiful, there was lots to explore, and we had the greatest time. Cooper is certainly a desert dog, and had the time of his life running around in the sand, and digging to his heart's content. He also discovered he has an echo in places like that - it was hilarious to watch him try to figure it out!

I wish I would have taken more photos - but you know how it goes… Here's hoping we're back outside soon! This was the perfect segue into a great season of camping and being outdoors.

 

all i know is that if these two boys are involved, it's going to be an adventure.

 

always mesmerized by the giant windmills at the mouth of spanish fork canyon

 

lucked out with this great camp spot. couldn't get the car in over the rocks, so we carried everything about 100 yards into the camp.

 

TIME OUT: have you ever seen this weird stuff? it's like.. black crusty dirt stuff? sometimes it looks like black moss? yeah. it's called cryptobiotic soil and it's actually a living organism. it's one of the oldest known life forms EVER, so if you ever see it? don't touch it or step on it!

 

every single time we go camping, it doesn't take long for devin to wander off and explore. we were camped in the corner of this awesome little canyon, and before i knew it, devin was climbing around to the top of the cliff we were under! the views he gets are incredible though. this is our camp!

 

coop followed him up and officially let it be known that he is a giant wuss when it comes to heights. he would not get any closer to the edge, haha!

 

buckhorn is the prettiest. i love the desert.

 

 

as he climbed around up there, i took photos of him and coop! it's so hard to see in this photo, but they are in the middle, dev on the left and coop on the right. do you see them!?

 

there he is! so tiny way up there.

  

we stopped at the pictograph panel

 

these things just blow my mind. these pictographs were painted over 2,000 years ago. TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. amazing. i just can't even… whoa.

 

bottleneck peak. devin says it's bolted for rock climbing - looks too scary to me!

 

and then a little target practice with our beretta (i have horrible aim - can you tell? ha)

 

cooper was absolutely TERRIFIED of the gun, the poor guy. he ran and hid under the car, so we took him to the san rafael river after for a swim.

 

This is the "swinging bridge" - it was built in the 1930s and is the only suspension bridge in Utah now! It's suspended from these massive cables, and it really does swing and creak - a little unnerving if you ask me.

 

hanging out at camp - coop digging like a crazy person. he looooved the sand. in the middle of the day, when it was hot, he would dig until he found cool sand, and lay in it. smart dog!

 

 

excuse the day 4 hair, mismatched clothes, and lack of public decency - i'm camping! but i thought this photo was funny because i've constantly got a grip on a can of diet coke. even in the middle of nowhere.

 

taking some time to revisit one of my favorites

 

on our way home, we stopped at the wedge. i think it's sometimes called the little grand canyon. for obvious reasons. absolutely gorgeous.

 

goes on forever

 

again with the scared dog. he haaaated it, it was hilarious haha

rode all the way home on a giant stack of pillows and blankets like a darn king. spoiled rotten is what this guy is.