This last weekend for my friend Kim's birthday we drove to northern Idaho (doing 950 miles in 3 days) to ride the Hiawatha trail. This trail is about 15 miles it takes you through tunnels and over bridges while you ride on dirt covered train track. it was beautiful and we had a blast. While on this ride however Jen caught this moment of Andrea putting something in my backpack(but or course she let us pose before she took it)... I know I am tall but I didn't realize that i was THAT tall...Don't get me wrong I like to be tall.. but I have not often STOOD in a picture, I usually bend my knees, and so I guess I haven't really seen me standing next to someone in all my tallness.
Oh and I almost forgot to mention... they all got cute flowery girl bikes and I had to ride a mans bike... Honestly I am not the tallest girl in the world, don't people realize that there are plenty of tall women who don't want to ride mens bikes for the rest of their lives? I was thinking about buying a bike a couple of weeks ago and when i went in to the store the man even said, oh I don' t think we have a womans bike that would be tall enough for you... Honestly I go to a specialty store and they want me to buy a mans bike. Ok I know there isn't a huge difference in the bikes but its the fact of the matter..

Good, Better, Best

So in church this Sunday we had a Sunday School lesson on Good, Better, Best (it was war conference). We discussed all the things that that we felt we were "bests" in our lives, the struggles with accomplishing these and how to overcome our struggles. So just a couple thoughts from that fist one of the struggles that everyone mentioned was time... and I have to agree but then I started thinking about all the TIME I have spent looking at other peoples blogs and the time I have spent "blog surfing" So now it all comes to a halt... don't get me wrong I'll still read all of your blogs... I just won't be surfing as much as I used to. We also discussed that some of the struggles were the same as the ways to overcome these struggles. Things we struggle with like daily scripture study, daily prayer..ok those were the main two... but they are also the answers to getting our bests... Anyhow that is what I have been thinking about lately and I am working on time management... so if I miss a couple days... don't hate me!

Butcher Paper and GIRLS CAMP!

The other day for FHE we decided to finger paint a mural for our singles ward to help with unifying the ward. So I was in charge of getting the butcher paper for us to paint on. While I was sitting at the kitchen counter doodling on a piece of butcher paper I was reminded of the times that we had butcher paper as our table cloths at girls camp. For those who were in my ward we played these little games finding out the possibilities of finding true love with a certain boy or mash. Remember when the guys were having scout camp at the same time a few camp sites over... or the time Sister Bird told me to be quite because I was too loud, or the frog, Julia, and Afton Dawn, or the time Kara came up to visit us right after she had just gotten her wisdom teeth pulled. Didn't something else exciting happen that year??? And of course you couldn't forget our last year at stake girls camp...oh and I just remember the time Mandy scared her mom to death after our hike and that same year we had a sleep over in the cabin, or stealing sister McCalister's Curling iron... ok enough with the memories. At the beginning of every summer I miss the good ol times we had as the 15th ward!!! I always think it would be so fun to be able to go to girls camp with a family ward and then I remember that those girls have no idea who I am and the only reason we enjoyed ourselves is because we knew each other so well.... Remember the beehive and mia maid sleepovers... Mountain brownies anyone? ANYWAYS I DON'T REALLY KNOW THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS POST BUT JUST TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE!