{happy birthday mom!}

dear mom,

happy anniversary of your 29th birthday! you are an amazing woman. i'm glad you're my mom.

i love you.

your only daughter,

sara

{costa rica!}

so i'm going to have to play a little catch up. i have so many pictures and things to tell you and i haven't done them for about a month! so bear with me as there will be about 4 posts today!

TAMARINDO COSTA RICA
amazing place. check out where we stayed here.
i went as the babysitter! best job ever!

the place where we stayed

so gorgeous!

the gorgeous sunset

i really want to go back! can't wait until next time....

{summer how i love you}

oh summer sun.

please stay around. i like you. i like playing tennis and longboarding. i enjoy the beach. i enjoy all the skirts and dresses and shoes that can finally be worn because winter is over. don't leave me again! you are the greatest.


[post from my iPhone]

{love new finds!}

i LOVE this blog
just read. so cute.

{the party bug!}

it's blue
it's fast

i like it
: )

{the police concert!}

well i love my best friend hayley who surprised me with tickets to the police concert for saturday!! let me say- those guys are old (you can tell by how hard they had to breathe to get through some songs, and the just general oldness of them) but man can they still play! they've still got it for sure! :]

we started out night by going to target and playing in the circle in the big red wall. so fun! who knew it even existed?!

well we sit in line to even get to the parking lot FOREVER and when we get to the first little parking guy of course i use my flexibility and put my foot with the boot out the window and say "can we park a little closer than all the way out in the boonies because i have a hard time walking" he shyly looks around and then says "go ahead. just don't tell anyone." yay parking guy! unfortunately we don't have a picture with him because we had to be sneaky to park 3 cars away from the front gates :]

we were about 12 rows back and a little to the left of the stage at the wonderful usana ampitheater (it's not so wonderful because it's WAY far out there... i mean WAY WAY far away from life!) we made friends with the people around us when we got there. a cute 50 year old lady who taught me if i ever want to sneak tequila into a concert- just put it in your husbands underwear! and just some fun people behind us. well then we see the first thing we can't stop laughing about... the hippies. i'm not even kidding. here's proof! 2 rows in front of us were the hippies and they were funny! poor couple probably did 1 too many drugs in their lives and are probably always on an acid trip. here's the pictures with the hippies! (check out the wedge of shorts up his butt!)

here's the picture with the 50 year old tequila lady!

and with the people behind us who had our back when we had a creeper hit on us!!

well hayley's parents were up on the lawn with work buddies. two of the girls wanted to switch us for a bit so they could see the very attractive sting up close. hayley and i found a nice wide open spot on the lawn to dance- so naturally we start busting out the moves! even me in my walking boot! then 6 or 7 boys start dancing with us and we sit down next to hayley's dad. well one of them sits next to me and says, "do you smoke weed?" me-"umm...no" him-"are you sure?" me-"ya" him-"alrighty then. well... i'm going to go dance again." AWKWARD! but of course since we were documenting everything about the evening we had to get a picture!

the concert ends, we but t-shirts, and go on our way to the car. we get out of the parking lot successfully and begin the wait in the hideous line of cars ahead of us (can i say that the people who designed that place didn't think the getting there and exiting through very well!) we're rocking out to our fun dancing music so we can be pumped and stay awake for the loong drive home. the car in front of us stops. we stop. the car behind us stops. the next car doesn't stop and pushes the guy behind us into us. lucky us we didn't hit the person in front of us!! so we pull over and assess damage. i call my parents. then the cops. we wait 40 minutes for a cop to even show up! then we have to go through what happened, give him all our information (which i'm glad i could find!!) and fill out the ridiculous paperwork. the middle car was such a great family that we made friends with! (you can read her blog here!) we were connected with ballet (of course!) and hockey and the church. it was great they were so sweet and made the waiting time (while we all thought the cop was playing solitare on his computer) so much fun.. well as fun as waiting in this situation can be! she got my blog address so she could steal the picture we got with them. so this is how i came to blog again! :]

we got home at about 1:30am safe and sound. we stopped at a shady 7.11 and used the WORST restroom i've even been in during my whole life! it was a great night that made for good stories and a good blog startback (again).

{well i'm coming back}

i decided even if no one remembers that i have a blog that's ok. blogging is kind of the way for me to think about my life. so feel free to enjoy my ramblings about random things!

hello 2008!

now i'm not a fan of making new years resolutions because i make resolutions for myself all year long. but really these are things that i'm looking forward to in 2008.

-graduating!

-auditioning for ballet companies

-turning 19

-nixon turning 12

-easton turning 10

-college maybe?

-trek! yikes!

-and a million more things that i'll have to keep adding to the list

here were some favorite things from 2007

-nacho libre, hairspray, the devil wears prada, and august rush (my favorite movies!)

-turning 18!!!

-visiting california a couple times

-youth conference trip to havasupai (can't wait to go back!)

-ballet (it just keeps getting better the longer i stick with it)

-nutcracker with ballet west

-guitar hero and rock band with my family

-doing school online

-working at gone scrappin (now gone!)

-spending time with my family

i don't think i've changed much. but there's a recent picture from my birthday. as always- check out the family photo site to see the 1000's of pictures from 2007 and the beginning of 2008 now!